"Actually, you should listen to what the mistress has to say." Yan Ruiyuan has always been taciturn and will not comfort others. "No matter what your decision is, I will support you."
Ji Yannuo just smiled and said nothing. Yan Ruiyuan wanted to say something else, but in the end he just patted him on the shoulder. There were some things that the person involved had to figure out.
"Brother, senior brother, what are you whispering?!" A little girl of seven or eight years old ran back with clear eyes and handed the mask in her hand to Ji Yannuo, "Brother, I want
this."
"Okay." Ji Yannuo agreed with a smile and reached out to pick up the little girl in front of him. Just as he was about to pay, Yan Ruiyuan had already paid the money before him. When he saw the fox mask in the little girl's hand, his expression changed.
I couldn't help but feel a little softer.
Ji Mianxi nestled in her brother's arms with peace of mind. Ever since Ji Mingnan passed away, Ji Yannuo had been completely obedient to her and obeyed him in everything. So did his senior brother.
"Brother, I'm a little hungry." The little girl said crisply, with a bit of squeamishness in her voice. During this period, Ji Mianxi clung to Ji Yannuo almost every day, and now she nestled in her lap like a kitten.
In her arms, she is so well-behaved that it makes people feel distressed.
"Okay, whatever you want to eat, my brother will buy it for you."
"Braised lion's head, sweet and sour carp, mandarin fish with pine nuts..." the little girl said with her fingers. Ji Yannuo wrote them down one by one and carried her into the guest house.
Xuezhai.
"Madam." Danzhu opened the curtain and walked in. Ye Qianxun was wearing plain clothes and holding a medical book, reading with interest, "The young master sent someone to send a message, saying that he will not come back for dinner today."
Ye Qianxun put down the medical book in her hand, a trace of helplessness flashed through her glass-like eyes, and she said softly, "I understand, let the kitchen prepare some pastries that Nuo'er and Xi'er like to eat, so that they won't be hungry when they come back."
Danzhu agreed and couldn't help but said, "Madam, the young master and the young lady always go out early and come back late recently, do you care?"
"With Yuan'er protecting me, nothing will happen." A trace of sadness flashed across Ye Maoxun's face, "This child will avoid me again."
"You should explain it to the young master." Danzhu said anxiously, "There is still communication between mother and son."
Ye Qianxun's eyes fell on the tree outside the window and said calmly, "King Zi Ling's injury is almost healed. Danzhu, please clean up and let's go back to Yaoyu Valley."
This time Danzhu was stunned, "Madam, what did you say?"
"Go back to Yaoyu Valley." Ye Qianxun chuckled, "How come your ears don't work well after staying in the capital for a long time?"
"No, didn't you promise King Zi Ling not to go back? And you also moved out of Ji's house. I thought..."
"What do you think?" Ye Yanxun looked at the maid in front of her who had been with her for ten years, "You think I will marry King Zi Ling?"
Without waiting for Danzhu to answer, Ye Qianxun said calmly, "It's Anan's death anniversary in a few days." The young woman's voice was faint, with a trace of nostalgia, her eyes fell in the distance, as if she was missing something, and she murmured, "I
I don’t even know what to do.”
The night was as cool as water, and the summer night wind brought a little bit of coolness. There were fewer people traveling at night, so Ji Mianxi had a great time, lying on Ji Yannuo's back, holding his neck with her little hands, while Yan Ruiyuan went to deal with it temporarily
For some things, take the first step.
"Brother." Ji Mianxi lay on the boy's back. In fact, his brother was only thirteen years old and was still a young man who had not grown up.
The girl's voice was sweet and sweet, with a hint of coquettishness, "Are you hiding from my mother anymore?"
Ji Yannuo stiffened slightly, supported the girl who was about to slide down, and said softly, "No."
The girl tilted her head, hugged the boy tightly, and said with aggrievedness in her voice, "They said my mother is getting married. Brother, does my mother not want us anymore?"
The young man held the girl's hand tightly and said in a hoarse voice, "What nonsense are you talking about? How could my mother not want us? Don't think so wildly. She will always be our mother."
"Brother." The girl put her face against the boy's back, called "brother" and stopped talking. After a while, she asked again, "Brother, are you tired?"
"You're not tired." The young man put the girl firmly on his back and said softly, "Xie'er, be good, if you're sleepy, just sleep on my brother's back. My brother will call you when you get home soon."
The girl shook her head, "Brother, will you not want Xi'er?" The girl's voice was waxy, with caution in her tone, and she continued, "I will be obedient in the future and will not mess with the medicinal materials or destroy them at will.
Yaotian, I will also share my preserves with my brother, and I will be obedient and practice calligraphy and reading. Brother, can you stay with Xier all the time?"
Speaking of this, Ji Mianxi's voice was already a bit choked up. Ji Yannuo suddenly felt a little wet on his back. His heart suddenly felt as if someone had grabbed it hard. He thought of Ji Mianxi these days.
The reason why I have been clinging to myself, but I didn’t expect that the girl would be so uneasy.
Ji Yannuo knelt down and saw that the girl's cat eyes were filled with tears and she was sobbing. He reached out and wiped the girl's eyes, "Why did Xi'er say that?"
