Ningxiang Pavilion
Yan Yan didn't show any other difference from the past. She walked with Yan Mo in the garden for a quarter of an hour before the sister and brother returned to the house.
After Yan Mo returned to the house, he first drank a bowl of thickly boiled brown sugar and ginger soup. After sweating, he was carried into a large basin of light brown bath soup by Dong's mother. After two quarters of an hour, I washed it with clean water, and put him on the soft quilt after putting on a soft coat for him.
By this time, Yan Mo was already extremely tired, and fell into a sweet sleep after hitting the pillow.
Yan Yan came over to look at Yan Mo, told the maids to be more careful at night, and then returned to her room.
She was a little uneasy. In the past, at this point, she should go to bed and meditate after taking a bath, but she was not in this mood at this time. Madam Hui also said that when you are restless, don't practice, it's easy to make mistakes.
She paced back and forth in the house a few times, and then said to go to the small yard at the back.
Seeing this, Mei Xiang and the other maids did not dare to follow.
The three girls are not allowed to have maids by their side when they practice martial arts. But she has been very assertive since she was a child, and she is rich and noble, but she is not angry and powerful. Although she is not young, in fact, several close maids around her are full of awe for her.
There is a stone table in the small courtyard, and there are square stone benches around the stone table. Yan Yan is not practicing martial arts as the maids expected, but sitting on the stone bench, turning an Emei thorn quickly in her hand. , looking a little stunned.
Madam Hui appeared beside her. Madam Hui's residence was in the only wing in this small courtyard. As soon as Yan Yan stepped into the courtyard, she noticed it. When she went out, she saw the three girls looking thoughtful, and she didn't even notice when she came over.
Madam Hui came to the table and sat down and said softly, "Is there something in your heart, girl?"
Yan Yan glanced at her sideways and nodded.
"About the lady?"
Madam Hui is not a fool. Although she is usually quiet in Ningxiang Pavilion and rarely shows her face in front of people, she knows everything in this courtyard. Sometimes human ears are too sensitive, which is also a very annoying thing. The more you listen, the more you think, and the troubles arise.
Ignorance is a blessing, this sentence is not wrong.
"My father is back, my mother she..."
Madam Hui smiled, "The girl is a little dazed?"
Yan Yan was stunned and nodded slowly.
"It's normal for a girl to feel at a loss. Since she's at a loss, don't do anything, just wait and see. The girl is still young, so adults should worry about their own affairs."
"But—" Yan Yan didn't know what to say, just like her complicated heart.
Madam Hui smiled, looked at the moon in the sky and said softly: "Actually, when we first came to the girl, Madam Hui was not used to it. We are people who run around the world, licking blood all our lives, just to earn a bite to eat. We have come to riches and honors. People, wherever they see, they are dressed in brocade and food, extremely wealthy and carefree, that is something that I never dared to imagine before."
Yan Yan listened quietly.
"I was really not used to it at first, and I felt that there were too many differences between people, but after a long time, I found that there are troubles everywhere, where is there a real peace and happiness in life?! The circles we live in are very different. In the past, there was a disagreement, a big fight, white knives in red knives out, happy revenge. But here people say a word in a dozen twists, behind every word Hidden a different purpose."
"Is this why Aunt Hui was reluctant to speak when she first came?"
Madam Hui smiled, "Maybe, at that time I looked around at a loss, I didn't know where the future was going, I didn't want to talk, I didn't know what to say. I've been here for a long time and lived for a long time, but I don't like to talk."
At that time, Mother Hui was still living in Jinseyuan with Yan Yan, and everything around her was completely different from her previous life. But Madam Hui, who is like a country woman, is a little out of place, especially when I heard that she was here to teach the three girls martial arts. Some maids thought she was an outlier and excluded her, and Madam Hui was always silent. , only appears when Yan Yan needs her, and usually stays at home.
At that time, Shen Yiyao was very dissatisfied with Yan Yan's martial arts practice, but for some reason she condoned it. Mingming always reprimanded Xiao Yanyan for not being a girl at home, but in front of Duke Zhen Guo's mansion, she smiled and said that her daughter is really talented in martial arts.
At that time, Yan Yan didn't understand why, but then she slowly understood. When people grow up, they will always face all kinds of problems and helplessness. So what is it that makes Shen Yiyao with a simple mind so insincere
Suspicion of his own father has arisen since then.
But seeing her father returning to the mansion today still easily affected her mother's emotions, and Yan Yan's mood was very complicated. It was clearly planned, it was already started, and it was she who opened the box, she actually started to contradict.
"The girl is tangled and conflicted?"
