Gwangju Castle in spring is a picturesque sight under the blue sky.

The streets are crowded with peddlers, and the wide streets are lined with richly decorated horse-drawn carriages, many dressed in fine satin.

Magnificent mansions abound, with high walls covered with colorful tiles.

The high terraces and pavilions, red bricks and green tiles, constitute the bustling Gwangju Fortress.

In a grand mansion in the city, a woman is walking by a sparkling lake with her personal maid.

The woman looked like she was twelve or thirteen years old, wearing a hibiscus-colored spring dress embroidered with acacia flowers, and wearing a delicately made golden begonia bead flower on her hair bun.

Under her curved willow eyebrows, there are a pair of bright almond eyes like stars, and a small mouth under the delicate nose is slightly pursed.

The childishness on his face has not been taken off, but it is difficult to hide his face.

"Third Miss, the maid didn't see the fish."

The little girl in blue with her hair combed stood on tiptoe and looked left and right into the lake, showing that she was stabbed by the reflection of the sun in the lake.

The woman grabbed the slender fishing rod and winked at the maid with a bit of cheerfulness: "Qiuqing, if you don't see it, it doesn't mean that you don't have it, you wait and see, it'll be there soon." ”

The little maid named Qiuqing nodded and said crisply, "Okay." ”

She has been with Miss Three since she was ten years old, and she is similar in age to Miss Three, and she is very obedient, so she is more liked by Miss Three than other maids who serve Miss Three.

The woman sneered, and her smile was like a hibiscus flower blooming in the garden.

She sat on a low wooden bench and fished like a calm old man.

After a quarter of an hour, there was movement at the top of the rod, and ripples rippled on the surface of the lake.

"Third Miss! The fish is hooked! ”

Qiu Qing jumped up excitedly.

The woman's eyes lit up and she stood up with a smile, but she was not excited by the fish.

She didn't move her head, looked at the lake and said, "Fourth brother, I saw you." ”

"Fourth Young Master?" Qiu Qing turned her head to look around.

There is no one else by the lake except her and Miss.

She took a closer look again, but still didn't find the fourth young master.

"It must be the Fourth Young Master who is hiding!" Qiu Qing whispered.

The woman grabbed the fishing rod and pulled it hard, dragged a small fish out of the lake, and said loudly to the fish: "Fourth brother, how did you become this ugly fish!" ”

After finishing speaking, a handsome fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy emerged from the flowers not far away.

He was dressed in a dazzling dark blue robe, holding a jade fan in his left hand and a gorgeous flower in the fingers of his right hand.

"Li Mingyun, who do you say is the ugly fish? Are you an extraordinary fourth brother? The boy swaggered over, and from time to time he shook the flowers in his hands.

Qiu Qing exhaled, although the fourth young master went to the Elm Academy to study, it still hasn't changed at all.

There is a seowon in Gwangju, which is called the Elm Tree Academy, and it was named because there is a hundred-year-old elm tree in front of the seowon gate.

One of the gentlemen in the college is the famous Shao Daren, who resigned seven years ago and returned to his hometown to teach at Gwangju Yushu Academy.

Many nobles from Gwangju families worked hard to let their children and grandchildren worship Lord Shao as a teacher.

But becoming a student of Lord Shao is not so easy.

You must first learn something before you can enter the Elm Academy, and once you enter the academy, you must pass the assessment before you can become a student of Lord Shao.

In another month, the academy assessment will be completed, and if the fourth young master is still like this, he should not be able to pass.

Qiu Qing sighed in her heart.

"The fourth brother went home today, and he came to give me fish?" Li Mingyun pulled the fishing rod and brought the fish that was still dying to her fourth brother, "But it's too small to eat." ”

She smiled and asked Qiu Qing to put the fish back into the lake.

"If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have caught a fish." Li Mingyao pointed to the lake and said, "The fish in the lake don't take the bait. He added, "You can't eat it." ”

He suddenly took another step forward and stretched out his hand to Li Mingyun's head to compare with himself.

"Li Mingyun, you are so short!" He exaggerated.

“……”

Li Mingyunxing's eyes suddenly glared at him.

The fourth brother is a strange person in her eyes, sometimes he is very good to her, but sometimes he makes her angry.

"I'll grow taller!" She clenched her fists.

