The brother and sister returned to Xizhuang along the stone path, and the wind was really blowing on the way. Zhao Wei felt the cold of the winter wind that invaded his cuffs, and he was glad that he did not refuse Gao Zhen's kindness and let his sister put on a cloak to protect him from the cold, otherwise his sister would definitely catch a cold.

Zhao Xiu looked at him with some concern: "Brother, doesn't it matter?" Why don't we find a room to hide and ask someone to go back to Songbaiju to pick up the cloak for you? ”

Zhao Wei smiled: "How many steps are this? Don't bother. This isn't our place after all, and I'm not that delicate. Grandmother is still waiting for us, don't let her wait for a long time. He touched the cloak on his sister's body and praised: "It's really a good thing, but it's just looking luxurious, not an ordinary material." The son of the world is too tall to wear, so he is cheaper for you. ”

Zhao Xiu smiled: "Is my brother envious? You don't have to be envious, jealous and hateful, and when you look back, your sister is also looking for a piece of good material, and she makes a cloak for her brother with her own hands, and she also uses squirrel skin as a lining, do you say it's good? ”

Zhao Wei laughed: "Sure enough, I'm not envious at all." Isn't my sister's needlework better than all the fancy clothes in the world? ”

Zhao Xiu's heart warmed, smiled and grabbed his brother's arm, and the brother and sister relied on each other and returned to Luomei Courtyard.

In the Luomei Courtyard, the Zhang family had already gotten up, and sat cross-legged on the big kang in the second room of the East Warm Pavilion. Aunt Mei was directing a mother-in-law on the side, and she moved a kang table with Xia Lu, and when she saw the brother and sister coming, she turned around and gave a salute. Zhao Wei waved her hand, motioned her to get up, and greeted Zhang: "How is grandmother resting?" Feeling better? ”

Zhang replied with a smile: "My waist bone is a little better, but I am a little hungry, and I will sleep well after eating." When she saw the clothes on Zhao Wei's body, she asked, "The wind just got up, right?" Isn't it cold when you only wear this? Why didn't you put the cloak on? "Zhao Wei wore a cloak on the way here.

Zhao Wei said with a smile: "I just settled down in Songbaiju, and I felt that my body was a little hot, so I took it off." It's going to be in the house, it's warm, and you don't have to put it on. After eating for a while, I saw that the wind was light, and my grandson would go back again, and he would not be afraid of the cold wind. Don't worry, grandmother, this is a hot spring village, it's warmer than outside. ”

Zhang's Zhengse said: "Although there are hot springs, they are not all in the village, there is still a strong wind outside, and it will snow." Don't take it lightly, you catch a cold. Zhao Wei hurriedly responded, she turned her head to look at Zhao Xiu again, a little surprised: "Where did you get this cloak from?" How do I look at some eyes? ”

Aunt Mei opened the lid of the black lacquer box in her mother-in-law's hand, put the food inside on the kang table, and said with a smile: "Miss Zhao's cloak, the small one looks familiar, like the clothes of our son." ”

Zhao Xiu took off his cloak with a smile and handed it to Bihan: "Isn't it the son of the world?" When he saw that it was windy outside, he was afraid that I would catch a cold if I was thinly dressed, so he gave me this cloak. said that he was dressed too small, and he had to keep filial piety, and he kept it at the bottom of the box. ”

Zhang called Bihan, touched the fabric of the cloak, turned over to look at the gray squirrel skin inside, and sighed: "This is a product of the Internal Affairs Bureau, and the leather inside is the best quality." This layer of finch gold outside is woven into the peacock feather into the satin, there is a name called Mao Jin, I heard that it has always been on the top, and very few of them fall outside. This one also has gold thread, which is not an ordinary wool brocade material, and it is more precious. The fabric of this cloak alone is worth a lot of money, and the leather is secondary. Where did you get your good fortune to have the prince give you this cloak? ”

