Yiqiē seems to be back to the way it was when the secret was not revealed.

Ruyi lived in the Xu Si Palace. It was not so much to stay and serve the sick, but to stay and recuperate - Xu Si quickly recovered as before, but her body was heavy, and she recuperated for a few days before she felt a little more energetic.

In the past few days, Xu Si has concentrated on copying Buddhist scriptures and fasting vegetarians. Originally, she planned to open another group for Ruyi, but Ruyi said that she wanted to eat fast with her, so she didn't insist.

Three days later, Xu Si finally finished copying the scriptures.

Early in the morning, before Ruyi got up, he heard the maids outside preparing incense tables, utensils, flowers and fruits. She slept casually, and after a while she realized that September was about to pass, and tomorrow would be her birthday - it was also the child's birthday and death day.

She lay down for a moment. I felt that I should at least put on a stick of incense, and I felt that she was present, and Xu Si had to hold back the words in her heart when she sacrificed, but it was even more uncomfortable, so it was better not to be there.

But on this day, Xu Si seemed to really let go of the past. Xiao Huaishuo came to greet her in the morning, and she asked Xiao Huaishuo if he hadn't had breakfast yet, and he was still eating with him.

After breakfast, Xiao Huaishuo went to look at the court, and Xu Si entrusted Yuhua Yuyao to Ruyi, and said, "You will send the two of them to Mengxue in a while, and by the way, you will take a look at what is going on in the school these days." ”

Ruyi knew that Xu Si wanted to break her away, and responded, "Yes." Then he took Sister Yuhua's hand and said with a smile, "Today, my aunt will go to school with you." ”

The big and the small went out, but saw Xiao Huaishuo still waiting in the yard. Ruyi still had a coaxing smile on his face, and he was a little uncomfortable when he saw him, "Why are you still here?" ”

Xiao Huaishuo said, "Waiting for you to go out together." ”

Ruyi smiled, "It's just a few steps, what's there to wait for." ”

Xiao Huaishuo didn't make a sound, just walked quietly beside her.

Neither Yuhua nor Sister Yuyao were close to Xiao Huaishuo - after all, he had occupied the place where their father had lived earlier. Xiao Huaishuo has a paralyzed face again. Ruyi doesn't know what to say. This short road has made thousands of birds fly.

Fortunately, they had to part ways when they got out of the hospital. Xiao Huaishuo nodded to Ruyi and stepped up. Walking between the high walls and deep alleys, Ruyi saw him dressed gracefully, his back was lonely, and somehow he was a little lonely in his heart.

The Mengxue where the Yuhua sisters studied was in the north of the East Palace, and the garden was called Xuanpu, which was opened up after Xiao Huaiyou entered the East Palace, and was specially used as a place for lectures. In the early years, even the famous Confucian scholars in Guozi were proud to be able to give a banquet and lecture for the prince in Xuanpu, and Xiao Huaiyou also accumulated a reputation for admiration and studious in Confucianism.

Now Xiao Huaishuo is only temporarily living in the East Palace, and the only time he listened to the Confucian's lectures was to listen to them in person. The garden was left vacant. After Xu Si returned to the court, she opened the Mengxue Museum in Xuanpu to teach the orphans she adopted to read and write. Occasionally, I will go to the lecture in person. Sister Yuhua studied here.

-- Like her, she made the princess and the prince and the common people study together, and if she had stayed with the emperor for a while, she would have been drowned by Shilin's saliva.

But Li Hu's rebellion completely changed the situation in the court. Now there are less than two or three out of ten children of the sergeant clan, and the mainstay is no one else except Xu Mao and Gu Huai. Most of the rest of the Shi clan were slaughtered by the rebels in the troubled times, and there were not a few who destroyed the Zongyi clan. And Xu Mao and Gu Huai were outliers in Shilin in their early years, one has always let his children study with the Shu clan, and the other is simply born with military merits, of course they will not hold on to these details.

There are even several court officials in the court who sent their children to study in order to please Xu Si. Xu Si also did not refuse to come.

With Xu Si personally in charge, it is probably because of the childhood here, and the concept of nobility has not yet been developed, and the atmosphere in this Mengxue Hall is better than that of Ruyi and them in the Kindergarten Hall.

Ruyi sat with the curator for a while, and asked what difficulties there were in the museum, and what were the urgent things that needed to be solved recently. The curator was a very interesting middle-aged woman, and knew that although Ruyi was young, she had a lot of experience, so she asked Ruyi to tell her story to the children in the museum.

