The Words of the Number One

Rongrong played with us for a while, and Mrs. Xin came to pick up Rongrong in good time, so Ji Yu rolled up the drawing paper and said to deal with other things first. Xin Ran laughed and teased Ji Yu that she was a busy person, and then she asked if Ji Yu had arranged things for me, and could I accompany her to trim the flowers and branches. Ji Yu looked at me and agreed to Mrs. Xin.

By the time he left, I couldn't see what he had drawn.

Xin Ran watched Ji Yu go away, then asked her nanny to come and play with Rong Rong, and then she took me to her garden. Mrs. Xin had planted hibiscus and roses all over the garden. It was the season of summer. The roses had faded but the hibiscus had not yet bloomed, and the garden was full of greenery.

I heard from Zikou that Xin Ran loves flowers very much, and she takes care of all the green plants in this garden herself. Today, Xin Ran asked the other servants to wait at a distance, and only let me accompany her into the flower garden. She took the scissors and skillfully trimmed the diseased, insect and bad branches. Xin Ran said leisurely: "This flower is like a child. It needs to be taken care of to grow well. In a few months, the hibiscus will bloom. During this period, you must take care of it carefully."

It was no cooler here than the pavilion by the water, a thin layer of sweat appeared on her cheeks, but her expression was extremely focused. I couldn't help her, so I waved the fan for her and myself. Xin Ran glanced at me and laughed: "Miss Ah Zhi, you will soon get sore from fanning like this. You must not have learned How to take care of people? Ji Yu didn't deliberately teach you, he didn't want you to really become a servant."

The hand I was shaking the fan paused for a moment, and I switched to the other hand. It was true that my hand was sore just for a while.

"Ma'am, what do you want me to do here?"

"Haha, didn't Xia Wan tell you, I'm always curious about new girls. Don't worry, I don't mean any harm." Xin Ran blinked her eyes, and she actually showed a bit of innocence at this moment when she was already a mother. beauty.

When the garden is full of flowers, she standing in the sea of ​​flowers must be the most beautiful scenery in the world.

"I just heard Xia Wan say that Ji Yu was angry with you. At first, I didn't believe it was true when I met today. Ji Yu is angry with you." Xin Ran cut off a branch with a click, and looked at I laughed and said, "I haven't seen my cousin angry for many, many years. He is angry with you but he can't do anything about you. This is really novel and interesting. Why are you angry?"

Everyone said that Ji Yu had a good temper and seldom got angry, probably the people who actually saw him get angry were all dead.

"It's just some small things, Madam don't mind." I replied, and then changed the subject: "Have you always liked growing flowers so much?"

Xin Ran said: "Yes, I have liked it since I was a child. I was always worried when I was a child, what should I do if Ji Yu hates Hua so much and marry him in the future."

I looked at this beautiful and gentle woman and thought of the stories about her. Gu Ling once told me that Xin Ran made a marriage contract with Ji Yu when she was still a baby, and she has always admired and believed in Ji Yu since she was a child. In the protracted tug-of-war between Ji Yu and his father, she was the only one who always stood by Ji Yu's side.

Ji Yu went to Yan State as a hostage, so she waited for Ji Yu for five full years, even if the emperor wanted to take back the marriage gift, she refused. When Ji Yu returned to Luoyi at the age of nineteen, he broke the engagement and ran away, but she ended up getting engaged to Qing Ning Jun of Wei Guo instead.

The reason is not difficult to guess, Xin Ran's parents and relatives are all in the state of Zhou, and his brother is also an official in the court. If Ji Yu really married her and took her away from Luoyi, the emperor could use Xin Ran's family to blackmail Ji Yu. Ji Yu wanted revenge, so she couldn't leave such weakness to the emperor.

Even though Xin Ran accompanied and supported him for many years, he still abandoned Xin Ran.

"Now that I think about it, I'm lucky that I didn't marry Ji Yu, otherwise I wouldn't be able to grow the flowers in this yard." Xin Ran laughed while cutting the branches and leaves, there was no trace of haze in her smile, and it seemed that she didn't mind at all.

She pointed to a piece of hibiscus in the east of the yard and said that it was planted for her by Mr. Qing Ning when she first got married. Mr. Qing Ning had heard that she liked to grow flowers a long time ago, so he opened a flower garden in the yard. It was autumn when she got married, and hibiscus bloomed all over the yard, as bright as the morning glow. Qing Ningjun stood among the flowers and looked at her expectantly. The first time she saw this kind of flowers, she fell in love with them. He is young.

"It was only when I met Ye Nan that I realized that love can last for a long time without chasing desperately. In fact, he is far from as stunning as his cousin, but he is kind and humble, and loves me very much, and I love him too. He." Xin Ran sighed, she looked at the sea of ​​flowers from a distance, but her eyes seemed to have seen the distant past all the way, and she was a little bit disappointed.

She was married to Qingning Jun for four years, and he died unexpectedly.

Xin Ran finally finished cutting the flowers and branches, wiped off his sweat and returned to the corridor to rest. I followed her quietly all the time, and she leaned against the beauty on the porch, looking at me with a smile: "I let you listen to my story for a long time, you should be tired of it."

I shook my head: "No."

