The lantern festival is not over yet, and the Shangyuan lantern will not be closed until the eighteenth day of the first lunar month.

Lu Yu crossed the flow of people in a hundred operas, and a mountain of lights appeared in front of him.

It is not right to say that it is Dengshan, it was a whole small street, the top of the head pulled up a long line, decorated with countless lanterns made of yarn, each lantern hung a small red bar, the red bar was written in black on the riddle, if there was a guess, then take down the note, go to the old man who was sitting on the side to change a piece of silk candy.

It's for kids.

The gauze lights hung overhead, illuminating the whole street red. Countless people walked by, and it was very lively.

There were a few children walking in front of Lu Yu, who were sisters, the elder sister was about twelve or thirteen years old, and the younger sister was young, only five or six years old. The little girl jumped to fetch the lantern above her head, but because she was too short to reach it, the sister reached out and held the lantern, so she lit the lantern and carefully examined the red note under the lantern.

"What is written?" My sister asked anxiously.

"Half-let the plum branches open—" my sister pronounced the words above.

The little girl looked dazed, but her sister smiled happily, tore off the red note, and pinched the tip of her sister's nose, "I know, this is the word 'Min'!" ”

"Let's go, I'll change the candy for you!"

The sisters happily squeezed into the crowd, and their figures faded away. Lu Yu was a little distracted, and Pei Yunyi's voice came from his side, revealing a little casual: "Lu Min is your real name?" ”

She suddenly came back to her senses and let out a very soft "um".

"Is it the meaning of 'being sensitive to things and cautious in words'?"

"It's not."

Lu Yu said calmly: "It is to take the meaning of 'smart and sensitive, but not to be ashamed'." ”

Pei Yun's eyes moved slightly.

Lu Yu lowered his eyes.

The three children in the family, Lu Rou, take the name of "soft and standing". Her father wanted her to be gentle and thoughtful.

Lu Qian, taking the name of "the humble person, the handle of virtue", his family hopes that he will be modest and polite, not blind and arrogant.

And because she is the youngest, she is the most pampered in the family, her temperament is inevitably impatient, and she always likes to play some cleverness, so her father takes it as sensitive, and wishes her to be smart and agile, but not arrogant, down-to-earth.

When she was young, she didn't really like the word "min", thinking that there were so many good-sounding and good-looking words in the world, and her father was knowledgeable, but he wanted to give his three children such a mediocre word, without half a characteristic. Therefore, in the past, I would rather others call myself by the nickname "曈曈".

曈曈, Yuan Ri, when I heard it, it was different from others.

Later, she followed Yun Niang to Luomei Peak, Yun Niang didn't ask her name until she died, only called her "Little Seventeen". And when she went down the mountain, others asked, she only said that her name was "Lu Yu", as if she said the word "Lu Min", which was to live up to her father's expectations of her, just like the Lu Yu who picked up the corpse on Luomei Peak and tested the medicine, and killed people and planted people in Shengjing City, and Lu San, who loved to laugh and make trouble in Changwu County, and her parents were under the knee of Cheng Huan.

Deceive oneself as well as others.

"I still prefer your current name." The man next to her spoke, interrupting her thoughts.

"Huh," he said with a deep sigh and a smile, "there is a sense of rebeginning." ”

Lu Yu's eyelashes twitched.

He actually guessed.

Also, his men are well-informed. can not only know that her birthday is the first day, but also naturally guess the meaning of the milk name.

Lu Yu didn't speak, Pei Yunyi thought for a while, and said, "Doctor Lu seems to have read a lot of books. ”

Nowadays, both men and women have official education, but only some nobles can afford it. Ordinary private schools, unless they are wealthy families, such as the old man who hired Wu Xiucai as his daughter Xixi, most ordinary people can't read - reading is also very expensive.

Lu Yu slowly walked forward with the flow of people: "My father is a teacher, and he thinks that girls should study more so as not to be deceived in the future." My sister and I were personally enlightened by him. ”

My father always let them study.

It's just that Lu Yu hated reading the most when he was young.

She didn't understand the use of studying, she couldn't earn money like doing business, and she couldn't eat two steamed buns when she was hungry. Even in the scientific examination, there are very few people in Changwu County. What's more, she can't be an official like Lu Qian.

