By the time Baihui and Haitang galloped all the way from Bixiaotang to Wushantang in Liuli Lane in the west of the city, it was already a stick of incense!
As soon as the two maids arrived at the entrance of the alley, they saw the passers-by who had gathered in the alley to watch the excitement come out in twos and threes, talking to each other in a hurry:
"Do you think there is someone backing the Wushan Hall?"
"It looks like a person who is helping inside is so strong!"
"I heard that some people saw a few people from the Southern Border Army coming in and out of the shantang... maybe the wife of a general's mansion is kind enough to run the shantang?"
"Maybe!"
"..."
Baihui and Haitang looked at each other, half relieved.
Judging from the tone of these people, the matter seems to have been resolved!
The two maids got off their horses at the entrance of the alley and strode towards Wushantang. When they came to the entrance of Shantang, it was empty and there were not many people there.
A young girl's timid apology came from the shantang: "I'm sorry, this master. I... I shouldn't have stolen the roast chicken from your restaurant." The little girl's voice became softer and softer, with a hint of trill.
While talking, Baihui and Haitang stepped over the high threshold, and saw in the courtyard behind the gate, an eight or nine-year-old girl in Tsing Yi was bowing and apologizing to a short and fat man in a brown brocade robe.
And Xiao Fei, who was wearing a water-green plain gown, stood beside the little girl, smiled apologetically at the short and fat man, and said politely: "Boss Li, I know it's her mistake." , but she was still young, and she was hungry at the time, how about I double compensate her for the roast chicken money to Boss Li?"
Seeing that Xiao Fei was safe and sound, Baihui and Haitang were completely relieved on the one hand, but on the other hand they felt a little bit complicated: the eldest girl is really different from a few years ago.
Recalling the scene when Xiao Fei went to the capital from southern Xinjiang alone with two maidservants, Baihui felt as if she was in a previous life.
Haitang tugged at Baihui's sleeve, and Baihui followed her gaze, and saw a handsome and tall young man standing under a sycamore tree not far away.
The young man was wearing an ordinary blue robe, and he was tall and tall. Just standing there quietly, he exuded a stern and heroic spirit, and his appearance was imposing.
This young man couldn't be more familiar!
"Wow!"
As if echoing the thoughts of the two maids, a huge gray dog poked its head out from behind the sycamore tree. It seemed to recognize Baihui and Haitang, and frantically wagged its tail, but was stopped by its master: "Yaying!"
The two maids couldn't help but look shocked and looked at each other.
Why are Yan Xijun and Yaoying here? !
"Taoyao..." Xiao Fei made a gesture, and Taoyao handed Boss Li a bunch of copper coins.
Boss Li used his fat fingers to randomly place the copper coins on the ground. His white and fat face was still a little bit unwilling, and he was blowing his beard and staring, but...
"Wow!"
There was another loud dog bark, and when he met Yan Xijun, the King of Hades, with his cold eyes and the white canine teeth of the kite eagle, Boss Li froze again in an instant.
"Hmph! I can't afford to offend you, I think I'm unlucky!" Boss Li put away the copper coins, and walked away cursing with two tall entourages, intersecting with Baihui and Haitang.
People walked a long way, and could still hear Boss Li's muttering voice coming along with the wind...
"Miss." Baihui and Haitang rushed forward to salute Xiao Fei, Baihui explained, "Miss, I heard that there are troubles in the Shantang, and the concubine Shizi just fell asleep, but I was worried about Miss, so I Come and take a look on your own, don’t take offense, big girl.”
Xiao Fei was worried that this little thing would disturb her sister-in-law, but she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "It's just a little thing..."
Tao Yao pouted, and couldn't help interjecting: "Girl, although our Meizi made mistakes first, but this Boss Li is really making progress. Fortunately, Mr. Yan is here, otherwise the slaves will see that they want to smash our shantang... "
The little girl in Tsing Yi named Mei Zi shrank back guiltily, Xiao Fei patted her on the shoulder reassuringly, and said seriously: "If you know your mistakes, you can correct them. There is nothing good about it."
"If you know your mistakes and don't correct them, you may harm others!" Another little girl ran over and said crisply. She saluted Xiao Fei, then took Meizi's hand, "Meizi, class is about to begin!"
Meizi responded obediently, and followed the little girl to the direction of the school.
Looking at the backs of the two little girls, Tao Yao explained the ins and outs of the matter.
This Meizi was a little girl adopted by Wu Shan Tang two days ago. Her parents died, and she came to the city from a nearby village to beg for a living. One day, she was so hungry that she crawled into a restaurant. The back kitchen stole someone's roast chicken and was caught straight away. Although he escaped from the dog hole by chance that day, he couldn't escape for a while. Today, the owner of the restaurant, Li, came to settle the score.
Boss Li didn't know that Wushantang was opened by the eldest girl of Zhennan Prince's Mansion, and kept saying that Shantang was raising orphans to be thieves, and wanted to smash Shantang. Fortunately, Yan Xijun happened to come to Shantang to help today, scaring people away up.
Boss Li finally agreed to a settlement.
Baihui and Haitang also saw what happened afterwards.
