said that Lu Shuyi went all the way back to Lu's house before getting out of the carriage, and Holly hurriedly ran over and said, "Mrs. said that if you come, you will go to her place, she has something to do with you." ”

Lu Shuyi frowned, tightened her grip and went to the Champs, and asked Holly on the way, "Do you know what my wife is looking for me?" ”

"The slave doesn't know, but Mrs. Wu sent someone over, as if there was an emergency."

Grandmother sent someone?

Could it be that her uncle Wu Cheng has caused some big trouble again?

Lu Shuyi was anxious and hurriedly ran to the Champs.

It wasn't until she arrived at the Champs Courtyard that she figured out that the Wu family was in a hurry to find her because Miss Zheng Liu, who was outside Zheng Yuan's family, was gone early in the morning......

Wu's face was ugly, her eyes were red, and she knew that she had cried several times.

"Tell me, a good girl, how can you say that if it's gone, it's gone......" Wu's voice was sad and regretful, and said with emotion: "Before, your grandmother was still thinking about promoting your uncle and this girl's relationship, but now that the person is gone, I really feel uncomfortable in my heart......"

Wu is a delicate heart, and she will feel very sad when she hears about such a thing.

Lu Shuyi has long known that Miss Zheng Liu is not a long-lived person, and she also died of a sudden illness in her previous life.

That's why she persuaded the Yang family and didn't let her discuss marriage with the Zheng family. If the family matter is discussed, the person who is being criticized now is her uncle.

"It's a pity...... Lu Shuyi sat next to the Wu family, and comforted gently: "But human life is not up to us, what can we do?" ”

Wu wiped his tears with a handkerchief, nodded and said, "You are right, but this child always has some fate with your uncle, although he failed to discuss marriage before, the two families are interested." She's gone, I should also go to Zheng's house to see ......"

The Zheng family is also a big family in Changle Town, and if the girl is gone, all the wives and wives in the town will definitely go to see and comfort Mrs. Zheng.

However, Miss Zheng Liu has not yet decided to marry, and she will not stay for too long when she dies, let alone enter the ancestral grave, and the Zheng family will only be buried alone in a hole outside.

Lu Shuyi was also a little sad in her heart.

He died at a young age, and he was buried alone, which is really pitiful.

"It's time to go and see ......" Lu Shuyi sighed: "I'll go with you!" ”

Wu nodded: "It's okay for you to go and say goodbye, she's only a few years older than you." Wu said and shed tears for a while.

Lu Shuyi was in a heavy mood.

Early the next morning, she accompanied Wu to Zheng's house.

Miss Zheng Liu was a daughter who had not married and had not made up her mind, so the Zheng family did not make a big deal, but simply arranged the mourning hall.

The mourning hall was covered with white tents, which looked lonely and heavy.

A young and fresh life is gone overnight, which shows the impermanence of life.

Lu Shuyi accompanied Wu to incense, and accompanied Wu to see Mrs. Zheng.

Mrs. Zheng was in her early forties, because of Miss Zheng Liu's death, she suddenly looked like she was a teenager, her sideburns were like silver frost, and her eyes were swollen and only a red slit remained.

When Wu comforted her, she held Wu's hand tightly with tears in her eyes and said: "I have worked hard to raise such a big girl, and there will be no one overnight, you say, how will I live in the future?" Can't live...... I can't live anymore......"

Lu Shuyi's nose was sour.

In her previous life, she experienced the pain of losing her mother, but at that time, she had no heart or lungs, and she couldn't experience the sadness and pain of eternal yin and yang.

“…… I'm not a good mother, I always treated her too harshly when she was alive, and I didn't care about what she wanted to play or do...... I really regret it now. That day, she said that she wanted to kick the shuttlecock, but I said that it was too cold, so I didn't let her kick, I ...... It would be nice if I let her kick......"

Mrs. Zheng cried heartbreakingly, her eyes full of regret and reluctance.

Lu Shuyi took out a handkerchief and rubbed her eyes.

There are some things that we don't want to care about when we are alive, but when we lose them, you will realize that some things are really no longer there.

