On the branches, you can occasionally see maids walking around in the courtyard of the deep mansion and a few young girls from the Lu family who are not married. When they meet, they will scream "Auntie" shyly, then hide back to the yard and secretly watch the handsome young man in white pass by from behind the door.

The boudoir where Mrs. Lu lived in the back house of the Lu family when she was young, and she lived in all the unmarried girls and could not go out a few times a year. It was not because of Neo-Confucianism that the daughter of the Lu family in Jinling, the worst marriage to the same size, is also a family of aristocratic families of the same size, and it is possible to be a queen. For the sake of reputation, she must not let her ladies go crazy on the street like wild girls. If she wants to go out, she must take care of her elders and pay attention to her demeanor since childhood.

Mrs. Lu took Xu Buling to a courtyard and opened the small door. What caught her eye was the exquisitely decorated embroidery building. The yard was clean and it was obvious that people often came to clean up. There was a osmanthus tree planted under the courtyard wall near the back alley, and there was a swing next to it.

After visiting the old place again, Mrs. Lu's eyes showed a little dazed. She walked into the courtyard and looked around and said softly: "I feel smaller. I used to think this yard is so big..."

Xu Buling walked behind him and looked at Mrs. Lu's circle in the yard, and couldn't help but smile.

Under the bright moonlight, the light was not dim. Mrs. Lu, wearing a dark green dress, stood tall in the courtyard. The winter night was slightly cool. Her chest was undulating during breathing. Her red lips opened and exhaled a faint mist. Her cheeks were a little bright red. Her eyes were slightly raised under her slender eyelashes. She looked at the Xiulou in front of her. Her charming side face was very charming. Her hands were still stacked around her waist, but she no longer had the dignity of the past, and her childhood naughty temperament had not recovered, so she looked a little stupid.

Xu Buling was looking at the yard, but his eyes unconsciously stopped on Mrs. Lu's side face, moved downward, and moved along the snow-white neck to some places that should not be seen...

"I have lived here since I can remember. I don't let me go out every day, so I try every means to run out..."

Mrs. Lu didn't notice it and walked in the yard with Xu Buling. While explaining it to Xu Buling, she was also recalling the past. She walked to the wall while speaking, looked around, took out a ladder from behind the old osmanthus tree, and leaned against it under the wall:

"I asked Yuenu to secretly take this ladder from another place. At that time, I asked Yuenu to hold the ladder below. I climbed to the courtyard wall and looked out. As a result, my father happened to pass through the alley. After seeing it, he scolded me. Yuenu turned around and ran away when he heard the sound, leaving me on the ladder and didn't dare to go down. He watched my mother come over and caught me right..."

Thinking of the naughty scene in childhood, Mrs. Lu smiled with her lips and held the ladder in her hand.

The ladder is not big, and the little girl is good at climbing and playing. Mrs. Lu is already an adult and has enough capital. In addition, she is gentle and does not exercise frequently. She still struggles to climb the ladder and her legs are trembling.

Seeing this, Xu Buling stepped forward and raised his hand to hold the ladder: "Don't worry, Aunt Lu, I'll continue to fall."

"How come it fell down? I've crawled many times..."

Mrs. Lu stayed in the boudoir for many years, and obviously hadn't done such a thing as climbing up and down for a long time. She slowly climbed to the top of the ladder, held the wall with her hands, looked out the high wall, and glanced at the endless courtyard of the deep mansion and the Qinhuai lights in the distance, and didn't know what she was thinking.

Xu Buling held the ladder and looked up at Mrs. Lu above. Because of the difference in height between them, the only ones that could be seen were embroidered shoes and skirts. Wearing thin pants, we couldn't see anything, but this angle was obviously a bit inappropriate.

"cough-"

Xu Buling coughed lightly, looked away, with a slightly strange expression.

Mrs. Lu was alarmed by the coughing sound, and she withdrew her gaze and looked down. Then she remembered that she was no longer a girl, and it was not Yue Nu who was below, but Xu Buling. She was slightly panicked and wanted to tighten her skirt to avoid leaving. As a result, her hands left the courtyard wall and did not stand firmly. She fell off the ladder with a "ah--" sound.

Xu Buling was a little funny, and spread his arms and steadily caught the busy Mrs. Lu: "As expected, it fell down."

Mrs. Lu's face turned a little white, and after she recovered, her face turned slightly red. She broke off from Xu Buling's arm and patted her skirt: "I didn't stand firm..." As she said that, she looked at the swing next to her, looking at the look that she wanted to recall her childhood, but she was worried that it would be ruined.

Xu Buling walked under the swing rack, raised his hand and held the hemp rope and tried it. It was very strong, and he smiled and said, "Aunt Lu, come here."

Mrs. Lu glanced left and right, and didn't have a niece and maid peeking, then slowly walked to the swing and sat down, holding the swing rope in both hands, and shook it a few times.

Crack-

The swing that had not moved for a long time made a slight sound, and the hem of the skirt and embroidered shoes swayed in the air, and the shadow of life here could still be seen.

Xu Buling gently pushed Aunt Lu and recalled: "There is also a swing in the sea of ​​flowers in Suzhou, which is placed in a small wooden house, but I didn't seem to have played with it when I was a child..."

"When your mother came to Jinling, she liked this swing very much. She said she would make one when she got home...I remember that my family didn't let me go out to run around at night, so I begged your mother for help, let her turn over from the wall of the courtyard and carry me out. I was very envious at that time and wanted to learn how to fly the eaves and walls, but unfortunately I didn't learn it in the end...I didn't know how I came here since your mother went to Suzhou, but it's all right now..."

Mrs. Lu said here and sighed softly. After staying in Chang'an and marrying into the Xiao family, although she had not had any hard life, just like Xiang'er, her future journey was clear at a glance, and she had nothing else to do except to endure the rest of her life.

I miss the yard I lived in when I was a child, and I miss the elder sister who took her around, but it was over and it was useless to miss her. Just as her life gradually lost its color like a pool of stagnant water, Xu Buling's arrival changed everything.

This is why Mrs. Lu is almost always attached to Xu Buling, because except for taking good care of Xu Buling, there is nothing else to do in her life. All her feelings are placed on Xu Buling, and even her own thoughts and wishes have been wiped out in her widowhood all year round.

At this time, she sat on the swing again, recalling her innocent and "ambition-lofty" childhood self, Mrs. Lu was surprised to realize how much change she had changed, almost two people...

Seeing Mrs. Lu silent, Xu Buling looked down at the embroidered shoes on the hem of the skirt, and seemed to be in a bad mood, and said softly:

"Aunt Lu is only in his twenties and is still a young girl. It's too early to feel sad about spring and autumn."

Mrs. Lu sighed quietly, looked up at the embroidery building ahead, and said softly:
Chapter completed!