novelraw Chapter 176 176
Chapter 176 176
That night, Yu seemed to be in a good mood when he returned to the West Place.
The nanny and the maids were very surprised. While changing their Ji Jun's clothes, they asked, "Ji Jun, did anything happy happen today?"
The magenta outer dress that was taken off was smoothed out by the maid, and hung up on the hanger with open sleeves.Several curtains of colorful tapestry hung down, and the nanny laid out the quilts very attentively, and said with a smile: "Since coming to Ruozhou, Jun Ji has never been so happy. Did you see the young master?"
You sat kneeling upright, and the maid combed her hair, and said with a smile: "It's the rhododendrons that are beautiful, so I'm very happy."
"Rhododendron?...Is this it?" The maid holding a comb held up a rhododendron, which had just been plucked from Ji Jun's ear.The maid twirled Dujuan in her palm, and said with a smile, "It's really beautiful! I didn't expect Ruozhou to have such a beautiful Dujuan."
"Ah, this is from the young master of the country!" The nanny spread out the pillow, and came over to laugh, "I gave a cuckoo last time, and this time I will also give it to you. Yan Shengdian treats Jun Ji really well." Heart."
The maids are all old, looking at Ji Jun's well-behaved and exquisite appearance, it's like seeing a sea clam that I raised with my own hands open its shell fan, revealing beautiful pearls, and my heart is full of a sense of accomplishment.They giggled and teased in a low voice: "Really, although Ji Jun is still young, she is really enviable..."
You didn't speak, just sat upright on his knees, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.
After a long time, the lights in the hall were extinguished, and the maids fell asleep quietly through a door.Youwo lay behind a few tents, holding the rhododendron flower in his hands, his eyes were open for a long time in the dark night, without any sleepiness.
Today, she met Yan Shengdian's younger brother, Ji Guo Yuan Yi.
The boy was mute, unable to speak, and seemed to have some hearing problems.No matter how you ask him "Are you Yan Shengdian's younger brother", he will not reply with a nod or shake his head, but turn around to take care of the azaleas on the fence.
Then Yu asked him, "Want to play together?" The boy miraculously understood.He picked up the branch, squatted down, and drew a picture on the sand by the pond.Perhaps, this crude way of painting is one of the few pastimes in his life, so he can skillfully use branches to outline the shape of rhododendrons on the ground.
You bent down, a little surprised: "The painting really looks like it!"
Painting on the ground with a branch is completely different from painting on paper with a pen.Because the sand is flowing, when the branches pass repeatedly, it will destroy the original shape of the sand; if you want to keep a painting intact, you have to be careful about the shape of the sand.He can draw so familiarly, obviously because he has been practicing a lot.
Hearing her praise, the boy picked up another branch and handed it to her, smiling at her.
Yuu looked at Yuanyi, then at the branch in his hand, rolled up his cuffs, and tried to draw on the sand——
What are you drawing?
After thinking for a while, she thought of the seaside in her hometown.The blue sea tide was rising, and a circle of white waves rushed to the beach, rising and falling, making the sound of rushing tide.On the light yellow fine sand, shells are scattered here and there, like stars in the night sky.The nanny held her barefoot, and the two of them rolled up the skirt together, crossed the slender coastline, and the hair and skirt were blown by the sea breeze.
It blows flutteringly.
She tried to draw the shape of a sea wave with a branch, but what she drew looked more like a worm than a sea.She tried to draw two people running, one big and one small, but in the end there were two steamed buns; and the shells on the ground were even more ridiculous, they were completely circles one by one.
Annoyed, she touched the sand with a branch and said, "I can't draw!"
The boy listened and blinked at her. There was no teasing or superiority in his eyes, only kindness.He stretched out his small palm, held her finger holding the branch, and slowly sketched it on the sand.
The water rose, and the two men crossed the shore; there were shells in the sand.
"Ah... amazing!" Yu was a little surprised.Yuan Yi was able to draw the torso and limbs of a person so clearly that he could tell "this is a person" at a glance, that's really amazing.
only……
"What I want to draw is me and my nanny." She tilted her head and looked at the two people who were about the same height on the sand. "Yuanyi drew two children, right? Who are they?"
