I chatted with Concubine Yi for more than half an hour in Yanxi Palace, and made an appointment to talk in detail when she comes back from Guining. At that time, I will invite the mother-in-law of the main palace, Concubine Rong of Zhongcui Palace, and Concubine Hui of Lingkun Palace.
The empress, who had given her many rewards, gathered together at Dongsan House, and she personally cooked for the fourth concubine to taste. Concubine Yi was very happy when she heard that, and finally asked her personal maid Tong Yao to bring the wedding meal that she had prepared long ago.
The congratulatory gift - a set of nine-piece Dongzhu jewelry of excellent quality. The moment she opened the jewelry box, it almost shook Jinxi so hard that she couldn't open her eyes.
"Aunt Qing, this is too expensive!" Jinxi closed the lid, shook her head and refused to accept it.
Concubine Yi pretended to be angry and said: "Since you call me Aunt Qing, you are qualified to take me in. Aunt Qing has no daughter, so she has treated you as a daughter for a long time. Could it be that you call Aunt Qing in your mouth, but you don't really mean it in your heart?"
Do you want to treat me as your aunt?"
When Jinxi heard this, she immediately couldn't laugh or cry. She just didn't dare to accept such an expensive gift. How could Concubine Yi say it so seriously? She took Concubine Yi's hand and explained softly: "Aunt Qing, Xi'er just thinks this
The jewelry is so valuable that even if I collect the seal, I don’t dare to wear it. Instead of storing it in the warehouse and gathering dust, it’s better for Aunt Qing to wear it herself, so that she won’t wrong these crystal clear pearls! Otherwise, they will
But they will blame me for wasting resources!"
"You! What a ghost!" Yi Fei was amused by Jin Xi's exaggerated metaphor and laughed out loud. She couldn't help but pinch her soft cheeks and sighed sincerely: "There is someone like you in the family.
What a nice girl... No wonder Minrong is so reluctant to let you get married. But it's okay, marrying the fourth elder brother will give Aunt Qing an advantage... At least before the fourth elder brother leaves the palace, Aunt Qing will be much closer than your mother-in-law.
Oh...hehe..."
"However, you still have to accept this gift. Aunt Qing doesn't care whether these pearls are buried in the dust or worn by you. These are all Aunt Qing's wishes. If you don't accept them, then you are unwilling to accept Aunt Qing.
This is my heart."
Okay, after all the talking, I still have to take her back. Jinxi looked at Yinzhen speechlessly. Then she looked at Concubine Yi, and said in a protracted accent: "Aunt Qing..."
"It's no use calling me E Niang! Haha... Aunt Qing knows how many good things your A Ma E Niang stuffed into your makeup. Don't fool me." Concubine Yi smiled. At the same time, she ordered Tong Yao to put this set of jewelry
Send it to Dongsansuo.
Seeing this, Jinxi knew that it would be hypocritical to insist on not accepting the offer, so she stood up generously and thanked Concubine Yifei.
"It's getting late. If you don't want to stay and have dinner before leaving, then go back early. We will return to Ning tomorrow, and we have to take care of ourselves." Concubine Yi saw that the sun was turning to the west, and the two Jinxi
He also said that he would not keep them for meals, so he stopped keeping them. Hengshu Jinxi married into the palace. In the future, there would be many opportunities for the two of them to get together and chat, and this short while was no exception.
Jinxi and Yinzhen said goodbye to Concubine Yi and Yinzhen. After Yinzhen left Zhongcui Palace, they walked slowly to their own Dongsansuo.
I didn't meet anyone along the way.
Facing the cool autumn wind, the two chose a quiet winding path and walked hand in hand.
"What are you thinking about?" Yinzhen squeezed the little hand in his palm and asked with a chuckle.
"It's nothing, I just think it's all so incredible, to be reborn after death... to live in the Qing Dynasty... and now I'm married to a prince... Do you think this is a long dream?" Jin Xi raised her eyes and smiled.
Looking at Yinzhen.
"Maybe. Regardless of whether it's a dream or not, as long as you try your best to live, it'll be fine." When Yinzhen said this, he suddenly curled his lips, not knowing what he thought of, and then said: "I think this dream is very good, at least I can still meet
An old acquaintance."
"By the way, I haven't asked you until now, when did you come? Is Ruilin okay afterwards?"
Before Jinxi asked, he had already deployed his mental power and covered a 20-meter radius around them to ensure that no one was prying.
As early as the wedding night, Yinzhen asked Qiyi to retreat to a dark place thirty meters away from him and no longer escort him, in order to protect the biggest secret of him and Jinxi.
"It's okay. You have been unconscious. She is very worried. Although she is not afraid of the cruel and terrifying way that those gossip magazines describe her, she is afraid that you will not wake up. She feels deeply guilty in her heart and feels that she is the one who harmed you...
