By the time of a certain day in the summer, Zhou Yu had returned to Shu County for more than a month.

In front of Zhou Yu's house, the huge plaque engraved with "Zhou Yi's Mansion" has now been replaced with the words "Zhou Yu's Mansion".

In the afternoon of this day, when Zhou Yu was carefully teaching Zhou Jue the art of the piano in the small building of the uncle's mansion, he suddenly saw Zhou An coming to report with a famous post: "There are guests from outside the mansion. ”

Zhou Yu took the name post, only to see the book said: "Qiao's family in Lujiang Wan County, Qiao Yuan, the eldest son of Qiao." ”

"Anhui County, Qiao's family? But Qiao Shuang's eldest brother? ”

"Exactly, his family is outside the house."

"Who is Qiao Shuang, can my cousin explain it clearly."

"It's a long story......"

Zhou Yu concisely told the beginning and end of passing through Anhui County, and Zhou Jue also had to take a look at the past. Zhou Yu didn't want to agree, but he couldn't resist Zhou Jue's stubbornness, so he had to let him follow.

In front of Zhou Yu's mansion, more than ten Qiao family's chariots are congesting the wide streets; More than a dozen servants of the Qiao family were guarding the baggage on the car; Several owners of the Qiao family were staring at the corner of the street.

"He's coming."

The moment Zhou Yu walked out of the corner, the corners of Xiao Qiao's eyes and eyebrows unconsciously rose slightly.

"Who's that woman?"

When Zhou Jue, who followed behind, also stepped into her field of vision, the joy on her face also disappeared.

Qiao Yuan scratched his head, thought for a moment, and said, "Sister, don't worry, according to my investigation, Zhou Yu did not marry a wife. Besides, this woman seems to be younger, so it shouldn't be that kind of relationship. ”

"But is it Qiao Gong?"

Zhou Yu went to an elder and said respectfully.

Before the elder could speak, Qiao Yuan immediately bowed and said, "It's my father." ”

Then, he pulled his wife again and said, "This is the Humble Jing Li Clan." ”

"The concubine has seen Zhou Gongzi."

After the Li family bowed, he went to Zhou Jue's side and said, "This young lady is very beautiful, what is the relationship between him and his son?" ”

Zhou Yu wanted to answer truthfully, but he only said the word "she is", and was stopped by Zhou Jue's words: "It is Zhou Yu's old friend, the old friend I have known since childhood." You can call me Jue'er. ”

"Everyone's invitation to the hall to speak."

Zhou Yu led them into the mansion.

On the way to the guest hall, Qiao Yuan and Li's eyes never left the pavilions along the way; The eyes of Qiao Gong and Da Qiao are always looking at the long road ahead; Xiao Qiao and Qiao's eyes are always fixed on the people or things they care about.

If you ask Xiao Qiao to keep an eye on, it is undoubtedly the Zhou family brothers and sisters. Because on the way to the guest hall, Zhou Jue has been close to his cousin's side, exercising his sister's right to be coquettish. However, in the eyes of Xiao Qiao, who didn't know what was going on, it seemed very eye-catching.

If you ask Joe what he is staring at, he has to start from a year ago. A year ago, there was a horse-selling caravan in the Western Regions that went to Moling, and Qiao Zhan heard the news, so he rushed to Moling Soma. During this period, Qiao Zhan saw the exquisite rain flower stone and was deeply attracted by it. It seems that in Zhou Yu's mansion, the scene of paving the road with rain flowers and stones, how can Qiao Zhan not be sideways.

When he was young, when everyone sat down at the banquet in the guest hall, Zhou Yu said: "Everyone is here, what is the matter?" ”

"A month ago, if it wasn't for Zhou Gongzi to come to the rescue, I am afraid that my sister's life would not be guaranteed. I waited for this time to thank Zhou Gongzi for saving his life, and the goods on the cart outside the door were my Qiao family's thank you. Qiao Yuan said.

