Chapter 325: Show Affection
Chapter 325
At the beginning of September, the golden autumn was cool, and Kangxi, who had been away from Beijing for several months, returned to the Forbidden City, and the fourth master who led his wife and children to live in the Old Summer Palace for the whole summer was greeted by the holy driver, and he also led a group of relatives back to the expanded palace of Prince Yong.
Sharp-eyed people noticed that there was a missing Zhulun carriage in the homecoming convoy, and some well-informed people had also found out that Prince Yong's side Fujin Guerjia clan was still in the Old Summer Palace to have a safe birth, which seemed to be a precursor to a fall from grace, but some people with more accurate news found Xiao Qi and Hongxuan among the entourage, and received the news that the Wulanala clan arranged for someone to take the eldest grandmother into the Old Summer Palace overnight to take care of the fetus in Erfu's womb.
Seeing Xiao Qi and Hongxuan go away, Erfu softly instructed Yujing to send the snacks prepared before to Mama Fu and Su Peisheng beside the Wulanala clan respectively, and then returned to the Lotus Pavilion in a soft sedan chair, looking at the Lotus Pavilion in the past, although it was also elegant, but there were only her and a group of palace people left in the Lotus Pavilion, Erfu showed a lost smile.
Since the day of the fight, Erfu has never seen the fourth master, she doesn't know if the fourth master also thinks that she is a bane far away from her, or the fourth master feels weak and embarrassed to see her, in short, the two of them fell into the first cold war in eight years of getting along, as if waiting for the marriage crisis of the seven-year itch.
"Master, you got up so early today, why don't you go back to the room and lie down!" Yu Jing looked at Erfu's bleak back with a little weakness and said in a low voice.
Erff smiled back, her smile full of bitterness and loss, and shook her head slightly. Turning around, she walked out with the little gilt shower she had created earlier, standing in front of the dazzling roses, bending down to scoop water. Started the good habit that I developed these days - watering the flowers.
The bush of roses in front of her is a rare variety that she lived in the Lotus Pavilion and the fourth master moved from the flower room in the palace, which is not only pleasant in flower fragrance, but also has a long flowering period.
From summer to spring, it can be opened until late autumn, and if you cook it carefully, it is estimated that it can be open until early winter.
She didn't mean to leave the fourth master. Living alone.
After living in the Qing Dynasty for nearly ten years, she has long been accustomed to the days when the fourth master is by her side, but she understands the way of getting along with men and women better than anyone else.
The fourth master is a good young man with knowledge and ambition. He is not destined to live a life of one person and one person, and he is not destined to have only one woman, but she wants to let the fourth master understand that he is used to the days when she is by his side.
If she can't let the fourth master understand this before he ascends the throne, then all that awaits her is the lonely days of staying alone in the deep palace.
Just that's it. She can't do anything to anyone. Even if it's a pair of children who are already sensible.
She took the risk of entrusting Xiao Qi and Hongxuan to the care of the Wulanala clan, which was a pain in her heart, but she did not regret it, she was trying to arrange a back road for a pair of children, if she really fell out of favor one day, at least there were two families of the Guarjia clan and the Wulanala clan who could take care of a pair of children, and they didn't have to live a pitiful life.
"Master, leave the rough work of watering the flowers to those palace people!" Seeing that Erfu had already bent down to add water to the shower for the third time. Yu Jing glanced at the eldest grandmother standing under the porch and reminded softly.
"This flower is a gift from the fourth master to my housewarming. Let them take care of me, I don't worry!" Erph said with a smile as if she didn't see Mama Hua approaching.
Who said that if she left the fourth master's side, she would really disappear in front of the fourth master's eyes completely, just looking at the people arranged by the fourth master around her, her every move would be sent back to the fourth master by the palace people who secretly protected her and beware of her being plotted.
The fourth master is a confident and suspicious person, and his ability to make up for his brain is too strong.
Erfu assured that this kind of roundabout method of competing for favor was more worthy of the fourth master's mind than the superficial work of the Li family who sent soup and water to the fourth master's study these days.
But this method is only available to her!
Who made the fourth master think that she was stupid and naïve, and changed the people around her again and again, just to protect her safety, so that her side was full of the eyes and ears of the fourth master, so that even if she didn't appear in front of the fourth master, let the fourth master get her news all the time!
On the same day, when Xiao Li's replaced Li's name, the fourth master also arranged for people to go over, for fear that Xiao Li's would hurt Hongyun, but he didn't want Xiao Li's to be too alert, so he put the people around him into it, and found various reasons to send it, making the fourth master even more taboo about it, if it weren't for the reputation of Hongyun and Mo Yaqi, the fourth master would have to deal with such a smart woman!
