When Jin Ge'er returned to the room, Shiyi Niang saw that he was sweating all over, so she hurriedly wiped his body and changed his clothes, and asked him with a smile: "How is the master?"

"Great!" Jinger exclaimed, his eyes sparkling. "His arrows can go through the holes in copper coins and hit trees. He can also smash three bricks stacked on top of each other with one palm. Very powerful!"

Worship is the best teacher.

Eleventh Lady smiled and kissed her son's cheek: "Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

Brother Jin shook his head and said with a smile, "I squatted for three incense sticks. My seventh brother only squatted for two incense sticks." He looked very proud. But he didn't say how long Chang'an, Huang Xiaomao and Liu Erwu squatted.

Eleventh Lady laughed.

Thinking that the children were resting when she left, Jinger should have squatted three times for the three incense sticks.

Apparently, Master Pang takes a step-by-step approach.

Eleventh Lady had a very good first impression of Master Pang.

She praised her son at the right time: "Jin'er is really great!" and whispered, "Shi'er is younger than you, so naturally he can't squat as long as you!" As she spoke, she led him to the big kang by the window in the west room and sat him down, and peeled an orange for him to eat.

Jinger felt a little depressed after hearing this, but when he saw his mother smiling and feeding him oranges, he became happy again: "Mom, the master asked us to make a small bow and arrow for each of us, and he will teach us archery in the future. We also need to make short jackets, which will be convenient for practicing boxing and squatting in horse stance. He also asked someone to make plum blossom piles in the yard, not one, but two." He gestured excitedly, "They are taller than me. They are connected together. He said that if we can squat in horse stance well, we can walk on the plum blossom piles..."

As he was speaking, Xu Lingyi came back.

"Why so early?" Eleventh Lady was a little surprised.

Jing'er had already slipped off the kang and thrown himself into Xu Lingyi's arms, "Daddy, Daddy, I did the horse stance today. I did it for three incense sticks! The master said I do it better than Chen'er."

Today was the first time for Jing'er to go to the martial arts hall. Although Xu Lingyi didn't say it, he was thinking about it in his heart. Seeing Jing'er's excitement, he also had a hint of excitement between his eyebrows.

"Not bad, not bad!" Xu Lingyi carried Jing'er to the kang, "You should learn well from Master Pang, and when you can climb the plum blossom pile..." He pondered, "Daddy will reward you with a precious sword!"

"No!" Shiyi Niang took the tea from the maid and placed it in front of Xu Lingyi, saying in a deep voice, "Why not give me a sword as a reward?"

"Okay! Okay!" Jing'er was so excited that he ignored his mother's objection and smiled like a little fox, "I want the sword with the eight-treasure glazed sword tassel hanging in Daddy's study!"

Xu Lingyi was stunned, then burst into laughter.

"You said it!" He looked at his son with sparkling eyes and said generously, "As long as you can stand on the plum blossom pile, I will give you the sword."

Jin Ge'er instinctively felt something was wrong: "I... I..." He glanced at his mother who was frowning at him, then glanced at his father who was smiling happily. He hesitated for a while, then showed a resolute look: "Mom said that she would not give me the sword as a reward. I, I don't want the sword anymore!"

Xu Lingyi and his wife were very surprised. Xu Lingyi even asked, "Why did you change your mind again? What do you want?"

"Daddy looks like he's laughing at me!" Jing'er muttered, "I won't be fooled!" As he said that, he tilted his head and thought, "I, I want the bow and arrow, the beautiful bow and arrow."

Xu Lingyi laughed loudly, turned around and said to Shiyi Niang, "Our son is amazing. He has learned to read people's expressions." Then he smiled with emotion and asked his son, "Why do you want Daddy's sword?"

"It's beautiful!" Jing'er said without thinking, "The scabbard is inlaid with gold and jade, and it is also decorated with three rubies. It is even bigger than the one on my mother's hairpin!"

Xu Lingyi's smile gradually faded. He straightened his back and called the maid to bring in the sword.

Eleventh Lady looked at Xu Lingyi's face, which was intimidating even without being angry, and smiled faintly.

The maid quickly brought the sword.

Xu Lingyi handed the sword to Jing'er: "Pull it out!"

Jing'er took the sword suspiciously, pressed the scabbard, and pulled the sword out with force.

The sword is bright and shining.

Xu Lingyi pointed at the table and said, "Try it!"

This is my mother's desk.

Jing'er couldn't help but look at Shiyi Niang.

Eleventh Lady sat there smiling, with an expression that showed some encouragement.

Jing'er no longer hesitated. He held the hilt of the sword with both hands and chopped hard at the table.

The black lacquered kang table had no trace at all.

He looked at his father in surprise.

Xu Lingyi touched his son's head and said, "Pretty and gorgeous things are not necessarily good things!"

Jing'er seemed to be thinking about something.

Xu Lingyi turned his head and smiled at Shiyi Niang, his smile full of relief.

Watching your children grow up day by day gives you a sense of accomplishment that cannot be compared to anything else.

Eleventh Lady smiled even more broadly and gently held her son in her arms.

Jing'er smiled at Xu Lingyi a little embarrassedly.

"Alright!" Xu Lingyi asked the maid to put the sword back into the study. He smiled and said to Jing'er, as if he had forgotten the past. "Then let's make a deal. If you can walk on the plum blossom pile, daddy will give you a bow and arrow as a reward."

