Chapter 17: Misplaced Marriage
Without the innocence and freedom of childhood, Ruiqi always feels a little shy and shy every time she sees Murong Xiu. Murong Xiu is actually a talented girl, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and maintains everyone's beautiful demeanor in front of Ruiqi, often calling him "Brother Ruiqi." ”
But although Murong Xiu felt that although Ruiqi was just a young man, he was also personable, but he always found that he still maintained a distance between him and himself, and he always felt that he was not as affectionate and generous as before.
When Ruiqi and Murong Xiu talked about qin, chess, calligraphy and painting together, Murong Xiu always felt that although Ruiqi was polite and thoughtful and talked elegantly, she often fell into a state of silence, which couldn't help but make Murong Xiu think that Ruiqi was a little cold to her.
When Murong Xiu sat alone in the boudoir and groomed in the mirror, she couldn't help but look at her appearance repeatedly, only to see a pretty face reflected in the mirror, thin eyebrows and phoenix eyes, red lips slightly opened, and her body was slender when she looked at it from a distance, and her demeanor was all directions, Murong Xiu didn't think she had anything bad to look at, but why did Ruiqi do this to her?
Murong Xiu couldn't help but be a little confused: "What does Ruiqi dislike about me? Always seem so taciturn, even talking so awkwardly?"
Yahuan Yulan, who was next to her, saw the young lady thinking silently in the mirror there, looked at a pink face left and right, and hurriedly whispered compliments to Murong Xiu: "Miss is getting better and better-looking, if it continues like this, I'm afraid that even Chang'e in the sky can't compare!"
Murong Xiu felt awkward when she heard this, and whispered to Yahuan again and again: "Who is Yulan praising here? Where am I comparable to Chang'e, don't you know that some people don't even want to look at me?"
Yulan hurriedly blamed: "This is the young master of which family is so short-sighted, even the young lady of my family is not willing to look at it squarely, it is really the eyes that grow to the top of the head! In the future, God will punish him for not being able to marry a daughter-in-law!"
Murong Xiu was amused when she heard it: "Yulan is just sharp and sharp-mouthed, and your mouth is open-mouthed, why can't you marry a daughter-in-law, can you let your family fight for a lifetime!"
Yulan was a little aggrieved: "Aren't I helping Miss? ”
Murong Xiu hurriedly responded disdainfully: "Then there's no need to scold others for not being able to marry a daughter-in-law, how bad it is for others to listen to it!"
But she was complaining in her heart: "If Ruiqi wants to beat a generation of singles, then wouldn't I have to be a widow for the rest of my life!
Yulan didn't know anything, but she still continued to compliment Murong Xiu: "Miss is still kind-hearted and so generous to outsiders!"
Murong Xiu said disapprerovingly: "Who wants me to be the young lady of the Murong family, this is also adhering to the family style! ”
Murong Xiu couldn't help but wonder, even others thought she was pretty good-looking, but why did Ruiqi be so cold to her? Murong Xiu couldn't figure it out, what was wrong with her? Could it be that Ruiqi hated her by nature, but she couldn't see it when she was a child? What was it for?
Murong Xiu recalled that when Ruiqi was playing the game of carrying a sedan chair in her childhood, she was always so enthusiastic and free and easy, and she really regarded her as her own bride.
But when he got a little older, why did he become a little cold?
Murong Xiu is a girl after all, and she is somewhat sensitive, but when she thinks that if she really marries Ruiqi in the future, he will still treat her coldly like that, how can Murong Xiu stand it?
However, the second young master of General Huyan's family, Ruilin, although he is a little younger than Ruiqi, is much more generous and cheerful than his brother. Even in front of guests, he is more open-minded and often comes with his mouth open.
For Murong Xiu, who sometimes accompanied his father General Murong to the mansion as a guest, Ruilin also had no scruples, greeted Murong Xiu warmly before and after, and called her affectionately: "Sister Xiuxiu." He also handed over all kinds of melon and fruit snacks to Murong Xiu to taste.
"Sister Xiuxiu, this is a freshly picked grape, you can also try it!" Ruilin said and brought a fruit bowl with a large bunch of purple grapes on it.
Murong Xiu was idle and depressed, and when she saw Ruilin walking towards her enthusiastically, she hurriedly took the fruit plate, and picked a grape and put it to her mouth to taste.
"Well, it's so sweet, Ruilin, where did you get this?" Murong Xiu asked Ruilin with a light opening of his red lips, and a pair of phoenix eyes looked at him curiously.
"Haha, it tastes good, this is the grapes grown in my orchard, the fruit is just ripe, I will pick it and give it to you to taste." Ruilin responded to Murong Xiu diligently.
"Really, I didn't even know it before!It turns out that your family still grows such good grapes!" Murong Xiu couldn't help but be interested in this.
"Sister Xiuxiu, it turns out that you don't know yet! Then I'll take you to the orchard now, there are still a lot of fruits, you can bring some back and taste them later!"
After speaking, Ruilin took Murong Xiu to his orchard to watch.
Murong Xiu was engaged to Ruiqi when she was a child, and she also understood that she would marry Ruiqi sooner or later, so she only treated Ruilin as a child, and didn't think that Ruilin would think anything about her, just as a little brother.
But in Ruilin's eyes, he not only thinks that Murong Xiu looks handsome, but also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and is really a rare talented woman. In front of his brother Ruiqi, he is a little less coquettish, and often has to bow down. So when he saw Murong Xiu, he couldn't help but feel envious.
For Murong Xiu, he can often talk about the past and the present with Ruiqi, and discuss poetry and books, which inevitably makes Ruilin envious of his brother. He thought to himself that such a handsome and talented woman was going to marry his brother Ruiqi, and he couldn't help but be a little frustrated. Brother Riqi is better than him in everything, and even asking for a wife is still a marriage contract made when he was a child.
But he also likes Murong Xiu a little, so when he found out that his brother Ruiqi was not in front of him, he tried to please Murong Xiu, just to make Murong Xiu smile, and look at her good-looking eyebrows and eyes when she laughed, he couldn't help but feel very happy.
Although Ruilin knew that she would eventually be his sister-in-law, they were still young now, and they had not yet reached the time of marriage, so they wanted to take advantage of Murong Xiu's time when she was still free to joke and talk together, and have fun together.
You know, in the future, when they are bound by the etiquette, he won't have so many opportunities.
Although Ruilin knew that his little Murong Xiu was less than two years old, Murong Xiu looked like a little girl, with a petite figure and a handsome appearance, although it was not a sinking fish and a goose, and a shy flower in the closed moon, but it was also Chu Chu and moving.
Her talent is even more admirable to Ruilin. Ruilin actually doesn't care that Murong Xiu is older than herself, not to mention "female junior, hugging gold bricks", even if she is less than two years older than herself, what does it matter.