Jiang Yu didn't know when he had taken Cui Ying to heart.

When I first saw her, it was in the backyard of Cui's house.

Cui Ying is the youngest daughter of the Cui family and has always been favored.

Such a girl should be carefree and squeamish.

But the Cui Ying he saw was not like this.

That day, he and his grandfather came to Cui's house as guests, and the teenagers naturally didn't want to sit there and listen to the adults chatting.

That's exactly what they wanted.

Because he lost his mother when he was a child, and his father was at the border, his temperament is not very clear.

and a few juniors of the Cui family can't talk about it.

In the summer, when the lotus flowers in the pond were in full bloom, he walked by the pond and thought of his father and sister who were far away at the border.

My father often sent me letters, and my sister sometimes wrote a sentence or two.

I don't know how they're doing.

In this world, he is most sorry for his sister, and he clearly promised his mother to take care of his sister.

But he didn't.

Jiang Yu leaned against the willow tree by the pond in annoyance, closed his eyes, and the little leisure just now was gone.

There was a chirping sound in his ears, and he opened his eyes to see a pair of master and servant by the pond not far away, thinking about how to hook the lotus canopy below.

"Girl, you want to eat lotus pods, the slave and maid will find someone to help you pick them, be careful......"

A little girl bent over the lotus canopy in the pond, and the little maid behind her was admonishing, looking trembling.

Jiang Yu didn't go up, the little girl was not very old, she had to be seven or eight years old, and she only heard her say to the maid behind her,

"What's so delicious about someone else's plucking? I got it so fragrant, and when the crabs are fat in the autumn, I have to peel them and eat them myself. ”

She said as she stretched out her chubby hand to reach for the lotus pod.

Jiang Yu leaned on the willow tree, inexplicably a little happy, sure enough, he was a lover of food, and his hand was fat from a distance.

She is younger than her sister, and she doesn't know if her sister is fat or thin now, and he is very envious when he hears that her father is teaching her kung fu.

He also learned martial arts since he was a child, but it was all taught by his grandfather and martial arts masters.

Although my sister is at the border, life will be harder, but under my father's knees, I should be more free than if he was alone in the capital.

His life in the capital was not bad, Xu dared to embarrass his sister, but he didn't dare to embarrass him, not to mention an inner courtyard and an outer courtyard, which were indeed difficult.

The little girl over there hadn't been able to pick the lotus pod yet, and seeing her jumping up and down, Jiang Yu was a little anxious for her.

He straightened up, wondering if he should go and pick some for the little girl.

The little girl's body leaned over to pick it, and it was only a little bit away. With a 'bang', I saw the little girl's feet crooked, and her body fell into the pond.

He was shocked, and immediately ran over there, and before he ran to the place where the little girl fell into the water, he saw that the little girl was not panicked at all, and stood up calmly in the water, clapped his hands, and called his maid,

"I didn't pick it up with so much effort just now, so I should have come down sooner."

Her maid's whole body trembled with fright, and her teeth chattered, "Auntie...... Girl...... Slave...... Slave beg you...... Come on. ”

The little girl ignored her, and did not go forward, but plucked two lotus pods into her hand, and came upward.

She flicked her wet sleeves, "Xing'er, there are many guests in the house today, and if you don't say it, your mother won't know." ”

"If Mother knows, be careful that I kick you out."

"Quick, pull me up."

The little girl was about the same age as the little girl, and she didn't have much strength, and she didn't pull the little girl up in the pond after pulling twice.

"Girl, the slave is too weak, you wait for me to call someone."

As soon as she turned around, she saw Jiang Yu walking over, so she asked him for help.

"This young master, my girl accidentally fell into the pond, please help save our girl."

Jiang Yu looked at the little girl who was peeling the lotus pod, laughed, and said deliberately,

"Men and women are not at the same table at the age of seven, your girl should be over seven years old, I want to rescue her, what if your master wants to marry her to me at that time?"

