"Xin'er, who?" Mother Yang sat on the bed, saw that Yang Jinxin had been standing there, coughed twice, and asked.

Yang Jinxin came back to her senses at this time, and looked at the woman in front of her, who was dressed in a lake blue brocade cheongsam and had a gentle and elegant temperament, raised the door curtain sideways, and said softly: "Aunt Qing, please!"

"You still know me!"

The woman's smiling eyes looked Yang Jinxin up and down, and asked softly, "You...... Is it Jinxin? ”

Yang Jinxin bowed to her and replied, "I'm Jinxin!"

"Oh!" The smile on the woman's face paused, and the usual gentle smile also added coolness, which made Yang Jinxin's heart tremble.

There was another cough in the house, Yang Jinxin hurriedly turned his head to look inside the house, and turned back to greet the woman, "Aunt Qing, the cold house is shabby, please go in and sit down!" ”

"Who?" Mother Yang's throat was a little hoarse after coughing, and she obviously had a hoarse panting sound.

When the woman came into the house, she kept looking left and right, Yang Jinxin followed behind her, and while pouring tea, she replied to her mother: "Mother, it's Aunt Qing, the mother who comes from winter!"

Mrs. Huo looked around left and right for a while, a trace of disgust appeared on her face, and when she heard Yang Jinxin say this, she moved to the side of the bed again, stopped far away, and no longer approached.

I saw that on the wooden bed by the window, sitting was a famous beauty in Jinling City back then. It's just that she has long lost the demeanor of the past, and she has been riddled with diseases for many years, and she has hollowed out her body and become skinny. The originally fair and tender skin has become sallow, and the eyes that were once as bright as the stars have also turned gray and lost their brilliance.

"A-Qing?" Mother Yang looked at Mrs. Huo in disbelief, coughed twice, and said, "It's really A-Qing!"

Mrs. Huo nodded and said, "It's me, I don't know, your body is like this, I ...... I have something to tell you. ”

Yang Jinxin brought a wooden bench to invite her to sit, she only waved her hand perfunctorily, and her face was undisguised disgust.

"I'll leave when I'm done." Mrs. Huo covered her mouth slightly with a handkerchief, frowned, and looked at Mother Yang with a gentle smile, "I originally wanted to talk to you alone, but now it's inconvenient to see you, so I'll just say it!" ”

When she refused to sit down, Yang Jin's heart sank to the bottom, this person who was not kind to the person who came, I was afraid that she was not here to visit the patient.

I heard Mrs. Huo say: "I know that over the years, Donglai has always run here, and we have known each other since we were young, so I just want to walk around, and it's okay, it's just ......" Speaking of this, Mrs. Huo's eyes turned to Yang Jinxin, who was leaning on the side of the bed, and pulled a smile.

Then he said: "Jinxin, your brother Donglai is about to get engaged to Miss Rong of Huide Bank, and in the future, it will be inconvenient to take care of your mother and daughter."

These words made Yang Jinxin's face white with a "brush", knocking on his heart like a stick, his body shook slightly, and he grabbed the bed frame tightly with his backhand, so that he could stabilize his body.

Mother Yang on the bed was even more speechless when she was in a hurry, only coughing violently, Yang Jinxin only felt that everything in front of her was shaking, and hurriedly turned around to take care of her mother, and fell down in front of the bed.

Mother Yang coughed while reaching out to pull her, but she couldn't use half of her strength, she didn't pull her up, but she was so tired that she fell down, and the mother and daughter fell into a mess in confusion, accompanied by Mother Yang's heart-rending cough, extremely embarrassed.

Mrs. Huo looked at this, frowned slightly, and sighed inaudibly: "Qiaolan, I know that the two children have some affection, but you also have to think about it for Dong, right?" Look at your family like this, Jin Huan is doing that thing outside, in the future, how can you let Donglai hold his head up......"

