Early in the morning, two ordinary-looking carriages were parked at the back door of the Chengyuan Building. The courtyard door was opened, and three figures in hooded cloaks stepped out and got into the carriage separately.

After Yi Yu sat in the car, he put down his hood, lifted the corner of the curtain, and looked at Lu Shi, who also showed a small half of his face at the curtain, in the other car opposite, for a while, and as the two carriages slowly drove away, they lowered the curtain.

Yi Yu took off his cloak and threw it aside, and complained to Lu Zhi while arranging his hair: "This is just like being a thief." ”

Lu Zhi stretched out his hand and tugged at the strap under his neck, and said with a smile: "No way, it's not like night at this time, and it is inevitable to guess something when you are seen." ”

Yi Yu looked at his smile, pondering their conversation after breakfast, the two ancestors and grandsons didn't know what they discussed last night, Lu Zhongzhi, who was still eager to let them recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors, actually changed his words, and proposed to strictly abide by the relationship between them to the outside world, and they couldn't meet easily in the future, she could see that there was a faint reluctance in the eyes of Old Man Lu before they left.

Although Lu looked at her father's eyes with reluctance, but there was no nostalgia, and after staying in this Chengyuan Building for one night, Yu Yu could see that the Lu family's maiden family was not down. On the contrary, life is very good, but Lu's attitude in the morning has already made it clear that she does not plan to live that kind of life again, or rather, she does not want to rely on her mother's family to live this kind of life.

In her heart, no matter how good the Lu family's family is, it is someone else's, these do not belong to them, not to mention that the relationship between them must be strictly guarded externally, there is no difference between this relative and not, the farther away from that Chengyuan Building, the more she feels as if what happened last night has not happened at all.

When the meritorious Huaiguo Gong was her grandfather, and the emperor's minister of the humerus was her father, these things were like an illusory dream, and the most real thing was that there was only one of them.

"Huh?" Lu Zhi was about to put the cloak aside, suddenly touched a bulge on the inside, turned it over and saw that there was a pocket sewn on the inside of the cloak, he took out a pouch from it, untied it, there were several expensive tickets neatly stacked inside, unfolded and counted, a total of ten denominations of one hundred taels, printed with the seal number of the Tongtian Cabinet Workshop.

Yi Yu looked at it from the side, took the cloak that she had just thrown aside, and also found a purse containing a valuable ticket on it. The denomination is also one thousand taels.

The brother and sister glanced at each other, and Yi Yu put the expensive ticket back into his pocket and handed it to Lu Zhi, "Big brother, what does this mean." ”

Lu Zhi didn't answer, and replied lightly: "Take it, you take this as compensation." After saying that, he closed his eyes and leaned against the wall of the car and pretended to sleep.

Compensate? Yi Yu stared at the purse in his hand for a long time, and then went back and handed it over to the Lu family for safekeeping, and in the future, when the silver was enough, it would be better to change the house to live in.

***

After school in the morning, Yi Yu was not in a hurry to leave the teaching room, Lu Zhi had greeted her before, and if she was not with her at noon, she planned to sit in the teaching house for a while, and then go over when there were fewer people in the sweet taste.

Also kept in the school hall were Changsun Xian and two or three other students, who sat in the back chatting, and Yu Yu flipped through the books, and from time to time he could hear their loud words.

"Miss Changsun, aren't you coming in the afternoon?"

"Well, there will be a banquet at the end of the day, and if you come to school, I'm afraid you won't have time to prepare."

"Alas, it's really enviable. Tell us about that feast tomorrow. ”

"Hmm."

After they chatted for a while, two people left the school hall one after another, and the eldest grandson Xian did not go with them, and after packing up the book bag, she waited until there were only two people left in the school house before walking to the seat of the left jade.

"Miss Lu."

Yi Yu glanced up at her, put down the scroll and stood up, "Miss Eldest Sun, what's the matter?" ”

Changsun Xian chuckled: "It's just a word, yesterday after school, I went to the actual temple to see Princess Gaoyang, she asked me to say hello to you, saying that she was waiting for her to chant Buddha out of the tower, and I will invite you to get together." ”

Yi Yu's face did not change, but she was depressed for a while, she almost forgot about this princess, this Princess Gao Yang was thrown to Nimota for more than a month, it is now the middle of August, and in October, Gao Yang should return to school, and I don't know if she will trouble her.

