Because he didn't plan to invite Princess Longqing to his birthday party, Yong Ruo went to Princess Longqing's mansion in person the day before her birthday, sent some earthen rituals that she brought back from Lunan, and explained to the princess that the birthday was not suitable for her. Big deal means.
Princess Longqing was a little disappointed, but she said very understandingly: "I understand! You really shouldn't show off now. If I go tomorrow, your natal family will have to salute me, and both parties will feel uncomfortable. If so, tomorrow we will I won't trouble you anymore. Let's congratulate you on your birthday today!"
She asked the nanny to take out the prepared birthday gift and gave it to Yong Ruo face to face.
"Thank you princess!" Yong Ruo thanked the princess very sincerely.
Princess Longqing blinked at her: "You're welcome, it's fate that you and I get along. Maybe in the future... the fate will be even deeper?"
Yong Ruo saw that there seemed to be deep meaning in her eyes, and her heart trembled slightly: Listening to the princess' voice, could it be that the emperor has decided to adopt Feng Liao
If this is the case, the good days for me and Feng Liao will not be until next spring at most, right? Perhaps her fifteenth birthday will be the only birthday she and Feng Liao spend together.
She was very sad in her heart, but she didn't show any emotion on her face, she just bid farewell to Princess Longqing calmly.
On her birthday, Feng Liao gave her a very special birthday present: a donkey.
"I wanted to give you a good horse. But I thought, you seem to like donkeys more, so I picked a good donkey for you. Do you like it?" He looked at her and asked with a smile on his face.
Yong Ruo nodded, with a very strange smile in his heart: "I like it!"
She felt: This birthday gift is really beyond words. The good thing is: it seems that the daily point income can be increased a little bit
Seeing her smiling so happily, Feng Liao put her arms around her and said, half teasing and half serious, "From now on, I will give you a donkey every year on your birthday?"
"Okay!" Yong Ruo agreed very readily. Should I give every donkey that Feng Liao gave me a name
The Zhou family brought Yong Qiao and Yong Miao into the mansion early in the morning.
It's still early, and the troupe in the mansion is not ready yet. Feng Liao took Yong Qiao and Yong Miao to the study to test their homework, and Yong Ruo and Zhou could talk alone again.
It was still the Linbo Pavilion from last time.
When the girls and eunuchs all retreated far away, Mrs. Zhou reached out and squeezed Yong Ruo's arm bitterly.
"Didn't I tell you? Don't risk your life for the lord, why don't you listen? You even ran all the way to Lunan, followed the lord to suppress bandits and bandits, and rode all the way... You are really talented When I was in my natal family before, why didn't I see you so 'capable'? Presumably, the prince is too spoiled with you, so you don't know the heights of the heavens and the earth." Zhou scolded Yongruo in a low voice angrily.
Yong Ruo dodged twice with a smile, thinking: Her mother still doesn't know about Feng Liao's assassination in Lunan! If she knew the danger at that time, wouldn't she be even more angry
"I didn't risk my life for the prince!" She argued, "I just went to take care of the prince's daily life and take a look at the scenery outside. boring."
"Are you still arguing? Whose female family members are not bored in the back house all day, but you can't?"
"It's not impossible. It's just that you have the opportunity to go out for a walk, why give up? Just spend more time with the prince."
Zhou Shi was about to say "the future will last forever", but thinking about Yong Ruo's identity, these words stuck in her throat.
The daughter is just a concubine! When the prince has a concubine, there will be no more days when such a special room is the only favorite. If she still wanted to go out with the prince at that time, she had to ask the concubine if she agreed.
She sighed slightly sadly, and stopped dwelling on this question: "This time you went to Lunan, what danger did you encounter?"
Yong Ruo looked at her a little strangely: "Mother, why do you ask such a question?" Didn't her mother hear something
"Master Su's younger sister in your house got married the day before yesterday, and I went to the Su house to congratulate her. The courteous treatment from the whole Su family was too much! I'm just a civilian woman, and I'm not a close relative of the Su family. They He actually wanted to invite me to take a seat at the guest table. I had to talk about it so I declined.
"After I got home, I was thinking: You haven't written a word about the thing you said! It's impossible for the Su family to treat me with such extraordinary courtesy to curry favor with you in advance, right? So I guessed: Will it be?" Could it be that you encountered danger along the way, and you helped Lord Su make up for a little omission?"
Great, my mother.
Yong Ruo praised Mrs. Zhou in his heart, but said lightly: "It is true that there will be such and such things on the road, but it can't be said that I made up for Mr. Su's omissions. I am just a woman in the back house, and I can command Those men can't do it? I don't understand why the Su family is like this. It's just that it's not easy to ask the prince or Mr. Su about such a matter. It's fine for the mother to handle it herself. "
When it was almost noon, Feng Liao, Yong Ruo, Zhou Shi, Yong Miao, Yong Qiao and others went to the theater together.
Because there were few people, everyone sat at separate tables, watching the show and drinking at the same time.
