Every year on Chinese New Year's Eve, the Su family has two important links, one is to celebrate Su Xi's birthday, and the other is to observe the New Year.

Su Xi was born late, and he landed on the last day of the seventh year of Zhaoyuan, which suffered a big loss in terms of age.

I remember that once during the Shangyuan Festival, Mrs. Su gave a lamp to every grandchild in the house, either a lotus lantern or a marquee lantern, and Su Xi got a rabbit lamp.

At that time, several cousins were playing with the lights in the yard, but Su Xi was hugged by Yin, wearing a fluffy warm pocket on his head, his white and tender little face was nestled against Yin's chest, and his round little fat hands couldn't hold the lamp at all.

Seeing this, the third old man Su Tuo couldn't help but say: "Sister Xi is two years old, and Brother Yi can walk at the age of two, why can't she even hold a lantern?" ”

Poor Su Xi was only half a month old at the time.

This is what Yin later told her, and she still finds it funny when she thinks about it. Su Xi sat on the window and looked at the night sky outside, Yin urged her several times, but she still refused to return to the flowers and incense, and preferred to sleep here.

Yin couldn't help her, and said: "It's okay to sleep here, I'll ask the kitchen to cook you a bowl of dumplings, you eat it, and see how thin you have become in the past two years." It's still cute when I was a child, it's round, and people are happy when they see it. ”

Su Xi put a small face in front of the Yin family and asked with a smile, "Did my mother say that I wouldn't be happy to see me now?" ”

It's that the Yin family has seen a lot of Su Xi in the past two years, and looking at her appearance at this time, they can't help but be a little stunned. Yin has always known that her daughter was born well, but she never knew that she would be so good-looking when she grew up. It's a little pretty, the eyebrows and eyes, the lip flaps, Rao is the most powerful craftsman, I'm afraid I can't carve it so perfectly. With Su Xi's soft and sweet voice, like a talking white porcelain doll, who is willing to say a heavy word to her?

Yin stretched out his hand and touched Su Xi's hair, and sighed secretly, joy is joy, but it is too beautiful, and it may not necessarily be a good thing. "Youyou, why haven't you been out of the house for a year?"

Su Xi took advantage of the situation to lie on Yin's lap, so that Yin's convenience was to touch her hair, she blinked her big moist eyes, and said sweetly: "Instead of going out of the house to play, it is better to stay in the house and accompany my grandfather, my grandfather is happy to see me, and I can eat one more bowl of rice at noon." Isn't my mother too? This year, you pushed a lot of invitations and invitations, and you rarely even went on the street. ”

Yin touched Su Xi's hair, only to feel that her hair was thick and slippery, and it had already reached its end before she could grasp it in her hand, black and shiny like seaweed. Yin said: "I don't go out because the old lady is still sick, and as a daughter-in-law, I naturally have to be filial." As he spoke, he nodded Su Xi's smooth forehead, lowered his eyes and said, "If you don't fool me with these words, I won't know your thoughts?" was originally an idle character, but now he stays at home honestly, why? ”

Su Xi let out an "ouch", and drilled into Yin's arms in a ball, and his two arms tightly wrapped around Yin's waist, "Mother, my daughter has grown up, don't you want to go out?" I went to the clan school every day to study, learned to dance with Mr. Dong, came back to read books and practice the piano, and went to the room to talk to my grandparents and grandmothers. ”

What Su Xi said, Yin's heart is clear, this girl has really put a lot of effort into her schoolwork in the past two years, and she has also made great progress, and several masters in the school have praised her in turn, saying that she is diligent and hardworking, and she is not arrogant or impatient.

Even when she returned home, Yin often saw her practicing the strange movements of Guli while holding a book and reading.

Originally, Yin couldn't understand the significance of Su Xi's actions, but since beating her and pumping her, Yin felt that her daughter had not only grown taller, but also had a well-proportioned and slender figure, especially a pair of long legs that were thin and straight.

Ask yourself, the Yin family doesn't have such long legs, and I think it should be the credit of Su Xi himself.