She looked directly at Changsun Xian, and did not answer, but asked with a puzzled face, "Is it?" But before I entered the school, didn't the princess already enter the tower to pray for blessings, and how did she know that Miss Eldest Sun could send a message to me? ”

Eldest Sun Xian's smile remained unchanged, "Oh, I told her about your enrollment, and you also know that the tower is very deserted, and the princess is very active, so it's rare for me to go to see her and not tell her some interesting things." She is not attached. ”

The implication is to tell her things as "interesting things", and Yi Yu also showed a smile on her face, "I see, I heard that the idle people disturbed the princess to concentrate on chanting Buddha, so the outside of the Nemo Tower is heavily guarded, but Miss Changsun can still enter the tower to relieve the princess's boredom, it seems that the actual temple is not as strict as it is rumored outside." ”

Eldest Sun Xian's smile stiffened slightly, she didn't expect Yi Yu to reply like this. Nemota is indeed heavily guarded, and the emperor's will is to let Gao Yang concentrate on chanting the Buddha without anyone disturbing him. She was able to go in because she took her father's brand, and those guards naturally didn't dare to stop it, and this matter was nothing at worst, but at worst, those guards were derelict in their duties, and she was suspected of violating the will.

Yi Yu noticed that her expression was wrong, and sneered in her heart, if she had endured it before, she would have endured it, but since she was stunned by them and thrown into the hut, and almost gave half her life, she was already sober, and too much forbearance could not be exchanged for the moderation of these noble girls.

She didn't have to think much to know that Eldest Sun Xian didn't say anything good about herself in front of Gao Yang, and the princess already looked at her unpleasantly, and was provoked again. came out to make trouble for her, no matter why this eldest grandson wanted to think of a way to block her, she would never sit still.

Changsun Xian looked at the little girl in front of her, not like in the past, bowing her head and bowing down to make people look unreal, because she was half a head lower than herself, so she raised her chin slightly to look at her, and there was a modest smile on her plain and fair little face, and you could find that the pair of hook jade eyes were calm, obviously three years younger than her, and she was from a common people, but at this moment. It made her not have the slightest sense of superiority.

In an instant, Changsun Xian put away the slightly stiff smile on her face, and said coldly: "Miss Lu, I have already brought my words, as for what you think, it is all your business." ”

Yi Yu quietly watched her turn around and leave the schoolhouse, and her sharp eyes saw her clenched fist hanging by her side, and only after her figure disappeared did she tilt her head and chuckle, this eldest grandson, no matter how heavy her mind is, she is still a sixteen-year-old girl.

***

Changsun Xian didn't come to class in the afternoon, but Yi Yu, who was also going to participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival Night Banquet, honestly listened to a lesson in the teaching room, and there was still half an hour of time for her to make up, so she was not worried about the lack of time.

After Zhong Ming, she carried her bookbag back to Kunyuan alone, Lu Zhi made an appointment with her in advance to meet at the back of the dormitory, because she had been confessed before, Yu Yu did not deliberately dress plain, and chose a goose-yellow tunics skirt with an apricot narrow-sleeved silk shirt, the material is not excellent, after all, there was no preparation in advance, in addition to the regular clothes, she only brought a few sets of clothes in this yellow is suitable for tonight's occasion.

After Chen Qu combed her hair, and after choosing hairpin rings and pinning them one by one, he stood aside and couldn't help but admire: "Miss, you are so good-looking." ”

Yiyu looked at herself in the mirror, delicate but not cumbersome plum blossom hanging bun, forehead hair combed sideways, revealing a smooth forehead and clear eyebrows, although a plain face was not powdered, but the skin of a little girl at this age is delicate and lubricated, and there is no need for too much carving.

Girls have a love for beauty, and she is no exception, but now she looks like a twelve- or thirteen-year-old, even if she is beautiful, she is still a little girl in her heart. So that she can't have any thoughts about dressing up.

"Miss, the hour is coming, you better hurry up and change your clothes."

"Hmm."

After changing her clothes, Chen Qu accompanied her to the back door of the dormitory to look for Lu Zhi, it was already the time they had made an appointment, but there was no trace of him at the back door, and they waited for another quarter of an hour before they saw a carriage coming from afar.

No sooner had the carriage stopped than the curtain was lifted from the inside, and a red figure jumped out of the carriage, and the man glanced towards the door of the lodge, and strode towards them.

"Miss Lu?" Someone came to him, and Yi Yu couldn't help but secretly praise, what a bright and beautiful woman in men's clothes, compared to Miss Feng, who also wore men's clothes that day, although this person is tall, but his plump figure can make people distinguish men and women at a glance, and that bright face is also heroic because of the owner's flying bearing.

