Chapter Seventy-One

"Sir, can you see that way?"

I turned my head to look and saw a pot of flowers on the simple table by the window in the house, the green pine and green have new ideas, and I suddenly felt that this academy was full of vitality, and the green species were indeed a good thing to purify the soul.

Bai Xiaoqiu stood beside Jian Tai and looked at me with a smile, as if waiting for my answer.

I walked over with joy and asked, "Twelve Young, where did this podocarpus come from?"

Jun'er, who was immersed in writing, glanced at this side and said disdainfully, "What's the big deal, there is also a pot in my house that is exactly the same as this one, which Daddy only bought yesterday." Jun'er took another look at the podocarpus, suddenly stood up from the stool, and said loudly, "Daddy, didn't you move the flowers in your house to the academy, be careful that A-Niang is going to get angry and make trouble with you, move back quickly." As he spoke, he ran by himself, grinning his teeth and moving to the door, he was also tired and out of breath, his small body trembled, and his face was pale.

I don't know what to say or do in one place, but Jun'er is so sensitive at such a young age, and my heart aches faintly for a moment.

Bai Xiaoqiu ran forward to stop Jun'er and said, "Jun'er, put it down, this is not our flower, it was bought by Mr. himself, and I helped Mr. move in."

Bai Xiaoqiu glanced at me with an embarrassed face.

I was stunned for a moment, so I had to help him with this, walked over and squatted beside Jun'er, and said with a smile, "Isn't it, look at my memory."

Jun'er didn't speak, a smile gradually bloomed on her pale little face, and she asked again, "Daddy, are you telling the truth, aren't these the flowers in our house."

Bai Xiaoqiu smiled, put down the flower pot in his hand, touched it on Jun'er's head, looked at Jun'er with doting eyes, nodded heavily, and said, "When did Daddy lie to you, this is not our family, this is Mr. himself who bought it, and Mr. just admitted that it was not."

Jun'er looked at Bai Xiaoqiu, then at me, and then at the podocarpus on the ground, and suddenly turned around and ran out of the academy.

When Bai Xiaoqiu ran out, Jun'er was already gone, he stood motionless in the middle of the courtyard, looked at the direction Jun'er ran out, and sighed lightly.

I went out and asked him softly, "Why are you lying, you bought it yourself".

Bai Xiaoqiu said, "I don't know why I'm like this, many times I don't dare to face Jun'er, watching him grow up day by day, I am more and more afraid to face him, I am afraid that Jun'er will be disappointed in me, and it is not easy for their mother and son."

I was puzzled and asked, "Why, you are father and son, what dare you not face, even if Jun'er is still just a child, if you tell him patiently and seriously, maybe he doesn't understand now, and after some time, he will slowly understand."

Bai Xiaoqiu turned her head to look at me and said, "You won't understand, Weiwei is a good woman."

I chuckled lightly and said, "Isn't it, the Twelve Young Ladies are smart and skillful. In the White Mansion, the lady and the little young master raised their eyebrows and loved each other, and the whole Baifu looked up and down in their eyes, the young lady had twelve young pets and protections, a woman, how lucky it should be to be so favored by her beloved, and how many sentient people in this world are asking for it.

Bai Xiaoqiu shook his head helplessly, and said, "I don't know how to tell you, in fact, Jun'er is really sensible, but he is too sensitive, beyond his age."

Of course I believe Bai Xiaoqiu's words, remembering that Jun'er threw his fist at me a few days ago, and said to me, I felt a little guilty in my heart, but I didn't do anything out of bounds, I thought I was worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth, and said to Bai Xiaoqiu, "Jun'er is now a critical moment for physical and mental growth, and he feels fresh and a little scared and insecure when he treats the people and things around him." On weekdays, you and the young lady should care more for him and teach him carefully, and I think it will be fine after this period."

Bai Xiaoqiu said, "I already know Mr.'s teachings, and I will accompany him more in the future, and I hope that Jun'er can become cheerful and happy as Mr. said."

I urged, "In that case, why don't you go and see Jun'er."

