Opposite the elder brother's office is the Imperial Pharmacy, and the imperial doctors are on duty in the Medicine King's Hall to the north of the Imperial Pharmacy. If the princes feel a little uncomfortable, the servants around them often go around to grab medicine.
After the incident in the Old Summer Palace, the access control of the elder brother's house has become more and more strict. The row of houses outside the second door is guarded by guards, and there are people on duty patrolling day and night.
Be careful with fire, and since then it has become a four-word warning hanging over the head of every guard.
In the elder brother's office, Hongxin began to work hard, trying harder to make up for the missed reading time due to injury. Some of the haha beads were replaced with new ones. At this time, he was studying with his elder brother, and so were all of them.
It is impossible for a half-grown child to say that he has no interest in having fun.
But when they saw the serious expression on Brother Six's face, they all had no choice but to suppress their smiles and sit upright.
Hongxin waved them all to go out and play.
Naturally, a few haha beads wouldn’t dare.
Hong Xin was a little impatient and repeated it again. Seeing that what Sixth Brother said was true, several people couldn't help but look at each other.
I don’t know who took the lead first, but all the young people put down their books one by one.
They didn't dare to make too much noise when they went out, so a few people ran to the front yard to catch the cicadas.
It was too hot in August, and it rained from time to time. No matter how clean and dry my brother's place was, after all, it was not far from the Neijin River, but there were still a lot of mosquitoes flying over.
The air is also very humid.
In the evening sunset, several haha beads were covered in sweat at every turn. The cicada's voice didn't stop, and with each sound, the forest became farther and farther away.
Haha, the beads were still restrained at first, but later the little eunuchs found a long bamboo pole and a small bucket and brought them to them, and the young boys let them go.
The wings of a newly molted cicada are limp and unable to fly. As long as they are lightly poked with a stick, they will fall off immediately.
In my brother's place, there are many small round holes on the ground under the trees in the courtyard. It is easy to catch them by opening the holes with branches and pulling the cicada's two big paws.
This unchallenging method of catching is disliked by teenagers.
The cicadas that are calling in the trees are the most interesting to catch.
The little eunuchs had already kneaded a large piece of dough and washed it vigorously in water. In the end, only the gluten was left. If you touch it with your hands, it is so sticky that it is difficult to shake it off.
Stick the dough on one end of the long pole, hold up the pole with a few haha beads, stretch it up to the tall tree, and approach the cicada quietly.
As soon as the wings were touched, some cicadas reacted slowly, flapping and screaming. The wings were firmly stuck to the pole and could not be freed, and the long pole kept vibrating.
Some of them reacted faster, but they panicked and did not fly away in time. Instead, they rushed downwards and fell to a height that people could reach. The little eunuchs who were enjoying themselves suddenly stretched out their hands and covered them.
The cicadas caught were put into an iron bucket. The iron bucket was covered with a fine mesh cloth, which was breathable but the cicadas could not fly out and could only spin around anxiously inside.
Hongxin looked at the book and passed page by page.
He was very attentive in class, reading, riding and shooting, and concentrated on one thing when doing it. But at this moment, he was distracted for the rare time. His eyes were just staring at the book in a daze, but his mind was not on the book.
The little eunuch next to him gently changed a cup of tea for him and called out again, "Sixth Brother?"
Hongxin ignored it.
His thoughts drifted back to what Huang Ama said - "Don't worry, Huang Ama is waiting for you to get better!"
Amma, wait for me.
wait for me!
Hongxin straightened her back and said silently in her heart.
In the courtyard, the boys were so excited to stick to the cicadas that they rolled up their sleeves one by one, exposing their wrists. Their heads were covered with sweat, their hands were covered with dried tree chips and grass leaves, and their heads were also covered with leaves. There were also people.
I caught other colorful and weird bugs on the tree, held them in my hands and ran away.
The little eunuchs were afraid that the bugs were poisonous, so they chased after them and said in a low voice, this kind of bugs cannot be sent to Brother Six to offer treasures - dangerous!
Haha, the beads were having fun when suddenly they elbowed each other and stood still.
Brother Six came out of the study.
Hongxin stood on the steps with her hands behind her back.
His brows and eyes were very much like Yinzhen's, and even more so when his face was expressionless. At this time, he had handsome brows, a yellow belt hanging from his waist, and a straight back. Although he was young, the wind blew the corners of his clothes gently fluttering, and his pair of clear eyes
Jing's eyes glanced over, showing a graceful demeanor
Haha, all the beads became quiet.
The cicadas in the iron bucket screamed even more fiercely—the cicadas in the iron bucket screamed like a chorus, but they happened to be gathered in the same small bucket. The echoes echoed back, and the sound was simply a headache.
"Relax, relax, and continue!" Hongxin spoke.
A few haha beads looked at each other for a few times, and they were a little embarrassed for a while. The two children there were new here, so they didn't dare to say anything more, they just looked at the looks of their friends.
The leader, Haha Zhuzi, took a bold step forward and asked with a smile: "Brother Six has been reading for a day, how about..."
Hongxin stood on the steps and cut off the rest of his words neatly: "No need, you play while I watch."
He said he would look at it - he really meant he would look at it.
After a while, the eunuchs had moved the chairs out of the back room and placed them next to the red pillars in the corridor, without getting any sunlight.
Hongxin sat down.
The summer wind blows through the entire Forbidden City, bringing only a slight flow of slowly warm and humid air.
The little eunuchs poured the herbal tea again, and Hongxin took a sip. Remembering E Niang's usual instructions to drink hot tea, otherwise it would hurt his stomach, he ordered the tea to be taken away and replaced with hot tea.
The highest point of the tree was fluttering in the wind, and the green shade was thick and green. Only then did you get frightened, and fluttered its wings and flew to the highest point.
That cicada was particularly shrewd, had jet-like wings, and was huge. Many people had noticed it just now, but no one could catch it.
Haha, the beads couldn't stick, so someone encouraged them to climb up with the trunk of the tree. When they were almost a person's height above the ground, they stretched out their hands and held up the long pole to stick the beads.
All the boys held their breath and concentrated.
Na Zhi flew to the highest point for a while and had already relaxed his vigilance. He had no idea that the danger behind him was suddenly approaching.
By the time you react, it's already too late.
The moist dough clings tightly to its wings.
Nahaha Pearl succeeded in one move, raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his face, and threw the pole to his companion.
The boys below all cheered and shouted. They couldn't control their voices at once, and they went out in joy, spreading to the other side of the elder brother's place.
In the fourth elder brother's courtyard.
Hongli had just come back from outside. The weather was too hot and he was covered in sweat whenever he walked around.
Si Fujin, who had a childish look on his face and smiled, had just come out to welcome him. Before he could say hello to him, he heard the movement from the sixth elder brother's side.
"What happened?"
Hongli and Si Fujin entered the room, raised their hands, and asked Fujin to help him change clothes.
Not long after, the little eunuch who ran out came back and said with a smile: "As for the fourth elder brother, it was the sixth elder brother and his people who were sticking to the cicada! It was so lively!"
