Spring is warm and fragrant

Chapter 76

After parting from Lu Mingyu, Chu walked for about a quarter of an hour, and went around to the south side of the imperial garden.

King Qing and King Rui also came, and the two brothers sat in the octagonal pavilion to talk, accompanied by Xiao Yi and Xiao Congjian, the heirs of Prince Zhuang.Outside the gazebo, Xiao Huan, Brother Ying, Brother Heng, the third prince, and the fourth prince gathered together and muttered something together. Chu Xing glanced around and saw his cousin by the health pool, sitting together facing the water On the rock, motionless.

Everyone else had company, but he was the only one who was alone. No matter how he looked at it, Chu Xing felt that his cousin might be sulking.

The cousin bullied Lu Mingyu, it was the cousin's fault, Chu Xing chose to help Lu Mingyu, but as an elder brother, seeing his cousin being unhappy, it was because of his meddling that caused it, Chu Xing felt a little bit of self-blame in his heart.He understood Lu Mingyu's grievances, and at the same time, he also knew why his cousin did these things. Before Lu Mingyu was young and his cousin hadn't enlightened yet, now that Lu Mingyu was already slim, his cousin fell in love with Lu Mingyu just like in his previous life.

Standing still for a moment, Chu Xing walked towards the health pool.

Chu Sui heard his brother's footsteps, but he turned a deaf ear to it, and his phoenix eyes continued to stare at a black pebble in the pool.

Chu Xing sat down next to him, seeing his cousin expressionless, knowing that he didn't look at it, a little childish, Chu Xing smiled lightly, "Are you angry?"

Chu Sui was angry, thinking that his elder brother didn't save face for him, but when his elder brother really asked, his stinginess also exhaled with his breath, pursed his lips, and gave his elder brother a sideways look, "Elder brother can laugh too? Did you just now?" That's not how you see me, those who don't know think she is your sister, and I'm just an outsider."

It was all angry words, Chu Xing didn't take it to heart, looked at the sparkling water and said: "The more outsiders you have to be reasonable, no matter how that purse got into your hands, she is a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl. The relationship is still with us juniors, if you are so angry, do you have the nerve to haggle over every detail with her?"

"She has never regarded me as an elder, and she has never called me uncle." Chu Sui picked up a small stone and threw it into the water, laughing.Lu Mingyu, how sweet it is to call big brother cousin uncle, he didn't offend her at first.As soon as the thought fell, Chu Sui suddenly remembered, looking at the rippling water in the pool, that the day Lu Si gave her the purse, she said she didn't like to call him cousin uncle, but he asked her to call him second brother, and the little girl called out sweetly.

Before Yue Yang reunited, Lu Mingyu didn't seem to treat him so badly?

Chu Sui touched his face, maybe Lu Mingyu refused to call him uncle because he was younger than his elder brother?
The gloom in his heart was swept away, Chu Sui turned to his elder brother, and spoke out his guess as if to prove it.

Chu Xing looked at the robe that Lu Mingyu had grabbed, and said lightly: "It's possible."

Lu Mingyu didn't call her cousin cousin because the two had a closer relationship, unlike him, they were elders anyway.

After being echoed, Chu Sui raised his head and looked at the blue sky high in the sky. Thinking of Lu Mingyu's sarcasm when he mentioned Dong Yue's childhood today, and the words Lu Mingyu coldly severed ties with him in Yueyang City, he sighed and regretted even more. Dong Yueer said, "Brother, I think Ah Nuan may have liked me a long time ago, so she gave me a purse, and she got angry again when she saw me with... Brother, tell me, if I start to treat her well now, will she forgive me? "

Will it?
Chu Xing didn't know, he lowered his eyes, and asked after a while: "You, have you told her the truth?"

Chu Sui smiled wryly, "I've always treated her like a child, but I didn't expect her to guess it."

When she is well-behaved, people can't help but want to hold her in his arms. When she is cunning, she is irritating and cute. I knew that Lu Mingyu would appear so flowery, charming and charming. I knew that Lu Mingyu might secretly like him when she was a child. I like it so much that I faint with anger when I see him holding others, not to mention Dong Yueer, even if a fairy comes down to earth, Chu Sui will keep his heart.

Chu Xing has never been tempted by a woman, and he doesn't know how to please a girl. He tilted his head, looked at his cousin and asked, "Want to marry her?"

Chu Sui touched the bridge of his nose and said "hmm".Lu Mingyu was the first girl who made him feel amazed, and also the first girl he wanted to get close to without doing anything.With extraordinary looks, pleasant temperament, and rare family background, Chu Sui felt more and more that he really wanted to marry Lu Mingyu back home.

