Although there is no girl who doesn't like flowers, however, the Cheng dù she likes is not the same. Xiao Yiran's favorite thing in his heart is the wild, flowers that bloom freely, and for the flowers that are raised in pots, there are too many traces of man-made, Xiao Yiran always feels that it is not natural enough. Lingering in the chrysanthemum garden, the more Xiao Yiran looked at it, the more he felt that he lacked a bit of liveliness, so before noon, he didn't want to watch it anymore.

"Mother, let's go back."

"What's the matter, are you not feeling well?"

"Nope."

"Then why do you want to go back after admiring less than half of the chrysanthemums?"

"Don't you think the chrysanthemums in the imperial garden are too delicate?"

"What do you mean?"

"I prefer the natural and lively flowers in the wild."

"That's the same, then go and ask Brother Lin Chen if they want to go together?"

Xiao Yiran glanced at the crowd and saw that Lin Chen was talking to a son-in-law who was about the same age as him. Xiao Yiran walked over slowly, did not interrupt the communication between the two, and waited quietly to the side.

"Is Lin Gongzi ready to play next year?"

"Yes, according to my aunt's wishes, I have to wait another year. But my aunt and grandmother want me to be out next year. ”

Brother Gongzi, who was talking to Lin Chen first, saw Xiao Yiran, Lin Chen saw that the other party suddenly looked at his side, and when he turned his head, he saw that Xiao Yiran was already standing there without knowing that it was suitable, so he hurriedly turned around and asked:

"When did my sister come over?"

"Just come here, Brother Lin Chen, we're going back, if Lin Chen wants to enjoy a while just now, my mother and I will leave first."

"Lin Gongzi, who is this?"

"Oh, sister, this is Zhao Gongzi. Zhao Gongzi, this is Xiao Yiran's sister. ”

"Xiao Yiran? But the daughter of Lord Xiao, the servant of the ministry? Miss Xiao, a talented girl rumored outside? ”

"Zhao Gongzi is polite, but he doesn't dare to be a talented woman."

Xiao Yiran slightly bent his knees and bowed lightly to Zhao Gongzi, and said to Lin Chen:

"Don't disturb Brother Lin Chen and Zhao Gongzi chatting, my mother and I will go back first."

Looking at Lin Chen's actions, it seemed that he wanted to leave with Xiao Yiran, but that Zhao Gongzi called out to him:

"Lin Gongzi, wait a minute."

"Sister, let's go back first."

Lin Chen couldn't do it, so he had to stay and see what else was going on with Zhao Gongzi.

Lin Chen was not familiar with the Zhao Gongzi in front of him, but he had just met. Because of the same age, they chatted a few words. They asked each other their names, where they are studying now, what books they are reading, when they are ready to take the exam, and so on. Lin Chen only knew that the other party's name was Zhao Heng, but Zhao Heng had heard of Lin Chen a long time ago.

"Lin Gongzi, today I, Zhao Heng, actually saw the prodigy and talented girl who was rumored in the market at the same time, which is really fortunate."

"Zhao Gongzi must not believe those rumors, if it is reasonable to say that Sister Yiran is a talented girl, the word prodigy, Lin Chen really dare not take it."

"Listen to Lin Gongzi, Miss Xiao's talent is still above Lin Gongzi?"

"It's true, when I first met Sister Yiran, I was only two years old, and I was already familiar with four books. I was five years old, but I had just read the Analects. ”

"The rumors are true."

Because Lin Chen felt that Zhao Heng and Zhao Gongzi in front of him rarely fell in love, no matter what the other party asked, Lin Chen almost had to answer all questions.

When the two were chatting about Xiao Yiran, Xiao Yiran had already come to the outside of the imperial garden with his mother Sun, and saw that Xiao Qing was already waiting there, and the mother and daughter came to the carriage accompanied by Xiaoxi. Without waiting for Sun to speak, Xiao Xi asked first:

"When did you come? Just now, Miss wanted to go back, and I was still muttering in my heart, how should I inform you. ”

"I just went back to the house for a while, and then I came back. I was worried that when Madame and Miss went home early, she would not be able to find the carriage. ”

Xiao Xi saw that the man was doing a good job, and his face was also bright, and he helped Xiao Yiran's mother and son into the carriage with a happy face, and he sat on the wheel.

After the Chung Yeung Festival, the weather took a sharp turn for the worse on September 20, and from September 25, heavy snow began to fall one after another. This year's beginning of winter is on the eighth day of October, and on the evening of the seventh day of October, Xiao Yiran, who was sitting in the room, admiring the snowflakes fluttering in the sky outside through the window, saw Xiaolian running from the front yard in a hurry. With a body of snowflakes, he suddenly burrowed into the room. Since Xiaoxi and Xiao Qing got married, her mother Sun sent Xiaolian to serve Xiao Yiran. Of course, during the day, as long as Xiaoxi has nothing else to do, he will still serve by Xiao Yiran's side. Today, Xiaoxi is also in Xiao Yiran's room.

"You crazy girl, how many times have you been told that you don't know how to hold an umbrella with such a big snow. Besides, the cold air will break into the lady's house, what if the young lady catches a cold? ”

Originally, Xiaolian had been here, but there was nothing to do with the snow today, and seeing that Xiaoxi was also there, she went to the front yard to find Xiaoxing to play.

"Sister Xiaoxi, I was only thinking about what was in my heart just now, and I forgot all the words you taught."

"What's in your heart, is it Huaichun?"

After Xiaoxi got married, her speech became a little more spicy and a little more casual.

"Sister Xiaoxi is here again, if I don't tell you, I ****** something."

Xiao Yiran had been listening to the two of them joking inside, and heard Xiaolian say that she had something to do with herself, so she said:

"Sister Xiaolian, what's the matter?"

