school days in ancient times

In the afternoon, the sun was strong, and it came in through the thin, azure, translucent window screen. Under the window, there were clumps of double-petal milky white jasmine.

Ye Mian and Zhuang Jue were both sitting on the wooden couch in front of the window. Zhuang Jue's hair was still wet, but he was impatient to ask someone to dry it for him. He sat in front of this window, but he was not allowed to stay on the couch and wander around.

Ye Mian frowned and scolded him: "You have been away for almost half a year, and you have not missed these two days, what are you so anxious about?" This man left the sixth prince behind in the last two days, and brought a team of his own private guards to drive on without stopping. He ran back, his thighs were worn out by the saddle, and he only felt the pain when he was taking a bath. Xia Neijian was so angry that he couldn't help saying a few words to him when he applied the medicine.

Zhuang Jue raised his chin, pursed his lips and said, "I won't go with that person. No one in Beijing expects him to return. I'm not the same as him."

While Ye Mian was angry and funny, he silently pitied the sixth prince in his heart. Seeing the expression on this man's face, he knew that he had "tortured" single dogs a lot on the way.

Xia Neijian sent someone to spread a small table carved with nanmu wood on the two of them's couch, and a few boys put up exquisite meals one by one. The dishes were not many, but they were all easy to digest. If you haven't slept for two days, you must take a nap after eating in a while.

The reunion of the two was a joy, but since drinking is not allowed in Guozi Academy, Zhuang Jue asked someone to bring grape sherbet, poured it into a glass cup filled with crushed ice, and under the warm sun in front of the window, The two of them drank together, but it was fun.

After the meal, the servants removed the dining table and lit the incense in the room again. The two of them were reluctant to part with the warmth in front of the window. Zhuang Jue's leg had just been medicated and it hurt a lot when he moved. Simply ask someone to bring soft pillows and thin blankets, and let the two children rest here.

Although the couch is not narrow, it is not that spacious either. The two of them could barely sleep together. Ye Mian was a little tired after eating, listening to the birds chirping outside the window, blindfolded and pinching Zhuang Jue's cheeks. Slender flesh, this person has been gone for almost half a year, but he seems to have grown up a lot, he has grown much stronger than him, and the flesh on his cheeks has also disappeared. Although the outline of the facial features has not changed, it is more profound. He was even more handsome half a year ago.

Zhuang Jue lowered his head slightly to hold his fingertips, but Ye Mian didn't notice, he was bitten painfully and itchy, and with a "hiss" in his mouth, he quickly withdrew his hand and stared at him annoyedly.

Zhuang Jue chuckled, "I wanted to talk to you for a while, but why do you think you are more tired than me?"

Ye Mian slightly opened his mouth and yawned, and muttered lazily, "It's been a long time since I had a good morning sleep, let alone a nap at noon, and I'm very sleepy when I lie down."

Zhuang Jue looked at him for a while, with mixed eyes, both self-blame and distressed, he tightly hugged his arms on the back, took him into his arms again, and coaxed him softly, "Go to sleep. "

Ye Mian answered him with a snort, then nestled there, closed his eyes, and fell asleep very peacefully.

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Ye Mian did not return home for three consecutive days, and urged Wei Angyuan to cover up with him, only saying that he had gone to the prime minister's residence for a short stay.

Two months after Zhuang Jue returned home, he couldn't receive Ye Mian's letter, so he pestered him to tell him what happened in these two months in detail. Although Ye Mian failed to send him the letter, he did not stop. Every day I go to draw four small cartoon portraits, and secretly ask Feng Jin to get them from Yaohuixuan, and tell him stories every night before going to bed.

Staying at Guozixue for a few days, Ye Mian did not receive the urging from the Minister's Mansion, but received a flower note from the Princess Mansion. The Eldest Princess invited Ye Mian to have a feast at the mansion tomorrow, and there was a special mention, "No Bring that irrelevant person, and bring this palace to make people beat them out."

Ye Mian gasped, it's too bad!The two of them were so happy these days that they forgot that Zhuang Jui's mother was also looking forward to her son's return home...

The next day was the ten-day holiday of Guozixue, Ye Mian urged Zhuang Jue to dress up with him early on, and went to the princess mansion as soon as the main gate of Guozixue opened.

When the two entered the mansion, the eldest princess and the son-in-law were taking Zhuang Heng to have breakfast under the service of the servants. Zhuang Heng was very happy to see the eldest brother who had only returned home half a year ago, and he did not dare to get close to him in the past. Hui Hui took the initiative to sit next to him, and personally spread the bowls and chopsticks for him, with joy in his eyes.

Ye Mian rubbed her nose, feeling a little embarrassed, the two of them were typical of "forgetting their mother when they have a daughter-in-law", they only cared about their own happiness.

He will go home to say hello to his mother tonight.

