Fourth Master's Pearl

Chapter 53

After the death of Emperor Kangxi, the Empress Dowager Wu Ya became very ill.After his beloved youngest son was dispatched to Zunhua Shouling, and later ordered by his brother who became the emperor to depose Lumi, he finally couldn't hold back the inner suffering and died in May.Yinzhen had to deal with government affairs with grief during the day, and kept a filial vigil in front of the funeral at night, his body and emotions had reached a low ebb.After the funeral was over, his mind could not be at peace. The state affairs and family affairs were exhausting, and he was troubled by insomnia after working overtime late at night and finishing the memorial. He felt a little powerless.

Chuqing had been busy helping the queen with the funeral for about a month, but after finishing her work, she realized that she hadn't been alone with Yinzhen for a long time.I also heard that Xiao Gaozi made a special trip to report that the emperor was not feeling well, but refused to take a good rest, so I asked Master Xi to persuade him.Regardless of his tiredness, he hurried to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

"You man, do you know what it means to relax and relax, and what it means to recuperate!" As soon as Chu Qing entered, she saw Yin Zhen holding a book under the lamp, surrounded by thick stacks of large-scale memorials on the desk with.

"Gao Wuyong!" Yinzhen called out dangerously in a low voice.

Xiao Gaozi bowed tremblingly and said, "Damn it, slave!"

Yinzhen smiled instead of anger: "You know you deserve to die, but you still dare to disobey my orders?"

Xiao Gaozi showed his loyalty, kowtowed and said: "Long live God told the servant not to disturb the concubine Xi, but the servant was bold enough to know that only the concubine Xi could let you rest. For the health of the dragon body, the slave is not a pity to die, Do not hesitate to die."

"Okay, okay, to show the deep love between master and servant, do you want me to call Chunhua? Xiao Gaozi, you go down first, and bring a bowl of ginseng tea."

Xiao Gaozi raised his eyes to look at Yinzhen, got the order, and retreated obediently.

Chuqing sat beside Yinzhen, snatched the writing brush from his hand involuntarily, then took his wrist and kneaded it gently.The mouth is pouted slightly, and the eyes are downcast with dissatisfaction.

Yinzhen's wrist was extremely sore, and being pressed and pinched by Chuqing like this, it relieved a lot comfortably.The brows that were frowned because of state affairs involuntarily relaxed, and the tired and dry eyes looked at Chu Qing with soft eyes.

"What are you looking at? Look, I'm not a memorial." Chu Qing said angrily.

Yinzhen smiled lightly and pinched Chuqing's fat-smooth nose bridge, and said: "You also know that there are many things that I need to deal with, so don't be stubborn with me, go back and rest."

Seeing his exhaustion, Chu Qing said in a soft tone, "Aren't you insomnia? When you finish your work, I will watch over you and sleep well. Can you?"

Yinzhen shook his head and said, "No. I don't know how long I'm going to be busy. You can go and rest yourself.... Insomnia, just insomnia. Zhen, I don't need to rest. I can't rest."

Chu Qing looked at him puzzled, "Sisi, why are you working so hard? To clean up the mess, you have to take it step by step. What if you get tired first?"

Yinzhen smiled and said: "I dare say that the foundation left by the late emperor is a mess, and you are the only one left." After he finished speaking, his face was full of worry, presumably because he had thought of various difficult matters.

You are responsible for the mess, and all the good fruits will be eaten by Hongli, the prodigal son of the sentimental seed. It is depressing to think about this kind of loss.And got some bad reputation, is it worth it?

Chu Qing's eyes were full of resentment, and she said, "I don't care, you go to rest now. We'll talk about it tomorrow morning."

"Tomorrow morning and tomorrow morning, Chu'er..." Yinzhen had a negotiating tone.

"No!" Chuqing shook her head firmly.

Xiao Gaozi's ginseng tea finally arrived.After Chuqing watched Yinzhen drink it, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"You, you don't know that I've always been worried about your body. It was like this before, and it's still like this now. I could understand it before, but now you have Prince Yi and Lord Zhang Tingyu, why bother to carry everything by yourself? ?”

Yinzhen lay down on the couch in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, with his eyes open, listening to Chu Qing's ramblings, his thin lips were slightly pursed, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

Chuqing covered him with a thin silk quilt, and seeing that Yinzhen's eyes were open, she stretched out two fingers to press his eyelids.

"Sleep obediently, the sky won't fall if you rest for a while. Obviously you are the emperor of the world, but it seems that you owe money to the people of the world and rush to pay it back."

Chuqing blew out the lights, and took Yinzhen's hand beside the couch to watch silently.The clear moonlight illuminates half of the room through the screen window.

