Seeing that Shu Wangjin had finally compromised, Lin Mei couldn't help but smile and offer the grapefruit peel and the dagger with both hands.

"I haven't carved a stripping lamp for more than ten years, and my craftsmanship is not good, so please don't dislike Miss Lin." Shu Wangjin took the grapefruit peel and dagger, with a rare sad expression on his face.

Lin Mei helped Shu Wangjin light the lamp on the table, and then sat there bored with her chin in her hands and watched Shu Wangjin struggle for a long time.

I said...... When are you going to do it? Lin Mei yawned and looked at the bright moon outside the window, although it was said that the moon was sixteen round on the fifteenth, but the moonlight tonight was much brighter than the previous nights.

Shu Wangjin held a dagger in his right hand and gestured at the grapefruit peel for a long time, the folds between his eyebrows were deeply notched, his expression was solemn, and he finally took the knife.

Lin Mei couldn't help but widen her eyes as she watched Shu Wangjin take the knife, for fear that she would miss every knife in the blink of an eye.

After a long time, Shu Wangjin took out a brocade from his sleeve and wiped the fine cold sweat on his forehead, and sighed lightly, quite satisfied with his knife work.

"Miss Lin, how's it going?" Shu Wangjin fiddled with the carved grapefruit lamp in his hand, feeling that although this thing was small, it was not easy to carve, so he was quite complacent.

"......" Lin Mei looked at the destroyed and incomplete grapefruit peel in Shu Wangjin's hand, and suddenly realized that no matter how smart a person is, there are things that he is not good at...... For example, Shu Wangjin, he can dominate in business, but carving such a gadget is ...... I can't bear to look at it directly.

"Uh...... It's pretty. Lin Mei said words of praise against her will, and then she knew what it meant to be self-inflicted.

Shu Wangjin took out a small glass cup from the compartment of the study, lit it and put it into the grapefruit peel, and along the hollow pattern, a little bit of light came out, and it didn't look as ugly as before.

Shu Zhou said...... You weren't the same before as you are now......" Lin Mei picked up the grapefruit lamp and said cautiously.

Shu Zhou told her before that Shu Wangjin was very stubborn when he was a child, but after the death of the second young master Shu Wenjin, Shu Wangjin also went crazy because of the blow, at that time Shu Zhou was just an ordinary little guy, so he didn't know much about what happened back then, but after Shu Wangjin's madness got better, and he became smarter, but Master Shu didn't know why he was cold to Shu Wangjin.

The smile on Shu Wangjin's face also retracted when he heard this, and his eyes were deep, "I didn't understand the world when I was young, and I offended many people, the second brother and I are twins, and they look exactly the same, so those people thought he was me and took him captive, and when my father and mother found it, the second brother was already ...... It's been a long time since I've lost my breath. ”

At that time, Shu Wangjin was only six years old, and he saw his brother who looked the same as himself die tragically in front of him, and he went crazy after being stunned for a few days.

Master Shu has been partial to his youngest son Shu Wenjin since he was a child, so he has been cold to Shu Wangjin since that incident, even if Shu Wangjin helped the Shu family win the title of imperial merchant a few years later, Master Shu did not praise him for a word.

Late that night, Lin Mei returned to the curtain house, so she found Shu Zhou and Qingying, who had a big burden on their backs, and looked left and right secretly, and sighed lightly when they saw that there was no one around.

"Miss Lin, what are you?!" Shu Zhou couldn't help but be shocked when he saw Lin Mei like this, his young master was still suffering in the Xiuwen Academy, Lin Mei was thinking about fleeing with her baggage?

Qingying still looked at Lin Mei coldly and indifferently, silent, but if Lin Mei really planned to flee with her baggage, she would definitely knock Lin Mei unconscious, if Lin Mei left, there would be no hope for what Shu Wangjin promised her.

"Look at ......" Lin Mei didn't pay attention to the strange looks of the two, and happily untied the burden in front of them, showing them the treasure inside, "Gauze cover, bamboo tube, bamboo stick, we will have to make lanterns later." ”

Shu Zhou's eyebrows twitched and he looked at the mess inside, "Miss Lin, are you going?" ”

"Can't you see the crickets?" Lin Mei tied the burden again, and glanced up at Shu Zhou, "I heard that there was a cricket fighting competition in the capital recently, doesn't Master Shu like fighting crickets, I was very good at catching crickets when I was a child, if I caught a powerful cricket, maybe Master Shu will be exempted from Shu Wangjin's punishment as soon as he is happy." ”

Shu Zhou and Qingying glanced at each other silently, and their hearts moved slightly, Master Shu loves to fight crickets, which is well known in the capital, maybe catching a rare cricket can really make Shu Wangjin be released earlier.

"Shu Zhou, I saw a bamboo garden behind the house during the day, and there must be a lot of crickets in it at night." Lin Mei tinkered with the things in the baggage, then carried the burden on her back, issued a large lantern, and then began to slip to the back door.

"You're talking about the bamboo garden?" Shu Zhou frowned, a little hesitant, "That Xiaozhu Garden was the second young master's favorite place before, but now it has long been abandoned, that place is a forbidden place in Shufu, and there is such a rule in Shufu, if you are trespassers, you must be driven out of the house." ”

"Forbidden land?" Lin Mei looked at the bamboo garden in front of her, in this dark night, there were candlelights everywhere in Shufu, only that place was still quiet, dark, "That...... Anyway, it's night, and we're going to catch crickets there, who knows......"

Qingying glanced at Shu Zhou coldly, and then walked straight there, "Miss Lin, let's go." ”

"I knew that Qingying, you would definitely accompany me......" Lin Mei followed behind Qingying, stepped on her footsteps to bypass those family members who were patrolling the mansion, and walked a long distance before looking back at Shu Zhou, who was still standing in the same place, and whispered, "Not yet?" ”

Shu Zhou sighed, he really felt that he was careless in choosing the master, not only was it difficult to serve the master, but even the personality of the future housewife was different from that of ordinary young women.

The three of them finally avoided the patrolling family and sneaked into the Xiaozhu Garden, which was not guarded at all, so they didn't have to worry about being discovered.

Before entering the courtyard, Lin Mei heard the cry of the cricket, she excitedly patted the shoulder of Qingying who was walking in front, and whispered, "Qingying, listen, what a loud voice, the crickets here must be very big, maybe we can still find the purple and gold wings with copper heads and iron backs!" ”

"Purple Goldwings? What is it? "Qingying has been practicing martial arts since she was a child, and she doesn't know much about other things, so she can't quite understand the type of crickets that Lin Mei said.

"Well, it doesn't have to be a purple golden wing...... Lin Mei tiptoed into the dilapidated courtyard gate, "You have to look at it to know, maybe there will be something rarer than purple golden wings......"

【ps】I'm a little busy today, I'm really sorry for the late update and the word count is small......