The solar term enters the light snow, this day is suddenly cold and unpresentable, Mrs. Yan canceled the three days of each room, changed to seven days of one invitation, on weekdays there is nothing to do, everyone is nested in their own room, the children are too lazy to take a step out except for the school door.

Yan Wu girl since the last time I committed hysteria - the doctor said so, was sent by Mrs. Yan to live in a foreign house for a while, about the fear that she was depressed because of Mr. He's departure, until recently to pick up back, people lost a lot of weight, the face is a little pale, the spirit is good, others are nested in the house, she took the girl to the back garden to hang out, and let people fold plum blossoms to each room to send a few branches.

Yan Zike came back from the palace with a few prescriptions, gave it to the small kitchen of Baochunju, and asked her to make up for the five girls of Yan Wu every day according to the food list above, and the five girls of Yan pestered him more than before, but whenever he came back early, he insisted on chatting in the upper room of Baochunju, and asked his father to get her a litter of small milk cats of a few months old to come back and raise.

Yan Wu girl likes this nest of cats quite a lot, so she also specially held a "raccoon slave banquet", invited her in the school to a good sister to come to the house to gather, Mrs. Yan specially invested fifty taels of silver, asked someone to take it and hand it over to the big kitchen, so that the guests of Yan Wu girl could buy a table of noodles, Yan Zike arranged the past four branches were returned to the half of the house intact.

It's a pity that the weather is too cold, the kitten is too young, and within two days, one was found dead under the window root of Yan Wu girl, freezing the whole body, no one knows how it ran out of the house, Yan Wu girl was stunned for most of the time on the kitten's corpse, and let people take it out and bury it alive.

Fortunately, there were eight kittens, one dead and seven, and the maids in the room were more and more careful to serve these kittens.

Yan Qi had also moved the parrot green carp from under the porch into the bedroom, because she had never put an ankle ring on it, so she often saw this thing squatting on the side of the pillow in the morning and looking at her with a lewd face.

The colder it gets, the harder it is to get up, but Yan Qi is not in this range, so he gets up at the beginning of every day, puts on a thin cotton shirt and goes out for a run. Xiao Chen also waited for her at the corner of the street every day, and the two of them ran a big circle along the street, and then jumped into the shooting range in the back garden of Xiao Mansion to practice archery.

Sometimes the two of them also practice on the street, using arrows to shoot an ice pick hanging under the eaves, more than who shoots an arrow, whoever loses invites breakfast, and later plays with flowers, directly using ice picks as arrows to see who can shoot the bull's-eye, if the former Xiao Chen can still compete with Yan Qi, the latter will directly lose without the power to fight back, and the monthly pocket money is almost used up.

"Why?" Xiao Chen asked Yan Qi as he poured the copper plate out of the money bag.

Why could she shoot so accurately with an ice pick, and how could she be so accurate when she had never been familiar with this type of shooting?!

"I've practiced," Yan Qi took the money and ordered shrimp and fish buns to eat, "I've tried to practice almost everything that can be used as an arrow." ”

“…… Why?" Xiao Chen was even more puzzled, why did he do this? How boring is it to practice with other things as arrows? Why do such meaningless things be done?

"Because I like archery," Yan Qi ordered Qibao five-flavor porridge again, "Everything that can be done with archery, I'm interested in trying." What did you learn archery for?"

“…… I also love archery. Xiao Chen replied, and suddenly hesitated.

"It's not just one reason," Yan Qi finally ordered a plate of sesame oil radish strips, "Most of the men learn archery in order to become the strongest, or to become famous or something, you have thought so too." ”

Xiao Chen nodded silently: "I want to be the strongest." ”

"So you see, after having ambition, practicing archery is relatively single-minded and persistent, those seemingly useless things will not have extra thoughts to care, and I am much more casual, I don't want to be the strongest, I just simply like archery, because I like it, so I want to do it well, because I like it, so I want to fully enjoy it, I want to play it how I want, I am controlling it, not it is controlling me, those who have ambition for archery, in fact, have been controlled by arrows, and their vision is limited to this road, and they will feel very boring and hard to practice。 ”

Xiao Chen looked at Yan Qi and silently digested her words.

He once thought that he was the most knowledgeable person in the world, and he had even been proud of it, but at this moment, he felt that he was extremely ridiculous, the person who really loved archery was the one in front of him, anything that could be used to make arrows, anything that could be used to make arrows, she could use it to practice with relish, if it wasn't for love, how could it be done?

There is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the people, this sentence has finally been deeply understood today.

