Chapter 86 Chapter 85

The sun has been very good these days, and the snow has already melted away. I like to take a walk in the sun at noon. I feel that the warm sunshine can drive away the chill in my bones. Walking casually by temperament, I found the surrounding scenery very familiar when I inadvertently found it. Looking at the eaves and pillars not far away, I felt complicated in my heart.After standing still for a while, he walked away slowly. Before reaching the gate of the courtyard, I heard the sound of pounding clothes inside.I hesitated for a while, and finally stepped into the courtyard gate. The girls doing laundry in the courtyard looked up at me one after another, with complex expressions, including surprise, envy, jealousy, and fear. Jump up and say hello, "Auntie is lucky!".

I felt a little regretful about stepping into this yard, but since I had already come, I couldn’t leave immediately, and said with a smile: “You don’t need to be so polite, just get up!” Everyone stood up and stood silently, although there were many people in the yard, But it was silent.I looked around, and everything was still the same, with clothes piled on the ground and clothes hanging on the line. Looking at the stiff-faced Bell and Qian Qian, he asked without a word: "Where's Mr. Zhang?" The two of them turned pale, and after a while they murmured: "I'm out of the palace." Eunuchs are no better than palace maids. Mistakes are made for a lifetime, and they will be released from the palace for the elderly when they are old.Leaving the palace so early, if there is no money around, and people around look down on them who are neither men nor women, life must be miserable.Slightly startled, they asked again, but their faces were terrified, so they suppressed all the thoughts in their hearts, and said casually: "I won't disturb your work, and I will come to see you when I have time." But what they thought in their hearts was that this should be the last One step into this yard.I no longer belong here, and coming here will only add to their unhappiness.

After returning to the house, he deliberately put aside the matter and didn't think about it anymore, but he was always uneasy. After thinking about it, he decided to look for Wang Xi.As soon as the man arrived outside his house, he heard faint crying inside.After listening carefully for a while, I went to knock on the door.The crying in the room stopped immediately, and Wang Xi opened the door after a while. I asked, "Why are you crying?" Wang Xi laughed and said, "I'm afraid my sister heard it wrong, no one is crying." I nodded, pushed him away and entered the room.There are several dishes of melons, fruits and pastries on the tables in the room. Although the incense burner cannot be seen, the fragrance is still there.

I looked carefully at the offerings on the table and asked, "Who are you paying homage to?" Wang Xi said, "No one, just a few plates of melon and fruit pastries." I stared sideways at him without saying a word.He lowered his head and stared at the ground, and said: "It's the mourner, it's the death day of the family." Wang Xi burst into tears.I saw him weeping endlessly, and the sliver of hope that remained in his heart also disappeared, leaving only the grief in his heart, and the tears finally rolled down.I supported the table and cried for a while, suppressed my grief, and said: "Put out the incense burner! Allow me to pay homage to Ada once!"

Wang Xi took out an incense burner the size of a fist. When I saw this incense burner, the tears I had just suppressed rolled down again. Wang Xi cried, "It's all my fault. Master used to treat me like his own son, but I didn't even I don’t dare to pay homage to the master’s death day, and I dare not use a decent incense burner. I can only use this daily fumigation to make up for mosquitoes.” I cried and inserted the incense, bowed three times to the table, and buried my head in tears for a while.Wang Xi knelt aside and only wept. I asked, "What's going on?" Wang Xi lowered his head and wiped his tears, without saying a word.I said: "Now, what else can I hide? Since I entered the palace at the age of thirteen, I have been working beside Li Wenda. Wenda has always treated me very kindly, until the end he always tried to find a way for me to let me go." Back to the holy grandfather. But I don't know anything, how can you make me feel safe?"

Wang Xi was in a daze, suddenly made up his mind, wiped away his tears, got up and opened the door to look outside, walked back to me, and whispered in my ear: "Master passed away today last year." I said: "It was the first year of Yongzheng. It happened in January, it’s only been more than a month since Grandpa Sheng passed away. I heard from Yutan that Wenda was released from the palace to retire, could it be that something happened outside the palace?” Wang Xi burst into tears again, and after weeping, he said in a low voice: "Everyone thinks that the master is out of the palace for the elderly, but in fact, the master has already committed suicide by taking poison, and the body has been sent to the incineration factory." My brain 'boomed', There was nothing in the moment, only the heart was racing, and after a long while, the voice trembled and asked: "Why?" Wang Xi lowered his head and wept, and refused to say more.

