"......" Mrs. Chu pursed her lips slightly, and couldn't help but hesitate.

These dowries were all prepared by her own hands for her resigned sister, the same, it took fifteen years, just like she brought up her resigned sister little by little.

She knew that these dowries would not be needed, but as long as they were still in the treasury, it was as if she could see Sister Ci again...... It's as if one day her sister can marry from the Xuanguo Mansion in a beautiful way, with ten miles of red makeup, which is the envy of women all over the world.

Mrs. Chu didn't speak for a long time, and slowly twisted the string of red coral Buddha beads in her hand, and the red coral beads that were as red as blood slid through her fingers one after another.

Mama Yu looked at Mrs. Chu, and her heart seemed to be grabbed.

She has been waiting beside Mrs. Tai since she was in the boudoir, and she knows her mind very well, and she has seen with her own eyes how Mrs. Tai has saved up those dowries for the eldest girl little by little for more than ten years, for Mrs. Tai, those dowries have long been not just dead things, but also a kind of sustenance, a thought.

A curtain suddenly sounded, and a girl in Tsing Yi walked in quickly, and said on her knees: "Old lady, Mrs. Tai, the fourth girl of Duanmu is here." ”

A short sentence swept away the original solemn atmosphere in the room, the two looked at each other and smiled, Mrs. Chu said with a smile: "Let Miss Duanmu come in." ”

Seeing this, Mama Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After a while, the maid led Duanmu Fei into the warm pavilion, today's Duanmu Fei combed a lovely double flat bun, and wore a peach-pink embroidered Zhezhe green calyx plum long jacket, with a pale pink embroidered long skirt, as if a spring breeze with peach blossoms was blowing.

"Meow!"

A long-haired lion cat wrapped affectionately around her skirt, sticking to her like a shadow, following in unison, and the two old men couldn't help but hook their lips.

"Old lady Chu, Mrs. Chu." Duanmu walked up to the front and blessed the two.

Mrs. Chu smiled and beckoned Duanmu Fei to sit down on the side, and almost in the next moment, Xue Yu jumped lightly on Duanmu Fei's lap and lay there obediently.

Duanmu's eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and his white and tender little hands smoothed the hair of Xue Yu again and again.

Mrs. Chu told the maid to get the painting, and it was the "Rising Sun Waterfall" that was taken.

Duanmu Fei came here to stamp the painting at the beginning of the palace today.

She took out a small Shoushan stone seal from her purse and explained with a smile: "Old lady Chu, I've kept you waiting. After I returned to Beijing, I looked for a month, and then I got this peach blossom frozen stone, and I came in a good moment. ”

The peach blossom jelly stone in her hand is crystal clear and moist, and the milky white stone is embedded with fine red dots, which are dense and dense, as if the peach blossoms in March float and sink in the clear stream, as if it is still but not quiet, as if it is moving but not moving, it is wonderful.

Duanmu Fei liked it very much when he saw it, and he begged it from Duanmu Xian with a salivating face, and buried his head in this seal stone for several days before he carved it.

Mrs. Chu was a little interested, and said, "You carved this seal yourself?" ”

"I also designed the pattern of the buttons myself." Duanmu Fei gave the seal to the pothos on the side and asked her to show it to Mrs. Chu.

Mrs. Chu looked at the small seal carefully, and there were four words engraved on the bottom in official script: Xianyun Jushi.

Mrs. Chu had seen these four words on the inscription of that painting and knew that this was Duanmufei's self-name.

The button is engraved with a little fox, the little fox is lazily curled up in a ball, and a pair of fox eyes are half-squinted and half-closed, as if asleep, and seems to be paying attention to the movements around him. When the duanmu is engraved, it skillfully matches the pattern of this Shoushan stone, and seven or eight peach petal-like red dots happen to be sprinkled on the fox's back at will, which is very interesting.

This lazy and agile little fox matches the words "Xianyun Jushi" very well.

Mrs. Chu became more and more interesting, and asked casually: "Scarlet girl, are you carving your dumplings?" Seeing that Old Lady Chu raised her eyebrows suspiciously, Mrs. Chu explained, "The dumplings are the little foxes she raised, and they are very cute." ”

"Meow?" Xue Yu raised her head from Duanmu Fei's knees, as if asking questions, and seemed to look at the cuckoo who came back with the scroll.

The cuckoo carefully spread the painting on a large rosewood table against the wall, then took two steps back and stood aside.

The three people sitting in the room stood up one after another, walked to the big case, and all looked down at the painting on the case.

