Just when she was distracted and speechless, there was a sound of horses' hooves in front of her, and when she looked back, she saw that she had run back from her horse.

From afar, she waved at me and shouted, "Mother! ”

I looked at her hand as if there was something red, very dazzling in the air, and a warm smile appeared on her face, and I watched her keep riding her horse in front of me, and stopped with a rein, and her face was already covered with a thin layer of sweat and some dust, but it looked more healthy and ruddy.

She held a cluster of small red flowers in her hand and sent it to me: "Mother, I just saw it by the river, give it to you." ”

The little flower was still dewy and fragrant. I took it in surprise and smiled so much that my eyes were crooked: "Li'er is so good." ”

She also smiled, and suddenly saw Han Zitong behind me, so she said, "Aunt Zitong, you are also here, are you chatting with my mother?" I didn't even see you. ”

Han Zitong seemed to have come back to his senses at this time, and reluctantly made a smile: "Li'er." ”

"I didn't know that Aunt Zitong was here just now, so I only picked a bouquet of flowers. Wait a minute, Aunt Zitong, I'll pick you another bunch. ”

After saying that, the girl turned her horse's head again and ran forward.

I originally wanted to tell her that she had run for so long to take a break, but seeing that she was still happy, and she was going to pick flowers for Han Zitong, it was not easy to stop her, so I just chased after her and told her to be careful, and waited for the girl to run away again, before I turned around, but I saw Han Zitong looking at me blankly, and the anger on her face seemed to subside a little.

Come to think of it, the filthiness between adults still has to avoid children, and they are unwilling to let those clear eyes see the filth of the world.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile and walked over to her.

She immediately frowned, as if she saw some poisonous snake and beast approaching her, and said in disgust, "What are you doing here?" ”

Looking at her appearance, I couldn't help but smile bitterly - in my life, some people hate me and some people are afraid of me, but she seems to be the first person to dislike me so obviously. Still, I didn't dislike her, even if she was indiscriminate, even though I almost died at her hands that night.

So, he laughed and said, "Li'er's equestrian skills are so good, who taught him, and he ran away all of a sudden." ”

Han Zitong raised his head and looked at the wide grassland that seemed to have no bounds, his eyes were a little dazed, and he muttered for a while: "Equestrian is good...... What about good equestrianism? No matter how far you run, it's also in this wall. ”

I was stunned for a moment, and before I could speak, she suddenly turned her head to look at me: "I heard that your friend came to the house a while ago, and there is a person who will fly around like a bird, right?" ”

“…… Right. ”

"What's your name?"

"Ye Fei."

"Leaf ...... Fly ......" she muttered the name, and suddenly there were several loud chirps overhead, and when she looked up, she saw several geese flying past. Han Zitong watched those geese flutter their wings and fly high, slowly flying away, and finally getting smaller and smaller, turning into tiny dust in the sky, she muttered: "Fly...... If you can fly, it's almost the same, like these birds, no matter how high the wall is. ”

I glanced back at her.

Her eyes looked a little dazed, although this woman was so aggressive when she first appeared, killing people without blinking, but now her expression made me feel that she seemed to be more fragile than her frail and sickly sister.

"Miss Zitong?"

I subconsciously called her, Han Zitong suddenly came back to his senses and glanced at me, his face was gloomy, he didn't say anything, turned around and left.

I stood there and looked at her back in the distance, a little stunned for a moment.

The look in her eyes that just looked at the sky, so dazed, so lonely, made me feel very familiar, but when I thought about it carefully, I couldn't remember where I had seen it, but I felt that it made people feel sad.

After a long time, I realized that her eyes at that time were exactly the same as when I was in the palace and looked at the surrounding palace walls.

It's just that it's not the visible wall that traps her.

When Li'er ran back after a while, Han Zitong had already left the racecourse, and the little girl was holding a handful of red and bright flowers in her hand, but she pouted in frustration: "I went to pick it specially." ”

I smiled and said, "Your Aunt Zitong is in a hurry to go back." ”

"Oh......"

"Come on." I walked up and picked her up from the foal, the child ran a few laps, panting, sweat on his forehead, I took a handkerchief and gently wiped her clean, and said with a smile, "Tired, aren't you?" ”

"Haha, not tired." She said and looked at me excitedly: "Mother saw it, I rode a horse very well, right?" ”

"Well, that's good."

I really didn't expect that she was really good at riding, although she was just a short foal, but it was really not easy for such a small girl to be able to control it. I heard that she was also in poor health when she was a child, and I was worried for a while, but now that I see her so healthy, so happy, and even so smart and capable, I just feel so happy that I feel like I have fallen into honey, and I am so sweet that I can't speak.

