Fast forward ten years.

When it comes to the cold winter wax moon, the New Year is approaching, every household begins to prepare for the New Year, and the prime minister's house is also busy with their own work, Xiao Si hung the red lantern at the gate early, and the festive atmosphere surrounds the whole mansion.

A round head looked at the courtyard outside, the snow covered the tall pine trees, white and green weaving, and Mu Liu's eyes flashed in front of yesterday's plate of shallots and tofu on the dinner table, and he couldn't help but chirp.

Makuru looked across the screen, watched her mother talking to the eldest lady in the back room, quietly slid off the cashmere couch, and ran to the kitchen with her little short legs.

Zhang's mother, the kitchen steward, was busy preparing for the New Year, and instructed the people below to purchase food, when she saw the little head poking out at the door, "Miss, why are you here?" ”

"Mother Zhang, me." Makuru didn't know why she came to the kitchen, as if the kitchen had a natural attraction to her.

"I can smell the aroma of eggplant, and the peppers, and the ....... of radish," Makuru said, looking at the basket of ingredients on the board in front of him, and his big round eyes flashed.

Mother Zhang touched her head and sighed inwardly, "Such a lovely young lady, why is she stupid, she must be hungry." ”

"Miss, this is a freshly steamed steamed bun, if you are hungry, eat it first." Zhang's mother thought that Mu Ru was hungry, so she quickly stuffed a hot steamed bun into Mu Liu's little hand.

Mu Liu looked at the white and round steamed buns, brought them to the tip of his nose and asked, as if he was in a rice field, the fresh air, the sweet smell of rice, into the heart and lungs.

was in a daze, when he heard the subordinate say to Zhang's mother, "The master is back, there are distinguished guests from the palace today, so you should pay extra attention to your food." ”

"Daddy's back." As soon as Makuru heard that Makuqing was back, he was elated, turned around and ran to the front hall with steamed buns.

"Miss, don't go to the antechamber today." The subordinate gave a few more instructions in the kitchen, and then chased after Mu Liu and shouted, the small body as round as a meat ball had long since disappeared.

The golden plaque and red pillar, the magnificent hall, the long couch above is covered with thick velvet, and the small Zen wood table in the middle is placed with exquisite jade porcelain tea sets, and the incense burns in the incense burner, and the smoke is filled.

Mu Qing sat at the lower end and respectfully handed the old man on the right side of the upper seat a cup of tea.

"Go ahead of your business, I'll talk to your mother." The old man spoke, and Mu Qing glanced at the old lady on the left, bowed slightly, and retreated.

The two gray-haired old ladies were chatting happily, not paying attention to the little guy who sprang out from behind the curtain.

"Daddy." A soft and sweet childish voice came, with a gasping exhalation.

Mu Ryu ran in in a panic, and saw the strange old man on the seat, the same age as her grandmother, dressed plainly, but it was difficult to hide her extravagance, and she suddenly felt that she was in trouble, and stood in place in a daze.

"This is your little granddaughter." The old man looked at Muru and greeted him lovingly, "Come here and let the mourning family take a look." ”

Makuru moved over step by step, completely oblivious to the young man sitting in the chair below.

"This child was spoiled, and he collided with the Queen Mother, and I hope the Queen Mother will take care of it." The old lady stood up and took Makuru's hand, "I've seen the Queen Mother soon." ”

"Makuru has seen the Queen Mother." Makuru hid behind the old lady with half of her body, not knowing how to salute yet.

When the queen mother and the old lady had a very good personal relationship, when the imperial power struggle, although the queen mother was the queen, but the emperor favored the concubine in his later years, and intended to abolish the prince and set up the son born to the concubine as the prince.

The first emperor died, the concubine colluded with the prince to launch a palace change, the old lady was a lady of the first order, a break into the harem, at a critical juncture, secretly protect the queen mother to escape from the palace, the prime minister at that time was the old lady's husband Mu Yi, with hundreds of officials to turn the tide, later, the prince, that is, the current emperor inherited the unification, grateful to the shogunate, Mu Yi was given the title after his death, the old lady was exempted from the courtesy of the monarch and ministers, and the shogunate enjoyed the emperor's grace.

"This kid is really a water spirit, I like it." The Queen Mother pulled Mu Liu in front of her and took a closer look, the chubby little girl, with a pink face, was tender and tender, and her hair was holding two small flowers, which was very cute.

