The "negotiation" with Lin Wanjing broke up unhappily, Ye Qiuluo went straight to the naval headquarters, and when she appeared in front of Liu Jin's office, Liu Jin obviously didn't expect her to come, and she didn't ask for a long time.

Seeing him like this, Ye Qiuluo burst out laughing, and pretended to be enchanting and went to Liu Jin:

"What? Do you not recognize me, or do you not want to recognize me? ”

Liu Jin put down the pen in his hand and asked with a smile, "Why are you here?" When did you come back? ”

"It only arrived yesterday. I came back before your birthday, how was it, were you very moved? ”

Liu Jin just wanted to answer, but saw that the clerk sent the document in again, and the topic was forced to stop, and when the clerk left the office, Ye Qiuluo lost the interest in joking, and changed the topic:

"Busy?"

"Hmm." Liu Jin browsed the documents in his hand, frowning slightly, "Why don't you go back first." ”

"Just then we met, I will issue an eviction order......" Ye Qiuluo pouted, "Okay, I'll go back first." Let's have dinner together tonight, right? ”

"Tonight?" Liu Jin looked up at her, his face was embarrassed, just a few hours ago, he had just promised Lin Wanjing at the door of his house that Lin Wanjing would definitely go home to finish eating.

"Can't you?"

"I promised Wanjing to go home for dinner tonight." Liu Jin replied truthfully, paused and said, "Why don't you forget it tonight, I will treat you to a good meal with Wanjing in a few days, and you should be compensated, okay?" ”

"Not good." Ye Qiuluo pursed his lips, "If you really married a coquettish wife, you forgot to be small, but I specially rushed back to celebrate your birthday, and you deal with me like this!" ”

She originally hoped that Liu Jin would say some soft words to appease her, but Liu Jin looked at the documents in her hand as if she hadn't heard anything, she saw that he didn't come to coax herself, so she had to lower her posture: "Brother Yunrou, it's just a meal, and it's not that you don't go home, you just accompany others to eat, just go home and eat a little more, okay......"

Liu Jin thought about it, what Ye Qiuluo said seemed to be a way to have both worlds, and looking at the form in front of him, if he didn't allow this dinner, this little girl didn't plan to leave, so she had to compromise and said, "Okay, it's up to you." ”

"I know that Brother Yun Rou is the best! Then I'll wait for you to get off work in the afternoon! ”

Eight hours later, when Ye Qiuluo came to the entrance of the headquarters, she saw Liu Jin already standing by the car, holding a bouquet of pink and white flowers in her hand, like a magnificent cloud, a variety she had never seen.

"This flower is so beautiful, is it for me?" After asking this, and looking at the unadorned embarrassment on Liu Jin's face, she knew the answer, and pouted: "I tease you, where can I compete with your young lady who is alluring the country and the city?" It's just for you to hold the dip. ”

Since she said it herself, Liu Jin didn't explain much, and let her sit in the car with a bouquet of flowers.

Ye Qiuluo's restaurant was far away from Yu Kuntai, but it was very close to where she lived, after taking a seat, she opened a bottle of red wine, saying that she was going to celebrate Liu Jin's birthday, but Liu Jin obviously had no intention of dining, and she didn't touch it again after taking a sip of wine, Ye Qiuluo didn't mind, and drank it to her heart's content.

Dinner was not over, but Ye Qiuluo was already slightly drunk, and when she left the restaurant, she pestered Liu Jin to send her back to her place of residence. Seeing that she was indeed drunk, Liu Jin couldn't refuse, so she had to send her back to the Qianjiang Hotel, who knew that as soon as she entered the room, Ye Qiuxi pretended to trip over the carpet, and threw herself into Liu Jin's arms, and put her arms on Liu Jin's broad shoulders, which was unwilling to let go:

"Brother Yun Rou, will you stay with me tonight?"

Liu Jin was stunned for a moment, instantly understood her thoughts, and persuaded her with kind words: "Okay, don't make trouble, I have to go home." ”

Seeing that Liu Jin was about to pull her arm away, Ye Qiuluo hurriedly grabbed him tighter:

"Just one night, Brother Yun Rou, just stay with me for one night......"