Yin Shi said: "It's okay to go out less, you will be thirteen in the New Year, you are a big girl, you should pay attention to your behavior, but you can't be as willful as you were a child." "The Yin family doesn't dare to let Su Xi go out at will now, her face is too ostentatious, if she is accidentally looked at by someone, it may only be a curse rather than a blessing.

Su Xijiao said angrily: "My mother also knows that I am a big girl, and she told me this." ”

Yin pretended to have something in his heart and didn't explain it to her. It just so happened that Dan Wu came in with boiled dumplings, and Yin asked her to eat a few.

Although Su Xi ate obediently, now that she has a small appetite, she only ate two or three before putting down her chopsticks and shaking her head and saying, "I'm full." ”

I wasn't very hungry, and I just had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with my family in the evening, and it was only an hour or two later. Yin didn't force Su Xi, and after a few words with her, he got up to leave, and let her go to bed early.

This is Su Xi's boudoir in Qiutang, she is very familiar with it, and she is going to come back to sleep every three or five minutes, so she is very familiar with the road, and she sends Yin out with a smile.

*

After two days, Tang came to the General's Mansion to visit Su Xi.

Because the relationship between the two is good, they don't pay attention to so many rules, Tang Wan went directly into Su Xi's boudoir to find her.

Tang Wan opened the Yingluo bead curtain and saw that Su Xi was practicing dancing in a loose flower silk skirt, her skeleton was already slender, and she was even slimmer after losing weight, wearing this skirt designed by herself, like a tender bamboo shoot bud breaking through the ground in spring, delicate and sweet, and full of vitality.

Su Xi usually doesn't practice dancing in the boudoir, and if she wants to practice, she also goes to Mr. Dong's cross-courtyard, but today she is tired of reading books, so she stood up and practiced a few steps. Although it was only a few movements, the softness revealed by the gesture made Tang Wan stunned for a long time and didn't come back to his senses.

Su Xi stopped moving, turned his head to see Tang Wan, and smiled sweetly: "Sister Tang, when did you come?" ”

Tang Wan then set her eyes on Su Xi's face, just two years, she didn't seem to know Su Xi anymore, the little girl who was white and round in the past had grown up, and she was so beautiful. Rao has seen it many times in the past two years, and Tang Wan was still amazed again.

Seeing that Tang Wan was silent, Su Xi stretched out five fingers and shook them in front of her, and said with a smile: "What does Sister Tang think of?" ”

Tang Wan grabbed Su Xi's hand, looked at her fixedly, and said incoherently: "Youyou, how can you ...... If Sister Yu saw your current appearance, she would definitely be as speechless as me, and I would be a little jealous of you. ”

Yu Baotong's family rules are very strict, and she is fifteen this year, and when she reaches the age of saying goodbye, the prince of Rongguo will not let her go out, and Su Xi has not seen her for half a year.

Su Xi tilted his head: "What are you jealous of me?" ”

Tang Wan pinched her tender cheeks, pouted, and said, "Jealousy is both good and good-looking, are you satisfied?" Tang Wan knew that Su Xi liked to hear others praise her.

Sure enough, Su Xi pursed the corners of her mouth and tilted it up slightly, a little smug and a little shy, such a vivid expression made people just stare at her flower-like delicate face and couldn't take their eyes off.

Tang Wan finally came back to her senses, remembered the serious matter, and said, "I was almost confused by you, I came here today to tell you something." Wan Ping Weng mainly competes with people in the Jingxi Racecourse and rides, invites us to go and watch, Sister Yu and I go, I heard that the prince of Qi and several sons of the family also go, young and young, you also go with us? ”

Su Xi subconsciously shook her head, "I ......" Su Xi doesn't know how to ride a horse, and the horse farm is dusty, so she can't be interested.

Tang Wan took advantage of her refusal to make a killer move: "Sister Yu finally got the family's consent to go out, you haven't seen each other for half a year, right?" Maybe the next time we meet, Sister Yu is married, and it will be difficult to meet again in the future. ”

After a woman gets married, she is indeed not as free as when she was a girl, and once she marries a woman, she is unconsciously estranged from her former best friend.

