At noon, the feast ended.

Everyone got up to send Mrs. Tai off the table, and then went out of the Ming Hall in order of seniority, and returned to the house with the support of the servants and maids. Most of the ladies in charge of the family have returned, because there is still their own New Year's Eve banquet (Chinese New Year's Eve dinner) to prepare in the evening, although various affairs have already been arranged, but the main mother still has to sit at home. Most of the uncles and uncles went to Rui Si Tang to drink tea, talk, play chess, and play leaf cards. The younger generation has their own play, some of them have their own play, some of them go to Xiao Zhang's Junde Academy, some of them change their arrow sleeve clothes and go to the racecourse to bow under Xiao Yu's shouting, and some of them go to the Yanwutang next to the racecourse to fight, including a few aggressive ladies. Of course, most of the ladies are not interested in running horses in the cold wind of Wuganjia or Layue, or they meet to change into Hu clothes and ride horses to visit the market, or follow Xiao Ke to enjoy the scenery in the Quncui Garden of the Guogong Mansion, or go to Rui Yan Zhai in Xiao Se to talk about poetry and fu, or be accompanied by Shen Qingyi, play wood shooting in the warm pavilion of Quncui Garden, or listen to the rap of the servants in the pear sound hall of Quncui Garden with Princess Anping.

Xiao Yan returned to Chenghe Courtyard with his brother, and there were seventeen or eighteen cousins along the way, gathering in the hall in the front yard to talk, playing with hidden hooks and shooting, and the loser was punished for drinking. Just as the fun was rising, Princess Anping's maid Zangxiang came over and said that the princess asked Seventeen Langjun to go to Liyin Hall to listen and rap, and by the way, he met the cousins.

Xiao Jun, the fifth cousin who played the Tibetan hook in the same group as Xiao Yan, asked, "What will this say?" ”

Zangxiang replied: "When the maid came out, she was talking about "The Biography of Wenjun". ”

"Oops!" Ninth cousin Xiao Ying exhaled, "Seventeen, you walk slowly on the road, so that you can only go in after the "Biography of Wenjun" is finished, so as not to be dragged by your cousins, 'Don't be Sima Changqing!'" Apparently he has suffered.

All the cousins laughed.

"The Biography of Wenjun" tells the story of Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru who are talented and beautiful people who love each other, and was later adapted by Xue Lan, a talented girl in Chang'an Qiyiju, who compiled this love story into a warning parable, and scolded Sima Xiangru and criticized him as "talented and ungrateful", and he can't afford the song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", and he can't afford Zhuo Wenjun's "I want to be a single-minded person, and my head is not separated", after this rap became popular, Sima Xiangru fell from a "talented and beautiful woman" to an "ungrateful" Bo Xinglang, Become one of the talented people of the Tang Dynasty.

Xiao Yan responded twice with a smile, saluted and retired with his cousins, and left Chenghe Courtyard with Zangxiang and went to the West Garden.

Quncui Garden is the scenic lake and mountain forest garden of Guogong Mansion, located on the west road of Guogong Mansion, and Chenghe Courtyard is on East Road, and the two are quite far apart. Tibetan incense should have practiced martial arts, the steps under the turquoise Luo skirt were fast, and the two of them walked all the way, faster than sitting on the shoulders in the house, and arrived at Quncuiyuan in a quarter of an hour. After entering the garden, go east along Yonglu to Liyin Hall, but instead of going in directly, go around to the east corridor of the hall, where there is a row of cloister pavilions hidden in the pines and cypresses, which is a resting place for guests to watch acrobatics and listen to rap when they are tired.

Zangxiang led her to a pavilion in the far north, and said, "The young lady is inside." ”

Xiao Yan raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Tibetan incense knocks lightly.

Qinghui opened the door, Xiao Yan entered, and sat in the barrier to take off his shoes.

Walking out of the screen, I saw Shen Qingyi sitting on the flower and bird interstitial couch and looking at her with a smile.

"Sister." She took off her mask and handed it to Qinghui, and stepped forward happily, "Why are you here?" "Didn't you accompany those cousins and sisters-in-law to shoot wood?

Shen Qingyi looked at the sores on her face and smiled, "Come and get the sores for you." Look, three sores will trample on a beautiful man. ”

Qinghui and Chi Peony all burst out laughing, and they secretly obeyed the young lady's stunt in their hearts, and they were also faintly afraid.

