The difference between good wine and bad wine is the taste and the headache index after waking up with a hangover.

The wine he drank with Lao Chang yesterday was his treasure, and he was reluctant to do a bartending experiment for Xiaozhu, and when he woke up in the morning, he only had a slight headache.

Xiaohuan wet the towel and walked over to help him wipe his face.

Li Yi took the towel from her hand and said, "I'll come by myself." ”

He wiped his face, Xiaohuan took the towel from him, put it back in the basin, and turned and walked out.

When he put on his clothes and got out of bed, he always felt that something was wrong.

He didn't feel this way today, since he came back from Cangzhou, he always felt that something was different from before, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't remember anything.

He sat at the table, frowning, and the feeling made him uncomfortable.

I got up late this morning, and Ruyi and the others had finished breakfast, so Xiaohuan brought in the hot meal, put it on the table, and walked out again.

Li Yi picked up the chopsticks and stretched them halfway, the expression on his face was stunned, he knew where that kind of difference from before came from.

Quiet, so quiet.

In the past, when he got up, Xiaohuan would stand by the bed, hand him a towel, and tell him about the new things that happened between the maids in the house when he wiped his face.

When he eats, Xiaohuan will sit next to him or across from him, holding his chin with one or both hands, watching him eat stupidly, and when he finds out, he smiles stupidly, and his eyes are bent into crescents.

While he was writing in the study, she stood aside and sharpened the ink, and when she had finished polishing it, she went around behind him, put her hands behind her back, and stood on tiptoe to see what he was writing, even though she did not know many words......

Not anymore.

She would hand him a hot towel in the morning, but she would not sit across from him during meals, and when she was in the study, she would polish the ink and withdraw herself, for fear of disturbing herself.

Several times, Li Yi saw her sitting alone in the yard in a daze, Xiaohuan used to be in a daze, but rarely like recently, she was in a daze for several hours.

Li Yi felt a little guilty, since he arrived in Shuzhou three years ago, he rarely had time to be idle in the middle of the chaotic land, Wuguo......

She loves to listen to her own stories the most, and how long ago did she remember the last time she sat in the yard and told her a story while letting her pinch her shoulders?

It was so long that he couldn't remember.

The meaning of Xiaohuan to him is something that no one can replace, Xiaocui is not good, Xiaozhu is not good, and even Ruyi and Ruyi are not good.

When he first came to this world, the most hesitant and helpless, he was always by his side, in fact, it was not Ruyi, nor Ruyi, Xiaohuan at that time, was still a stupid and cute little girl, she would only revolve around him, like to listen to the stories he told, and like to eat the meals he cooked......

She's always chattering and seems to have endless words, when did she start to become taciturn?

Ruyi walked in from outside, sat beside him, and said softly, "Xianggong." ”

Li Yi raised her head, her gaze looked over, and asked, "Xianggong knows, what day tomorrow is?" ”

"March 21."

March 21 is not his and Ruyi's wedding anniversary, nor Ruyi's birthday, let alone Ruyi's birthday, March 21 ...... is Xiaohuan's birthday.

Li Yi looked remorseful, if it wasn't for Ruyi's reminder, he would have forgotten Xiaohuan's birthday.

Ruyi saw the expression on his face, she knew that he had already remembered, looked at him, and said softly: "After this birthday, Xiaohuan will be twenty years old." ”

Li Yi sighed lightly: "The little girl has grown up......"

"Xiaohuan is the concubine's maid, the concubine knows that Xianggong used to think that Xiaohuan was too small, but she will be twenty years old today, if the maid is not through the room, she is an ordinary maid, others dare not say it on the surface, but what will they think of her in their hearts......" Ruyi looked at him, shook his head, and said: "These things, Xiaohuan will not tell Xianggong, and Xianggong himself will not think of ......"

Li Yi's eyes were slightly distracted, in his memory, the little maid was always the little maid with a double bun or a bun and dangling in front of his eyes.

He didn't realize at all that Li Duan was already over four years old, and Yongning had grown into a big girl, and in a few months, even if it was measured by the standards of later generations, Shouning would be considered an adult......

The little maid is actually not a little maid for a long time......

