Gu's mansion is connected by several gardens together, magnificent, the verandah in the mansion is winding, and the flowers and plants are covered, if there is no one to guide you, it is really easy to get lost. She and Zi'er followed the maid and made several detours before they reached the place where they were relieved. This place is more secluded than other places, and the surrounding area is also full of plants and trees, and the fragrance of plants and trees is overflowing, if you don't know, you think it is a girl's boudoir.

Zi'er nervously held her sister's hand, but couldn't help but look around curiously.

"Go ahead, I'll be waiting for you here." Ning Xia Qing sent Zi'er's hand, said softly, and then asked the maid to take Zi'er in. After a while, Zi'er walked out, her big eyes gurgling, Ning Xia Qing bent down and arranged Zi'er's dress, Zi'er leaned into her ear and whispered: "Sister also go in and take a look, it's different from our family." ”

Ning Xia Qing frowned and chuckled, scratched Zi'er's face, and then stood up, but suddenly thought that it would be necessary to drink tea at the banquet for a while, since this is the case, let's go by the way, she whispered: "Then Zi'er is waiting for me here obediently." ”

"Hmm!" Zi'er agreed very simply, obviously really thinking it was very novel, and felt that her sister should also go in and have a look.

Ning Xia Qing instructed a maid to take care of Zi'er, and then went in with another maid. A moment later, when she was cleaning her hands, she suddenly heard something noisy outside, her heart tightened, and when she listened carefully, the sound was gone, and she felt that something was wrong. At this time, the maid handed her a hand towel, and she did not reach out to take it, but walked out quickly.

When I looked outside, I didn't see Zi'er, and even the maid who stayed outside to take care of Zi'er was gone. She was instantly anxious, and hurriedly shouted a few "Zi'er", looking for Zi'er's figure nearby, and saw that there seemed to be a shaking figure in the pavilion on the other side of the stone road, she hurriedly ran over, and sure enough, she saw Zi'er's figure.

"Zi'er!" She shouted, bypassed the small stone road, and suddenly saw that in addition to Zi'er, there were two men in the pavilion, one big and one small. Ning Xia Qing was stunned for a moment, looked at it, and recognized that the young one was Gu Huailang, the eighth young master of the Gu Mansion.

"Sister!" Zi'er looked like she had done something wrong, pitiful, overwhelmed, aggrieved and afraid, and after seeing her sister, she immediately ran to her sister's side and held her sister's hand.

Ning Xia Qing looked at it for a while, and saw that Zi'er was fine, so she put her mind at ease and asked softly, "Why did you come here?" Where's that Youlan sister? Shouldn't she be with you? ”

"Sister Youlan has something to do, so she left, let me wait there for my sister to come out, and then ......" Zi'er sobbed as she spoke, her eyes glancing at the ground.

Lying on the ground was a glass Ruyi that had broken into several pieces. This is the Gu Mansion, Zi'er has caused a big disaster, and the Ning family and Mrs. Ning will be pointed out. Zi'er's face was twisted, her tears were like beads with broken threads, crackling and hitting the ground, but she bit her lip and refused to cry, her lips were purple, and her little hands grabbed her sister's hand. Ning Xia Qing felt that the little hand that was holding him was trembling desperately.

"It's all her! It was she who smashed the Ruyi that my sixth uncle was going to give to my grandmother! Gu Huailang confidently complained to Ningxia Qing, then squatted down, picked up the broken glass Ruyi, held it in his hand, looked at the man beside him cautiously, and asked softly: "Sixth uncle, what should I do now?" ”

"It's okay, just throw it away." The man said as if he didn't care.

He immediately lowered his head, looked at poor Zi'er, and asked softly, "This is Sister Ling?" ”

Just now the girl hurriedly came, in the courtyard under the sun, she seemed to be shrouded in a thin layer of light smoke, with her footsteps continue to move, lining her like a mortal fairy, chic and elegant, peerless.

As soon as she walked in, she found that her face was radiant and glamorous, like a flower blooming, which made people dare not look at it.

The sunlight fell on the tip of her tall nose, reflecting a little dazzling spot, which added a bit of stubbornness and liveliness to her, and there was a pretty and vulgar girlish atmosphere.

Ningxia Qing's mind was full of Gu Huailang's "sixth uncle". She remembered that under the knees of Mrs. Gu, there were four sons in total, and as for the cousins of the Gu family, there was only one of the same generation, so there were a total of five brothers, so how could there be any "sixth uncle"?

She was puzzled in her heart, and couldn't help but look at the man in front of her.

I saw this person standing in the pavilion in a plain robe, with a calm expression, gentle and elegant. Judging from his appearance, he does have a bit of a family-oriented appearance.

This person's eyes are rippling, like willow branches blown by the spring breeze, the chuckle between his eyebrows and eyes seems to have an unattainable meaning, and his complexion is far paler than others, just like the white clouds on the horizon, gentle and independent.

"This is broken by Zi'er? What's going on? Ning Xia Qing looked at the broken Ruyi in Gu Huailang's hand and asked.