The man's love was just beginning, and his face was unconsciously gentle, which coincided with the cousin in Chu Xing's memory. In his previous life, every time Lu Mingyu was mentioned, the cousin would smile like this, and the joy went straight to the bottom of his heart.

Since the cousin wanted to marry Lu Mingyu, according to the ingenuity he spent in courting Lu Mingyu in his previous life, Chu Xing felt that he couldn't help him, so he only had one thing to say.He looked at Chi Shui and said solemnly: "Since you want to marry, tell her the truth. Only by asking Miss Si to forgive you will you be able to pass the test of her parents, otherwise you will give up as soon as possible."

Mentioning this, Chu Sui punched his knee angrily.

"Bold, you dare to hit me!"

The two brothers had their own concerns, and suddenly the fourth prince shouted angrily from the gazebo. Chu Xing and Chu Sui turned their heads together, and happened to see the fourth prince kicking on Brother Heng's leg. Brother Heng was two years younger than him. He was short, and suddenly received a kick from the fourth prince, who immediately saw it and kicked him hard. Brother Heng staggered and fell to the ground immediately.

Chu Xing coaxed Brother Heng twice, and stood up awkwardly when he saw this, but he was just about to rush over, and saw his cousin next to him also get up, Chu Xing's eyes changed, and he walked slowly.

Chu Sui has always disliked the fourth prince. Seeing the fourth prince bullying his sweetheart's younger brother at this time, of course Chu Sui couldn't stand by and ran towards the gazebo quickly. However, after only a few steps, Xiao Congjian walked out of the gazebo with a sullen face. He came out, helped his nephew, and asked the fourth prince in a cold voice, "Why did the fourth prince do it?"

Brother Heng was beaten, but he didn't cry, he stood next to his uncle with his mouth pursed, his tiger eyes wide open, full of momentum.

The fourth prince was not afraid of him, and pointed to his left arm and said angrily, "He hit me first." He is a prince, and he would hit anyone who hurt him. With a light touch, the fourth prince also wanted to take the opportunity to vent his anger.

"I didn't hit you!" Brother Heng loudly defended himself, unwilling to be wronged.

On the side, Xiao Huan and Brother Ying, of course, spoke to their cousins, and they all spoke for Brother Heng, and they were indeed telling the truth.

There were five people in total, and three of them accused him of lying. The fourth prince was anxious, and looked at the third prince who hadn't spoken yet, "Third brother, he hit my arm just now. You saw it too, didn't you?" Knowing that the third prince Silly, the fourth prince secretly winked at his elder brother. At this time, he had long forgotten about deliberately comparing his elder brother in front of his father.

The third prince also forgot about that, but he would not lie, he looked at his younger brother and then brother Heng, shook his head, "I didn't see it."

"Fourth brother still hasn't apologized." King Qing stood on the highest step of the gazebo with his hands behind his back, and said in a deep voice.

On one side, King Rui smiled slightly, and looked at his fourth half-brother sympathetically.So what about siblings, Prince Qing helped Brother Heng, and he could please Prince Zhuang's Mansion and the Lu family in a small way, so what would he gain by helping the Fourth Prince?Not only can't get it, but it will provoke those two big families.

The fourth prince has his own pride, even if everyone does not help him, he still raised his head high and refused to admit his mistake: "He bumped into me first, if you don't believe me, let's go to Father and let Father judge!" Third brother It's a fool, the eldest brother and the second brother don't like him, he doesn't believe in his father and is partial to outsiders.

"Forget it, it's a little thing, it's inevitable for boys to have bumps and bumps together, today is New Year's Eve, please don't take it to heart." Xiao Congjian didn't want to touch Emperor Ming Hui's bad luck, and smiled and pleaded for the fourth prince.

King Qing nodded, and then scolded the fourth prince again.

The fourth prince held his breath in his heart, and angrily led the little eunuch who was serving him away.

Xiao Congjian bent down, patted the soil for his nephew, confirmed that the nephew was only in a little pain, and asked Xiao Huan to lead Brother Heng and Brother Ying back to Zhaoyang Palace.Brother Heng didn't want to play here anymore, he nodded obediently, turned around and saw Chu Xing and Chu Sui, the boy's big eyes showed a trace of grievance, "Uncle Cousin."

The shout was naturally Chu Xing.

Chu Xing patted the boy's shoulder lightly, and believed that after this incident, Brother Heng would understand the difference between the prince and ordinary noble children better.

"It's still early to leave the banquet, Brother Heng, how about you playing with me?" Chu Sui bent over and said to Brother Heng with a smile, wanting to please "brother-in-law" first.

But Brother Heng was in a hurry to go back and complain to his sister about his grievances. He was not familiar with Chu Sui, so he refused decisively.