"Saving people is a matter of duty, so why should we be rewarded? Once you have received your wishes, forget about the thank you. ”

"If Gongzi Zhou doesn't accept it, he looks down on my Qiao family and doesn't want to make friends with my Qiao family."

Zhou Yu heard the meaning of Qiao Yuan's friendship this time, so he nodded and said, "If you take back the thank you gift, Yu is willing to make friends with the Qiao family." ”

When Qiao Yuan saw that his goal had been achieved, he responded: "Zhou Gongzi is so upright, and when he embarks on his career in the future, he must also be an honest person." In this case, Yuan is free to the Lord. ”

Li covered his mouth, said "hehe" twice, and said: "In this huge Zhou family, only Gongzi is taken care of by himself, and there is no Yi to help, and Gongzi is also very tired." ”

Zhou Yu hesitated for a moment, and then smiled with her "hehe": "My details, I think you all already know." The servants of the Qiao family are really capable of doing things! ”

At this point, even Zhou Jue has already judged the personality of Qiao Yuan and his wife. She didn't want her cousin to get married to such a person, so she left her seat, sat next to her cousin, took his hand, stuck it to him, and said, "Who said that the Zhou family is not taken care of by Yiren?" ”

Li glanced at Zhou Jue, hid his face and smiled: "At your age, you are a little younger!" ”

"Alas!" Zhou Jue said, "Do you know the word 'marriage'?" Can you know the four words 'door to door'? I can tell you for the Zhou family now that the Qiao family is not worthy of being friends with the Zhou family, let alone talking about the Zhou family's family affairs. ”

"Please forgive the little girl!"

Before Li could reply, Xiao Qiao left his seat and walked out of the living room.

"Jue'er, treat me well."

Zhou Yu chased him out.

Zhou Jue said, "Everyone, please take care of yourself, forgive me for missing me", and went out with him.

As soon as she walked on her front foot, Qiao Gong patted the case and said: "Humiliation, what a humiliation!" ”

"What is this called?"

"The Zhou family is so hospitable!"

As soon as the Li family and Qiao Yuan complained, Qiao Gong said to them instead: "It's all the two of you, you have to cling to the Zhou family!" It's good now, it's humiliating! ”

"Father, what is this, we are also thinking about the Qiao family!"

"When we investigated Zhou Yu, my father didn't object!"

"You're going to be angry with your father!"

Qiao Yuan and his wife argued with Qiao Gong.

In comparison, Da Qiao just sighed lightly: "It's a pity for my sister! ”

Da Qiao's light sigh was smelled by Qiao who was close by, he shook his head and replied in a low voice: "Don't worry, it's not time to close the coffin." ”

"What does the second brother mean?"

Qiao Zhan glanced at his eldest brother, "shh ”

Xiao Qiao walked out of the guest hall and walked towards the gate of Zhou's mansion. Zhou Yu shouted "Frost, Frost" behind him for a long time, but Xiao Qiao didn't pay attention to it. Zhou Yu sped up his cadence, and stepped forward with a few brisk steps before he grabbed Xiao Qiao on the trail. He held Xiao Qiao's hand tightly and said, "Your ankles are just right, you can't walk quickly." ”

Xiao Qiao shook Zhou Yu away, turned around and said, "Go back to find your Jue'er, what do you care about my ankles." ”

"Jue'er, Jue'er......"

Zhou Yu muttered.

He kept shaking his head, laughed "heh", and said, "Do you know Jue'er's surname Zhou?" ”

Hearing Jue'er's surname Zhou, Xiao Qiao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he turned around sharply and said, "Her surname is Zhou?" ”

At this moment, although Xiao Qiao doesn't know what the relationship between Zhou Yu and Zhou Jue is, as long as Jue'er is really surnamed Zhou, there is no possibility of her and Zhou Yu being together. Because since the Zhou Dynasty, all dynasties have had the legal constraint of not marrying with the same surname, and there is a cloud in "Zuo Chuan": "Men and women use surnames, and they are not born." ”

At this time, Zhou Jue also rushed over. When she saw her cousin and Little Joe talking, she hid under a nearby tree and eavesdropped.

