The fourth day of the first lunar month is A Xun's birthday. Zhou bleeded heavily after giving birth to him, and it took him two days to go there. Because he was not on the same day, he didn't have much taboo to celebrate A Xun's birthday. Chu Qing decided to hold a third birthday banquet for his son this year, and only invited Cheng Yu and everyone in the Zhou family to come over, together with the three houses of the Hou Mansion, to have a small and lively event. When the children are filial to each other next year, they will do more and more.

The banquet was at noon and there were fireworks in the evening. The old lady was not very comfortable for the past two days, so she stopped joining in the fun. After breakfast, someone came to invite Hanzhu and his brothers to come over.

At that time, Chu Qing was with her children. After hearing the old lady's maid pomegranate say that, she looked at A Xun and said, "Your grandmother must have something good to give you. A Xun will give you dessert after she goes over."

When he heard that there was something good, Ah Xun, who was still playing in the bed just now, immediately walked to the edge so that his sister could help him dress.

The child is getting smarter and smarter. Hanzhu smiled and put on a cloak for him, saying goodbye to Chu Qing, "Then let's go first."

He led Sixi and two other little maids to the East Courtyard.

The old lady did prepare good things, a delicate red jade horse carving, like a top-notch horse sweat-blooded BMW.

"A Xun is a horse, and this one is also a horse. Do you like it?" The old lady hugged A Xun and said with a smile. The other juniors have grown up, just like this boy. The old lady likes it tightly and is willing to give good things.

Axun likes this kind of gift the most. No matter what shape it carved, he can play with tiger, unicorn, cow, horse, fox, wolf, dog, and he can enjoy himself for a while and pretend to talk to them. He touched the horse's tail from the head to the horse's tail without letting go. The little guy thanked him obediently, "I like it, it's great to be grandmother."

The eldest lady next to her smiled and said, "No, the old lady gave this gift so outstanding. We should wait for noon to give it to everyone, so as not to show off our ugly face and be compared to the old lady's baby."

Chu Qiang followed suit, "That's right, everyone will give it to you, mine may not be at the bottom."

"A Xun likes everything my aunt and second sister gives, right?" Hanzhu asked A Xun with a smile.

Ah Xun nodded seriously, his eyes had not left the horse eagle yet, and he learned to speak like a bird: "I like everything, I like everything."

Chu Qiang asked him: "What did your sister give A Xun? Is there an old lady?"

Ah Xun pulled the clothes embroidered with a crane on his body and pointed them proudly to her, "Sister made it for me!" Now he likes to eat the food made by his sister, wear the clothes made by his sister, and listens to his sister's soft voice to coax him to sleep. Anyway, his sister is good at everything.

After talking for a while, the old lady knew that Hanzhu had something to do, so she said to her granddaughter: "Qiang Qiang is going to see your elder sister off."

Chu Qiang responded with a smile, holding A Xun's small hand with Hanzhu, and walked out together.

The maids followed behind. Chu Qiang touched the cloud patterns on A Xun's shoulder and asked Hanzhu curiously how to stitch. Hanzhu turned his head and replied to her. He just walked to the corner. Suddenly, a tall figure walked out from one side. Because he walked quickly and walked very fast, he directly hit Hanzhu's body. Hanzhu's delicate and weak girl had not been hit like this. She let out a low voice and her body turned towards A Xun and Chu Qiang.

"Be careful." Chu Yuan pulled her back quickly with his eyes and hands.

Hanzhu was still in shock, and he didn't master the strength and hit the man's arms.

She smelled a cold smell, and Chu Yuan smelled a faint fragrance, which was more natural than the powdery fragrance on his sister's mother, and more than the fragrance of flowers than the fragrance of flowers, like the gentleness and charm of his daughter's house.

He lowered his head, saw the little girl's cheeks flushed, and he struggled out of his arms in a panic, then quickly stood up, lowered his eyes to apologize: "Just now, I was just talking, and accidentally hit my elder brother..."

