It will be late and the showers will stop.

I looked out from inside the gate of the Lake Pavilion and could see that the sky was a clean pale cyan after the rain.

"You said that my senior brother is staying in the Southern Liang Imperial City now, do you know why it is delayed?" I frowned at the man who brought the refreshment.

"The lord said that the Southern Liang royal family had a plan to send troops to the southwest, so he wanted to stay in the city to listen to the movements." The other party replied quickly.

"The news has finally reached there, but I don't know if the plan is imminent or can be postponed for a while." I stood up and paced back and forth in the room.

I was convinced that my brother must have a reason to stay there, and I couldn't think about it for a while, but my gut reaction had something to do with me.

Could it be that Senior Brother has the ability to insert a lever in the middle of the plans of the Southern Liang royal family?

Looking back and thinking about the news over there, there is also this garden in Qibei City.

I don't think Senior Brother's intelligence network is necessarily slower than the forces of either side.

"Miss Xiaoling, the Lord has another sentence for me to bring to you, saying that your master has also been in the Nanliang Imperial City recently." The man lowered his eyes respectfully.

I was stunned for a moment, and then I reacted and said that it was Master Xiuzhu, and the corners of my mouth couldn't help but show a smile.

I still remember the first time I met the master, his old man was begging for food in the city, I don't know if he was begging when he met Tianfang this time.

Thinking of this, my mood is temporarily relaxed.

I looked at the messenger and said, "Then did my senior brother say that the master would come to Qibei to find me?" “

The man shook his head and said, "No, but the Lord told me that the master has an order that you will need the silver soon." It can be extracted by going to the pass. “

I was taken aback, looked at him with wide eyes, and said, "What else did my senior brother say?" “

He hurriedly added, "There is another sentence, saying that it is based on the token of Xiuzhutang as a voucher for extraction. “

"Above. That's all. The messenger bowed his hand to me and said, "If Miss Xiaoling has a letter, you can give it to me immediately, because the Lord instructed me not to delay, but to rush back to the Imperial City of Nanliang to resume my life." ”

I pondered for a moment and said, "Wait a minute. I'll write a letter in a moment, and you'll be able to go back later. ”

…… Seeing the man leave from the curved bridge immediately, Cui'er said beside me: "Girl, why did the lord say such a thing, the slave and maid don't understand. ”

"What a word," I said, looking a little distractedly at the back of the departing messenger, "I will listen to you repeat it." ”

"What does it mean that the Lord has said that the girl will soon need silver?" Cui'er asked with the same expression as before, her eyes wide.

"Maybe I'm afraid I'm here. The steward deducts my food and clothing, my senior brother said, girls should be rich. I smiled in response to Cui'er.

"The girl is bluffing, don't say that the people here are at the bottom, even the boss in charge is respectful to the girl, and the girl is the senior sister of the Lord. Who eats a leopard and dares to treat the girl harshly. ”

Cui'er didn't believe it, "It must not be because of this that the Lord said that." ”

"You're growing a lot now, you've gone from having your own ideas to having your own ideas, which is good." I glanced at Cui'er and nodded approvingly.

"My brother is right, he has always been good at guessing people's minds." I paused for a few seconds before adding, "He doesn't just have that. I've seen it in others. ”

"Essentially, they're all the same kind of people, so ......" I hesitated to say the next sentence.

Cui'er really didn't give in: "The girl has been talking like this a lot lately, is there anything you can't tell the slave?" ”

I smiled helplessly: "So, they are the future successors." Because anyone who has achieved the imperial industry must pass the first hurdle is to guess his heart and push himself and others. ”

"Isn't that tiring?" Cui'er sighed.

"Who said that it would be easy to be in a high position, the world only sees gold and jade, but they can't see how many treacherous calculations there are above the temple." I chuckled, "But that's not something for little girls like us to worry about. ”

"The rain has stopped," said Cui'er, changing the subject, "girl, what are you going to prepare for dinner?" ”

I thought about it, and couldn't help but laugh again, Cui'er looked at my smile and said inexplicably: "What's wrong with the girl?" ”

"Cui'er," I said as I nudged her arm, "it seems like the most pleasant and peaceful period I've ever had in a long time, and the most important thing of the day is the question of what to eat." ”

"If I continue like this, I really want to feel that I am a rich daughter raised in the depths of the boudoir." I whispered.

"The slave doesn't understand, can't the girl live such a day forever, with the identity of the master's sister here, it is natural to live in this garden." Cui'er looked at me with a serious expression.

