Now that he had asked, Bixue opened the small silk box a crack and let Xiao Fenzi look inside. At the same time, she raised her chin and said, "You have never seen such meticulous handwork, have you?"
Xiao Fenzi twitched the corner of her mouth and smiled, but she didn't say anything and just moved her eyes to the side.
Only then did Bixue realize that Xiao Fenzi had been silent a lot recently - when facing her, she no longer had the same playful smile as before, and now seemed a bit unfamiliar.
Before she had time to think about it, Qixi was beside her. She reached out and closed the lid of the box. She pulled Bixue's elbow and urged: "Hurry up. There is still a pile of things piled up in the back room.
The master is waiting to clean up!"
Bixue glanced at Xiaofenzi again, and then followed Qixi towards the north wing.
When Bixue walked away, Xiao Fenzi turned back. He stared at Bixue's back without blinking, silently watching her walk away - until she entered the side room.
He turned around and walked towards his eunuch's duty room.
In the eunuch's duty room, the windows along the wall were not opened, so the light was much darker than outside.
Xiao Fenzi sat down, stretched out his hand and poured a cup of coarse tea, and drank it with his head tilted up in one gulp. Large drops of water flowed down the corners of his lips.
Xiao Fenzi went to the bunk and stretched out her hand where she usually kept her handkerchief. Then she suddenly realized something was wrong - wasn't this handkerchief used to wrap cakes and distribute them to everyone?
He remembered that the handkerchief was greasy at the time, but he disliked it and threw it on the dining room table.
Maybe Xiao Dazi got it back for him?
Xiao Fenzi put the handkerchief under her nose, sniffed it, and looked at it again - yes, the handkerchief was very clean, without any oil stains. It had been washed carefully and seriously.
Just as Xiao Dazi opened the door curtain and walked in, Xiao Fenzi felt warm in his heart. He raised the veil and smiled at him: "Dazi, thank you, thank you!"
Although Xiao Dazi had already been the eighth-grade eunuch, Xiao Fenzi still habitually called him "Dazi" when she called him.
When Xiao Dazi heard his "Thank you", he looked puzzled.
He stretched out his hand and touched his waist and asked Xiao Fenzi: "Why do you thank me?"
Xiao Fenzi stretched out her hand with a smile and waved the handkerchief towards Xiao Dazi.
Xiao Dazi said "Oh" with a look of realization on his face. He pointed to the outside and laughed softly: "It's not me! It was Yiquan who went to the kitchen to get fruit that day. When she saw you leaving it behind, she took it to wash herself.
After it was dried, it was returned to me."
As he spoke, he sat down on the edge of the bed, pulled up the top of his boots, and said with a smile: "That girl looks timid, but her hands and feet are very diligent. There were still a few doilies in the dining room at that time.
, she also wanted to pull them together and take them to wash, but I said no, alas, we are all slaves serving the master, why should we do this!"
When Xiao Fenzi heard the name Yiquan, she was slightly startled. After a while, she remembered that she was one of the three new palace maids.
That day when he distributed cakes to them, she was the one who ate the most delicious ones.
The little girl's round face, smiling eyes, and swaying bangs all appeared in front of her eyes...
Xiao Fenzi was startled, paused, and put the veil aside.
Xiao Dazi came into the eunuch's duty room, originally looking for something. At this time, he walked around, looked for a few things, and mumbled a few words to himself. He saw Xiao Fenzi sitting aside, not interested.
All he was doing was fiddling with the wick of an oil lamp on the table.
Xiao Dazi stepped forward, stretched out his hand and patted his shoulder gently. Xiao Fenzi was shocked and woke up from his thoughts.
He looked up at Xiao Dazi and said, "What?"
Xiao Dazi looked worried and frowned: "Fenzi, I've been watching you for several days. During this time, you've always been depressed, but is there nothing wrong?"
Xiao Fenzi raised her eyebrows, patted Xiao Dazi's hand on her shoulder, grinned and said, "It's okay."
Xiao Dazi knew that the more he behaved like this, the more trouble he would have - but Xiao Fenzi refused to speak, and he could not pry his mouth open and force him to speak.
Xiao Dazi wanted to explain to him a few words, but he was always clumsy with his tongue and was not a person who could comfort others. He could only walk out. When he reached the door, he stopped.
After a pause, he stretched out his hand to hold the door frame, but did not look back, only sighed.
…
During this period, Yinzhen was very busy with political affairs in the previous dynasty. He often stayed in Qingyan, Jiuzhou, and did not pay attention to the natural paintings for three or four days in a row.
Even so, he continued to give Ji Ling rewards, and people from Jiuzhou Qingyan came over every day, sometimes with food, sometimes with literature and toys, sometimes with Western gadgets, sometimes with paintings and calligraphy——
They were all delicate and delicate paintings of flowers and birds - sometimes, there were papers written by him in the paintings. There were not many words on the papers, they were just words like telling her to eat well. Ji Ling originally thought that
I could receive some love poems or something, but later I realized that I really thought too much.
Fourth Master has such a pragmatic style...
Ji Ling looked at Yinzhen's scrawled handwriting, and the last stroke of the last word almost seemed to fly.
She guessed that Yinzhen took some time off from his busy schedule to write these notes.
As a result, that night, when Ji Ling was being washed by Qixi before going to bed, she suddenly felt something moving in her stomach.
She was startled - this was a strange feeling that she had never experienced since she was pregnant.
"Qixi!"
She immediately grabbed Qixi's arm.
Qixi was also shocked by her master - her first reaction was that the face wash was too hot. Master's skin is so delicate that it's dangerous! Don't burn your face!
She was so frightened that she put the copper basin in her hand on the washstand next to her. She didn't even bother to take the towel. Her hands were dripping with water, so she held Ji Ling's face and looked at it.
Ji Ling grabbed Qixi's hand and held her belly with the other hand, not daring to move. Her face was full of surprise and nervousness, and she said to Qixi: "I just... something seemed to be moving in my stomach! It was the child that was moving!"
Grandma Chen happened to be carrying the bathing clothes in her hands. When she suddenly heard the words of Concubine Chen, she was overjoyed at first, and then almost choked - what does it mean that "something" is moving?
Amitabha!
That's Ryuko, okay?
The fetus in the concubine’s belly finally moved for the first time!
She has experience and knows that a woman's first fetal movement may happen sooner or later, but it usually takes three months. Calculating the body of the concubine, the time is almost the same.
Aunt Chen put the sundries in her hands into Bixue's hands, then came forward to hold Ji Ling's shoulders and back, her eyes seemed to be looking through Ji Ling's belly.
She asked Ji Ling tentatively: "Ms. Chen concubine, how do you feel?"
Ji Ling raised her eyebrows and didn't dare to blink. She even lowered her voice by three minutes for fear of scaring the baby in her belly. She said to Nanny Chen carefully: "It's like a little fish.
tour."
After hearing this, Grandma Chen couldn't help but have a look of disappointment on her face, and asked again: "Master, do you think the young master is kicking and beating?"
Ji Ling shook her head and raised her hand to gesture to Grandma Chen, trying to describe it more accurately - she thought for a long time and said: "That's not true! It's just like a bun rolling around in her stomach."
Nanny Chen nodded, but the others didn’t say much. Qixi and Bixue were nearby. Looking at the expression on Nanny’s face, they also guessed a bit - the master was probably pregnant with the little princess.