He didn't speak, but his eyes were bright, like the warm spring scenery condensed.For some reason, when Yu looked at his face, he felt that those "ominous" rumors about him were all false.
"Tomorrow—tomorrow, I will come to play with you again." When it was time to leave, Yu Chaoyuan waved goodbye, "Azaleas are beautiful! Yuanyi!"
Then, she returned to the West Place with a very happy expression.
until now-
It was already night, and everything was quiet, but she didn't feel sleepy at all.Now she is not Ji Jun, just an ordinary kid who has made interesting new friends.
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The next day, Yu can't wait to find new friends to play with.
She doesn't want to learn about reading, mixing incense and appreciating flowers that she is passionate about on weekdays, and she just runs outside.The nanny was a little surprised, and said, "This is the first time I saw Ji Jun look like a child!" After all, this child is usually well-behaved, quiet, and even makes people feel distressed.
Yu went to Yuanyi's residence, but did not see the boy.After waiting for a while, I learned from a passing servant that Yuan Yi was with his mother, Mrs. Beizhidian.
Although Yuanyi's status in Jiguo's clan is embarrassing, his biological mother, Mrs. Beizhidian, will still treat him as kindly as possible.At the beginning, Yuanyi was almost executed by the Jiguo clan when he was born; it was the wife of Beizhidian who frantically stopped Yuanyi, so that Yuanyi had a chance to survive.
Until now, Mrs. Beizhidian will secretly help this poor young son.However, she didn't dare to make it too obvious, for fear of being severely reprimanded by the national guard who found out, she could only let Yuanyi continue to wear worn-out clothes and straw sandals and live in a small three-tiered room.
"That child is an ominous omen! Are you helping him like this in the hope that the successor country will also suffer bad luck?!" —— More than once, Mrs. Bei Zhidian has heard such reprimands from her husband.
Therefore, even if she couldn't bear it, she could only pretend to be indifferent to the situation of her youngest son Yuanyi with tears in her eyes, at least she couldn't show mercy on the surface.She can be with her children only occasionally when the guardian of the country is not in the city, going out for drills and inspections.
When You sneaked into Mrs. Beizhidian's residence, Yuanyi was hugging his mother's left waist affectionately, and sent her back to the bedroom with her head up.Although the boy's clothes are old, his eyes are shining with sincerity in front of his mother.
Madam touched Yuanyi's head and said with a smile, "Yuanyi, have you grown taller again?"
Mrs. Kitanoden and Yu's mother are completely different types of people.You's mother is sentimental, she is gentle but reticent, she often sheds tears at the petals, no one can comfort her.But Yuanichi and Yansheng's mother, Mrs. Kitanoden, although she is thin and has a sick look on her face, she always wears a noble smile and seems not to be affected by the disease at all.
Yuan Yi looked up at his mother, lovingly enjoying her mother's palm on top of his head.
Standing behind the porch, You was envious of this lowly child for a moment.At least, when he was beside his mother, he could still walk hand in hand with his mother.
However, this is just a fleeting thought.She knew that Yuanyi's life was much poorer than hers; as Ji Jun, she should be satisfied with the current situation.The teacher said, "People's greed is infinite, if it is not controlled, it will lead to the evil consequences of losing rank."
After Mrs. Bei Zhidian returned to her room, Yuan Yi came down from the corridor.When he saw Yu, his originally plain expression suddenly lit up, like the sun shining on the lake.
"Yuanyi, I'm here to play with you." She whispered, sneaking away from the servants' sight, walking along the back of the house towards the pond, "What are you playing today?"
Yuanyi couldn't speak, so he just responded to her with his eyes, as if he was waiting for Yuyou's answer.She couldn't hear the answer, but felt that it was also very good - no matter what nonsense she said, Yuan Yi would not interrupt impatiently; no matter what secret she told, Yuan Yi would not be able to tell others.
"I saw you with Mrs. Beizhidian. I'm so envious." She sat in the corridor, her feet lifted off the ground, and she swayed slowly on her wooden clogs, "I miss my hometown An Yi very much. But , I can’t go back, and I may never see my father and mother again in my life.”