On the way back, she lay silently in Wu's arms, the carriage swayed and bumped, and she held the ribbon on Wu's big coat tightly in her hand, very attached.

Wu touched her soft hair and said softly: "You can play if you want to play in the future, I don't care about you." She said with great emotion: "Look at what Mrs. Zheng is crying today, I regret that Miss Zheng Liu was too strict, and the child didn't let her play more if she wanted to...... At that time, I was wondering, are you and Jing'er also blaming me for managing you tightly, blaming me for not letting you have a good time, hey...... As soon as the person is gone, those things that used to be insignificant suddenly feel important. ”

Wu's emotion is also Lu Shuyi's emotion.

When you are alive is when you should cherish it most.

She comforted Wu and said, "You are a loving mother, I am very happy to be your daughter in this life." ”

Wu had a gentle smile on his face, and pinched her cheek: "I don't know if you're so old, hey...... I really don't want you to grow up, and I don't want you to get married. ”

The daughter who has worked hard to raise her is about to get married, and she is about to be the daughter-in-law of someone else's family.

Wu had all kinds of emotions in his heart, except for reluctance or reluctance.

"Then I won't marry, I'll be with you for the rest of my life" Lu Shuyi laughed and teased Wu.

Wu laughed, and there were faint crow's feet at the corners of his eyes: "Silly girl, I won't be worried to death if you don't marry?" There are hundreds of women in the family, and when the girl is older, we can't keep it as a mother. ”

"That'...... So what if you don't meet someone you like? Lu Shuyi asked in a low voice with a red face.

Wu pursed his lips and laughed, and said meaningfully with her: "Life is not just about liking to live a lifetime, I was also young, I understand what you said." But look at it, how many of our Lu family get together because they like it? ”

"Little aunt ......" Lu Shuyi mentioned Lu Zhaoning.

Lu Zhaoning didn't care about the other party's family background when he got married, and he married directly with enthusiasm.

Although Mrs. Lu was opposed to dying and resurrecting at that time, it seems that Lu Zhaoning's choice was not wrong.

She gave up the so-called son-in-law who was the right person, but she got a husband who treated her sincerely.

is more than Qian Wenchang married by Lu Shujuan.

Qian Wenchang is a scum, what can he do if he is rich and powerful? Messing with flowers and grass everywhere, and the means are despicable, such a man just piled up a mountain of gold and silver to give her, and she didn't even take a look.

Lu Shuyi secretly despised Qian Wenchang again in her heart.

"Your little aunt is the most promising girl in the Lu family." Wu agreed, and said: "Although we didn't agree when she chose Du Kuan at that time, but now it seems that your sister-in-law is very good, and she can live a normal life." ”

Lu Shuyi secretly applauded the Wu family's profound righteousness in her heart, and was proud to have a mother like her.

It's two days in a flash.

During the two days, Lu Shuyi only did embroidery work every day, and when she was free, she went to Lu Er's study to find a copy of "Orchid Grass Minutes" to study in the room.

Before she could figure out why, Lu Shuqing and Lu Shujing came to her.

Lu Shuqing looked very excited, and said happily: "Second Mrs. He invited a painter from Beijing to paint a portrait of us......

Second Mrs. He is here?

Lu Shuyi frowned: "When did Second Mrs. He come?" ”

"She didn't come, it was Second Prince He and Cousin Zhao'er who came." Lu Shuqing explained with a smile: "I heard that the painter is the first of the three divisions in Kyoto, and he is good at character paintings, and the second Mrs. He invited him for a long time before he agreed to come to paint the portrait." ”

She knows the third division of Kyoto.

In her previous life, she also worshipped one of the painters named Wang Xiu as a teacher, of course, she could see Wang Xiu and worship him as a teacher, all of which was arranged by Mr. Bai.

Most of the painters and good people who came today are Wang Xiu.

Lu Shuyi was a little happy, Wang Xiu taught her a lot of things in her previous life, and he helped her a lot, but she didn't expect him to come to Lu's house as a painter to paint today.

I have to say that this is fate.

However, Mrs. He invited him to paint portraits of the girls of the Lu family, which was only afraid of being weird.

Maybe it has something to do with her family.

