snow ants

He didn't dare to look up, and he couldn't know the expression of the Empress Dowager at this time.But Liang Jiugong, who was as careful as a hair, didn't miss her frowning for a moment, and he suddenly realized: "It's a disaster."

However, while everyone held their breaths and waited for the verdict, the outstanding female politician who assisted three generations of emperors laughed leisurely.The Empress Dowager smiled and said: "Aren't these two pretty good? The discarded ones are so pleasing, and the added ones must be the best choice."

Yuelai and Surabaya lowered their heads, looked at each other quietly, each wondering.It's impossible for the old lady not to see those two rotten apples, why instead of blaming them, she became happy instead?

Naturally, these two lowly servants have no way of knowing what kind of sinister inside story lies behind the grand wedding they are busy arranging.This is a political marriage. Kangxi was young, and the power was left behind, and the princes have been neglecting the throne for a long time.The empress dowager personally went to the chief assistant Sony's mansion to propose marriage, hoping to rely on him to turn the tide.Against this complex background, any small matter may become a reality and cause an uproar.Of course the Empress Dowager was suspicious, but after weighing it, she decided to put the matter on hold for the time being.However, she also wanted to kill, which is a kind of cruelty necessary for a politician.

Things went smoothly after that.The Empress Dowager greatly appreciated the preparations for the welcome ceremony, and even praised Xin Da Nian a few words, saying: "Reward."

Yuelai and Sishui walked out of the respect room, as if they had gone to the gate of hell for a stroll, their bodies came back, but their souls were still lingering there...

Yuelai suddenly murmured: "We're all right, are we all right?"

Sishui nodded and said, "Yes, we are still alive and well..."

Surabaya's words were interrupted by Yuelai's sudden hug.Only Yuelai said with a half-crying and half-smile: "That's great, that's great..."

Surabaya's heart was sour, and she couldn't help but have mixed feelings.

This person is the only person in this world who recognizes the existence of our side, Surabaya.As long as there is him, as long as there is this person, there is still meaning in my life.

Surabaya felt relieved and at ease.He slowly stretched out his hands, wanting to hug Yue back.But just when his hand was about to touch Yue Lai's clothes, Yue Lai let go of his arms that were tightly holding him, and Si Shui hurriedly retracted his hand.

Yue Lai shyly helped the crooked roof, and said with a smile: "I really am! Now is not the time to relax, let's go back quickly!"

"Okay." Sishui was stunned for a moment, and responded.

At night, Surabaya listened to the snoring of the eunuch who lived with her, and could not fall asleep for a long time.He does often suffer from insomnia, and even when he falls asleep, he will be woken up by his own cough and other people's complaints, but today is different.He sat up, did not light the lamp, just sat.The disturbing sound of autumn insects came from outside the opened paper window. Although the sound was not pleasant, it was like the sound of silk and bamboo to the people who had lived in the deep palace for a long time.

Surabaya was very quiet, as quiet as the night itself, and no one could guess what he was thinking.

His fingers silently tapped on the edge of the Kang, stroke by stroke, writing a word "Lai".When countless "lai" characters were born and disappeared under his hands, one night passed.

The emperor's wedding finally ended without incident, and the palace returned to its usual dullness.However, on this day, an unexpected event happened in Guofang. The great master Xin Danian was sentenced to sixty years of punishment by the Department of Punishment and died in Huangquan.There is something strange about this matter, it is said that Xin Da Nian is accused of colluding with the Yu Ma Jian to control Ma Yuan privately, this is true, the people in the palace have more or less heard about it, but they always turn a blind eye.Even if the higher authorities really want to investigate, a eunuch with a status like Xin Da Nian will not be really punished in the end.

Hitting the board can also be divided into real hitting and fake hitting.When the real beating happened, the prison master would yell: "Beat hard! Beat to death!", it was really bloody and bloody, and it was very likely to die.If it is a fake fight, the posture is big, the force is small, and the slap on the body is neither painful nor itchy, it is just pretending.

