Chapter 62 Chapter 62 In early March, Yinzhen returned...
In early March, Yinzhen returned.
When he returned, Qi Buchen did not greet him. His already depressed mood due to not receiving a reply letter fell to the bottom. He asked Lin Changqing with a dark face: "Where is Fu Jin?"
Lin Changqing bent his waist to ninety degrees: "My lord, the concubine has gone to the palace to pay her respects."
"Not back yet?" Yinzhen's expression softened a little.
"He hasn't come back yet." Lin Changqing could probably feel his master's pulse, so he said, "The wife knew you were coming back today, so when you left this morning, she had someone prepare hot water and food. Would you like to take a bath first?"
Yinzhen's expression became more cheerful: "Yeah."
It was not until the afternoon that Yinzhen finally saw Qi Buchen, who had been late for return.
Qi Buchen looked a little tired, but he was still happy to see Yinzhen and said, "You're back. Have you had dinner?"
"I have used it," Yinzhen replied, then asked, "Why are you back so late?"
Normally, he would go to the palace to pay his respects in the morning and should be back before noon.
Qi Buchen smiled and said, "I was about to leave when suddenly Concubine Wang diagnosed her with pregnancy, so I went to sit with my mother for a while."
Yinzhen nodded, his doubts resolved.
"Then I'll go change my clothes first," Qi Buchen said. "I'll talk to you later. Don't you have anything to deal with today?"
"No, I'll wait for you." Yinzhen said seriously, and indeed he sat in the main room doing nothing but waiting for Qi Buchen.
Qi Buchen changed into casual clothes, feeling much more relaxed. He sat opposite Yinzhen and asked, "How was your trip? Are you tired?"
"Not bad." Yinzhen answered simply.
"What did you do?" Qi Buchen asked again.
"I am accompanying the Emperor on his tour." Yinzhen was very frugal with words.
Qi Buchen realized it later: "Are you in a bad mood?"
"No." Yinzhen remained the same.
What? Isn't this called a bad mood? I don't know who made me unhappy again.
Qi Buchen was really tired today and was too lazy to coax her. "Since you don't want to talk, forget it." Then he stood up and said, "I'm tired too. Let's go back and lie down."
After the others left, Yinzhen was still plagued by questions. It was clearly Fu Jin who hadn't replied to his letter, yet he was still waiting for an explanation. Why didn't she apologize, and instead, she got angry? He wrote letters and sent gifts, and in the end, this was the outcome?
I suddenly got angry, which I hadn't done in a long time. Humph, if you don't want to say it, then don't say it!
He threw away his sleeves and went back to his room to rest.
Qi Buchen woke up from a nap and called Su Peisheng: "What happened on this trip? Why doesn't the master seem happy?" She felt refreshed after a good sleep and was willing to care about Yinzhen.
Su Peisheng looked at her secretly, and was sure that Fu Jin really didn't know why the master was angry. He felt a little upset. What should he say?
"Nothing... nothing happened." He stammered.
"Hmm?" Qi Buchen raised his eyebrows. It was obvious that something was wrong. "Is it something about the court?"
Seeing that Fu Jin was about to move away from the correct answer, Su Peisheng quickly denied: "No."
Qi Buchen was a little unhappy: "Then what can't be said?"
Su Peisheng said in embarrassment: "I dare not say."
When he said this, Qi Buchen was not the kind of person who liked to make things difficult for others. He waved his hand unhappily and said, "Alright, you can go down."
"Wait, where's the master?"
Su Peisheng replied: "The master is in bed and said he wants to rest."
"Go and wake them up. It's time for dinner. If you sleep too much now, you won't be able to sleep tonight." Qi Buchen ordered.
Yinzhen arrived not long after. In response to Qi Buchen's greeting, he just said "hmm" lightly, maintaining his cold attitude to the end.
The meal was very quiet, which was a first for Qi Buchen. So after the meal, she dismissed the servants, sat down opposite Yinzhen, and asked seriously, "Why are you in a bad mood?"
Yinzhen looked up at her, lowered his eyes, looked up at her again, and lowered his eyes again...
Qi Buchen softened his tone and attitude: "Is it related to me? What did I do to make you unhappy? Please tell me, okay? You said before that we are not each other's roundworms. It is impossible to guess what the other person is thinking all the time. You also promised me that no matter what happens, we must be honest with each other."
"Um?"
Yinzhen lowered his eyes and played with the jade pendant on his waist. Qi Buchen waited for a long time before he heard his soft voice: "Others have received letters from home..."
A letter from home? A letter? Everyone else received it, but he didn't...
Qi Buchen didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Just because of this?"
Yinzhen suddenly looked up, pursed his lips and frowned at her, very dissatisfied with her nonchalant attitude.
Qi Buchen quickly restrained his expression and said solemnly: "It's my fault, it's my fault. The letter from home is very important. I shouldn't be so frivolous."
Yinzhen's expression improved a little, but he still stared at her.
Qi Buchen understood instantly that she was waiting for her to explain why she didn't write a letter: "Well, I just feel that I don't know what to write. I stay at home every day, take care of some household chores, then read some books, practice calligraphy, and at most go to the palace to pay my respects. So it's not that I don't want to write, it's really that there is nothing to write in the letter. You won't like to read these trivial things if I write them..."
