I think that today, there are almost few people in Xichuan who can directly call this name, but as soon as I meet, I call out his name.

However, Aunt Hong has always known my temper, and it is not rare. Even Li Guo was not surprised. She just said to me respectfully: "The head of the family knows that the eldest lady will enter the city today, so let's come here to welcome the eldest lady first."

"He didn't come?"

"No."

"Where is he?"

"This, the villain doesn't know."

My brows suddenly twisted into a pimple: "What about my daughter?!"

Li Guo bent down and said respectfully: "The villain came here to greet the eldest lady on the order of the head of the family. The villain did not know anything else."

I looked back at Aunt Hong again, and she shook her head at me in a daze.

I frowned.

I have already entered Chengdu City, and Yan Qingchen still used this method to perfunctory me. Is there any trick left to do anything?

As soon as I saw me frowning, the people around me breathed tightly, as if they were wary of me wanting fire. Pei Yuanxiu, behind me, reached out to gently stroke my shoulders. The gentle force and warm body temperature made my heart calmer. Looking back at him, he shook his head gently.

I've already arrived here, so there's no need.

He was still calmer than me. I nodded gently, my expression calmed down, and everyone around me seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

I asked, "When will I see Yan Qingchen?"

"If you go back to the lady, the head of the family will arrange for the lady to rest here first. When you return home tomorrow, the head of the family will also arrange for some people to welcome the lady."

...

Some people have been arranged?

Of course I know that this time I went back to Xichuan, I must have attracted a lot of attention, and many people wanted to see me. But, did he think clearly about how Yan Qingchen should deal with himself?

Seeing that I did not refuse, Li Guo took a step back and raised his hand to Sister Guita: "Miss, please."

I didn't say anything else, and went into the Sister's Return Tower with Pei Yuanxiu.

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Although it is a tower, it is actually a pavilion inside. Especially when I stepped into the threshold, I still saw everything around me, as if I had embedded the original Hongyan Tower into this tower.

The carved railings and jade bricks should still be there.

But Zhu Yan changed.

I looked up and looked at the exquisite carved beams and gorgeous decorations. For a moment, I felt a little dazed, as if the first time I walked into the Hongyan Building that looked like a heavenly palace...

It was a morning filled with a faint mist. I was swollen because of my eyes crying and couldn't see anything clearly. I only saw the exquisite pavilions and towers in a vague way, like a heavenly palace. The girls wearing red and green around me were like fairies in Penglai, each with a stunning appearance.

I can't remember their faces any more.

I only remember that their expressions were cold, and the eyes of my eyes were cold.

At this time, Pei Yuanxiu held my hand tightly.

The temperature from his palm made me wake up suddenly, and my back was covered with cold sweat, but the power that came from his hands finally made me no longer fall into those nightmarish memories.

He gently said in my ear: "What's wrong with you? Your face looks ugly."

"No, it's okay."

As he said that, Li Guo and Aunt Hong had already walked in. Behind them was a group of petite and pretty maids. There were so many people who suddenly appeared from somewhere. They didn't even hear footsteps when they were walking. They came forward and served Pei Yuanxiu and me to clean them.

I was taken to a small room by several maids, which was a small bathhouse, just enough for a person to bathe in it. In the warm steam, I took off my clothes and walked over slowly, stepping on the snow-white marble slab barefoot. The slight coolness and the heat in the steam made people sweat all over. I walked down and soaked my body in the snow-white bath soup. It was only when it was milk mixed with Chinese medicine. The temperature was not too hot, but it was just the most comfortable.

At this time, Aunt Hong also walked in, looked at the maids around her holding clothes, shoes, socks, and golden plates with petals, and waved her hand: "Go down, I'll serve you here, Miss."

"yes."

Several maids agreed and walked down.

Aunt Hong walked behind me and knelt carefully beside me. She reached out with a pair of gentle but powerful hands and gently kneaded my somewhat stiff shoulders.

My spirit was originally tense all the way, but in fact it is still the case until now. I didn't relax, but I was just a little dazed.

All of this is like memories from another world, and it appears so clearly in the dreams of this life, making people both familiar and unfamiliar.

I murmured, "Aunt Hong, when I was a child, you took me to bathe like this, right?"

Aunt Hong seemed to laugh, but the laughter seemed to be crying again. After pausing, she heard her crying voice: "At that time, the eldest lady was not so big or so thin."

