Hua Xi stood silently for a moment, then raised his head and stepped on the stone steps, and slowly followed Li Cheng into the gate. When they arrived at the Hanging Flower Gate, Li Cheng handed over the three of Huaxi to the two mothers who were waiting at the door early, and bowed and retired.

One of them, a slightly younger woman in her thirties, walked over and walked towards Huaxi Fufu, "The girl has arrived. The second master instructed you to come back and let the slave maid take you directly to Lanyuan, and these two followed Wu Yushun's family to Beiyuan to rest. ”

"I don't know what my sister-in-law is called?" Huaxi saw that the two of them were not dressed like the rich mother who served beside Mrs. Hou who came when her mother died, and she didn't think she was serving in the inner courtyard, but she was much better than the three of them.

"Li Xian, an official of the slave family, is in charge of carriages and horses in the house."

"Oh, I'm new here, and I've got two mothers in the middle of the night." Huaxi didn't have money to reward, so she had to be polite.

"Look at what you said, it's our business." Li Xianjia smiled and said politely, although the girl brought back by the second master is very different from ordinary people, she looks really smart and kind.

After entering the second gate, Liu's mother was not at ease, and whispered a few words to Huaxi, before following Wu Yushun's family, leading Lilac to Beiyuan, where the next person lived, and Li Xian's family led Huaxi through the corridor into the inner courtyard.

Huaxi only felt that he had been following the lantern in Li Xian's hand in a daze, and he couldn't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, and the only feeling was that this garden was really big.

After walking for about a moment, I walked around a cluster of strange stones, and a small half-open door appeared behind it.

There was a sixteen or seventeen maid standing in the door, wearing a blue satin collared mattress and a Yuehua skirt, with a green ribbon tied around her waist, walking around anxiously, looking at the yard and looking outside from time to time, suddenly saw the firelight, hurriedly came out of the door, and asked, "But the sister-in-law of the Li family?" ”

"It's the Red Willow girl. The girl has arrived. Li Xianjia hurriedly grabbed Huaxi's arm and helped her to the small door.

"The girl is here, Madame has urged her three times, quick, follow me in."

Hua Xi was wondering why Madame was in a hurry to call her, and Hongliu had already reached out to take her arm from Li Xian's hand and helped her into the door.

When Hongliu reflexively closed the door, he also said to Liu Xian's family: "Sister-in-law of the Li family, you go back first." Today is busy, you have to watch the affairs of the outer courtyard closely, nothing goes wrong. ”

Huaxi sighed in her heart, could it be that Hou Ye really can't do it.

Hongliu didn't wait for Li Xian's family to reply, and went to close the door.

Li Xianjia's brows furrowed, and when the door was closed, he glanced at the door, and saw that it was bright inside, so he didn't dare to make a sound, retracted his gaze and turned around and left quickly.

Entering from the small door, Hongliu helped Huaxi through a verandah and entered the courtyard.

The courtyard is not too big, and there are lanterns hanging on the verandahs on three sides, illuminating the courtyard.

Huaxi lowered his head and walked on the octagonal green and yellow stone brick road from the main house to the gate, his eyes glanced at both sides at random, the yard was divided into two by this path, the right hand was a small vegetable field, the left hand was a row of grape trellises, and the stone table and stone pestles were placed under the vine trellises, which was quite a bit idyllic.

Looking up, there were two mothers and four maids standing in the courtyard outside the main house, all with solemn expressions.

Huaxi hurriedly collected his thoughts, sighed, lowered his eyebrows, and followed Hongliu to the door of the main house.

"Mother Wang, the person Mrs. said has arrived." Hongliu replied to one of the two mothers, a slightly older one, with a respectful expression.

Huaxi said in her heart, this mother Wang is only afraid that she is the person who serves her closely.

Mother Wang glanced at Huaxi up and down, frowning slightly, this look ...... Dingjun, it's this clothes, forget it, it's too late to change it.

"Girl, come with the old slave. The Hou Ye is seriously ill, and the lady is frail, so she can't take care of many rules, but the girl will have a snack when she asks for a while. ”

"Thank you mom for mentioning." Huaxi's complexion remained unchanged, without the slightest restraint and panic, and nodded generously, only lightly thanking him.

This kind of bearing and style made Wang's mother a little surprised, this behavior is not like the girl raised in the ravine, and then she thought of Mother Liu, who was the old man who went out of the house, and she was relieved.

"Hmm." Mother Wang nodded, then pushed open the door, stepped into the door with her front foot, and Huaxi stepped in with her heels.

There was a circle of people sitting in the hall, all of them were women and young girls, some looked solemn, some sobbed quietly, some sobbed and wiped their tears with a handkerchief, but few noticed that Mother Wang and Huaxi came in, even if they saw it, Huaxi's cloth dress was regarded as a miscellaneous maid, and they didn't take it to heart.

