On this day, Su Xi was lying on the collapse of the beauty with the red sandalwood vine, her big bony eyes were spinning, a thin layer of sweat was oozing from the tip of her upturned nose, her delicate and jade face was full of anxiety, and her little hand on the edge of the beauty couch was trembling slightly, and she had to ask Tingyan almost every other moment: "Have you arrived?" Is it time? ”

Tingyan turned his head to look at the small incense burner on the square stool with the enamel of the tunic waist, and the incense stick on it had just been half-burned. Listening to Yan said bitterly: "It's still early, girl, since it's so hard, why do you have to embarrass yourself?" She was tired from watching from the sidelines.

Su Xi's upper body was lying prone on the beauty couch, but half of her body from the waist and hips down was suspended in mid-air, her legs were stretched straight, and she gradually lifted up to the air and then slowly put it down, back and forth all supported by the strength of the waist, hips, and legs. You don't have to think about this method of cultivating and shaping your body to know that it was taught by Mama Ye, and I heard that this can not only stretch the length of your legs, but also train a slender waist and hips. I don't know where Mama Ye learned these things, I heard that Yan felt that the result was good, but the process was also very hard, if it was her, she wouldn't be able to persevere.

Su Xi took a deep breath, gritted her teeth and continued to insist after adjusting her state, she didn't answer, but said, "Listen to Sister Yan, tell me a joke." "It's a distraction.

Tingyan knew that Su Xi couldn't listen to her persuasion, but if she was asked to make a joke, how could she make a joke? Listening to Yan had to search his stomach to recall the interesting things he had heard, and finally thought of one: "Girl, there is a Xiucai surnamed Wu in the slave's hometown, and the slave was only six years old at the time. The boy said, 'Childe, the hat is on the ground. Because of the homonym between landing and falling, Wu Xiucai hurriedly reminded: "Don't talk about landing, you have to talk about the ground." Who knew that after the scholar picked up his hat, he firmly tied it to Wu Xiucai's head, and then said...... "Speaking of this, I heard Yan holding his stomach and laughing so much.

Su Xi was aroused by curiosity and asked, "What did you say?" ”

Hearing Yan laugh enough, he continued: "The scholar said: Okay, this time it will never reach the ground again." ”

Su Xi laughed out loud, her stomach was already tight, and she almost cramped with laughter when she laughed like this. Because of this, a lot of soreness and fatigue were reduced, and after a stick of incense, Su Xi slowly put her legs down, and the whole person leaned softly on the silver-red pillow, letting Tingyan and Tinghe beat her legs for her. Su Xi didn't dare to rest for long, didn't sit for long, and after his legs eased up a little, he sat up and paced slowly around the room.

I have to say that Su Xi's persistence for more than a month has been effective, not only has her round apple face become smaller, but the flesh on her waist and legs has also fallen off, and even her body seems to have grown taller. It's just that because of the recent cold spring and the clothes she wears outside, others can't see the changes in Su Xi very much, only a few close girls can see her difference when they wait for Su Xi to take a bath, and even that pretty face is more energetic than usual.

*

After Su Xi finished practicing the movements, he ran around the flowers and incense three times, went back to the house to take a bath, and sat in front of the window to practice calligraphy.

Su Xi's handwriting is not very good, writing needs to be exercised quietly, in her previous life, her mind was not on this at all, she would only be lazy and slippery, although Yin could write a beautiful hairpin, this ability did not fall on Su Xi's head. Once again, Su Xi doesn't want to be mediocre anymore, at least she can't embarrass her arrogant mother.

The Yin family dotes on her and never embarrasses her. But as soon as Su Xi remembered that the last time the wife of the prince of Qingguo's mansion, Mei, came to the mansion, and everything she said was to show off her daughter Fu Yi, but the Yin family could only listen, and she couldn't help but feel ashamed. Her mother has always been arrogant, but now she is compared to Mei in terms of her daughter, although Yin didn't say anything to her later, but why can't she be more angry?

