After the prosperous Tang Dynasty

"Princess?" In Princess Wan'an's carriage, a young gentleman asked softly when he saw her expression was wrong.

Only then did Princess Wan'an look away, and she casually let go of the curtain of the carriage. The moment before the curtain fell naturally, after careful maintenance, it still looked soft and fair, like a girl's fingers, which had already lightly caressed the girl who had just spoken. On the neck of a young man.

"It's nothing." After a while, Princess Wan'an, who was leaning on his shoulders, closed her eyes slightly to hide the gloomy resentment and calculations inside, let go of her fingers, and replied slowly.

Because of this little episode, Xiao Yansui stopped there on his horse.

Li Tan also happened to catch a glimpse of the figure in the carriage just now, and the frightened and angry eyes of the other party flashed for a moment, which was almost shocking.

"Princess Wan'an." Li Tan repeated in a low voice, unable to understand.

"It's her." Xiao Yansui nodded slightly, and her voice was extremely soft. Even if Li Tan was beside her, she could only hear a little sound, and even guessed that the second half of Xiao Yansui's words, It shouldn't be a good word...

He vaguely remembered that at the palace banquet that year, Princess Wan'an and Xiao Yansui seemed to be at odds with each other, but Li Tan never expected that after so many years, their opposing positions would not change at all. What's more, this hatred is getting deeper and deeper.

But obviously, for so many years, Xiao Yansui and Princess Wan'an had almost no chance to meet each other except for a few palace banquets...

Moreover, no matter how exquisite and charming Princess Wan'an is, she can't hide the fact that she is actually the same generation as Xiao Yansui and Li Tan's parents.To put it bluntly, since the time when she actually targeted Xiao Yansui who was still a child, there was an indistinct weirdness everywhere in this matter.

Because of the appearance of Princess Wan'an, most of Xiao Yansui's original good mood was destroyed. Li Tan, who was walking with her, naturally also noticed the change in Xiao Yansui's mood, even though he coaxed Xiao Yansui to say something along the way. She just smiled politely in response to the interesting incident in Chang'an City, but the smile was not as deep as her eyes.

It was not until the gate of Xu Guogong's mansion that Xiao Yansui finally cheered up a little, reined in the reins, stopped in front of the gate, and then turned to Li Tan with a smile: "I'm fine, don't worry. Thank you for taking me all the way back .”

Li Tan also shook his head with a smile, and glanced at the doorman of Xu Guogong's mansion. Except for the person who had rushed back to report the letter just now, there were still people who stayed in place and waited respectfully. Knowing that some things should not be said here, he just said: "Hurry up." go in!"

Xiao Yansui looked at him and nodded. After the two had parted, she turned around and went in.

After nearly two years, Xiao Yansui walked into the house and found that there seemed to be not much change in Xu Guogong's mansion where he grew up. At most, there were a little bit of extremely familiar patterns due to the changes of the four seasons/flowers blooming and withering, and pruning of plants and trees. slight difference.

After entering the courtyard, Xiao Yansui didn't even get off his horse, thinking that his father Xiao Hua probably hadn't come back at this moment, so he went directly to Pei's courtyard, so surprised that several maidservants didn't even have time to pass a message inside, so they directly talked with just now The porter who came to deliver the letter met him.

Xiao Yansui just dismounted, threw the reins to the person next to him, and strode in. Before the person arrived, he yelled loudly: "Aniang!"

Mrs. Pei had also walked out of the room quickly, just in time to catch a glimpse of Xiao Yansui's sharp movements and dismounted, and Dang even couldn't help but said: "Slow down!"

"Aniang, I'm back." Xiao Yansui had already walked to Pei's side.

Not to mention taking a nap in the carriage before, for the sake of comfort, the hair was combed loosely, and the clothes were also made of extremely soft materials. In addition, after entering Chang'an City, the horses were blowing the wind, and the hair on her body was even more frizzy. It looks messy, and that kind of energy that is busy in the world can be regarded as vividly expressed.

