"Sister, I'm so disappointed in you." Ban Heng looked at Ban Hua with a look of hatred, "Why can't you be reserved and toss again. Women only have to toss more, men will know how to cherish, you do you understand?"
"That's not my fault," Ban Hua smiled shyly, "He looks too good-looking."
"When you look at a man, you can't just look at the appearance, but also the content," Ban Heng said earnestly, "I am a man myself, how can I not know the little ninety-nine of a man?"
"That man's little Jiujiu have those?" Ban Hua suddenly became interested, "Tell me about it."
"No matter how nice a man's mouth is, don't believe it. The point is what he did," Ban Heng was silent for a moment. "Anyway, he must not treat you as well as me."
"Of course," Ban Hua nodded, "My brother Heng is the best."
"Hmph," Ban Heng snorted awkwardly, "that's for sure."
"No, don't change the subject," Ban Heng stared at Ban Hua. "Sister, do you really like Rong Xia? If you don't like it, we'll regret the marriage. We'd rather offend him than make you feel wronged."
"No, I think he is quite suitable. There are no elders in the family. If I want to go back to my parents' house, no one will take care of me," Ban Hua looked at her brother with a smile, "not to mention the whole capital, who else is there? A man is prettier than him, so it's not a disadvantage to marry him. If he treats me badly, I'll go home with him and leave, right?"
"You... really only married him because of this?" Ban Heng said with suspicion, "Sister, please don't wrong yourself for us."
"Stupid or not," Ban Hua tapped Ban Heng's forehead with a smile, "Am I someone who will wrong me?"
Ban Heng held his head and didn't speak. He was still a little worried, "But... you don't have much relationship with Rong Xia."
"The relationship can be cultivated slowly. When I got married to Shen Yu, how much relationship did I have with him?" Ban Hua was very free and easy, "and facing Rong Xia's face every day, I can eat a few more bowls of rice, which is good. of."
"Then... you'll be happy," Ban Heng thought for a while, "I think Shi Jin from Shi Xiangye's family is also very good-looking. Didn't you always like his looks?"
"Looking at a man, you can't just look at how he is, but also whether his family can get along with you," Ban Hua felt that she could see clearly on this point, "Shi Jin is too dull and not suitable for me. His younger sister has always looked at me unfriendly, so I don't want to marry such a person to be angry with my sister-in-law."
"That's right, that girl is smarter than you at first glance..."
Ban Hua rolled his eyes at him.
"No, at first glance, it's more scheming than you," Ban Heng immediately changed his words, "but I don't think Rongxia is any more humorous than Shi Jin."
"Men look at men differently than women look at men," Ban Hua said with an unfathomable expression, "I'm sure that Rong Xia is much more interesting than Shi Jin."
Ban Heng clicked his tongue, and then said with a hilarious smile: "I'm only fifteen years old, it's normal to not understand men, I just need to understand women."
"That's even harder," Ban Hua stood up and looked at Ban Heng condescendingly, "Women are the most complicated book in the world, and even the smartest man in the world can't read all of this book. ."
"That's right... as if we men understand it very well," Ban Heng's supreme soul as a man burst out, "How many women in the world can understand men?"
Ban Hua reached out and lifted his sleeve: "let's go, our little man, it's time for lunch."
At the round dinner table, Ban Hua was eating delicious mushrooms and wanted to say that her grandmother likes this kind of game the most, so why don't she send some to her. Before she could say anything, she suddenly remembered that her grandmother was gone.
She blinked, buried her head and took a big mouthful of food, her throat so choked that she could barely swallow anything.
"I know you like this. The people from Zhuangzi below sent a basket this morning." Yin Shi put a chopstick of shiitake mushrooms in her bowl. "You've lost a lot of weight recently, what can you do if you're not in good health?"
"Thank you, mother." Ban Hua took a bite of the meal, raised his head and smiled brightly at Yinshi.
"You child, why are you being polite to me?" Yin Shi looked at her tenderly, "You take good care of yourself, better than anything else."
Ban Hua nodded silently, looking very well-behaved.
After eating, Ban Hua rode out of the house on horseback and came to the house of the eldest princess not far from home.
At the gate of the eldest princess' mansion, there were lanterns made of white silk and white paper, with big characters on them, stinging Ban Hua's eyes. She knew that when the period of filial piety passed, the items of the eldest princess' mansion would be carried to their house, and the house was about to be sealed.
The guards at the gate saw Ban Hua standing at the gate, neither entering nor leaving. They didn't know what the county master was thinking, and didn't dare to ask her, so they had to bow to her, Continue to stand there in an orderly manner.
Ban Hua just went up the stone steps and pushed open the gate of the Princess Mansion. There was no change in the whiteness of the flowers and plants inside, and there were even servants who stayed in the mansion to clean, but she felt the smell of desertedness, the kind of desertedness that can penetrate the bones of people , cold to the bottom of my heart.
All the way to the main hall, Ban Hua glanced at the maids and guards behind him, and whispered, "You guys are waiting outside."
