The East Purple Pavilion is taken from the meaning of "purple gas from the east", it is a five-room bungalow, the whole whole is decorated with purple purlin wood, but the beam of the house is two or three meters higher than the general bungalow, and the house is particularly empty, so although the tone is dull but does not give people a dull feeling, it looks particularly simple and atmospheric, solemn and elegant.

When Mrs. Xu arrived, Erping had already left, only Qi Yuzhi's personal little tea was waiting outside, he saw Mrs. Xu, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Mrs. Xu said in a low voice, "What about Brother Yu? ”

Brother Yu is Qi Yuzhi's milk name.

Mingcha whispered: "In the back room, I said that I want to be quiet and not let people serve in front of me." ”

Mrs. Xu nodded, leaving Mama Yi to lift the curtain and go in.

Qi Yuzhi was wearing a dark lotus-colored bamboo branch gold forged round robe, leaning in front of the open window lattice, his face was like white jade, noble and elegant, and Mrs. Xu was stunned.

He looked lonely at a small tripod of flowers on the corner of the house, which burned with fine wooden incense, and lingered on the tip of people's noses in the cold meaning of the early morning.

Qi Yuzhi heard the movement, his eyelids lifted slightly, and when he saw that it was Mrs. Xu who came in, his eyelids lowered slightly.

Seeing this, Mrs. Xu's heart sank, and she hurriedly stepped forward and walked to Qi Yuzhi's side.

"Brother Yu, but your second uncle... What was said? ”

Qi Yuzhi raised his eyelids and glanced at Mrs. Xu, his once free and easy handsome face with a cold and noble face.

"Grandmother, look!" He pointed to a window lattice beside him, "They are all crossed by three mullions, but they can arbitrarily form a circular, diamond-shaped, and triangular pattern, or they can be changed into turtle-back brocade lines, round lines, petal lines, and can also be composed of bead-patterned rhombic flowers, turtle-back rhizome flowers, artemisia leaf rhombus flowers, and starry rheines..."

The window lattice of the East Purple Pavilion is the turtle's back Jinling flower embedded with glass, which is a fancy style from Xizhao, which is commonly used by wealthy families. Speaking of which, this window lattice style existed before Mrs. Xu married into the Qi Mansion, and Qi Yuzhi grew up in Jixian Courtyard since he was a child, so he was also very familiar.

Why did you talk about it all of a sudden?

Mrs. Xu looked at Qi Yuzhi puzzled.

"Brother Yu, you. It doesn't matter to you! ”

Qi Yuzhi had a smile on his face: "What can I do, didn't you arrange everything?" ”

The yin and yang weird tone made Mrs. Xu panic.

"It's not strange when you say it's weird. I used to blame my second uncle all day long. I think he has everything, but he doesn't know how to cherish it. But after thinking about it quietly these past few days, it turns out that he is more pitiful than me. ”

Mrs. Xu looked at Qi Yuzhi in confusion.

Qi Yuzhi had already turned his head away, looking at the towering tree in front of the East Purple Pavilion that had been blown off by the wind and was bare.

"I've been there for a few days. I always think about what happened when I was a child. I still remember that time, my father died, and you and your mother were very sad, and we cried in bed every day. Not long after. The mother also left, and the second uncle inherited the title. You took me by the hand and said to me, "You must be obedient and patient in all things." I nodded with tears in my eyes, but I didn't dare to tell you that Mama Luo couldn't find my little Pikan shoulder, I was wearing a hollow robe, and the wind was blowing. It's cold to the bones..."

"Brother Yu!" Mrs. Xu looked at Qi Yuzhi in shock.

"One day. Suddenly, red lanterns were hung everywhere in the house, pasted with red couplets and happy characters. You stopped crying, sat up from the bed, and dressed up, looking very happy. The grandmother next to me told me, Brother Yu, your second uncle married an aunt, and as soon as the new aunt entered the door, you would have a little brother..., I felt very uncomfortable, is it because the new aunt is going to have a little brother, you are very happy, so the illness is also cured..."

"That's not the case, Brother Yu, in this family, only you are my blood..."Mrs. Xu defended with tears in her eyes.

Qi Yuzhi's expression was still like that, looking blankly at the big tree in the yard.

"I secretly ran to the courtyard of the second uncle of Chengxi Yuan. It was very dark, and there was red everywhere, lighting up half of the sky. There were people everywhere, and when I asked others where my second uncle was, they were all in a hurry, and no one paid any attention to me. I was in the yard at a loss and did not lose sight. At this time, two good-looking sisters were walking on the verandah with things talking and laughing, and they secretly followed them, trying to find their way back. ”

"After walking a distance, one of the sisters found me, knelt down and asked me with a smile which house are you a child of the Qi family, I puffed up my chest and told them, I am Brother Yu, the son of Qi Yi. I still remember very clearly, the way my sister looked at me, full of pity..."

Mrs. Xu covered her mouth, tears dripping from the corners of her eyes.