Su Xi wrote a large character and a small character, and was about to open his mouth to call Tingyan to grind, but saw Tinglu walk in from outside, holding a letter in his hand and said: "Girl, the proprietress of Xiuchunju has sent you a letter. ”

Su Xi unfolded it and looked at it, and there were several styles and patterns of clothes that were fashionable this year. The woman who bought the inkstone that Su Xi helped last time was the proprietress of Xiuchunju, Cen Shi, and in order to thank her, Cen said that he would give her a special spring shirt made by Xiuchunju.

But Su Xi's purpose of approaching Cen is far more than that, she casually painted a few patterns for people to send Cen back, Cen saw that his eyes lit up, and the straight Su Xi's paintings were delicate and chic, if they were made into ready-to-wear, they would definitely be sought after by the nobles in Beijing. The two exchanged letters during this time, and each time the letter was delivered through Tinglu's hand, Cen did not know Su Xi's identity, but this did not hinder Cen Maxima's mood of meeting Bole.

Cen synthesized the styles and patterns of the clothes painted by Su Xi, and finally designed several sets of ready-to-wear appearances, and prepared to let the embroidery girl of Xiuchunju start work at the end of the month, and promised that after the ready-to-wear was made, each one would be given to Su Xi first.

Su Xi naturally did not refuse.

Su Xi put the letter in the drawer and was about to continue practicing calligraphy, when she heard Lu hesitate and say, "Girl, Cen is a businessman...... Why did you reach out to her? ”

In the eyes of Tinglu, no, not only Tinglu, but in the eyes of all the nobles in Beijing, businessmen are the most powerful, and they rank last among Shinong businessmen and commerce.

Su Xi looked up from the Chengxintang paper, tilted her head and thought for a moment, and confessed, "I want to take her for my own use." ”

In the future, Tinglu will still help herself, because Su Xi does not intend to hide it from her.

After hearing this, Lu asked puzzledly: "What can the Cen family do for the girl?" ”

Su Xi didn't answer anymore, took a pen dipped in ink, and only sold Guan Zi and said, "I can't sue you yet." Later, no matter what Lu asked, she refused to say more.

*

Originally, General Su and the second master Su Zhi could return to Beijing before the fifteenth day of the first month, but they never thought that they would encounter heavy snow on the road, and they were delayed for more than ten days, and they did not arrive in the capital until the end of the month.

When Su Xi heard that his grandfather and second brother had returned, he hurriedly stopped kicking the shuttlecock, hurriedly went back to the house to change his clothes and hurried to the front hall.

Since Su Xi discovered that kicking shuttlecock can also sweat, in addition to running, he will kick shuttlecock for an extra quarter of an hour every morning. Kicking the shuttlecock is much more interesting than running, Su Xi can kick hundreds in one breath, all kinds of kicking methods are rounded, what single Feiyan, double Feiyan, single mandarin duck crutches, double mandarin duck crutches, that is called a body as light as a swallow, wonderful. Sometimes Su Xi also dragged a few girls to kick together, and the atmosphere of kicking shuttlecocks arose for a while.

After Su Xi rushed to the front hall, he saw a man wearing a Xuanqing silk uniform standing in the middle, with a slender body and a straight back, talking back to the eldest master Su Zhen. Su Xi lifted the embroidered gold flower and bird-patterned skirt and crossed the threshold, pounced on the man, and shouted in surprise: "Second brother." ”

As soon as Su Zhi turned around, he bumped into a pretty little girl in his arms, Su Zhi was still cold and solemn with a smile in his eyes, lowered his eyes and touched Su Xi's head, he said: "I haven't seen you for half a year, the young have grown taller." ”

Su Xi looked up and saw that his second brother had also grown a lot taller, so he had to look up very hard to see his face. She bent her eyes and smiled lightly, turned sideways, showed a smiling little face from behind Su Zhi, and said crisply and sweetly to the old lady sitting on the rosewood inlaid luodian chair in front of her: "Grandfather." ”

General Su was very happy to see her, and hurriedly called someone to check it out. No matter how strict he is outside, when he returns to the house, Mrs. Su is a childlike and amiable old man.

The family hasn't been together for a long time, so they want to sit together and talk.

