Although Qi Yu was only wearing a middle coat, he didn't expose any skin, and Zhou Shuhe was even more neatly dressed. If there was no contact between the skin and skin, it was so close to touch that it didn't even have time for human body temperature convey.

But Qi Yu felt it.

When she hugged him, the breath near the side of the neck, the weight on the body, the clanging sound of the headdress, the thin hair touched his chin, and the heat spread from that point to the whole body.

"Okay, I'm done coaxing, now I'm going to start scolding you."

Zhou Shuhe withdrew his hand, as if changing his face, with seriousness written all over his baby fat face.

"I said that you are such an old man, and you are still a scholar. Oh, you have to take the provincial examination this year. God, whoever wants you to be a juren is really blind. Are you a fool? Or do you think I You're so unruly? Tell me if you're too busy with your studies. No matter what, you can't have less rest time. I don't want you to accompany me..."

It is the beginning of summer, Huxiang comes early in summer, and it starts to get hot at the end of spring. At this moment, people sweat when walking.

Qi Yu lay quietly and saw a small red mole faintly protruding from the center of her collarbone under her collar.

He didn't dare to think about it any further.

"Qi Yu, did you listen to me?" Zhou Shuhe was unhappy.

"What did you say?"

"I said——I don't have to ask you to accompany me. You can have a good rest and prepare for Qiu Wei. These are much more important than going out to play with me."

Qi Yu didn't know that the sudden sinking of his face was scary, so he said stiffly, "I don't."

Zhou Shuhe was stunned, and looked at him in disbelief: "You are so fierce."

"I'm not..." He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that his hands and feet were in the wrong place, and everything he said was extremely stupid, and he whispered: "I mean, I don't want to be like what you said, I mean , I want to accompany you."

He raised his head, although his expression was the same, his ears turned red a little: "Anyway, I'm happy."

Zhou Shuhe couldn't help being happy to hear what he said, so he moved closer to him and whispered into his ear.

"But I don't want you to accompany me. I'll just accompany you. You recite your books, write your articles, and don't delay your autumn. I will read my scriptures and Ma Diao Shu next to you. I haven't finished learning the "Falling Leaf Spectrum" you bought for me last time, when I practice this secret book, I can win all the dowry from my sisters-in-law."

When she spoke, her breath kept touching Qi Yu's earlobe. He wanted to move his head a little, to get closer to her, and to shrink his body, so he could stay away from her.

Qi Yu tried her best to get away from her physical perception, and focused on the future she was imagining. He couldn't help laughing just like her when he heard it.

Compared with Zhou Shuhe, his imagination is farther away.For example, will the dowry won by Ma Diao Shengjun, Miss Zhou, be used as her dowry again, and will be carried to Qi Mansion in eight sedan chairs together with Miss Zhou?

That being the case, he has to work harder to become a Juren lord before he gets married, and if he is given a lot of gifts, it will be better if he can get a Jinshi in one breath.After getting married, he will be a concubine for three years, and then he will be sent to the state capital to be the prefect for three years. When he returns to the court to make contributions, he must ask his wife for an imperial order.

"I haven't asked you yet. Why didn't you go home so late and come to my place?" He asked with a smile.

"I'm worried about you. Your classmate said that you fainted. You fell to the ground in a daze and hit your head with a big bump. It scared me. Auntie loves me and brought me to Qi's house to see you. She is now Zhengtang was talking to your mother, I sneaked here, I didn’t expect to be caught by your aunt, she was so serious, like the female wife when I was enlightened, I didn’t dare to speak..."

Listening to her rambling, Qi Yu suddenly had a special understanding.

It turned out that he already liked Zhou Shuhe very, very much.

****

The swing that Zhou Shuhe mentioned was in a small garden on the west side of Zhongcui Palace. It was built by the emperor for Lu Meiren who used to live here. Yes, hanged from a crooked-neck tree in the little garden.

In the more than a hundred years of Daning, people died in many places in the palace, but after all, Lu Meiren was a very honorable imperial concubine. Many old people knew her, and she was somewhat taboo, so few people came to this garden.

Zhou Shuhe didn't know this, feeling the traces of disrepair on the swing, thinking that he had found a treasure left by the sea, he felt very comfortable.

Along the way with Qi Yu, she actually recalled the past, but the distance between her and the past was too long, and her memory was more blurred and rough than this precarious swing.

When Zhou Shuhe was a child, he wanted Qi Yu to set him a swing in the yard, but he shied away by saying that he could not go to the back house of the Zhou family, and his leg would be broken if he was found out, and then he learned how to draw cakes without a teacher He said that when she married to the Qi family in the future, he would set her up a swing that could fly very high in the yard of his home.

At that time, Zhou Shuhe was stupefied at first for a moment, and then he was full of anticipation and joy. Now that he thinks about it, he can't help but doubt that this scholar who can only use the pellets to shoot birds is only taught by her. How could he do such a job? He must not want to show his timidity, so he coaxed her perfunctorily.

Thinking of this, she thought it was fun, and turned her head to ask him, "Can you make a swing?"

"Hui Zhou lady, servants will."

