Xiao Luo set up a small white screen, let the girl bring a lantern to shine behind the scenes, and arranged for two girls who knew how to sound the rhythm to knock on the golden gong and carry Emperor Shenwu to fight with those lions, tigers, jackals and leopards.

However, those little girls who play jackals and leopards are clumsy with their hands and feet, and often entangle the strings and ropes of the puppets in a mess, and even Xiao Luo is also in a hurry, and they also knock over the small screen of the curtain.

Qingluan sat on a low stool and watched, holding a printed yarn fan, covering her lips and laughing.

Xiao Luo was covered in sweat, wiped his forehead with his sleeve, and grinned and smirked.

"Senior brother, take a break." Qingluan walked over, fanned him with the fan in his hand, and instructed the girl: "Bring some ice cups." ”

Speaking of which, she and this senior brother and cousin have known each other since childhood, and they get along with him more often and casually than Xiao Boyan's house, and treat him more like her own brother, but in recent years, she has avoided him and not let him enter the inner house.

She remembered the events in her dream as if she had woken up, and she did have some estrangement from him in her heart, but she had always been lenient and didn't like to remember those small feuds, and after a few months, she figured it out and no longer angered Xiao Luo.

Anyway, Xiao Luo is different from that guy, and his biological mother is not the mean cousin.

Looking back, all the sins seem to have been brought on by herself, if it weren't for her insistence on marrying Xiao Boyan and blocking his love path to marry Fang Qingru, perhaps, my father and mother would not have drunk doves and died.

I remember that in my previous life, after Xiao Boyan ascended the throne, all the princesses and princesses in Beijing who had been married were safe and sound, only my uncle and little cousin Li Zhi were killed in the palace and I didn't know who was killed.

In the house, the girls were messing around with puppet strings, laughing and playing with each other, Xiao Luo only sat stupidly on the low stool, his eyes looked at the little junior sister who was fanning him, and his eyes were as gentle as water.

Seeing his stupid appearance, Yuzhu suddenly felt unhappy in her heart, and hurriedly pulled the county lord aside, "County lord, let's let the servants fan the second cousin young master." ”

As he spoke, he ordered someone to lift up the curtain in front of Xiao Luo, blocking his sight, and ordered a little girl to hold a large fan in her hand and fan him behind Xiao Luo.

Xiao Luo suddenly came back to his senses, a little embarrassed, picked up the tea on the side and drank it, and covered it up: "Cough, junior sister, do you want to try playing puppetry?" I teach you. ”

Qingluan nodded hurriedly, "Okay." ”

She has been an idle person since she was a child, often going in and out of the market and countryside to have fun, calling slaves and maids, riding horses, coming and going is a scene in Beijing, and later she knows some good things, and she also understands that Xiao Boyan doesn't like women to act arrogantly outside, so he reined in a lot.

Now I don't have to worry about that guy's opinion, but I was detained by my mother and not allowed to go out, and I was already depressed.

Yuzhu frowned when she heard this, gently tugged at the sleeve of the county lord, and whispered: "The county lord ......"

She felt that the second cousin young master looked at her own county lord with a wrong expression, but she couldn't say anything to her face, and she despised the young master's inconsistencies in her heart.

Qingluan didn't notice it, went around to the small screen of the curtain, and asked Xiao Luo to teach him to play puppetry.

Outside the door of the front hall, the eldest princess stood for a while, thought about it, and then turned around and left with Aunt Mei.

Aunt Mei also saw the situation in the front hall, and said worriedly: "Princess, Second Young Master Xiao has been coming and going often this time, after all, there is something wrong, although he is a relative, but after all, he is Xiao Dalang's younger brother, the county lord's brother-in-law." ”

The eldest princess said lightly: "So what, as long as my son likes it, if she is willing, she will immediately cancel the marriage contract with Na Xiao Dalang, and it will not hurt to remarry Erlang." ”

Aunt Mei was stunned for a moment, knowing that the princess had always been protective of her shortcomings, she smiled and said: "I'm afraid that the world will arrange the county lord again, and the old ministers of the court are afraid that they will impeach the marquis again." ”

Once, when the county lord was young, he relied on his martial arts and agility, danced a small pony whip, and went on a rampage with a group of small followers, and also injured Sun Yushi's youngest son, and was sued by Sun Yushi to the Jinluan Palace, saying that Wei Dehou was not strict in governing the family and indulged in the murder of women, and the eldest princess was protective of nature, and the county lord of Jianing acted even more absurdly and uninhibited, disgraced the royal clan, and made the people of Li in Beijing suffer deeply.

