National Beauty

It was the Mid-Autumn Festival again, because Song Jianing brought her younger brother to come here early because she was going to eat dinner at Mrs. Tai's side to accompany Mrs. Tai. Brother Mao carried the Chang'e jade rabbit lamp made by the brothers and sisters in his hand. The boy in broad daylight lit the lamp, and he walked and mentioned it rare.

Mrs. Tai asked the brothers and sisters to sit on the warm couch next to the window. The maids brought in cakes and tea and put them on the pinewood low table.

The old man loves his sons and grandchildren. The rarest Mrs. Madam now is Brother Mao, holding her arms in her arms, pointing to Chang'e on the lantern and asking who did the painting by Brother Mao. Brother Mao replied while eating cakes. The four-year-old boy was handsome and beautiful with articulate speech. His phoenix eyes looked more and more like Guo Boyan.

"Brother Maoer eat more, grow taller, let your elder brother teach you kung fu in the future." Madam Madam laughed and coaxed.

Brother Mao nodded vigorously, and Song Jianing sat aside and smiled. The soft autumn light came in from the west, and the atmosphere in the room was warm.

"Sir." The maid's voice suddenly came from outside the window.

Song Jianing smiled slightly, and Brother Mao was extremely happy. Yigulu crawled out of Mrs. Tai's arms and ran to the window to shout for eldest brother, and then ran to the edge of the couch, knowing that eldest brother would come out from here. Song Jianing was afraid that her younger brother would fall, so she took her younger brother's little hand and pulled the boy to her side. She caught a glimpse of Guo Xiao coming in, and then she let go.

"Brother!" Brother Mao threw over excitedly.

Guo Xiao hugged his younger brother, his gaze passed over Brother Mao's shoulder, and fell on his stepsister's face. Since she was given the marriage to the king of life, she has been less and less when she went out. After carefully counting, after the Dragon Boat Festival, Guo Xiao saw her with one hand countless times. However, looking at Song Jianing’s smooth face, he was sure that Guo Xiao was finally relieved that the medicine did not hurt her bones.

"Big Brother is here." Song Jianing said with a slight smile.

Guo Xiao nodded, and Brother Fang Mao continued to eat pastries, sitting sideways at the low table opposite Song Jianing.

The wife asked her eldest grandson nahanly: "Why do you come here so early today?"

Guo Xiao looked at his stepsister and said helplessly: "Yunfang and Jianing are going to be married. I'll come here earlier and stay with me for a while."

Madam Tai has always known that this grandson is a cold-hearted face. She looked at the door and said strangely: "Yunfang is late this time."

Guo Xiao did not respond, and asked Song Jianing: "I heard that the wedding dress was sent to the palace on the previous day. Is the dress suitable?"

Song Jianing lowered her eyes pretendingly and nodded.

Guo Xiao hummed, teasing Brother Mao, and suddenly said to Song Jianing: "Grandma coax Brother Mao, let's play chess with brothers and sisters."

Song Jianing looked up in surprise.

Guo Xiao looked at her calmly. Song Jianing pursed her lips and looked at their wife with a smile. She couldn't find an excuse to refuse. As soon as she was about to say that she was on the couch, Guo Xiao had stood up and walked straight to the red sandalwood rectangular table to the north. Song Jianing had to put on his shoes and walked for a dozen steps before sitting opposite Guo Xiao.

There was a pot of sweet-scented osmanthus plants next to her, and the delicate fragrance lingered at the end of her nose. Song Jianing tilted her head to look at her brother on the couch, and when the maid brought the chessboard over, she looked back.

"An An goes first." Guo Xiao said in a low voice while looking at the chessboard.

Song Jianing frowned slightly. Just now in front of the wife, Guo Xiao called her Jianing. Now that she is far away from the wife, he calls her An'an again, with a weird feeling of intimacy. In fact, Song Jianing has been guarding Guo Xiao for several years. Until the marriage decree came down, it was expected that the deal was done, and her fear of Guo Xiao faded. She did not go out because of the identity of the girl to be married, not deliberately avoiding him. But now, Guo Xiao is just two different nicknames, and Song Jianing's vigilance is coming up again.

However, even if Guo Xiao had that kind of thought for her, she would marry the King Shou, would Guo Xiao dare not steal a woman from the King Shou?

