Queen Xiaozhuang's personal maid: Su Malagu

Chapter 59 The Choice of Love and Family Affection
(1)

In 1669, when Kangxi officially took power, Su Mo was 53 years old, and Lu Qingyi was three years older than her, at 56 years old.

On that mountain path that they have traveled countless times, but the years have not left their marks on it, Su Moer and Lu Qingyi are still leading a horse each, slowly walking through the barrier made by the two horses. walking.

"Mo'er, can you come with me?" Lu Qingyi, whose hair and beard had turned gray, stopped, and looked at Su Mo'er with his eyes that were no longer clear, expectant.

The sound of "Mo'er" still made Su Mo'er's heart tremble, and a blush appeared on her no longer white and tender face.

"Old and fading, you want more." She said in a trembling voice.

"Your face is gone, and I'm already pale." Lu Qingyi touched his cheek with a thin hand.

Su Mo'er raised her head and looked at Lu Qingyi.

"I kept you waiting for decades." The words flowed down with tears.

"I'll wait for the rest of my life!" Lu Qing said, smiling, and took out his handkerchief.

He approached Su Mo'er, and slowly wiped her face.Su Mo'er gently grabbed his hand, and said word by word: "I'll tell the Empress Dowager when I get back, I'll go with you!"

"Good! Good!" Lu Qingyi's eyes were moist, he held Su Mo'er's hand in his backhand, and the two looked at each other for a long time.

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Su Mo'er stood outside Bumbutai's room door, wandering constantly.As soon as she separated from Lu Qing, she immediately told Bumbutai what she thought, but when she got outside the door, it slowly disappeared.

Bumbutai's voice came from the door, and that voice had become old and muddy, no longer as clear as a lark.

"Did Gege come back?" Bumbutai said in the room.

Su Mo'er's nose was sore when she heard the phrase "gege".She took a deep breath and said: "Your Majesty, you are a slave." Then she walked in.

"Go down!" Bumbutai said to the others around him.

The maids and nuns all retreated, Bumbutai pointed to the chair next to him: "Come, sit down."

Su Mo'er's heart was beating so fast that she didn't even dare to look at Bumbutai.

"Every time I go to meet in the wild, it's freezing outside. If we want to meet in the future, come here, the room is warm." Bumbutai added.

Su Mo'er kept her head down and said nothing.

"Speaking of which, it's not easy for Mr. Lu. He has been waiting for you for more than 30 years! Hehe..." Bumbutai laughed.

"It's not easy, it's not easy! At that time, you were young and beautiful. As for him, he was strong and youthful. He is old, and he is old now!" Bumbutai sighed.

"My lady is not old." Su Mo'er raised her head and looked at Bumbutai.Seeing this, she was shocked again: the loose skin, the drooping corners of the eyes and lips, the silver hair on the temples...

Where did that beautiful girl with a peach blossom face ride on the horse?Over the past few decades, how come I haven't felt that Bumbutai has aged so badly?
Su Mo'er's eye circles turned red again.

"Didn't expect me to be so old. Can I not be old? I am three years older than you. You are already old. Your black jewel-like eyes are gone, and there are wrinkles on your face... But, ah, You are more energetic than me, more energetic than me. These days, I suddenly feel that I am not as good as every day. "

Bumbutai seemed to be talking to Su Moer, but also seemed to be talking to himself.

Su Mo'er didn't speak all the time, she just looked at Bumbutai, and the changes in Bumbutai's face in her impression over the past few decades began to appear in front of her eyes.

"In the past few decades, I'm lucky to have you, lucky to have you!" Bumbutai murmured, tears filled his eyes.

"Mother!" Su Mo'er wanted to wipe away tears for Bumbutai, but Bumbutai shook his head, refused, and continued: "Without you, I can't last so many years, I can't do it! You are the whole of us!" The benefactor of the royal family. The benefactor of the Qing Dynasty! The great benefactor!"

Su Mo'er hurriedly knelt down: "Your Majesty, slave..."

Bumbutai stretched out his hand and pulled her: "I said, when it's just the two of us, you're not allowed to say 'servant' or 'servant', and you're not allowed to kneel down to me. When we're together, You have to be like a little friend playing on the grassland, without a concubine, a queen dowager, or a servant, you know?"

Su Mo'er nodded desperately, tears could not stop streaming down, she said softly to Lu Qingyi in her heart: "I'm going to break my promise to you again."