My body slowly fell limp and sat on the ground, tears kept rolling down like beads with a broken thread, and my heart was cold.Why?Why else?Li Dequan has been with Kangxi for decades, and he is the person who knows Kangxi's thoughts best in this world. He was also present at the conversation with Si Age when Kangxi was dying.He knew too much, and the last thing he should know.A casual word from him may cause an uproar, how could Yinzhen allow him to live?I was too naive to forget the emperor's heart. I cried for a while, wiped away my tears, slowly stood up from the ground, walked slowly towards the door, opened the door, suddenly remembered the purpose, turned around and closed the door and asked: "Is Zhang Qianying dead too?"

Wang Xi's face turned pale, and after a long while, he murmured: "I didn't die when I left the palace, so I don't know now, I guess it's about the same as death." I put my hand on the door and asked, "What do you mean?" Wang Xi The voice trembled slightly: "I heard that he was driven out of the palace after his tongue was cut off and his hands were chopped off." I opened the door violently, leaned on the door frame and bent over to vomit. Wang Xi rushed to me and beat my back.I vomited out all the lunch I ate, and there was only pantothenic acid in my stomach and mouth.

Seeing that I stopped vomiting, Wang Xi hurriedly brought tea over to wash my mouth, and said, "Sister, go back and ask the imperial physician to take a look!" I waved my hand, and drank a few mouthfuls of hot tea to suppress the sour air in my stomach : "At first I just felt bored, but now it's better to spit it out." After speaking, he handed the tea back to Wang Xi and was about to leave. Wang Xi said: "Let me take my sister back." I said: "No need, we should avoid suspicion in the future. I'm fine, but I can't cause trouble for you." After finishing speaking, I walked back in a nonchalant manner.

The door was gently pushed open, so that no one could enter my room without knocking except Yinzhen.There are all kinds of feelings in my heart, but when it comes to my face, I just lie there with my eyes closed.Yinzhen went to the bed and leaned over, "Why did you lie down so early? You don't have much for dinner, aren't you feeling well?" As I was talking about lighting the lamp, I hurriedly said, "Don't light the lamp." Yinzhen smiled lightly and said, "I still like the dark." He sat on the side of the bed and asked, "How are you?" I said, "It's fine! I just ate a few more cakes in the afternoon, and I can't eat at night." He said: "Don't just lie down, get up and talk, if there is food in the stomach, it will be uncomfortable when you look back."

