The little eunuch gl of the demon queen

After more than a month, the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching in a blink of an eye.

The hosta and begonias in the back garden were in full bloom. Yao Xi went to pick some begonias early in the morning and put them in vases. They placed them on the table in the study, laid out paper and rubbed ink to prepare for painting.Thanks to my mother's teaching these days, her calligraphy and painting have greatly improved, and Sister Shuanglan often comes to teach her how to embroider. Slowly, she really has the appearance of a lady.

At least it seems so.

Wan Yu sat leaning on the chair, playing with the embroidered handkerchief Yao Xi made for her, and said, "Xi girl. The Ai family heard from the emperor yesterday that your parents will arrive in Beijing in a few days." Father Yao As soon as Yao's mother arrives in Beijing, Yao Xi will definitely go home and live there for a while, no matter how sad or reluctant she is, she can't stop her.

"Hmm." Yao Xi's pen paused, and he said in a complicated mood: "When my sister came over in the morning, we discussed whether we wanted to leave the palace earlier and clean up the house." After the incident with the third princess, she said He never thought of going out of the palace, and was devoted to staying with the empress in the palace.Sister Shuanglan came to talk to her, and she also pestered the queen mother not to let her go, clinging to her almost from morning till night.

The two of them have been facing each other for such a long time, so it is reasonable to say that they will get tired of it.But not only did she and the empress dowager not feel bored, on the contrary they became more and more inseparable from each other.

However, parting is imminent.Even though she knew it was temporary, she didn't feel good about it.

Wan Yu lowered her eyes, feeling sad for a moment, raised her head and said to Yao Xi with a smile, "Of course I want to. You can't let the second elder stay in a hotel after he arrives in Beijing?"

"Father and mother should be here when the house is cleaned up." Yao Xi lowered his head and said in a low voice, "I may not be able to return to the palace until after the Mid-Autumn Festival. I heard from my sister that many elders in the clan are coming. First, to clean up the dust for parents, and second Lead me to the ancestral hall to kneel down and worship the ancestors of the Yao family."

"Enter the ancestral hall?" The expression on Wan Yu's face changed from sadness to surprise.Daxing respects ancient rituals, and unmarried women must follow their husband's family name in the future, so they are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall.

Yao Xi nodded. "When I first heard about it, I was as surprised as my mother. My sister said that in the past, female family members of the Yao family were not allowed to enter the ancestral hall. Later, it was father who told the elders that bowing down to the ancestors is filial piety, and filial piety does not distinguish between men and women, so the elders reluctantly agreed. "When she was in the Sun family, Sun Ergou didn't allow her to enter the ancestral hall, and so did the neighbors. The daughter seemed to be picked up.

After hearing this, Wan Yu couldn't help but look up to Yao Hezheng.Most of those who went to study and become officials were sour people. She had seen a lot of them, but she never thought that Yao Hezheng was not only upright, but even more rare was that he treated his children equally. "Worshiping and kneeling to the ancestors is a big event, you can go there with peace of mind, and don't have to rush back to the palace."

"...Mmmm." Yao Xi sat back on the chair, tore off the crabapple he had just painted in front of him, spread the drawing paper again, and said to the empress, "The empress is looking at me."

Wan Yu smiled softly: "Didn't you keep watching? What's the matter, do you want to draw Aijia?"

Yao Xi picked up the pen and nodded, choked up and said: "Yes. At least you can read it when you miss your mother."

Wan Yu's eyes were also red, she stood up and said to Yao Xi: "Wait a minute, Ai's family will go back to the dormitory to dress up first." She was more worried than moved.Although Yao Xi's painting skills have improved a lot, it is not enough to paint her as a monster, but it is still very limited.

This painting took two hours, Wan Yu's back was almost useless, Yao Xi was still busy at his desk.

"Are you ready?" Wan Yu couldn't bear it any longer.

Yao Xi straightened up and rubbed his waist, hesitatingly said: "Okay... let's go." There was no confidence in his words.

Wan Yu guessed that the painting was not very good.But she was already mentally prepared, the girl has good intentions, she must join in the show!

"Look at Aijia." Wan Yu stood up with relief, walked to the desk and carefully picked up the unfinished painting.She was wrong, she overestimated Yao Xi.Although love blinded her reason, it did not blind her eyes.

She is not blind!

"That's great. It's much better than last time." Wan Yu said sincerely.It's really much better than last time, last time it was so ugly that there was no human figure, but this time it can be seen that it is a portrait of a woman.Although not beautiful at all!Even a little ugly! ! !

