"Madam, the uncle and the second girl came to greet the wife, and they have already entered the courtyard."

The climate of Jinguancheng is mild, rainy in summer, foggy in winter, at this time it has just entered the early winter, although it has passed the hour, the outside is still foggy.

Yulan was afraid of the cold Zhi's family, so she roasted on the stove outside for a long time, but she still came in with moisture.

In the past three years, the Zhi family has gained some weight, his face is ruddy, his eyes are clear, and he is no longer pale and weak in Yefu, and he complained when he heard this, "Didn't I tell them not to come to ask for peace, in this weather, they have to wet their clothes as soon as they go out."

Yulan pursed her lips and smiled, "Mrs. feels sorry for the uncle and the girl, but the uncle and the girl are also worried about the wife, and Mrs. Ming'er simply gave an order to bring the uncle and the girls to live in Yongxue Courtyard, but don't you have these troubles?" ”

The courtyard where Ye Shouyi and the Zhi family lived in Jinguan City was still called Yongxue Courtyard according to the name of the capital.

Zhi Shi glared at her, "Your mouth is getting more and more neat, and when you return to the capital, I will send you to marry, so that you don't have to joke about this or that every day."

Yulan hurriedly begged for mercy, but Mama Zhi sighed, "This time, three years have passed, the master is about to return to Beijing to report on his work, and he will return to Beijing to be an official, Yulan is not small, it is necessary to plan carefully."

"Mama!"

Yulan stomped her feet, but Mama Zhi was interested, and said to the several descendants who looked at her one by one.

Yulan was ashamed, and was about to run away when she stomped her feet, and the little girl's salute came, "The slave has seen the uncle and the second girl."

The next moment, Ye Qingshu's sweet voice sounded, "Mama, don't bother, I'll have some people, as soon as I open my mouth, Sister Yulan will definitely be willing!" ”

Ye Qingshu has been in Jinguancheng for three years, and his voice also has some Shuzhong accents, and the long tone is very long, and his words seem soft and long.

In addition, her own voice quality is clear and sweet and crisp, and her voice is as straight as a thick, yellow and clear syrup just out of the pot, thick, soft, and sweet, which makes people's ears soft and their hearts sweet.

"The second girl also makes fun of the slave!"

Yulan snorted, and was so ashamed that she didn't even bother to salute, so she opened the curtain and ran out.

Ye Qingcheng and Ye Qingshu stepped forward to salute the Zhi family, and the Zhi family hurriedly asked the two to sit down, and ordered the stove to be fetched and let the two dry their clothes and hair.

Zhi asked, "Ah Shu just said that, isn't there already a candidate in his heart?" ”

Ye Qingshu pursed her lips and smiled, "Mother, rest assured, Sister Yulan is the first proud person by her mother's side, and Ah Shu will definitely find a wishful husband for her!" ”

"You'll be thirteen after the New Year, but you can't talk like you did when you were a child."

"Ah Shu remembers, that is, he is talking and talking with his mother." Zhi Shi glared at her, but he couldn't help but laugh first, Ye Qingshu also pursed his lips and laughed, and the corners of Ye Qingcheng's mouth were also hooked.

"Madam, the big girl is here."

Ye Qingcheng and Ye Qingshu hurriedly got up, Ye Qingling wore a moon-white collared orchid embroidered long jacket, a light magenta cotton silk phoenix fairy skirt, and her long hair was pulled into a spiritual snake bun, fixed with a mutton fat jade flowing cloud hairpin, and her eyebrows were a little vermilion, which was full of tears.

That point of vermilion is made of one of the seven treasures of Buddhism, two years ago, the ground in Shuzhong, Ye Qingling mobilized the officials and dependents of Shu to donate money, running around, and personally took the servants of the house to give porridge outside the city every day to relieve the refugees.

The senior monk in Shuzhong felt his righteous deeds because of Master Hui, and personally lit the glass in the heart of Ye Qingling's eyebrows, accepted her as a registered disciple, and praised her "heart is like glass".

Whenever the Zhi family saw that bit of bark glass, he was inexplicably blocked, and always felt that it was the mark that his daughter would become a monk sooner or later.

Ye Qingling bent down and blessed, "Mother, brother".

Three years ago, not long after they arrived in Shuzhong, the news of Ye Laosan's "death" came over, and Ye Qingcheng closed his door to keep filial piety.

After the expiration of the one-year period of filial piety, Ye Qingshu said that the Dongzhi clan took Ye Qingcheng's "lonely and helpless" as the name, and accepted Ye Shouyi as a righteous son, and everyone in the house called him uncle, and Ye Qingling's sisters and brothers were called brothers, and officially accepted Ye Qingcheng as a member of the Ye family's second room.