Lu Shuyi took a sip of hot tea, raised her little finger and said uninterestedly: "I think it's good to look at the painting, but if you sit there and don't move into the painting, I won't do it." ”

"I'm tired too." Lu Shujing stuffed a piece of chestnut cake in her mouth, and said inarticulately: "Sitting there motionless on a cold day, forget it, I won't go......" But she didn't want to give up watching Wang Xiu paint, so she only said: "I only look at paintings, not portraits." ”

"How can you do that?" Lu Shuqing pouted and was a little unhappy: "People are famous painters in Kyoto, I heard that they have painted a portrait of Princess Rurui before, if you don't go, won't you regret and regret it?" ”

Dongmei was also very moved when she heard this, and whispered to Lu Shuyi: "Why don't you go over and have a look?" The painters from Kyoto must be amazing......"

Mo Ju smiled and poked her forehead: "You girl, you want to go, right?" ”

Dongmei stuck out her tongue and looked at Lu Shuyi pitifully: "Go, the painter in Kyoto must be ......"

Wang Xiu's painting skills Lu Shuyi knew that when he was twenty-five years old, he was invited into the palace to paint a portrait of Princess Rurui, and Princess Rurui even rewarded him with a pair of night pearls, praising his figure paintings as "smart and dust-free", and since then he has become famous in Kyoto and his value has doubled.

Miss Kyoto, isn't that proud to have a portrait of Wang Xiu?

Lu Shuqing wants to paint a portrait, which is also human nature.

She smiled and said to Lu Shuqing: "We'll accompany you to take a look, but I'll just take a look, and you can paint it." ”

Lu Shuqing was a little happier at this time, and responded: "This is about the same." ”

Lu Shuyi got up and changed her clothes, and the three of them talked and laughed and went to Mrs. Lu's Fushou Residence.

The porch outside Fushouju was already full of maids and women from all over the room, all muttering something in twos and threes, and some simply looked in quietly through the cracks in the window, as if they had drunk ginseng soup.

Lu Shuyi coughed.

These people hurriedly hung their heads and greeted them.

Lu Shuyi didn't answer, but only instructed Mo Ju: "I see that the maids and grandmothers in other rooms are waiting outside, you all stay here, the place in the house is small, there must be no place to insert pins." ”

Wang Xiu is a rare figure, and when he arrives, the old ladies and wives of the Lu family will definitely come to take a look.

Dongmei immediately looked at Lu Shuyi with a pitiful face.

The corners of Lu Shuyi's mouth twitched, and she had to say, "Okay, you follow me in." ”

Dongmei immediately smiled, eager to take a sip on Lu Shuyi's face.

Lu Shuyi looked at her with disgust, and whispered: "If there is really no place to plug in it, you have to come out." ”

Dongmei nodded like pounding garlic, and said with a fart: "Okay, good, the slave will take a look, just a glance ......"

The corners of Lu Shuyi's mouth twitched, and she lifted the corner of her skirt to the house.

Fushouju was surrounded by people in the dark, the eldest lady led Lu Wenhui and Lu Shuqi to be there, and the second master Lu also came over.

Wu didn't come, but Aunt An and Lu Shufang were present.

Aunt An was dressed very plainly, and her figure was thinner than some time ago, and she looked a little haggard. However, Lu Shufang was dressed very brightly, with a pair of beautiful eyes full of affection, and glanced at He Tai from time to time.

Lu Shuyi couldn't help but sigh in her heart, what Lu Shufang is doing now is what she did in her previous life. Sure enough, she is a fan of the authorities, and now as a bystander, her mood is really different.

The third wife and the third master of the third room are also there, the fourth master and the fourth wife of the fourth room, and several children of the fourth room are all there.

In the upper hand sat Old Lady Lu and Old Lady Lu, Wang Xiu sat next to Old Lady Lu, and behind Wang Xiu stood He Tai and He Zhao'er.

Lu Shuyi quietly glanced at Wang Xiu, recalling his appearance in his previous life.

He still looks like an idle cloud and a wild crane, wearing a stone blue plum orchid bamboo chrysanthemum cotton robe, with horn boots on his feet, although he is in his thirties, his eyes are still bright like a teenager.