At this time, Harrier Eagle finally couldn't hold back and rushed over, first wagging its tail and barking joyfully at Baihui and Haitang twice, then excitedly circled around Xiao Fei, barking non-stop.
Ever since Yaoying found her on the mountain that night, Xiao Fei's patience with this stupid dog has improved a lot. She leaned over to pet the stupid dog, fed it jerky, and then let it lick on her hands. After a while...
"Harrier Eagle!" Yan Xijun strode towards Meteor, and called out a little harshly, but the Harrier Eagle, who was busy having fun, could no longer hear the voice of its master. Very happy.
With an embarrassed expression, Yan Xijun grabbed Harrier Eagle's collar and pulled the stupid dog down, and while comforting the stupid dog, he said: "Miss Xiao, I think this place is full of women, and it is inevitable that some people will come here to make trouble. There are a few villages outside where some veterans retired from the army due to disabilities, and their skills are more than enough to deal with ordinary people. If there is a suitable candidate, come here to be a porter..." Although the son of the world allocated money to take good care of these wounded Disabled veterans, but they don't want to eat free rice. They feel lazy every day when they are idle, and they always want to find something to do. Wushantang couldn't be more suitable here!
Xiao Fei's eyes lit up immediately when she heard the words, shining like stars, she clapped her hands and smiled and said, "Young Master Yan, that's a good idea!" With veterans acting as porters and guards, even when she's not here, she doesn't have to worry too much about the safety of the girls .
"Then leave this matter to me." Yan Xijun said.
"Wow!" Harrier Eagle called again, as if to say, that's right, it's up to us!
Baihui and Haitang exchanged another glance, it seemed that they had nothing to do here, so the two maids left together and went back to Bixiaotang.
At this moment, the sun began to slowly slant to the west, and the golden sunlight sprinkled into the east room through the thin screen window, the light was soft, comfortable and refreshing.
Nangong Yue, who took a nap, has woken up and is eating a bowl of hot stewed eggs with bird's nest. Xiao Yi is no longer in the house.
Baihui secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and narrated what happened in Wushantang just now.
Regarding the matter of Boss Li and Mei Zi, Nangong Yue didn't pay much attention to it. What surprised her was—
Yan Xijun is helping at Wushantang today.
Nangong Yue raised her eyebrows, and couldn't help but think of Xiao Fei's firm, shy but ignorant expression and what she said at the time when she talked about marriage with Xiao Fei last time:
"Sister-in-law, after three months, I will definitely make up my mind, and I will not disappoint my sister-in-law."
Nangong Yue put down the spoon in her hand, thoughtful.
Is it really...
The room suddenly became dark, Nangong Yue raised her eyes subconsciously, and saw Xiao Yi wearing a red robe holding a large handful of fiery red kapok appeared on the window sill, smiling brightly at her concubine. .
Under the afterglow of the setting sun, Nangong Yue could almost see the thin fluff on his cheeks. Under the sunlight, his fair skin glowed like jade, shining brightly.
"Ah Yi!" Nangong Yue beckoned to Xiao Yi, and Xiao Yi immediately walked over with the kapok in his arms. Thrush looked at Shizi and approached him like a big cat with its tail up. Can not bear to look.
"Ayi, tell me about Yan Xijun." Nangong Yue said straightforwardly.
Xiao Yi was startled, and soon guessed that Nangong Yue was inquiring for Xiao Fei, and his handsome face almost didn't collapse.
Sure enough, Xiao Fei should be married off as soon as possible!
"All the soldiers in my Xinrui battalion are good. They are both civil and military, and they have a calm temperament. They can do something and not do it, so they can stand up for themselves." Xiao Yi said casually, "Ah Yue, since you have taken a fancy to it, let's hurry up Let's get things done."
Marry Xiao Fei early, and let her husband worry about her trivial matters in the future, and stop bothering his family, A Yue.
Nangong Yue also knew that Yan Xijun, like Yu Xiufan and Chang Huaixi, was a nice person, but...
Nangong Yue said hesitantly: "Ayi, I also think that Yan Xijun's character is good, but his status may be a little lower..."
Xiao Fei is the eldest daughter of the Zhennan Prince's Mansion, and Yan Xijun is far from Xiao Fei in terms of family status and concubine background, and...
"This Yan family committee is really 'chaotic'."
As she said that, Nangong Yue couldn't help but think of the bad things going on in the Yan family, Mrs. Yan, Yan Xijun's aunt, concubine sister...
If possible, Nangong Yue would try her best to find a family with a clean and upright family style for Xiao Fei. But how can everything go as expected!
Xiao Yi didn't care, shrugged his shoulders and said: "In the entire Dayu and Southern Xinjiang, besides the emperor, who else can match Xiao Fei's identity?!"
As he spoke, he casually put flowers in the vase beside him, and then looked expectantly at Nangong Yue begging for praise.
Nangong Yue rubbed the top of his hair perfunctorily, and smiled, her heart suddenly brightened.
That's right, with their identities as sister Fei, who in the entire southern border would dare to bully her without being blind
If you really think the Yan family is too chaotic, let Xiao Yi decide and let the Yan family split up quickly.
