"Yu'er, your sister brought back the purple lingzhi for you this time, seeing that it is the winter solstice, when the time comes, your body will be healthy. Flash." Dou Shi groped Xiao Yu's face lovingly.

Xiao Yu is a child after all, but because he is sick all the year round, his personality is very dull, and what he is most worried about is his body.

The mother talked in Xiao Yu's room for a while, but after all, she didn't dare to let him work too hard, so she comforted him to sleep, and Dou and Xiao Liuli walked to the front hall again.

"Liuli, you are back now, my mother has the backbone," Dou sighed and said: "You have been away from home for ten years, and now you are twenty-two years old, although you are young when you leave home, you are knowledgeable, more sensible than ordinary adults, after you leave, my mother looks forward to your return every day, but I dare not call you back, knowing that you are going to become a big thing." ”

At the age of twelve, Xiao Liuli left home to go to Queping Mountain thousands of miles away to apprentice, and Dou really sent her away with tears.

Zhou Yunbing was a princess of the previous dynasty, and the country fell when she was sixteen years old. At that time, under the protection of a cadre, she stood out and lived in seclusion in Qiping Mountain. Later, the first emperor of this dynasty issued a decree to exempt her from her crimes, and gave her Queping Mountain, and no one was allowed to commit it.

Zhou Yunbing is both talented and talented, and can be called a generation of strange women. After the first emperor forgave her sins, many people went to visit her in Queping Mountain.

But in the decades, she has only taken on three apprentices.

Xiao Liuli is her closed disciple.

Xiao Liuli has only returned home once four years ago since she has been a teacher for ten years. It also came in a hurry and returned in a hurry.

Now that the ten-year period has passed, it can be regarded as a real return to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

"Madame, Miss, the Prime Minister is back." The big girl beside Mrs. Dou walked in with a curtain and said.

Mrs. Dou and Xiao Liuli both stood up, and Xiao Bonian walked in from outside.

"Ruri is back!" Xiao Bonian was very happy: "It's been very hard along the way!" ”

"Daddy has always been okay? My daughter is thinking about it day and night. Xiao Liuli gave a deep salute, she hadn't seen her for four years, and she became more and more beautiful.

If Xiao Bonian still has regrets in this life, then the biggest regret is that his daughter-in-law Xiao Liuli is not a man, otherwise with her qualifications, she is afraid that her achievements will be above herself.

But who says daughters are useless?

Xiao Bonian couldn't help but think of the conversation he had with his daughter ten years ago.

"Daddy, my daughter is going to Queping Mountain to apprentice."

"Nonsense! That Qiping Mountain is tens of thousands of miles away from the capital, not to mention the long way, Zhou Yunbing's selection of apprentices is not ordinarily strict, and for so many years, only two people have become her disciples."

"My daughter thinks that her qualifications are not bad, but no matter how far the road is, as long as she is willing to go, there will always be a day."

"Even if Zhou Yunbing is willing to accept you as an apprentice, life on the mountain is hard, how can you survive ten years?"

"If you want to be successful, you are not afraid of hardship, this truth is understood by my daughter. Since I was determined to go to the apprenticeship, I refused to turn back. ”

"I'm afraid that what you say is easy, and then you will retreat."

"If that's the case, my daughter will never go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion to disgrace her father. The daughter's departure was also the lintel of the glorious Xiao family. ”

"Your mind is good, but it's a pity that you are a daughter. You can't take the scientific examination, and you can't go in and out of the court. ”

"Daddy has poor knowledge, who said that his daughter is useless? Although her daughter can't go to the imperial examination to become an official, how can there be no women in this world? is a very popular minister, and he is not as close as the emperor's family. ”

"What do you mean?"

"My daughter is twelve years old this year, and she will enter the palace draft in two years, and now that the emperor is getting older, her daughter will enter the palace, no matter what her position is, it will be difficult to have an heir after all. And the princes are still young, and they can't see who is good and who is bad, and if they marry the wrong one, their previous achievements will be wasted. The daughter left home to go to apprenticeship, firstly, she could avoid these unknown speculations, and secondly, she had skills and could be looked at by others. Why not? ”

"If you have such insight, your father will not stop you, but everything is easier said than done, so you have to do it yourself."

"Daddy doesn't need to worry too much, my daughter can't always serve her knees in the future, I hope you take care of yourself."

The conversation ten years ago is vivid, ten years of time have passed in a flash, and now Xiao Liuli is like a piece of carefully carved jade, just waiting for people who know the goods to ask for a high price.

But when Prime Minister Xiao looked at Xiao Liuli's face, he couldn't help but feel apprehensive.

Because everyone was in front of him, it was inconvenient to speak, so he had to say: "Why don't you call the eldest young master to come over for lunch together?" Why didn't the eldest lady see his shadow for half a day? Oh, I must be busy decorating the room for the eldest lady! ”

Then he laughed twice, turned his head to Xiao Liuli and said: "Since you wrote to say that you want to go home, I will ask Xiao Xu to supervise the work every day and clean up the house for you, but he is doing his best and not slacking off at all." ”

"That's really hard Brother Xu," Xiao Liuli smiled all over her face, and she couldn't see any displeasure: "It's such a cold weather, it's hard for him to think about me." ”

Of course, Xiao Liuli doesn't like Xiao Xu, she only admits that Xiao Yu is her own brother.

But she never showed it in front of Prime Minister Xiao Cheng, because she knew that Prime Minister Xiao Cheng cared about Xiao Xu very much. Although Xiao Xu is useless, for Xiao Bonian, who has frequently lost his son, his health is the most gratifying thing for him.

The relationship between Xiao Liuli and Xiao Chengxiang is more like a pair of allies than father and daughter.

Xiao Xu was found from outside by his family, and recently he couldn't stand the recurrence of his old illness, although he didn't dare to be as blatant as before, but he often messed with the woman in the hidden place.

"Sister, you're back!" Xiao Xu grinned when he entered the door, he was carrying a box of dim sum in his hand, which he bought on the way back: "This is Ling Su Zhai's dim sum, your favorite food." ”

"You have a heart," Xiao Liuli smiled slightly, and her tone was also very kind: "It's cold outside, you drink a cup of hot tea to warm up, it's time to eat in a while, don't hurt your stomach." ”

"My sister still loves me so much," Xiao Xu said happily, "I look forward to your coming back every day." ”

"The rice is all set, don't wait for a long time," Dou Shi urged: "Liuli has bumped all the way, hurry up and rest with a mouthful of food." ”

The group walked to the dining room, and the second room of the Xiao family lived in the backyard and did not come to the front yard for lunch.

"Don't you call the second uncle and aunt over?" Xiao Liuli asked, "Are they all okay?" I should have greeted them first. ”

"It's not an outsider, it's the same if you rest and go again." Xiao Bonian said: "It's cold again, don't toss back and forth." ”

In fact, over the years, Xiao Xu's biological mother Bai refused to talk to anyone, and her husband was stupid, so he didn't ask them to come to the front yard easily.

Xiao Liuli is clear about this.