It’s another birthday, but it hasn’t snowed yet.
By this calculation, I am already sixteen years old.
Looking at myself in the mirror, my appearance doesn't seem to have changed much.
Isn't it like a girl has changed at age 18?
Why does she always look like a child?
Zhu Rui was immersed in random thoughts.
There was a "dong dong" knock on the door.
He got up and opened the door, but only found a small box next to the door.
Zhu Rui bent down and picked up the box.
The gold-painted enamelware looked very delicate.
After closing the door, Zhu Rui opened the lid and found a gold pocket watch lying quietly inside.
When he opened the cover, the hands of the watch were ticking happily.
There was a note pressed under the pocket watch, with only three words: Come to me.
Zhu Rui can't read calligraphy.
She often hears people say that this is someone's handwriting, but she never recognizes it.
Who left this note at the moment?
Zhu Rui first thought of Brother Thirteen, but immediately gave up the idea.
This kind of mysterious technique was not the style of Brother Thirteen.
Then there are only eight Belles.
Thinking of this, Zhu Rui is 80% sure.
But Zhu Rui immediately felt resentful.
She remembered that she had read many novels back then.
The heroine in the novel usually received an anonymous birthday gift.
She would think about it over and over again, thinking of sixty or seventy people, but in the end she still couldn't guess who gave the gift.
Yes, when I got here, I only had two choices for me to guess, and my guess was accurate.
Sure enough, there was a gap between the novel and reality.
The box was not big, and the bamboo baskets were put into the sleeves.
After leaving the yard, I randomly grabbed a boy and asked him where Babeile was.
The boy was resting in the study.
After groping for a while, Zhu Rui found his way to the study room.
After all, he had only been in Changchun Garden for a few days, and he was still a little unfamiliar with the layout here.
At this time, Concubine Liang was most likely in the study.
Zhu Rui could not go there directly, so she stopped a young maid and asked where Aunt Huashu was.
The maid said that she was waiting on Concubine Liang in her room.
Zhu Rui then went to the study with confidence.
Seeing Ming Quan waiting outside, Zhu Rui calmed down and walked over and said: "Hello, sir, is Master Ba inside?"
Mingquan returned the greeting and said, "I'm just inside.
Girl, please go in."
Saying "Thank you", he opened the curtain and entered the house.
Ba Beile was sitting behind the desk reading, and looking at the way he was reading, Zhu Rui suddenly thought of Kangxi, who was also sitting upright like this, without any ambiguity.
Ba Beile saw Zhu Rui coming in, closed the book, and smiled as she walked over.
The bamboo stick stood up and saluted: "My slave, please pay your respects to the Eighth Master."
Ba Beile called out and waved to Zhu Rui to come closer.
Seeing Zhu Rui standing beside the desk, he said: "Where is the thing?"
The bamboo basket took out the small enamel box from his sleeve and handed it to Babeile.
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Ba Beile took it, took out the pocket watch, and motioned to Zhu Rui: "This is a thing from the West, used to tell the time.
It will be much more convenient if you carry it with you on weekdays."
As he said, he put it on Opening the watch cover, Tongzhu Rui said, "Can you read it?"
Zhu Rui didn't dare to say yes, so he just shook his head.
Ba Beile said: "It's okay, come here and I'll teach you."
Zhu Rui came closer and watched Ba Beile carefully explain the use of the pocket watch, pretending to be asking for advice humbly.
"Do you understand?"
Babeile asked softly.
Zhu Rui nodded.
"What time is it now?"
Babele asked with a smile.
"It's the right moment."
Zhu Rui smiled back at him.
Ba Beile said with satisfaction: "It seems that he really knows how to do it.
Put it away."
Ba Beile packed the pocket watch and handed it to Zhu Rui.
The bamboo basket took the small box, which was a blessing to the body.
The person holding the box had short hands.
The bamboo basket said sweetly: "Thank you, Master Eight, for the reward."
