"Old lady, someone from Mantuo Villa said that the child you are looking for is already with them! They sent someone to ask if they were going to send it to you today. ”

On this day, Xia Xiyan was in the room, checking the account books sent by the various properties of the Murong family, and when she was about to rest, a subordinate came to tell her that Ah Zi was already in Mantuo Villa.

"I haven't been to Mantuo Villa for a long time, so I'll go over and have a look today, and bring Ah Zi back by the way." Xia Xiyan closed the account book in his hand, and after letting Midori carry it and lock it up, he was about to take a few big girls to Mantuo Villa, but he just walked out of the courtyard, and heard the sound of Azhu and Abi reading with the master in the side yard, so he asked Midori to go over and bring them with him.

"Old lady, where are you going to take us?" Ah Zhu was brought out by the green dye, so he ran to Xia Xiyan's side, raised his head and asked Xia Xiyan curiously.

Xia Xiyan touched her little face and said, "Take you to see a little sister!" ”

"Is it the same as Sister Abi?" Ah Zhu looked at Ah Bi when he heard his sister, Ah Bi, who was a few months younger than her, Ah Bi also looked at Xia Xiyan with the same curiosity, and Xia Xiyan told them, "It's a sister who is much younger than Ah Bi!" ”

"Wow!" Ah Zhu and Ah Bi were more curious to follow Xia Xiyan, and when they were carried on the boat to go to Mantuo Villa, Ah Zhu and Ah Bi walked to the side of the boat with some novelty, wanting to reach out to play in the water, but when Xia Xiyan saw it, they immediately asked Lu Yan to take them into the cabin.

"You can't run to the side of the boat, if you can't stand firmly, you'll fall!" Xia Xiyan saw them come in, and looked at the lake outside the window with some curiosity, so she gave them a reminder.

Ah Zhu and Ah Bi didn't dare to go to the boat again, but obediently stayed by Xia Xiyan's side, and Xia Xiyan was relieved when she saw this.

"Sister has arrived!" Li Qingluo received the news that Xia Xiyan came to pick up Ah Zi in person, so she immediately asked a grandmother to hold Ah Zi, who was only more than 1 year old, and followed her out to greet her.

Because Ah Zi's appearance is very similar to Ah Zhu's appearance, if he is the same age, he is afraid that it is okay to say that he is a twin.

"Huh" Ah Zhu was carried off the boat, and also noticed that Ah Zi, who was looking at a group of them timidly in Mama's arms, sighed strangely when he saw Ah Zi's face, and felt a little weird.

Ah Bi also noticed that he noticed the similarity between Ah Zhu and Ah Zi faster than Ah Zhu, so he pointed at Ah Zi with a light smile, and then said to Ah Zhu, "That sister looks like you." ”

Ah Zhu also reacted immediately after hearing this, and when she saw Ah Zi's familiarity, she stared at Ah Zi excitedly with big eyes.

"Auntie!" When Wang Yuyan heard Xia Xiyan coming, she still remembered that she also followed Li Qingluo out to greet her, and after seeing Xia Xiyan get off the boat, she shouted happily, Xia Xiyan smiled back at her, and then led her to follow Li Qingluo into Mantuo Villa.

"Sister, this girl was sent by my father this morning, and I thought about sending it to my sister later, but I didn't expect my sister to come over in person!" After Li Qingluo smiled and introduced Xia Xiyan into the house, she talked to Xia Xiyan.

"It's been a long time since I've come to see Yan'er, so I'm here to pick up Ah Zi today, and I'll come to see Yan'er by the way." Xia Xiyan hugged Wang Yuyan on her knees, touched her pink little face, and then smiled back to Li Qingluo.

After that, Xia Xiyan and Li Qingluo chatted a few words, but Ah Zhu and Ah Bi on the other side became familiar with Xiao Ah Zi, who was put down by her grandmother and stood aside when she entered the hall.

"Sister, what's your name?" Ah Zhu felt that she felt a little kind when she saw Ah Zi, so she approached Ah Zi with a sweet smile and asked her name.

Ah Zi looked at the people and things around her a little timidly, listened to Ah Zhu's question, raised her eyes to look at Ah Zhu, and then whispered her name.

"Ah Zi!"

Ah Zhu heard Ah Zi reply to her, so she smiled and continued to talk to Ah Zi, and when Xia Xiyan and Li Qingluo chatted to see them, they found that Ah Zhu and Ah Zi had already held hands and had some intimacy.

