Chapter 78(1/2)
By the lake, Lu Yu looked at the little girl short of him in front of him in disbelief.
Chen Jiao beat someone and felt very happy. She glared at Lu Yu coldly, turned around and left.
Lu Yu stood by the lake, motionless.
After being slapped, Lu Yu immediately realized that he had made a mistake. No matter what, he shouldn't have said that a girl and a man from the outside world had a lot of money. But just now, Lu Yu couldn't explain why he was so impulsive, as if he had burned his reason.
"Jiaojiao, what's wrong with you and your elder brother?"
Not far away, Lu Zhen quickly ran to Chen Jiao. She felt that her cousin would not hit someone for no reason, but what could a big brother do if he was like a fairy?
The scene just now was even more absurd than dreams for Lu Zhen.
Chen Jiaoyu was still angry and said with hatred: "He heard the rumors from somewhere, saying that I and Liu Heng were in the melon field and plum trees."
When Lu Zhen heard this, he was also very angry. He left his cousin and ran towards Lu Yu. Chen Jiao couldn't even stop him, so she had to stand there and wait.
Lu Zhen ran to Lu Yu in a fierce manner.
Lu Yu had returned to his usual coldness and looked at his cousin expressionlessly.
Lu Zhen glanced at his slightly red left face and his momentum was inexplicably lowered, but he still complained: "Brother, how can you say that your cousin is in melon field? You don't know, the sixth girl posted a post, and her cousin didn't want to go at all, but the eldest aunt said that the sixth girl specially invited her cousin and asked her to learn the rules. Then my cousin was helpless to respond. And Liu Heng, her cousin didn't want to pay attention to him, and Liu Heng insisted on sticking to her cousin's side and chatting around him. With his identity, he is in other people's territory, where can my cousin hide? It's fine if outsiders are chewing around, brother, you..."
In the end, Lu Zhen felt wronged for her cousin.
Lu Yu said that Chen Jiao was an impulsive word, and it was definitely not really thought that Chen Jiao was frivolous. Now, when his most sensible cousin said the whole story, thinking about the grievances Chen Jiao suffered from her own sister, Lu Yu immediately blamed himself and subconsciously looked at Chen Jiao in the distance.
When Chen Jiao saw this, she immediately turned around and turned her back to the lake shore.
"Brother, why don't you apologize?" Lu Zhen pouted and reminded.
Lu Yu nodded and walked towards Chen Jiao with Lu Zhen.
Chen Jiao didn't want to see Lu Yu now, nor did she want to talk to him. She found that the two of them were coming together. Even though she guessed that Lu Yu was here to apologize, Chen Jiao didn't want to accept it and immediately accelerated her pace and walked back.
Lu Yu:...
"Look at how angry you made your cousin!" Lu Zhen sighed and left his brother to chase his cousin.
The two little girls quickly got together and left side by side.
Lu Yu stood there, looking at Chen Jiao's back, and her angry and bright almond eyes kept appearing in her mind.
It is precisely because she is unintentional to Liu Heng that she is so angry?
Lu Yu still blamed himself for his words, but there was a bunch of unknown fire that had been wandering for many days in his heart, which quietly disappeared.
After slapping Lu Yu, Chen Jiao never left the second house except for following her aunt and cousin to pay tribute. Lu Zhen's marriage was decided, and the matchmaker walked back and forth between the two families to carry out some common etiquette. Lu Zhen stayed obediently in the backyard, and Chen Jiao accompanied her cousin to enjoy flowers and play chess and make female red women, cherishing the few remaining time for sisters.
They didn't leave the house, Lu Huan and Lu Che came here to find them.
"Cousin, we will go to the farm tomorrow. Will you go?" Lu Huan asked Chen Jiao enthusiastically.
Lu Zhen curled his lips and said, "Cousin, why don't you call me?"
Lu Huan smiled and said, "You are already engaged, the old girl is waiting to marry, why are you joining in the fun?"
Lu Zhen pinched the embroidery needle in his hand and was about to stab him.
After a while, Lu Huan came to ask Chen Jiao again.
The Zhuangzi Lu Huan mentioned was of course the one Lu Wan was "contained". Chen Jiao shook her head and said, "It's hot, I don't want to go anywhere."
Lu Huan was very disappointed.
After the two teenagers left, Lu Zhen couldn't help asking Chen Jiao: "Jiaojiao, your second brother likes you, won't you not be able to see it, right?"
Chen Jiao didn't go around with her cousin, and said while embroidering a veil: "I don't like him."