Bai Xiaoqiu walked a few steps forward, stopped again, and said to me, "I don't think I need to, Jun'er will be back soon, he will go back to see it in person, knowing that the podocarpus is still there, and he will know that I didn't lie to him, and he will trust me more in the future."

I replied, "That's right."

For a while, both of them were stunned, neither of them spoke, as if they were both thinking about their hearts.

After a while, Bai Xiaoqiu said, "Just now, thanks to Mr. for helping me round the field."

I just looked ahead and replied, "Twelve young and don't get me wrong, I'm not doing this to help you, I'm looking at Jun'er's affection, and I can't bear to hurt him."

Bai Xiaoqiu smiled and said, "No matter what, I have to thank Mr. for being able to think about Jun'er like this."

Bai Xiaoqiu, you and I, I say something irrelevant, it's really boring, maybe this is the so-called turning hostility into jade silk, neither can you raise your eyebrows, and it is not impossible to respect each other like guests.

Walked to the front of the yard and looked up at a few pomegranate trees in front of him, thoughtfully.

Bai Xiaoqiu stepped forward and stood side by side with me, he said, "I think that Mr. moved these pomegranate trees to this house, and it happened to be a snowy day, and it was not like a malaise, I was still a little worried at that time, I was afraid that they would not survive, I never thought that a few years have passed, and now they grow so well, I heard that there were many pomegranates last year, but unfortunately I don't have a mouthful, look at their current appearance, this year will definitely produce good pomegranates, I wonder if Mr. can let me taste it then."

I said proudly, "What's so difficult about this, if you like it, when the pomegranate is ripe, I will ask Ai'er to send a few to the twelve-young, it did produce a lot last year, and Ai'er and I can't eat so much and divide it out, and there are so many people in Baifu that they forget about the twelve."

Bai Xiaoqiu looked at the pomegranate tree, looked up at the sky again, turned his head to look at me with a flicker, and said, "It's true that there are many people in Baifu, but Mr. just left me out, causing me to be greedy for nothing for a long time, which makes me a little sad."

I was slightly stunned, embarrassed to turn my face away and point to the front and exclaimed, "What a beautiful dragonfly".

To say that Ai'er's hometown is not too far, less than two hundred miles away from Luoyang City, a few days ago, the hometown sent someone to bring a message, saying that her aunt was seriously ill and asked her to go back. Ai'er cried at that time, and while crying, she found the package, and when she left, she told me to take care of myself. I gave all the silver bags I had accumulated over the years to Ai'er in the exhibition cloth, but Ai'er of course refused to accept it, and then she accepted it after my repeated persuasion. I only let Ai'er take care of A-Niang, don't think about anything else, I'm not a child, I will take care of myself. Ai'er listened to my words, and then she was willing to leave with confidence. Think about the past few years that Ai'er has followed me, although she has not suffered hardship, but she has really not enjoyed any blessings, the girls in other houses have new clothes to wear for three days, and there is a surplus of money to give during the New Year's holidays, my Ai'er has nothing, I am not quarrelsome, I have a weak temperament, Ai'er also takes good care of me, no matter how big or small, there is no complaint about hard work, I see these in my eyes.

After Ai'er left, I had to do everything myself, going to the stove to fetch water, cooking, tidying up the house, washing clothes, cleaning the house, busy going in and out all day, without any extra time. Sometimes Rourou will come to help me when she is not working, she is quick and quick to do things, but the number of times is limited, and I still have to rely on myself. In my eyes, Azu is already like my relatives, and others don't understand, but after all, Azu is a young man and the head of the guards, so he can't always run to my house, so as not to let people gossip, and I will be driven away after a few times.

Even if it was just me, the academy still had to be opened, and Jun'er and Su Shaoyuan still came on time every day, reading, reading, and painting, and I also taught tirelessly. Su Shaoyuan is young, and he came to the academy to play and learn.

Jun'er learns very seriously, but is far less smart than Xuan'er, through my observation of Jun'er during this time, although he doesn't like to talk, but he is very wild, he is born with a brute force in his bones, his eyes are not big, and he can inadvertently see the fierce light in his eyes, I don't know if this means anything to Jun'er, and I don't know if Bai Xiaoqiu and Chu Lianwei are aware of it. But he's still a kid anyway, and I can't be careful enough to think he's going to be bad for me.

