Thirty years later, Yancheng, located on the coast of the East China Sea of Zhaozhao Kingdom, was the second largest city after the capital Qitai, and the lord of the city here was Ji Zining, the younger brother of the current Emperor Ji II, who was named King of Qi and won the favor of the Holy Saint. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is the spring of March, the grass grows and the warbler flies in the season, the back garden of the Qi Wangfu is purple and red, there is a grass house in the most remote corner of the back garden, which is specially built by the former male owner of this mansion to experience the pastoral life, and is specially named the grass fragrance garden. Since the male owner here was changed to King Qi, this place has become the most deserted corner of King Qi's mansion.

The shabby grass garden is no longer favored by the new owner, and because of its location close to the back street and inaccessible, it has become more and more decayed and lonely over the years, and compared with the purple and red of the back garden dozens of steps away, it is almost doubtful that it will collapse in the next storm.

As soon as the sky was bright, a small figure walked out of the main house of the grass fragrance garden. The grass garden is actually not big, and the back garden is separated by an arch bridge, under the bridge is a tributary of the back garden lake, the shadows of the trees on both sides of the river, if it is summer, this is the best place to escape the heat, but most of the time, it seems too quiet and cold.

The wall of the grass fragrance garden is a fence made of bamboo, which is wound with all kinds of grass vines, there are morning glories, grapes, ivy and so on;

I saw this small figure approaching a water tank on the west side of the courtyard, which was as tall as hers. She first took a small broom and swept the stone table next to the water tank, and then touched the stone table with her hand, and after feeling clean, she moved from a small stool next to the stone table to the side of the water tank, and then stood on the small stool, lay on the side of the water tank, and with great difficulty picked up the stone pressed on the wooden cover, put it on the ground, and then picked up the wooden cover, and carefully placed it upside down on the stone table next to it. Then she scooped out the little bucket and the little wooden spoon that she had just taken out of the house, and little by little, probably there was not much water in the tank, and she had to put half of her body into the tank.

After going back and forth like this a few times, the small wooden bucket was only a third of the water, and she was already a little tired and sweaty. At this time, the door of the courtyard creaked open. A stout woman came in with a food box in her left hand and a bucket of water in her right hand. As soon as she saw the little girl scooping water by the water tank, she said in a rough voice, "Lige, why don't you come down quickly? ”

The little girl named Lige raised her body with a shy expression, and she quickly poured the spoonful of water in her hand on the small wooden bucket. Then jump off the stool and put the stool in place first. Then he led the small wooden barrel to the main house with great difficulty, and said as he went, "Mu Po, I can hold it." ”

Mu Po put the things in her hand on the ground, hurried over, took the wooden barrel from the singer, and carried it to the main house in one breath. Then he hurried out, first took the food box into the main room, and then went out and carried the bucket of water to the side of the water tank, and poured the water into the water tank. Then she said to Lige in the main room, "There is hot water boiling on the stove, you can wash your face first and eat breakfast." With that, he took the bucket and walked outside again.

Lige walked to the door and replied, "Mu Po, I'll wait for you to come back and have breakfast together." Mu Po looked back at Lige, and wanted to say something, but she was stunned, shook her head, didn't say anything, and went out.

She looked at the big tank with satisfaction, put the wooden lid away, and then pressed the wooden lid tightly with stones, and then said to herself, "It can be used for another three days." ”

When he arrived at the door of the house, Lige came out with a wooden spoon filled with warm water, "Mu Po, wash your hands first." Mu Po had lived with her for ten years, and knowing that she was a clean-loving child, she stood on the edge of the house and stretched out her hands and washed them with warm water.

Breakfast was very simple, a small pot of white rice porridge, a small plate of pickles, a boiled egg, and it was cold, Lige put them on the small stove and reheated them, the meals given to them in the big kitchen were the worst, and they ate the same level as the people in the house, and it was slightly better.

Lige and Mu Po don't care, happily eat breakfast clean, they have their own small kitchen, usually in addition to boiling hot water, they will also cook some self-grown vegetables and fruits, occasionally those fresh vegetables and fruits will go to the big kitchen to exchange some oil, salt and firewood, sometimes Mu Po will go directly outside to exchange daily necessities, so that you can exchange more things.

After breakfast, the old man Zhang, who was assigned to their yard to help with some rough work, also came, he is over fifty years old this year, and he is not easy to speak, since Mu Po fell a few years ago, after being sick for a month, he begged the housekeeper to help another person do some heavy work, no one wanted to come here to help, and they all went through various ways to prevent the steward from picking themselves. In the end, the old man Zhang, who looked sick and wilted and did not speak well, was forcibly sent here.

When Old Man Zhang first came to the Grass Fragrance Garden, Mu Po went to the steward with a wooden stick and scolded with her eyes open for a whole hour, and then everyone consciously stayed away from the Grass Fragrance Garden, and this side was even more inaccessible.

