Spring is warm and fragrant

Chapter 28 Three Inch Golden Lotus
On the two days of the end of the month and the beginning of the month, the servants of the Lu family will take turns to take vacations. In the morning, Lu Mingyu came to pay her respects to her mother, and bumped into Bitan at the door.Bitan is 20 years old, with delicate features and exquisite figure. As the eldest maid of the Xiao family, she does all important but light errands, and her basic necessities are more delicate than ordinary ladies. Have some bearing.

With such an age and such a face, as long as Bitan thinks about it, as long as the Xiao family has someone to replace her, it stands to reason that she can marry.

"Fourth Miss is here." Seeing Lu Mingyu, Bitan saluted with a smile.

She was wearing an ordinary muslin dress, with a bundle on her right arm. Lu Mingyu shook a peach blossom that he just picked on the road, looked at her with a smile and asked, "Is sister Bitan going home today? I remember sister Bitan's house. Fried melon seeds are very delicious, can I bring some back this time?"

Bitan's family opened a roasted seeds and nuts shop, and Lu Mingyu was used to delicacies from mountains and seas, and felt that the snacks from villages and towns had a special flavor, but she used to really like the snacks from Bitan's family, but now, she is just polite.

"Don't worry, Miss Si, my mother knows that you like food, so she asks me to bring it for you every time." The fourth girl is beautiful, and Bitan likes it from the bottom of her heart. Bitan is very satisfied with the food at home that can catch the eyes of the fourth girl. .

Lu Mingyu nodded happily, and entered the main room first.

"The teeth are shaking, and you still dare to eat melon seeds." Xiao Shi was sitting inside, and after hearing the conversation just now, she couldn't help teasing her daughter.

Lu Mingyu pouted, and couldn't help but touch the tip of her tongue against the shaking left upper front tooth after she finished, the more she thought about it, the more depressed she became.Growing up again is enough torment, and it is uncomfortable and ugly to have to experience changing teeth again.Feeling depressed, Lu Mingyu sat beside her mother with her head drooping, silently losing her temper.

Xiao smiled, and dealt with the maids who were about to leave the house first, and told them to be careful on the way home.

I have to say it once a month, and the maids and women all listened with a smile. Once the master let him go, they walked out excitedly, and they all returned home like an arrow.

Lu Mingyu stared at Bitan's back, her little brows frowned, and when she was alone with her mother later, Lu Mingyu asked in a low voice: "Mother, it's been more than two months, have you found out the details of Bitan?"

What distressed her most in her previous life was her mother's death. After she was reborn, her mother repeatedly assured her that she would never commit suicide. Lu Mingyu relaxed for two days, but she had doubts again.Since the mother would not kill herself, why did she fall into the lake?Did it slip in by accident, or was it pushed in?The former can be avoided by being careful in this life, if it is the latter...

Bitan was the only clue.

Lu Mingyu told her mother about her conjecture, and her mother thought of it before her, and told her to live her own life well and not interfere with adults' affairs... Lu Mingyu was dissatisfied with her mother treating her like a child, but she really couldn't help, Bitan was the mother The maid, who didn't want to scare the snake, could only be watched by her mother.

Xiao didn't want her daughter to worry about her all day long, so she touched the silk flower on her head, and said softly: "Not yet, I think it was just an accident at the time, but mother will continue to send people to pay attention, Ah Nuan, don't worry. Yesterday you Did aunt invite you to play in the garden? Go quickly, don't ask aunt to wait."

"Mother, just keep fooling me like a child!" The secret conversation was interrupted by her mother again, Lu Mingyu complained and stood up, without turning her head to go out.Mrs. Xiao couldn't help laughing, and just about to call her daughter to coax her, the little girl suddenly turned around and winked at her playfully, "Mother, I'll be back after playing with my aunt and the others for a while, you can go to grandma's first to chat to relieve boredom. "

Really, my father, ever since I can see the blurred shadow, my heart has become wild. I didn’t go out once a few months ago, but now I go out for a while every day, saying that I’m walking around. If I look more, I may recover faster... If it wasn’t for my father’s lunch He will definitely come back before, Lu Mingyu really wants to go to his uncle to file a complaint, mother is pregnant, and it would be great if father is at home with him.