"Master has also dealt a lot of money on weekdays, how could these sixty boards be for real?" Yue Lai thought of all the benefits of Xin Da Nian, and his eyes turned red.Xu Gouzi, the eunuch who brought the message, shook his head and said, "No... I'll give you a letter, don't talk too much!" Yuelai said inwardly, "Don't you just have a big mouth yourself?" He nodded and responded, "That's that. Say it quickly!" Xu Gouzi looked around, leaned over and said in a low voice, "I heard that this is what Lafayette meant."

"what!"

"Don't yell, you!" Xu Gouzi said in a lower voice, "It is said that he stabbed the basket last time as a welcome gift..."

Yuelai was alert immediately.If there is a mistake in the welcome ceremony, it is the pair of fruits.

Xu Gouzi continued: "Oh, it's a pity, it's a pity. He was supposed to be the leader and eunuch, and now you should be proud of your second master. I know he is secretly preparing a banquet. By the way, both you and Wang Min He is from Xinda Nian, be careful how he deals with you..."

Yue Lai was disturbed to hear it, and felt a buzzing in his head.

Cut the mess with a sharp knife.The Empress Dowager didn't know if there was someone instigating Xin Da Nian, and she didn't know what commotion the pair of rotten fruits would cause when they flattered her. She only knew that Xin Da Nian had made such a serious mistake.She has no time to find out the facts, she has more important tasks.To her, killing a Sindanian is nothing, and it doesn't matter whoever is the leader of the fruit house.Anyway, they are all slaves.

Within a few days, Yuelai and Surabaya were assigned additional errands to carry water, which was actually a kind of downgrade for them.Before dawn, the two got up, went to the well to fetch water, and sent it to various places in the fruit room.It wasn't too tiring at the beginning, the two took care of each other, and they were barely able to meet the duties on time, and returned to their original positions to work.Perhaps hating them was too easy, and soon they were also responsible for the water for mopping the ground in the Wuyingdian area every morning.

The Hall of Martial Heroes is located in the south of the fruit house, and to get there you need to pass through the Bingjiao and Jingsi Hall.In this way, no matter how hard the two of them work, they will not be able to return to the fruit room in time to wait for work.

"Grandma's!" Yuelai put down the two big buckets, and cursed, "Master's front foot just left, and the back foot of Pan wrung out his brains to hurt us!" , softly said: "Keep your voice down, it will be even worse if people hear you. Hurry up, the Hall of Martial Arts is still waiting for water!" It's not that there are no people, and there are water storages on weekdays, I don't believe that they can't wipe the ground without our water..." Sishui sighed and ignored him.

In the early morning of this day, the sky was already turning red, and the two hurriedly carried the water to the Hall of Martial Heroes.Suddenly, many eunuchs stood in front of them, and upon closer inspection, they were all familiar faces in the fruit room.Yuelai wondered secretly: "Why are they standing here if they don't go to work?" He quickly sensed the hostility from the other party, and suddenly understood that they were here to pick a fight.

But Yuelai knew that he couldn't make a move here, Pan Yande's intention was very clear, he wanted to force the two of them to fight and cause trouble, and then punish them as the leader according to the law, when the time came, it was up to him to fight or kill.

So Yuelai whispered to Surabaya: "Be careful." Then he quickly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Brothers, make room, the water is coming." All the eunuchs retreated to both sides obediently, Yuelai He and Surabaya walked among them one after the other.Yuelai was breathing a sigh of relief, and suddenly stretched out a foot from one side...

"Ah!" Yuelai was tripped and Sishui was violently pushed down.The two fell to the ground, and all the buckets were overturned.

The eunuchs surrounding them laughed harshly.They tried to get up, but were pushed down again by the eunuchs.

Yuelai suddenly understood that Pan Yande would not let go, and this matter must be settled. "Master, I'm not easy to mess with." He thought, "Nine people, can you fight hard? What about Surabaya?" While he was still thinking, Surabaya jumped up first!

"Surabaya!!" With Yuelai's exclamation, the eunuch standing at the front was punched in the face by Sishui, and his nose bleeds violently.All the eunuchs shouted in unison and rushed towards Surabaya.