If Yao Xi would look at this portrait when he missed her, he might not want to go back to the palace just looking at it.

"Drawing flowers and plants these days is obviously fine, but for some reason, painting portraits is still the same." Yao Xi said dejectedly.

When painting flowers and plants, it doesn't matter if the branches and leaves are out of the way, and it doesn't matter if the petals are bigger or smaller.Portraits are not good, the nose is a little bit off, the eyes are a little bit smaller, and the mouth is a little bit crooked, the difference will be huge.

Learning to paint doesn't happen overnight, and Wan Yu didn't expect Yao Xi to be very good at painting. She rolled up the painting with a smile and said, "I will keep this painting well, and I will give you the painting I brought out of the palace in front of the mirror." The painting was drawn by Aijia, and the people in the painting are also Aijia, wouldn't it be better for you to take it with you to see things and think about people?"

"Your Majesty is so kind." Yao Xi threw himself into the arms of the Empress Dowager and said coquettishly.

***

The day when the two sisters leave the palace and return to Yao's mansion is coming soon.

There are more than a dozen boxes on the open space outside the main hall, containing food and clothing.Aunt Liufang led more than twenty court ladies and eunuchs to wait beside the box. They followed the order of the Empress Dowager to the Yao Mansion to serve Yao Gongling.

Wan Yu led Yao Xi to the entrance of the main hall, but was reluctant to push the door open.

She couldn't bear it.She had never been separated from Yao Xi for such a long time.

"Your Majesty. I should—" Yao Xi stretched out his hand to touch the door, when the Empress Dowager suddenly embraced her, lowered her head and kissed her.

Wan Yu hugged her tightly and kissed her hard, as if she would lose Yao Xi forever if she let go.

"Promise to Aijia, you will definitely come back after the Mid-Autumn Festival!" Wan Yu caressed Yao Xi's slightly swollen lips and urged.

Tears flashed in Yao Xi's eyes: "Yeah. My sister must have packed up and waited for me. Madam, don't be sad. She will be back in ten days at most." She said Madam, don't be sad, but she herself shed tears.

"Silly girl, don't cry." Wan Yu took out a handkerchief to help Yao Xi wipe away tears, and urged, holding back her reluctance, "Go. If you want to mourn, take out the painting and have a look."

The parting between Yao Shuanglan and Longyi was not difficult, they had already gotten used to the separation and reunion they had experienced for too long, and neither of them had the kind of warm and clingy temperament.

"Are you back?" Longyi's unhappiness was written all over his face.

She is not afraid of a short parting, but she is afraid that this parting will be a permanent parting.Yao Xi was promoted to the rank of palace magistrate, and she must return to the palace to serve the queen mother, and Yao Xian's whereabouts were unknown. Only Shuanglan could stay with Yao's father and mother to fulfill her filial piety.

"Yeah. I have to send Shuangzhu back." Yao Shuanglan said in a low tone.She knew what Longyi was worried about, but between her elderly parents and Longyi, she would really choose her parents.Although it is unlikely that they will be separated again, it is difficult to imagine staying together every day like this in Gongli.

"What about after sending her back to the palace?" Long Yi asked again.

Yao Shuanglan bowed her head and remained silent.

"Okay. Then I'll move next door to your house and honor the elders with you." Longyi asked Shuanglan a little angrily: "To be honest, did you just think about not wanting me again?"

"No. I'm just thinking in my heart that maybe we won't be able to see each other often in the future." Yao Shuanglan quietly looked at Longyi and said softly, "How could I not want you?" Seeing someone coming from the other side of the stream, she hurriedly pulled Longyi away Hand said: "Then I'll go back first, if it's convenient for you, you can move, otherwise I will go to the fief often to see you."

"Okay. Slow down on the way. Just send someone to tell me what you want at home." Long Yi helped Yao Shuanglan into the carriage.They packed their luggage early in the morning, and they can leave in the car.

***

The carriage stopped in front of an old house.

The paint on the door is mottled, the stone steps are slightly sunken under the polishing of years, and the stone lion guarding the door is also covered with moss.Everything has a sense of old history, only the plaque with the word "Yao Mansion" is brand new.

Yao Xi was helped out of the carriage by Aunt Liufang, she walked to Yao Shuanglan's carriage, and waited respectfully for her sister to come down.Seeing Yao Shuanglan lift the curtain, Yao Xi hurriedly handed her hands to Yao Shuanglan: "Sister, slow down."