The surroundings were quiet, only Xue Yu "meowed" unobtrusively, coquettishly on Duanmufei's skirt, rubbing her skirt with her head for a while, and patting her with a meat pad for a while.

At this moment, the surrounding voices could no longer reach Mrs. Chu's ears.

In the past month or so, Mrs. Chu has been looking at this "Rising Sun Waterfall" every day, I don't know how many times she has seen it, and every time she looks at it, she seems to feel a vigorous power from this painting.

Mrs. Chu also learned from Mrs. Chu that the painting had been destroyed, and knew that Duanmu Fei had modified the painting herself. Every time she looks at this painting, Mrs. Chu has a feeling in her heart that if Sister Ci is alive, she will definitely change it like this!

"Scarlet girl," Mrs. Chu suddenly turned her head to look at Duanmu Fei and asked, "Why did you think of changing this painting like this?" ”

Duanmu was stunned for a moment, and said vaguely: "When I first saw this "Waterfall Picture", I felt that this painting was not finished yet. ”

The old lady Chu on the side couldn't help but laugh when she heard this.

When he was in Ningjiang Palace, he watched Duanmu Fei change the painting with his own eyes, and he also vaguely guessed that Sister Ci'er's painting might have been an unfinished painting, so Sister Ci deliberately left a margin in some positions in the painting, so Sister Ci just wrote the money by herself and never stamped it.

Old Lady Chu also told Mrs. Chu about his speculations.

Listening to Duanmu's words at this moment, Mrs. Chu's heart was touched, and it was difficult to hide the emotion on her kind face, and her eyes were slightly red.

Mrs. Chu's eyes couldn't help but flash the scene from the first time she met Duanmu Fei in the palace the year before last, and she subconsciously rubbed the red coral Buddha beads in her hand with one hand.

At that time, if it weren't for the string of Buddhist beads scattered on the ground, would she have passed by this girl?

Perhaps, the old lady is right, this girl really has a relationship with Sister Ci.

Perhaps, there is really a force in the dark that brought the scarlet girl to himself and made the painting complete.

Perhaps, there is really fate in this world!

"Scarlet girl, you can stamp it." Mrs. Chu spread out her right hand and handed the fox button seal in her hand to Duanmu Fei.

At this moment, she made a decision in her heart, and her eyes precipitated.

If her sister has a spirit in heaven, she will be happy.

The corners of Mrs. Chu's lips curled slightly, and her eyes were full of smiles.

Grandmother really likes to change her own drawings! Duanmu Fei naturally saw the joy in Mrs. Chu's eyes, and her heart was overjoyed, just like a little girl who had been praised by her elders.

"Hmm." Duanmu Fei responded crisply, took the peach blossom jelly stone seal that was heated by her body temperature from Mrs. Chu's hand, dipped it in red cinnabar ink, and simply stamped it neatly next to the words "Xianyun Jushi".

The vermilion seal is so bright and dazzling on the plain rice paper, it seems that it is the last stroke of the painting, and with it, the painting is complete!

Duanmu Fei stared at the rising sun on the painting with a stunned expression, and after a while, he raised his head from the painting and smiled at the second elder, "Old lady Chu, Mrs. Chu, I won't bother you today......"

Mrs. Chu originally wanted to leave Duanmufei for lunch together, but before she could say anything, she heard Duanmufei say: "I made an appointment with the eldest princess of Anping to go to Qianfeng Mountain to incense, and I will visit the two of you next time." ”

Mrs. Chu's eyes widened slightly, as if she had thought of something, her pupils became deeper, and she exchanged a tacit look with Mrs. Chu beside her, and she didn't leave any more Mu Fei.

"Du Juan, you send the fourth girl Duanmu for me." Mrs. Chu smiled and instructed the maid.

"Meow!"

Xue Yu couldn't understand what they were saying, but she sensed that Duanmu Fei was leaving, and quickly flew towards her, and the sharp and hooked cat's claws on her two front paws naturally stretched out and hooked on Duanmu Fei's gauze skirt.

"Shhh

The tearing sound of the gauze skirt and the exclamation of the pothos sounded at the same time, and in the next moment, I saw a few more scratches left by cat's claws on Duanmufei's pink gauze skirt.

The surroundings were quiet, only Xueyu's innocent "meow" echoed in the room, it seemed to have no idea what it had done wrong, and squatted obediently on Duanmufei's skirt, looking up at Duanmufei without blinking.

Green pothos looked at Xue Yu's cute cat face, and suddenly felt that this face seemed to be a little familiar, where had she seen it?

