Towards the end of the year, the snow is beginning to melt. The weather warms up a little, and the snow that has been deposited on the dry branches for a long time tends to melt, and the translucent hem shines beautifully in the sunlight.

Ye Ziniang cleaned up a spacious big house in the rippling courtyard, half of which was used as a study, half as a studio, and a corner for playing the piano. The house also specially smoked incense, and sent a little girl who was literate and hyphenated to serve here, and looked at her mother bitterly, and said coquettishly: "Dad said that he would be able to do it." ”

Ye Ziniang bluffed: "When your sister is as old as you, how can you have such a heart, now there are two grandmothers who teach you alone, study hard!" Ye Ziniang was ruthless this time, no matter how coquettish her little daughter was, she would definitely spoil her temperament.

Ripple cried bitterly, and saw that the two grandmothers both wrinkled their eyebrows and stopped talking.

In fact, these, she is not unable to learn, even better than the average person to learn, the last life, in order to please people, get a few more words of praise, hard writing and practice every day, grandmother's birthday banquet spent half a year to draw a picture of Guanyin, that painting she spent a lot of work, with the pen is very delicate, Guanyin's clothing patterns, are with light ink outline, long hair thick ink, extremely eye-catching, grandmother after seeing, but a faint word: "The painting skills of the four girls are getting better and better." Ripple nose sour, I can't say what it feels like in my heart, it's just that I don't want to animate the pen in the future, and I have been disappointed after looking forward to it, only to know the powerlessness of falling into the abyss, she often dreams, it's pitch black all around, and she keeps falling, there is no bottom.

In the past many years, she has been learning how to abide by the rules and how not to lose the face of the Hou Mansion; How to be a docile stepdaughter without annoying the housemother, how to be a well-behaved fourth girl, and maintain the superficial happiness between the sisters. Ripples hated this in his heart, hated these so-called rules that bound people, and his back was stabbed with blood, but on the surface, he still had to greet people with a kind and kind smile. She endured it all her life and didn't want to endure it anymore.

Ripple frowned, but she couldn't change her mother's mind, and if she didn't want to, the two grandmothers also lived in the Hou Mansion and taught Ripple a lesson for half a year.

When spring came from the east, it was June, the sky was clear, the breeze was gentle, and the birthday banquet of the eldest princess arrived.

The eldest princess is now sixty years old, and she has a very good relationship with her mother's compatriots on the pilgrimage. Some of the female relatives who went to celebrate their birthdays had the intention of climbing relationships, and the other half came with the attitude of looking at their daughters-in-law.

The daughters of the family are all pampered in the deep boudoir, and they can't see people, and now the eldest princess's birthday is a good time, walking around to see each other, but not embarrassing.

Ripple is now eleven and has not yet decided to marry, Ye Ziniang had the heart to take her to appear in front of the ladies of various families, so early in the morning, she asked the girl to dress her up.

Ripple wore a long Le Mingguang brocade chest skirt, with a white jade Nanzhu collar on her chest, a little emerald gold on her wrist, her hair combed and fell into a horse bun, and when she turned and moved, the greenstone pendant on her head swayed, which looked very lively and cute.

After riding the carriage to the princess's mansion, he changed into a light sedan chair. Ripple secretly pulled up the sedan curtain to look, and saw that the princess's mansion was purple and red, and the flowers were blooming just right, and it just so happened that the sedan curtain on the opposite side was also opened, and Ripple looked at it, but it was a jewel, making a grimace at her.

The land of the princess's house is very open, the soil is the mountain, the water is the lake, the mountain body mixed with soil and stone is composed of a large number of mountain stones, the plants are planted on it, the flowers and trees are more than 1,000 kinds, among them, the peony is the most famous, because the peony planting place is higher, slightly cold, it blooms in June every year, and the birthday of the eldest princess is shining together. Every birthday, the ladies of various families are invited to eat and enjoy the flowers.

The Princess's Mansion looks from south to north, with a large area of water and verdant mountains covering each other. Looking from the north to the south, the small scenery composed of pavilions and pavilions forms a clear contrast with the north bank, although there are not many buildings, but the victory is that the height is scattered, and the form is different and rich.