"I love reading!" Yinzhen interrupted her and repeated solemnly, "I love reading. You can write about anything you want, even what you ate today."
Qi Buchen was stunned. At that moment, she truly felt that she had done something wrong. "I'm sorry, it's my fault. I promise you that I will write it down every time in the future."
After receiving the assurance, Yinzhen looked much softer. He said, "We are a family. You are my wife. When a man is away from home, he is most concerned about the situation at home. So you don't have to worry about the things you write being too small or trivial, because this is the normal state of a family."
"You're right, I was wrong." Qi Buchen sighed in his heart. She was a person in her twenties in her mental age, but she didn't have a deep understanding of home as a child.
Perhaps, it was because she didn't really regard Yinzhen as a family member in her heart?
This possibility is very high, but it cannot be changed in a day or two. She needs to pay more attention to it in the future.
"You're not angry now, are you?" Qi Buchen looked at him anxiously.
Yinzhen looked at Fu Jin's trembling little rabbit and felt his heart melting again. He pursed his lips and said, "I wasn't angry at all."
Qi Buchen didn't expose him and said happily, "That's good. Tell me what you did on this trip. Did you come across anything delicious or fun?"
Yinzhen then answered her questions in detail.
A few days later, it was the Emperor's birthday and Concubine De's birthday. However, perhaps because Kangxi was thinking of conquering Galdan, there was no big celebration this year. It was quite simple. Qi Buchen only went to the palace to accompany him for one day.
In April, the good news came from Yuqing Palace that the prince had another daughter, and Qi Buchen sent a congratulatory gift again.
After entering May, Yinzhen became busy again for some unknown reason. Qi Buchen often heard from his servants that the lights were still on in the front yard in the middle of the night.
She asked a few questions, but Yinzhen didn't say anything, so she just thought it was something from the previous dynasty and stopped caring about it.
She still has things to do. Her birthday is in a few days, and she plans to hold a small birthday party. Celebrating is secondary. The main thing is that she has bled so much, and if she doesn't accept some gifts to reduce the bleeding, she is afraid of having a myocardial infarction.
Not many people were invited, including the first wife, the eldest nephew's wife from her mother's side, the future sisters-in-law of the Guwalgiya clan, the Dong'e clan, and the Baya clan, as well as some young wives from royal families who were closely related to Kangxi.
She would definitely host more banquets in the future, so this was her early practice. Yinzhen did not object to this and even offered his own suggestions on where and how to arrange the banquet that day.
Qi Buchen listened carefully and decided not to adopt it.
Although the Fourth Master is young, he has already begun to show his fussy nature. Qi Buchen feels that if he follows his ideas, he will be exhausted to death.
Let's just be casual.
On her birthday, Qi Buchen was sleeping when Baozhu suddenly called her. She looked at the sky outside the window in a daze and muttered, "It's not dawn yet. I'll get up later." Then she was about to continue sleeping.
Baozhu said, "Fujin, Master said he wants to talk to you before going to the study. Please get up for a moment."
"What important words?" Qi Buchen was a little irritable because of waking up in a bad mood, but he still got up, put on his coat, casually tied his hair, and went out without even washing his face.
Baozhu tried her best to stop him but failed, and followed behind with a sad face.
Yinzhen, who was waiting in the main room, saw the curtains lifted and an unkempt...Fu Jin walked out. She walked up to him, covered her mouth, yawned, and asked, "What's the matter?"
Yinzhen suddenly found it difficult to say that.
Qi Buchen forced himself to open his eyes, which seemed to be stuck shut with glue, and asked in confusion, "Huh?"
Yinzhen lowered his eyes and laughed, then raised his eyes to look at her and said seriously, "Happy birthday."
"Ah? Thank you...thank you?" Qi Buchen opened her mouth in confusion. He woke her up at three or four in the morning just to say this? She really wanted to hit someone.
Yinzhen raised his hand and touched her head: "Wait for me to come back in the evening, there will be a gift."
"Oh." Qi Buchen agreed blankly and watched Yinzhen leave.
After taking another nap, Qi Buchen got up and inspected the things prepared everywhere, and then prepared to welcome the guests. The first to come was his niece-in-law.
The main reason she was called here this time was that it would be inappropriate not to invite her natal family members to such an occasion. However, the age gap between her natal sisters-in-law and the guests to be invited today was too big, and it would be awkward if they could not go together. So, she was asked to come with her niece-in-law who was of similar age.
Next came the first wife and the wives of the royal family, and finally Baya, Dong'e, and Guwaljia arrived one after another.
It is worth mentioning that when Guaerjia came, everyone was ready to welcome her with the ceremony of the Crown Princess, but she was quite humble and only said that she was a girl from the Shi family, without mentioning her identity as the Crown Princess at all.
This made Qi Buchen have a good impression of her. In fact, Qi Buchen hesitated at the beginning whether to invite her. After all, the Crown Princess was different from ordinary sisters-in-law. To these princes and their wives, the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess were half-kings. Kings were to be respected, not approached.
But after asking Yinzhen, he finally decided to invite her, and it was up to her whether she would come or not.
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Author's Note: Qi Buchen: Disturbing my sweet dreams at 3am! Where's my sword? [Allow you to run 39 meters first.JPG]
Yinzhen: I must be the first to say birthday wishes to Fu Jin! [Proud.gif]
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