"Well, you're?"

"I'll pick you up for your eldest brother, let's talk on the way." The girl in Danyi grabbed her hand and was about to leave, but Yu Yu shook it lightly twice.

"Miss, my eldest brother said he would come and pick me up himself." She still remembered the lesson of the little black room, and even if she had a good impression of this person, she would not follow the stranger casually.

The girl in Danyi grinned, her eyes curled, "You are cautious," said as she took out a lotus bag from her sleeve and handed it to her, "Your eldest brother said that if you don't come with me, I will show you this." ”

Yi Yu took the lotus bag and looked at it, it was embroidered by her years ago, one of the Lu family brothers, Lu Zhi has always been placed close to his body, so that this girl can get it, obviously he handed it over by himself.

"It's indeed his, so let's go."

The girl in Danyi then stretched out her hand again and pulled her towards the carriage, and when the two were done in the carriage, the carriage turned its head and gradually drove towards its purpose.

"I don't know what Miss is called?" Yi Yu politely asked the name of the girl in the red clothes.

"What Miss is not Miss, I am a few years older than you, you are Ah Zhi's sister, it is not an exaggeration to call me Sister Xiaofeng, I will be the same as Ah Zhi, call you Xiaoyu." The girl took a bite and a Zhi, it sounded that the relationship between the two was not ordinary, and Yi Yu thought of the few people she saw in the Yunjing Tea Club that day, and these people seemed to be her eldest brother's friends.

The girl had a smile in her eyes, her attitude was kind and not like a fake, Yu Yu was not polite anymore, and said with a smile: "Okay, then Xiaoyu will call you Sister Xiaofeng." She likes this kind of direct character very much, and unlike the kind of self-acquaintance that is deliberately pretended, this girl's temperament is indeed straightforward.

Her generous attitude obviously won the favor of the other party, and the girl in Danyi patted her shoulder with one hand, "You are really a good girl as Lu Jun said." ”

Yi Yu sighed secretly, how could it be Lu Jun again, how many people did her second brother tell about her......

"Sister Xiaofeng and my second brother know each other?"

"Naturally I know, that kid is interesting, haha, I remember our first acquaintance, or because he had a fight with my little brother, and I came to the door to find a scene, he actually said that he wouldn't beat women, and he was so big, and he blushed and asked me to call back, and then your eldest brother came back..."

The girl's eyebrows fluttered and she talked about the experience of not knowing each other, and Yu Yu couldn't laugh or cry when she listened to it, how could her second brother be like a troublemaker, and Lu Zhi didn't know how much trouble he had cleaned up after him.

The carriage drove very fast, less than two quarters of an hour to the Yankang Fang, where the Wei Wangfu was located, the night fell, when the Yu got off the car, the sky above the head had been dimmed, but the street outside the palace was very bright in the reflection of dozens of lanterns, two majestic stone lions squatted outside the door, the main entrance of the palace was open to the vermilion gate of more than six zhang high, and the high giant plaque hung with the strong and powerful "Wei Wangfu" three words.

Outside the door, there were four rows of twelve guards with swords straddled at their waists, and in each of the three caves stood two eunuchs with dark brown footless heads.

Yi Yu and the girl in Danyi walked towards the gate together, both of them took the banquet post in their hands, exactly the same fine white wood chips, the eunuch took it and examined it carefully before returning it to them, and another palace lady stepped forward to guide them.

There are no people in the front yard except for some solemn guards, and I think it is also, the palace is so big, there are only more than 30 banquet posts, plus those with relatives and friends, that is, fifty or sixty people.

Gong E took them left and right, all the way through the two courtyards and three corridors, Yi Yu gradually heard the sound of human voices and the faint sound of the piano, about to walk to the end of the flower gallery, at first glance saw a bright light, eyes to adapt to the brightness, only to see the scene in front of him clearly.

The black and smooth stone slab Lu face extends far forward, seven or eight zhang away only to see the mahogany carved dwarf case on the long carpet of autumn color group flowers, five steps one, about thirty or forty sheets, only fine wine and no delicacies are set on the case, hundreds of square-shaped lanterns are densely hung in the air of the banquet, there is a water pavilion with exquisite shape on the sparkling lake in the distance, there is no light candle in the pavilion, the white yarn hangs down around the beam, and slowly flutters with the breeze on the lake surface.

(It's going to be late for the third watch, it's estimated that it's going to be twelve o'clock, you are sleepy, wash and sleep, and have a good dream) (!) )