Ji Ranjia replied generously, her home is in a mountain village in N Province, which is not too far from Kyoto, and the eldest brother came to pick her up, and pointed to Ji Weihai, who was driving the ox cart in a gray dress, and said goodbye to everyone with a smile.

Everyone was a little sorry, and after hesitation, Jiao Ren'er had already walked away in an ox cart.

"Sister, when we built the house, my father and mother had already set aside the house for you, and in the east room of the main house, a very spacious kang was built, and the doors and windows were also made of good wood that we had saved for many years. Before you came, your sister-in-law cleaned you again, and your second brother said that he would buy you paper paste to put on the window, which must be very bright. Along the way, the man kept talking about how the family was preparing to welcome her, turning his head to look at her from time to time excitedly, and showing a mouthful of white teeth with a smile and satisfaction.

Ji Ranjia had a serious illness, although she was mostly cured, her body bones were very weak, and she was covered with a thick futon and did not have much warmth. The little face under the hat was pale, but the corners of her lips kept rising, and her spirit was very good.

After catching the car halfway, Ji Weihai looked at the person in front of him who was wearing a washed white dark blue robe with a straight waist and a thin waist, and shouted happily: "Fourth Brother Gu, you just came back from the town?" ”

Ji Ranjia was wondering who the four ancient brothers were in the mouth of the eldest brother and why she had a sense of familiarity.

The man turned around with a pause, tall and long-legged, and his body was tall and shapely. His facial features are as handsome as the spring water of a mountain stream with a deep coolness, and the thick bookish atmosphere is like a mist floating on the mountain, which makes the already picturesque person even more unattainable and extravagant.

"Brother Hai," he chuckled, his cold voice dyed with a trace of temperature, and there was a kind of hidden deep fluctuations, "Sister Ji, is this back?" ”

"Yes, I'm back, and I'm staying at home!" Ji Weihai nodded again and again, patted him behind him and greeted him, "Big brother, there is still a way to go, you come up and sit!" ”

"Good," the man replied unceremoniously, his dark eyes swept over the man who had lowered his head and lowered his veil, and sat up easily with his hands propped up. "Brother Hai, if the younger brother is not mistaken, Sister Ji should have five years before she returns home, right?"

Ji Weihai hummed, "My sister has an illness and asks for the grace of her mother to leave the palace." ”

"Ah, is my sister sick that time?" He leaned sideways and looked through the veil worriedly.

The glimpse of the little face that opened more beautifully just now could no longer linger in his mind, and at this moment he asked generously, his eyes were heavy, the two of them seemed to be separated by a long distance, she lowered her head and only had a delicate chin, and her body hugging the futon was not to say weak.

His chest tightened, for fear of hearing bad news, how sick was he before he was allowed to leave the palace? After all, her appearance is also top-notch in the palace, right, can those people let her go?

"It's just that I have a cold, and I look dangerous, and it's good to get through it." Ji Ranjia replied softly.

"That's good, it's all said that the illness is like a thread, and Sister Ji has to make up for it," he said coldly.

Ji Ranjia hummed.

The man turned around and talked to Ji Weihai again, chatting like a man who understands the weather, crops, and so on.

Ji Ranjia's hand holding the futon under her still didn't let go, she sighed silently, she knew this person, when she was a child, she carried her sister behind her back and led her younger brother to pick wild vegetables, he was reading a book on a hidden riverside bluestone, with a load of firewood beside him.

After a long time, they can also talk, Gu Sifan is quite capable, although he does not look strong, he can do traps to catch hares and pheasants, and he can also go up to the trees to touch bird eggs and go down to the river to fish. Ji Ranjia agreed with him that he would divide half of the food among her younger siblings, and the time she saved by helping him collect firewood was used for him to study.

So the three of them can eat some meat and eggs every day, and they can even save some for their parents and eldest brother. Therefore, the Ji family is very grateful to this young man and uses their labor to repay the favor as much as possible.

Later, she entered the palace, a lifetime apart, and she was stuffed with a lot of things in her head, and she couldn't remember what the two said when they parted.

If there were only these feelings, she might still not be impressed by him.

But he is the champion of five years later, who was forced to marry by the sixteenth princess of today, and was admired by the prime minister's young daughter, and is the hottest Langjun in Kyoto. It's just that the backer behind him is the emperor in the prime of life, he doesn't agree, and others can't help him.

But at that time, she had just entered the mansion of the third prince and had seen him in the mansion.

At that time, Gu Sifan was even more noble than now, so cold that people suspected that he was a snake and had no temperature. He watched her meeting quietly through the crowd, and sent a note saying that if there was a need, he should be sent away.

When she had been poured wine, they had no other intersection.

If it was himself in his previous life, he would definitely have to take advantage of his future at this moment, tightly tie himself to him, and then sit back and enjoy the advantage of a person who has attained the Tao and ascended to heaven.

But with such a tragic lesson from her relatives in front of her, she didn't dare to have the slightest extravagant hope, she just thought about living the life of ordinary people, and even never set foot in the capital for the rest of her life.

"What does the girl think? The four Gu brothers got out of the car and were leaving," Ji Weihai shouted to Ji Ranjia.

