Chapter 115: The Last White Post
Over there, Old Man Lu and Lu's father and daughter have already recognized each other. At the same time, Yi Yu, who had just returned to Kun Yuan after lunch, was worried, not because of the math homework that gave her a headache, nor because of the classmates who still came to the door from time to time to let her introduce Lu Zhi to this time, but because of a thing that the maid who guarded the courtyard handed over to her just now.
Flat on the table is a five-inch long sandalwood box with a faint fragrance, in the middle of the box lies a two-inch wide and narrow piece of fine white wood, thicker than ordinary paper, surrounded by gold paint, on which two columns of words are written in an extremely elegant font, one column of books "Lu Yiyu of Guozi Supervision Academy", and one column of books "Wei Wangfu on August 15".
She stretched out two fingers and pinched out the thin piece of wood, and looked at it for a while, trying to convince herself that this was not the post of the legendary Mid-Autumn Festival banquet of King Wei, but the fact was that this thing in her hand looked like the fiery banquet that had been fried in the past few days.
"Ugh." She couldn't help but sigh again, the night banquet or something, she was really allergic.
"Miss, what's wrong with you?" Chen Qu stood aside and watched, and Yi Yu stared at the piece of wood in her hand for at least a quarter of an hour, frowning and sighing for a while, she couldn't help but ask out loud.
"It's okay," Yu Yu said, putting the white piece of wood back into the sandalwood box. Putting it in his sleeve pocket, "Xiaoqu, I'll go out." β
She thought it was better to ask Lu Zhi, tomorrow was August 15, and the day before the banquet, she received this banquet post inexplicably, which didn't look like a good thing.
When he arrived at the courtyard, he asked the doorkeeper to go in and call people, and Yu Yu stood outside the courtyard gate and waited, looking down at the bluestone pavement on the ground, and his mind was still thinking about this post.
"Miss Lu."
Yi Yu looked up and saw Du He standing three steps in front of him, and nodded in response: "Du Gongzi." "This Duhe has been very polite to her since the incident in the little black house, although she is a little familiar, but she doesn't feel annoying.
"You're waiting for Master Lu, right?"
"Hmm."
"I have something to find Miss Lu, I have been writing a little hard recently, I thought that Mr. praised your homework in the last calligraphy class, and I want to borrow it to observe, but it is convenient?"
Du He's smile is very gentle, although his appearance is not as handsome as Du Ruojin, but he also has his brother's three-point temperament, and he looks like fifty percent under a smile.
Yi Yu just thought about it, so she should go, but it was just a lesson to see, she practiced at least three or five times a day, and it was not a rare thing.
Seeing that he agreed, Du He didn't stay long, turned around and entered the Kun Courtyard, and happened to meet Lu Zhi who had just come out of it. The two of them just nodded and missed.
"What's wrong?" After returning to the hospital after lunch, he was going to take a nap, but before he could lie down in his clothes, his little sister came over.
Yi Yu reached out and pulled Lu Zhi's sleeve, pulling him to a nearby remote corner before speaking.
"Brother, what does your red sticker look like?" She still had a fluke mentality, hoping that the banquet in the box was just someone who was taking the opportunity to play tricks on her.
Lu Zhi directly took out a two-folded magenta paper from his sleeve pocket and handed it to her, Yi Yu took it and looked at it carefully, and a smile gradually appeared on her face, although this red post was gorgeous, and there were a lot of gold and silver edges, but it was not similar to the wood chip she received, and even the words written on it were not very different.
Yi Yu smiled and handed him the post again, "Here, it's okay, I'll go back." She said, this banquet is so important, why did she send another one out when she came to the door, if she believed it, she would go to the palace to attend the banquet at that time. Maybe someone was arrested for taking a fake post to make up the numbers.
She turned around to leave, but was hooked back by Lu Zhi with one hand, "How to do things unclear, tell me, why do you want to read this post?" β
Yi Yu sighed lightly, and muttered as he took out the sandalwood box from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Lu Zhi, "It's nothing, it's just that someone asked the servant woman to transfer this thing to me, and it looks quite like that, I almost believed it, who did you say this was the idea, get a fake post for me, and when it comes toββ"
Before she could say anything, she was interrupted by Lu Zhi, "This is a white post sent by Wei Wangfu this time, it's true." "There were three people on their side who had received the white sticker, and he knew the authenticity of the handwriting on the white sticker as soon as he recognized it.
