Fifteen years ago, the capital of Chu State.

Early autumn is approaching, but the weather is still sultry, in the garden of Shen Guogong's mansion, the banana rolls the sun-dried yellow leaves, and the sound is tireless, which makes people more and more anxious and bored.

"Little Miss, slow down! Oops, there's a guest in the back garden, you can't go! ”

Two slaves and maids, carrying small clogs, nervously chased a little girl through the carved verandah.

The little girl was only five or six years old, with two round buds, a young face carved in pink and jade, a skirt with fine white embroidered pink and ruffles, and a pair of bare feet, and went straight to the back garden excitedly.

"Little Miss, why don't you put on your clogs first! Hey, the pebbles outside are going to be awkward! ”

The little girl ran out of the verandah, threw the two maidservants far away, her little face was flushed, and she shouted softly: "I have heard that a new cool little pond has been built in the garden here, and I am going to enjoy the coolness, don't you want to stop me!" ”

She raced into the back garden, winding the cobblestone path to the end.

Both sides of the path are planted with verdant jade bamboo, and the wind through the bamboo forest carries a refreshing coolness, which is very refreshing.

The vision ahead gradually widened, and at the end of the path was indeed a brand-new small pond, which was planted with half a pond of green lotus leaves, surrounded by large trees, and a wooden pavilion with a bamboo curtain.

The little girl saw a faint figure shaking behind the bamboo curtain, and couldn't help but pick up the hem of her skirt and run in on the white stone steps.

She immediately puffed up her white and tender cheeks, crossed her waist, and said in a glutinous voice: "Wow, Daddy, you are hiding here by yourself to enjoy the coolness, and you have prepared so many delicious foods, it's really bad!" I'm going to tell my mother! ”

Shen Guogong, who was in the prime of life, laughed loudly, held her in his arms and put her on his lap, and rubbed her tender little face with his beard, "My good girl, you have found this, it can be seen that my family is very clever!" ”

"Hmph, Daddy heard that I was going to sue, so he said good things to me, Daddy used to coax me like this!" The little girl's mouth was pouting, and her round eyes were wet and amber, but she curiously quietly looked at the teenagers at the same table.

But they were all thirteen or fourteen years old, and they still had thick scrolls in their hands, so they probably came to ask their father for teaching.

One of them was very young, he looked no more than eight or nine years old, wearing a light blue straight robe, with clear eyebrows, staring at the little sweet words like pink balls, and pulling his brother's sleeve, "Brother, who is she?" She's so good-looking! ”

Xiao Miaoyan jumped down from Shen Guogong's lap, staggered to him, and leaned up his little head: "I'm my father's daughter!" My name is Obedient! ”

"Wrong, wrong, my cousin's name is a wonderful word, why do you tell people that your name is good?" Shen Ze on the side hurriedly corrected, "Only uncle calls you to be obedient." ”

"Miao, Yan ......" Xiao Miaoyan touched the thin braid that fell on his chest and nodded seriously, "Yes, my name is Miaoyan!" What about you, who are you? ”

The little boy didn't dare to look directly at her round eyes full of brilliance, and his white face flushed with shame, and he muttered for a long time before he whispered, "I...... My name is Han Xuzhi. ”

"Then you are my brother Xuzhi, let's go, I'll take you to play in the water!" Xiao Miaoyan took his hand and happily pulled him out of the wooden pavilion.

The two sat on the big stone by the pond, and the slave and maid who were waiting for Xiao Miaoyan hurriedly chased after him, holding the clogs and saying, "Little Miss, quick, put on the clogs!" There are so many sharp stones here that if you cut your foot, you won't have to cry again! ”

Xiao Miaoyan blushed, "I won't cry!" ”

Han Xuzhi looked at the pond and saw that her two little feet were soaked in water, white and delicate, with round toes and pink nails, which were very cute.

His cheeks were slightly red, he took the clogs from the hands of the two maids, and said seriously: "Sister Miaoyan, I'll put shoes on you." ”

Xiao Miaoyan pursed her lips and said softly: "That clogs are very heavy, I don't like ......"

Saying this, he obediently took his feet out of the water.

Han Xuzhi picked up a clog and was about to put it on her, but a cold and light voice sounded from behind the two of them: "Men and women are seven years old, Miss Shen is simple-minded and doesn't know, could it be that the second son of Han doesn't know?" ”

The two turned their heads and saw a noble boy in an ink-colored embroidered gold-rimmed brocade robe, standing under the tree with his hands in his hands, slowly twisting a tender flower.

He has a handsome face, thin lips, and only a pair of narrow phoenix eyes that are gloomy, which makes people shudder.

"Who is he?" Xiao Miaoyan bit Han Xuzhi's ear.

"I don't know either." Han Xuzhi shook his head blankly, he was embarrassed to put shoes on the little girl, so he quietly put down the clogs with small daisies.

"It's weird and good-looking, but it looks weird and scary, and I don't know who I want to marry as a lady in the future, and the girl he married must be very unlucky!" Xiao Miaoyan sighed with emotion, but he didn't see the noble son's sinking face at all.

The noble boy lost the tender flowers twisted in his hand, "I have heard for a long time that Miss Shen is unlearned and stubborn, and when I see it today, this mouth is like the mouth of a sack that is not tight, if Miss Shen dares to talk so nonsense again, I don't mind teaching you well on behalf of Shen Guogong." ”

After speaking, he turned away indifferently.

Xiao Miaoyan was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and she felt that she had lost face in front of her brother, so she lifted the clogs and smashed them into the back of the young man's head.

The boy didn't even look back, raised his hand to catch the clogs, and threw it directly to the branch for Xiao Miaoyan.

Xiao Miaoyan opened her small mouth, looked at the clogs hanging on the branches, and didn't say anything for a long time.

Han Xuzhi rolled up his sleeves and volunteered: "Sister Miaoyan, don't worry, I'll take off the clogs for you!" ”

Xiao Miaoyan sat on the big rock and watched him climb the tree, and looked curiously at the little flower on the ground that was thrown away by the bad boy just now, ran over to pick it up with her skirt, and asked casually: "Brother Xuzhi, is this a daisy?" ”

Han Xuzhi had already reached the clogs on the branches, looked at the little daisies painted on the clogs, and smiled brightly: "Sister Miaoyan's clogs are painted with daisies, and the one you take is a tulip." ”

"Tuh?"

"As the so-called blooming of the Tumi flowers, the poets say that the blooming of the Tuli flowers is the end of the flowering season of the year."

"Oh......" Xiao Miaoyan hurriedly threw away the tender flowers in his hand, "Then this is really a bad flower ......"

After parting in the evening, Han Tangzhi led Han Xuzhi out of the Shen Mansion, and the figures of the brothers were stretched by the setting sun, casting two shadows, one tall and one short, on the street turned by the bluestone slab.

Han Xuzhi's face was simple, he looked up at Han Tangzhi, and his smile was pure, "Brother." ”

"Huh?"

"I have two wishes!"

Han Tang's eyebrows were crooked, and he said softly: "Can you tell my brother quietly?" ”

Han Xuzhi bared a mouthful of small white teeth, and his smile was as warm as jade like Han Tangzhi, "My first wish is to surpass my brother in learning!" ”

"That's nice, but what about the second one?"

"Second ......"

Under the sunset, the little boy looked back at Shen Guogong's mansion, and the tenderness in his eyes was almost overflowing.

The second ......

I want to marry my sister when I grow up.

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Wow, the space is limited, so I didn't expand it.

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