Chapter 17: Sisters
Since Yin Zhen left that day, he has never set foot in Lanyue Residence, let alone come to see Ling Ruo, as if he doesn't remember that there is such a person, those who originally planned to befriend Ling Ruo saw this idea and turned to curry favor with the Ye family, because on the twenty-ninth day of December, the mansion officially descended, and the Jin Gege Ye family moved to Liuyun Pavilion as the side blessing Jin.
When the news reached Ling Ruo's ears, she just laughed it off, as if she didn't take it to heart, but Mo Yu couldn't help but hold her grievances, "I really don't know what Lord Belle thinks, in terms of appearance and character, the girl doesn't know how much better than that Ye Gege, but Lord Belle doesn't even look at the girl." ”
Ling Ruo smiled and put down the half-embroidered double-sided colorful peony in his hand, glanced at her and said, "It's time to change your name to Ye Fujin, otherwise it will inevitably be another meal of flesh and skin, hasn't the loss you suffered last time for a long time?" ”
"The slave just can't get used to her smugness." Mo Yu stuck out her tongue and muttered quietly.
"She can make Lord Belle raise her own ability, not to mention that it's just a blessing, it doesn't prove how much Lord Belle likes her." Ling Ruo put down the embroidery shed and got up to look at the unpredictable clouds in the sky, and sighed in her heart, the longer the days passed, the less confident she became, had Yinzhen really forgotten her?
On the Chinese New Year's Eve of the forty-third year of Kangxi, the Beile Mansion held a family banquet as usual, and the Ran Geges were not allowed to attend, and could only spend it alone in the middle of the moon.
Although no one will come, Moyu still cleaned the house cleanly, cut all kinds of window grilles and pasted them, and I don't know who grinded a pair of red lanterns to hang under the eaves, which added a bit of New Year's flavor.
"Girl, what do you think of it?" Mo Yu took a set of honey-colored flag costumes and peach-colored flag costumes and asked Ling Ruo, who was sitting in front of the bronze mirror and combing his hair.
"Wear everything the same, so why bother with choosing." Ling Ruo looked a little distracted, and his comb teeth slowly slid between the black and satin-like hair.
"Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, how can it be the same, although it is not a new clothes, but it is more festive." Mo Yu insisted that she choose one, but Ling Ruo couldn't stand her entanglement, so she had to choose the honey-colored shirt, and the other set was put away for tomorrow.
After changing his clothes, Mo Yu combed Ling Ruo's hair into a swallowtail, and in addition to a few emerald bead flowers, he picked up a butterfly love flower silver hanging hairpin and put it on the swallowtail.
"Yo, my sister is dressed up so beautifully today." A Qingyue's voice sounded behind him, and when he looked back, he saw Wen Ruyan standing at the door and smiling.
Wen Ruyan, that is a graceful woman like water, maybe not so dazzling, but there is an extremely restrained elegance and calmness, and when getting along, she releases her unique charm bit by bit.
If it weren't for her that day, maybe Ling Ruo would no longer be alive, but she specially thanked her after she recovered from her illness, and the two have been in contact since then.
"Why is my sister free to come over today?" Ling Ruo greeted her with a smile and took her hand and entered the house together.
Wen Ruyan said with a smile: "This Chinese New Year is idle, and I don't know what to do, so I want to come over and play a game with you, I wonder if my sister is interested?" ”
"My sister has this Yaxing, and my sister should accompany her, but my sister is not good at chess, and my sister will have to give up a few points when the time comes." Saying that, he called Moyu to put on the chessboard and hold the chess pieces, and the result of guessing was that Ling Ruo was white and Wen was as black as his words.
