Su Xi remembered that Li Yan's mother was the daughter of Duke Qing Guo Fu Hongsheng, and Li Yan was Fu Yi's legitimate cousin.

Although he is a cousin, most of the backyard are girls who have not yet been married. It is not appropriate for Li Yan to appear at this time?

Tang Wan naturally saw it and asked deliberately: "Sister Yu, do you think we were here at the wrong time?"

Yu Baotong was two years older than her and had rules in her behavior. She angrily said, "Don't talk nonsense, Miss Fu is a person who is responsible."

Not far away, the two people in the corridor heard this naturally. A hint of embarrassment flashed across Fu Yi's face, turned around, and smiled slightly at Yu Baotong and the others: "Sister Yu, Sister Tang, Sister Xi, you are here too."

Yu Baotong said politely: "The wind blew in the yard, so we wanted to go back to the house to sit. Miss Fu is here..."

Fu Yi did not speak, Li Yan on the opposite side saluted several girls and explained without changing his expression: "The clothes under her lower body were wet with wine. Mr. Su asked his servant to take me to change clothes. When he happened to meet the girl in the face dropped the veil, he picked it up for her."

This statement was reasonable and could not find any fault. There was indeed such a coincidence that Fu Yi's handkerchief was blown by the wind and fell at Li Yan's feet. This was the scene that Su Xi and the others saw in the first place. However, Li Yan didn't say that when he returned the handkerchief to Fu Yi, he should have left like this, but stopped.

Tang Wan and Yu Baotong couldn't tell it, but Su Xi had been with Li Yan under the same roof for more than two years and was quite familiar with his every move. Li Yan looked at Fu Yi's admiration, but he could not escape Su Xi's eyes.

When Li Yan looked at her, he had never looked like this. Su Xi was very calm at this moment, neither annoyed nor angry. The only little bit of the rest of the waves was probably because of the anger that Li Yan had deceived her feelings.

Su Xi looked away and said softly to Tang Wan and Yu Baotong: "Sister Tang, Sister Yu, let's go back quickly."

The little girl's voice was gentle and tender, as if she was covered with honey, and she sounded like she was acting coquettish and complaining. With her age as old as Su Xi, she was really indescribable innocent and innocent.

Yu Baotong poked her little round face, and the little girl's skin was tender and smooth, "Look, you're so anxious."

Su Xi said: "If you don't leave, the banquet will end."

Li Yan stumbled slightly.

Su Xi's words sounded meaningless, just a simple family matter, but in Li Yan's ears, it seemed like a reminder that he should go back to the front yard. Only then did Li Yan notice that he had broken the rules and hugged Fu Yi and Su Xi and others, "Disturbating the girls to appreciate the scenery, Li took his leave."

When she turned around and left, Li Yan glanced at the girl wearing a water-pink embroidered butterfly patterned short shirt and a moon-white lake skirt. She was white and round, with big eyes, which made people involuntarily think of the little girl under Guanyin's seat. But she had not looked at him. For some reason, Li Yan felt that this little girl seemed to have a hostility towards him?

Li Yan thought about it and it should be impossible. It was their first time today.

This thought passed in a moment and was soon forgotten by him.

*

Back in the upper room, several wives from the aristocratic family sat in a row of rosewood rose chairs below to talk to Old Lady Su.

When the old lady Su saw that the girls were all back, she asked Madam Li to pack up the side room behind the twelve screens and lead them to sit behind the screens. As soon as the girls in this room were seated, a servant came in and said, "Madam, the prince of Qi is coming to celebrate your birthday."

The old lady stood up and said, "Come in quickly."

The prince of the King of Qi came to celebrate the old lady's birthday, which represented the attitude of the King of Qi. No matter how much the Su family received the favor, they would not dare to neglect the descendants of the royal family. As soon as Wei Qing entered the door, the old lady led several daughters-in-law to salute. How could Wei Qing really let her salute? He hurriedly reached out to support her and said, "The old lady is here to celebrate your birthday today. I hope the old lady will prolong the new day and celebrate her birthday without any boundaries."

As he said that, he asked the entourage behind him to wear a black blue shirt to give him a gift, which was a square box with mother-of-pearl carved blessings and longevity.

The old lady invited Wei Wen to take a seat, and asked Mama Li to serve a cup of hot tea. She sighed: "The prince just came back from Qizhou. I still remember me, the old lady. The prince is intent." As she said, "I heard that Qizhou is wet and rainy, I wonder where the prince lives?"

Wei Qing only smiled and said objectively: "Qizhou is a beautiful place. The old lady can go and see it if she has time."

Here the old lady was chatting with Wei Xun about homework, but the girls behind the screen were not calm.

