The boy hesitated for a moment, but still replied to Yangyun and said:

"My name is Zhou Xuan, and I'm eight years old this year. What about you? What is your name? ”

"I won't tell you my name, but I'm nine years old, and you have to call me sister." Yang Xiao is a little narrow.

"You're younger than me, why do you say you're nine years old?" Zhou Xuan stared, and he didn't know if he was convinced, or if he didn't believe Yang Xiao, who was half a head shorter than him.

"You're in trouble." Zhou Yi looked at the two and smiled.

Yang Yun also laughed, but suddenly remembered that he had wanted to ask Zhou Yi about it, so he walked away from Yang Xiao and them, and Zhou Yi naturally followed. Yang Yun asked in a low voice:

"Last time, I wanted to ask you if you still have a brother. But that's it? ”

"This is my third brother, Yu'er, born to my father's third lady. My mother had only three sons, my elder brother, me, and a fourth brother. ”

"How old is your fourth brother and what is his character?"

"The fourth brother is named Zhou Shao, he is just five years old this year, but he is a very filial and sensible one, never naughty, not like the three of us. Not only do my parents love my fourth brother, but we also love it. Zhou Yi felt that Yang Yun's question was strange, "You don't ask me why I came, and you don't ask how the third brother I brought, why do you keep an eye on my fourth brother?" ”

Yang Yun raised his eyes and looked at Zhou Yi, only hesitated for a moment, and finally lowered his head and said lightly:

"Nothing."

Zhou Yi thought about it carefully, and suddenly remembered that the girl wearing red and gold at the banquet that day, vaguely remembered that she was six or seven years old, and heard that it was the eldest daughter of the Gao family, so she asked Yang Yun:

"But is it because of Mrs. Gao? And her red-clad daughter? ”

Yang Yun nodded slowly, "Exactly." The one who wears red is called hibiscus. I thought it was a young boy who came, so she worked so hard to dress up Jin'er, but I just heard you say that your fourth brother is two years younger than Yang Jin. It's not that I said that your third brother is not good, but he is a concubine after all, and Mrs. Gao will not agree to marry Yang Hibiscus to him anyway. In this way, it seems that she is planning your fourth brother. But now that the two of them are too young, and there is not much contact between Wei and Gao Yang, how could Mrs. Gao put her mind on this? ”

"In the past, there was not much contact, but there will be no more." Zhou Yi said with a smile.

Yang Yun didn't bother to look up at his smile, but he couldn't help blushing, and said in a cold tone:

"I'm done. Tell me, then, why are you here? ”

Zhou Yi didn't joke anymore, and said seriously:

"I'm here to deliver the letter. Since I went back, my aunt's cousin surnamed Shen Qingying often went to the palace, and sat at my mother's place for almost a day. My mother always left me to talk, and I didn't have the heart to accompany them, so I often left after a few words. Later, my father asked me privately how the marriage between Wei and Gao Yang was, and I told me both good and bad, and my father asked me how I thought of you. ”

Zhou Yi paused deliberately, Yang Yun glanced up at Zhou Yi, with the meaning of "do you like to say it or not", Zhou Yi smiled and continued:

"I thought before that my mother wanted me to marry Qingying, but I was afraid that I didn't even bother to say a word to Qingying, so I dispelled the idea later. For some reason, when my father mentions you, I can always think of the scheming makeup at your banquet, and the way you hurriedly put away the picture of mountains and rivers, and I was unconsciously stunned for a moment. When I came to my senses, I went back to my father. ”

Yang Yun knew Zhou Yi's "true and false" in order to make Zhou Daozhao sure that he deliberately concealed it, because he liked Yang Yun, so that Zhou Daozhao would pay more attention to her.

"I only said that I was wise, but I didn't know that what my father wanted was just my momentary distraction. A few days later, my father said to the outside world that he originally wanted his brother to marry you, but he never thought that his grandmother had already made an agreement with his sister, and he was engaged to his brother and grandmother's niece Fu Tianyu. Fu Tianyu We have seen it many times, I used to like to stick to my brother the most, and my brother didn't bother her, and now it's good to be together. My father also said that he could not break his promise about the marriage with Gao Yang, and asked me to send a letter to the lord of Yang to explain it clearly and see how to engage another marriage. ”

Yang Yun was in a trance when he heard this, and thought for a long time before he said quietly:

"Then your third brother came this time for marriage?"

"Not really. As you said, the identity of the third brother is quite embarrassing, and the marriage will not be, he just pestered me to come with me, and my father happened to agree. Why, who said that to send a letter must be to someone else, not to oneself? After finishing speaking, Zhou Yi couldn't help laughing.

Yang Yun glanced at him and thought about Yang Xi's actions, which obviously confirmed the marriage between her and Zhou Yi, but he didn't understand why Zhou Daozhao asked his son who was going to marry to deliver the letter in person. Is it to please Yang Xi, let him see how good Zhou Yi is, and then readily agree? Or is it to let Zhou Yi see herself clearly, so as not to regret it in the future? I'm afraid that they are indeed secretly ordered now, but they are only kept secret for the time being.

In this case, it makes sense for Zhou Yi to come over to send a letter, after all, he hasn't discussed relatives yet, and it's nothing to be friends and friends; And she can be very generous with Zhou Yi.

But for some reason, Yang Yun always thinks about that Shen Qingying.

After eating the fish grilled by Yang Xi himself, and racing horses for a while, everyone returned to the palace together. Because Zhou Yi and Zhou Xuan came without telling outsiders, they stayed in the Yangqi Hall that night and said goodbye early the next morning. Yang Yun didn't send it, but Yang Xiao followed Yang Xi and Yang Lu to send them.

When Gao knew about this, it was already the afternoon of the next day, and it was Yang Hibiscus who came back from his brother's side and heard this and said it inadvertently, and Yang Ji was also there at that time. Gao's Qi Yangxi and Yang Yun hid it from her, and they were not convinced that Yang Yun was finally able to marry Wei State, and she was on fire, but in front of her daughter, Gao was not easy to lose her temper, and she was really uncomfortable for a long time.

Yang Hibiscus could still see that her mother was unhappy, but she didn't understand why, but she didn't dare to make noise in front of Gao all afternoon. Yang Zhu is the same as usual, except for trying to read and write, he doesn't like to say a word more. Gao's anger was really stuffy in his heart because of this.

In the following year and a half, Zhou Yi traveled back and forth between Wei and Gaoyang several times, sometimes to deliver letters, sometimes to visit privately, and often followed by Zhou Sui. There are more and more things that Yi and Yun can say between them, and both of them know that once they are engaged, they will have to wait until they get married if they want to meet and talk again. Zhou Yi only came occasionally for a day or two, and the total of a year and a half was less than half a month, and in the rest of the time, in addition to reading and practicing calligraphy, occasionally burning incense and playing the piano in the evening, Yang Yun would also seriously practice needlework female workers, but after practicing for more than a year, Yangyun's needlework was not very good - it was enough to sew clothes, but embroidering a handkerchief and stitches were still messy.

Yang Xiao also began to read books seriously, but he picked out some "Zuo Biography" and "Historical Records" to read.

A year and a half later, Zhou Yi and Yangyun's marriage was about to be finalized, and I heard that they would discuss marriage in May, so that Yangyun could marry when he was fifteen years old.