Silly Girl Allure

Chapter 180 Night Market
Ruoda's Ji Mansion has lost four elders in a row. The pampered young lady Ji Tonglin suddenly became a pillar. Looking at her slender shoulders, one has to sigh that things in this world are really fickle.

Qiao Yunxi stood side by side with her under the tree in the courtyard. The leaves were so dense that they cut the sunlight into thin strands, casting light and shadow on the ground.

"Do you have any plans for the future?" Qiao Yunxi asked.

"I don't have any long-term plans yet," Ji Tonglin smiled, the smile was shallow, and soon dispersed in the wind, reflecting the deeper loneliness in her eyes.

"I just want to take care of the store left by my father and realize what my father wanted to do as soon as possible, that's all."

"You're a girl, doing these public things..." Qiao Yunxi frowned imperceptibly, why did this girl never have the idea of ​​going back to Beijing with Bu Jingyu?
What she said at this time is also a kind of temptation. Qiao Yunxi doesn't have such an idea that women can't show their faces. She comes from modern times and advocates the concept of equality between men and women. Moreover, in her heart, she still hopes that women can have their own Career, I have to work hard on my own.

It's just that, in this feudal ancient times, this kind of thinking is obviously not popular, so she didn't mention it.

"It's okay," Ji Tonglin said in a leisurely tone, as far away as a cloud in the sky, "Now that my parents are gone, I don't have a suitable person for family affairs. I just want to do what I have to do, and the rest , whoever wants to say it, let her say it."

Qiao Yunxi paused, hearing what Ji Tonglin meant, she seemed to have made up her mind, and she couldn't help worrying about Bu Jingyu.

At this moment, Bu Jingyu took a few masks and entered the yard with a smile on his face. Seeing Qiao Yunxi and Ji Tonglin together, the smile on his face was even stronger. He walked a few steps quickly, came to the two and said: "Four Sister-in-law, Tonglin, I bought some masks, how about it? When the night market opens, let's go to enjoy the lanterns together?"

Ji Tonglin's eyes lit up, as if thinking of something, she whispered: "I used to go to the night market with my parents to watch lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year..."

"Tong Lin, don't think about those sad things, we are all your family," Bu Jingyu felt a little uncomfortable hearing her tone, and hurriedly persuaded her.

"Okay," Ji Tonglin took a mask, "I'm going to make a blessing lamp and let it out at night."

After finishing speaking, she bid farewell to the two of them, turned around and walked away quickly.

Bu Jingyu looked at her disappearing back, that fluttering first swing and fluttering hair made him feel pity.

"Jing Yu," Qiao Yunxi looked into his eyes, and the worry in her heart grew a little bit, she hesitated and said: "The plague has been lifted, and when we settle the matter here, we will leave for Beijing soon, you... ...Have you ever thought about how to tell her?"

Bu Jingyu withdrew his eyes and fixed his eyes on Qiao Yunxi. His eyes were as clear as water and as firm as a mountain. "Sister-in-law Si, I will definitely take her back to Beijing."

"I understand what you mean," Qiao Yunxi nodded helplessly, "But, you should also know that there are many things that cannot be forced, and this emotional matter is one of them."

She paused, looked at Bu Jingyu's expression, and said at a lower speed: "I asked her about her future plans just now, and she said... she must manage the store left by her father well, and restore the Ji Mansion. , it seems that there is no desire to return to Beijing with you."

Bu Jingyu's face turned pale, he was stunned for a moment, his fingers holding the mask could not help tightening, he slowly lowered his eyes, his thick eyelashes blocked the expression in his eyes, after a long while, he only heard his voice whisper: " Fourth sister-in-law, I will work hard in the next few days to let her see clearly that I can be relied on."

The sunlight shone through the branches and leaves, shining like gold on his body, and there was a faint light and shadow under his lowered eyelashes, like that full of thoughts, imprinted between the brows.

Qiao Yunxi took a breath and sighed slightly in her heart. Emotional matters are always the most unpredictable and unpredictable, or... Bu Jingyu's sincerity and affection can move Ji Tonglin, and maybe she will change her mind.

The sky gradually darkened, and the day passed quickly. Bu Jinghan sent three people in the backyard and arranged for them to go to the Zhao Mansion in the east of the city. What was the reason for the sudden alert? To find out whether the prince is really there, or whether there are suspicions, we must be aware of it.

As soon as the three of them left the mansion, Bu Jingyu walked in, put the mask on his face, and said with a smile, "How about it, fourth brother, can you still tell who I am?"

Bu Jinghan gave him a blank look and said, "Of course."

"Why?" Bu Jingyu screamed through the mask.

"What's all the fuss about?" Bu Jinghan stood up, walked in front of him slowly and said, "I don't need to look at your face, I can guess it just by looking at your shape and movements."

"..." Bu Jingyu.

Bu Jinghan ignored his dull look, took a mask from his hand and put it on, "However, it's okay to use this thing to deceive outsiders."

Bu Jinghan turned around and walked to the door, and said to Bu Jingyu who was still standing there in a daze: "Why don't you go quickly?"

