Nian Ying explained with a smile, "I just met at a dim sum shop on the street, and when I saw that I picked a lot, Brother Lu said that he didn't need to buy weight, and then paid for it." He said that he wanted to stop by the study to buy something, so he asked us to come in with snacks first. ”

Nian Xi also said: "I guess I'll come back in a while." ”

"It's rare to be so lively today, so it's better to get together for dinner." Gu was in a happy mood and instructed the girl, "Go and tell the kitchen, remember to make steamed sea bass at noon, Mu Bai loves to eat." By the way, there is also braised lion's head and spicy chicken, which are what Brother Xi and Ah Ying love to eat. ”

"Mother, you forgot me!" Lu Ruoqing deliberately pretended to be jealous.

"I didn't forget, I didn't forget." Gu couldn't help but laugh, and instructed the girl, "Ask the kitchen to add another squirrel fish." After speaking, he looked at Jiang Linyue, who was silent next to him, and asked, "What do you like to eat?" ”

Jiang Linyue gestured with her hand to show that she didn't care.

Nian Ying replied instead: "My cousin likes to drink lettuce soup. ”

Gu Shi hurriedly said: "Then add another dish of lettuce soup and tell the kitchen that today's expenses will come out of my account." ”

The girl answered the call to leave.

Lu Ruoqing chased, "I want another chicken soup and winter melon slices, put some shredded ham and shredded mushrooms, make it lighter, remember to skim all the oil flowers on it." ”

Gu Shi looked at his daughter's intimacy and said with relief: "Ruoqing still remembers me." ”

Nian Ying watched from the side, and a hint of gloom flashed in his eyes.

Lu Ruoqing saw it and knew that this was to arouse the sadness of her mother's early death, so she said, "Let's go, let's go to the garden, the house is stuffy, I've been bored enough in the past few days." ”

Gu Shi also said: "You young people, don't worry about me, let's talk freely." ”

She knew that her daughter had no intention of Nian Xi, and there were two other girls here today, so she was not so nervous.

Lu Ruoqing pulled Nian Ying and beckoned Nian Xi and Jiang Linyue to go to the back garden.

While walking, he said to Nian Ying: "Actually, you don't have to envy me, my mother has been sick for more than ten years in this ......, and she has been bad for a while, which is also worrying people every day." ”

Nian Ying was puzzled: "I see that Aunt Gu's body is weaker, but there is no serious illness. The Lu family is not the kind of poor family, and the ginseng bird's nest is raised every day, so there should be no big problem. ”

Lu Ruoqing hooked the corners of her mouth, "It should be." ”

My mother's body does not have any serious symptoms, but she takes medicine every day and is bedridden all the year round, and her body is always weak from the old disease.

Therefore, in the previous life, the mother gave birth to a younger brother and died of a blood collapse.

A touch of sadness flashed in Lu Ruoqing's eyes.

Nian Ying looked at her and said nervously, "Ruoqing, what's wrong with you?" You're weird. I couldn't help but worry, "Did the doctor say something?" Is Aunt Gu's health really bad? ”

Although her mother was gone, she was young at the time and didn't know how sad she was.

Later, even if I missed my mother, I didn't remember my mother's appearance very much, just a vague shadow. On the contrary, it is not as good as Gu Shi to see her often, and he loves her, and he is already half a mother in his heart.

Therefore, I am sincerely anxious.

"Nope." Lu Ruoqing softened her expression and smiled slightly, "It's just that I'm just a little worried." In the previous life, the mother died of blood, of course, she couldn't say it, so she changed the topic, "In a few days, you will also go to the banquet on King Huan's birthday, right?" ”

"Hmm." Nian Ying nodded, "Brother said, come with me." ”

Speaking of Nian Xi, Lu Ruoqing couldn't help but look back at him, but was unexpectedly stunned.

Nian Xi and Jiang Linyue followed behind, walking very closely, looking very intimate.

Nian Xi kept asking, "Do you feel tired?" There's a gazebo in front, and when you're tired, go to the front and sit down. ”

Jiang Linyue smiled and nodded.

Nian Xi said, "You wait for me." He quickly rushed to the pavilion, wiped the stool with his sleeve, and then invited Jiang Linyue to sit down, and asked, "Are you thirsty?" If you want to drink tea, I'll go find the little girl and pour it for you. ”

---- attentive is simply not like words.

Jiang Linyue waved her hand, signaling that she was not thirsty and did not need to bother, and asked Nian Xi to sit down.

Nian Xi sat down beside her.

Lu Ruoqing looked stunned.

Nian Ying was even more stunned, and muttered, "What is my brother crazy today?" Why do you always be courteous to your cousin? On weekdays, I don't see him talking to his cousin. ”

Lu Ruoqing was also puzzled.

What is Nian Xi doing? Because he was stimulated by King Huan yesterday, did he deliberately find Jiang Linyue to come over and demonstrate to her? That's naïve.

However, this kind of thing is not easy to expose directly.

Lu Ruoqing didn't pay attention to it, but pulled Nian Ying to sit down on the corridor, and simply left Nian Xi and Jiang Linyue in the pavilion, they can do whatever they like.

Nian Ying muttered: "My brother is crazy today, right?" He slapped the sycophants so indiscriminately, and in front of you, didn't he mean to make you angry? It's really eaten the guts of an ambitious leopard. ”

Lu Ruoqing smiled lightly: "Don't talk nonsense. ”

"I'm not talking nonsense!" Nian Ying looked at her brother from a distance, puzzled, "Who doesn't know, my brother only has you in his heart!" What's going on crazy about him now? In front of you, I deliberately acted as if I liked my cousin, and I took the wrong medicine. ”

Lu Ruoqing was also puzzled.