"Is that..."

"At that time, the young lady was chubby, like a jade doll."

I chuckled: "When people grow up, they always have to sow seedlings, so they naturally have to lose weight."

"But the lady has suffered a lot of hardships to do this."

"Does people have to endure hardship?"

"Miss shouldn't!"

Hearing her stubborn and almost paranoid words reminded me of the words "The son of a daughter cannot sit in the hall." It seems that in their eyes, no matter how time changes or how the surrounding environment changes, I seem to be the one who enjoys the glory of the world and gets the most favored.

But, how can it be as satisfactory?

Thinking of this, I turned sideways, stroked the back of Hongyi's hand with my wet hands, and said softly: "Aunt Hong, don't do this, I'm not sad."

After hearing what I said, Aunt Hong was so angry that her hands trembled. After working for a long time, she gritted her teeth and said, "You, why are you the same with the eldest lady!"

"She is my mother."

Speaking of this, my voice was already a little choked, and a drop of hot water fell on my shoulders.

When he looked back, Aunt Hong started crying again.

This time, I didn't say anything to comfort me anymore, but just looked at her calmly in this steaming room, and fell silent.

When I mentioned my mother, I felt that there were too many words, almost thousands of words to say, and too many questions to ask, but it seemed like I was timid in my hometown and didn’t know how to ask or where to ask.

After a while of silence, I said, "How did my mother die?"

As soon as I said that, although I was still soaked in the warm bath soup and the room was filled with warm steam, a chill rose from the bottom of my heart. Not only me, but even Aunt Hong, who was holding my shoulder, trembled.

I slowly turned around in the bathtub, and the white and delicate bath soup brushed across my skin. It was obviously very comfortable to apply, but at this moment I felt like a knife cut. I looked at Aunt Hong's pale face in an instant, and my eyes became solemn.

"At that time, I was on the way back and I got the news from you."

"Yes. I'm sending a message to the eldest lady that her wife has passed away."

"But you didn't say clearly how my mother died and when she died, you didn't say anything. You just told me not to go back to Xichuan."

"yes."

"Why?"

"Because, I don't know either."

Aunt Hong looked at me with a hint of despair in her expression: "Since the eldest lady left the head of the family and moved to Xishan, we have become thorns in the second lady's side. Fortunately, the eldest lady made a thorough arrangement before leaving, and that woman could not move us over the years. But we were completely excluded from the center of the main house. In the years after the eldest lady took you away, I could hardly see the head of the family."

I fell silent.

Before my mother took me out of Yan's house...

At that time, I was still young and didn't even remember much. I just vaguely remember that many people came to see her every day. Now I also understand that the Yan family is in Xichuan, and its forces penetrated into everyone from all aspects of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. Their roots are complicated and complex and unheard by outsiders. The restraints between people are more complicated than any network of relationships.

Among them, a large number of people promoted by their mothers. Before their mother lost power, they had made comprehensive arrangements for these people. This arrangement was even thorough and so many years later, they could still settle down and Aunt Hong's status was comparable to that of a housekeeper like Li Guo.

However, because of this, they completely stood opposite to that woman.

"I only remember that it was winter when the lady left."

"right."

Because the selection of girls is carried out in spring, Xichuan is far away from the capital and must be on the road a few months in advance.

"It snowed in the West Mountain that year, and it was rare."

"yes."

That year, the heavy snow on the West Mountain was rare in Shu. The heavy snow falling all over the sky made the whole world look pure and flawless. Looking around, the mountains and fields were covered with whiteness. Such pink and jade-like scenery almost forgot the filth of the world, as if all the rings were covered by the snow and disappeared.

"We were all strictly ordered by the eldest lady and could not approach the west mountain, so we could not see you. We could only stand on a very far mountain to see the eldest lady off."

"Thank you for your hard work."

“Not bitter.”

Aunt Hong shook her head, and the heat around her could not restore her pale face to her redness, but instead became paler: "I was particularly reluctant to see the eldest lady growing up since I was a child, so after they left, I stayed on the mountain for another day, looking at the place where the wife and the lady lived from afar, watching the road where the lady left, even if - even if I took a look, it would be good."

“…”

"But, just the next day," a look of almost panic appeared on her face, and she said in a hoarse voice: "I saw white banners rising everywhere on the west mountain..."
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