Chapter 84 Chapter 83

I knelt in front of the Buddha statue, staring at the smiling Buddha, what do you know?Those who read make sense, but can't do the gatha at all? "Why did you suddenly start worshiping Buddha today? In the past, I never burned incense and worshiped Buddha." Yinzhen asked from behind, I didn't turn my head, I looked down at the ground.Yinzhen stepped forward to add three sticks of incense, "I heard from the eunuch that you have been kneeling here for more than two hours, and the dinner is useless. Your knees can't stand this, so get up!" He waited quietly for a while, seeing that I was still kneeling with my head bowed, without any reaction, he stretched out his hand to drag me, and said: "Sincere is not in these things, get up!" I broke free from his hand, and knelt without moving.

He stood still and asked: "You already know? Who told you about this?" After a while, he said again: "No one in the Palace of Mental Cultivation who knows about this would dare to speak to you. The third brother can't beat you, so I told you." I stared at the Buddha statue and asked: "Yinzhen, I have never read Buddhist scriptures, and what I know is just what I hear, but doesn't the Buddha always teach people to let go? Greed, anger, hatred, and resentment are all suffering. The moment you snap your fingers, the moment of youth , has been in a hurry for decades, what is there to keep in mind?"

Yinzhen said lightly: "If you are separated from the cause of form, you will not be able to obtain form; if you are separated from form, you will not be able to obtain the cause of form." After speaking, he turned around and left. I have suffered from chronic knee diseases, and the pain is like needle pricks.The night in September is quite cold, thinking of Ba Ye's current age and the chilly stone ground, my heart hurts.His body has always been thin, how can he bear it? The thick red candle burning on the bronze candlestick illuminated the room brightly. The candle oil slid down the bronze frame, and solidified again before it got too far. For shocking.

The curtain was lifted suddenly, Yinzhen came in, and asked in a low voice: "Are you going to kneel all night? Are you suffering with him?" My heart was full of bitterness. If I don't let it out, I really don't know What can I do? Yinzhen said: "I order you to get up!" I turned my head to look at him, Yinzhen was only wearing unlined clothes, wrapped in a cloak, and casually put on shoes, obviously just came out of bed.I asked: "Are you using the emperor's status to make an order?" He said: "Yes! I order you to get up!" I kowtowed to him and said: "Your servant obeys the order!"

When I got up, my knees were numb and painful, it was difficult to stand, and I was about to fall when I swayed. He hurriedly supported me, and I broke free from him. I stood still with my hands on the table, and then staggered away with my legs dragging.I only heard the sound of the porcelain incense burner falling to the ground behind me. I stood in front of the window and watched quietly as the night faded, the stars faded, the sky slowly turned white, and finally it was bright.Mei Xiang called out in a low voice: "Auntie!" I raised my voice: "I want to be alone for a while, don't bother me." After a few soft rustles outside the door, the silence returned.

The sun was getting higher and higher, I leaned weakly on the window sill, looked at the sun shining all over the ground and asked, what should I do?What should I do in the future? The door was pushed a few times vigorously, but it was not opened because it was locked inside.Yinzhen said: "Open the door!" I stepped forward to open the door, then limped back to stand by the window.Yinzhen stared at me and said in a cold voice: "If you are not allowed to kneel, you stand. Do you want your own legs?" I put my head on the window panel and did not answer. He was quiet for a while, then said lightly: "Zhen has sent him back to the residence." After speaking, he walked away quickly.Feeling happy or sad, I hunched over and walked slowly to the table, leaning against the edge of the table and sat down. There was a sharp pain in my knee, and I couldn't help moaning a few times.

Ever since Ba Ye punished me to kneel down, Yinzhen ignored me. I was afraid of the future ending in my heart, and I only wished to be alone.Because of knee pain, it is not convenient to move, and often sits in the house all day long. In October, there was another war in the west, Qinghai Luobu Zangdanjin rebellion, the situation in Qinghai, which was already stable in the hands of the Fourteenth Master, suddenly fell into chaos.Yinzhen ordered Nian Gengyao to be the general of Fuyuan, stationed in Xining to command the suppression of the rebellion.The national treasury is not rich. At this time, we have to provide food and grass for the Northwest War, and we have to face the famine in various places. There are often many ministers gathered in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and their voices are endless.

