On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, at noon, Xiao Cong got off the ya, sat on his shoulder and returned to Chenghe Courtyard, and Shen Qingyi used the day eclipse together, and got up after a quarter of an hour of lunch break, someone came to Shenghua Courtyard, saying that the princess asked him to go over.

Xiao Cong changed his clothes and went to Shenghua Courtyard on his shoulders.

Shenghua Courtyard is the living courtyard of Princess Anping, built high and wide, splendid, the color of red, green and golden is very eye-catching, but it contains elegance in this splendid and rich.

There is a plum garden in the backyard, and there is a three-sided interstitial couch in the plum fragrance pavilion, and Princess Anping is leaning on the hidden sac, drinking tea and listening to music.

The sound of the piano in the pavilion is like the song of the warbler in spring and March, tactfully turning the plum fragrance and softening the winter snow.

Lang Jun, who plays the piano, is twenty-six or seven, with beautiful eyebrows and red lips, and a pair of eyes that are full of affection, it is the princess's little attendant Han Sanqing, who has been following the princess for ten years.

"Sanqing's piano is getting better and better." Princess Anping casually handed the teacup to the maid on the side, and praised with a smile.

She was wearing a big red satin mink in the crane in the coat, the placket was open, revealing the big red ground treasure flower brocade jacket and the big red ground wrapped in the peony tuanhua skirt, the half-turned bun of the head was inserted with a red gold phoenix that was about to fly, the phoenix mouth beads, it was a bright and transparent South China Sea ruby, and the Hao wrist exposed when handing the tea cup also wore a string of red musk beads, and the bright color of the red body seemed to burn the heavens and the earth, which made people's hearts burst out of fire.

Han Sanqing's fine porcelain-like skin seemed to be roasted red by this fiery red, and his mellow voice seemed to be warm, and he smiled affectionately: "This is because of my intentions." ”

Princess Anping laughed "chuckled", and was about to laugh a few words smoothly, when she saw Xiao Cong coming from the corridor and changed her words: "Sanqing, I'll talk to Shiro." ”

"Okay." Han Sanqing retreated with the qin in his arms, and when he passed by Xiao Cong's side, he gave way to the side and saluted, "Shizi." ”

Xiao Cong nodded, walked towards Meiting, saw his mother dressed in a luxurious red color, and her elegant eyebrows and eyes also overflowed with a layer of warmth, with a smile on her face, she stepped forward and saluted: "Mother." ”

The maid served two cups of tea.

Princess Anping waved her hand and withdrew the four maids, half-leaned on the couch, and shouted: "Xiao Suizhi." ”

As soon as Xiao Cong heard his mother call him with his surname, his face immediately became solemn, "What does my mother command?" ”

"Do you like Xiao Yan?" Princess Anping never speaks in circles and goes straight to the point.

Xiao Cong sighed in her heart, although her mother was too lazy to care about her father's concubines, it didn't mean that she was very kind to the children born to her father's other women. The news of Chengheyuan has never been leaked, but he knows that he can't hide it from his father and mother, and it is not strange for his mother to know that Ah Yan is coming and going to Chengheyuan.

His mind was in a flash, and his expression was respectful and a little affectionate: "Mother, you will definitely like it when you see Seventeen." The seventeenth brother is like ......" He glanced at the ruby on his mother's head, and smiled slightly, "Just like this ruby, crystal clear." ”

"Crystal clear?" Princess Anping raised her eyebrows, "Tell me, what are her good things that make you so interested?" ”

Xiao Cong smiled warmly, and picked up some things about Xiao Yan, diligent, intelligent, pure, and childish......

Princess Anping picked up the tea cup, the tea soup was already cold, but she took a big sip, letting the cool tea soup fall into her stomach, as if to cool down the dryness and depression surging in her heart.

Xiao Cong stepped forward and took the teacup in his mother's hand, frowned when his fingers touched the coolness, put it on the table next to him, lifted the warm red tangled branch flower teapot on the smoker cage, poured a cup of tea in the other empty cup, put it in the saucer, and gave it to his mother.

Princess Anping took the saucer, glanced at her son, sighed lightly, and softened her tone, "Ah Cong, Xiao Yan, she is ......" Suddenly paused again, suddenly put the tea cup on the couch, put on the couch and got up, took a few steps in the pavilion, and flicked her sleeves, "Okay, tomorrow, take her to Shenghua Courtyard." ”

Xiao Cong was suddenly surprised, and said in disbelief: "Mother? ”

Princess Anping snorted, flicked her sleeves and left, the wooden bottom of the silk clogs creaking on the corridor.