His eyes touched He Tai behind Wang Xiu, and He Tai smiled lightly at her, which was regarded as a salute.

However, He Zhao'er is not so friendly, with a pair of eyebrows raised high, and a proud look.

Lu Shuyi only pretended not to see it, and took Lu Shujing and Lu Shuqing to meet Wang Xiu first.

Mrs. Lu smiled and introduced to Wang Xiu: "These are my three granddaughters, one is thirteen, the eldest daughter of the second room, one twelve, the eldest daughter of the third room, and one is just ten years old, and she is not sensible!" ”

Wang Xiu's gaze swept around the three of them, and finally stopped at Lu Shuyi's body.

Lu Shuyi was wearing a tender red woven gold embroidered grass cotton gown, combing a double screw bun, and did not wear any special ornaments on her head, only a gilt silver butterfly headband, with a clove earring the size of a grain of rice on her ears, her skin was fair, and her eyes were bright like tourmaline.

He glanced at Lu Shuyi carefully, and said, "This young lady has a good appearance, if it is in the painting, it must be very amazing." ”

It is the nature of a painter to look at people.

Some people are born to paint, and even if they don't come out of a painting, it's as if they came out of a painting.

At this moment, Lu Shuyi in Wang Xiu's eyes seems to have come out of a painting.

In his previous life, Wang Xiu also praised Lu Shuyi like this, and he also painted three paintings for Lu Shuyi at that time, one is a picture of enjoying flowers in spring, one is a picture of leaning on the window in summer to look at the lotus, and the other is a picture of stepping on the snow and looking for plum blossoms in winter.

Mr. Bai was very impressed by the three paintings, and he also collected one of them.

Thinking of these pasts, Lu Shuyi felt closer to Wang Xiu again, and she smiled and blessed: "Mr. is really a little girl." ”

He Zhao'er, who was behind Wang Xiu, immediately threw a hateful look at Lu Shuyi, very unconvinced.

"No, no, no, it's definitely not a compliment." Wang Xiu smiled and said slowly: "Speaking of which, the total number of portraits I have painted over the years is thousands, but there are very few people like Miss Lu who were born to paint." Over the years, apart from Miss Lu, I have only seen one person, and that is Princess Rurui. The reason why Princess Rurui's portrait moved the capital was also because of the charm of Princess Rurui herself, not just because I painted it well. ”

Wang Xiu's words made the eyes of everyone in the Lu family fall on Lu Shuyi, they look at it every day, and they don't think that Lu Shuyi has anything special, that is, she is more beautiful and taller than other girls.

Lu Shufang and Lu Shuqi were both a little unconvinced.

Is Lu Shuyi really that good?

This painter Wang can't be blind, right? I'm going to lift her up to heaven......

"Mr. Wang has won the award...... Mrs. Lu was very happy, and said to Wang Xiu with a smile: "My granddaughters, she looks the best ...... on the third girl."

Mrs. Lu's words, the eyes of the eldest lady and the third lady were a little wrong.

The eldest lady said in her heart, her Lu Shuqi's appearance is worse than Lu Shuyi?

She looked at Lu Shuyi coldly, and then at Lu Shuqi, comparing the two, and finally came to the conclusion that Lu Shuqi was also a beauty, but Painter Wang did not make special observations.

Similarly, the third wife also has such a mentality.

In her opinion, she is better looking than Wu, and her daughter Lu Shuqing is naturally better looking than Lu Shuyi, but Painter Wang has no vision.

The third lady sneered disdainfully in her heart, and didn't look at Lu Shuyi again.

Lu Shuyi looked helpless, she didn't say anything or do anything, but she became the target of public criticism for no reason......

Wang Xiu completely ignored the envious, jealous and hateful gazes of the women of the Lu family, and continued to talk to Mrs. Lu: "Appearance is secondary, and the temperament of the body is the most important ......"

"Yes, sir, you are in love...... Lu Shuyi didn't want to dwell on this matter, she said with a smile: "The little girl has long heard that Mr. is famous all over the world, but it happens that the little girl also loves to paint on weekdays, I wonder if Mr. can give me some advice in his spare time?" ”

The Lu family's favorite painting is not actually her, but Lu Shujing.

