Eight years ago today, it was Yushi's birthday, and she was seven years old.

Before the eunuch's future decree, Yushi's mother prepared a small banquet for Yushi at home, one was to celebrate her birthday, and the other was to use a good life to ward off bad luck.

I made a jade hairpin with my own hands to give to Yu Shi to celebrate her birthday, but my father found out that he had broken the jade hairpin in half. My father sternly warned me not to give away the golden hairpin and jade ring I had created before I left the school. He said that he was afraid that my workmanship would be rough and ruined Yuxiu Ge's reputation.

I was so sad that I was helpless and hid in the attic of the Mochizuki Tower and cried.

Unlike other countries, both men and women in the capital can inherit the family business, and women do not need to spend their lives in the show, and it is already commonplace to follow their fathers to the south and north.

But my family is different.

My father didn't like me since I was a child, and he always disliked that I was not a man, but my mother was weak in her own son, and her second aunt was never pregnant, and there were no more children in the family. My father said a few years ago that as long as it was a last resort, the key to Yuxiu Pavilion would never be handed over to me.

These words pierced my heart, and I once suspected that I was not biological, and I may have been picked up by my mother in some alley.

Yushi found me in the attic of Mochizuki Tower, and brought me a bowl of somen noodles, she said, "Recently, there have been many events at home, although it is a banquet, but in fact it is just a matter of opening the door to cook a bowl of noodles, I will divide my noodles with you half, which is equivalent to sharing your own joy with you, you have joy, don't cry anymore, so unlucky." ”

I wiped my tears, held the bowl, and ate the noodles in embarrassment, she smiled, sat on the ground with me, hugged her knees and tilted her head to look out the window, "I know why Zhen'er is crying, don't be sad, although your father is strict with you, he is by your side, and I haven't seen my father for many days." The mother said that my father was wronged, and I had to explain it to the emperor, and after explaining it clearly, I naturally went home. ”

She turned her eyes to look at me and said with a light smile, "Speaking of which, I envy Zhen'er very much, Zhen'er's father is not an official, so naturally he will not be wronged, it's good." ”

I swallowed my noodles and said with some grievances, "But my father doesn't like me, he thinks I'm not a man, and it's not right to pick me, no matter how hard I try, he hasn't seen it properly." The Zhu Hai jade I have created has never been praised by him. He always said that what I built would not make it to the main hall. ”

"I expect too much from you, so I look forward to you refining more!" She tilted her head to look at me and smiled, "Let's make a deal!" ”

"What agreement?"

"Let's make an eight-year covenant! Eight years later, I am just in time, and today, eight years later, I am going to wear a hairpin made by Zhen'er herself at my ceremony. Uncle doesn't look down on it, but I'm looking forward to it from this day on, looking forward to it all the time, looking forward to it every day, looking forward to the gift you have created for me. ”

"Really?"

"Naturally, take it seriously. As long as it is sent by Zhen'er, even if it is a branch, I will treat it as a treasure and will never give it up. ”

Unexpectedly, only a quarter of an hour after I left the Wen Mansion, Cai Qing ran over in a panic, saying that Mrs. Wen had been imprisoned and the Wen family had been raided.

Seven-year-old Yu Shi entered the Soft Fragrance Pavilion, and her birthday became the death day of her parents, and every year since then, today has been her broken heart day.

I know her reason, but all I can do is accompany her. And today there is finally a reason why I am not silent, as long as she is happy, even if it is only for a moment, it is good.

The confusion in Yu Shi's eyes has turned into Qingming, she looked at the brocade box in front of her, and said with a light smile, "It was my gift of time, so many years, you still remember!" ”

"How can you forget!"

Yushi stroked the brocade box and said gracefully, "What is it?" ”

I smiled and said solemnly, "A twig." As you said, even a branch of a tree will be regarded as a treasure and will never be abandoned. Am I particularly obedient? ”

Yushi couldn't help laughing, and her expression seemed to return to the innocent moment eight years ago. She stretched out her hand to open it, was slightly stunned at first, then picked up the wooden hairpin and looked at it carefully, and said in surprise, "I don't want you to have such a craft now, but you are a teacher?" ”

I shook my head, a little frustrated, and said, "My father is still like this, he always looks down on me, and I'm used to that dislike." ”

"That's not right!" Yu Shi looked at the crested hairpin in her hand, and puzzled, "I think I have seen the world well, this crested wooden hairpin is carefully worked, and the jade porcelain peach blossoms on the phoenix's mouth are even more lifelike, even in the palace, there are few that can compare with it." Your craftsmanship is so exquisite, and Uncle Ye is not far behind, why is Uncle Ye still unsatisfactory, will there be another hidden secret? ”

"Yes." I sighed helplessly, "For example, I am a woman, not a man." ”

"That's a gamble."

