On a rainy day, it was a little cool, and the maid brought a pot of hot tea and poured a cup for Qin Xun and Qin Huai.

Qin Zhenhai is a military general, too lazy to learn the literati to choose words and pick out the name of the courtyard, and the courtyard for people to live in is added to the word "garden" after the name, and the furnishings of the Xun Garden where Qin Xun lives should be the same, and it is still the same as when he left home six years ago, except for some more daily utensils that have been added to him in the past few days.

The servants are also mostly the group that originally served him, they were all happy when they saw him enter the garden, this garden has been idle since the third prince went out to practice, they a group of old servants are therefore idle, idle for a long time is inevitably boring, although the third son is a little pampered, but it is not difficult to get along, in the end is a playful lively child can make people have some fun.

The maid who added tea was a fresh-faced, with a delicate appearance, and she looked younger than Qin Xun, and she didn't know if she was in trouble.

The maid also came to the house not long ago, young and poor, seeing the third prince staring at herself, the hand carrying the pot trembled, and the tea spilled a few drops, she panicked and didn't know whether to continue pouring tea or wipe the table first, the two hands holding the handle of the pot subconsciously divided one out, and the other hand was unstable when the pot was about to overturn.

"Be careful." Qin Huai reached out and held the handle of the pot, politely avoided the part of the maid's hand, and held the teapot on the table for her.

"Childe forgive sins! Childe forgives sins! The maidservant panicked.

"It's okay, don't panic." Qin Huai smiled and comforted her.

The maidservant stood aside with her hands twisted in panic, although the eldest prince was fine, but she was waiting at the third prince, the third prince who met for the first time kept staring at herself with a smile and not saying a word, so that she couldn't figure out what he was thinking.

Qin Xun finally couldn't help but remind her: "At this time, you should wipe the table." He gestured to the tea spilled on the table.

"Huh?" The maid looked at him blankly, and suddenly bowed again and again, "The slave understands! Slave and maid, go now! He hurriedly retreated.

Qin Xun looked at the pool of tea on the table and didn't speak.

"Don't think too much about the person I picked." Qin Huai said.

"Oh?" Qin Xun glanced at him in surprise, and then smiled, "Big brother understands me." When he first returned to Chang'an, he had no complete control over everything, and the appearance of fresh faces among the people who were close to him always made him vigilant.

"The grandmother who was originally serving you was old, and she was taken back by her son the year before last to support her, and now there is one less person around you who serves you closely, and it just so happened that a new group of domestic servants entered the house a while ago, and I picked one for you on my own initiative. I didn't tell you, I wanted to see if you were satisfied. ”

"Not satisfied." Qin Xun was unceremoniously, "Clumsy, I haven't taught it well at first glance, I can't stand after two more glances, and I have to say it when I wipe the table, how do you think I will be satisfied with this?" ”

"Oh, I'm just just asking you if you're satisfied, the left and right servants have been separated, and she's the one who is here for you." Qin Huai took a sip of tea calmly, and saw his younger brother's itchy look on his face and wanted to splash tea on his face, so he said with a straight tone and a smile, "Her family background is innocent, and she is also a duty, and she has not been in the mansion for a long time, although she has not learned all the rules because of this, she has not been recruited by all parties in the mansion, and she will be loyal to you." She's not a stupid girl, she's just not used to it, so don't be scared. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the little maid grabbed a white rag and hurried back, and when she entered the door, she tripped over the threshold, and trembling her heart came forward and stretched out her hand to wipe the table.

"Am I good-looking?" Qin Xun suddenly asked her out loud.

The little maid was stunned for a moment: "Good-looking!" Childe is superbly good-looking! ”

Qin Xun never thought that it was flattering for others to say that he was good-looking, he laughed in a good mood: "Am I so good-looking, like a bad person?" ”

The handmaid shook her head vigorously.

"Then since I'm not like a bad person, you don't have to be afraid of me in the future, you know?"

The servant girl nodded vigorously again.

Qin Xun thought for a while: "What's it called?" ”

"Osmanthus."

Qin Xun paused, swallowed a sip of tea, and swallowed it down: "Parents got up?" ”

Osmanthus shook her head: "The family doesn't give the girl a name, has always been called a girl, a while ago after coming to the general's mansion, the housekeeper Abel said that there is no name, the master is not easy to call, at this time the osmanthus in the house is blooming and the slave maid is named." ”

The level of the Qin family's housekeeper is really half a pound and eight taels with his father.