Yan Yan did not speak.
"Then do you remember the original purpose?"
Purpose? At that time, there was no purpose, just that I couldn't bear it, I couldn't condone it. The only thing that can be called a purpose is to protect Ah Mo and grow up...
"Then, do you regret doing this?"
No regrets.
She shook her head firmly.
"Wouldn't that be fine?"
Yeah, wouldn't that be fine? Why should she think too much, she just needs to protect Ah Mo. She doesn't need to take care of other external matters, as my grandfather once said.
At that time, she could understand her grandfather's meaning, and she always understood it, but when something happened suddenly, and when her mother's attitude changed drastically, she became uneasy.
For a long time, Yan Yan felt relieved and smiled.
She tightened the Emei thorn in her hand and stood up.
"Aunt Hui, there are a few parts of this move that I always feel are not smooth enough, I used it, can you see?"
Madam Hui smiled and nodded.
***
The early morning light poured in from the window lattice, bringing a little light to the dark room.
Shen Yiyao woke up leisurely, and as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw her husband looking at her softly.
Thinking of last night, she blushed slightly, "Husband."
Yan Ting patted her and sat up straight. His sturdy upper body was only covered with a middle coat, and the front of the shirt was half-open, revealing a lean and strong chest. He picked up a gilt bell on the low table beside the bed and shook it. After a while, the maids entered.
The maids were divided into two groups, one group served Yan Ting to change clothes and wash, and the other group served Shen Yiyao. Shen Yiyao was sitting in front of the dressing table, looking at her husband who was getting dressed in the mirror, Furong's face was slightly embarrassed with a sweet smile on her face.
"What laughing?"
In a trance, Shen Yiyao was taken aback, she was a little embarrassed, "No, no..."
Yan Tinglang laughed loudly, patted her slender back, and said, "Quickly change, and please go to my mother later."
After he finished speaking, he went to sit on the side chair and did not go out.
Although she has been a wife for more than ten years, Shen Yiyao is also quite shy. Immediately, the maids changed their clothes and combed their hair. Fangcao opened the jewelry box, took out the jewelry from it, and took it with her. Before he could get started, Yan Ting took it and helped Shen Yiyao carry it.
After a while, Shen Yiyao blushed, Yan Ting joked that she was so easy to be shy after being a child.
As they were talking, someone outside notified Auntie Pei, Auntie Wu and several young masters that they had come to greet Mrs. Hou and the two of them went out together.
Concubine Pei was dressed very beautifully today. She was wearing a half-arm honey-colored skirt in the color of Xia Ying, which made her skin fairer and softer. Yan Hong and Yan Qian followed her, obediently and obediently, especially Yan Hong, who changed his usual escape.
Aunt Wu is a person with few words and no sense of existence. She has a melon-seeded face, almond eyes and cherry lips, beautiful eyebrows and eyes, wearing a satin skirt with embroidered and broken branches of magnolia and moon pigments, and a pink and purple silk and pearl belt around her waist. A waist. The fifth girl, Yan Chan, is a little girl with little sense of existence like her aunt, and she looks a little timid after following Wu aunt.
Several people stepped forward to greet him and sat down next.
Yan Ting looked at it and said, "Why didn't Ayan and Mo'er come?"
Shen Yiyao was in a hurry to say what to say, and Fang Cao smiled and said: "The three girls practice martial arts every day, sometimes the time is unfortunate, so they don't come to Jinse Courtyard, and go directly to Rong'an Hall to greet the old lady. Falling down. The fourth young master is not in good health, and he has a lot of sleepiness. The wife is considerate and does not scold the young master to come to Jinseyuan to ask for peace. "
This is to help Shen Yiyao to explain, and she feels a little at ease. But is this really an explanation
Yan Ting frowned, with some disagreement on his face, "A Yan is still practicing martial arts?"
Shen Yiyao nodded, and explained to her daughter, "A Yan rarely practices martial arts now, but only occasionally. After all, she has been practicing for so many years, and she can't let it go for a while. My concubine will teach her well."
Yan Ting said: "Ayan is not too young, she will have to kiss her in a few years. It is better for her daughter to be more elegant."
Shen Yiyao nodded.
Just as he was talking, Yan Yan arrived with Yan Mo.
The two respectfully stepped forward to greet him, Yan Yan lowered her head and looked away, "I hope my parents don't blame me, my daughter and brother are late."
"It's not too late, it's mother and father getting up early today."
Yan Yan glanced at Shen Yiyao and said nothing. Yan Ting didn't show any guilt either, he stood up, turned around and stroked Shen Yiyao, the husband and wife took the second room and the family to Rong'an Hall.