After Jun'er's homework was finished, Bai Xiaoqiu went home with Jun'er as usual. I swept away all the paper and debris from the ground, and held a round stool in one hand. Bai Xiaoqiu caught the round stool from behind, he placed the round stool in order, set up a few desks, and then brought water and took the cloth and began to wipe the table.

I hurriedly retrieved Zhanbu from him, and said, "How can I trouble the twelve, I'll do it myself."

Bai Xiaoqiu said, "You tidy up the entire academy by yourself, when will you be able to pick it up, besides, you have never done such a job, just rest on the side, I will pick it up." As he spoke, his hands kept busy.

Thinking that Su Shaoyuan and Jun'er practice calligraphy, painting, and reading every day, it will inevitably be boring, today I taught them origami airplanes, sticking rabbits and little tigers with paste, and the tables and floors are full of paste, and the scraps of paper that stick to the ground are not easy to get rid of, and it is not a matter for me to stand aside and look at it like this, so I picked it up with Bai Xiaoqiu, wiped the windows, swept the yard, watered the flowers, and when everything was finished, it was already dark.

Seeing the dust on Bai Xiaoqiu's face, I was a little apologetic and grateful, and hurriedly called water for Bai Xiaoqiu to wash her face and hands.

This busy work has forgotten all about dinner, and people who have been busy for most of the day can't go back with an empty stomach. I said, "Twelve young and wait here, I'll go to the stove room to get food to eat."

When I stood at the door with my head drooping and my head hanging dejectedly, Bai Xiaoqiu looked at me indifferently, obviously he already knew that there was no food in the stove.

I was very aggrieved and said, "I'm sorry for the twelve, you better go back and eat."

Bai Xiaoqiu paused for a moment and asked me, "Sir, you have the ingredients for cooking here, everything is good."

I quickly thought about it, remembering the last time I picked the mushrooms in the back mountain in the rain, and I was busy saying, "There are mushrooms, fresh, and they have not been picked for a long time."

Bai Xiaoqiu smiled and said, "Okay, tonight, we'll eat mushrooms."

Bai Xiaoqiu squatted behind the stove to make a fire, I cooked in front of the stove, all this in front of me seemed to let me go back to a long time ago, Bai Xiaoqiu made a fire, I cooked, everything was vivid, everything was so far away, so far away that I almost forgot that we had such a happy and warm time.

A plate of sautéed cherry tomatoes and a plate of sautéed fresh mushrooms. These two dishes also make me feel extremely fragrant and happy. Bai Xiaoqiu was full of praise for my cooking skills, and said again and again that it was fragrant, it was really fragrant, and he shoveled the dishes on the plate clean.

It was a few days, the sun was rising, the breeze was gentle, and I was looking at the purple roses in the courtyard in a daze.

When Chu Lianwei forcibly moved this purple rose to my yard, she wanted to be angry with me, and watching my jokes made me understand how important she was in Bai Xiaoqiu's mind, and it also made me have a special sense of boredom with this purple rose. Now that a few years have passed, I have watered these flowers day by day, watching them bloom under my nose several times, and after a long time, I have developed some feelings, not only did not arouse my disgust, but I liked it more and more.

Nineteen young people came with a cold face, and called me "Feifei" from afar.

I smiled at him and said, "Nineteen rare guests, you haven't come to see me for so long, and you thought that you had a beautiful woman by your side, and you had forgotten about me as an irrelevant person."

Bai Yan is cold and doesn't like people to joke, and he is very easy to be ashamed, when I say it, he is very embarrassed, shy, and said, "What did Feifei say, when did I forget you."

Seeing him smile happily like a flower, I was also very happy, remembering the last time Rourou came to me, the two of them had an awkward affair, and now it seems that most of it is a sunny day after the rain, and the two are as good as ever.