"If it is the name given by your parents, others should not be rude and act without permission, if it is not, I will change it for you without scruples, and it will be called Muxi in the future."

"Muxi...... What is it? ”

"It's osmanthus, the girl's family, what flowers are called so straightforward, elegant." Qin Xun finished drinking the cup of hot tea, and brought it to the teapot by himself, Mu Xi hurriedly reached out to help, Qin Xun made an unnecessary gesture, "How old are you?" ”

"It's not long before that."

"Is it literate?"

"I don't know."

"I'll teach you how to read when I have time, it's more or less convenient to read and write." With the experience of teaching Ah Gu to read and write, Qin Xun felt that he could also teach Mu Xi to be handy.

Mu Xi was obviously a little flattered: "Thank you, Childe!" ”

Qin Xun snorted: "Don't be busy, pour tea next time and serve it steadily, I'm so thin and tender, what should I do if it's hot?" ”

"Yes, I'm sorry son, the slave will definitely not do it again in the future!"

"Alright." Qin Huai smiled, "I'll go back to my own garden, Mu Xi also step down, let your master play by himself for a while." ”

Mu Xi answered, fell behind Qin Huai and walked out of Qin Xun's door, the rain was heavier, she stood under the eaves and looked around, gritted her teeth and was about to rush into the rain.

Qin Huai spoke up before her movements: "Don't bring an umbrella? ”

Hearing this, she looked to the side, and with a good face, she took the oil-paper umbrella that was temporarily placed by the door and held it up, and asked her suspiciously and gently.

She wrung the white rag she had been holding in her hand at a loss, and didn't know how to answer, saying that she didn't bring it, could she still ask the master to prepare an umbrella for her, but she said that she had brought it, and her hands were empty, which was obviously nonsense.

The eldest prince easily saw her predicament, and easily smiled at her to relieve her: "You don't have to be so anxious in the future, sometimes you can't be impatient, besides," he pointed to the third prince's house, "Actually, he is not in a hurry." ”

She nodded vigorously, just wanted the eldest prince to leave quickly and leave her alone, he was here and she was embarrassed to let him see his embarrassed appearance of running in the rain.

The oil-paper umbrella leaned over to cover the top of her head, and she was shocked to hear the eldest prince say, "Then I'll send you." ”

"No, don't ...... "You are the master, I am the slave."

"Don't mind, the girl's house is drenched in cold rain and hurts her body, there are not a few steps, don't delay me."

The eldest prince was really a very friendly person, she wrung the rag under his umbrella and went to the servant's quarters, not daring to get too close to him, her head was so low that her chin was pressed against her chest, and she was so nervous that she almost walked with her left foot on her right foot.

Qin Zichang, this coquettish guy, dealt with the girl one by one, it was he who gave the umbrella to the family and came back to get one himself, and it was not that there was no umbrella in this room. Qin Xun looked at their backs in the rain from the open door, took a sip of hot tea into his stomach, and his internal organs spread warmth.

Qin Huai sent Mu Xi into the eaves of a row of servants' quarters, and said with a gentle smile: "The third prince is occasionally a bit mischievous, but he is not a difficult person to serve, he actually doesn't hate you, so you don't have to take his casual words seriously, he is just afraid that you are young and easy to travel to the pool, and you will suffer the losses of others in the general's mansion." ”

"The slave understands."

Qin Huai left with an umbrella, and was about to leave the gate of Xun Garden, and met the middle-aged man who was coming on.

"Go back from your third brother?"

Qin Huai bowed: "Father came to see him?" ”

"Hmm."

"That's going back."

Qin Huai crossed over to Qin Zhenhai's side and heard the general's father, who was nearly half a hundred years old, say: "One or two of you, you are all like your own father." ”

"My father's military affairs are cumbersome, and I don't have much leisure to get close to one or two sons." Qin Huai's footsteps did not slow down, and his voice was blurred by the sound of the rapidly raining rain.

Qin Zhenhai stayed in place for a long time, listening to the sound of the cool breeze and rain at the end of summer, but he still didn't turn around to look at the figure of his eldest son leaving.