I had heard that the prince of Qi had returned to Shangjing, but he had no chance to meet him. Even if he saw him, he would take a look from a distance. How could he see him clearly just by a screen like now, even the pattern of the purse on the waist of the guards was clearly visible.

Su Xi and Tang Wan had met, so they gave the position to other girls. Yu Baotong had no feelings for Wei Shi and sat aside.

There were several girls who wanted to see but were embarrassed to look at it, and their faces were shy and timid. Occasionally, they looked out through the gaps in the screen. Their eyes fell on Wei Shi and quickly moved away, as if they were afraid of being discovered. Yin Qiuqiu was one of them. After several consecutive glances, her sister Yin Pengpeng turned her eyes and asked, "Sister, this Prince of Qi is so beautiful and elegant. I wonder what kind of girl she will marry in the future?"

Yin Qiuqiu's face was red, "How did I know?"

Yin Pengpeng smiled and said, "My sister is beautiful and she is familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics. It's very suitable for me to see you..."

These words were really bold. Yin Qiuqiu hurriedly covered her mouth and said ashamed and annoyed: "Stop talking nonsense."

Yin Pengpeng is as big as Su Xi, and is a weird girl with a slightly lively temperament than Yin Qiuqiu.

Their words were not loud, and they almost bit their ears and spoke. There were too many chattering sounds around them, so they didn't notice it. Su Xi sat next to them, and accidentally listened to these words, thinking about it, and really made Yin Pengpeng right. Yin Qiuqiu almost married Wei Qingqiu in her previous life. If Yin Qiuqiu was not dead, she would look quite compatible with Wei Qing.

After a while, Wei Qing stood up and said goodbye.

The old lady sent him outside the door and suddenly said, "Hey, why did Girl Yi come back now?"

Fu Yi's voice sounded from outside, soft and gentle, and sounded very comfortable: "Back to the old lady, on the way back, I saw a daylily flowering plant in the yard, so I wanted to pick it and give it to the old lady, wishing you a daylily long spring and a long life of the pines and cranes."

Old Mrs. Su seemed to be in a good mood, took the daylily flower and said, "You girl, you are a considerate." After all, we met at the door. The old lady introduced to Wei Xu: "Criminal, this is the granddaughter of Duke Qing."

Wei Xu nodded and said, "Miss Fu."

Fu Yi bent down and said, "I have met Prince Wei."

Inside the house, Su Xi noticed that Fu Yi had not come back with them. She met by chance in the corridor just now. She thought Fu Yi had also come back. She disappeared for so long just to pick a daylily flower?

Yin Qiuqiu's face changed opposite, and she secretly pinched the handkerchief in her hand. The shyness on her face had long disappeared, and it was blue and white.

Seeing this, Su Xi suddenly realized and figured it out.

Fu Yi... Couldn't he deliberately chose to come back at this time?

*

After the family banquet ended, Yin and the old lady sent away a group of female relatives.

In the evening, Su Xi kicked shuttlecock for two quarters of an hour as usual and practiced several sets of movements. After taking a shower, she remembered what Yu Baotong said on Bai Ri, so she wanted to go to Qiutangju to find Yin to ask for the female master. Before she left, she saw Su Baiyu running towards her impatiently. Her face, which had always been cold and mature, actually showed a little excitement.

Madam Cui shouted nervously behind her: "Young Master, please slow down and fall carefully..."

Su Baiyu ran to Su Xi quickly, raised the thing in his hand, and said with a shiny eyes: "I can do it."

The thing in Su Baiyu's hand is called the "Lu Ban serial lock". This lock was designed by Su Xi based on other Lu Ban locks. She had nothing to do. She took it to Su Baiyu the morning before yesterday. When she heard from her elder brother that he had been locked in the house these two days, Su Xi thought he would take a few days to untie it, but she didn't expect it to be so fast.

Su Baiyu sat on the Arhat opposite Su Xi. Xiaopang flexibly unbuttoned the first wooden strip with his hand, and quickly removed the chain locks. This step was easy, almost everyone could do it, but it was not so easy to assemble all the wooden strips back to their original appearance. Su Xi looked at it leisurely. When Su Baiyu said she could do it, she believed that he really knew it. After all, she had seen the premature wisdom of this little guy, but she didn't expect that he would be all ready in less than a cup of tea.

Su Xi blinked in surprise, almost beyond her expectations. She was about to praise Su Baiyu, but he honestly admitted: "Aunt, this method is not what I thought."

Not him? Su Xi asked, "Who is that?"

Su Baiyu said, "It's an older brother, he taught me to untie it." The little guy thought of Bai Ri's handsome brother, paused, wondering if he should say, "He also asked me who designed this lock... I said it was my aunt."
Chapter completed!