"Grandma's!" Yue Lai jumped up suddenly, rushed to an eunuch, grabbed his collar, raised his knee and hit his ass, the pain made the eunuch scold his mother.The crowd shifted their target to Yue Lai again, and he shouted loudly: "Come on!" He kicked the fat man on the right, and then punched him on the chin...

Yuelai was used to being a rascal since he was a child, and he was really good at fighting.But the opponent's numbers were really superior, and he was besieged again, and finally he couldn't stand it anymore.Seeing that Yuelai was only going to be beaten, Sishui panicked, picked up the pole on the ground, and beat all the eunuchs hard.He has no target, just keeps hitting.

These eunuchs were timid after all, and Surabaya's aura frightened them away for a while.Surabaya rushed to Yuelai's side, and immediately raised the pole in his hand to face the crowd.

At the moment of the stalemate, Sishui suddenly felt his eyes glistening, a slap on the back of the head, and the shoulder pole in his hand fell to the ground.It turned out that a eunuch sneaked around behind them at some point.

"Surabaya!" Yuelai supported the dizzy Sishui.All the eunuchs took the opportunity to rush up...

Fists and feet rained down on their hands and backs, and the two embraced tightly, protecting each other...

After an unknown amount of time, I heard a sound in a daze: "Stop!" The two of them quickly passed out.

When they woke up, they were escorted to the fruit room.

Pan Yande's sharp voice sounded: "Jia Yuelai, aren't you very good at talking? Why are you silent?" There was no answer.So he turned to ask: "What crime should the eunuchs in the palace fight with each other?" The eunuch on the side responded: "Return to the public. According to the law, the leaders of the various places should be imprisoned and punished with sixty rods."

"Did you hear that? This is the rule in the palace, so you can't blame me. But if you are willing to beg for mercy, I am also a magnanimous person." Pan Yande laughed dryly, seeing that neither of them responded at all, the corner of his mouth could not help twitching, suddenly cried, "Hit! Hit! Hit me to death!"

Yuelai felt that his hands and feet were being held firmly, unable to move, and looked towards Surabaya beside him.Seeing Sishui's expressionless face, his lifeless eyes looking at the ground made Yuelai's heart shudder.At that time, Sishui stood in the snow and looked at the sky indifferently, with the same eyes. "I transferred you here to make you no longer have such eyes! It's not like now! Isn't this even worse!" Yuelai shouted in his heart, "It can't be like this! You and I can't die! I I won't let you die! I won't let you die!"

After a while, the board hit the body hard, and it hurts so much.

"Mom! Spare me, spare my life!" Yue Lai, who had been silent all this time, suddenly burst into a cry that seemed to be both desperate and revived.

"!" Surabaya on the side looked at him as if he had woken up from a dream.Why ask for forgiveness?You begged for mercy!beg him for mercy!Why?Why?

Pan Yande laughed and said, "It should have been like this a long time ago... just reduce the number of boards by half!"

There are twenty boards.

At this moment, a person ran into Pan Yande and whispered something in Pan Yande's ear.Pan Yande's expression changed drastically immediately, and he stopped talking.I only heard a humane voice: "Do you admit your mistake? If you admit your mistake, the board behind will be spared."

Yue Lai struggled to bite out a sentence: "I agree...I agree!"

"What about you?" asked Surabaya again.

Sishui coughed twice, and said softly: "I don't recognize it." Yuelai quickly shouted at the same time: "It hurts!" Although the man didn't hear Sishui's words clearly, he didn't seem to care, and said to Pan Yande: "Eunuch Pan, You can see that they are both mistaken. For the sake of Mr. Ban, don't worry about it." Pan Yande nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, yes."

The man said "Farewell" and was about to leave. When he passed Surabaya, he bent down and said in a low voice, "Master Fang, your father once told me in prison that he hoped you would live a good life. Don't let him down. This is the last time Master Ban will help you, please do it yourself in the future."

"..." Surabaya raised her eyes and smiled coldly at him.

The two took care of their clothes with difficulty, moving a little bit.All the way to silence, until Surabaya asked: "Why do you have to admit your mistake?"

