Su Xi remembered that Li Yan's mother was the daughter of Fu Hongsheng, the Duke of Qingguo, and Li Yan was Fu Yi's rightful cousin.

Although it is a cousin, most of the girls in this backyard have not yet come out of the cabinet, and it is a little inappropriate for Li Yan to appear at this time, right?

Tang Wan naturally saw it, and deliberately asked, "Sister Yu, did you say that we came at the wrong time?" ”

Yu Baotong is two years older than her, and she has rules for behaving, so she glanced at her and said, "Don't talk nonsense, Miss Fu is a measured person." ”

The distance was not far away, and the words were naturally heard by the two people under the corridor. A trace of embarrassment flashed on Fu Yi's face, turned around, and smiled at Yu Baotong and the others: "Sister Yu, Sister Tang, Sister Xi, you are also here." ”

Yu Baotong said politely: "It's windy in the yard, so we want to go back to the house and sit." Miss Fu, this is ......"

Fu Yi didn't speak, Li Yan on the other side saluted a few little girls, and explained without changing his face: "The clothes under me were wet with wine, and the second son of Su asked someone to take me to change clothes. ”

These words are reasonable, and it is impossible to find fault with them. It was indeed such a coincidence that Fu Yi's handkerchief was blown by the wind and happened to fall at Li Yan's feet, which led to the scene that Su Xi and the others saw. It's just that Li Yan didn't say that when he returned the veil to Fu Yi, he should have left like this, but he stopped.

Tang Wan and Yu Baotong couldn't see it, but Su Xi had been with Li Yan under the same roof for more than two years, and they were quite familiar with his every move, and the admiration in Li Yan's eyes when he looked at Fu Yi did not escape Su Xi's eyes.

When Li Yan looked at her, he had never had such a look. Su Xi's mood at this time was actually very calm, not annoyed or angry, and the only little wave left was probably that Li Yan was angry and had deceived her feelings.

Su Xi looked away and said softly to Tang Wan and Yu Baotong: "Sister Tang, Sister Yu, let's go back quickly." ”

The little girl's voice was tactful and delicate, as if wrapped in a layer of honey, it sounded both coquettish and complaining, with Su Xi's half-old age, she was really innocent and coquettish.

Yu Baotong poked her little round face, the little girl's skin was tender and smooth, "Look at you." ”

Su Xi said: "If you don't leave, the banquet will be dispersed." ”

Li Yan froze slightly.

Su Xi's words sounded meaningless, just a simple homely sentence, but in Li Yan's ears, it seemed to remind him that it was time to go back to the front yard. Only then did Li Yan notice that he had lost his rules, and hugged his fists towards Fu Yi and Su Xi, "Disturbing a few girls to enjoy the scenery, Li Mou retired." ”

When he turned to leave, Li Yan glanced at the little girl wearing a water-pink embroidered butterfly Ruyi pattern shirt and a moon-white lake Luo skirt, who was born white and round, and her eyes were big, which made people involuntarily think of the little virgin under the Guanyin seat. It's just that she didn't look at him, I don't know why, Li Yan felt that this little girl seemed to have a hostility towards him?

Li Yan thought about it, it shouldn't be possible, they met for the first time today.

The thought was fleeting, and he quickly forgot about it.

*

Back in the upper room, several ladies of the family sat in a rosewood rose chair below, accompanying Mrs. Su to talk.

Seeing that the girls were all back, Mrs. Su asked Mama Li to clean up the side room behind the twelve screens and lead them to sit behind the screens. As soon as the girls in this room were seated, someone came in and said, "Mrs. Tai, the prince of Qi is coming to congratulate you on your birthday." ”

The old lady hurriedly stood up and said, "Please come in." ”

The prince of Qi came to congratulate the old lady on her birthday, representing the attitude of the king of Qi, no matter how much the Su family won the holy favor, they would not dare to snub the descendants of the royal family. As soon as Wei Feng entered the door, the old lady led several daughters-in-law to come forward to salute, how could Wei Feng really let her salute, and hurriedly stretched out her hand to support her and said: "The old lady is outside, Tingzhou is here to congratulate you on your birthday today, I hope that the old lady will be blessed and celebrate the new day, and the birthday is boundless." ”

As he spoke, he asked the entourage wearing a dark green shirt behind him to send a congratulatory gift, which was a square box inlaid with Luodian carving Fu Lushou.

The old lady invited Wei Feng to take a seat, and let Mama Li serve a cup of hot tea, and said with emotion: "The prince has just come back from Qizhou, and I still remember that I am an old woman, and the son of the world has a heart." He said again: "I heard that the place in Qizhou is humid and rainy, I don't know if the prince is used to living there?" ”

Wei Feng only smiled and said objectively: "Qizhou is a place with beautiful scenery, and the old lady has time to go and see it." ”

The old lady here was chatting with Wei Feng about family life, and the girls behind the screen were not calm.