Today's Rong'an Hall is very lively, and everyone in each room is full of people. Everyone smiled and got along very well. The adults sat together and chatted, while the juniors went to sit in the second room when they asked for peace.
The two young masters in the big room, the eldest young master Yan Xiao and the second young master Yan Rui, are two older than Yan Mo, one is thirteen and the other is twelve. Yan Xiao looks like Uncle Yan with a chubby body, Yan Rui looks like Xue, They are small and thin, and the two of them focus on studying on weekdays.
The two were sitting together, one was drowsy and seemed to have not slept well, and the other was sitting there bored, looking around, not knowing what he was looking at.
Yan Ru, Yan Ling and Yan Qian sat together on the big kang, while the sixth and seventh girls from the third room sat on the side, accompanied by their nurses, and did not go over naughty. Yan Yan sat on the lower chair, Yan Mo sat beside her, and Yan Hong left the order, and ran to the big kang to join Yan Qian and the others.
His temperament was stubborn, and in a while, Yan Ru's face flushed, he wanted to hit her, and he was worried about his image.
"Yan Qian takes care of your brother, it's so annoying."
Yan Qian glanced at Yan Hong, her mouth curled slightly, "I can't control him, he was spoiled by my aunt, and now I even dare to beat him."
"If you come again, be careful, I will tell my grandmother and punish you severely!" Yan Ru said while holding the handkerchief.
Yan Hong made a face at her and stuck out his tongue, "I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid, my grandmother won't punish me. Don't you like to pretend to be gentle every day, why don't you pretend now?"
This arrogant child's behavior was so irritating, Yan Ru blushed, gritted her teeth, turned her eyes to Yan Mo and Yan Yan, and said, "You are a boy, what are you doing with our girls? You go to play with Yan Mo, it just so happens that the two of you have a good relationship."
A typical misfortune moves eastward, but unfortunately Yan Hong is not in the trap, or he doesn't dare to be in the trap.
He glanced at Yan Yan, who was sitting beside Yan Mo, and hummed, "I don't want to play with him!"
Yan Ru became interested, "What? Are you afraid that Yan Mo will bully you?"
Yan Hong looked contemptuous, "Just him, bullying me?"
"Then why don't you play with him? You are a father, both sons of the second uncle."
Yan Hong really couldn't stand the instigation, and looked at Yan Mo with resentment in his eyes.
Yan Yan, who had been sitting there for a while, looked at Yan Hong's eyes sharply, looked at him sharply, and looked away at Yan Ru, "Sister, have you eaten too much breakfast?"
Yan Ru couldn't react for a while, "I haven't had breakfast yet."
Yan Qian chuckled, and Yan Yan said again, "I thought you were full."
Yan Ru blushed and stared at Yan Yan, trying to say something but was too angry to speak. At this time, a maid came to report that breakfast was ready, and the girls and young men were invited to eat.
Yan Ru could only go out first angrily. In fact, she didn't dare to provoke Yan Yan. The troubles in the second room made her even more afraid of Yan Yan, and her mother also said it. , don't mess with the third girl in the second room.
The family divided several tables for breakfast at the flower hall, and then dispersed.
Yan Ting went out of Rong'an Hall and went to the front yard. It seemed that he had something to do, while Yan Yan was leading Yan Mo, Shen Yiyao and Aunt Pei and the others towards the second room.
When they arrived at Jinseyuan, Shen Yiyao stopped Yan Yan and said that she had something to tell her.
Yan Yan thought about it and asked Mei Xiang and Qin's mother to take Yan Mo back to Ningxiang Pavilion first, while she followed Shen Yiyao into Jinseyuan.
Since that day, the relationship between the mother and daughter has faded, and they rarely talk on weekdays, but suddenly Shen Yiyao doesn't know how to speak.
She thought and thought, her expression a little cramped: "You are not too young, you can say kiss in two years, then, it is better not to learn martial arts."
Yan Yan's eyes flashed and she remained silent.
Her mother had said this to her no less than dozens of times. When she was a child, she thought her mother disliked it, but after a long time, she realized that there were other things.
Yan Yan glanced at Shen Yiyao, but she couldn't see the expression in her eyes: "Don't forget, you asked me to practice martial arts at the beginning, why have you changed your mind now?"
Shen Yiyao's face suddenly turned pale, and her face showed a little pain, "A Yan—"
Yan Yan didn't go to see her, she was full of grievances at this time. She wanted to say it, but she didn't know how to say it, so she could only turn around and walk out the door.
What is going on in this world, sometimes she really doesn't understand!