Chapter Twenty-Nine: No-show
She followed Li Yi to a bamboo house located at the back of the Li ancestral hall, which was very empty, with only a few tables of eight immortals and a dozen matching bamboo chairs.
There are two pots on each table. One pot is tea for children to drink, and one pot is wine for adults to taste.
At the moment, there are a lot of people in the house, and Li Li is also among them. When she saw Li Yi coming back, she hurriedly greeted her.
Li Yi also happened to have something to say to her, so he beckoned her to go outside the door to talk.
Jin Yunlan stood at the door, facing the house, and met the line of sight with Li Tang not far away, and then was quickly ushered into the seat by Li Qiang
Li Yi stood outside the door and looked at Jinyunlan in the room with concern. After seeing her like a fish in water among a group of children, he relaxed and talked to Li Li.
He said: "This matter is my brother's own opinion, you don't have to care." I will explain the situation to my people. ”
Li Li shook her head: "It's okay. Actually, I understand what he does. That girl is from the Jinyun tribe after all. He's just worried about you, afraid you'll get hurt. ”
Li Yi said: "It seems that he has nothing to talk to you about." ”
Li Li smiled bitterly: "He just saw that my two families lived close to each other and asked me to spit out his bitterness, and he didn't mean anything else." ”
Li Yi disagreed: "You don't have to help him. What he's doing today is really not authentic. I think I should give him a punch. He could figure it out. ”
Li Li lowered her head, and the grievances and sadness that she had endured for a long time appeared on her face. She frowned, tears overflowed from the corners of her eyes, and she sobbed, "I want to beat him too." ”
Li Yi looked back and glared at his brother fiercely, his sudden operation today caused the two girls to cry one after another, which was really a sin. He clenched his fists, thinking to himself that it was time for a brotherly fight.
He was rubbing his hands when there was a loud bang in his ears, followed by a commotion in the room, and a group of people looked into the corner.
Li Yu quickly broke through the gate and came to the place where his eyes were gathered. In the crowd, he saw Jin Yunlan, drunk and unconscious.
"What's going on?" He asked the crowd with a frown.
Little Rose replied at a loss: "I just poured her a cup of longevity tea." She took a drink. ”
Li Yi raised the teacup and smelled it, and suddenly became enlightened. He sighed, "It's wine." ”
Little Rose gasped, "I was mistaken. ”
Li Tang approached, touched Little Rose's head soothingly, and said, "This wine is very strong, it's okay for us to drink, but she is a foreigner, and it's normal to pour a glass." It doesn't hurt to take her to rest and sleep for an hour. ”
He was reasonable, and Li Yi also put aside his resentment against him and listened to him. He bent down to pick Jin Yunlan up from the ground, and strode her all the way home.
Jin Yunlan slept until the second half of the night. When she suddenly came to her senses, it was pitch black. She hadn't fully returned to her senses, but as her fingers groped on the quilt, they touched the warm fingertips of another person, and she was taken aback.
Li Yi, who was lying on the edge of the bed, opened his eyes, saw the figure in front of him shaking, and asked casually, "Are you awake?" “
"What time is it?" Realizing the seriousness of the matter, Jin Yunlan's voice was already trembling.
Li Yi looked at the sky outside the window and said dumbly: "It will be dawn in another hour." ”
A thunderbolt flashed above Jinyunlan's head.
It's over, Xiuxiu's birthday, she missed it perfectly.
She couldn't imagine that before the banquet began, the family searched for her in vain, and finally was forced to reluctantly make up the reasons for her non-attendance to the guests.
She jerked off the bed and scribbled her long hair.
Li Yi looked at her inexplicably as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, turning around in place, while muttering, "It's over, it's over, it's over!" ”
Jin Yunlan didn't even have the time to explain, so she broke out of the door.
Li Yi looked at her blankly, and the figure that was rushing away suddenly turned back like a gust of wind after gradually becoming smaller.
She propped up her waist and gasped breathlessly: "Ah Yu, happy birthday." Zhu Jun...... Changle Weiyang, a lifetime of good health. With that, she walked swiftly into the last darkness before dawn.
A smile slowly appeared on Li Yi's face.
"Fool."
Jin Yunlan landed on the roof of her boudoir before dawn. She jumped down silently, climbed in through the back window, and closed the window with her back to notice a strange noise behind her.
Her cheeks tingled, her eyes widened, and she turned away apprehensively.
Carrying a lamp, Cheng Cheng approached quickly with an unkind face, lowered his voice and asked, "Miss, where have you been?" ”
When Jin Yunlan saw the comer, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief. She patted the dust off her body and asked, "How was it last night?" ”
He replied hesitantly: "The riot did not cause it. The guests also asked where you were going. The patriarch covered up for you, saying that he would send you to deal with urgent matters, and he couldn't leave for a while. ”
Jin Yunlan patted her chest and put her mind at ease for the time being. She poured herself a cup of tea and admired her father's extraordinary ability to adapt to situations.