"Thinking about what happened in her previous life, Yinzhen couldn't help but close her eyes and recounted all the facts since her accident in a vague voice.
"I know. I believe her." Jinxi squeezed his hand distressedly and nodded with a soft smile.
When Yinzhen heard this, he was a little stunned, "You know?" Although he had thought that with Jinxi's temperament, he would not misunderstand Xiao Ruilin, but he never thought that she would be so calm and open-minded.
It was rare for Jinxi to see his astonished expression, and she couldn't help laughing and said: "You are so surprised if I say this?"
"Ahem... no... I just think... most people will think it's Ruilin..." Yinzhen felt a little embarrassed, raised his free right hand to his lips, pretended to cough lightly, and explained in a low voice.
"But in fact, she is not a child who would take other people's lives as a joke. On the contrary, she cherishes life more than anyone else, right?" Jinxi tilted her head and looked at him with a soft smile and said, seeing Yinzhen
Once again showing a surprised expression that rarely appeared on his face, Jin Xi couldn't help but chuckle, "Do you know why I know so much?"
No longer teasing him, she recounted what she saw and heard when her soul came out of her body after coma. At the end, she added: "There is a ghost who came from nowhere and asked me to live my life naturally here."
, I said that I can go back like this... I don’t know if it’s true or not... I don’t know if living like this right now is a life that goes with the flow, or whether it has deviated from the expected direction... So, sometimes, I feel so confused...
…”
"Don't worry, you still have me." Yinzhen held her hand and put his arms around her shoulders, gently hugged her into his arms, and comforted her in a hoarse voice: "No need to think too much, just follow your heart.
Life is good...even if we can't go back, at least we have lived a fulfilling life here, which is enough, right?"
Yes, if you let nature take its course and speak more clearly, isn't it just following your heart? She has been thinking about it for so many years in vain, she might as well just say a word to Yinzhen.
"Has anyone ever said that you are actually very good at soothing people's hearts?" Her mood suddenly brightened, and at the same time she initiated the second first-level upgrade of the Art of Controlling Things, feeling the sudden comfort in her body, Jin Xi said with a sigh.
"No. You are the first." Yinzhen glanced at her and smiled, "Because I have never said this to anyone else."
This man was so reserved when talking about love. However, even though he was reserved, it made her blush. In the final analysis, her ability to talk about love was still not as good as his...
The two walked and chatted all the way. When they reached the vicinity of Dongsansuo, she also roughly understood how he passed through the Qing Dynasty.
Just a month after she fell into a coma, he was in a serious car accident on the way to send Ruilin back to the United States in advance. I believe that under his protection, little Ruilin's life should not be in danger, but he unfortunately died.
.Before he fell into coma, he even saw his body being cut off at the waist by a car door stop...
Poor man! He is much more miserable than himself. He still has a complete body after all, but he was cut off at the waist... It's scary to think about it...
Jinxi couldn't help but shudder, not daring to think about that scene again, pulling him and stepping into the gate of Nansuo, "What do you want to eat tonight? You order me to make it." Quan consoled him for his tragic death.
Yinzhen looked at her with a smile. "It's been a long time since I've eaten hometown food... How about we come to the table for a banquet?..."
What do you mean by speaking out and shooting yourself in the foot? This is it...
Jinxi glanced at Yinzhen sadly, grinded her teeth, and thought to herself: Okay. Isn't it just Hong Kong cuisine? She knows it!
She immediately rolled up her sleeves and started cooking, instead of preparing a decent Hong Kong and Cantonese banquet. She is not Lin Jinxi... uh... it seems that she is no longer Lin Jinxi... so... she can be lazy? She will cook less dishes to forgive him.
do not know either……
Fortunately, Yinzhen didn't really ask her to prepare a full banquet. She just said that there was enough food for two people. And because of the tight time, she had to choose simple cooking. Make a soup, make a few hot dishes, and steam some.
Forget about Hong Kong-style dim sum. When you collect all the ingredients, you can reward him with a delicious Hong Kong-style meal.
Making soup is not difficult, but it takes a lot of effort. Fortunately, it was not yet Youshi, and there were two right-hand assistants, Mrs. Hua and Peilan, who helped quickly. After two hours of work, it was basically done.
Hong Kong-style cuisine is derived from Cantonese cuisine, but it is different from authentic Cantonese cuisine.
When Jinxi was a graduate student, she participated in two interstate cooking competitions of Chinese cuisine, and once she chose Cantonese cuisine. She felt that Cantonese cuisine made people feel very beautiful and warm after being cooked. However, today was pressed for time, so she definitely didn’t
Let's make the stewed shark's fin dish that won the championship in the interstate competition. Let's stew it when Guining comes back and invites the Queen Mother and the Fourth Concubine to have a dinner. By the way, I still owe Kangxi a meal.
