Wen Yiqing walked back as if running away.
Holding a lantern, she walked quickly through the quiet and remote paths, dodged the servants, and hurried back to the study. The strong wind brought up by closing the door swept the candles on the table, the flames went out, and her chest was beating like a drum.
Wen Yiqing took a deep breath, her palms filled with sticky sweat. Her steps were soft, and she walked inside holding on to the table. As soon as she sat down, she heard heavy footsteps running towards her from outside.
Before she could recover, Shanshan excitedly pushed the door open and walked in: "Mother!"
Wen Yiqing was shocked.
As if she had been caught doing something shameful, she suddenly panicked. Even though the person who came was her little daughter, she subconsciously turned her head away. Fortunately, she quickly came to her senses, supported the table, and responded calmly: "What?"
"I have a question that I don't understand."
Shanshan followed the homework assigned by the master and skillfully got into her arms. She took a deep breath before calming down and looking down. The homework for enlightenment students is simple and does not require much thinking. She glanced at it and gave the answer quickly.
After getting the answer, Shanshan didn't leave. She reached for a brush, dipped it in ink, sat in her mother's arms, and started writing slowly.
Wen Yiqing hugged her little daughter, but her mind was thinking wildly.
She was thinking about how hastily she had escaped just now, and wondered if that man was still there. He was a majestic emperor and came secretly at night so as not to be discovered. I also thought that I really shouldn't, I should have responded openly and calmly, but I panicked after hearing the question. Although I refused, it was more like covering it up.
She thought again of that ill-timed kiss on the seventh day of July, and how many times she was belatedly annoyed.
Obviously she should avoid it, and she should obviously not respond, but she couldn't help it and was obsessed with it.
But now it is neither advancing nor retreating, it is a dilemma.
Suddenly, the little girl in my arms asked: "Mom, where have you been?"
Wen Yiqing's heart skipped a beat: "What?"
Shanshan put down his brush, sniffed her body like a puppy, then bent down and picked up a pure white petal from the edge of her dress.
There are several bushes of jasmine planted along the path leading to the back door. When in full bloom, the fragrance is rich and fragrant, and you will be caught by it as you pass by. She came and went in a hurry, her skirt brushing against the flowers in the hazy night, and she came back with a faint floral fragrance.
Shanshan held up the petals and asked her innocently: "Mom, what are you doing in the backyard at night?"
"..." Wen Yiqing stiffened, "I went to the backyard to relax for a while."
"Mom, are you in a bad mood?"
"No."
"That……"
She poked the little girl's head gently and whispered: "If you don't do your homework quickly, I will slap the palm of your hand tomorrow."
Shanshan quickly grabbed the brush.
She wrote two lines, and couldn't help but say: "Mother, when will we go out to play again? Just like we went to escape the summer heat with the Queen Mother before, we will call Jiahe, the prince brother, and the emperor's uncle again."
"..."
Shanshan was still thinking about the white horse he just got. The more he talked about it, the more excited he became: "Brother Shitou and Brother Prince can both ride horses, as well as the Emperor's uncle. When the time comes, the Emperor's uncle will take me to ride with him, so I won't be in danger." . By the way, mother, do you know Qiu Yuan? The emperor’s uncle told me that they go hunting on horseback. If they are good, they can even catch bears! "
Shanshan said wistfully: "I have never tasted the taste of a bear!"
Wen Yiqing: "..."
Just hearing one sentence of 'Uncle the Emperor' and another 'Uncle the Emperor', she fled back, but the memory of that person was still lingering in her little daughter's mouth.
"Also, the emperor's uncle is very powerful. He can jump so high on a horse." Shanshan stretched out his hand to the top and said with bright eyes: "He is also very good at archery, even better than Brother Shitou. The target is moving. He Standing very far away, you can still shoot right into the middle of the target."
"How do you know?" Wen Yiqing heard something was wrong and interrupted: "How do you know he is also good at riding and shooting?"
A good thing is a stagnation.
She couldn't say that she saw it with her own eyes, so she hesitated for a long time before saying, "I...I heard what the emperor's uncle said."
Wen Yiqingxin said: She didn't know that man loved to brag so much.
But seeing the little girl's adoring look on her face, and thinking about the reason for today's meeting, it was also because of her childlike words in his arms. She met Shanshan every day, but she didn't know that she still had these thoughts in her head. On the contrary, that person could hear them clearly.
Wen Yiqing was a little annoyed: "When did you become so close to him and even know everything about him?"
Shanshan raised his head proudly: "Uncle Emperor and I have always been very close!"
"You like him that much?"
"yes!"
The emperor's uncle gave her a cook and a horse. Shanshan liked him so much!
Shanshan thought for a while and asked: "Mom, isn't my father as good as the emperor's uncle?"
"...W-what did you mention him for?"
When Shanshan originally thought of her biological father, she always thought of him as the best in the world, but now that she no longer wants her biological father, she began to look for his faults. It seems that the more bad things happen, the less her father will have to worry about.
The most powerful person she had ever seen was the emperor, so Shanshan compared her father with the emperor. The emperor was both civil and military, omnipotent, just like her favorite Monkey King, extremely majestic and majestic.
The most powerful emperor in the world treated her so well that she no longer wanted to kiss her father.
