The Biography of Concubine Xi of Yongzheng

Chapter 558 The Key
On the second day after arriving at the Old Summer Palace, Yanhua took Hong En to greet the Queen.

Xiaoxiao directly led them to the Buddhist hall, pointing inward: "Emperor Niang went in after having breakfast every day. Once I accompanied her to recite scriptures and heard her talking there by herself. I asked who the queen was talking to, and the queen called Mu Jin's name a few times, and then... I didn't see the person of Mu Jin, and I didn't say a word the next day... Smile but I'm worried about Queen Erniang... Erniang, can you stay with us more?"

Yanhua's nose was sore, she nodded with tears in her eyes: "Okay, okay."

She waited outside with her two children for a long time, but the queen never wanted to see them, so she asked Hong En to kowtow to the queen outside and then left with the children.

There is an apricot grove near the house where she used to live. It is now June, and the apricots should be ripe.Lingxi said that he can make some apricot jam, make some preserved apricots, and also make some sugar-fried almonds, sweet and sour apricot cake...

Before she finished speaking, Yanhua and the two children swallowed at the same time.It's just that she swallowed it very secretly, so that no one else could see it.

Hong En directly swallowed his saliva heavily, the kid didn't hide his thoughts at all, he licked his mouth and shouted: "I want to eat, En'er wants to eat apricot cake..."

Lingxi pursed her lips and laughed straight, thinking that the few children their master gave birth to, they really got the true teaching of their master in terms of greediness.She covered her mouth and chuckled for a while, then quickly took Hong En's little hand and coaxed: "Little brother, you have to pick apricots first, after you pick a lot of apricots, the maidservant can make apricot cake for little brother."

"I want to eat too!" Xiaoxiao's voice suddenly reminded Lingxi, startling her.

"Okay, okay, then go to the Xinglin to pick apricots." Yanhua hurriedly took a child by the hand and hurried to the Xinglin.She hasn't had the apricot feast made by Lingxi yet, since Lingxi proposed this on her own initiative, she naturally couldn't let go of this opportunity.

The apricots in the apricot grove are big and emerald, and as soon as you walk in, there is a sweet and sour fragrance rushing towards you.

"Ah! Er Niang, yes, I want to eat this." Hong En's eyes lit up, pointing at the big apricot hanging above his head, jumping happily.

"I'll pick it for you!" Xiaoxiao hurriedly hopped and stretched out his hands to fish out the branches, picked several in a short while, and threw them directly into the clear water brought by the maid...

At dinner time, the empress and Yanhua, mother and son shared the meals, and at night they had sweet and sour apricot cakes as a snack. Yanhua only felt that her eating was very fulfilling today, so fulfilling that she had no dreams all night, sleeping very stable.

The next day, the queen went back to the Buddhist hall after having breakfast, Yanhua knew that she would not come out for a whole day as she said with a smile, so she didn't guard outside the Buddhist hall, she just waited for Hong En to go around and admire her. scene.The expansion of the Old Summer Palace has been completed long ago, and it is much larger than before. With her and Hong En's speed, it would not be possible to complete the tour in a day.

Xiaoxiao was very familiar with the Old Summer Palace, after waiting for Yanhua to go around a few interesting places, Hong En yelled that she was tired.

"Er Niang, there is a pavilion on the waterside pavilion in front, called Wanfu Pavilion, Er Niang wants to take Hong En to rest?"

"Wanfu Pavilion?" Yanhua's eyelids twitched, and she immediately became interested.

"Yeah. But there's a room in the pavilion that's been locked all the time. I once saw someone carry a few big boxes in, and I don't know what kind of treasure they were in." Xiaoxiao muttered, seeing Yanhua holding Hongen So he went there and hurriedly followed.

"Er Niang, in fact, I sneaked in. The big boxes inside were all locked, but there was a small box that opened with a light pry. The paper... at the beginning is Zhenlang, the signature is Chanchan, and Huang Ama is always called Erniang Chanchan... Erniang, those... are those love words you wrote to Huang Ama? Hehe..."

When Yanhua heard this, her old face blushed, and she glared coquettishly and smiled: "You child, why are you running around and looking at those things secretly? What are you doing? Don't be naughty in the future, don't lock things. I went to pry it... Be careful that your emperor Amaji scolded you."

Xiaoxiao stuck out her tongue, not afraid at all, and graciously led her to the locked room.

Hong En was tired from playing, and soon fell into a dream. After Yanhua placed him on the couch, her heart flew to that room.It's just that the door is locked, so she can't see it even if she wants to go in.

"Emiang wait, the baby will be back in a while." Xiaoxiao smiled slyly at her, and ran out after saying that, Yanhua hurriedly chased her out, and saw her talking to an eunuch from a distance, after a while , the eunuch came over with a small box and handed it to Xiaoxiao.

When Xiaoxiao ran over like holding a baby, Yanhua stared at the brocade box for a while: "This is...the key?"

