On this day, Su Xi lay on the beauty with red sandalwood vine-faced collapsed. Her big bone-shaped eyes were circling around. A thin layer of sweat oozing out from the tip of her perky nose. Her delicate and jade-like face was full of anxiety. Her hands, who were stubbing on the edge of the beauty's bed, were trembling slightly. She almost asked Tingyan every moment: "Is it here? Is it time?"

Tingyan turned her head and looked at the small incense burner on the square stool with a waist-length enamel face. The incense stick on her was just half burned. Tingyan said bitterly: "It's still early, girl, since it's so hard, why do you have to make things difficult for yourself?" She was so tired from the side.

Su Xi's upper body was lying on the beauty couch, and half of her body from her waist and hips was hanging in the air. Her legs were stretched straight, and gradually lifted up to the air and then slowly lowered them. They all depended on the strength of their waist, hips, and legs. It is not necessary to think that this method of nourishing and shaping the body was taught by Ma Ma Ye. I heard that doing this can not only stretch the length of her legs, but also train a slender waist and a slim buttocks. I don't know where Ma Ma Ye learned these things. I heard that Yan thought the result was good, but the process was too hard. If it were her, she wouldn't be able to hold on.

Su Xi took a deep breath, gritted her teeth and continued to persevere after adjusting her condition. She said without answering: "Listen to Sister Yan, tell me a joke." At least she could distract herself.

Tingyan knew that Su Xi couldn't listen to her advice, but when she asked her to tell jokes, how could she have any jokes? Tingyan had to scrape her heart and recall the interesting things she had heard. Finally, she thought of one: "Girl, there is a scholar named Wu from my hometown. I was only six years old at that time. I heard that Wu Xiucai took Shutong to Beijing to take the exam, and his hat fell off halfway. Shutong said: 'Young master, the hat fell on the ground.' Because Shutong was homophonic with Luodi, Wu Xiucai quickly reminded: 'Don't say it is landed, you must say it is landed.' Who knew that Shutong picked up the hat and tied it firmly to Wu Xiucai's head, and then said..." Speaking of this, Tingyan covered her stomach and couldn't stop laughing.

Su Xi was curious and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Hearing the geese laughed enough, he continued, "Shutong said: OK, I will never reach the ground again this time."

Su Xi burst out laughing, her belly was already tense, and with this smile, she almost had a cramp. It was precisely because of this that she reduced a lot of pain and fatigue. After a stick of incense, Su Xi slowly put her legs down and leaned softly on the silver-red pillow, asking Tingyan and Tinghe to pound her legs. Su Xi didn't dare to rest for a long time, and after her legs recovered a little, she sat up and walked slowly around the room.

It has to be said that Su Xi's persistence over the past month has been effective. Not only has the round apple face become smaller, but the flesh on her waist and legs has also fallen apart, and even her body seems to have grown taller. However, because of the late spring cold recently, she has worn a lot of clothes outside, so others can't see Su Xi's changes. Only a few close girls can see her differences when they serve Su Xi in the bath. Even her pretty face looks much more energetic than usual.

*

Today, the clan was on vacation. After Su Xi finished practicing the movements, she ran around Hualutianxiang for three times, went back to the house to take a shower, and sat in front of the window to practice calligraphy.

Su Xi's handwriting is not very good, and she needs to practice meditation. In her previous life, she was not at all about this, she was just lazy and slick. Although Yin could write beautiful small hairpin calligraphy, her ability did not fall on Su Xi. After a while, Su Xi didn't want to be mediocre anymore, at least she couldn't embarrass her arrogant mother.

Yin loves her and never makes things difficult for her. However, when Su Xi remembered that when the wife of Mei, the wife of the Prince of Qingguo Mansion, came to the house last time, she was showing off her daughter Fu Yi in her words, but Yin could only listen, and she couldn't help but feel ashamed. Her mother had always been arrogant, but now she has been compared by Mei in her daughter. Although Yin didn't tell her anything later, why can't she be more arrogant?