"Yes, her surname is Zhou." Zhou Yu said, "Her name is Zhou Jue, and she is my cousin." ”

Xiao Qiao smiled at first, frowned again, and said, "Since she is your cousin, why does she talk like this?" ”

"This, this ......"

Just when Zhou Yu was hesitating, Zhou Jue appeared and said, "Because the Qiao family is not worthy of being friends with the Zhou family." ”

"Jue'er, don't talk badly!" Zhou Yu said.

This is the first time Zhou Yu has stopped Zhou Jue, and it is also the first time in Zhou Jue's life that he has been stopped. Her young heart was a little unbearable, she choked back tears, and said, "Cousin, you murdered me, you actually murdered me for outsiders!" ”

After speaking, she turned around and left, no matter how Zhou Yu shouted, she didn't look back.

"Alas, what is this!"

When Zhou Yu secretly had a headache, Xiao Qiao said again: "You also think that the Qiao family is not worthy of being friends with the Zhou family, do you?" ”

"If that's what I thought, why did I come here with you?" Zhou Yu said.

Xiao Qiao let out an "oh", looked away with his eyes flashing, and said, "You mean, you only want to make friends with me?" ”

"Not really." Zhou Yu said, "Investigating my matter, is it your eldest brother and sister-in-law who did it?" ”

Xiao Qiao was a little caught off guard by the question, she let out an "ah" and fell into thought. She didn't want to deceive Zhou Yu, and she had no shame to excuse her brother and sister-in-law, so she had to admit: "Yes." ”

Zhou Yu nodded, said, "Ignoring the guests is not the way of hospitality", and then returned to the guest hall with Xiao Qiao.

On the way, Xiao Qiao looked up and found that there were many wooden grape trellises in the fields beside the road. The beige wooden trellis is covered with verdant vine leaves. Under the green vine leaves, clusters of green grapes hang from them.

She stopped, looked at the crystal clear grapes, and said, "I was in a hurry, but I didn't find grapes here." ”

"Love grapes?"

"Hmm."

"Let's go, let's see."

Zhou Yu took Xiao Qiao's hand and went under the grape trellis together. He took a grape, peeled off the skin bit by bit, brought it to Xiao Qiao's mouth, and said, "Open your mouth." ”

Xiao Qiao slowly opened her mouth and only took a bite, and a sour taste immediately poured into the tip of her tongue. She tried her best to hide the sourness in her mouth with a smile, but between her eyebrows and eyes, and the twitches at the corners of her mouth, one word still emerged, that is, "sour".

Before Xiao Qiao could swallow the grapes in his mouth, Zhou Yu picked another one casually, peeled off the skin, and put it in his mouth. When a sour and astringent taste came to the tip of his tongue, Zhou Yu couldn't help but read: "There is a cloud in the Book of Songs: July: 'In May, the mantis move the stocks, and in June, the food is depressed and the scorpion.'" 'June, Ji Xia also; Grapes, too. ”

Xiao Qiao endured the sourness, swallowed the grapes in one gulp, and said: "However, the sage mentioned in "July" is not the green thing in front of you. ”

Zhou Yu said "not bad", swallowed the grapes, and said: "The grapes eaten by the Zhou people are the grapes; It is the mountain grapes that can be seen everywhere in the mountains. "Historical Records: The Biography of Dawan" contains: "Wan left and right to Pu Tao as wine, the rich to more than 10,000 stones, the long years old undefeated. Vulgar alcoholics, horses are addicted to alfalfa. The Han envoy took the fact, so the Son of Heaven began to plant alfalfa, and the soil was fertilized. The grapes in front of him were introduced to the Central Plains from the surrounding areas of Dawan when Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions. ”

"This is not the time to eat grapes, if you like to eat them, when the grapes are ripe, I will send someone to bring them to you."