"That's Ah Zi! It's all so big! Xia Xiyan looked at Ah Zi with some joy, this little girl finally didn't have to grow up in the Star Sect.

"Old lady!" When Ah Zhu heard Xia Xiyan mention Ah Zi, he was about to take Ah Zi forward to show Xia Xiyan, but Ah Zi was a little vigilant and scared of Xia Xiyan, Ah Zhu led her to Xia Xiyan, but she was like a frightened rabbit, hiding behind Ah Zhu.

Xia Xiyan saw Ah Zi behind Ah Zhu, secretly turned her head to look at her, smiled at her gently, and then looked at Ah Zi's trusting attitude behind Ah Zhu, and felt that the blood relationship was really magical sometimes. Ah Zhu and Ah Zi only got along for a short time, but they quickly established a kind of trust.

Xia Xiyan hugged Wang Yuyan for a while, making her smile again and again, and then saw that the time was not early, she still needed to see Murong Fu's learning progress today, so she let go of Wang Yuyan and said goodbye to Li Qingluo.

"Aunt-" Wang Yuyan saw that Xia Xiyan was leaving, but she was reluctant to pull Xia Xiyan's clothes, Xia Xiyan saw this and said to Li Qingluo, "Brother and sister, it's better to let Yan'er go to my place to play for a few days, and when she is homesick, I will send someone to send her back!" ”

"Sister, Yan'er is going to disturb you, I'm afraid it's not good." Xia Xiyan's words made Li Qingluo a little reluctant, so she opened her mouth to refuse, and at the same time, seeing that Wang Yuyan pulled Xia Xiyan and wanted to follow, she called Wang Yuyan over with some displeasure, "Yan'er, come here, don't disturb your aunt!" ”

When Wang Yuyan heard Li Qingluo's words, she let go of Xia Xiyan's clothes in some frustration, and obediently walked to Li Qingluo's side.

"Brother and sister, Yan'er hasn't been to my swallow dock yet, just let her go to my place to play for a few days, she has been staying in this villa with you, and she is also bored. Go to my place and stay with me for a few days, and I'll send her back. ”

Li Qingluo heard Xia Xiyan speak again, asking Wang Yuyan to go to Yanziwu to play for a few days, Li Qingluo was a little hesitant, she didn't want her daughter to stay away from listening to an inch, but Xia Xiyan spoke twice, if she didn't agree, it wouldn't be a shame for Xia Xiyan.

"Mother!" Wang Yuyan on the side saw Xia Xiyan talking to her again, so she mustered up the courage to pull the hem of Li Qingluo's clothes, and looked at Li Qingluo with some anticipation, Li Qingluo saw that her daughter was looking forward to going out to play, so she nodded and said, "Then let Yan'er disturb my sister for a few days!" ”

Xia Xiyan heard Li Qingluo's agreement, so she smiled more deeply and went to Wang Yuyan, and Li Qingluo began to order the servants who had been taking care of Wang Yuyan to follow Wang Yuyan to Yanziwu.

"Take care of Miss! If Miss was "Li Qingluo instructed those subordinates, she was going to say that if Miss had a bad one, they would be punished, in order to let the slaves follow her, and not to despise Wang Yuyan, but seeing that Xia Xiyan was also there, she said this sentence as if she was a little worried about Xia Xiyan, so she immediately stopped, just gave Wang Yuyan's nurse a look and asked her to take care of Wang Yuyan.

Wang Yuyan laughed happily when she heard that she could follow Xia Xiyan to Yanziwu, and after being held by Xia Xiyan, she held Xia Xiyan's hand tightly, afraid that her mother would regret not letting her go.

Xia Xiyan saw Wang Yuyan's nervousness, so she said goodbye to Li Qingluo, took Wang Yuyan and Azhu and them on the boat and left.

"Auntie, it's the first time for Yan'er to go out of Mantuo Villa!" Wang Yuyan looked at the things outside the boat more curiously than Ah Zhu and Ah Bi before, and then told Xia Xiyan about her experience with some excitement.

Xia Xiyan also heard Wang Yuyan say this, and remembered that Wang Yuyan is usually quite lonely and lonely. Wang Yuyan has been staying in Mantuo Villa with Li Qingluo since she was a child, and she has never taken a step. Except for Li Qingluo, the others are servants, and their usual life can be imagined, how boring it is.