"Even if in the future, the girl is tired of living in Qibei, she can follow the Lord to other places, you also know that there are countless mansions on the Lord, all over the place."

Cui'er looked at me with envy and said, "I don't know how many women yearn for this kind of day." ”

I suddenly turned to look at Cui'er and asked, "Have you ever seen the Lord in your mouth?" My brother? “

A touching look flashed in Cui'er's eyes and said, "I've seen it once from afar, my lord...... Looks ......"

Cui'er looked at me with a red face, and I smiled: "My senior brother is very handsome, and once because of his handsomeness, he almost brought him a disaster. “

The past in Dingbei Wangfu flashed through my mind, and I still suppressed the idea of telling Cui'er.

Thinking for a moment, I suddenly remembered that Tianfang was specially taken into the mansion by Xuanyuan Jingya at that time, and I still don't know his purpose, but spying on the military is definitely part of it.

In this way, he now intends to stay in the Southern Liang Imperial City, and may be brewing another chess piece.

"Cui'er, the kind of life you talked about earlier is not what I yearn for." I let go of this thought and turned back to the conversation with Cui'er, looking at her intently.

"What I want is to be independent, to be free, to be free from anyone's life." I said word by word.

Cui'er seemed to understand, and she seemed to know half-understood.

Because she then said to me: "The life that a girl wants is probably not so easy to get in this world, because as a woman, she must get married." “

"Even if I get married one day, I won't rely on that person to live, let alone lose what I want." I muttered.

"But right now, I don't have the right to say it." I lowered my eyes and looked at the pharmacopoeia that had been sitting there on the table.

"Cui'er, do you know why I said your idea is good?" I asked Trilla in a low voice.

"You said you wanted to open a shop, I think a girl wants to make a living, money is really too important."

"Even if you are lonely all your life, with a shop, you can run it yourself and make money, you can hire someone to take care of it, and you will feel stable when you have your own business."

"What does the girl say...... It's a little sad, why be alone? A girl is such a good girl, and there will be people who love and cherish her. Cui'er was sentimental by my words for a while, and approached me to comfort me.

"Even like the Lord, he is very good to the girl." Cui'er said as she stroked my hair.

"Cui'er, I used to be a rich family...... Daughter," I said again, "but...... Almost overnight, my home was gone, and I became an orphan girl. “

Cui'er looked at me in surprise.

"So, from then on, I knew that everything that someone else gave was likely to disappear at some point."

"Nothing is always yours, always yours." I looked around the room with a cold gaze, and I swept through the elegant furniture, boxes of clothes, and bookshelves full of books.

Finally, my eyes fixed on the table, I picked up the pharmacopoeia and said, "I hope to learn more things in my lifetime, such as the book in my hand, to teach me the way of medicine." “

"Even on the way to escape, I can distinguish which ones are medicines, and if I am sick, I will be protected."

"For example, the swordsmanship that I practice every day, I won't be completely powerless to fight back when I encounter a rogue in the deep mountains and wild forests."

Richness can also be stored in a more secure form, that is, you enrich yourself, both spiritually and materially.

The premise is that you have to be strong enough!

…… After a long time, I said, "The more I learn, the more ...... I feel." Safe. ”

…… Leaning against the stone railing, I stood silently looking at the lake.

"Girl, girl, let the master carve the jade flute send." Cui'er ran over and handed me a brocade box.

I opened the box, and sure enough, there was a lushly colored jade flute lying inside.

To a layman, the carving was already very beautiful, but I knew that it was certainly a far cry from what someone had seen.

"It's hard to be a master, remember to help me reward him." I lowered my head and stroked the brocade box and said softly.

I know that this flute is already made by the best master in Qibei City, and I can't ask for more.

The melodious and clear sound of the flute sounded, and the melody was tactful and lingering, containing wisps of longing.

Cui'er listened to the idiot, and after a long end note, she sighed, "This song sounds a little sad, like parting." ”

Maybe I've been following me for a while, and there is a little bit of a tacit understanding of the same heart, but it's rare for her to hear the gloomy sadness under that lingering.

I felt a moment of loss and helplessness, and then adjusted my mood and smiled at Cui'er.

I put down the flute on my lips and looked at Cui'er and said, "You're right, we're going to leave Qibei soon, I told you about it last time, if you want, follow me, have you thought about it?" ”

"The slave and maid have already thought about it, they must follow the girl, and wherever the girl goes, the slave and maid will follow." Cui'er said to me with a firm look in her eyes.

"Okay, my senior brother, I'll let him know," I smiled at Cui'er and whispered, "Come to think of it, he's willing to sell me a favor." ”