At the right moment, a piece of fish belly white has been exposed in the east. In the center of Kyoto Castle, along the bluestone avenue, two majestic stone lions stand on both sides of the vermilion gate. The Zhu door slowly opened, and a group of gatekeepers came out from inside, and quickly opened several side doors next to it, and then, the housekeepers and mothers-in-law in charge of procurement in the general's mansion walked out from behind the side doors one after another, starting a busy day.

In a courtyard on the east side of the General's Mansion, a little girl with a soft figure and a good face hurriedly stepped into the threshold of the small courtyard.

"Girl! It's time to ......"

In the courtyard, Lu'er, the girl in charge of boiling water, bowed her head and saluted when she saw the little girl who looked in a hurry, and then reminded in a low voice:

"Sister Huixiang, be quiet, the girl was tired yesterday and hasn't woken up yet."

Huixiang glanced at Lu'er: "It's not that I want to wake up the girl, it's the old general who wants to send the young lady to have breakfast!" Could it be that you feel sorry for the girl who worked hard yesterday? Just go and boil your hot water. After speaking, Huixiang twisted her waist and stepped into the inner room.

After Huixiang stepped into the inner room, she glanced at the dark red carved chrysanthemum strip placed in the middle, and saw two bottles of hibiscus flower vases stained with dewdrops placed on it. Huixiang turned her eyes and saw the case placed under the table, and frowned: "The girl outside is too lazy!" Yesterday, the girl didn't put away the account book she read, so she knew that she was here, and when she got back, she would teach you a good lesson! ”

"Huixiang, you woke me up......"

Behind the screen, an arm as white as ivory stretched out of the green radish tent, hanging weakly in the air, the person on the bed was lying there in the shape of a "big", a plain white and clear face buried in the pillow, she frowned, muttered dissatisfiedly, but her eyes refused to open.

Seeing that Ye Lanqiao woke up, Huixiang immediately crossed the screen with a smile on her face, and said while skillfully pulling up the green radish tent:

"Girl, the old general is still waiting for the girl to go to breakfast with you, girl, get up quickly."

Ye Lanqiao stretched his waist, it was already past the white dew, and suddenly stretched his arm out of the quilt, Ye Lanqiao still felt a trace of coolness.

Her whole body shrunk into the satin quilt, and she muttered, "It's only time to get up, I don't want to."

"It's past the hour, girl." Huixiang stretched out her hand and took away the quilt on Ye Lanqiao's face: "Although the girl was tired for a day yesterday, she still has to go to the ancestral hall to offer incense today, so she can't delay."

Ye Lanqiao, who was pulled up by Hui Xiangqiang, sat on the bed in a daze, looked at the antique boudoir in front of him, and sighed quietly.

Dong Dongdong, now Ye Lanqiao, was originally a small armed policeman of the Border Anti-Drug Brigade, who had a passion to serve the motherland, but in a mission, he died gloriously and came to this world.

"Girl! The old general of the girl sent a message over there, let the girl hurry over, the old man he, he also went......"

A maid hurriedly ran in at the door and spoke. This call was like a basin of cold water, and Ye Lanqiao immediately jumped off the bed: "Hurry up!" Freshen up and dress me! ”

Hui Xiang also seemed to be facing a great enemy, she quickly opened the oak closet leaning against the side, and took out from it the pale cyan brocade wide-sleeved long skirt that had been prepared last night, and wore a layer of smock embroidered with jasmine buds on the wings of cicadas.

"Yueluo, face towel!" Ye Lanqiao had already washed her face indiscriminately at this time, she stretched out her hand and said to the little maid who ran in just now.

Seeing Ye Lanqiao's panicked appearance, Yueluo said softly: "Don't worry, girl, wait for Sister Huixiang and I to dress up the girl together, and it won't delay things." ”

Ye Lanqiao sat in front of the dressing mirror, raised his hand and touched the clean and bright goose egg face in the mirror, and a trace of unknown emotion flashed in his eyes: "It's better to hurry, otherwise my father will be angry again." ”

Huixiang hung the dress in her hand on the screen on the side, gently brushed the fabric with her palm, turned her head and walked behind Ye Lanqiao:

"Don't worry, girl, even though the old man is a little stricter on weekdays, but there are still the girl's grandparents who are hurting, right?"

Yueluo took out a set of silver inlaid with green crystal stones from her makeup, and pulled her hair for Ye Lanqiao, she looked at Ye Lanqiao who couldn't hide her tiredness from the mirror, and said distressedly:

"Speaking of which, the lord is still too strict with the girl, no matter how to say that the girl is only thirteen years old, a few days ago the ancestral hall was repaired, the girl took someone to invite the ancestors' tablets into the ancestral hall, even if there were some small mistakes in the middle, but in the end it was not in the way, the lord reprimanded the girl so much yesterday......"

Hui Xiang, who was drawing eyebrows for Ye Lanqiao, heard this sentence and interrupted angrily: "That's it!" No matter how you say that our girl is also the daughter of the General's Mansion, her status is noble, and the lord doesn't know what's wrong, so it's okay if she doesn't get close to our girl on weekdays, how can she look like a loving father in front of the four girls, it's really ......"

