Si Que put on the clothes You Yuji handed him and looked at them. This dress was not like ordinary clothes. It had five layers, with cloud patterns as the base and cranes as decorations, not to mention the exquisite embroidery patterns everywhere, which was quite grand.
Si Que looked up at You Yuji and asked, "Sister, are you going to take me somewhere to meet some noble person?"
"I don't want to see anyone." You Yuji smiled, gently took his hand, and led him out of the bathroom, walked to the dressing table, and pushed him to sit on the stool.
She stood behind Si Que and used a jade comb to comb his hair.
Bao He came in and asked if they wanted to set up breakfast. You Yuji shook her head and refused, only asking her to open the window. Bao He glanced at the two people, one sitting and the other standing, and opened the window as she was told, then quietly left.
Bao He once again sighed in her heart that the relationship between Madam and Princess Que was really good! Madam will leave Jinnan Palace soon, and by then these two people will probably be even more shameless hehe...
Bao He was stunned for a moment with a smiling face. She suddenly realized that she shouldn't call her Princess Que anymore. For a moment, she didn't know how to call her Princess Que after the two of them left the Jinnan Palace. Bao He didn't figure it out, scratching her head and walked out. As she walked, she frowned and pondered.
This was still in the Jinnan Prince's Mansion, and she had already begun to imagine the shameless life she would lead for decades after leaving.
The weather was warm, and the morning breeze carried the morning sun in, bringing life into the room. Tender green willow branches swayed by the wind occasionally floated outside the window.
Si Que looked at You Yuji behind him through the bronze mirror and felt that it was very strange. He couldn't figure out what You Yuji wanted to do. He was covered with five layers of clothes, which made him hot and uncomfortable. He didn't know when he could take them off.
A soft sigh came from You Yuji behind me.
Si Que immediately turned to look at her and asked, "What's wrong?"
You Yuji smiled, turned his head back, and continued to comb his black hair. She said softly: "How come Ah Que doesn't even remember his birthday?"
Si Que was stunned for a moment, still unsure whether today was his birthday. It wasn't that he had forgotten his birthday, but he had never cared when it was.
You Yuji combed Si Que's black hair, leaned over and placed the jade comb in her hand on the dressing table, then turned to open the drawer under the dressing table.
Si Que watched her movements and saw her take out a jade crown from the drawer.
Si Que's gaze lingered on the jade crown for a while.
"Ordinarily, the coming-of-age ceremony should be held on a chosen date. But I think there is no better day than your birthday. We won't go to the ancestral temple, and we don't need to ask the elders to tie your hair." You Yuji slowly tied up Si Que's hair and gently wrapped it around the back of her hand, then stopped. "The first crown is a black cloth crown, which means that Ah Que has grown up. The second crown is a leather crown, which means defending the country. The third crown is a noble crown, which means the family burden and step-by-step promotion."
You Yuji smiled gently and put the jade crown in her hand on him.
She said: "I don't ask you to rise to the top step by step, I just want you to live a carefree and happy life."
Si Que listened to You Yuzhi's words silently. After a long silence, he chuckled.
The coming-of-age ceremony
Ever since he was a little girl, he thought that he would never have a coming-of-age ceremony in his life. Before today, he also thought that he never cared.
You Yuji leaned over, hugged him gently, put her chin on his shoulder, turned her head to look at him with amusement, and asked: "Is this jade crown beautiful?"
Si Que looked at her in the bronze mirror. It was a familiar posture, just like the tenderness he used to have after he had done her hair and eyebrows every day.
Si Que turned his head to the side, looking at the pair of gentle eyes so close to him, and said, "Just a jade crown doesn't seem to be enough for the ceremony."
You Yuji smiled gently and said, "Then grind the ink for me."
Si Que hesitated for a moment before he stood up and walked to the desk on the side, grinding ink with his sleeves raised.