While Jinxi was busy with the things at hand, she was thinking about the debt she had incurred just two days after marrying into the royal family...
Seeing that she was working happily and fulfillingly in the kitchen, Yinzhen did not bother her, but sat in the study to sort out the tax filing method that he had just come up with yesterday after being inspired by Jinxi.
Soon, dusk officially enveloped Nansuo.
"Dang dang dang - it's time to eat!" Jin Xi opened the study door with a warm smile and called to Yinzhen, "It's already midnight, aren't you hungry yet?"
"I've been grunting for a long time." Yinzhen closed the book, looked up with a smile, and then smelled a strong aroma of vegetables. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Could he be eating in the bedroom? However, when she followed Jinxi
Stepping out of the study door and following her to the patio, I realized that today's dinner place was actually in the quiet twilight.
A square wicker table that I found somewhere was placed at the edge of the main room. A few steps away were fragrant laurel trees. There were several well-proportioned lanterns hanging on the branches. For fear of not being bright enough, there were also a few lanterns placed on the table.
A bronze candlestick was displayed, burning with quiet candlelight, beating playfully in the windless autumn night. Two willow chairs with floral heart-shaped cushions and backrests were placed facing each other.
The small square table was covered with a floral tablecloth of the same color as the seat cushions, and a soup and four dishes had been placed on the table by the maid.
The white porcelain soup bowl in the middle contains the fragrant and nutritious Gastrodia fish head, and the other four white porcelain inch plates contain four hot dishes, two meat and two vegetarian, namely: Bergamot spareribs,
Pigeon in Western Sauce, Begonia and Mushrooms, Dinghu Shangsu.
In front of the two people's seats, there is a pair of bone china tableware, a dinner plate, a soup bowl, a wine cup, a soup spoon, and a pair of white jade ivory chopsticks. They are exquisite and delicate.
All this gave him a sudden feeling of time and space intertwined. It seemed that the place he was standing now was not in the palace of the Qing Dynasty, but in a modern and elegant private restaurant.
"What? Do you think it's too cold to eat here?" While he was looking at all this, Jinxi had already changed into a clean flag uniform and came out of the house, holding a robe in his hand and handed it to Yin
Zhen, "If it's cold, put it on. Although you need a bit of romance occasionally, you can't catch a cold."
"I'm not cold. But you, if you don't have the inner strength, you should wear more clothes." Yinzhen took the robe and did not put it on, but hung it loosely on the back of her chair, so that she could put it on if she felt cold.
While Jinxi ordered Xizhu to serve the dishes, he asked Jiangrui to go to the warehouse to get a jar of aged osmanthus brew.
"Sipping osmanthus wine under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree, isn't it a special pleasure?" Jinxi said with a smile.
Yinzhen glanced at her with a smile and gave her a four-word evaluation: "Arty."
"Hey, after all, I want to make you happy, but you are talking about me like this!" Upon hearing this, Jinxi said coquettishly.
Yinzhen smiled and said nothing, but a burst of pleasant laughter came through the dusk, revealing his mood at the moment. There was nothing to say...
The two raised their glasses to the moon, talked about the past and present, and drank several glasses of sweet-scented osmanthus stuffed wine. They only knew that the food on the table was almost eaten by the two of them. The night was getting darker and darker, and some autumn feelings shrank. Only then did the maid
They cleared the table and helped each other back to the bedroom.
"I didn't expect that your ability to drink is worse than mine... Ha... I don't know how you managed to be the CEO in your last life..." After Jinxi asked Jiang Rui to bring a basin of warm water, he dismissed them and personally held a cloth to drink the drunk.
Yinzhen washes his face and wipes his body.
"Uh... is there a certain connection between whether you drink alcohol and whether you are the CEO?" Because it was her tonight, he didn't have the luck to get rid of his drunkenness. How long had it been since he had been so carefree? It seemed like he hadn't been since he came to this world.
Had……
Yinzhen sighed comfortably, lying lazily on the bed around him, with a smile on his lips, staring at Jinxi who was busy beside him, wiping his face and hands, and suddenly, a look of surprise appeared.
The heavenly man smiled seductively and said in a low voice: "It's great to have you by my side..." He had been alone for so long, and finally he no longer needed to deal with loneliness...
Jinxi paused with her hand holding the cloth, raised her eyes and looked back at him, and smiled, "What a coincidence, I wanted to say this too, but you beat me to it..."
"Jin Xi..." He stretched out his hand to touch her delicate and tender cheek, stared at her deeply, and promised softly: "I can't guarantee the future... but as long as I have a breath... I will protect you... and never let go.
…”
"Okay." She responded with a gentle smile. (To be continued)