Lu Zhen doesn't understand. Although the second brother is not as handsome and outstanding as the eldest brother, and both civil and military, he attracts the attention of countless women when he goes out, the second brother is also considered to be handsome. What's even more rare is that he is infatuated with his cousin and cannot even drive away.
Chen Jiao looked at the handkerchief in her hand and didn't know how to answer her cousin.
Lu Huan is very nice to her, and now she can't see any shortcomings, but in my memory, the original body is more beautiful when she was fourteen or five years old, and she is also attracted butterflies and leads her three cousins away. Lu Run and Lu Che are both very honest, only Lu Huan, who is happy to provoke him, and is angry at the original body and hooks others, jealousy, and Lu Huan pulls the original body to a hidden place several times to touch her.
Of course, the original body was wrong, but Lu Huan's domineering and strong force made Chen Jiao feel uneasy, especially compared to his later indifference to the original body.
A man who likes you is like a fire, and when he is disgusted, he can hug his concubine and humiliate you in person. It is too extreme.
This is the main reason why Chen Jiao did not choose Lu Huan, as for other things...
She smiled and said to her cousin: "The grandma, aunt, and second cousin don't like me. If I really marry my second cousin, I'm afraid it will be difficult in the future."
Lu Zhen suddenly realized that she wanted her family to leave the Marquis' mansion and was angry with the young lady. She would definitely be even more unbearable if her cousin really married her second cousin.
"Then forget it." Lu Zhen hugged her cousin and said with a smile: "Don't worry Jiaojiao, my mother said that when she gets me out, she will start to arrange for you."
Chen Jiao teased her: "Are you really afraid that I will be anxious, or are you in a hurry to marry my cousin's husband?"
Lu Zhen was so angry that she grabbed people and tickled.
Before the Dragon Boat Festival, Lu Zhen’s wedding date was set and it was scheduled to start next spring.
During the festive holiday, Lu Wan returned to her house for three days. During this period, the six girls from the Qin Palace sent another post to invite several girls to visit. Lu Wan did not go, Chen Jiao and Lu Zhen did not go, only Lu Ying agreed alone, and then came back shortly after leaving. As for what happened in the palace, who knows.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, Lu Wan went to the village again and lived until the end of June.
In early July, there was a strange movement in the border area. The Marquis of Pingxi was ordered to send troops, and the prince Lu Yu went with him. Before the father and son set off, the three houses of the Marquis's mansion gathered together, and Chen Jiao also went, standing next to her cousin Lu Zhen, quietly being a spectator. Listening to the grandmother and the women's various advices to the Marquis of Pingxi. At this moment, Chen Jiao was an outsider, and no one would care whether she could speak.
But Chen Jiao felt that someone was looking at her. Chen Jiao raised her eyes slightly and saw Lu Yu standing beside Pingxi Hou in white, and was returning to the grandma.
A proud and indifferent prince, a young general who will die on the battlefield in three years.
Thinking of Lu Yu's fate, Chen Jiao suddenly felt that the little unhappiness between the two was nothing.
Those who are not afraid of sacrifice for their country on the battlefield are all good men.
The next day, the father and son of Pingxi Hou went to the front line. Unexpectedly, shortly after Lu Yu left, the eldest son of the Hou's mansion, who was staying in the Hou's mansion, personally sent a letter to her. He asked Hongxing to send Ajin to her. Chen Jiao returned to the house, opened the envelope and took out the letter paper, with only a few words on it: I feel heartless, I hope my cousin can calm down.
Lu Yu's calligraphy is elegant and arrogant, and he looks like his people.
Chen Jiao wanted to laugh a little. In the past three months, she and Lu Yu had only met each other a few times in front of everyone, and had no chance to speak alone. Chen Jiao thought Lu Yu had forgotten the quarrel between the two by the lake, but he didn't expect that he kept remembering it and even waited until the troops left, and sent a letter of apology.
Chen Jiao is not a stingy person, so I will forgive him for the time being. If Lu Yu continues to speak disrespectfully in the future, the new account will be settled separately.
The border war lasted for half a year, and the enemy finally surrendered and sought peace at the end of the first month.
The father and son of Pingxi Hou stationed at the border for another half month before returning to Liangzhou City.
The three-bedroom family went to greet each other and waited in the front yard early.
It was already three o'clock in the sun, outside the Marquis's Mansion, Lu Yu got off the horse one after another. The father and son were wearing armor and stepped into the house with big strides. Bypassing the screen wall, he saw his family in a yard.
