Ran Jia subconsciously hummed and continued the work in her hand, she habitually cut out all the fabrics and sewed them one by one. Ying Jian can't see with his eyes, he has been at home for a long time, and his clothes are comfortable, simple and generous, but Ran Jia does things a little more than others.

She was going to embroider some patterns on the hem, cuffs, and neckline, he had a good figure and looked good in anything.

"I can't see, I can't sit still, can I?" Half a sound didn't respond, Ying Jian finished drinking the tea in the cup, coughed a few times to draw her attention, and then said slowly.

Ran Jia looked at him a little blankly, "Then what should I do?" What do you usually do? ”

She is a girl, she is living hard by herself, and she finally doesn't need to listen to her master's orders, where will she assign him work? Besides, what can he do if his eyes are inconvenient?

"Reading, swordsmanship, and tasks," his dark eyes reflected the sunlight outside the window, looking at her burningly. "I've practiced today's sword, and you've read the book for me, so you can help me think about what else I can do to kill time."

Ran Jia frowned slightly, everyone's days are busy and muddy, I wish I could stop and do nothing, maybe they are all subordinates, and they can't be idle. "Why don't you let Xilai buy you some birds? Is that talking bird expensive? I remember once following my master to someone else's house as a guest, and I saw a starling with a black body and a yellow mouth.

It seems that there is also a relatively large bird, the white one is said to be a sunflower, and it can also speak, and I heard that it has a long life. ”

Ying Key's hand rubbed the cup: "Do you like it?" ”

"I think it's fun," she replied honestly, "I don't know the fun of those noble sons who make flowers and walk birds, but the talking birds are quite novel, and you said that if we raise a pair and let them hold their nests and give birth to little birds, will they be able to sell for a lot of money?" ”

"Don't have enough money to spend?" He poured himself another glass of water and asked nonchalantly.

"Enough flowers are enough flowers, but we have become good citizens coldly, there is no master on it, I am not steady, I always feel that there is more silver and two sides, so as to avoid unknown risks."

"You don't need to worry about these, everything is supported by the master, but the master can't see it, it's not that his legs are gone." He scoffed, stood up, and strode out, the tables and chairs and thresholds in the room that he was able to avoid with precision.

Ran Jia wrinkled her nose at his back, she just told the truth, when she got to him, she became the mind of clinging to the powerful again, right? She ignored him, bowed her head and continued to sew clothes.

She was meticulous and fast, sewing a dark blue shirt before it got dark, and embroidering it tomorrow. She folded her clothes, thumped her sore shoulders and neck, rubbed her sour eyes, and stood up to relax her muscles slightly. It was already a little dim outside, and she smelled the smell of braised eggplant, and her stomach suddenly became a little hungry.

Ran Jia packed up the basket, and then noticed the sound of Ying Key's voice outside the house. She went out with her skirt and saw him teasing the bird with melon seeds under the eaves.

She trotted over in amazement, and looked up at several cage birds, a pair of black starlings, and a pair of white sunflowers, all of which were small chicks, and even their eyes were wet and delicate.

"Ying Key, where did you get it, and you brought four of them in one go!" She pinched a handful of shelled melon seeds from his hand, and followed his example to tease the birds.

"I met a few people on a mission and asked them to help find them," he said lightly.

"Are starlings and sunflowers both a male and a female? If they hatch a bird, can I give it to my master? Ran Jia listened to the delicate call of the little bird, her heart was soft, and she felt that the yard was full of life, and her life had some color.

"Whatever you want, as long as you can raise it," Ying Jian stuffed all the melon seeds into her hand and turned into the study.

"Hello," Ran Jia chuckled and bit the two words, "What's your name?" Ying Jian must not have thought of naming you, right? You were brought back by the key, why don't you also have the surname Ying? Spring, summer, autumn, winter? ”

"Ran Jia, they're just birds," Ying Jian walked to the door again at some point, gritted his teeth and said, "You raised them as sons and daughters?" Are you going to make them call you mother? ”

"What about you?" She caught a glimpse of the two of them in the courtyard, and quietly raised her fist and stuck her tongue out at him in protest. He's always serious, and he can't even joke, no wonder his eyes can't see her so bored and sticky.

"Little black, big black, little white, big white," he said, as he searched for the birds' calls.

Ran Jia opened her mouth slightly, shook her head and said helplessly: "It's time to eat, Xiao Hei's master!" ”

"You're sarcastic about me?" Ying Jian stepped up to her in two steps and asked in a deep voice.

Before she could speak, her stomach rumbled first, and seeing the chuckle on Ying Key's stunned face, Ran Jia's face turned red, and she stamped her feet and trotted to the hall.

After dinner, the two of them teased the birds, digested the food, and washed up and went back to the house.