Ba Beile never thought that a small pocket watch would bring Zhu Rui's smiling face, and her heart became clear for no reason.
She smiled and said: "Get up, I have told my mother to give you a day off and go and play with your little sisters." ”
Zhu Rui was startled and said: "Give me a day off."
Ba Beile looked at Zhu Rui like this and said with a smile: "How can anyone let the birthday girl be on duty?"
Only then did Zhu Rui realize.
He felt a little guilty for his previous slander against Ba Beile, and whispered: "There is no need to report such a trivial matter to the master."
Ba Beile stood up and looked at the expression of her little daughter exposed by Zhu Rui.
After a long time, she finally rubbed her head and sighed: "She is a grown up girl."
Zhu Rui came out of the study and happened to meet Aunt Hua Shu.
Aunt Hua Shu said that the good concubine was looking for her.
After hearing this, Zhu Rui and Hua Shu hurriedly went to Liang Concubine's room.
When they entered, Liang Concubine was leaning on the imperial concubine's couch, listening to what the maid on the side was saying to her.
Every time he saw Liang Fei, Zhu Ji felt that she had a kind of soft and boneless beauty, like the fluttering fairy in the ink paintings of the Song Dynasty, who would fall apart if she couldn't be caught.
Zhu Rui greeted Liang Fei and stood aside obediently.
Liang Concubine stood up and took Zhu Rui's hand and walked all the way to the inner room.
On Liang Concubine's bed, there was an aqua blue flag dress with purple teeth embroidered with orchids, which was very eye-catching.
Liang Fei said to Zhu Rui: "Try it on and try it on."
Zhu Rui was admiring the clothes when Liang Fei unexpectedly said, "I'm a slave."
Liang Fei nodded with a smile.
"Why does this make me dare not wear bamboo baskets?
Although I can't tell what the material is, the embroidery on the clothes is a simple pattern, but the stitch layout is full of skill."
Although Zhu Rui had only been in the palace for two years, such a palace outfit was enough even for an ordinary nobleman.
"Why shouldn't the little girl wear such bright colors?
Besides, this is what I reward you for.
You are afraid that others will say it."
Concubine Liang leaned over and lifted up the flag dress and handed it to the bamboo basket.
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"Master, this slave cannot bear this."
Zhu Rui still declined.
"The birthday girl is the oldest, Hua Shu, go and help change the bamboo baskets."
Liang Fei ordered with a smile.
Zhu Rui had no choice but to go behind the screen and put on new clothes.
When she returned to Liang Fei, Liang Fei looked at the bamboo basket carefully, nodded and said, "You really have a good eye."
Then she got up and walked to the dressing table, opened several jewelry boxes and picked out a set of red stamens and turquoise.
Wearing a diamond flower headdress, he waved to Zhu Rui, "Come."
Zhu Rui also walked to the dressing table, not knowing what Liang Fei was going to do.
"Sit here."
Concubine Liang sat the bamboo basket in front of the dressing table and said happily, "comb her hair again and put on this set of jewelry."
Zhu Rui felt like she was like a Barbie doll at the moment, and Liang Fei was the one who dressed her up, just like she did when she was a child.
Now that he had put on his clothes, Zhu Rui knew that there was nothing he could do to resist, so he simply sat in front of the makeup mirror, letting Hua Shu spread out his hair and then put it back together.
"Master has good taste.
Our bamboo baskets are already small.
With this set of jewelry, I'm afraid some people will believe us if we say they are eleven or two."
Hua Shu looked at the bamboo baskets and said with a smile.
Liang Fei was also watching from the side, and she liked it in her heart.
She said: "As I get older, I like to see these young girls looking pretty.
Hua Shu, I will put some rouge on them to add some joy."
Hua Shu said yes, put rouge on the bamboo paper, and touched her lips.
"It's ready."
Hua Shu said.
"Send it to me quickly," Liangfei said.