Xiao Yan couldn't bear to touch his face, and wondered, "Is this going to be taken off?" "In the evening, there is also a family banquet in the house.

Shen Qingyi explained: "Mother said that I will take you to meet Mrs. Tai in a while. - If you don't order it at night, in the Guogong Mansion, no one must force you to take off the mask. It's better to take it early, so as not to leave the toxin on the face and hurt the skin. ”

Xiao Yan snorted and walked to the copper basin held by Qinghui. According to Shen Qingyi's instructions, Chi Peony took out a round-bellied porcelain bottle with ink plum engraved from the small box, and pulled out the . Out of the plug dropped five drops into the basin, soaked the white towel into the basin, kneaded most of the water and handed it to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan wiped her face a few times, but the sores were very firm, she shrugged her eyebrows, and wiped them a few more times, the red and glamorous sores were rubbed more red by her a few times, and even the surrounding skin was rubbed red by her.

Chi Shao couldn't help but sigh in a low voice, "Seventeen Langjun don't try too hard. ”

Xiao Yan sighed.

Shen Qingyi couldn't help but laugh, and said: "This red sore is coagulated with medicinal gel, sticking to the skin in that place, rubbing it like you, carefully tear off a piece of your skin." Like this, press on the side of the sore, gently wipe it in a circle, wipe it a few more times, and after the medicinal glue is integrated into the potion, it will gradually fall off softly. She gestured as she spoke, and was about to tell Chi Shao to take the towel and wipe it, but when she saw her looking at Xiao Yan's eyes with great concern, the command paused in her throat, and beckoned: "Ah Yan, come here." ”

Xiao Yan approached her.

Shen Qingyi took the face towel in her hand, got up from the couch, leaned over slightly, and wiped her personally.

Xiao Yan felt the white face towel gently pressed on his face, gently swirling from his fingertips, as gentle as his mother's hand...... No, it feels tenderer than a mother's hand.

Separated so closely, she could smell the faint fragrance on Shen Qingyi's body, not the cold fragrance of white plum, but a faint fragrance, very similar to the fragrance on her mother's body, with two points of clear and mysterious, which made people want to explore clearly...... She couldn't help but take a half-step forward and move closer.

Shen Qingyi's gesture stopped slightly, and raised his eyes to meet her crystal clear eyes, which were pure attachment and joy, innocent and innocent, just like a child's admiration for his mother.

Shen Qingyi's heart suddenly softened in an instant, she thought of her mother, and her eyes unconsciously became gentle, like the spring water under the sun, glowing with soft and warm waves.

Xiao Yan couldn't help but be stunned.

She felt that Shen Qingyi looked better than when she was smiling.

Shen Qingyi's movements were very gentle, Xiao Yan was immersed in her soft and warm gaze, and before she knew it, the three sores had been wiped off, restoring her flawless appearance.

Shen Qingyi laughed: "Mrs. Tai must be overjoyed to see you, a jade-faced flower." ”

Xiao Yan scratched his face a little embarrassed, and was slapped by Shen Qingyi, "It's a little itchy just now, don't scratch it." He took another hot towel with mint from Chi Shao's hand, wiped the sores on her face a few times, and asked softly, "Is it still itchy?" Xiao Yan only felt that his face was very comfortable, and shook his head with a smile, "It's not itchy." ”

Shen Qingyi beckoned Qinghui to take the washed mask, put it on her with his own hands, tied the silver frenulum around her ear and under her chin, and said softly: "Go with the Tibetan incense." ”

"Sister, what about you?" Xiao Yan's eyes were a little attached.

"I'm going to be here for a short time, and I'm going to have to get back to the warm pavilion over there." She came here on time.

Xiao Yan frowned and said, "Then I'll go first." He saluted Shen Qingyi, wore aconitum and went out, walked out of the porch with Tibetan incense, and entered the Liyin Hall along the connected corridor.

"The Biography of Wen Jun" has come to an end, and when Xiao Yan came in, he attracted the attention of uncles, grandmothers, sisters-in-law, and cousins in the hall from the east, west, and north. She stabilized her mind, followed the Tibetan incense calmly, entered the north hall from the corridor, and stepped forward to salute Princess Anping: "Ah Yan has seen her mother. ”

Princess Anping was leaning on the pot door couch, and on her left and right sat several richly dressed sixty women.

"This is your third uncle and grandmother, the eldest uncle and grandmother......"

The third uncle and grandmother are the grandmothers of the two branches and the three rooms, the eldest uncle and grandmother are the grandmothers of the three long houses, and the uncles and grandmothers of the four and five branches.