And Li Qingluo's desire to control Wang Yuyan is also very strong, Xia Xiyan remembers that Li Qingluo completely put an end to Wang Yuyan's contact with any outsiders, so Wang Yuyan is completely a girl who has been raised in a deep boudoir, and many of her behaviors when she grows up are incompatible with the outside world, and Li Qingluo's strength has also caused Wang Yuyan's character to be unassertive.

"Wait for two days, my aunt will take us Yan'er to walk around the street!" Xia Xiyan thought about it for a while, and felt that in a few days, she could take Azhu and them to the shore together, so that a few girls who had been living within the walls since childhood could see the excitement outside.

"Is that okay? Aunt? Wang Yuyan looked at Xia Xiyan in disbelief, Xia Xiyan nodded to her, and she exclaimed excitedly, "Auntie, I really want to go to the street to see, Yan'er heard the nurse say that there are a lot of fun and delicious things on the street." Before, Yan'er begged her mother to take Yan'er there, but her mother disagreed, saying that there were many bad people outside and would kidnap me! ”

Wang Yuyan recalled what her mother told her at the beginning, and asked Xia Xiyan a little confused, "Auntie, what is the bad guy, where will Yan'er go?" ”

"Bad guys?" Xia Xiyan was a little overwhelmed by Wang Yuyan, and after thinking for a long time, she thought of an explanation, "The bad guys are the ones who will hurt Yan'er, and they will abduct you to a place where your aunt and your mother can't find you!" ”

Wang Yuyan heard that she couldn't see her mother and Xia Xiyan when she was abducted, so she said a little nervously, "Then my aunt still shouldn't take Yan'er to the street, Yan'er doesn't want to be abducted!" ”

Xia Xiyan then explained to Wang Yuyan that as long as she followed her well, she would not be abducted, Wang Yuyan was relieved to use her little hand to pat her chest, with a relieved look, and Xia Xiyan laughed.

"Mother!"

After Xia Xiyan and the others returned to Swallow Dock, Murong Fu, who had already finished class, knew that she had gone to Mantuo Villa, so she came to the shore to wait for Xia Xiyan, and when she saw Xia Xiyan, she immediately stepped forward to help Xia Xiyan down.

Xia Xiyan hugged Wang Yuyan first and handed it to him, let him follow, she got off the boat by herself, and then took Wang Yuyan from Murong Fu and put her on the ground, and then led her.

"This is your cousin, Wang Yuyan." Xia Xiyan saw Murong Fu staring at Wang Yuyan in surprise, so she explained Wang Yuyan's identity to him.

"Yan'er is still so old, I remember going to my uncle's house to see her a few years ago, and she was still a small group." Murong Fu listened to Xia Xiyan's introduction, but remembered that before Wang's younger brother died, he followed Wang to Mantuo Villa to meet Wang Yuyan, who was less than a year old, a few times.

"Yan'er, this is your cousin!" Xia Xiyan saw that Wang Yuyan also looked at Murong Fu with a curious expression, so she told her about Murong Fu's relationship with him, Wang Yuyan showed a sweet smile to Murong Fu, and then called 'cousin'.

Murong Fu responded with a smile, and also called 'cousin' to Wang Yuyan.

At this time, Ah Zhu and Ah Bi and Ah Zi were also hugged by them, Ah Zhu and Ah Bi also called Murong Fu with a smile, and Xia Xiyan also took them back to her big courtyard together.

Murong Fu stayed in Xia Xiyan's courtyard, and after having dinner with Xia Xiyan, he talked to Xia Xiyan again, and then told Xia Xiyan that he had sorted out some things and wanted to talk to Xia Xiyan in detail tomorrow, and Xia Xiyan and him were scheduled to meet in his study the next afternoon.

"That mother, Fu'er will go back first!" After Murong Fu said goodbye, he also said hello to Wang Yuyan, who was playing with Azhu and them, before leaving.

Xia Xiyan saw Murong Fu leaving, so she arranged for Wang Yuyan to bring the people who came with her to live in a courtyard next to her.

After Wang Yuyan was taken to the courtyard by Green Dye, Xia Xiyan looked like a little tail following Ah Zi of Ah Zhu, and then handed her over to Lu Yan, who had been taking care of Ah Zhu.