Yushi carefully put the hairpin on the bun, looked at the bronze mirror, and said with a light smile, "I wear it but it is pleasing to the eye, it is not an insult to your craftsmanship!" ”

"I want me to reply to you. Yushi, in two days, let's go to Sanlipo together! The peach blossoms are all blooming there. When you wear this hairpin, you will stop under the peach tree, and it will be more beautiful than the flower fairy! ”

"Flim Flam!"

I held my chin and looked at her with a smile, "No, Yushi is already good-looking, like a beauty in a book." Fluttering like a frightening Hong, graceful like a dragon, glorious autumn chrysanthemum, Huamao spring pine. It's a pity that I'm not a man, otherwise I would have to give my heart to it. ”

Yushi shook her head helplessly, and said with a light smile, "I can't say anything about your mouth, come and taste this." She opened the jade bottle, and the faint fragrance of flowers instantly enveloped the surroundings.

I rejoiced, "This is!" ”

Yu Shi smiled and said, "This is a hundred potourri, I remember that you have always liked it, but since your uncle and aunt did not allow you to eat and drink, I think I have wronged you for some days." ”

Xiao Yin brought two plum blossom jade cups, and the pale pink potpourri was poured into the jade cups, and the white porcelain powder was brewed, which was very good-looking.

This wine looks refreshing, my heart is very happy, I cup after cup, unconsciously ate most of the pot, Yu Shi picked up the jade cup in front of him, and smiled, "Seeing the joy of your food, I am also interested, accompany you for a cup!" ”

I was slightly stunned, and wondered, "Yushi, haven't you always eaten alcohol?" ”

Yu Shi smiled: "I don't eat alcohol because I'm afraid of saying the wrong thing and doing the wrong thing when I'm drunk." However, you are not an outsider, drunk in front of you, what is the matter. ”

"It's naturally okay to get drunk in front of me, but you drink lightly, and if you get drunk, you will hurt your body. And you need to be vigilant all the time here, what if you are calculated by the bustard! ”

Yushi shook her head and comforted me, "It's okay, as long as I am still an Oiran one day, the old bustard will put me on the tip of her heart one day, she will not calculate me now, if she sells me to those princes and grandsons so early, she will lose herself." ”

But the kung fu of the three lamps, the fairy-like woman in front of me was really drunk, Xiao Yin and I helped her to the bed, Xiao Yin said a little apologetically, "Miss Ye bothers you to take care of my young lady, the slave maid goes to get a bowl of sobering soup, which may delay your return to the house, but if you change people, the slave and maid are not at ease, thank you!" ”

I smiled and said, "You can go with relief, what is hard or not, saying this, it is a life." ”

After Xiao Yin left, I saw that Yu Shi's face was flushed, thinking that she was drinking on her face, and was about to get up and wring a cold towel to wipe her face, but just about to get up, the cuffs tightened suddenly, and I sat down again, I looked down, and the cuffs were tightly grasped by Yu Shi.

I tentatively pulled, I didn't want Yu Shi to clench tighter, she snuggled up to me tightly, looking at me with teary eyes, that look was really pitiful, I lowered my voice and asked gently, "Yu Shi, what's wrong with you?" But what's uncomfortable? ”

"Vera ......"

"Huh?"

She was drunk, her consciousness was already blurred, I saw her looking around in a daze, and asked me in confusion, "Where is this?" It's not like Vera's boudoir.... It's not mine, why are we here? ”

I was stunned for a moment, and I didn't know how to reply to her.

She seemed to think of something again, and suddenly realized it, and laughed self-deprecatingly, "Oh! I remembered, this is not the Wen family, nor the Ye family, this is the Soft Fragrance Pavilion. And my Wen Yushi is the Oiran of this soft incense pavilion, the Oiran! ”

"Yushi, you're drunk, it's better to rest first, you're tossing like this, and your body is not comfortable."

"Drunk?" She chuckled, and a tear silently crossed her world-shattering face, "Vera... I think Daddy, Mom, I've been really tired all these years. ”

I didn't say a word, stretched out my hand and hugged her tightly, her eyes were blank, like a pool of clear water that could not flow, except for resignation or resignation, there was no solution at all.

"Zhenzhen, thank you for coming to see me often, I am no different from a dead man in this filthy land. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to get over the hurdle in my heart. ”

She chuckled, took my hand, and looked at me with teary eyes, "Zhenzhen, don't come back in the future." ”

I was stunned for a moment, and then comforted her and said, "Yushi, you are drunk...."

"Listen to me!"

She looked straight at me and said word by word, "It is precisely because I am drunk that I said these heart-wrenching words." You are a girl's family after all, if there are rumors of entering a one-person alley, how will you marry in the future, and how will your husband's family bully you. Besides, this is the land of fireworks, if you are wronged here, how can I go in my heart. ”

"Rain Poetry ..........."

