humble minister

White and fine snowflakes fluttered all over the sky, fluttering and falling to the ground.The rare snow in the capital turned the whole world into a world covered in silver, and it was foggy in one breath.

A little dumpling in a plain dress ran around on the snow for a few laps, stomped his feet, breathed out to warm his hands, and even rubbed them together. In short, he looked as if he was trying his best to keep himself warm. stand up.But it is precisely because of this that people feel very strange, because it seems that this little dumpling wears a lot.

He has thick eyebrows and big eyes, but his complexion is not very good, and even some sallow and thin Xiaotuanzi looked around, and when he saw no one was around, he sneaked towards the backyard. He remembered that the kitchen in Duanmu Mansion was in the backyard.

Today is the [-]th birthday of Duanmu Liang, the owner of Duanmu Mansion. This young man who has become the prime minister has been in the limelight recently. There is no one in the court who is flattering. Even the emperor favors and appoints him. Didn't they all bring their princes and daughters and a small number of concubines to the birthday banquet?It can be said that it has given this courtier enough face.

Xiao Tuanzi was just the least favored of the emperor's children, and his mother and concubine... also died not long ago.No one will take care of him anymore, but he is used to it, besides his mother, he is already alone, isn't he?

As for being brought out this time, it was entirely because he was still a prince, but no one cared about him at all. They just gave him a nice-looking coat, and the inside of the coat was still his original imperial prince. It's just an old cotton-padded jacket that doesn't feel cold.

He is not only cold now, but also very hungry. He did have a lot of delicious food and drink at the banquet before, but he is a prince after all. Although he is like this, a child has dignity, let alone him. A very precocious child.At the banquet, he only ate some in moderation, which was not enough to fill his stomach as a growing child who had been starving for a while, so after hesitating for a long time, he decided to go to the kitchen to find something to eat.

Anyway, everyone is attending the banquet in the front yard now, and no one cares about him, no one cares where he goes.

Xiaotuanzi silently comforted her in her heart, calculated silently, and slipped to the kitchen while there was no one around.

Even though he had never been to the prime minister's mansion, Xiaotuanzi found the kitchen very smartly and knew the way. As soon as he entered, he saw a lot of delicious food on the table and stove, including dishes, snacks, and rice.

As soon as Xiaotuanzi carried a steamed bun and some snacks in his arms, he was startled by a childish voice that suddenly appeared behind him.

"Who are you and why are you here?"

Xiaotuanzi turned around, and saw a very cute and soft-looking "little girl" in a pink flowered jacket standing at the door, looking into her arms with watery black eyes.

Xiao Tuanzi ignored him, and was about to leave through the gate after taking enough things, but was grabbed by the little glutinous rice just as the two of them got sideways.

"Don't go."

Ruannunuuo's voice is nice, but Xiaotuanzi is very irritable. This person is so fucking nosy, and he wants to try his best to break free, but looking at those watery eyes, he can't help it, so he can only look gloomy The face said fiercely: "You let go."

"You will meet Aunt Nine when you go out. I saw her when I came here. She is almost here. She is very fierce." Xiao Nuomi blinked her big eyes, thinking that the other party was a very hungry thief, so she came to steal some food, but at the same time he was a little puzzled, is there any thief dressed so well?

Xiaotuanzi gave him a blank look, and he didn't believe the little guy's nonsense.

"You don't believe me?" Xiao Nuomi seemed to have read his mind, dragged the man and hid him without saying a word, the man was about to resist just after hiding, but he heard footsteps at the door.

Then Xiaotuanzi stopped moving, but Xiao Nuomi went out and ran into a fat woman who looked very mean.

"Hi, Aunt Jiu."

With an obedient and sweet greeting, coupled with that cute and lovable little face, no one should be able to be cruel, but the ninth aunt raised the corners of her eyes, and said bluntly with her mouth: "Oh, what's wrong? You're here again? You run to this kitchen all day long, like a starving ghost. You really are a useless person. They eat more than others. If you want me to say that Duanmu's family shouldn't raise an idler, or The offspring of a shameless woman!"

"Ninth Aunt, don't slander my mother." Xiao Nuomi still had a smile on her face, but she looked at the woman firmly and sullenly, which made her feel guilty for a while, but then she felt complacent again as if she remembered something.

"Did I say something wrong? Your mother was a slut, she seduced the master, and even made the madam and the master estranged. If you want me to say, she really deserved her death. If I were her, she would have died a long time ago." I have no face to live in this world!" The fat woman pushed Xiao Nuomi away as she spoke, not caring that the child almost knocked on the threshold, and yelled, "I'll take something and leave, it's really bad luck to see you little bastard ! But Master and Madam haven’t done anything to you, you should be grateful for raising you!”

Xiao Nuomi watched the fat woman walk away with her things, and trotted to Xiaotuanzi's hiding place on her short legs, regardless of where she was hurt, and said, "Okay, come out, she's gone."

"Why are you helping me?" Xiaotuanzi, who had obviously heard everything, came out of his hiding place with a bad expression on his face. The woman was really damned, her words were so ugly, what made him even more unexpected was that this delicate little doll in front of him actually Sympathize with yourself.Involuntarily, he had an idea of ​​wanting to protect the other party.

"I made it because I saw how hungry you were." Xiao Nuomi pouted, her pale pink lips were like a good peach blossom cake, soft and fragrant, making Xiaotuanzi swallow it unconsciously Mouth spit.