I got up as I said, and he helped me put the cushions and let me lean on them, and he was also crooked, and the two of them chatted one after another.I forced myself to talk to him, tried to open my mouth to ask him several times, but was worried about Wang Xi, and finally swallowed it back. Because I know some history, and I know Yongzheng's iron-blooded methods against the eighth elder brother and others, but other than that, mine loves me and will not hurt my Yinzhen.Even if he acts extreme, he only wants to protect us because of his strong love and hatred.But now I suddenly realized that I had begun to feel a little bit of fear towards him in my heart.I was replying cautiously, not daring to light the lamp, for fear that he would notice my strangeness.At this time, I really understood Shisan's feelings. To Shisan, he is now the emperor first, and then the fourth brother, so it is necessary to be cautious in words and deeds.And tonight, I also began to carefully consider every word I said, carefully concealing my inner emotions, but on the surface I still had to pretend that everything was casual. Yinzhen saw that my energy was always weak when I spoke, and asked: "Looks like I'm sleepy?" I smiled and said: "I'm going to sleep, but you force me to get up, can I not be sleepy?" He laughed and said: " I put down what I was doing and came here to talk with you. I didn't appreciate it, but blamed me instead. Well, I won't disturb your peace, I'll go back and read the booklet, you can rest!" Saying that, he got up and left. I sat quietly in the dark for a long time, listened to the third watch from a distance, and then hurriedly pulled the quilt to lie down, but I still couldn't fall asleep, tossed and turned, and tears fell again. Ever since Wang Xichu learned about Li Wenda and Zhang Qianying, I stayed in the house all day long, reading books, making posts, deliberately forgetting about the whole outside world.Now the posts in front of me are all written by Yin Zhen, and I have already imitated his handwriting to four or five parts. When the Northwest War came to the final decisive moment, the Hall of Mental Cultivation was often brightly lit with candles all night, and Yinzhen's eyes and hearts were full of wars thousands of miles away.On February 8th, Nian Gengyao ordered the generals to split up and go deep, and went straight to the lair.In the face of the sudden onslaught, the rebel army was terrified, powerless to resist, and collapsed immediately.The Qing army won a complete victory. When the good news came, Yinzhen was overjoyed and promoted Nian Gengyao to be a first-class prince.In addition, another viscount was rewarded, which was inherited by Nian Gengyao's son Nian Bin. Even Nian Gengyao's father, Nian Xialing, was conferred the title of first-class Duke, plus the title of Grand Tutor.Nian's family is full of grace. During the meal, Yinzhen couldn't help talking about the battle he won.I laughed in my heart and said that almost all the manpower and material resources of the Qing Dynasty were concentrated to fight this war. Still facing the Qing Dynasty's thousands of miles of territory with a small area, Nian Gengyao should have won no matter how resourceful he is. Thirteen saw the sneer hanging from the corner of my mouth, and shook my head slightly at me. I frowned and smiled at Shisan. Seeing the expressions on Shisan and me, Yinzhen shook his head and smiled wryly. He stopped talking and stopped talking about the past Northwest war. I was in the house to post, and Cheng Huan rushed in and jumped on me, shaking the brush in his hand a few times, and the paper on the table was smeared.While pushing her, I smiled and said, "Why are you in such a hurry?" Cheng Huan widened his eyes and said, "Auntie, they are steaming people." I said, "What? Tricky people?" Cheng Huan nodded vigorously and said, "They refused to tell me, but I overheard it. Uncle Huang ordered all the eunuchs and maids serving in front of the palaces to go and see. Auntie, how do you steam someone? ? Like the steamed buns that my aunt took me to see in the imperial dining room?" I suddenly stood up from the chair, and asked in a startled voice: "What did you say? Steaming people?" When I said the last two words, I felt a nausea in my stomach, and I tried to hold it back.Cheng Huan said: "Steamer!" I asked, "What else did you hear? Who is it?" Cheng Huan shook his head and said, "That's all." Thinking of Wang Xi, he was terrified, and immediately walked out the door, Cheng Huan ran away. Wanting to follow, I hurriedly said: "You are not allowed to go anywhere, just stay here." Seeing my stern words, Cheng Huan could only stand still with her lips pouted. I ran out of the house, but the eunuchs and maids who used to guard outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation were not there, only guards standing around.Gao Wuyong, who was hidden somewhere in the corner, came up to me and stopped me, saying: "Where is Auntie going?" My fear grew deeper, I passed him and ran away, he hurriedly dragged me and said: "The slave saw Cheng Huan Gege coming just now Why doesn't auntie accompany Cheng Huan Gege?" I was anxious, I threw his hand away suddenly, and cursed: "You dog, even I dare to tease you, how many heads do you have?" He hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, I ran away immediately.He chased after me all the way, but he didn't dare to touch me anymore, he just kept begging. My heart was beating like it was about to jump out of my chest, and I was short of breath, and ran wildly towards the execution room. Before I got there, I could smell a sickly, sour, smelly smell in the air.Seeing the eunuchs and eunuchs in various palaces in the Forbidden City and the eunuchs in charge everywhere, all of them were pale, some trembling all over, some limp on the ground, and some bent over and vomited. I saw the big urn propped on the fire, and my stomach was churning up and down. I couldn't bear it anymore, squatted on the ground and vomited wildly until there was only sour water in my stomach and nothing to vomit. Forcibly holding back, he raised his eyes and swept away, not daring to look at the big urn in the field, his eyes only wandered among the crowd, and suddenly he saw Wang Xi's tearful figure lying limp on the ground, and the heart that had been raised in his throat was gone. It fell with a sound of 'pass'. Don't dare to look any more, turn your head and walk away, your feet are weak, and you are about to fall.Gao Wuyong, who had been standing by the side all the time, with a pale face, stepped forward to help me.I stood up with the strength of his arm, and he begged: "Girl, please hold the slave's hand to go back!" I wanted to walk by myself, but I was dizzy and unable to move, so I had to support his arm. I suppressed my trembling voice and asked, "Who is it?" Gao Wuyong was silent for a while, and I couldn't control the fear, sadness and anger in my heart, and shouted sharply, "Say! I've seen it all, do you want me to go back and ask?" Is it?" Gao Wuyong trembled all over his body and said: "Auntie, please let the servant go! If the emperor finds out, the servant will die without a place to bury him." I was suspicious, let go of his hand and staggered back . Gao Wuyong ran forward, knelt down in front of him and cried, "Auntie, go back!" I ignored him, walked around him and continued to move forward, Gao Wuyong knelt and crawled in front of him, kowtowed and cried, "It's Yutan." As if hit by a sledgehammer, the severe pain pierced the heart, staring at the big urn in the distance, crying like a ghost: "Who is it?" Gao Wuyong put his head on the ground and said: "Yu Tan!" They were all burned, and their minds fell into complete darkness in an instant.