"Don't be pessimistic, when I find a chance to look at those account books again, maybe there will be new discoveries." Shi Yi comforted Mo Ye, and after thinking about it, he said: "As long as you can find out about the Ye family's ancestors, maybe you can solve every problem." The traces left by the great businessman when he walked in the world are no less than those who play with power, even if your mother really committed something, so someone is deliberately erasing her news, it is impossible to erase it so cleanly in ten years. ”

He saw a slight surprise on Mo Ye's face, and added with a smile: "Maybe Aunt Ye's matter is also related to my unknown father, we are now companions towards the same goal, we can't work hard!" ”

The words that Shi Yi said later made Mo Ye feel more help on the way forward in confusion, her face softened, and she subconsciously prayed in her heart: I hope that the truth is not as bad as imagined.

However, she did not say the prayer in her heart.

At the moment when the two of them fell silent together, an exclamation from the old man Qu suddenly came from the backyard, which penetrated into the contemplation of the two children without warning, which made both of them slightly startled, and then ran towards the backyard together.

But as soon as they stepped into the backyard with their front feet, the surprise on their faces quickly faded away, and they became stunned by doubt.

In the backyard, Qu Xia stood by a small fire, looking at a large scorched hole in a piece of clothing held up with a clothes pole in his hand, and his mouth had not been completely closed after screaming just now. When he saw Mo Ye and Shi Yi running together, he was also stunned for a moment, and then said very embarrassedly: "Xiao Yi, I wanted to use the fire to dry your clothes, but I didn't pay attention." I'm sorry that my clothes were burned by the fire. ”

Shi Yi smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I don't lack clothes to wear now, although grandpa's clothes are a little bigger, but when I walk, I shake and flutter, and I still float." After he finished speaking, he beckoned his pair of loose sleeves to Mo Ye, who was standing beside him, as if asking yes or no.

Unexpectedly, Mo Ye did not cooperate with him to make the old man happy this time, she just did what she thought in her heart. Said truthfully: "After all, this dress is only for you to wear temporarily, you can't go back to Dongfeng Tower like this." ”

Mo Ye's words pierced directly to the root of the problem in front of him, leaving Shi Yi speechless for a while, and Qu Xia began to mumble self-blame.

Mo Ye glanced at Shi Yi, then at Qu Xia, then shook his head, and said lightly: "Now I really doubt that you are people who have lived in Kyoto for a long time, and your clothes are broken." Wouldn't it be enough to buy a new one with money? ”

When Qu Xia heard this, his eyes lit up, and he patted the back of his head and smiled: "Oh, I'm really confused, why didn't I think of this." But as soon as he finished saying this, he turned to Mo Ye and asked, "We all went out." What if I wait for my son to come back? ”

"My master?" Mo Ye's tone was stagnant, but she quickly said again: "Only lock the courtyard door, if my master comes back, he can climb over the wall and ......" At this point, Mo Ye also felt that this was a little inappropriate, and after hesitating for a while, she smiled slyly again, and said: "Who asked him to take me to play today." As a result, he left me behind halfway. It's a small punishment. ”

"You ghost, you actually thought of playing with the master, you were really spoiled by the son." Qu Xia reprimanded Mo Ye lightly, and then announced: "Okay then! It's still more than an hour before it gets dark. Grandpa takes the two of you out for a walk. ”

……

Under a high dark red wall, an apricot tree growing out of the crack in the root of the wall quietly bloomed its branches. On the five evenly symmetrical petals, half of the pink is like a unique style painter stingy with the tip of a pen dipped in ink and lightly touched, so that the apricot blossoms have a color gradient phenomenon of red on the outside and white on the inside. The roots of the nearly colorless petals form a small whirlpool, clustered with soft stamens, and the pale yellow/colored stamens are like upward tassels, under the high dark red wall without wind, straight and stable to meet the warm afternoon sun.

Today is the day of spring apricot appreciation, but no one comes to appreciate this lonely apricot that grows in a remote place in the corner of the palace wall, but it itself is like in previous years, accurately received the news from the sky and the earth, across the palace wall, and the two rows of apricot trees on the apricot and fir road outside the wall bloomed together.

However, when most of the tourists on the apricot fir road began to prepare to go home, a few feet away from the lone flowering apricot tree behind the heavy palace wall, a plainly dressed palace maid slowly walked over carrying a wooden barrel.

The wooden bucket was filled with half a bucket of water, which was a little heavy, and the palace maid with green silk was not able to change her hands and walk. A few feet away on the stone road passed, and she couldn't help but sweat beads on her forehead, but she never stopped to rest. It wasn't until she walked to the apricot tree that grew in the corner of the wall that she put down the wooden tube and let out a deep breath, which led to a strand of soft hair hanging down her forehead, and also shook a few apricot blossoms at one end of the apricot branch.