With slight dissatisfaction with her father, Lu Mingyu quickened her pace to join her little aunts and sisters in the garden.

"A Nuan!"

Lu Huaiyu had the loudest voice and shouted from a distance, "Why are you late again!"

Lu Mingyu was really wronged, it was obvious that the second sister and aunt came early, and the eldest sister hadn't come yet, as for the third sister Lu Yan, because she was afraid of Lu Huaiyu, unless the elders were present, Lu Yan would never come forward Even if you invite her, she won't come. As time passes, everyone will get used to not calling her.

"Look, Ah Nuan, my wife gave me a pair of bracelets." Lu Huaiyu hoped that Lu Mingyu would arrive early for a reason. As soon as Lu Mingyu came over, she stretched out her two arms and showed her wrists to the fourth sister.A chubby little girl with two wrists that look like lotus root joints, with a pair of pink and tender peach blossom jade bracelets on them, like peach blossoms reflected in white snow, really pretty.

Lu Mingyu had an impression of this pair of bracelets, because she saw her second sister wearing them for the first time in her previous life, and she was very envious of them, so she went home and acted like a baby with her mother.Her mother loved her, and took out a piece of Lantian hibiscus jade bestowed by the emperor from the storeroom. It will be used as a dowry for her in the future.

When the bracelets were opened, Lu Mingyu kept them like treasures. Later, when her mother passed away, every time Lu Mingyu saw the pair of bracelets, she would cry.

"It's so pretty." Lu Mingyu touched the second sister's bracelet and boasted absent-mindedly.

Lu Huaiyu raised the corners of his mouth happily, and after showing off to his fourth sister, he caught a glimpse of Lu Jinyu and Chen Lian coming side by side, and Lu Huaiyu ran over to show off again.Lu Mingyu was distracted by Chen Lianshuang's voice, and when she turned her head, she saw Chen Lianshuang wearing a long white dress embroidered with lotus leaves, Bingpin Tingting walked over, her bright eyes and white teeth, she was a beauty at first, and she was set off by the girls. , even more outstanding.

Seeing Chen Lian clasping the hands of the second sister with witty words, which made the second sister smile, Lu Mingyu looked away uncomfortably.To be honest, she didn't like Chen Lianshuang.There are too many aunts in rich families, such as grandfather's old aunt Zhou. No matter how much Lu Mingyu hopes that his grandfather and grandmother will live in harmony, he will not blame old aunt Zhou, because old aunt Zhou is honest and responsible, and has never taken the initiative to seduce grandfather. When my grandfather went to serve Aunt Zhou, when my grandfather didn't go, Aunt Zhou stayed in her small courtyard, never playing tricks to compete for favor.

Chen Lianshuang was different. Lu Mingyu didn't know how Chen Lianshuang became an aunt, but she remembered that after Chen Lianshuang became the second uncle's man, she often drove the second aunt crazy, so crazy that she forgot the "difference" between her grandmother and her identity, and "condescended to her." "Gui" came to complain to his grandmother, scolding Chen Lianshuang for a while, and criticizing the auntie for being uneasy and kind, and specially made Chen Lianshuang angry with her.Lu Mingyu was very curious, so she secretly listened to the wall a few times, including how Chen Lianshuang had a stomachache at night and tricked her second uncle away, how she had to rely on her pregnancy to ask her second uncle to accompany her for so many nights...

At that time, the second sister wanted to take Chen Lianshuang's skin off, but now she is kept in the dark and considers the thief as a friend.

Lu Mingyu didn't like her second aunt, but she cared about her cousins.In order to prevent the second sister from getting too close to Chen Lianshuang, during the game of hide-and-seek, Lu Mingyu "ruthlessly" abandoned her aunt, and always ran after Lu Huaiyu.

After playing a few times, it was Chen Lian's turn to be a ghost, covering her eyes and pressing her forehead against the tree trunk, counting aloud.

Lu Huaiyu was arrested several times in a row, she was not reconciled, and urged Lu Mingyu: "Fourth sister, let's hide away."

After finishing speaking, he didn't give Lu Mingyu a chance to refuse, so he pulled Lu Mingyu and ran towards the rockery.Lu Mingyu couldn't bear to spoil the interest of the second sister, so she ran along helplessly, and soon a pair of little sisters hid in the rockery, did not go deep, hid on the edge, and looked outside through the cracks in the rocks.