Yue Lai seemed to have expected that he would ask herself, and replied without hesitation: "Because I don't want to die."

Then Yuelai asked, "Why don't you admit it?"

"..." Surabaya seemed to finally approve of Yuelai's answer, and sighed, "Is it okay if you don't recognize it?"

"That's because he didn't hear clearly!"

"..."

"You, it really... Oh, it hurts!... What can I say about you?"

"If it hurts, don't say anything, it's best."

So the two stopped talking.Finally, Yuelai suddenly said: "It won't just end like this, I must get ahead! Find someone surnamed Pan to settle the account!" Sishui stared at him with wide-eyed eyes, then quickly lowered his head and moved with difficulty.

The turmoil subsided like this, maybe because Pan Yande felt the coercion from the Grand Scholar, no one came to bully the two of them anymore.However, since Surabaya was beaten, her health has deteriorated and her cough has become more and more serious. She is no longer suitable for touching fruits.Not long after, Yuelai was also transferred over for no reason.Turning them away from the common sight announced that Pan Yande's revenge on them was over.

"Hey, have you two heard? Liu Shun'an from my shrine was finally beaten to death." The one who spoke was Xu Gouzi, the eunuch who loves to tell stories. But Yuelai thought that he just wanted to spread the gossip to every corner, so he asked: "What is 'finally'?" Xu Gouzi smiled triumphantly: "You don't know, do you? Liu Shunan has escaped from the palace three times He was arrested every time. The first time he was caught, he beat 59 boards and was sent to Wudian for a year. The second time he was caught, he played [-] boards, but he didn’t die, so he was sent to Wudian for a year. Two years. Hey, this dude really has the courage to escape for the third time, and he was sentenced to [-] boards, but this time he hit [-], and he lost his breath. Tsk tsk..." Xu Gouzi looked full of emotion .

While listening, Sishui suddenly said coldly: "Yuelai, let's go, aren't we going to lecture today?"

Xu Gouzi didn't know what to say, and said again: "The lecture is also for this matter..." Seeing Sishui's disgusted face, Yue Lai hurriedly smiled and said, "Gouzi, let's talk another day, we really don't have time today."

Pan Yande paced back and forth in the Guofang compound, and finally stopped in front of Yuelai and Sishui, and began today's lecture: "Recently, Liu Shunan from the Shenfang did not follow the rules and fled three times without consciously turning back. This is a big treason. The boss is one hundred and one dead." Since Pan Yande became the leader, his stature has become wider and wider, his pig head has big ears, and his face is full of oil, making his mouse eyes even smaller.He squinted his eyes and paused, then continued: "When Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide in the previous dynasty, there was an eunuch named Wang Chengen escorting him. After Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, Wang Chengen also hanged himself on a tree next to him. Although he was from the Ming Dynasty Eunuch, but his loyalty should be a model for us..." After talking a lot, the lecture ended.

"Lorry is so wordy, saliva is flying on my face." Yue Lai said with blank eyes.But Sishui shook his head and said: "Wang Cheng'en is loyal through death. A slave will always be a slave, a subordinate of the royal family. Even the emperor will not be relieved when he dies. He must go with him. Is this the loyalty of a slave?"

"Surabaya..."

"Don't worry, I'm fine. Today is the day to get silver rice, why don't you hurry up?"

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Beijing soon entered winter.The entire Forbidden City is covered with thick snow, but the lowly slaves are so busy that their palms sweat.Although most of the palaces of the imperial palace face south, no matter the main room or the side room, they have thick walls and high roofs, which have a good thermal insulation effect, but these alone are far from enough.

So there was a warm pavilion.A fire path was dug under the square bricks inside the palace, and the fire door for adding fire was built under the corridor outside the hall, about one person deep, and covered with a wooden cover.When the cover is lifted, people can go down into the cave, add firewood to the furnace and light the fire, and the hot air will enter the room through the fire, and the palace will become warm immediately.

Since the beginning of winter, the work of Yuelai and Surabaya to deliver water to the Hall of Martial Arts has changed to adding firewood to the warm pavilion, including cleaning the chimney behind the hall.On this day, the two divided their labors as usual, Yue came to the cave to add firewood, and Surabaya went to clean the chimney.