Smiling in shock, she opened her mouth for a long time before closing her mouth: "How did Er Niang know? My child asked someone to play a master key before, and I forgot about it before. I suddenly remembered it, so I asked someone to try it." ...Hehe...Emiang, let's use this to open this room and have a look, shall we?"

She had thought about it just now, and her mother-in-law happened to be present at the moment, so even if she used the key to open the door and the box inside and saw something she shouldn't see, as long as her mother-in-law was protecting her, she would Huang Ama would not blame her.Of course she couldn't let go of such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Yan Hua has long been hooked and full of curiosity, hearing her say that this key is omnipotent, the little restlessness in her heart becomes more turbulent.She looked at Lingxi and Jin San, and then at Hong En who was sleeping soundly, her heart was greatly shaken.

"Emiang~ The secrets hidden here must not be related to government affairs, otherwise Huang Ama would not put things here and let no one guard...Emiang, just go in and take a look, and don't let them say it out. ..." She grabbed Yanhua's arm and acted like a baby, her tone was full of pleading.She completely ignored the two eunuchs guarding the outside of the pavilion, and did not regard them as the people guarding the pavilion at all.

"Ahem~" Yanhua corrected her posture, turned her head and ordered, "Lingxi, you and the nanny are taking good care of Hong En, Xiaoxiao and I are walking around here, no one needs to follow."

When Xiaoxiao heard this, she immediately knew that there was something to be done, and excitedly dragged in the key, leading her to the room hurriedly.

This deceitful thing has been done more than once, if you do it again, let's do it again.If what Xiaoxiao said is true, it's just a small note she wrote before, so it doesn't hurt to read it.She was just curious, what was she doing hiding here?He must have done something to those small letters, right?This pavilion is called Wanfu Pavilion, it is the place where she lived when she was hiding in the mansion, presumably he wanted to treasure all those memories here.Thinking of this, Yan Hua felt as if her heart was filled with honey.

"Patta~" The lock on the door was opened easily.However, it was a very ordinary copper lock.

There is a cave inside, there are several paintings on the wall, one of which is the one of Yinzhen and her in western clothes. At that time, Yinzhen often stared at this painting in a daze, and she later found out that he was wearing a western dress. I remembered Pingniang.After the two of them quarreled and reconciled because of Pingniang's affairs, she never saw this painting again, and she never expected to see it here after so many years.

While she was looking at the painting, Xiaoxiao happily went to unlock the big box again.

"Pa-ta~" Another lock was opened, Xiaoxiao was so happy that she hurriedly called out: "Er Niang, Er Niang, come and see, I opened it again!"

The mother and daughter, like a treasure hunt, squeezed to the box and looked inside.

There are a lot of papers laid flat inside, and a few rolled-up paintings.Xiaoxiao reached out to take a picture to read, but Yanhua slapped her hand violently.

She withdrew her hand in pain, and pouted her small mouth in grievance: "Er Niang~"

"Don't move around, you go over there to look at the paintings." Yanhua's son suddenly put on the airs of the mother, and ordered her to go to the punishment station at the bottom of the wall with a straight face.

Smiling dissatisfied, she pouted and said, "Emiang is bullying people! Ermiang won't allow the child to see it, so Emiang himself won't be allowed to look at it either! Otherwise, or the child will tell Huang Ama! Hmph!"

"You dare to blackmail Erniang?" Yanhua glared at her, pretending to be very vicious.

Xiaoxiao retreated back timidly, her momentum weakened, but her mouth was still unconvinced: "But... Er Niang can't do it anymore, after using Xiaoxiao, she kicked Xiaoxiao aside... Didn't Er Niang say that , do you have to be sincere in dealing with others?"

Yan Hua moved her eyes away, and uncomfortably picked up a small letter and handed it to her: "Okay, okay, let's take a look at it with you. You don't study hard all day long, can you understand it? hum~"

Smiling and shaking his lips angrily, he took the small letter and sat on the chair next to him to read it carefully: It's just some nasty words, why are you so petty?I wrote it to scare people to see, hum!
Yanhua picked up a small letter, and saw that Yinzhen had made a lot of comments on the blank space of the small letter. After reading it carefully, she realized that it was Yinzhen who was responding to her small letter.

"Chanchan is like the white cloud in the sky, bright and clear, I can't help but hold it in my arms after seeing it..."

"Chanchan's little mouth is sweet today..." She must have drank sweet soup that day.

"Chanchan looks as good-looking today as if she had applied rouge..." He must have teased her that day, that's why her cheeks were so bright red.

"I was born before you were born, but I was old when you were born. I hate that you were born late, and you hate that I was born early...I hate not being born at the same time, and being good to you every day..." This is an ancient poem, he made some modifications I wrote it up and never told her about it, but after reading it, she just felt very sweet in her heart.

Looking at them one by one, she felt as if she had relived those beautiful days, her face was already blushing quietly.Just as she was immersed in the sweetness of the past, a sudden sob rushed into her ears.She was busy blushing, and raised her head in surprise...

(End of this chapter)