"Lan'er, you've spent all your makeup, I'll ask someone to make a basin of water to wash your face." Li Shaowen said softly.

As he spoke, he opened the door and summoned a passing little maid to fetch water.

His appearance gave Mu Qing, who was blindly looking for Zhilan, a direction. He crept under the window.

The door was half-hidden, and Mu Qing looked through the crack in the door.

Li Shaowen was half-kneeling, holding a sapphire ring in his hand, and asked Zhilan on the chair in front of him: "Second time, can I ask you to be my girlfriend?" Let me protect you and take care of you in the future ups and downs, okay? ”

Mu Qing's heart was sour, he would never be able to say this sentence to Zhi Lan, he could only listen to it come out of Li Shaowen's mouth, and at this moment he was extremely envious of Li Shaowen.

How Lan'er answered him was what Mu Qing cared about the most, his fingers couldn't help curling up and clutching into fists, and countless pores seemed to be watching Zhilan all over his body.

"I can't say yes. For the rest of my own life, for your own happiness, and for Sister Ru. Zhilan's words were very sincere, in fact, she thought about it, instead of hiding and dragging, just the pain of the three people, it was better to take the opportunity to explain and cut off Li Shaowen's thoughts, "And I heard that my aunt has chosen to be like a sister, if you choose me again, what is it like?" ”

"What I have said to you is self-inflicted." Li Shaowen sighed, "My wife, I can only choose by myself." What I fancy is you Zhou Zhilan, and this heart beats for you. And there are fairy beauties in front of me, and I am not uncommon. ”

Seeing Zhilan staring at him, his eyes reddening with anxiety, "Ask you again, you really don't think about me?" ”

Zhilan shook his head.

"Well done, Lan'er, you can't promise him." Mu Qing caught a glimpse of Zhilan's answer and couldn't help but rush in.

"Zhou Muqing! This is my business with Lan'er, you eavesdropped on the conversation and didn't say anything, and you didn't break in without permission? Li Shaowen's confession was disturbed by life and said unhappily.

"Lan'er's answer is already clear, why do you bother to be strong?" With Zhilan's answer as confidence, Mu Qing calmed down, walked to the room calmly, and as soon as she grabbed Zhilan's hand, she was going to take her away.

"Also, the Li family's choice for your wife is Sister Ru, don't pull Lan'er in troubled waters, besides, Lan'er has long heard Sister Ru say that she will not marry you, now you turn your head to pursue Lan'er, where do you put Sister Ru? How do you let Lan'er face Sister Ru? The women of my Zhou family can't hang themselves on a tree with you. I only have one sister, Lan'er, and you know that our mother left early. I personally promised my mother that she would protect her and never allow her to make mistakes in marriage. You and her are not in love, and if she really encounters love in the future, I don't want her to regret it. Mu Qing's words were indeed heart-wrenching, and his eyes were wet.

"Brother Mu Qing, what you said is interesting. I love her with all my heart, and my wife is none other than Lan'er. I dare to say that it is better for her to marry someone else than to marry me, I have this confidence and strength. In the future, when she marries and asks for rain and wind, fine clothes and food, I can guarantee that as long as the Li family is here, I will never wronged her. Li Shaowen swore an oath, so he almost swore a gambling curse, "Besides, our two families are right, and Lan'er will not disgrace her if she marries me." ”

Li Shaowen was open and honest, turned his head and whispered to Zhilan, who was about to leave with Mu Qing, "Lan'er, do you want to think about it again, I know that this is a lifelong event in your life, and you should be cautious." I can wait. These words represent a piece of my heart. I'll give you some time, Lan'er, think about it yourself. ”

Zhilan didn't answer, she took Mu Qing's hand and didn't let go, and the two of them were just about to go out.

At this time, the maid fetched water and sent it, Li Shaowen changed the conversation, and diligently brought the water and put it on the basin rack: "Forget it." I don't want to force Lan'er to force you, but you still come to wash your face, there are a lot of people outside, how can you see people with a big flower face? ”

"That's right." Mu Qing directly wrung the towel and handed it to Zhilan, "Wipe it quickly, it won't be good if it gets cold for a while." ”

Li Shaowen saw that Mu Qing had taken the lead, and he was a little unwilling and helpless, so he stepped down and said, "It's okay." Lan'er, there's a church meeting next, I'll go first. With that, he left.

"What else did he tell you?" After Li Shaowen left, Mu Qing asked.

"He comforted me and told me what happened to the ruby, which was a secret of the house." Zhilan repeated it to him.

"I didn't expect him to tell you the secrets in the house without reservation, and make it clear that he doesn't treat you as an outsider." Mu Qing analyzed, "In this way, you have to be more careful, what he said, Mrs. Li will definitely not be able to get rid of it." Think about it, why did Wu Niang just take the ruby jewelry of Sanniang and Mrs. Li, what does it imply? Besides, why did Sanniang go crazy and die so coincidentally when she hit her head on a stone? Madame Li is so powerful, if she is willing to deal with you, I don't think you can handle it. ”

"Yes." Zhilan said, "I'm cautious, I won't take the initiative to approach Li Shaowen anyway, I said it very clearly, I'm afraid that he will be stubborn." ”

"I'm protecting you." Mu Qing waited for her to finish washing her face, took the towel and threw it into the basin, "Let's go." ”

"Wait for me to touch up my makeup." After washing her face, she took out her handbag and sat in front of the dresser to touch up her makeup.