"I am glad that this child can marry into the royal family in the future." The Queen Mother looked left and right, turned back to the little boy who was sitting down, and said, "I think it is best to give Fei'er." ”

Only then did Mu Ryu notice that there was a little older boy in the room, thin and handsome, with features that had not yet fully grown, and they were beaten together, with a kind of ruffian handsomeness.

The fifteen or sixteen young man, who was in love at the beginning of his love, was ignorant, Leng Feiran heard the sound, stood next to him, bowed his head and said nothing, and his ears were red.

"Little brother, the steamed buns are for you." Mu Liu looked at Leng Feiran and said inwardly, "It's so beautiful." ”

Leng Feiran looked at the crumpled steamed buns, didn't pay attention to Muliu, his face was expressionless, and he stood motionless.

"Can't he hear?" Mu Liu swished, leaned next to Leng Feiran, and shouted in his ear on tiptoe, "I said the steamed bun is for you." ”

Leng Feiran was yelled, tilted his head, a little unhappy, and glared at Makuru.

"You can hear me!" Next, Makuru pestered Leng Feiran, chirping like a little sparrow.

"Haha, you two go to the outer courtyard to play, let's be quieter." The two old men were dizzy from the argument and sent them out.

Mu Liu pulled Leng Feiran out of the house, and said sweetly, "Brother Feiran, I'll take you to eat something delicious." ”

Leng Feiran looked helpless, and looked at Mu Qing from afar.

"Second prince, how can you be with Liu'er." Mu Qing walked up to Leng Feiran, "Liu'er, don't mess around, go back to your mother." ”

Makuru pulled Leng Feiran's cuffs, not wanting to leave, and didn't know what to do.

From the time she can remember to the present, her father has always seen her, and he has always been kind and pleasant, but he has made mistakes, and he has not seen Mu Qing so serious.

"Maku-sama, let Makuru play with me for a while." Leng Feiran looked at Mu Liu's begging face, and looked at him watery, which made his heart soften.

When Mu Liu heard Leng Feiran's voice, he realized that he seemed to have been listening to himself silently all along, pouting, a little unhappy, and he was not dumb, so why didn't he speak.

"That's good, where Liu'er doesn't understand etiquette and offense, I hope the second prince will bear more." Mu Qing looked at the two children, and always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.

"You are the prince, you can speak!" As soon as Mu Qing left, Mu Liu became a chatter again.

"Hmm." Leng Feiran snorted slightly, and looked at Mu Liu's hand, his knobly broken hand was grabbed by a ball of meat, like a cabbage ball on the chopsticks.

Mu Liu dragged Leng Feiran to make a fuss in the kitchen at noon, knocked over the large basin of noodles, and the two of them were pounced.

"Little Ancestor, don't make trouble." When Zhang's mother came back from serving her master's meal, she looked at the kitchen where chickens and dogs were jumping, and a group of maids and servants were all disgraced, chasing two little guys, one was the prince and the other was Miss Xiangfu, none of them could afford to offend, so they made a show and stopped it.

"Can't catch it, can't catch it." Makuru shouted backwards as he ran, accompanied by grimaces.

Leng Feiran turned his head to stare at Mu Liu, his pursed lips hooked a light smile, this guy is really interesting, at this moment, he put aside his troubles and sorrows, and just wanted to make a big fuss.

He didn't want to accompany his grandmother here today, his mother had just died of illness, and he didn't have any thoughts.

"Are you happy?" Mu Liu pulled Leng Feiran to hide behind the rockery, patting the ashes on his body, "Brother Qingwu plays with me every day." ”

"Who is Qingwu?" Leng Fei was puzzled, none of his three elder brothers seemed to be named Qingwu.

"It's Brother Qingwu of the general's family next door, it's okay for others, next time you come, let's play together." Makuru didn't notice Leng Feiran's sudden loss, and smiled like an idiot.

"Hmph." Leng Feiran patted Mu Liu's head, shook his head, and sighed, "It's so stupid." ”

In the afternoon, the Queen Mother left the shogunate house with Leng Feiran, and the shogunate and his party stood at the door to send them off, and the palace people in disguise waited outside the door, helping the queen mother to get into the carriage, Leng Feiran stared at the little head behind the crowd, "Muliu, I remember you." ”

Here, the silly girl who runs the kitchen every day doesn't know that she has already been targeted.