……

Xiaocui just coaxed Li Mu to fall asleep, walked back to the courtyard that belonged to her and Xiaozhu Xiaohuan, Xiaozhu was cleaning up things in the room, she walked in to take a look, and walked out again, and asked Xiaohuan sitting in the yard suspiciously: "Xiaohuan, we are going to leave in a few days, why don't you pack up your things------ what are you doing here, eating melon seeds?" ”

"My uncle likes to eat, but I don't like to knock, I'll peel a little for my uncle." Xiaohuan turned around and smiled, and said, "You guys clean up first, I don't have anything to clean up, I can clean it up half an hour before leaving." ”

Xiao Cui looked at the bowl full of melon seeds in front of her and her fingers that were scratched one by one, grabbed her hand, and said angrily: "Are you stupid, your hands are like this, what are you peeling!" ”

Xiaohuan withdrew his hand, his eyes bent, and smiled: "It's okay......"

"You!"

Although Xiaohuan is always so soft-spoken on weekdays, but when she encounters things, Xiaocui never can't force her, she went back to the room angrily, glanced outside, and said dissatisfiedly: "You said this girl, why is she so dead-eyed!" ”

Xiaozhu walked over, sighed, and said: "It's not a day or two since she's dead, it's better to worry about Xiaohuan than about ourselves, Xiaohuan is much luckier than us......"

……

"Have you heard, the prince and the princess are going out again......"

"I've heard about it, I heard from Sister Xiaozhu and Sister Xiaocui, I'm going to go out for a long time this time, I really envy Sister Xiaozhu and Sister Xiaocui, follow the second lady and the third lady, and take them with ......me wherever I go."

"They are the maids of the second and third ladies, and they will be sleeping in the future, which is different from us......"

"That's not necessarily, look at Sister Xiaohuan, she is still the princess's maid, how long has she been with the prince, hasn't she been accepted yet, guess it, will it be because the prince doesn't like her......"

"I think it's possible, where Xiaohuan looks like Sister Xiaozhu and Sister Xiaocui, it looks stupid, how can the prince like it......"

"Shut up!"

……

Kyoto has Jingwangfu, Ruyi City has Jingwangfu, Shuzhou also has Jingwangfu, when I left Kyoto, I left a part of the maids to look after the house, took away a part, and left a part in Shuzhou, Ruyi City, the maids on the house, only a few were in Kyoto when they were with them, and the rest were newly recruited later.

At this time, it was a maid named "Xiaoqing" who opened her mouth and scolded her.

When she was in Kyoto, she worked in the palace, and in this Ruyi City, she was also the big girl in the house, and she was a little housekeeper, and her status among the maids was only below the three of Xiaohuan.

Her face was full of anger at the moment, looking at the two of the two chatting maids, and said angrily: "How do you usually teach you, is this kind of thing you can say?" ”

Perhaps it is Xiaoqing's amiable image that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, a maid glanced at her mouth and said, "Sister Xiaoqing, what we said is right......"

"That's it, that little ring, it looks like it's stupid......" the other person also helped.

"You ......" Xiaoqing raised her eyebrows, and was about to reprimand, but suddenly looked behind everyone, bowed down and said, "Lord Wang......"

Li Yi glanced at the two maids in the crowd indifferently, waved his hand, and said, "Pack up your things today, where did you come from, where do you go back......

The two of them turned pale, and fell to their knees with a pop: "Lord Wang......"

Li Yi waved his hand: "Let's go, while I haven't changed my mind yet......"

When the two heard this, their bodies trembled, and they broke out in a cold sweat, and immediately got up and left in a hurry.

The other maids' faces were also slightly pale, they knew that what the prince said did not change his mind, and he did not mean to forgive them, and the criticism behind them was a big taboo for them to be subordinates, and in those big clans, it was necessary to sink the pond and fill the well......

No one expected that the prince, who was kind and pleasant on weekdays and didn't say anything serious to anyone, would be so angry because they said two bad things about the Xiaohuan girl......

Li Yi glanced at the maids, although his eyes were gentle, but when he thought of the two words he said plainly just now, everyone shuddered.

……

Jingping 3rd year, March 21.

It was a very ordinary day, Li Yi was sitting in his study, looking at a map of Qi State.

Xiaohuan pushed the door in, put a small bag on the table, and whispered: "Uncle, I peeled some melon seeds, there is no skin, you ate them earlier, it won't taste good after a long time......"

"Okay." Li Yi nodded.

"Uncle remember to eat, I'll go down first." Xiaohuan smiled sweetly and turned around, a subtle hint of loss appeared on her face.

The frustration quickly turned into a smile again, and she sniffed and walked out of the study.

She only took one step, and then she couldn't take another step.

Because Li Yi grabbed her hand.