The four maids followed silently behind the master.

Xiao Cong looked at the back of his mother's red clothes and laughed softly.

***

In the early morning of the next day, it snowed again.

Xiao Yan practiced quenching boxing in the snow and practiced knives after eating.

What she practiced was not the horizontal sword fighting technique, but the Five Elements Sword Technique that Shang Qi passed on to her.

After she learned the Dou Zhuan Xing Movement Footwork Method with Xiao Chengzhong, she found that it was more flexible to practice the starting method with this set of Five Elements Sword Technique, so she took turns to practice these two knife techniques, and under the mutual confirmation, there were benefits.

After the eclipse, the light snow particles stopped, and the snow did not stop on the ground, and the snow melted and became wet. Xiao Yan wore black leather boots with wooden soles, stepped on the vine wall with both feet, jumped on the wall easily, stepped on tiptoe, and fell down the white wall two feet and five feet high in a very elegant manner, and the wooden bottom only made a slight sound when it landed.

Under the tree outside the courtyard wall, Xiao Chengzhong's posture was like a cypress, and his eyes flashed with surprise, "Seventeen Langjun's skills are getting lighter and faster." ”

"It's a teacher who teaches well." Xiao Yan smiled and raised his hand to wave it at him.

Xiao Chengzhong turned sideways in disdain, "This is Seventeen Lang Jun's heavenly appearance." But I was very happy.

The two of them went to Chenghe Courtyard one after the other.

Entering the study, Xiao Cong's elegant eyebrows and eyes showed joy when he saw her.

"Brother." Xiao Yan stepped forward and saluted.

"Ayan." Xiao Cong smiled and pressed her shoulder, his eyes swept over the thin kudzu short brown on her body, and said with a smile, "Go and change into a big-sleeved suit, Grandma wants to see you." ”

Xiao Yan was startled, stunned, and found his voice for a while, "Brother, you mean...... "Your mother, the princess wants to see me?"

"Yes." Xiao Cong smiled, "Go and change your clothes." ”

Xiao Yan had a change of clothes in the bedroom here, she took off her fine kudzu shirt and pants, changed into a sapphire blue right-sided collared large-sleeved shirt, and looked a little stunned when she went out of the room, and her heart was inexplicably tense, until she went downstairs with her brother and was blown by the snow wind outside wrapped in snow particles, and she woke up. She stretched out her hand to take the umbrella in Xiao Chengyi's hand and held it herself, walked next to her brother's shoulder, silently reciting the Taishang Jade Qing Sutra all the way, and when she arrived at Shenghua Temple, her heart had calmed down.

The maid led them to the Lotus Lake Water Pavilion.

The lotus lake in winter has frozen, the withered lotus leaves and the yellow drooping lotus canopy are clustered one by one, there is no green and fresh lotus leaf field in spring and summer, only the yellow and white Xiao Suo in the haze and snow, but with that golden and red and luxurious figure, it is like the vitality in the dry brushstrokes, becoming bright.

She alone opened up the sky.

Xiao Yan couldn't help but breathe.

This is the mother of the fourth brother?

and her mother, two completely different people, but the same, touching.

The sound of footsteps on the snow.

Princess Anping turned around and looked over, and her gorgeous and bright eyes looked at Xiao Yan's pure black crystal eyes from a distance.

Xiao Yan breathed again.

"Ah Yan, go ahead. Mother only sees you. Xiao Cong sat on his shoulder and leaned over slightly and patted her on the shoulder.

Xiao Yan said "um", handed the umbrella to Xiao Chengyi, and walked towards the water pavilion with snowflakes.

Princess Anping waved her hand, and the two maids closed the open window of the water pavilion.

The water pavilion was quiet, and the four maids stood in the four corners with their eyebrows down.

Xiao Yan raised his hand to take off his mask.

Princess Anping's eyes were a little complicated, staring at her delicate and flawless face, and she didn't look away for a long time.

Xiao Yan breathed softly, and her dark and pure eyes stared at the princess up close, and those gorgeous eyes made her feel inexplicably kind

, I really wanted to touch it, she thought so, and did it.

When her calloused fingers landed on her long-eyelashed eyes, she suddenly came to her senses, stunned and blushing.