The palace maid looked at the apricot blossoms on the branches for a moment, and then she bent down and picked up a wooden scoop in the bucket, scooped half a scoop of water, and then poured it down the trunk of the apricot tree to its roots.

After pouring a few scoops of water on the apricot tree, the palace maid straightened up, just took the empty scoop and looked at the apricot blossoms full of branches, and after being silent for a long time, she suddenly said: "In this period of blooming, you need to drink more water every day, so that the flowers can bloom beautifully!" ”

The apricot pattern did not move, because the high wall sheltered the wind, and because it could not understand people at all.

However, the palace maid seemed to hope that the apricot tree could answer her, and seeing that the apricot tree was as quiet as ever, she couldn't help but show a touch of loss on her face, and said lightly: "Sister Ye, when can you come to Wanting?" I...... I have a lot to say to you. ”

The scene of this palace maid talking to an apricot tree full of flowers and branches with a stunned face, if it falls in the eyes of ordinary people, I am afraid that she will think that she is guilty of dementia, but it is not difficult for people with quick minds to see that she is thinking about people by borrowing things.

However, just as the palace maid was about to speak again, a scolding suddenly came from not far away, interrupting her slightly sad thoughts.

"Where is the palace maid over there? I don't know if you can't just enter this garden? ”

As soon as the palace maid under the apricot tree heard the sound and turned around, she saw two palace maids not far away who were staring at this side, and after being silent for a while, she said slowly: "I'll water this apricot tree." ”

"Hurry up and leave when the water is finished, this place is not something that ordinary palace maids can stay for a long time." Among the two palace maids opposite, a palace maid with a long face and a thin knife was not very friendly, and as soon as she finished speaking, she reprimanded: "Don't come again in the future, forget it today, next time I see you, I will definitely report to the female official in charge of this garden." ”

The palace maid under the apricot tree bowed slightly when she heard this: "I'll leave immediately, I've bothered the two sisters, please forgive me." Then she took up the barrel and went back.

This little turmoil seemed to be about to pass like this, but when the palace maid carrying the bucket walked slowly past the two menacing palace maids, something happened abruptly. On the right hand side of the long-faced palace maid, another palace maid who was swallowing melon seeds and was slightly shorter suddenly stretched out a leg when the bucket maid had just walked past her, and wanted to trip the bucket maid to the ground.

But the bucket-carrying palace maid looked weak, and at this moment of sudden change, her eyes suddenly shone brightly, and her footsteps stopped abruptly in front of the short palace maid's suddenly horizontal legs. She was already walking slowly, so it was easy to stop, but even so, the inertia of her body made her stagnate. As if to prevent a fall, the barrel she had been carrying at her side suddenly turned around and temporarily turned into a crutch, and she was crutched in front of her, just against the leg that was lying in front of her knee.

"Ahh

The short palace maid screamed a little exaggerated as if the barrel had suddenly turned into a dagger and pierced the flesh of her leg. At the same time, she scattered half of the melon seeds left in her hand, squatted down and covered her legs, howled a few times and then suddenly stood up, and at the same time raised her pair of fingers with short and thick hands, and pushed hard towards the bucket maid who had just stood upright, and at the same time yelled: "You Diao maid, how do you walk?" You can smash my leg from such a distance, did you mean it? ”

The bucket palace maid was pushed by this palm, but her figure took advantage of the momentum to turn around, unloading the sudden impact of external force, and finally stood outside the ground. The agility and fluency of her series of body movements made it impossible for the bucket she was carrying in her hand to spill even a drop of water.

When the long-faced palace maid next to the short palace maid saw this scene, she was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly shouted: "You actually have martial arts? Who are you? What is the purpose of being here? ”

The bucket maid was stunned by the other party's three questions, she hesitated for a while, just opened her mouth, and said the word "I", the words were intercepted by the long-faced palace maid, and she suddenly raised her voice and shouted: "Someone! There are unidentified people trespassing on the garden, come on...... Capture the Assassin ......"

As soon as she shouted these words, the face of the bucket-carrying palace maid couldn't help but change slightly.

Yet she remained silent, without explanation, without quibbling, as if waiting for something.

Just after the long-faced palace maid shouted nonsense, when she thought that what was coming soon would be the Yulin Army sent in the Forbidden Palace on the first day of the Spring Apocalypse Festival today, a threatening voice was the first to come in:

"Evil, what are you shouting about?!"

Before he could finish speaking, a young man appeared at the moon gate of a courtyard wall in the other garden, his steps were slow, but his face was filled with suppressed anger.

The long-faced palace maid's gaze swept over the young man's face, she was stunned at first, and then she saw a bright gold brocade belt around the waist of the young man in light clothes, and in an instant, the palace maid's face just now collapsed instantly, she almost fell to her knees on the ground, and at the same time pulled the short palace maid next to her to the ground, and the two women kowtowed deeply to the young man, and shouted: "The slave maid greets His Royal Highness the Second Prince, Chitose Chitose!" ”。 (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation