Between gains and losses, it seems that a corner of my heart is missing. Mu Qingyan lay down on the chair a little lonely, holding another pillow in his arms, bending his body and closing his eyes. It seemed that the water droplets wet the butterfly-like eyelashes, trembling slightly in the afternoon drizzle.

She is not an impulsive person, and it seems to be an innate instinct to hide her emotions. She is rational, intelligent, more focused and hardworking than others. Born in a big family, from the moment he was born, he had more responsibilities on his shoulders than others; And since she was a child, she has been in and out of the rivers and lakes, and she copes with the most complicated people's hearts.

Feelings are her weak point, although Chu Han loves her and spoils her, she has never been a parent after all, has never experienced giving and being needed, and does not know how to teach her.

On the rivers and lakes, she is a handsome son, but the white-clothed Shengxue is also proud and frivolous.

In the world, she is willing to be a stubborn and willful woman, and she can be completely ignored so that she can devote herself to what she wants to do.

In fact, she is a thoughtful, pure-hearted, and very good person. From the maids around her to the people in Youlong Xin Pavilion, she treats her like a close relative, guards her well, uses more effort to strengthen herself in places that others can't see, and does everything she can for her surname.

The rain fell into the air, and there was an indescribable loneliness in my ears.

Someone looked at the door of the wide-open study, and Weiyang lazily snuggled on the chair and didn't want to move.

"Miss, miss, I caught a fish, haha!" Linglong's cheerful voice was sent into the study from the window.

After a while, a light footstep ran upstairs.

"Shhh, Linglong, be soft, Miss may be asleep!" Coral grabbed Linglong's body and pulled her downstairs.

"When did Miss sleep during the day, Sango, you seem to have become stupid!" Linglong broke free of her hand and looked upstairs with her feet crossed.

Amber came back from outside and took the umbrella at the door, "Don't be naughty, Linglong, you go and change your clothes, you catch a cold carefully, there is still a cold in May!" ”

Liuli snatched the fish from Linglong's hand, "It's not enough to drink soup with one fish, you have the ability to catch two more and come back, hey!" Losing a roll of his eyes, he took Amber's umbrella and went to the small kitchen on the east side.

"If you have the ability, you can grab one and show it to me, hum!" Linglong glared at Liuli's back, watching Amber and Coral talking to herself, her eyes rolling around, "Isn't one enough?" Haha, I'll grab another one! Laughing and ignoring the two of them, he ran out of the door in the rain.

Mu Qingyan was trapped in his thoughts and couldn't get out, and after Linglong made such a fuss, the boredom in his heart was much less.

As the rain grew heavier, she stood at the window and watched Linglong carefully settle down on the stone steps hidden under the water of Ningxing Lake, bending down and waiting for the fish to appear.

There are some fish swimming in the lake that swim out of nowhere, and they will turn up every rainy day to breathe. Linglong pounced a few times but couldn't catch it, and she stomped her foot in anger.

Mu Qingyan had a white face, a smile on his lips and eyebrows, and he was captivating the country and the city.

Suddenly, I saw Linglong stumbling, and then stood unsteadily and planted underwater.

"Ah...... Help me! ”

Mu Qingyan rolled her eyes angrily, but her body involuntarily flew down from the upper floor, stepped on the slender branches of magnolia and floated to the position where Linglong fell into the water, grabbed her collar with one hand, and tapped twice on the surface of the water with the help of her feet, and twisted her body to fall on the shore.

"Linglong, if you shout for help again, I'll throw you into the lake to feed the fish!" Mu Qingyan hated that iron could not be made of steel, and his fingers flicked towards her head.

"Uh......h Woo, miss, it hurts! Linglong covered her forehead aggrievedly.

"Did the church teach you to swim?" Mu Qingyan looked at her pitiful appearance soaked and a little angry.

"Miss, woo...... I forgot I could swim......" Linglong bit a finger and half-bowed her head not daring to look at her young lady.

Mu Qingyan was so angry that he really wanted to kick her twice, as soon as he reached out and grabbed her collar, he threw her back into the water with some force, and threatened her: "You catch two fish for me to cook fish soup, if you can't catch it, you won't be allowed to come out of the water today!" ”

Linglong was a little flustered when she first entered the water, and she fluttered vigorously.

