Winter nights always come very early, and as soon as the hour, candles are lit in every room. The hustle and bustle of the house was gone, and it was a little quiet and terrible for a while.

In order to pass the long and difficult night, Xia Xueer went into the study to paint. Cuizhu, who was quietly grinding ink on the side, looked at her young lady's pen and stroke, the pen was smooth, and only a few simple strokes outlined the image of a handsome son, and always felt familiar, tilted her head and frowned after thinking about it, and suddenly laughed: "Miss, are you painting Mu Gongzi?" ”

"Huh?" Xia Xue'er heard Cuizhu's question, stopped the flying brush in her hand and looked carefully, only a few simple lines on the rice paper outlined a human figure, quite a demeanor. The angular face, the slender and straight body, the long black hair, and the disgusting corners of the mouth that seem to be smiling but not smiling, are really a little similar to Mu Feiyang. He muttered, "It seems that he really looks a little bit like him." ”

Cuizhu didn't hear what Xia Xue'er said, and only smirked vigorously on the side. Xia Xue'er's sharp eyes glanced at the smiling face, Cuizhu hurriedly stopped laughing, pouted and muttered, "It was originally so!" ”

"Say one more word, believe it or not, I'll throw you out to blow the cold wind!"

Cuizhu hurriedly raised her hand to cover her small mouth, and looked at Xia Xue'er with big eyes, looking pitiful and innocent. Xia Xue'er didn't continue to pay attention to her, turned around and carefully looked at the drawing paper on the case, and her thoughts flew for a while.

Cuizhu looked at her young lady's serious look at the painting, and couldn't help but joke: "Miss is thinking about it." ”

Seeing that Xia Xue'er didn't answer, she added without knowing whether she was alive or dead, "Thinking about it every day, dreaming about it at night, will Miss have Mu Gongzi dreaming tonight?" ”

Xia Xue'er looked at Cuizhu sideways, made a disgusted expression and said, "Bah, who's going to miss him!" In gibberish, see if I don't tear your mouth! ”

Cuizhu laughed even more when she heard this, put down the ink in her hand, and fled to the side before continuing to tease: "No one is allowed to say it yet, Miss must still be thinking about Mu Gongzi in her heart!" Also, Mu Gongzi is personable, talented, and extremely handsome, and he is the most pleasing to girls! ”

Xia Xue'er glanced at Cuizhu and said, "What aesthetic level?" You're a girl, you really won't blush, and you're not ashamed to say this! ”

Cuizhu was choked by these words for a while, coughed twice and then stiffened her lips and said: "What the slave said is the truth, what is there to be ashamed of." ”

Xia Xue'er narrowed her eyes into a narrow slit, looked at Cuizhu with a wicked smile and said, "Yo, isn't it that you're a little girl who has fallen in love with him?" ”

Cuizhu hurriedly shook his hand and argued: "Miss is used to making fun of slaves and maids, how can slaves and maids have that kind of blessing!" That Mu Gongzi looked like the young master of a big family, and he was extraordinary, and he was right with the young lady in Yemen. ”

Xia Xue'er's jaw almost fell to the ground, and she exclaimed, "The door is right? ”

Cuizhu analyzed with a serious face: "Isn't it? You see that Mu Gongzi's clothes and accessories are not something that ordinary people can have, and he is good friends with the eldest young master, what is the son of a rich and noble family? Moreover, that Mu Gongzi tried his best to talk to Miss again and again, and Lang Lang dared to stand on this roof and peek at Miss, don't you just like you! ”

Xia Xue'er cast an appreciative look at Cuizhu, this girl could see through Mu Feiyang's disguise at a young age. "Your little girl's eyesight is not bad, but he is not an idle person, and he is not comparable to ordinary rich and noble sons."

Cuizhu sneered and said, "Could it be that he has a more transcendent identity!" Miss, you are the daughter of the dignified general's mansion, and you are a flower in the capital, and the ordinary rich and noble families can't look down on it, even the noble fifth prince......"

Xia Xue'er interrupted: "What nonsense, I'm not afraid of flashing my tongue!" ”

Only then did Cuizhu realize that he was arrogant for a while, and hurriedly shut up. She also knew that the partition wall in this mansion had ears, and her own young lady was walking on thin ice, so the fact that the young lady had no intention of running for the fifth imperial concubine and making a big fuss about the palace must not let people with bad intentions know.

Xia Xueer suddenly remembered her boyfriend in the twenty-first century, and she was sentimental for a while. "I wish to have one heart, and the white head will not be separated. What's the use of being humble or honorable if you can't be honest with each other! ”

Cuizhu looked at the sadness between Xia Xue'er's eyebrows, and felt distressed. "Miss may not have any worries to say it, although the slave maid is dull and can't share the worries for the young lady, but the slave believes that as long as she says it, she will feel better."

Xia Xue'er smiled reluctantly and said, "If you can say it, you can't call it worry, don't say it." ”

Then he instructed: "People like Mu Feiyang, you can stay as far away as you can, she is not something you can afford to offend." ”

"Why?"

Thinking of a few contacts with Mu Feiyang, although he hid it well and looked polite on the surface, Xia Xue'er could see at a glance that this person was definitely a ruthless character who would do anything to achieve his goals. No matter what ambitions he has, whether he is world-minded or obsessed with power, this man is bound to stir up a storm. Xia Xue'er didn't want to have anything to do with such a person, so every time she saw him, she didn't give him a good look, and not speaking ill of him was already considered merciful to him. Moreover, in the social environment of male supremacy in ancient times, how could a person who aspires to grasp supreme power like her fall in love with a woman like her, who not only can't do the "three subordinates" but can't firmly control it in the palm of her hand?

