Qing court ladies

Chapter 73
The sound of horseshoes kicking outside the carriage and a burst of noise made it seem that the carriage became quieter and quieter. The carriage shook very lightly. Su Yue was in a daze and was about to fall asleep. The sound of Kangxi putting down the book and sighing brought Su Yue back to her senses.

Su Yue blindfolded, looked at Kangxi, and suddenly found that Kangxi began to change gradually, becoming more and more serious, the former domineering and unrestrained, now completely restrained.The arrogance between the eyebrows turned into fatigue, and there were wrinkles at the corners of the eyes.Su Yue was in a daze. If these changes were not discovered suddenly today, Su Yue would have almost forgotten that Kangxi is almost fifty, and time has passed when they didn't pay attention.

Su Yue caressed the corner of Kangxi's eyes. She has been with this king for these years, but she didn't really understand until now that he is actually a human being who will grow old, get tired, and get tired. In the past, Su Yue always put He regarded it as Kangxi, the eternal emperor recorded between the pages of the words.Only now did I really realize that the person in front of me was a living person, Ama, her child, who would grow old, die, and affect her emotions.

"What's the matter?" Kangxi looked at Su Yue who was staring at him in a daze, her eyes were already slightly red, and gently covered the corners of her eyes with her slender hands.

"I've been forgetting, time is up to you." Su Yue's nose was sore, she lowered her head, not daring to look at Kangxi again, enduring the warmth of her eyes.She was wrong after all, it turned out that she had never integrated into them, they had always been passers-by to her, if she hadn't seen the wrinkles in the corners of Kangxi's eyes at this moment, she would have been like this all her life and would never wake up.

"I'm getting old, right?" Kangxi closed his eyes, feeling infinitely bitter.

Su Yue shook her head fiercely, the life of Kangxi recorded in history flashed through Su Yue's mind quickly, now it has been 39 years since Kangxi, time has become so precious.

"Long live God will not grow old, never will, right?" Su Yue needed an affirmative answer to stabilize her turbulent mood.Thinking that Kangxi would leave and never see him again, Su Yue was startled.Over the years, Suyue has already gotten used to Kangxi treating her well, testing Kangxi's bottom line again and again, and reassuring again and again, until now she completely believes that this road is hard but she is at ease, and has never thought of changing. Now, She began to face up to it.

"I will not grow old" The emperor is not a god after all, life and death are the beginning and end of a person, and no one can escape, but looking at those eyes at this moment, he can't say such words.

Su Yue nodded in agreement, and chose to believe this sentence by deceiving herself, so that she could feel at ease.

"You have something on your mind these days. I see that you are always in a daze these days." Kangxi leaned on his back, moved his body slightly, and hugged Suyue.

Su Yue obviously didn't expect Kangxi to be so perceptive, she was stunned for a while, wanted to say something but didn't know how to say it, she was bored for a while, and didn't answer.

"If you don't want to say it, I won't force you, but you know what I don't like, so don't violate my taboo." After Kangxi finished speaking, he closed his eyes.

Su Yue felt cold, of course she didn't dare to do it, but she didn't know what to do about some things, so it was useless to talk about it.

Because of this episode, the two have their own thoughts in their hearts, and their bodies that are tightly attached to each other warm each other, but they are also infinitely melancholy.

Kangxi was quite satisfied with the progress of the Yongding River project, and he praised Yinzhen greatly. Su Yue was by Kangxi's side, watching Kangxi praise Yinzhen, he laughed from the bottom of his heart, Yinzhen also accepted Kangxi's praise seriously, with a deadpan expression, Only when looking at Su Yue, there is a slight fluctuation in the eyes.

That night, Kangxi summoned all the ministers and workers of Yongding River to discuss the plan for Yongding River, and personally formulated a strategy for repairing Yongding River.

Kangxi was looking at the map, Li Dequan held the lamp and followed Kangxi's gaze, Su Yue came in with a soup of white fungus and said, "Long live, it's the third watch, please bring in something."

"Wait, let's take a look at this first." Kangxi beckoned to Suyue, pointed to the Yongding River on the map and said, "The completion of the Yongding River will change the situation of the Yongding River with heavy rains and floods in summer and dry land in winter and spring. It’s really a joyful thing.”

Su Yue snatched the lamp from Li Dequan's hand, and put it aside, the lack of light made the map a little blurry, Kangxi was slightly angry, but suppressed it, looked at the tremella soup beside him, and sighed slightly, "I don't want to use it."

Su Yue rolled up the map, put it in the painting vat, raised her head and explained to Kangxi, "Long Live Lord always sleeps late these days, easy to get angry, tremella soup is nourishing, Long Live Lord use some."

Kangxi looked at the vacant table and frowned. The Yongding River was a major issue in his heart. He didn’t want to waste any time. How to make him feel at ease.But at this moment, there are no blueprints on the desk, only the steaming white fungus soup.

Su Yue has been with Kangxi for many years, so she naturally knows Kangxi's thoughts, not to mention that Kangxi now pays more attention to his reputation in history than before, and his subordinates are more cautious in their affairs.The Yongding River has been erratic for many years, and how many people have suffered from its impermanence. Su Yue understands how much Kangxi attaches importance to it now, but since that day, Su Yue has begun to pay attention to Kangxi's body, and she only hopes that Kangxi can live a healthy life in his lifetime. Therefore, although it is inappropriate to do this, it is the only thing Su Yue can do.

