At the end of Youshi, as evening approached, the sky gradually became dark.
Liang Jiugong, who was waiting outside the Fengxian Hall, stood beside the large red-painted pillar under the eaves. Hearing the sound of the rain getting quieter, he raised his legs and walked a few steps forward, stretched out his arms and looked out of the eaves with his palms facing up.
Tan, raised his head to look at the dim sky above his head, and found that it was not his imagination, the rain had indeed stopped.
He couldn't help but turn his head and glance at the tightly closed carved wooden door behind him, thinking that the emperor has been in for almost two hours, why hasn't he come out yet? Could something have happened?
The considerate Liang Jiugong frowned slightly, turned around and walked forward uneasily, his hands had just touched the wooden door, thinking that he just walked in lightly to take a look, to see if the emperor was okay. If nothing happened, he quietly
Just exit quietly.
Unexpectedly, before he exerted any force, the wooden door was opened from the inside with a creaking sound. Liang Jiugong was caught off guard and almost tripped over the threshold and bumped into the emperor who was about to come out.
"Liang Jiugong, what are you planning to do?"
Kangxi looked at Liang Jiugong moving and twisting like a wall-climbing tiger, holding on to the copper door knocker with both hands and hanging on the door to prevent him from falling. The red tassel hat he was wearing was also tilted by a stagger.
He fell to one side and blocked half of his face. He didn't have the stability and calmness of the eunuch in charge of Qianqing Palace in the past. He couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth slightly and looked at him sideways.
"Hehehe, Your Majesty, aren't you just thinking that it's getting dark soon, so I want to see if you are hungry?"
Liang Jiugong smiled dryly and stood silently against the carved door, then smiled apologetically at Kangxi.
Kangxi had something on his mind, so he stopped looking at the jokes of his confidant eunuch and said to him quietly:
"Let's go to Cining Palace in the west. I'll go and pay my respects to Madam Huang."
As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his legs, straightened his back, walked around Liang Jiugong, and strode down the slippery steps. Wearing blue-black boots embroidered with dragon patterns, he also stepped on the palace
On the wet bluestone floor.
Seeing this, Liang Jiugong hurriedly raised his hand to straighten the hat on his head, leaned over slightly and picked up the oil-paper umbrella that was leaning against the wall and then hurriedly chased after Kangxi.
The steps of the master and the servant were long and fast, causing a lot of splashes when their feet landed together.
About two-quarters of an hour later, as soon as Kangxi and Liang Jiugong walked into Cining Gate, they heard the chirping sounds of children coming from far away in the hall.
When he crossed the threshold and entered the hall, he saw that the place was extremely lively.
Xiaowu, who is about to turn five and is wearing an indigo dress and is chubby all over, and Xiaoliu, who is four years old and wearing a light yellow dress, is taking off his shoes and sitting cross-legged by the east wall in white socks.
Playing chess on the kang.
Ke Jing, who was about to turn six years old and was wearing a light pink palace dress with a small bun on her hair, leaned against the wall with her legs crossed, sitting next to the brothers and flipping through a blue-sealed book.
On the long white wool carpet spread under the kang, three chubby little breast dumplings were "placed" sitting, lying or squatting.
The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager, dressed in comfortable dark uniforms, were sitting next to each other on the soft couch at the top of the hall, holding milk tea in their hands and talking and laughing with Aunt Suma and Aunt Gui who were standing beside them.
The Queen Mother's keen eyes were the first to see Kangxi, who was wearing a black uniform embroidered with a five-clawed golden dragon. She couldn't help but asked in surprise:
"Xuan Ye, why are you here at this time?"
Hearing the Queen Mother's voice, everyone turned their attention to the door.
When Xiaowu, Xiaoliu and Ke Jing saw Kangxi, they immediately pressed their hands on the kang surface and moved their bodies to the edge of the kang. While bending down to put on their shoes, they shouted "Khan Ama!"
The three little dumplings who were sitting on the wool carpet also turned their heads and looked at the door.
Little Thirteen, who was sitting on the carpet wearing a royal blue dress, and Little Twelve, who was one and a half years old and was squatting on the carpet, wearing a cyan dress. The former turned over and grinned happily.