Su Xi hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go." ”

Tang Wan smiled with satisfaction: "Then I'll pick you up then, and let's go to Jingxi Racecourse together." ”

Su Xi said yes. The two little sisters hadn't seen each other for a long time, so naturally they had endless words, Su Xi left Tang Wan to share lunch, and it wasn't until Yin Shi that Tang Wan stood up and said that she was leaving.

Su Xi sent Tang Wan to the second gate, and after seeing Tang Wan leave, he walked back to the flower open-air incense.

As soon as she walked on her front feet, a man wearing a royal blue embroidered golden lotus pattern walked in from outside the door.

The fourth master, Su Yi, drank a little wine with his friends, and his mind was quite sober, but his steps were a little vain. He just married Dou Jin'er, the youngest daughter of Anping Hou, Dou Jin'er has a strong personality, he doesn't care about him strictly, and he is at odds with Guo's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. If Guo hadn't asked him to come back today, he might still be listening to music in Youfangyuan right now.

Su Yi looked at the powdery blue shadow in front of him and squinted his eyes.

It happened that Su Xi turned his head to talk to the maid, and his side face was looked at by Su Yi defenselessly. Su Yi was stunned, and couldn't remember when there had been such a stunning appearance in the family for a while, and then watched her walk into the flower open-air incense, and thought about it for a long time, before she remembered that the courtyard where the ninth sister of the big house lived happened to be called this name.

In my impression, the ninth sister has always been round and fleshy, when did she become so beautiful?

No wonder Su Yi was so surprised, he spent all day drinking, often staying outside, and rarely even came back to the general's mansion, let alone entering the inner courtyard, even when he entered the inner courtyard, he also slept in his own courtyard with his head bored, and rarely worried about others. Seriously calculated, he has not seen Su Xi for more than a year, this year's Chinese New Year's Eve he spent in Youfangyuan, the old lady is a little blind, cold face counted Guo two sentences, blame her for the fourth old man is so unpleasant.

So Su Yi suddenly saw Su Xi, if it weren't for the little guy next to him who said that it was the ninth girl, he really didn't dare to admit it.

*

On the tenth day of the new year, Tang Wan came to pick up Su Xi to go to Jingxi Racecourse.

Jingxi Racecourse is located outside Shangjing City, about two quarters of an hour by horse-drawn carriage, and when the two of them arrived, many carriages had been parked outside the racecourse.

Su Xi and Tang Wan got out of the carriage together, because there were other men in the racecourse, so they both wore hats on their heads. When they entered the racecourse, they were led by the descendants of the princess's mansion to go inside.

Wanping Weng is the daughter of the eldest princess of Shouchang, and is deeply loved by the eldest princess of Shouchang, and I heard that the temperament is very arrogant and bold, which can be seen from today's horse riding competition. Although most of the nobles in the capital can ride horses, there are not many who openly hold competitions, and if so many people are invited to watch, it is ten percent certain.

I don't know who is competing with Wanping Weng Lord, no matter who it is, he should praise his courage.

Tang Wan said as he walked: "Before the original agreed game, Lord Wanping Weng said that if the other party loses, he will ......" Tang Wan said in Su Xi's ear, and said: "Isn't this deliberately making things difficult for people, it's not for people to lose, let alone win her." "If I win, I'm afraid that I won't have a good life.

Su Xi didn't care about any of this, because she saw a few figures from a distance.

There were several girls standing in front of the stands, and it was Fu Yi who was wearing a smoky color sprinkled with gold and butterflies and a patterned large-sleeved shirt in the middle. I haven't seen her for a few days, Fu Yi has grown a lot taller, her body is graceful, her chest is bulging, she already has the appearance of a fourteen-year-old girl, her jade cheeks are white, her face is delicate, just standing there quietly, it makes people feel extremely beautiful.

There are several girls around Fu Yi, most of whom Su Xi knows, including the two girls from her grandmother's family, Yin Mengming and Yin Pengpeng, and the other one wrapped in a cherry-colored cloak is Li Anyi of the Luyang Hou Mansion.

I don't know who said: "Sister Tang and Sister Xi are here." ”

Tang Wan grabbed Su Xi's hand and walked there.