Chapter 338

The fourth master smiled and didn't answer, turned around and took the white jade soup bowl given by the maidservant, "You can feel more comfortable after drinking the medicine!"

Erfu nodded obediently, but still looked at the bitter medicine soup that didn't look very good for a while, and then closed her eyes as if she was drinking arsenic.

The decoction was not as unpalatable as Erfu imagined, but had the sweetness of red dates, and the faint taste of motherwort was more like a bowl of boiled motherless ginger soup than covered in thick brown sugar water.

"Yujing, are they better?" asked Erph as she rinsed her mouth with water and raised her eyes with a smile.

"They're all fine!" the fourth master replied casually as he cleaned up the dishes and other items that Erfu had used.

Erfu really wanted to see Yu Jing and the others who were okay in the mouth of the fourth master, but considering the problem of her body, she could only suppress this behavior that seemed to be a little nonsense, and even the next day when the palace maid next to Concubine De came to pick up the cage, she didn't get up, mainly because of the feeling that all the internal organs were twisted together and stirred up, which was really painful.

The Imperial Doctor's seemingly authoritative diagnosis made Erfu have to lie in bed for three months, which means that before the end of the year, she will not have the opportunity to go to the cultivation and weaving Xuan where Yu Jing and the others are recuperating from their injuries to see what is going on.

The palace maid who replaced Yujing in Erfu's place was Yaoqin.

She has a pair of piercing eyes and thin lips, and she looks very serious and old-fashioned, so that Erf really can't get close to her.

However, according to the fourth master. This person is not only an expert in managing inside and outside, but also has a little research on medical skills, and his ancestor opened a martial arts hall in Guangzhou Mansion. A body of fist and foot kung fu is a family heirloom, and he can fight with two imperial guards with his bare hands, which can be described as a saint warrior among women.

Erfu didn't know how such a person could become a palace maid to do this kind of work of serving people, but she still admired this kind of capable person, and she was really not energetic, so she handed over the affairs inside and outside of the Green Shade Pavilion and even the Lotus Pavilion to Yaoqin.

This is also because of the big mama who has always been in charge of the Lotus Pavilion. He was injured in this sudden assassination, and his injuries were more serious than Yujing's, and he was getting older. The fourth master was also taboo that she led the little palace maid who stabbed Yujing into the Lotus Pavilion, and moved her to Zhuangzi to be raised, presumably she would not return to Erfu to serve in the future.

Yaoqin was eighteen years old, and Erf had asked her when she was chatting. She was planning to comb her hair and be a grandmother. It seems that this is also a multi-faceted talent arranged for her by the fourth master, so she has no intention of looking for other housekeepers, just let Yaoqin take on the errand of the housekeeper!

"Master, it's time for you to drink the medicine!" Just as she was thinking about it, Yaoqin had already walked into the inner room with a gold-painted vermilion lacquer tray, respectfully bowed to Erfu, and whispered.

Erfu smiled at Yaoqin and pointed to the corner table next to the bed. Said softly: "Let's put it here first!"

Yaoqin answered by placing the white jade soup bowl on the tray on the corner table, and then took off the pink-woven gold brocade cotton cloak with large magnolia flowers on the screen and put it on Erfu's shoulder. He lit the wormwood segment in the copper jujube and sent it to Erfu, "The master's body is not suitable, you should be more careful, and the imperial doctor has also explained, you can't sit for a long time now!"

"I'm lying stiff!" Erph explained with a smile, took the still warm medicine bowl and poured it into his mouth, the consciousness was really unprecedented, Yaoqin's tense face improved slightly, and she pursed her lips and sent a cup of warm water to relieve the bitter taste in Erfu's mouth.

"What's going on over there with Yujing?" Yaoqin stood in the corner like a puppet when she wasn't doing things, which made Erfu very unaccustomed, and her worry about Yujing and the others made her take the lead in asking.

Yaoqin lowered her head with a flickering look in her eyes, "Everything is fine, the master has arranged for the imperial doctor and the little palace maid to take care of it, I want to come and wait for the master to get out of bed and see Yujing coming to you alive to serve!"

"That's good, you can do some embroidery when you're not working, and you don't have to stand in the corner all the time!" Erph nodded with a smile, pointed to the embroidery piers by the window and in the corner of the wall, and said softly.

"Slaves don't know how to do needlework!" Yaoqin avoided Erfu's eyes with some inferiority, and spoke in a low voice.

Huh......