Su Xi wrote a big and a small one. She was about to call Tingyan Grind, but Tinglu walked in from outside and held a letter in her hand and said: "Girl, the boss lady of Xiu Chunju sent you a letter."

Su Xi opened and looked at it. It was painted with several fashionable clothes styles and patterns this year. The woman who bought the inkstone last time Su Xi helped was Cen, the boss of Xiuchunju. In order to thank her, Cen said that she would give her a spring shirt specially made by Xiuchunju.

But Su Xi's purpose of approaching Cen's family was much more than that. She drew a few pictures and asked someone to send them back to Cen. When Cen saw it, her eyes lit up and said that Su Xi's paintings were exquisite and unique. If they were made into ready-made clothes, they would definitely be sought after by the noble girl of Shangjing. The two of them communicated with each letter during this period, and each letter was sent by Tinglu. Cen did not know Su Xi's identity, but this did not hinder the mood of the Bole who met Cen's thousands of miles of horses.

Cen combined the styles and patterns of the clothes painted by Su Xi, and finally designed several sets of ready-made clothes. He prepared to let Xiu Chunju's embroiderer start work at the end of the month, and promised that after making the ready-made clothes, each set would be given to Su Xi first.

Su Xi naturally did not refuse.

Su Xi put the letter into the drawer and was about to continue practicing calligraphy when she heard Lu Zhi swaying: "Girl, Cen is a businessman... Why do you want to contact her?"

In Tinglu's eyes, no, not only Tinglu, but in the eyes of all the noble ladies in Shangjing, merchants are the most powerful and rank at the bottom among scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. If it is not necessary, they can have less contact.

Su Xi looked up from the paper in Chengxintang, tilted her head and thought for a moment, and confessed: "I want to take her as used."

In the future, I heard that Lu would still help her with her work, so Su Xi did not intend to hide it from her.

After listening to the Lu, he asked in confusion: "What can Cen do for the girl?"

Su Xi stopped answering, dipped her pen and dipped it in ink, and just kept it in a silence, "I can't tell you now." Then no matter how Lu asked, she refused to say more.

*

Originally, the old general Su and the second master Su Zhi were able to return to Beijing before January 15th, but they never expected that they encountered heavy snow on the road, which took more than ten days to arrive in the capital until the end of the month.

When Su Xi heard that her grandfather and second brother had returned, she stopped playing shuttlecocks, hurried back to the house and changed her clothes to the front hall.

Since Su Xi discovered that playing shuttlecocks can also sweat, in addition to running, he would kick shuttlecock for another two quarters of an hour every morning. Playing shuttlecocks is much more interesting than running. Su Xi can kick hundreds of them in one breath, and all kinds of kicking methods are all taken, such as single flying swallows, double flying swallows, single mandarin duck knots, and double mandarin duck knots. It was as light as a swallow, and it was full of wonderfulness. Sometimes Su Xi even pulled a few girls to kick together, and the fragrance of flowers in the open air made the atmosphere of kicking shuttlecocks.

Su Xi rushed to the front hall and saw a man in a black and green military uniform standing in the middle. He had a slender body and a straight back. He was replying to the eldest master Su Zhen. Su Xi picked up the embroidered golden flower and bird pattern skirt and walked across the threshold, rushed towards the man, and shouted in surprise: "Second brother."

As soon as Su Zhi turned around, a pretty little girl bumped into his arms. Su Zhi's cold and solemn eyes were just now smiling. He lowered his eyes and touched Su Xi's head. He said, "I haven't seen you for half a year, and you have grown taller."

Su Xi looked up and saw that her second brother had grown a lot taller. Even if she had pulled a piece of it, she had to look up her head very hard to see his face. She bent her eyes and smiled slightly, turned sideways, showed a smiling little face from behind Su Zhi, and said crisply and sweetly to the old man sitting in the magenta chair in front of her, "Grandfather."

