At first glance, the layout of the living room has not changed from the past, but if you look at the details, it is different everywhere. For example, the pot-bellied vase with flowers on the wall table, and the green cloth upholstery on the chair.

In the words of his buddy Liu Zhou, it was really bad for the bad old man who used to stay in the living room to let the shopkeeper use it.

"Sister Ji sit." Xin Yu greeted with a smile, lifted the teapot and poured two cups of tea.

Chrysanthemum tea is filled with two pieces of rock sugar, which is sweet and refreshing to drink. Ji Cailan took several sips in a row, and praised without hesitation: "Sister Kou's tea here is really delicious." ”

"Sister Na Ji should come often."

"Sister Kou, don't think I'm always bothering you."

"Why, I'm not busy. The bookstore has shopkeepers, buddies and craftsmen, and I am the only idler. ”

Ji Cailan only felt that her new friend was agreeable everywhere, and there was more smile on her face: "That's good." Sister Kou, has the lower part of "Painted Skin" been written? Can it really be sold in early September? ”

"It should be fine."

"Great!" Ji Cailan stroked her palm, and forcibly didn't ask whether what Wang Sheng saw from the window was a beautiful girl or a fanged ghost.

She wasn't so uninteresting to ask such embarrassing words.

Xin Yu took a sip of tea: "By the way, why didn't Sister Zhou come along?" ”

Hearing Xin Yu mention Zhou Ningyue, Ji Cailan sighed: "My cousin hasn't been in a good mood lately, so I don't say anything when I ask her." I asked her to come with me today, but she didn't want to go out. ”

"I saw that Sister Zhou was in a good mood that time."

"yes, who knows what's going on." Ji Cailan was a little worried.

She only has two older brothers, and she has always treated her cousin as her own sister. My cousin was not happy, and she was a little unpleasant to play.

"I have something, Sister Zhou may be happy to see it."

"What's that?"

"Sister Ji, wait a minute."

Xin Yu walked out and whispered a few words to Xiaolian who stayed in the study hall. Xiaolian nodded and walked quickly.

"Sister Kou, can't you tell me what it is first?" Ji Cailan couldn't hold back her curiosity and asked.

Xin Yuwaner: "There will be no surprise when I say it, Sister Ji will see it later." ”

Xiaolian didn't let the two of them wait long, then came in with a curtain, handed Xin Yu an object wrapped in green cloth, and silently withdrew.

Xin Yu opened the green cloth outside, revealing a booklet without a cover.

Ji Cailan's pupils shook.

What is it! It can't be a legendary villain book, right? No clothes!

Although she hadn't read it, she had accumulated a wealth of experience after reading so many words over the years, and occasionally knew about the existence of that kind of villain book in the sentence or two that the characters occasionally mentioned.

This...... If Sister Kou invites her to watch it, will she watch it or not?

Ji Cailan hurriedly glanced at the door, and was extremely conflicted for a while.

Although Xin Yu knows a lot, the villain's book or something is really her cognitive blind spot, Seeing Ji Cailan's reaction, a big question rose in her heart.

Why did Miss Ji suddenly become sneaky?

"What's wrong with Sister Ji?"

"No, nothing."

Xin Yu pushed the booklet over: "Open it and take a look." ”

"Ah, this, is this appropriate?" Ji Cailan's hand sank with a booklet, and she was a little incoherent.

She's not ready yet!

Xin Yu became more and more confused: "Why is it inappropriate, I showed it to Sister Ji, and Sister Ji won't show it to others casually." ”

Ji Cailan: !

But Sister Kou is hard to resist, or ...... Just take a look.

Ji Cailan's heart was crossed and she opened the booklet.

The sight is a man dressed as a scholar parked on the road, talking to a woman. The woman was graceful and very beautiful.

This picture is not black and white, but colored, whether it is the flower hairpin in the woman's hair or the Luo skirt embroidered with flowers, it is depicted in great detail, lifelike, as if the man and woman are right in front of them.

Ji Cailan unconsciously turned to the second page, and it was another vivid picture.

"How's it going, isn't it pretty?" Xin Yu's smiling voice sounded, pulling Ji Cailan's mind back.

Ji Cailan raised her head sharply and pointed to the picture on the booklet: "This, could this be the scene where Wang Shenglu met Mei Niang?" ”

"It's quite as described, right? I drew the story of the upper part of "Painted Skin" on a whim, what does Sister Ji think? ”

Ji Cailan blinked awkwardly.

It's that she thinks too much, she just kept turning back, and thought that the undressed one was behind!

But soon the excitement overcame the embarrassment, Ji Cailan's eyes were burning, and she pressed the booklet with both hands: "Sister Kou, you are too powerful, how did you think of drawing the story!" ”

"Maybe it's too idle. Sister Ji, do you think Sister Zhou will feel better when she sees this? ”

"That will definitely be." Ji Cailan nodded vigorously, and blurted out the words of invitation, "If Sister Kou is okay, let's go find my cousin together, and let her be surprised by this." ”

"Okay." Xin Yu readily agreed.

The two walked out of the bookstore together, and they didn't hire a carriage, chatting while talking, and unconsciously walked to Zhou Ningyue's house.

"Cousin, look who's coming!" Still in the courtyard, Ji Cailan shouted happily.

Although Xin Yu is preoccupied, she doesn't show a real smile when she is with a simple and lively girl like Ji Cailan.

The door of the west wing room was pushed open, Zhou Ningyue walked out, and saw Xin Yu beside Ji Cailan with a surprised face: "Sister Kou? ”

Xin Yu didn't respond immediately, and the scene changed in front of him.

It's a white day. Zhou Ningyue stood outside the door and seemed to see something, the basket in her hand fell to the ground, stumbled and turned around while running, ran to the courtyard and fell to the ground, with a painful and frightened face.

It was her father Zhou Tong who chased out of the house.

"Sister Kou-" Seeing that Xin Yu was silent, Zhou Ningyue shouted again.

Xin Yu came back to her senses, and the girl with a sweet smile in front of her coincided with the frightened girl in the picture, and the contrast made people's mood extremely complicated.

Fortunately, Xin Yu has been like this since she was a child, although she can't stop her heart at those sudden pictures, she can be calm on her face.

"I haven't seen her for a few days, and Sister Zhou seems to have lost some weight." Xin Yu didn't say hello, and quickly analyzed the picture in his heart.

Zhou Ningyue never had a small movement from falling off the basket to falling, but no one else appeared when Zhou's father chased him into the yard.

Zhou's mother, the maidservant, the doorman, the cook, the servant, none of them appeared.

Could it be that only Zhou Tong and Zhou Ningyue's father and daughter were at home at that time?

It's a strange situation.

Xin Yu noticed the basket that fell to the ground with confusion.

The wicker basket flipped on its side, the floral cloth covering the basket slipped off, and the mooncakes were scattered all over the floor.

Mooncakes - Xinyu's heart moves.

Could it be the Mid-Autumn Festival?

If it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, if others don't say it, the possibility that Zhou's mother is not at home is very small.

Thinking of Zhou Ningyue standing outside the door and suddenly falling on the bamboo basket and running out in panic, Xin Yu had a guess in her heart.

(End of chapter)