The verandah twists and turns, as if it can't reach the end.

On both sides of the verandah, sparse pear blossoms are planted, with plain white color and faint fragrance, as if the ink painting is reproduced. But Yan Qingge didn't have the heart to watch, she hurriedly shouted: "Ming'er, Ming'er, where are you, don't hide." ”

The great courtyard was empty, and no one replied to her.

Yan Qingge walked through the hall, the buildings and scenery around her were extremely familiar, she knew that this was the Xinguo Mansion, and she was looking for her son Zhu Ming, but she couldn't see anyone.

Not to mention Zhu Ming, even her harsh mother-in-law Zhao and her husband Zhu Mao, who always laughs hypocritically, are nowhere to be seen.

She was frightened and panicked, and her shouts couldn't help but get louder and louder.

"Miss, Miss, what's wrong with you?" When Yan Qingge was woken up by Ruyi, his face was covered with sweat, and there were warm tears in the corners of his eyes.

"I'm fine. Just had a nightmare. Yan Qingge gathered his clothes, sat up, and drank a cup of hot water handed by Ruyi, but he couldn't sleep in the second half of the night.

The heart-to-heart conversation with her grandmother Xun at night hit her heart.

Before she was reborn, she spent so much effort to make her husband Zhu Mao stand out among the concubines of the Xinguo Mansion and inherit the title, and she also became the Duchess of Xinguo.

But as my grandmother said, standing up on my own, suffering to the core, I didn't see much beauty.

Zhu Mao and Yan Shuyu betrayed her, framed her son Zhu Ming as a fool, and disemboweled her, killing her mother and daughter.

Finally got up at the usual time to get up, Yan Qingge got up with a slight cyan color under his eyes, and after washing, he asked Le Hou and Xun Shi to say goodbye.

Xun had already gotten up and took her to dinner.

When I arrived at the main hall, I saw that there was a lot of noise inside. Le Xuan was running out in a hurry, and Yan Xiuyu was running behind him.

Xun walked into the courtyard and was hit by Le Xuan without paying attention.

Le Xuan grabbed Xun Shi, who was almost tripped over by him, and said, "Grandmother! There you are. ”

Yan Xiuyu ran over with a bun in his mouth, his hand was still oily, he hugged Le Xuan's arm, rubbed the oil on his duck-yellow clothes, and said vaguely: "Brother Xuan, you wait for me." ”

In order to avoid him, Le Xuan hid from the house to the outside of the house, and his body was still smeared with an oily slap full of meat buns, and the expression on his face began to twitch.

Xun knew that Le Xuan was the love brought by the womb, and he couldn't stand the strange smell the most, and the second thing he couldn't stand was messy clothes. Now that both are accounted for, Le Xuan can still stand and talk well, which is already a great face for Yan Xiuyu. She waved her hand and said, "Go back to the house and change your clothes." ”

Le Xuan said goodbye in a sullen voice and left the courtyard. Yan Xiuyu swallowed the bun in his mouth and said with a smile: "Sister Qingge, you are here." I saw Brother Xuan practicing swords in the courtyard in the morning, and begged him to teach me, and we thought that we would just eat two bites and leave, so now Brother Xuan will go to change his clothes, and I will accompany you to eat something more. ”

Xun's eating is chewed slowly, and his movements are gentle, even if it is a relatively simple breakfast, he has to eat for half an hour. Yan Qingge accompanied her, occasionally stretching out her chopsticks to pick up some side dishes or drink porridge, Yan Xiuyu next to her had already eaten enough, and only amused Xun and Yan Qingge on the side.

After a while, Le Xuan's little guy came over and called Yan Xiuyu to go back, Yan Xiuyu dragged it over and over again, and the little guy went back and forth a few times, and reported with a bitter face: "Little Lord Yan, Young Master Xuan said that he started to do today's homework, and he won't wait for you anymore." If you want to learn the sword, you'll talk about it tomorrow. ”

Yan Xiuyu said nonchalantly: "I know, you go back and tell Brother Xuan, I'm not in a hurry." "Looking at him like this, it seems that he has forgotten the matter of learning swordsmanship that he just thought about.

After eating, Yan Xiuyu didn't mention anything about going back to learn swordsmanship, so he walked around Xun and Yan Qingge. Xun liked him to be lively and lively, and said with a smile: "You have a good temper, unlike Brother Xuan, he is poor and particular about studying, and when he arrives at Bailu Academy, he will not get along with others, and I am worried when I think about it." ”

Yan Xiuyu jumped up suddenly, as if his butt had been stung by a bee, and exclaimed, "Brother Xuan is going to study at the White Deer Academy?" ”

"Yes, my uncle has been awarded the Fifth Rank Editing of the Hanlin Academy, and according to the rules of previous years, he will have to hone in this position for a year or two before he will be transferred to the Sixth Department. He will be in the capital for a long time in the future, so Brother Xuan and his aunt will go to the capital to stay for a few years, and Brother Xuan will naturally go to Bailu Academy to study. Yan Qingge explained.

"I ...... I...... I was pleasantly surprised. Yan Xiuyu touched his head, gritted his teeth, and became a little silent.

Yan Qingge looked at him, not like a surprise, but a fright.

In the next few days, Yan Xiuyu was stunned, and only when he received the red envelope from Le Hou on the morning of the first day of the new year, he showed a smile.

Because Le Yi hurried back to the capital to wait for the holy decree to be conferred, he packed his things on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year and prepared to leave.

They don't have much luggage to bring, just some light clothes and small things they are used to, and they also take some Heshan specialties to give to relatives and friends when they go back to the capital. Even so, Gu has been cleaning up since Le Yi arrived home, and he is tired.