Princess Anping laughed, raised her hand to hold her retracted hand, and her slender fingers rubbed over the thin cocoons on her tiger mouth and fingertips, "Practicing knives?" Her voice is like Rui Aya Palace's brocade, gorgeous and beautiful, and like cheese, smooth and mellow.

Xiao Yan couldn't help but hum and said, "I practiced at the age of four." ”

She looked at the princess with her eyes, there was a quality in this woman that attracted her, made her want to get closer, and this thought made her feel guilty, as if she had betrayed her mother, and she couldn't help but break free and take a step back.

Princess Anping stared at her face, and her straight gaze made Xiao Yan a little unbearable, and lowered her eyes slightly.

That gaze was complicated...... Xiao Yan couldn't say it, it was as if several feelings were mixed together, but it made people unable to distinguish what kind of feelings they were.

Princess Anping looked at her for a long time and said, "I have a grudge against your mother. ”

Xiao Yan raised his eyes.

Princess Anping said coldly: "I wanted to beat her for a long time!" Mother debt repayment, do you choose to slap your face, or spank? ”

Xiao Yan was stunned, her mind was in chaos, the princess had a grudge against her mother? Does the princess know her mother?

Her voice was sneering, "You...... Know my mother? ”

"I don't know!" What Princess Anping said was categorical.

Xiao Yan was confused.

"Come here!" Princess Anping raised her eyebrows and rolled up her sleeves.

Xiao Yan approached, his voice a little weak, "The slap in the face will be seen." ”

"Lying on your stomach."

"Oh." Xiao Yan honestly leaned on the pot door couch where Princess Anping was sitting.

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ……”

The corners of the mouths of the four personal maids twitched at the same time, and their eyes were fixed on their toes, motionless.

Princess Anping shook her hand after seven or eight hits.

Xiao Yan waited for a while and didn't see the slap fall, turned his face sideways, and looked at the princess with puzzled eyes: Don't fight?

Princess Anping snorted coldly, "My hand hurts." ”

Xiao Yan said very intimately: "I want to temper my body when I practice martial arts, you don't have much strength...... Why don't you hit it with a ruler? ”

"......" Princess Anping's mouth twitched, did she want to praise this child for his sincerity?

But thinking of this child's bastard mother, Princess Anping became angry again, clenched her fist and slapped Xiao Yan's ass a few times.

Xiao Yan felt that the strength of this idea was similar to that of itching, and wondered if he should hum twice in response to the situation, so as to save the princess from being unhappy, so he called "ouch, ouch".

The four maids hung their heads and smiled.

Princess Anping poked the back of her neck in anger, and raised her hand to slap the back of her head, "Owe it, hit it with a ruler next time!" ”

Xiao Yan let out an "oh", sat up, and thought: Next time, call a little more seriously.

Princess Anping looked at her with cold eyebrows, "Still not salute?" ”

A maid took a brocade cushion and placed it in front of the couch where Anping was sitting fairly.

Xiao Yan got up and knelt down on the brocade mat and kowtowed. According to the etiquette, the children should call their mother-in-law "mother", but Xiao Yan couldn't call it, hesitated in his heart, and shouted: "Princess." ”

Princess Anping raised her eyebrows, and kicked her with her right foot wearing gold-threaded treasure socks, "Princess? Then he kicked her again, "Your father finally ...... I'm going to give you a lift. She raised an eyebrow, "In the family tree, you are recorded in my name, my son." ”

Xiao Yan looked up with an "ah", and the look on his face was "Ah? Yes! Yes? "Add a long string of "......"

Princess Anping was happy when she saw her expression.

Xiao Yan's head boomed for a while, shook his head violently, and said, "No! I have a mother! "She is the daughter of her mother, and no one can replace her mother.

Princess Anping kicked her again, "It's not up to you to decide this." You go back and ask Shang Qing, will she go to the Xiao family's genealogy? She squinted her eyebrows, then raised her foot and kicked her twice, "Okay, get out." ”

Xiao Yan walked out of the water pavilion in a daze.

Princess Anping rode on her shoulder, a maid with a red Luo umbrella in the back, hula walked past her surrounded by a group of servants and maids outside the water pavilion, and when she passed the side of the road where Xiao Cong's shoulder was parked, she waved her hand to her son, "Okay, take Seventeen back." ”

"Yes, Mother."

Xiao Cong watched his mother leave in a majestic manner.

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