The peony in the back garden is in full bloom, I heard that it is planted from the original peony flower seeds to bloom, it is a rare flower in Mobei so it is particularly precious, but I don't know why there is only one kind of peony flower in the back garden.

The peony flowers bloom delicately, and in midsummer, I unconsciously think of a poem by Liu Yuxi, green and quiet, red clothes are shallow and deep, or Xu Ning's sentence, who doesn't love peony flowers, occupy the good things in the city.

She couldn't leave the East Palace for half a step, and sat on the stone bench admiring the flowers, seeing the princess who didn't pay attention to the words of the slaves passing by, and the kneeling salute.

"Princess, will you eat some melon seeds?"

Gu Jing brought a plate of fried spiced melon seeds, placed them on the stone table, and stood aside and didn't sit down, just looking at the midsummer in a daze.

"Gu Jing, sit down, you and I have known each other for so many years and grew up together, so there is no need to be so restrained."

Midsummer came back to her senses and saw that Gu Jing was still standing, so she opened her mouth and asked him to sit opposite her, she always didn't use much force when she spoke, and her voice was as cold as a light wind.

"No, princess, how can you sit opposite you, if outsiders see the princess gossiping, what should I do?"

Gu Jing always cared about this and that, refused to sit down, and took a few steps back far away from the middle of summer, standing straight and motionless.

Seeing that Gu Jing insisted again and again, Sheng Xia had no choice but to stop insisting on it, but just said one more word.

"Gu Jing, I hope you can live a less tired and happier life in the future, just like my brother, don't care about some false things, for me, you are not just a guard, but a friend from childhood to adulthood."

Sheng Xia said that she played with the melon seeds on the plate with her hand, picked up one and knocked it in her mouth, it was a delicious five-spiced melon seed, and it was just right to be sweet and fragrant, she guessed that it was fried by Gu Jing herself.

"Princess, what nonsense are you talking about, the guards are the guards, shouldn't they be respectful to you? The princess doesn't need to care about the mood of a guard, if the princess is good, it will be good for the princess. ”

Gu Jing stood so far away from Midsummer that he could barely see the princess's face, he didn't even dare to look at it more, bowed his head and saluted, and clasped his hands into fists.

The two of them are masters and servants, as if they are not friends at all, and they are separated not only by distance but also by an invisible mountain.

Sheng Xia just shook her head and didn't say anything more, just continued to knock the melon seeds, and unconsciously tears fell involuntarily, she just remembered some things from the past, that was Su Xia's past.

The imperial garden of the palace of Western Chu was originally full of flowers, and there were countless strange flowers and plants, but later the prince used one night to send people to give all the original flowers to the literati or the famous Oiran of the Qinglou, and the empty imperial garden was full of golden sunflowers, and there were sunflowers from foreign countries everywhere the palace went.

On the morning of Princess Xia's eighteenth birthday, it was still dawn, but Princess Xia had been woken up by her prince's brother.

"Xia, my brother has prepared a surprise for you!"

Su Xiao smiled with a smile on her lips, gently covered Su Xia's eyes with a red cloth, and took her hand and walked out.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

Su Xia saw that Su Xiao was mysterious, and Su Xia didn't know what was waiting for her, but she also had endless expectations, because her prince brother Su Xiao was the most pleasing girl in the world.

It wasn't until he walked to the newly transformed garden that Su Xiao untied the red cloth tied to Midsummer's eyes.

"Brother, are these all the surprises you said?"

In the middle of summer, she walked like a butterfly, and she would look at the flower and the other, and she would wander among the flowers like a delicate flower, she had only seen one before, but this time she saw a whole palace full of her favorite sunflowers.

"That's nature, such a beautiful flower must have been planted for you, this is my brother, I have worked hard to rectify people, do you like that sister?" Su Xiao smiled stupidly, just because he was so happy to see his sister Su Xia, he was also happy, and he was still covering half of his red and swollen face, which was beaten by his father.

Who told him to replace all the flowers in the palace with sunflowers, but now that he saw his sister so happy, it was worth it.

"My brother must have liked it, but brother, you're messing around this time, your face is so swollen, did your father beat you? Not next time. ”

Midsummer walked up to Su Xiao's swollen half of her face, hid her face and smiled through the handkerchief in her hand, she laughed at her brother's innocence like a child, and liked the sunflowers all over the mountains.

"It hurts, but my brother doesn't care about anything when he sees you so happy."

Su Xiao replied truthfully, but he had long been used to it, after all, no one in the world was pointing behind him, and his father was used to beating him.

On her eighteenth birthday, she saw the sunflowers in the palace, she was her favorite flower, she just liked it, but then her brother planted it for her, and it was her favorite.

