The road was full of undried snow, and Ji Ying and Fang Miaojie walked home one foot at a time. The shoes were already soaked, the soles of the feet were very cold, and every footprint was quickly diluted by the snow.

But Ji Ying knows that many traces cannot be diluted, such as her eighteen-year experience.

Time goes back to the ninth day of April in the nineteenth year of Jinghe.

It was a good day to start the ground, to marry, to use the army—in short, to do everything. The weather is sunny and the birds are singing.

In the mansion of Bowei Hou Li Xingzhi, the eldest lady who was less than five years old was surrounded by a group of maids, jumping from the main courtyard into her second brother's courtyard, and a string of silver bells on her wrist was shouting unscrupulously.

Her second brother Li Yuhan is feeding the fox under the porch. A snow-white little fox cub was holding its little head and waiting for him to feed the minced meat into his mouth, and the little eyes were like two black grapes, which were very cute.

Hearing the sound of broken footsteps and the cheerful ringing of bells, Li Yuhan put the remaining minced meat in front of the little fox, straightened up, patted the soil, and turned around.

Yan'er ran over with a smile and shouted "Second Brother" crisply, but bypassed Li Yuhan and ran straight to the little fox. The little fox was shaken by the sudden sound, and retracted its neck timidly, not even daring to eat the meat, hiding in the nest and looking at Yan'er with trepidation.

Li Yuhan, who was left out in the cold, grabbed Yan'er's pigtails and asked, "Stinky Yan'er, you didn't come to see the second brother, you came to bully the little fox!" ”

The pigtail was grabbed, but it didn't hurt, and Yan'er still squatted next to the fox's nest and watched intently, and said to Li Yuhan with a distraction: "Look at the second brother is true, look at the little fox is also true, don't worry about the second brother." ”

"The little fox is sick, you have to rest well, don't bully it."

Yan'er puffed out her cheeks and said, "You say this again, you always don't believe that I can take care of it." ”

"Then how can I trust you?" Li Yuhan was straightforward, "His Royal Highness King Yan was fine when he first sent it, but he was tossed sick by you within two days." How do you take care of it? ”

"But...... But you're no better than me. I remember that last time my second uncle brought back a little white sable from the royal hunting grounds, and you said that you would shear it after spring, and if you were impatient to shear it, you burned it with fire and scalded it to death; Another time, you said that the child's urine can cure the disease, so you peed at our little parrot, it was winter, and the little parrot didn't even survive that night; And ......"

"How can there be so many 'and'?" Li Yuhan's face flushed, wanting to interrupt his sister.

But Chang'er didn't buy it at all, and said seriously: "Last year we caught a lot of snails, packed them in wooden basins, my big brother and I were all alive and well, only you ran around, and then they were trampled to death by people walking back and forth, I remember that the snails were trampled under the soles of their feet, and they squeaked - you are too cruel." ”

"You...... You little girl, how can you remember so many things? You're misremembering - yes, yes, what are you here for? Li Yuhan hurriedly changed the topic, after all, the past is unbearable.

"Oh, it's all your fault that you asked me to help you remember the past, I almost forgot." Yan'er waved to the maid in the lead, and the maid came over with two new pillows, "This is a newly made acacia pillow by my mother, one for you and your eldest brother." The one embroidered with pines and cypresses is the big brother's, and the one embroidered with green bamboo is yours. ”

"Big brother went to play chess with your cousin Ji Heng, and it may take half an hour to come back. Before he leaves, let me tell you that the book he has prepared for you will be placed on the table in the study, and you can go and get it yourself. I have to go to martial arts training first, and then change my clothes and then go to thank my mother. ”

"Got it."

"One more thing," Li Yuhan took out a plain sachet from his sleeve that was about to be disemboweled, and handed it to his sister, "I scratched it when I practiced sword yesterday, you can help me make up for it." ”

"Well, well," Yan'er replied cheerfully, "I'll embroider a branch of ink plum here in the crack, and make sure it's trimmed and beautiful!" ”

"Whatever you want, but remember, don't ask your mother."

"I won't."

"Don't embroider too fancy."

"You always look down on me!"

