After finishing cleaning up, little Eunuch Meng shouted: "The ceremony is over."

The other little eunuchs bowed their heads and went out one by one.

Umaru changed clothes in the inner room and then came out.

After waiting for a long time, Kangxi did not come, so she simply continued reading "Journey to the West".

When she woke up in the middle of the night, she saw Baocheng sleeping soundly next to her, and Kangxi sitting beside him, reading "Journey to the West".

Umaru asked him: "Why don't you rest yet?"

Kangxi put down the book in his hand, stood up and walked to her. He held two thumb-sized wine glasses in front of her, held them in his hands, and drank from them.

Umaru looked at him doubtfully.

Kangxi touched the end of her eyes: "I can't give you a wedding in your life. I will drink with you and we will make a covenant. From now on, you will be my wife."

"If there is an afterlife," he said, "I will marry you in a big sedan chair."

But I don't want to have an afterlife with you.

Umaru thought.

Umaru said: "Okay."

Kangxi looked into her eyes. There was no love in her eyes, they were crystal clear.

He thought, she is really a little liar.

But he loves her, and that's enough.

He kissed her: "You won't change, right... You should love me as firmly as you won't change."

He clearly knew that he was deceiving himself.

The moment she understood, her heart was filled with a kind of compassion. It was not the compassion of a woman who felt sorry for her sweetheart, but the tears shed by gods, Buddhas and bodhisattvas when they saw the suffering of everyone in the world.

"A slave never changes." She meekly allowed him to do whatever he wanted, and patted his back gently with her hands, just like a mother caressing her infant who cried in the night.

He clearly felt that his heart was touched.

He thought, he loved her, he should love her, who else could he love if he didn't love her?

She is fulfilling his fantasy.

After a while, Kangxi let go of her and took out a simple copper bell-shaped bell from under her pillow, strung with bright yellow broken beads.

Kangxi looked at her and said, "I put it under your pillow."

"The first reward of the new year, I just want to give it to you."

Umaru took it, shook it, and made an empty sound in the middle of the night. She got out of bed and put it in her box.

Then, under her service, Kangxi took off his coat and went to bed to rest, wearing only his middle coat.

Kangxi suddenly said: "Last time, I said I forgot, but actually I didn't forget."

"Um?"

"When I made my last wish, a monk came up from the Imperial Manor. When he heard my wish, he gave me this bell."

"He said that the person I am waiting for will definitely come to me." Kangxi closed his eyes and said everything calmly, "When she comes to me, after I give her this bell, she will never leave again.

I."

Umaru said: "I will not leave you."

She forgot the etiquette, but Kangxi didn't care.

She repeated it again as if to remedy the situation: "This slave will never leave me."

Kangxi held her in his arms across Baocheng: "Go to sleep."

The two fell asleep.

Before going to sleep, Umaru thought vaguely that no matter how wise or powerful a person is, he will still ask for something.

If what you seek is not too difficult, how can you be blessed by gods and Buddhas?

Even during the Spring Festival, the emperor was no more leisurely than usual.

Kangxi would get up early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Naturally, he had to pay more attention to the most important court meeting of the year on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

After Uma Lu fell asleep, Kangxi took away Baocheng, who was going to pay New Year greetings to the Empress Dowager early the next morning. They both slept back in Kangxi's inner room to avoid waking Uma Lu early the next morning.

Lu.

He left quietly, not letting Liang Jiugong make any noise.

By the time Umaru woke up, it was already late. Yin Shuang'er finished taking the medicine and came in to see him a few times.

Shi Xiaoxiao said: "She can really sleep."

Yin Shuang'er really didn't want to talk to her: "Shut up. If you don't temper your temper, I will tell Manager Liang to go."

Hearing the sound on the bed, Yin Shuang'er stepped forward and helped her get dressed while saying, "Master, it would be best if you wash up and eat first."

Shi Xiaoxiao mouthed: "Catch the dog that is your slave."

After she finished speaking, she prepared everything for Umaru to use.

The two of them waited for her to finish her meal and then watched her drink her medicine before they neatly took out the used tableware.

In the afternoon, Umaru rested.

Only then did Yin Shuang'er talk to Shi Xiaoxiao about this: "My master is not in good health. He drinks more medicine than he eats every day."

She sighed: "Have you forgotten what the steward aunt said after we entered the palace? It is our blessing to meet a kind-hearted person like the master. It will be sad for us to meet a more picky master.

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She almost said sincerely: "You, please watch your mouth, don't be dissatisfied, and don't think about doing anything to fly up a branch and become a phoenix."

Shi Xiaoxiao's eyes were full of stubbornness: "Aren't there so many masters in the palace who are born in a bachelor's degree, including the master we serve, also a bachelor? Why should they do it and I won't?"

There was blazing ambition in her eyes: "We are so close to the emperor now, why can't we give it a try? If you are favored, wouldn't it mean that one person can achieve enlightenment, and chickens and dogs can ascend to heaven? If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your family.

think."

Shi Xiaoxiao seemed to want to seduce her: "Isn't that Master Yi? She entered the palace last year and became a concubine not long after. I have heard that she is just a tea maid. In comparison, we have seen the emperor more often.

More, you, rather than trying to persuade me, you are still a little angry."

Yin Shuang'er lowered his head and embroidered flowers: "I know you look down on me, but don't you think about it, how many people can be treated like our master?"

"There are indeed not many palace maids without status." Shi Xiaoxiao was a little disdainful, "Call her master, and she really becomes a master."

Yin Shuang'er felt that she was hopeless, that she was ambitious and clever, but could not understand current affairs.

She didn't want to care about her, but thinking of the gentle Master Wu Ya, she still planned to try to persuade her: "But how many palace maids without status will be served by palace maids? How can they get the attention of Manager Liang?"

She said: "As you said, we have more opportunities to see the emperor than Master Yi, but the emperor has not ordered us two so far. It's time for you to wake up from such a dream."

"You don't understand anything." Shi Xiaoxiao couldn't listen, and she sternly said, "Just be a slave for the rest of your life. I am the master after all."

The two broke up unhappy.

Yin Shuang'er got up and continued to read the medicine. Umalu slept until the afternoon and didn't wake up until the afternoon. He leaned on the bed and asked Yin Shuang'er to bring "Journey to the West" and continue reading.

Days are as usual.

After the start of the new year, in the first month of the year, Kangxi announced the establishment of a system of subjects that combined recommendation and examinations - "Erudition and Confucianism".
Chapter completed!