Since the old man Zhang came, Mu Po handed over the work of teaching Lige to read and write, and Lige didn't like it very much at first, thinking that this little old man was dirty, how could he teach himself to read and write? Don't be a man.

After Old Man Zhang came to Caoxiangyuan to help, he also taught Lige to practice martial arts, in fact, Lige has been practicing Qi with Mu Po since he was a child, so he followed Old Man Zhang to learn moves, and learned very smoothly, and Old Man Zhang often praised her for her good muscles and bones.

As soon as Old Man Zhang entered the door, he said, "Little Lige, the black fat boy of the Song family is here to play again, you hurry up and go out." ”

King Qi has two sons and three daughters under his knees, and if Xiao Lige is added, it should be four daughters. Xiao Lige was packing up his things, and at the same time he thought viciously, there are so many women and only two sons, it seems that his cheap father is about to become extinct.

Xiao Lige has never formally visited his father, but has only met a few times from afar on certain occasions. She had been wondering, how could she be the daughter of King Qi, and if so, who was her biological mother?

Mu Po found a relatively shabby, but neat coat for Lige to put on, and told her, "You find a place to hide, come back when it's dark, take two steamed buns for her to carry in your arms, and drive her out."

Lige looked around alertly, and walked nimbly into the forest in the back garden. The little black fat of the Song family is the maiden nephew of the concubine of the Qi Palace, because they all live in Yancheng, they often come to the Qi Palace. He has a very good relationship with the daughter of the side concubine Song, since he heard that his beautiful little cousin has a very poor sister, he took a large group of people to play in the grass fragrance garden when he was curious.

Lige has a very stubborn temper, Song Heipang and Miss Ji San are too mean-mouthed, everyone doesn't agree with each other, Song Heipang in order to be angry for his cousin, he asked his subordinates to smash the grass fragrance garden, those vegetables and fruits have been damaged, Lige was very angry in his heart, he wanted to go over to protect him, and he was knocked to the ground by not knowing which one is not long-eyed, and Song Heipang also deliberately stepped on her a few feet. Lige didn't control his temper for a while, so he pulled down Song Hei and beat him a few times. This is terrible, Miss Ji San commanded her subordinates to pull away from the song, and beat the song again, if it weren't for Mu Po and Old Man Zhang's protection, I was afraid that the song would hurt my muscles and bones.

But in the end, Miss Ji San and Song Heipang sued Princess Qi, and that night, a grandmother brought someone to punish Lige, if it wasn't for Lige being reminded by Mu Po and pretending to be seriously ill, I was afraid that I would have to suffer the thirty rods that night, and my life would be lost.

Old man Zhang ran to the king of Qi and cried, saying that he was going to die, although the king of Qi was impatient to deal with these inner house matters, but he also sent the people around him to tell the fierce and vicious grandmother that the prince had a life, and he was exempted from the thirty rods of the song. In this way, he saved the life of Lige. But since then, the food and clothing for the three of them in the house have become worse and worse, and now, even the third-class girls in the house are treated a little better than Lige.

Mu Po would still muttered at first, "How can you say that Miss Lige is also the daughter of King Qi, how can she bully people like this?" Later, Old Man Zhang persuaded her twice, and she stopped talking about these things in front of Lige.

Lige felt sorry for these hard-working vegetables and fruits, and in the future, when Song Heipang entered the house to play, he hid in the back garden. Song Heipang really brought people to the grass fragrance garden a few times, but he couldn't see Lige every time, only an old woman and an old man, and then he came less, and walked around in the back garden instead.

Lige remembered the first lesson, no matter what Song Heipang said, he didn't care about him, he ran away when he found a chance, she had been playing in the back garden since she was a child, where she could hide people, she knew very well, even if Song Heipang ordered her to be locked in the back garden, and sent someone to guard the arch bridge leading to the Caoxiang Garden, she was not afraid, and when it got dark, she found a suitable place and swam back, unknowingly, and did not alarm the people guarding the arch bridge at all.

Lige touched the steamed bun in his arms and walked straight to the highest place in the back garden. The back garden of the Qi Palace's mansion is built by the mountains and rivers, although the mountains are not high, but this is rare in the back gardens of ordinary people's homes.

There is a courtyard on the mountain, called Hanliang Villa, although it is only a courtyard, but the main house is five, plus the east and west wings, the place is very wide. Lige likes to hide here, and every time she climbs to the beam of the main house to hide, she looks down on the entire back garden while reading a book.

The books were taken from the study of the villa, although the location of this villa is very good, but because of the high terrain, few people usually come, but two people are left to watch. Lige came here every time to steal books and read, and he was already very familiar with the habits of these two people, knowing that in addition to cleaning every day, they would go to other places to play, and the villa became an empty city.