Hongzhan frowned slightly. For him now, he simply couldn't understand the meaning of Hongli's words, and he didn't know how to answer.
Nala's face darkened, he stood up and walked to Hongzhan, held his hand and said, "Brother Si, what do you mean? Do you think I am taking advantage of Hongzhan?"
Hongli stood up and smiled slightly and said: "The pure will be pure by itself, and the turbid will be turbid by itself. If the emperor has a clear conscience, why should she care about what her ministers say."
Xiao Ningzi, who had been following Nala, said with a righteous expression: "Brother Si, how can you talk to the Queen like this?"
Nala raised his hand and said: "It doesn't matter, I would like to hear what else Brother Si wants to say to me."
Hongli lowered his head and said: "I don't dare. What I just said to my sixth brother was casual. Don't worry about the emperor's mother. It's getting late. I have to go to the household department. I'll retire first and come back to the emperor another day."
Hello, mother."
Before leaving, Hongli gave Hongzhan a meaningful look, hoping that he could remember his words, look at things more carefully in the future, understand who is the one who really cares about him, and not become a tool of the queen and others, otherwise
He will become the second Hongtoki, even more pathetic than Hongtoki.
After he disappeared from sight, Hongzhan raised his head and said: "Huang'e Niang, what did the fourth brother mean? And you just said that Du Juan would take my son to play? Why didn't my son know?"
A cold light flashed across Nala's eyes, and then he said warmly: "The Queen doesn't understand either, but the fourth elder brother is the son of Concubine Xi, and he must be planning to separate the mother-son relationship between me and you. As for Du Juan..." Then
La Shi glanced at Du Juan who was still kneeling on the ground and said: "
I ordered her before, but she didn't listen to me. It's really disgusting. I will deal with her later." After saying that, she took the paper from Hongzhan, read it carefully and said with a smile: "Yeah
, as expected, he wrote down the Thousand-Character Prose word for word, which is really smart.”
Hearing Nala's praise, Hongzhan laughed happily. While Liu was away, Nala was the closest person to him, and he always believed in her words.
Nala handed the paper to Xiao Ningzi and said, "However, although your handwriting is correct, your writing skills are much worse. You still need to practice hard."
Hongzhan said obediently: "I know, I will go and practice now." Children over three years old like to play the most, but for Hongzhan, every day is boring reading and calligraphy, which is really a shame.
He can persevere.
"So good." Nala stroked his cheek and said with some temptation: "Remember, the better you do, the more chances you will have to rescue your mother from Xinzheku in the future. I believe your mother will also
Waiting for this day to come as soon as possible.”
This sentence seemed to stimulate Hong Zhan. He clenched his small fist and said forcefully: "I will definitely save E Niang from the suffering with my own hands."
Saving the Liu family from Xinzheku was the motivation for Hongzhan to work so hard, and it was also what Nala had been saying to Hongzhan. She had made up her mind to adopt Hongzhan, so she naturally hoped that Hongzhan would do well in everything.
To please Yinzhen. As for the impact this would have on the young Hongzhan, she did not consider it.
The Nala family and the Liu family are the same, they are both people who use whatever means to achieve their goals, but they are not exactly the same, because when Honghui was alive, she never hurt Honghui; however, the Liu family hurt Honghui again and again.
Zhan used this son as a pawn, and even killed the frail seventh elder brother Hongxun with his own hands in order to frame the Shumulu family.
Therefore, in some aspects, the Liu family is even more cruel and ruthless than the Nala family!
While practicing calligraphy in the afternoon, for some reason, Hongzhan's words always flashed into Hongzhan's mind - never forget what you really want, and don't become someone else's tool.
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Although Hongzhan tried not to remind himself of this sentence, it was of little use. In the end, he firmly remembered this sentence, and many years later, this sentence even affected the trajectory of his life.
As for Ling Ruo, she brought Shui Xiu all the way to the Yangxin Hall. During the process of letting Xiao Wu report, Ling Ruo felt uneasy, fearing that Yinzhen would not want to see her because of what happened before. This uneasiness lasted until Xiao Wu
After telling her that she could go in, she quietly left, but what followed was a nervousness that made her hands and feet cold.
Stepping on the shiny gold bricks to the Yangxin Hall, Yinzhen was writing at a desk, not knowing what he was writing. Faced with Ling Ruo's greetings, he didn't even raise his head and just responded lightly.
Ling Ruo did not disturb him and stood quietly in the hall, standing behind a stick of incense. Only then did Yinzhen take a deep breath, put down the pen in his hand, looked up at Ling Ruo, and said with a complicated expression: "You are here.
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"Yes." Apart from this word, Ling Ruo didn't know what else to say. After waiting for a moment to calm down, he said: "Hongli told me that the war between the two sides is tense now, and the Ministry of Household Affairs is running out of money, but now the taxes are still being paid.
It was not collected as scheduled, which put a strain on the national treasury. Your Majesty, are these two battles really that difficult to fight?"
Yinzhen smiled bitterly and said: "The red-haired Japanese are good at using firearms, and Junggar is good at using cavalry to fight. The two battles broke out at the same time. Do you think it will be easy to fight?" At this point, he took a deep breath and said: "But
No matter how difficult the fight is, we, the Qing Dynasty, will win in the end. I will never let the country conquered by my ancestors be destroyed in my hands, do you believe it?"
Ling Ruo looked up, and the first thing she saw was his firm eyes. At this moment, she chuckled, "I have always believed in the emperor."
Hearing these words, Yinzhen's eyes flashed slightly, he stared at Ling Ruo and said, "I thought you no longer believed in me because I questioned you."
Ling Ruo shook his head and said: "No. I have always known that the emperor is the best guardian of the Qing Dynasty. Not only I, but the late emperor also thinks so."
Staring into her eyes, Yinzhen suddenly said: "Do you blame me?"
Ling Ruo was a little surprised that he would ask such a question. He lowered his head and stared at the upper of his shoes embroidered with the pattern of two butterflies flying together and said: "If I say no, it is a crime of deceiving the emperor, but if I live in a different place, I will do the same thing."
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"You." Yinzhen shook his head and said across her: "Looking back, some of the words I said were indeed a bit harsh, but I was so angry at the time that I couldn't calm down."
Ling Ruo said in a low voice: "I understand that the whole thing is to blame. It is my fault. I deceived the emperor first. It is right for the emperor to be angry."
Yinzhen's light laughter came from behind. After a while, he walked up to Ling Ruo, held up her chin and said: "Actually, it doesn't matter who is right or wrong. What matters is that there should be a relationship between you and me.
With a considerate and tolerant heart, if you keep holding on to your mistakes, you will only make each other sad, which I don't want to see. I can let it go now, can you?"