"I have also told Chang Le about these things. She repeatedly confirmed with me whether I have lost my mind for Ji Yu, and she is still unhappy after I repeatedly confirmed. Maybe she also understands that even if I have no mind for Ji Yu, Ji Yu Yu would not like her either." Xin Ran took the fan from my hand and shook it.

I looked at her for a while and asked, "Why are you telling me this?"

Xin Ran blinked her eyes: "I don't mean anything else, I just hope there won't be any misunderstanding about me. As for the matter between you and my cousin, that's your problem and you can solve it yourself."

Ji Xia's sweltering wind was accompanied by the natural fragrance of the green grass and trees in the courtyard. She was wearing a maple leaf red dress, shaking a round fan, smiling brightly and movingly. This is the kind of girl who should be with Ji Yu the most in my heart, confident, generous and full of enthusiasm.

"May I ask Madam a few questions?"

"Well, you ask."

"When Ji Yu broke the contract, didn't you resent him?"

"I have complained." Xin Ran generously admitted, and then said: "But I also understand the difficulties in the breakup between him and the emperor. If there were not all kinds of difficulties back then, he would not have abandoned me, and he would never have harmed me."

"That's why you trust him?"

Xin Ran seemed to find this question a bit funny, she nodded and said without doubt: "I believe him."

I wanted to say something, but felt that there was nothing to say, so I could only agree with him with a smile, "Yeah, he won't hurt you."

What I envy most are these few words - I believe in him, he will never harm me. If it were someone else, I would just think of it as another little girl coaxed by Ji Yu, but this is Xin Ran. I can't say whether she is pure-hearted or overconfident, because what she said is true.

Ji Yu will not harm her, nor will he use her.

There should be Ji Yu's guidance behind the things that Xin Ran did that made her famous. Although he broke the contract, he still let her marry her husband and helped her gain unprecedented fame and status in Weiguo, so that the emperor dared not He threatened him with Xinran, so now Xinran lives a comfortable and stable life.

If he wholeheartedly wants to be nice to a person, that person will not live a bad life no matter what.

Now who else can have Xin Ran's position in Ji Yu's heart, that's what makes Chang Le unhappy.

In the next few days, I would go to Xiayin Pavilion every morning, and Ji Yu would come to my portrait appointment on time every day. With Rongrong by my side, the atmosphere between me and him wouldn't be too awkward, but there weren't many good things to say. Only once did Rongrong take out a lifelike toy snake painted with green lacquer from nowhere, and showed it to me as if offering a treasure. The first time I saw it, I was so scared that I turned around and ran into Ji Yu's arms. At that moment, Ji Yu raised her hand as if subconsciously trying to comfort me, but then put it down again.

In this gap, I backed away from him, only to hear him softly telling Rongrong not to bring snakes in the future, and Rongrong said aggrievedly that this toy was fun.

— But sister Ah Zhi is afraid of snakes.

With a smile in his voice, Ji Yu said the words "Sister Ah Zhi" from his mouth, and his voice was low and softly touching the heartstrings.

I looked at him from the corner of my eye, his eyes were slightly curved and he spoke softly, there was a smile on the corners of his eyes and brows, his heartbeat lost its rhythm for no reason at a glance.

It's really hard to pretend not to like it.

The fourth day when Ji Yu painted my portrait was Lord Qingning’s birthday, and Xin Ran was going to pray for Lord Qingning at the largest Jiyuan Temple outside Ligeng City. That day Ji Yu stopped the portrait work and went up the mountain with Xin Ran.

Xin Ran was dressed in plain clothes, without any hair accessories, like a pure white hibiscus, and so was Rong Rong. Although Ji Yu was not wearing white clothes, she was dressed quite elegantly. We eight girls and many servants in the mansion followed them together, and the group went up the mountain in a mighty way.

The Buddhist temple is elegant, and the bluestone steps up the mountain are surrounded by towering trees. It rained the day before yesterday, and the stone steps were a little slippery. Zikou and I walked at the end of the line, walking carefully step by step, she even whispered to me and asked about my son's portrait of me. When I was answering, I was distracted for a moment and my foot slipped, and I staggered and fell backwards. Seeing that Zikou stretched out his hand to me in panic but failed to grab it, someone behind me caught me.

It was a boy in a group of people walking behind us, and I thanked him for supporting me, and I heard his master behind him wearing a veiled cap and a white veil asking: "What's wrong?"

"There was a girl up ahead who almost slipped."

The master then turned to me and said gently, "Is there something wrong, Miss?"

"Thanks to the little brother's help, nothing happened. Thank you, sir." I saluted him.

The master laughed and said it didn't matter, called back the boy and walked up the mountain. The moment I turned my face, a gust of wind blew off the white veil under the hood of the master. He was an old man in his fifties with gray temples and a kind face.

I was stunned and then turned around. Zikou also saw the master's face, and whispered to me that it is really difficult to climb a mountain at such an age, but the steps are still very light. I just laughed without saying a word.

Zi Kou didn't seem to notice that this old man looked very similar to Ji Yu, especially the nose bone and face, which seemed to be carved out of the same mold. The demeanor of gestures is particularly graceful and luxurious.

If my guess is correct, this is Ji Yu's sworn enemy.

His father, His Majesty Zhou Tianzi.

The emperor appeared here to look for Ji Yu, but what did he want to do by throwing himself into a trap to look for Ji Yu?

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Bloody storm warning! (The second bento is heating up...