Two days later, I took Si'er out of the firewood room. After Gongzi Li learned about the school, he also came to see me twice, and the medicinal herbs sent into the house filled my whole room. The wound on my forehead was not deep, but it was itchy at night, and I was afraid of leaving a scar, so I had to endure it.

"Noble girl, it's time to change the dressing!" Yao Nu pushed the door in a small red lacquer dish containing medicinal mud and walked in. These days, Wu Feng sent her to take care of me. It is said that Yao Nu is gentle and considerate and a lovely person, but I always feel that there is something hidden behind her modesty and respect.

"Yao Nu, I heard that you were originally a female musician in Gongzi Lifu?" I asked.

Yao Nu gently removed the strip of cloth on my forehead and smiled: "The noble girl is curious, why would the son give the maid to the head of the family?" ”

My mind was seen through by her at a glance, but she pretended to be indifferent, and said, "I'm just a little curious, your appearance doesn't look like a Qindi woman." ”

"The maid is a kabuki given to the son by the Zhi clan of the Jin Kingdom in the early years, not a Qin person, but a Zheng person." She said as she quickly helped me change the plaster.

"So you're Zheng Guo's kabuki! Then you're going to sing a lot of good tunes! It's boring anyway, so why don't you sing us a song? As soon as Si'er heard Yao Nu's words, he leaned over excitedly.

I raised my eyes and glanced at the Yao girl in front of me, and I didn't follow Si'er to coax together. The people in the land of Zheng Wei are open, and men and women love more beautiful sounds. Although I am not as pedantic as ordinary scholars, I have some disdain in my heart.

"The son doesn't like to drink, and the head of the family is even more pure-hearted, and I have become a lot of strangers to my singing over the years." Yao Nu politely refused, but Si'er was reluctant to give up and begged in every way.

"Well, since the fourth girl wants to hear it, then I have no choice but to be ugly. Now that there is no drum music, how about I sing a minor tune of Zheng Guo? ”

"Okay!" Si'er sat down next to Yao Nu, looking expectant. I'm not very interested, but it's always okay to listen.

Yao Nu looked at the floating clouds outside the window, opened her thin lips lightly, and sang leisurely:

"Qingqing Zijin, (1) Relax my heart.

Even if I don't go, Zining won't make a sound?

Qingqingzi Pei, I think about it.

Even if I don't go, Zining won't come?

Picky and embarrassed, in the city.

Not seen for a day, like March. ”

When she finished singing, there was silence in the room. Yao Nu bowed slightly, and a tear gently slipped down the corner of her eye, dripping on the back of my hand, burning my heart. Through her face, I seemed to see many years ago, a young girl who was just beginning to fall in love wandered anxiously in the twilight, waiting for the man in her heart who was in a green shirt. Whether or not Yao Nu is the woman sung in the song, her tears make me believe that in the past years, she must have loved someone deeply, someone who made her wait until now.

"Yao Nu, you sing so well, can you teach me?" Si'er took Yao Nu's hand and asked hoarsely.

"Naturally, I don't know what the noble lady thinks of this song?" Yao Nu looked at me with a smile, and there was no sadness on her face.

I now have to admit that Zheng Wei's style, which is called the sound of beauty by scholars and doctors, has completely moved me. The heartfelt verse made me ashamed of my previous ignorance and arrogance.

"The song you sing is so touching! It's just that I don't know if the woman you sang in your song could finally wait for her beloved? ”

Yao Nu curled the corners of her mouth and replied lightly: "If that person doesn't come, shouldn't she wait?" Maybe she just obeyed one of her hearts and exchanged waiting for a chance to be happy. ”

"Is it worth it when you're old and empty?" I asked.

"It's not worth it, only those who wait know best. The noble lady is still young, and maybe in a few years she will understand. The medicine has been changed, and the servant has retired. After speaking, Yao Nu stood up, saluted me, and turned away silently.