Yuelai finished adding the fire with his hands and feet, and quickly opened the cover. The temperature difference between inside and outside made him shiver uncontrollably, and the hairs all over his body stood on end. He gritted his teeth and returned to the world of ice and snow.Just as he was about to rush to help Sishui, there was a "bang" sound from the inner hall, as if something had been knocked over.

Yue Lai became curious, thinking that there would not be any big figures in the inner hall so early, so he stepped into the hall threshold.Although he did a lot of work for the Hall of Martial Arts, he never entered the hall.Yue Lai looked around cautiously, but didn't see anyone, so he immediately relaxed and did somersaults on the smooth temple bricks.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, someone suddenly said: "You, you can't be presumptuous here." Yue Lai was startled, her body became unstable, she fell to the ground, and quickly got up and looked in the direction of the voice.It turned out that a court lady was leaning on the pillars and looking this way. At her feet lay an overturned silver bucket, and the water in it flowed all over the floor.

Seeing that she was also a slave, Yue Lai felt sure, thinking why he hadn't noticed her just now, and asked, "What are you doing?" The maid looked him up and down a few times, then lifted the bucket on the ground with a sigh of relief, While wiping the floor tiles swiftly, she replied in a soft voice: "I am the cleaning lady of the Hall of Martial Arts. Don't you know the rules? You can't come here casually."

Yuelai saw that she was working on the ground with her knees as her feet and her elbows on the ground. It looked very difficult, so she couldn't help asking: "Do you have to work like this? Does your knee hurt?" The maid raised her head and glanced at him, very Kuai lowered her head again, and said, "This is the rule. You go, the shift changer will come right away." She was talking, and she didn't stop working.Yue Lai thought that most likely the bucket was accidentally knocked over, the dirty water spilled out, and she had to wipe it again, so she felt sorry for her, and said, "If you wipe it like this, the blood marks will be rubbed off, and it's a very cold day... Why don't I help you." As she spoke, she grabbed the rag from the maid's hand and wiped it back and forth vigorously.

"You... this, this is not allowed, this is against the rules." The maid panicked.

"No one saw it, so what are the rules?" Yue Lai curled his lips and said with a smile.

after awhile. "Isn't this quick and clean?" Yue Lai casually threw the rag into the bucket, splashing a little sewage.The palace maid hastily wrung out the cloth and wiped them away, she raised her head to thank Yue Lai, but he was nowhere to be seen.

"Sishui! Surabaya!" Under Yuelai's exasperated shout, Sishui slowly opened his eyes.

"What? I fainted again?" He was stunned for a while, "I've already cleaned the chimney..."

"Don't worry about the chimney. It's too cold here, let's go back. Can you go?" Seeing Sishui nodded, Yuelai gently helped him up.

After the two walked for a while, Surabaya finally recovered and no longer needed Yuelai's help.Looking at Sishui's pale face, Yuelai said worriedly: "This is the first time...it's not okay to go on like this. Are you taking medicine?" Sishui said: "Yes, but it's useless." Yuelai said The sigh turned into a wisp of white gas and dissipated in the cold air.

After four consecutive days of heavy snowfall like goose feathers, it finally stopped.There is an open space on the east and west sides of the lantern storehouse, and the snow has not reached the calf for days.Yuelai and Surabaya were sent there to shovel snow.But when the two reached their destination, they found that the shovel they had brought was broken.So Yuelai had to make another trip to get another shovel.

"Take two more brooms!" Surabaya reminded again.Seeing the direction Yuelai was running away from, Surabaya was stunned for a while before starting to shovel the snow.After a while, Surabaya wondered why Yuelai hadn't come back, and fell into the reminiscence of the past...

When I was a child in Surabaya, I once saw autumn insects in the snow. Although the small insect had been dead for a long time, it seemed to be alive, very small but very eye-catching, white snow, black insect.Is the current self like this little ant, gradually withering life in a corner that no one knows...

Surabaya looked at the red walls and yellow tiles blurred by snow in the distance, and thought of the heavy snow for days...

