The new year's Eve dinner was not served by any servants, just a simple family of four.
Although the table was full of delicacies, except for the ignorant Bai lixin'er who picked and rummaged here and there and ate occasionally, the others hardly moved their chopsticks.
"Why, no dish you like?"
Huo Mingzhu turns her head and looks at her son who is too sensible. Bailiyan sits upright, which is indeed a perfect model of Prince.
But he is so sensible mature appearance, also stabbed her heart.
During this period of time, because she was addicted to refining pills, she paid little attention to the growth of the two of them except to meet her children every morning and evening.
Xin'er is a girl. She doesn't know what changes have taken place in her family and country. She still thinks about how to have fun all day long, but Bai Liyan is different. At least Huo Mingzhu's cautious look from her son will feel heartache.
"After returning to my mother, my son's ministers are full." Bailiyan saw that Huo Mingzhu was asking himself, and answered respectfully, just like the most standard teaching template of Mr. Jiaoxi.
"I'm not full yet!" Bai lixin'er suddenly cut in. She knelt on the stool and raised her hands high, as if she was afraid that her mother would not notice her.
"What else do you want to eat?"
Huo Mingzhu looked at her daughter's mouth sticking cake crumbs, face involuntarily with a doting smile.
In such a depressed day, only Bai lixin'er can make her heart warm and smile occasionally.
"Xin'er wants to eat sugar gourd." Baili Xin'er peeps at Baili Jingqi secretly with her mouth. Huo Mingzhu immediately understands that. Does her daughter think of the time when the family went out to play in the Mid Autumn Festival?
Today, Baili Jingqi, who is particularly cold, doesn't look like a loving father to his two children. He just sits there in silence. He knows that there is not much distance between the family, but the two children feel alienated.
Huo Mingzhu's heart is very bad.
As a princess, Xin'er has never eaten any delicious food. What she wants is not a string of simple snacks at all. What she wants is just the happiness and happiness she felt on that day.
As a mother, how she wants to hold her daughter and coax her. She should never show such a pitiful expression on her lovely face. She should be the happiest girl in the world.
But Huo Mingzhu didn't. She noticed that Baili Jingqi looked at her side. She forced out a smile and said to Mammy, "go and tell the imperial dining room to make a bunch of sugar gourd for Xin'er."
From the Queen's order, naturally, in a short time, the eunuch trotted all the way to bring a string of bright and attractive sugar gourd, not only ordinary hawthorn, but also other colorful fruits mixed with them. Just watching it, he could not help but move his fingers.
Bai lixin'er was attracted to her attention and forgot her troubles for a moment. She played with her hands and tenderly handed it to Bai Liyan for her brother to taste first.
Originally, bailiyan seldom touched these sweets, usually even cakes. But this time, he gave face a bite, which made bailiyan more happy to be shared. The two brothers and sisters were smiling, as if this cold dinner also played up some harmonious atmosphere.
Baili xiner is a child. Seeing that her brother ate it, she timidly climbed up to Baili Jingqi's leg, raised the sugar gourd in front of him and said with a expectant smile: "father, eat..."