Bai Zinian said with a smile, but there was no smile in his eyes.

"Huh? What is it? Yun Yige pretended to be stupid, her face was dazed, she knew that Bai Zinian was testing herself, if she heard the conversation between him and his grandfather that day, thinking that they were going to assassinate the Hades, ordinary boudoir women would definitely be so frightened that their faces turned white.

"Brother Bai, my sister is a good painter, but where has she seen any scenes of fighting and killing, but just painting some birds, beasts, insects and fish, the Northern Xinjiang War against Wusun, it must be a scene of rivers of blood, don't scare my sister." Yun Jingsong played a round and patted Bai Zinian on the shoulder.

"I'm sorry, I was abrupt." Bai Zinian immediately showed an apologetic smile and arched his hand at Yun Yige.

"By the way, I recently got a wolf pen from Huishan by chance, and I will bring it over next time to make amends to the fourth sister." Bai Zinian looked at Yun Yige and said flatteringly.

"No thanks." Yun Yige replied very coldly.

After a few more people talked, Yun Jingsong sent Bai Zinian out and took Yun Yige back to the courtyard.

"Big brother, sister-in-law, I dried some dried hawthorn and dried fruits, all of which are sweet and sour, sister-in-law has a bad appetite recently, you can eat some." Yun Yige opened the box and took out the dried red hawthorn contained in the white jade saucer.

"The fourth sister has a heart." Su Shi was a little sleepy after using some hawthorn, and the maid served her to sleep on the bed.

Yun Yige and Yun Jingsong went to the courtyard to play chess, Yun Jingsong looked at his sister and inadvertently asked the doubts in his heart.

"Fourth sister, do you know that you rarely care so much about a person?"

Concerned about someone?

"Huh?"

Yun Yige was stunned, did her eldest brother know that she liked Xuan Ming? But she didn't show it much, her reputation was ruined in the previous life, and in this life she was very cautious in the affairs of men and women, and did not give others a chance to spread rumors.

"Bai Zi has been in the house a few times, you have run away from afar, and every time my father and mother talk about the Bai family, your reaction is a little big, this time you see Bai Zinian, and you speak a little strangely, you ......" Yun Jingsong wanted to speak and stopped, his sister is so smart, she must understand the meaning of his words, and a girl of this age is when her love is beginning to open.

is also his elder brother, who did not give her timely guidance in the right aspect, if she really likes him, what to do is to push him out.

Yun Yige opened her mouth in surprise, her eldest brother couldn't have misunderstood that she liked Bai Zinian, right?!

Oh my God! How can this be said?

Yun Yige pursed his lips: "Big brother, to be honest, I don't like the people of the Bai family, they are too fake, and they all have a purpose in approaching us." ”

"Bai Zinian's chess skills are far above you, but he always loses to you, do you know why?"

Yun Jingsong wants to accompany the Su family at home, and the parties in the capital are rarely visited, Bai Zinian often comes to play chess with him, and also relieves him a lot of boredom, and he has a good impression of Bai Zinian.

Yun Jingsong was a little unnatural when he heard this, and then regained his composure: "Brother Bai is an upright person, where is it as unbearable as you say?" What can he do to me? ”

He thought that the two were attracted to each other because of each other's talents, not simply to take advantage of and curry favor, and not because he was the concubine of the Hou Mansion that they deliberately approached him.

"He doesn't want to do anything, he just wants to make the people he deals with happy." Yun Yige said that this is due to Bai Zinian's character, and it is also the result of Bai Yifeng's teaching.

"If the eldest brother doesn't believe it, you can let him play a game of chess with his father, you can watch from the side, you will understand, in the future, don't keep letting him come to our house, his Bai family is very thoughtful, we had better not associate with them, I don't know when we are used as a gun."

Yun Jingsong fell into deep thought after hearing this, if the Bai family wanted to use the Hou Mansion, the Song family, and even his wife's maiden Su family, he would be a good breakthrough.

Two days later, Bai Zinian asked Yun Jingsong to play chess, and Yun Jingsong said that he had contracted a cold due to the rain recently, and he had not seen him.

……

After a few more spring rains, the flowers in the capital bloom more beautifully, and the leaves on the branches of the trees are becoming more and more dense and thick.

On this day, news came from the palace that a palace banquet was going to be held, and the family was invited to participate.

In the Hou Mansion, Yun Yige pushed open the window, looked at the courtyard outside the window with a smile on the corner of her mouth, the peach blossoms in the courtyard had already bloomed, she beckoned Yun Yishu and Song Qinglan to pick peach blossoms, and the three sisters were ready to make peach blossom brew.

Yun Yige couldn't do it lightly, she couldn't fly to the peach tree to pick flowers, so she had to stand under the tree and shake the tree vigorously with Zhu'er.

But the stump of the peach tree was very thick, and she shook it for a long time, and she was so tired that she was sweating profusely, and the peach blossom only fell a little reluctantly.

"Cousin, I'd better come." Song Qinglan rolled up her sleeves, lifted her skirt, sat on the small rockery on the side with a light effort, kicked the peach tree, and suddenly, the peach blossoms fell to the ground.

"Cousin, be light!" Yun Yige exclaimed, this is the tree in her yard, don't kick it.

"Okay, okay, I'll come down." Song Qinglan clapped her hands and landed steadily.

"Zhu'er, Juan'er, you call a few people to wash the peach blossoms." Yun Yishu commanded.

"Yes, miss." Zhu'er and Juan'er are very happy, beckoning people to pick up peach blossoms, they can drink some peach blossoms every year, and the peach blossoms made by the masters are fruity and not intoxicating.

"Have you heard about the palace banquet?" The three of them returned to the house and sat down, while Zhu'er and Juan'er washed the peach blossoms on the side.

"There is another banquet in the palace, is the court short of money again? We have such a big court in Northern Chu, how can it look like an autumn wind?! Song Qinglan quipped.

"Cousin, you can be cautious, if you are heard, you will be disrespectful!" Yun Yishu looked around and said worriedly.

"I heard that this palace banquet was prepared by Concubine Wan, is it to show the princess to the princess!" Song Qinglan guessed.

If he has the help of the king's powerful father-in-law, he will be one step closer to the crown prince.

"Third sister, cousin, have you forgotten that this palace banquet is a big court meeting!" Yun Yige arranged the peach blossoms and put them on the shelves to dry.

In previous years, the festival was usually held around the New Year, but because of the heavy snow this year, the emperor postponed the day, just in the spring when the weather was warmer and the road was easier.

This grand court meeting is the largest and most solemn court meeting of the emperor Xuan Zheng with hundreds of officials in a year. Every day of the court, the emperor personally came to the Hanyuan Palace, the crown prince, civil and military officials, and local envoys to the emperor respectively congratulated the emperor, and the officials of various ministries reported to the emperor the achievements of the past year to show the achievements of Northern Chu.

"Ah, I remember, we didn't go last year when my mother was sick, and the year before last seemed to go, and there were a lot of people that day, and hundreds of civil and military officials lined up on the winding ramp with no end in sight, and slowly went up the ......"