Chapter 4: Heartbeat
The eldest lady asked the maid to put on my makeup again, she picked out a pink cheongsam for me, and gave me a red jade hair ornament, looking at herself in the mirror, it was very exquisite.
But when the eldest lady looked at me, she looked worried, and the corners of her eyes seemed to be full of tears.
She leaned over slightly, gently touched my cheek, and said distressedly: "Look, how beautiful my Xiaowan is, how is Xiaowan good today?" Don't bite anymore, don't make trouble, your father asked you, who do you like, you just say you like your cousin, okay? ”
The eldest lady spoke to me as I coaxed Corning on a daily basis.
"Cousin?" I couldn't help muttering, thinking in my heart, is the cousin that this doctor is talking about, is it Long Xuanling.
"Yes, yes, cousin, just say, you like cousin." After the eldest lady finished speaking, she asked the maid to pour me a glass of milk, brought pastries up, and let me eat them with a smile on her face.
I remembered that my mother had treated me the same way when I was a child, so I ate a few bites as she wanted.
While wiping the corners of her mouth for me, she couldn't help but whisper softly, "Xiaowan is really good." ”
After eating pastries, less than an hour later, a maid came up and invited us to the banquet hall.
The eldest lady immediately pulled up my clothes, let me rinse my mouth, and carefully made up the color of my lips, and then pulled me downstairs, and while walking, I also told and repeatedly, let me choose what cousin.
I could only nod perfunctorily at the eldest lady, and followed her to the banquet room, where I saw many men and women dancing as soon as the door of the banquet room opened.
These people were all dressed in Western clothes, and I desperately scanned the group of people, looking for a trace of Long Xuanling, but I couldn't find anything.
And the eldest lady hurriedly pulled me towards the hall, and I was not comfortable with this body, and I stumbled and fell directly to the ground.
The people who were dancing all looked at me, and many of them had smiles on their faces.
"Ahem, ahem."
At this moment, a cough sounded, and a middle-aged man with a mustache and a dark brown satin coat walked towards it.
"Everyone be quiet, today is the little girl Jingwan, the seventeenth birthday, thank you for coming!" I didn't pay attention to what the man said behind me, but I just listened to some people talking about it, saying that I looked quite thoughtful, and how could I be a fool.
I stood aside, still carefully examining one by one.
Before I could find any trace of Long Xuanling, I saw a man in blue clothes smiling at me.
"Xiaowan, look, my cousin is there." The eldest lady whispered in my ear.
I could only laugh dryly, it turned out that the one in blue was my cousin in the flesh.
"Xiaowan, for the first dance, let my cousin dance with you." As she spoke, the eldest lady beckoned to the man in blue.
Seeing that the other party was coming over, I hurriedly said, "Mother, I, I want to go conveniently." ”
"Huh? Right now? The eldest lady frowned.
"Now." I nodded.
The eldest lady sighed helplessly, and immediately motioned to Xiaohe to take me, and Xiaohe helped me out of the banquet room, originally to take me to the bathroom at the end of the corridor, but I walked directly downstairs to the banquet room.
I am familiar with this marshal's mansion, and today I can be regarded as revisiting the old place.
It's just that I don't know now, where did the fat monk take Ning'er? I don't know where to find them and Long Xuanling.
I couldn't help but think in my heart, do I still want to go back to the North Hells and ask Yan Shizi again?
"Miss, where are you going?" Xiaohe hurriedly chased after him: "Madame is still waiting." ”
"I'll come out and breathe." I said, walking unhurriedly down the stairs.
Xiaohe coaxed repeatedly: "Miss, let's go back, in a while, Xiaohe will bring you pastries to eat." ”
This little girl was like a bird chirping beside me, which made me very upset, so that my steps became faster and faster.
As a result, I forgot that this body could not fully obey my command now, and after my steps accelerated, my heels began to weaken, and with the cheongsam slimming, I seemed to be tied up and ran downward, and as a result, my body leaned forward.
Suddenly, a thought came to mind, could it be that he was going to fall to his death inexplicably before he saw Long Xuanling?
"Ahhh Xiaohe let out a miserable scream behind him.
And my eyes widened, but instead of falling down the stairs, I was hugged by a gentle embrace.
I raised my eyes and saw a stir in my heart.
In front of me, this man in military uniform with a cold face is none other than Long Xuanling, who I have been thinking about for the past seventeen years.
And his eyes were still as blue as the sea.
I leaned into his arms, laughed, then cried, and finally turned around and hugged him tightly, crying fiercely.
Xiaohe was frightened and came to ask me about it, but I ignored her completely, and she ran up with a smoke.
"Girl?" Long Xuanling spoke in a deep voice.
But I hugged him tightly, like an octopus, and my snot and tears were all mixed together.
Not long after, the eldest lady came down with a few maids in the banquet hall.
Seeing such a scene, he immediately asked people to pull me away from Long Xuanling.
And he was extremely unfriendly and asked Long Xuanling, "Why are you here?" This time the invitation is the eldest son of the Mu family, what are you doing here? ”
"Mrs. Zhao, my eldest brother is in Youzhou and can't rush back, so?" Before Long Xuanling's words could be finished, the eldest lady interrupted again.
"Then it won't be your turn, will it? What about Chen Hao? "The eldest lady is kind to me, but she is very cold to Long Xuanling.
"The third brother is busy with things, and he can't get away." Long Xuanling replied one by one, without showing the slightest impatience.
"That's it, let's go." The eldest lady waved her hand and motioned for Long Xuanling to leave.
Long Xuanling leaned over slightly, turned around and was about to leave, I immediately shouted at him: "Don't go!" ”
When this shout came out, the eldest lady and the others all looked at me, including Long Xuanling.
There was a hint of doubt in his blue eyes.
"Mother, didn't you say that today is to choose a husband for me?" I looked at the eldest lady with a serious face.
The eldest lady looked at me a little stunned, estimating that she had never seen her daughter talk to herself so "soberly".
"Mother, I want to marry him." I pointed at Long Xuanling.
The eldest lady opened her mouth wide in shock, and she couldn't say a word for a long time.
She first looked at me, then at Long Xuanling, and then scolded angrily: "No! Xiaowan, how can this Mu Qiye match you? He was raised by an aunt, in short, you can't be with him! ”
The eldest lady was emotional, and I looked at Long Xuanling.
It turns out that my liking and love for him is really engraved in my bones, no matter how long it takes, as long as I look at it, my heart will be moved.