She came back to her senses and nodded lightly at the man who was waiting for her, "Fourth Brother Gu, go slowly." ”

The man's brows furrowed when he heard this, then he let go and nodded with a chuckle, "Thank you, Sister Ji, for worrying." ”

Ji Ranjia pursed her lips, she just said a polite word, why did she become worried?

She let go of her sweaty hand with amusement, looked at the mountains, which only appeared in her dreams, and the paths, trees, and fields that overlapped in her memory, and took a deep breath greedily, so good, she is back!

The courtyard of the Ji family is close to the bottom of the mountain, a little farther away from other families in the village, but it is also plain.

As soon as the ox cart turned the corner, the little girl standing on the bluestone with a baby on her back and a baby waved happily, turned her head and shouted at the yard: "Sister-in-law, second brother, third brother, the eldest brother has taken my sister back!" ”

Ji Ranjia took off her hat, jumped down without waiting for the ox cart to stop, staggered over and hugged the little girl into her arms, and hugged her tightly.

Ji Xiaoye was very quiet, she tentatively wrapped her arms around her sister's waist, warm and soft. Her mouth and eyes were red, although her brothers loved her and her sister-in-law was not harsh, but the children of poor families were in charge of the house early, and she began to help do things since she was sensible, and she did not enjoy her mother's love much.

She couldn't remember what it was like to be embraced in her arms, and it was easy to evoke the grievances and self-pity she had overlooked. "Sister, I miss you so much!"

Six years ago, she was only four years old, and she had a very shallow impression of her sister, but she only remembered that her sister was smiling brightly and sharing roasted sparrow legs for herself and her third brother, and the smell was so fragrant that people swallowed their tongues that they would forever be engraved in my mind.

"Let's go into the house, it's windy outside," Yu Yuan, the sister-in-law of the Ji family, took over the three-year-old Ji Yuancheng and greeted everyone with a smile, "I'll see you every day in the future, there will be a time when you can kiss each other enough." ”

Ji Ranjia touched the little girl on her chest, her hair was yellow and frizzy.

Her moist eyes looked at the family, and listened to Ji Weihai's family conditions, six acres of good land, the second brother as a blacksmith, and the third brother as a partner, and he could have an income of ten taels a year.

But what she saw was that they were not fat, even a little thin, with slightly convex frontal bones and rough skin, and there were traces of hard work all over their bodies. Seeing that there were obvious creases at the bottom of the box on their new clothes, her heart was sour, but there was a smile on her face.

The house of the Ji family is indeed well built, at least it is medium in the village along the way, there are many places under the mountain, the yard they circle is very large, from the door to the entrance of the hall is paved with a layer of beautiful and smooth pebbles, and the neat four-point vegetable field planted next to the path is extremely gratifying.

In the open space in front of the house, there are two large locust trees, two jujube trees, two pomegranate trees, and a small corridor made of grape vines, under which are placed stone tables and chairs.

The house is indeed the same as Ji Weihai said, the main house is a row of five beautiful and bright brick houses, five rooms in the east and west wings, although they are muddy, but the roof is also green tiles to protect from the wind and rain. Ji Ranjia thought that the family's savings were all here, and she was still very weak, but she still insisted on looking at the house inside and out.

The backyard is not small, in addition to two vegetable plots, there are chickens and pigs, and a small granary. The little gray milk dog came running over at the sound, it was so small that it rolled over almost three steps at a time, and there was no wolf in its naïve appearance.

The Ji family has suffered a lot together, their parents are not there, they still don't want to separate, in the middle of the north house is a spacious hall, the tables and chairs in it are all home-made, no painted wood color, there is a folding large round table and a bunch of dilapidated maza standing in the corner, it should be a dining table.

There was a big house on each side of the hall, which was originally owned by Ji's father, Ji's mother and Ji Ranjia, but after the old man went, the eldest couple of the Ji family moved in. Further up are two huts, one for Xiaoye to live in, and the other and the two rooms in the Westinghouse belong to the old family. The other three rooms in the West House and one in the East House belong to Ji Laosan, and the rest of the East House belong to Ji Lao's second.

On one side of the east and west houses, there is another small room, one for the stove and the other for some farm tools and groceries.

These days, the temperature is moderate and there is no rain, and there are a lot of wood chips piled up in the yard, and a few red lacquered boxes, wooden basins, wooden barrels, dressers, tables and chairs are drying nearby.

"Sister, this is for the future second sister-in-law," Xiao Ye said with a grin, "The one in my sister's house is better than these, and my father built it himself." As he spoke, he carefully helped Ji Ranjia to walk into the house.

The red bricks and green tiles shone in the sunlight and were as beautiful as a proud foal, and when she pushed open the solid wooden door, a room more than five times larger than her residence in the palace came into view, and the floor was paved with triple soil, flat and dense, and the sunlight sprinkled warm light through the white window paper.

The jujube red dresser is engraved with fine plum blossom patterns and cylindrical vultures of the same color. In the middle of the room, an exquisite round table is equipped with four vultures, and the head and tail of the three meters wide kang connected to the three walls are each placed with eight beautiful jujube red wooden boxes of different sizes, and more than a dozen mattresses of different thicknesses are stacked next to each other.