"In the future, Ah Zi will also follow you to learn things from the master, Ah Zhu, take care of Ah Zi!" Xia Xiyan saw that Ah Zhu was very happy that Ah Zi was taken care of by Lu Yan with her, so she asked her to take care of Ah Zi at ordinary times.

Waiting for Ah Zhu and them to be taken down by the green monks, Xia Xiyan took out the account books of the Murong family from all over the country and looked at them, according to the memory of the Wang family, it was not difficult for Xia Xiyan to look at these account books, but the more she looked, the more she looked, the more she staggered the wealth that the Murong family had accumulated for so many generations.

"With so much money, why don't you want to be a rich man, you have to think about the unrealistic dream of recovering the country, and live a tired life." Xia Xiyan couldn't help but sigh when the green dye was spent by her to rest.

The next day, when Xia Xiyan went to see him as agreed with Murong Fu the day before, he thought that he would hear that Murong Fu had been inspired by reading the historical records of the Han Dynasty in the past few days, and asked her to go, but he didn't expect that Murong Fu copied a lot of things in the historical records that he couldn't understand and asked Xia Xiyan.

"Mother, I also asked the master about these, but the master said that he was a literati and couldn't understand the things on the battlefield, Fu'er pondered it for a few days, but he still couldn't understand it, mother, can you help Fu'er solve his doubts?"

Xia Xiyan took over Murong Fu's sketch of several famous battles fought during Liu Xiu's restoration, looking at the questions marked by Murong Fu next to him, he also knew where Murong Fu's confusion was now, he didn't know how to look at the situation at all, and she didn't expect him to look so deeply, she just wanted him to see that Liu Bei and Liu Xiu's restoration were both soldiers, not like his Murong family, without any soldiers and horses, but he didn't expect Murong Fu to skip what she wanted him to see, and went directly to see how Liu Xiu led his troops to recapture the country after the fall of the Western Han Dynasty.

However, since Murong Fu asked, Xia Xiyan also began to analyze in detail with him how Liu Xiu succeeded in recovering the country by taking advantage of the three indispensable things of time, place and people, and what Liu Bei lacked to be unable to restore the country.

In Liu Xiu's era, Wang Mang's new dynasty lost all the people's hearts, and everyone in the world expected the revival of the Han Dynasty, which was the general trend of Liu Xiude, on the other hand, Liu Bei's era, the Han Dynasty had lost the hearts of the people, careerists were everywhere, and the attraction of reviving the Han dynasty was weaker than that of Liu Xiu's period, and the people of the world did not expect much from the revival of the Han Dynasty, which made Liu Bei unable to get the general trend of recovering the country. After the army, Liu Bei only occupied Yizhou, but Liu Xiu occupied the north when he raised his army, and the north that had experienced war was several times more than the population of Yizhou and Jiangdong, not to mention, and the soldiers were also sufficient, which was Liu Xiu's geographical advantage, and what Liu Bei lacked. Looking at the followers around Liu Xiu, there are heroes and elites such as Feng Yi and Guanzhong. There are also twenty-eight generals, charging for him. Although Liu Bei also has elites and soldiers around him, he is far inferior to the resources that Liu Xiu has."

Murong Fu looked at Xia Xiyan pointing at him and outlining the content of the history books that he had not outlined, and said everything he had never thought of, and he admired Xia Xiyan in his heart.

Xia Xiyan told Murong Fu about the comparison between Liu Xiu and Liu Bei again, and then asked Murong Fu what she had always wanted Murong Fu to discover.

"I said so much, Fu'er may see what he needs to restore the country?"

"Mother, I know that I must take advantage of the right time and place to restore the country! Liu Xiu is to occupy all of him, so that he can successfully restore the country! Murong Fu was not stupid to hear the center of Xia Xiyan's words this time, and Xia Xiyan asked him when he saw this, "Then Fu'er is analyzing and analyzing now, the situation of our Murong family's restoration of the country, how many of its three things are right?" ”

Xia Xiyan's words made Murong Fu bow his head and ponder, but Murong Fu was in his mind, so he made a simple comparison between the situation of the Murong family and Liu Xiu's, Murong Fu immediately discovered the problem of the Murong family's restoration of the country, and his face quickly turned pale, and when he looked up again, the whole person was a little shaky, and when Xia Xiyan supported him, Murong Fu said to Xia Xiyan with a crying voice.

"Mother, my Murong family has the right time, place and people, and I don't occupy it!"