Nian Ying snorted angrily: "He will do it!" Aren't you afraid that you will be really angry, turn around and not wait to see him, and turn your head to find a better man to marry? Wait a minute, he'll be too late to cry. ”

Lu Ruoqing said with a smile: "The more you talk, the less ashamed you are." ”

"Originally." Nian Ying hated his brother for not being made of steel, and gritted his teeth and said, "Stupid and stupid!" It's stupid! Since I like you, and I don't rush to show favor to you, are you still going to be friends? ”

Friend? Lu Ruoqing suddenly realized in an instant.

She understood.

Nian Xi, this is a preemptive strike!

He knew that King Huan had taken a fancy to her, and he was afraid that she would reject him with King Huan, so he simply pretended to like Jiang Linyue, saying that he didn't have any excessive thoughts about her. In this way, it is impossible for her to refuse to get along with Nian Xi because she has something to do with King Huan.

After all, Nian Xi showed that he liked Jiang Linyue, so how could she refuse him? It's not uncommon for friends to meet.

---- fool!

"Humph!" Nian Ying snorted angrily: "He's going crazy!" Ruoqing, wait a minute, just ignore him, make him uncomfortable, and go back so angry that he can't eat by himself. ”

Lu Ruoqing's eyes were slightly damp.

"Ruoqing, are you really sad?" Nian Ying rushed to the road.

"Nope." Lu Ruoqing forcibly held back her emotions and shook her head.

"What's wrong?" Nian Xi saw that the situation was not right, ran over, and saw that Lu Ruoqing's eyes were red, and he couldn't help glaring at his sister, "Are you bullying Ruoqing?" Yes? ”

Nian Ying gritted her teeth angrily, "Me? Okay, I'm not going to talk to you anymore. ”

Nian Xi said: "You are not allowed to bully Ruoqing." ”

Nian Ying suddenly shouted, "Brother, you have no conscience, no conscience!" Obviously, you made Ruoqing sad......"

"Alright, don't make a fuss." Lu Ruoqing didn't want Nian Xi to misunderstand, misunderstood that she was sad because she liked him and ate Jiang Linyue's vinegar, so she changed the topic and said: "I just thought that my mother's health was not good, and I thought too much for a while, and I was a little sad." ”

Nian Ying snorted at his brother, "Did you hear that?" Wronged! ”

"That's right." Nian Xi suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Humph! Brother wronged people! Nian Ying was so angry that he grabbed his ears and said viciously: "With your reckless temperament, you are like a stunned young man, Ruoqing doesn't like it." ”

Nian Xi was anxious and embarrassed, grabbed his sister's hand, "What nonsense?!" Shut up. ”

Nian Ying also knew that she had overdone it, and she was a little embarrassed, so she turned her head to Lu Ruoqing and complained: "Ruoqing, you can help me say a few words." Look at my brother, he always bullies me, and a big man is embarrassed. ”

Lu Ruoqing did not speak.

In the air, there was a subtle awkward atmosphere.

Lu Ruoqing didn't want Nian Ying to say more, lest Nian Xi misunderstand, so she forcibly changed the topic, "Didn't you just say that you met my brother?" Why didn't he come? Nian Xi, you go to the study and have a look. ”

About Nian Xi also felt very embarrassed, and immediately said, "Okay, I'll go find Brother Lu." ”

When he had finished speaking, he fled in the wilderness.

"You see, my brother is still very afraid of you." Nian Ying snickered behind him, and said, "My brother said that he came back to accompany me, but who did he actually coax?" I don't want to take the opportunity to accompany you, it's not ......, I'll come over for dinner today. ”

Lu Ruoqing didn't answer her words, but smiled: "You two, you don't have much food at my house?" ”

"Distressed?" Nian Ying looked at her with a smile and said meaningfully: "Oh, when you become my sister-in-law in the future, let my brother give me more dowry gifts, and I will earn it back." ”

"Ah Ying, don't talk nonsense." Lu Ruoqing frowned slightly.

"Ouch, my poor brother." Nian Ying screamed strangely, and said: "It seems that King Xiang has a dream, the goddess has no heart, and my brother's little affection is destined to fall to the east." ”

"You." Lu Ruoqing reluctantly asked for a girl, and then said: "Your cousin is in the pavilion alone, it's not appropriate to leave her, let's go over and talk together." ”

Nian Ying nodded, and the two went to the pavilion together.

Jiang Linyue still looks gentle and demure.

As if I didn't know the embarrassment just now, I didn't feel left out, it was very polite and decent.

Nian Ying said: "Cousin, is my brother a little crazy today? ”

Jiang Linyue shook her head and smiled.

Lu Ruoqing looked at her quietly, her thoughts floating.

I had seen Jiang Linyue a few times in my previous life, but the other party couldn't speak, and his temperament was weak, so he didn't know the other party very well.

I only know that she is the grandniece of the old lady of the British Mansion, because her parents died one after another, and her uncles and aunts were not close, so she grew up in the British Mansion.

Later, ......, Jiang Linyue never married, but became a household scholar.

But even if both parents die, it won't delay her marriage.

Could it be that Jiang Linyue likes Nian Xi in private? Otherwise, how could he cooperate with Nian Xi to act today? Jiang Linyue knew Nian Xi's true intentions, but she still cooperated with Nian Xi to act, she should like him.

Lu Ruoqing fell into deep thought.

If this is really the case, then it is a good thing to fulfill Nian Xi and Jiang Linyue.