"I have wanted to talk to you for a long time, but I have never been able to give up on you. One side selfishly wants to see you, and the other side hopes that you won't come. I was entangled many times, annoyed many times, and I don't know how many times the words came to my mouth and turned back...... Now I drink alcohol...... I can't care so much about it....... Zhen Zhen.... And thou hast answered me..............."

Yushi half-closed her eyes, talking drunkenly, estimating that the wine was too strong, and the end of her words was fragmented and indistinct.

I vaguely listened to it, although I understood it in my heart but didn't want to understand, I hugged the rain poem that had fallen asleep tightly, and said nothing.

The snow-white hyacinths on the windowsill swayed in the wind, and the petals were faintly white through the candlelight, like the last snowflake in the sun.

Yushi and I are like the flowers on the branches, one is not accepted by the world, the other is not recognized by the family, maybe I am much better than her in terms of situation, but if it is about the pain in my heart, I am not inferior to her.

There was a faint sound of footsteps outside the door, and then the door was opened, and Bi Seluo skirt quickly turned into the house, and quickly closed the door with her hand, I quietly wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes, and asked curiously, "Why are you so careful, but what happened?" ”

Xiao Yin walked quickly to the side of the bed, and said nervously, "It's really Miss Ye, Mother Zhang is walking this way, she must have come to see Miss, Miss Ye, you go first!" If Mother Zhang sees it, she will not let you out of the Soft Fragrance Pavilion easily, in case she finds out that you are a woman, I am afraid that you will be in great trouble. ”

"But Yushi is drunk like this, how can I leave with confidence!"

"If there is a slave to serve the young lady, you can rest assured! If you are embarrassed by Zhang's mother, you really can't help the young lady! ”

Xiao Yin's concerns were reasonable, I had to answer her, and asked her to take care of Yushi, so I went out, and within two steps, I saw Zhang's mother shaking a fan and walking towards this side, I carefully avoided her and walked towards the gate of the soft fragrance pavilion.

I made an agreement with Cai Qing that she went to the temple for me to ask for a peace charm, and when I came back, I wanted to avoid the way home and wait for me at the entrance of a person's alley.

Out of the alley there was really a carriage parked, I breathed a sigh of relief, this Cai Qing is really quick to move, this trip is not far, she will come back this time to make me feel a lot more relieved.

It's just that I went to the side of the carriage and she didn't come out yet, I thought I was lying in the car and fell asleep, there were many people around, and I couldn't open my mouth to ask her to pick up the curtain and get in.

As soon as I entered the carriage, I smelled a hint of sandalwood, which was mixed with a clear and sweet smell, and it smelled very good. But for some reason, people can't help but feel a little uneasy in their hearts, and they always feel that this fragrance is very cold, and the frozen people's hearts tremble, and they can't help but feel panic and make people restless.

When did this girl have the habit of incense, and there was no candle in the carriage, the darkness was strangely scary, I followed the steady breathing sound for a long time, and then touched the sleeping girl, and pushed her to urge, "Qing'er, don't sleep, hurry up and find the groom, it's too late now, if you pass the curfew again, I'm afraid I will be punished for kneeling." Wake up! ”

I only listened to the sound of breathing in the dark, and seemed to wake up, I was happy in my heart, and took the man's hand to help him up, but it was okay not to help, this help was like a huge thunder that suddenly split down from my heavenly spirit cover, and exploded in the bottom of my heart, and I was stunned for a while and didn't know what to do.

Although the hands are slender, but the tiger's mouth and fingertips have thick calluses, a touch will be known to be the hands of the Lian family, the short index finger and these hands are worlds apart, if the person in front of me is not a groom, I ..... I'm afraid I'm in the wrong carriage.

I jerked my hand, the man just woke up, still in a state of confusion, I almost fell down by my jerk, I pretended to be calm and said, "Qing..... Son, you.... And fall asleep, I.... I went shopping and came back....."

After saying that, I quickly turned around and lifted the curtain of the door to rush out, when the cuff was pulled by the lightning and thunder, and I heard the man's voice, and the hand on the cuff was pulled violently, and I fell back into the dark carriage.

I thought I would fall on the cold and awkward car, but who knew that I fell into a warm embrace, and the crisp sandalwood fragrance suddenly became stronger, and before I could react, I only felt a sudden weight on my body, and the person was slightly on one side and half of his body pressed on me.

I was flustered in my heart, subconsciously hugged my shoulders and curled myself up, only to hear a chuckle above my head, the sound seemed to have magic power, wrapped around my heart in my ears, I pressed my heart hard, but I still couldn't stop the drum-like heartbeat echoing in the quiet carriage.