Seventeen young people live in the West Courtyard, and his mother live, it is said that this seventeen young people also have an older brother, who died in the war a few years ago, and the third wife gave birth to such two sons.

This is the first time I have stepped into the west courtyard, the maid opened the door for me, and saw me with a look of surprise, a dull face, without any smile on her face, after I threw a smile at her, she had to squeeze out a smile at me, and led me directly to the room of the seventeenth young man without me opening her mouth.

When I saw the seventeen-year-old, he was lying on the table, staring at the pot of purple peonies in a daze, his fingertips flicking the petals. When he saw me coming, he stood up from his stool, stared at me with a pair of round and beautiful eyes, and asked me, "Why are you here?"

I smiled and said, "Why, I don't seem to welcome it."

Seventeen young pouted, he said, "Where is it, it's rare for you to come to me, which wind blew you here today."

Needless to say, I sat down on the stool beside him, gathered with him, and looked at the purple peony, and flicked my fingertips back and forth on the petals like him, and said, "Probably this pot of flowers, it gave me a dream last night, saying that it was ready to grow new petals, and asked me to water it, so I came."

Seventeen young people stood up, looked at me and said in disbelief, "Nonsense, don't fool me, I thought that this flower would still dream like a person, and when I was stupid, I still have nothing to do to find me to be happy."

I said, "Even Azu knows that there is telepathy between people, people and people, people and things, things and things, animals and people, animals and nature, people and nature have a community, it can be said that they influence each other, restrict each other, all of them are indispensable, we must protect them well, love them."

Seventeen Shao stared at me and said, "What you said is too profound to understand, but what do you want to express to me, you might as well say it directly, don't beat around the bush and let me bother to guess, you know that what annoys me the most is that you readers, Wen Xuan, you have to make more than a dozen turns when you say something, and you are not tired."

I couldn't help laughing, thinking that this seventeen young man was really fun, looking at the flower pot in front of me and saying, "It means that this flower should be watered."

Seventeen Shao finally understood, scratched the back of his head, pouted embarrassedly, got up, walked outside the door and took a wooden spoon, and was about to pour it with a scoop of water, I hurriedly stopped him and said, "You can't water it like this, this flower is no better than other flowers, if the petals are stained with water, they will dry up, and then they will die." Daowan took the wooden spoon from his hand, poured some water along the bottom of the petals, and watched the water slowly seep into the soil.

Seventeen Shao suddenly asked me very sadly, "Mr. Su, do I still have a chance to watch this pot of purple peonies grow up?" ”

I was silent, and began to blame myself in my heart, why didn't I choose a flower that bloomed quickly, such as canna and reeds, and why I gave him this very slow-growing purple peony.

Seventeen Shao stopped talking, and sat down again to stare at the flowers.

I had an idea and said, "It's a big deal that you take it away, and wherever you go, its vitality is very strong."

Seventeen Shao was happy and shouted, "Really, I can really take it away, can it survive in the barren sandy grassland of Mobei?"

I nodded my head and smiled at him, "Of course, I'm sure."

Seeing the seventeen young children smiling happily, I had mixed feelings in my heart, sighed lightly, and asked him, "Seventeen young people, can you tell me how you deceived the third princess, let her promise to marry you, and let the saint personally give the marriage, the third princess looks very rude and not easy to coax."

Seventeen Shao glanced at me, suddenly looked away, half-clenched fists unconsciously rubbing in the palms.

Seeing his eyes flickering, my face sank, straightened up, looked at him, and said, "Nineteen young people have already told me, today I am here to let you tell me again."

Seventeen suddenly turned his head, glared, and exclaimed, "What, Nineteen told you, he promised me not to tell anyone, I will go to him and ask him for clarification."

I stopped him and said, "The words have been spoken, is it useful for you to go to him now?" ”

In fact, Bai Yanleng didn't tell anything, the day before yesterday I went to him for this matter, and when I met Bai Xiaoqiu and Rourou, I forgot about it after a delay, so I simply asked Seventeen Shao directly.

Seventeen Shao couldn't stand my fooling, and within two clicks, he told me the ins and outs of the matter.

That day I had a quarrel with the third princess in the imperial garden, he came to the round, and then the third princess didn't want me to accompany her, let seventeen accompany her, the two were similar in temperament and soon played together, and then the second prince gave marriage to the saint at the banquet, and several major generals were so anxious that they couldn't think of a better way. These seventeen young men gave up their self and made a bet with the princess on their own initiative, betting on whether the butterflies in the ten thousand flowers would fall on the designated flowers, and the result was that the princess lost. The princess admired the seventeen young very much, the seventeenth saw the princess's thoughts, and found the nineteen young according to the princess's appearance to draw a Danqing, and at night took this Danqing to the princess's tent to propose to the princess, the princess was overjoyed, and promised to ask the saint to marry, but she also had to promise the seventeenth less a condition, to find her brother and the second prince to give up the idea of marrying me, and the next day when the pilgrimage informed the saint of this matter, cancel the marriage to marry me.

When Seventeen Shao said this, I was already surprised, why did things happen so coincidentally, when he proposed to the princess, I was also coercing the second prince to let him go to the Holy Saint to cancel the marriage, my heart was sad, tears came out of my eyes, and Seventeen Shao hurriedly wiped it for me.

