Spring is warm and fragrant

Chapter 53
In late April, all the peonies in the garden of the Lu family were in full bloom. Mrs. Zhu, Mrs. Chu, and several wives and wives sat in the gazebo to enjoy the flowers. Mrs. Xiao also accompanied them. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were both beautiful and lovely Dear, a Mingyan is noble, and she has become the Kao among female relatives of similar ages, which is quite eye-catching.

Outside the gazebo, the big girls and the little girls seldom come out to be guests, happily like birds out of cages, get together with their friends and enjoy the flowers in groups of three or four.

Lu Jinyu and Lu Huaiyu were there to help the guests. The main thing Lu Mingyu did today was to look after his younger brother.

"Sister, I want to smell bad." Brother Heng led his sister to look at a few peonies, then suddenly raised his head and told his sister without any shame.

Lu Mingyu looked at the boy suspiciously, "Really?"

Brother Heng nodded seriously, then shook his sister's hand dependently, "Sister will accompany me."

Children become dependent on others, but few who like him can resist.Lu Mingyu patted his younger brother's head, and sent the maid beside him to talk to his eldest sister, Lu Jinyu, and led his younger brother to the clean room.Halfway through, Lu Mingyu lowered her head and asked her younger brother, "Brother Heng, can you bear it?"

Brother Heng looked at his sister, blinked his big eyes, and suddenly grinned, threw his head on his sister's lap, hugged her thigh and acted like a baby, "Sister, I want to go play by the lake."

It turns out that stinking is an excuse!

Younger brother would lie at such a young age, Lu Mingyu pinched the boy's face sullenly, pretending to be angry and said: "No, all the male guests are over there today, mother has said, we are not allowed to go there." The younger brother wants to turn back.

Brother Heng likes to be lively the most, and he went to the lake to see who the guests were at home. When he heard that his sister refused to help, the little guy quit immediately, pulled his sister's skirt and acted like a baby, insisting that his sister take him there.Lu Mingyu resolutely refused. Brother Heng looked at his sister's serious face, as if he knew that acting like a baby would not work, so he curled his lips and opened his mouth to cry.

The words may be false, but the tears are real.

The younger brother was ignorant, so Lu Mingyu's head ached and her heart ached, so she knelt down to reason with her younger brother.Brother Heng refused to listen, crying more and more fiercely, Lu Mingyu frowned, but in the end he couldn't bear to let his brother down, so he said: "Brother Heng is obedient, sister by the lake will definitely not take you, mother will teach me when I go, so, sister Take you to the Crane Pavilion, let's stand on it and take a peek, okay?"

My grandfather likes to climb high and look far away, so he specially ordered craftsmen to build a small hill about one foot high in the northwest corner of the garden, named Qiushan.The autumn mountain is full of plum pine trees, and the three-story attic on the top of the mountain is Fanghe Pavilion.Standing in Fanghe Pavilion, one can overlook the entire Lu Family Garden, but the distance is too far to see clearly the people walking around inside.

Brother Heng looked at his sister with tears in his eyes, because this was different from what he asked, and the little guy was still reluctant.

Lu Mingyu wiped away the tear bumps from the corners of his younger brother's eyes with a handkerchief, and calmly threatened, "Will you go? If you don't go, forget it."

"Go!" Brother Heng hugged his sister's neck and rubbed against her sister aggrievedly.

Lu Mingyu secretly smiled, kissed her younger brother, picked him up and walked forward, coaxing him to forget the grievance just now, and she had no strength left, so she put down her younger brother, and the two siblings walked slowly hand in hand.A quarter of an hour later, Qiushan arrived. Lu Mingyu stood in front of the winding path, teasing his brother with a smile, "Would Brother Heng still want to go to such a high mountain?"

"Go!" Brother Heng said firmly.