The little girl didn't expect to find someone to help and encounter such a dilemma.

"My girl is the youngest daughter of the eldest master, and I have already said that the baby is pro, so the young master does not have to be afraid, my master will not embarrass you."

The little maid was crying, wiping her tears, and sobbing and choking.

In the end, it was he who pulled the little girl up, and watched her suddenly become dignified from the heroism when she had just fallen into the water, and thanked him.

Then she told him that she should not tell her parents about it.

He couldn't laugh or cry, and could only say that he wouldn't.

In the end, he finally knew that the little girl was the youngest daughter of Master Cui, Cui Ying.

He also knew that the women in the boudoir were not necessarily dignified and virtuous, and they did not smile toothily and speak loudly.

There are also people like Cui Ying, who are eccentric.

As it turned out, he was really right.

Since then, he often followed the old lady to Cui's house, and occasionally saw her.

He slowly watched her grow taller and taller, and slowly her chin became pointy.

Maybe it's empathy, he didn't take care of his sister, sometimes when he sees Cui Ying, he recalls what his sister should be like, and the process of growing up is also like this?

Although the two siblings have seen each other very little, their relationship is unexpectedly good, and the younger sister will tell him everything, and will also complain, saying that his father does not like to eat vegetables, likes to drink, and so on.

Although he also learned martial arts from elementary school, his grandfather did not let his son inherit his father's business and become a military general, but let him take the road of the imperial examination.

In the words of my grandfather, eggs cannot be put in one basket, and it is also excellent to have military generals and civil officials in the family.

In this way, we can also take care of each other.

In fact, it is more that the status of military generals is actually much inferior to that of civilian officials.

He became famous as a young man, and later entered the Hanlin Academy to copy books for two years, coinciding with the handover between the two emperors, he was sent to Jinling as the governor.

This is the trust of the two emperors in him, and he knows that this trust comes more from his father.

He didn't feel unhappy, he was much stronger than those sons of the family who were blessed by the family.

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone taking care of it.

It just so happened that his sister also came back from the frontier and returned to Jinling, and he could finally take good care of his sister.

Unexpectedly, he saw Cui Ying's little girl again at Cui's house, and they have become familiar with each other over the years, so he quietly asked her to help take care of his sister.

The little girl blinked, nodded in agreement, and said that she would take care of it without him, after all, she liked to choose her sister very much.

Jiang Yu smiled, calling Sister Xuan was very neat, for so many years, he had never called him 'Brother Yu'. ’

His heart was a little sour.

He looked at her back from a distance, and when she was married, the wedding date was only set.

He and Cui Ying's fiancé also know each other, although there is a weak side in his fiancé's character, but overall it is still good, the two families are also world friends, I believe her life can be good.

For so many years, he has been paying attention to her, and he only hopes that she will have smooth sailing and everything will go well in the future.

Thinking so in his heart, Jiang Yu's mood didn't seem to be as happy as he imagined, as if something was pressing him.

The book says that life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten, and among those eight or nine points, perhaps what you lose is what you care about the most.

Jiang Yu's chest tightened for no reason, as if thousands of needles were piercing him, he took a deep breath, turned around and went to the outer courtyard.

On the way, his little servant Jiang Hai secretly said in his ear,

"Big young master, just now I was outside, and I saw the third young master of the Li family talking to a little guy, and I heard the little guy say that no one was found.

Originally, this was just a very ordinary sentence, but when the young master of the Li family saw me passing by, he seemed to have seen a ghost, and his face turned white. ”

"Young Master, you said that they would find someone if they were looking for someone, what is there to be afraid of? What's not to hear? ”

The third young master of the Li family? Isn't that Cui Ying's fiancé?

His family hasn't been found, so why should he be afraid that people will know? This shows that there is a ghost in my heart.