Bai Yan Leng and Rourou, the ambiguity between the two, in the past, only dared to be behind people, but now it is also released in front of people, Rourou is even more bold, once in front of Eleven and Ai'er, holding Bai Yanleng's arm, while he was not paying attention to kissing on his face, the ashamed Bai Yan Leng blushed on the spot. Even if the relationship between the two has not spread throughout the Baifu, some gossip can always be heard from the mouths of the girls and soldiers in the mansion, especially those girls, who have long been cold and affectionate to this personable Baifu Nineteen Young Baiyan, and they are in love, and it is always terrible for women to be jealous. Seeing that Rourou and Bai Yan were cold together, it was indispensable to say bad things about Rourou behind her back.

That day, I passed through a corridor and heard a few girls talking together, and when I listened carefully, they were talking about Rourou and Nineteen Shao. Some say that the toad wants to eat swan meat, some people say that it is best to fall softly, knock out her teeth, and ruin her face, to see how she seduces the nineteen young, and some say that a female guard, who opens her teeth and dances all day long, how to be worthy of the gentle and elegant nineteen young, and the nineteen young man is not careful, he must be confused by this demon girl. There are other words that are simply unbearable.

Hey, really, I'm speechless.

I pointed to the chair next to me, sat next to me with a cold smile, and asked him, "What about Rourou".

Bai Yan sneered and said, "Rourou can't be empty on duty today."

I asked tentatively, "It's okay for you to get along with Rourou these days, you have a slow temperament, Rourou is anxious, just complement each other, the two get along, don't worry too much about some things." Then I stared at Bai Yan coldly, trying to see some clues on his face.

Bai Yan said unhurriedly, "You might as well tell Feifei that a few days ago, I had a little conflict with Rourou, she let go of the birds I raised, and damaged my aunt's relics."

I pretended not to know anything and exclaimed, "Rourou broke your aunt's relics."

Seeing that I looked nervous, Bai Yanleng hurriedly slowed down his speech and said, "It's really damaged, I was really angry at the time, and I almost hit her."

I exclaimed again, "Nineteen young, men beat women, don't do it, everything is easy to discuss", and in a hurry, I accidentally pulled off the flowers in my hand.

Bai Yan smiled coldly, picked up the flowers on the ground, held them in the air to take a look, and said, "It's so beautiful, it's a pity, when did Feifei become so unbreathable."

Seeing that I stared at him and didn't speak, Bai Yan said coldly, "Rourou and ingenious, I didn't expect her person to be as delicate as her mind, do you know what happened later?"

I stared at each other and hurriedly asked, "What happened later, did Rourou hide the relics, or did you two fight?"

Bai Yan laughed coldly, and said, "Mr. really imagines, so you can't guess, Rourou embroidered a swallow on that handkerchief, sir, do you know, since ancient times, swallows are the auspicious species of Turkic people, in the eyes of the Turks, especially in the hearts of my A-Niang people, swallows are a symbol of peace, a symbol of friendship, representing the beauty of all things, Rourou can think of embroidering a swallow on my Aunt's relics, it can be seen that she has good intentions and treats me sincerely, how can I bear to blame her."

Bai Yan said coldly, and there was happiness in the corners of his eyes and on his face that could not be hidden.

I laughed with Bai Yan Leng and praised, "It's me who is too worried, Rourou is indeed a rare good woman, Nineteen Shao must treat each other well, don't let her down."

How could I not have known that this swallow was a mascot worshipped by the Turks? My mother said this to me when I was very young, because my mother's mother, that is, my grandmother, was also Turkic.

On that day, I handed the embroidered handkerchief to Rourou, knowing that if Bai Yanleng knew that it was my idea to embroider a swallow on the handkerchief, I was afraid that I would be disappointed in Rourou, so that the two of them could release their suspicions as soon as possible, I told Rourou that all this was her idea, she embroidered it herself, and did not mention anything to me, Rourou did what I said, and the result seemed to be good.

At this time, I was the only one in the huge house, and the house was quiet, and I could hear the crickets outside the courtyard wall. Holding the book in his hand, he read page by page, turned page by page, and in the end he didn't read a word. I had to put down the book and paced in the house with my arms behind my back, back and forth, and I hated that the light in the room was too strong, so I hurriedly ran over to extinguish a show, and then extinguished a show, and finally simply planted myself on the bed, telling myself, don't think about anything, sleep well, and everything will be fine when you wake up tomorrow.