Three months after Li Yaya became Rong Xia, a major event occurred in the Dingyang Marquis Mansion.

The eldest prince in the Hou Mansion, the future Marquis of Dingyang, is about to get married!!

The eldest son's name is: Pei Anzhi, twenty years old, when he was a child, he set up a family affair with Hai Mingxia, the daughter of the Hai clan of the Yingchuan clan, and now both parties have reached the marriageable age, which is to officially marry Qin Jinzhi. For the sake of the eldest prince's family affairs, the entire Hou Mansion was busy, and even Rong Xia, who was only ten years old, began to receive official errands. In the midst of the busyness and joy, Rong Xia's sister Bisi didn't seem to be very happy, and a little depression could be seen between her eyebrows, Rong Xiajue's sister should like that eldest son! It's a pity that the beloved is about to marry not herself, no wonder she is sad, Rong Xia's age [zinc and clumsy mouth don't know how to comfort people, except for worrying in the bottom of her heart, there is no other way.

Ten days before the eldest prince got married. Rong Xia stepped on the morning sun and came to the place where he was on a business.

[Green Bamboo Xuan] three strong and powerful characters are deeply engraved on the quaint plaque. [Green Bamboo Xuan] is located in the east of the entire Dingyang Hou Mansion near a small bamboo forest, whenever the wind blows, you can hear the sound of bamboo leaves, because of the remote location, so it is very quiet. Rong Xia heard that the owner of the Green Bamboo Pavilion was Pei Jinzhi, the second young master of the Hou Mansion, and the second young master went to the White Deer Academy of the Five Old Peaks of Lushan Mountain three years ago to study because of the marriage of the eldest young master, the second young master was going to rush back to participate, so the [Green Bamboo Xuan], which had been empty for three years, needed to be cleaned well.

Rong Xia also worked with a mother-in-law and a maid a few years older than her. A little girl like her, who has just been on a errand, can only do some rough work such as sweeping, and places such as bedrooms and studies are not allowed to enter. Rong Xia didn't care, she did it carefully every day, and the second-class maid named Jiuxiang saw that she was honest and diligent, and she praised her verbally.

After doing a morning's work, Rong Xia couldn't help but feel hollow in her stomach, the back kitchen in the Hou Mansion only provided two meals a day for the next people, which made Rong Xia, who was used to three meals a day, very uncomfortable, in order not to starve, she could only find a way by herself. Putting down the feather duster in his hand, Rong Xia walked outside familiarly, and after a while, he came to the bamboo forest outside [Green Bamboo Xuan]. The sound of bamboo is faint, and there is no one around. Rong Xia dodged and entered the Lingquan space. She walked over to the mountain of sacks, carefully pulled out the two-year-old bud, thought about it, and brought out some honey in the small porcelain bottle she had brought in.

Rong Xia chose a leeward place, quickly dug a 45-degree angle inclined pit with the bamboo pieces he picked up, and stacked some of the bamboo leaves that had fallen and withered and flammed. After about fifteen minutes, the flames were extinguished. Rong Xia dug out the bud rice in the ground, opened the leaves, and the golden-colored corn with burnt fragrance appeared in the field of vision, Rong Xia was in the middle of the abdomen, and he was busy eating it in small bites, the one-year-old bud rice was quickly gnawed clean, and the second-year-old bud rice, Rong Xia touched some honey on it, and the bud immediately brought a strong honey fragrance.

After sprinkling a layer of dust and stomping on his feet more than a dozen times, after making sure that it would never recur, Rong Xia walked out of the bamboo forest with his waist bent.

In the afternoon, Rong Xia also spent time in non-stop work.

The first three days of the eldest son's marriage.

[Green Lord Xuan] before and after, inside and out, is already spotless, brand new, just waiting for the owner to come back.

*****

“… A few days ago, I corresponded with Mr. Matsuyama, and he wrote to you with a lot of kind words, and I want to come to the past three years of hard study, which will make you very useful. Looking at the handsome man standing at the moment, Dingyang Hou's face showed a sincere smile.

"It's the teacher who praised it. Pei Jinzhi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "There is no end to learning, whenever I feel that I have made progress, I feel more and more that I am small, and I can only practice it diligently, so as not to fall behind others and fall into the family!"

"I'm too humble!" Dingyang Hou shook his head, but his expression became more and more kind: "Judging by what your teacher said in his letter, it seems that he intended to let you have a try?" Three years ago, when Pei Jinzhi was seventeen years old, he passed the "county examination", "government examination" and "college examination" three times and obtained the identity of Xiucai, and later because of his outstanding results in the "annual examination", he became a "student of the school" and was recommended by the then Xuezheng University to study in the world's famous Bailu Academy. Now three years have passed, and it is time to fight again.

Pei Jinzhi nodded and said bluntly: "I really have this intention, after the eldest brother gets married, he will leave for Jinling." ”

The ancestral home of the Pei family is Jinling, and Pei Jinzhi wants to take the road of scientific research, so he naturally starts from Jinling.

"Okay, well, I will definitely be able to win, and when the time comes, I will give the uncle a solution to come back!"