The slender jade arm was finally broken free by him, seeing that he was leaving, she simply made her butt to the bed, sobbing and crying, Liu Jin hesitated in place for a moment, and finally ignored her and left the room.

Ye Qiuluo's mind is basically Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows it, not to mention that Liu Jin, a clear-eyed person, can see it clearly, even a blind person can smell the ambiguity in her gestures, and this is the last thing Liu Jin wants to happen.

Ye Jiangxiong, the commander of the Luzhou Guards Division, has a pair of daughters under his knees, although the sisters are the pearls of Master Ye's palm, but after all, they are different from each other - although Ye Qiuxi is the eldest daughter, she is from the concubine's room, so she naturally does not dare to climb the Liu family's relatives, and Ye Qiuluo, as the concubine, has an additional "mission" to marry the Liu family, and her marriage with Liu Jin is as natural as water.

Facing Ye Qiuluo, who claimed to be his "fiancée", Liu Jin knew that he didn't like her, but he had no choice but to have Ye Jiangxiong's interests, plus Ye Qiuluo was also knowledgeable and understanding since he was a child, so he also took good care of this "fiancée" and treated her like a brother and sister.

In fact, since parting from Japan, Liu Jin never thought that Ye Qiuluo would return to China, after meeting Lin Wanjing, he hoped that Ye Qiuluo would not come back, even if he came back, he could face the so-called "past love" between them with a mature attitude, but it was obvious that things backfired, according to the current trend, I am afraid that things will develop towards the result he least wants to see.

The wheel pressed against the stone with a small bump, and the bouquet leaning on the back of the seat fell down, sweeping over the hand he put on his side, Liu Jin hurriedly raised his hand to hold the bouquet steady, in a trance, the delicate pink of the petals and the gentle touch reminded him of Lin Wanjing's quiet smile, he felt a faint pain in his heart, reached out and held the bouquet into his hand, but the faint pain did not improve - he could protect this bouquet, but he didn't know how to protect the most reluctant to hurt people.

It was already time to return to the Imperial Kuntai, but the lights were still on from the porch to the dining room, and the servants and cooks were busy inside and out, reheating the sumptuous meals on the dining table. Seeing Liu Jin come back, the people in the dining room seemed to have a head, and tacitly accelerated the movements of their hands.

Liu Jin's eyes turned on the dining table, and quickly locked on the plate of squirrel mandarin fish closest to his usual dining seat, The reason why it attracted his attention was not because of how well the fish was made, if you really want to judge, the plate of fish was very "improvised". Without waiting for him to speculate, Ah Ling had already walked towards him quickly:

"Young marshal, this fish was specially made for you by the young lady, and I worked with the invited cook for an afternoon."

"She did it herself?"

"Hmm. I burned my hand, and here it is. Ah Ling raised her hand and drew a circle on the back of her hand, "It blistered right away, it scared me to death." ”

Hearing this, Liu Jin turned around and went upstairs, in the living room, the nurse hugged Xiao Yichen and laughed with Lin Wanjing, and saw Liu Jin push the door in, get up and stand aside. Liu Jin entered the house without looking at the child, walked straight to Lin Wanjing, held up her hand wrapped in gauze, and her tone was full of pity:

"Let someone do this kind of thing, why do you need to do it yourself?"

"Today is your birthday, I want to do something for you, but I don't know what you lack. I vaguely remember the last time Yefu held a banquet, and you were full of praise for the plate of squirrel mandarin fish during the banquet, so ......" Seeing Liu Jin looking at the gauze on her hand intently, her eyes burned as if she wanted to burn the gauze through, Lin Wanjing hurriedly pulled her hand away, and changed her words: "This flower ......"

"Yours." Liu Jin seemed to remember the bouquet in his hand at this time.

