It was an ordinary summer afternoon when I was five years old, with clouds blocking the scorching sun and a cool breeze rippling on the lake.

It's like it's going to rain, and it's not raining for a long time. Xue Chengfan and Xue Mingcan are playing in the small garden by the lake.

Xue Chengfan wanted to eat the lotus seed soup made by Aunt Zhou,

"Auntie has made the lotus seed soup, you can't continue to play! It's time to say when it's going to rain. "Aunt Zhou has always loved this only son, leaving a maid to take care of Xue Chengfan.

Xue Chengfan was excited, and pulled Xue Mingcan to fly a kite. Xue Mingcan held the line, and Xue Chengfan ran behind with a kite.

"Brother let go, the kite is about to fly!" Obviously there was a wind, and the kite flew up and down for a while, but it landed on the rockery in the garden.

Xue Mingcan pulled hard and put the kite back.

"Miss, after playing for so long, why don't you go back?" The nurse frowned, and her face was forbearing. Xue Mingcan refused: "But the kite hasn't flown yet." "The nurse is not an impatient person, and she had a bad stomach that afternoon, and her stomach was turned upside down.

She couldn't bear it, so she said to Xue Mingcan and left for a while. At this time, Xue Chengfan also urged the maid to see if the lotus seed soup was ready.

Xue Mingcan flew the kite again, and the kite rode the wind. She cheered, "Brother, it flies so high!" Xue Chengfan ran to his sister's side: "Let me let me put it for a while!" The kite flew higher and farther in Xue Chengfan's hand, but the line suddenly broke, and the kite flew away in the direction of Wenqu Pavilion.

Xue Chengfan couldn't bear to be disappointed by his sister, and he said: "Mingcan, you wait here, I'll go and get the kite back!" The dark clouds in the sky became denser and denser, and Xue Mingcan couldn't wait for Xue Chengfan, so he also ran in the direction of Wenqu Pavilion.

There is a tall and dense phoenix tree in front of the Wenqu Pavilion, which is full of fiery red phoenix flowers in this season.

"I'm going to get it!" The voice came from above, and Xue Mingcan looked up to see that Xue Chengfan had climbed the guardrail, holding the railing with one hand and pulling the branch with the other.

His mother's handmaidens stood behind him. Xue Mingcan was about to call him, when he suddenly saw him look back, and then his body was unstable and he fell from the attic.

Just right, he fell in front of Xue Mingcan. The phoenix flower fell with the wind and landed on Xue Chengfan's blood.

The lightning broke through the dark clouds, thunder roared in all directions, and a torrential rain fell in an instant. Fahrenheit ran out of the attic, hugged the frightened Xue Mingcan, and whispered in her ear: "Mingcan, you didn't see anything, you didn't see anything." Xue Mingcan woke up from the darkness, half leaned against the wall, listened to the sound of silk and bamboo orchestras outside, rubbed his temples, and finally stood up and groped his way down the attic.

Walking out of the Wenqu Pavilion, close to the pavilion path, there are lanterns gradually illuminating the night. Xue Hui saw Xue Mingcan in the morning, and he didn't see her until the evening that day.

The prince came in person, he was so happy and too busy.

"Mingcan, my good granddaughter, where have you been?" Xue Hui smiled and called Mingcan to his side. Mingcan smiled embarrassedly: "I'm asking Quge to fall asleep." ”

"You're going to ask Qu Ge?" Xue Hui's expression froze, surprised and delighted,

"No wonder the people didn't find you. Okay, good! Grandpa is delighted! "Asking Qu Pavilion is Xue Mingcan's heart disease that has not been cured for a long time.

Xue Hui's eyes flickered, and even Xue Chuan's eyes were obviously happy. After seeing Xue Hui, Xue Mingcan went to the women's guest seat.

At the banquet, Xue Mingruo sat beside Xue Mingcan, poured down a glass of fruit wine, and his face was slightly red: "Sister, you have missed a distinguished guest in this sleep!" Xue Mingcan didn't care, and his eyes swept over the guests: "Aren't these all distinguished guests?" ”

"That is the most distinguished of the nobles!" The excitement in Xue Mingruo's eyes had not faded, and she said in Xue Mingcan's ear,

"It's the Prince!" The prince personally went to Xue's mansion to congratulate Xue Hui on his birthday, what a privilege. Xue Hui followed him when the current saint was still in the palace and gave advice to the current saint.

The Holy Hand once praised Xue Hui

"Strategizing, Wang Zuozhi's talent". As Xue Hui's granddaughter, Xue Mingcan is often proud.

"Sister, the second cousin likes the prince!" She seems to have discovered some shocking secret,

"She has been quietly looking at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Xue Mingcan drank some wine, and her breath was mixed with the aroma of wine, and she quietly asked, "What about you?" Xue Mingruo was shy and said, "What did my sister say, I'm only thirteen years old!" "In fact, eleven years old is not young, the first emperor's Empress Xiaowen married the first emperor at the age of thirteen.

Most of today's girls marry at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and they can already start to see each other at the age of eleven.

Xue Mingcan ate something quietly, she didn't know how to talk to those female dependents. Xue Mansion and the capital are complex tree roots, with countless relationships intertwined with each other and countless interests intertwined.

This is a feast for power and a paradise for sound. Tonight's brilliant lights and staggered Xue Mansion reminded Xue Mingcan of the distant and quiet Qiuye Mountain, and remembered the master.

She wished Master was by her side now.