Flying flowers every night, wasting time in the world...

Snapped!Surabaya's misty thoughts were interrupted by a sudden snowball, and she didn't need to look to know that it was Yuelai who came back.

"What are you in a daze for?" Yuelai's active voice quickly dispelled the stagnant air, "Anyway, no one is there, how about we have a snowball fight?"

"Hurry up and work." Sishui said angrily, "What kind of snowball fight between the two of you..."

Just as he was talking, another snowball flew over and knocked down the top of Surabaya.

"Hee hee." Yue Lai smiled and made a face at him, "Let's fight!"

"Damn it! Hit it!" Sishui threw the shovel away, knelt down and kneaded the snowball.

"What are you kneading!" Another snowball flew, and Yue Lai said with a smile, "Pinch it and throw it!"

Sishui tilted his mouth, and said angrily: "Snowball is about to look like a ball!" He threw the snowball in his hand violently.

Snapped!Unexpectedly, the speed of the ball was so fast that Yuelai had no time to dodge. The snowball hit his smiling face, and he wobbled twice and fell backwards.

"Hey! Don't pretend, you." Seeing that he was silent, Sishui became nervous and hurried over to have a look.

"Yue Lai? Yue Lai! Yue..." Surabaya was shouting when she tripped and fell right onto Yue Lai.

"Hee hee ha ha..." Yue Lai's annoying laughter sounded out.

"You! You lied to me!" Surabaya struggled to stand up, but was pulled back by Yuelai.Surabaya stared angrily at Yuelai's pretended innocent face, stared but couldn't hold back, and fell on top of him and giggled.

"Great, you laughed." Yuelai said.

"... Yuelai."

"Ok?"

"Will we be together forever?"

"……Will do."

Surabaya closed her eyes in peace.

At this moment, they are no longer slaves, they are free.

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During the time when Yuelai and Surabaya cuddled each other, the days passed without rush.The cold winter snow is melted by the warm spring breeze, and countless eaves in the Forbidden City are covered with icicles, showing the beauty of the recovery of all things.

Yuelai and Sishui walked on the corridor of Xierchang Street to clean Baoyun Building.As they were walking, they heard someone shouting in front of them: "Miss Xinxi!" The two looked up and saw a few old eunuchs standing on both sides of a court lady, bowing their waists and saluting.

Seeing this posture, Yuelai quickly pulled Sishui aside, and whispered, "This girl must have received some kind of reward from above, even the old eunuch has to salute her. I'll be here in a while, remember to say hello." The two of them stood with their hands down, their heads lowered, and waited for the maid to approach.

After a while, a pair of red shoes came into Slightly Falling's field of vision.The two immediately bent down together and called out: "Good luck, girl!" After hearing this cry, the feet that were walking straight stopped suddenly.

A timid female voice asked softly: "It's you?" Yue Lai raised his head, his eyes met the gaze of the court lady, and he couldn't help exclaiming: "It's you!"

The court lady in front of her was wearing a purple spring silk padded jacket with green satin borders and gold thread sash hanging high to the collar below her ears. She was covered with a big green vest with butterfly-like blue velvet ties. Extravagance.

Yue Lai changed his mind, opened his mouth and said with a smile: "Miss is so beautiful, have you received the grace of God?"

The palace maid blushed, and said with a slight smile: "Fortunately, I am honored to have Lafayette's mercy..."

A month ago, she clumsily slipped and fell in front of the empress dowager's sedan chair, and was photographed by the empress dowager because of a blessing in disguise, and she was given her as a personal maid.One step to the sky, everyone looks at each other with admiration.This time he won the favor of the old lady even more, and gave her to wear five bat holding birthday shoes.Wearing this pair of shoes today, wherever they go in the palace, they are popular everywhere, and there are countless people who compliment and flatter them.

After hesitating for a while, she said embarrassedly: "Last time... Thank you so much. Um... that, your name..."

"My name is Jia Yuelai."

"I, I am Jimuershu Qiudai."