In the end, the county lord was only grounded by the emperor for a month, and the female ring was copied a hundred times as a punishment.

"It's just a group of horsemen, and the palace doesn't take it seriously," the eldest princess raised her chin and said arrogantly: "Don't say that my son is just easy to marry, she just looks at one or two good sons, and it's okay to take them all back to the house to be husbands." ”

Aunt Mei shook her head and smiled, sighed, and helped the eldest princess and said, "What Your Highness said is very true, it is the maid who is in love." ”

Those who have never been used to restrain the courtiers and the people, the children and grandchildren of the royal family, and the proud sons of the sky, whatever they want is reasonable, and who can help it.

Inside the house, Xiao Luo turned his head to look at Qingluan seriously fiddling with the puppet, his heart moved slightly, and he said softly: "Senior sister, many noble girls in Beijing have gone to Qingliang Mountain to escape the summer vacation these days, and my family also has a courtyard there, so it is better for you and the eldest princess to go there to cool off." ”

Qingluan carried the puppet up and down, and said softly: "I want to too, but I have to ask my mother, and she agrees." ”

These days, because of the hot weather, the eldest princess's entertainment is also less, but you can really go there to go around, their princess's mansion also has a courtyard at the foot of Qingliang Mountain, even if you go, you won't live in the Xiao family's courtyard.

Qingluan didn't want to meet with her aunt, Lord Anping.

Xiao Luo: "The eldest princess will agree, if you feel lonely, then invite the little girl from the Li family to go with you." ”

General Li's youngest daughter, Li Lan, is as old as Qingluan, and she has loved to follow Qingluan since she was a child, and she used to be a little of her follower.

Qingluan is right to think about it, if her mother doesn't want to go, she will invite Li Lan to go with her.

At that moment, Qingluan returned to his mother, got his approval, and wrote a post in person, asking the servants to send it to General Li's mansion.

Speaking of General Li, that is Wei Dehou's old general, since he was a child, he is the personal guard of Hou Ye, when he was young, he was brave and good at fighting, and was valued by Wei Dehou and promoted all the way, in recent years, because of his repeated military exploits, he was named the fourth rank of the cavalry general, and now he is stationed in Western Xinjiang.

In Beijing, only General Li's Mansion and the Eldest Princess's Mansion have the closest relationship.

Early in the morning of the second day, before Qingluan left the mansion, a porter's mother-in-law came to report that Miss Li from the General's Mansion was already outside the mansion.

Qingluan was sitting in front of the crystal rhombic makeup mirror, and Ziyu was combing her hair.

"Why don't you invite her in!" Qingluan asked.

The porter bowed down and said, "The slave and maid are invited, but Miss Li refuses to come in, she only says that she will go out of the city together immediately, and she is waiting for the county lord outside the mansion." ”

"You go and tell her, and I'll be right away." Qingluan sighed, she felt that she hadn't seen Li Lan, a shy and straightforward little girl, for several years.

After combing her braids, Yuzhu took a set of silver and red gauze silk clothes for the county lord to change, and took a soap yarn to put on for her.

Due to the hot weather, the sedan chair was too stuffy to steam under the scorching sun, and Qingluan and the girls were ready to ride out of the city.

Several of her personal girls are good horseback riders, and they often play horse field with her.

The eldest princess was still worried that her daughter would go to the Qingliangshan Courtyard alone, and she took the gold-roofed yarn shed carriage to accompany her.

At this time, outside the gate of the mansion, Li Lan was riding on an old brown horse, followed by a girl riding a gray donkey.