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The cage that the emperor ordered someone to carry was filled with the things he used to catch Zhou back then.

It is the custom of the House of Internal Affairs to record and file all items, and the royal family has always attached great importance to the items of the inner court, and has always strictly prevented the leakage of items used by the emperor, princes and princesses, so as not to be haunted by witchcraft. Items are still in storage.

Especially after the emperor ascended the throne, items related to him in the treasury of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were removed separately.

Even the small courtyard where his elder brother lived in was sealed separately, and no one would live there anymore. Now Hongshi waited for his elder brother to stop and salute if he passed by the door.

Fortunately, Lord Kangxi had many sons back then, and the elder brother's house was greatly expanded. There were always more than a dozen small courtyards with separate doors, and it didn't matter if one was closed.

As for the few precious saplings under the emperor's knees, there are plenty of places to live.

The emperor asked people to bring these things up, to let Jiang Heng see if there were any that could be taken out for Minmin's use.Su Peisheng stepped forward to open the box with the key, and the emperor picked up the gold-painted box on the top, opened it and said, "Unfortunately, I can't watch Minmin grab it."

All the activities of the princess belong to the lady class.Just like the prince's Catch Zhou, the concubine who is the birth mother will not be able to see it at the first time, the prince will be carried to the front, and the emperor and the princes, clans and other men will watch Catch Zhou.

Similarly, the princess's catching week was under the auspices of the queen mother, surrounded by wives inside and outside.

The wives are all there, but it is not easy for the emperor, the Ama, to be there.

The emperor opened the gold-painted box, and the faint fragrance spread out, and Jiang Heng saw an imperial red sandalwood ruler lying in the box.

"The emperor caught the red sandalwood ruler back then?" The ruler means to measure the world, and it also has the meaning of regulating the law, but it is very similar to something the emperor would grasp.

The emperor nodded.

He remembered that the wet nurse in his previous life had mentioned that what he grasped was also a ruler, but it was not made of red sandalwood, but a pure white jade ruler.

Therefore, the emperor felt that it was quite accurate to catch the week.

Jiang Heng looked at the other unidentified things in the box, wondering if he should take them apart: the red sandalwood ruler was held by the emperor last year, so it was placed in a separate box on top.

The rest of the items that were not caught by the royal hands at the age of one were all taken out to wipe and maintain after the emperor ascended the throne, and the ordinary yellow cloth bag wrapped outside was replaced with a dragon pattern yellow cloth bag and repacked. It was sealed with the red seal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Do we have to take them apart one by one?

The emperor stretched out his hand to tear apart two, first was a small bow, and second was a book of Four Books. Compared with Jiang Heng's astrolabe, crystal princess crown and other things, it seemed that the one prepared by her as an eunuch was more interesting.

"Forget it, these are prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for all the princes. For Minmin's Zhou Zhou, I should use you to prepare them."

After that, the emperor didn't ask anyone to look up the box: "Let's put it in your small storeroom first." Then he asked someone to take out the imperial red sandalwood ruler alone, and made a shelf to place it in the study room in the front hall of Yonghe Palace.

At the birthday party, Jiang Heng clearly felt many eyes on him.

All the way through the year, the time when there are the most married women inside and outside the palace is during the Chinese New Year—the four princesses’ first birthday banquet will never be more than the number of married women who come to the palace to pay New Year’s greetings during the New Year.

But this was Minmin's first birthday banquet, and as the birth mother, Jiang Heng was pushed in front, and the seat was only under the queen mother and queen, and the wives could see it at a glance when they paid their respects.So this time she received the most attention since she entered the palace. There was a lot of curiosity and scrutiny in the attention, and there was also a kind of pickiness and coldness in it.

Now the list of the show girls of each banner has been submitted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.The closer to the draft next spring, the wives at home and abroad can't help but study more about one or two current favorite concubines.Among the banner people, there are always relatives-in-law who care about three or four. After careful calculation, every family has one or two beautiful women who can pick out the connection.