Just when I was sweet with her, a person hurried over to the other side of the mansion, and I recognized it at a glance, it was Butu.

Shouldn't he go with Pei Yuanxiu to do something, what are you doing here?

I was puzzled, but when I saw that Butu saw us, he immediately ran over, and when he ran in front of me, he saluted respectfully: "Mrs. Qingying, Miss Li." ”

I smiled and nodded at him, "Butu, long time no see, what's the matter?" ”

"Childe asks Madame to go to the front hall for a while."

"Childe?"

I became more and more confused, what did Pei Yuanxiu ask me to do in the front hall? He asked, "If he has something to say, he can tell me at any time." ”

Butu's expression was a little solemn, he glanced at Li'er, and smiled reluctantly: "Probably some important things." ”

I faintly felt something, and the li'er in my arms was still blinking and looking at me with big eyes, and suddenly said at this time: "Mother, I want to go too." ”

"Uh-" Before I could say anything, Butu had already laughed and said, "It's been so long since Miss Li, it's time to go back and rest, ouch, this body is sweaty, there will be a smell of sweat later." Miss Li, Childe doesn't like the smell of sweat on people the most. ”

When Li'er heard this, he also raised his arm and sniffed it, and immediately said in a panic: "I want to go back and wash!" ”

Butu beckoned, and two maids walked over next to him, and carefully picked up Li'er. At this time, I also understood, whispered a few words to Li'er, and watched her obediently follow the two maids away, so I turned around to look at Butu, and he said cautiously: "Mrs. Qingying, please." ”

I nodded and followed him forward. After leaving the racecourse, we entered the garden of the mansion, and it was a bright spring day, and a few attendants passed by, and they also stopped and saluted us in a proper manner. Although Butu appeared for only a moment, I can vaguely feel that his status by Pei Yuanxiu's side is not low, and he does not often appear in the mansion, so he is obviously not a housekeeper-type character, so what is the important thing for him to invite me?

As I walked, I said, "What is the important thing, you should also sue me, right?" ”

Butu followed me about half a pace, hesitated, and said, "There's a guest." ”

"Guest?" Could it be that this morning, Butu said to Pei Yuanxiu at the gate of the inner courtyard, some people are coming here, are they those guests? But the guests who came here were naturally Pei Yuanxiu's guests, why did they call me?

"Where are you from?"

"Visitors from Nishikawa."

“……！”

As if I had been struck by lightning suddenly, my back froze, and I looked back at him in disbelief: "Where is the guest?" ”

"Nishikawa."

“…… Nishikawa. ”

I repeated these two words in my mutter, and suddenly I felt that the blood in my whole body was solidified, and my limbs were cold, and it took me a long time to come back to my senses.

Visitors from Xichuan?

Nishikawa?!

These days, it's not that I haven't thought about that place, on the contrary, because Shen Xiaokun told me that it was a person with a Shu accent who wanted to rob Li'er, which made my heart more dignified, I knew that there was no break between me and Xichuan, even if I couldn't draw a clear line with death as the boundary at the beginning, not to mention that now, I am surrounded by Pei Yuanxiu and Yao Lao, and the current situation has become a three-legged stand, and Xichuan and I will meet again one day sooner or later.

But I didn't expect this day to come so quickly.

And-

I raised my somewhat pale face and looked at Buttu: "Who is Xichuan, why do you have to see me?" ”

Butu hesitated for a moment, did not answer, but said in a deep voice: "The guest is in the front hall, and Madame will know as soon as she goes." ”

“……”

I took a deep breath and turned and walked towards the antechamber.

Along the way, I walked in a hurry, although I did not fall, but I knew very well that my steps were completely disordered, the same as my heartbeat, chaotic, even my breathing was chaotic, when I walked through the corridor, the front hall was in front of me, and several maids were withdrawing from it, and when they saw me, they immediately leaned over and saluted: "Mrs. Qingying." ”

I didn't have the heart to say anything to them, so I nodded hastily and walked forward slowly.

Reaching out to open the curtain, a qiē in the front hall came into view.

On the other side of the slightly swaying bead curtain, I saw Pei Yuanxiu's back, and on his lower hand, a straight figure sat there, the sun shone in from outside the door, clearly outlining his outline, looking young and handsome, with a broad forehead, a straight nose, and lightly pursed lips.

A qiē is so familiar.

The hand holding the bead curtain trembled slightly, and the bead curtain immediately scattered, and there was a messy noise from the collision, and as soon as they heard this sound, the people in the front hall turned their heads.

That familiar, young face appeared in front of my eyes.