Lu Mingyu pursed her lips and smiled, and led her younger brother to climb up. After walking a few steps, Brother Heng's small body tilted towards her, as if he wanted to be hugged by his sister, but he was a bit unwilling to admit defeat.Lu Mingyu pretended not to know, and soon, brother Heng was so tired that he forgot the dignity of a little man, and turned to ask his sister to hug him, but his legs were short and he couldn't move anymore.

Lu Mingyu didn't intend to really climb up at all, squatted in front of her younger brother, panting deliberately, "No, sister can't climb anymore, Brother Heng, let's go back?"

Brother Heng looked at his sister blankly, he hadn't been out of breath just now, why did he become like this when he squatted down?
Brother Heng was too young to see through his sister's bad intentions, but he wanted to go to the top of the mountain to see the guests, so he still moaned and begged his sister to hug her.Tired from squatting, Lu Mingyu simply spread the handkerchief on the ground, and sat there to delay with her younger brother. Anyway, she has plenty of time, so she might not be able to deal with a three-year-old child?

"Sister hug me..."

"My sister can't hold her anymore..."

The grassy breeze blew from one side, blowing away the childish and lovely children's words of the siblings.

Lu Mingyu took pleasure in teasing his younger brother, but Brother Heng was so anxious that hugging his sister's left shoulder didn't work, so Brother Heng decided to try the right side. When he looked up, he saw a tall man coming down from above, a distance away from him and his sister. Only one big tree was so far away.Brother Heng stared at the man's face curiously, as if he had seen it before, but couldn't remember who it was.

Facing the "stranger", Brother Heng couldn't help turning to his sister's arms, and asked in a low voice, "Sister, who is he?"

Lu Mingyu was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked towards the foot of the mountain. There was no one there, but at this moment, footsteps finally came from behind her. Lu Mingyu turned her head in surprise, and saw Chu Xing dressed in a plain brocade robe, walking towards their sister without slowing down. The younger brother came, his eyes were cold.Lu Mingyu never expected to meet Chu Xing here, and froze there in shock.

The nine-year-old girl, wearing her favorite pink skirt, raised her head, revealing a delicate white face with pink inside, thin eyebrows curved like a crescent moon, and watery eyes like waves.He was still a child, but he skillfully held his younger brother in his arms, so delicate and well-behaved, it was really painful.

Chu Xing had just come down from Fanghe Pavilion, and when he was about to reach the foot of the mountain, he found Lu Mingyu and his brother. Because he didn't want to meet Lu Mingyu in private, Chu Xing quickly hid himself in the forest next to the path, intending to wait for Lu Mingyu and his brother to go up before he came out. Unexpectedly The two siblings actually sat there, talking to each other, not knowing how long they would stay.

Chu Xing was not in a hurry, he just wanted to help.Lu Mingyu was too young to hold his younger brother, and Brother Heng insisted on going to the mountain. Since they met, they were relatives after all, so he couldn't stand by and watch.

"Why did you come here?" Chu Xing asked unexpectedly, as if he had just seen Lu Mingyu and his brother, who appeared out of good intentions.

Lu Mingyu finally regained consciousness, realized her current posture, quickly helped her younger brother to stand up, gently smoothed the possible wrinkles on the back skirt with one hand, and said with a blushing face, "I, I will take Brother Heng around, Sit down and rest for a while when you’re tired from walking.” As he spoke, he tried to calmly look at the man above, “Where’s Uncle Cousin?”

Chu Xing said lightly: "I'll just walk around too."

Because he realized that Lu Mingyu wanted to keep a distance from him, and he didn't tell him what he wanted to ask for, Chu Xing gave up the idea of ​​taking care of the siblings, and said in the tone of a junior as he walked down: "This is a bit far from the garden. , you go back after a while, don’t worry your family.”

"Well, I see." Lu Mingyu sent off with lowered eyes, "Cousin, go slowly."

Chu Xing nodded, and walked around Brother Heng.

"Uncle!" Brother Heng suddenly called out to him.

