The evening breeze is gentle and the summer night is cool.

She lowered her head and stood in front of the window without moving, only the shadow cast by candlelight on the window swayed slightly, like the wind blowing through the water surface ripples. Cheng Yu looked at the shadow and wanted her to open the window. He wanted to see her appearance, and then guess what she was thinking from her subtle expression of her little daughter.

He wanted to know the most why she wasn't asleep yet, and it was almost the second update.

The last time she got up in the middle of the night was on the boat. She was sick and afraid that her sister would hear the cough. Was she uncomfortable again tonight? But he didn't hear her cough. Could it be that she was worried?

He couldn't even see his face, and it was hard to guess. He was unwilling to go back like this, afraid that he would still toss and turn when he went back, so Cheng Yu asked softly at her shadow: "I haven't slept so late yet, I feel uncomfortable, is it still something happened to the Hou's Mansion?"

Hanzhu's face was hot. She was thinking of him...

This is definitely not something he can tell. For other excuses, he would be worried. Will he scold her coldly as he was as kind as that time, saying that he would go to bed early if he didn't want to die? The words of the Hou Mansion...

Thinking of the jewelry that Chu Qing gave her, Hanzhu felt moved, and looked at the carved patterns on the window and said, "He bought me a lot of jewelry worth a thousand taels. I am worth it."

She didn't notice it herself. After she was silent for a moment, her voice suddenly softened, as if the little girl was talking about her troubles with someone she trusted, unlike just now, she looked very tired of him.

He relaxed his shoulders and chuckled, "He has money, you don't have to care. If you really can't let it go, just treat it as a deposit for A Xun."

Hanzhu also thought so. When Ah Xun was eight years old, she had the opportunity to take her sister away, so she would keep all the things that Chu Qingzhou's family gave her over the years.

As soon as the thought fell, a buzzing mosquitoes came from outside the window and his waving movement. Hanzhu couldn't help laughing. It seemed that he was a mosquito recruiter. After standing for a while, he attracted these mosquitoes, and even she heard them.

"I understand the gift. Don't worry, I won't break your plan," she leaned slightly towards the window and whispered: "It's not too early, go back."

Cheng Yu couldn't bear to leave. When he was fine, he forced himself to come. With an excuse, he wanted to say a few more words to her.

"Are you unhappy in Qiqiao Tower? "Why are you so arrogant in the King of Ding?" Cheng Yu waved his hand and drove away the two mosquitoes. He said calmly, "Others are not bad, they just like to joke, don't take it seriously." He was worried that King of Ding would have other thoughts about her before, but now that man believed that he liked her, so he just praised her for her beauty and had no other thoughts, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Hanzhu actually wanted to wait with him for a while, especially tonight. She seemed to be indescribable to be happy when she heard his voice.

"I wasn't angry. He misunderstood. He said that way, because he was thinking about you." Knowing that he had no lover, Hanzhu thought of what King Ding said again. He often heard King Ding joke about Cheng Yu on the boat, but Cheng Yu ignored him coldly. How could two people with completely different temperaments become good brothers?

Cheng Yu was not very happy when he heard her speak for Dingwang, "Why did he think about me? He just wanted to watch the fun. I, I told him that I would never marry in this life, and he insisted on bothering me about the marriage." Once, she told her what he thought so that she would not take this kind of thing again, or if her aunt was worried about his marriage, she would take it seriously.

Hanzhu was extremely shocked, "Why do you think so?"

Why doesn’t he want to marry a wife, have children, start a family and start a business?

Cheng Yu turned around and leaned against the windowsill and said, "You know the situation at home. I am not loved by my father. Fortunately, I usually walk outside and go back to sleep at night. I don't deal with them much, and I don't think anything is wrong. After marrying a wife, she is trapped in the inner courtyard, with a sister-in-law who is not close to her and a young mother-in-law. It must be unpleasant. I don't want to harm others, nor do I want to find a way for her to waste my energy because of responsibility."