"Huixiang, how many times have I told you, you can't speak without a cover, if this word reaches my father, he will punish you carefully."

Ye Lanqiao glanced at Hui Xiang, raised his hand and took the snail Dai in Hui Xiang's hand: "You patronize and talk, and you have painted my eyebrows crookedly." ”

Huixiang is the son of the General's Mansion, she grew up with Ye Lanqiao since she was a child, and she is a girl who has no door on her mouth, although Ye Lanqiao likes Huixiang to have a lively and outgoing temperament, but she is also very worried that one day Huixiang will come out of her mouth.

Huixiang lowered her head and said silently: "I was the wrong girl, I won't say it in the future." ”

"No wonder Sister Huixiang is angry, the bowl of water is too uneven. Take the incident of the past few days as an example, for the first time, the girl took care of the big things in the family, and there were so many people coming in and out every day, and there were many things. It's just that he miscalculated the wages of the miscellaneous servants, but the leader of the miscellaneous servants is still the spicy and unreasonable Ma Pozi, who is actually shouting outside with empty mouths and white teeth that our general's mansion treats the subordinates harshly and greedy for small wealth, discredits the general's mansion, and makes the girl unable to come to the stage. Yesterday, the girl had to deal with Ma Pozi on the one hand, and at the same time she had to be reprimanded by the master, which was really aggrieved. ”

"Hmph, that Ma Pozi, if it weren't for Wang Xiaoniang's back, even if she lent her ten guts, she wouldn't dare to be so unreasonable, she actually ran to our yard to shout, if it weren't for Yueluo stopping me, I would definitely kick her out with a broom!"

Ye Lanqiao listened to the conversation between the two maids, and hooked the corners of her mouth helplessly, she saw Huixiang take out a box of rose gilt rouge from the palace from the makeup, and shook her head: "You don't need this today, just use the lip and lip grease from weekdays." ”

"Girl......" Hui Xiang pursed her lips, she knew that Ye Lanqiao didn't want to be so high-profile, but this thing was rare, Hui Xiang wanted to make her girl shine brightly and dazzling, and be angry with Wang Xiaoniang and the fourth girl.

"Listen to me." Ye Lanqiao said lightly, and Huixiang had no choice but to give up.

After the three of them cleaned up, Ye Lanqiao walked out of the courtyard gate with Huixiang and Yueluo, and walked towards the Wanshou Hall where General Ye and Mrs. Ye lived.

When Ye Lanqiao first came to this world, as a baby on the outside but a twenty-two-year-old young armed policeman, she still had a negative attitude towards her crossing at first, and every day in addition to emotional breastfeeding, she closed her eyes and eavesdropped on the chatter of the nurses who took care of her, and when she was weaned at the age of one, Ye Lanqiao had already thoroughly touched the situation in the General's Mansion.

Since his biological mother Yu died in childbirth when she gave birth to herself, Ye Lanqiao's father, Ye Lin, simply threw the product of her arranged marriage to her grandfather and grandmother, and she went to kiss me and me, the object of free love, with Wang Xiaoniang, who was greasy and crooked.

So over the years, Ye Lin has not paid attention to Ye Lanqiao, and Ye Lanqiao has no attachment to Ye Lin.

"Girl, it's here." Yueluo watched Ye Lanqiao walk in a trance, and couldn't help but remind.

Ye Lanqiao lifted the hem of his skirt slightly, raised his feet, and stepped into the threshold of Wanshoutang.

"The fifth girl is here."

Before entering the inner room, a girl inside informed her in advance, and Ye Lanqiao settled down and walked in.

Crossing the large screen of Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum placed at the door, Ye Lanqiao's eyes fell on a square-shaped, serious-faced white-haired old man sitting in the middle, and then glanced at the old woman next to her who was bowing her head and coughing lightly, stepped forward to bless her body, and spoke:

"Grandfather and grandmother, please."

"Hmm." Old General Ye raised his hand and touched his beard, his always serious face eased a lot at this time, and the old woman on the side raised her hand and pulled Ye Lanqiao to her side, and asked Mother Shen on the side to bring a half-new pillow and put it behind Ye Lanqiao.

"Why are your hands a little cold? But you have too few clothes? Old Mrs. Ye grabbed Ye Lanqiao's hand and patted it gently, her tone full of concern.

"Grandmother, I'm not cold, maybe it's windy on the way here, so my hands are cold."

"Lan'er, now that the white dew has passed and the weather is starting to get colder, you still have to pay more attention to adding more clothes, so as not to turn back to the wind and cold, and your grandmother is worried." The old general Ye on the side looked at Ye Lanqiao and spoke in a deep voice.

"I remember my grandfather." Ye Lanqiao smiled, and the coughing sound of Old Lady Ye came from her ears again. Ye Lanqiao frowned, turned his head and said, "Grandmother, but the cough is committed again?" Didn't Imperial Doctor Zhao Zhao in the palace last time say that he would be fine if he took the medicine? ”

Mrs. Ye raised her handkerchief to cover her mouth and nose, coughed a few times, and after calming down a little, she took a sip of the Chuanbei mulberry leaf tea brought by Shen's mother, and then slowly spoke: "It's okay, it's old." Grandmother is also like this when she is old, so she is not in the way. ”