Everyone was tired that night, Ning Shenzhi and Xie Tanwei both ordered the food to be brought to the room to eat, and the others didn't bother to come out to eat, so they only made do with it in the room.

Feng Zhinan went to bed after dinner, sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, and his hands naturally hung on his knees.

Qiu Xiyin had seen Lan Shijiu meditate like this, so he didn't bother her, practiced for half an hour, read the book for half an hour, and saw that Feng Zhinan was still meditating, and ordered to freshen up.

After she was freshened up, Feng Zhinan also got out of bed to freshen up, Qiu Xiyin sat on the edge of the bed and waited for her, and when she was freshened up, she walked to the side of the bed, got up and asked, "Is the princess used to sleeping inside or outside?" ”

"Outside".

Qiu Xiyin took the lead in getting into bed, crawled inside, lay down, covered with quilts, although there was only one bed in the guest room, but fortunately there were two quilts.

After Qiu Xiyin lay down, Feng Zhinan also went to bed and lay down, Qiu Xiyin noticed that she did not change into her bedclothes, she was neatly dressed from top to bottom, only broke her hair in a bun and tied her hair behind her head with a black ribbon.

Qiu Xiyin didn't ask much, she closed her eyes quietly, she felt that Daxue stepped forward to help Feng Zhinan tuck the quilt and put down the tent, followed by the sound of clothes swishing, someone blew out the candles, and the room fell into darkness.

There is an extra Feng Zhinan next to him, although Qiu Xiyin is extremely tired, it is difficult for him to fall asleep with peace of mind, and he doesn't know when he fell asleep dimly, as if he just fell asleep when he heard the sound of squirming, but it was the maids and women who had already started to get up.

She closed her eyes and didn't make a sound, not wanting Feng Zhinan to get up right after her.

The princesses of the family got up, so she naturally had no reason to lie in bed, so Qiu Xiyin had to sit up too, not wanting it to be dark outside.

Feng Zhinan glanced back at her and said, "If you don't want to go to see the sunrise, you can sleep for a while."

Qiu Xiyin hesitated and didn't say anything, Feng Zhinan spoke again, "Don't go."

Qiu Xiyin smiled apologetically, "Then bother the princess to help me ask for a crime, I was really tired yesterday."

Feng Zhinan nodded, quickly cleaned up and went out, there was a commotion outside for a while, and then it fell silent, and Qiu Xiyin fell asleep dimly.

She woke up and it was already the hour, as usual, she practiced an hour before she was ordered, and the carrot brought a big bowl of hot white porridge, at this time there was only this one left in the kitchen in the temple, fortunately, there were still some snacks left with them, Qiu Xiyin didn't pick it, and put it down after eating seven points full of porridge.

While waiting for her to rinse her mouth, Carrot said, "Just now the slave maid went to the kitchen and saw the fourth master reading in the pavilion in front of the courtyard, Lan Qi said that the fourth master had been waiting for the girl there for a morning."

Qiu Xiyin snorted and asked, "Everyone else went to see the sunrise?" ”

"The slave maid heard from the little novice that the king of Ningjun and the fourth prince were playing chess with Master Liansheng."

Qiu Xiyin hesitated for a while, in the end, it was the curiosity of Master Liansheng who prevailed, asked where they were playing chess, got up and walked outside, and sure enough, as soon as he came out of the courtyard, he saw Xie Jiashu sitting in the gazebo not far away with a book reading.

She didn't look at him, and walked over from the pavilion, Xie Jiashu didn't say anything, just got up silently and followed her.

The two of them ignored no one and arrived outside the courtyard where Master Liansheng lived, Qiu Xiyin ordered the carrot to go in and ask to see him, but he didn't want Ning Shenzhi to come out in person, and said, "Chonghua said that Brother Shu is not allowed to go in, and he will wait for the third girl Qiu to dissipate her anger."

Xie Jiashu looked at Qiu Xiyin when he heard this, and stopped talking, Qiu Xiyin snorted, blessed Ning Shenzhi, and followed him inside.

Ning Shenzhi thought that he was not used to dealing with children, so he was silent for a while and asked bluntly, "Why didn't Miss Qiu go to watch the sunrise with Anan?" ”

Qiu Xiyin really didn't want to deal with him more, so he simply snorted.

So, Ning Shenzhi didn't speak, and the two walked in silence, and suddenly, Qiu Xiyin suddenly stopped, and his eyes fell straight on the face of the man sitting opposite Xie Tanwei.

From her direction, I saw his face facing the light like a flower of spring dawn, picturesque, and a red birthmark on his eyebrows, shaped like a lotus in the first bloom.

Because of this special and auspicious birthmark, his father, who was full of learning and elegant but strict temperament when he was born, gave him the nickname --- Xiaoyuer, which is full of love and pity, which is taken from the song "Jiangnan" of Gu Yuefu:

Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaves He Tiantian. Fish play among lotus leaves. Fish play lotus leaf east, fish play lotus leaf west, fish play lotus leaf south, fish play lotus leaf north.

His father, Qiu Xiyin, had seen it once, such a serious, strict and unsmiling Confucian could give his son such a lively nickname, which shows the depth of his love for him.

The fact is also as his nickname indicates, this little fish grew up like a moon under the protection and cultivation of the family, under the loving teaching of his father, and at the age of nineteen, he was famous in Jiangnan with a sprinkling "Guanghan Fu", which was as famous as Xie Tanwei.

It was in that year that Qiu Xiyin, who was just four years old, met him for the first time.

The great-grandmother pointed at him and said to her, "Yinyin, look, that is the number one talent in Jiangnan on the same level as your little uncle, do you think he looks good?" ”

She stood behind the railing on the second floor of the teahouse and looked at him on tiptoe, looking at the young man who was as beautiful as spring flowers, but as clean as winter snow, his appearance and temperament were so outstanding that she remembered him firmly when she was just four years old.

A year later, when she saw him for the second time, he was no longer the noble young man she had ever seen, but she still recognized him at a glance.

"You come home with me, and I will ask the doctor to treat your wounds."

Mu Ran, who used to be on top of Qingbo, but now he is deep in the mud, covered with scars and suppuration and stench, and the young man who is lying on the corner like a beggar turned his eyes to look at her, and only after a while did he ask, "Treat the injury, why treat the injury?" ”

His voice murmured, not like he was asking her, but more like he was talking to himself.

At the age of five, she thought about it seriously for a long time, and finally affirmed, "My grandmother said that no matter how painful the body is, you must endure it, and no matter how bitter the medicine is, you must swallow it, because the most important thing is to live."

It was the deepest answer she could think of when she was confronted with such a question at the age of five, even if she didn't understand the meaning of those words at the time.

He went home with her, and had been raised in his great-grandmother's farm for three months before he could barely get out of bed and walk, and when he appeared to her again on crutches and in the coarse gray clothes of a servant, she suddenly saw the brocade-clothed young man who had first met him.

"Little Miss," he called her like a servant and tenant farmer in the Zhuangzi, "I can't eat and live in the Zhuangzi for nothing, I heard that the little lady likes to eat crabs, and it just so happens that I am very good at making snowflake crab fights, do you want to try it?" ”