Looking at the girl in front of her, who was younger than herself, her hand holding the porridge bowl was as steady as a rock, as if the sky would not make it tremble for a minute, anyone who saw these hands would have a sense of stability and steadfastness in his heart, right?

If there is such a person like a needle in life, the life with ups and downs must be a lot easier and safer.

"How long do you have to observe this radish strip?" Yan Qi asked Xiao Chen, who had a radish strip in his chopsticks and didn't send it to his mouth for a long time.

"......" Xiao Chen lowered his eyelids and put the radish strips into Yan Qi's bowl, "...... You...... Eat more. ”

"Then can I ask for two more crystal bags?" Yan Qi asked.

Xiao Chen silently emptied the money bag: "It's only enough money for one." ”

"Then I'll ask you. Yan Qi took out his purse, "Boss, come here with four more crystal bags." ”

Xiao Chen: ...... Even the amount of food can't win her.

When Yan Qi returned from the side door of Yan Mansion with a bunch of buns, he saw Yan Zike coming out of the upper room of the Four Seasons House far away.

Yan Zike also saw Yan Qi from a distance, and her eyes seemed to fall on the oiled paper bag wrapped in the bun she was carrying, Yan Qi stood still, waiting for the person who followed the fragrance of the bun to come to her, and asked her, "What kind of stuffing?"

"There are four kinds of stuffing, there are your favorite shrimp buns. ”

"Go back to the house, put it on the charcoal stove for a while, and then let the room get the hot soy milk that is freshly ground. He generously followed him to sit in the summer residence to eat and drink.

Young Master Yan Jiu was still squinting in the quilt, when he heard two footsteps coming into the house, one in front and one behind, and the one in front said, "I'm still asleep." The latter said, "Let's put it on the plate first." ”

Just went into the room to eat and drink in his bedroom, Young Master Yan Jiu twitched the corners of his mouth, pushed the quilt to get up, lifted the tent and looked out, and saw that the uncle and nephew were not embarrassed at all and sat cross-legged on the kang under his window, four small pickles and two bowls of steaming soy milk had been placed on the kang table, and the posture was intended to eat here all day.

Seeing him probe, Yan Qi greeted with a biased face: "Get up, there is your favorite crystal bag." ”

Slowly got up and dressed, went to the toilet and squatted in a pit, and then freshened up, and then sat on the kang, Yan Qi gave up his position, took a chair and sat next to it, stretched out his feet to the edge of the charcoal basin and baked the soles of his shoes.

"The martial army has arrived in the border city," Yan Zike ate a little, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and said to his sister and brother, "The big battle is imminent." ”

"Will you be able to come back soon?" Yan Qi asked.

"It's going to be a year sooner than ever, if nothing else. Swallow said.

"How does it count as an accident?" asked Young Master Yan Jiu.

"Defeat the enemy lightly, those in power have different opinions, they are impetuous and impetuous in their eagerness for quick success, and the four barbarians hide conspiracies, all of the above can cause accidents, and fighting a war is never a matter that can be judged in a word, there are all kinds of variables, and it is difficult for outsiders thousands of miles away to understand the danger, and it is too early to assert anything. Swallow said.

"Things that are thousands of miles away can't be controlled, so what about things close to you?" said Young Master Yan Jiu with his eyelids lowered slowly.

Yan Zike glanced at him, and then looked at Yan Qi: "I have found out the source of the matter of Tianshi, that person didn't know that this thing would cause people to gain weight, it was really an unintentional mistake, I have destroyed the thing, this matter is over, and there is no need to pay attention to it in the future." ”

"Why does that Tianshi make people fat?" Young Master Yan Jiu still asked.

"Warm jade can drive away the cold, cold jade can relieve the heat, spiritual jade can raise people, divine jade can ward off evil spirits, jade comes from the stone, and the heavenly stone will cause people to get fat, which is not an uncommon thing. Swallow said.

"The Heavenly Stone has always only been available to the royal family, who is that person, why did the Heavenly Stone Ornament appear in the Xia Ju?" Young Master Yan Jiu continued to ask word by word.

"The Heavenly Stone is not only exclusive to the royal family," Yan Zike looked at him, "The Heavenly Stone that exceeds a foot high should be handed over to the imperial court according to the law, and the fragments of the Heavenly Stone below one foot are allowed by the imperial court to be privately owned by the people." It doesn't matter who that person is, the ornament appears in the summer residence, but it is a normal gift. ”

Young Master Yan Jiu lowered his eyelids and stopped squeaking, feeling that Yan Zike's gaze stayed on his face for a while as if it were substance, before moving away, he got up and said, "It's useless to investigate this matter anymore, so stop it." Without staying any longer, he turned and walked out the door.

