A small fruit grew up quietly in the imperial garden. In fact, no one could tell what kind of fruit it was.
Autumn is a season full of fruits, and in this imperial garden, all kinds of trees that can bear fruit are bearing fruit. Ordinarily, this small, unknown fruit is nothing special.
However, this is indeed not an ordinary fruit, because it was planted by the Ninth Princess herself before she got married. It is said that she secretly planted it on the day when she and Jin Xiaolan, who was second in the list, were secretly in love. She once said that the fruit would grow in the future.
She married Jin Xiaolan. But the thoughts of the girl’s family were unpredictable and the power of love was huge. Jin Xiaolan didn’t know what method she used to force the ninth princess to marry before the fruit grew.
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However, the Ninth Princess did not forget about this seedling that might grow into fruit in the future. So, hard work paid off and the fruit finally grew.
The Ninth Princess happily ran to Jingyang Palace, lifted up the quilt, dug up the Dou sprouts from the bed, pulled her bleary-eyed girl all the way to the Imperial Garden, squatted on the ground and looked at the fruit together. The current color of the fruit is
It's green and yellow and has a strange shape.
"Sixth sister-in-law, what does it look like to you?"
"Like your Jin Xiaolan's squashed head." Dou Yacai was sleepy and hungry, missing her bed. She had been thinking about Liu Hao's marriage to the Elephant Princess all night last night and wanted to sleep in the afternoon.
I was taking a nap, but the troublesome Ninth Princess dragged me to look at a strange and inconspicuous fruit.
"Sixth sister-in-law, you are not allowed to talk about Xiaolan." The ninth princess said coquettishly. Dou Yacai looked at her newlywed expression and suddenly saw himself in the past.
"Your fruit is dry and flat. What's so good about it?"
"Sixth sister-in-law, don't you think it looks a lot like you? Why do you speak of it in such a contemptuous tone?" Ninth Princess rolled her eyes at Dou Yacai and continued to block the fruit with her hand.
"..." Dou Yacai was speechless, so he had to squat side by side with her, waiting for the green-yellow fruit to turn golden. "Little Niba, go and bring two stools so that Princess Ninth and I can sit together."
"yes."
The stools were brought in, so Dou Yacai and the Ninth Princess changed from sitting side by side to squatting side by side. The sun had fallen from the sky above the palace into the back of the palace. The clouds on the side were purple at the moment, reflecting in Jingyang Palace.
It was particularly beautiful on the glazed tiles. Dou Yacai looked at it and felt intoxicated.
While waiting for the fruit to turn yellow, she began to think endlessly. It was said to be thinking, but in fact it was an unbridled daydream. This was also her real life state recently.
Dou Yacai's days in the palace can be described as "living like years". In the past, when she saw ancient women leaving their husbands, they would become depressed and desperate, just like a dead leaf on a branch that would flutter when the wind blows.
She seems to be walking away, showing sympathy on the surface, but always silently despises her in her heart. In her dictionary, women should be independent, and should live better and more freely without men.
But at this moment, she felt the depressing feeling of not having a man by her side. In the end, Dou Yacai's happiness still depended on Liu Hao.
Is this because of love? This question suddenly flashed in her mind.
In fact, she and Liu Huan have been together for six years. She only knows that he will appear next to her every day. She can see him when she wants to see him, and she can also caress him when she wants to.
However, it seems that there has never been time and space to think about the issue of love. In the past, she said that she liked him, and he also said that he liked her. But can liking and love be equated?
"Sixth sister-in-law, sixth sister-in-law, look, another knot has come out, now there are two." Just as she was immersed in her own thoughts, she heard the ninth princess shouting.
Dou Yacai lowered his head and followed her gaze. Sure enough, next to the small fruit that was already the size of a chestnut, there was another small fruit, very small, as big as a pea.
"I waited from afternoon to dusk, and from dusk to sunset, and finally I have another fruit. The fruit will be big tomorrow, so don't forget to share one with me."
"Eat?" Ninth Princess looked at Dou Yacai with wide eyes, as if she was looking at a heinous executioner, "Sister-in-law Six, how can you bear to eat it?"
"...Isn't...this...this fruit is for...eating?"
"Of course not, I planted this with my own hands. This bigger fruit is Xiaolan, and this little fruit that just grew up is me. We cling together and never separate." The eyes of the girl in love are full of joy.
The light of happiness, look at yourself again, alas, your eyes are dull and dull. This is probably the difference between newly married women and old married women.
"Then what if a third little fruit grows, wouldn't there be a third party? How can we cling to each other so closely?" Dou Yacai said a practical question, hitting the romantic thoughts of the Ninth Princess.
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"Sixth sister-in-law! You really disgrace the scenery. I believe there will never be a third party between Xiaolan and I."
"Alas..." Dou Yacai let out a long sigh and silently glanced at the two "crooked melons and split dates" who were closely dependent on each other. At the beginning, she was so convinced that Liu Hao would not let a third party in.
The result...
"Sister-in-law Six, please keep it a secret for me. Don't let anyone know. When the two fruits are ripe, I will take Xiaolan to see them!"
"All right……"
"Hmph, if a third fruit grows, I will pinch it off, throw it to the ground, and stomp on it a few times." Dou Yacai was about to stand up when she heard the vicious voice of the Ninth Princess.
The voice. She was shocked. This lively and dignified Ninth Princess actually had such a savage side. She was really an anomaly among the women in the palace.
Pinch it off? Throw it away? Crush it to pieces? Is this a way to face a love rival?
"No, I'd better let Xiaolan come over and pick off the third fruit myself. If I do it myself and he can't bear it, then there's no point in it. Sister-in-law Six, do you think I'm right?" After a while.
, the Ninth Princess changed her mind again.
Dou Yacai raised his head, glanced at her, and asked silently: "Did you also come from modern times? How could you have such advanced ideas?"
"What?" Ninth Princess' puzzled expression proved the error of Dou Yacai's guess.
"Sixth sister-in-law, you have forgotten that you secretly told us these things when Master Wei taught us the female precepts when we were studying in Taihe Hall."
"What did I say?"
"Exactly, the way I treat Jin Xiaolan now is completely based on what you taught me, Sixth Sister-in-law."
"Is it effective?"
“It works great.”
The color of the clouds on the horizon changed again and again, and finally turned gray and black, which meant that the sky was getting dark and the time was changing from dusk to night.
"Ninth Princess, I've been waiting for a long time. The third fruit won't come out. Let's go back. I'm hungry. Aren't you hungry?" Dou Yacai rubbed his sore butt and sore arms, as well as the soreness.
thighs, suggested.
"Sixth sister-in-law... turn around and see who that is."