The aunt next door joked to her with a smile: "The third girl should listen to your father, study hard, and be a talented girl in the future." Your mother is only liked by your father because she has done poetry well. ”

Lu Yuhu looked at his mother drying clothes in the distance suspiciously, and categorically denied it: "No, my father likes my mother not because my mother can write poems, but because my mother is good-looking!" ”

The neighbor laughed, but the mother blushed and came over with a wooden stick to chase and beat her: "The dead girl is talking nonsense again!" ”

"It was meant to be!"

At night, she hid under the quilt and watched her mother sew old clothes under the bedside lamp, so she asked, "Mother, why do you want to study, I don't like to read." ”

The mother stopped the needle and thread in her hand, thought for a while, and replied: "Reading is like taking medicine, and the medicine is more powerful on its own." ”

"Read more books, you can solve your doubts."

"Puzzled?" The young Lu Yu pouted, "If you are confused, I can go and ask my father, my sister, and my second brother." ”

"You," the mother scolded with a smile on her forehead, "when they are not with you, if you have something you don't understand, you can find the answer in the book." ”

"Why aren't they with me?" Lu Yu was not satisfied with this answer, turned over, and muttered: "With my sister and second brother here, I don't need to study." ”

At that time, Lu Yu thought so, thinking that every question in the world would be answered by her parents, brothers and sisters, and all the confusion would be solved, and she could not do what she didn't like, and not read the books she didn't like.

And her family will always be there for her.

Until He Yunniang arrived at Luomei Peak.

Countless nights, she tossed and turned, the pain of being used as a medicine man, the loneliness of living alone on the top of the mountain, Yun Niang's malicious laughter, and the longing for her family turned into countless rich and dark haze, and the silk woven a net to cover her in it. I always feel that my reason will fall apart in the next moment, and I always feel that people can't hold on to the next moment.

In the difficult days, she suddenly remembered her mother's words.

"When they're not around you, if there's something you don't understand, you can find the answer from the book."

Confused about the future, confused about when it would stop, on those days, she picked up the book.

Yun Niang's house has a lot of books.

Most of them are poisonous pharmacology, and a small part is book history. She could read and write, but she didn't understand the meaning, so she could only read it hard. In this way, day after day, year after year, I gradually understood the meaning of the book.

She didn't know if reading could solve her doubts, but in those years, reading had passed her the time and made those days of helplessness seem less difficult.

Mother must not have imagined that the little girl who didn't like to study in the family at that time, hid and threw her homework into the pond and lied that it was stolen, later read so many books and learned so many truths in the mountains.

Humane beside him: "Ling Zun is very insightful. ”

In the Liang Dynasty, most fathers of ordinary families thought that their daughters did not need to study, and they just embroidered and embroidered at home to be a female red.

Lu Yu smiled faintly: "It's a pity that it's useless." ”

Pei Yun paused slightly.

"My sister reads much better than me," Lu Yu said: "The articles she wrote were brought to the Second Brother Academy, and her husband also praised them." If she was a man who could get off the subject, Changwu County might have already made a champion. But he was still deceived and lost his life. ”

"Our family is all scholars, but if you look at the ending, it's still the same."

Lu Yu smiled, and that smile was also a little self-deprecating: "Reading for life is just a poor man's self-deception." The most useless thing in the world is the reader. ”

When she said this, her tone was calm and unwavering, as if she had seen through the world, and perhaps a little hatred for her own powerlessness.

Reading, like a boil of numb that people drink when they are suffering from illness, can temporarily relieve the pain, but it cannot make the pain disappear.

"I don't think so."

Suddenly, a young man's voice came from his side.

"Sheng Jing can study "Liang Chao Law" so thoroughly, it seems that you are the only one."

As if hit by something, Lu Yu subconsciously raised his head.

The young man smiled and looked down at her, and the soft light of the gauze lamp hanging above his head jumped into his eyes, outlining a deep and shallow warmth around his figure.

Even the gaze softened.

"Not all people can kill people right under my nose without being detected."

He stared at Lu Yu's eyes with a smile: "Doctor Lu, you are very powerful." ”

Very...... Terrible?

Lu Yu was stunned.

Not a joke, no sarcasm.

Pei Yunyi's tone was very serious.

There were people coming and going, surrounded by lights, and young people in black boots and brocade looked at her with a smile.

Sincerely, without half-hypocrisy.

