palm river mountain

30 The Bird in the Cage
Duan Yi put the booklet into her arms, and grabbed Duan Ming's wrist with one hand, "Let's go, go sit in sister's yard, how about sweet-scented osmanthus wine rice balls?"

"It's not an ordinary meatball. It's the size of a pearl. It's filled with stuffing. It's sweet and soft."

Duan Ming's eyes lit up, "I... can I eat it? My mother said that I am weak... I can't overcome it easily. During the Lantern Festival, I only let you eat one for the meaning of reunion."

As he spoke, he stumbled and followed Duan Yi all the way back to her simple little yard.

Duan Yi glanced at him from the corner of the eye, and saw that he kept looking at the weapon shelf, and smiled, "Weakness is not paper, just don't be greedy. Do you want to practice martial arts?"

Duan Ming stretched out his hand, touched Duan Yi's long spear, and shook his head, "I will get short of breath if I walk too fast, so I can't practice martial arts."

As he spoke, he turned around and smiled shyly at Duan Yi, "Third Sister, Jiuniangwanzi... Mama Zhang will come to look for me later."

Duan Yi frowned, and led Duan Ming into the house, dragged out the charcoal basin to start a fire, but was stopped by Duan Ming, "Third Sister was too hot yesterday, I'm not cold."

Duan Yi held the brazier for a while, took a hand warming stove from the side, stuffed it into Duan Ming's arms, took hot water from the stove, brewed tea and handed it to Duan Ming.

Duan Ming looked around, but his eyes were slightly red, "Third sister's room is empty, like a snow cave, and there are only two people around to serve her?"

"When you didn't come back, the whole old house was my yard, and all the servants came to serve me, isn't that enough?" Duan Yi waved her hands indifferently, and brought out some melon and fruit snacks, Put it on a small table for guests.

Then she took out the booklet and flipped through it in her hand.

Duan Ming obviously learned painting from a master, and his paintings are lifelike. The first one is the current Third Prince Chen Ming.

"I collided with the name of the Third Highness because he treated me a little more kindly than others. The Third Highness was born by Su Zhaoyi. He has studied and practiced calligraphy with his grandfather for four or five years..."

Duan Yi flipped one, and Duan Ming explained one.

"The second one is His Highness the Fifth Highness Chen Heqing. The Fifth Highness has both civil and military skills, and his biological mother is Wang Meiren. His Highness is kind and good at riding and archery, and has been praised by His Majesty."

Seeing that he didn't care about tea and snacks, Duan Yi closed the booklet, "It's all written on it, I'll read it slowly in a while, thank you, this is very useful to me, otherwise, at the banquet, no one would recognize it." No, maybe it's going to be a joke."

Seeing Duan Yi's expression of gratitude, Duan Ming became nervous again, his face flushed, and then he sighed softly.

He pursed his lips, and it took a while before he stumbled to speak again.

"When I was last year, there was a birthday banquet in the East Palace. Auntie ignored the affairs of the house and focused on father, me and Fifth Sister." He said, as if remembering something, he secretly raised his eyes to look at Duan Yi, Seeing that she was neither annoyed nor disappointed, she was relieved.

"Concubine Ruan Gui called several noble girls by name, and they went into the palace together to help the directors, and the eldest sister was also among them. The fifth sister saw the excitement, and she also went to the birthday banquet that day. After returning, she cried a lot."

Duan Ming's hands tightened, "I even got into an argument with Auntie... I said I went and got blind... So I prepared this for my third sister."

Duan Ming didn't speak fluently, but Duan Yi could hear a lot from it.

Although she is in Jiannan, she doesn't know anything about the capital as Duan Ming thought.Mr. Qi not only teaches the Four Books and Five Classics, the Six Arts of a Gentleman, but also the things of noble people.

Nothing came out of the middle palace, and the eldest son of Concubine Li De died early, and your Majesty succeeded her second son, who was the East Palace.

The crown prince married a side concubine in his early years, but the position of crown prince has always been vacant.Duan Xian is nearly double ten years old, but he has never talked about marriage. In all likelihood, it is the birthday banquet of the Concubine Xuan of the East Palace.

But at the banquet, maybe something happened, so Duan Hao came back and cried a lot, and Duan Xian also kept this matter secret, today Duan Shu didn't care to mention it, her face changed instantly.

And this time the two princes who came back from Jiannan, the third prince is not outstanding in all aspects, but his mother clan is strong and has the military power in his hands; , was sealed as a beauty.

"When Auntie was in the capital, didn't she care about her family?" Duan Yi couldn't help asking.

Duan Ming lowered his head, and he hummed softly, "Aunt...Aniang's official words are not good, but also because I am weak."

"Third sister, yes... I'm sorry, it's useless for me to be a younger brother, and I can't be the support of my sisters," he said, with tears in his eyes, "The eldest brother has all won the Jinshi and went to Jiangnan Road to become an official , but I passed out in the examination room and was carried out..."

As Duan Ming said, he clenched his hands into fists, "The elder sister and the second elder sister both grew up in the grandmother's house, and the aunt is Princess Hui'an. My father is surrounded by aunts, and my mother can't handle it, and I can't get the housekeeper." Quan, Fifth Sister's life in the Prime Minister's Mansion is not easy."

Duan Yi looked at it, leaned back in the chair, and moved the tea in front of Duan Ming a little, leaving a space for the rice balls on the road, "You told me this because you want me to help Madam Take back the housekeeping rights? What are you fighting for your fifth sister?"

"No, no, no..." Duan Ming waved his hands hastily, like a frightened little rabbit, he stood up suddenly, the chair was almost hit by him, and made a harsh sound.

Duan Ming supported the chair in embarrassment, and shook his head desperately: "No, no, I didn't mean that... I didn't mean that..."

Duan Yi sighed lightly, and dragged him to sit down, "Why are you in such a panic? I'm your sister, not some rich wolf or leopard. Everyone has his own ambitions, and my mother doesn't care about the housekeeper. You don't have to worry about it."

"Hurry up and eat the glutinous rice balls while it's hot! Apart from your weak body, do you have other hidden diseases? How long do you go out and walk around in a day?"

Duan Ming took a mouthful of the meatballs in a panic, sticking out his tongue from the heat. Hearing what Duan Yi said later, his expression lost again.

"Aniang is afraid that I will catch a cold, so she usually doesn't let me go out. Even in the yard, there is also my mother watching over me. It's foggy today, so she told me to go away for a while."

As soon as he finished speaking, a thick-bodied woman rushed in at the door with an anxious expression on her face, "Brother Ming is here, and I asked the old slave to find him easily. Madam, I don't see you when I go back, so I'm in a hurry!"

Duan Ming quickly wiped his mouth, stood up, glanced at Duan Yi, and walked towards the mother, "Third Sister, I will come to see you another day. Auntie is looking for me, so I will go there first."

Seeing that Duan Ming was obedient and Duan Yi didn't stay, the old woman was relieved and left.

After they left, Duan Yi just opened the picture book and flipped through it, and shouted to a corner of the room, "Zhiqiao Zhiqiao, come and take a look, see if your little brother looks like you or not?"

　My beast is finally about to start school, ahahahaha
　　
　
(End of this chapter)