The day of Mrs. Lee's birthday feast has arrived. On this day, everyone in the Zhou family got up early in the morning and everything was ready to stop.

Zhilan put on a pink long-sleeved dress prepared earlier, with fashionable flesh-colored stockings on her legs, a pair of black round scalp shoes with buttons, her hair slightly pulled up, and a little light makeup, which made her look even more petite and cute.

Yuehua Muqing has a Chinese-style robe and a Western-style dress, and her hair is combed neatly. Yuehua has a long figure, his robe makes him graceful, and Mu Qing's checkered woolen dress makes him look neat, elegant and gentle.

The most rare lady who has always been light changed into a crimson long cheongsam, wore a pearl necklace around her neck, and must have redeemed her jewelry from the pawnshop. The old man is a new dark black and blue brocade robe with delicate Suzhou embroidery, calm and suitable for his identity.

Two cars were arranged today. Steward Zhou instructed his servants to carry the birthday gifts onto the last car. Today's servants are also dressed up, and the servants assigned to them are more decent.

Zhilan held the jewelry box in her hand, thinking of the excitement when Mu Qing gave her the necklace of the phoenix wearing a peony yesterday, this is indeed an excellent work: the golden phoenix with ruby phoenix eyes, lifelike feathers, and the graceful peony lace with a little ruby hook, which is really beautiful. For this purpose, he specially asked someone to create a beautiful jewelry box to hold it.

At that time, she saw that the painting on her drawing had become a glittering real thing in front of her, and she couldn't help but rejoice: "It's really brother, you have a heart, so you have such a gorgeous necklace today." ”

Mu Qing smiled: "Do you like it?" I see that these rubies were added by Master Guo later, and there are still slight changes to your sketches. What do you think? ”

"Wonderful. It is worthy of being the best master of Wande's craftsmanship, and he is thoughtful. Zhilan exclaimed.

"It's a pity, you plan to give this jewelry as a birthday gift for your sister's aunt, otherwise I really want to give it to you to show my heart."

"What do you say, don't be violent."

"Yes, yes!" Mu Qing was extremely happy, Zhilan could feel the joy in his heart, she had rarely seen him so happy.

Thinking of this, Zhilan clenched the box in her hand, and Mu Qing beside her looked at her with a good eye and shook her hand soothingly.

When you go to Li's house, the gate of the garden is open, and the car is rushing in. The housekeeper of the Li Mansion arranged for the servants to move down the birthday gift, and the Li family had a special person to record, guide the way, etc., and lead the servants to the side room to rest after the handover was completed.

Master Li and Mrs. Li took Shaowen Shaowu and dozens of housekeepers and servants to greet the guests at the door. Li Shaowen had already found Zhilan in the crowd, and saw a smile on her face, Zhilan also saw him, and nodded slightly to say hello to him.

Everyone in the Zhou family walked into the living room. There are a lot of distinguished guests invited today, including members of various ministries in the city, police sergeants, business celebrities, concession detectives, barristers, etc., as well as local popular movie stars, and even Chief Sun sent his nephew to congratulate him.

The old man took the Yuehua brothers to greet the celebrities, and suddenly saw the eldest master's family coming in from afar, and hurriedly went over to talk to them.

There was Master Qi's family standing at the door, and everyone except the old lady had arrived. Seeing Qi Shan, Zhou Yuehua's eyes lit up, since he was grounded and busy fundraising, he hadn't seen Qi Shan for nearly a month, and he hadn't heard from her when he wrote to her, and he felt inseparable when he saw her again.

For the first time in his years of wandering, he felt this way. When Zhilan saw Qi Shan, she couldn't help but turn to Yuehua, seeing his eager eyes, with her woman's intuition, Brother Xindao was going to admit it this time.

Zhilan touched Mu Qing with her elbow and whispered: "Brother, look at a few beauties of the Qi family, what I said is good!" ”

Mu Qing smiled: "You have a point. But I said a long time ago, sister, you are the most beautiful, how can others compare? ”

Zhilan heard this. Her eyes were attracted by the fourth aunt of the Qi family, Tai Song Yuchun, they had never been masked, this was the first time they met, although Yuchun did not have the appearance of several other ladies, and her dress was also plain and simple, she had an indescribable temperament that secretly attracted her.

Up close, Yuchun's face was extremely bad, she was very thin, with her hair in a bun at the back of her head, and her sickness made her haggard and old. Zhilan looked at her, her eyes seemed to contain a thousand words, although it was the first time they met, Zhilan actually noticed the sadness in her eyes, she really wanted to rush to Yuchun to comfort her.

Reason stopped the flood of emotion, and she just whispered to Mu Qing: "It's strange, how can I feel that this Jade Lady is so kind, as if I have some kind of antecedent relationship with her." ”

"Maybe her weak appearance reminds you subconsciously of your mother. The first time I saw her, I also felt a special sense of affection. Mu Qing understood her.

"I think so."

"Hmm." Mu Qingdao. He didn't notice it at all, and a young lady on the other side was quietly watching him.

The old man and the old man greeted each other, even if they were unhappy because of Yuehua's affairs, they were still polite on the scene.