I have long heard that the prince of Qi returned to Beijing, but he didn't have the opportunity to see it, even if he saw it, he also looked at it from a distance, how could he be like this, only separated by a screen, and even the pattern of the purse on Wei Feng's waist could be seen clearly.

Su Xi and Tang Wan had met, so they gave up their places to other girls, and Yu Baotong didn't have any feelings for Wei Feng, so he also sat aside.

There were several girls who wanted to see it but were embarrassed to look at it, their faces were shy and timid, and occasionally looked out through the gap in the screen, and as soon as their eyes fell on Wei Feng, they hurriedly moved away, as if they were afraid of being discovered. Yin Mengmeng is also one of them, after looking at it several times in a row, her sister Yin Pengpeng rolled her eyes and asked: "Sister, this prince of Qi is so good-looking and brilliant, I don't know what kind of girl he will marry in the future?" ”

Yin Mengmeng's face flushed, "How do I know." ”

Yin Peng said with a smile: "My sister is also beautiful, and she is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, so it is very suitable for me to look at you......"

This was really bold, Yin Mengming hurriedly covered her mouth, and said ashamedly and annoyedly: "Stop talking nonsense." ”

Yin Pengpeng is as big as Su Xi, she is an eccentric girl, and her temperament is slightly more lively than Yin Mengmeng.

Their words were not high, they almost bit their ears to speak, and there was a lot of chatter around them, so they didn't pay attention. Su Xi sat next to the two of them, and coincidentally listened to these words, thinking wildly, and really let Yin Peng Peng say right, Yin Meng almost married Wei Feng in her last life. If Yin Mengming hadn't died, she would have looked quite a good match for Wei Feng.

After a while, Wei Feng got up and said goodbye.

The old lady sent him outside the door, and suddenly said, "Hey, why did the girl come back at this time?" ”

Fu Yi's voice sounded from outside, soft and gentle, sounding very comfortable: "Back to the old lady, on the way back, I saw a daylily blooming in the courtyard, so I wanted to pick it and give it to the old lady, I wish you a long spring of daylilies and a long life of pine cranes." ”

Mrs. Su seemed to be in a good mood, took the daylily flower and said, "You girl, you have a heart." After meeting at the door, the old lady introduced to Wei Feng: "Shizi, this is the granddaughter of Qingguo Gong." ”

Wei Feng bowed his head and said, "Miss Fu." ”

Fu Yi curted his knees, "I've seen Wei Shizi." ”

Inside the house, Su Xi noticed that Fu Yi didn't come back with them, and when they met under the porch just now, she thought Fu Yi was also back. She disappeared for so long, just to pick a daylily flower?

On the other side, Yin Mengming's face changed, and he secretly pinched the handkerchief in his hand, and the shyness on his face was long gone, blue and white for a while.

Seeing this, Su Xi suddenly opened his mouth and figured it out.

Fu Yi...... Didn't you come back at this time on purpose?

*

After the family banquet was dispersed, the Yin family and the old lady sent away a group of female dependents.

In the evening, Su Xi kicked the shuttlecock for two quarters of an hour as usual, practiced a few sets of movements, and after taking a bath, he remembered what Yu Baotong said during the day, so he wanted to go to Qiutangju to find the Yin family to ask about the female master. Before he went out, he saw Su Baiyu running towards him impatiently, and his little face, which had always been cold and old, actually showed a little excitement.

Mama Cui shouted nervously behind her: "Young master, slow down, fall carefully......"

Su Baiyu quickly ran to Su Xi, raised the thing in his hand, and said with sparkling eyes: "I will." ”

The thing in Su Baiyu's hand is called "Luban Chain Lock", this lock is designed by Su Xi according to other Luban locks, and he has nothing to do, and he took it to test Su Baiyu the morning before yesterday, I heard the eldest brother say that he has been locked in the house for the past two days to fiddle with this, Su Xi thought that he would have to solve it in a few more days, but he didn't expect it to be so fast.

Su Baiyu sat on the arhat opposite Su Xi, and the little fat hand flexibly untied the first wooden bar, one after another, and soon removed all the chain locks. It's easy, almost anyone can do it, but then it's not so easy to assemble all the sticks back to their original shape. Su Xi watched it for a long time, and when Su Baiyu said that he would know, she believed that he really would, after all, she had seen the early wisdom of this little guy, but she didn't expect that he would pack it all in less than a cup of tea.

Su Xi blinked in astonishment, to her surprise, she was about to praise Su Baiyu, but she didn't expect him to admit honestly: "Auntie, this method is not what I thought. ”

Not him? Su Xi asked, "Who is that?" ”

Su Baiyu said: "It's an elder brother, he taught me to unravel it." The little guy thought of the handsome brother of the day, paused, and didn't know whether to say, "He also asked me who designed this lock...... I said it was my aunt. ”