Shen Ao accompanied Lu Zhizhang to greet his wife, Lu Zhizhang was a little nervous, holding the Buddha statue in his hand, and thought to himself: "What should I say to my aunt at that time?" What if she doesn't like it? After all, he stayed in Hongzhou most of the time, the Lu family was extremely influential in Hongzhou, and others usually went to slap him when they saw him, but at this time he was taught to socialize normally and please his wife, but it made him timid.

But with Shen Ao's company, he had a little confidence, his cousin was too good, if it weren't for this cousin, he wouldn't know the importance of pleasing his wife, and when the time came, he would rashly propose marriage, and it would be bad if his wife didn't agree.

One after the other, she went straight into the Buddhist hall, Chun'er happened to come out head-on, and Shen Ao bumped into her arms, Shen Ao hurriedly supported her, and didn't care about anyone's presence, and said with great concern: "Chun'er, are you sick?" ”

Chun'er broke away from him, hung her head with an embarrassed face and said, "Shen Da...... Master Cousin, Chun'er's illness has been cured. ”

Xiao Nizi was too inferior, Shen Ao said with a straight face: "In the future, you are not allowed to call Young Master Cousin, just Brother Shen, Chun'er, your illness is just right, I will ask Mrs. for a few days of leave for you, you have a good rest, don't be tired, okay?" ”

Chun'er raised her eyes and saw Shen Ao's face that was still gentle even if it was flat, and those eyes looked straight at her with a lot of concern; The haze that was pressing on her heart seemed to burst out all of a sudden, and Chun'er threw herself into Shen Ao's arms a little uncontrollably, so she couldn't help crying, and said, "Brother Shen, I'm ...... You, I thought you were a cousin, so you didn't want to pay attention to me anymore. ”

Ignoring Lu Zhizhang's consternation, Shen Ao hurriedly comforted: "Chun'er is so stupid, how could I ignore you?" In my mind, Chun'er is very important. ”

Chun'er cried and laughed, wiped away her tears and said, "You will talk nonsense." ”

Xiao Nizi realized that she was out of shape, and quickly broke free from Shen Ao's arms, leaving a lot of residual warmth and tear stains on her chest, Shen Ao smiled: "Where am I talking nonsense, in fact, I have something to give you, but ......" Shen Ao sold Guanzi, and seeing that Chun'er was fine, his mood was better again: "I can't give it to you now, I will definitely give you a surprise one day." ”

Chun'er finally regained her reserve, and said, "Miss said that you are useless, so you know to make the girl happy." ”

Shen Ao shouted that she was wronged, Miss Zhou was so unkind, wasn't she very happy when she went to coax her? Could it be that Miss Zhou is jealous? Although he thought so, Shen Ao didn't dare to confirm it, Miss Zhou's attitude towards him was very strange, and his mind was too difficult to guess, so he didn't care about it for the time being.

Chun'er glanced at Lu Zhizhang, only to find that there was someone beside her, and she suddenly became embarrassed, and said expectantly: "Brother Shen and Lu Gongzi are going to see Madame?" ”

Lu Zhizhang hurriedly said: "Yes, is Madam in the Buddha Hall?" "He is very polite to Chun'er, the relationship between this girl and her cousin is not ordinary! You have to make a good impression on him; And looking at her appearance, she looks like a personal girl next to her wife, although this status is not high, but it is very useful, and she cannot be offended.

Chun'er said: "Mrs. and Miss are in the Buddha Hall!" Brother Shen and Lu Gongzi go in, and I'll go get a hand-copied Buddhist scripture for Madame. As he spoke, he blushed and hurriedly left.

Lu Zhizhang's eyes lit up, Miss was also there, great, although he came to Zhou's mansion, he only met Miss Zhou a few times, and he didn't even say a few words, so he took this opportunity to get closer to Miss Zhou.

Shen Ao and Lu Zhizhang went in, Mrs. raised her eyes, saw Shen Ao and Lu Zhizhang coming in, and immediately smiled: "Shen Ao, come, sit down and talk." "Look at Lu Zhizhang again, Mrs. has a good impression of Lu Zhizhang, this son from Hongzhou, who is a friend of the world, is good-looking and polite, and Ruo'er is a good match.

This is not bad, the Lu family in Hongzhou is also a scholarly family, and it is intertwined in the south of the Yangtze River, and it can be regarded as a first-class family, and if you can marry them, Ruo'er's marriage does not have to worry anymore.

Madame beckoned to Lu Zhizhang and said, "Master Lu, you also sit down and talk." ”

Lu Gongzi bowed to his wife solemnly, and said: "I have seen my aunt, my aunt's body is very tough, a few days ago, when I came to the house, I gave Hongzhou's special lotus root powder, I don't know if my wife has used it?" Hongzhou lotus root powder is well-known all over the world, and it can be eye-catching. ”

The lady said, "You kid ......" thought to herself: "This kid doesn't seem to be very good at talking, how can he say this when he sees someone." But he didn't blame Lu Zhizhang at all, but he had a good impression of Lu Zhizhang, after all, it has been intriguing for a long time, and it is not easy to meet such a simple child, and it should be very good to Ruo'er in the future.

Lu Zhizhang sat down, trying his best to show his confidence and demeanor, he glanced at Zhou Ruo, who was silent, and suddenly his eyes lit up again, Miss Zhou was so beautiful, it happened that a ray of sunlight through the lattice window happened to be sprinkled on her cheeks, the dazzling, mutton fat-like skin, goose egg face, slightly pointed jaw, as well as the willow eyebrows, beautiful eyes, slightly upturned lips, just looking at this glance, Lu Zhizhang was distracted.

