The little servant Chu Wu stood aside and watched worriedly, and when he saw that Ding Ruoyu was fine, he retreated with confidence.

"Your name is Dog?" Ding Ruoyu rubbed the big dog's fluffy head, and was thrown to the ground by it again, rolling around the yard with one person and one dog.

Lihong was so noisy by them that he had no intention of reading, so he walked to the porch and leaned on the pillar to watch them play.

A child is a child, and even after experiencing many things that she can't bear at her age, she still can't let go of this innocence.

The grass covered in the courtyard has long since withered and yellowed, and it is a sunny day, and it is warm to lie on it. After playing for a long time, Ding Ruoyu fell asleep on the grass with the dog's eggs, and the winter sun sprinkled on her dark and soft hair, which was plated with a faint golden glow.

As soon as they heard that Chu Wu had taken the dog back to the other courtyard, the wives and girls in each room did not dare to approach any longer, for fear of being bitten by this vicious dog. The people also made a great detour to pass by, and even if they were not bitten, it was strange to be startled by this loud-voiced beast.

"That kid in the third room really doesn't take a few of us seriously!" Mrs. Sun in the second room invited a group of family members to arrange it in her own yard.

"People are doing big things, and his mother-in-law is too lazy to care, let's be aunts, how can we say half a word about him?" The rest of the wives chimed in.

"You say, what kind of business does Xiao Wu do in Xiyan Country?" Some people couldn't help but speculate again, after all, without him, the life of the Prime Minister's Mansion would not be so prosperous.

"Who knows?" The wives said in unison.

In the courtyard, Li Hong flipped through the account books of Zhuangzi and the trading house, put out a few of them separately, and threw them to Chu Wudao: "There are problems, at the end of the year, these people are also racking their brains to fool us." ”

"The small ones will be dealt with." Chu Wu took the account book and retreated, and the sound of walking woke up Ding Ruoyu, who was pillowing the belly of the dog's egg.

She got up as soon as she got up, and when she finished work, a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old lady came over to help him sort out the ledger that had been laid out on a table.

The courtyard was empty, and there were only five or six people living in total, including the subordinates. After Miaoyan Niangzi packed up the account book, Li Hong cut two branches to make a sword and took over Lou Xue's work.

The swordsmanship of Lingxian Valley mainly lies in the elegance and agility of the gods. Ding Ruoyu has been learning daggers for several years, and suddenly changing to a long sword to use it is generally not immediately adaptable. Fortunately, most of the teenagers in the camp of the dead chose swordsmanship, she just watched it, and sometimes she even changed the wooden sword directly to practice with them, which made some people think that she was also practicing swords.

At this time, her skills had not recovered, so she had to learn the form first.

The same set of swordsmanship, compared to Lou Xue's fluttering sword and not eating fireworks, swinging it from Lihong's hand is a little more treacherous.

"You can change tactics here." He instructed Ding Ruoyu to pay attention to some details, making her moves more and more varied.

These eclectic moves aroused her strong interest, and she practiced until it was getting dark, and the lady brought food from the kitchen before she stopped.

On the table, there are three fresh bean skins, quinoa bacon, bean crucian carp, and pork rib soup, all of which are the freshest ingredients in the city. Miao Yan and Chu Wu also went to the table, sat down, and dined with the two masters.

There are many rules in the Prime Minister's Mansion, but all the rules have been lost in this courtyard, and everyone is so comfortable that they come.

After finishing the meal, Chu Wu went out of the door, and when he came back, he said with a message: "Fifth master, the casino over there is Shangyang, and it is said that something has happened." ”

Lihong was teaching Ding Ruoyu to know some runes that were easy to understand, and when he heard this, he put down his pen and asked him about the specific situation.

"The lieutenant of the protector general got drunk and went to make trouble, and cut off a man's foot, and now the wounded man is trying to sue him and destroy our casino." Chu Wu replied.

"What is the identity of the person who was cut?" Li Hong asked again.

Chu Wu lowered his head and said, "Ordinary people, I just sold my daughter two days ago. ”

"General Protector ......" Li Hong sneered and instructed him, "It's almost the New Year, and I don't want things to get big." Send the lieutenant back, and then find a doctor to heal the gambler, and give a dozen taels of silver to redeem his daughter. ”

Chu Wu took the silver and retreated, Ding Ruoyu said: "It's the matter of the deputy general, so I went back, and I want you to take out the silver to appease people?" ”

"The more you think about it, the more trouble you have." Li Hong picked up his pen again and drew a new spell.

Ding Ruoyu held his cheeks and said secretly in his heart, anyway, how much silver he wants, it is not worse than a dozen taels at all, and the things that can be solved with silver are nothing to him.

At the right time, Lihong took the pen and paper and sent her back to the room to rest. Miao Yan followed her to the wing, and she had to serve every move, so that she couldn't adapt to it at all, who was used to freedom.

"Wonderful words lady doesn't have to be so detailed, I'll just come by myself." After preparing the hot water for bathing, Miao Yan was still standing beside her, rolled up her sleeves as if to help her wipe her back, Ding Ruoyu hurriedly covered her collar and said.

Received the master's clear refusal, and the wonderful words had to give up and wait outside the door, waiting for her to come out.

"I, I was sent to serve the fifth master since I was a child, and I was originally going to be a maid in the room, but I didn't expect the fifth master to have a strange temper, and I never liked others to get too close." After cleaning up the water stains on the ground, Miao Yan told Ding Ruoyu, who was sitting on the bed, about his own affairs.

"Later, when I was twenty years old, I was assigned to the merchant sheep who took over the blockage, and the fifth master and our family members also got together less and left more." As she spoke, she lowered her head and smiled, hiding the loneliness in her eyes, "Second Miss Ding, you have to treat the fifth master well in the future, he rarely treats a person so closely, you must not let him down." ”

Ding Ruoyu sat on the head of the bed, hugged his knees, and said nothing.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and with it, the smell of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger.

Red lanterns were hung everywhere in the house, and the windows were covered with red paper-cuts.

Since he went to Xiyan Kingdom, Ding Ruoyu has never had a good time last year.

On this day, Miao Yan brought her a red jacket with a white fox collar, Ding Ruoyu tried it, it just fitted, and when she turned around, she saw Li Hong standing in the courtyard, looking at her quietly.

"The fifth master said that there are not many people invited to the wedding banquet, they are all well-connected, and they don't want to do it with great fanfare." Miao Yan was still helping her tidy up her collar buttons, didn't notice the people in the courtyard, and continued, "The wedding date was also chosen well, just in time for Jiang Guo and Ye Guo to sign a friendship agreement on mutual non-aggression, the prime minister and the Hou Ye can agree so simply, it is indispensable to the interests between the two countries......"

Ding Ruoyu nodded in response, and suddenly ran towards the courtyard.

I don't know when the snow fell in the sky. Li Hong was dressed in plain white, looking up to the sky, wanting to catch the fluttering snow. The snowflakes in mid-air were deviated from their original trajectory by the air currents she ran.

Li Hong pressed his hand on her head and said, "I've grown taller again." ”

Ding Ruoyu compared, and found that he still hadn't reached his shoulder.

"Why are you so tall? How long? She exhaled.

He was a little taller than most people, and he stood out everywhere he went, making her look like a doll that didn't grow at all.

"I don't know how." The wind was blowing outside, and Lihong pulled her back into the house.

A brazier was piled up in the house, and it soon became warm. In this courtyard, everything is so warm and ordinary, and the fireworks and red dust are still familiar with him, like an indescribable dream.

If he hadn't experienced those tests of life and death, Ding Ruoyu would rather stay in this moment and never wake up.