This is the first time that Erfu has met a woman who can't do needlework in this era, and she said that she was very surprised, but looking at Yaoqin's inferiority complex, she regretted saying such a ruinous statement.

"No, it doesn't matter, ......there are so many ready-to-wear shops and embroidery shops," Erf said awkwardly pulling the cloak on her body, as if comforting.

Another chat stopped at hehe, and Erf was also quite depressed.

In the blink of an eye, the unbearable three months of bed rest are about to pass, and the forty-eighth year of Kangxi is about to end, and Erfu finally got the approval of the imperial doctor to allow her to go out for a walk after a snowfall, wrapped like a polar bear and walked out of the green shade where she lived for three months with a hand stove.

"Look at this snow, it's so soft like sugar!" said Erph like a little swallow flying out of a bird's nest for the first time, pointing to the snow in the distance that the palace people had not yet had time to clean.

Yaoqin walked without changing her face, but she was secretly complaining in her heart, she still felt quite temperamental when she first saw her master, but after three months of getting along, she deeply realized that she was naïve at the beginning, this is completely a combination of chatter and naïve ghosts, and it is difficult for the fourth master to pamper her for many years, she is worried about the fourth master's aesthetic vision.

"Master, carefully step on the road!" "It has just snowed, and the drawbacks of the cobblestone path that dots every inch of the garden on weekdays have been exposed, even if the palace people sweep it carefully, it is difficult to ensure that there is no missing party, looking at the polar bear bouncing in front of her, Yaoqin dutifully reminded.

Erfu waved his hand indifferently, and before he could say a word, the whole person went to the snow on the side, and directly fell a vicious dog to grab, and it was also a loss that there was snow on the left and right, otherwise...... Yaoqin pulled the corners of her mouth in unimaginability. Hurriedly stepped forward to help Erf up, and carefully wiped her snowflake-stained little face with a handkerchief.

Erf, who had suffered a loss, no longer jumped, and the little hands that had been shrunk in the hand stove cover were also taken out. Even more disgusted, he threw the hand stove into the hands of the little palace maid who accompanied him, grabbed Yaoqin's wrist directly, and walked towards the peony platform step by step like a moving compass.

In the past three months, the fourth master is often so busy that he can't see anyone, and the days when Concubine De returns to the palace are delayed again and again. A pair of little babies are also well raised, so I relieved myself and discussed the day of returning to the palace with the fourth child. Of course, it seemed to her that she was just going out for a walk.

As soon as she entered the peony platform, the heat on her face made her feel excited, and she nested in the warm pavilion like spring for a long time, and her body's immunity was drastically reduced.

"Fang Fujin is here. Our mother is talking about you!" Ning Yun, the face who took the place of Aunt Yuxiu's position as the palace maid, smiled and took over the big picture that Erfu had taken care of herself. Said softly.

Erfu nodded slightly, and didn't need the palace people to lead the way, so she went straight to the warm pavilion where Concubine De was located.

"Niangniang......" Erfu slapped her butt on the embroidery pier next to the charcoal stove, smiled and winked at Concubine De Niangniang who was sitting on the kang by the window, and called delicately.

"The palace said that you can't hold back like a monkey, and the imperial doctor over there just agreed that you would have to run out in the snow as soon as you came out for a walk, and it was definitely to run to the palace!"

Erf took a sip of sweet ginger syrup and stomped the snow on her boots. Tilting his head and coquettishly said: "Niangniang is an elder, of course I have to come to Niangniang here as soon as possible to say goodbye!"

"Please. I haven't seen it in this palace, have you seen it?" Concubine De Niangniang casually put down the Buddhist scripture she was holding in her hand, raised her eyes and glanced at the cute Erfu, and turned to Ning Yun, who was holding a small hammer to beat her legs, and asked.

Ning Yun smiled and lowered her eyes without saying a word, this mother-in-law and daughter-in-law get along so well!

"According to the palace, you just can't hold back in bed, and you're worried that the fourth child will nag you, so you can find a reason why he can't teach you a lesson, and say that you're here to ask for peace in the palace!"

Erfu was seen through her mind, and her little face turned red at once!

But she is a time-tested warrior in the end, the thickness of her face is not a little bit, she quickly adjusted her mood, smiled toothlessly and came to Concubine De Niangniang, climbed to the other side of the kang table and sat down, and asked the little palace maid to take the brocade quilt with her legs, and shrank her legs to the warm kang with her little boots.

"Niangniang will let Erfu go this time, but you have to be Erf's umbrella!