Bidding farewell to Xun and Lehou, Yan Qingge and they went on the road.

Gu Shi and Yan Qingge sat in a carriage, and Yan Xiuyu and Le Xuan shared a carriage.

But Yan Xiuyu doesn't sit in a car much, he always rides a horse, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, from time to time around the car Yan Qingge is sitting in, and he can't lift the curtain of Yan Qingge's car at every turn and say a few words to her.

When Yan Qingge came, he had a car for one person, and he could still get in and share a car, but now it is not good, in the end, there is Gu Shi, he is not embarrassed to be caught in it at all.

As he was walking this day, Yan Xiuyu opened the curtain again and talked to Yan Qingge. Yan Qingge saw that a snowflake suddenly fell on his long black eyelashes, and it didn't melt, black and white, and his long eyelashes trembled slightly, which was very good-looking. Yan Qingge stared at him and said, "Hey, it's snowing, you hurry back to the car." ”

Gu Shi also looked over, and saw the white snowflakes on his jet-black eyelashes, and secretly sighed in his heart that this child was really good-looking, and persuaded him: "It's snowing, go back to the car, don't freeze." ”

"Brother Xuan is studying in the car, I don't want to go back to the car to quarrel with him, such a small snow, it's fine." Yan Xiuyu looked at Yan Qingge with a firm face, and he didn't go back to sit with Le Xuan in the car.

With just a few words, the snow in the sky suddenly became bigger, and in the blink of an eye, the air was full of goose feathers.

Yan Qingge persuaded: "The car is shaking around, and it takes a lot of eyes to read. I'll go with you, talk to Brother Xuan, and tell him to stop looking, and it's the same when I go back to the capital to see it." ”

Yan Xiuyu hurriedly said, "I don't need you to say it, I'll go back by myself." Then he hit the horse and ran.

In the past few days, Yan Qingge could see that even though Yan Xiuyu would provoke Le Xuan from time to time, if he had the opportunity, he would not stay with Le Xuan.

It's like a family with cats and dogs, and the kittens usually avoid the big dogs, but when they have the opportunity, they will come forward and scratch the big dog's paws, and then turn around and run.

Looking at Yan Xiuyu's awkward figure of abandoning the horse and throwing the cart, Yan Qingge simply didn't know what to say.

On the twenty-first day of the first month, the group returned to the capital.

When they set out, it was still freezing and there was a heavy snowfall on the way, but when they arrived, the frozen ground outside the city gate was already a fresh yellow-green grass color, and thin new shoots had sprouted on the willow branches. Spring has finally arrived.

Le Yi's previous rented house has not been returned, and the Le family will live there first, and will buy a house to settle down completely during this time. It's just that the house that Le Yi rented is really not big, it's okay for him to live alone, plus Gu and Le Xuan, and the dozen or so people he brought, it's really too crowded.

Before Yan Qingge left, he said to the Gu family with a red face: "Aunt, you came from afar, you should have lived in Yan's house, but my family is like that, there is really no way, please forgive me." ”

Gu Shi smiled and touched her head: "You have a lot of courtesies." When my family buys a house here, I will leave you a yard, and you can stay all year round if you want. ”

Yan Qingge nodded obediently, with hope in his heart, and couldn't help blushing. Her soul is not a girl anymore, and she will hope for this kind of thing, and she feels ashamed.

Not far away, Yan Xiuyu, who heard their conversation, cast a complaining gaze, he had invited Yan Qingge to his house to live temporarily, but Yan Qingge refused. But now as soon as Yan Qingge heard that he was going to live in Le Yi's house, not only did he agree, but his face turned red, it was bearable, but it was unbearable!

He looked at Le Xuan, who was standing next to the carriage with a book, and felt that there was a long way to go!

Seeing him looking at himself, Le Xuan beckoned: "Brother Yu, the day after tomorrow, the White Deer Academy will open, shall we go together?" ”

Yan Xiuyu looked at Yan Qingge and asked her loudly, "Sister Qingge, are you going with us too?" ”

Yan Qingge shook his head: "There are still eight days before the inner courtyard starts, and I should go with Ling Xiao and them." ”

Yan Xiuyu let out a disappointed sigh, but he couldn't help but rejoice in his heart, this is okay, he can't go with Yan Qingge, and neither can Le Xuan. He turned around to look at Le Xuan and said, "Then let's go together." ”

Yan Qingge didn't know the undercurrent in Yan Xiuyu's heart, and after saying goodbye to everyone, he went towards the Yan family.

When she came back this time, she brought a few carts of gifts, but these carts of gifts didn't enter Yan's house at all, and they were sent by her to the various mansions that she had befriended.

Heshan specializes in all kinds of seafood and crystals, and what Yan Qingge brought back is nothing more than crystals and seafood. She kept a few pieces of crystal beads and crystal jewelry for herself, and gave away the others.

When she entered the door, she only carried two carts of her clothes and luggage that she had brought back as they were. She entered the corner door before returning to Qingxingyuan, and before she could wash her face with hot water, a maid came over to report: "The lord asked the eldest lady to go to Hanyouju to talk." ”

Yan Qingge didn't expect Yan Songnian to be so "able to bend and stretch", knowing that she would not go to see him, so he put down his body and came to call in person.

However, Yan Songnian's character Yan Qingge knows best, he is a short-sighted and unprofitable goods, once he sacrifices face, he must have a plan. She wanted to see what Yan Songnian was going to make trouble again, so she raised her eyebrows and said, "I know, I'll go over in a while." ”