"Sit down, come, and command the meal."

Ye Qingcheng and Ye Qingshu are used to getting up early to practice the word for an hour before having breakfast, while Ye Qingling is necessary to worship the Buddha for an hour after getting up early every day, and they must have never eaten at this time.

The mother and son did not avoid suspicion, sat at a table and had breakfast, and then moved to the flower hall to drink tea.

While they were gossiping, Ye Shouyi came back, and they lived not far behind the mansion, and they could reach it in less than a quarter of an hour's walk.

In the past few years, if there is nothing particularly important, he is used to getting up early to go to the yamen to deal with official business, rushing back to the house for breakfast at the right time, and then going to the yamen after breakfast.

Ye Qingcheng and the others hurriedly got up and saluted, Ye Shouyi waved his hand, "Let's all sit down."

The maid served tea, and Ye Qingshu said, "Father came back just in time, in a few days, my brother's twenty-seven months of father's filial piety will expire, originally I have arranged to do seven days of Dharma in Shanyin Temple, and it is good to fulfill my brother's filial piety, but now there is another thing."

Ye Qingshu said habitually playing with the jade flute in her hand, the jade flute was only the thickness of her thumb, the length of the chopsticks, verdant, and flipped between her jade white palms, like a pool of spring-water flowing between her fingers.

"Over the years, Aunt Fang has stayed in Beijing alone, and because of the face of my fourth brother, I will bring back 1,000 taels of silver every year, so that she can supplement the family, I don't want to think that in the past few years, Aunt Fang's brother and sister-in-law have often been in and out of the second room, and every time they leave, they carry a hand full of things——"

When Ye Qingshu said this, he paused his voice and looked at Ye Shouyi, Ye Shouyi coughed in embarrassment, "This kind of thing, you can just watch and do it, you don't have to reply to me."

"It's nothing, it's just some money, since I gave it to Aunt Fang, I won't interfere with where she uses it, but today I received a letter from the third aunt in Beijing."

Fangcao stepped forward and presented a letter to Ye Shouyi, Ye Shouyi took it and hurriedly swept it, his face full of disbelief, "Those people are so bold?" ”

"People's hearts are insufficient, Aunt Fang's brother and sister-in-law are dissatisfied with Aunt Fang's little favor, and want to snatch the butterfly hairpin, and it is not uncommon for Aunt Fang to be pushed down and hit the corner of the table by mistake.

Ye Shouyi was speechless for a while, Ye Qingshu tapped his left hand with a piccolo, "Father, this matter is not small, it is not big, the difficulty is just in a Yu brother, originally an aunt, if she dies, she will die, and her grandfather and grandmother will not treat her lightly."

"It's just that Brother Yu'er is the biological mother, if you don't let Brother Yu go back to the funeral, I'm afraid that Brother Yu will blame her mother in the future, and if you let Brother Yu go back to the funeral, he is too young, but it is a little difficult to do."

Ye Shouyi subconsciously looked at the Zhi family, but saw that the Zhi family was in a trance, and hurriedly shouted, "Ah Qing-"

Zhi suddenly came back to his senses, hiding and lowering his head, "I'm fine, it's just some—"

She couldn't say anything, but she heard Ye Qingshuyun say lightly, "Originally, an aunt would die if she died", as if she was just talking about a grass on the side of the road, a leaf on a tree, a little ......

Zhi Shi exhaled lightly, not knowing how to describe the feeling in his heart at this time, some emotion, some self-deprecation, some relaxation, and more of it, empty-

Such a person should have been a grass on the side of the road, a leaf on a tree, however, this grass, this leaf, blocked her gaze for eight years and was deeply rooted in her heart.

And now, without warning, she is gone, fluttering, without any weight, and in the eyes of her daughter, it is, "I was originally an aunt, but if I die, I will die......

Zhi said she was fine, but she really didn't look like she was fine.

Ye Shouyi was a little flustered and said, "It's up to you to call the shots in this matter-"

Ye Qingshu said unhappily, "Father, no matter how I deal with this matter, as long as it is the slightest bit unsuitable for Brother Yu and Sister Yi'er, they will definitely blame their mother in the future, and their mother will want Brother Yu to support her in the future, how can you meddle in such a thing?" ”

Ye Shouyi's gaze involuntarily drifted to Ye Qingcheng, at first he accepted Ye Qingcheng, but he couldn't resist Ye Qingshu and the Zhi clan.

Three years ago, when he took Ye Qingyu's homework, he took Ye Qingcheng with him by the way, and he didn't want to take a little test, he found that Ye Qingcheng was quick-witted, intelligent and intelligent, and his memory was excellent, which was not inferior to Ye Qingshu.

