Seeing the masked man sitting on the rockery, Yi Yu didn't show any surprise, after all, her eldest brother didn't even shy away from this person when dealing with Fang Qiao's affairs, and the two should not be ordinary friends.

"If you look for my eldest brother, he is in the courtyard on the east side, do you want me to lead the way?" She took two steps under the rockery and looked up.

"No, I don't have an appointment with him." The masked man lowered his head and looked down at her wind-blown face, slightly reddened, with an inconspicuous smile in his eyes.

"Oh, that's uninvited." Yi Yu nodded, looking clear. Because he had been rescued from Mu Changfeng outside the city, he didn't plan to care about what he was hiding on the side just now to watch the excitement.

"Uh..." If he had taken off his mask, his face would have shown some embarrassment, and before he could explain his intentions, he saw Yu Yu bow down at him and bow firmly.

"Last time I saved you, I haven't officially thanked you."

After the masked man chuckled, his tone was a little strange, "You're polite, that's what I should do, and I'm here to find you tonight, and I have something to ask for." ”

Yi Yu didn't appreciate what he meant by "what should be done", straightened up, and said, "What's the matter?" ”

The voice fell, and the figure on the rockery that was high jumped down, the clothes fell, landed lightly, and fluttered forward, the posture was chic, and the jade that was interested in light work, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help asking, and took a porcelain bottle tied with a red rope that he handed over, opened and smelled it.

"Huh?" Isn't this the Qingre Pill she gave to Lu Zhi during the Fifth Academy Art Competition?

"You can also see, I usually come out at night, and if I am not careful, I will catch the cold, last time I got this from your eldest brother by chance, after taking it, it is faster than the decoction, and it is convenient, I asked Lu Zhi for it, he said that you did it, he didn't care," the masked man seemed to be a little embarrassed to speak, paused, and then said:

"If it's convenient, can you help me prepare some of these pills, and if you need any herbs, you just ask."

Yi Yu was much easier to talk than he imagined, nodded at him, and asked directly, "How much do you want?" "This thing is not difficult to make, what is rare is that there are some small methods of medicine in the prescription.

"Two hundred."

The bottle of "......" is only a dozen grains, or she has been pinching them by hand for half an hour, and when will she pinch two hundred grains.

"What? If not, it doesn't matter. ”

Yu Yu shook her head, "When do you want it?" ”

"There's no hurry about this, just wait for you to do it at your leisure, what herbs do you need, I'll write it down - but it's convenient?" The masked man thoughtfully added a question, the secret recipe of the medicine, most of them will not leak the recipe.

"Nothing inconvenient." Even if he told him about the medicine, without Yao Buzhi's personal teaching, even the people from the Imperial Doctor's Department couldn't adjust the effect of the medicine, and Yu Yu told him the six medicinal materials he needed very happily.

"Thank you, I'll send it to Lu Zhi when I get it all when I get around," he reached out and helped the black and white mask, then took out a palm-sized flat brocade box from your arms and handed it over, "This is a deposit." ”

Yi Yu glanced at the exquisite box, but he was not interested in the contents inside, "You are a friend of the eldest brother, and you saved me, and I am not a pharmacy here, so what kind of deposit do you need." ”

"One thing is one thing, if your eldest brother knows that I want you to do a day job, maybe he will do something to me, and this is not a valuable thing." The masked man was afraid that she would still refuse to accept it, so he turned around and put the box on the stone by the rockery, turned his head to look at her, and said softly:

"I'm leaving, it's cold, you can go into the house quickly."

"Alas! You-" Yi Yu raised his hand, stood in place, watched him jump up the rockery, and disappeared into the night after a short breath, and after being depressed for a while, he went to the stone to pick up the brocade box, opened it, and frowned slightly.

On the white silk in the box, there is a jade bracelet lying quietly, and I don't know if it is the effect of the lantern, but it is actually that kind of crystal clear blue, which is really beautiful.

“...... It's strange, how do you seem to have seen it somewhere. ”

She doesn't care much about jewelry, and she can't remember for a while that this bracelet is the blue one she didn't buy because of the high price of a set of butterfly blue jewelry she bought in the East Metropolis in April this year.

On November 12, the long street in front of the Huaiguo Mansion and the two main streets on the side were hung with white silk along the walls, and the whole square was shrouded in a dull atmosphere.

The people who came from all over Chang'an City to mourn stopped their carriages on the streets, walked to the front of the Guogong Mansion, handed over the name stickers and gift lists in the door, and were brought into the mansion by the subordinates.

The mourning hall is located in the spacious front hall, the four doors are all open, the inside and outside are all white silk and black cloth, the crying is endless, every time someone steps into the hall, there is a person in the corner of the house to hit the copper chime, the cry is louder.

There is an offering table in the hall, the long table is full of offerings and incense candles, behind the table is Lu Zhongzhi who entered the coffin in the early morning, and the four senior monks of the actual temple are reciting the sound of the Buddha in the same place, mixed with the cry, accompanied by the smell of incense and candles.

