school days in ancient times

The night was dark, and there was silence everywhere. A round of cold moon and a few sparse stars hung in the sky, casting a faint silver glow.

In the ancestral hall of Ye Mansion, several lamps and candles were faintly burning on the altar.

Ye Mian knelt on the ground and secretly glanced at Ye Jing next to him. His elder brother was tired by him. When he first entered the ancestral hall, he was very anxious. Feeling guilty and distressed, he wished he could kneel down for two more days to suffer for his brother, but after kneeling for a long time, a trace of emotion that he was too embarrassed to admit gradually emerged in his heart, this was his first time Seeing his brother being punished, it feels quite "novel"...

"If you want to see it, just look at it generously. What kind of furtive behavior in front of the ancestors?" Ye Jing suddenly said in a low voice.

Ye Mian straightened his back, quickly looked back, and after a long time, he also said: "Brother, it's almost midnight, and no one is watching here, or...you go to the side Take a break, I will kneel by myself," Ye Mian raised his right hand and made a three-fingered oath, and whispered: "I will definitely not talk to a third person!"

"Who said no one is watching here?"

Ye Mian was startled, quickly shut his mouth and knelt up straight, turned his eyes around to look around, but he didn't see the guarding servant, and asked in a breathy voice, "Where are you, brother?"

Ye Jing raised his chin slightly towards the dozen or so black lacquered wooden ancestral tablets in front, "Why don't you just watch them all?"

Alas--

Ye Mian refrained from rubbing the aroused millet on his body, knowing that Ye Jing was still angry with him and intentionally scaring him, but he didn't dare to say a word, and leaned slightly towards his brother.

Ye Jing snorted lightly from her nose, but didn't say anything.

After a long time, Ye Mian saw his brother, who had been kneeling upright, move slightly from the corner of his eyes, and his eyebrows seemed to be frowning.

Ye Mian panicked, "Brother, do you feel pain in your knee?"

Ye Jing gave a faint "um", and admitted generously, it was indeed the first time in his life that he was punished to kneel like this, and after a few hours, his knees were very uncomfortable.

"Either..."

"Shut up!" Ye Jing interrupted him and reprimanded lightly, "Don't be presumptuous in front of your ancestors!"

Ye Mian bit her lip and said distressedly: "Then try to do as I said, leaning back slightly, using your front knees to exert force on the ground, and using your toes to bear the ground slightly."

Ye Jing moved her body lightly according to Ye Mian's words, and she felt that the pain in her knee was not so sharp, so she let out a little breath.

"You are familiar with each other," Ye Jing snorted softly.

"It won't work in the past six months," Ye Mian waved his hands and said modestly, "In the past, my legs have already been trained to be golden and steel bones, and now I can only rely on this kind of ingenuity to support them."

Ye Jing slightly bent the corners of her lips, "Okay, don't be poor, and don't even look at this place."

Ye Mian chuckled, and after a while asked in a low voice: "Brother, do you think it took eight lifetimes of bad luck to get a younger brother like me?"

Ye Jing seemed to think for a while, then nodded slightly and said, "Yes."

Ye Mian lowered his head and scratched his head embarrassingly.

After a while, Ye Jing snorted softly, "I have been unlucky in the past few lives, but I have finally changed my luck in this life."

Ye Mian pursed her lips and smiled, but she didn't have the nerve to raise her head.

The two brothers of the Ye family chatted affectionately in the ancestral hall, but everywhere else was gloomy, and even the eldest princess's mansion got news.

Zhuang Jue asked his servants to put on the plaque of the King of Rongnan County and was about to turn around and leave. The eldest princess hurriedly stopped him, "Where are you going?"

"Yefu."

The eldest princess sighed, "You have gone to this effort now, can the Ye Mansion allow you to go in?"

Zhuang Jue kept adjusting his clothes, and said in his mouth, "I'll ask someone to knock on the door with my sign."

The eldest princess hissed, and reprimanded: "No! You are in a hurry, but others only think that you are using power to overwhelm others." The eldest princess glanced at the son-in-law unconsciously. Someone took your little braid and rubbed it arbitrarily."

"I can't care about it," Zhuang Jue's tone was unusually calm, "Ye Mian was beaten by his father, I shouldn't have let him go back to the house alone a few days ago, and made the idea of ​​discussing with Ye Jing."

The eldest princess knew that she was really in a hurry, so she pulled the eldest son by the hem of his clothes to make him sit down, stroked his back and comforted him: "You were right in everything you thought and did, and it was the other person who made the mistake. "The eldest princess sighed, "Okay, since Brother Mian's parents know about it, then it's up to us to come forward. If it's your turn to ask for it, people will say that our princess mansion is arrogant and not dignified."