Zhu Rui turned around and smiled faintly at Concubine Liang.
Concubine Liang was in a trance for a while, seeing too many princesses in the palace.
This girl's magnanimity made people feel that she suppressed all the princesses in the palace.
I heard that although her mother is a Beijing official, she is not well-known.
I don’t know how she raised such a girl.
Her name is Zhu Rui, but she has the charm of peony in her.
Can Xi’er really be able to break it?
Liang Fei smiled lightly and said: "I have been in the palace for a long time, but I have never asked you how old you are."
Zhu Rui replied softly: "After today, I am already sixteen years old."
"Oh, she is so big.
She is still a little girl.
I really can't tell."
Liang Fei said in surprise.
Zhu Rui lowered his head and smiled, saying: "Master forgot, this slave has a small birthday and is only two years old."
Hearing this, Liang Fei suddenly said: "But my memory is useless.
You are born in a young year, so you don't want to be two years old."
After chatting for a while, Zhu Rui left Liang Fei's room.
After returning to the house, Zhu Rui wanted to quickly change his clothes and wash off his makeup, but he saw Xiao Dizi coming next to his thirteenth brother.
Xiaodizi, whose real name is Yang Di.
Originally, the Thirteenth Brother always called him Xiaodizi.
Zhuji joked that the Thirteenth Brother played the flute so well, so he simply changed the word "Di" in Xiaodizi to " "Flute" Come on, it suits the situation.
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Unexpectedly, before the thirteenth brother opened his mouth, little Dizi himself smiled happily and thanked Zhu Rui profusely, and went on to change his name to a better one.
Seeing him like this, the Thirteenth Brother and Zhu Rui couldn't stop laughing.
The Thirteenth Brother even pretended to kick the little flute and spat: "You are the only slave with eyesight."
Xiao Dizi was kicked, but he was still laughing and talking to Brother Thirteen.
The bamboo flute and the little flute asked: "What's the matter?"
Xiao Dizi gave Zhu Rui a thousand dollars and said, "The Thirteenth Master said that he has something interesting for the girl to see.
He told the girl to follow him over."
Zhu Rui hesitated for a moment and said, "Can you wait for me to change my clothes?"
The little flute monkey joked: "Sister Rui'er, you are so beautiful in your outfit that you look like a fairy from that day.
Let me see it."
Before Xiao Dizi could finish what he said, Zhu Rui spat: "You can just say whatever you want.
I'll tell Master Thirteen and see how I punish you."
Little Dizi hurriedly begged for mercy and said with a playful look on his face, "Good sister, Little Dizi doesn't want you to talk nonsense.
Think about it, even though we are in the garden now and it is the end of the year, you have not let go of your studies.
Besides, I've recently taken on another errand.
My sister is the most sensible person, you see."
Seeing that what he said made sense, Zhu Rui said, "In that case, let's go."
Zhu Rui hurriedly wiped his lipstick and followed the little flute out the door.
Little Dizi kept saying "sister" with a smile, which made Zhului coax her and couldn't help but spit at him.
Zhu Rui is a road nerd.
He followed the little flute all the way.
Looking at the unfamiliar environment, Zhu Rui couldn't help but look around.
No wonder Kangxi spent most of the year coming here.
It was really a good place, even though it was winter. , but there is also a special scenery inside.
"Sister, we're here now."
Little Dizi stopped and said, "Sister, please wait here, Master Thirteen will be here soon."
Zhu Rui nodded, and Xiao Dizi left first.
Zhu Rui secretly thought, this Thirteenth Brother is the one who invites people, but he is nowhere to be seen this time.
As we were walking all the way, we felt something was wrong, but where exactly was it?
Zhu Ji couldn't figure it out for a moment, so he just walked and stopped based on his feelings.
After turning around the bamboo forest, there was a winding lotus pond.
Zhu Rui asked what the difference was, and then he realized that Xiao Dizi had brought him all the way here, and the temperature was getting higher and higher.