I've been stuffy in the house for the past few months, even if my grandfather comes to tell me about the new things outside every day, I'm so bored!" Erfu took a silver skewer and pierced a honey-stained fruit to Concubine De's mouth, with a flattering smile on the corner of her mouth, and said crisply.

"You've been raising it for a few months, but you haven't seen any flesh on your body, but your skin is getting thicker and thicker, and it's really the first time I've seen someone who plays so seriously!

Forget it, there are a lot of adults in this palace, and I am too lazy to worry about you as a fool, but you really have to be careful, you hurt your body in the confinement before, and you must not take any more risks, otherwise you will be sick like this palace when you are old, and see if you are still beautiful!" Concubine De Niangniang instructed Ning Yun to send the soup woman filled by the little palace maid to Erfu, smiled helplessly, and raised her hand to take the silver skewer in Erfu's hand, and instructed with some anxiety.

Erff nodded hurriedly to indicate that she knew, but she really didn't take it to heart.

After all, confinement is a unique tradition in China, and those people in Europe and the United States do not pay attention to this, and they have not seen any diseases when they are old, so Erfu naturally thinks that this is a bad habit, but forgets that confinement can be passed down to this day, which is a very reasonable thing.

However, the fourth master and Concubine De stared, but it also made her lie in bed honestly for three months, so even if she tossed again, it would not have much impact on her, plus there was a wind-dispelling wine that she drank according to three meals a day, so Concubine De was too lazy to nag.

"It's almost the New Year, the palace is going back to the palace, you should also go back to the palace!" Concubine De said in a low voice as she looked at the snow-shrouded lake in the distance through the glass window.

Erfu didn't seem to want to go back when she heard Concubine De's tone, but the palace rules were the rules set by the ancestors, that is, one day the fourth master would ascend the throne, and Concubine De would like to leave the palace and live outside, which would be impossible.

It's just that she can't live permanently when she walks around! Looking at Concubine De's sideburns, which already have some silver threads, she didn't know how to comfort her for a while.

Over the years, although she has not often entered the palace, she has also heard some signs from other people's mouths. Concubine De is getting older and older, although she has an old relationship with the saint and has a lot of face in the palace, but in the end, she has not been favored for a long time, that is, the old man Kangxi went to Yonghe Palace to eat, and he mostly sat and left, and he did not stay overnight for many years.

Women are flowers and need to be loved, and the palace concubine is a flower, just a flower in the imperial garden.

Good times don't last long......

Concubine De was favored in the past, but now she is already a yellow flower in the old days, and she has long been defeated!

The old man Kangxi naturally likes to walk around those young palace concubines, especially those water-like beauties from the south.

As a woman, how could Concubine De not feel frustrated and sad when she looked at those twenty-eight-year-old girls standing beside her man! If Concubine De said that she was not jealous, Erfu would not believe it at all, but she was a palace concubine who had risen from the bottom, and she could bear it better than others.

But this day of being out of sight and out of mind is so enjoyable, when I think of returning to that palace again, it's no wonder that Concubine De Niangniang will show such a lost look!

Thinking of this, Erfu couldn't help but sigh, Concubine De's today is her future, and even her future is not as good as Concubine De's fourth concubine and the scenery of being in charge of palace affairs!

"What are you sighing at a young age!" Concubine De was really a little lost before, but looking at Erfu, who had always been a young man who didn't know what it was like, she also sighed and frowned, still confused, and asked a little strangely.

Erfu didn't dare to expose the scars in front of Concubine De Niangniang, she was jealous of the fourth master who might one day be like the old man Kangxi and pamper the little girl who was about the same age as her granddaughter, so she only picked an excuse that seemed to be quite reliable, and said with a wry smile: "I don't want to go back to the boxy yard!"

"No matter how beautiful and comfortable this garden is, but you have to remember that the small square courtyard is your root, if you don't even have roots, the beauty in this garden will not belong to you, and even those little eunuchs and little palace maids who you don't even look at now will change their faces. Concubine De took a sip of tea and said quietly.

Erfu has been very well protected by the fourth child since she entered the house, and she is kind to everyone, which worries Concubine De the most, so these days, even if Erfu is bedridden all day long, she will also instill the things she has experienced to Erfu as if she is a homely person, but it seems that the effect is not obvious, it really makes Concubine De Niangniang, who thinks that Erfu can always be by the side of the fourth child until she is old, and her hair is gray. (To be continued......)