I didn't expect a kabuki to say such a thing. I looked at the back of Yao Nu in the distance, and muttered for a long time, and the doubts in my heart became bigger and bigger.

The Zhi clan of the Jin Kingdom, a clan that Ah Niang warned me countless times before her death that I wanted to hide, why did they send Yao Nu to the Qin Kingdom? Who will be the man waiting for in the Yao Nu song?

The plaster that Gongzi Li had sent earlier was indeed very useful, and after a few days, the wound on my forehead had healed, leaving no trace on my jade-like skin. After being overjoyed, I suddenly found that Wu Feng had not come to see me for a few days, and I found the head of the house, Qin Gu, and asked to find out that Wu Feng had left Yongcheng on the order of the monarch a few days ago.

I was somewhat sad about Wu Feng's farewell, so I was depressed for several days and couldn't lift my spirits.

In order to make me happy, Si'er offered to let Yu Di teach us archery. Although Yu Di was heavily punished by the general after the incident in the school field, he was fortunate to stay in the end. If you want to find an archer in the mansion who can be comparable to Wu Feng as a master, he must be.

Archery may seem simple, but it's hard work to learn. Si'er fiddled for two days and then fled back to the kitchen. On the contrary, every day before dawn, I would run to the school field with an arrow basket on my back to practice archery.

Although Yu Di doesn't talk much, he is very good at teaching people archery. From the posture of archery, the control of strength, to how to aim at the target, in just one month, he turned me, who couldn't even pull a bow, into a real archer. Fifty steps away, the arrow is on target, of course, provided that the target does not move.

Yu Di thought I had some talent in archery, so he suggested that I try to hunt some prey in the woods outside the city. Since then, almost every day I have changed into men's clothes and gone to the woods in the southern suburbs with the guards to hunt rabbits and pheasants, and when I was lucky, I even shot a wild goose.

At first, Si'er was very dissatisfied with my transformation from a noble girl to a rough hunter, but then the daily food in the house made her excited. If I return empty-handed one day, maybe I will have to suffer a few ridicules from her and a few little white eyes.

More than a month has passed since this leisurely life. On this day, the head of the family, Qin Gu, took his four sons to return to his hometown, saying that someone in the family had brought a message and asked him to go back quickly. Si'er hasn't been home for many years, so I want to go back this time to see it together.

Wu Feng was not there, so I could only agree to Qin Gu's request on my own initiative. Although Yongcheng is not far from Pingyang, I am afraid that I will not see Si'er for a few months.

When they were separated, Si'er cried sadly, holding my hand and refusing to let go: "Ah Shi, or I won't go back?" ”

"It's not like I'm not going back, I'll stay here and wait for you to come back." I leaned into Si'er's ear and teased, "Or, are you afraid that if you go back this time, the family will find you a son to marry in Pingyang?" ”

"Stinky Ah Shi, I'm worried about you, you're here to tease me!" Si'er stretched out his hand and pushed me, scaring Qin Gu straight into apology.

"That's it, if you haven't come back when the first snow falls in Yongcheng this year, I'll go to Pingyang to find you, okay?"

"That's it, you have to keep your promise!"

"Well, let's go!"

Si'er followed Qin Gu step by step, and I stood at the door of the mansion and waved until I couldn't see her, and then I turned around and entered the door. In the past nine years, I have been with Si'er almost every day, and now that she is gone, my heart suddenly feels empty.

During the month when Wu Feng was away, Gongzili would often come to me with novelties collected from various countries to play with me. Today, he brought a few boxes of Liuyi incense and Shilan incense from the Nanxiang Pavilion of Chu State to send me, and made an invitation to me that I couldn't refuse—he wanted to take me out of the house.

Since I was taken to Moya Mountain by Innocence, Wu Feng did not allow me to go out without the escort of the guards. But he was not here at this time, and it was Gongzili who invited him, so I agreed without thinking.