He quickly crawled towards the door on his hands and knees. The latter stood up from the carpet with two short legs, hesitating whether to step forward.
Lying flat on the carpet with his eyes closed and wearing red clothes, Little Fourteen felt his brother Thirteen who was sitting next to him crawling away. He opened his big eyes lazily and glanced at the door. After seeing their Khan Ama, he
His big black eyes lit up and his little body turned over neatly with a "swish" sound.
Even though he was a few breaths slower than Little Thirteen, Little Fourteen still relied on his strong physique and flexible short and fat limbs to hug Kangxi's calves left and right at the same time as Little Thirteen.
Kangxi had just leaned over to salute the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager who were sitting on the soft couch. The next moment, he felt his body sink. When he lowered his head, he saw that the two looked exactly the same, with eye-catching inlays on their necks.
The little son wearing a ruby gold collar was looking up at him with a smile on his furry little head.
The twins who are almost ten months old, because the imperial concubine feeds them well on weekdays and is not picky about what she feeds them, are simply fat. They are covered with soft milk fat and already weigh more than ten kilograms.
The two little babies stretched out their short arms like koalas and hugged Kangxi's calf tightly, as if they had a sandbag filled with water tied to each of his left and right legs. Kangxi took a tentative step forward and found that he was walking
The journey was too difficult, so I had no choice but to lean down and hug the twins with one arm at a time.
For a moment, the two brothers were suspended in the air and their vision was raised. You looked at me and I looked at you. Then they simultaneously reached out to touch the prickly green-black stubble above Kangxi's lips, grinning like two little idiots.
He smiled "giggle" with his little white baby teeth exposed.
"Khan Ama, why are you here?"
Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu, who put on their shoes and ran side by side, raised their little heads and asked. Ke Jing was holding his right hand and walking unsteadily, and Xiao Twelve, who was slightly shy, came at the end.
When Kangxi saw his cute and well-behaved son and daughters, his depressed mood improved a lot, and he was about to answer the questions of Xiao Yinqi and Xiao Yinzuo.
The Queen Mother, who was sitting at the top, caught a glimpse of Little Fourteen below, as if she had discovered something new. She raised her chubby left hand and touched the short black hair on her round head, and then her big eyes were full of surprise.
He stretched out his right hand to pull the long braid on the back of Kangxi's head. He quickly opened his mouth to block the words in Kangxi's mouth, and shouted with a smile:
"Xuan Ye, come quickly and sit down. You have been busy with government affairs in Qianqing Palace for a whole day. What if your hands are soft and you accidentally slip and throw down the two great-grandchildren of the Ai family?"
Kangxi was trying hard to back up and raise his head to avoid the "devil's claw" extended by his youngest son. When he first heard the first half of the Queen Mother's words, he felt that his mother-in-law felt sorry for him because he was tired after a busy day. Only in the second half of the sentence did he realize that the old lady was worried about her little great-grandchildren. She couldn't help but stiffen, feeling that after the twins were born, his status in Cining Palace, Shoukang Palace and Chuxiu Palace seemed to have dropped a lot out of thin air. .
"Ah! Puff!"
Little Thirteen also realized that the naughty Brother Fourteen was full of curiosity and wanted to know why Khan Amma had braids on her head, but he didn't, so he wanted to pull the braids on the back of Khan Amma's head to see if it was true. Busy and serious, with a chubby white face, he stretched out his right hand and "snapped" Xiao Shisi's chubby little paws, and "taught" him with a sweet voice.
"Ah~"
Little Fourteen is getting older, and his strength is getting stronger. He is not yet one year old, and he still cannot control his powers well. Occasionally, he will still damage things accidentally. Whenever he makes a mistake, he will be punished immediately by his inseparable brother Thirteen. "Lesson" has been photographed as a conditioned reflex by Xiao Yinxiang.
Knowing that Brother Thirteen would not let him pull Khan's braid, Little Fourteen obediently stretched out his right hand, then lowered his head to separate the red rope entangled with the gold collar, and put the wooden pacifier hanging on it in his mouth Inside, he started sucking it up with glistening saliva flowing out of his mouth.