Xiao Yan stepped forward one by one and saluted.

"It is

Your seventh aunt. Princess Anping's expression faded, and she looked very unwelcome.

In previous years, after Xiao Xiao's Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, he would talk about current affairs with a group of brothers in Rui Si Tang, or go to the horse farm to fight, or tune in the martial arts hall. godson nephew, but this year he changed his temperament and went to Liyintang to listen and rap.

She sat on the westernmost pot door couch with one leg bent and one leg down, and sat down in Xiao Yan. When he saluted, he slapped a palm on her shoulder and laughed, "Little Seventeen is in good shape." ”

Xiao Yan felt that his shoulders sank, like a thousand gravity, he secretly made a trick to remove the words, and straightened up without shaking.

Xiao Yu's light brown pupils crossed the light, and he turned his head to Princess Anping and smiled: "Your son is stronger than Cheng Lang." ”

The rap in the hall had stopped, and everyone heard it.

The sisters of the Xiao family are speechless, is this a clear provocation? Or is it to test the princess's attitude towards the third son?

Princess Anping raised her eyebrows coldly, "Better than your two sons." ”

The two brothers Xiao Shao and Xiao Ji, who were dragged over by their mother to listen to the rap, innocently looked at each other, are they lying down with an arrow?

Xiao Yu laughed, and said to the two sons teasingly: "Oh, you guys, Wen is not as good as Cong Lang, Wu is not as good as Yan Lang, my mother is so sad." He said that he covered his face with his sleeves and made a sad appearance.

Xiao Shao and Xiao Ji immediately got up, lowered their heads, looked ashamed, and said in unison: "The child is ashamed." ”

Everyone: "......" Your mother is really blind if you don't rap.

Princess Anping rolled her eyes, waved her hand and ordered Han Zhen to let the hall continue to rap, slanted her eyebrows and looked at Xiao Yu coldly: "Since Ah Qi likes Seventeen, I will hand her over to you." ——Throwing the things that Xiao Yan and his cousins knew to Xiao Yan.

Everyone wondered if the princess liked Xiao Seventeen, or didn't like it?

The third uncle and grandmother drank tea and smiled slightly, the princess has this temperament, if she doesn't like it, even Xiao Jingxi can't let her bow her head.

The hall started rapping again, and Xiao Yan seemed to be happy to take Xiao Yan to the hall to get to know his sisters-in-law and sisters.

After a round of salutes, Xiao Yan broke out in a cold sweat on her back, because Xiao Yan used dark energy when she pulled her arm and walked, forcing her to use internal force to resist, outsiders seem to be very close to the aunt and nephew walking hand in hand, but in fact, the internal strength is turbulent.

When Xiao Yan returned to the north hall where Princess Anping was sitting, slight sweat was already oozing from her forehead under the mask, and her face was also flushed.

Xiao Yan heard that her breath was still steady, her eyes flashed with interest, and her extremely aggressive gaze stared at Xiao Yan's mask, as if she would reach out and lift it in the next moment.

Xiao Yan moved back guardedly.

Princess Anping glared at Xiao Yu warningly, and turned her head to the third uncle and grandmother, the eldest uncle and grandmother and the others: "Third uncle and aunt, ......, Mrs. Tai has taken a lunch break, I'll go over and take a look." ”

The third uncle and grandmother, the eldest uncle and grandmother and others all laughed and said, "Okay, okay, you go." "Mrs. Tai has a quiet temperament, and after the death of the old man, she doesn't like to see people more and more, and she shows her face every year during the sacrifice and family banquets, and if she doesn't take the initiative to say who she sees, everyone doesn't bother her with the Songhe Courtyard.

Xiao Yu was uninteresting, and said with a sigh: "I haven't asked my second aunt for several years." Third sister-in-law, go together. ”

Princess Anping looked at her coldly, "I haven't seen you for a few years, Mrs. Tai must not know that your skin is getting thicker." ”

Xiao Yuyan's red lips smiled, revealing her snow-white teeth, "The wind and sand in the green land are strong, and the thin skin has been blown out." ”

Princess Anping snorted coldly, got up and walked out, and knocked her head when she walked past Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan followed speechlessly.

Xiao Yuha laughed, turned his head to his two sons and said, "Okay, don't limit the two of you, what should you do." As he spoke, he strode out of the hall, took the big coat handed by his maid, put it on with a chic shake, and took the maid with long legs and quickly followed Princess Anping's shoulder, and went to Mrs. Tai's Songhe Courtyard.