Young Master Yan Jiu only felt that the invisible pressure pressing on the top of his head finally gradually dissipated with the departure of this person, and a layer of fine sweat was actually covered on his head.

A hand holding a handkerchief appeared in sight, but Young Master Yan Jiu didn't answer, and raised his eyes to look at the owner of the handkerchief: "Do you believe it?"

"If Uncle thinks it's better for us not to know the truth, then I choose to accept the result he gave, after all, I've never had any curiosity," Yan Qi was as unwavering as ever, "And I also trust his judgment and decision, if someone really wants to harm me, he won't sit idly by." ”

Young Master Yan Jiu was silent for a long time and said, "This time is different. ”

"Oh?" Yan Qi looked at him.

"This time, the situation may be much more complicated than we imagined," Young Master Yan Jiu leaned over and took out a booklet from the cabinet on the kang head, "Guan Haichao's grandfather was a lover of celestial phenomena, and since he was young, he watched the celestial phenomena every night and recorded them in detail. ”

Guan Haichao is the fat little brother who has been around Young Master Yan Jiu all day long.

"I borrowed all the astrological notes of Mrs. Guan, which not only recorded the celestial phenomena he observed, but also many celestial news and rumors collected by the people at that time. Among the data recorded in it for decades, there is only one case of information about the Heavenly Stone: one night more than ten years ago, the Heavenly Stone fell from the sky, and the streamer flashed, and it was falling into the Shouwang Mansion......"

Shouwang, the Shouwang who intends to rebel.

Whether it is really a rebellion, this is only clear to insiders, but what everyone knows is that today's saint is stepping on the dragon throne of this Shouwang, and the royal struggle since ancient times is nothing more than these routines.

"Although the stone is a stone, but because it comes from outside the sky, its price is higher than jade, especially the piece that fell into the Shouwang Mansion, although the old lady Guan did not see it with his own eyes, but also heard a little from the rumors, the Tao is that the stone is covered in green and blue, like jade and jade, it can be called peerless and rare, but the Shouwang was not in Beijing at the time, and it took more than a month to return to the palace, and after hearing about it, he did not dare to swallow it privately, and the next day it was presented.

"The emperor was happy when he got the heavenly stone, and asked the craftsman to carve it into an incense burner according to its shape, and placed it in the imperial study, and the scraps were returned to King Shou...... After the first emperor was seriously ill, a saying suddenly arose in the Beijing that the heavenly stone descended on the Shouwang Mansion at night, indicating that Shouwang Fang was the next true son of heaven, which was the will of heaven and the guidance given by the heavenly stone.

Later, there were rumors that the Shouwang Mansion privately made the national seal and dragon robe...... At that time, the emperor was still in power, and sent the dragon guards to break directly into the Shouwang mansion, and the next day he was convicted of Shouwang for rebellion, so that later Shouwang was imprisoned, and then 'sick' died...... This is needless to say, just say that the stone of the day, the large piece was carved into an incense burner and placed in the palace, and the small piece was rewarded to King Shou, there are only two pieces of one big and one small in the world, and the stone of heaven such as jade and jade, there are only two pieces for a hundred years, the stone seen in your room is the color of green, so it is obvious that this piece of stone in your room is the piece that King Shou obtained!

"The heavenly stone of Shouwangfu, why did it appear in Yanfu to sit in the summer residence? Uncle said that this thing is just a normal gift, at first glance it sounded reasonable, although it was Shouwangfu was confiscated back to the palace after being copied, it can still be used to reward people, but I later remembered that there was always something wrong with the stone ornaments that day, and I didn't realize it at the time, and I only realized it after reading the record in the notes of the old lady Guan in the past two days——

"The base of the ornament is square, and the carved evil beast can be held in the hand and can arrange a few fingers just right, usually this situation only appears on one item, and that is - the national seal!

"The rumors of King Shou's private seal do not seem to be false, he carved the stone of the sky into a seal, even if this kind of thing is confiscated back to the imperial court, it will never be rewarded again, and it should even be destroyed directly, but this thing still exists in the world, it can only show that this piece of national seal was not copied when the Shouwang Mansion was copied and inspected, and then probably the person who held this seal artificially prevented trouble from getting into trouble, and re-transformed it, smoothed the base, and turned it into an ornament......

"So I said, the truth may be far more complicated than we imagined, how did the things in King Shou's Mansion appear in the Xia Ju of Yan Mansion?" 166 Reading Network