Yuchun had been looking for a chance to talk to Zhilan, and took this opportunity to pull her over and ask her carefully. She kindly asked her about her age, birthday, hobbies, etc., and Zhilan answered them one by one. For some reason, her answer seemed to touch her sadness, and Yuchun actually shed two lines of tears.

"Madame Jade, Madame Jade?" Zhilan wondered, "Did I say something wrong?" ”

"No, no, something else came to mind. Nice to meet you. Yuchun took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears.

When Qi Shan heard Yuchun's words, she felt that she was in an abnormal mood, and Ping Suniang never cried in front of people for no reason. She looked at her mother, Yu Chunwu wiped her tears and collected her thoughts.

Master Qi said to Yuchun: "Today is Mrs. Li's birthday, everyone is here, what kind of system are you crying and crying at the niece of the Zhou family?" ”

Yaochun smiled at Master Qi and said, "My sister has never been used to such big occasions, and it is not surprising that she is out of shape, so you don't have to worry too much about it." ”

Master Qi snorted coldly when he heard this, and smiled at Master Zhou again: "Brother, I'm sorry to let you see the joke." ”

The old man said politely: "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Zhilan didn't like this atmosphere: "Dad, I want to go and have a drink." ”

Master Zhou smiled kindly: "You young people don't have to sit with us, go ahead!" ”

Yuehua's mind instantly came to life, and she frequently looked at Qi Shan.

Seeing this, Master Qi also said to his daughters, "You guys should go too." ”

He suddenly thought of something and added: "Shanshan, you stay, accompany your mother." ”

"Yes." Qi Shan was disappointed.

"No, no, no. Shanshan, you go play with your sisters, I don't care about it, let's go. Yuchun flatly refused.

Master Qi glanced at Yuchun, and it was inconvenient to attack. Bi Chun knew the meaning of Master Qi the most, and hurriedly answered: "Sister Yu, you see that your body is already weak, and Shicai cried again. We all accompany the master, but we don't want to ignore you, the patient, and let Miss Shan serve by the side, so we can take care of it, right? ”

"I don't need to say it, I know my body, and I don't have to worry about my sisters." Yuchun said bluntly, "Shanshan, you don't want to go quickly!" ”

"Yes, mother!" Qi Shan obeyed and turned to leave.

"I'll settle accounts with you when I go back." Master Qi was secretly cruel to Yuchun, and Yuchun didn't say a word as if he hadn't heard it.

Mu Qing accompanied Zhilan to the dining table, and he said, "Lan'er, I'll get you whatever you want to eat." ”

"Actually, I don't want to eat, I just don't like the atmosphere over there. Hey, if my sister is over there. ”

"Let's go over."

They made their way to the dining station. Jing Ru stood alone, holding a small plate of cake in his hand.

"If you are sister, why are you alone, uncle?" Zhilan asked.

"Dad, they are resting in the room, my mother is talking to my aunt, and the other brothers and sisters in the family are still young, you know, I can't talk to them. I might as well come over and get something to eat. ”

"How is your cousin Shaowen doing to you?" Zhilan had the heart to ask.

"Alas, don't mention it. Somehow offended him, and I was as estranged and unconcerned as before, and I couldn't figure out what he was thinking. Jingru looked depressed, "I thought things were taking a turn for the better, and it was empty joy again." ”

"Sister Ru, don't be sad, maybe he's too busy." Zhilan knew in his heart, and it was inconvenient to speak, so he could only comfort.

"Maybe I've never known him." Jingru smiled bitterly, "I'm already a little disheartened. It is said that women's minds are difficult to figure out, and Brother Shaowen's thoughts are even more unpredictable! ”

Zhilan didn't dare to say more to her, for fear that it would be too wrong.

"You guys stand up, I'll go over there and get some tea." Jingru said and left.

Mu Qing listened to their conversation and fully understood that Li Shaowen's drunkard was not meant to drink, but to Zhilan in front of him.

"I feel like I'm really sorry for my sister." Zhilan looked at Jingru's somewhat lonely back, and said annoyedly, "If she knew that Li Shaowen was trying to pursue me by all means, what should she think of me, and how would I explain to her?" ”

"It has nothing to do with you, it's all that hateful Li Shaowen, eating pots and watching bowls." Mu Qing said quietly, "It has disturbed our Zhou family's house." ”

The most terrifying thing is that I can't do anything to change all this. This feeling of powerlessness spread from the heart to the limbs and hit him heavily.

Seeing that he didn't make a sound, Zhilan said softly: "It's so stuffy in this house, let's go out for a walk!" ”

Mu Qing accompanied her silently, and the two walked to the back garden, the back garden is the subtlety of Li Mansion, both of them had something on their minds, found a quiet place, and sat down in the garden pavilion.

From the front of the mansion did not imagine that the back garden is so exquisite, the builder seems to have deliberately referred to the Suzhou Garden Zhou, the pavilion water pavilion moon cave door rockery but built by the terrain, and in order to echo the front mansion, made a clever design.

"It's so comfortable here." Zhilan looked up, the breeze had begun to warm up, as the saying goes, the wind that blows the willows does not chill, which means that the weather is starting to get warmer.

"yes." Mu Qing responded.

At this time, I suddenly heard a sound behind the bushes by the wall.

"Someone's there!" Zhilan was taken aback.