He pinched his chin, twisted his eyebrows and thought about it, and said a few words in Jiang Hai's ear, he grew up watching Cui Ying, so he definitely didn't want Cui Ying to be deceived, no matter whether the third young master of the Li family, or the Li family was tired or not, it always hurt to check.

Sure enough, people have dark ghosts in their hearts, and things really can't help but be investigated, and Jiang Hai only took two days to find out.

The little one found an inconspicuous servant in the yamen, and caught up with the third young master of the Li family, saying that the third young master of Li was getting along with a flower girl in the flower building outside.

At the end of last year, I got a sum of money out of nowhere, helped the flower girl redeem herself, rented a small courtyard outside, and made an outer room......"

Jiang Hai said as he looked at Jiang Yu's expression, he really didn't understand why his eldest young master was so concerned about this matter.

"What happened when you didn't find anyone you heard that day?" Jiang Yu asked with an uncertain expression.

Jiang Hai hurriedly said, "That's right, the day before Old Lady Cui's birthday, the old lady of the Li family sent more than a dozen mothers-in-law to the small courtyard and took the flower girl away."

The yard has also retreated, and people don't know where to go, so the whereabouts of the flower girl, do you want to find out if you want to be small? ”

"Young Master, do you want to tell Master Cui about this?"

Jiang Yu's face was as usual, but there was a hint of gloom in his eyes, "Hmph, it seems that the family style of the Li family is very good." ”

has been raised outside since last year, but the Li family suddenly sent someone to deal with it at this time, so it must have been known for a long time.

In the past, Cui Ying was still young, although the two families were married, but the wedding date has not been set, Cui Ying is thirteen this year, so the Li family is so neat, it must be the Cui family who said the wedding date.

Although the Cui family said that they had retreated to Jinling, Master Cui was still an official in the capital, and the Cui family did not fall.

The Li family can be close to the Cui family, which is a blessing from the previous life.

This Li San!

Jiang Yu clenched his fists, probably Third Young Master Li was in front of him, and he would be beaten by him now.

He didn't do anything, but he happened to pass by the alley of Li Sanyang's outer room with a young master of the Cui family, and happened to see Li San coming out of the courtyard, which happened to let the young master of the Cui family see the face of the flower girl.

Not long after, the Cui family divorced the Li family in private.

Originally, it was a verbal doll relationship between the two families, and if the Li family could do such a thing, the Cui family would definitely not let their daughter enter such a door.

Li Sanyang's outer room, if the Li family doesn't hear a trace of the wind, then the Li family is confused, it is really difficult to explain, the Li family is bright on the outside, and there must be chaos on the inside.

If the Li family knew about Li Sanyang's outer room, but they pretended not to know, and waited until the Cui family talked about the marriage of the two, then the outer room was not a big deal in the eyes of the Li family.

Not only can the Li family not be able to get married, but they will also stay away in the future.

In fact, raising the outer room is a trivial matter, but the way the Li family handles it is a major matter.

Because it is a verbal baby parent, he was young before adding Cui Ying, and he was not at the age of saying kiss at all, so he retired and retired.

Jiang Yu listened to it and was also happy for Cui Ying.

It's just that I don't know if she will be unhappy if she quit her relatives so inexplicably?

Jiang Yu thought about it again and again, but couldn't sleep, so he simply got up and changed into night clothes and went to Cui's house.

Cui Ying really didn't sleep, lying on the windowsill alone, looking at the moonlight outside.

Seeing him appear in front of him, he was not surprised at all, but tilted his head to look at him, "Is there something wrong with coming here so late?" ”

He handed a bouquet of flowers from behind him,

"This is what I picked, I don't know if you will like it, that, you are very good, you will quit your relatives, there will definitely be better people waiting for you in the future."

Cui Ying glanced at him expressionlessly.

Jiang Yu involuntarily touched her nose and shrugged her shoulders slightly, "Okay, I just want to come and see you." ”

It was the first time he had sneaked into her yard, and the first time he had shown concern in this way.