The eldest princess snorted coldly, "Now it's serious for you to take care of Concubine Jia's litter, and it will be more exciting to show them face."

The son-in-law who has been silent all the time also said softly: "Listen to your mother, don't be impulsive at this time, you want to marry someone, not to enmity with the Ye family, if you offend Mian'er's parents at this time, it will be nothing in the future It's done, this knot is not easy to untie, but it's difficult for him."

Zhuang Jue clenched his fists, lowered his head and let out a deep breath. After a while, he looked up at the eldest princess and said helplessly: "Mother, if you go to Ye Mansion tomorrow, can you take the medical officer to see his wound first?" How are you doing?"

The eldest princess snorted softly, it was the first time she had been yelled at after growing up so big.

"Okay, I know it." The eldest princess replied.

Zhuang Jue got up to leave, but the eldest princess hurriedly stopped her: "Where are you going?"

"Go look for the Fifth Prince."

"The key has been released in the palace, why are you so anxious?"

Zhuang Jue gritted his teeth and sneered, "It's not my urgency, it's their urgency to seek death."

"You can't go to the palace at this hour to mess around!" The eldest princess scolded anxiously: "I think you are confused."

"He's not in the palace, I have my own measure."

After Zhuang Jue finished speaking in a cold voice, he took the people away, and the eldest princess shook her head behind her and sighed.

The son-in-law laughed lightly and joked: "You have improved a lot compared to before, and you also know how to tell him not to overwhelm others with power."

The eldest princess gave him a blank look, "That is, the crime I suffered back then, I can't let my son suffer again."

The son-in-law couldn't stop laughing, and hurriedly changed the subject to comfort him.

Early the next morning, the eldest princess went to Ye Mansion, although she didn't use the guard of honor, she dressed very dignifiedly.

Qiu Shi didn't close his eyes all night, and was angry and anxious, so he suffered from that headache. When the servant hurried in to report, he was drinking medicine under the service of the maid.

Swallowing down this mouthful of bitter medicine soup hastily, coughing non-stop, the nurse behind hurriedly stroked her back, and ordered the servant girl to wash her mouth with green tea. Diluted, he took a handkerchief and tapped the corners of his lips, stood up and sighed: "Hurry up and go to pick you up."

In the past six months, she has had a personal relationship with the eldest princess. It's not that Qiu Shi didn't harbor hatred in her heart last night. In the past, she always boasted to Ye Shilang from time to time that she was paid well outside, so she didn't think about others. She had made up her mind a long time ago, and it was her son's idea!

No wonder she helped her to see girls for brother Mian, there is not a single lady in the capital who can't fault her!

The more Qiu thought about it, the angrier he became, and he let out a sigh in his heart, his son is full of problems!

Although the eldest princess is familiar with the Qiu family, because of her inconvenient status, she is the first time to come back to the Ye Mansion. Seeing Qiu's approaching, the bruises and powders in front of her eyes can't be covered, and she feels a little ashamed, so she hastily gave her Qiu, who was saluting, helped him up with his own hands.

The servants were sent out, and after both of them sat down firmly, the eldest princess smiled and said first, "Is Brother Mian all right?"

Qiu twitched the corners of her mouth, and didn't know how to respond for a long time. In the past, the two of them used to talk about these careless boys, but after last night, now hearing the eldest princess call her Mian'er so affectionately, she felt in her heart My head couldn't stop rolling.

It took a long time for Qiu Shi to respond stiffly: "Yesterday I knelt down all night, and this morning I was sent back to the yard to restrain my feet..." Qiu Shi glanced at the eldest princess, and said: "Tell him to live well." Thinking about it, when did you know you made a mistake, and when will you let it out, if you don’t want to repent, just stay in it, and you don’t need to go to school, although our Ye Mansion is not a luxurious household that piles up money and jade, we are rich and rich. It's not difficult for him all his life."

The eldest princess didn't get angry when she heard Qiu's words, she just drooped her eyelashes and smiled, "That's good, we're really thinking about it, so I'd like to ask me to take a look."

Qiu's choked up, her bloodless face suddenly turned red, and she said anxiously: "We don't bother the county king to worry about my elder brother's blessings. He doesn't think about him, but my son will be fine!"

The eldest princess sighed, patted Qiu's hand to comfort her and said: "Don't be angry, I didn't come back to beg him with you, but we, Sui'er, were reckless, and actually made a private appointment with Brother Mian without telling our parents. , but let this honest boy like Brother Mian suffer from him, and I am his mother, so I will first apologize to you on his behalf."

Qiu Shi was stunned, always felt that the eldest princess's words were a bit wrong, and said vigilantly: "Princess, you don't have to apologize to me, they are all the same brothers, so no one will suffer, let alone come to the house to please others." , it’s far away.”