This is the time and fate!
Xiao Li thought that those people were the nails arranged by her and the Ulanala clan in the past, naturally she didn't want to keep any of them, but she didn't want those people to be the eyes and ears of the fourth master, and as soon as those means came out, her cute and stupid disguise was exposed in front of the fourth master.
But Xiao Li didn't know it yet, and he was bent on getting on the throne with a disguise similar to her Erf, and Erfu said hehe!
While thinking about her thoughts, Erfu watered the rose, and then wiped her little hands stained with dirt, walked back to the room and sat down, eating the delicate snacks sent from the dining room, sipping sweet and sour flower and fruit tea, and passing the time with a notebook.
A leisurely and comfortable day, Erfu spends this way in eating and playing.
When the lamp was in hand, Erfu was just about to go into the clean room to wash up, and Su Peisheng came to the Lotus Pavilion from Prince Yong's Mansion with a sad face, bringing a set of nine-linked jade rings that the fourth master had recently touched.
"Fang Fujin, this is something that the master specially asked the slave to send to you to pass the time, and there are also some supplements and daily meals prescribed by the imperial doctor, which have also been delivered to the dining room, please remember to take them on time!" Su Peisheng respectfully slapped Qian'er and said in a low voice.
Erfu pursed her lips and smiled, grabbed a few golden melon seeds and let Yujing send them to Su Peisheng, and said softly: "Fourth master, he has just returned to the house, and there must be a lot of things to point to his father-in-law to do, and he is also bothering such a capable person as you to run a trip, and this time let you run again." It's really hard work.
It's not early, so I won't leave my father-in-law to rest, so I'll buy some tea with the money. In addition, I also asked my father-in-law to bring this box of fruits back to the fourth master, and reminded the fourth master to remember to eat on time and not to starve!"
As he spoke, Erfu took a one-foot-high black lacquer box from the soft couch beside him and ordered Yuhua to deliver it to Su Peisheng.
In addition to the durable snacks that were common in this era, there was also a small packet of butter cookies and a small box of crispy fibrillains, which Erph had ordered the dining room to prepare during the day. I also planned to let the eldest grandmother go to the house tomorrow to send it back, but now that Su Peisheng is here, he will naturally let Su Peisheng take it back.
Su Peisheng came over on a fast horse. He was stunned when he looked at the lacquer box, but looking at the smiling face of Fang Fujin sitting on it, and thinking of the extent of his master's black face, he naturally didn't dare to say a word of rebuttal. Hurriedly bowed down and took it. After saying a few good things about his master, he took advantage of the darkness of the night and rode back to Prince Yong's mansion on a fast horse.
The fourth master looked at the lacquer box that Su Peisheng brought back, and finally showed a light smile, and even made an exception to reward Su Peisheng with a good piece of jade, and asked him to find someone to carve something to play with.
The slave looked at Fang Fujin, although his complexion was fine. But I still think about your master, and I tell the slave to remind you to eat on time. You must not be busy with hunger!" Su Peisheng only felt that he had been reported for his hard work, and took advantage of the fourth master's good mood to hurriedly say what Erfu had explained.
The fourth master raised his eyebrows when he heard the sound, then opened the wax-sealed lacquer box, looked at the neatly stacked delicate snacks inside, hooked the corners of his lips with a smile, glanced at Su Peisheng, who was still stunned, and said in a deep voice: "Let people put it away carefully, wait for two hours to send a cup of milk tea, the master will use some for supper, and you will go to the garden tomorrow, let those people in the dining room serve with all their hearts, and they should also beat it well, don't do anything unconscionable, don't blame the master for being ruthless when the time comes!"
"The slave understands, the slave will pass early tomorrow!" Su Peisheng scolded his mother in his heart, but he smiled extremely flatteringly on his face, and pinched his throat in response.
The dim sum prepared by Erf in the dining room was very delicate.
Whether it is jujube cake or almond cake, they are all the size of longan, and one bite will not look bad.
The butter cookies and gold silk cakes and other durable snacks placed on the lower layer are marked with how to eat, and the fourth master looked at the small block written by Erfu himself, and laughed even more, and hurriedly removed and folded the oil paper used for packaging, and put it into a box on the right hand.
"There should be those glutinous rice paper and oil paper things in the tea room, you wrap them again, don't break them, otherwise the master will interrupt your cheap hands!" The fourth master watched Su Peisheng walk out with the lacquer box in his hand, and reminded him viciously, so angry that Su Peisheng almost threw the lacquer box on the fourth master's face.
