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The man looked to be in his early fifties, his face had traces of time, his eyes showed the determination and strength of a military general, his back was straight, and he had an obvious soldier's character.

"Grandson pays respects to the emperor's grandmother." The two quickly glanced at the man, and then saluted the empress dowager.

"Slave Aliha Batu see Five Baylor Six Baylor."

The two of them naturally knew each other better, the commander of the guard army with the red flag, was the first-class bodyguard next to the late emperor when he was young, and later made military achievements in the Sanfan Rebellion, and then served in the Ministry of War. After all, the commander of the Eight Banners Guards is the emperor's bodyguard, something ordinary people can't do.

"Master Aliha, I'm sorry, I didn't expect to see you here." Yin Qi said curiously.

"Batu had some friendship with the Ai family when they were young, and this time the southern tour is the guard commander of the Ai family. Seeing that there is nothing to do today, let him come and chat with the Ai family to relieve boredom. But you are here, Batu You can retreat first." The Empress Dowager smiled and Batu ordered her to retreat.

The two of them were not surprised when they heard the words. It was normal for the first-class bodyguards around the late emperor to meet the empress dowager, so the two of them only regarded this as a small episode and quickly forgot about it.

"Emperor Grandmother, I found something delicious to honor today... Ah, who is one step ahead of me? It's really abominable." Yin Qi was about to present the treasure, but his eyes saw several plates of snacks on the stone table in front of the Empress Dowager , the appearance is very familiar, isn't it just the food box in his hand!

"You little greedy cat, you don't do your job all day long, be careful what Huang Ama says about you." The empress dowager smiled at the deliberate annoyance on his face, and patted him with a loving expression.

"Grandson is showing filial piety to you. Why is he not doing his job properly? The words of the emperor's grandmother make people sad." Yinqi has always been not stingy with playing tricks and amusing in front of the empress dowager, and his eyes and expressions are full of sincere feelings. You can feel it on the side, and you can't help but have a touch of tenderness in your eyes.

"You fifth beile, I really don't know how Yinzhi can bear you." The empress dowager turned her head to look at Yinzhi, just in time to see the tenderness in his eyes. She knows that Yinqi and Yinzhi have had a good relationship since they were young, but many things will change when they grow up. Now it seems that even if the two have understood the taste of power It didn't take away the affection, which is not bad.

"Grandmother, grandson really has no other choice. If I resist Fifth Brother, he will accuse me of being disrespectful to my elder brother. So it's not that grandson can bear Fifth Brother, but he has to. This is eating and eating every day, grandson I've gained a lot of weight, I don't know if my Fujin will dislike me after the southern tour." Yin Zhi immediately wrinkled his face, and the words he said were pitiful, but the obvious teasing made the empress dowager laugh out loud.

"Good you Yinzhi, this is talking about me in disguise, I will continue to drag you around to eat, you will die of fat!"

"I'm so scared."

For a while, the backyard was full of laughter and the atmosphere was harmonious.

"Okay, okay, don't worry about playing tricks, let's eat something, we can't waste our five Baylor's heart." The empress dowager looked at the two bickering with a smile, just when the servants replaced the original snacks on the table, After putting the one brought by Yin Qi, she interrupted the two of them.

"By the way, grandma, you haven't told me who brought the snacks faster than me? Could it be that Mother Lanka prepared it?" Yinqi was reminded by this, and remembered the question that hadn't been answered just now, and asked again. asked again.

"It's Batu. He said he passed by and bought some for me to taste." The Empress Dowager smiled, but she didn't know if it was an illusion. The smile on her lips seemed to have a different taste when she said this, but It's just that the feeling disappeared in the blink of an eye, making people wonder if it really existed.

Yin Qi paused for a moment, then continued to smile and said, "Then he's quite caring."

Yinzhi also frowned slightly.

The two juniors thought about what the empress dowager did not go into it, nor did she want to go into it, and continued to talk to them cheerfully, and did not let them leave until it was lunch break.