"Brother Lang just teased her, and she had to avoid it, so she accidentally touched it." Gu Xuesong explained, then looked at Gu Huailang with a smile and said, "I made the little girl cry, so don't go and apologize." ”

"Uncle Six!" After being exposed, Gu Huailang instantly blushed, but he couldn't lie anymore, so he had to look at Zi'er in amazement, but Zi'er seemed to be very afraid of him, so she quickly hid behind her sister, and didn't even dare to look in his direction.

At this moment, Youlan happened to come over and looked at them from a distance, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly ran this way, shouting as she ran: "The two girls have run here like this, and they have asked me to look for them for a long time." The birthday banquet has been set up, so let's go back quickly. As soon as he entered the pavilion, he saw Gu Xuesong and Gu Huailang, Youlan was stunned, and then said, "It turns out that the sixth master and Brother Lang are here." ”

"All the guests are here?" Gu Xuesong asked.

"Yes, it's almost there." Youlan replied, at this moment, she saw the few truncated glass Ruyi in Gu Huailang's hand, and was instantly shocked: "This is the glass Ruyi that the old lady asked the sixth master to bring last time?" This...... What's going on? ”

"Exactly. It's just that I accidentally broke it, so I'll have to take a new one to my aunt next time. After Gu Xuesong finished speaking, he walked out without looking back. Gu Huailang stuffed the few pieces of Ruyi in his hand into Youlan's hand, and glanced at Zi'er who was hiding behind Ning Ningqing a few times, smiled, and then ran out to chase Gu Xuesong.

"This ...... What can I do? Youlan, who was left in place, held those pieces of Ruyi, and was at a loss for a while, seeing a box on the table, she had to put the things in her hand into the box first, and then held the box, and smiled at Ningxia Qing: "Girl, let's go to the birthday banquet." ”

Ning Xia Qing nodded, took Zi'er's hand, and went to the banquet. She pondered that the man's "aunt" just now must have been Mrs. Gu, so it seemed that he was indeed Gu Fu's cousin and Gu Huailang's cousin. She also knew Gu Fu, but she had never heard of this person, let alone seen it.

On the other side, Gu Huailang caught up with Gu Xuesong and asked with a smile: "How long will the sixth uncle stay this time?" It's hard for you to come back once and stay at my house, okay? ”

Gu Xuesong replied: "It's not decided yet, I have a place to live outside." You're eleven, aren't you? ”

Gu Huailang said angrily: "I'm twelve!" ”

Gu Xuesong smiled: "I'm sorry, I remembered it wrong." However, since you are twelve, why are you still bullying other girls? ”

Gu Huailang was a little weak-hearted, and whispered, "I'...... I'm not bullying, I'm just ...... Seeing that she was cute, I wanted to tease her. ”

Gu Xuesong said in his heart, the two sisters were born with a troubled appearance, which is indeed rare. He asked Gu Huailang: "Whose girl is that?" Do you often come to Gufu on weekdays? ”

Gu Huailang suddenly became annoyed: "Eh, I just patronized and teased her, but I forgot to ask her name!" It's also the first time I've seen them. ”

Mrs. Gu's birthday banquet was placed in the garden in front of the flower hall, two to three people in a case, each case was placed with eight plates of exquisite tea and food, four plates of fresh melons and fruits, and the maids were constantly sending up a steady stream of wines with different patterns, this situation was really magnificent.

As soon as Ning Xia Qing led Zi'er to the gate of the garden, he saw that Gu Huailang had already entered the table and was sitting next to the third grandmother. And the man they saw in the pavilion was standing in front of Mrs. Gu, talking to Mrs. Gu, and several grandmothers of the Gu family were all unkind and seemed to be very disdainful.

"Sister......" As soon as she saw this posture, Zi'er took her sister's hand a little tighter, and her heart became even more scared.

"Zi'er, don't be afraid, grandma is calling us, let's go over." Ning Xia Qing's voice comforted softly, and led Zi'er back to Mrs. Ning's side.

Ningxia Qing and Zi'er sat down, Gu Xuesong had already finished talking to Old Lady Gu, as an adult man, he should retreat after speaking, so he saluted Old Lady Gu, and then turned around and walked out, Shen Zhiyuan was the same. At this moment, Ning Xia Qing glanced at Mrs. Shen, and the housekeeper lady of the Gu Mansion happened to come over and said, "Old lady, the people from Lehu have arrived, and one of them has superb piano skills, and he is very good, so it is better to let her come to help everyone first." ”

Old Lady Gu nodded in agreement. The lady in charge greeted her, and then, a charming woman holding a guqin slowly walked in.

The rest of the people looked as usual, and even discussed the woman's dress, lamenting that it was fashionable to wear such makeup at the moment, but Mrs. Shen's face changed suddenly, and she seemed to be very uncomfortable.

Shen Zhiyuan was about to go out, but he happened to catch Zhao Xiang'e coming in, Zhao Xiang'e naturally glanced at him, and the affection in her eyes was burning. Shen Zhiyuan's expression was stiff and embarrassed, and Mrs. Shen's face became more and more cold.

The second grandmother of the Gu Mansion glanced at them, with a slight look of surprise in her eyes, and then looked away, but thoughtfully.

Ningxia Qingzheng peeled oranges for Zi'er with a smile, unaware of everything on the table.