"Huh?" Before Yuelai could react, Qiu Dai had already walked away quickly.Seeing her small figure gradually disappearing in the morning mist, Yue Lai thought, "This girl is really lucky. When will Sishui and I be like her..."

"Ahem..." Surabaya on the side suddenly coughed, and said in a bad breath, "I've already left." After speaking, he picked up the cleaning tools on the ground and walked away alone.Yuelai hurriedly followed and said, "Hey, wait for me! I'll get the things, give them to me..."

In summer and autumn, the upsurge of fighting crickets in the palace begins.The eunuchs and maids planted gourds and sparse flowers in the shade of the wall one after another, preparing to hide and raise autumn insects in winter.For cricket fighting, Yue Lai is well versed in this. Occasionally, when he has no errands, he goes to fight for a few rounds, and he can win a few dicks.Surabaya was not interested in this at all, but planted gourds in the corner outside the residence, hoping to raise a few grasshoppers.

"If you don't come to the clean copper shop, you will have nothing to do. It is expected that winter will hide grasshoppers, and water will be drawn from the wall to plant gourds." Surabaya looked at the gourd vines in front of him and murmured.Someone on the side responded: "I am tired of noisy ears in autumn, and now I have a lot of kits. Pass through Laming Xiangge, and pick up Yusheng in spring."

Surabaya turned around and saw that it was Yuelai, frowned and said, "Where did you recite the poem?"

Yue Lai feigned anger and said, "Why do you ask where you recited it as soon as you open your mouth? I can also compose poetry."

Surabaya turned around and ignored him.

After a while, Yue Laisho leaned over and said, "Don't ignore me. Okay, I admit, I don't know a single word. This poem is the emperor's imperial poem. It was freshly released yesterday, and everyone is passing it on." Woolen cloth!"

Si Shui nodded and said: "The emperor is knowledgeable and intelligent, I hope he will be in power soon and rehabilitate the case of Ming history..." Before he could finish speaking, Yuelai covered his mouth with his hand.

"It's hard to say that. Who doesn't know that the surname Ao is the most airy now? Be careful that one day you will be 'clicked'."

Surabaya opened Yuelai's hand, looked at him and said, "You take each one with the surname Ao, be careful that you will be 'clicked' someday."

"That's just right. We wished that we would die in the same year, the same month, and on the same day, and our wish came true..."

"Stop it, this joke is not funny at all." Surabaya didn't like hearing him say these things.

Yue Lai smiled, knelt down and fiddled with the gourd vine a few times, and asked, "What kind of insect do you want to hide?"

"Grasshopper."

"Oh, I'll get it for you in two days."

"Well. By the way, how much did you win today?"

"I lost."

"nonsense."

"I really lost."

"..."

"Don't ignore me. You have won, you have won. I am the one who will never lose, sir! Well, here are the winners."

"What are you doing? I didn't ask for yours."

"What's the matter, take it and take it, I'll rest assured if you leave it here."

"Stop going, don't make enemies again."

"Hey, it's okay. It's enough for Minger to lose a few times on purpose."

"..." Sishui fell silent.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing, go get busy."

"...Zhongyuan is coming soon, do you miss your relatives?"

Hearing this, Surabaya looked at Yuelai with surprise.

"Don't look at me like this. I saw that you are not very happy these days. How about it, ask someone to go out tomorrow to bring some incense paper, and find time to make a lotus lantern. You know that burning incense and paper is not allowed in the palace on weekdays, so you are also in trouble." Yuan Jie opened his eyes and closed his eyes. When the time comes, I will go to Xiheyan to send lotus lanterns, which can express my heart to some extent."

Surabaya looked at him, feeling warm in her heart.Yue Lai was well-intentioned, and from what he said, one could guess that he had thought about what to do in advance.He is an orphan, and it is not easy to feel the emotions in Surabaya these days.

"It would be great if there is a better way." Yue Lai smiled at Sishui, who also smiled and nodded in response.

Several eunuchs squatted in a circle to fight the crickets.

"Damn it! Lost again!" Xu Gouzi wanted to stand up and kick over the bucket with hatred.

Yue Lai pressed him down, and said with a smile, "Don't worry. In this way, you give me your fat and green grasshopper, and the winnings will be cleared. How about it?"