Zhou Shuhe's eyes widened: "Awesome, let me see your handicraft another day. When will you do it? Who taught you?"

"When I entered the palace last year, I had nothing to do, so I asked the craftsman in the palace for a book."

"..."

Once a person is too diligent, sometimes what he says will seem inexplicable. If it is not Zhou Shuhe who listens to this, then he may think that he is lying in his heart. After all, the little eunuch who just entered the palace has nothing to do. ?Doing some hard work is light, and it is common for him to be reprimanded by rules and even stick to him. What's more, he has been promoted so fast, no matter how good he is, he must have worked hard.

But Zhou Shuhe knew that, compared to those days when he was always in a hurry to study hard, or worked day and night like a beast at the border, the life after entering the palace might really be worthy of his saying "have nothing to do".

Qi Yu, whether he was walking on the glorious avenue or after being torn to pieces and pushed into the dung, lived a hard life.

As for why he "has nothing to do" to learn to swing, she dare not think about it, in fact, there is no need to think about it.

Zhou Shuhe sat on the wooden board, and Jiyue, the close maid, gently pushed her. The wood and iron parts creaked and creaked, making her drowsy. She lowered her eyes and did not speak for a long time.

Qi Yu stood by the side and waited for a while, then said: "If there is nothing wrong with the lady, the maidservant will leave first."

"What's the rush?" Zhou Shuhe opened his eyes and looked at him.

"The servant is a relative of the rebels. I am grateful to Your Majesty Long's grace to live here. However, there is still a remnant party of the abolished prince in the court. Your Majesty is extremely sensitive and suspicious of people related to it. It is not good for the lady to get close to the servant."

In the dead of night, flowers, birds, fish and insects are all withering.

"Yes."

Zhou Shuhe's voice was as low as a sigh: "It's not good to be close to you, so wouldn't it be even worse for you?"

Qi Yu lowered his eyebrows: "Your servant has her own way."

Zhou Shuhe was silent, forcing himself not to think about his situation, and bluntly stated the original purpose of this trip.

"Tell me about the Princess Bai who looks like me. She is His Majesty's first wife, and she also had a time of loving love, and why she was left out in the cold, so that after His Majesty ascended the throne, she not only married her as a new queen, but did not even take her with her. Go to the palace and let her die in the hidden mansion.

****

Zhou Shuhe often thinks that maybe all the achievements a person can have later can already be seen in the early days.

Just like Qi Yu, who is now 17 years old and has only been in the palace for a year and a half, yet he was able to find out the secrets of the emperor's hidden residence more than 24 years ago so clearly.Then in the next three years, in the 20th year of Taiping, it is not surprising that at the age of [-], he kicked Wan Min off and became the eunuch in charge of the ceremonial supervisor and concurrently the admiral of the Overwatch Council directly under the emperor.

All kinds of thoughts flashed by, Zhou Shuhe put his thoughts back on the former princess Bai, and carefully savored what he just said.

"That is to say, the former concubine came from a merchant in the Bai family. She had already settled her husband's family, but was robbed by His Majesty. After all kinds of vows, she finally married first and then fell in love."

"Afterwards, the intended princess-to-be was humiliated and held a grudge, causing people to do something to kill Bai's father and brother; then the late emperor thought that His Majesty had done something ugly, first reprimanded him, and then almost demoted him; Then the empress dowager was in great pain, and shouted how the prince's son-in-law could be married to a merchant woman; in the end, your majesty couldn't bear the sadness of the late emperor and the empress, so he had to reluctantly part with her, and demoted the Bai family to a side concubine."

"At the same time, he swears to heaven that since the Bai family can't be a concubine, there will never be another concubine in his house."

Qi Yu listened to her conclusion, nodded and said, "Exactly."

Zhou Shuhe took a deep breath and sighed: "Then our Majesty... is really wicked."

Qi Yu lowered his eyes and smiled slightly: "My lady, be careful with your words."

"All right, all right, I understand," she waved her hand impatiently, "Your Majesty understands righteousness so well that ordinary people like me can understand it. Go on, what happened later?"

later……

Later, the husband became more and more embarrassed in front of the first emperor, but the wife became a concubine. No one knew what Bai was thinking. Anyway, everything was peaceful and lived a peaceful life for several years.

Until the brothers' children lined up in three rows and four rows one after another, but with him, no matter whether it was the unforgettable Bai side concubine, the always respected Ning side concubine, the sympathetic Zhu Ji, the grateful concubine Lu, or these Huanfei, those Yanshou...*There are dozens of people in all, but none of them came out.

Fortunately, Emperor Taiping not only used the two taels of meat on his lower head frequently, but also used the head on his neck. What's more commendable is that he is different from many men nowadays who shy away from medical treatment for this matter, but rather courageous. Resolutely passed on to the imperial physician.

The old doctor died in the second year of Taiping, and the specific diagnoses are no longer testable, but there are many facts that do not need to pay too much attention to physical evidence.

The author says:

*Shallow play a meme 2333 of Zhang Wuji.

Of course, comparing our beloved Majesty with Xiao Zhang is really humiliating Xiao Zhang.

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