Since Yinzhen ascended the throne, he has seldom turned over the cards of the concubines in the harem, and generally only summons concubines once in a while.But in October, the brand of Concubine Nian was turned over for three days in a row.He treated Nian Gengyao even more favorably. In the area under Nian Gengyao's jurisdiction, all civil and military officials, big and small, were appointed according to Nian Gengyao's opinion.Even the appointment of other regional officials Yinzhen also frequently solicited Nian Gengyao's opinion.He showed great concern for Nian Gengyao and his family. Yinzhen always inquired about Nian Gengyao's wrist and arm diseases and his wife's illness, and gave him medicines.Yinzhen also often informed Nian Gengyao's father, Xia Ling, and his physical condition in Beijing.There are generals on the outside, concubines on the inside, the Nian clan is very powerful in the court, and even Shisan tries to avoid any conflicts with the 'Nian party' as much as possible.

On the contrary, I, Amma and my younger brothers were transferred from the well-established Northwest to the unfamiliar Southwest. On the first day when Yinzhen turned over the sign of Concubine Nian, I moved to live with Yutan. Seeing that Yinzhen didn't respond, I simply settled down in the house where I lived before.After Yutan helped me tidy up the house, I immediately burst into tears when I saw it. That's what it means. Yutan hurriedly said: "Sister, it's all my fault. I wanted to try my best to make my sister live comfortably according to her previous arrangement, but unexpectedly made her sad. I will rearrange it now." I shook my head and said, "No, I like it very much." Yu Tan sat quietly with me, and after a long while said: "I really hope to live in peace like this forever. When we are very old, we will bask in the sun under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree."

After living in the small courtyard for more than ten days, Yutan wanted to talk about the emperor a few times, but I turned him off. Yutan saw that I didn't want to know anything, so she obediently didn't mention it again. Yu Tan has to work in shifts, Cheng Huan has homework to do, and I often stay alone most of the time.The weather has been dry and the sun has been fine these days, and the pain in my knees has gradually eased.Quiet and thoughtful, often take a walk alone.When you are tired, find a place to sit and bask in the sun. "Like a lazy cat, really comfortable." Thirteen laughed.I opened my eyes and looked at Thirteen and smiled slightly.Thirteen Yi sat beside me in his long robe, stretched his waist and said, "It's half a day's leisure." I smiled and closed my eyes again.

