In winter, the snow was flying all day, Ning Qingye carried the famous sword left by his mother, bought a pot of local well-known Huaihe brew in the old shop in Huainan City, and came to the stone pavilion by the Huai River.

In the stone pavilion, Zhongli Chuchu is covered with red veil, slim and elegant, and his green eyes look at the ice river and the wind and snow.

Ning Qingye carried a small wine, first glanced at it from a distance, and then walked into the stone pavilion built by the ancestor of the Xiao family, and said softly:

"Miss Chuchu?"

Zhongli Chuchu heard the sound and turned his head with a slightly surprised and strange look in his eyes. After a moment's hesitation, he showed the approachable smile of the past:

"Xiao Ning, why are you here?"

It's just that this smile, in Ning Qingye's eyes, no longer has the heartiness of the past 'children of the rivers and lakes, happy and enmity'. She made it on the bench in the stone pavilion, put the flask at hand, and raised her hand to brush the hair from her ear:

"Chu Chu, are you and I friends?"

Zhongli Chuchu blinked his emerald eyes, and sat down next to him, probably thinking that Ning Qingye's eyes were too sharp, making it difficult for people to look directly, so he turned his gaze away and smiled:

"Naturally, we are friends, and the fights between the masters have nothing to do with us...... I will advise Master. ”

Ning Qingye carefully observed Zhongli Chuchu's expression, and the invisible barrier still existed. She has always been straightforward, picked up the porcelain white wine jug next to her and handed it to Zhongli Chuchu:

"I am a straight-speaking man, but if there is anything that offends you, I can speak directly. I can accept other people's opinions and correct them, but I don't like people to misunderstand me. ”

"Uh......"

Zhongli Chuchu took the wine bottle, his eyes flickered, and he pursed his lips and chuckled. Ning Qingye definitely didn't offend her, but after knowing the relationship between Ning Qingye and Xu Buling, it was inevitable that she felt strange in her heart. When that kind of thing was said, Ning Qingye would definitely be annoyed and angry, and he couldn't speak, so he could only shake his head at the moment:

"Miss Ning is serious, I didn't misunderstand you, huh...... How can I say it......"

Ning Qingye's smile was flat: "Do you think that Xu Buling favors me and is dissatisfied?" ”

？

Zhongli Chuchu sat up a few straighter. Naturally, she didn't have that idea, but ...... But she approached Xu Buling's purpose, it was indeed so, and Ning Qingye was like that with Xu Buling openly and secretly, and on the surface she pretended to be a white lotus who did not eat fireworks in the world to deceive her, she must be dissatisfied in her heart......

"How so...... Well, early at night, you used to say that when Xu Gongzi first met you, he was flamboyant to you and coveted your beauty? ”

Ning Qingye naturally had a clear conscience about this, and nodded: "That's right, he is indeed very enthusiastic about me and dares to say anything." But I don't have anything to do with him, just friends who met in Pingshui......"

"But as far as I know, Xu Gongzi has an arrogant personality and is very cold to outsiders. How can I be alone with you......"

When Ning Qingye heard this, she understood that Zhongli Chuchu was indeed alienating her out of jealousy, so she shook her head and stood up:

"You have to find the reason for this, Xu Buling is very smart and can see what a person's character is. If you think about competing with others all day long, it is not surprising that he is cold to you. ”

After the words fell, he left the stone pavilion and floated away.

"Hey—"

Zhongli Chuchu was immediately unhappy, and said secretly: You relied on what you did with Xu Gongzi in private to win Xu Gongzi's favor, but on the surface, you said that I had a problem with my character, which made Xu Gongzi treat him coldly. No matter what I do, I didn't use my body to hook up with men, did I......

Zhongli Chuchu sat in the stone pavilion and looked at the porcelain liquor bottle in his hand, his eyes showing a little unconvinced. After frowning and pondering for a moment, he got up and returned to Xiaojiazhuang, and came to the outside of Xiao Xiang'er's house.

The winter cold is pressing, in the garden of the huge mansion, the strange flowers and stones are covered with snow quilts, the carved doors and windows of the middle wing are closed, and the mahogany signs that record the weather and the mountain medicinal materials that are dried are hung under the eaves.

Zhongli Chuchu walked quickly to the eaves and glanced at the window.

The incense is curling in the wing room, there is a purple gold copper stove next to the small mahogany case, the porcelain plate on the table contains rare medicinal materials such as mountain ginseng and tiger bones, and the two women with the same bright appearance and temperament but completely different are sitting on the soft carpet, Zhongli Jiujiu holds the medicine pestle and grinds it carefully; Xiao Xiang'er held scissors and carefully cut a black mink down, which was not very long and resembled a tail, but she didn't know what it was for.

Zhongli Jiujiu has a deep knowledge of medicine, but he knows very little about the left side of the door, it may be that he is a little sleepy in grinding drugs, and his eyes moved to Xiao Xiang'er, who was concentrating, and asked curiously:

"Xiang'er, what is this mink fleece for? It's too small around my neck, and it doesn't seem appropriate to put it on my hands, could it be that I'm lonely and unheard? ”

Xiao Xiang'er's eyes were calm as usual, and her tail was not connected to the wooden stopper, and she couldn't see the effect, but she just explained softly:

"The ornaments on the clothes, after my sister and Xu Buling get married, give them to her as gifts."

"Oh......"