Feng Liao and Yong Ruo sat at a table in the middle. Zhou opened a separate table next to Yong Ruo, and Yong Qiao and Yong Miao sat on the other side of Feng Liao, sharing the same table.
The play was ordered by Feng Liao and Zhou, and Yong Ruo, Yong Qiao, and Yong Miao each raised their own needs.
Yong Ruo wanted to listen to something with a lighter rhythm, like the kind of aria that takes eighteen beats to sing a word, no matter how good the singing is, she can't stand it.
Yongqiao wanted to hear the drama about getting the title on the gold list and winning the laurel in the Toad Palace, and Yong Miao, who loves to be lively, wanted to watch people do somersaults.
Feng Liao ordered a play to meet their respective requirements, and he and Zhou also ordered a play.
Five plays, from five different repertoires, tell five different stories.
Therefore, when watching the play and eating, Feng Liao was busy picking up food for Yong Ruo, and even picked up the food himself and fed it to her mouth. Cause and effect, and comment on it from time to time.
Zhou looked at the actions of the two with cold eyes, feeling both happy and worried.
The joy is because the prince really dotes on his daughter beyond the ordinary, but the worry is how the daughter will deal with herself after the concubine enters the door
After watching the play and drinking, Mrs. Zhou took Yong Qiao and Yong Miao back.
The two brothers came out today to congratulate their sister on her birthday. They had taken a leave of absence from the school, and they had to review their homework and practice handwriting when they returned home!
After drinking a little wine at night, Yong Ruo pulled Feng Liao and lay side by side on a large couch, watching the stars together.
The clear night is like water, the bright moon is like washing, and the stars in the sky are twinkling and flickering.
"Do you know which two stars Cowherd and Vega are?" Yong Ruo asked Feng Liao.
Feng Liao looked at the sky full of stars and shook her head: "I don't know. Does Ruoruo know?" He has never paid attention to a certain star in the night sky.
Yong Ruo pointed out the two stars to him, took his hand again, and made gestures for a while before Feng Liao figured out which two stars Cowherd and Vega were.
"How do you know it's these two stars?" Feng Liao looked at the two stars, then looked sideways at Yong Ruo, and couldn't help asking her.
"That You Fang Lang told me." Yong Ruo stretched out his hand and compared the positions of the two stars with his two index fingers. "In my place, they are only so far away. But in fact, there is a distance between them. The whole galaxy…”
Feng Liao followed her example and stretched out her fingers to compare the distance between two stars.
"Rong Shen, you said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are like this... Is it worth it to see each other across the Milky Way, only once a year?" She asked Feng Liao softly, feeling a little sentimental in her heart.
Feng Liao looked at her sideways again, thought for a while, and said softly: "Is it worth it to think about it? Once the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will win but there are countless people in the world."
Yong Ruo couldn't help but nodded: "That makes sense."
She continued to look at the night sky, but suddenly found that a faint but not negligible light flashed across the starry night sky and moved quickly in her field of vision.
"Look! It's a firefly!" Yong Ruo pointed it out to Feng Liao in great surprise.
Feng Liao looked at her fingers, and said with some surprise: "The rotten grass turns into a firefly. Do you like this kind of insects that turn from rotten grass?"
Yong Ruo was stunned for a moment: By the way, there is indeed a saying in this era that rotten grass turns into fireflies.
She hesitated for a moment, but still shook her head: "Fireflies are not created from rotting grass. They also have their own parents. It's just that every firefly is an orphan.
"At the very beginning, fireflies were just a small egg when they came to this world. Later, the eggs hatched slowly, and they broke out of their shells and became larvae, seeing the world for the first time. But at this time, They can't fly yet, they can only crawl on the ground.
"The larvae of fireflies need to survive on their own. They grow up slowly, and in half a year to a year, they will molt five to seven times, and then they will turn into a chrysalis like a silkworm.
"In the chrysalis, the firefly will complete the qualitative change of life, gain the ability to glow and fly, and then break out of the chrysalis and become an adult firefly.
"This qualitative change in life consumes too much vitality of the fireflies. So when they become adults, their lifespan is only ten days or even a few days.
"But these few days or more than ten days are also the most brilliant, comfortable and happiest moments in their lives. During this time, they are looking for their spouses. After the bridal chamber, the males will soon die; After laying eggs, the female will also quickly run out of life... "
After Feng Liao finished listening, she didn't say anything for a while. "These are also the things that You Fang Lang told you?" He asked softly.
Yong Ruo hummed: "He raised fireflies before, and originally wanted to verify whether the fireflies were transformed from rotten grass. Do you know why fireflies glow?"
"Why?"
"In order to find their favorite partner in the dark night."
"Fireflies fireflies fly slowly, summer nights in summer nights the wind blows gently..."
Yong Ruo suddenly remembered Yi Nengjing's "Firefly", and sang it softly, only slightly changing the lyrics.
"This is the nursery rhyme that the traveling doctor taught me." She said to Feng Liao.
"It's a nice nursery rhyme. Can you teach me how to sing it?" Feng Liao said in a low voice, holding her in her arms.