In the next few days, Qiu Lulan ignored Jiang Yashuang's invitation, but took the initiative to call Zhuang Man out to play for a few days.

But there was no trace of Qiu Feng in the middle, and one day she casually mentioned it to Ruan Ciyi, Ruan Ciyi suddenly smiled and leaned back: "Do you really believe in your brother?" Haven't you been running outside for the past two days? The autumn wind carried a pot of wine from early in the morning, and lay on the tree by the pond to drink all day, and even the meal was shouted by the next person before coming down to use. Every day I open the window upstairs here and I can see it...... Can he still follow you? ”

Qiu Yulan suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "I know that my brother doesn't hurt me anymore!" Lie to me like this! ”

"It's also that you're not clever enough!" Ruan Ciyi pounced on her with a silk fan, and said idly, "Didn't you say it yourself?" When the autumn wind came over this time, his temperament changed greatly, and your brother clearly told you that he had something on his mind...... Under such circumstances, how could he have the heart to be sent by your brother? I think he's just here to relax! ”

"Anyway, my brother is so annoying!" Qiu Yulan was angry, "I'll go find him to theorize!" ”

"Wait!" Seeing that she was about to run away, Ruan Ciyi quickly grabbed her eyes and hand, and said angrily, "The day after tomorrow is Halloween, you haven't matched your clothes and jewelry until now, and you still want to go?" Sit down! Listen to me! ”

Qiu Yulan sat back with a bitter face and complained: "Big cousin, don't you think that you are becoming more and more fierce like your brother now?" ”

"Oh, that's what your brother said." Ruan Ciyi asked someone to bring over Qiu Yulan's newly made dresses, jewelry boxes or something, and said casually, "He said that you eat hard and not soft, it's useless to talk to you well, and you won't listen if you are not fierce!" ”

"......" Qiu Yulan secretly spat out a mouthful of blood, "I'm definitely not his own sister!" "Is there such a pit sister!

Ruan Ciyi stuffed a skirt and a few pieces of jewelry into her arms, glared and said, "You are the one he picked, this will also give me the first to put these on!" ”

From then until the evening of the day before the Halloween Festival, in addition to eating and sleeping and other necessary things, Qiu Yulan was constantly trying on dresses, matching jewelry, and choosing makeup under the supervision of Ruan Ciyi...... Ruan Ciyi even called the tailors over and made all kinds of changes to Qiu Yulan's new clothes, in order to be unique among the many nobles.

"Don't think these are subtleties!" Finally set the clothes for the day of the birthday and spare clothes, Ruan Ciyi watched Qiu Yulan lying on the couch without any image and refused to get up, and said seriously, "Three generations of officials know how to dress and eat!" Although it is superficial to judge people by their appearance and only pay attention to their clothes, most of the people in the world are superficial! Wouldn't it be much cleaner if you were well-dressed and could have listened to countless sneers? ”

Qiu Yulan said weakly: "Where can you be clean?" Not to mention, those people in the Gu family must be waiting to clean me up! ”

"What are you afraid of!" Ruan Ciyi disagreed, "You are the lord of the county, and the only girl in the scene who can suppress you is the princess - the serious princess is under the hands of the queen!" The queen's favorite nephew is Jiang Nineteen, which golden branch and jade leaf would be stupid enough to take the initiative to offend you? As for the Princess Shou'an of the Gu family, doesn't the Jiang family also have a Chunfu princess? You just keep up with her! ”

Qiu Lulan got up: "It's not that I'm afraid, I just think that someone is going to make trouble, as for tossing and dressing up like this?" ”

"What is a toss!" The senior lady was annoyed, "Do you think that Hallomy is a family banquet for ordinary people?" This is the second major celebration you participated in after your filial piety - the last time the queen's Qianqiu Festival was disturbed, if this is the first time you have shown your face at the celebration, especially now that you are still the quasi-daughter-in-law of the Jiang family! I'm dressing you up like this, not for those people in the Gu family, but for your future concubines and sisters-in-law! Do you understand?! ”

“…… I was wrong! Seeing that Ruan Ciyi had a tendency to open up her posture and teach herself a lesson, Qiu Yulan decisively relented!