His voice was quiet, calm and lonely. Hanzhu was sad for him and instinctively explained: "Don't think so, life is all passed. Some people may feel uncomfortable in the situation you mentioned, but some people don't care. As long as you marry a woman who really likes you, even if you suffer some grievances and be with you, she will be happy."

If he likes her and does not dislike her low status, she is willing to marry him. The worse those people treat him, the more they will love him and will no longer let him say such self-deprecating words. Of course, Hanzhu knew that Cheng Yu had no her in her heart, but she still hoped that he would figure it out and not be lonely for a lifetime because of a moment of confusion and loneliness.

Cheng Yu smiled bitterly. How could anyone who really likes him be so easy to find? There is someone he likes in front of him, but can he marry him?

Even if she didn't care about his embarrassing identity, he didn't want her to know that he was not good.

"It depends on fate." He casually said, turned around, looked at her and said, "You go to bed early, I'll leave."

Before Hanzhu could say anything, she heard the footsteps of him raising his foot and leaving. The sound was too light and he couldn't hear it in a flash.

She continued to stand in front of the window for a while, then blew the light and lay back on the bed. Next to her was Axun's regular light breathing. Hanzhu listened, and she felt sleepy and fell asleep with her eyes closed.

The next day, when Chu Han's birthday was on, Hanzhu expected to receive a gift, but unexpectedly, when she went to Rongxi Hall to pay her respects, she saw a lot of people in the room. Except for Chu Qing and the Master who went to the yamen early, everyone else in the Chu family was there.

The old lady smiled and called Hanzhu to her side, and said kindly: "This is the first time Hanhan celebrates her birthday after she became filial. We don't invite outsiders, but we are just lively at home. Alas, look, Hanhan looks more and more like a big girl. The people who have proposed marriage in the past two years will definitely come one after another. I have to take advantage of your father before you get married."

He put a pair of ruby-shaped jade bracelets on his beaded wrists.

Hanzhu blushed and thanked.

The eldest and third ladies also gave jewelry.

It was the cousins ​​and sisters of the same generation, Chu Yuan gave a bean-green glaze plum-and-bamboo pattern pen holder.

Chu Huai stretched his neck and looked at it, laughing: "Brother has sent a pen holder this year? The birthdays of four sisters last year, you gave a pair of inkstones. Last year, I gave a pen wash, this year, I will send a paperweight or arm rest next year? No brother is as hoped that my sister will become a talented woman, right?"

Everyone in the room laughed.

The third lady pointed at her son and scolded, "Your elder brother is busy with errands, just like you are idle all day long, and you have time to think about what to send to your sister."

Chu Huai was dissatisfied and muttered about what big things he had been busy with.

Chu Yuan was teased by his cousin and was not embarrassed. He held the pen holder and said to Hanzhu: "Brother, don't dislike him, sister."

Hanzhu has no biological brother, and the first time she received a gift from "brother" was fresh, and she had a special feeling. She took the pen holder and took a closer look, and said with a smile: "Thank you, it's hot in the summer, and I'm just about to change to a simple and elegant color, this one is just right for my heart."

I didn't look up at Chu Yuan's face, but I was not as restrained as I did when I met Chu Yuan before.

Chu Yuan watched his cousin walk to his own sister, and suddenly felt that the little girls were almost the same. After receiving the gift, he became happy and easy to coax.

Chu Qiang gave her a painting made by Hanzhu by herself. She painted a beautiful woman in a white dress and sat by the lake watching fish. There was also a fat baby sitting next to her. The beauty had beautiful eyebrows, eyes, and the corners of her lips were smiling. The fat baby had a vivid expression and was full of fun.

"This is me!" Ah Xun looked beside his sister and pointed at himself happily.

Chu Qiang squatted down to coax him, "Does A Xun like it? If you like it, kiss the second sister."

A Xun liked it so much that he hugged her neck and squirted without hesitation.

Hanzhu also liked this painting very much and praised it from the bottom of her heart: "My second sister's painting skills are getting better and better, I want to hang this painting in the house."

Chu Qiang advised modestly: "Sister likes it, just look at it more in private, but don't hang it out on the surface..."