Song Jianing didn't believe Guo Xiao had the courage.

Absent-minded, Song Jianing had a son.

Guo Xiao followed closely, and Heizi was placed next to her Baizi, giving people a sense of oppression inexplicably.

Song Jianing didn't like this feeling. The second piece was put a little farther away, and there was no way to go. Anyway, he was not in the mood to really play chess with him. As a result, Guo Xiao chased him again and put Heizi away. He looked up at Song Jianing and said in a voice that only two of them could hear: "An An is going to be a princess, my eldest brother hasn't congratulated you."

Song Jianing smiled stiffly, then squeezed a white child out.

"The prince is distinguished, but, it is said that he has already accepted two training maids. Does An An mind?" Guo Xiao turned to the black man in his hand, staring at Song Jianing's lowered eyes, and said quietly: "Ting Fang decided to kiss, I asked What kind of man does she want to marry, she said, she doesn't mind the official status of her future husband, she just hopes that person will treat her wholeheartedly."

As long as the stepsister is willing to stay with him, he can give her wholeheartedly.

Song Jianing listened blankly. Of course, she knew that King Shou didn't touch the two palace ladies. Even if she touched her, she didn't care, so she replied sincerely: "My identity, the prince doesn't dislike me. I’m contented. For other things, I will keep my grandmother’s teachings in mind, do not be arrogant or jealous, and try my best to take care of the back house for the prince."

"Nonsense, An Anxian and well-behaved, gentle and beautiful, who has the right to despise you?" Guo Xiao once again placed the black son in his hand next to her white son, and noticed that Song Jianing looked at him. Guo Xiao also raised his eyes, his black eyes complicated. Stare at her, hoping she can understand what he means. He was twenty. From the day when he understood the matter of men and women, for so many years, he had only the girl opposite in his heart. He didn't want others to bully her, and wanted to hold her in his arms for pain.

Song Jianing didn't notice the look in Guo Xiao's eyes, because after Guo Xiao said "who is qualified to despise you", the moment she raised her head, Song Jianing saw Guo Xiao from the previous life. Wasn't she quiet and well-behaved, not gentle and beautiful? But Guo Xiao disliked her more than Liang Shao, Liang Shao at least gave her the status of concubine, and she was willing to coax her with sweet words, Guo Xiao, he...

If it weren't for her mother to marry her stepfather, in Guo Xiao's eyes, she was at best a beautiful civilian, a woman he could grab by his power.

Song Jianing didn’t want to think about his previous life, nor did he want to accompany Guo Xiao in a sibling play. He raised his hand to disrupt several pairs of Othellos next to each other on the chessboard. Song Jianing deliberately said loudly, “Big brother won’t let me at all. I won't go with you anymore!" She acted like a baby and left Guo Xiao who was stunned there, and Song Jianing went to accompany his wife again.

As soon as I walked to the couch, the twins came, and the brothers were the best at gagging, and the room suddenly became lively.

Song Jianing didn't even look at Guo Xiao again.

Guo Xiao stood on the side of the twins as usual, but in her mind was the mockery that flashed in her eyes before disrupting the chess game. If she understood his heart, she would be able to understand if she was afraid of disgust and resisting Guo Xiao, but Guo Xiao couldn't figure it out with ridicule.

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After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Song Jianing stayed honestly in Linyuntang. This time she really hid from Guo Xiao. Occasionally, her mother left Guo Xiao to eat in Linyuntang. Song Jianing simply found an excuse to stay in her room to eat and try to avoid eating with Guo Xiao. Guo Xiao made a face-to-face meeting.

"Sister, eat pomegranate!"

At dusk, Brother Mao suddenly ran over excitedly, Xiao Pang holding a big red pomegranate in his hand. Song Jianing couldn't help laughing. Halfway through the smile, Brother Mao happily said, "Brother bought it. I bought a large basket. Give me the biggest one!"

Song Jianing looked at the pomegranate in his younger brother's hand, and then realized one thing. In the past two years, every time when new fruit was ripe, the first bite that everyone in the Guogong Mansion ate must have been brought back by Guo Xiao. . Does Guo Xiao want to take care of the entire Guogong Mansion, or does he know that she likes these, just for her?

Song Jianing remembered the two red dates that Guo Xiao gave her last year.