"Dad is gone, mother will fall in love with someone else, marry someone else and have children, love someone else's children, and the eldest brother will come home sooner or later. Xi'er only has an older brother." Ji Mianxi cried very sadly, as if she had saved up her life.
A lot of grievances were vented at once, "Xie'er also has nightmares, dreaming of a sister covered in blood, and she also left. Brother, I am very scared, very scared!"
The girl cried and burped, "I think I'm going back to Yaoyu Valley. I don't like staying here. The people here are very bad. They will speak ill of my mother and secretly scold Xi'er. They don't like it at all."
No, I seem to be going back to Yaoyu Valley..."
"It's okay, it's okay." Ji Yannuo held the girl in his arms and coaxed her, her eyes slightly moist, "Xie'er, don't be afraid, brother promises you, brother will always be by your side and will never leave Xi'er.
!”
Under the moonlight, a young man was carrying a girl steadily on his back, walking steadily towards Xue Zhai step by step.
Yuzhu had been waiting for the brother and sister at the door. He saw the two from a distance and rushed to greet them, "Master." Just as he was about to pick up Ji Mianxi, Ji Yannuo stopped him and said, "Xie'er fell asleep. I carried her on my back."
Go in."
After placing Ji Mianxi in place, Ji Yannuo looked at the girl still with tears on the bed and whispered, "Sister Yuzhu, please wipe Xi'er's face."
"good."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard movement outside. Ye Qianxun walked in wearing plain clothes, "Nuo'er."
"Mother." Ji Yannuo bowed politely. The woman in front of him was still gentle, but she had become a little thinner recently.
Seeing the sweat on his face, Ye Qianxun took out the handkerchief and asked, "Are you tired? Look at how sweaty you are. Is that girl Xi'er misbehaving again?"
Ji Yannuo couldn't help but take a step back, took the handkerchief from Ye Qianxun's hand, and said, "Thank you, mother, Xi'er was very good today. I took her to play in the market for a day. She was exhausted today and has already gone to bed."
Already."
A trace of disappointment flashed across Ye Yanxun's face, and she stepped forward with a smile to tidy up the boy's clothes, "You should also go wash up and rest. I will take care of Xi'er."
"I'm going to kiss you." The young man's tone was respectful and distant. Ye Qianxun looked at the young man's thin back, sighed slightly, turned around and walked to the inner room. Seeing her daughter sleeping soundly, she reached out and took the
The maid's fan was fanned gently, and Yuzhu twisted a clean handkerchief and wiped it carefully for Ji Mianxi.
As soon as Ji Yannuo left the small courtyard, he met Yan Ruiyuan who had returned from doing something, "Senior brother."
"Xie'er is resting?" Yan Ruiyuan asked.
"Well, I fell asleep." Ji Yannuo said calmly, looking at the boy who was one year older than him in front of him, "How many people did senior brother bring in the capital?"
The Yan family is a secretive big family, and its manpower is usually kept in the dark. This time Yan Ruiyuan came to the capital, ostensibly to take care of his wife and junior sister, but secretly he would also deal with some matters left by the Yan family in the capital.
"What happened?" Yan Ruiyuan asked with a slight frown, "There were probably dozens of people."
"I need to check some things and borrow some people." Ji Yannuo said.
Yan Ruiyuan didn't ask what it was about, his voice was as cold as ever, "I'll make arrangements for you tomorrow."
"Thank you, senior brother." Ji Yannuo saluted with his hands raised.
Yan Ruiyuan nodded, "Go to bed early."
A few days later, the daughter-in-law of Zhao Fuyin's family in the capital lost her footing and fell into the water and almost died. The young master of Wang Shilang's family fell off his horse and broke his leg. He had to lie in bed for a while. The little grandson of Mr. Zhang's family went to be naughty.
He was trapped in a hornet's nest and his face was covered in stings, which made Mr. Zhang very distressed.
Yan Ruiyuan listened to the people outside talking with great interest, and glanced at the young man in front of him, "You lent me the people to do these things? Did those people offend you?"
"Not at all." Ji Yannuo said lightly, "They made Xi'er cry, so naturally they have to be taught a lesson."
But he didn't notice that Yan Ruiyuan's eyes suddenly darkened next to him, and he said coldly, "I should be taught a lesson. Why didn't I listen to you?"
"If senior brother knew, those people wouldn't be as slightly injured as they are now. After all, the Yan family is far away from the capital. There are some things that are more appropriate for me to take action than for senior brother to do." Ji Yannuo took a sip of tea and said calmly.
The young man in front of him grew up almost overnight. The calmness in his body was somewhat similar to that of Ji Nanbei, and his demeanor became more and more similar.
"Aren't you afraid that Mistress will find out and blame you?" Yan Ruiyuan had a smile in his eyes.
"It's not like you don't know how protective my mother is. Even if you know, so what? She just scolds you, and I'm not in the way." Ji Yannuo looked at the people coming and going in the capital and sighed, "The capital is prosperous.
It seems that it has always been so prosperous, but I kind of miss the peaceful days of Yaoyu Valley."
Yan Ruiyuan saw a red figure in the crowd and said softly, "I did see a familiar figure."