Aunt Mei smiled beside her: "This is the year the son turned ten years old, the day of his birthday, it happened to be the second day of the first month, the first emperor in the palace to convene the princes and grandchildren of the clan to have a banquet, during the banquet somehow, suddenly asked about the son's homework. Shizi answered like a stream, and he memorized the books very well, even if the husband hadn't talked about it yet, he answered all of them. The first emperor Long Yan was happy, and praised our prince for teaching his son, and rewarded many things. The prince was very happy, and when he returned to the East Palace, he let the prince choose among those rewards at will. The princess chose a finch gold for the prince, and most of the horses made this cloak for the prince, as well as a brocade robe, and the rest was given to the young master Yazhuo of the Zhong family......" Speaking of this, she suddenly paused, knowing that she had said the wrong thing, and smiled.

Zhao Xiu blinked and asked her, "The young master of the Zhong family also has such a dress?" "It's nothing to wear the same clothes as Gao Zhen, but it's too embarrassing to collide with the Zhong family who can't hit the eight poles, right?

Aunt Mei probably understood her concerns, and hurriedly explained: "Young Master Zhong heard that he was also made into a cloak, and he was in the capital for a while, but he just wore it for a winter, and now he must have been in the official middle school when he raided his house, right?" Shizi's two clothes, when they were first made, often wore them, and later met Young Master Zhong on the Zhuangzi here also wearing the same cloak, so he stopped wearing them, and even the robe was pressed to the bottom of the box, and it was always placed in the Zhuangzi, and it was not brought back to the palace. This was only taken out when I was cleaning up the house a few days ago. The prince is no longer dressed properly, and giving it to Miss Zhao is also making the best use of it. If it weren't for the friendship between the two families, how could the prince give such a valuable dress to the girl? ”

Zhao Xiu thought to herself, is this what it means to tell her not to care about Zhong Yazhuo's cloak and dislike Gao Zhen's gift? Anyway, Zhong Yazhuo went back to his hometown early, as long as he didn't appear in front of her wearing the same clothes, as if they were wearing couple clothes, it was nothing. In modern times, it is common for a piece of clothing to sell thousands of pieces, if you really care about the same style as others, how can you live? Zhao Xiu just didn't want to collide with the Zhong family. Besides, now is the era of handmade clothes, and there should still be differences between two cloaks of the same material.

Thinking so, she instructed Bihan: "Put it away, don't let the other clothes crush it." Bi Han nodded again and again, not daring to come out, and carefully took the cloak back to Xinuan Pavilion, and immediately handed it to Bi Lian to put in the cabinet.

Seeing that Zhao Xiu didn't mean to be angry, Zhang and Zhao Wei didn't seem to care much about what they said wrong, so they secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't stay any longer, respectfully invited Zhang and the others to dinner, and went out with their mothers-in-law.

Zhao Wei and Zhao Xiu brothers and sisters sat at the kang table, and sat with their grandmother to eat warmly. Look at the meals sent by Aunt Mei, Zhang's is japonica rice porridge, and their brothers and sisters' are japonica rice, the dishes are five dishes and one soup, casserole fish head tofu, bad goose paw duck letter, dry roasted duck strips, mushroom cabbage sum, vegetarian fried three silks, and a yam mutton soup. I don't know if it's because of the long day of travel, the cold weather, and the hunger in his stomach, Zhao Xiu feels that every dish looks very delicious and eats very sweetly. Especially the vegetarian fried three shreds, fried shredded carrots, shredded shiitake mushrooms and shredded lentils, fresh and crisp, it is not easy to eat such fresh vegetables in winter. This must have been freshly plucked from the vegetable garden.

