The clouds are shrouded in mist, and the white vapor is steaming.

"Residual temperature, residual temperature."

"I can't help it, I'm helpless. There is no mystery, but there is no mystery. ”

Yu Wen was stunned by such a tongue twister, and shouted loudly, ignoring the speaker's voice that seemed to be close and distant, "Who are you——? ”

"Residual temperature, residual temperature."

She saw a section of fingers emerge from the mist five meters in front of her, first three fingertips, then five fingers.

The joints of the hands moved, as if they were trying to grasp something. This struggling action has the effect of not catching anything, like a mute screaming but silent.

Yu Wen wanted to walk forward, but she felt the white mist under her feet like a slender and powerful arm, forcefully restraining her steps.

Unable to move forward in a short period of time, Yu Wen could only struggle in the clouds and call: "Who are you-I'm here-are you going to come over-who are you-"

As Yu Wen asked, "Do you want to come here?", the hand finally grabbed forward as hard as he could, and the whole hand rushed out of the white mist. In the next moment, clusters of crazy mist swallowed up, as if they had eaten their hands.

When Yu Wen was stunned by the change in the blink of an eye, the fog gradually dissipated, and by the time she came back to her senses, her vision was clear.

There was a very strange picture in front of me.

Steamed carp with lotus leaves.

In the pond was boiling water that reached the shore, and there was only a solitary lotus in the pond, no flowers but leaves, and no dew on the leaves, only a red carp.

The carp is strangely not cooked by the heat, and even jumps and rolls on the lotus leaf, but when it reaches the edge of the junction with the boiling water, it obediently returns to the embrace of the lotus leaf.

Wake up from a dream.

"Lotus leaves. Carp. Yu Wen muttered. Yunping heard the sound of her getting up, and came over to serve her to wash her face: "Madame, is it a nightmare?" ”

"It's not a nightmare, it's just a little weird, I just want to." Yu Wen said.

On this day, Yu Wen and the fog went out to buy rouge gouache to be used in the mansion. This was supposed to be what the General Government Material Bureau should do, but Yu Wen was entangled in trivial matters, coupled with the strange dream of "steamed carp with lotus leaves" before, she desperately wanted to go out to breathe.

Hmm——?

As he walked among the hawkers, Yu Wen keenly glanced at a familiar figure in white. From behind, the man looked like a handsome boy, gently shaking a folding fan, and the jade pendant on his waist swayed with his steps.

She wanted to step forward to confirm whether this son was Lu Baiyi who had taken off her coat like a qin, but when she looked closely, there was a bouncing girl next to him. Yu Wen looked at it from behind, with cute hair buns and bright clothes, probably a girl younger than herself.

Yu Wen motioned for Wu Chao to go to Jiaoyan Fang first, and went up to say hello to the man who was suspected of being Lu Baiyi. She cautiously rushed forward to the place where she was moving parallel to Lu Baiyi, and then squinted behind the curtain to see that it was really Lu Baiyi.

And that little girl, about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a candy man in her hand and a bag of gadgets on her wrist, was jumping up and down and walking happily, still talking to Lu Baiyi.

Lu Baiyi calmly shook the ink fan and listened to the girl's chatter with a smile, and responded from time to time, and then the girl's face would be like a flower.

When the girl saw the rock sugar gourd seller, she stopped and asked the price, then took the sugar gourd handed by the vendor, and staggered to the jewelry stall in front of her. Lu Baiyi smiled helplessly, took out his purse and paid the copper money to the vendor.

"Lu Gongzi is so interested, there is such a delicate little lady by his side." Yu Wen stepped forward and quipped.

The girl's face immediately sank, blocking in front of Lu Baiyi: "What does Madam want to do?" How did you know him? Then she asked Lu Baiyi with an unkind face: "Who is she?" ”

Yu Wen didn't expect the girl to have such a big reaction, standing in place awkwardly, and motioned to Lu Baiyi with his eyes to relieve the siege.

"Sister He Lian, this is the wife of the general of the candle breath, Hugh is rude." Lu Baiyi said, looking at Yu Wen apologetically.

The girl's face looked a little better: "Oh, you are the only disciple accepted by Lu Baiyi, and you don't look very good." Tsk, it caused a lot of sensation in the rivers and lakes, but no one knew that it was Mrs. Jiangfu who was supposed to stay in the deep courtyard. ”

"What mercy!" Lu Baiyi scolded softly.