For Sister Fei, her family status does not need to be considered in her marriage, as long as the man's character is good, and she and Sister Fei are in love, everything is not a problem!
Anyway, the three-month time limit is coming soon, so I'll ask Sister Fei again when the time comes.
"Mother..."
At this moment, Xiao Xiaoyu's loud and excited voice came from outside.
Soon, the bead curtain was randomly lifted by him, and the little guy in a small indigo robe ran in quickly, holding a booklet in his hand.
He was obviously in a good mood, ran to Luo Han's bed, and "giggled" at Nangong Yue, his round face was flushed with excitement, and his big watery eyes flickered.
Xiao Xiaoyu just came back from Qingyunwu. Originally, he only went in the morning every day, but he stayed longer today.
"Mother, father, look!"
The little guy stood on tiptoe, and handed the brochure in his hand to Nangong Yue and Xiao Yi to read.
On the orange cover of the booklet, there were three powerful characters: Three Character Classic.
The familiar handwriting Xiao Yi knew at a glance that it was written by Guan Yubai, and the bright orange cover, needless to say, must have been picked by Xiao Yu.
"Brother Yu, is this the "Three Character Classic" that your foster father copied for you?" Nangong Yue looked at Xiao Yu with a smile and asked softly.
Xiao Tuanzi nodded first, then shook his head desperately, which confused Nangong Yue.
Soon, Nangong Yue knew what the little guy meant.
Xiao Yi casually opened the booklet from the middle, and on a certain page, there were two lines written in correct lowercase:
Rong is four years old and can make pears. Younger brother Yu Chang should be a prophet.
The first is filial piety, the second is knowledge. Know a certain number, know a certain text.
And below the two lines of words is a colorful painting, which shows a small child is sharing pears with several brothers, the big pears are given to others, and the smallest pear on the table is reserved for others. Toddler himself.
This painting is obviously matched with the text painting.
Xiao Yi and Nangong Yue couldn't help but looked at each other, Nangong Yue also flipped through a few pages, sure enough, the same was true for other pages, a few lines of words accompanied by an exquisite small painting, rich in pictures and texts, interesting and easy to understand.
This is clearly a picture book of the Three Character Classic specially compiled by Guan Yubai for the little guy.
"You brat, you're lucky." Xiao Yi flicked the little guy's forehead with his finger, and the little guy smiled even more heartily, and "read" the "Three Character Classic" to the picture book with great interest.
He can't read yet, but he can read pictures!
The little guy shook his head and recited the half of the "Three Character Classic" that he knew how to memorize fluently, then closed the album again, and hugged him happily.
Nangong Yue rubbed his little head and asked, "Brother Yu, have you thanked your adoptive father?"
"Yeah." Xiao Xiaoyu nodded vigorously, he kissed his adoptive father several times!
At the same time as the answer, the little guy remembered something, tilted his head, blinked his eyes and said: "Father said, go for an outing!" Just the two of them... No, there is also Xiaosi!
The little guy smiled even more happily, his eyes narrowed into a line, and he can go out to play again!
Afterwards, the little guy excitedly imitated his mother and called the maid to prepare horses and carts, and went to see his own stable to make sure that his pony Xiaoyun was all right, so he was relieved.
His look like a little grown-up who had his heart broken made everyone couldn't help laughing again.
The night passed in the blink of an eye.
Early the next morning, the little guy woke up at dawn and urged the nursemaid and maidservants to wait for him to get up and have breakfast... Before the hour, he was already on standby, and after saying goodbye to his parents, he was valiant and high set off.
The little guy was held in the arms of his adoptive father and rode on a tall horse, enjoying the feeling of speeding.
The little guy was still young, and Guan Yubai didn't plan to take him far. He dismounted when he arrived in the eastern suburbs, which was only five or six miles away from Luoyue City. Afterwards, he let the little guy ride his little cloud and walked slowly all the way. It's leisurely.
As the saying goes: "February is the waking of stings and the vernal equinox, plant trees and fertilize the cultivated land deep."
Now is the vernal equinox, which is a good time for outing and planting.
Along the way, farmers can be seen from time to time plowing in the fields, paper kites of various shapes are flying in the air against the spring breeze, flocks of birds are scared away by a white eagle, Xiao Xiaoyu can't take his eyes off it, and from time to time applause.
Sure enough, their family's Han Yu flew the highest and fastest!
"Papa papa..."
There was another sound of flapping wings, and several black swallows were chased by the white eagle in a panic...
Xiaosi on the side frowned, turned around and saw the lake not far behind was sparkling in the spring morning light, and the weeping willows on the bank were fluttering in the wind.
A few young men and girls walked towards them talking and laughing, as if they were out for a walk.
Xiao Si was about to look away when he heard an excited male voice: "Marshal!"
All of a sudden, those boys and girls all looked in the direction of Guan Yubai. Among them, the girl walking in the front had a complicated look in her eyes. She was wearing a light purple and dark silver embroidered embroidered lotus pattern and a The black pleated skirt has a slender waist and is as demure as water.
It was Qu Jiayue.