Chu Yuan finally came back to his senses and blamed himself: "I don't blame my sister, I was distracted by walking and I didn't hear you coming." He was thinking about things just now, otherwise he would have heard the two sisters talking or footsteps at such a close distance.

"Does sister feel pain?" A Xun didn't dare to glar at this tall cousin who didn't like to laugh, and asked his sister nervously.

Hanzhu's face turned redder. She was in pain, and her chest on her left was hurt, but why did she have the nerve to say that she was hit by Chu Yuan in the chest?

"Sister is fine," Hanzhu concealed her pain and nodded to Chu Yuan and Chu Qiang, "According to an accident, the eldest brother doesn't have to take it seriously. The second sister is back, no need to send it away. Let's talk about it another day."

Chu Qiang smiled and watched them siblings.

Chu Yuan also looked at his cousin's back, with confusion in his eyes. Why was she blushing? She looked shy and embarrassed, like a girl from another surname he accidentally met in someone else's house, but he was her eldest brother. He could understand the anger and aggrieved, and blushed...

Suddenly thinking about something, Chu Yuan tightened his right arm unconsciously, as if he had touched a soft place?

As soon as the thought came, Chu Yuan quickly left it away and asked Chu Qiang while walking towards Rongxi Hall, "Why did Ah Xun and the others come?"

Chu Qiang didn't take this little accident to heart at all, and explained to his brother softly, "Today is Axun's birthday..."

After walking there, Hanzhu's pain was completely gone. Hanzhu didn't care about dressing, and she was good enough to be decent, but she cared about her body very much, for fear that she would get sick and couldn't take care of her sister. Over time, she developed a habit. Worried that her chest was injured, Hanzhu coaxed Ah Xun to wait outside. She entered the inner room by herself, put down the door bolt, then picked up a small bronze mirror from the dressing mirror, and quickly sat on the bed.

Put down the gauze tent to cover it, take off half of the clothes with beads, then push the belly away, and hold back the mirror to look.

It is like fine jade white snow, with light pink beads in it, and even more faint fragrance.

Hanzhu was ashamed to see it herself, blushed and looked at it simply, and confirmed that there were no bruises. She quickly put on her clothes.

The sun was rising, and the Wukangbo family came. Chu Qing sent someone to invite the brother and brother to meet the guests in the front yard.

In the main hall, Chu Qing asked Zhou Yin to sit in the main seat next to him. He used to have a broken relationship with the children, but now he is better, so it is time to be more polite to Zhou Yin and his wife.

"Guo Min, the head of the Qingli Department of the Ministry of War, made a mistake and lost his job. Are you interested in the next step?" Although the head of the Qingli Department of the Ministry of War, is only a sixth-rank official, he is on it, as long as Zhou Yin is steady and does not seek merit but no mistakes, he can always pull him up a few times, which is better than his sixth-rank idleness in Guanglu Temple.

Zhou Yin likes his current choreography, and is free and at ease. Besides, he doesn't want to accept Chu Qing's affection. In the future, he will be discussed by others and rely on nepotism. He said, "I am a little talented and inexperienced, I'm afraid I can't handle it."

Chu Qing snorted and looked at Fang, who was sitting at Zhou Yin's head.

Fang had no expression on her face. Others hoped that her husband would be capable, but she would not force her. She was as honest as a husband, who went to a place like Liudu where everyone was trying to climb up, and accidentally became a scapegoat. Therefore, her husband pushed a great opportunity and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Both the couple were in no hope, and Chu Qing looked at Zhou Wenting and Zhou Wenjia brothers in displeasure.

After the Chinese New Year, Zhou Wenting was seventeen years old. When he saw that he was going to take the imperial examination, he was 15 years old. Zhou Wenjia, who was rich in eyebrows and big eyes, had heroic spirit on his body, and was more inclined to Chu Qing's eyes, but he was just a junior and wanted to be his son-in-law. It was far from being a far cry from being his son-in-law.