Of course, the Marquis of Pingxi looked at his mother first. Lu Yu walked behind his father, but his eyes turned to the second house first by a tragic look. Then, he saw Chen Jiao, who stood beside his cousin, and hadn't seen him for a short time. She was almost as tall as her cousin. She wore a plain green long dress and looked at her father and grandma with a smile. The sun shone on her face, the girl's skin was as jade, and her lips...
Lu Yu's neck suddenly became a little itchy.
"Brother, I miss you so much!" Lu Wan rushed over and hugged him and said, "Brother and sister are in a quarrel, and they will continue to be brother and sister after that."
Lu Yu took back his thoughts and was about to touch his sister's head, but his movements stopped and looked at Chen Jiao again.
Chen Jiao also happened to look over. Seeing Lu Wan holding Lu Yu's deep affection, she looked away.
She didn't show any emotion, but Lu Yu felt that she must be unhappy. After all, his punishment for his sister was still lighter.
Lu Yu raised his hand halfway, then put it down and said to his sister: "Okay, it's not a child."
Lu Wan continued to hold her for a while before letting go.
Next is the time for the family to reminisce about the past. Chen Jiao smiled and seemed to listen carefully. When she finally could leave, she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
On the way back to the second house, Lu Zhen sighed: "Brother is a little bit dark, but he is more wise and powerful. I don't know what kind of sister-in-law he will marry in the future."
After hearing this, the second wife looked at her niece, and then looked at her own son Lu Run. Lu Run was eighteen and was at the age of discussing marriage.
With this idea, the second wife discussed with her husband first, and Mr. Lu was of course happy to kiss her. Seeing that her husband agreed, the second wife went to find her son again and asked, "Tingzhi, what do you think of Jiaojiao?"
Eighteen-year-old Lu Run understands what his mother means, and his cousin is dignified and beautiful. He does have a bit of admiration. But when the cousin and sister have been together for so long, Lu Run found that his cousin only respected him as his cousin and had no other feelings. Moreover, Lu Run also heard his own sister mention the reason why her cousin didn't like her second brother.
Lu Run is a gentleman and a good cousin. Since his cousin has no intention of him, he will not use his parents' kindness to force his cousin to agree to the marriage, and he does not want his cousin to marry him to be angry with the grandma and aunt for the rest of his life and live like his mother. His cousin is worth marrying a better husband.
Therefore, Lu Run said unhappily: "I only have the love of brother and sister to my cousin."
The second wife was quite regretful and tried to change her son's thoughts. The son was determined. Then the second wife gave up. Forget it, let's prepare for her daughter's marriage first.
In late February, on the auspicious day of the zodiac, Lu Zhen, a girl from the Marquis of Pingxi, got married.
The tall and heroic groom came to welcome the bride. Lu Run walked out with her sister on her back. Chen Jiao stood beside Lu Wan and Lu Ying, looking at her cousin's back lying on her cousin's body, her vision gradually blurred. In the Duke's mansion, she only had a cruel cousin. Although she had had sisters with good friends in the past three lives, only Lu Zhen treated her best, just like treating her own sister.
Lu Yu, Lu Huan, and Lu Che are going to take Lu Run to the man to see him off today. At this time, they were walking next to Lu Run. Guests pushed and shoved him. Lu Yu turned around accidentally and saw Chen Jiao again. Her cousin got married. She wore a light red shirt and squeezed between her two cousins with tears in their eyes. The more she looked, the more pitiful she became.
In her situation, he even said that she was in the melon field and plum blossoms.
Although Lu Yu has been out for more than half a year, he has never forgotten his self-blame.
After Lu Zhen got married, Chen Jiao had a younger sister and was even more reluctant to go out and walk around.
It was the outing season again. Lu Huan and Lu Che came to invite her to go out together tomorrow. Chen Jiao didn't want to go, but Lu Run, who accompanied her to the guests, advised him: "Cousin, you're stuck in the house every day, your mother will be worried." After the sister got married, they all saw her cousin's depression. Her mother specifically told him to spend more time with her cousin.
It is difficult to refuse the kindness, so Chen Jiao had to respond.
The next morning, when he went out, two carriages were prepared outside the Marquis' mansion. Lu Wan and Lu Ying sat in front, and Chen Jiao got on the back by himself.
As soon as she sat firmly, Lu Huan immediately urged the horse to squeeze to her car. Lu Run smiled and gave in. There was no place on the right. The fourth young master Lu Che wisely stole Chen Jiao's left seat, and Lu Yu followed Lu Wan's two daughters' carriage.
To be continued...