The light in the eyes of the boy sitting beside her slowly faded away.
Although unlikely, Keyou seemed to detect a little pity in his eyes.She felt a little unbelievable, could Yuanyi understand such emotions?He is only a six or seven-year-old child, and he has never left his one-acre three-point land. He knows what it feels like to be "far away from the motherland", can he empathize with her?
Yuanyi touched her palm and looked at her very quietly.This boy is very young, but he has a strange magical power, which can soothe the scars in the heart and make people calm down unconsciously.
You stared into his clear eyes, unknowingly forgot the previous troubles, and said with a smile: "Forget it. Don't talk about that! What are you playing today?"
Yuanyi thought for a moment, then turned and went back to his own room.After a while, he took out two bamboo tubes and a wooden box.He opened the wooden box, filled the gaps with gray glue, and filled the box half with water, with colorful rainbow lights flowing on the surface of the water, like a rainbow floating above it after a rain.
"This is..." Yuu was a little puzzled.
Yuan Yi stretched out the bamboo tube into the box, puffed up his mouth, and blew in a mouthful.A colorful bubble popped out from the other end of the bamboo tube, grew bigger and bigger, and then came off the bamboo tube and flew leisurely into the air.
You raised his head, watched the round bubbles fly higher and higher, and murmured, "Is it soapy water blowing bubbles?"
No one answered her question, Yuanyi blew out a string of colorful water bubbles in one breath, those bubbles, big or small, rushed forward in a line, and flew straight to the tip of her nose, and then gently Cracks lightly.
"You actually blow bubbles in my face...!" To be honest, Yuu is a bit of a vengeful girl.She also picked up the bamboo tube and tried to blow a big bubble on Yuanyi's face; but her method was a little clumsy, no matter how hard she tried, only tiny tiny bubbles floated out with difficulty, and then quickly floated in the air. cracked inside.
"..." Yuu was a little annoyed.
Yuanyi looked at her, stood up, and walked up to the bubble she blew out.In this way, even the smallest air bubbles will float to Yuanyi's face.
Seeing a series of colorful bubbles bursting on Yuanyi's forehead, she smiled softly: "Looking at it this way, it looks like I'm bullying Yuanyi." When she laughed, her eyes narrowed, curved like Falling bamboo leaves.Thin and long eyelashes spread out like butterfly wings.This is the treasure of An Yi Country, and it is Ji Jun, who the Yamana clan regards as the jewel.
As soon as Yuan looked at her, the warmth in his eyes grew even stronger.
"Yuanyi—"
At this moment, a boy's shout came from not far away.Yu looked up and saw Iwakatsu running towards here while waving.The hem of the silk kimono was too tight, and he stumbled a bit when running.
"Young master..." You was a little surprised, stopped holding the bamboo tube, stood up and saluted suspiciously, and asked, "Have you finished copying the Buddhist scriptures?"
Yansheng's footsteps froze.He said in a low voice, "I asked the servant to copy it for me, and I just sent someone to hand it over to my father." After finishing speaking, he looked at the scene in front of him suspiciously, and said, "You... do you know each other? Ah... You, This boy is my younger brother, Yuanyi. The person I said last time and wanted to take you to meet is him..."
Merit head: "I know that Yuanyi is Yan Shengdian's younger brother."
"Ah... yes, is that so?" Yan Sheng touched his head and lowered his head.
To be honest, there was an unexplainable displeasure in his heart, like a child playing with his temper.Because Ji Jun and his younger brother didn't meet through him, this made him a little unhappy.How could Yuanyi know Ji Jun without his own recommendation?They were originally two people who had nothing to do with each other.
Moreover, Yuanyi was smiling at You, which made him feel very strange.
It was the first time Ji Guoyansheng saw that kind of smile—before the age of seven, Ji Guoyuan almost never smiled; only occasionally when he was alone with Yansheng, would he hold the wooden gift from Yansheng Di secretly hooked up the corners of his mouth.In addition, he is like a wooden doll, not showing much expression.
But in front of Ji Jun, Yuan Yi smiled so calmly, as if the two of them had known each other for a long time and could be trusted.