Lu Mingyu secretly thought it was bad, her younger brother was not polite, and was about to stare at him not to allow him to talk nonsense, but brother Heng happily threw himself on Chu Xing's lap, hugged Chu Xing's thigh very skillfully, raised his head and begged, "Uncle hug me , I can't walk anymore..." Since my sister called him uncle, then this person is also his uncle, and my uncle will definitely help him.

Brother Heng looked at his new uncle expectantly.

Chu Xing remained motionless, looking at Lu Mingyu.

The younger brother messed around, Lu Mingyu was extremely ashamed, bent down to pull the younger brother back, but just touched Brother Heng with his hand, and the boy turned around behind Chu Xing, staring at his sister defensively.Lu Mingyu couldn't catch anyone, so he could only bite the bullet and beg Chu Xing, "Uncle Cousin, brother Heng is not sensible, don't spoil him."

Chu Xing was silent for a moment, then lowered his head to coax Brother Heng: "Brother Heng listens to sister."

"I don't, uncle hug!" Brother Heng was anxious, his chubby little hands hugged the new uncle tightly, and rubbed back and forth coquettishly, "Uncle hugs, sister can't hug..."

When Chu Xing heard the words, he suddenly became enlightened.The younger brother and sister didn't ask for help, not necessarily because they wanted to keep a distance from him, because she was still young, and they wouldn't misunderstand if they were bumped into together, but it was more likely that they didn't want to trouble him.If that's the case, brother and sister are polite, how can he really walk away when his brother and sister need help?
Figured it out, Chu Xing didn't look at Lu Mingyu, bent over and lifted Brother Heng up, and walked down silently.

"Go up the mountain!" Brother Heng corrected crisply. He was taller, and the little guy looked around excitedly.

Chu Xing turned around and asked the little girl next to him with a complicated face, "Are you going up the mountain?"

Before Lu Mingyu could answer, Brother Heng nodded solemnly and hummed heavily.

Now that the matter has come to this, what else can Lu Mingyu say?As long as Chu Xing indulged Brother Heng at his grandfather's house last month, as long as Brother Heng insisted, Chu Xing would definitely get used to it.So instead of staying here and wasting time politely, it is better to let Chu Xing carry his younger brother up, and when we reach the top of the mountain, we will divide into two groups, each busy on his own.

"Uncle Biao, I'm going to trouble you again." Lowering her head, Lu Mingyu said in shame.

"It's nothing to do with raising one's hand." Chu Xing glanced at her, and walked up with his feet.

Lu Mingyu waited for a while, and then slowly followed, keeping a distance of six or seven steps from Chu Xing.

The mountain breeze was blowing, and Lu Mingyu could smell the faint fragrance of lavender on Chu Xing's body. It smelled like cedar, clear and calm, just like him.

Lu Mingyu couldn't help raising her head, but met her younger brother's mischievous face, as if she was waiting for her, grinned at her, wild with pride.

Lu Mingyu gritted her teeth angrily, and pinched his brother's face.

Brother Heng immediately turned back.

Chu Xing looked ahead, imagining Lu Mingyu threatening his younger brother, and the corners of his lips couldn't help but curl up.His younger siblings, who looked delicate and innocent, were actually quite capable. Lu Zhan and his wife were harmonious, Lu Rong's eyesight recovered, and Xiao's family was safe and sound. Even the war in Liaodong that year had the shadow of younger siblings taking action.

Somehow, Chu Xing wanted to... reward the little girl behind her who worked hard to protect her family and had a righteous heart.

"Fourth Miss, I heard from your father that you will go to Yueyang at the end of the month?" Chu Xing asked without looking back.

Lu Mingyu looked at his back in surprise, and replied blankly: "Yes."

Chu Xing nodded and stepped up the last stone steps at the same time.Standing firmly with brother Heng in his arms, Chu Xingchang stood tall and looked at the lake in the distance with his phoenix eyes. He said calmly: "A few days ago, my younger brother wrote a letter saying that he was going to go south from Chang'an to visit the famous mountains and rivers around Yueyang. Maybe, You can meet in Yueyang."

(End of this chapter)