The green bamboo curtain in the window, because of the bumps in the carriage and horses, opened a small gap, and the light entered the room, flickering in the corner of the man's pure white clothes.

There is a bamboo mat in the carriage, and the flowers, birds, fish and insects that are not fashionable are painted, and it is simple and washy.

The man sat cross-legged, his fingerpalms resting quietly on his knees, his eyes closed.

On the low desk in front of him, there was only a handwritten note lying quietly, with a thin paper note, a corner of which was printed with Mo Lan, and a few lines of calligraphy on the paper were sprinkled.

The car slowly drove away from the city, and when the noise no longer lingered in his ears, Xue Luli opened his eyes, which was obviously different from his pale face, and his eyes were as dark as ink.

The slender fingers once again picked up the handbook, which was not very strange and elegant, but Lu Li's eyebrows were slightly frowned.

- Xuanzhi Taijian, a friend in the old days, don't be a few years old, and the first return is cumbersome, so you can't be invited. Although it has passed the spring and the spring has passed, there is no fragrance to enjoy the time, and it is not the snow season, and the fun of red furnace wine is lost. But there is a pavilion newly built, the orchid bamboo is old, prepare tea to treat each other, willing to invite you to drink together, three days later, Wang Qi waits.

Lu Lizi is gorgeous, this note is obviously Wang Qilang invited him to come over for a get-together, and mentioned the old friendship, as if to find a less abrupt reason for this sudden invitation.

Since Pei Zheng exterminated the clan, Lu Li's wife Pei Banniang died with it, and the Xue family was involved in the discussion of right and wrong, but anyone who had a friendship with Pei Zheng and the two clans all ignored the Xue family's negative faith, although afterwards, it was rumored that the Xue family did not act to persecute Banniang's evil, Pei Banniang's death was due to learning that her mother's family was in trouble, and her husband Xue Luli secretly raised the outer room and caused the early birth of a concubine.

Although the reputation of the Xue family has been restored, Xue Luli has become the target of public criticism.

There are many old friends, who don't believe this so-called explanation at all, Xue Pei's two families have been in-laws for generations, and they were originally the most close and close friends, but Pei's family was in trouble, but Xue's family was not harmed, Xue Qian and the two brothers entered the political hall and the other entered the ministry, regardless of whether they were furnished or not, in the eyes of the world, they were obviously favored by the heavenly family, and they had no suspicion at all.

If it weren't for the Xue family's sincerity and taking the initiative to draw a clear line with the Pei family, why would this be the case?

Although Pei Zheng was convicted, the world did not dare to openly talk about being wronged, but the behavior of alienating "treacherous" people like the Xue family would not lead to disaster, and even those families who were already jealous of Jingzhao Xue and nobles spared no effort to smear them, and they didn't think about themselves at all, in fact, they didn't come forward when Pei Zheng was killed.

Of course, the Wang family is resolutely not the latter.

But Xue Luli and Wang Ningzhi's old friendship is completely based on Pei Shiyilang's connection, Wang Ningzhi will of course misunderstand Lu Li, since returning to Beijing, the well water does not interfere with the river water, and it is clear that he is alienated and cold, but this time he took the initiative to invite, Xue Luli of course took the lead in thinking that it was the performance of the father Xue Qian in the Xuanzheng Palace, which more or less woke up some people who had gone through many turmoil during this period of time.

At that time, Pei Zhengmou's rebellion case was Xie and Mao, and even Wei Yuanping did not participate too much, and now Xie Raoping strongly advocated that the Queen Mother come to the court, and the backer behind him Obviously, regardless of whether the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven broke up, the courtiers also understood the obvious struggle between the mother and son of the Heavenly Family.

Xie Raoping is the Queen Mother's party, and Xue Qian is bound to be a loyal minister of the Son of Heaven.

In fact, since the Shuo Ri Dynasty meeting, many families have resumed contact with the Xue family, but what makes Xue Lu puzzled is that even if the reputation of the Xue family is restored as before, but his crime of "spoiling concubines and killing wives" has been more implemented, even if the Wang family wants to have dealings with the Xue family, it should be a diplomatic relationship with the father, why did Wang Qilang show favor to him?

Could it be that Wang Qilang guessed his innocence just by his father's behavior?