However, Yansheng was relieved when he thought that Yuanyi was an ominous person and a mute.How could Ji Jun like a mute more?Poor Yuanyi is dumb...
"Young master, do you want to blow bubbles together?" she asked.
"Are you guys still playing with such childish things?" Yan Sheng said, "It's just washing water, why can you play so happily? When Yuanyi and I were together, we only played chess, double six , that is a game that requires brains. Does Ji Jun know "Jun Shuang Liu"? It is a game of making sixty kingdoms into chess pieces, and you need to know the art of war
I can play. "
After hearing this, You secretly felt that Yan Sheng was the one who was really childish, and insisted on pretending to be an adult to show his uniqueness.
"It's not like that. It's very interesting." She said, picked up the bamboo tube, took a deep breath and blew into it.This time, a huge bubble rose from the end of the bamboo tube.The bubble escaped from the bamboo tube, flew to Yansheng's eye socket, and then popped open.
"Ji Jun...!" Yan Sheng touched the position of the eye sockets and browbones, immediately forgot the "childish" words he said just now, picked up the bamboo tube of his younger brother Yuanyi, and started to blow bubbles Bubbles, "Ji Jun, come and eat some bubbles too!"
After a while, the pond was full of big and small bubbles flying everywhere, and no one could avoid it.You covered his face with his cuff and laughed: "Young master! You are the most naive person!"
As soon as Yuan raised his head, the bubbles in the air opened up the thin water surface, and each layer reflected the playful figures of three children.The glittering colors of the rainbow glide across the bubbles, trance-like in a dream.
"If you want to say something that is not naive, you still practice swordsmanship."
After a long time, Iwakatsu stopped making bubbles.The young master who said "blowing bubbles is very childish" became the happiest person to play, and used up all of Yuanyi's box of soap locust water.
"Yuanyi doesn't know what swordsmanship is, right?" Yansheng stood still in the courtyard, posing with a bamboo sword in his hand, "I want to be the number one warrior in this country, so I must have the number one swordsmanship. Only in this way can we defeat all enemies and guard my family."
Yansheng took a deep breath, closed his eyes seriously, and recalled the fencing essentials taught by his father's retainers in class.
He has been holding a sword since he learned to stand up, and he works hard every day; although he is still young, he already has the demeanor of a swordsman.Even though he has not been able to defeat the adult vassals so far, with time, he will definitely grow into a formidable samurai.
He put on a holding posture, and slashed at the air twice, his movements were neat and crisp, as if a sword really tore the air in front of him.He let go of his hand in satisfaction, and asked the child next to him: "How is it?"
Yu opened his eyes and praised: "It's amazing!"
Hearing Ji Jun's approval, Yan Sheng was very happy in his heart: "Then, if Ji Jun wants to watch me practice swordsmanship, you can come anytime. Every day, I will learn swordsmanship with my father's retainers."
You said: "That's great. If the young master really becomes the number one warrior in this country, then no other country will dare to attack Ruozhou, right?"
In this way, the country must be strong and prosperous; the daughters and sisters of the successor country do not need to exchange for the safety of their home country at the price of leaving their hometown and marrying far away.
Yan Sheng clenched his fist and said, "Of course."
Yu's eyes curled up with a smile: "I'm looking forward to that day! A powerful samurai can protect his family."
When Yan Sheng heard this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up secretly.
Ji Jun's words can only be said to himself.Because Yuanyi has never learned swordsmanship, he is just an ordinary dumb; and he will become one of the best warriors in this country.
From the beginning to the end, Yuan Yi did not speak.Yan Sheng looked at his younger brother sitting quietly, shook his head, and said with a smile: "Forget it, forget it. If it is Yuanyi, he must not understand what is 'swordsmanship'."
A few children were talking, and Yan Sheng's servant called from a distance: "Young Master—Young Master—where is it?" It was a few servants looking around, looking for them to copy Buddhist scriptures and slip out of the room halfway through. young master.
Yan Sheng's complexion changed, and he whispered: "No! Ji Jun, let's go. If the retainers find out that we are looking for Yuanyi, we will be in big trouble."