Not to mention others, the Guerjia family is a flourishing surname. This year, there are three beautiful girls of the same family as Jiang Heng who entered the palace for election, and there are more with the same surname and different family.

There are indeed relatives of the same clan who came to the door of Su Yibo's mansion, and hinted to Jueercha: Although the concubine Xin is favored, she is weak in the palace, and now there is no prince under her knees, so do you need someone from the same clan? Only the girl can help you feel at ease?When our daughter enters the palace, she will only be followed by the Concubine Xin. As long as the Concubine Xin supports her, she is very willing to give birth to a prince for the Concubine Xin.

Jueercha's attitude towards such words is: only believe in ghosts!

She even couldn't help complaining to her mother-in-law: "I've been in Beijing for half my life, and I wonder if I haven't done anything stupid. Why do people always treat me as a fool? Our family doesn't think it's enough to protect the mother, but how can I go to the court?" Hurrying to make things difficult for the empress?"

From Jueercha's point of view, these people's words are like, "Does your family have too much money, and we can help you spend it?" ' Same outrageous.

In short, the closer the draft is, the more interested the imperial courts will be in this Concubine Xin who has just undergone the canonization ceremony.

"Have you heard? The emperor has personally changed the imperial concubine's letter?" The princess's first birthday banquet is not as solemn and solemn as the next year's banquet. It's good to be happy with a smile.

At this moment, the Empress Dowager is personally hugging the princess from the wet nurse, getting up to put the baby on the red table for Zhou Zhou, and the wives are also busy standing up with the Queen Mother, and they come to the red table according to their status. Arrange high and low in festive circles to watch the princess catch the week.

It is easier to communicate together.

It just so happened that the courtesan from the House of Internal Affairs was still reciting the long-winded prayer for the princess before she caught the week. Most of the edicts turned their eyes around and their attention wandered when they heard the obtrusive longevity prayer.

And it was Shi Erha's wife who spoke aloud, and this sentence attracted the attention of seven or eight wives around her?

"The emperor changed it himself? Aren't the books always made by the Ministry of Rites?"

"The words written by the Ministry of Rites have been the same for many years. This time, I used a wrong word, and used the four characters 抱伟智恩 in the document." Mrs. Shi lowered her voice and said: "The Ministry of Rites used the system of writing to piece together, but also I have to show it to someone. If it’s someone else’s book, Lord Long Live might just pass it on without even reading it. If it’s a concubine or concubine’s, Lord Long Live picked it out right then because of his eyesight.”

What Mrs. Shi said was mysterious, but the rest of the wives were not from the Ministry of Rites, so they didn't understand at all, so they just asked curiously: "What's wrong with these four words?" It sounds good.

"These four words are good, but they are just too good—couldn't it be bad that the ancestor Shunzhi personally wrote to Empress Xiaoxian? The Ministry of Rites didn't pay attention to it. It is said that the emperor even called Yuanwailang, who drafted the booklet, to reprimand him." Come on. Afterwards, there were no rumors about it, so I guess the emperor doesn't want this to be revealed?"

After she finished speaking meaningfully, the wives who were listening at this time felt that something was wrong.

Wait, since the emperor didn't want to spread any rumors, he didn't explicitly punish the Ministry of Rites, but just changed the document himself, so what are you talking about here? spread the word?

To tell the truth about the emperor favoring the concubine Xin?Even connected with Lord Shunzhi and Dong E's family?

The imperial wives who can stand in the front row are all from aristocratic families, and they quickly remembered that this Mrs. Shi in front of her was not only the wife of Shi Erha, Minister of Rites, but also the family member of the Jue Luo family - Jue Luo's family, the main reason is this Mrs. Wei Shi has a younger sister, Xiao Jue Luo Shi, who was once Nian Gengyao's Fujin!

Later, Nian Gengyao subdued the law, because Fujin was a relative of the Jueluo family, he was not involved, but ordered him to reconcile and return home.