Yu Han tugged at his sister's pigtails, grabbed his short sword and was about to go out.

"Second brother," Chang'er stopped Li Yuhan, "or you should return the little fox to me, I'm afraid you will torture it again." I still remember last year......"

"You're all wrong!" Li Yuhan hurriedly intercepted Yan'er's words. He put his hands on his sister's shoulders and pushed her out, "Those things are done by your big brother, I am especially good at taking care of small animals, especially little foxes, don't worry." ”

Yan'er didn't have time to say anything more, so she was pushed out by Li Yuhan.

Li Yuhan took the short sword and went to the martial arts training ground, muttering as he walked: "A good memory is sometimes not a good thing." ”

She has two older brothers. The eldest brother Lee Seung-woo is ten years old and always looks like a little adult. The little brother Li Yuhan is seven years old, but he is extremely naughty. The two elder brothers were born to the eldest lady, but the eldest lady died of illness shortly after giving birth to her second son, and then Marquis Li married the young daughter of Ji Xuanyi, the governor of the political affairs, Ji Shu, that is, the mother of the sister-in-law.

Chang'er's mother is worthy of being a famous lady, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, knitting and embroidery are all a must, before she left the cabinet, the matchmaker almost stepped through the threshold of the Ji family.

Back then, when the news that Ji Shu was going to marry Bo Weihou came out, I don't know how many young talents in the capital cried and broke their liver sausages.

Speaking of Boweihou Li Xingzhi, he is a well-known figure inside and outside the court. Not only because he has been on the battlefield for more than ten years without any defeat, which makes Beidi frightened, but also because, looking at the entire Great Zhou, the five princes and six marquis, if there is no relationship with the royal family, he is the only one.

With such a life experience, Chang'er is naturally also a young lady who is loved by thousands of people. Not to mention that her parents and brothers treated her like a treasure, even her grandfather and two uncles spoiled her to death. The milk name "Chang'er" was given by the second uncle Ji Kefei, and the daimyo was drawn up as "Hehuan", which was the opinion of his maternal grandfather.

She was about to go back to her mother's place to resume her life, passing by the garden, and turned her head to catch a glimpse of the door of the study, and the faint sound of conversation came from the study.

It is rare that Li Xingzhi did not lead troops to fight, nor did he go to train outside the city, who would come to visit the door in the early morning?

Chang'er was worried about the books given by her eldest brother, and she was curious about who her father was talking to, so she sent a group of servants away, and quietly approached alone, secretly hid at the door of the study, and stood against the wall.

"The tired lord replied to the master, and said that the minister would definitely finish the matter." This is the voice of Daddy Li Xingzhi, although he deliberately lowered his voice and his attitude was extremely respectful and humble, but Chang'er still easily distinguished it.

"Then wait for the good news of the Hou Ye." An unfamiliar voice was mixed with a little arrogance, but this arrogance Li Xingzhi didn't seem to dare to take it to heart at all, which was surprising to Chang'er.

This is followed by the sound of steady footsteps.

The two did not be polite again, and the strange man was wearing a soap-colored robe, with his head in his head, unable to see his appearance, and walked out first. Bo Weihou followed closely behind, gave a deep salute, and sent the other party away.

Yan'er felt that the atmosphere was a little depressing, so she quietly slipped into the study and hid under the desk, wanting to scare her father.

But the left couldn't wait, the right couldn't wait, and Yan'er was impatient, so she crawled out from under the table and shook her hands around.

There's nothing interesting about it, so let's go back. Thinking so in her heart, Chang'er saw that there was the "Book of Songs" prepared for her by his eldest brother Li Chengyu on the desk, and she was naturally unceremonious and carried it in her arms. Just as he was about to leave, he saw a wordless envelope on the table, and the letter was hidden in the envelope.

Chang'er recognized a lot of words, and had the courage to open the letter, but unfortunately the words inside were flying and dancing, she could barely recognize the words "tomorrow", "before" and "Ji family", and she was even more curious, so she put the letter into her arms and asked her mother to read it.

Little did she know that this letter was about to wipe out her carefree time, and even wipe out many great families, displacing tens of millions of people and ruining their families......