Thinking about it this way, Song Jianing had no appetite to eat this pomegranate, and ordered Shuang'er to take it to the kitchen to peel it, just watching her younger brother eat it.

Brother Mao was sensible and let her sister several times. Song Jianing lied with a smile: "Brother Maoer eat, sister doesn't like to eat."

Brother Mao believed stupidly, had enough, and led the maid to Yihexuan to find his eldest brother. The eldest brother told him when he had just sent him pomegranates. When the brothers met, Guo Xiao picked up the boy and went to play in the garden. When he walked to the lake, he asked his brother casually: "Does Brother Mao share the big pomegranate for his sister?"

Brother Mao nodded and said obediently: "My sister doesn't like to eat. I will give the rest to Shuang'er and them."

Guo Xiao smiled and touched the top of the boy's head with his big hand, so as not to let his younger brother see the disappointment in his eyes.

Why didn't he like to eat? He still remembered the eleven-year-old her eating pomegranate with a spoon at her grandmother's side.

She didn't love it, but she didn't like to eat what he gave.

But Guo Xiao didn't understand, what was she afraid of him, what was she mocking him, and what was she disgusting, so disgusting that she didn't even touch the food he sent.

~

The pomegranates are ripe, and the capital is getting cooler day by day. The chrysanthemum flowers in the yard are getting bigger and bigger. The Guogong Mansion ushered in a happy event. The third girl Yunfang is about to get married.

Yunfang got married on the sixth day of the sixth day and added makeup on the fifth day. Song Jianing and his mother went to Sanfang to congratulate her. Although there were some gaps between the concubines, Lin was really happy for his niece on such a happy day, wrapped a bulging red seal as a gift, and gave Yunfang a pair of emerald bracelets with clear green. This is Lin's dowry, a whole piece of emerald jade. Lin asked to make three pairs of bracelets, and Ting Fang and Lan Fang gave them both, impartially.

The third wife came from a famous family, but her family's fortune was really not as good as the Lin family, a wealthy businessman in the capital. Seeing this pair of bracelets, the third wife's attitude towards Lin finally eased a little.

Song Jianing gave a hand-embroidered double lotus veil with gold thread embroidered with "flowers are full of the moon, and a century of harmony".

Yunfang smiled and thanked him. He checked the gifts he received today and found out Song Jianing's veil. He was so angry that he cut it with scissors and scared the maid beside him.

The next day the bridegroom came to greet his relatives, and the front yard was busy. The bridegroom came to the house to pick up the bride alone with Quanfu. Song Jianing stood by her mother watching the ceremony, and saw the third brother-in-law Huang Zhensheng with a gentle manner, a gentle and bookish appearance, and a handsome appearance. Song Jianing was very happy for Yunfang.

Yunfang was wearing a hijab and could not see anything. He had forgotten Huang Zhensheng's appearance and was picked up by the bridegroom in a complicated mood.

Three days later, the young couple returned to the door.

The crowd gathered in Changxinyuan, and Song Jianing looked at Yunfang curiously. Seeing Yunfang's ruddy complexion and springy face, he looked like the big sister when she returned home. He guessed that the third sister and the third sister-in-law are also in good relationship. The elder sisters were all married to Ruyi Langjun. Listening to Mrs. Tai's teaching to Yunfang, Song Jianing couldn't help thinking of herself.

On the ninth day of November, there are only two months left.

After she was gone, Yunfang accompanied her husband to serve tea to the elders. She caught a glimpse of Song Jianing's look of Sichun with the corners of her lips slightly raised, and she quietly pursed her lips. Before getting married, she was extremely dissatisfied with her marriage. She thought that the Huang family was too strict, and she was even more pitiful when compared to Song Jianing's high marriage. The only luck is that Huang Zhensheng, who has not been seen for a few years, has become so good-looking. Yushu's graceful and handsome, not much worse than Liang Shao, and gentle and considerate towards her, Yun Fang slowly feels comfortable in her heart.

But no matter how comfortable he was, Yun Fang couldn't help being jealous when he saw Song Jianing, and felt that he was inferior to others.

Therefore, in late September, when the maid rushed in in a panic, saying that Song Jianing's second uncle had beaten the Dengwen drum and was about to go to the emperor to sue the uncle for robbing the Song family's daughter, Yunfang's heartbeat quickened and his eyes brightened, and he made no secret of it. He laughed in front of the maid!