Presumably the sisters held grudges against Concubine Xin, so they took advantage of the fourth princess's first birthday party to make trouble here?

The married woman who was still listening to Luo Shi's gossip quickly took a step back: Everyone is a showman, whoever compares to the other is a fool.

What kind of temper is the emperor? I can't see clearly for a year. It's been four years, and I still can't see clearly inside and outside the palace?

If you make a mistake, the emperor will not do anything merciful with you. The first offender will be fine.Many of the emperor's new laws and decrees have a sentence "serious punishment".

Just as there must be brave men under heavy rewards, those who dare to make mistakes under heavy punishments will drop sharply.

It's okay for your family to be dissatisfied with Concubine Xin, and it's also your choice to go outside to discredit Concubine Xin, but don't treat us as fools or mouthpieces!Be brave and impeach the emperor with your own bullets, okay?You have the guts, we are all convinced!

Some of the wives around were unhappy about being used as a gun, some were disdainful of this move, and some were thinking: Hey, let's talk to the mother-in-law and grandmother of the concubine Xin later!Sell ​​your head in exchange for favors.

But the first thing to do at this moment is to change the subject, lest Luo Shi go on talking, and let the sharp-eared nuns and palace people in the palace listen, and their group of observers have become "talking about Long live Lord" guilty of the same crime.

I just heard that the wife of the left servant of the Ministry of Justice, Guerjia Selen'e, changed the subject smoothly: "Look at the objects of the fourth princess, how many things have you never seen before? According to the empress dowager, these are all Concubine Xin Did the empress prepare it herself?"

The topic changed, and only Jue Luo was left in the same place, watching the people around him discussing the fourth princess's items in a serious manner, leaving her alone, as if it would be unlucky to talk to her, feeling depressed: I used to talk about gossip Come on, you are not like this.

The rest of the wives looked at her standing there blankly, and they all wanted to tell their relatives and friends to stay away from her.

Some gossip can be said, and some are terrible!

At this moment, Jiang Heng didn't know that someone wanted to connect her with Concubine Dong E and merge similar projects. Now she was focusing all her attention on Minmin.

I don't know what Minmin will catch, she is also looking forward to it.

When the prince and princess in the palace catch the week, their biological mother will probably practice it in advance and let the child catch what the adults want to see.The Queen Mother was no exception.

The emperor is the adopted son of Empress Xiao Yiren, she can't interfere with the emperor's grasping, but the fourteenth's grasping, the queen mother taught her in advance - not because he is afraid that he will not grasp well, but because he is afraid that he will grasp too well .

In case the child really catches a dragon pendant or a seal and won't let it go, it will cause trouble for himself.

So the fourteenth master caught Ruyi who was ordinary and inlaid with gold and jade.

This is also a bit of regret in the queen mother's heart: If Shisi had been caught by herself back then, I don't know what would have been caught?Anyway, the emperor grabbed the jade ruler, and the queen mother felt that it was a sign.

If you look at it from now on, you might have grabbed a small bow back in the [-]th year.

So the Empress Dowager told Jiang Heng earlier: "Tell Minmin to catch it by herself, and see what she wants to catch."

Jiang Heng also thinks the same way, the princess is freer than the prince in this regard, and it is better to catch everything, and no one will interpret it indiscriminately.Even the emperor saw that although the items Jiang Heng had prepared were novel and beautiful, they were not very expensive, so he volunteered to donate one of his fingers and an imperial seal engraved with "Master of the Yuanming Dynasty"—Looking at this seal, Jiang Heng I almost couldn't hold back the thought of manipulating Minmin in secret, why don't we capture your Huang Ama's Old Summer Palace!

Of course, just think about it.

The only experiment that Jiang Heng did with Minmin was to put things in different distances and let her try to grab them—the female friend Mo Ruomu, the older Minmin grows up, the more trouble-free she is like a lazy kitten.Sure enough, through experiments, Jiang Heng found that if it wasn't for the toy that Minmin liked very much, she wouldn't bother to pick and choose it, and would just grab the closest thing to play with.