Mrs. Chu frowned, and Mama Yu was about to explain a few words for Xue Yu, when she heard Duanmu Fei laugh out loud, the laughter was crisp and pleasant, obviously not angry at all.

Duanmu Fei has long been used to it, Xue Yu was naughty when she was a child, I don't know how many skirts I scratched her, but later Xue Yu got older, her temperament became calm, and she was lazy, and she slept most of the time.

Duanmu Fei leaned over and squatted down and gently stroked the top of Xue Yu's head twice, "Can I come and play with you in a few days?" ”

"Meow." Xue Yu screamed coquettishly again, and took the initiative to rub her head against Duanmu Fei's palm.

Looking at the intimate appearance of the person and cat in front of her, Mrs. Chu couldn't help but think of her sister again, and her eyes were slightly trance-like.

She quickly came back to her senses, and then smiled lovingly at Duanmu Fei, and said gently: "Scarlet girl, I have some new clothes here that my eldest granddaughter didn't wear before, let Mama Yu take you to change." ”

Duanmu was stunned, and immediately responded with kindness, and followed Mama Yu out of the warm pavilion.

After a cup of tea, Duanmu Fei returned to the warm pavilion again, and her body was already renewed, and she put on a lilac carved silk gown with pomegranate flowers, with a Hunan skirt with purple pomegranate flower patterns, and tied up her slender waist with polyester belts, so that she suddenly lost a little childishness, and she was beautiful and moving.

Duanmu Fei subconsciously stroked the skirt on his body, and his expression was a little complicated.

Of course, she still remembered this dress, which was Chu Qingci's clothes when he was twelve years old.

That winter, she was infected with wind and cold, sometimes good and sometimes bad, lingering on the sickbed for two months in a row, and she didn't have a chance to wear several winter clothes that season, but she didn't expect to have the opportunity to wear them on her body today.

Mrs. Chu looked at Duanmufei, her eyes were slightly sour, and she quickly returned to normal, she turned her head and ordered Du Juan again, and Du Juan hurriedly retreated.

"Scarlet girl, you look good in this dress, you keep it, you have to make the best use of it." Mrs. Chu said with a smile, "However, I see that this dress doesn't match your beaded flowers...... You'll have to change it. ”

As he spoke, the cuckoo quickly came back with a mahogany carved box, opened the box and presented it to Mrs. Chu.

Mrs. Chu picked and chose in the box, beckoned to Duanmu Fei, and motioned for her to bow her head.

Duanmu Fei gave a password and a movement, and stood obediently on his knees.

Mrs. Chu took off the pink jade bead flower on Duanmu's scarlet head, and happily put on a pair of Jindian purple jade bead flowers for her, and matched her with an eight-treasure Yingluo collar and a pair of purple jade earrings.

"That's what looks good." Mrs. Chu looked Duanmu Fei up and down with satisfaction and smiled.

Duanmu Fei also smiled as if she was infected, "Thank you, Mrs. Chu." ”

At this moment, she felt as if she had returned to the time when she was in the Xuanguo Mansion before, and her grandmother was like this, often dressing herself up like this, wanting to give herself the best things in the world.

Mrs. Chu helped her carefully sort out her sideburns, and said, "Scarlet girl, you should go, so as not to make Her Royal Highness the eldest princess anxious." ”

"Old lady Chu, Mrs. Chu, then I will be out of company." Duanmu Fei obediently said goodbye to the second elder again, and then left the Liuhe Hall with Du Juan.

This time, the cuckoo stared at Xue Yu very vigilantly, lest it cause trouble again.

Xue Yu reluctantly followed Duanmufei and sent her all the way to the Yimen, until Duanmufei's carriage drove out of the West Corner Gate, where it was still squatting quietly.

"Snow Jade." The cuckoo leaned over and wanted to carry it back, but saw it scurrying swiftly, avoiding it like a ghost, and turned back to give her a contemptuous look, as if to say, why do you think anyone can hug me?!

Duanmu Fei in the carriage thought about Xue Yu's pitiful eyes, and felt a little guilty in his heart, thinking about whether to make some cat food for Xue Yu next time, Xue Yu likes to eat small dried fish and dried shrimp the most......

The carriage was speeding all the way, Duanmu Fei's mind was thinking about Xue Yu, as if it was just a trance, and the carriage arrived at the gate of Xicheng.

The speed of the car slowed down, Duanmu Fei lifted the curtain and looked out, and saw Ziyue, who was wearing a blue cloak, standing next to a black painted flat-topped carriage, smiling at himself, and then walked over quickly.