Walking to the birthday banquet, ripples Shi Shiran got off the sedan chair, but saw that the agate greenstone pendant on her head did not move at all, and the hollow honeysuckle knot hanging chain silver incense ball on the waist did not move an inch.

Baozhu couldn't help but be stunned, what a beautiful woman.

Then he approached Ripple and laughed in her ear: "You have learned the rules well, and you have really become a lady in Beijing." ”

Ripple frowned a pair of distant mountain eyebrows, approached the orb, his eyes signaled his feet, slightly raised his skirt, exposed an ankle, and said with a wry smile: "What is the lady, the organs are all here." ”

Baozhu was stunned for a moment, and then almost laughed, and then thought that he was in the princess's mansion at this time, he couldn't help but smile, and the smile in his eyes couldn't stop, and said, "Poof! Tie a rope around your feet, who came up with it. ”

"Mama Li said that I always have a half-point difference in my steps, and I prepared a rope and tied it to my feet, and took a big step to ensure that I tripped.

Ripples saw Ye Zhizhang from afar, and wanted to wave his hand, but he thought that now that he was old, he couldn't play around like he did when he was a child, pursed his lips, smiled and nodded.

Ye Zhizhang also smiled at her, his beautiful big eyes were slightly curved, and the color was circulating, with three points of warm color and three points of bright color, and his eyes were full of blooming peach blossoms.

Baozhu's face flushed, and his face twisted to the other end, pretending to look at the scenery.

Just listen to a voice "The prince has arrived." It was too late for the ladies of each family to dodge at this time, so they stood to the side and bowed their heads in salute.

Seeing that her second brother was following behind the prince, Ripple blinked mischievously, Ji Suyan twisted his eyebrows, glared at Ripple, and motioned her to lower her head.

Ye Zhizhang was holding a silver aromatherapy ball in his hand, standing obediently to the side, a gust of wind blew, and a few strands of hair on his forehead hung down, covering a pair of lacquer-like eyes, but the lips were red and lovely.

I heard a voice "The prince has arrived." Ye Zhizhang was about to kneel on the ground, and as soon as his hand was loosened, the silver ball rolled a few times and rolled to the edge of a pair of yellow shoes.

The prince bent down to pick up the small ball, and the small bell in the ball jingled, which Ye Zhizhang wanted to give to Ripples. The prince walked up to Ye Zhizhang in a few steps and asked, "This is your thing?" ”

Ye Zhizhang raised his head, only to see the bright yellow robe, and the entire figure of the prince was blocked by Ji Suyan.

"This is my cousin, who is still young, and always likes to tinker with gadgets."

The prince said "um", as if he didn't care, handed the aromatherapy ball to Ji Suyan casually, turned around and walked inside.

Ji Suyan breathed a sigh of relief, stuffed the ball into his cousin's hand, and hurriedly followed.

The male and female guests are separated by eight screens carved with yellow pear hollow and rare birds.

The prince held the cup in his hand, slightly closed his eyes and leaned on his cheek with one hand to recuperate.

He still remembered the little boy just now, with the top of his black hair, translucent ears, rabbit-like eyes, and white fingers holding aromatherapy balls, revealing a thin wrist, and he could vaguely see the cyan blood vessels...... Now that I look at it, I can't help it, and if I really use it, I don't know what kind of soul/soul I want.

How did everyone here know that the prince cared about/the little prince of the General's Mansion, and they all brought cups over to toast.

Ji Suyan sat upright on the side of the prince, worried in his heart, and flashed a very bad premonition. The prince's eyes when he looked at Brother Zhang were not right, full of spring/color, where was the eyes of an adult man looking at the child.

Seeing that the old god Ji Suyan was sitting aside, the prince raised his glass from the table, slowly moved it to his lips, and a smile appeared in his narrow eyes, and said, "Your cousin, how old is he now?" ”

Ji Suyan couldn't help but feel cold in his heart, and was silent for a long time, and said: "It's thirteen in autumn." ”

Add one point of hatred, if it weren't for the prince's dirty thoughts about Brother Zhang in the previous life, Brother Zhang would not have died so miserably.