"On your birthday, you buy flowers for me, how can I receive ......" Lin Wanjing said, "By the way, did you eat dinner?" ”

Liu Jin was stunned, chose a white lie and said: "No, after reading the documents, I found that it was dark, hurry back, where is there time to eat." ”

Lin Wanjing placed the bouquet in the flower bottle safely, turned around to pick up Liu Jin's coat, thinking that Liu Jin should change the clothes after wearing them for many days, so she reached out and wanted to take out the pen in the inner pocket.

"Yun Rou, where's your pen?"

As soon as he heard this, Liu Jin's mind suddenly flashed with Ye Qiuluo's sudden hug when he was leaving, and his expression was a little more worried, but he must not have been able to say this to Lin Wanjing, so he pretended to say suddenly: "I was still used it just now, maybe I left in a hurry and left in the office." ”

That golden pen was Liu Jin's 18th birthday, Liu Daolin gave him a coming-of-age gift, never left his body, and always kept it close to him, but Liu Jin's explanation seemed to be reasonable, although he vaguely felt a little apprehensive, but he couldn't explain why. At this moment, Ah Ling came upstairs to announce that dinner was ready, and Lin Wanjing no longer bothered about the matter of the pen, and went downstairs to eat with Liu Jin.

Although she had eaten something in the western restaurant, sitting at the table at the moment, Liu Jin felt that her appetite was great for no reason, Lin Wanjing filled her stomach with little food, so she sandwiched the fish meat and carefully removed the thorns, and then picked the clean meat to Liu Jin to serve with rice.

To say that Ye Qiuluo's words in the morning did not affect her, it must be a lie. Although she has been trying her best to press the urge to ask what is going on, it is very difficult to swallow the words again, and after hesitating, Lin Wanjing finally asked:

"Yun Rou, if you want to make a choice between this great river and mountain and me, how will you choose?"

Liu Jin obviously didn't expect Lin Wanjing to suddenly ask him such a question, and with a pause in his hand, the silver chopsticks knocked on the edge of the bowl and made a crisp sound:

"Why do you ask this question all of a sudden?"

"I was reading a book a few days ago, and I was seeing the matter of the Qing Dynasty's Nine Dragons seizing the heir, so I was curious to ask you."

When Liu Jin heard this, he chuckled helplessly: "If I had known that you would quote scriptures to make things difficult for me, I shouldn't have let you read these gossips in the first place." But seeing that Lin Wanjing seemed to be very serious, he put away his smile again, pondered for a moment, and asked rhetorically: "To be honest?" ”

"Hmm. Truth. ”

"I want this world."

Disappointment swept through Lin Wanjing's body like a north wind from the polar regions in winter, she thought that his answer would not be like this, or rather, it shouldn't be like this, she began to regret why she asked this question, maybe she didn't know that the answer was the best for her.

"Don't you ask me why?" Liu Jin said again.

Lin Wanjing came back to her senses from her trance, shook her head with a far-fetched smile: "Don't ask." You have always had your reasons for making your choices, and I believe you. Saying this, she raised the crystal glass in front of her, and the wine syrup in the cup shook a beautiful arc on the wall of the cup with the movement of her hand: "Today is your birthday, and I hope to finally be able to see the rivers and mountains of my husband, and reign over the world." ”

The two cups collided, with a soft sound, and the long tail note entered Lin Wanjing's heart, which was several times longer, she raised her eyes to look at Liu Jin, but saw that he was raising his head to drink all the wine in the cup, and the corners of his mouth seemed to have a good-looking arc - it should be that her greetings just now won his heart, so there was a little smugness in the smile.

Lin Wanjing only felt bitter in her heart, and hurriedly lowered her eyes and didn't dare to look at his handsome face again, the light shot down from the top of her head, penetrating the crimson wine in the cup, and imprinted the jewel-like luster on the back of her white hand, and in a trance she saw that day at the annual meeting in Shuaifu, Liu Jin walked through the crowd and walked towards him, the light of that day was also so dazzling, shining on his epaulettes and badges, he was shrouded in a thin halo, like the sun after the winter mist.

Yes, maybe he was the sun, and even that light was in her untouchable distance......