Ruyi stayed and told a half-day story to the children in the Mengxue Hall. Children don't know how to be afraid of people, and Ruyi asks questions about them while talking about them, and the topic is immature and interesting. Ruyi gradually turned his words into acts, making grimaces to describe the horror of the enemy generals, and playing tricks to show how to take down the bad guys. Speaking of the interesting part, the children huddled together, listened with a startled smile, their eyes lit up and they wanted to fly, and kept asking "what happened later".

Ruyi looked at them, and couldn't help but think of her situation when she was in school, and thought to herself why she wasn't so cute in the first place - but think about it again, she was no longer a "young child" when she was studying Guozi School, maybe she was so innocent and lively when she followed Xu Si to learn literacy with Erlang. But Erlang must have been an iceberg face and a dead fish eye since he was a child.

For a while, I remembered the situation when I studied with Xu Yi and Liuli. At that time, I was young and spared no time. Now I know that the world is impermanent. It's only been a few years, and the classmates are not complete.

As he was telling the story, an attendant hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty is here, get ready to drive!" ”

Before the words fell, Xiao Huaiyou had already entered the courtyard.

These young children were hugging Ruyi to play, and suddenly they saw the Son of Heaven hugging in, and the curators and professors in the museum came forward to worship as if they were facing a great enemy, and signaled them not to be rude, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to make a sound, and stumbled to follow Ruyi forward. Even Yuhua and Yuyao were also affected, and they hurriedly followed to hold Ruyi's hand.

Ruyi smiled and said, "See? That is the jade-faced cold gun that beat the ghost king of Henan, Li Hu, to the ground. I don't know which child answered, "But he doesn't have a ......gun," Ruyi coaxed her, "He takes a gun when he beats a bad guy, and he doesn't take it when he sees a good guy." Do you think he looks good? Several children secretly looked up to look - not to mention Xiao Huaishuo, that face was indeed slaying demons and killing Buddhas, invincible, people, especially women's love for beauty is innate, no matter how young or old, they all obediently responded, "It's so good-looking." ”

Ruyi took them forward to see Xiao Huaishuo.

Xiao Huaishuo obviously didn't expect this kind of battle, and when he saw so many children at first glance, he didn't know how to deal with it. Although it was still that calm appearance, his eyes unconsciously avoided the children's gaze.

Ruyi hugged Yu Yao and stuffed it into his arms, but he didn't have time to refuse, so he could only take it in a hurry. hugged his little niece and said to the curator in a serious manner, "I heard that the Queen Mother adopted orphans, and devoted herself to education and opened a Mongolian school, so I came to take a look." Seeing Ruyi, his eyes softened again, and he said, "...... There is no need to make special arrangements, how to entertain the princess, just how to entertain me. ”

Ruyi said, "I'm telling them a story, and the story is finished." She looked at the curator and said, "What should I do now?" ”

The curator hurriedly said, "It's time to play, I take them to bow or throw the ball on weekdays." ”

Ruyi took Yu Yao and said to the curator, "Your Majesty wants to bow with them." ”

Xiao Huaishuo was stunned, but the curator had already ordered people to feel the ball come up, and the child heard that he was going to play football with the "Jade Face Cold Gun", so he had already thrown the word of fear outside the Nine Heavens Cloud, hugged him, and led him to the courtyard.

Xiao Huaishuo was dragged into the courtyard and looked back at Ruyi one after another, who had already taken a few extremely young children with meat hands and feet to push the ball and play.

It was nearly dawn before they came out of the Mengxue Hall together.

Xiao Huaishuo covered his head with a handkerchief and gasped. Ruyi walked beside him, smiling and enduring it very hard. Xiao Huaishuo saw her smiling, and only then did he feel a little better.

Then he said, "You let them avenge you, right?" ”

Ruyi smiled, "Who would have thought that you could let your child kick the ball?" Since childhood, I have taught you to practice martial arts well, and you have to listen to it. ”

Xiao Huaishuo said, "This is an accident!" He added, "Even though I was hit by the ball, he was scared and cried." Am I that scary? ”

Ruyi smiled, "They thought you were a jade-faced cold gun, and when they were unhappy, they even pressed the ghost king to the ground and beat you." I'm afraid you'll hit him. ”

Xiao Huaishuo snorted and chirped, "Then he definitely didn't think that I not only didn't beat him, but also made him a general." ”

Ruyi laughed so hard that tears came out, "Yes, General." It's up to you to figure it out. ”

Xiao Huaishuo said, "Didn't he burst into tears and laughed." ”

Ruyi said, "Yes, the howling general of the Son of Heaven sounds so majestic." In the future, he will know what it means, and he will have to work hard to become a real general in order to escape the life of being laughed at for a lifetime. You too, such a big person, you have to deal with a child. ”

The two siblings laughed for a while, and then fell silent again.

