Xu Yu is gradually recovering his health, he can sit up and talk to his sisters, and occasionally go out for a walk, and there is no shortage of people to accompany him every day, which is also interesting.

When he was alone, he looked in the mirror by himself and found that the whole person had decreased a lot, and his eyebrows and eyes were almost the same as Zhu Ming's, and he looked pitiful. Not only did he pity himself, but he also felt that his father, elders, and people around him had all been affected, and he couldn't eat well or sleep steadily, so he paid special attention to his physical health and became more mature in his outlook on life.

Every day, he either played chess with Lan Xiang, or wrote poems with Zhu Mingzhi with a pen, and he was in a good mood, and after a few days, Huo Ran recovered, and began to encourage everyone to move over.

Seeing that he was already well, Mu Lanxiang convened his sisters to discuss, and Zhu Mingzhi and the others moved into Yisu Garden one after another. It just so happened that these days were the birthdays of Zhu Ruizhu, Xu Yunning and Xiao Binglan, and they made trouble for several days.

In a corn garden, since the girls moved in, there is a feeling of flowers and willows, and the landscape is colorful, and it is really a mansion where the garden is not deep, there are fairies and spirits, and there is no popular mansion, even if it is beautiful, it is a dead thing.

At the end of August, Xu Ye came back from out of town, Ripple and Ye Qin were very happy, checked and understood the things that her husband brought back one by one, and sent them to each room.

Only the gifts for Mu Lanxiang and Zhu Mingzhi were personally delivered to Xixiangxuan, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw the girls sitting together digging watermelons to make lamps.

Ripple walked over and said, "Are you full and have nothing to do?" This watermelon lantern still has to dig out many patterns, and you can't finish it today with your craftsmanship, and it will be broken tomorrow. ”

"It's okay to have an ice cellar." Mu Lanxiang beckoned to her and pointed to her watermelon skin, "Sister-in-law, you come to evaluate and see whose carving is fine." ”

Ripple looked down and saw that Lan Xiang was engraved with the four words "Eight Immortals Gongshou" in fine palindromic Sanskrit, corresponding to the eight Eight Immortals; Zhu Mingzhi is the pattern of the four gentlemen of Meilan, bamboo and chrysanthemum, and the four double-hooked seal characters of "full moon life" are carved out. The two daughters' watermelon lanterns are very exquisite, obviously with great thought, and they are full of praise at the moment.

Look at Xu Yu's again, it is the scattered flowers of mandarin ducks playing lotus, and Zhu Nephrite is four pieces of landscape landscape, Zhu Ruizhu is a hydrangea sandwiched between two lions, Ripple smiled: "I have used good thoughts, in terms of conception, it is good for Sister Lanxiang, and it is better to be meticulous or Sister Mingzhi." ”

Xu Yu smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, you are prejudiced, and I am not done yet." Wait and see, cover your eyes and see the flowers. ”

"From the point of view, you are already a little child."

"Forget it."

Xu Yu put the knife down, turned around and saw a large satin box on the ground, and asked, "What's inside?" ”

Ye Qin said: "Your brother is back, it is what you want." ”

"Great, I was thinking." Xu Yu suddenly jumped up, urging everyone to quickly take away the watermelon lantern, and urging Chunyan and Qingyun to wipe the table, everyone felt funny when they saw his eagerness.

In the blink of an eye, the table was cleaned up. Everyone gathered around to see, Xu Yu stretched out his hand to open the baggage, it was a superb satin, embroidered with a large peony flower with flat gold thread.

"Good!" Xu Yu unfolded it and took a look. The satin brilliance is not ordinary, and he hurriedly asked, "Who is this for?" ”

Ye Qin said: "Your brother doesn't dare to favor one over the other, just like this, one per person." Dongfu has one more. ”

"Why?" Xu Yu asked.