"Just now I was in the front yard, and I saw someone from Tianbo Mansion sending an invitation to Madame, and Madame asked me to tell Miss Sù that the Cheshire Lord of Tianbo Mansion invited Madame and Mademoiselle to go to Tianbo Mansion for the holiday tomorrow."

"Where's the invitation?"

"At Madame's."

"Got it."

Xiaolian knew that she was coming from the outside, with a cold body, so she didn't go inside, but just stood in the bright room, and explained the matter to the young lady through the curtain.

"If Sister Xiaoxi is fine, I still have to go to the front yard, just now Xiaoxing is helping me to tie the line, and I have to fight for a while, so I will trouble Sister Xiaoxi to serve here for a while, okay?"

Xiaolian discussed with Xiaoxi in a low voice.

"Go and come back quickly, it's just your business."

At dinner, Xiao Yiran accompanied his parents to eat in the dining room in the front yard, and his mother Sun said to the father and daughter:

"Today, the Cheshire Lord of Tianbo Mansion sent someone to send an invitation, asking me and Ran'er to go to Tianbo Mansion for a banquet tomorrow, I don't know what's going on?"

"It stands to reason that tomorrow's Lidong Festival, ordinary people will not be hospitable. It is impossible for a high-ranking family like Tianbo Mansion not to know that the Lord of Cheshire invited his virtuous wife and Ran'er to the mansion for a banquet at this time, I am afraid that there is another reason. ”

"Husband, what could it be?"

"Daddy, mother, it shouldn't be a big deal, that day was not when we were appreciating chrysanthemums in the Imperial Garden, the Lord of Cheshire invited us to go in person, and today I came to the invitation, and I just responded to the words of that day. As for the Lidong Festival, thinking of those high-ranking families, Xu doesn't pay much attention to such a small festival. ”

"There is some truth in what Ran'er said, since the invitation has been issued, the good wife will go and see Ran'er tomorrow."

Sun and Xiao Yiran arrived at Tianbo Mansion at the end of the year. When I came to the gate of Tianbo Mansion, I saw that Tianbo Mansion was actually the middle door open. Xiao Yiran and his mother Sun glanced at each other, and knew in their hearts that there must be a distinguished guest in Tianbo Mansion today. Otherwise, just the family members of fourth- and fifth-grade officials like their mother and daughter would have no identity to go through the middle gate of Tianbo Mansion at all. The carriage in which the mother and daughter were riding, under the guidance of the people of Tianbo Mansion, drove directly into the backyard before stopping. As soon as the carriage stopped, two warm sedan chairs were carried over. Directly carried the mother and daughter to a wide verandah, where several maids and daughters were already waiting.

Waiting for the sedan chair to stop, a mother-in-law lifted the sedan curtain, and a maid stepped forward to help the mother and daughter in the sedan chair down and sent them to the living room.

In the living room, the lord of Cheshire sat on the upper seat, and several wives and ladies of the eunuchs had already come next to him. Xiao Yiran just came to the living room and saw the young man sitting next to the Lord of Cheshire, and recognized it at a glance that it was the Zhao Gongzi who was talking to Lin Chen in Juyuan that day.

With his mother, Sun, he first greeted the Lord of Cheshire, and then to the ladies and ladies who were seated. In the end, the mother and daughter were placed on the right hand of the Lord of Cheshire, the seat under the head of Zhao Gongzi. This made Xiao Yiran can't help but guess the origin of this Zhao Gongzi. Looking at the arrangement of seats in the living room, Zhao Gongzi is second only to the Lord of Cheshire. And I have seen Tianbo Mansion open the middle door just now, could it be because of this Zhao Gongzi? If so, then this Zhao Gongzi must be from the palace.

Just as Xiao Yiran was guessing the identity of Zhao Gongzi here, he heard the subordinates outside shouting:

"The eldest princess has arrived."

This shout made everyone in the living room stand up and walk towards the door. Xiao Yiran noticed that although the Cheshire Lord stood up, he did not go with everyone to greet the eldest princess, and that Zhao Gongzi also stood up with the Cheshire Lord, and he also did not move.

Xiao Yiran followed his mother Sun to the verandah outside the living room, and saw a stunning girl who was being helped down by two palace maids from a warm sedan chair. The ladies hurriedly stepped forward and curtsied, saying:

"I've seen the eldest princess."

"You're welcome, I'm here to make trouble for my aunt today, so let's be casual."

Surrounded by everyone, the eldest princess stepped into the living room, and Xiao Yiran saw that Lord Cheshire and Zhao Gongzi were looking at the eldest princess with a smile.

"Auntie, you can't blame me for today's incident, it's all my brother's idea."

"No one blames you, come and sit down."

After the eldest princess sat down on the left hand of the Cheshire lord, the ladies and ladies of the eunuch family who came to come forward again stepped forward to greet the eldest princess one by one. Xiao Yiran and Sun also stepped forward, calling them "eldest princess" and curtling their knees. No, the eldest princess grabbed Xiao Yiran and asked:

"You are the rumored talented girl Xiao Yiran, right?"

"Back to the eldest princess, the little girl is Xiao Yiran, but she can't be called a talented woman."

"Hehe, brother, didn't you say that you know Miss Xiao? Why didn't you speak? ”

Xiao Yiran knew the identity of that Zhao Gongzi at this time, and hurriedly turned sideways to greet Zhao Gongzi.

"Xiao Yiran greets His Highness."

The Cheshire Lord has been smiling and sitting in his seat, looking at the situation, Zhao Gongzi came early, and the Cheshire Lord did not introduce his identity to everyone. First, when I heard the eldest princess call the young brother, and then heard Xiao Yiran call her highness, everyone reacted, and they all came over to greet the young man.