Pei Jinzhi smiled, with a gentlemanly demeanor.

"Okay, let's stop talking to you. Go and say hello to your grandmother and meet your parents!"

"Yes, I would like to retire. ”

Watching Pei Jinzhi's upright back gradually fade away, Dingyang Hou slowly restrained the smile at the corner of his mouth, and a melancholy slowly appeared on his face, and after a while, a long sigh sounded.

I went to the main courtyard to ask the old lady for peace, and after saying a few words, Pei Jinzhi came out of Shou'an Hall and went to the west across the courtyard to go to the side of the biological father and the second master were not in the house, and it was said that he went to meet with Cheng Anbo to fight cocks. Pei Jinzhi visited his mother, his biological mother died early, but now the second lady Zhao is a stepmother, Pei Jinzhi and this stepmother have always had a harmonious relationship, but they were left for lunch, and they gave a few small gifts from outside to the third sister Yingniang, the fourth brother and Zhi, and then he had to come out and go to [Green Bamboo Xuan].

*****

He An is a fifteen or sixteen-year-old young man with smart eyebrows and eyes, he has been with the second young master since he was seven years old, playing the dual role of a scholar and a long-term follower, in some respects, his familiarity with the second young master is also incomparable to others in the Hou Mansion, for example, right now, he looked at the second young master who was holding the green bamboo in his hand and kept vomiting, although there was distress in his eyes, but there was not much anxiety, he only stood quietly one step away.

"The second young master looks thin again!" He An thought helplessly.

I don't know what year it started, what the second young master began to eat and vomit, no matter how many doctors he looked for, it was useless. He An remembered that the last doctor who treated the second young master said that the second young master's problem was not a physical reason but a psychological reason. He An didn't understand what the doctor meant, but the second young master seemed to understand, because after that fight, he didn't try to go to the doctor again. He An watched day after day, the second young master ate expressionlessly, and then spit out expressionlessly, day by day, year after year, eating is a pleasure for ordinary people, but it is undoubtedly a kind of torture for the second young master.

But even so, the second young master still insisted on eating every day, and he survived like this.

"Deal with it. Pei Jinzhi wiped the corners of his mouth with the handkerchief in his hand and said lightly.

He An said that he knew, young master.

I think I usually do this kind of work.

Pei Jinzhi stood there, looked at the little girl in front of him, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

The little girl is not very old, wearing a pink skirt with small flowers, her hair is combed into two thin braids, white and pure, looks very petite and cute, at this time she is standing on the stone path leading to the green bamboo pavilion, holding a broom in her left hand, she should be working hard, but at this time she is not doing her job, only to see that she spreads out her right palm, is teasing a bird flying low around her, the bird looks very careful, tried several times, probably felt that the little girl has no ill will towards herself, before it fell on her shoulder, the small and sharp mouth quickly ate the little girl's palm of the things, Xu is happy to eat, and also raise their little heads to make a cheerful chirp.

The little girl smiled slowly, her warm eyes narrowed into a half-crescent, and her eyes were full of joy and tenderness when she looked at the bird.

Probably because this scene was very beautiful, Pei Jinzhi only stood quietly not far away and did not make a sound to disturb.

In the end, after dealing with the filth, He An, who came over, broke a qiē.

The little bird's wings flapped and flew away in fright, Rong Xia turned around, and saw Pei Jinzhi who was standing there.

In front of the green bamboo, Pei Jinzhi, who was also dressed in green clothes, just stood quietly, like a painting.

This person is so good-looking! For a moment, Rong Xia was bewitched by beauty.

"Who are you?" Pei Jinzhi asked lightly as he walked slowly.

"I—My name is Rong Xia, and I'm the maid of this family. Because of his momentary nymphomania, Rong Xia's face couldn't help but heat up, showing a very embarrassed expression: "Sir, no, who is Childe?"

"My name is Pei Jinzhi, and I am the young master of this family. Looking at the little girl who was instantly stiff because of her words, Pei Jinzhi's originally bad mood didn't know why it got better.

Pei, Pei Jinzhi............

Rong Xia instantly threw out the broom in his hand, bowed 90 degrees to Pei Jinzhi, and said stumblingly: "Second, second young master is good!"

"Well, don't be polite, you're a new maid?"

Rong Xia's face was flushed, and he nodded very crampedly.

Pei Jinzhi looked at the little girl in front of him carefully, and suddenly moved his nose, as if he smelled something, and his eyes swept over and finally stopped on Rong Xia's chest.

"What are you carrying in your arms?" asked Pei Jinzhi a moment later.

Rong Xia was stunned for a moment, and took out the things in his arms a little helplessly.

This is a bag of things wrapped in coarse leaves, and after Pei Jinzhi took it and opened it, he found that there was a handful of golden bud rice grains inside.

I think that's what she used to feed the birds just now.

These roasted buds were leftovers from Rong Xia's noon meal, and he was reluctant to throw them away, so he kneaded them into pieces and wanted to eat them as snacks.

Now it is in the hands of Pei Jinzhi.

And he doesn't seem ready to pay it back.