The chess pieces fell alternately on the chessboard, and it was difficult to solve the battle for a while, Wen Ruyan pursed her lips and smiled: "You still bluff me into saying that I am not good at chess, isn't it very good?" ”
Ling Ruo smiled and shouted: "I don't dare to lie to my sister, it's not that I'm afraid that my sister will get bored if she wins too quickly, so I tried my best to do it, if I bother to grow gray hair too much, my sister will have to compensate me." ”
"Where did you learn to be so flamboyant?" Wen Ruyan took a sip of the tea handed by Su Yun and said suddenly, "Didn't Lord Belle come again?" ”
Ling Ruo's hand holding the chess piece froze, the chess piece Wen Run accidentally slipped from between her fingers, and stopped after rolling on the chessboard, she raised her head, and the winter sun shone through the window paper on her thin grease powder cheeks, as if coated with a halo, "Why did my sister suddenly talk about this?" ”
Fingers slowly stroked each chess piece, and the elegant voice sounded slowly in my ears: "I'm worried about you, the Ye family has become Shu Fujin, you have always had a dislike for her, and now she has not yet stood firm so she can't spare her hand to deal with you, once she stabilizes her position, I'm afraid that the first one who can't tolerate it is you; And now the only one who can become your talisman is Lord Belle, although I have the heart but I am powerless.
Her sincere words made Ling Ruo's heart feel a little warm, and she said truthfully: "I know the truth, but I can't if Lord Belle refuses to come, maybe he doesn't like me." ”
"Not necessarily." Wen Ruyan took a chess piece and played it in her hand, raised her eyes and said: "You are an extremely beautiful woman, as long as I have seen you, I will not easily forget, I have seen Nian's family, and you are enough to compare with her in terms of appearance." Actually, I don't understand why your family background and appearance are just a personality. ”
Ling Ruo was silent, and the room suddenly became extremely quiet, and even the sound of Moyu's breathing could be heard clearly, and after a long time, she said with a faint mockery: "Maybe I'm just a character of life." ”
"No, you're not." Ignoring Ling Ruo's surprised gaze, she shook her head and said: "When I was young, there was a Xiangshi who lived in my house for a while, and when I had nothing to do, I learned some skills from him, and I used it to look at people. ”
"Then according to my sister, what should happen to my life," Ling Ruo asked casually with a smile.
Wen Ruyan glanced at her carefully, shook her head and said: "I can't see it, judging from the physiognomy, my sister's life should be unspeakably expensive, but it has a great omen, which is really incomprehensible." ”
"If you can't figure it out, don't think about it, this kind of thing is too illusory, and if it doesn't happen, you can't be sure for a day, and it's useless to think about it too much." Speaking of this, Ling Ruoyi turned his words, pointed to the chessboard with a smile and said: "Sister, now let's think about how to play this game of chess, if you lose to your sister, you will punish your sister, but you should talk about what to punish?" ”
Su Yun pursed his lips on the side and smiled: "Ling Gege's chess is not finished yet, how do you know that it must be my girl who loses, what if it is you, then wouldn't it be punished on your own head?" ”
Ling Ruo flicked Su Yun's forehead and said angrily: "You girl has the most eyes, you are afraid that I will lose and will not admit it, and if you are willing to gamble, you are naturally willing to lose, how can it be reasonable to rely on the account." ”
Mo Yu thought for a long time and said, "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, how about making dumplings?" Early this morning, she asked for some dumpling wrappers and meat fillings from the kitchen, and she was going to make dumplings to eat later, which she is now using.
Ling Ruo and Wen Ruyan glanced at each other, they both thought that this idea was good, and immediately put their minds back on the chess game, there was a bet that this game of chess was naturally extraordinarily exciting, you came and I went straight for an hour before the winner was decided, and finally Ling Ruo narrowly won a game by half a child.
"It seems that I am destined to eat the dumplings made by my sister herself this time, so I will have to eat a few more later." Ling Ruoji was extremely happy, and smiled and bent his eyebrows.
The afternoon sun was bright and dazzling, and she was warm, Wen Ruyan stroked her face and said: "I usually look at you as a very stable person, why are you so happy for a little thing this time, am I so happy to win?" ”
"I'm happy not because I won my sister, but because it's good to have my sister by my side." There are no flowery rhetoric, only simple words, but Wen Ruyan was deeply moved, she knew that at this moment Ling Ruo really regarded her as a sister would say such a thing, in this deep mansion compound, although there are sisters everywhere, but often polite on the surface, stabbing knives in the back, even biological sisters may turn against each other, and it is really a luxury to really have a sister's affection.