Bu Jingyu followed, and the two of them left the room together, and went to another yard to find Qiao Yunxi and Ji Tonglin. Bu Jingyu muttered as he walked, "What happened to He Lianjue? No one is seen, he comes and goes without a trace, sometimes I see him coming back in the middle of the night, and he likes to wear white clothes, like a ghost."

Bu Jinghan's eyes swept towards He Lianjue's room, and said in a deep voice: "Don't say so much, anyway, he has a special status, just pay more attention."

Bu Jingyu nodded hastily.

Not long after the two of them left the yard, they saw Ji Tonglin walking with Qiao Yunxi holding a lamp in his hand. The lamp was exquisitely made, with landscape patterns depicted on it, and tassels hanging from the four corners, gently blowing in the wind Swing, indeed, is beautiful.

Seeing the two people, Qiao Yunxi couldn't help but yelled, "Why did you put on the mask so early, do you want to scare people to death?"

Bu Jingyu smiled "hehe", and he handed over the two masks in his hand, "Then, these two beautiful ones are for you, the fourth brother and I are used to being beautiful men, wearing masks, of course pick the ugly one Dai, freshen up."

"Bu Jingyu, don't you want to be ashamed," Qiao Yunxi rolled her eyes and took it, "A pretty boy... You just want to buy an ugly one, but you can't pick this bull-headed horse face, it's still worn at night, it's really scary."

She said, put on the mask, and gave the other to Ji Tonglin. These two are in the shape of fairies. Although they are made rough, their eyebrows and eyes are still beautiful.

"Let's go." After Qiao Yunxi finished speaking, she stopped again. She thought for a while and said, "There are a lot of people tonight, and you bought this mask from the market. There must be other people who will buy it too. What if you are mistaken?"

As she spoke, she took out something from her bosom, unscrewed the lid of the thing, and it was a tube-shaped thing with a bright ointment inside, and she applied that thing on her masked forehead, "How about that?" ? Then there will be no misidentification," said, and raised his hand to draw a few times on Ji Tonglin's mask.

"What is this...?" Bu Jinghan looked at this strangely shaped thing hesitantly.

"What's your tone?" Qiao Yunxi snorted coldly and said, "This is my private secret. It's very precious. If it's not that I don't have anything else at hand and I have to go back to get it, I won't be willing to use it."

After all, he unceremoniously painted on the masks of the two men a few times. This time, the mask with the bull's head and horse face looked even more hideous and frightening, as if it was stained with bright red blood.

Qiao Yunxi was amused in her heart. This strange shape is nothing but a "lip gloss" made by herself. She is really not used to the lip gloss of the ancients, and she thinks it is unhygienic. How can it compare to this?

The four happily walked towards the gate of the mansion, the sky was completely dark below, the stars in the sky were twinkling, and a wheel was hanging high, like a crystal round jade plate hanging in the dark blue sky.

The soft moonlight sprinkled lightly, covering everything like a thin layer of silver light, casting deep or shallow shadows on the ground, swaying gently in the wind.

There are many people on the street, and various colored lanterns are hung on the roads on both sides of the night market. Candles of various colors are lit inside, either pale yellow, milky white or rosy, and the lights of various colors are intertwined, and everyone passing by is stained. There was a layer of light of a specific color, and both eyes were crystal clear and shining.

All kinds of small stalls on the street were also very busy, and the small vendors were shouting hard. For a while, the sound of selling, laughing, and the sounds from various utensils in the small stalls mixed together, agitating on people's eardrums.

Bu Jinghan took Qiao Yunxi's hand, it was soft and slender, as soft as bones, like a warm cloud in his hand, he suddenly remembered the scene of hugging her bath tub and wiping her body last night, and felt in his heart It was hot, and my palms couldn't help but tighten.

Qiao Yunxi didn't care, she was a modern person, and she didn't particularly care about holding hands, especially on a busy street, she thought that a man holding a woman was just for safety's sake, and it didn't have any special meaning.

But Bu Jingyu and Ji Tonglin in front were different. Bu Jingyu seemed to muster up the courage several times to hold Ji Tonglin's hand, but he gave up every now and then, which made Qiao Yunxi anxious.

Qiao Tonglin protected the lamp in her hand, for fear that it would be crushed, she wanted to go to the small river in the north of the city to let it go, let the lamp flow down the river, and bring her longing for her parents.

There were quite a few people going to the north of the city tonight, and there were also a lot of people lighting up blessing lamps. Everyone chatted and walked there in twos and threes. Along the way, Qiao Yunxi saw several people wearing the same mask as herself. She was secretly proud of herself. Fortunately, I marked it myself, otherwise it is very possible to identify the wrong person in such a situation where the light is not clear and there are so many people.

The four of them followed the flow of people towards the north of the city. As they walked, Ji Tonglin stopped. Her gaze fell on a small stall by the side of the road. There was also a lamp on the stall, illuminating the Trinkets.

Among them is a red concentric knot, which is very delicate and looks very pleasing. She said softly: "I remember... my mother once said that when the store opens, I will give such a knot to my father."

Her voice was very low, as if she was talking to herself, but Bu Jingyu heard it clearly.

(End of this chapter)