"So much, he's a ruffian, scum! Got it? Scum! ”

Cuizhu was shocked by Xia Xue'er's excited expression and fierce words, she had never seen Miss like this, let alone heard her comment on a person like this, and blurted out for a while: "Why did he mess with you, Miss?" You're so mean today. ”

Xia Xue'er was choked by Cuizhu's words, and her eyes widened and exclaimed, "I'm mean? Is it usually too good to you, even if you don't know the importance one by one, you dare to say this about me! It seems that I will really need to discipline you more in the future, so that you can see my mean side! ”

Cuizhu broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly smiled: "Miss, don't be angry, the slave is just talking about playing, if you don't like it, don't like it, why be angry with yourself." ”

Xia Xue'er glanced at Cuizhu, her eyes returned to the drawing paper, the face that seemed to be smiling deeply stimulated her little heart, inexplicably worried, dropped the pen, pulled up the drawing paper, crackled and tore it to pieces, and her heart was much more comfortable. I really don't know what's wrong with me, that disgusting face always comes to mind from time to time, so I want to punch him and see if he can't show off!

When she was beating Mu Feiyang in her mind, Xia Xue'er, who had excellent ear power, heard footsteps on the path outside the courtyard gradually approaching, gently shallow, like a weak woman, and after a while, she heard someone knocking on the courtyard door of Tingyuxuan, and then someone ran out of the small kitchen, went straight to open the door, and listened to the conversation, it seemed to be the frost next to Dongmei and the old lady.

"Dongmei, can the third young lady rest?"

"Not yet, it's cold outside, Sister Shuang'er, please come in!"

Immediately afterwards, there was the footsteps of Dongmei running close to the main house, "Miss, Miss, Sister Shuang'er is here!" ”

Xia Xue'er threw the shredded drawing paper in her hand on the ground, stepped on it a few times with her foot fiercely, and then packed up her mind and walked out of the study, and said to Dongmei, who had just entered the door: "I know, you have heard your loud voice from afar." ”

Shuang'er, who followed behind, elegantly saluted Xia Xue'er: "Shuang'er greets the third lady." ”

Xia Xue'er hurriedly stepped forward to help Shuang'er up, and said with a smile: "Don't be polite, please come in and sit down, and drink a cup of hot tea to warm up." ”

Xia Xue'er always remembered that when she first came to this world, she was still repulsive and afraid of people or things, and the appearance of Shuang'er dispelled the fear that spread out from the depths of her heart, and the wisdom and firmness revealed between her eyebrows and eyes made her inexplicably want to get close and trust. She sent her lost and weak back to her room, and she could be said to be the first person to give her warmth, so Xia Xue'er never treated Shuang'er as an outsider, nor did she take her as a current person, only as her dearest sister.

Xia Xue'er pushed the ceramic dish on the table in the direction of Shuang'er, and said, "This is a flower cake baked by me from the chrysanthemums stored in autumn, I just asked the girl to bring it from the kitchen, how about you taste it?" ”

Shuang'er pinched a piece and put it in her mouth to taste it, and praised it: "Well, it's delicious!" I heard that the third lady was ingenious, and on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the flower moon cakes made by the mother-in-law were even more to solve the urgent need of the lady, and today I was fortunate to taste the flower cakes made by the third lady herself. ”

Xia Xue'er smiled slightly after hearing this, it has been several months since the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the effort of raising her hands is really not enough to worry about. Moreover, it is also a relief for her that her idea and expertise can really come in handy.

"Listen to what you mean, but grandma has something to look for me?"

Shuang'er put down the pastry in her hand and replied with a smile: "This winter, the night falls early, and the old lady thinks that the third lady is bored to stay in the house alone, and she has not seen you for some time, and she thinks even more so in her heart, so she specially asked the slave maid to come and see if the third lady can have time to go to the old lady's house for a gathering." ”

Xia Xue'er took a sip of tea before replying: "This time it is exactly what I want, I haven't had a good conversation with my grandmother for a long time, and I am thinking about it tightly, so how can I not go?" Even if you don't come today, I'm going to bother her old man tomorrow. ”

Seeing that there is always an indescribable weirdness between Shuang'er's gestures, Xia Xue'er was suspicious, and after thinking about it, night had already fallen, and the old lady was old again, so she should have rested early, how could she send someone to summon just because she missed her, and the person who came was still Shuang'er. It is impossible for the old lady to invite her to a small party alone, nor can it be as simple as a small gathering. So he asked casually, "I don't know who else is there?" ”

Shuang'er lowered her eyebrows and replied, "All the aunts and young ladies in the house have already arrived, and the third young lady is left alone." ”

Xia Xue'er nodded and said, "That's it, then let's go quickly." When he was about to arrive at the door, he suddenly remembered something, so he stopped and turned his head to the girls who followed him and ordered: "Cuizhu's body is not yet well, and the frost and dew are heavy at night, so don't go with it, just Dongmei and Qiu Ju to follow." Since it is to relieve the old lady's boredom, how can she miss her old man's favorite tune, Dongmei, you go and get my piano; Qiu Ju, you put two plates of freshly made pastries and take them away. ”

Cuizhu quickly took out a light pink fur collar cloak embroidered with red plum from the wardrobe and put it on Xia Xue'er: "Miss beware of catching a cold." ”

Dong Mei went to get the qin as instructed, Qiu Ju also put the flower cake in the food box, and it was ready, and the two rough envoys in the courtyard were playing lanterns in front of them, and the group came out to listen to Yuxuan.