Zhang also praised: "These two vegetarian dishes are light and delicious, the fish head is good, and the bad goose paw duck letter is also very delicious, which is really worthy of being the chef of the palace." You drink more of this soup, and I'm fine with it, but it's not like porridge. ”

Zhao Wei and Zhao Xiu responded in unison, and each drank a large bowl of soup. The three grandchildren had eaten and drunk enough, and with a command, Aunt Mei came in with her mother-in-law to collect the dishes and chopsticks. After the meal, the brother and sister helped Zhang and walked slowly in the verandah outside to enjoy the scenery in the garden. Zhang looked at the plum blossoms blooming in turn in the courtyard, and couldn't help sighing: "This season, if you can make the plum blossoms bloom so well, you must be a master of cooking flowers and trees." ”

Zhao Xiu said: "This is taken care of by that Aunt Mei, right?" Didn't she say that she was the gardener of Luomei Courtyard? ”

Zhang said: "Even so, Aunt Mei can be regarded as a capable person." A capable person is always worthy of respect, even if she doesn't like what she says, after all, we are just guests, so Sister Xiu will take care of it. ”

Zhao Xiu knew that her grandmother was worried that she was unhappy because Aunt Mei mentioned the matter of hitting her shirt, but in fact, where was she so stingy? She put her arms around Zhang and said, "Grandmother, don't worry, let's be polite to Aunt Mei." ”

Zhang smiled and gently touched his granddaughter's face, and said to Zhao Wei: "You go back first, take a nap, and then get up to read and practice calligraphy." Sister Xiu, don't forget your homework. ”

Zhao Xiu grimaced at his brother, smiled and agreed loudly.

The three ancestors and grandchildren of the Zhao family began a leisurely life on the hot spring village of Guangping Wang. Every day is still like at home, the brother and sister get up early to read and practice calligraphy, and when they are tired of practicing, they talk to their grandmother, Zhao Xiu does needlework by the way, and after lunch, the three of them go out of the house for a walk. Zhang's has to take a nap every day, and when she sleeps, Zhao Wei will also go back to the hospital to rest, and Zhao Xiu has nothing to do, so she goes to the plum forest or the flower garden to hang out, see the scenery, and exercise her body.

There are not many people in the hot spring village, although there are seventy or eighty people waiting, but probably because the prince and princess didn't like people to disturb the world of the two of them in the past, they generally don't run out to let people see except when they are working. But the manager sent a bamboo whistle to each of the ancestors and grandchildren of the Zhao family, so that they could take it with them when they went out of the yard. Thanks to the blessing of this bamboo whistle, Zhao Xiu sometimes runs to Meilin to play a few rounds of boxing, and no one will see it. She gradually grew bolder, so she relied on the fact that no one else was there, running around in the plum forest and bamboo forest, and only went back after running out of sweat.

At this time, Zhang's will definitely talk about her, but seeing her smiling and grinning, he can't say any more, so he can only drive her to take a bath and soak in a hot spring, so as not to catch a cold. But Zhao Xiu must rub for a while when taking a bath, and wait until his breath has completely calmed down before going to the hot spring, and only soaking for a short time, that is, a cup of tea, will definitely get up. Zhang asked her, "Why don't you soak for a while?" Zhao Xiu smiled and said, "It's not good to soak for too long." Zhang disagreed, but under the persuasion of her granddaughter many times, she also changed her practice, and every night when she soaked in the spring water, she only soaked for about a quarter of an hour at most.

After taking a bath, Zhao Xiu will start to practice calligraphy and painting, and read books when he is tired. There are many books left by Gao Zhen in the second room of Xinuan Pavilion, she specially looks for those books that are badly worn out and are obviously often looked at, and also read Gao Zhen's thoughts and notes left on the books, and unexpectedly found that in fact, he has many thoughts similar to her, which was really unthinkable before.

Speaking of Gao Zhen, he has been back to the city for three days, but there has been no movement. When did their father and son come?