Mrs. Su inquired about the current situation at home, and was concerned about the schoolwork of several grandchildren. Although Su Fu started as a military general, Mrs. Su didn't want her grandchildren to be reckless men who could only dance with knives and sticks, so she attached the same importance to this text as to martial arts.

The two grandchildren of the big room don't need to worry, and Su You and Su Zhen in the third room are also diligent in their schoolwork, but when they were in the room, the second lady Guo Shi said in a hurry: "...... Brother Yi has been working a lot harder lately. ”

The old lady knew what was going on as soon as she heard it, it must be that this Su Yi was only interested in having fun and didn't take his schoolwork to heart.

Su Yi is the fourth, sixteen this year, and is the son of Guo's three years after entering the door, so he is particularly fond of it, and over time he has become a stubborn and unruly, cockfighting lackey. In the days that the old lady left, he hadn't even set foot in the academy, let alone how his schoolwork was.

The old lady's tone was a little bad: "Brother Yi should learn more like his eldest brother." ”

This big brother naturally refers to Su Li.

The second lady didn't say anything, if it was in the past, Brother Yi'er was not good at school, at least Sister Rong could handle it. Her second room is not worse than the big room in everything, just like Sister Rong'er is better than Su Xi in terms of image and schoolwork. I don't know what happened to Bisheng recently, Su Xi not only won the praise of his master for painting, but even this appearance has changed day by day.

Guo Shi looked at Su Xi, who was wearing a moon lily sky blue ice gauze shirt beside Yin, and only felt that her complexion was radiant, and there was an indescribable look that made people unable to take their eyes off. looked at Su Lingrong beside him again, lowered her eyes, didn't say a word, she couldn't even behave to the old lady and the old lady, can she not be compared to Su Xi?

Guo Shi clutched the handkerchief with some hatred, and then looked at the second master Su Yang, who looked unimpressed at all, Guo Shi was even worse.

Although the second room is a concubine, Su Yang was raised by the old lady herself. The eldest lord Su Zhen is the squire of the military department, and the third lord Su Tuo is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and he is likely to enter the cabinet to pay homage to the prime minister in the future. Only her husband did nothing, only hung up an idle job in the household department, and spent all day idle, spending all day drinking, how could Guo Shi calm down? She always felt that the old lady and the old lady were partial to the big room and the third room.

But she didn't want to think about it, the status of the eldest master and the third master was earned by herself, and the second master was not enterprising, who was to blame?

*

The old lady had just returned from the border pass and needed a good rest, so everyone did not stay long, and after dinner, they went back to the courtyard.

Autumn Hall.

As soon as Su Zhi was gone for half a year, the Yin family naturally had a lot to say to him. Su Xi was also reluctant to return to the flowers and open-air incense, so he shrank in the rose chair on the side and listened, his little head little by little, and he fell asleep with his eyes closed after a while. Su Zhi carried her back to the room when she was a child, the corners of her mouth curled up and scratched her little nose, and after covering her with a thin quilt, she left.

The next day, Su Xi woke up and found himself in Qiutangju, and for a while he thought he was back before he was eight years old. She stretched lazily in the quilt, rubbed the red satin embroidered phoenix and peony pattern pillow, then got up to freshen up, and went to the main room to have breakfast with her parents and brothers.

Because before the old lady and Su Zhi returned to Beijing, the Yin family had gone to Mingjue Temple to make incense and make a wish, asking the Buddha to bless the grandfather and grandson to return safely. Now that the two of them are back unscathed, the Yin family naturally wants to repay their wishes. When Yin talked about this, Su Xi put down his chopsticks and blinked his watery eyes: "Mother, I want to go too." ”

The Yin family didn't agree, Su Xi still had to go to the clan school tomorrow, "What are you going to do?" ”

Su Xi pouted, "I also want to ask for peace for my second brother and grandfather." This is just one of them, the second she heard that the Zhaojue Temple's Tibetan Scripture Pavilion has a collection of Mrs. Wei's inscription "The Legend of the Famous Concubine", if she can, she wants to borrow it to read and learn one or two, her words should really be practiced.