After a long while, Shisan sighed, and seeing his gloomy face, he joked, "Could it be that Master Shisan is worried about falling out of favor?" Shisan frowned and said, "You also listen to those nonsense?" I laughed and said, "" I don't want to hear it, but there are too many people who talk, and they go straight to their ears, and if they don't listen, they have to listen." Shisan smiled helplessly and didn't say anything.I asked, "Are you really at odds with Nian Gengyao?" Thirteen glanced around, and said indifferently, "It's him who is at odds with me. He has always followed Brother Huang, and the favor he enjoys today is all his own hard work." Yes. I stayed idle for ten years, and everything was easy when I came out, so it's normal for him to be unconvinced." I looked at him with a grin, Shisan smiled and scolded: "You don't seem to care about your own family's affairs?" I suppressed my smile and said: "I think it's good for Ama and younger brother, Ama I'm old, what's wrong with taking a leisurely care of the elderly? Far away from the capital, you have no power in your hands. If you don't do something, you won't do wrong. Even if someone wants to find fault, it's hard! General Nian likes to have the upper hand, so let him take it Let's go!" Shisan said with a slight smile on his lips, "Ruoxi, you will never let me down, it's rare that you can understand Brother Huang's painstaking efforts at a glance." Shaking his head and sighing, he said: "When the moon is full, you will lose money." If it is too high, it can only go down.” I looked at Thirteen with admiration.I knew the ending, so I was sober, but he had predicted Nian Gengyao's future so early.Prince Yi has always been deeply relied on by Yongzheng. Although he has a brotherhood since childhood, it is also inseparable from his always sober, prudent and keen political mind. Thirteen covered his face with a smile and said, "Don't look at me like that, Brother Huang will be jealous." The smile on the corner of my mouth immediately turned a bit bitter.Thirteen sighed, "How long are you going to fight?" I said, "I'm not angry, I just think it's good now, maybe I'm suitable for being alone." Thirteen sighed Said: "Ruoxi! Why are you so stubborn? I persuade you again and again, but you insist on going your own way." I asked: "Are you here to intercede? Let me ask him to forgive?" Thirteen said: "I don't know what I am doing. You did nothing wrong, and neither did Brother Huang. You each have your own problems. Stand. I just... oh! I don't know!" Shisanchang sighed and stopped talking. After a long silence, he said: "Brother Huang never mentioned you, and no one dared to mention you. But after so many days, his brows have never been relaxed, and there is no smile. In the past, no matter how busy and tired the court affairs were, When walking down towards the Hall of Mental Cultivation, he was always in an extraordinarily relaxed mood, but now there is no warmth on his face. The people serving in front of the imperial court were worried, thinking that it was because of the Northwest War. But they didn't know that was only half of the reason." Thirteen and I were sitting quietly, and he cast his eyes into the distance, as if looking at some imaginary water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and murmured: "There is nothing we can do about the blood of human life between us, why can't you stay together? The world is miserable enough, why make my only feelings so painful?" He looked at me sideways and said, "Ruoxi, let go, let yourself be happy!" I got up and stood up slowly, Shisan saw me bent over and rubbed my knees, stood up quickly and asked: "Does it hurt again?" I shook my head and said: "It's nothing." A few traces of sadness flashed across his face and said: " If Cheng Huan doesn't show filial piety to you in the future, I will never forgive her." I smiled and said, "Don't worry! When Yu Tan helped me stretch my legs at night, Cheng Huan was always by the side, joking with me and helping me relieve my boredom. The real 'Cheng Huan Knee'." Thirteen slowed down and walked back with me slowly.When parting, he looked at me hesitant to speak, and finally sighed and turned to leave. Not long after dinner, Gao Wuyong came in a hurry, saluted and said: "Long Live God ordered me to pick up my aunt." Holding the tea in my hand, I said, "It's good for me to live here." Gao Wuyong knelt down and begged : "Auntie is all a poor slave, let's go back with the slave!" He kowtowed frequently.I hurriedly got up from the chair, turned sideways and said, "Get up quickly! I can't bear it, I'll go with you." He stood up and said happily, "I know that my aunt takes pity on us slaves." I go out first.Gao Wuyong quickly ran a few steps, picked up the lantern on the ground, led the way, and when he arrived at the door of my house, he whispered: "Long live Lord is inside!" He turned sideways and stood aside. I stood quietly for a while, pushed the door open and entered.Wearing a casual robe, Yinzhen, who was leaning on the couch and flipping through a book, put down the book and stared at me.We looked at each other for a long while, I only felt sore eyes, I quickly turned my head away.He walked up to me, stretched out his arms to embrace me, I opened his hand, walked to the couch and sat down. Yinzhen walked back to the couch and sat down next to me, "You still say you're not angry?" I stared sideways at the landscape screen and said, "The Thirteenth Master sold me again!" It’s also hard to do among us, didn’t I also get betrayed by him?” He put his arms around me, put his head on my shoulder, and whispered in his ear: “Even if you are angry, it should be gone after so many days, right?” I struggled a few times, but didn't break free, thinking about Shisan's exclamation 'Why can't you stay together? ', a few traces of resentment dissipated, leaving only a belly full of sadness.Seeing me let him hold me, Yinzhen asked without moving, "Are you still angry?" I said, "Am I angry or are you angry? But you don't talk to me first, whether you see me or not." Same." Yinzhen was silent for a while and said: "The matter is over, so I won't mention it." I was silent, but slowly leaned into his arms.He smiled and bowed