The boy's laughter spread throughout the garden, startling a few birds in the trees in front of him.

Li Mingyun snorted and stopped talking to him.

When she grows taller, the first thing she does is to show off in front of the fourth brother and win back face.

"Third Miss!" A girl in Tsing Yi ran over to the corner gate of the garden.

She first saluted the two masters, and then said to Li Mingyun: "Third Miss, Madame invites you over." ”

This maid is the moon clipper next to the second lady Chen.

Li Mingyun walked to his mother's courtyard with his skirt in his hand.

The sound of brisk footsteps fills the garden with spring colors.

……

……

In Chen's courtyard, the crisp bead curtain kept ringing.

Li Mingyun stood at the curtain of the door, fiddling with dark purple beads.

"Mother, can you stop drinking?"

She said with a bitter face, "Didn't Doctor Ouyang say that I'm fine now." ”

A few days ago, because of the cold weather, she had a fever, and she lay in a daze for a few days, during which the medicine was not broken, and she never thought that she would have to take medicine now that she is better.

Chen touched her head helplessly and said, "You still have to drink, otherwise how can you be better?" Doctor Ouyang has already said that this medicine should be taken for seven days, not one day less. ”

The soft and warm hand gently brushed Li Mingyun, making her can't help but tremble her fine eyelashes.

"I'll drink." She finished and drank it all in one gulp.

The viscous and bitter medicinal soup slowly flowed down the throat into his stomach, and Li Mingyun swallowed it and quickly took a sip of warm water.

"I'm done."

Li Mingyun took the drunken medicine bowl and showed it to Chen, "There is not a drop left." ”

"Yun'er is the most well-behaved." Chen smiled with satisfaction, and reminded, "You don't need to drink it tomorrow, but it's still easy to catch a cold in recent days, so you should pay more attention to it, you know?" ”

Li Mingyun responded with a smile.

I don't know if the effect of the medicine worked, but she slowly felt a little sleepy.

"Yun'er, but you want to rest?"

Chen asked with concern.

Li Mingyun nodded, and was pulled by Chen to lie on the couch in the inner room, her consciousness gradually became chaotic when she closed her eyes, and after a while, she fell asleep.

Chen gently touched her forehead, helped her cover the quilt, and slowly walked out of the inner room.

Li Mingyun woke up to the sound of continuous talking.

She slowly opened her eyes and heard her mother and father whispering outside.

“…… I have received his letter and have agreed to it......"

"Sir...... If so? Isn't that self-defeating......"

“…… Now I can only take one step at a time......"

“…… After all these years, it is difficult for them to find this place again......"

What are the fathers and mothers talking about? It sounded a little nervous and serious.

Li Mingyun couldn't hear very clearly, she slowly sat up with her body that was weak because she had just woken up, and wanted to listen more carefully but accidentally kicked a small stool next to it.

The sound of talking outside stopped abruptly, and there was silence inside the room, as if the voice Li Mingyun heard just now came from her sleep.

Chen walked into the back room and saw that Li Mingyun had already gone down and put on his woven cloth shoes.

"Yun'er, when did you wake up? Why don't you call it a mother? She walked over and took Li Mingyun's hand, and there was a bit of anger in her words.

Li Mingyun let her pull: "I just woke up, and I was a little thirsty, so I got up and drank water." ”

She walked out of the inner room, and a middle-aged man dressed in a stone blue straight jacket turned to look at her.

He was nearly forty years old, and the years did not leave any signs of old age on his face, but made him look more handsome and elegant.

"Daddy!" Li Mingyun said with a smile,

Li Zhihuai beckoned to her: "Yun'er, come here." ”

When he walked up to him, he conjured up a wooden female doll from behind.

The female doll was wearing a pink skirt, with a tiger's head and a tiger's brain, and her facial features were a little blurred, but Li Mingyun knew that her father must have given her this because she was like her, like when she was a child.

"Thank you, Dad, I like it so much."

She looked up at her father, who was as tall as a mountain.

The father is taller than the fourth brother.

If he were asked to say "Li Mingyao, you are so short" to the fourth brother, how would the fourth brother react?

She couldn't help but smile as she imagined the image.

There was a small servant at the door to report: "Second master, Li Ge is back." ”