A woman came in at the door, followed by a maidservant who opened the door to me first. I bowed slightly and shouted earnestly, "Third wife is good".

Before I could stand up straight, I heard a slap on my face, and my eyes were golden and painful. I glanced up at Mrs. Three, and when I saw her hand raised again, I didn't intend to dodge, so I closed my eyes and let her slap her again.

Seventeen Shao ran over in a panic and shouted, "A-Niang, what are you doing, why are you beating her, is her son not filial to her", while stopping me behind.

The third lady looked at Seventeen Shao, pointed to me behind Seventeen Shao, and said, "It's this woman, she didn't hurt you enough, you are still protecting her now, what kind of ecstasy soup did she pour you."

Seventeen Shao's eyes were hot and he cried, held the third wife's hand, slapped it directly to his face, and said earnestly, "Auntie, don't blame Mr. Su, it's the child's idea, Mr. Su doesn't know, everything is the child's own opinion."

The third wife was displeased, she said, "If it weren't for her, why would you marry the third princess, how could you go to Mobei, I heard that the environment there is harsh, and the snow does not melt all year round, how can you stand it when you go."

Seventeen Shao took a step closer and reached out to wipe away the tears from the third wife's face. The third lady leaned forward and threw herself into the arms of the seventeenth young man, and said earnestly, "My son, why is your life so bitter."

Seeing the mother and son crying in front of me, I couldn't help covering my face anymore and running.

Ai'er was watering the pomegranate tree in the yard with a small bucket, and when she saw me crying and ran back, and saw me covering her face, she was so frightened that she threw away the water scoop in her hand, dropped the bucket in her hand and followed me into the house, and asked me, "Sir, where have you been, what happened?"

I plunged into the quilt, howling and crying, Ai'er was so anxious that she stomped her feet, and shouted in her mouth, "Is it the young lady who bullied you, what did she do to you, did she beat you, you told me to find twelve young people."

Ai'er was about to go out, and I shouted behind my back, "Don't go, don't go anywhere, it's not her, no one is bullying me".

Ai'er touched my face, watched me want to speak and stopped, I lay on Ai'er's shoulder, we didn't say anything and just sat like this, for a long time, Ai'er said to me, "I'll go get a basin of hot water."

The hot water is very comfortable, I washed my face, Ai'er served me to lie down, maybe I am too tired these days, I sleep groggy, I seem to be asleep and I don't seem to be asleep, I can't wake up and I can't sleep steadily, and I feel dizzy and dizzy again and again.

Fortunately, the New Year is coming, and people are full of illusions about the new year while being dull, and their sadness is gradually diluted by beautiful thoughts.

Each major general has his own house, and he is busy picking up, buying new clothes, and buying all kinds of New Year's items, so he has no time to come to me, and I am happy and relaxed.

Because I am the only one in this house, I am a light and silent person, I don't like to join in the fun, at noon with the general, Mrs. Mu, Bai Qingrui, Xuan Xuan had a reunion dinner, and then returned to the house, and Ai'er nested around the fire until the evening.

I ate too much at noon, and I didn't feel hungry when I sat day by day, and Ai'er didn't eat a few bites of dinner from the stove, drank the soup, put down the chopsticks and spoons, and continued to roast around the stove.

I suddenly remembered the pebbles that Fourteen Young Men gave me last time, turned them out of the cabinet, put them on the stove to roast, and held them in my hands. Ai'er thought it was very fresh, and asked me for it, so I gave it to her, and she took it in her hand and looked at it repeatedly, asking me what it was and where it came from.

I only answered her previous questions, but I didn't say a word about the fourteenth young man, just stared blankly at the milky white stone, and there was a smile in my eyes that I couldn't suppress.

Ai'er was afraid that I would be cold, so she said that she would come into the house to get a shirt for me, and she didn't come out of the inner room for a long time, and when I went in, I saw that she was wiping her tears, and I asked "What's wrong, what are you crying for the New Year".

It turned out that I was missing my deceased grandmother, and I said, "This year is Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve night, why don't we go and pay tribute."

Ai'er looked at me and turned to go into the inner room and move out of the square table.

Ai'er moved the square table to the courtyard and placed it in the middle of the courtyard, with a few plates of pastries and wine on the table, and Ai'er and I knelt in the courtyard and bowed to the sky, which can be regarded as a remembrance of our deceased relatives.

I said to Ai'er, "You and my hometown are thousands of miles away, we can't fulfill our filial piety, today I will use the bright moon as a witness to pray for the blessings of our deceased relatives, may they live well under the nine springs, and may the living people be free from illness and pain, and be blessed without parallel."

After worshipping, I got up and went into the house to continue the fire, roasted for a while, Xu was a slight charcoal fire on my body warm, unconsciously tired, I asked Ai'er to bring me hot water, ready to wash and sleep.

Ai'er persuaded me, "Sir, tonight is the New Year's Celebration, no matter how bad it is, I have to keep it until the second half of the night, I used to keep it all night, and the longer I keep it, the longer I keep it, the more I will ensure that there will be no illness and torture in the coming year, and I will be safe."

I said in my heart, the natural law of birth, old age, sickness and death, I can't help myself, and if I have a wish, it is good after all, so keep it. I couldn't stand it, I sat by the fire with my eyelids against my lower eyelids, I couldn't open my eyes, I was about to fall asleep, and the door opened.