Chuqing waited for a long time, knowing that Yinzhen's breathing was slowly calming down.Just as he was about to let go of Yinzhen's hand, he was suddenly grabbed tightly.

"Chu'er..." Yinzhen murmured vaguely.It's like talking in your sleep.

Chu Qing stroked the back of Fu Yinzhen's hand, and responded. "Well, I'm here."

"Emperor Niang..."

"Huh?" Chu Qing was puzzled.

"Emperor Niang said before leaving, why wasn't the fourteenth brother the emperor." Yinzhen's voice was full of exhaustion and hurt. "She said everything would be different."

Chuqing frowned.What did that incompetent, eccentric mother say?

"It's different? Why is it different for the fourteenth brother? Why can't I? I, I want to show them, I'm a good emperor. No, I don't want to show them. I want to let the people of the world, Jiangshan Sheji testifies...to testify."

Yinzhen's voice slowly dropped.

Tears of pity welled up in Chuqing's eyes.

"Fourth," Chuqing kissed Yinzhen's palm, where the thin calluses left by practicing riding, shooting and calligraphy in the early years touched her lips, "Jiangshan and I are both what you deserve."

If possible, I hope to meet you at an earlier moment in your life...accompany you to walk more roads, spend more time, share more of your loneliness, and give you more smiles.

Yinzhen's insomnia symptoms gradually eased, and Chu Qing no longer stayed in the Hall of Mental Cultivation in the middle of the night to fight with Yinzhen.Yinzhen was busy with political affairs, Chuqing found work for herself, and a few months passed in the blink of an eye.One morning, Yinzhen ordered someone to send a dog, and then took time to come over and chat with Chuqing, teasing the puppy to relieve fatigue.

Yinzhen likes dogs, and Chuqing also likes dogs, and the two started a daily discussion on the issue of naming this chubby, fluffy little guy.

"Chu'er can call it whatever name he likes," Yinzhen said.

"Mm, good." Chu Qing rubbed her chin bluntly while thinking, and suddenly clapped her hands excitedly, "Yes!"

Yinzhen and the puppy looked at Chuqing at the same time.

"Just call it 'dog blood'!"

Yin Zhen stumbled. "What did you call it?"

"Dog blood."

"Why?" Yinzhen held back his temper.

Chu Qing said mysteriously and earnestly: "I heard that 'dog blood is invincible'! This name has boundless power, and it will surely turn danger into good luck!"

Yinzhen was speechless.

Chuqing speculated on Yinzhen's expression, and discussed, "How about calling it 'Tianlei'? In fact, the essence is the same."

Yinzhen looked at the snowball-like puppy with ice and snow intelligence all over his body, and did not respond to the name 'Tianlei' again.

"Okay, I know you want to show off your writing skills, so I'll leave it to you." Chu Qing's mood faded.

Yinzhen touched the puppy's head, and the puppy lay down comfortably at Yinzhen's feet.

Yinzhen smiled and said, "Ruyi."

The little dog turned around, wagging its tail without losing the opportunity.This name is finally recognizable.

Yinzhen picked up the puppy and said with a smile, "It's called 'Ruyi'."

When Chu Qing heard it, she said disapprovingly, "It's a ready-made name, it's not creative."

Yinzhen looked at Chuqing and said, "Chu'er, I will give you 'Ruyi'."

"Oh." Chuqing answered casually.

In the scorching summer, after the coolness of the early morning passed, Chuqing lazily stayed in the yard, barking "Ruyi", the puppy got up cleverly, and jumped to Chuqing's feet.

Chuqing looked up to Ruyi's dog-legged appearance, nodded appreciatively and said, "Yes, not bad. Let's go, let's go to the cooler."

Ruyi followed along.

Yinzhen looked at Chuqing teasing Ruyi, and heard her voice from afar as if saying that Ruyi's future husband-in-law should be called "Wanshi".Yinzhen couldn't help laughing alone.

"Long live, Mr. Zhang is still waiting for you at the South Study Room."

"Let's go." Yinzhen suppressed his smile and strode towards the south study.

In October, Yinzhen ordered Nian Gengyao to be the general of Fuyuan, and conquered Qinghai radish Zangdanjin.After that, there was another period of listening to road reports, managing rear support, and rectifying debts to support the busy life of the national treasury.Yinzhen did not enter the harem for a period of time, and the only time he went there was to see the noble concubine Nian before leaving.Chu Qing knew that this was the emperor's appeasement strategy.The woman Nian is also pitiful.It's just that she doesn't have such noble sentiments to help her.

Sometimes Yinzhen would sneak away from his busy schedule and order Xiao Gaozi to take Chuqing to Yangxin Hall in a low-key manner, play a game of chess or write a few words or say a few words casually.The short-term relationship deepened the relationship even more.The two feel more and more harmonious.