Zhongli Jiujiu didn't seem to understand it, and it was only a unique custom of marriage in Jiangnan, just like the skirt knife and silver jewelry in Nanyue, and he replied casually: "Xiang'er is really ingenious, when will you prepare one for me, in case you can use it in the future." ”

Xiao Xiang'er raised her eyes and blinked, nodding seriously.

Zhongli Jiujiu thanked him, and was about to chat about Xu Buling, who was about to come back, and asked Xiao Xiang'er to blow the pillow wind for her, when she saw Zhongli Chuchu standing outside the window, turned her head and smiled:

"Chu Chu, why are you here? Didn't accompany Miss Song out to enjoy the snow? ”

Zhongli Chuchu is only seventeen or eighteen, he is considered a junior, and he was a little nervous in the face of Xu Buling's favorite wife, so he didn't enter the house, but just hooked his hand:

"Master, I have something to look for you."

"Oh."

Zhongli Jiujiu nodded with a smile, put down the medicinal herbs that were grinding, got up and patted his long skirt, and came outside the room.

Zhongli Chuchu took the master to the corner of the verandah in the back house, hesitated slightly, and said softly:

"Master, I want to make friends with Xu Gongzi, you asked me to learn Ning Qingye, but I have learned about it in the past few days, and it is not what you and I thought at all. Xu Gongzi is relatively cold to everyone, the same for you and me, and the same for Miss Song, it is not a difference at all, but a ...... personality"

In the days when Zhongli Jiujiu met Xu Buling, he did feel like that. Nodding:

"Well, then what."

Zhongli Chuchu glanced left and right a few times, and said softly:

Xu Gongzi was polite to Ning Qingye, and even took the initiative to pursue it at the expense of his identity, while Ning Qingye ignored him and treated him coldly. At first, I thought there was something special about Ning Qingye, but now it seems that it is nothing more than that......"

Zhongli Jiujiu heard it in a fog, frowned, and said, "What? Isn't this kid always like this at night, could it be that there are other ulterior things? ”

Zhongli Chuchu nodded, and whispered in the master's ear, "I also heard Miss Song talk about it. It turned out that the reason why Xu Gongzi favored Ning Qingye was because Ning Qingye had already ...... with Xu Gongzi"

"Hmmm??!"

Zhongli Jiujiu turned his cheek away and glanced at his apprentice a few times in disbelief, making sure she wasn't joking.

Zhongli Chuchu knew that the master didn't believe it, and she actually didn't believe it either, but Song Yufu saw it was believing, and it couldn't be fake. Seriously at the moment:

"It's true, it's because of this that Xu Gongzi is very special to Ning Qingye, not because Ning Qingye is different. I was deceived by Ning Qingye's cold appearance, but I still learned from her appearance for a long time, she is completely misguided......"

Zhongli Jiujiu's eyes were strange, she had seen them when she was a child in Ning Qingye, her personality was cold and straightforward, and she had wanted to trick her into becoming an apprentice. I didn't expect the cold little girl back then to grow up and play so openly......

Seeing the apprentice's broken thoughts, Zhong Li Jiujiu pondered: "Chu Chu, do you like Xu Buling?" ”

When Zhongli Chuchu heard this, his face turned slightly red, and he glanced at Zhongli Jiujiu: "Master, what are you talking nonsense, I just want to be friends with Xu Gongzi, and it is different from Ning Qingye......"

Zhongli Jiujiu hugged his chest, leaned against the red pillar of the verandah, and frowned slightly: "Since you just want to be friends, what do you care about Ning Qingye?" People are in love with concubines, and it has nothing to do with you......"

“……”

Zhongli Chuchu pursed his lips, sat down in front of Zhongli Jiujiu, and was slightly dissatisfied: "She bluffed me, so much so that I thought that Xu Gongzi couldn't look down on me and tossed so many things." And...... And she also said that I was here today, saying that Xu Gongzi was cold to me, it was my own problem, what is my problem? I don't use my body to please men, do I? If I put down my body and hook up with Xu Gongzi, will she have a part in talking? ”

Zhongli Jiujiu looked at the apprentice who had grown up, hesitated, and sighed softly:

"Chu Chu, you have to make your own mind about this kind of thing, I, who is the master, if I make a wrong decision, you will blame me in the future."

Zhongli Chuchu sat in the verandah and struggled for a moment, and thought for a while: "Master, I'...... I don't know how to get it. ”

Zhongli Jiujiu sighed, pondered for a moment, and said softly:

"After talking for a long time, don't you just want Xu Buling to treat you differently. You are a contemporary Bakui, the capital of a body is placed here, dress up a little, and wear less......"

"I've tried ...... before"

"Uh-huh???"

"Uh...... It was autumn, it wasn't cold, and I was already wearing less ......."

"Oh......" Zhongli Jiujiu pursed his lips, he wanted to say something, but when he thought that the woman was not in the middle, he stayed and stayed to become an enemy, and he still sighed lightly: "Then wear less, there is nothing bad for men, as long as you are tempted, no matter how cold a man is, he will be courteous......"

Zhongli Chuchu tightened the skirt on his body, and hesitated slightly: "Master, I just want to be a normal friend and confidant with Xu Gongzi, not ...... It's not about that......"

Zhongli Jiujiu shook his head: "You have your own idea for this kind of thing, Master, I haven't even hugged a man, and I don't have any friends, you ask me, it's equivalent to asking about blindness." ”

Zhongli Chu frowned and hesitated for a long time before nodding slowly and replying:

"I ...... I'll give it a try......"