You Yuji still stood there, smiling at his tall figure walking over, until Si Que finished grinding the ink, she walked over and sat down in the chair. She unfolded a piece of rice paper, picked up the pen and thought for a moment before putting pen to paper.
You Yuji wrote a poem by Zhu Dunru.
Si Que stood beside her, looked down at her writing, and read the poem aloud.
I am a man of mountains and waters in Qingdu. Heaven has endowed me with a carefree and unrestrained character.
He once approved the rain and wind vouchers, and also submitted the cloud and moon borrowing seals.
Ten thousand poems, a thousand cups of wine, how often have I looked at the princes and kings
I am too lazy to go back to the Jade Tower and Golden Palace, so I just put on plum blossoms and get drunk in Luoyang.
"Heh." Si Que chuckled and said, "In my sister's eyes, am I such a reckless person?"
"What else?" You Yuji smiled at him, then looked away and wrote the word "疏" on the paper. She thought about it again and wrote the word "却" before "疏".
Que Shu, from then on, became Si Que's courtesy name.
You Yuji put down the pen, looked up at Si Que who was standing beside her, and said softly: "I hope you will not be burdened by the golden palace, be carefree and lazy, chant and walk slowly, and be free and happy."
Si Que didn't know what he was thinking about and didn't immediately respond to You Yuzhi's words.
After a moment, he smiled, leaned down, and put his arms around You Yuji's side. He leaned over, rubbed his cheek gently against You Yuji's face, and whispered "OK" in her ear.
It was just one word, but when You Yuji heard it, it gave rise to a thousand twists and turns of emotions. She raised her hand, gently placed her palm on his collar, and said softly, "I want to ask you something."
Si Que listened to her slightly more serious tone and said "hmm" softly: "You go ahead."
"Rumors. Are those rumors true?" You Yuzhi stepped back a little, putting some distance between them, and stared into Si Que's eyes.
Those rumors about Si Que not living to be twenty years old.
You Yuji felt that this was unlucky and was unwilling to say it clearly, but Si Que understood it. He hummed and did not explain immediately, but frowned instead.
You Yuji stared at him without blinking, and her heart tightened when he frowned.
"So-called rumors, few of them are true," Si Que said.
For some reason, You Yuji felt that Si Que's words were not true. Or rather, he seemed to be hiding something. She slowly frowned, her doubts clearly on her face.
Si Que really didn't know how to explain it to You Yujie.
He was born with a healthy body, but he had to take nourishing medicine every day. All medicines are poisonous, even nourishing medicines. So he was always sick when he was a child. If he happened to catch a cold or fall and get hurt, it would make his illness worse, and he would be seriously ill and it seemed that he could die at any time.
Therefore, the rumor that he would not live to adulthood spread.
but…
Si Que was indeed not a man who would live long, so when he first fell in love with You Yujie, he did not want to provoke her because he was about to die.
He will die soon, it's his own fault.
Si Que was a person who didn't care about life and death. Since he started to study poisons, he had tested poisons himself. Now that You Yuji asked him seriously, how should he explain? Should he tell You Yuji that he drank the poison himself in order to study the effect of the poison
This is a bit silly, and it also affects his carefree image, right
More importantly... affect the wonderful atmosphere of the moment.
He held You Yuji's hand, brought her hand to his lips, kissed her slender white fingertips, and said: "Que Shuke can't bear to leave Yuanyuan, and will live well."
—I am seriously researching the antidote.
real.
You Yuji couldn't tell whether she was relieved or not. She still frowned, and after a while of silence, she whispered softly, "If you agree, don't regret it, or I will carry your tablet and marry someone else."
Here we go again!
Si Que immediately raised his eyes and stared at You Yuzhi, giving her a warning look.
You Yuji's frowned brows slowly relaxed, and a gentle smile reappeared between her brows.
Si Que held her hand and rubbed his face repeatedly with the back of her fingers. His voice also became hoarse: "This dress is indeed beautiful, but it's too hot. It's five layers. Sister, can you take it off for me?"