(2)

"The empress is old. When she was sitting there like an old man, I couldn't say anything, and I couldn't say the words to leave her. Although she is the empress dowager, she is very lonely, very lonely. No happiness at all. I...I still have you, but she..." Su Mo'er couldn't continue.

The disappointment in Lu Qing's eyes disappeared for a moment, and he smiled wryly: "It seems that I still need to wait."

Su Mo'er felt distressed by what he said. She looked up at Lu Qingyi with guilt and affection in her eyes: "I am destined to let you down in this life. You should find a good woman to marry."

"There's only so much room in my heart, and you've already taken it up. No woman can fit in." Lu Qingyi looked at Su Mo'er affectionately.

This time, instead of going to the wild, they went to a house outside the palace.That house was bought by Lu Qingyi, who planned to live with Su Mo'er.

When Lu Qingyi insisted on waiting for Su Mo'er, his father, who had worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, firmly disagreed. He was unwilling to accept his son marrying a maid anyway. Niece Uyo.

Wuyou was also infatuated with Lu Qingyi, and even had a bad relationship with Su Moer because of this, because she lost to Su Moer for helping Mingzhu design Qing Dynasty costumes, and after knowing that Lu Qingyi fell in love with Su Moer, she was jealous and emotional. Dazed, Wuyou almost wanted to poison Su Mo'er to death, but was finally stopped by Xinabuku.Because Xinabuku knew that Su Mo'er was someone close to Bumbutai, and she was the person Bumbutai trusted the most.

Wuyou finally married a wealthy businessman with resentment, and Lu Qingyi was kicked out of the house by his father because of this.

At that time, Lu Qingyi was still young, so he first bought a house in the suburbs.Before he became Kangxi Taifu, he worked in the Guangchu Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the day, and returned to his lonely home at night.
Lu Qingyi never told Su Moer these things. For him, what he has to do is to make the woman he loves happy and happy.So when Su Mo'er postponed leaving the palace with him again and again for the mission of Bumbutai and the Horqin people, and lived an ordinary life, Lu Qingyi never blamed her.Because he doesn't want to make the woman he loves sad, he knows what the mission of Bumbutai and the Horqin people means to Su Mo'er.

He has been waiting until Shunzhi succeeds to the throne and Bumbutai marries Dorgon.When both of them thought they could leave with peace of mind, first Dorgon passed away, and then there were many conflicts between Shunzhi and Bumbutai, which made Su Moer give up and leave again.She is worried about leaving Bumbutai alone to bear all this, and she wants to help Bumbutai tide over the difficulties.

Bumbutai's difficulties are Su Moer's difficulties, and Su Moer's difficulties are Lu Qingyi's difficulties.Not only did Lu Qingyi not blame Su Mo'er, but together with her, he trained Kangxi, the heir to the throne, for Bumbutai until Kangxi ascended the throne.

Kangxi's excellence comforted Bumbutai, and also reassured Su Mo'er and Lu Qingyi.When they decided to leave hand in hand again, the ambition of one of the auxiliary kings, Oboi, made the throne shaken again. Su Moer decided to stay again, and Lu Qingyi decided to join hands again to solve the problem.

Finally, Kangxi came to power, and the Qing Dynasty ushered in a rare peace and a momentum of prosperity.As soon as Lu Qing felt that they could be together now, he was afraid that Su Mo'er would still miss Bumbutai, so he sold the house in the suburbs and used his savings to buy a house not far from the palace. , Waiting to marry Su Mo'er.Unexpectedly, Su Mo'er was still worried about Bumbutai.

"I'm sorry!" Su Mo'er lowered her head heavily.

"Hey!" Lu Qingyi sighed, with a smile on his face: "I can understand the relationship between you and the Empress Dowager."

"Marry another woman, I don't have such a blessing." Su Mo'er wanted to touch Lu Qingyi's face with her hand, but her hand stopped in mid-air.

"From the day I decided to marry you, I never thought about marrying someone else!" Lu Qingyi took Su Mo'er's hand that had stopped in mid-air, and gently placed it on his face.

"In my heart, I have married you a long time ago." Lu Qingyi said affectionately.

Su Mo'er's mouth moved, but she didn't say anything, but Lu Qingyi knew that what she said was: "In my heart, I have married you a long time ago."

(End of this chapter)