Fortunately, after the all-round noble lady guidance class in the past two days, Ruan Ciyi was also tired, and waved her hand to let people put away the dress and jewelry that she picked out: "Take it, this set of begonia red is to be worn early tomorrow, and the others are brought to replace in case of accidents...... Have you memorized everything I told you? ”

"Remember it all!" Qiu Yulan said busily.

Ruan Ciyi asked her to "take it over", but instead of taking back the room where she and Ruan Ciyi were separated by a corridor, she went back to the Beiye Fangfei Pavilion in the Xihe Palace-after all, the Ruan family is now in vain, and Qiu Yulan usually lives here and no one cares, and tomorrow she will go to congratulate His Majesty on his birthday, but the day before she lived in a mourning home, and it will always be a trouble if someone is exposed.

Moreover, as an unmarried woman, unless she is called alone, there must be someone to lead her when she enters the palace to celebrate. The Ruan family has no one to take her now, and if she doesn't go back to the Fangfei Pavilion, she can't go to the Jiang family to join in the fun, right? This is also too unreserved!

…… In March, Qiu Yuqing died, and it is said that Qiu Yulan and these people will also serve her for nine months. But because Qiu Yuqing "intended to assassinate Deng Yi and marry his mother's family" and thus brought about her own destruction, after the case was decided, Qiu Mengmin naturally expelled her from the Qiu family and did not recognize this sister!

In this way, there is no need for the Xihe Royal Mansion to hold a funeral......

Don't talk about this, just say that when Qiu Yulan entered the hall in the last rays of the sunset, Qiu Jinzhu was already waiting behind the door.

Seeing that she was busy saluting: "Fifth sister! ”

"What's wrong with you?" Qiu Yulan has been living in the Ruan family since Qiu Jinglan's assassination, and she has never seen this cousin in the middle, which will at first glance, she feels that she seems to have grown a lot taller, and her facial features are more delicate, but her well-behaved look is still difficult to hide the anger in her eyes, so she still asked coldly.

Qiu Jinzhu said softly: "It's just that I haven't seen the fifth sister for some days, and I heard that the fifth sister is coming back today, so I came to greet her." ”

"That's hard work for you." Seeing that she was only attentive and didn't talk about things, she didn't ask questions, so she said lightly and asked, "Has my house been cleaned?" ”

"It's been cleaned up a long time ago." Qiu Jinzhu said busily.

But when she arrived at the place, Qiu Yulan frowned, not that Qiu Jinzhu deceived her, but: "Didn't I live in the small courtyard on the northeast corner last year?" How did you bring me to your place? ”

"It was repaired here before, so I was wronged that the fifth sister lived there temporarily, and this year it was all cleaned up, of course my sister lives here." Qiu Jinzhu said weakly.

During the summer vacation last year, Princess Yang deliberately allocated a damp and stuffy courtyard in the northeast corner to Qiu Yulan to live under the pretext that many empty courtyards in the Fangfei Pavilion needed to be repaired and not easy to live in, but Qiu Jinzhu occupied the large courtyard that could have lived in several county lords in the other industry - Qiu Jinglan also quickly bought the Green Snow Villa because of this.

Before that, he and Ruan Ciyi were both invited by the Xue family to live together in a vacant other business of the Xue family.

And this year is different from last year, whether it is Qiu Jinglan's life experience or the favor of the Jiang family, it has made Qiu Mengmin and his wife lose the courage to embarrass Qiu Lulan. Now Qiu Jinzhu is obviously here to repair it - and she is not the only one, because of the situation outside the gate of the courtyard where the two sisters are standing, Ding Qinghong came and said to Qiu Yulan affectionately: "The fifth sister is here?" I just sent someone to water the flower garden outside your door - a few crape myrtles in the flower garden are newly planted, I don't know if you like it or not? ”

Qiu Jinzhu frowned when she saw this, and said, "Sister-in-law, why are you here?" I've always lived here, and I'll take my fifth sister to see it. ”

"The mother concubine took Feng'er over to raise her, and I was idle and fine, so I went around." Ding Qinghong smiled on her face, but her expression was a little unnatural when she mentioned "Feng'er", obviously she was not as willing as she seemed on the surface for Princess Yang to take away Qiufeng to raise.