Everyone said that her brother was not good, but she felt that her brother was all the humble gentlemen in this world, and he was also the first person in the world to treat her well.

After a while, Midsummer had finished knocking the melon seeds, Gu Jing changed to a plate of freshly fried melon seeds, she continued to knock the melon seeds and thought of the sunflowers in the palace of the King of Xichu, and also wanted to come to her brother.

In fact, she is not her brother's own sister, but her brother and father have never cared about these ......

And she still remembers the things about her biological father and mother, but those are the deaths she doesn't want to touch.

Mother...... What a fool...... Because grandmother is a fool...... Daddy is a badass...... Because grandpa is a badass......

She was born in a small village in the middle of nowhere, and since she was sensible, she heard that her mother was a fool, and her grandmother was also a fool, but she was strange and not a fool, but people there always called her a little fool.

Daddy is an illiterate thin man who always likes to drink, no one can beat him on weekdays, but he is very good at beating his mother, and he loves to scold while beating:

"Don't be angry and lose money, let you give birth to a son, you give birth to a small money-losing goods!"

My mother could only cry and not even say a word.

When the people in the village saw her, they looked pitiful and sympathetic and said, "This little fool is really pitiful, her mother was exchanged for two steamed buns by his father, and she looks good, but unfortunately she can't give birth to a little fool." ”

At the age of nine, she had a question in her heart, why is her mother a fool? Why wouldn't my mother hold her like Wang Ergou next door and teach her to read and write?

It wasn't until later that she saw her grandmother, who ran away when she saw people, and she couldn't say a word, and she heard people say that her grandmother was crazy.

People say, "You know what? That madman is the mother of the fool who was always beaten, and was picked up back then, but I didn't expect the baby to be born is still a fool......"

They were embarrassed and complacent, and from time to time they would give her some overnight leftovers, but they would never say a word to her, and sometimes they would hide far away when they saw her on weekdays.

My mother always cries as if she only cries all day long, but sometimes she doesn't cry, and when she doesn't cry, she repeats a sentence in her mouth, "Run, run as far as possible......

But at that time, she didn't know where to run, she just hugged her mother, just like Wang Ergou and his mother hugged Wang Ergou.

The parents drank on credit outside, but they would always bring a few thin and ugly men like him, and they would drag her out so that she wouldn't get in the way.

She would run to the dry well to play alone, because her grandmother was her mother's mother, and if she was lucky, her grandmother would also have times when she was not afraid of people talking.

Grandmother would say the same thing as her mother, "Run...... Run ......"

She didn't know how to run, she ran around the village, but she wouldn't run out of the village, and when she came back tired of running, she found that her grandmother was crazy again, and when she saw her, she ran away.

She walked home, dressed her naked mother, but her mother still looked at her stupidly, she sometimes hoped that her mother could hug her, buy her a string of rock sugar gourds, and take her to see the mountains and rivers outside the village.

Daddy said that it was cold in summer, so my mother took off her clothes.

There are many more wounds on my mother's body, and there is no good place on my face, head, body, and body, some of which are bruised and some are bloody.

Life is getting worse and worse, my father brings my grandfather here, the family expenses are big again, and more and more uncles come to her house as guests, and every time she is kicked out.

She waved her hand and counted, "It's Wang Ergou's father, the village chief's grandfather, and the uncle who sells sugar gourds......"

She read a lot of names and counted a lot of them, as if all the men of the village had come to her house as guests, and they always smiled when they came out.

Grandpa likes to play mother's ...... with his father It wasn't until the mother fell asleep that they stopped fighting.

"Mother, wake up......"

No matter how much she pushed, she couldn't wake up her mother, but she heard her father and grandfather muttering about the death of the sentence.

The family was so poor that they didn't even have a coffin, but Dad and Grandpa still had money to drink.

Daddy counted the broken silver while drinking, and said, "I didn't expect that the mother-in-law was worth some money when she died, and she could make some money by selling it to the hanged ghost next door." ”

Grandfather glanced at her and said, "It's better to sell your daughter, anyway, it's a loss of money, I heard that the prostitute next door collects little girls, take the money back and marry a woman who can have children!" ”

She instantly felt creepy, and she saw her father nodding and smiling.

When her father and grandfather were drunk, she remembered what her mother and grandmother had said......

The first time she ran out, she walked barefoot on the stone slab and bled to the city outside, where she had always wanted her mother to take her.

She squatted at the end of the alley and blew the cold wind, endured the pain in her feet, and continued to run until she was almost faint from hunger, and sat on the steps by the side of the road.