After a moment of silence, Lu Yu was about to speak, when he suddenly found that Pei Yunyi's gaze was staring at a certain place behind her, with a somewhat strange expression.

What did he see?

Lu Yu subconsciously wanted to turn back, but as soon as she moved, she was held down by Pei Yunyao's shoulder, without waiting for her to react. A shadow covered it, and Lu Yu's cheek touched the other party's cold placket.

Pei Yunyao stood in front of her.

The crowds of people who came and went did not take a few more glances at this end, and the Shangyuan Lantern Festival was due to the night tour of lovers.

Lu Yu was almost wrapped in the shadow of his whole person, his head against his chest, and at an extremely intimate distance, he seemed to be able to hear the other party's soft but powerful heartbeat, again and again.

It's clear in the crowds.

I don't know how long it took, but the force of her hand was a little less.

He let go of Lu Yu.

"Who did you just see?" Lu Yu turned his head to look behind him, and there were tourists on Flower Street beside him, so he couldn't see anything suspicious.

Pei Yunyi's sudden move, nine times out of ten, he saw others. The moment he dragged Lu Yu to his side, Lu Yu did not ignore the coldness in Pei Yunyi's eyes.

"Someone you don't want to meet." Pei Yunyi smiled disappretently.

did not answer Lu Yu's question.

Lu Yu pursed his lips, not quite liking the feeling of being kept in the dark.

Probably sensing her safety, Pei Yunyi took a step back, looked down at her, and suddenly said, "Doctor Lu." ”

"How?"

"The Qi family is checking on you."

Lu Yu's expression moved, staring at him without speaking.

"Only Lu Rou has been found, not to the point where you have arrived." His tone was very light, like a casual reminder, "But in the long run, it may not be exposed." ”

As soon as he said this, Lu Yu understood.

The people of Taishi Mansion may suspect the Lu family, and even suspect the "Lu Min" who has not heard from her for many years, but they will not suspect her Lu Yu for the time being.

Just because nominally, Lu Yu is just a mediocre doctor from other places, and the doctor of the Renxin Medical Center has nothing to do with the Lu family in Changwu County.

But if she wants to take revenge, once she gets close to Qi Yutai, her identity will be exposed sooner or later.

Pei Yunyi was reminding her.

"I see." Lu Yu said, "What else does the Qi family do?" ”

Pei Yunyi raised his eyebrows, stared at her for a long time, saw her frank expression, and finally said with a smile: "You are not pretending to be in front of me now, are you breaking the can and falling?" ”

Asking him for information in such a blatant way, he did not hide it at all.

"Didn't Master Pei say that we are in a group?"

"Not anymore."

Lu Yu sneered in his heart.

When I didn't know her identity, I was injured and forced to buy and sell and stay in the hospital, and now I know that she is here for revenge, so I look like I can't wait to immediately draw a line to avoid getting into trouble.

The son of a noble family is accustomed to weighing the pros and cons.

was sneering in his heart, and a familiar voice came from afar in his ears: "Girl! Girl! ”

Lu Yu looked back and saw that on the other side of the crowd, Yinzheng was standing in the crowd in front of the theater and waved at her. Seeing her, he smiled, and walked desperately towards her from the crowd with his skirt.

It's already very close to the theater. They found that they were separated from her and came to the studio to wait for her.

"Your friend is here." Pei Yunyao also saw the silver zheng.

Lu Yu turned to look at him, it was time for him to go.

His gaze paused on the toad lamp in Lu Yu's hand, then moved to Lu Yu's face, and finally said, "March spring test, I wish Dr. Lu all the best." ”

Lu Yu bowed his head: "Thank you for your good words." ”

Pei Yunyao didn't say anything, left straight, walked a few steps, and suddenly stopped again and called Lu Yu.

Lu Yu asked, "What else is the matter?" ”

He was silent for a moment before he spoke softly: "There will be more dangers in the future." ”

"Dr. Lu," he said, "be careful. ”

The man's figure disappeared into the crowd flowing by, and Lu Yu stood in the hanging lamp group until a voice sounded in his ears, "Girl, I can be regarded as finding you!" ”

Yinzheng finally crossed the crowd and squeezed to Lu Yu's side, patted his chest and sighed, "Ah Cheng finished buying the balls, and turned around and said that you were gone, which scared me." Shopkeeper Du said that you would wait here in the theater I didn't believe it, but fortunately he was right. After that, he stared at the toad lamp in Lu Yu's hand in surprise, "Where did this lamp come from?" Girl, you didn't even bring any money......"