Qiu Jinzhu heard this, and snorted lightly: "The mother concubine has handed over all the things at home to you, you have to take care of the entire backyard, how can you take care of Feng'er?" The mother concubine is also for your good! ”

"I think so too!" Ding Qinghong smiled lightly, "You said this as if I was complaining about my mother, I don't dare to bear this charge - don't pull the fifth sister to talk at the door, come in!" ”

Qiu Jinglan's injuries are not all healed, and tomorrow's Wanshou Festival will definitely not be peaceful, at this moment, he has no time to care about the turbulent undercurrents in the Xihe Palace, followed Ding Qinghong into the courtyard, saw that there was nothing wrong with the accommodation arranged for him, said a few words, and sent the guests with tea.

Ding Qinghong seemed to have something to say to her, but because she didn't have the opportunity, she had to leave with regret.

Early the next morning, before dawn, Qiu Lulan was shouted by Su He, and according to the procedure explained by Ruan Ciyi before, he bathed and changed clothes first, and then freshened up. After cleaning up, a little pastry was used, and Princess Yang also sent someone over: "The princess, the eldest young lady, and the six county lords have all been cleaned up, and how are the five county lords doing?" ”

"I'm fine too." Qiu Yulan stood up, Chun Ran and the others hurriedly took the spare clothes, hairpin rings and the like, and followed out to the flower hall where Princess Yang and the others were.

In addition to the people who were mentioned, there is actually a concubine Bian who has been deliberately ignored here, dressed up in a fancy way, with a good complexion, and it can be seen that she has been very proud in the past two years.

"Is it okay? Let's go, then. When Princess Yang saw Qiu Lulan coming in, she returned the lion cat on her lap to Qiu Jinzhu and got up.

"Mother, will you let the fifth sister and your daughter-in-law share the car in a while?" Everyone just agreed, and Ding Qinghong suddenly said, "The fifth sister participated in the Halloween Festival for the first time, and there may be something I don't know, so my daughter-in-law can tell her about it." ”

Princess Yang frowned when she heard this, and said, "Miss Ruan was a frequent visitor to the palace back then, why do you want to worry about this?" ”

"Princess Niangniang, that's not what she said." Ding Qinghong was rushed off the stage, Concubine Bian's eyes flashed, and she suddenly smiled, "Miss Ruan is an outsider, she mentioned the five county lords, and she mentioned them." We can't just leave everything at that, right? Besides, Miss Ruan hasn't been back to Beijing for many years, how can the young lady know about the characters at the palace banquet today, right? ”

Princess Yang had nothing to answer, so she had to glare at her fiercely, flicked her sleeves and left: "Let it be!" ”

Ding Qinghong gave Concubine Bian a grateful look, stepped forward to hold Qiu Yulan, who seemed to be smiling, and whispered: "Good sister, sister-in-law begs you something, I hope you will do it!" ”

"Feng'er?" Qiu Yulan guessed it.

“…… Precisely! Ding Qinghong bit her lower lip, and then pleaded, "I heard that the concubine often treats him badly after people, so I'm really not at ease!" Ask my sister to say a few words for me so that I can raise him myself! ”

Knowing that Qiu Hongzhi and this cousin not only have a bad relationship, but the two have even had a fight, Ding Qinghong is not ambiguous, "As long as my sister helps me with this, if there is a dispatch in the future, I will never refuse!" ”

"I'll talk about it later." Qiu Yulan has focused on Qiu Jinglan's recovery in the past few months, and she doesn't know the recent situation of Xihe Palace, so she naturally refuses to agree to her easily.

Ding Qinghong sighed secretly when she saw this, so she had to say, "Then I'll tell my sister about the ...... of Halloween."