Cui Ying, who was originally indifferent, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and crimson climbed on her white and tender face.

"Thank you for your comfort, I didn't have much hope for that family, anyway, I'm still young, let's talk about it in two years, if I can not get married, then it would be good.

Men or something, it's too much trouble. ”

Seeing her sigh like this, Jiang Yu didn't know what to say.

"Why is it bad to get married? Is it bad for multiple people to hurt you? He asked.

Cui Ying gave him a blank look,

"Multiple people hurt? What if there are more than one Li San like this? ”

"Is this looking for someone to hurt, or is it finding someone to block yourself? Even if the man is good, what about the family? As for my parents, there are often quarrels.

My father didn't take a concubine, nor did he raise an outer room, but there are few people like my father. ”

It turned out that she was afraid of this, and he smiled,

"There are so many men in the world, you can always find someone like your father."

Cui Ying sighed, "Forget it, I don't want to either." ”

Jiang Yu squinted at her for a while, and Cui Ying, who saw it, felt furious in her heart, touched her face, and was suspicious, "There is something on my face?" ”

The corners of his lips twitched, and he said thoughtlessly,

"Yingying, what do you think of me? How about I go to your house to propose? ”

Cui Ying was stunned, looked at him in disbelief, his dark eyes widened, half loud, before he covered his mouth, looked around, and pulled him in through the window.

After that, he closed the window again and stumbled,

"You, you, you ......"

I talked about you several times in a row, but I just couldn't take it.

Although the words of the marriage proposal just now came out of his mouth, Jiang Yu did not regret it, but looked at her eyes seriously, and said softly,

"I also watched you grow up, or you watched me grow up, I am clean and self-conscious, my character is passable, I am not ugly, and my career has developed steadily."

"I'm good to you, don't you think I'm good?"

Cui Ying trembled, as if she had never seen such a boastful person, her face became more and more hot, and she lowered her eyes, not daring to meet his gaze.

Her reaction made the smile on the corner of Jiang Yu's mouth grow bigger and bigger, and his tone was seductive,

"What's in your mind? Tell me about it. ”

After a moment, Cui Ying raised her head and asked incredulously.

"How old am I, how can you take a fancy to me?"

Jiang Yu couldn't figure out this question, he thought he didn't have pedophilia, if Li San didn't have such a thing, he would admit it.

But he couldn't see Cui Ying go to other homes and be treated slowly.

The thought of her being bullied made his heart hurt.

He shrugged, "I don't know, you're so good, it's hard to make others look down on you, and you're not all blind like Li San." ”

"But I think I treat you like a brother, like my eldest brother." Cui Ying muttered.

Jiang Yu's heart twitched, his face suddenly tightened, and his eyes were dark, but soon he returned to normal and chuckled,

"I didn't understand it long ago, I can wait, wait for you to grow up, wait for you to like me, not the kind of love that my sister likes for my brother."

Cui Ying tilted her head and whispered,

"What if I grow up?"

Jiang Yu didn't move, reached out to hold her hand, wrapped it, and said with a seductive tone,

"Yingying, do you think, you will always marry someone in the future, how do you choose between strangers and me, is it difficult?

No one else knows you as well as I do, let alone ......."

He said meaningfully,

"I saved you when I was a kid......"

Psychologically, Cui Ying can't accept that she marries a stranger, and then takes care of the family like her sister at home, and one day she has to watch that person take a concubine and raise a concubine.

She didn't like to live like that, so she said that it would be good if she didn't get married.

But she is only thirteen, and the family began to prepare for her marriage, and after that, I am afraid that more and more people will see each other.

She wondered in her heart, Jiang Yu is indeed quite good, but can she accept him?

Jiang Yu stared at her and her face changed, "Yingying, I promise you that you will be the only one in the future, there will be no concubines, and you will not look at other women more......"