Ye Shouyi's feeling at that time was tantamount to that the prodigal son had discovered a peerless beauty, and immediately took over the task of teaching Ye Qingcheng from Ye Qingshu.

In the past three years, he has always taken him by his side and tried his best to teach, and then Ye Qingshu proposed that he adopt Ye Qingcheng as his adopted son, and he responded with the boat, treating him as a parent.

No, Ye Qingyu's qualifications are not as good as half of Ye Qingcheng's, and he definitely doesn't care about Ye Qingyu as much as Ye Qingcheng.

Therefore, as soon as Ye Qingshu mentioned the issue of pension, his eyes naturally fell on Ye Qingcheng.

Ye Qingshu looked at it clearly, and smiled sarcastically, "Father looks at what my brother does, if one day my father goes first, and Brother Yu comes out again, maybe my brother will even enter the gate of Ye Mansion to see the faces of Brother Yu and his daughter-in-law, can my mother still expect him to do it?" ”

In the past three years, Ye Shouyi has become accustomed to Ye Qingshu's occasional rebellious sour words, and he didn't think it was a pestle when he heard it, but only glanced at the Zhi family worriedly, "Then according to you, what should I do?" ”

"Father still went to ask Sister Yi and Brother Yu how they liked, at most they would spend some money, and it would be up to the sky, that is, let my brother work harder and send them back to the capital in advance."

"It's okay," Ye Shouyi stood up a little crampedly, "I'll go and ask, Sister Ling'er, Ashu, don't be in a hurry to leave, talk to your mother."

He said that he left in a hurry, and he was a bit of a deserted escape.

Ye Qingshu sighed when he saw it, and the Zhi clan asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

Ye Qingshu shook his head and smiled, "Eldest sister, yesterday's brother found a fragment of a guqin score, it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, it is better to take my mother to make up for the fragment today."

The Zhi family and Ye Qingling were very interested when they heard it, and the Zhi family also put aside Aunt Fang's matter for the time being, "Come on, go and get the qin."

In the past three years, inside and out, Ye Qingshu has been clean and tidy, there is nothing she needs to worry about, and no one has the courage to block her in front of her, she gradually relaxes her happiness, and her past hobbies are slowly regained, and I can't wait to hear that there are fragments of guqin scores.

Ye Qingcheng got up and retired, he now not only has to study to prepare for next year's Spring Festival, but also follow Ye Shouyi to do some errands, Ye Qingshu is inconvenient to come forward, but he is also in charge of it, busy and round, although he has the intention to stay for a while, but he must not be idle.

……

……

Ye Qingcheng went back to the study to finish the affairs, and then began to read, ate some casually at noon, took a nap, and continued to read.

It wasn't until it was getting dark that he got up and rubbed his sour eyes, and An He came in to serve him to wash.

Ye Qingcheng sat down, and a handsome face as elegant as ink appeared in the dim bronze mirror, his eyebrows and eyes were excellent, and his ink painting was as elegant as a freehand painting.

The eyelashes are long and curly, the pupils are very shallow, and the shadow of the other party can be clearly reflected when looking at people with a smile, which makes people have the illusion of being cherished and cared for, making the ink-soaked breath on his body more and more intense.

His lips are thin and sharp, and when he doesn't smile with his eyes, he looks cold and sharp, and even has a kind of gloomy feeling.

He is very aware of the advantages of his appearance, so most of the time, he is gentle and smiling, which makes people feel good at first sight.

Smart and enlightened like him, three years is enough time for him to change his face and completely become another person, and now he has no trace of the "wild seed of Ye Laosan's family" on his body.

In and out of various occasions, everyone will praise him as "a gentleman is square, gentle as jade", and even praise him as "Xiao is like a father".

His father is naturally no longer the dead Ye Laosan, but the world-famous beauty detective Hua Ye Shouyi.

He smiled humbly, receiving such praise, but his heart was like a mirror, he would never become a humble gentleman like Ye Shouyi in his life.

Even if he didn't have the hardships of his youth, he would never have become such a flawless gentleman.

However, fortunately, he doesn't need it, Xiao seems to be enough.

"Uncle, the fourth master asks to see".

Ye Qingcheng nodded casually, "That's it, let the fourth brother wait, I'll be fine right away."

An He took out the plain silk crane of the Buddha's head green, Ye Qingcheng took it and put it on, and walked out.

An He hurriedly followed, "When the filial piety period expires, you will be able to wear bright clothes, and you will be tired of wearing this plain one all day long."

Ye Qingcheng smiled, "I'm a man, don't I have to wear bright clothes like a little girl?" ”

"The county lord and the second girl both like to wear bright colors, like fairies in the sky, if the lord wears them, they must look good."