Lu Zhizhang suddenly had the courage and said to his wife: "Auntie, the Guogong Mansion is very big, although Xiaosheng has lived for a few days, many beautiful scenery still haven't been seen. He first casually said some flattering words to set the stage for the following gifts.

The lady smiled: "After all, the Guogong Mansion is in the capital, how big can it be." I heard the old man say that Hongzhou Lufu covers an area of 1,000 acres, and the Qionglou Yuyu is endless, which is the real breadth. When you come here, I'm afraid that you've seen something new, so you feel big. By the way, I heard that there is a rope pagoda in Hongzhou, and the incense is very prosperous? ”

Thinking that there was finally a common topic, Lu Zhizhang said brightly: "Shengjin Pagoda has always been the treasure of Hongzhou Town, which is both water and fire, and sits in Jiangcheng. The Zen masters inside are also high-ranking monks, the incense is very prosperous, and there are often temple fairs in front of the tower, which is also very lively. ”

The lady said: "Since it is a Zen temple, it should be a place for monks to practice Buddhism, and it seems inappropriate to hold a temple fair in front of the tower." ”

When Lu Zhizhang heard it, oh, it turned out that his aunt didn't like the temple fair, and understood, so he said: "My aunt doesn't know, the Shengjin Pagoda is thirty zhang high, and the Zen masters are at the top of the tower, no matter how lively it is, it can't be heard." ”

Madame was surprised: "Thirty zhang, it is so tall." ”

The two of them were talking, Shen Ao didn't interject, but he was eye-to-eyeing with Zhou Ruo, Zhou Ruo knew that Shen Ao brought this Lu Gongzi here, and he didn't know what kind of mystery he was making, most of them wanted to frame this stupid boy, so he smiled and watched from the wall to see what kind of conspiracy Shen Ao was going to make.

But Shen Ao thought to himself: "My cousin and I have cooperated for the second time, the first time was to harm the businessman, and the second time it was even more powerful, bullying the honest Lu Gongzi." It seems that my cousin and I are very close to each other, and she is also very bad, hehe, isn't there a saying that is good? When two bed bugs are together, they naturally smell the same. Cousin, cousin, two bed bugs, fine, I'm male, she's female. ”

After talking for a while, Lu Zhizhang finally couldn't help it, and said: "I heard that my aunt loves Buddha very much, and Xiaosheng came this time, and I have a gift to give to my aunt." ”

Madame laughed, thinking to herself: "This Lu Gongzi is still very well-behaved, and he doesn't know anything about the world. Well, look at how he pleases my future mother-in-law. Then he said happily: "Lu Gongzi has a heart, I don't know what kind of gift it is." ”

Lu Gongzi took out the Buddha statue in his arms, carefully sent it over, and said: "Auntie, this is the Buddha statue I carved myself, please accept it with a smile." ”

"Huh! Buddha statue again? "Mrs. can't raise a lot of interest, gift-giving is like this, just like the later generations, the first to give brain platinum, people want to be fresh, it's also very good. But the second and third came to give brain platinum, and the people who were afraid of receiving gifts were not much interested.

However, since it was sent by Lu Gongzi and carved by him himself, Mrs. was still a little moved, picked up the Buddha statue, and said with a smile: "I like it very much." She took the Buddha statue and looked at it, but she wondered in her heart: "Why is this Buddha statue similar to the one Shen Ao gave before, it is too similar." ”

With this doubt, I went to look at Lu Gongzi's hands, Lu Gongzi's hands were very clean, his skin was well maintained, slender and beautiful.

Madame seemed to notice something, and then looked at Shen Ao's hand, and this look, she found that Shen Ao's hand had a few more nicks.

She understood in her heart that this Buddha statue was not carved by Lu Gongzi at all, but by Shen Ao. Lu Gongzi took the Buddha statue carved by Shen Ao but said that it was his own intention, and said that he carved it with his own hands to give it to him, this Lu Gongzi does not seem to be very honest, so slippery.

Thinking about it, thinking about it, Mrs. felt distressed, Shen Ao, this child is too honest, others give gifts, what do you want, it hurts your hands, and you can't please it.

With this thought, Madame looked at Lu Gongzi's eyes a little indifferent.

Shen Ao pretended to be surprised, and said in his mouth: "Lu Gongzi's Buddha statue is not very well carved, but he has this intention, and it is also very good." ”

Mrs. was even more angry in her heart, Shen Ao was too sincere, obviously he was contributing to Lu Gongzi, but he asked Lu Gongzi to make this cheap, and in the end he also said good things for Lu Gongzi, compared with the two, Shen Ao is too kind-hearted, Lu Gongzi's mind, I'm afraid it will be a little bad; Especially looking at his calm acceptance, and a little complacent, it is very eye-catching.

The mother's expression, Zhou Ruo took it in his eyes, and suddenly understood that Shen Ao was too cunning, and only he could think of such a bad idea; On the one hand, it made his mother's impression of him better, and let Lu Gongzi lose points in front of his mother; On the other hand, Lu Gongzi was kept in the dark, but he was still grateful to him for choosing gifts for himself, and he was still saying good things about him in front of his mother.

Thinking of this, Zhou Ruo couldn't help but laugh and laughed; It's just that this laugh is fleeting; However, this smile was all in Lu Gongzi's eyes, and Lu Gongzi was happy in his heart, not noticing his wife's indifference to him, but thinking happily in his heart: "Miss Zhou smiled, it's really good, presumably Miss Zhou also likes this gift; My cousin is so good, if he hadn't given me ideas, I was afraid that it would be more difficult to make a beautiful woman laugh than to ascend to the sky! Does Miss Zhou already fall in love with me? Okay, I'm going to keep up the good work. ”