Kneeling on both sides of the hall are the seven members of the Lu family and Cheng Biting Jin and his wife, Yi Yu is wearing the filial piety clothes sewn last night, next to Lu Shuqing, who is twisting the lantern, is sitting on the right side, and on the other side is Cheng Xiaofeng, who is crying. She hung her head, and when she heard the chime, she would bend down and bow to the visitor.

In addition to the three of them in the mourning hall, there were also clansmen in white clothes, and three officials from the Ministry of Rites followed.

"Squire of the military department, Lord Zhou is here."

"Hum—"

In the midst of a cry, the person who came took the three sticks of incense handed by the clan elders, bowed to the coffin, and turned to Lu Rongyuan and Lu Ronghe.

"Brother Lu, mourn."

The two brothers nodded with red eyes, and took turns to ask questions, and then there was a subordinate who was waiting beside him to leave with the squire.

From early morning to noon, high-ranking officials such as the eldest grandson Wuji, Du Ruhui and others, imperial relatives such as the crown prince, King Wu, King Wei and other adult princes, and even Fang Qiao, who was not welcomed, were all put into the door.

On this day, Yi Yu didn't cry less, even if she was not a hypocritical person, she was twice as sentimental as this grand atmosphere, and all she remembered in her heart was the old man, and the arrival of Li Tai and Fang Qiao failed to divert her attention.

But just because she doesn't care doesn't mean others don't care. Li Tai was splashed with tea by her in Beiyuan yesterday, and refused to marry, and was still a little depressed, but today I saw the sad little face in the mourning hall, and the anger was gone, and I was left with stuffiness.

The atmosphere of this first day, at nearly noon, the palace sent a pair of eighteen-character couplets written by the saint himself, reached the extreme, but people ignored the fact that the emperor did not appear in person, and a few people with a heart knew that the Guogong Mansion would no longer have the glory of accompanying the family and the army in the past.

The third princess came in the afternoon and gave a thick gift, she didn't know what happened to the Lu family, and she didn't even look at the two Lu Zhi brothers and sisters, let alone recognize that the jade was the little girl who asked her to find a breath in Fang Qiao in the silk shop in the autumn.

In the first three days, the long street in front of the Guogong Mansion was full of traffic, and on the fifth day, there were few officials above the fifth grade, and until the last day, some distant relatives came from all over the place, and even some old friends who came to Yangzhou after hearing the news.

On November 19th, the sky was fine, the breeze was breezy, there was not much sun, after seven days of condolences, the sky was not yet bright, the cry was far away, and the funeral procession of three miles long and white appeared on the Zhuque East Street of Chang'an City, and the giant coffin of twenty-four was in the middle, and the front and back were a piece of white, and the white paper money flying all over the sky seemed to have fallen a heavy snow in advance in the city.

The team that left the city at dawn did not come back until noon, and the white silk and black cloth in the Huaiguo Mansion and in front of the street had been removed, and even the paper money in front of the door was cleaned.

In the mansion, there are more than 120 banquet guests in front of the house and behind the house, there is no crying and mourning, but the wine glasses are knocking each other, and the guests who come are all those who came to mourn a few days ago.

During the banquet, an edict was sent to the palace, announcing in public that Lu Rongyuan would inherit the Duke of Huaiguo, and he gave some things down. This edict came so quickly that it gave people a strange taste, but no one looked into it.

The banquet in the front yard did not stop, and Yi Yu came out of Chaoyang Courtyard, stood at the gate of the courtyard, glanced at the sky mixed together, the sun was not dazzling, and walked aimlessly to the back garden.

From the coffin to the funeral days, it can be said that the wind and water are smooth, even the family's most worried Mrs. Lu, did not let people worry much, just every day when she was awake, she sat in a daze in the room where the old couple lived before her death, brought food, she ate, served her to bathe, she did not refuse, at night, she obediently went to sleep, quiet and heart-wrenching.

The relationship between the two husbands and wives is very good, if Lu Zhongzhi's death is said, the saddest thing is Lu Shuqing, and the most pitiful is this old lady. Yi Yu envied the incompatible relationship between the husband and wife, but at this time it was desolate, and the two who stayed together like this, in the end, still had to face separation.

Unconsciously walked to the octagonal pavilion in the courtyard, only to find that someone had arrived one step earlier than him, and the two pairs of eyes met at the same time, and the other one smiled first.

"I heard that there are a few early plum trees in the garden of the Guogong Mansion, and I have been painting plum blossoms recently, so I slipped away to find them, and you see, let me find one as soon as I come."

Yi Yu followed his finger and looked at a plum tree on the east side, and saw that the branch was conspicuously showing a cluster of pleasing pink, and blinked, and for the first time in several days, a smile appeared on his face.

"Obviously it was in my house, but it was preempted by Brother Lu."

"Would you like to take me around this garden and see if there is anything else to do?"

"Okay, I remember that under the south wall, there are a few plum trees, you come with me."

This relict jade led Du Ruojin to look for plums in the back garden, but she didn't know that there was a person at the banquet in the front yard who also left the table and came to the backyard to find her. (！ )