"How has Wenjia practiced Kung Fu?" Chu Qing asked like a master.

Zhou Wenjia was afraid of him and said depressedly: "The master said it's OK."

Chu Qing nodded, "You are not young anymore. Brother Chu Yuan from Dongyuan went to the army to experience training at the age of twelve. Do you want to?" Send him to learn skills so that he would not always think about his good daughter.

Zhou Wenjia didn't want to go, and was worried about how to refuse, Hanzhu and his brother came. It was as if they saw the savior. Zhou Wenjia quickly took out a golden longevity peach from his sleeve and squatted down to coax A Xun, "A Xun, this is a gift from my cousin, do you like it?"

Ah Xun looked at the golden scabby peach and shook his head honestly, "I don't like it."

Zhou Wenjia expected this to happen. In fact, he prepared a short bow for A Xun. His mother insisted on saying that he was not allowed to send it. Zhou Wenjia was temporarily cramming and found this golden longevity peach from the warehouse. He didn't have any gadgets that other boys liked, but they had given them all before, so A Xun definitely didn't like the duplicates even more.

Cousin Jia’s gift was not suitable for his wishes, and Axun looked at the other four with his black eyes.

The elders focused on benefits. Zhou Yin prepared Feng Hong, and Fang gave the Red Gold Long Life Lock, which Axun didn't like.

Zhou Wenting gave a small horse with horse's hooves made of wheels and could be led by rope. Ningzhu gave her a small horse dress embroidered by her own hands. It was already put on the body of the horse. The brother and sister gave it together. A Xun liked it very much, so he immediately grabbed Ningzhu with one hand and the other hand and went out to play with the horse.

Hanzhu and the Zhou brothers followed out, stood on the steps, and watched them play in the yard.

The servant led Cheng Yu over.

Ah Xun happened to run over there with a horse. He saw his cousin first and shouted happily: "Cousin, look at my horse!"

Cheng Yu smiled at him, but his eyes turned to the eaves of the corridor, and he saw the slender figure turning into the main hall.

Cheng Yu had a headache. She was obviously still angry with him, but he didn't want to force her to get married with anyone.

He explained intently that he was unable to find the opportunity to see her alone. Last time Chu Qing was in the East Courtyard, but today he was the only one with the Zhou family. Chu Qing probably was guarding against Zhou Wenjia and invited the male guests to the martial arts training ground to take the skills of the juniors in the school.

Zhou Wenting, Chu Huai and Chu Hong were scholars, only Cheng Yu and Chu Yuan and Zhou Wenjia practiced martial arts.

Chu Qing held A Xun and sat on the throne chair, and said to the juniors loudly: "You three will compete with each other, and I will be rewarded if you win."

Axun thought he was going to fight, so anxious that he was not allowed. No matter how Chu Qing explained, he was worried. In the end, Cheng Yu took the boy into his arms and told him in person that Axun believed it. After learning that it was not a fight, the little guy was still worried. He looked at the cousin of the East Courtyard, lay on Cheng Yu's shoulder, and whispered: "My cousin beats the eldest brother, and he hurts his sister..."

My sister said it didn't hurt, but he saw her frowning.

Cheng Yu's eyes changed slightly, and he wanted to ask what was going on. Chu Qing was impatient and asked him to go to the competition quickly.

After the three of them fought, Zhou Wenjia quickly retreated. His kung fu was indeed good, but compared with the two who had led soldiers to fight, they were not at the same level.

The remaining two, Chu Yuan, Cheng Yu, were two years younger than Cheng Yu, but he practiced martial arts all year round, and was tall and strong, only a little shorter than Cheng Yu. Therefore, in terms of body shape, they were equal, and it was hard to say that Cheng Yu bullyed the young. One was trained by Chu Qing himself, and the other was carefully selected by the martial arts master who was carefully selected by Emperor Mingde for his son. The two of them went back and forth, and it was difficult to decide the outcome.

Chu Qing narrowed his eyes slightly.