Lu Li couldn't help but smile bitterly, in fact, he didn't intend to clear his reputation, but he had other intentions...... Then even if Wang Qilang asks directly, he can't appeal to the truth.

"This time, I'm afraid I have to let Shichiro take advantage of the invitation and chase away the guests." Lu Li muttered to himself, then put down the handbook, and closed his eyes again.

However, receiving this invitation post certainly made Xue Luli surprised, but when he arrived at the palace and walked into a secluded courtyard through the guidance of the servants, he realized that the surprise earlier was not worth mentioning at all, and the situation he saw at this time was truly suspenseful.

This is where Wang Qilang's study is located, because he has been married, the Wang family simply built the adjacent place of the study into a front and back double courtyard, which has become the new residence of Qilang and Liu Zhen, the front yard is used as Qilang to entertain guests, and the backyard is the living place, but it is not strange that the friend was directly taken to the study separated by a low wall, and Xue Luli was surprised that he did not see the master Wang Qilang at all.

The servant who led the way only led him to the corner gate and stopped, bowed slightly and explained: "Langjun is waiting inside, Xue Langjun is invited to enter." ”

Seeing that none of the servants of the master's family entered, the servants of the Xue family who followed Lu Li could only wait outside.

If you want to talk about etiquette, Wang Qilang should come out at this time, but let alone Qilang, Xue Luli didn't even see a single servant all the way inside.

Fortunately, this side courtyard is not a spacious and deep place, a few steps inside, bypassing a clump of green bamboo blocking the road, you will see a white-walled tile house in the north, a few steps in front of the house, slightly mossy green, quite simple.

Climb the stairs and enter, still no one is seen, the two walls are bookshelves, the bookcase is against the windowsill, and there is a narrow couch in front of the case, which is empty.

Xue Luli stood in this study for a few breaths, frowning in confusion.

His gaze finally fell on the northeast corner of the study, where there was a small door.

Lift the bamboo curtain, step out of the corridor, you will see that there is a courtyard behind the house, smaller than the front, but dig a small pool, the pond is filled with water, several koi swim leisurely, there is a bluestone lying on the side of the pool, the bluestone is further back, there is a pavilion, there is a little girl sitting in the pavilion, is using bamboo into the tea.

The gesture is charming, as if it was the old.

Xue Luli only felt that his chest was hit hard by an invisible object, and his qi and blood surged.

He knew that this child, who met by chance twice, should be the Liu family's lady.

But at this time, Lu Li was deeply suspicious of this "understanding".

Girls wear narrow sleeves and short undergarments, no need to pull the skirt lightly, but no matter the posture of buttoning the fingers and wrists to prevent trembling when entering the tea, or the small habit of putting the bamboo on the bamboo dish after entering the tea, even the position of the tea set, including the posture of sitting with the placket holding its breath and waiting for the three boils, is familiar with the subtleties.

To make tea, you need to be by the waterside - it is a little stubbornness that the old man did not know why.

The way he sits, his state of mind, and even his demeanor are all small stubbornness peculiar to that person.

Before Xue Luli knew it, the person had slowly walked towards the pavilion and stood beside the girl.

The tea soup is like a splashing foam, and it is already three boils.

The two boiling foams are fed into the kettle Yuhua, and the black scoop is different from the light-colored tea sets such as rules, saucers, and mouth cups, and is similar to sieves and kettles, which is also the person's little stubbornness.

Tsinghua is even, and the soup is delicate and light.

She has always disliked thin foam and thick dumplings, and she has studied for a long time to successfully cook it into a thin and light soup.

Xue Lu didn't wake up from himself, his breathing had gradually slowed down, and his palms were clenched into fists.

Eleven Niang leaned back slightly and smiled.

"Just in time, please take your share."

At that time, the deceased, whenever he drank the tea soup, he said that he regretted that he was always not as good as the soup he shared, so he returned to brew tea, and this last process insisted on "letting the virtuous".