When the old general Su saw her, he was very happy and hurriedly called the person in front of her and checked her. No matter how serious he was outside, when he returned to the house, Old Master Su was a childlike and kind old man.

The family hasn't been together for a long time, so they have to sit together and talk.

Mr. Su asked about the recent situation at home and cared about the courses of several grandchildren. Although Mr. Su started out as a military general, Mr. Su did not want his grandchildren to be reckless men who only know how to play tricks, so he attached equal importance to both literature and martial arts.

There is no need to worry about the two grandchildren in the big house. Su You and Su Xu from the third house are also diligent in their studies. Only when they ask about the second house, the second wife Guo said hesitantly: "... Brother Xu has been much more attentive recently."

The old man knew what was going on when he heard this. Su Xu must have been just having fun and didn't take his lessons to heart.

Su Xu is ranked fourth, sixteenth this year, and is the son of Guo’s son three years after entering the family. Therefore, he is particularly fond of him. Over time, he becomes a naughty and unruly person, fighting cocks and dogs. During the days when the old man left, he has never even stepped into the academy, let alone the schoolwork.

The old man's tone was a little bad: "Brother Xu should learn more like his elder brother."

This big brother naturally refers to Su Li.

The second wife didn't say anything. If it were the past, it would be fine. Brother Xu was not good at studying, at least Sister Rong could do it. Not everything in her second room was worse than the big room, just like Sister Rong was better than Su Xi in both her image and academic work. I don't know what happened recently. Su Xi not only got the master's praise for her paintings, but even her appearance changed every day.

Guo looked at Su Xi, who was wearing a moon lily sky blue ice yarn next to Yin, and felt that her skin was shiny and had an indescribable spirit, which made people unable to move their eyes. When he looked at Su Lingrong beside him, she lowered her eyes and said nothing, and she couldn't even act coquettishly and well-behaved to the old man and the old lady. Can she not be compared by Su Xi?

Guo clasped the handkerchief with a little regret. Looking at the second master Su Yang, he looked like he was not concerned at all, so Guo became even worse.

Although the second wife is a concubine, Su Yang was raised by the old lady himself. The eldest wife Su Zhen is the Minister of War, and the third wife Su Tuo is a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. He is likely to join the cabinet and become the minister in the future. Only her husband is mediocre and has only a idle job in the Ministry of Revenue, and he is idle all day long and spends time. How can Guo be calm? She always feels that the old lady and the old lady are partial to the big and third wife.

But she didn't think about it. The eldest and third masters now earned their status. The second master was not enterprising, who could he blame?

*

The old man just came back from the border and needed a good rest, so everyone did not stay for too long. After dinner, they went back to the yard.

Qiutang Residence.

After Su Zhi left for half a year, Yin naturally had a lot of words to him. Su Xi was reluctant to go back to the fragrance of Hualutian, so she hurried in the rose chair on the side and listened, her little head was bit by bit, and she fell asleep with her eyes closed in a while. Su Zhi took her back to her childhood room, bent her mouth and scraped her little nose, covered her with a thin quilt, and then left.

The next day, Su Xi woke up and found herself living in Qiutang. She thought she had been back before she was eight years old. She stretched lazily in the quilt, rubbed the pillow with a big red satin embroidered phoenix and peony patterns, then got up and washed up, went to the main room to have breakfast with her parents and brothers.

Because before the old man and Su Zhi returned to Beijing, Yin had gone to Mingjue Temple to burn incense and make wishes, begging the Buddha to bless the grandfather and grandson to return safely. Now the two have returned without any damage, Yin naturally wants to fulfill his wishes. When Yin talked about this, Su Xi put down her chopsticks and blinked her watery eyes: "Mom, I want to go too."

Yin did not agree very much. Su Xi would go to the clan school class tomorrow, "What are you going to do?"
Chapter completed!