"Daddy, wait a minute. I'll be able to walk on the plum blossom pile soon." Jing'er puffed out his chest and promised.

Xu Lingyi and Shiyi Niang both laughed.

Jing'er talked about Master Pang, how amazing he was, how he taught him to do the horse stance, and even got off the kang to demonstrate to Xu Lingyi, and pulled Shiyi Niang and Xu Lingyi to follow him. Shiyi Niang was playing with her son, and naturally she didn't look good doing the horse stance. This made Xu Lingyi laugh. Shiyi Niang dragged Xu Lingyi into the water. Jing'er watched and shouted, "Daddy's horse stance is better than Master Pang's." Shiyi Niang laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her waist. Xu Lingyi frowned and said, "Don't always talk about beauty, it should be practical." Before he finished speaking, he laughed... There was laughter in the room, more lively than the New Year. This atmosphere continued until after dinner, when Xu Sizhun and Xu Sijie came to greet Shiyi Niang and Xu Lingyi.

Because they didn't know what was going on, the joy that Xu Lingyi couldn't hide on his face made the two of them look at each other in confusion.

Jing'er told the two of them what had just happened in vivid detail.

Xu Sizhun and Xu Sijie were both very surprised. After following Xu Lingyi and Shiyi Niang to greet the Madam, they followed the stone path out of the inner courtyard.

On a spring night, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, the wind is not cold, and the willow trees stand there docilely and gracefully, with a kind of softness after all the trees have come to life.

Xu Sijie's mind suddenly emerged the image of Jing'er lying in Shiyi Niang's arms and acting coquettishly when he entered the inner room just now.

The mother's eyes were fixed intently on the sixth brother, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, and there was a faint smile in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, quiet and peaceful, like the bright moonlight... Did the person who gave birth to him ever hold him like this?

The thought flashed through his mind, as if he had detected something immoral. He looked up in panic and saw a pair of concerned eyes.

"What's wrong?" Xu Sizhun laughed, "Your face is pale." As he said that, he showed a playful expression, "Could it be that you saw a ghost!" After saying that, he made a threatening gesture.

Yesterday they watched the moon in the yard and told ghost stories to the maids.

"No!" Xu Sijie seemed to be explaining something, his tone was very urgent, not only not the usual calm, but also a little sharp, "I didn't think of anything!"

Xu Sizhun stopped and looked at him in confusion: "You..."

What's wrong with me?

Xu Sijie took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, but he didn't know that Xu Sizhun saw his expression and thought that Xu Sijie was hiding something from him.

"Why is that?" Xu Sizhun looked at Xu Sijie worriedly.

Facing his brother who was like a good friend, Xu Sijie had no way of lying. His mouth twitched and he remained silent for a long while.

The one who held the lamp was E Rui, a little maidservant beside Xu Sizhun. She was always lively. Seeing this, she burst out laughing: "Fourth Young Master, please don't force Fifth Young Master. Does Fifth Young Master have to tell you everything even if he is scared?"

Too!

Xu Sizhun smiled a little embarrassedly, looking quite awkward.

A spring breeze blew, gentle and warm like a mother's hand.

Xu Sizhun's apologetic expression made Xu Sijie feel a little embarrassed.

"No!" Xu Sijie denied, "I was thinking about how my mother hugged my sixth brother so intimately just now... I wondered if I would have been like this when I was a child..." As if possessed by a ghost, he said what was in his heart.

For a moment, he was so ashamed that he felt embarrassed.

Xu Sizun was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed: "So fifth brother is jealous of sixth brother!" He hugged Xu Sijie, "When you were little, mother hugged you like this!" Then he whispered, "I felt a little jealous at that time too!" He laughed, "But you are younger than me, so I will give in to you." He smiled and advised him, "Sixth brother is younger than us, so we should also give in to him!"

"I understand!" Xu Sijie didn't hear clearly what Xu Sizhun said. He just wanted to leave here quickly, as if he could leave the coroner's thoughts here. "Let's go back quickly! The teacher will test our homework tomorrow morning!"

"Oh no!" Xu Sizhun also panicked, "If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten about it!" He pulled Xu Sijie, "Let's go!"

The moon was like a silver plate, hanging high in the sky, looking down at the two somewhat bewildered figures.

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Jin Ge'er's happiness only lasted for two days. On the third morning, just as Xu Lingyi and Shiyi Niang got up, Ah Jin ran in in a panic: "My Lord, Madam, please go and check on the Sixth Young Master. The Sixth Young Master can't get up."

The couple's expressions changed.

Eleventh Lady ran to the west wing.

Xu Lingyi was a man after all, and was much calmer than Shiyi Niang. He asked Ah Jin with a gloomy face, "What's going on?"

Tears welled up in Ah Jin's eyes: "I don't know either...he was fine last night...we were helping the Sixth Young Master to get dressed...and suddenly the Sixth Young Master cried out 'ouch', hugged his legs and fell to the ground crying..." She couldn't help crying.

Xu Lingyi, who was usually calm, showed a look of panic.

He walked out of the main house in two steps.

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I've been seeing a doctor these past two days, so the update may be a little inaccurate. Please forgive me!

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