When he got here, it didn't feel like winter.
Think again about the bamboo forest, the flowers and plants, how they look like winter.
And the jade belt with lotus flowers floating in front of me completely awakens the bamboo basket.
Walking up the stone bridge built from the river bank, the texture of the white marble exudes solemnity and elegance, and the railings are very clean, not even a trace of carving can be found.
Standing at the highest point of the stone bridge, Zhu Ji had a clear view of his surroundings.
Under the bridge was a strip of running water, with a wide surface and countless lotus flowers floating in it.
What's even better is that there is a narrow verandah hidden among the lotus bushes.
You can't find it unless you look carefully.
On the other side of the river is a pavilion, which looks indistinguishable from the one seen in the Forbidden City.
It's just that Zhu Rui never understood why it was so much warmer here than elsewhere, so that the lotus could bloom in a pond even in winter.
After standing here for a while wearing a winter coat, glistening beads of sweat formed on the tip of my nose.
After taking off the veil, I was just about to wipe away my sweat when I heard someone calling me from behind.
Looking back, Brother Thirteen had already appeared where he was standing just now.
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The bamboo basket raised her smile unconsciously, and the gentle breeze blew up, lifting the corners of her clothes.
Inadvertently, the veil in his hand blew off and fell with the wind.
He stretched out his hand to grab the bamboo basket, but missed it, so he just ignored it.
Just throw it away.
If you lose a handkerchief, just throw it away.
When he turned around again, Brother Thirteen was already standing behind him and said, "Do you want to find someone to come back?"
Zhu Rui shook his head and said with a smile, "No need."
Seeing that Brother Thirteen was just staring at him without speaking, Zhu Rui smiled and joked: "Why are you looking at me all the time?
Could it be that we haven't seen each other for a long time and you don't recognize me when we meet again?"
The thirteenth brother did not refute her as usual, he just smiled and said: "You girl, you are another year older."
Zhu Rui smiled and said: "Why, if you don't allow me to grow up, will I still be a baby girl and let you bully me?"
Brother Thirteen smiled and pulled her off the bridge and into the pavilion, saying: "In the past two years, I didn't know who was bullied by whom every time."
This is true.
At that time, it seemed that the Thirteenth Prince couldn't praise him every time.
But now that he is older and the Thirteenth Prince has even married, it is even more difficult for him to speak against him.
Zhu Rui thought so in his heart, but said: "Where is your good stuff?
Don't tell me.
I came here specifically to hear you complain about the history of blood and tears in your childhood."
The thirteenth elder brother smiled helplessly and said: "You have seen everything, why do you come with me to ask for something?"
"Look, what did you see?"
Zhu Rui stared, and when he saw the thirteenth brother nurturing his mouth towards the lotus pond, he suddenly said, "You brought me here to see the lotus leaves in the winter."
Brother Thirteen nodded and said: "I just had something to do and I couldn't get away.
I didn't want you to find it yourself and take the lead."
Zhu Rui smiled nonchalantly and said: "What does it matter?
You brought me here anyway.
Otherwise, how would I know there is such a wonderful thing?
The gifts you give always satisfy me.
If I don't return the gift, wouldn't it be justified?"
"With that said, Zhu Rui ran to the shore, turned around and smiled at Brother Thirteen, then ducked into the lotus bushes.
This lotus bush blooms extremely high.
I think it was imitated the beautiful scenery of the Jiangnan water town, and the lotus seeds were removed and planted.
The thirteenth brother was wondering what the bamboo basket was doing, and wanted to follow her in to see what was going on.
Unexpectedly, singing came out of the lotus pond.
"Next to the lotus-picking girl in the Ruoye River, she laughs and talks to each other across the lotus.
The sun shines brightly on the water, and the fragrant fragrance floats in her arms in the air.
Who is wandering around on the bank?
There are three, three, and five figures reflecting the weeping poplars, and the purple lilies hiss into the fallen flowers.