After a long silence, Xiao Huaishuo asked, "...... Are you still complaining about me? ”

They all knew what Xiao Huaishuo was referring to, and there was no need to pretend that they didn't understand. Ruyi thought for a long time before saying, "There's nothing to complain about." ”

Whether this matter is revealed or not, there is no right or wrong. It's just a matter of who has more mercy. But she did occasionally have a thought, wondering why Xiao Huaishuo chose to expose this secret - from Xiao Huaishuo's position, he had enough motives and reasons to continue to hide this matter, whether it was for the sake of the emperor or Xu Si, or even for Ruyi. Only Zhuang Qi Niang can get fairness and comfort from it. And Xiao Huaishuo may not have mercy on Zhuang Qiniang.

Of course, there is another explanation - he is disgusted with wishful thinking of taking away his mother's love. But Ruyi doesn't think so.

Her instinct told her not to delve into it, so she refused to ask. He said, "...... A-Niang broke me up today, probably because she wanted to pay tribute to that child in private. ”

Xiao Huaishuo said, "...... Yes, it should be over by now. ”

Ruyi said, "It would be nice if I could untie the knot." ”

Xiao Huaishuo stopped, walked a few steps before he realized, and then looked back at him.

Xiao Huaishuo also looked at her.

After a long time, he said again, "A-Niang, she is not as fragile as you think, she should have been prepared a long time ago, but she was just lucky and unwilling to face the truth." It was not so much that she was in pain when she uncovered this matter, but it was only after revealing it that she realized that the wound she thought would fester, had actually healed. ”

Ruyi said, "...... What are you talking about? ”

Xiao Huaishuo looked at her without evasion, "From the beginning, A-Niang wanted a daughter, she hoped and even prayed that she was pregnant with a girl," he said, "She was not ready to give birth to a son." What do you think is the reason for this? ”

Ruyi couldn't help but retort, "How do you know ......".

Xiao Huaishuo interrupted her and said, "Cassia Ming and Aunt Zhai both said so, otherwise A-Niang would not have been deceived so lightly." He said, "Ah Niang actually knows very well that once she gives birth to a boy, the child will definitely not live." He added, "And the child was held in front of her by Daddy first." She knows all of this, too. ”

He said, "A-Niang really can't think of it? No matter whether she gives birth to a boy or a girl, as long as Daddy looks at it first, the last person to hold in front of her will definitely be a girl. ”

"There were so many people present, even Aunt Zhai. As long as Ah Niang is a little suspicious and asks a little questions, she should know the clues. But after so many years, Ah Niang didn't even think about it - did she really trust Daddy so much? ”

Xiao Huaishuo said, "She just doesn't want to ask." ”

After a while, he added, "Besides, it may not matter if the child is her own or not. ”

Ruyi was speechless in a daze.

Xiao Huaishuo said again, "Uncovering this matter is really not as strict as you think." He said, "How deep do you have feelings for Zhuang Qi Niang?" A-Niang is probably not far from that child. Now let's talk about how sad A-Niang should be, I'm afraid that A-Niang herself is at a loss. It's not that she's ruthless—it's that she doesn't even know what that kid looks like. Maybe he is exactly the same as Li Hu. He really walked in front of Ah Niang, maybe Ah Niang would feel disgusted. More sad than her, probably because her daughter was going to be taken away by someone else—but," he asked, looking at Ruyi, "will you take it away?" ”

…… Can't take it away.

She didn't need to answer, her eyes had already told him the answer.

Although Xiao Huaishuo's face was still faint, there was already a smile in his eyes, and he slowly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "After today's memorial, A-Niang has untied the knot in her heart, and she will be able to return to normal." He looked at Ruyi again and said, "Do you guys who I know you pretend not to know, do you want to continue to play?" ”

Ruyi still couldn't agree with his remarks, because unlike Xiao Huaishuo, she actually felt the pain. But the pain is just pain, the sun rises and the moon is constant, the stars change, and there is no real collapse and fall. Moreover, the pain is gradually healing.

She thought for a while before she said, "Isn't it okay to just just expose it, not deliberately, and let it be?" ”

Xiao Huaishuo paused before he said, "...... You said before that there is no difference between exposing and not exposing. ”

Ruyi said, "Hmm." ”

Xiao Huaishuo said, "So, between you and me, is it exposed, or is it not exposed?" ”

Ruyi was puzzled, Xiao Huaishuo said, "You should know that you and I are not really sisters and brothers." ”