"Steady, tread water with your feet to float up, remember to adjust your breathing!" Mu Qingyan approached Linglong's position in the water along the nine-song corridor of Xiyu Pavilion, "Don't be afraid, I'm here!" ”

Linglong followed what Mu Qingyan said, no longer panicked, slowly stretched out her hands and feet, fluttered freely in the water a few times, and shouted at Mu Qingyan in the pavilion, "Miss, I can swim, I remember!" ”

Amber and Ruri also came to the pavilion with umbrellas.

"Linglong, where's my fish?" Liuli teased Linglong.

"Haha, Liuli, don't worry, I'll invite you to a whole fish feast later!" Linglong is a lively character, and this swimming is also something she herself had to learn in the past.

After a while, he really caught four fish of different sizes for Linglong and threw them on Xiyu Pavilion.

Liuli opened her mouth slightly, quite surprised.

"Linglong is enough, come up quickly, it's raining, don't get cold!" Amber urged her in a loud voice.

Linglong was also well-behaved, slowly swimming to the edge of the stone steps hidden in the water, and walked ashore along the stone steps, her clothes dripping a puddle under her feet.

"Ah......h Ahh Linglong hugged her shoulders and trotted into her house.

Liuli picked up a few fish and ran to the small kitchen, "I'll cook her a bowl of ginger soup to ward off the cold!" ”

Amber softly persuaded Mu Qingyan: "Miss, go back to the room and change your clothes, wet clothes are easy to get cold!" ”

"No problem!" Mu Qingyan said nonchalantly, but also went to the house.

Coral hurriedly followed upstairs, found a robe for her to change, and brought her a bowl of ginger soup boiled by Liuli, staring at her for most of the bowl before stopping.

After dark, the rain became heavier and heavier.

Liuli moved a red-hot charcoal stove and put it in the painting hall, and stewed the fish Linglong caught in a casserole and placed it on the charcoal fire. The fish in the pot stewed for a while, and the aroma filled the whole painting hall.

Mu Qingyan came down from the upper floor, and Pearl and Coral were playing against each other on the chessboard. Amber lifted the beaded curtain at the door, and Cinnabar came in with a large tray containing a few small bowls of pastel lotus flowers and a few small spoons of turquoise flower stems.

The crowd sat around.

Linglong reached out and was about to lift the lid of the casserole, but was slapped back by a spoon of glass.

"Wow, it smells so good!" Linglong rubbed her little paws that were hurt by her, and sat back in the chair unwillingly.

Liuli stirred the charcoal fire and boiled for a long time before lifting the lid. The fish soup has been boiled to a **-like white, and the fish meat is crispy. First, I filled most of the lotus bowl soup, scooped up a fish head and put it on the plate, and let the cinnabar serve it to Mu Qingyan.

Mu Qingyan loves to eat fish heads, and several maids naturally know it.

At night, there are no big or small in the Lanyan Pavilion, and several people are warmly accompanied by a casserole of fresh fish soup.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May.

Halfway through, Mufu drove out a big car and headed to the south of the city.

Although the rain stopped, the weather was so cloudy that it seemed to be able to wring out water. Today's Dragon Boat Festival, along the way to Mochou Lake in the south of the city to watch the dragon boat race, it is obvious that they are not affected by the cloudy weather, but there is an endless stream.

The boudoir daughter of the big family can go out to play today, and she is hugged by the maid and the woman and goes to the direction of Mochou Lake. Early summer is approaching, the ladies have changed their clothes for the new season, and the maids are also dressed in flowers.

The sons of the family mostly have long robes and wide sleeves, holding folding fans, or in groups of three or two, or dragging wives and concubines. There are also young masters who have never been married, and they can't control their eyes, and they see that the young lady is red-faced.

From the city to the outside of the city, you can see some small stalls everywhere, or full of herb purses, or all kinds of paper cuts; There are also small objects that sell various colored paper folds, of different sizes, tied with long spikes cut from colored paper at the bottom, long or short, and strings are hung in the wind and fluttering.