Ye Qin said: "Don't you know? Last month, the fifth uncle set up a family affair for Li'er, and Master Shi's sister Ling will be hired in the blink of an eye. ”

Xu Yu suddenly said: "I also heard about it when I was sick. Xu Lian got married so soon? Incredible. I forgot about these things because of these things, but my brother and sister-in-law were careful. Are these gifts for us? ”

Xu Lian is Xu Hai's eldest son, not Zhong Kegu and Wu Yechun's biological son, his biological mother died early, and he almost didn't come here, but he was favored by the eldest wife Wang in the long room, after all, he was the first man, and the master was a famous man in Jinling, and Xu Lian was not early to marry at the age of sixteen.

Ripple smiled: "Don't worry about us, shouldn't the two of us keep a piece?" There are more than a dozen of these burdens, everyone in the garden has a share, and there is one to give to Master Lu's young lady. ”

Xu Yu hurriedly asked: "I was about to ask my sister-in-law, I heard that Mrs. Lu and Miss Lu were invited to live with me, and Mr. Lu agreed, why didn't he come after a month?" Do you still live on a ship? Don't spoil Master Lu's mother and daughter. ”

"Even if it's hot, I won't do anything to you." Ripple smiled, "Originally, I said that it was okay, but then you got sick, and the whole family was nervous or something, Master Lu said that it was inconvenient to come, and when he returned to his master, he had already rented a house outside, and most of the female relatives always came to ask his wife for peace." ”

Mu Lanxiang asked, "Sister-in-law, do you know what the name of that young lady is?" ”

"I don't know." Ripple said again: "I only heard that he is not young, he looks very good, and he can make a fuss." ”

Xu Yu said proudly: "That's because you don't pay attention, I know her name is Zuoqin." ”

Zhu Mingzhi on the side chuckled: "You like to inquire about these, do you have someone in your heart, but unfortunately people don't know you yet." ”

"I'm not uncommon for her to know." Xu Yu said as he measured the satin.

At this time, the little magpie beside Ripple came in and said, "The eldest young master asked grandma to go back, there is something." ”

"Good!" Ripple agreed, and ordered the contents of the satin box to be taken out, and one of the packages was opened, and it turned out to be ten pairs of green silk cloaks and ten sets of satin jackets. Zhu Nephrite was shocked and said, "What do you want this for?" ”

Mu Lanxiang said with a smile: "Where do I want, this is Yu'er's filial piety to his wife." ”

"I thought you were going to wear a cloak now, and what kind of moth came out." After Zhu Nephrite finished speaking, everyone laughed.

Ye Qin opened other packages one after another, nothing more than delicate tent edges and bed curtains, eight pairs of chair cushion covers stacked with flowers, and two large boxes of flail Nan incense powder and some high-quality ejiao, peach and apricot and other preserved fruits, all of which were collected by Chunyan and other maids.

The girls thanked them collectively, and Ripple and Ye Qin sat down for a while and went back together.

Forbidden City, Cining Palace.

Xiao Shi said to the Empress Dowager Zhang: "It's really not that the enemy doesn't get together, these days when Yu'er is recuperating, Lan Xiang and Ming Zhi are inseparable from each other, needless to say that Yu'er and Lan Xiang have been in love since childhood, and Ming Zhi and his love have come to this step, and the three children can't be separated when they see it." ”

Empress Dowager Zhang sighed, the two princesses died of illness before they left the cabinet, and she really couldn't bear Zhu Mingzhi to have three long and two short. As long as Deqing can survive, he doesn't mind two daughters marrying the same husband.