Mu Qing leaned on the dresser with her arms crossed, patiently waiting to see her draw her eyebrows and eyes, her eyebrows and eyes were slender and rhyme; Her blush, like a floral red; Her red lips are not dotted; Every appearance and demeanor was deeply imprinted in his heart. It's just God's fault, she became her brother.

Zhilan finished her makeup, packed up her things and still put them in her handbag, Mu Qing naturally stretched out her hand to hold her warm soft and took her back to the front hall.

Since there were movies, young people were not used to babbling scenes, and Zhilan returned to the hall to look around, where a small dance floor was arranged, and young men and women were dancing.

She was a little tired, quietly watching Jingru and Li Shaowu dancing foxtrot, the old man came over and said a few words to Mu Qing, a well-known gentry in the city invited the old man to drink and chat, and the old man came to take Mu Qing together.

"Be careful alone, I'll be here in a moment." Mu Qing admonished uneasily.

"There you go. I'll be careful. ”

Now only Zhilan is sitting on the sofa alone, even though there is lively music in her ears, but she is tired and waits for no one, so she simply leans on the back of the chair and squints.

A maid came over at the right time, stopped in front of Zhilan and said, "Miss Zhou, our eldest young master has arranged a guest room for you, please come with me." ”

Zhilan looked around and didn't see Li Shaowen, and it was lively and noisy, with men and women coming and going. Although it is indeed indecent to take a nap in the hall, she is not familiar with the Li family, and she cried in the corridor first to give birth to so many things, how dare she follow the maid at will, so she refused: "Thank you Young Master Li for your kindness, I will wait for my second brother here." I understand his intentions, so you can reply to him like this. ”

As he spoke, he turned his face sideways, not wanting to say more.

Jingru noticed Shuangling talking to Zhilan on the dance floor, and saw Shuangling retreat alone. Isn't that the maid who served Li Shaowen? She was suspicious, she didn't care about the end of the song, and hurriedly followed behind her, watching Shuangling go upstairs through the corridor, and she also followed upstairs, hiding in the dark and peeking. Sure enough, Li Shaowen came out to listen to Shuangling's report for a few words, smiled bitterly on his face, listened to him seem to reply to Shuangling's words, and seemed to say to himself: "That's it, follow Lan'er's meaning." He said he was going to go into the room.

Standing quietly as depressed, he still had extravagant hopes when he didn't see Li Shaowen, and he couldn't help but feel cold as ice when he really heard this. "Lan'er" is such an intimate title, as quiet as a burst of cold sweat on her hands, but her mind is clear, she and Li Shaowen's piles and piles, from the first meeting in Liyuan Pavilion, why did he propose to send them home, to the last time she asked her to leave Sister Lan, why is Zhilan present every time, even if Zhilan wants to leave, he has to leave her? Some details that she had never paid attention to passed through her mind, and it was really "dark red and bright in the snow, and the hot spring light was cold." ”

She has never been as sober as she is now, originally he was so good to himself as if he was mixing oil, and then he was as cold as frost, it turned out that Zhou Zhilan was amazing, and he quietly dug into the wall and snatched his brother Shaowen! She trembled with hatred, and she cursed silently in her heart: Zhou Zhilan! You slut who is different from the outside, I miss your sisterhood in vain, there are so many young masters and sons in Jiangcheng, who can't find anyone, are you so hungry and don't choose to eat?!

The more she thought about it, the more she hated, as if she was alone in a deep dark alleyway, the exit was getting narrower and narrower, and she finally took a lot of effort to get out, and saw Li Shaowen, who was smiling at the exit, was just about to run to him, but in a blink of an eye, he was lightly held by Zhilan who came out of nowhere, and no one took him away.

Jingru looked at the empty "exit", and the backs of Li Shaowen and Zhou Zhilan seemed to appear in front of her, she cried silently and swore an oath: Zhou Zhilan, the sisterhood between you and me is broken, I will never forgive you, never!

She only pondered these feelings in her heart, although she stood under the porch, motionless, but her mind turned a thousand times

The ensuing dinner was unusually smooth. Jingru was silent a lot, Zhilan talked to her, and Jingru only said that she was tired.

During the banquet, Zhilan also felt that Wan Xinqiao's eyes glanced at her, but when she looked at it, there was no trace, and she only regarded it as her own illusion.

After the banquet dispersed, everyone said goodbye. Yuchun pulled Zhou Zhilan and couldn't bear to let go, but Qi Shan reminded her several times before letting go. Zhilan was not offended by her gaffe, and it could be seen from her eyes that she couldn't open her mouth to her thousand sorrows and even thousands of words.

How so? She looked at Mu Qing, and he was also puzzled.

Jing Ru saw Li Shaowen over there, he always didn't look at her, he didn't understand that he was full of eyes only him, everything he seeped into her pores, if he killed himself, the blood that flowed out would also coagulate into Li Shaowen's three words, she suddenly remembered that Zeng Zhilan pulled her to choose clothes, they fell in love with the same clothes, Jingru knew that Zhilan had a dazzling wardrobe of gorgeous clothes. Thinking of this, she felt a burst of sadness and humility in her heart for no reason.