Cui Ying took a deep breath and said, "What if I try hard, but I still can't like you?" ”

She was only afraid that if she couldn't respond to his liking even if she tried hard, wouldn't it make him very sad at that time?

Jiang Yu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and a smile spread from the bottom of his eyes,

"Yingying, you underestimate me too much, even if you don't believe in yourself, you should believe me, how can I be so incompetent that I can't impress you after you give you a chance?"

That night, they talked for a long time, and the two of them put their heads against their heads and whispered in a whisper, and it was not until after the third watch that he left Cui's house and returned to Jiang's mansion.

It's a pity that he couldn't convince Cui Ying in the end and immediately came to the door to propose, but listened to what she said and wanted to cultivate a relationship.

But she also agreed, no matter what kind of person the Cui family said, she didn't agree.

He originally thought that time would pass quickly, but only after waiting did he realize that time was difficult.

Without exception, he occasionally heard the female relatives of the Cui family helping Cui Ying to look at each other, and the men of the Cui family asked the man's character and asked him that he was here.

What are you kidding, he definitely won't say a good word about the man who is looked at.

He occasionally went to Cui Ying's yard to see her at night, and while he waited, he saw that the childish girl had grown into a curvy girl, with a smile and a youthful style.

Cui Ying's movements are more and more moving, and every move can affect people's hearts, Jiang Yu is painful and happy.

Because Cui Ying didn't say it, Jiang Yu didn't tell anyone about them.

It's just that the Cui family is getting more and more anxious and wants to marry Cui Ying.

He thought about it and said to Cui Ying,

"Tell me the next time you and the old lady go to Cixuanguan for Jiao, and I'll let the Lord give you an order."

Cui Ying let him hold his collection as usual, and said, "Approval? Doesn't it mean that the Lord of the Meditation on Compassion does not arbitrarily give people orders? ”

Jiang Yu smiled, he didn't give people orders at will, as long as he raised the name of the emperor, he could approve anyone's life.

In the end, the Cui family got the approval that Cui Ying was not suitable to say kiss before the age of eighteen, and looking at his triumphant smile, Cui Ying hated him,

"Didn't you say twenty years old? How did you change it to eighteen? I don't want to get married so early. ”

Jiang Yu touched his nose depressedly, waiting until eighteen was already his limit, the little girl was becoming more and more exquisite, and he didn't dare to come to see her at night now.

Every time I saw her and went back, I couldn't sleep all night......

He looked at him dotingly and said with a smile,

"I'm afraid that you won't marry me until you're twenty years old, and I'll find someone to cry with when the time comes."

Cui Ying glared at him dissatisfied, "It's clear that it's okay, you liar." ”

Jiang Yu smiled, "Miss Cui Yingying, I was wrong. ”

She banged her head on his chest, expressing her dissatisfaction, and suddenly said 'ouch', covered her head, and looked at him with tears in her eyes.

"What are you wearing, so hard?"

It made her scalp tingle.

Jiang Yu touched his chest and said with a smile, "You were unlucky and hit the buckle." ”

Then he touched her head and asked her where she had hit, if it hurt, and if she wanted to be medicated.

Cui Ying shook his head, rubbed it on his head, and touched his chest again, "What kind of buckle, it's so powerful, your head is going to be broken." ”

Jiang Yu looked helplessly at her hand touching her chest, "Yingying, don't touch it." ”

He couldn't sleep all night, and he had no way to live.

If you knew that you wouldn't be eighteen years old, you should directly give your eight characters to the Lord of Ci Xuan Guan, and let him tell the people of the Cui family that only by looking for this eight-character person can Cui Ying be safe and smooth.

Maybe you'll be able to hug the beauty right away.

Cui Ying was stunned by his hoarse voice, and subconsciously wanted to refute that he didn't touch it, but at a glance, he crashed into his dark eyes, his face turned crimson, and he pushed him away, stumbling,

"Whoever touched it, who touched it, it's so late, you can go home and rest."