Zhao Xiu was always talking in his heart, and suddenly saw Zhao Wei coming to say goodbye, but he was going back to the city to participate in the first day of November. She said to Zhao Wei: "When my brother goes back, go to the palace and ask?" When did the prince and the prince come over? ”

Zhao Wei smiled and said, "Are you so looking forward to seeing them?" I asked every day these days. But he agreed. The next day, he returned to the city, but in the afternoon he sent a subordinate to deliver a letter, it turned out that a certain Bofu in Beijing had sent someone to their house a few days ago, inviting their ancestors and grandchildren to attend the birthday of the Bofu Taida.

This Bofu also had some friendship with Jiannanhou Mansion in the past, but after the death of the old county prince, the two families became estranged. His family has no real power, and can only be regarded as an ordinary member of the family of the nobles in the capital, but he also has some ambitions to be a family. When King Ying was in power, his family had intended to marry the eldest daughter to King Ying's son as his wife, but later found that the second son of the side concubine was more favored and more likely to take the throne, so he dismissed his idea, and instead asked his relatives to probe the side concubine Tian's tone to see what kind of daughter-in-law she wanted to find for her son. Tian guessed his family's calculations, and insinuated at a banquet to make fun of his family, Bofu was deeply humiliated, and soon married his eldest daughter outside Beijing, but at the same time, he was also blessed by misfortune, and did not have a relationship with Yingwangfu, and was safe in the turmoil. Now that the turmoil has subsided, his family has become high-profile again. His wife is not a full birthday this year, but she has to do a big job, and even a family like Jiannanhou Mansion, which has almost broken off diplomatic relations for ten years, has also made a post.

Zhang was very disappreciative of this uncle's house, and said: "The old lady of his family has always been at odds with me, and she has nothing good to say when she meets." On a cold day, what are you doing when you run dozens of miles back to suffer from this anger? "I didn't plan to go, Zhao Xiu wanted to accompany her, so naturally she didn't go, so she ordered someone to bring a letter back to Zhao Wei and let him make his own decision. If you feel the need to socialize, stay in town for a few more days.

Zhao Wei ordered someone to bring a letter back the next day, saying that he would stay in the city until the end of the next dynasty. That uncle's mansion has no value in communication, but he inquired about it, and found that almost all the noble princes in Beijing have received the post, maybe they all have to go, since he has already attacked the lord, it is good to socialize with people in the past. As for my grandmother, I can only ask my sister.

Zhao Xiu accepted his request and waited for the Zhang family properly every day. Zhang's body and mind are happy, after a few minor illnesses some weak and tired body is also much better, sometimes the weather is warm, she also has the interest to call her granddaughter, together to the Zhuangzi for a walk, the flowers in the flower room are very beautiful, the situation of people coming and going outside the village is also very interesting, if you are tired, blow a whistle, there will be a person in the village to carry a soft sedan chair over, carry her back to the plum courtyard.

Two days later, Zhao Xiu accompanied her grandmother to walk around the flower garden, and just as she was about to go back to the courtyard, she heard a commotion from the direction of the gate. Zhang asked with some confusion: "What's wrong?" Is anyone coming? Zhao Xiu suddenly perked up.

Today is the first day of the birthday banquet of Bofu, my brother will never come back at this time, and this is the property of the palace again, could it be that the king of Guangping and Gao Zhen are here?

She quickly called Bi Lian and Xia Lu: "Good life to take care of grandmother, I'll go over and take a look." And he ran. Zhang shouted from behind: "Don't run, go slower, beware of the wind!" ”

But she didn't listen, the wind raised the finch tweed cloak on her body, she felt that her heart was about to jump out, and ran to the door of Qi Fengzhai with brisk steps, and saw Gao Zhen helping King Guangping slowly towards this side.

Gao Zhen looked up at her, his eyes lit up, his gaze fell on the cloak she was wearing, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He said to King Guangping, "Father, it's Sister Zhao who is here." ”

Zhao Xiu greeted King Guangping, got up and looked at Gao Zhen, met his bright eyes, and showed a bright smile. RS