"Sister, the fourth prince kicked me." There were more people in the main hall of Zhaoyang Palace, Brother Heng sensiblely did not disturb his mother, and ran to the warm pavilion to find his sister and complain about his grievances.

After Lu Mingyu heard about it, her heart ached to death, she bent down and gently pinched the kicked place on her younger brother's calf, "Does it hurt?"

Brother Heng was in a little pain, but he lied with a smile, "It doesn't hurt."

Lu Mingyu believed it to be true, one could not speak ill of the fourth prince in the palace, so she could only remind her younger brother to avoid playing with the fourth prince.

Brother Heng wanted to get her sister's gentle comfort, but also didn't want her sister to feel that he had suffered a great loss, so he immediately said proudly: "Sister, uncle, cousin, Lord Qing, they all helped me speak, and my cousin patted me on the shoulder, so he must be too." on my side."

Lu Mingyu was startled, glanced at the noble ladies in the distance, and asked his younger brother in a low voice: "Uncle? Which uncle?"

Brother Heng blinked his eyes, pondered his words for a while, and then suddenly realized: "It's the Duke!"

The figure of the man she had just seen not long ago appeared in her mind, Lu Mingyu snickered in her heart, she knew it must be Chu Xing.

When the palace banquet was over, it was almost two o'clock. On the way out of the palace, even if there was a little eunuch lighting the way ahead with a lantern, at a glance, the surroundings were dark, and it was impossible to see which family was walking beside them.On the side of the Lu family, Lu Zhan walked in the front with Brother Chong in his arms, Shi Zhu followed beside, Lu Rong hugged Brother Nian who was also asleep in the back, and Shiao Xiao led one by the other.

It was too cold at night, so Lu Mingyu put on a hood, and the fox fur on the hood blocked her left and right sight.

"Is Xiangxiang sleepy, and the second brother will carry you?"

As he was walking, a slightly deliberate voice came from diagonally behind, it was Chu Sui.

Lu Mingyu sneered, continued on her own way, followed the flow of people out of the palace, and unexpectedly found that the carriage of Duke Chu's mansion was parked next to the Lu family. Lu Mingyu once married into the Chu family and knew the two coachmen.

When stepping on the wooden bench to get into the car, Lu Mingyu looked to the right in a strange way.

The lanterns near and far are like stars falling on the ground. In the dots of starlight, Lu Mingyu saw Chu Xing at a glance. He was standing beside the carriage, and just carried his sister Chu Ying up. Chu Ying went in. He... looked this way Come here!

Lu Mingyu panicked, lowered her head hastily, and leaned into the carriage with unprecedented vigor.

Chu Xing only saw a slender figure, which disappeared in an instant.

The people disappeared, the evening wind blew head-on, and the lanterns in front of the car flickered, making it even more desolate.

Putting aside the weird feeling in his heart, Chu Xing told his grandmother to sit down with his younger sister. After saying that, he turned around, and when he turned around, he saw his cousin standing beside him with a smile on his face and phoenix eyes...

Chu Xing followed his cousin's gaze and saw the carriage that Lu Mingyu got into just now.

"Shi Qian?" Chu Xing asked suspiciously, it was a cold day, my cousin was not in a hurry to go home, why are you smirking here?
Chu Yiyi gave him a deep look, and smiled even more mysteriously. After taking the reins from the eunuch who led the horse, Chu Sui got on the horse and took another look at Lu Mingyu's carriage, feeling indescribably happy in his heart.The little girl was pretty good at pretending, she didn't look back when she heard his voice, but when she got in the car, didn't she look over?

The spring breeze is proud of the horseshoe disease, and the heart is sweet, and the cold wind on New Year's Eve has also become warm.

"Brother, shall we watch the New Year's Eve together tonight?" Chu Sui turned his head and said to his elder brother who just got on the horse.

Chu Xing glanced at him again, still unable to figure out what his cousin was happy about.But he tugged at the reins and murmured hello.

It was the night when the two brothers had a drink and chatted happily, but Lu Mingyu sat in front of the copper charcoal stove with her chin resting on her chin, looking at the purse in her hand, still unable to make up her mind.

I want to burn it, but I feel a little bit reluctant, but this reluctance has nothing to do with Chu Sui.

When it was almost midnight, the sound of firecrackers outside gradually became lively, Lu Mingyu hesitated again and again, and finally threw the purse into the charcoal stove.The corners of the silk and satin gradually curled, and with a soft "pop", a small golden flame burst out.Lu Mingyu sat there until her purse was reduced to ashes, then she tightened her neckline and got into bed to sleep.

(End of this chapter)