"I dare you to think about it a long time ago! It's okay, I'll give it to you. Win or lose, you said that!"

"to make!"

When it was time to leave, Yuelai took the grasshopper cage from Xu Gouzi, and quietly asked, "How about the last time I asked you?" Xu Gouzi slapped his forehead and said with a smile, "You don't mention me?" I forgot. I heard that this time around the Hungry Ghost Festival, Qiu Dai, a court lady next to the Empress Dowager, can bring sacrifices on the imperial boat."

"Oh? It's her..."

"What? Do you recognize her?"

"I don't know, I've heard it a few times. Go on."

"Many people begged her to bring some things to relatives in the underground, but this little lady just refused, saying that it was against the rules, and her heart was dead!"

"Well... I see, it seems hopeless. Thank you tomorrow, let's go."

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"Qiu Dai, come here. Oh, come here quickly!"

"What's the matter, spirit ring?" Qiu Dai said as she walked towards the spirit ring.Linghuan giggled, stuffed something into her hand, and whispered in her ear: "You should also have a farmer! This is a note from General Chang Sheng from the fruit shop."

"Which ever-victorious general?"

"What? Jia Yuelai from the fruit room, don't you know? The one who will win the cricket fight!"

"He!" Qiu Dai looked around, lowered her head and said, "What will he do to me?" Linghuan waved his hand and said with a smile, "You won't see for yourself, I'm leaving!" Qiu Dai Blushing, she turned and went back to the embroidery table.She pursed her lips, feeling a little nervous, and slowly opened the note.I saw one or two pillars painted on it, and a bucket was upside down beside the pillars, and a crooked "Zi" was written on the right side of the painting.Qiu Dai thought for a while, and couldn't help laughing.

Qiu Dai easily understood the meaning of the note, that she was asked to go to the Hall of Martial Arts to meet Yuelai when she was a child.She has always been a very well-behaved person. The old queen likes her to be obedient and honest. She just let her recognize Liang Jiugong as her godfather, and it is just at the height of the sun.But she felt that all of this had no sense of reality, and instead made her even more lonely. The joy and anger above and the laughter and scolding below made her feel more pressured, as if walking barefoot on a single log, she would lose her balance and fall under her body if she was not careful. Go in the icy water vortex.She is only 15 years old now, and she doesn't know how to untangle these backlogs, she can only hide them deeply in her heart.

Jia Yuelai, who is this person?Every time he appeared, Qiu Dai was inexplicably throbbed.And the sense of security that comes with it. "Is this the fate mentioned by the spirit ring?" Qiu Dai thought.But she immediately laughed at herself, within the palace walls, what fate can there be between inhuman eunuchs and court ladies?Even if it exists, it is false, and what is false is unreliable.Yes, there is no hope, still so helpless.

So why?Why do you still want to see him?

A gust of autumn wind blew, and Qiu Dai hurriedly stopped to protect the lantern in her hand.She feels a little cold.He woke up in front of the Hall of Martial Heroes, how could it be possible for people to enter for no reason at such a late hour?So Qiu Dai stopped and looked around.She saw a person not far from the west also swinging with a lantern.

She understood and silently followed.

After walking to a place where there was no one around, Yue Lai smiled and said, "Young lady is auspicious." Qiu Dai panicked, "No, no need, can you call me Qiu Dai?"

"Okay, that...Qiu Dai, actually I want to ask you something. The Ghost Festival is coming soon, I want to ask you for a favor, my parents died early..."

After listening to him quietly, Qiu Dai felt dull and heavy in her heart: "Another person who came to beg me?" She said softly: "This is against the rules."

Yuelai hit a big nail and froze for a while.

"If there's nothing else, I, I want to go back, okay?" Qiu Dai felt even colder.

"Ah! Wait!" Yuelai suddenly yelled, and knelt down facing Qiu Dai!

"You! What are you doing?" Qiu Dai hurried up to help him.

But Yue Lai refused to get up, and said in a calm voice: "Actually, I have been begging since I was a child, and there is no food at all.