Yi Yu opened her mouth slightly, and only squeezed out two words at a moment, "Really?" β
Lu Zhi nodded, then frowned and said: "Why did you send a white post again at this time, it was still sent to you, although there are three women in the twenty-three white posts that have been sent, but those are all famous talented women in Chang'an City, how can it not be your turn." β
Yi Yu was still nodding when she heard the words in front, but she rolled her eyes slightly when she got to the back, of course she knew that it wouldn't be her turn, but she didn't have to say it so directly.
So she couldn't help but say sourly: "Big brother, unless there is another person named Lu Yiyu in this academy, I'm afraid it's your little sister and me." β
Lu Zhi didn't care about her weird voice, and put the post in the box and handed it to her. "Put it away, and go to the banquet with me tomorrow."
"Huh?"
Lu Zhi raised his eyebrows, "What, don't want to go?" β
"Naturally, I don't want to go, do you say that the people who are here for the banquet were all chosen by the King of Wei, how can you count me well."
Lu Zhi's eyes flashed, and he explained: "It's not all, some of the people who received the posts ten days in advance should have been personally selected by His Royal Highness, most of them received the posts five days before the banquet, and it was the first time I heard of you who received them the day before... Well, it's useless to think so much about the posts. β
"I still feel that something is wrong," Yi Yu pursed her mouth and said coquettishly: "Big brother, can't you not go, just when I don't receive it?" β
Faced with her rare coquettishness, Lu Zhi didn't blink, looked at her lightly, and asked, "Do you say it's okay?" β
Yi Yu's face fell, of course she knew that if she didn't go, she couldn't push a princess's night banquet, but now it was a banquet organized by a powerful prince, and she was officially posted by name.
"Okay," Lu Zhi reached out and pinched her wrinkled little face. "Isn't it good to go with my eldest brother, I also went to this Mid-Autumn Festival banquet once last year, it's still very interesting, you don't have to do anything at that time, the Wei Wangfu is not as good as the banquet in Gaoyang, no one dares to be presumptuous."
Yi Yu thought about this matter in her heart, couldn't catch the signs, listened to Lu Zhi comfort her like this, and remembered what happened in the tea house at noon yesterday, her heart was suddenly certain, and she said to him at the moment: "Since you must go." Big brother, just tell me what you planned yesterday, and I can help you then. β
He shook his head and said: "No, you just have to watch the scenery and enjoy the moon when you get there, there are not so many rules at the Mid-Autumn Festival, the atmosphere is very relaxed, and no one forces you to do anything." β
Yi Yu didn't expect him to refuse, and at the same time he was puzzled, he also felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, feeling as if he had been excluded.
But this discomfort is only fleeting, she has never interfered too much in Lu Zhi's affairs, if he needs help, she will not refuse, but if he refuses her help, she will not force it.
"Okay."
Seeing her respond, Lu Zhi also had a smile on his face, but Yi Yu didn't know why, and had a strange premonition in her heart, this banquet would definitely not be as easy as her eldest brother said.
***
In the evening, the maid who guarded the door of the Kun Courtyard came to knock on the door, and only at noon did she receive the white pasted jade, and when she saw the servant, she wanted to frown, for fear that she would bring something strange to herself.
"Miss Lu, someone is looking for you at the back door of the hostel." Fortunately, this time the servant woman had just come to deliver a message.
Yi Yu put down the scroll in her hand, wondering who would come to her at this time, "Who is it?" β
"I didn't say it, it was the porter's message."
"Well, I'll go."
The widow who went out was still guessing who was coming, and when he walked to the door of the dormitory, he saw a person walking in the direction of the courtyard opposite, and when he saw his face closely, the two looked at each other, and opened his mouth at the same time:
"Someone looking for you?"
After asking, they were all stunned, and then they turned around and walked out of the gate together, and as the night fell, under the light of the four lanterns on the door, the two saw at a glance the figure standing by the carriage across the street, and hurriedly greeted them.
"Mother!"
"Mother, why are you here?"
The person on the side of the carriage was the Lu family who had just arrived from Longquan Town, and she hadn't seen each other for nearly half a month, and she was holding a pair of children, while reaching out and pulling the two of them, and then looking up and down in the light not far away.
"Mother has something to do with you - Yu'er, why do you lose so much weight?" Lu Shi frowned and reached out to touch his daughter's little face.
Yu Yu experienced that danger ten days ago. Even after drinking the bitter medicine for two days, I didn't know how to eat for a few days, and it was at night at night, and it did look very thin, but this Central Plains Lu didn't know anything about it.