Ran Jia was very uncomfortable with Ying Jian in a room with big eyes and small eyes, he was tall, and with the candle flame, most of the walls of the room were his thick figure. The light was dim, she couldn't embroider, so she held the yarn in her hand, the colorful thick threads rotated and wound quickly in her slender hands, and Ran Jia had completed three complex meanings in half an hour.

Ying Key's hand was playing with a wooden thing, sitting quietly on the chair, and he didn't say a word.

"What are you playing?" She found that he was really immersed in the object in his hand, and she couldn't help but ask curiously.

"This is a Xuanfang, made of twenty-six pieces of wood cleverly combined, originally painted with six colors, but the eyes of the master can't see, so people carve different patterns on each of the six sides." Saying that, the movement in Ying Key's hand was very fast, almost becoming an afterimage, and he waited for the color of the six sides to be unified before he handed it to her.

Ran Jia took it and looked at it carefully, learning his movements and twisting it, and after a few clicks, the original order was completely disrupted. She didn't remember how she had twisted it before, so she could only concentrate as many blocks of the same color as possible on one side, and after fiddling with her head for a long time, she still couldn't restore it, and continued to spin back and forth more seriously.

"There is a pattern to follow in playing this," he chuckled and took the Xuanfang back from her hand, and as he said the rules, he demonstrated to her that without a stick of incense, the Xuanfang was once again pleasing to the eye on all faces.

"It's amazing," she couldn't bear to admire, and asked Xuan Fang to come over and disrupt the order at will, and restore it little by little according to what he said.

"Master still has a lot of interesting things, I'll show you slowly in the future," his eyebrows and eyes were dyed with a hint of softness that was different from before, especially in the jumping candlelight.

Ran Jia's heart beat violently, and she hummed.

The two of them were lying on the bed after washing, Ying Jian moved a lot softer to her this time, but still ignored her crying, tossed her for most of the night, and she even heard the sound of chickens crowing in the distance.

Today is the day to return to the door, Ran Jia and Ying Jian dressed up and took their things to the Qinhou Mansion in a carriage.

However, after two days of leaving, Ran Jia looked at everything familiar, as if she had been separated by a lifetime, with a cold sense of alienation. She couldn't help but trot a few steps to keep up with Ying Key.

"You go to see Madame, I'll go to see the master, the masters are very busy, let's go home and have lunch," Ying Jian paused, turned to look at her, and looked at her with a faint expression: "You will mention the matter of returning the next person to Madame later?" ”

"Well, it's just the two of us in the house, so we don't need so many people to serve us. Besides, we don't need to pay attention to pomp and circumstance, just leave a few laundry and cleaning. ”

"Okay, as long as you don't tire yourself, the two girls will retreat together," he turned around and lifted his legs and left.

It took Ran Jia a while to react to what he meant, she bit her lip lightly, the corners of her lips rose, and her heart that had been depressed for a day finally eased.

Mrs. Qin Hou is a reasonable person, Ran Jia directly said her plan and returned a pile of deed of sale. It just so happened that she also brought people with her, and only took a bunch of things that her master had rewarded her and returned home in a carriage with Ying Key.

The day after tomorrow was the birthday of Marquis Qin, and Mrs. Marquis Qin invited her to help. Ran Jia responded on the spot, she had already prepared the birthday gift, it was a pair of gold threads embroidered with a thousand blessings.

"The master asked me to help on the master's birthday, I should come down, and I will help on the first day," Back at home, Ran Jia changed Ying Key's clothes and said softly.

He grabbed her hand suddenly, his face darkened, "There are so many people in the Hou Mansion, can't you hold this birthday banquet without you?" ”

His strength is not small, and Ran Jia screams in pain.

Ying Jian relaxed his hand slightly, and said domineeringly: "I don't allow you to go!" ”

"But I have already promised the master, the scale of the master's birthday banquet is not small, there are many things that need to be prepared, and the ladies and ladies who come to the banquet are all very expensive. The girls in the master's yard haven't experienced anything yet, so I have to watch for the master. She patiently explained: "The masters treat us well, there are not many places where we can be used, and we should be happy if we can do our best for them." ”

"No need, I have repaid the kindness of my masters with my life, we are now good citizens, no longer slaves of the Hou Mansion. Isn't what you want most is to leave the Hou Mansion and have a free body, and now what are you going to do? He said in a cold voice.

"But I've promised my master, can't I regret it again? Ying Key, just this time, in the future, I will ask your opinion first, and then make a decision, okay? She tugged at his clothes, delicate and slightly coquettish.

Ying Jian took a deep breath, and the sarcastic voices of the subordinates still echoed in his mind, "No, I will personally go to the master in the afternoon to push the matter, you honestly take it at home, and you are not allowed to go anywhere." ”