Lu Shujing wanted to interject, but she was embarrassed to interject, so she could only be in a hurry.

"Hahaha......" Wang Xiu smiled casually, took a sip of tea and said: "It's easy to say, it's just a little bit, the third lady must be in my painting......"

"Didn't you come here to draw for me cousins?" He Zhao'er smiled earnestly, her eyes flashed, and it happened to fall on Lu Shuyi's face: "The third cousin will definitely be in the painting, right......"

Lu Shuyi glanced at He Zhao'er and did not speak.

Wang Xiu didn't say anything else, but said to Mrs. Lu: "This time, Wang was entrusted by Mrs. He to paint for the ladies of the Lu family, and I also ask the old lady to arrange the arrangements." ”

Who doesn't want Wang Xiu to paint for them?

Not to mention these girls of the Lu family, but these elders of the Lu family, which one doesn't want to have Wang Xiu's paintings?

"You're really polite, it's an honor for our Lu family to come to our Lu family to paint." It was Mrs. Lu who spoke.

Mrs. Lu wore a homely Hangzhou silk cotton robe, pinched a pair of walnuts in his hand and gently pinched them back and forth, turned his head slightly, and said to Mrs. Lu: "Painter Wang is a distinguished guest, you have to arrange it well." ”

Old Mrs. Lu nodded, smiled and said to Second Master Lu: "I can save it." ”

After some greetings, Painter Wang finally decided to go to the plum garden to paint portraits of the girls of the Lu family.

Among the several rooms of the Lu family, only the second and third masters of Lu like calligraphy and painting on weekdays, so Mrs. Lu handed over the characters who entertained Wang Xiu to the two of them.

Second Master Lu also happened to have some problems with calligraphy and painting to consult Wang Xiu, and this arrangement was exactly what he wanted.

Old lady Lu talked to Wang Xiu for a while and left first.

"If you have more time, my old wife actually thinks about it...... I'd like to get a picture of yours, too! When Mrs. Lu saw Mrs. Lu leave, she dared to speak. She was a little embarrassed on her face, after all, she was so old, and painting portraits was all done by the little girls who loved beauty, and she was an old lady who made up what kind of fun.

However, Wang Xiu agreed very happily: "Okay, but if the painting is not good, don't blame me." ”

"If you say that, you won't ......," Old Lady Lu laughed.

It was the first time Lu Shuyi had seen Mrs. Lu smile like this, and she had the illusion that the sun was coming out of the west.

Since Mrs. Lu opened her mouth, the third lady was naturally indispensable, and immediately smiled and said, "Then can Painter Wang paint a picture for me?" ”

Wang Xiu agreed without thinking about it.

Lu Shuyi saw Wang Xiu like this for the first time, and in her previous life, she remembered that Wang Xiu was not so happy.

In his previous life, anyone who came to ask him to paint, he would only go when he looked pleasing to the eye, and if he didn't like it, he would directly let the child send away.

Mrs. He can invite him, it seems that his relationship with Mrs. He is not simple.

Lu Shuyi thought in her heart, and quietly looked at He Tai again.

He Tai immediately caught her gaze and smiled at her.

He Zhao'er immediately glared at her like a hyena.

Lu Shuyi ignored He Zhao'er, and stood with her eyes and nose and nose in her eyes.

Later, Mrs. Lu arranged for Wang Xiu to live in Jiahe Courtyard, and sent a wave of very suitable maids to wait.

On the way back to Lanyue Pavilion, Dongmei said with a proud face, and her eyebrows fluttered with Mo Ju: "Didn't you hear, that Wang painter was full of praise for the appearance of our third lady, saying that her appearance was the most suitable for painting...... Oops, at that time, I looked at the eldest lady and the third wife, as if they were not convinced, and the second and seventh misses, they were also not convinced, by the way, and Miss He Jiabiao, I saw that her mouth was crooked......"

"Okay, you're the one who has a long mouth?" Lu Shuyi glared at Dongmei, Dongmei stuck out her tongue and was silent. R1152