There were many people gathered in front of each stall. Mu Qingyan's carriage stopped in front of a stall, and Liuli and Linglong jumped out of the carriage and picked up on the stall.

Amber picked up the curtain and urged softly: "Liuli, just pick up some herbs, go back and fill our own purses!" ”

"Sister Amber, there are multicolored threads here, shall we each buy one and tie it on our wrists?" Linglong shouted.

"Linglong, get back for me, didn't I already tie you a colorful thread in the morning? How many hands do you have? Coral leaned at the car door and shouted at her with a pretty face.

"But it's different here!" Linglong didn't dare to speak loudly for fear of being heard by Sango, so she muttered in a low voice.

Liuli picked out a handful of herbs and pulled Linglong to get into the car.

At this moment, a group of Praetorian Guards approached from the official road, and the cavalry in front shouted as they walked to give way. Cars and horses pulled over to give way to the road, and pedestrians avoided the road.

Liuli and Linglong didn't have time to get into the car, so they had to flash aside first to get out of the way. I don't know where a little doll of three or four years old ran to the middle of the road, and stood there motionless when she saw the forbidden army approaching.

"Linglong saves people!" Mu Qingyan shouted Linglong in the car.

Linglong reacted at this time, swept through at the fastest speed in her life, picked up the doll and ran away. The Praetorian Guards also saw the doll in the middle of the road, stopped for a moment, and was about to trample over, and saw a woman running to the middle of the road, holding the child, and running away.

Hurriedly reining in the horse, the horse neighed and raised its front hooves. One of the horses, dressed in a Praetorian Guard uniform, was thrown off his horse, rolled twice on the ground and fainted.

Everyone reined in their horses, and the first one shouted angrily at Linglong, "Don't you want to die? "Someone else dismounted to see the wounded Praetorian Guard.

Linglong was not afraid, but only cared about softly comforting the frightened child in her arms. The boy came back to his senses and cried "wow".

On the official road, people were noisy, horses neighed, and suddenly everything was in chaos.

The Praetorian Guards were followed by four luxury cars, and Mu Qingyan knew at a glance that they were from the palace. Seeing that she had caused trouble, she sighed helplessly, "Amber, help me get out of the car!" ”

Mu Qingyan's feet landed on the ground, and a person got out of the car headed by the other side.

But I saw that this person had broad shoulders and a straight back, extremely thin lips and narrow eyes, and a square face, with a noble quality.

"Cheng Lei, what's the hustle? Why don't you go? There was a kind of majesty in his eyebrows when he spoke.

"Back to King Li, a woman suddenly ran out on the road, and Guan Ting couldn't avoid falling from a horse and fell unconscious." The man who was called Cheng Lei replied closely.

"Oh? Just a woman is also on her back? How do you train in your daily life? Chu Li asked in a cold voice.

Cheng Lei immediately knelt on the ground, "King Li, that woman suddenly appeared, she really couldn't dodge, please forgive King Li!" ”

Someone had already gone over and pulled Linglong to hold it down, and at this time, he heard King Li's question, and immediately bet on Linglong to come forward.

King Li looked at the woman in front of him, thirteen or fourteen years old, beautifully dressed, ignorant in her eyes, innocent and lovely, not the slightest fear, and couldn't help but look at it twice.

"Why did you stop the Praetorian Guard?" One sentence condemned Linglong.

Mu Qingyan had a cold face and looked at Chu Li silently through the crowd.

"Linglong didn't want to stop the Praetorian Guard, but the doll was about to be trampled by a horse, so she went to hug him!" Linglong turned her head and pointed to the doll who was still crying on the side of the road, and said innocently.

Usually in and out of the palace, the palace maid saw that she was either flattering or afraid, but this woman was not afraid of anything, Chu Li frowned and asked, "Which maid are you?" ”

Linglong bit her lip and hesitated to speak, she didn't know whether to say it or not, but her eyes had already drifted to her own young lady.

"Back to King Li, Linglong is the maid of Shuiyue Villa!" Mu Qingyan walked out from behind the crowd and saluted nondescript beside Linglong.