"Mrs. Huo!" Yang Jinxin finally pulled her mother into her arms, and was busy calming her breath, interrupting her sharply, "Although we are poor, we are also innocent people, you don't want to ruin our reputation!" ”

"You kid ......" Mrs. Huo flicked her handkerchief, glanced at Yang Mu's pale face, panting, and hurriedly covered her mouth and nose, and then took a step back, "I just saw that your little girl is shallow, so I didn't say it directly, you and your sister, how can you still be innocent......

"You go, you go out immediately, you are not allowed to come to my house and talk nonsense!" Yang Jinxin had a white face, holding back tears, and kept patting his mother's back, mixed with crying and roaring, "You let Huo Dong come and make it clear to me, I, Yang Jinxin, will never stand in his way!" ”

"You, you, you......" Mrs. Huo has always been a gentle and polite image in front of people, when has she ever encountered this situation. Tie Qing's face was blue, and he pointed at her "you" for a long time, and he was so angry that he couldn't think of anything to refute her, so he finally threw off his handkerchief and turned to leave.

She stepped out of the threshold with her front foot, Yang Jinxin's tears couldn't be stopped anymore, and she couldn't care about wiping them, she only got up and put her mother on the bed again, took a deep breath, tears raged, tightly clutched the corners of the quilt, sat on the edge of the bed and bit her lip, refusing to cry.

Mother Yang was still panting heavily, patting her shoulder with one hand tremblingly, covering her mouth with a handkerchief with the other, coughing non-stop, but she didn't care that the handkerchief was already scarlet again.

Finally, it was her mother's cough that pulled Yang Jinxin out of her grief, she raised her hand and wiped her face indiscriminately, got up and poured water for her mother.

"Mother, don't worry, drink some water first, take it slowly." The voice was mixed with crying, and his voice was hoarse.

Mother Yang gasped a few times, and finally came to her senses, comforting her daughter intermittently: "Wait...... Wait for winter to come back and ask clearly...... You...... Don't worry! ”

Yang Jinxin shook his head, stroked his mother's thin back and said, "It's okay with me, don't worry!"

"She said your sister, what's wrong?" Mother Yang naturally missed her eldest daughter, and immediately asked about Yang Jinhuan, "Don't hide it from your mother, what is your sister doing?" ”

"Mother, don't listen to her nonsense!" Yang Jinxin got up and went to pour water again, turning his back to his mother's face, for fear that his mother would see something from his face, "My sister is a helper, it's very good, it's still the person introduced by Ziqi, next time, when you see Ziqi, ask yourself." ”

Mother Yang naturally knew Bai Ziqi's identity, and when she saw that her daughter was speaking in a good way, she suppressed the doubts in her heart, "That's good, you take the time to see your sister, so that she can come back and have a look." ”

"Uh-huh!" Yang Jinxin nodded, handed the teacup to his mother, and said, "I'll go to see her in the afternoon, don't worry!"

……

Because of the return of Mrs. Qin and her party, the Jiangnan Overseer's Mansion has regained its popularity, and in the Houhua Hall, the second aunt is taking people to check the things that Qin Muyang will use at the engagement wedding, and Mrs. Qin only sits on the rocking chair and closes her eyes to recuperate.

"Oh, if you want me to say, this invitation should be obtained by the people in the chamberlain's room, and then who can and can't enter, let them decide, and save us from going through the list over and over here." Fifth Miss Qin Shuyao frowned at the list and complained.

The second aunt was doing the same thing, and the pair of affectionate peach blossom eyes glanced at Qin Shuyao, and said, "Now I know that I am annoyed, who wanted to come back when I asked you to stay in the United States to study!"

Qin Shuyao pursed her lips, her red lips pursed slightly, "It's not because I want to participate in the engagement of the fourth brother and Sister Chu Yu, I won't come back because I want to change someone else, I am tired from sitting on that plane." ”

"Then thank you Miss Fifth for your face!" A magnetic voice came in from the outside, and everyone turned their heads to look, and saw Qin Muyang's tall figure passing through the trees and flowers, and coming in along the verandah.