"Someone else sent it." Lu Yu lowered his head and touched the toad's head, the green toad's mouth was exaggeratedly wide and looked ridiculous.

"Oh." Yinzheng didn't doubt him, nodded, and looked around again.

"What's wrong?"

"It's probably because I'm dazzled," Yin Zheng smiled embarrassedly, "There are a lot of people, I didn't see it too clearly, I saw a person standing next to the girl, and I thought it was Master Pei!" ”

……

"I just ...... seems to have seen Pei Shizi. ”

The canopy carriage drove past the bustling crowd, and someone lowered the curtain in his hand and spoke softly.

"Master Pei?" The maidservant handed the warm stove to the people around her, and said softly, "Can you see clearly, Miss?" ”

The woman sitting in the carriage shook her head slightly, and the jade-colored emerald leaf moire embroidered skirt was embroidered with extremely beautiful Luanniao embroidery. The lantern light in the carriage fell on her face, and her snow-white face became more and more coquettish, like all the nobles of Shengjing, elegant and delicate.

This is the thousands of gold Qi Huaying in today's Taishi Mansion.

Today, the Taishi Qi Qing Mansion has a wife and a concubine, and a son and a daughter are all born by the second wife. After the death of his second wife, Qi Qing did not continue the string. The eldest son, Qi Yutai, is now in an idle position in the household department, and the youngest daughter Qi Huaying is only seventeen years old this year.

Because Qi Qingqing is an old woman, and he pities the loss of his mother when his youngest daughter is young, he treats Qi Huaying very spoiled. The Shengjing family often said that Mrs. Qi was thrifty and diligent, but he was especially generous to his daughter. Qi Huaying's daily utensils and clothes are extremely beautiful, and the princess can't compare with them.

For example, at this moment, Qi Huaying wanted to take a ride alone to visit Dengxi, but Qi Taishi ostensibly agreed to his daughter's wishes, but secretly ordered dozens of secret guards to follow around the carriage to avoid accidents.

Qi Huaying clenched the stove in her hand, and her beautiful eyes were full of worry.

The carriage passed by the light shed, and she was curious to lift the curtain to look, and saw a familiar shadow there, it seemed to be Pei Yunyi, who was walking beside a strange woman, and was bowing his head and talking to the other party.

At that moment, Qi Huaying's breathing almost stopped, and a burst of joy hit her heart, but when she looked again, there were only people coming and going and lanterns in the distance, and there was no figure just now.

Be...... Wrong?

Qi Huaying couldn't make up his mind himself, loss quickly replaced joy, and deeper doubts came from his heart, if it was really him, then who was the woman next to him?

The maidservant girl seemed to see her thoughts, pursed her lips and smiled: "Master Pei is so busy every day, and the eldest young master has sent so many posts and hasn't seen him pick it up, how can he have time to go shopping for the lanterns?" It should be the young lady who has seen the mistake. ”

Hearing this, Qi Huaying's hand holding the stove tightened, and sighed a little abruptly: "Yes." ”

Since he was assassinated in Baoxianglou and rescued by the prince of Zhaoning, the Qi family should express their gratitude to Pei Yunyao in public and private, and in reasonableness. The elder brother served in the household department, and he also intended to get close to the Pei family, but the post was written many times, and the commander of the front division of the palace was stunned that he couldn't find any free time, and he never came to the Taishi Mansion once.

Qi Huaying's heart was a little astringent.

"Why did the young lady sigh, didn't the eldest young master say it, the official affairs of the front of the palace are already complicated, if you really want to see it, as long as the young lady talks to the master......"

"Shut up!"

Qi Huaying violently interrupted the maid's words, and the person beside him was immediately silenced.

"That's what you can say!" Qi Huaying scolded the servant sharply, and turned away with some shame, but his face gradually turned red.

She was seventeen years old, and it was early enough to choose a son-in-law, and her father had not told her about her family, but she interrupted her every time. It's really because none of those so-called young talents can get into her eyes.

Apart from...... Except for that person.

Qi Huaying's heart fluttered.

There was silence in the carriage, and the maidservant sat with her head bowed to the side, not daring to speak.

Qi Huaying bit her lip.

Perhaps, as the maid said, she should take the initiative to talk to her father.

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