Seeing her precious daughter again after such a long time, Pei's heart was full of joy, no matter how much she wanted to hold her hand and let her talk by her side, she couldn't help but keep caring, "It's a long journey back this way. You are exhausted! Take a good rest first, and then talk to Auntie."

Xiao Yansui originally wanted to say it was fine, but after thinking about it, she nodded and agreed, planning to take a shower and change clothes first, and then come over to have dinner with her mother, Mrs. Pei.

Soaking comfortably in the bathtub, the bathroom is filled with slightly steaming heat, and the sight becomes unclear.

Xiao Yansui leaned there, still slightly distracted.

It was unexpected for her to meet Princess Wan'an on Zhuque Street today.

The most important thing is that after so many years, Xiao Yansui, who felt that her big revenge had been rewarded, felt refreshed after having suffered a severe loss from Princess Wan'an in the first place. Princess Ann obviously didn't think so.

The eyes she looked at today were full of malice, and Xiao Yansui was frightened for a moment when she saw it.

As far as Xiao Yansui herself was concerned, Princess Wan'an's reaction was actually very abnormal.However, thinking about the madness of Princess Wan'an back then, if you don't treat her as a normal person, but as a psychopath with a distorted and paranoid personality, it would make more sense...

However, the only thing she didn't understand was falling back to the far side - what kind of enmity was there between the original Princess Wan'an and her.

The more Xiao Yansui thought about it, the more complicated it became. At the beginning, she tested her grandfather Pei Yaoqing, but she didn't get an answer. Even now, Xiao Yansui herself feels that the person Princess Wan'an hates should not be her mother Pei. However, if this is the case, her malice towards herself seems to become even more difficult to explain...

If grandfather Xiao Song was here, Xiao Yansui could go over and discuss with him, but after being replaced by mother Pei, father Xiao Hua and others, Xiao Yansui directly suppressed this plan.

--No way, although her parents are also quite partial to her, but this kind of love for their children is different from the indulgence that grandfather Xiao Song took for granted.

After much deliberation, Xiao Yansui made up his mind - anyway, Li Tan knew about this at the beginning, so let's talk to him alone later, after all, Princess Wan'an is his aunt anyway, Li Tan is more Somehow, he should know better than her.

It wasn't until Xiao Yansui finally soaked herself in the bathtub until her body became weak, and all her fatigue disappeared, but she was too lazy to move, that she finally thought about what must be a lively dinner today. , got up unsteadily, changed into comfortable clothes, and then went to Pei's house again.

At this moment, apart from Mrs. Pei, Xiao Hua, Xiao Heng, and Xiao Wu also came back. When Xiao Yansui arrived, the room that was already talking and laughing suddenly became more lively.

Xiao Hua looked Xiao Yansui up and down, and then said firmly: "It's grown taller."

Xiao Yansui nodded, and replied with a smile: "Naturally." A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl is not in puberty, and she hasn't seen her for nearly two years. It's normal to grow taller!

Mrs. Pei walked over directly, pulled her daughter to the seat beside her, and watched carefully her daughter's gradually opened, more delicate eyebrows and eyes, the love and joy in the eyes almost overflowed, "Is there nothing along the way?" Have a good rest? It is true that you have grown taller, why does it look thinner than when you were a child..."

After all, in Lanling's hometown, Xiao Yansui lived with Xiao Song. Although Pei instinctively felt that her daughter must have suffered a lot without being by her side, but thinking about Xiao Song, there is no way to say this .

"I'll be back right now. During this time, I'll wait for Auntie to get me something delicious every day." Xiao Yansui joked with a smile.

However, before her words fell, Xiao Heng had already realized the subtleties in the conversation, and he couldn't help but pause slightly when he was holding chopsticks to give Xiao Yansui the dish that Xiao Yansui liked when he was a child, and asked : "During this time?"

Mrs. Pei was only looking at her daughter, and didn't notice this just now, but when Xiao Heng opened his mouth, she naturally reacted, and was a little stunned. After a while, she subconsciously asked softly: "Liu Niang?"

Xiao Hua is aware of his father Xiao Song's temperament, he has been an official in the court for many years, and coupled with being a father, he naturally behaves very restrained, and he thought about it: "During this period - is it what you Aunt meant? Six Mother will live at home for a while?"