"Mom, if you want to find a stepfather for me, can you find someone like the emperor's uncle?" Shanshan leaned on the table and put his hands in his hands.
She slowly wrote her homework with her brush, and she also whispered: "The emperor's uncle will tell me stories and ride a big horse for me, but he is the father of the prince brother. Mother, if you find me a stepfather, Can he take me riding?”
"..."
Wen Yiqing opened his mouth, then pursed his lips in silence.
…
In the evening, Wen Yiqing returned home with snacks.
She had no intention of taking care of her little daughter recently, but she didn't know that there were so many thoughts in her little head, and she felt sorry for her. So she came back early today and bought Shanshan's favorite snacks. Thinking of the little girl's joy when seeing the snacks, she kept smiling all the way.
She went home and searched around, but couldn't find Shanshan. She only saw Shitou sitting on the stone table in the courtyard, doing her homework honestly in the lingering daylight.
Wen Yiqing wondered: "Where is Shanshan?"
"The young lady came back early in the morning and asked people to go to the kitchen to order food. Just now she said she wanted to play with rocks..." The wet nurse said and slowly stopped talking.
Shitou raised his head from his homework and met the eyes of the two men.
He held the brush in his hand, his palms full of sweat, and said calmly: "...I'll go find her."
"etc……"
Before Wen Yiqing could stop him, he stood up and ran out, disappearing in the blink of an eye. She froze on the spot, looking at each other with the nanny.
Not long after, Shanshan ran back.
She ran from outside the house, her forehead was covered with sweat, her hair was still stained with messy dead grass leaves, her body was still wet, her clothes were muddy and dirty, and her face was stained with dust.
Wen Yiqing was shocked, took out a handkerchief and wiped her dirty face, and couldn't help but said: "Did you roll in the mud?"
Shanshan pursed his lips and smiled sweetly at her.
Of course she went to play with her horse. The emperor's uncle was not here today, so she couldn't ride the horse, but she fed the white horse fodder, and the groom washed the white horse's body. She also got close to the side, and the white horse playfully splashed water all over it.
Shanshan's heart was completely attracted by that beautiful white horse. She was having fun when she was suddenly called over by Shitou. Now she tasted the snacks and felt a little confused. All she could think about was her own horse, which she had just gotten. , extremely rare.
After finishing her snack, she ran to her toy box and found a big bell. She first went to find a stone and asked him to help carve words on it. Shitou held a small knife, and the bell jingled for a while. Shanshan's name had many strokes, so he drew a chubby little fish on it.
Then Shanshan went to find his mother holding the bell.
"Mom, can you braid a rope for me?"
Wen Yiqing naturally agreed.
She found extra fabric, cut it into long thin strips, and under Shanshan's command, her fingers dexterously knitted the long rope.
She asked casually: "Who are you going to wear it for?"
"Give it to...the dog!"
"Dog? What dog?"
"I...I have a dog outside." Shanshan said with a guilty conscience.
"Is it a wild dog outside? If you like it, bring it home to raise it. It just so happens that there is no guard dog at home."
"It...it has a place to live."
Wen Yiqing didn't think much, and quickly figured out how to weave a long rope. She was about to tie the bell, but she saw Shan Shan shook her head: "Mom, it's too short, make it longer."
"Longer?!"
Shanshan gave her a stroke and stretched out his hand to draw a big circle: "So long!"
Wen Yiqing was surprised: "How big a dog is this?!"
Shanshan blinked and put his little hands behind his back, feeling extremely guilty: "It's just... as big as that."
"..."
Although she was full of depression, she still knitted the long rope according to Shanshan's instructions and tied the bell on it. Shanshan put it on and tried it on herself. The long rope almost dragged to the ground. No big dog in the world could wear such a rope. But she was extremely satisfied and put it away like a treasure.
Wen Yiqing asked a few more questions about the big dog, but Shanshan kept talking about it. After asking a few more questions, he turned around and ran away with his mouth covered, his short legs moving very fast, and he didn't want to say more. .
The little girl who grew up in his arms was only a little older, but she actually had her own secret behind her back.
Wen Yiqing felt sour in his heart.
The next evening.
She counted the hours, bought hot brown sugar pot helmets, and went home early.
As I walked in, I heard a servant say: "Miss has gone out."
"Going out again?"
Wen Yiqing wondered what she was thinking of, so she went into the house and searched around, and found that the bell that Shanshan had treasured yesterday was missing.
She went out and asked the guard at the gate: "Where did Sister Shan go?"
The nurse pointed in a direction.
"She goes out alone and you don't follow her?"
The servant said honestly: "Miss refused to let anyone follow me, and even bribed the young ones with cakes not to tell you. The young ladies secretly followed me to see me. The young lady went to play in the house next door every day, and when the master came back The lady came back before now, and nothing happened to her."
After the people living in the house next door moved here, they often moved around. From time to time, the people next door would send servants to deliver things, and the people here often returned gifts. After going back and forth, the servants on both sides got along well. Wen Yiqing was a female family member. She wanted to avoid suspicion. She only knew that there was a kind-hearted family living next door who had helped her before.
But she didn't know, or when, that her little girl had gotten along so well with the family next door.