"Don't eat here, I'll take you to a place, it's safe there." Xiao Nuomi didn't notice the other party's overly fiery gaze, but dragged Xiao Tuanzi to his secret base.

The secret base is in a small forest in the back mountain. A small thatched cottage and a small yard are all there is.

"How did you make this place?" Xiaotuanzi was a little surprised. There was obviously no human habitation here, so how did this child make it?He didn't think he could do this with the strength of a child.

"Nah, actually, I didn't make this place. There was a small hut here, probably left by the hunters who hunted here before. But my sister and I tidied up the place and built a fence around it. Yard, so this has become my secret base." Xiao Nuomi introduced triumphantly, with a hint of childish showing off, "No one knows about this place except my sister, so please don't let it out. !"

Xiaotuanzi didn't care who the sister he was talking about, and didn't take the other party's "threat" seriously, but picked a big stone bench and spread all the food he secretly brought out on it, and said generously to Xiao Nuomi Said: "For the sake of you helping me, I will take you to eat these delicious food together."

Xiaotuanzi looked proud, originally thought that the other party would be grateful to Dade, but the other party frowned and shook his head, "No, I can't eat these raw and cold things, I will feel uncomfortable if I eat them." I didn't forget my sister's advice.

"You're so delicate." Xiaotuanzi was a little unhappy, but he couldn't figure out why he was unhappy, but he couldn't force others to eat it, so he had to swallow the small cake in his hand in one gulp. He choked anxiously and coughed non-stop.

"You...are you alright?" Xiao Nuomi stretched out her short hands and patted the other person's back. Seeing that nothing worked, she hurried into the hut and poured a cup of tea for the person to drink. Seeing that the person gradually became restless After coughing, he said: "Eat slowly in the future, otherwise it will be very uncomfortable when you cough."

"Whispering, shut up." Xiaotuanzi finally calmed down after taking a sip of hot tea. As soon as he opened his mouth, Xiao Nuomi closed his mouth aggrievedly, looking at those blinking eyes and fluttering eyelashes, Xiaotuanzi I regretted my harsh tone again, so I couldn't help asking in a soft tone: "Forget it, let me ask you, what's your name?"

"It's a pity." Xiao Nuomi sipped and replied in a low voice, but her big eyes kept staring at the corner of Xiaotuanzi's mouth.

"Oh, then are you a child of this Duanmu Mansion? Are you a child of Prime Minister Duanmu?" Xiaotuanzi silently wrote down the name, then looked at the other party's expensive clothes and combined with the evil woman at that time said asked.

Xiao Nuomi opened her mouth, as if she was a little distressed and didn't know how to answer, and finally replied quickly under the impatient eyes of the other party: "Yes."

"Well, I remember you." The old god Xiaotuanzi nodded, and seeing the other party staring at him, he said impatiently, "Why are you staring at me?"

"There's something on the corner of your mouth." Xiao Nuomi hurriedly looked away and said.

Xiaotuanzi wiped the corners of his mouth, and sure enough, he saw that there were still crumbs of pastry left on his fingers, and when he saw the reddish face of the other party, he couldn't help but play tricks: "Then I'll eat it for you!"

Before Xiao Nuomi could react, she forcefully stuffed a finger into her small mouth, and a touch of sweetness dissipated immediately.

Xiaotuanzi was originally thinking of teasing, but after seeing the other person staring at him blankly, and feeling the wet and warm touch of his fingertips, his face turned even redder, and he quickly pulled his fingers away to pretend Tsukuru wiped his body as if nothing had happened, and finally pretended to be calm: "I just saw that you seem to have been knocked down, show me if you are hurt."

With a blushing face, Xiao Nuomi clutched her clothes tightly, shaking her head again and again: "No, I'm fine."

I don't believe it.

Xiaotuanzi muttered in his heart, he clearly saw the other person's uncomfortable expression at that moment, so he immediately rushed forward regardless of what the other person said, and began to search for the wound with his hands.

Xiao Nuomi's clothes were messed up by him, and the jade pendant that had been hanging under the clothes was exposed. Xiao Tuanzi was taken aback when he saw the beautiful jade pendant, and unconsciously wrote down the shape of the jade pendant. Soon his attention was drawn to the other party's neck.

"You...you don't move, I'll just show you the wound." Xiao Nuomi quickly lost her battle, pushed the person on her back, and rolled up her sleeves after she sat down. There is a bruise.

Xiaotuanzi felt a little distressed, and quickly grabbed the other's arm in his arms, massaging him, hoping to rub the bruise away, and lamented how nice this little doll's skin was.

"Hey, I've already looked at your arm, and I'm going to be responsible to you. How about I marry you in the future?" After a while, Xiaotuanzi actually said such a sentence.

After the words were finished, Xiao Nuomi's expression became very strange for a moment, and finally she pulled back her arm with a smile, and made a face at the other party: "You think beautifully!"

Snowflakes were constantly falling from the sky, and fell gently on the two children who looked at each other and smiled, as if they couldn't bear to destroy the beauty of the moment...

The author has something to say:

Everyone should be able to guess who is who? emmmmm...

The task is finally completed, and Mozi has started school, so the update will become very irregular again, please forgive me!But it's almost the last volume, let's do our best!

Volume Four: Final Chapter