That night, Chuqing took Ruyi to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to play.Well, play.Yinzhen was writing the memorial seriously without being disturbed.

Chuqing remembered that she wanted to cut Ruyi's nails, so she called Xiao Gaozi's subordinates to bring some small scissors and started to act.Yinzhen dipped the pen in full cinnabar, looked sideways at Ruyi with fearful eyes, his small body struggled under Chu Qing's clutches, and a low growl came from his throat.

"Be careful, just let others do these things." Yinzhen said out loud.Ruyi has a docile temperament, but will bite when she is in a hurry.

"Oops!" Chu Qing suddenly dropped the scissors, screaming and jumped away.

Yinzhen shook his hand, and a large drop of cinnabar fell on the opened booklet.

Regardless of who wrote it, she hurriedly asked Chu Qing: "What's wrong?"

Ruyi hummed in a low voice.

Chuqing smiled ashamedly: "Well, I cut off Ruyi's toe."

Yinzhen sighed lightly and shook his head.Looking at the notebook again, after approving "know", he added: "This is dirty in several cases, I'm afraid you will be afraid, so I'm here to tell you."

Putting Ruyi aside, Chuqing came over and leaned on Yinzhen's back, and gave him a hammer and pinch to relax his muscles.With a glance of his eyes, he saw the line written by Zhu Sha.

"This is..." Isn't this the note I saw in the library? !Chuqing's eyes widened.

"It's not because of you that this happened." Yinzhen said lightly, thinking that Chuqing was wondering about the large bright red cinnabar print.

Chu Qing stared at Yinzhen's strong regular script on the memorial, fascinated.At the beginning, she fell in love with him because of his memorials, and she began to pay attention to him and try to understand him.Now, he wrote this Zhu Zhu in front of his eyes.What a mysterious feeling.

How come there is a feeling of echoing from beginning to end?Are you going back?go back?Go back to the time and space that belongs to her but does not have him?
"Chu'er? Chu'er?" Yinzhen called Chuqing a few times.

"Ah?" Chuqing left Yinzhen's back and said in a daze, "Oh, it's time for me to go back to Jingren Palace, right? I'm leaving now."

Yinzhen held Chuqing back, and looked into her eyes probing, where there was a little panic and dodge.

"Chu'er, what's wrong with you?"

Chuqing blinked vigorously and said, "I didn't do anything? What can I do?
"Don't move." Yinzhen stretched out his hand to caress Chuqing's face, and put his fingertips next to her eyes.The hazy water marks could not escape his sight.

"What happened all of a sudden?" Yin Zhen asked softly.

Chuqing plunged into Yinzhen's arms, and said in a soft voice: "It's okay. I just can't bear you."

Yinzhen froze for a moment, then patted Chuqing on the back, "Have you lost your temper again?"

Chuqing nodded in Yinzhen's arms.

"It's because I've been too little with you recently." Yinzhen sighed helplessly.

"It's me, I spend too little time with you." Chu Qing said in a muffled voice.

In the long years of not knowing each other, leaving you alone for so long.But I can have you here from the first day I come here.It's me, I spend too little time with you.

Yinzhen felt his chest was wet with tears, and raised Chuqing's face in surprise.Chuqing's tears flowed down unceasingly, and there was a drop of crystal tear falling on her chin.Under Yinzhen's gaze, Chuqing smiled, and took the back of her hand to wipe away her tears.Yinzhen took her palm, slowly placed it on his chest, and then kissed Chuqing's wet face, as gentle and delicate as if he wanted to kiss away her tears.

"Chu'er, you always cry because of me. From now on, you can only be happy because of me. Okay?"

"Sisi, I love you voluntarily. Whether it's joy or sorrow, it's a gift from God. Being able to come to you is already an unexpected miracle. You don't know, you don't know me How far away from you, how far away..."

Chuqing's lips were blocked.Yinzhen hugged Chuqing tightly as if he had sensed something, and kissed the person in his arms with a little helplessness in his heart.Carried away, kissed eagerly.

I can't let her talk anymore, I can't hear her say these words as if she is leaving.In fact, he has been doing some kind of psychological preparation.He had already vaguely felt it, but he didn't confirm it.I also don't want to ask for proof.Chuqing seemed to be attached to another soul.And he, long, long ago, fell in love with this soul unknowingly.

"Don't go..." Yinzhen murmured reluctantly, picked up Chuqing, and walked towards the dragon couch in the palace step by step.

Bright yellow bed curtains, faint fragrance of ambergris.

Limited time, unlimited tenderness.

(End of this chapter)