"This, why—" Pei's gentle eyes even flashed a look of helplessness.

Xiao Yansui smiled and joked with Mrs. Pei first, then nodded, and replied: "I plan to go back a few years ago. There is only Ah Weng in the old house. I usually go fishing, play chess and visit friends. Lively, naturally not obvious, at the end of the year, with everyone around me, I feel a little lonely after all."

As soon as Xiao Yansui said this, Mrs. Pei was extremely reluctant, and couldn't express her intention to refuse.

After all, Xiao Song is an elder. As the real patriarch of the feudal family in Duke Xu's mansion, even if he retires and returns home, his status is still unshakable.What Xiao Yansui said was in the name of filial piety, on this point, even Xiao Hua couldn't refute it in the slightest.

The atmosphere was a little stagnant for a while, but luckily they were all from my own family. After so long, they finally got together. Naturally, there were endless things to say, and the room soon became lively again.

In the next few days, apart from following Mrs. Pei, Xiao Yansui went around the residence of his grandfather's family, Xiao Yansui almost didn't go out. He stayed at home all day talking and joking with his mother Mrs. Mrs. Pei, and even, Because Xiao Yansui said that she would go back to her hometown a few years ago, she was arrested by Mrs. Pei and began to learn about housekeeping.

After all, Xiao Yansui will soon be 16 years old. To be honest, it's a bit late for a family girl to start learning how to be a housekeeper at this age.

But there is no way, for the past two years, Xiao Yansui has been filial to her grandfather Xiao Song in her hometown. In addition to doing things she made herself, she also learned a lot of officialdom from Xiao Song. .There is another Wang Zhongsi who writes letters to Xiao Song from time to time. Xiao Yansui's understanding of the military configuration in the Northwest Region and even the entire territory of the Tang Dynasty is probably better than that of Xiao Hua, who is an official in the court...

Unfortunately, when it comes to the housekeeping matters that all the women of the family are in charge of, Xiao Yansui has some partial phenomena here - in fact, it can't be said that she can't, after all, when Xiao Song was in the old house of the Xiao family, Xiao Song delegated power quite a bit Simply put, Xiao Yansui made many decisions in the old family, big and small, and there has never been any trouble.

The only problem is that in Xiao's old house, Xiao Yansui came here completely according to her own request, but when she returned to Xu Guogong's mansion, when Mrs. Pei wanted to teach her daughter to be a housekeeper, the rules naturally became Mrs. Pei's habit .

When he was in his hometown, Xiao Yansui had always said the same thing, but now, he suddenly learned from Pei's, which is very embarrassing.

When her daughter came back, Mrs. Pei's heart was at ease, and naturally she continued to deal with the New Year's affairs.When she called the manager below to report, Xiao Yansui, who had been sitting beside her, silently flipped through the ledger according to her mother Pei's request.

Perhaps Xiao Yansui's aura was quite strong despite her young age. Seeing her appearance, the two managers were a little stunned. They looked at each other and didn't dare to say anything.

When Mrs. Pei asked people to go out and asked about Xiao Yansui, Xiao Yansui couldn't bear it anymore, and picked a few literate maidservants from Mrs. Pei's hands, pushed the ledger, and simply wrote a number in classical Chinese and Arabic numerals The comparison table, the first order is to copy the account book again!

——To make a report, even the most basic form, you have to spend a lot of time, but at this moment, you are surrounded by people from your mother, Pei, so Xiao Yansui didn't bother this time, just let these maidservants The account book was changed from the long strings in classical Chinese to Arabic numerals. After that, no matter whether it was comparison or reading, the numbers looked much clearer anyway.

Mrs. Pei, who really planned to teach her daughter from scratch, was a little stunned when she saw her, "Liu Niang, this is?"

"Auntie, I can settle accounts, Ah Weng taught me similar things!" Isn't it just a math problem! ?If it were the numbers that she found pleasing to the eye, everything would be easy to talk about!

To put it bluntly, Xiao Yansui used those maidservants who copied the account books as translators...