He gently bit You Yuji's fingertips again and looked deeply into her eyes.
The warm breeze of April morning blew in, but it couldn't blow away the charming atmosphere that was gradually rising in temperature in the house.
You Yuji's eyes paused for a moment.
Si Que looked at her expression and immediately had a bad feeling in his heart. In recent days, every time she rejected him, she had this look in her eyes. He eagerly said "sister" before You Yuji opened her mouth to refuse, and then said: "Today is Que Shu's birthday."
You Yuji couldn't help but curl her eyes when she heard the coquettish tone in his low and magnetic voice. But she still shook her head slowly under Si Que's gaze.
Si Que suddenly felt that this coming-of-age ceremony was not so happy, and he loosened his grip on You Yuzhi's hand.
But You Yuji held his hand.
Si Que lowered his eyes and glanced at her, snorted coldly, and said coldly: "There are too many tricks of playing hard to get."
Humph, even if you take off all your clothes now, I still wouldn’t bother to even look at you!
You Yuji smiled and said softly, "I don't know if this counts as a birthday gift."
She took Si Que's hand and placed it on her abdomen, then slowly raised her eyes to look at him, with stars in her soft eyes. She said, "Our stars."
Si Que was stunned.
Then, Si Que immediately withdrew his hand, took a step back, and blurted out: "It turns out I'm not sick!"
Hearing this, You Yuji opened her beautiful eyes slightly in surprise and looked at him, then laughed. She smiled and handed her hand to Si Que. Si Que then held her hand, took another step forward, and returned to her side. You Yuji and his hands overlapped and placed them on her lower abdomen.
"I took the pulse myself. I hope I didn't make a fool of myself." You Yuji lowered her eyes and smiled. "It's less than two months old. The pulse is very weak. I'll find a doctor to confirm it tomorrow."
Si Que said "Oh", still thinking that he was really not incapable.
After a long while, he finally realized that there was no need to ask a doctor. He only knew how to diagnose a pulse. Then he held You Yuji's hand, placed his fingertips on her pulse, and listened carefully to the sound of the stars.
You Yuji looked at him tenderly.
You Yuji had been waiting for this child for too long, and she was afraid of making a fool of herself so she decided to ask a doctor tomorrow. In fact, she knew in her heart that she had made no mistake in the diagnosis.
This long-awaited star finally fell into her belly.
You Yuji looked at Si Que's profile and said seriously, "Since I was very young, my father taught me all kinds of skills, hoping that I would not be someone who relies on others for everything."
Si Que looked over.
"But can you let Xingxing and I lean on you?"
"Okay." Si Que didn't hesitate.
You Yuji held Si Que's hand, smiling gently and beautifully: "Then you must live well and not die even a moment earlier than me."
"Okay." Si Que agreed, "I'll bury you with my own hands before I leave."
You Yuzhi was stunned. She felt that there seemed to be nothing wrong with what Si Que said, but also that something seemed to be very wrong.
Si Que suddenly burst into laughter.
"I'm not going to pay attention to you." You Yuji turned around, took the pen from the pen holder on the desk, and drew a little turtle behind the word "Que Shu" stroke by stroke.
Si Que watched her painting with a smile, and when she finished, he praised her, "Well done."
You Yuji stared at him with a smile. She didn't want to hear him continue talking nonsense, but she didn't want him to continue praising her: "Very lifelike, vivid and vivid, it jumps off the paper."
You Yuji shook her head and didn't want to pay attention to this fool.
"When I was looking for seeds, I wanted to find someone who was good-looking and smart. Why do I feel now that the person I found has some problems with his brain?" You Yuji complained, with the smile in her eyes still there.
She held the pen and pondered for a while, then drew another little turtle next to the little turtle.
The two turtles were huddled together.
Then a smaller turtle appeared.
You Yuji put down his pen in annoyance, and realized that he had also become stupid.