For this reason, Jiang Heng also took Minmin to show the Queen Mother.

The queen mother was also surprised by this: "The emperor's temperament is not like this, and Aijia sees that you are not lazy." Then she said with satisfaction: "It can be seen that Minmin is smart and knows that being a princess and being a rich and idle person is enough. .It’s not like you, Ama, who went by himself when he was tired all his life, only to let others watch anxiously!”

Jiang Heng: ...The queen mother's flexible standard of intelligence always makes Jiang Heng feel the blindness of love.

Having said that, in order to prevent Minmin from grabbing the Zhou table, he is only willing to grab the nearest thing.The Empress Dowager asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to draw a semicircle on the table in advance, and placed all the Zhou Zhou items on the semicircle. Minmin sat in the center of the circle to ensure that everything was at the same distance from her.

The reason why it is a semicircle instead of a full circle is that both Jiang Heng and the queen mother have discovered that Minmin is not only unwilling to take the trouble to fetch things in the distance, but also doesn't bother to turn around...

Had to arrange a semicircle out.

"Minmin, choose one you like and bring it to Mamma Huang."

The Empress Dowager wore dignified clothes this day, but her expression was soft, she stood in front of the red desk and waited patiently.

In order to attract Minmin's attention, the queen stood on one side, and Jiang Heng stood on the other side, waving at Minmin, lest she crawl forward without looking at the items on both sides.

After learning about the princess's temper, the queen was a little proud of being arranged to be an attraction at one end: Sure enough, she didn't love the fourth princess in vain. Minmin was quite familiar with her, and would often hug her, so much so that she You can draw the attention of the princess with Concubine Xin, the biological mother, on the left and right.

Familiar people were in the front and left and right, and Minmin sat there in a dilemma for a while.

Jiang Heng looked at his daughter's small face, and thought, "It's a good thing that Zhuo Zhou doesn't have a pillow, otherwise she might just go to sleep..."

Like the queen mother, she also encouraged Minmin with her look and tone.

Cubs are born creatures who can read atmospheres and read faces to sense emotions.

After Jiang Heng found out that his daughter was six months old, he could already feel her emotions very accurately: if Jiang Heng was happy from the bottom of his heart, Minmin would be more excited.If Jiang Heng was tired and depressed, Minmin wouldn't play so freely, and would always look at her, as if she was playing carefully.

Therefore, Jiang Heng pays great attention to the emotional problems of nurses, not only that they need to be meticulous, but also that they should be cheerful, without any hidden resentment.

Children know it.

And Minmin did read from Erniang's face that if she didn't grab something, she wouldn't leave the table.

It's more troublesome than sitting on the table all the time, grabbing something quickly to get out.

Jiang Heng could understand the tangled and balanced look on her little face, and almost didn't laugh.

"The princess took a golden bowl!" Aunt Wu Ya announced the result resoundingly.Nurse Quan Fu of the House of Internal Affairs next door has already begun to proficiently recite the festive words—no matter what the princess catches, they will have a wonderful story to say.

But Jiang Heng didn't hear the auspicious words spoken by the Quanfu nuns in turn.

She remembered her scratching week.

According to the memories of her parents, she also grabbed bowls.

Of course, she didn't have a golden bowl at home for her to grab. What she grabbed was a stainless steel bowl unique to that era, the kind without any pattern at all.

At that time, the neighbors were still close to each other, and they would even help each other with their children.Moreover, the Internet was not well developed at that time, and these auspicious words were all made up by the elderly mothers-in-law of the neighbors based on their own experience. Seeing Jiang Heng grabbed the bowl, she told her parents: "This child will definitely eat the country's food in the future." ! Look, this directly took an iron rice bowl!"

This is a piece of the past that their family relishes talking about.

For this reason, her parents even mobilized her to take the civil service exam.

Jiang Heng was holding his daughter in his arms, but his eyes couldn't help falling loosely on the magnificent Chonghua Palace in the Forbidden City: She never imagined at that time that she was able to eat like this.