"Fourth Miss Duanmu," Ziyue blessed Duanmu Fei in the carriage, "Your Highness invites you over." ”

As Ziyue spoke, the curtains of the black-painted flat-topped carriage were lifted from the inside, revealing Anping's bright and moving face.

An Ping beckoned to Duanmu Fei and motioned for her to go over her carriage.

Duanmu Fei got on Anping's carriage from Shanruliu, and the carriage went west in the sound of the coachman's whip.

The cold wind howled on the official road outside, with a biting cold, but it was very warm in the carriage.

As soon as Duanmu Fei sat down, he was stuffed with a warm hand stove by Anping. She scrambled the stove in her arms and squinted her eyes in satisfaction.

"Scarlet, you don't seem to be dressed the same way today as usual." An Ping looked Duanmufei sitting beside her up and down, and suddenly realized the difference.

Duanmu Fei's dresses on weekdays tend to be pink and cute, but today she tends to be elegant, which makes her look less childish.

Duanmu Fei was about to explain a few sentences, but he saw An Ping stroking his palm with a smile and said: "Scarlet, you look great in lilac material, it just so happens that there are also materials of the same color in this palace, and this palace is too fresh and tender, so it's just right for you." ”

"By the way, this palace heard that there are some new materials from Jinxiu Cloth Village recently, so let's just wait for us to come back from Qianfeng Mountain, let's go to Yijin Street for a walk."

An Ping took Duanmufei's hand and became more and more energetic, and said in his heart: It's better to be a girl, you can accompany yourself to go shopping, buy things, and dress up beautifully.

Duanmu Fei looked at An Ping's eyebrows dancing, and couldn't help but think of the heroic energy that Feng Yan bought every time he bought something...... Well, if there is a mother, there must be a son!

Duanmu Fei couldn't help but hook his lips, and quietly changed the topic: "Your Highness, today is your birthday, and I have prepared a birthday gift for you." ”

While speaking, Duanmu smiled and took out the seals of two peach blossom frozen stones from her purse, and handed one of them to Anping.

The printing material of this peach blossom jelly stone is exactly a pair, Duanmu Fei thought that Anping's birthday was coming, so he simply carved one side for each of them, and it took five or six days to finally catch up.

"Your Highness, you see, the two of us happen to be a couple."

An Ping took the seal stone with the engraved seal button and couldn't put it down.

The seal button engraved on the seal stone of Anping is also a little fox, the little fox squats there obediently, slightly tilting its head, with the peach petals on its back and on the top of its head, it makes people feel that it seems to be looking up at the peach branch above, which is very interesting.

The more Anping looked at it, the more he liked it, and said with a smile: "Scarlet, this palace likes it very much." ”

Duanmu raised his chin slightly, tilted his head and smiled, smiling proudly and playfully, with bright black eyes.

Looking at the little girl's cute appearance, Anping felt itchy hands, and raised her hand to gently rub the top of her soft hair.

"Your Highness, I haven't carved a seal for you for the time being, what do you want to engrave?" Duanmu smiled at An Ping obediently, and was used to Anping rubbing her head from time to time like a sister.

After Feng Yan set off for Puguo, in addition to the days of summer vacation in Ningjiang Palace, Duanmu Fei would go to the princess's mansion from time to time to find Anping to play.

An Ping turned the seal stone over and over again, looked at the little fox on the seal button for a while, and looked at Duanmu Fei sitting opposite her for a while, and felt that this fox was really indescribably similar.

The corners of Anping's red lips were slightly upturned, and the melancholy in her heart was swept away at this moment, and she said with a smile: "Scarlet, don't worry, think about it again......"

If Ah Yan knew, I was afraid that he would be jealous. Thinking of his stupid son, the smile in An Ping's eyes became stronger, and a slight chuckle escaped from the corner of his mouth.

Ziyue saw that Anping was in a good mood, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: Although today is the master's birthday, on weekdays, the master's mood is often not very good, after all, today is not only the master's birthday......

The carriage galloped all the way and arrived at Qianfeng Mountain on the outskirts of Beijing in less than half an hour.

In the past, whether it was Chu Qingci or Duanmu Fei, they would only come here during the Double Ninth Festival, and this was the first time she saw Qianfeng Mountain in winter, compared with the golden autumn, it was a different look, the grass around was withered, and the trees were depressed, which seemed very cold.