It's just some food, although it is not everywhere on the street, but the dining room in the house is not impossible to do, it is difficult for the fourth master to still collect it like a treasure, and he is not afraid of letting people see his jokes, Su Peisheng complained in his heart and walked to the tea room, but in the end, he still took out the oil paper and other things from the cabinet and packaged them separately, and carefully put them back into the lacquer box, not even daring to touch the dim sum dregs, for fear of being broken by the fourth master.
After all, the fourth master doesn't care about his missing arms and legs, he himself is very precious!
When he returned to the study to serve, he saw that the master with a black face had already looked through the newspaper with a smile, and he didn't even want the usual teacups, so he found the set of nondescript looking glass teacups to drink.
As the twilight deepened, the fourth master put aside the recital book in his hand, and beckoned Su Peisheng to fetch supper, feeling that he couldn't even sleep well without eating supper.
Su Peisheng gave the fourth master a roll of his eyes in his heart, and then explained that Zhang Mingde went to the dining room to get the boiled milk tea, and personally went to the tea room to send the little eunuch who wanted to come forward to help, took the silver tableware, picked up a few chestnut cakes and arranged the patterns, as if holding the holy decree and sending it to the fourth master.
"You're getting smarter!
Your Guarjia master's head melon is easy to use, look at the design of this tableware, look at it exquisite!" The fourth master took a sip of the milk tea that was still hot, pointed to the edge pattern of the silver shallow plate, and said with a very undisciplined smile.
For the fourth master's behavior of selling melons, Su Peisheng is already powerless to complain, the master of Fujin on the side of the secret road is so good, you should quickly bring people back, why bother to toss his little short legs!
The fourth master didn't know what Su Peisheng was thinking, or he didn't care about Su Peisheng's thoughts at all, so he reluctantly pinched a piece of soft and sweet chestnut cake and sent it to his mouth, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he imagined his own Nizi's smile when he was boxing.
When the fourth master felt happy and wanted to fly up and circle twice, Zhang Mingde knocked on the door of the study without a brain.
"The big night doesn't stop, go see what's going on!" The fourth master, who was interrupted from his good mood, immediately darkened his face, pointed at Su Peisheng and commanded coldly.
Su Peisheng shuddered, hurriedly lowered his head, and as soon as he went out, he pulled Zhang Mingde, who was still looking into the study, and walked to the Taiping Jar on the side.
"Do you have a brain, you monkey cub, you didn't see that the master was in a good mood, disturbed the master's mood, you don't have a head!" Su Pei angrily twisted two handfuls of tender meat on the inside of Zhang Mingde's arm, and roared in a low voice.
Zhang Mingde wanted to cry without tears and pointed to the little maid waiting at the gate of the courtyard, and said softly: "The apprentice doesn't want to go, but Fang Fujin sent someone over, how dare the slave not report it!"
"The person who the side Fujin ordered, that's the time to pass it on!" Su Peisheng looked at the figure at the door, only felt a little angry, and a little puzzled why this Guerjia side Fujin let people come over at this time, and he didn't know how to enter the city gate, don't knock on the city gate with the name of the fourth master's mansion, but ignore the other side Fujin in this mansion, and muttered and walked to the study.
The fourth master was waiting for Su Peisheng to reply, and when he saw his unrelenting virtue, he couldn't help but snort coldly.
Su Peisheng was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground, and took two steps closer under the huge pressure, before he bowed down and replied: "The slave went to ask, said that it was someone sent by Fang Fujin, do you think there is something on Fang Fujin's side?"
"Erfu ......" The fourth master was also surrounded by Su Peisheng's words, muttered, and hurriedly ordered Su Peisheng to lead people in.
In the impression of the fourth master, although Erfu didn't know the rules very well, he was not a bold person, so he sent the palace people to break through the city gate and enter the palace to report the news, I was afraid that something big would happen.
As soon as he thought of this, the fourth master couldn't sit still.
"Slave Yingyue, please be auspicious!" The little palace maid followed Su Peisheng into the door and knelt by the door, kowtowing in a crisp voice.
"What's wrong with your master?" the fourth master raised his hand to signal the little palace maid to get up, and asked hurriedly.
Yingyue was stunned by the fourth master's reaction, and then remembered what her master had ordered, and hurriedly picked up the food box she put on her side, and continued: "Everything is fine with the master, but I am worried that the master is busy with official business and has forgotten the hour, so I ordered the slave to send a chicken porridge over for supper!" (To be continued......)