"When the grapes are ripe, you may have forgotten."

"What did Shuang'er say, if I was so easy to forget, I would have gone to the doctor a long time ago."

"What do you do to find a doctor, won't you see a doctor yourself?"

"Okay, stop joking, let's go, don't make your family wait."

They walked towards the guest hall.

In front of the guest hall, Zhou Yu stopped abruptly and said, "Shuang'er is advanced, Yu will wait for the time being." ”

The meaning of Zhou Yu's move is just to return peace to the Zhou family in a short period of time. But Xiao Qiao, who was delicate, heard a different taste. She said indifferently, "The Qiao family will not bother you anymore", that is, she entered the guest hall and said to her family: "Let's go, ignore their Zhou family." ”

"Alas!"

Qiao Gong sighed, got up and walked out of the guest hall.

Seeing this, the juniors of the Qiao family also walked out of the guest hall together.

Outside the guest hall, I saw Zhou Yu blocking and saying: "You guys stay, it's getting dark, you have to have dinner before leaving." ”

Qiao Gong glanced at Zhou Yu, said "farewell", and walked out quickly.

"Farewell!"

The rest of the Qiao family also followed in the footsteps of Qiao Gong.

He and Xiao Qiao separated for the second time, and quietly looked back the second time, but he didn't notice it again.

A moment later, Zhou Jue's negative departure suddenly came into his mind. He searched all over Zhou's mansion, and only then did he find Zhou Jue's back on the Jiuqu Bridge in the back garden.

"Ahem, ahem."

Zhou Yu stepped onto the Jiuqu Bridge and signaled loudly.

"Humph!"

Zhou Jue turned around and left, but he didn't want to be blocked by Zhou Yu on the Jiuqu Bridge.

She glared at Zhou Yu and said in a daze, "Get out of the way!" ”

Zhou Yu didn't speak, just silently got out of the way and followed Zhou Jue far behind. She made a bend in the back garden, and after a long time, she stopped and sat cross-legged at the banquet under the pavilion in a tired state. Zhou Yu sat down opposite her and said, "Can the anger be dissipated?" ”

Zhou Jue turned his head, "snorted", and said, "It's not gone!" ”

"Qiao Yuan's husband and wife's attachment heart, why don't you know it for your brother? Jue'er is all for the sake of the Zhou family, why don't you know about her brother? But Shuang'er's personality is not as powerful as her brother and sister-in-law. She was the only one who looked at me when she was my servant. Therefore, I cherish and value my friendship with her. ”

"Cousin, there is ...... between you and Qiao Shuang"

Before the words fell, Zhou Jue changed his words and said: "I hope the relationship between you and Qiao Shuang will not bring trouble to you and the Zhou family." ”

Zhou Yu couldn't understand the deep meaning of her words, and he didn't want to pass it over in a daze, so he had to ask: "What does Jue'er mean, can you explain it more clearly?" ”

Zhou Jue sighed, said "Okay", and said bluntly: "Is it really just friendship between you and Qiao Shuang?" ”

Without thinking, Zhou Yu replied "Of course" with a little instinct, and said: "According to Jue'er's opinion, what is the relationship between me and Shuang'er?" ”

Zhou Jue saw that his cousin seemed to be a little resistant, so he said: "Everything is left to time to verify." ”

Zhou Yu didn't answer, but just asked, "Can Jue'er's anger be eliminated?" ”

Zhou Jue turned his head, pouted and "hummed", turned around and said, "Don't kill me for others in the future!" ”

Zhou Yu got up and straightened his clothes, and said, "I don't dare to do it anymore for my brother." ”

"That's pretty much it. Forget it, forgive you this time. ”

The Zhou brothers and sisters finally reconciled.