Mrs. Tong sighed: "If you can't choose, there is naturally a way out if you can't choose, but only our mother and son say this, do you know?" ”

Yuan Xi pouted slightly and asked, "Can't you let Ama and my brother know?" ”

Mrs. Tong tapped a light on her forehead: "Isn't this an obvious thing?" You're not a kid with a lack of heart, don't pretend to be confused with me. He added, "Xi'er, it's not that E-Niang doesn't love you, so she wants to exchange you for a way out for the family, if you are really chosen by the emperor, is E-Niang looking forward to you being snubbed and bullied in the palace?" ”

In the evening of this day, Tong Guogang returned from the yamen, and saw someone selling things on the road, so he brought two pieces to his sister, and wanted to make her happy, but when he got home, he turned around twice before he found his sister in the boudoir.

"Eldest young master, Miss has been in such a daze for a long time, and Mrs. also replied, and Mrs. said that it was up to her." The maidservant at the door whispered, "What a surprise." ”

"Let's go see if there's a meal in front of you, and Amma is almost home." Tong Guogang sent the maid, came in to light a few candles, sat on the edge of the kang and asked, "My eldest lady, do you have something on your mind?" ”

Yuan Xi found out that it was his brother who came, his eyebrows crooked and he smiled, and when he saw that his brother was holding a plaything in his hand, he reached out to take it, and the brother and sister teased for a while, and Tong Guogang gave it to her.

"E-Niang has trained you, and you have done something wrong again?" As an elder brother, he loves his little sister very much, Tong Guogang said good-naturedly, "If you are unhappy, tell my brother, E-niang is getting older, and her temper is not very good, so we have to take more care as children." ”

Yuan Xi naturally snuggled in his brother's arms, fiddling with gadgets in his hands, and listened to his brother's chatter a few words before saying: "I didn't quarrel with E-Niang, I didn't know the bottom of my heart." ”

"Draft?"

"Hmm."

"You're so stupid, you can't choose."

"But I ......"

My sister sat up and looked at herself expectantly, the sunset outside the window dissipated, and the night came, but my sister's eyes gradually bloomed.

In this way, she seemed to have hidden it in her heart for a long time, and asked, "Brother, the emperor is very handsome, right?" Your Majesty, is he getting taller again? Did you see him today? ”

Tong Guogang was stunned and smiled bitterly: "The place where I stand every day in the court is far away from the emperor, and if I am summoned to him for nothing, I can hardly see clearly." But looking at the outline, the emperor is indeed taller and stronger. ”

Yuan Xi looked at his brother longingly, but said, "When Ming'er was in the early dynasty, my brother will take another look for me." ”

"Xi'er?" Tong Guogang said calmly, "What are you thinking, do you think that you will be chosen, don't be stupid, girl, how can it be so easy, don't you see Amma's situation?" Even if the palace is to avoid suspicion, they will not choose the girl of our family, don't think nonsense. ”

Yuan Xi smiled and said with a bit of innocence: "That's not necessarily, in case it's because I'm beautiful." ”

Although a long time has passed since the original incident, whether it was a chance encounter on the street or being ignored in the palace, Tong Guogang suddenly discovered at this time that at that time, the young emperor had already broken into his sister's heart, and even glanced at it for ten thousand years?

The next morning, Tong Guogang stood behind the ministers, looked up at the emperor above, and recalled his sister's smile last night.

Although he has not yet enlightened and does not understand the relationship between children and daughters, he also understands to some extent that whoever moves his heart first must be the one who will suffer in the future.