Chu Rong deliberately misinterpreted her meaning and interrupted with a humming voice: "No, it's too late, I've seen it. When I celebrate my birthday, if my second sister doesn't give me a picture better than this one, she will be partial to the elder sister and will not value me!"

Chu Qiang grew up with her, and her relationship was much more intimate than Hanzhu. She pretended to be angry and ignored this muttering. She stepped down. Chu Rong smiled and took out the round fan she had embroidered with her own hands, handed it to Hanzhu and said, "I am lazy. My eldest sister knows it. It took me ten days to embroider a round fan. My eldest sister can just use it."

Chu Rong doesn't like girl red, so she sends embroidery work, which shows her intentions.

Hanzhu felt warm in her heart, gently rubbing the flowers and birds on the fan, "Thank you, my third sister, I like it very much."

After Chu Rong gave her her, she turned around and asked her brother, "Brother thinks that my elder brother can't pick gifts, what good things have you prepared?"

Chu Huai shook the fan and looked at Chu Hong's brother and sister and said, "The best ones must be left at the end. I will give it to you after the third and fourth sisters have finished delivering it."

Very unscrupulous.

Hanzhu couldn't help laughing and her eyes turned to Chu Hong and her sister.

Chu Hong gave me a recipe, "I saw it when I visited the bookstore a few days ago. I remember my sister liked it, so I bought one."

Hanzhu turned two pages and saw that the above mentioned folk snacks were from various places. She had never heard of many of them. She said happily: "The third brother has to worry."

Chu Hong nodded with a smile and looked at her own sister.

Chu Man fell into the water in the house for a few days. Today is the first day to go out. After coming to Rongxi Hall, he became even more silent. He didn't say a word. Now he walked over with his head down and held a sachet and said, "I'm stupid, I'm not embroidered well, sister, don't dislike me."

The willow branches were sold. Hanzhu knew that Chu Man had a knot in her heart. She accepted the gift and thanked her politely.

Everyone else had already delivered it. Chu Huai finally put away the folding fan, took it and placed it on the side with a tray covered with red yarn, and personally brought it to Hanzhu, and said with a smile: "Sister lift it up and take a look. Second brother dare not say it is the best, but it is definitely the most expensive."

Chu Qiang covered her lips and smiled, Chu Rong glared at her brother, "I'm afraid others don't know you have money." She came over with Chu Qiang.

Hanzhu curiously lifted the red yarn and saw clearly what was on the tray, her eyes full of stunning.

It was a black-sailed boat carved in white jade. The hull was covered with complicated and slender patterns, like a real thing. There were small windows on both sides of the tent. It could be seen that there were couches, tables and chairs inside. There was also a jade-carved beauty sitting on the couch, holding a fan in her bare hands, shaking the fat doll on the couch, with a lifelike expression.

In terms of value, Chu Huai’s is indeed the most expensive. In terms of thoughts, the two people in it are clearly Hanzhu’s siblings, and they are also obviously thinking about it.

"How about it, is the best gift from my second brother?" Chu Huai said confidently, "I remember my sister's birthday in May. I asked Yujiang to draw pictures in the first month."

Hanzhu didn't know how to express her like, and just as she was about to speak, Ah Xun suddenly hugged Chu Huai's thigh and said expectantly: "Second brother, I want it too, I want dragon boats, don't have such a boat!"

Chu Huai was stunned. The third wife gloated and said, "Okay, let you show off. Hurry up and take another dragon boat to us A Xun!"

Chu Huai had a headache. He saw that this sister had just recovered from a serious illness and had changed her temperament and was like a new sister. It didn't matter how much it cost, but he felt sorry for money for A Xun to get a dragon boat.

"Second brother, I want a dragon boat..." A Xun didn't know his cousin's embarrassment, so he continued to hug him and rub his thighs, just like a meat ball.

Chu Huai couldn't stand it, so he picked up A Xun, "Okay, my second brother let someone take a dragon boat for A Xun!"

Ah Xun kissed him excitedly and grinned non-stop.
Chapter completed!