"Ah, fourth brother!" Qin Shuyao shouted happily, put down the booklet in his hand, and went straight over, "Fourth brother, are you going to take Sister Chu Yu out to play these days?" ”

Qin Muyang took off his military hat and handed it to Liao Yong, who was following behind, stretched out his hand to comb Qin Shuyao's small hair curls hanging from his ears, and said with a gentle smile: "Military affairs are busy, how can I have time to go out and play!"

Qin Shuyao snorted lightly, wrinkled her nose and said, "Sister Chu Yu really suffered a lot from marrying you, and she didn't even have a date!"

"Children don't know how to talk nonsense, your brother is really at a loss if he marries Chu Yu!" Mrs. Qin also stood up with the support of the maid, and interrupted her daughter's words with a faint expression.

Qin Shuyao froze for a moment, and was about to say something, but was stopped by the second aunt, so she had to swallow it, leaving her face full of incomprehension.

Qin Muyang smiled lightly, greeted Mrs. Qin and her second aunt, looked at the table full of brochures and invitations, and said: "These miscellaneous things, just leave them to the attendant's room to do, you just have to attend on the day of the engagement, why are you so cautious about an engagement?"

After he said this, Zhao Zhijun had already gone up the mountain to clean up.

"Fourth brother, ......" Qin Shuyao hurriedly went to stop Zhao Zhijun, and was stopped by the second aunt and said: "Fourth young man is right, fifth miss, let's leave it alone, didn't you just say that you were upset?" Let's go see your brother's dress. After speaking, he pulled Qin Shuyao and left.

As soon as they left, Mrs. Qin also retreated, and Qin Muyang helped her sit down on a chair.

"You've really decided to get engaged to Chu Yu!" Mrs. Qin took Qin Muyang's hand and asked softly.

Qin Muyang chuckled and nodded, "Didn't Mother already go to the Presidential Palace to negotiate?" It's all up to you! ”

"Hey!" Mrs. Qin's face was full of distress and helplessness, "Mom knows, this marriage has wronged you, but ......" Mrs. Qin said this, choked up, and her eyes turned red.

"Mom, don't worry, I won't wronged myself!" Qin Muyang put his arm around his mother's shoulder and patted him gently.

Mrs. Qin dipped her eyes in a silk handkerchief, took a breath, and turned into the gentle and dignified beautiful woman again, patted her son's hand and said, "Okay, it's really hard for my son, if you have a girl you like, tell your mother, and your mother will marry you back if she shows her old face."

Qin Muyang raised his eyebrows, and said arrogantly: "Which girl, when you see me, Qin Si has to pounce on me, and let me pick it in line, isn't it?"

These words provoked Mrs. Qin to say yes again and again, and the sentimental emotions just now were swept away. Qin Muyang looked at his mother, and his face was full of gentle smiles, but the stubborn and alienated black eyes of the cut water inadvertently broke into his mind, and he looked forward to the day when even those misty eyes were full of affection when looking at him.

Walking into the golden autumn of October, the weather has completely cooled down, and Huo Donglai has not heard from him for half a month. Yang Jinxin hangs a heart all day long, but in front of his mother, he looks like he doesn't care.

She didn't know where to find Huo Donglai, and she couldn't take the initiative to write a letter to question him, and often unconsciously went around the Huo Mansion, thinking that if she could bump into him, she would definitely not give him a good face.

On this day, she came back from the south of the city, but today's Jinling City is under martial law, and there are a large number of military and police stationed on each street. Or did some spies infiltrate Jinling City?

The newsboy shouted and ran on the street, "The southern government, the military-political marriage, the golden boy and the jade girl, are a perfect combination." ”

Yang Jinxin listened curiously, and also bought a newspaper and opened it, and saw that the front page of the newspaper was printed: Qin Muyang, the military commander, and Chu Yu, a Jinling socialite, officially announced their engagement!

On the photo that occupied a large area, Qin Muyang still had a cold face in a military uniform, which was in stark contrast to the smiling woman next to him.

Yang Jinxin looked at this news, frowned in a complicated mood, and sighed inaudibly.

I don't know, what will my sister do if she knows the news?