After leaving the empress dowager's courtyard, the two returned to Yinqi's room with thoughtful expressions, and asked the servants to serve tea. They were relatively silent for a long time, but it was Yinzhi who broke the quiet atmosphere first.

"You know the emperor's grandmother's taste best. The dim sum that Batu filially presented is exactly the same as the one you bought. It can be said that 100% of his heart was used. Although it is an old acquaintance, the friendship between them when they were in the palace will not be different. How profound." The implication is that Batu may have other plans.

"Yeah, at least no one has ever said which housewife the imperial grandmother particularly likes. If she really has a good relationship with Batu, then how can Batu's Fujin not be favored? And that shop is so remote, Batu He must have searched for it on purpose. There have been a lot of patrols in the south recently, and it is really hard for him to please the emperor's grandmother at this point in time." Yinqi sighed and said, although the empress dowager has always been a careless person, but This cannot ignore the Mongolian power she represents, and no doubt, this power will be passed on to Wu Baylor to add chips to him.

Sometimes things like fighting for the throne can't really stop if you don't care about it. If there are too many people who want to attach themselves and attract the emperor's attention, then you may have to fight for self-protection or safety.

"But speaking of it, in my memory, this Aliha Batu doesn't seem to be attached to any force, and I can't even remember that he has performed in that battle for the succession." Yinzhi frowned Frowning, with a puzzled expression.

Yin Qi also rummaged through the memories of his previous life, and found that, as Yin Zhi said, Aliha Batu was like a transparent person in that turbulent history, and he did not do anything outstanding. You must know that the leader of the Eight Banners Depending on the position of the actual military power, Yinzhen at that time would not fail to win over, so they would not be completely unimpressed. You must know that at that time, all the troubles would be clear to the chest.

"Find someone to pay attention to him first. If he really has any intentions, it will always be revealed. If he really wants to express his attachment to me through the emperor's grandmother, then I just need to wait for him to make a move."

"That's all I can do. If you have anything, remember to tell me."

"That's for sure. If I don't ask you for such a brain-intensive matter, who can I turn to?"

"Too lazy to talk about you."

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In April Jiyou, the car drives to Jiangning.

Today's Jiangning weaving is Cao Yin, the first-class bodyguard next to Kangxi. Because of the unusual relationship with Kangxi, when Shengjia arrived in Jiangning, Kangxi and his group lived in Cao's mansion as a matter of course.

For a month or so, Kangxi kept wandering around Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Yangzhou. On the surface, he was visiting the empress dowager to enjoy the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, but secretly, he was investigating this rich land. The officials are waiting to return to Beijing to clean up severely.

So when they arrived in Jiangning, everyone was able to relax. Cao Yin accompanied Kangxi to reminisce about the past, and the princes also had their own games.

Because of this Batu, Yinqi and Yinzhi have been tense for several days. When they arrived in Jiangning, Batu still didn't make any moves. I don't know if this person can bear it or they misunderstood his intentions. This person has never shown it Anyone who passed the Empress Dowager’s connection with Wu Baylor, the observers reported that he was just doing the Empress Dowager’s guard and command very conscientiously, and he did his best, so that they had to think that maybe they were thinking too much, but Batu didn’t like it. The empress dowager is always paying attention to the subtleties, which makes people have to wonder if he has any intentions. After all, it is not something for a slave to be filial to his master, unless his hidden purpose cannot be revealed openly. Performance.

The two got together and deduced countless conspiracy theories, but they never expected that the truth of some things would be so unexpected, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it is jaw-dropping.

On that day, the sky was very blue, and the precious flowers and plants in Cao Yin's mansion seemed to be in full bloom, so Yin Qi walked around the yard with great interest, and naturally Yin Zhi was with him.

The architectural layout of Cao Mansion fully embodies the elegance and simplicity of Jiangnan gardens, with pavilions, corridors and sills, rockeries and stones, rare flowers and rare trees, and exquisite ingenuity everywhere.

