Clearly, she doesn't want to be a concubine

Chapter 41

After tidying up, little Eunuch Meng called out: "The ceremony is over."

The other little eunuchs bowed their heads and went out one by one.

Umalu changed into clothes in the inner room, and then came out.

After waiting for a long time, Kangxi didn't come, so she just took "Journey to the West" and continued to read.

When she woke up in the middle of the night, she saw Baocheng sleeping beside her, and Kangxi was sitting beside her flipping through Journey to the West.

Umalu asked him: "Don't you rest yet?"

Kangxi put down the book in his hand, got up and walked in front of her, took two thumb-sized wine glasses and approached her in front of her, held his hands, and drank alternately.

Umalu looked at him suspiciously.

Kangxi touched the end of her eyes: "In your life, I can't give you a wedding. I will make a cup with you, and we will make a covenant. From now on, you will be my wife."

"If there is an afterlife," he said, "I will take a big sedan chair and marry you as my wife."

But I don't want to have an afterlife with you.

Umalu thought.

Umalu said: "Good."

Kangxi looked into her eyes, there was no love in her eyes, they were crystal clear.

What a little liar she was, he thought.

But he loved her, and that was enough.

He kissed her: "You won't change, right...you should love me as firmly as you won't change."

He clearly knew that he was deceiving himself.

The moment she understood, her heart was filled with a kind of compassion, not the compassion of a woman who loves her sweetheart, but the tears that gods, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas shed when they watched the world suffer.

"A slave won't change." She meekly let him do what she wanted, her hand patted his back lightly, like a mother caressing her baby who was frightened and crying at night.

He clearly felt that his heart was touched.

He thought, what he loved her, he should love her, who else could he love if he didn't love her?
She is fulfilling his fantasy.

It took Kangxi a long time before he let go of her, and took out a simple copper bell-shaped bell from under her pillow, strung with bright yellow broken beads.

Kangxi looked at her and said, "I put it under your pillow."

"The first reward of the new year, I just want to give it to you."

Umalu took it, shook it, and made an empty sound in the middle of the night. She got out of bed and put it in her dowry box.

Afterwards, under her service, he took off his coat, and Kangxi only wore his middle coat, and went to bed to rest.

Kangxi suddenly said: "Last time, I said I forgot, but I didn't."

"Ok?"

"When I made my last wish, a monk came up from Huangzhuang. When he heard my wish, he gave me this bell."

"He said, the person I'm waiting for will definitely come to me." Kangxi closed his eyes and said everything calmly, "When she comes to me, after I give this bell to her, she will never leave again I."

Umalu said, "I will not leave you."

She forgot the rules of etiquette, but Kangxi didn't care.

She repeated it as if it was a dead sheep: "The servant will not leave the master."

Kangxi held her in his arms across Baocheng: "Go to sleep."

The two fell asleep.

Before going to sleep, Umalu vaguely thought that no matter how wise and powerful a person would be, he would have something to ask for.

If it is not too difficult to ask, how lucky are the gods and Buddhas.

Even during the Spring Festival, the emperor did not go anywhere more leisurely than usual.

Kangxi had to get up early in the morning on the first day of the new year, and naturally he had to pay more attention to the most important court meeting of the year on the first day of the new year.

After Umalu fell asleep, Kangxi took away Baocheng, who was going to pay New Year's greetings to the Empress Dowager early the next morning, and both of them slept back in Kangxi's inner room so that they would not wake Uma up early the next morning. Lu.

He left lightly, not letting Liang Jiugong make any noise.

When Umalu woke up, it was already late, Yin Shuang'er finished the medicine and came in to see it a few times.

Shi Xiaoxiao said: "She can really sleep."

Yin Shuang'er really didn't want to talk to her: "Shut up, if you don't accept your temper, I'll tell Director Liang."

Hearing a sound on the bed, Yin Shuang'er stepped forward and waited for her to get dressed, while saying: "Master, it's better to wash and eat first."

Shi Xiaoxiao mouth-shaped: "Catch the dog who is a servant."

After she finished speaking, she prepared everything for Umalu to use.

The two waited for her to finish her meal, and stared at her to drink the medicine, and then they quickly took out the used tableware.

In the afternoon, Umalu took a rest.

Only then did Yin Shuang'er talk to Shi Xiaoxiao about it: "My master is not in good health. He drinks more medicine than he eats every day."

She sighed: "After we entered the palace, have you forgotten what the aunt in charge said? It is our blessing to meet a kind-hearted person like the master. We will be sad if we meet a more picky master." .”

She was almost earnest: "You, just watch your mouth, don't be dissatisfied, and don't think about doing something like flying up a branch and becoming a phoenix."

Shi Xiaoxiao's eyes were full of stubbornness: "There are so many masters in the palace who were born in Baoyi, including the master we serve, aren't they also Baoyi? Why do they make it, and I won't make it."

Her eyes were full of ambition: "We are so close to the emperor now, why can't we give it a go? If we are favored, wouldn't we be able to achieve the Tao alone, and go to heaven alone. If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your family." think."

Shi Xiaoxiao seemed to be bewitching her: "Isn't that the right master? She entered the palace last year and soon became a concubine. I've heard that she is just a court lady serving tea. In comparison, we see the emperor more times. Want more, you, rather than persuading me, it’s better to be a little angry.”

Yin Shuang'er lowered her head to embroider flowers: "I know you look down on me, but you don't even think about it, how many people can be treated like our master?"

"There really aren't many court ladies without status." Shi Xiaoxiao was a little disdainful, "Call her a master, and she will really become a master."

Yin Shuang'er felt that she was hopeless, she had ambitions and cleverness, but she didn't know the current affairs.

She didn't want to care about her, but when she thought of the gentle master Wu Ya, she still planned to try her best to persuade her: "But how many of the maids who have no status will have maids to serve? How can they get the attention of Manager Liang?"

She said: "As you said, we have more chances to meet the emperor than Master Yi, but the emperor has not ordered us so far. You should wake up from that dream."

"You don't understand anything." Shi Xiaoxiao couldn't listen, she said sharply, "Just be a slave for the rest of your life, I'm going to be a master anyway."

The two parted unhappily.

Yin Shuang'er got up and continued to look at the medicine. Umalu didn't wake up until the afternoon, leaned on the bed, and asked Yin Shuang'er to bring "Journey to the West" to continue reading.

As usual.

After the new year, in the first month of the year, Kangxi announced the opening of a system of subjects that combined recommendation and examination-"Bo Xue Hong Confucianism".

Anyone who is a key person, no matter how old they are, how sick they are, or how stubborn their attitude is, they will all be caught.

(End of this chapter)