It is already early winter, the flowers and trees in the back garden are sparse, it is not as verdant and luxuriant as the spring and summer, but dozens of pots of chrysanthemums are placed along the pavilion corridor, bloom in the frost, the style is elegant, and it is gratifying.

Lu Jiayue and Qu Ying were walking and playing, and there were no idlers in the garden, only Xin Zhu and Hongxuan followed behind them, which was very quiet.

Walking under a plum tree for a while, the fragrance of plum is intoxicating, Lu Jiayue lightly folded a branch, pinched it in her hand and played with it, suddenly "oops", and laughed.

"Sister, look, these flowers and bones are actually connected."

Qu Yingzheng stretched out his hand and sniffed a branch of plum in his nose, and said with a smile: "Nonsense, this has always been connected only by lotus flowers, you must be wrong." ”

Lu Jiayue rubbed her eyes and grinned, "Sure enough, I saw it wrong." ”

Qu Ying took the flower branch from her hand and took a look, it was just an ordinary wax plum blossom, where did it come from and connect with each other?

So he laughed it off, "With your eyes, Ming'er should have someone change you to a cassia pillow for use." ”

"Sister makes fun of me," Lu Jiayue frowned slightly, looking aggrieved, "This plum blossom is not connected, but people do—"

"It's nonsense again," Qu Ying glanced at her with a smile, "People are not plants and trees, they live separately, how can they be connected?" ”

Lu Jiayue said seriously: "Men and women are one, aren't they connected?" ”

Qu Ying didn't want her to say such a thing, she was stunned at first, and then couldn't help laughing, "Where did you learn these words?" There is some truth to that. ”

"I realized it myself," Lu Jiayue smiled proudly, and then covered her mouth with the silk handkerchief in her hand and said softly, "I know that my sister and the young master of the Lou family are engaged to marry and get married in the coming days. ”

Qu Ying's face turned red, stomped his feet, and said angrily: "More and more nonsense, it's not me making fun of you, it's actually you, a little girl, who came to make fun of me, and if you do it again, I will ignore you." ”

Lu Jiayue hurriedly pulled Qu Ying's sleeve and shook it non-stop, "I was wrong, I was wrong, sister, I won't talk nonsense anymore." ”

"It's good to know that it's wrong," Qu Ying turned "anger" into joy and took Lu Jiayue's hand, "You can't say these things in front of others in the future, you are not ashamed to see others laugh at you." ”

"I listen to my sister," Lu Jiayue nodded her head as well-behaved as a chicken pecking rice, suddenly rolled her eyes, and blinked, "Has my sister seen the young master of the Lou family?" ”

Qu Ying couldn't cry or laugh, seeing that her black and white eyes were full of expectation, she couldn't bear to be perfunctory, so she had to reply to her: "... I met in a hurry. ”

"How?"

"How?"

"Naturally, what is the appearance of the young master of the Lou family!"

Qu Ying was ashamed and anxious, she really didn't know what was going on with Lu Jiayue today, so she vigorously led the conversation to her marriage. But at her age, the girl is pregnant, and she always has some fantasies and longings for her marriage.

Living in the boudoir, no one talks to her about her marriage on weekdays, and Lu Jiayue's words in front of her touched her mind a little.

So he thought about the situation when he met Lou Wenke, and said in a low voice: "That day, Mrs. Lou brought Young Master Lou to visit my grandmother, I hid behind the screen and took a look quietly. ”

Lu Jiayue just looked at Qu Ying's expression with her eyes, and said with a smile: "I think that my sister fell in love with the young master of the Lou family at that time. ”

"But a quick glance, where does the love come from?" Qu Ying smiled faintly, but there was no look of nostalgia in her eyes, "The marriage event is the order of the parents, and the words of the matchmaker, why do you need to love each other?" Our family and the Lou family are world friends, and they are the right family, and my grandmother and mother both said that this family business is proper, and I will naturally follow their wishes. ”

When Lu Jiayue heard this, her heart was relieved, like a long-hanging boulder falling to the ground.

It seems that although Qu Ying is willing to marry Lou Wenke, she is just following the wishes of her elders, not loving Lou Wenke.

In this way, even if this evil relationship is cut off, there is no need to worry that Qu Ying will be hurt because of this.

There are so many eunuchs in Kyoto that Qu Ying can choose a good husband from them.

Lu Jiayue secretly made up her mind in her heart, and she was greatly relaxed, so she no longer entangled in the matter of Qu Ying and Lou Wenke. Look up and look around, see a maple forest in the southeast direction, dozens of maple trees are connected together, the maple leaves are fiery red like clouds in the middle of the sky, it is very spectacular. So he pointed to Fenglin, "Sister, let's go over there and have a look, okay?" ”

Qu Ying followed her gaze and smiled, "There is also a pavilion in the maple forest, called Fengwan Pavilion, let's go this way, just go to the pavilion to rest for a while." ”

There is a pebbled sheep intestine path in the maple forest, Lu Jiayue and Qu Ying entered the maple forest, walked along the path, and saw a small and exquisite hexagonal pavilion in front of them, but found that there were already people in the pavilion.

A thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, sitting on the railing in the pavilion, wearing a green satin jacket, an autumn-colored brocade skirt, a bun on her head, and two grass velvet bead flowers, she was born very graceful and beautiful.

It's just that the girl is quite melancholy between her eyebrows at this time, and there is a maid standing next to her, and she also has a sad face.

Suddenly, the wind rose, making the maple leaves rustle, and the conversation between the girl and the maid was also blown into the ears of Lu Jiayue and Qu Ying.

"I only see each other twice a month, but my cousin is always so cold to me, what should I do?"

"Miss, let's be patient, maybe Mrs. Gu has her own arrangements."

"What can my aunt do? She watched my cousin alienate me like this, but she didn't do anything. Last night, I told her that I wanted to go back to Cangzhou, but she tried her best to keep me..."

"It's only been two or three months since Miss came to Qu's house, so why can you say that you can go back? If you really go back, it will be difficult to come back. ”

"I'm just testing my aunt, where do I really want to go back... How can I be willing to see my cousin again..."

Lu Jiayue and Qu Ying heard it clearly, and immediately looked at each other, feeling very embarrassed.

Qu Ying took the handkerchief and brushed her nose, and said in a low voice: "It's a coincidence, I didn't expect her to be here, and let us overhear her thoughts." ”

In fact, in her previous life, Lu Jiayue had seen the girl several times, but in this life, she had only been at the Qu family for a short time, so naturally she had not seen it yet.

So he pretended not to know and asked Qu Ying.

Qu Ying said: "It's the niece of the second aunt's mother's family, named Duan Wenxin." ”