I feel heartbroken when I see this spider."
Along with the singing, there are also little faces of Zhu Ji emerging from everywhere, sometimes playful, sometimes cheerful, sometimes delicate, sometimes bright.
Reflecting the green leaves and red lotus, Thirteenth Brother seems to be in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.
It is like a blockbuster movie.
Large emerald green lotus leaves sway gently in the wind, in the pond , the little girl from the south of the Yangtze River in new clothes rode an orchid boat to and fro under the lotus pods, singing unknown Jiangnan tunes while picking up the plump and tender new lotus seeds in a pair of slender hands.
They were delicate, sweet and waxy. , Shuiling is so shy that people can’t help but want to peek in to see what’s going on.
When the song sounded again, Brother Thirteen took the flute behind him and searched for the song unconsciously, trying to find the blue color while harmonizing with the tune.
But several times, I seemed to have spotted a piece of clothing, but when I looked for it again, I found it was nowhere to be seen.
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Only the singing voice remained unbroken and came from another place.
For a moment, the shadows were blurry and illusory, and the sound like the new cry of a baby swallow echoed in the pond full of green lotus accompanied by the light and melodious sound of the flute, lingering and ethereal, as if it were not the world.
Suddenly, the singing stopped.
The thirteenth brother was still intoxicated.
After a while, he thought of looking for bamboo baskets, but he couldn't see anything because of the tall lotus leaves.
He hurriedly lowered his voice and shouted: "Yu'er, Yu'er, where are you from?"
After shouting for a long time, he didn't see Zhu Rui replying to him.
Although he knew nothing would happen, Brother Thirteen's heart still sank involuntarily.
He didn't care about the pain from the lotus leaf hitting his face.
Try harder to push aside the obstacles in front of you.
Suddenly a burst of laughter was heard: "Thirteenth Master, what treasure has been lost?
I found it in such a hurry that I didn't even know how to hide after being slapped in the face by a lotus leaf."
Hearing the sound of bamboo baskets, Brother Thirteen felt relieved.
He also heard her teasing him, so he couldn't help but stiffen his voice and said: "Don't come out yet."
He saw a water-blue shadow pop out, bringing with it the fragrance of lotus leaves.
The smiling face was so bright that it hurt his eyes, but he didn't dare to blink, for fear that she would disappear in the light and shadow.
Brother Thirteen said: "You just know how to fool around.
If you fall into the river, I won't catch you."
Zhu Rui was in a good mood and didn't argue with him.
He smiled and said, "I didn't hear the sound of water.
How could I fall into the water?
Even if I fell in, I know how to swim, so what's wrong with me?
Okay."
"Hey, stop frowning, we just got married and we are already an old man."
Zhu Rui reached out to stroke the frowning brows of the Thirteenth Brother and smiled heartily.
Brother Thirteen did not stop her, but his eyes darkened.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, Zhu Rui hurriedly apologized and said: "There will be no more trouble in the future.
Don't be angry.
I just saw this lotus in the pond and was happy for a while, so I made a fuss for a while.
I will be very careful in the future."
Seeing Zhu Rui put her hands on her chin, her eyes full of fawning begging, and her cheeks naturally and healthily rosy due to the running just now, Brother Thirteen suddenly wanted to pinch her face.
After lifting it up, I realized how frivolous this move was.
Before he stopped raising his hand, Brother Thirteen gave Zhu Rui a "shudder" and said, "I just praised you for growing into a big girl.
You are so devoid of restraint.
Let's go out."
Seeing Brother Thirteen's expression softening, Zhu Rui suddenly broke out into a big smile, responded sweetly, and followed Brother Thirteen ashore.
Zhu Rui was the first to emerge from the lotus bushes, and saw a figure from behind not far away, standing with his hands behind his back, which seemed familiar.
At this moment, the man seemed to sigh, turned his head, and both of them were stunned.
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