Lu Huaiyu's eyes were wide open. Lu Mingyu was really "old" at heart, so she rested with her back on the rockery and closed her eyes.Tired of running around.

"Here we come!" About a cup of tea later, Lu Huaiyu tugged on the sleeves of his fourth sister excitedly.

Lu Mingyu had had enough rest, she became more playful, and went to a small hole to look out.

Over there, Chen Lianshuang searched for a suitable hiding place nearby but found no one. Guessing that the two sisters Lu Huaiyu had run away, she asked Lu Yun to wait and she came here to look for them.The rockery is too conspicuous, but looking hidden, it is the most attractive to children. Chen Lianshuang went straight to the rockery. Halfway there, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a slender figure through the tender green branches of flowers and trees.

Looking at his height, is it the second master Lu who has Xiu Mu at home, or the fourth master Lu who has no errands?

Chen Lianshuang slowly slowed down her pace, plucked the broken hair by her ears, turned her watery eyes, turned and walked towards that side, and said with a smile as she walked: "Second Miss, Fourth Miss, I saw you, come out quickly! "

"Hey, she lied to us." Lu Huaiyu was not fooled, and waved his hands, afraid that Lu Mingyu would run out in a fool.

Lu Mingyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, the second elder sister who thought she was smart looked silly, but also playful and cute.

However, when she looked through the cracks in the rocks again, she couldn't laugh anymore, because...

"Miss Chen, are you alright?"

The household department has been busy with errands recently, and it is rare to take a break. Second Master Lu waved his folding fan and prepared to come to the garden to relax.Hearing someone calling his daughter, and guessing that the children were playing hide-and-seek, Second Master Lu gave up his original destination and turned to this side, but ran into the girl Chen who was boarding at his house, only looking for someone, and stumbled.

Out of concern, Second Master Lu hurried over, bowed his head and asked after three steps.

Chen Lian's face was red, she was sitting on the ground, she didn't get up in a hurry, but pulled down her skirt first.

Second Master Lu looked over subconsciously, and saw a pair of little feet no bigger than his palm, hidden in the pink embroidered shoes, like two flower buds.

Second Master Lu was taken aback.

There was a custom of binding feet in the previous dynasty, but Emperor Gaozu didn't like it, so the officials took advantage of the wind and stopped binding the feet of girls in the family.But some men still like small feet. In order to curry favor with such men, Hualou divas or families who rely on their daughters to make a fortune keep the custom of binding their feet.

The Lu family didn't have this custom, and neither did the three-bedroom daughter-in-law who married into the door. Second Master Lu was quite self-sufficient and had never been to the place of fireworks, so today was the first time he saw the legendary three-inch golden lotus.

Sensing the man's increasingly fiery gaze, Chen Lian blushed even more, and finally stood up, her long skirt dropped, covering her lotus feet.Shyly looking at Second Master Lu, Chen Lian opened her red lips lightly, then bit her lips immediately, turned her head and ran away, just like a shy girl who was caught in private, too shy to even speak to a man.

Second Master Lu couldn't help chasing after her.

"Sister Chen is here, let's hide inside!" Seeing Chen Lian running towards this side, Lu Huaiyu pushed Lu Mingyu nervously.

Lu Mingyu stared at the sky speechlessly.

The second elder sister is not sensible, but she can see clearly that Chen Lianshuang fell down on purpose, and her pious second uncle, before Chen Lianshuang threw himself into his arms, the second uncle was seduced by others, someday Chen Lianshuang took the initiative a little bit, and with his second uncle's virtue, wouldn't he pounce on him like a wolf?

Looking at the innocent second sister who was pulling her away, the more Lu Mingyu thought about it, the more she couldn't swallow this breath.

Even for the sake of her second sister, she couldn't let Chen Lianshuang, an ungrateful vixen, succeed.

The sun is high, the little girl has had enough fun, and she is ready to go back to her respective homes.

"Big sister, I want to eat plum cake made of pearls..." Lu Mingyu hugged Lu Jinyu's arm and said delicately.

Lu Jinyu understood, and said with a smile: "Then you come with me, and I will let Pearl do it for you."

Lu Mingyu smiled shyly, like a greedy little cat, innocent and harmless.

(End of this chapter)