I think that today, there are almost few people in the entire Xichuan who can directly call out this name, and I just called his name directly as soon as we met.

However, Aunt Hong has always known my temper, and it is not uncommon, even Li Guo was not too surprised, but said to me respectfully: "The head of the family knows that the eldest lady has entered the city today, so let's come here to greet the eldest lady first." ”

"He didn't come?"

"Nope."

"Where is he?"

"This, the villain doesn't know."

My brow suddenly twisted into a pimple: "What about my daughter?!" ”

Li Guo bent down and bowed his head, and said respectfully: "The villain came here to greet the eldest lady on the order of the head of the family, and the villain doesn't know anything else." ”

I looked back at Aunt Hong, and she shook her head at me blankly.

I frowned.

I have already entered Chengdu City, Yan Qingchen still uses this method to perfunctory me, is it a little bit poor in donkey skills?

As soon as he saw me frowning, the people around him were breathing tightly, as if they were afraid that I was going to get angry, but Pei Yuanxiu behind him stretched out his hand and gently touched my shoulder, the gentle strength and warm body temperature calmed the frizziness in my heart a little, and when I looked back at him, he shook his head at me gently.

It's already here, and it really doesn't have to.

He's still calmer than I am. I nodded slightly, my expression softened, and everyone around me breathed a sigh of relief.

I asked, "When can I see Yan Qingchen?" ”

"If you go back to the eldest lady, the head of the family will arrange for the eldest lady to rest and recuperate here first, and when she returns home tomorrow, the head of the house will also arrange some people to pick up the wind and wash the dust for the eldest lady."

……

Arranged for some people?

Of course, I know that when I return to Xichuan this time, I must have attracted a lot of attention, and many people want to see me. It's just that how Yan Qingchen wants to deal with himself, has he figured it out?

Seeing that I didn't refuse, Li Guo took a step back and raised his hand towards Sister Gui Tower: "Miss, please." ”

I didn't say anything more, and entered the Sister Gui Pagoda with Pei Yuanxiu.

Although it is a tower, there is actually a pavilion inside, especially when I stepped into the threshold and saw the surrounding qiē was still very familiar, as if the original Hongyan Building was embedded in this tower.

The carved fence and jade masonry should still be there.

It's just that Zhu Yan changed.

I raised my head and looked at the exquisite carved beams and gorgeous furnishings, and for a while people were in a trance, as if they were walking into the Hongyan Building that was like a heavenly palace for the first time......

It was an early morning filled with a faint mist, my eyes were swollen from crying, I couldn't see anything clearly, only vaguely saw the exquisite pavilions, like the heavenly palace, and the girls wearing red and green around were like Penglai fairies, all of them had the appearance of a country and a city.

I can't remember their faces a little.

I just remember their expressions, they were all cold, and the eyes that looked at me were also cold.

At this time, Pei Yuanxiu clenched my hand.

The warmth from his palm woke me up all at once, and my back was covered in cold sweat, but the power that came from his hand finally kept me from falling into that nightmare memory.

He whispered softly in my ear, "What's wrong with you?" Your face is ugly. ”

"No, it's fine."

Just as he spoke, Li Guo and Aunt Hong had already walked in, followed by a team of petite and beautiful maids, and they didn't know where so many people suddenly appeared, and they didn't even hear the sound of footsteps when they walked, so they came forward to serve me and Pei Yuanxiu respectively to go down to clean.

I was taken by a couple of maids to a small room with a small bath, just big enough for one person to bathe in. In the warm steam, I took off my clothes and walked slowly, stepping barefoot on the snow-white marble slab, the slight coolness and the heat in the steam made people sweat all over, I walked down, soaked my body in the snow-white bath, only to find that it was milk mixed with traditional Chinese medicine, not too hot temperature, but it can make people feel the most comfortable.

At this time, Aunt Hong also walked in, glanced at the few maids around who were holding clothes, shoes and socks and gold plates filled with flower petals, and waved her hand: "Go down, I will serve here for the eldest lady." ”

"Yes."

A few maids said yes and went down.

Aunt Hong walked behind me and carefully knelt beside me, a pair of gentle but powerful hands reached over and gently helped me knead my somewhat stiff shoulders.

My spirit was tense all the way, in fact, it is still the same, I did not relax, but I was just in a trance.

This qiē is like a memory of another life, and it appears so clearly in the dream of this life, which makes people both familiar and strange.