"Trouble... what kind of trouble?" Yuu was a little puzzled.
Yan Sheng didn't explain much, just held Yu's hand, and ran out with her.You turned around while running, only to see Yuanyi still standing by the pond, his figure getting smaller and smaller.
"Yuanyi, let's play next time—" She waved at Yuanyi and said with a smile.
"Keep your voice down!" Yan Sheng shushed her, "Let people hear you, and we may both be punished..."
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After that day, the three of them never got together to play together.
Yansheng's life is a bit boring. Every morning, he will practice swordsmanship with his father's retainers.This is a kind of thing that has no other feeling except hard work. Tiredness, sweat, and calluses on the hands are accompanied by Yan Sheng every day.
But it's all worth it because he wants to be the number one samurai in the country.What's more, his father and his retainers all said, "Sooner or later, Yansheng's swordsmanship will surpass all his masters."His talent has been affirmed by the adults.
Ruozhou has entered the summer, and the sun has been very hot since the morning.On the ground paved with white stones, all the water has been evaporated; the tall willow trees stretch their bodies by the lake, barely hanging down a piece of greenery.Yansheng and his teacher stood in this shadow, practicing the same movement over and over again.
"The young master's swordsmanship has improved again." The retainer wiped his sweat with a towel hanging around his neck, and praised, "Now he can hit my calf twice quickly. If an adult attacks me like this, I will It has completely fallen."
Yansheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm not fast enough. If I can go faster, maybe I can beat you."
The retainer laughed: "When you grow your body, you will be able to defeat me naturally. It is a matter of time."
Even so, Iwakatsu did not relax because of this.
At this moment, Yansheng noticed something under the shadow of the pine tree—he turned his head and saw that it was Ji Guoyuan standing there.The younger brother, dressed in coarse clothes and with loose long hair, was looking at his figure practicing swordplay repeatedly with clear eyes.
"...It's Yuanyi." Yan Sheng didn't let go of the sword, and reminded him in an elder brother's tone, "If you come here, you will make your father angry. Besides, the sun outside is also very hot, go back and rest quickly. "
Yuan Yi didn't speak, but took a step forward.The straw sandals rolled over the fine white stones, making a crackling sound.
Yan Sheng sighed, and muttered in his heart: He forgot, Yuan Yi's ears are not good, and he can't speak.Maybe he suffered from ear problems just now, so he couldn't hear what he was saying at all.
His poor brother...
"Big brother, is your dream to become the strongest warrior in this country?" Yan Sheng suddenly heard a soft voice belonging to a child.He froze for a moment, a little unsure who the voice was calling "Big Brother".After a long while, he was convinced that it was Ji Guoyuan who was speaking in front of him.
It was the poor brother he had always pitied, who was born with bad hearing and could not speak, Ji Guoyuan was speaking.The articulation is clear, the articulation is clear, and there is no defect in listening and speaking.
Yuanyi stood under the pine tree, showing a pure smile, a row of thin and white teeth protruding from his lips.
Ji Guoyansheng was a little stunned, and the wooden sword in his hand fell to the ground with a clang.
Yuanyi, isn't he the mute he thought he was?
"Then, when I grow up, I will become the second strongest samurai in this country." The younger brother, who was regarded as an ominous omen since childhood, bent his eyes and said with a smile.
At that moment, Ji Guoyansheng's young body unexpectedly felt a strong, strange and unprecedented nausea.His forehead was dripping with sweat, and he began to suspect that there was something wrong with the dumpling he ate in the morning.Otherwise, why would he have this strange nausea?
Wait...Yuanyi, what were you talking about just now?
--What is he saying?What is the poor, ominous brother saying?
——Will he become the warrior Ji Jun said can protect her?
◎The author has something to say:
The lemon essence fermentation has started, and soon, a super sour lemon will be born...
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PPS: There will be some minor changes to the plot of the original work, such as the time of Mrs. Jiguo's death, the appearance of songs, and so on.After all, it is a bg fan, so part of the original plot will be lost. (and according to the original setting of the crocodile, Yuanyi actually couldn't laugh until he was seven years old...)