Master Chu asked him in a low voice: "How?"

Mr. Chu San and Zhou Yin also pricked up their ears and listened.

Chu Qing did not say anything against his will to praise his nephew, staring at the two of them and said, "When it comes to external kung fu, Boyuan is better than Hunting the treasure, but after practicing internal kung fu, Boyuan wants to beat him, it is difficult."

Cheng Yu's movements were like a dragon, and his fists and feet were both hard and soft. With time, even he might not be able to beat this kid.

"Okay, you two are equal in size. If you continue to fight like this, I don't know when the fight will be fought. Let's stop." Chu Qing still favored his nephew, afraid that Chu Yuan would lose face and he would not look good in his face.

Chu Yuan and Cheng Yu stopped at the same time and looked at each other. Chu Yuan said frankly: "Chu's skills are not as good as others, so I'm willing to give him a chance."

Cheng Yu looked at him against the light.

In the bright sunshine, just now, Chu Yuan's face was neither blushed nor breathing, he stood tall and was full of heroic appearance. The Chu family men all had good looks, Chu Yuan was not as handsome as Chu Qing, but had a good temperament. He was young and promising and self-disciplined. I heard from my aunt that there seemed to be many nobles who wanted to marry his daughter to him.

"Boyuan is polite. If I were the same age as you, I might not be as good as you." The other party was generous, and Cheng Yu was also humble and polite. He had dealt with Chu Yuan several times and knew that he was a human being. It should be a coincidence that he bumped into Hanzhu. Not to mention that Chu Yuan doesn't know Hanzhu's identity now, even if he knows, he would not be like this. He plays a woman.

I just don’t know if she was injured, but if Ah Xun can see that the pain must be very painful.

As night fell, fireworks were about to be set, Cheng Yu saw Hanzhu again.

She walked over from a distance with a lilac cloak, turned her head to talk to Fang, with a smile on her face. Two sheds were set up in the garden, and men and women sat in it. Soon she walked in, her figure was covered by the wall of the shed, and he could never see it again.

"What are you looking at?" The boy suddenly heard the boy's secret unhappiness.

Cheng Yu said calmly: "A Xun."

Zhou Wenjia didn't believe it, but it was not easy to make it clear. He stood up and said, "Then I'll take A Xun here." As he said that, he ran to the shed next door. It was rare that Chu Qing had not arrived yet, so no one cared about him.

Cheng Yu pursed his lips and looked at the lake from afar, but his ears were listening to the movements next door.

A Xun was almost always with men during the day, and now she wanted to be held by her sister. When Zhou Wenjia heard that Zhou Wenjia wanted to hug him, the little guy turned his head and shrank into his sister's arms. Zhou Wenjia did not come to look for A Xun, so he took the opportunity to care about Hanzhu, "Why don't my cousin wear more clothes? Be careful to be frozen."

There were lanterns hanging in the shed, and the soft light made the beauty more beautiful. She lowered her eyes, as if she was ashamed and afraid. Zhou Wenjia also wanted to stay in her arms like Ah Xun, let her hold her, feel the warmth on her body, and feel her tenderness as water.

Avoiding the young man's burning gaze, Hanzhu reluctantly smiled and said, "I'm not cold, I'm going to set off fireworks soon. Cousin Jia, please go back quickly."

Zhou Wenjia's passionate heart became cold and wanted to say something else. Fang next to him smiled and urged him, "Go quickly, go quickly, A Xun doesn't like you to hug you." He said a joke, with a warning in his eyes. If she indulged her son to entangle Hanzhu, what would the little girl think of her? Fate is something that cannot be forced. She hoped that her son's infatuation could touch Hanzhu, but she didn't want her son to pester Hanzhu, which would make people annoyed.

When his mother spoke, Zhou Wenjia had to turn around. Seeing Chu Qing from afar, the soles of her feet were instantly oiled, and she sat back next to her brother before Chu Qing discovered her.

Cheng Yu looked at him and felt complicated.
To be continued...