Skirting the splendid screen of mountains and rivers, there were six people kneeling on the ground in the inner room. The person lying on the Sihe Ruyi bed held the hand of an old woman sitting on the edge of the bed with a silver thread wearing a dark purple silk skirt and a plain white silk horse-faced skirt, and she didn't know what to say, the old woman just nodded vigorously, and behind her stood a woman in her fifties wearing a pale green flower-sprinkled collared shirt and a smoky pleated skirt, who was touching her tears with a handkerchief.

Mother Wang curtsied and saluted, "Master Hou, Madam, people are here." ”

Huaxi bent her knees slightly, and was about to salute, when the old woman with silver hair spoke.

"Come, boy, come over here." The old woman took a handkerchief and wiped the tears from her eyes.

I think this is Mrs. Hou's Xiao family.

Huaxi bowed his head and walked around the kneeling people on the ground, walked to the bed, and bowed.

"Master Hou, look, look, the child is coming." Xiao Shi took Huaxi's hand and led her to the bed, and Wang's mother took a Minzhu lamp from the three cabinets of Muhuali Lian next to her with a very good eye and came to the bed.

The dim light sprinkled on Huaxi's face, softening the bright and charming eyebrows, she pursed her lips, and looked at the person on the bed quietly, without sadness or joy.

This is Mu Tianhe, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, the former Marshal of Zhengxi, and his own cheap grandfather.

Looking at the messy gray hair and wrinkled face, he has long lost the heroic appearance of the year.

Huaxi shook his head secretly, his body was full of rotten gas, with more air in and less air out, but he was afraid that he would not be able to survive for a few hours.

The old man's sloppy eyes seemed to have a focus again at the moment when Huaxi appeared, "Xiang Wan, don't, don't blame me." ”

Xiao Shi next to Huaxi cried and couldn't speak in a choked voice.

"Don't complain, my mother has never complained about you." Huaxi's voice sounded like the ethereal smoke in the mountains, fluttering in the room.

For a while, the resentment she had buried in her heart because of Mu Xiangwan's experience also disappeared, and people died like lights going out, no matter how you say that he is a relative in this life.

"You're a late child...... Called, what is it called? Mu Tianhe's consciousness seemed to be clear, and he recognized that Huaxi was not his daughter.

"My mother named me Huaxi, and the flowers flow with the water, which means free." Huaxi nodded obediently and explained,

Thinking of the weak woman who had passed away many years ago, I touched her head and said, I wanted to call you "Huaxi", but the evening, twilight, and the end are unlucky. The mother's name is "Towards the Night", and it is too late to move towards the twilight, so the daughter will not follow the old path of the mother. Let's use the "stream", the water flow is invisible, and the flowers flow with the water. Mother hopes that you will be able to be at ease in the world in the future.

Huaxi guessed that perhaps this name also has the meaning of "falling flowers and flowing water in spring", to pay tribute to the former relationship.

"It's Huaxi...... Let's stay in the future......" Mu Tianhe bowed slightly, his voice gradually lowered, and he waved his hand with difficulty.

When Xiao saw it, he hurriedly wiped away his tears, and didn't bother to take a closer look at Huaxi, and instructed Wang's mother: "Take the girl to wait outside." ”

Huaxi was led out by Wang's mother, because her name was undecided, it was not easy to introduce it to the ladies in the outside world, so Wang's mother took Huaxi out of the main house directly and waited in the courtyard.

didn't stay outside, Huaxi was not only annoyed, but secretly rejoiced, in this busy time, she really didn't know how to deal with the questions of a group of crying women.

After Huaxi left, Mu Tianhe paused for a while before he breathed a sigh of relief, "As a last resort...... Other...... Don't send the kids, it's not a good place......"

"Dad-" The third Mu Jiren shouted, but was stopped by Xiao.

"Loser...... I, I ......" Mu Tianhe was furious, gasping for air.

"You evil obstacle, when has this happened, I'm still angry with your father, kneel down!" Xiao Shi scolded Mu Jiren, turned his head to look at Mu Tianhe, "Master Hou, don't worry......"

Xiao Shi thought that the person he had been with all his life would leave her forever, heartbroken, where could he think of anything else, as long as he could make the old man have no regrets, the rest was nothing.

Hearing this, Mu Jixiao breathed a sigh of relief, and his body was not stiff just now.

Mu Jizhong casually responded, kneeling straight again, looking down and pondering.

Mu Jiren opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but under Xiao's forced gaze, he finally closed his mouth stupidly, and his face became even more gloomy.

Mu Tianhe wanted to get angry but had a weak heart, and looked at Xiao Shi with wide eyes, and a faint sound came out of his throat.

"Well, I'm ...... anyway ......Hurry up, you have to guard this home...... Mu Tianhe's eyes closed, and the hand he had just raised hung down weakly.

"Master Hou—"

"Daddy—"

"Grandfather—"

The cries of the main room rang out.

Huaxi looked up at the slightly shiny sky, and sighed, his wise and martial ancestor Zhenyuan Marquis Mu Tianhe could not escape life, old age, sickness and death.