Minmin held her little golden bowl and was carried into her arms, resting her head on her shoulder.

The heavy weight pulled her heart back.

The queen mother looked on and said caringly: "The Ai family is also sleepy seeing Minmin, let her go back."

This day, Minmin is not only grasping this next week, but has been tossed and dressed in red clothes since a long time ago, and before serving the table to catch Zhou, he has already gone through the process of rolling, combing his hair, and passing through the onion door. for a long time.

The queen likes to be accurate to the specific time or even the specific moment when arranging her schedule or work schedule every day, and it is no exception at the birthday party. She subconsciously calculates how long it has been since the first step in the morning. He said thoughtfully: "Yes, I have been outside for a long time today, I must be hungry." The next banquet and drinking are all adults' business.

Seeing that Minmin's hands were sticking out of the sleeves, the queen couldn't help but came over and touched her little hands: "Fortunately, the room is full of charcoal fire, and the hands are not cold when exposed." Then she tried to put The golden bowl in Minmin's hand was lightly drawn to see if she could take it away: "Although it's fine now, it will be cold if you keep holding it like this all the way back to Yonghe Palace. These golden objects are easy to freeze."

Min Minyuan was playing with his new bowl with his head down, and when he felt that someone was going to take it away, he protested with an 'ah', and then looked up to find that it was the familiar queen, but he let go again, and even narrowed his eyes with a smile. The queen stuffed her little hands back into the sleeves, and then turned her head around Jiang Heng's neck.

Even if it is not her own flesh and blood, the queen feels happy in her heart.Sure enough, young children can't be fake, if you treat her well, she will know it in her heart, and she will be close to her.In this palace, the only one who can make the queen let go of her dignity and status for a moment of real relaxation is actually only such a young child.

Another Thirteenth Fujin said at the right time: "It can be seen that the empress is the most virtuous, and she loves the princess very much. The princess is willing to give the empress even the things she loves."

It even hit the queen's point.

She didn't have her own son, and she didn't have any favors. She had been working hard all these years, and what she wanted was fame?

The queen has a virtuous reputation, so she has something in her heart.

And when Thirteen Fujin said this, it was clear to the bystanders, and he was willing to say it only after he understood it.

She saw that the empress not only did not wear pointed armor, nor did she even have the long onion-like nails that women in the palace usually keep. Instead, she manicured her nails as round as a concubine Xin, and even subconsciously took them off before teasing the princess. He picked up several gorgeous rings on his hands for the birthday party.

Thirteen Fujin also saw his sincerity, so he was happy to do this favor.Two words of good intentions will not only show the queen's reputation, but also make the queen love the princess more in the future.

For Minmin's first birthday party, not only Guangminmin was tired but went to bed early.

A pair of parents are also tired.

It gets dark very early in winter, and when the emperor came over, the pointer was not yet five o'clock, but it was already dark.However, in the dim night, Jiang Heng still noticed that the emperor's face was a little drunk.

I thought it was because I was happy to drink my daughter's birthday wine, so I used two more glasses.

With the emperor's drinking capacity, it was enough to bring out some color.

Because it was a banquet during the day, the emperor only used a little for dinner, and then took a book and laid it on the bed.

Jiang Heng looked at the pointer and it was only eight o'clock.

So I sat on the table next to the smoker and read the book for a while. Although the two of them were silent with each other, there was only the occasional sound of pages turning, which was very harmonious.

The western clock in the palace can tell the time with "dong dong", and it will tell the time several times when it arrives.

When the clock struck nine o'clock, Jiang Heng was about to go to bed, and Qiu Xue and Qiu Shuang came in skillfully, wrapped the bottom of the clock with cotton cloth, and prohibited it from telling the time at night.

And just as Jiang Heng changed his clothes and took off his hair in front of the makeup mirror, he found that the emperor had put the book aside and started a fake sleep, and he slept very stretched, blocking the outside firmly, leaving no room for Jiang Heng. There is a gap so she can go up.