"You are a first-rank palace order now, and I should serve you." Yao Shuanglan smiled, took Yao Xi's hand, and got out of the car neatly.

Yao Xi smiled and said: "The rules in the palace are the rules in the palace. At home, you are my elder sister and I am my younger sister."

There was already a group of people waiting outside the gate of Yao Mansion.

Yao Shuanglan walked to the door and saluted the young man standing at the front: "The daughter of the people has seen the prince." If the Yao family's ancestral house hadn't been taken care of by Prince Kang's son Feng Ning, it might not be there anymore.

Feng Ning also bowed his hands to Yao Shuanglan and said: "Senior sister, don't be too polite." Feng Ning smiled and looked at Yao Xi beside Yao Shuanglan and said, "I don't know what to call this girl? Should I call you Yao Gongling or Wan Gongzi?"

Yao Shuanglan looked at Yao Xi suspiciously.Yao Xi was watching from the side just now, and he always felt that this elder son looked familiar, so it turned out to be the son who always went to the teahouse to listen to his storytelling.The capital city is really small... Yao Xi whispered in his sister's ear, explaining roughly the origin of the name Wan Gongzi.

"This is my sister-in-law. If you don't mind my son, just call her junior sister." Yao Shuanglan said with a smile.

"Feng Ning, I met my junior sister." Feng Ning's face was not showing any signs of dew, but his heart was already muttering.Senior sister Shuanglan entered the palace and became a nobleman and was promoted to Jieyu, but she was suddenly deposed from the palace.He had heard about Eunuch Yao early in the morning, but who knew that he had changed into Miss Yao, and now he became his little junior sister again.What happened?

He was not easy to ask, and pointed to the people behind him and said to Yao Shuanglan: "I have recruited all the servants dismissed by my teacher, and the things in the mansion have not been greatly disturbed. But last year, a strong wind blew down a house, and I decided to rebuild it on my own." gone."

Yao Shuanglan was indescribably grateful, Feng Ning left the well-built Kang Wang Mansion and moved here all the time, just to take care of their Yao family's ancestral house.

"Second Miss." The servants bowed to Yao Shuanglan, and said to Yao Xi, "Third Miss."

Seeing the familiar faces in front of her eyes, Yao Shuanglan couldn't help but burst into tears.It seemed as if nothing had happened to the Yao family, as if everyone had never left.She held Yao Xi's hand, and asked her softly, "Did you remember anything?"

Yao Xi nodded and said, "When I was a child, I fell down on this stone step. It seems that this mother-in-law helped me." Later, she had many dreams, which became more and more clear.Gradually, Sun Xibao's memory transformed into her memory, some from the Yao family and some from the Sun family.The grandparents treated Xibao really well, and when she had time to wait, she had to go to the grave of the second elder to kowtow and offer incense in order to repay Xibao for their kindness in nurturing her.

"I even broke my nose." The old lady pointed by Yao Xi picked up her sleeve and wiped her tears, "I didn't expect Miss San to grow up safely and still remember me as an old lady." The third lady, Shuangzhu, was killed by that bastard handyman in the house.

Yao Shuanglan held Yao Xi's hand even tighter, and said to the crowd with a trembling voice: "Let's go in and talk, it's not good to stand outside."

***

Wan Yu often communicates with Longyi these days.

The two of them sat in the courtyard, drinking wine while looking at the direction of Yao Mansion leisurely.

Wan Yu used to despise Longyi the most for using wine to drown his sorrows, but he didn't expect that he would also degenerate now.She drank wine while eating cream crabs, and after a while, she drank half a pot of wine, and her voice floated up: "How many days have they been away?"

"Four days." Long Yi habitually filled Wan Yu's empty glass with wine, but urged: "The Queen Mother should drink less."

"It's only been four days!" Wan Yu drank another glass of wine in disappointment and said, "Why don't we go out of the palace to see them?"

"No. Uncle Yao and Aunt Yao have already arrived in Beijing, and they must be very busy receiving the wind and worshiping their ancestors. Aren't we going to cause trouble for others?" Longyi peeled the crab legs and said, "Wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival feast is over. People came back, what is the queen mother anxious about?" She had already bought the house across the street from Yao Mansion, but she was not in a hurry to move.The streets are so narrow, if she moves, the Yao family's guests will have nowhere to go.

Mid-Autumn Festival?Wan Yu pinched his fingers and made up his mind.There are still five days until the Mid-Autumn Festival!But she couldn't bear it any longer.