The two people with previous life memories naturally knew that the Cao Mansion was very prosperous in the Kangxi Dynasty, so they were not surprised by the excessive luxury of this mansion. They were admiring the exquisite sculptures on the railing of the corridor, and Yinzhi inadvertently turned his eyes and entered the goal. The picture made him stunned.

Yinqi noticed his abnormality, and became curious, and followed his gaze to the front. It was a yard full of peach blossom trees, and there were peach blossom petals floating in the sun. There are two people standing under the most blooming peach tree, one is smiling and looking up at the flowers, the other is behind the person looking up, standing between the two people as a guardian, looking at the person quietly.

After a moment of stupefaction, Yinqi and Yinzhi turned their heads to look at each other almost exactly at the same time, and then turned and left together without saying a word.

After returning to the room, the two drank a pot of herbal tea silently face to face, and finally let out a long breath of relief.

"We thought of countless possibilities, but we didn't expect..." Yinzhi sighed softly, and looked at Yinqi.

Yin Qi rubbed the center of his eyebrows, "The world is really unpredictable."

The two they saw in the peach blossom grove just now were the empress dowager and Batu.Although the two people did not meet their eyes, it still makes people feel that there is a kind of vague affection condensed between the two, and even from their angle, one can clearly see that Batu's eyes are faint but absolute. The real gentleness that can be called transgressive, and the special smile on the empress dowager's face, with restrained joy.

Yinqi's memory flooded in like a flood in an instant. He had seen the empress dowager's smile in his previous life, and it was very special when she was sick. When the empress dowager was sick, almost all the wives would give gifts. Entering the palace to show filial piety, and then the empress dowager will give back rewards as rewards. Not every family will have this, but every time, the Batu family will have it. The rewards are not expensive and will not attract the ladies The Fujins in the circle pay attention, but definitely every time.

However, it seems that the Empress Dowager's smile has never been seen before...

"I remembered!" Yin Qi suddenly yelled, scaring Yin Zhi so much that he almost threw the tea bowl out.

"What did you think of?" Yin Zhi hurriedly asked.

"I remember now." Yin Qi's voice became a little astringent, "Why didn't Aliha Batu do anything when he seized the throne... because he was... dead before that."

Yinzhi was stunned.

"In the 35th year of Kangxi's war to eliminate Galdan, he died on the battlefield. The emperor's grandmother... fell ill after the army returned to Luan. Everyone said that it was because Huang Ama was too worried about her personal conquest. Thinking about it now...it doesn't seem to be."

For a moment, neither of them knew what to say. It was not a good feeling to touch a shocking secret unintentionally, let alone that the secret was about the elders.

"That man...he must have loved his whole life with forbearance and secrets like that." Yin Zhi suddenly spoke softly, as if thinking of something, his eyes were vague and confused without knowing it.

"It should be a secret to other people, but the person he loves should know about it." Yinqi sighed, and the empress dowager's expression showed that she was not ignorant, and they might even be in love with each other, "You Said that when they were young, did they fight like those in those novels?"

Yinzhi rolled his eyes unceremoniously, obviously despising his whimsy, "What kind of stupid question are you asking? You must know that when they were young, the Empress Dowager was there! Seeing that Batu is still alive, you can tell that they are not Maybe fight." The more you are in the center of power, the more you will be afraid of power. The empress dowager has always known who she is, she is not Concubine Dong E, and she will not risk the world for the so-called love.

The first-class guards and queens around the emperor, not to mention others, even they themselves clearly knew that it was impossible between them.

Yinqi also knew that he had said something stupid, so he smiled embarrassedly, "You are right, but you always keep a distance and look at the other party from a distance, and you don't do anything, can't it be said that you don't care?" Like something You will do everything possible to get it, let alone like someone?

Yin Zhi pursed his lips, raised his eyes and looked at Yin Qi for a long time, looking at him inexplicably, when he was about to speak, he heard the man speak softly.

His voice was strangely deep, and those black jade-like eyes were bottomless.

"Sometimes you choose to distance yourself from someone,"

"Not because I don't care,"

"It's because you know it well,"

"He doesn't belong to you."

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