Jiang Heng was speechless: The emperor seems to be very willing to provoke her now, as if he has already decided how much money he will give her, but he still doesn't answer her words about money, as if he wants to see her change her face in a hurry.

Just like now, the emperor knew that he was outside and it was not easy for Jiang Heng to come up, so when Jiang Heng was going to sleep, he stopped reading and began to fall asleep.

Just here the emperor still likes dogs, and he also said that he doesn't like the temper of cats?

Jiang Heng turned his head and looked at the emperor for a while, and even thought of the phrase "a wolf sleeps in front of him, for a long time, his eyes seem to be dark, and he is very free", and he thought it was very appropriate.

Hearing that she seemed to be laughing, the emperor wanted to open his eyes and ask her why she was laughing, but he held back and still pretended to be asleep unprofessionally.

He wanted to see if Concubine Xin dared to wake him up, or just walked over by himself - these two things are taboo in concubines serving the holy driver, and he didn't know what she would do.

After Jiang Heng finished removing his hair, he said to himself: "It can be seen that the emperor is very tired today, and he rested so early. Then let's not quarrel with the emperor, and go outside for a midnight snack."

After speaking, I really lifted the curtain and went out, and asked the small kitchen to send hot and sour noodles to eat.This is a supper that she often prepares in winter. She only puts a little bit of sweet potato flour, not for satiation, but for cold nights and snowy days.

The taste of hot and sour powder is very attractive, and it can get in through the thick brocade curtain.

The emperor, who had only had a quick dinner, was lying on the bed: ...

The two of them competed for half the night (in fact, only the emperor was competing in his heart, thinking that you would always come up to sleep after eating, and you still had to face the problem of how to get there), Jiang Heng actually could not go to bed, and in the winter the smoked cage Put on the bedding and sleep comfortably.

If the emperor was really tired and fell asleep, Jiang Heng would not be able to sleep in the Yonghe Palace in order not to disturb him?Go find Minmin and sleep all night.

But the emperor lay still and dozed off for half the night, Jiang Heng decided to praise the leadership.

So she walked over and started cutting candles.

She found a good angle, in the dim room, the suddenly shaking light and shadow danced on the emperor's face.This normal person would definitely wake up, but the emperor still closed his eyes.

Jiang Heng sighed: How could this not be lower than the steps.

She walked over and poked the emperor suddenly, then returned to the makeup mirror and picked up the comb.

Even if the emperor pretended to sleep, she was startled by this poke.

He opened his eyes and pretended to be serious: "Concubine Xin, what are you doing?"

Jiang Heng was surprised and innocent, and continued to comb his hair: "Ah? What did the concubine do? The emperor shook himself just now, and even frightened the concubine—did he have some nightmare? The emperor was not shocked, did he?" .”

The emperor sat up and looked at her: "I feel that someone poked me presumptuously."

Jiang Heng comforted: "How can there be such a bold person. The emperor is in a deep sleep. Just now the emperor slept very deeply. The concubine used the supper and cut the candles. The emperor didn't wake up. I think he was too tired. The concubine I heard from the imperial doctor that sometimes people will move by themselves in deep sleep, and Minmin sometimes does the same."

Thus, the 'deep sleep' emperor was hungry for half the night, and was poked again for nothing.

After sitting up, he was really a little hungry - whoever lies on the bed and pretends to be asleep will also be hungry after smelling the delicious supper.

Many foods in this world are better smelling than eating: Jiang Heng smelled the instant noodles of his roommate in the past, and he was almost fainted by the smell. He couldn't eat it when the water was boiling at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, although he really ate it in his mouth , You may find that the taste is nothing more than that.

So the emperor sat for a while and said: "I found out that you have learned badly." Then he asked casually: "What did you eat just now?"

Jiang Heng smiled and turned his head: "The small kitchen is still reserved for the emperor, my concubine, please go and use it?"