Empress Dowager Zhang looked at Mrs. Mu and Aunt Xiao and said, "But the two sisters, who is the big and who is the smallest?" ”

Aunt Xiao hurriedly said: "Queen Mother, our fragrant girl has been good-tempered since she was a child, so she can get along with anyone else, besides, the princess, I look at her and feel distressed, probably because the two sisters had a fate in their previous lives, and they just want their sisters to be of the same heart." What's big and what's small! ”

Empress Dowager Zhang nodded frequently and sighed: "Well said, it is really rare for Madam to be so considerate." Alas! This is your mother's fulfillment of our mother's son. ”

In Yangzhou City, Liu Yun said to Lu Xiong: "The day before yesterday, I gave fifty taels of silver, but there was no real effect at all, obviously the silver was spent in vain, and it was really not worth it." ”

"Brother, everything is fine. It's just too impatient. Lu Xiong smiled: "This kind of thing has to be simmered slowly, as long as she accepts my silver, it has become two points, and she can't think of my way." I also want her to come up obediently, of course, it will take some trouble. ”

At that moment, Wang De took a few pieces of silk and satin, went to the market with a four-color water ceremony, and arrived at Shen's house. said to Shen: "My master was in Suzhou a few days ago and disturbed Master Shen several times. The young master originally intended to wait for Master Shen to leave, and prepared a return gift for him. Unexpectedly, he came to Yangzhou first, so he sent me to send the gift over, hoping that Mrs. would accept it with a smile. ”

As he spoke, Wang De put everything on the table, and it was full of dazzling colors.

Wu Shi hurriedly said: "I have received a message from your young master, and I haven't thanked you in person, how can I accept your family's Lilly again?" I dare not accept it. The housekeeper asks you to take your things back and pay your respects, and the woman will not go to thank you. ”

"Madam, spare the little one." Wang De smiled bitterly: "When I came, the young master repeatedly instructed that if you don't accept gifts, you won't let me go back to see him, and besides, if you buy everything, you can't return it, so your old man should pity me and accept it." ”

"No, no." Wu said so, but in fact, most of the women's families are greedy for small gains, and they say that they have good intentions, if they insist on not accepting them, wouldn't they annoy their friends for their husbands? And seeing that these things are valuable goods, I was even more tempted, and unconsciously changed my words: "Alas! Thanks to the reward of your young master, it seems that my family does not know how to promote, and the slave family is ashamed of it, so let's make up for it another day. ”

"That's right." Wang De said with a smile: "The family doesn't talk to each other, I'll help my wife take it in." ”

On the Liu family's side, Lu Xiongxi, who got the letter, said: "I am four points sure." Then he said proudly to Liu Yun: "How?" I'm not afraid that she is smart, as long as she is a woman, she will fall for me. ”

Liu Yun couldn't help but look at him with admiration, Lu Xiong didn't have great wisdom, and there was no shortage of little intelligence, but he didn't know what the outcome would be.

On the Shen family's side, the Wu family accepted the gifts from others and said to their daughter: "The surname Lu has so many gifts, how can our family accept them for nothing?" It's just that your father is not at home, and I don't know when I will come back, once Lu Gongzi returns to Suzhou, it will be too rude. I thought it would be better to prepare a table for a banquet, anyway, I am almost forty years old, and it is nothing to see him. ”

Aunt Shen Lan disagreed: "You should return the gift, but it's not good to invite him to the house." Lu Gongzi on the opposite side is a young man, mother, it is better to send the banquet over, everyone can be comfortable. ”

Wu nodded in kindness, and the next day invited a neighbor to the restaurant to book a table of banquets, and sent it directly. Lu Xiong didn't shirk when he saw it, and accepted it with a smile.

Liu Yun, who was watching from the sidelines, said: "The Liren family has returned, and I don't owe favors from now on, what do you say?" ”

I don't want Lu Xiong to smile: "This game has become six points, come, let's drink, and it will be done in a few days." ”

Liu Yun was stunned, thought for a while and suddenly realized, and shouted: "I understand, you kid didn't plan to steal people secretly at all, but to marry people back openly?" Yes and no? ”

Lu Xiong laughed: "Yes! This is called Yangmou. I think I have repeatedly suffered in small schemes, and I almost can't turn over for the rest of my life, and I will learn from the pain early, and when the beauty obediently enters the door, is it not used by our brother at will? (To be continued......)