"There is a grandmother over there who is still waiting for you, and the sister touched my head, and said to me very gently, go back to Mrs. Xu, she should be worried, and after speaking, the two of them hurriedly walked forward. I thought to myself, they were so nice to me. ”

So I ran after them from a distance, and saw them in a large room. It was red everywhere, and there were a lot of gold objects, so bright that I couldn't open my eyes. The two sisters went into the house on the east side, and I followed. But as soon as I stepped into the threshold, there was a child who chased me from with a straight face, get out, get out. I was very scared, I didn't know how to answer, I heard someone say, "Mama, don't be like this, since you can enter the inner courtyard, it should be the little son of which family." You've taken snacks and sweets and entertained them, it's just... Her voice is so good, like a bird singing under your roof..."

Qi Yuzhi's expression was confused.

I rushed in while the grandmother was talking, only to hear an ouch, a woman dressed in red and bright clothes hurriedly put a red cloth on her head, and the people in the room were also shocked, the sister who had spoken to me said, girl, this is the eldest son of Qi Mansion, that is, the deceased son... The woman let out a long sigh, and said that she had scared me to death, and pulled the red off her head again..."

Speaking of this, a faint smile appeared on Qi Yuzhi's face.

"I was there. I thought to myself, how can there be such a beautiful girl in the world. Her eyes are brighter than the stars, her skin is more crystal clear than white porcelain, and her expression is quieter than the moonlight..."

Mrs. Xu's eyes widened and she shouted in horror, "Brother Yu." ”

Qi Yu's eyes shone as hot as the sun.

She asked me. Why did you come here alone, I said, I want to see my new aunt, my grandmother heard that she was coming, and she was glad that she was cured. I'll tell her not to rob my grandmother from me... The people in the room sighed, and the woman's tears suddenly fell, and she hugged me. Say I'm your new aunt. … I want to push her to the ground like Mama Luo pushes me when she is impatient... But her body is fragrant, her body is soft, and she hugs me so warmly, just like a mother's embrace. My heart was warm, so I said to her, you are so good-looking. Don't be my new aunt. Just be my mother, I will never be naughty again. Listen to the gentleman, good, practice martial arts well, she hugged me vigorously, choked up and said Okay, okay, I won't be your new aunt, I'll be your mother. ”

Mrs. Xu covered the corners of her eyes and sobbed quietly.

"She is really good to me, making me clothes and shoes, although every time it is either big or small, either the stitches are dense or the stitches are sparse, but I still like it very much... She also told me that she could read a lot, write beautiful words, draw beautifully, and play tunes with leaves... Teach me everything. Sometimes when I get impatient, I run into the woods, and she calls my name everywhere, and I like to look at the anxious expression on her face, and I deliberately can't hide from it... I love the way she felt relieved when she pulled me out of the woods, and I loved the way she pulled me around to see if I was hurt, and I loved the smell of wood on her body..."

"Brother Yu, you, don't say it!" Mrs. Xu's voice was filled with grief.

Gradually, however, I found that as soon as the second uncle came home, she would be very unhappy, and lay in bed for several days as if she was sick, and the grandmothers even tiptoed to walk, and the room was full of sadness. Whenever this happens, I feel uneasy. But every time I asked her what was wrong, she just shook her head. Once, he touched my hand and cried. ”

"I still remember that in the summer, when the sun was shining, she lay in bed again, her face was whiter than usual, and her appearance was more sad than usual, like a mother... When you're about to die... I was very scared, so I stayed by her bedside all day and all night, and the grandmothers pulled me, so I cried and made a fuss and didn't leave, and read her favorite "Book of Songs" to her, and when she read it, she cried, and said, let me grow up and don't be like my second uncle, I must be a good person. I tilted my head and asked her, but the third uncle said that my second uncle was a manly husband and a hero, and that when I grew up, I would make contributions like my second uncle. I didn't want her to be sad, so I said, well, since you don't like it, I won't be the hero of the world that the third uncle likes, and be a good person you like!. She hugged me and cried..."

The expression on Qi Yuzhi's face gradually became sad.

"One spring, the second uncle didn't come home for a long time, she was very happy, and she made kites, and we were going to fly them in the garden together. But just as we were about to leave, the second uncle came back, and the grandmothers in the house hurriedly sent me back to the East Purple Pavilion. I thought of how sad my uncle was every time he came home, and I was a little worried that I wanted to go to see her, but the grandmothers all covered their mouths and smiled, and stopped me from going. I pretended to be asleep, and when it was completely dark, I secretly went to Dexin Courtyard without telling Mama Luo. ”

"It's dark in Dexin Courtyard, and it's not like the lights are bright when the second uncle comes back. I secretly ran to her hospital, the door of the courtyard was hidden, I gently pushed the door in, it was cold, there was no one, I heard her low crying, and the cold voice of the second uncle, as you wish, in the future, without Mama's arrangement, I will never step into this courtyard again..."

Speaking of this, Qi Yuzhi suddenly grinned at Mrs. Xu, his expression was indescribably weird.

"When you heard the news, was Gao happy?"

Mrs. Xu still covered her mouth with her hands, but her expression was a little stiff.

"I was so happy!" Qi Yuzhi smiled, but a tear fell from the corner of his eye, "Second Uncle is gone, she doesn't have to be sad anymore, she can play with me." ”

"I hid behind the pillar, watched the second uncle with a blue face go away angrily, and ran into the house happily."