"You've changed." Kangxi looked at Suyue thoughtfully, although Suyue used to give soup to herself who was busy in the middle of the night, but she never forced her, and sometimes Suyue wouldn't say anything when he didn't need it.From reviewing papers to the crowing of the cock, when Su Yue sees him, she just admires or sighs for him, and it will never be the way it is now.

Su Yue was a little embarrassed, and also remembered how she handled this matter in the past, but now it is different from the past, Su Yue asked herself, she can't be as free and easy as before, "Long Live Lord thinks that the change is good or bad "

Kangxi didn't expect Suyue to ask back, lowered his head in thought, and unconsciously stirred the soup with his hands, "Okay, not good."

Su Yue wanted to ask why she said this, but Li Dequan's voice came from outside the door, "Long Live Lord, it's getting late, and we have to inspect the Yongding River tomorrow."

The two talked without knowing the time, when Li Dequan reminded them, only to realize that it had been a long time since the third watch, and the white fungus soup was already cold.

"Long Live Lord, let's go to bed." Su Yue stepped forward to collect the soup, Li Dequan led someone in to wait for Kangxi to go to bed, there were only footsteps in a low voice, Su Yue turned and left.

The bright moon has slanted to the west, and the sky and the earth are shrouded in silver-white hazy moonlight. Su Yue looks at the crystal white fungus in the bowl, a little distracted.

The guards were patrolling, watching Su Yue busy to greet her.Now Su Yue is the first-class maid in charge of the Qianqing Palace, and also serves as the maid of imperial edict, which can be regarded as the end of the palace maid. Her rank is the fourth rank. Compared with these guards, her status is naturally noble, not to mention that Su Yue's status is self-evident when she serves the imperial court. Metaphor.Su Yue has no self-awareness about her own identity, watching others salute, she restrained her wandering thoughts, and was busy returning the salute.On the contrary, the guards were a little taken aback, but they still didn't dare to speak, and continued to patrol.

The dining room is far away, and the people in the dining room are used to Suyue coming here. After saluting, they are all busy. Suyue has something on her mind all the way, so she puts down the bowl and leaves, a little blind in the direction.

"You are hiding in this palace." A man's voice came from behind the rockery in Huqu, his tone was quite angry, but his voice was very soft, Su Yue frowned slightly, feeling familiar.

"I dare not!" Xiao Lizi's voice came, which shocked Su Yue, and hurriedly found a place to hide her figure.Focusing on Kangxi these days, Su Yue seems to have forgotten what she wanted to talk to Xiao Lizi about.Hearing Xiao Lizi talking to someone so abruptly in the middle of the night made Su Yue feel a little embarrassed.

"You better not dare, otherwise" the man's tone was threatening, and his voice was lowered.

Su Yue looked at the footsteps coming from behind the rockery, and hurriedly backed away, looking at the bright yellow boots, her heart skipped a beat, she finally remembered who the voice was, the only one who could wear bright yellow clothes and keep saying that she is the palace is the prince.The prince seemed to be very angry. He walked away with big steps, causing his clothes to fly away. The plain brocade bag swayed with the prince’s steps. Su Yue kept following the sachet, and suddenly remembered where she had seen it before, Su Yue Almost exclaimed, he hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and squatted down against the rockery.

Su Yue didn't let go of her hand to breathe until she was sure that the crown prince and Xiao Lizi had left, her face was already blushing, she had already forgotten to breathe, and almost suffocated herself to death.

When Xiaolizi met the prince, the familiarity of the words surprised Suyue, but it was still not as shocking as the plain sachet.The prince's actions have been frequent in recent years, even if it is not from his original intention, it is a little too much.A few days ago, Long Live God gave the prince a bright yellow dress, but according to the order in the morning, the prince has already worn it in his palace in the afternoon.The speed is astounding.You must know that even if the crown prince wears bright yellow clothes, it should be made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs after Kangxi decreed. No matter how fast the process is, it will take a few days, but the crown prince put it on in the afternoon, which is obviously done long ago. I couldn't wait to make clothes, and when Kangxi personally conquered Galdan, there were rumors and secret reports that the prince tried on the dragon robe privately, made yellow robes, and so on.He was picked up again for no reason, and in conjunction with the prince's actions, it seemed a bit real.

But now the crown prince secretly met Xiao Lizi late at night, and the person who gave the sachet were all people close to or related to Kangxi, what is the crown prince going to do?Putting cronies next to the Long Live Lord, revealing the things about the Long Live Lord, these are the things that Kangxi hates the most, even if it is the prince, there will be no good fruit to eat, and now Kangxi still loves the prince very much. Now, even if the crown prince was too much in the palace, Kangxi also secretly dealt with the people around the crown prince, so Xiao Lizi and the others were known, and the prince might not have a big deal, but Xiao Lizi and the others would undoubtedly die.Kangxi knows nothing about this palace, what should he do now?
Su Yue was pulled back to her senses by the cold, only to find that she was still squatting on the rockery thinking, her legs were a little numb, Su Yue stood with the jagged rockery, and it took a while to regain consciousness and return to the room.

Su Yue stayed up all night, her mind was full of this matter, wondering if the prince forced Xiao Lizi, or something else.There is also the kit, the picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water is originally for those who are happy, and the prince wears it with him, does it mean that they are happy with each other.There is also the fate of the prince and their way out, which bothered Su Yue all night.How to deal with this matter is complicated, making Su Yue restless. Until dawn, Su Yue still doesn't know how to deal with it properly. This matter involves the people around her, which makes her unable to calm down. She can't afford to lose.

(End of this chapter)