When I met the third aunt again, it was the winter of the following year.

There was a lot of snow that year.

He walked through the verandah and met the third aunt around the corner.

The third aunt hugged Xiao Baoyi, saw him, and said in surprise: "I haven't seen you for so long, Xiao Yi has grown a lot taller." Jiaojiao, call the second brother! ”

Xiao Yi's face was expressionless.

Although he was busy reading and practicing martial arts every day, he knew how the people in the house spoiled his young sister.

"Jiaojiao" is the small word that the old lady chose for her.

Xiao Baoyi was wearing a thick red cotton jacket, and a cinnabar mole was stinky on her eyebrows, like a dragon girl doll in a New Year's painting, which was carefully placed on the ground by the third aunt.

She raised her little face, her eyes were shining, and her little milk voice was sweet and soft: "Second, second brother!" ”

She bent her knees in style, her chubby little hands folded around her waist, learning to perform a blessing ceremony, but her tail fingers were unconsciously cocked, delicate and stupid.

The third aunt covered her lips and chuckled, "We are so cute!" Xiaoyi, do you want to hug your sister? ”

Xiao Yi's face was expressionless.

He is already a man, how can he hold a little girl?

He will never touch this kind of girl with a few in his life.

He said coldly, "Don't." The academy left homework, the third aunt, and said goodbye. ”

He staggered by.

After walking a few steps, I heard the little girl who didn't have a few milks, and said in a sneering voice: "Mother, second brother, fierce, ugly." ”

There was a slight pause in his footsteps.

His face was as gloomy as water.

This girl, actually scolded him for being ugly?

The third aunt laughed.

She said: "It's snowing here, Xiaoyi, I'll go back and get the cloak, you can help me take care of Jiaojiao for a while, okay?" ”

Xiao Yi responded.

The red lacquer verandah is winding and long, and the goose feather snow falls outside the corridor, which is the season when the dripping water turns into ice.

He crouched down on one knee in front of the little girl and reached out to poke the cinnabar mole in the center of her brow.

The little girl, who loved beauty, hurriedly covered her forehead and stared at him vigilantly.

He pulled a handful of candy out of his pocket.

The lactose sent by the Dayong court is very fragrant.

He said, "Call my brother and give you a piece of candy." ”

The little girl's eyes were clear and soft.

Her little milk voice is sweet and soft: "Brother! Brother! ”

Xiao Yi stuffed two lactose into her pocket, peeled off the kraft paper, and fed her one.

The milk is very fragrant.

The little girl bent her eyebrows, "Brother, the sugar candy is so sweet!" ”

When the third aunt came back from taking her cloak, the little girl's pockets were bulging and stuffed with fragrant lactose.

Xiao Yi returned to the Loquat Courtyard to practice martial arts, and the delicate appearance of the little girl always appeared in his mind.

He suddenly felt that it was good to have a sister.

The snow is clear at night.

He was reading around the fire in the loquat courtyard, and the little attendant came back with a food box.

He said: "Childe, I picked up lactose in the snow, it seems that Niangniang sent someone to send it to you from Chang'an. It's really strange, does Jinguancheng also have candy from the Dayong court? ”

Xiao Yi closed the book.

He got up and walked quickly out of the loquat courtyard.

The little girl was greedy and squeamish, and it was impossible to throw lactose in the snow.

Something could have happened to her.

As it turned out, his conjecture was correct.

He walked along the loquat courtyard in the direction of the kitchen, and by the light of the snow, he soon found scattered lactose in the snowdrift.

After searching for a few more moments, he saw a hole.

It was dug up by Nan Chengyi, the sister-in-law in the second room who wanted to be a ranger, during the day, and it was said that he wanted to trap and catch the rabbits in the garden.

At this time, the pit was buried by heavy snow, Xiao Yi stretched out his hand to cut away the soft fine snow, and the little girl nesting in the snow cave was wearing a big red brocade jacket, which was Nan Baoyi.

The pocket of the big red brocade jacket was torn by the branches, and the candies fell to the ground one after another.

Her brows and eyelashes were covered with fine snow, her little face was red from the cold, and she was holding a carrot in her arms.

Yes, Nan Chengyi didn't catch the rabbit, but he caught his sister.

If he had been a quarter of an hour late to-night, the little girl would have suffocated in a snow cave.

Shi Ku and Shi Yan came looking for them with lanterns.

Shi bitterly said: "Master, there is a disturbance in the backyard, saying that the five girls are missing." It seems that the nurse fell asleep carelessly, and the fifth girl took the opportunity to slip out - hey, aren't you holding the fifth girl? ”

Xiao Yi stroked the fine snow on Nan Baoyi's cheeks.

He picked up the little girl on his back and walked towards the Jinyi Pavilion.

He secretly put the little girl in a place that attracted attention, and hid behind the red lacquer pillars, and saw with his own eyes the little maids of the Jinyi Pavilion shouting and carrying her back, and then returned to the loquat courtyard.

And then ......

He had more and more things to learn.

On the surface, he is the unfavored adopted son of Nanfu.

But behind the scenes, he accepted the careful teaching of his master from Chang'an, and he had to learn everything except the art of the emperor.

Several degrees of spring and autumn.

The number of times he met the little girl became less and less, and when he came back to his senses, she had grown from a white and tender little glutinous rice dumpling to a naughty girl of eight or nine years old.

The elders in the house spoiled her, and raised her to be domineering.

Climbing trees and water, catching fish and rabbits, there is nothing she is not good at.

I also like to bully people.

He saw the forbearance of the third aunt's face, but it made her more and more interested.

At that time, the third aunt's health was deteriorating, and she needed to be sick in bed all the year round, hanging with expensive decoction every day in order to continue her life.

When the little girl was ten years old, the third aunt finally became critically ill.

The azaleas in the garden that year bloomed brilliantly and lively, red as blood.

The Nan family and the Song family began to frequently go in and out of Jinyi Pavilion to visit the sick.

All kinds of rare supplements were sent into the Jinyi Pavilion like flowing water, but they were of no use.

Sub-regulation sounds.

At dusk, he quietly stepped into the third aunt's bedroom.

The tranquil and elegant floral fragrance in the room was replaced by a rich medicinal fragrance.

The light and shadow were dim, and the curtains were lowered.

He sat down on the edge of the couch, rolled up the curtains, and saw that the third aunt was sick and haggard, but quiet.

Xu felt something, and the third aunt slowly opened her eyes.

She smiled: "Xiao Yi." ”

Xiao Yi's face was expressionless, and he lowered his eyes and pointed to the brocade box on the table, "I brought a six-hundred-year-old wild ginseng to the third aunt." ”

"Don't spoil something like that."

The woman coughed and sat up slowly.

She was very thin and thin, with prominent cheekbones, a far cry from the beautiful woman she first met in the garden.

She gently tucked the corners of the quilt for the person nesting in the bed.

Xiao Yi noticed that Nan Baoyi was still sleeping in the bed.

The little girl slept in a ball, her little white hands unconsciously tugging at the corners of her mother's clothes, and her eyelashes were still stained with crystal clear tears, and she cried for a long time before going to bed.

It turns out that she is as stubborn as Nan Jiaojiao, and she also knows what death means.

"I've always known that you're a capable person." The third aunt said softly, "Xiaoyi, in the future, take care of Jiaojiao for your aunt, don't call her as thin as me, okay?" ”

Xiao Yi was silent and nodded slowly.

The sunset of spring comes through the window.

The third aunt's smile was satisfied and tranquil, warmer than the sunset.

She leaned down and kissed Nan Jiaojiao's eyebrows gently.