I muttered, "Aunt Hong, when I was a child, you took me to bathe like this, right?" ”

Aunt Hong seemed to laugh, but the laughter was like crying, and after a pause, she heard her crying voice: "At that time, how could the eldest lady be so big and not so thin." ”

"Yes......"

"At that time, the eldest lady was chubby, like a jade doll."

I chuckled: "When people grow up, they always have to smoke seedlings, so they naturally have to be thinner." ”

"But the eldest lady has suffered a lot to be like this."

"Are people meant to endure hardship?"

"The eldest lady shouldn't be!"

Hearing her stubborn words almost paranoid reminded me of Uncle Ai's words, "The son of a daughter can't sit down." It seems that in their eyes, no matter how time changes and how the surrounding environment changes, I seem to be the one who enjoys the glory of the world and gets the most favor.

But how can it be as good as it gets?

Thinking of this, I turned sideways, stroked the back of Hongyi's hand with my wet hand, and said softly: "Aunt Hong, don't be like this, I'm not sad." ”

Hearing me say this, Aunt Hong was so angry that her hands trembled, and she struggled for a long time before she gritted her teeth and said, "You, how can you talk to the eldest lady, one character!" ”

"She's my mother."

By this point, my voice was already a little choked, and a drop of hot water had landed on my shoulder.

When she looked back, Aunt Hong started crying again.

This time, I didn't say anything more to comfort her, just looked at her calmly in the steaming room, and fell silent.

When I mentioned my mother, I just felt that there were too many words, almost a thousand words to say, and too many questions to ask, but I seemed to be afraid of homesickness, and I didn't know how to ask or where to ask for a while.

I was silent for a while before I said, "How did my mother die?" ”

As soon as the words came out, although I was still soaked in the warm bath soup, although the room was filled with warm steam, a chill rose from the bottom of my heart, not only me, but even Aunt Hong, who was holding my shoulder, trembled.

I slowly turned around in the bath, the white and delicate bath soup brushed my skin, obviously it was very comfortable to iron, but at this moment there was an illusion like a knife. I looked at Aunt Hong's pale face for a moment, and her eyes became solemn.

"At that time, I was on my way back when I got the news from you."

"Yes. It was I who sent the news to the eldest lady that the lady had passed away. ”

"But you didn't make it clear, how and when my mother died, you didn't say, you just asked me not to go back to Xichuan."

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because, I don't know."

Aunt Hong looked at me, and there was a hint of depression in her expression: "Since the eldest lady left the head of the family and moved to Xishan, we have become a thorn in the side of the second lady. However, fortunately, the eldest lady made comprehensive arrangements before leaving, and that woman has not been able to move us all these years. But we were completely excluded from the center of the main house, and in the years after the eldest lady took you away, I hardly saw the head of the house. ”

I fell silent.

Before my mother took me out of the Yan family......

At that time, I was young, and I didn't even remember much, but I vaguely remembered that many people came to see her every day. And now I also understand that the Yan family is alone in Xichuan, and its influence has penetrated into everyone from all aspects of Shinong industry and commerce, which are intertwined and complicated, and the restraint between people is more complex than any relationship network.

Among them, there are a large number of people who were hand-picked by their mothers, and their mothers had made comprehensive arrangements for these people before they lost power, and this arrangement was even so comprehensive that after so many years, they could still live in their positions, and Aunt Hong's status could still be on par with a big housekeeper like Li Guo.

However, because of this, they completely stood on the opposite side of the woman.

"I just remember that when the young lady left, it was winter."

"Yes."

Because the selection of women is carried out in the spring, Xichuan is far away from the capital, and must be on the road several months in advance.

"It snowed that year in Xishan, which was rare."

"Yes."

That year, the heavy snow in the West Mountain is a rare sight in Shu for a hundred years, the goose feather snow falling from the sky will decorate the whole world to be white and flawless, look at it, the mountains and fields are white, the scenery of such pink makeup and jade makes people almost forget the filth of the world, as if a qiē filth is covered by the white snow, and it disappears.

"We were all strictly ordered by the eldest lady not to get close to the West Mountain, so we can't see you, so we can only stand on the mountain far away to see off the eldest lady."

"Thank you for your hard work."

"It's not bitter."

Aunt Hong shook her head, and the heat around her did not make her pale face red, but even paler: "I was very reluctant to watch the eldest lady grow up since I was a child, so after they all left, I stayed on the mountain for another day, looking at the place where the lady and the young lady lived, and watching the road where the young lady left, even if it was good to look at it more." ”

“……”

"But, the next day," said her face with a look of almost trepidation, and said in a hoarse voice, "I saw white flags rising everywhere on the western mountain......