Duanmu Fei couldn't care about these anymore, it was too cold outside, the cold wind blew on her face like a knife, she put on her cloak hat, put her cloak on her hands, and walked along the mountain path to the mountain with difficulty in the cold wind.

After walking for a cup of tea, her body gradually warmed up, and her little face was flushed like the morning glow.

Duanmu Fei breathed two sighs of relief, and raised his eyes to look at the top of the mountain, at this moment a small temple on the top of the mountain had clearly come into view, and the bright yellow walls seemed to be glowing in the sun.

This is Senmaphoji Temple.

When Anping and Duanmufei came to the top of the mountain, the abbot was already waiting at the door with two monks.

"Your Highness," the gray-bearded abbot held a string of Buddhist beads in one hand and gave a Buddhist salute to An with one palm, "Please come here." ”

This is just a small temple, and now it is cold and freezing, there are almost few pilgrims in the temple, and it is deserted, only to see a monk in Tsing Yi holding a broom and sweeping the fallen leaves.

Anping has been to this Qianfeng Temple I don't know how many times, I am very familiar with this place, pointing around to Duanmu Fei introduced, talking about the scenery, but more like reminiscing about the past, talking more about Feng Yan, talking about Feng Yan when he was six years old and climbing the old tree; said that when he was eight years old, he sneaked out of Beijing, came here, and hid in a rockery cave in the back temple; Speaking of her, Feng Yan will ask for a sign every time they come here......

Duanmu Fei obediently acted as a listener, only occasionally echoing, exclaiming, or asking "yes".

While talking, they arrived in front of the main hall, and Anping went in with Duanmu Fei to offer incense to the Buddha and asked for a lot.

After leaving the main hall, An Ping said to the abbot: "Master Huineng, this palace and Duanmu girl go to the meditation hall to sit for a while, Master Huineng does not have to accompany each other." ”

Master Huineng's eyes widened slightly when he heard this, and he glanced at Duanmu Fei as if hesitantly, and a trace of surprise seemed to flash in his expression, and it disappeared in a flash, so fast that Duanmu Fei almost thought that he had seen it wrong.

"Your Highness, please." Master Huineng performed another Buddhist salute.

Anping took Duanmu Fei all the way around the main hall from the east side, until he came to a temple with a plaque of "Meditation Palace".

"Squeak—"

Anping pushed the door into the hall by himself, and Duanmu Fei followed closely behind and closed the door again.

There were a few candles lit in the hall, the candles jumped in the air, the light was a little dim, and there was a faint smell of incense and candles in the air.

An Ping walked straight to a closed rosewood shrine and opened the shrine.

In the shrine there is an incense burner and a tablet, on which are neatly written several gold lacquer characters.

In the shadow of the shrine, the words on the tablet are not clear.

Duanmu Fei, who was standing behind Anping's right, lowered her eyebrows and looked down at the tip of her shoe, even if she didn't look at the tablet in the Buddhist shrine, she could guess whose tablet it was.

Duanmu Fei's eyes were glazed, and he repeatedly said to himself in his heart, don't think too much, don't think too much!

Anping lit the incense, worshiped three times reverently, and then inserted the incense in the incense burner, and then said to Duanmu Fei: "Scarlet, you go to the pillar incense." ”

Duanmu Fei responded obediently, lit incense for himself, and bowed down in a proper manner.

An Ping looked at Duanmu Fei from behind, her eyes were soft, she slowly raised her eyes and looked at the tablet in front of her, and said silently in her heart: Brother Huang, sister-in-law, Ah Yan is very good, and Ah Yan's daughter-in-law is also very good......

The side hall was quiet, and only occasionally the rustling of clothes rubbing against each other sounded.

The two of them stayed in it for a while, and then they left the meditation hall, and saw the round-faced little novice trotting towards this side.

The round-faced little novice walked quickly to Anping, clasped his palms together and performed a Buddha salute, and said with a short breath: "Your Highness, the emperor has just arrived." ”

An Ping frowned slightly, and muttered in his mouth: "It's a 'coincidence' here." ”

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of her daughter-in-law looking at her obediently, looking obedient and cute, An Ping felt itchy again, she smiled at Duanmu Fei, and said comfortingly: "Fei'er, don't worry." ”

"Your Highness, the abbot asked the little monk to tell His Highness whether he should avoid it first?" The little novice asked nervously.

In contrast, An Ping looked calm, stroked his sleeve casually and said, "No need." "This temple is so big, you can't avoid it.

An Ping smiled calmly at Duanmu Fei, "Fei'er, let's go." ”