Along the way, Xiao Yu talked to Princess Anping, and the princess was too lazy to pay attention to her, and she replied with three sentences, and the words back were not good words.

Xiao Yu laughed, and didn't care, of course, what she said didn't necessarily matter.

In short, they poke knives at each other.

Xiao Yan really didn't know if the relationship between the two was good or bad.

Songheyuan is also quite far away from Quncuiyuan, and it took two quarters of an hour to arrive. Entering the courtyard gate is Baishiyong Road, there are pines in the courtyard, and there are cranes, but the moon is cold, and generally do not come out to walk. Mrs. Tai was also afraid of the cold, the house burned the earth dragon, Xiao Yu took off the big hat before entering the door and threw it to the maid to wait outside, followed Princess Anping into the house, and kicked the heavy platform shoes directly after sitting on the barrier, before the person got out of the barrier, the laughter came out: "Second aunt, Ah Yu has come to see you." ”

"Oh, it's baby." Mrs. Tai's words made Xiao Yu's face darken, "Second aunt, I have grown up, not a baby." ”

Princess Anping laughed, "When you grow up, you will also be Xiao Baobao." ”

Xiao Yu once again complained that his father had given him such a nickname.

Princess Anping waved her hand magnificently, "Don't get in the way." He pulled Xiao Yan forward and said, "Auntie, this is seventeen." ”

Mrs. Tai is the princess of the first emperor, the sister of today's saint, named Princess Changning, Princess Anping and her are both mother-in-law and nephew, and she is mostly called her aunt in private.

Xiao Yan knelt down and kowtowed, "Grandson Ayan to see grandmother." ”

"Get up." Mrs. Tai smiled slightly, her face was fair, there were not many wrinkles, and her eyes were bleak, but she made people feel quiet.

When Xiao Yan looked up, he felt that his gaze seemed to be kind, so he kowtowed two more times.

Mrs. Tai's gaze softened.

Xiao Yu lowered his eyebrows, and his doubts deepened.

Princess Anping opened her mouth to drive people away, "The second aunt has seen her, and she still hasn't left?" ”

Xiao Yu sat on the couch next to him, "Don't worry, don't worry, I want to talk to my second aunt more." ”

Mrs. Tai laughed.

Princess Anping couldn't get rid of her, so she didn't bother to pay attention to her, waved away the maid in the house, and said to Xiao Yan: "Let grandmother see you." ”

Xiao Yan unwrapped his mask in response, revealing a flawless appearance.

Xiao Yu's eyes lit up, and his eyebrows were shocked.

Mrs. Tai's eyes also lit up, looked at it for a while, looked at Princess Anping a few more times, and said with a smile: "Okay." He took out a piece of jade from a sandalwood box on the couch and handed it to Xiao Yan, "Jasper is flawless, this Ah Yan deserves it." ”

Xiao Yan took it with both hands, and saw that it was a piece of jade, the color was thick and green, and it was crystal pure, carved with a dragon on one side and a phoenix on the other, delicate and delicate, so people couldn't bear to let go of it when they held it, and immediately thanked him: "Thank you, grandmother." ”

Mrs. Tai seemed to be very fond of her, and pulled her to sit on the couch and talk, asking her about her daily life, what she had studied, what she had read, what she liked to eat, and what she liked to play...... Princess Anping and Xiao Yu were both left to the side.

Xiao Yu flew a glance at the princess, "Li Xianwen, you have fallen out of favor." ”

Princess Anping looked at her blankly, "No matter how favored you are, it's my person, it's your business!" - Xiao Baobao, people have also seen it, you still don't get out? ”

"Okay, I'll get out." Xiao Yu got up with a smile and said loudly, "Second aunt, the fairy sister-in-law told me to get out, and I'll get out." Saying that, he toe a little carpet, and he really rolled out in the air, fell under the obstacle and kicked his feet, and put on heavy shoes and flipped out of the door, "Get out." ”

Mrs. Tai smiled backwards.

Princess Anping really wanted to bring this guy back and beat him up.

Xiao Yan was dumbfounded, she, the seventh aunt, was simply!

Xiao Yu took the maid out of Songhe Courtyard, looked up at the sky and let out a long breath, he felt that Xiao Qiqi's face was a little familiar, but he didn't expect it to be a ......

She suddenly sympathized with Xiao Yan.

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