his head to kiss me, I subconsciously turned my face to avoid it.He was slightly taken aback, straightened up, stroked my cheek and said, "I'm still not happy." I sat up from his arms, took a soft pillow, lay down on my side and closed my eyes to sleep. Yinzhen took off my shoes for me, took a thin blanket to cover it, and said: "It's cold now, just lie down with clothes on like this, and catch a cold carefully! At least you spend more time on your body, and you'll be fine." Don't worry me so much." After speaking, he blew out the lamp, pushed me, and asked me to move some pillows for him, and he also lay down. The two lay quietly for a while, he put his arms around me, fumbled to untie the button, and said, "Don't you miss me? I always miss you." I pushed his hand away and said, "Want to I'll go find..." Feeling uncomfortable, she moved her body away from him, didn't want a pillow, and lay quietly on her stomach.In the darkness, all the usual strong smiles were taken off, and tears fell one by one. Yinzhen forcefully hugged me back to the pillow, and groped to wipe away my tears.I reached out and hugged him, whimpering and crying.He let me cry for a while before coaxing: "Okay, if you cry any more, you will hurt your body." I still kept crying.He sighed: "Good Ruo'er, good Xi'er, be obedient and stop crying." Seeing that I was still crying, he said helplessly: "It's the first time I coax someone, but it seems that the more I coax you, the more sad I become. Let's do this! If you don't cry, I will do what you have begged many times but I have never agreed to." .” I whimpered, “Who cares?” He was silent for a while, cleared his throat, and sang the tune in a low voice, "...The name Yu is Zhengzheng, and the character Yu is Lingjun Fenwu not only has this inner beauty, but also pays attention to self-cultivation Hu Jiangli and Pi Zhixi Ren Qiulan admire each other If Miyu will be too late, I am afraid that the age will not be with me Magnolia in the morning and night in Lanzhou in the evening The sun and the moon are suddenly not flooded, the preface of spring and autumn Only the scattered vegetation is afraid of the twilight of the beauty Abandon the filth without being strong, why not change this Riding on a galloping horse, I will come to my Daoist first..." I stopped my tears, put my head on his chin, and listened carefully. He stopped suddenly, and I asked, "Why don't you sing?" He asked, "Does my singing sound good?" I pursed my lips and smiled without saying a word.He shoved me and said, "Quickly tell the truth." I supported my head, half-supported my body, looked at him and said, "If you hate any minister in the future, and you can't find a way to punish him for a while, call him to listen. You sing." He froze for a moment, gave me a light pinch, laughed and said, "You don't save me any face. I saw that you listened attentively, and thought that you haven't sung for many years, and you sang better than before! No, why don’t you cover your ears, but listen to it with fascination?” I said slowly: “Long breath to cover up tears, mourning for the hardships of the people’s lives. Only husbands and party members steal joy, and the road is dark and dangerous. The rest of my life is in fear, fearing the emperor's failure." Thinking that he recently issued a decree to abolish lowly status.The base status is the "untouchables" who do not belong to scholars, farmers, workers, or merchants. They are passed down from generation to generation and cannot be changed.They can't study imperial examinations, and they can't be officials.There are mainly Zhejiang lazy people, Shaanxi Lehu, Beijing Lehu, Guangdong Danhu and so on.According to legend, the lazy people in Shaoxing are descendants of sinners from the Song and Yuan Dynasties.The men are engaged in frog hunting and selling soup; the women are matchmakers, selling pearls, and prostitution.Lehu, Shaanxi Province, was the wife and daughter of the officials who firmly supported Jianwen Emperor after Ming Yan King Zhu Di raised troops to overthrow his nephew Emperor Jianwen's regime.The status of companions and servants in Anhui is even more miserable than that of Lehu and lazy people.If there are two surnames in the village, one surname is the partner and servant of the other surname, just like a slave, and if there is a slight discrepancy, everyone will be embarrassed.In the generation along the coast of Guangdong and along the river, there were Danhus, who made boats their homes and fished as their occupation. Their lives were erratic and they were not allowed to live ashore.The tragic fate of these people's descendants came to an end in Yinzhen's hands. He decreed to get rid of the lowly status, open the door for the people, and incorporate these former "untouchables" into the official household.The bad tradition that has been followed for hundreds of years has come to an end in his hands. "Take a long breath to cover up your tears, and mourn the hardships of the people's lives." From the emperor's point of view, Yinzhen is definitely a good emperor who cares about the suffering of the people and does things for the people sincerely! In the dark, I only saw his eyes staring at me. After a while, he said: "Aren't you the most impatient to read these 'xi.hu,zhi'? Why did you memorize the difficult-to-understand "Li Sao"?" ?” I stared at him, and said softly, “You like Mulan so much. The hairpin and pendant you gave me are all made of Mulan. I always wonder why you like it so much?” He asked, “When did you memorize it?” I Biting his lips and laughing, "I won't tell you! If I tell you, you should be proud." He took my hand and kissed it lightly, held it and said, "I knew you would understand." The two looked at each other silently, tenderness surged in my heart, and I slowly lowered my head and kissed his lips extremely tenderly.Lips and teeth intersect, lingering indistinguishable.He let out a low sigh of joy, and wanted to turn over and press me. I leaned against him, held him down, and bit his earlobe lightly and said, "This time I'll do it!" After kissing lightly, her hand slowly penetrated into his lower body, his body tightened, and he murmured: "Ruoxi, I am lucky to have you, God treats me very well!"...