"The princess..." Ruyi looked at Ban Hua a little worriedly, worried that she would be emotional when she saw the house where Her Royal Highness the eldest princess lived.
Ban Hua ignored her and went straight in.
The spring is cold and the cold wind blows on the flying white paper lanterns, making a swishing sound. Ban Hua stood at the door and smiled bitterly. In the past, as long as she stood here, her grandmother would definitely call her Bao Hua affectionately, and then let the servants take food and drink, as if she hadn't eaten well in the Hou Mansion. .
When pushing the door, the door creaked, and the room was a little dark. It took a while for her to get used to the light in the room after entering the door.
Everything in the house was spotless, but Ban Hua just felt that the chair that grandma used to sit on looked a little dull, and even the paint on it looked dull. She walked to this chair and sat down, but she could not feel the warmth of her grandmother, only the empty coolness.
I still remember that when I was young, my grandfather and grandmother liked to sit in this house and play with her. My grandfather would climb on the ground and let her ride a horse on top of him, saying that she was the most powerful female general in the great cause. At that time, she was still young and didn't know that her grandfather had an old disease.
Her mother scolded her. She had just shed a tear or two, but her grandfather was so distressed that she secretly took a lot of good things to coax her. woman.
Going around the front hall, Ban Hua walked to the master bedroom. The master bedroom was covered with a soft carpet. The vases on the shelves were all given by her and his brother Heng. Vases without royal gifts were rare, but grandmother put away the royal vases. All the things that were given were replaced by the ornaments that she and Hengdi gave. She even saw a set of straw dolls that she thought was interesting and gave her to her grandmother a year ago.
There were too many things she was familiar with in the room, only the phoenix-patterned bed, with the curtains and quilts removed, the gorgeous bedstead looked empty, like this mansion, so empty that it scared her.
Ban Hua walked to the dressing table and sat down, looking at herself in the bronze mirror, with a smile like crying.
"Grandmother..." She reached out and stroked the cold mirror surface, "Hua...I miss you."
"Wow, wow."
There was a wind in the yard, and the pomegranate tree planted outside made a swishing sound, like the sound of human footsteps, wandering outside the yard all the time, reluctant to leave.
Ban Hua walked out of the yard and looked up at the already sturdy pomegranate tree with a smile on her face.
Although a long, long time has passed, she still remembers that she and her grandfather planted this tree. She should be less than five years old at that time, because she said that the pomegranate seeds were very beautiful and red as gems, and her grandfather planted it from A colleague found a sapling at home and planted it with her.
Later, as a child, she quickly forgot about it, but her grandfather still remembered that he often watered the tree himself.
But before the pomegranates could bear fruit, my grandfather went, and then it was my grandmother who watered the tree. That year, the pomegranates bore fruit, but not much. The grandmother took her and asked her to hold the pomegranate to go to her grandfather's grave. At that time, she cried a lot, but the grandmother never cried. She just gently touched the top of her head with her warm palm and never let go.
"Grandfather, grandmother, tomorrow I will let someone transplant the tree into my yard," Ban Hua stroked the trunk, "I will watch it bloom and bear fruit, and bring pomegranates to see you every year."
When the wind picked up again, the pomegranate branches swayed to and fro, as if answering Ban Hua's words.
With his forehead resting on the rough bark, Ban Hua hugged the trunk and laughed softly.
Ruyi and a few guards waited outside the courtyard gate for a long time, and when Ruyi was about to go in to find the county master, Ban Hua came out.
"The county master," Ru Jian said that there was no strange expression on Ban Huan's face, and he breathed a sigh of relief, "This servant sees that the weather is not very good, it may be raining, let's go back."
"Okay," Ban Hua asked Ruyi to tie a cape to herself, "Go back and ask the housekeeper to find someone who is good at tree transplanting. I'm going to move the pomegranate tree from my grandmother's yard to my yard."
"Okay." Ruyi was stunned for a moment, "Are other flowers and plants going to move?"
"Take that pot of black peonies away, grandmother likes this pot of flowers the most," Ban Hua pulled on his cape and said expressionlessly, "Let the gardener at home take care of the flowers and plants, and make no mistakes."
"Yes."
When Shi Jin passed by the eldest princess' mansion, he found that the door of the eldest princess' mansion was open. He tightened the reins and frowned. Now is the time of the eldest princess' hot filial piety. Who would dare to go to the eldest princess and disturb him? The tranquility of her home.
Just when he was about to dismount and go in to find out, a young woman in plain clothes and a plain silver hairpin came out with a maid and guards. After seeing who this person was, Shi Jin was stunned, then turned over and dismounted and walked towards Ban Hu. a gift.
"I have seen the princess."
"Master Shi?" Ban Hua walked down the steps and looked at Shi Jin's buttocks, "How are you doing, Master Shi?"
Shi Jin pretended not to understand Ban Hua's eyes, and cupped his hands: "The Lord of Lao asked, everything is fine."