Yu Wen only thought that the little girl was young and vigorous, and wanted to tease her: "Alas, I looked at your back at the time, and thought that you should have been the little daughter-in-law who stayed at Lu Gongzi's house to do needlework. ”

He Lian, who was still arrogant just now, suddenly turned red: "You! ”

Lu Baiyi also looked cramped: "Madame......"

Yu Wen thought that they were conservative and reserved ancients, even if they were floating in the rivers and lakes, they were not used to the jokes of love and love, so he apologized: "The mouth is fast for a while, don't mind the two of you." Why don't you go to the teahouse in front of me and sit down, and let me get to know this little girl. ”

"Who's going to know you!" The girl shouted. Lu Baiyi reprimanded: "He is merciful, Hugh is rude." ”

Although He Lian was still angry, when she saw Lu Baiyi and Yu Wen walking forward, she stomped her foot lightly, and still followed the two quickly.

Yu Wen slowly thought in his heart as he walked, this He Lian spoke aggressively and had a short temper, not like a sophisticated woman on the rivers and lakes. But if she wasn't from the rivers and lakes, how could Lu Baiyi easily show her true face in front of her?

"Little Er, give me all the good tea and snacks in your building!" He Lian shouted unceremoniously, his eyes slanting at the residual warmth. Yu Wen smiled at each other, and the two looked at each other, like a heavy fist on cotton, which made Miss He so boring.

Lu Baiyi knocked He Lian with a fan bone: "How can you let Mrs. be so expensive." Then he turned to Yu Wen: "My sister is stubborn by nature, and she lacks someone to discipline her when she is young......"

"There's always a guy to clean up the mess for her, that's why the little girl has such a big temper." Yu Wen smiled with crooked eyebrows. I've been here for a few months, and I've sung a few plays with Su Minqiu and Tan Biluo, and my mouth has sharpened.

"This ......"

He Lian was originally eating the sugar gourd that Lu Baiyi bought for her, and when she heard this, she hurriedly said vaguely: "You are not allowed to say that about Lu Baiyi!" ”

"You little girl is neither big nor small, he calls you 'sister', why do you call her by her name and don't call her 'Brother Lu' sweetly?" The residual temperature blows away the steaming water vapor from the hot tea.

"I don't want him to be my brother." After He Lian said this, he felt that something was wrong, especially when he caught a glimpse of the corners of Yu Wen's mouth rising wildly. So she turned around and patted Lu Baiyi's shoulder, and added menacingly: "Just because you still want to be my brother?" My little brother at best. ”

"Yellow-haired girl, I don't know how to be polite." Lu Baiyi scolded with a smile.

"How did you meet Lu Gongzi? Looks like you've known each other for a long time. Childhood...... Is it? ”

"Not to mention my childhood sweetheart, Lu Baiyi was taking care of me as soon as I was born." He Lian opened the conversation, "My father is a dart walker, and he sits in the fourth position of the dart board, and he stays in the Lucheng branch of the dart game on weekdays. At that time, Lu Baiyi lived in the innermost part of the alley next to the sub-bureau with his disguised master, Zhao Ke, and his master and my father knew each other in their early years, so they often corresponded.

"After I was born, Uncle Zhao Ke asked Lu Baiyi to come over often to take care of me with the maid, or play with me. He was only six or seven years old at the time, and he was either fiddling with those dough, gouache, or babies who couldn't speak to them all day, and now I think about it, I really wronged him.

"But because of his special status, he can't play with other children on the street, so mixing with me, a half-grown child, can be considered a good way to relieve boredom.

"Lu Baiyi watched me grow up, so the relationship between the two of us is very iron, and ordinary people can't get involved."

With a victor's smile, He Lian proudly looked at Yu Wen, an "ordinary person".

"You're not a child daughter-in-law." "Ordinary people" are starting to speak freely again. Sure enough, red clouds flew on He Lian's face, and he sharpened his knife in his mouth.

"Okay, okay, the pastry you want has already come up, and it won't taste good if you don't eat it." Lu Baiyi knocked He Lian again. He Lian covered her head and groaned, and finally began to eat snacks in peace.