"Mother, I haven't seen you for more than ten days, of course you'll be thin, it seems that you have to ask my brother to paint a portrait of you, and my daughter will take it with me, it's better than thinking that you can't eat even if you want to." Yi Yu said a little aggrieved, reached out to wrap her arms around her mother's waist, and buried her little face in her chest, she has never been stingy and coquettish about the Lu family.
Although this is an exaggeration, Lu Shi is comfortable when he hears it, his eyebrows and eyes are smiling, he gently caresses her back with one hand, but he jokes in his mouth: "It's your mother's fault that you're hungry and thin." β
"Isn't it?"
The mother and daughter were sticky, and Lu Zhi opened his mouth a few times on the side but didn't find a chance to interject, so he coughed lightly to interrupt their intimacy, "Mother, what is it that requires you to come here so late?" β
Lu Shi smiled on his face, patted Yi Yu's back twice and pushed her away, and swept back and forth on the faces of the two, "Let's get in the car and talk." β
"Hmm."
Lu Zhi lifted the curtain with one hand, stretched out his other hand and planned to help Lu Shi up first, the afterglow swept in the car, and his eyes narrowed suddenly. This carriage is not more spacious than the carriage in Longquan Town in the past, with a chandelier glowing yellow hanging at each corner of the car, and a person sits in the car, a sixty-year-old man with white hair.
"Big brother?" Yi Yu stood on the side of the carriage and didn't see any movement in the carriage, seeing that Lu Zhi stopped moving, he shouted.
Lu Shi looked at his son's expression a little nervously, and when he saw him let go and put down the curtain again, he hurriedly grabbed his arm, "Zhi'er, let's get in the car first, okay?" β
Lu Zhi turned his head to look at his mother's somewhat blurred face in the night, and some inexplicable emotions flashed in his eyes, "Okay." He reached out and lifted the curtain again, then helped Lu to sit inside.
After that, he turned to Yi Yu, who was about to open his mouth to ask, and said, "Get in the car and talk about it." β
***
There were four people sitting in the spacious carriage, and Yi Yu sat next to Lu Shi, listening to the very organized narration of the old man with a serious face who was sitting on it, his face was expressionless like Lu Zhi, but his heart was churning like a stormy wave, and he pinched his thigh from time to time to make sure that it was not a dream.
Lu Zhongzhi told the story of the year before and after, and it was not until he finished speaking that the carriage fell silent again. Yi Yu hung his head and couldn't see the expression on his face, Lu Zhi looked at Old Man Lu with an expressionless face, and Lu Shi swept them back and forth twice, not knowing how to open his mouth to break the somewhat dull silence.
The old and the young looked at each other like this for a long time, and Lu Zhi's somewhat flat voice sounded, "You're done?" β
Lu Zhongzhi probably expected that this grandson would be difficult, and he didn't get angry because of his disrespectful attitude, "Well, that's the case, grandpa hopes you can come home." β
Lu Zhi didn't answer him, turned his head to look at Lu Shi and asked, "What does Mother mean?" β
Lu originally thought that no matter how many children recognized her father, she would recognize her, but when Lu Zhi asked at this time, she was a little at a loss.
After squeaking for a long time, she replied: "Zhi'er, your grandfather was also forced to do things back then, you, you ......" The word "you" was said several times, and her voice gradually became quieter.
"Mother, you mean, are you going back?"
Lu Shi looked up at her father, Lu Zhongzhi didn't control it for a while, her eyes widened, she dared to lose her temper if she didn't admit it, but she didn't want to be stared at by him like this, Lu Shi suddenly became angry, she was not a person who hid words, because she cared too much about the child, and now she fell into the dilemma of father and son, and was feeling a headache, her father threatened her with his eyes again, and then raised his head and said to Lu Zhi:
"Mother listens to you."
Lu Zhongzhi was almost angry with her, he had already seen Lu Jun at noon, and after listening to his explanation, the kid only said one sentence - "I listen to my eldest brother." β
A faint smile suddenly appeared on Lu Zhi's face, and he turned his head to look at Old Man Lu.
But this smile fell in Lu Zhongzhi's eyes, but it was not so tasteful, there was a kind of provocation, and suddenly his face darkened, and he said in a deep voice: "Do you still have rules in this family, and you have to listen to the words of the kid as a mother!" β
On weekdays, if Old Man Lu loses his temper like this at home, his children and subordinates will fall to their knees, but the three people in this carriage are not afraid of him, one looks at him with a light smile, one turns his face away, and the other lowers his head and does not say a word.
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