Kangxi saw the reactions of his two youngest sons and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Even when Baocheng was a child, he didn't dare to reach out and pull out his braid or pull out his beard. However, Xiaosi brought with him from his mother's womb the spirit of "no fear of heaven and no fear of earth". What's rare is that although He was able to listen to his biological brother's words. Xiao Shisan's stability and calmness seemed to be natural. The two brothers obviously shared the same face, but their personalities were so different.
He held his two little sons tightly in his arms, who were grinding their baby teeth with their pacifiers. He called his three sons and his little daughter who were standing on the ground and walked to the two palaces. The Queen Mother sat down on Liang Jiugong's bed in an iron-armed posture. On the open carved armchair, the twins occupied one thigh on each side, leaning on their Khan's arms.
"Mother Huang, why are Little Thirteen and Little Fourteen also in Cining Palace?"
After Kangxi settled down, he raised his head and looked at the Empress Dowager sitting on the soft couch with confusion and asked.
Liang Jiugong, who was standing behind Kangxi, saw La Aunt Suma approaching with a cup of good Yuqian Longjing on a mahogany tray. He put a warm smile on his face and smiled at La Aunt Suma and raised his arm. He reached out and took the warm tea cup on the tray, then carefully placed it on the small round table with high legs to Kangxi's right, and then stood at his original position again, making a competent background.
Before the Empress Dowager could speak, Ke Jing, who was standing on the left side of Kangxi, took out a soft white handkerchief from his arms, bent down slightly and wiped the saliva from the corners of the twins' mouths, and replied with a smile:
"Khan Ama, tomorrow is the day when the Princess Academy starts. Madam Jing said that during the summer vacation next year, the eldest sister and the eldest cousin will graduate and stay as teaching assistants in the North Fifth Academy, so today I am taking my sisters with me to Chu Xiu The palace was busy with the start of school. Little Thirteen and Little Fourteen were too noisy there, so they were sent over by the nannies in a double-decker stroller early in the morning. Unexpectedly, it rained heavily and they were left here unable to return. Gone."
"Hahahahahaha, it turns out that's the case. Look at you two monkeys, you are also disliked by your mother-in-law!"
Taking advantage of the fact that the twins were too young to understand the teasing words, Kangxi said "mockingly" with the corners of his mouth raised to the two younger sons sitting on his lap.
The fourth sister gently wiped away the drool hanging from the corners of the twins' mouths. They raised their heads and glanced at Kangxi cheerfully, and then continued to suck the pacifier in their mouths.
Seeing this harmonious scene, the Queen Mother was very happy and asked with a smile:
"Xuan Ye, you haven't answered your mother-in-law's question just now. What's the matter with you coming here at this time?"
When Kangxi heard this, he hugged the twins' small bodies with his two long arms for a moment, then made a calm look, turned his eyes to the empress dowagers of the two palaces, curled his lips and said with a smile:
"Huang Ma, Huang Niang, now thanks to the blessings of my ancestors and ancestors, I have successfully defeated the three feudal lords and taken back the treasure island. I have ascended the throne at a young age. It has been twenty-two years so far.
Well, the autumn air is crisp in September
It's a good day for hiking. I plan to take you two, the imperial concubine and the children to Wutai Mountain to pray for the Qing Dynasty. At the same time, I will go to see the beautiful autumn scenery in the mountains and relax. I don't know what you think.
how?"
After hearing Kangxi's words, the three eldest children, Xiao Wu, Xiao Liu and Ke Jing, instantly became happy when they understood that they were going out to play in the palace. Xiao Wu pouted his swollen belly and jumped up and down excitedly.
, the one-and-a-half-year-old Xiao Twelve was ignorant. He looked at his brothers and sisters laughing. Although the twins didn’t know what Khan Amma meant, they were also clever enough to cheer and pat the two little ones.
Flesh hands.
The expression on the Empress Dowager's face suddenly became complicated. She was surprised, happy, angry, and afraid, as if she had overturned the palette. She was so confused.