Look at her heartlessly, she doesn't have any lungs, and she doesn't get angry. She smashed the lamp on the table in front of her, stuck her waist, and couldn't help but reprimand her master: "Miss, do you know that last night the little lady scolded you for being a liar because you didn't show up, and she cried so badly. No one can persuade me, and I didn't fall asleep until the end of the dinner. ”
When Jin Yunlan heard this, her face suddenly turned blue. She bit her lip and bit her rosy lip flap to the point of blood. She reached into the placket of her coat to look for the longevity lock, only to find it empty. She then groped all over her body, but to no avail.
She hung her head in a dejected manner, what was going on.
"Miss, have you gone to the empty mountain? You can't go when you can't, you have to pick this time. I went, and I came back earlier, but I didn't return overnight. Are you too loose? Consummation was so angry that the wording was a bit overdone for a while.
Jin Yunlan didn't feel very comfortable listening to it, but she still calmly told her about the cause and effect of the matter: "Where do I know, everything has rushed together." I thought that the Great Elder was about to arrive in Los Angeles at some point, and it happened that the owner of the Silk Village came to deliver his clothes. Inevitably there are many dreams at night, and there are many people, so I went up the mountain to deliver clothes and informed Li Yi by the way, and I will not go often in the future. I calculated the hours. Who knew that I accidentally ate a glass of wine in the empty mountain, which made me drunk and slept until the middle of the night before waking up. ”
After hearing this, there was nowhere to blame, and he was defeated for a while, and sat down at the round table with her and sighed, "There is no other way, little lady, you better hurry up and apologize." The eldest young master is already at odds with us. This sisterhood is about to be redivided, and I don't know how many disagreements I have to have with Jialan Academy. Miss, you didn't come out of Madame's belly after all. The work on face must be done without leakage. ”
Jin Yunlan nodded disapprehensively.
At dawn, she rushed to Jialan Courtyard and went to Xiuxiu to apologize.
The patriarch's wife happened to push the door out. When she used to get up, her demeanor today did not look as energetic as in the past, and there was a tired look on the corners of her eyes and eyebrows, it seemed that what she said was true, Xiuxiu was indeed noisy until late last night.
Madame brought her to her, without showing any reproach, but with the same warmth as ever. Rumu Chunfeng's care followed: "Lan'er is here." It was hard work last night, and your father paid for urgent matters. ”
Jin Yunlan lowered her head weakly and shook her head hesitantly.
Madame opened the door of Xiuxiu's house with understanding, thinking that the child who had made a fuss last night was sleeping soundly at this time. Madame stepped forward and nudged her shoulder, waking her up in a soft voice.
"Xiuxiu, wake up, my sister has come to see you."
Xiuxiu blinked her sleepy eyes, and spent a moment pondering the meaning of this sentence. After she reacted, she pulled up the quilt and covered her head tightly, kicked and kicked through the thin quilt and shouted, "I don't want to see her, I hate my sister, my sister is a liar, I don't want to see her!" ”
Jin Yunlan stood outside the door, and when she heard this, her heart couldn't help but tremble and she was sad.
Madame hurriedly persuaded: "Xiuxiu, don't talk nonsense." My sister finished her official business. It came without stopping. You see, it's just dawn outside, and she's standing outside the door, waiting to see you. ”
"It's late! Last night's birthday, I clearly said that I would show up. I can't wait left or right. Now that it's here, what's the use? My brother is right, my sister doesn't take me to heart at all. I hate her! I don't want to see her, you let her go. ”
The child began to cry, and the devastating posture was by no means something that the soft man of the lady could resist. She finally couldn't resist it, exited the door, wiped the sweat from her sideburns, and then comforted Jinyunlan, "Lan'er, you don't have to take Xiuxiu's words to heart." She's just angry for a while, I'll talk to her about it, and I'll be fine in two days. She reached out and plucked a bamboo leaf that had crept between her hair.
Jin Yunlan smiled hard, and her frustration was not relieved much.
Madame patted her on the shoulder, and went to the back kitchen to arrange breakfast.
While looking at Xiuxiu's bed door, she walked away slowly, and met Jinyun Chong's gloating ridicule: "Eldest sister is back." The eldest sister is now highly valued, and she doesn't even have time to attend the family reunion, so she is disturbed by official business. I don't know where the eldest sister was in Los Angeles last night to relieve the people's worries? But also, when did you take our mediocre brothers and sisters into account? You are the much-anticipated Miss Jinyun, we are just reckless, how can we compare with you. ”
Jinyun Lan glanced at him dejectedly, smiled palely, and her voice was indifferent but extremely powerful: "Jinyun Chong, is that your belly so much?" Jealousy drives you crazy, doesn't it? ”