The eldest princess picked up the brocade handkerchief and pressed it on the corners of her lips, her delicately painted eyebrows slightly raised, and she said with a half-smile on her face: "Yo, where did our brother Mian bring you, young master? It’s strangely good-looking, but it’s rude to come and get acquainted, the first time I came to the door, the host hadn’t spoken yet, so he sat down by himself.”

Zhuang Heng shrank his neck and buried his head in cooking.

Zhuang Jue's face was indifferent, he just stood up and bowed respectfully to the eldest princess and the son-in-law. Before the eldest princess called to get up, he kept bending over and did not dare to get up.

Ye Mian swallowed her saliva, took the peony round fan from the little maid beside her, and fanned it lightly for the eldest princess, but this time the eldest princess seemed to be very angry, she just took a sip of tea and ignored Zhuang. Suo.

Ye Mian hurriedly blinked with the son-in-law for help, but the son-in-law shook his head helplessly and smiled.

"Okay, Sui'er sit down and make amends with your mother."

Although the eldest princess is still angry, she will not refute the son-in-law. Ye Mian and Zhuang Jue serve her breakfast with care.

Although the eldest princess has a bad temper, she is a mother after all. Although there was still anger in her eyes after the meal, she dragged Zhuang Jue to her body and rubbed him for a long time. Seeing that his cheeks had lost a lot of weight, she said distressedly. Talking about it, she wanted to punish the servant who went with him, but it was the son-in-law who stopped her from the side, so she calmed down.

In the six months since Zhuang Jue left, Ye Mian often came to the Princess Mansion. Zhuang Jue sent a letter to the Princess Mansion only after ten and a half months. Later, I accidentally learned that these two people were separated by mountains and rivers, and they communicated with each other every day. Although my heart was a little sour, I couldn't stop missing my eldest son, and I often called Ye Mian to come over to her house to read with her. Therefore, Ye Mian is very familiar with the princess and the son-in-law now.

Now even without Zhuang Jue taking him with him, he can enter and leave the princess mansion at will. When the people at the door saw his carriage, they never let him wait for the notification. They just smiled and invited him in respectfully. Zhuang Heng has never avoided people calling him third brother, and the eldest princess has never stopped him. Whenever Ye Mian came back, Xia Nei's eunuch came to take care of him, so after half a year, the servants in the mansion regarded him as their own. The little prince came to serve.

The eldest princess's mansion hosted a family banquet for Zhuang Jue to wash away the dust. Ye Mian had a lively dinner with them before going back to the mansion. Ye Mian got into the carriage together and went to live in the yard next to Yaohuixuan.

The eldest princess gritted her teeth with hatred, and could not sleep at night and complained to her son-in-law: "Why is this child as worthless as me!"

From then on, Ye Mian left school every day, and had to go to the courtyard next door to have dinner with Zhuang Jue, and then slipped back to the Shilang's mansion after playing around for a while. , the fourth young master only took such a small sip for dinner every day, he seemed to have lost his appetite, but he didn't look bad, thinking to himself that if the situation remained the same in two days, he would have to let his wife know.

On the day of the full moon banquet in Bihua Pavilion, Ye Mian, as the first son of the Ye family, naturally wanted to help his elder brother welcome the guests. On that day, the pavilion was full of people and crowded with customers, and those who could not find the way on weekdays all came here with rich gifts.

Ye Mian was busy working from the moment he opened his eyes in the morning to the dusk. He was so tired that he could hardly straighten his waist. He thought about going to the next yard and letting Zhuang Jue give him a good beat, but his brother left him in Bihua. Ge dined with him and his sister-in-law.

Ye Mian felt guilty, and didn't dare to say no for a long time. Ye Jing gave him a strange look, but didn't say anything.

After Ye Mian had a casual meal with them a little absent-mindedly, she was in a hurry to leave, but Ye Jing frowned and took him to the study.

Ye Jing sat behind the desk, took a sip of tea, and asked helplessly, "Tell me, what's going on?"

Ye Mian was taken aback for a while, and didn't understand what his brother meant, so he replied cautiously: "Brother, I didn't quarrel with you...Why did you say that?"

Ye Jing stared at Ye Mian's eyes for a while, then suddenly said softly: "But because I'm too busy to take care of you these days?"

Ye Mian quickly shook his head.

"Then... is it because your little nephew was born and your elder brother neglected you?"

Ye Mian glanced at the servants serving tea around the study, their heads shaking like rattles.

Ye Jing sighed, called Ye Mian to him, took his hand and asked in a slow voice: "Then why haven't you come to Bihua Pavilion to look for me in the past few days, are you separated from Big Brother?"

Ye Mian lowered his head and hesitated a few times, hesitating in his heart whether to tell his brother about the matter between him and Zhuang Jue, but in the end he dared not speak, feeling a little bit of guilt in his heart, not to mention raising his eyes to look at Ye Jing up.

Ye Jing took him to her side and coaxed him for a while, but she couldn't make Ye Mian speak to him. In the end, she didn't force him, so she had no choice but to let him go back. She frowned and thought for a while, and called someone to be alone. After a few orders with him, the man left neatly after listening to the order.