Ye Qingcheng has always been careful, and naturally knows that Ye Qingling and Ye Qingshu both prefer bright colors, especially all kinds of deep and light reds.

The corners of Ye Qingcheng's mouth unconsciously curled, Ye Qingshu is beautiful, lively and loves to laugh, which is very suitable for all kinds of deep and light reds, she has always liked to dress herself up, and she is also very good at it.

"Brother".

Ye Qingcheng waved his hand, "You're welcome, come to find me something?" ”

Ye Qingyu's eyes were red, but her face was quite calm, she hesitated for a while, and then said, "My brother must have known about my aunt's affairs, I have already told my father that I want to return to Beijing as soon as possible, but I am afraid that my mother and second sister will be worried, I have always been clumsy, so I want to ask my eldest brother to say a few kind words on my behalf."

Ye Qingcheng frowned, "Brother Yu, in terms of intimacy, you are the son of your mother's in-laws, and you are the younger brother of Ashu's in-laws, why do you need me to come forward for such a thing?" ”

Ye Qingyu was stunned and lowered her head, "Big brother, I'm afraid that my mother and second sister will think too much-"

The branch family is just that, after all, it is inevitable that there will be discord between wives and concubines, but why does he not leave Ye Qingshu every word?

Ye Qingcheng's face was slightly cold, "Brother Yu'er, I didn't know before, but in the past three years, how Ah Shu treats you and Aunt Fang, I have seen everything in my heart, I think you know better than me, why don't you ask, I'm sure Ah Shu will think more?" Could it be that Ashu has always treated you well, but you have been treated as a sweetheart by you? ”

Ye Qingyu was taken aback, and shook her head again and again, "No, no, brother, I didn't mean that, no-"

Ye Qingcheng eased his tone, "Forget it, Aunt Fang went suddenly, you are also sad and at a loss, you don't have to worry about this matter, Ah Shu has already said, everything is up to you and the sixth sister, if you want to go back to mourn, I will send you back to Beijing."

Ye Qingyu obviously didn't expect this to be the case, and was speechless in a daze.

Today, Ye Shouyi just briefly said the cause of Aunt Fang's death, and said how he planned to go to Ye Qingshu to discuss, and didn't say a word else.

He didn't expect Ye Qingshu to say that.

Ye Qingcheng patted him on the shoulder, "What do you mean, I know, I will explain to you and your mother on your behalf, you go back to rest first, don't be too sad."

Ye Qingyu wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to speak, so she had to nod and salute and leave.

Ye Qingcheng watched his back go away, and then sped up his pace and walked towards Yongxue Courtyard, in the past three years, if there was nothing special, he would go to Yongxue Courtyard for dinner.

Before he got close to Yongxue Courtyard, the intermittent melodious sound of the piano came into his ears, and Ye Qingcheng unconsciously showed a smile and sped up his pace.

"Uncle—"

Ye Qingcheng stopped, followed An He's gaze, and saw Ye Shouyi standing next to a bush of roses outside Yongxue Courtyard, at this time the sky was already dark, not An He's sharp eyes, Ye Qingcheng didn't see him at all.

Ye Qingcheng paused, took a few steps forward with heavy steps, and leaned over to salute, "Father."

Ye Shouyi's face was embarrassed, he covered his lips and coughed, and explained in a way that wanted to cover up, "I saw that they were in good spirits, so I thought about not disturbing them."

Ye Qingcheng didn't poke him either, and said euphemistically, "I just saw the sixth sister from afar, and the sixth sister seems to be in a good mood."

Ye Qingyi no longer has a heart or lungs, and it is impossible for her to be in a good mood just after learning about Aunt Fang's death.

Ye Shouyi sighed, "I forgot to tell Sister Yi!" ”

Ye Qingcheng guessed that this would be the result, and reminded implicitly, "Just now Brother Yu came to me and said that he wanted to go back to the funeral, Ashu will definitely not object, but I'm afraid that Sister Yi won't know, isn't it appropriate?" ”

Father, you will definitely be bloodied by Ashu's sarcastic dog!

Ye Shouyi was obviously also aware of this problem, and said a little nervously, "Then you help me go and talk to Sister Yi'er, and I'll go and tell you to set the meal later."

Ye Qingcheng, "......"

Is this a problem with late serving?

Ye Shouyi said that he was afraid that Ye Qingcheng would refuse, so he raised his feet and entered Yongxue Courtyard, now that the weather is cold, dinner is set early, and it is not good if it is cold.

Ye Qingcheng helplessly supported his forehead, so he said that a good person can't do it!