The girl had already gotten up and given up her seat, went around to the other side of the tea case, and when Lu Li lightly rolled up her sleeves and divided the tea into the cup, she whispered slowly: "Although there is no Huishan stone spring water, but today's tea is a Mengding stone flower, so Tuo Qilang is quite wasted looking for his friends to get a urn of Yazhou famous mountain spring." ”

There was once a celebrity who divided the water used for boiling tea into 20 grades, and the first one was Huishan Stone Spring, but Xue Luli still remembered that he once disagreed with this, mentioning that water does not have to be confined to famous springs, and that it is suitable for water and soil to be used for decoction in the place where tea is produced. So the old man tried it to check the authenticity, and he was convinced, so after that, whenever the two of them tasted tea, the water was limited to the place where tea was produced.

Monttop stone flowers are produced in Yazhou.

Lu Li sat upright, his eyes looking directly at the child in front of him, as if he wanted to determine the clue that haunted him from between the unfamiliar eyebrows, and placed his clenched fist in the place where the white porcelain tea cup of the torture kiln was far away, and he never said a word from the pavilion.

Eleven Niang was not affected by this silence at all, and first said the brown color: "Its color is also, why don't you taste it as an old time?" ”

Her smile never diminished, and now it was a little deeper, and she leaned back slightly, showing off a little like back then.

Lu Li held the lamp and sipped the tea soup lightly.

But he could no longer hold back the shaking of his heart, put down the teacup heavily, and the soup noodles shook non-stop, just like his mood at this time.

It is the original tea fragrance, without adding the onions, ginger, jujubes, and oranges of the predecessors, and even the salt flowers emphasized by the celebrity were not added, but they are not bitter and slightly astringent.

As if everything didn't need more explanations, Eleven Niang sighed lightly: "Brother Lu......"

However, before she finished speaking, Lu Li got up and left, he had always been a calm and calm person, but this time he was quite hasty and even staggered, and in a blink of an eye, his back had disappeared behind the bamboo curtain of the small door in the corner of the study, and the bamboo curtain opened and fell, swaying slightly.

Eleven Niang was stunned on the spot, but she didn't chase after her.

This fact was so absurd and strange that it was no wonder that he couldn't accept it for a while.

But she understood that Lu Li would not shy away from it, and it should take time to calm down.

She tasted the tea slowly, although for her, three years were only open and closed, but it was also a long time since she had made tea by herself, as if it was the last time...... Before Brother Lu's great-grandfather passed away, in her Langxiao restaurant, she even remembered that she had heard her mother mention her future marriage at that time, and it would be settled just as long as she was married, but when facing Lu Li, she didn't have the shyness of a beautiful woman to learn that the person in front of her was her future husband, they were too familiar, and they would not be disturbed by distractions when they got along so closely.

However...... Before she could wait for her, Xue Weng passed away due to illness, and the two families had to delay their relationship, not wanting to wait long before the first emperor suddenly gave marriage.

It's not without regret when you think about it.

However, she has seen too much of the precedent of being obsessed with sadness for the word love, and I don't know when she has a respectful and distant mentality, thinking that it is unwise to be hurt by too much affection, how much beauty is in the world, why cling to one of them, she even thought that even if she did not have the opportunity to marry Lu Li, the friendship of confidants has always remained the same, and she can be unshaken when she has a confidant in life, and why should she be obsessed with staying with each other day and night.

So even if she was forced to marry a stranger, she never complained about it, no life can be perfect, not to mention that the family gave her wealth and glory, food and clothing, and it is natural to pay for the family.

How many marriages in the world are autonomous? Just like birth, old age, sickness and death are predestined.

Therefore, after knowing that the eighth sister would marry Lu Li, she was only happy, Lu Li was a good match, and she never doubted it.

Now that things have changed, seeing the old people, Eleven Niang feels unprecedentedly sad.

Many people are no longer in the world.

And even if they meet again, between her and Lu Li, they will never be able to return to the quiet years of the year.

There are too many responsibilities that must be undertaken, and she is not allowed to be distracted by the wind and snow, and the vision that once briefly germinated to travel with you has long been wiped out, even if she is reborn, she can't change it.

Eleven Niang put down the teacup, and the faint melancholy in her eyes had dissipated.

At this time, Lu Li returned to the pavilion again, half-squatted down beside her, and clasped her shoulders with both hands: "Fifth sister, is it really you?" ”

Eleven Niang's eyes were bright: "Brother Lu, it's me." ”