Heartthrobs can't be unlucky all the time

When the three of them were about to leave the mansion, Shen Ruyan's maid came over and said that she wanted Ning Yu to wait for her young lady, who was already dressing up.

Ning Yu showed hesitation, but Zhu Yi at the side seemed to remember something, he pulled Ning Yu towards Ning Yu in a low voice and asked: "This lady, could it be the cousin who came last time?"

"Ah."

"She hasn't left yet, the year is almost over."

"Eldest Uncle and the others have helped the Ning Mansion a lot, so it is right to stay for a few more days."

"No, no, no, Ning Yu, you must not take her with you today."

Zhu Yi was afraid for a while when he thought of the day when his cousin brought back the big and small bags on his body.

Seeing that the maid was still waiting for Ning Yu's reply, he stepped forward gracefully and said to the maid, "Girl, we met last time, do you remember me?"

"Remember, you are Mr. Zhu."

"Since your young lady wants to go with us, it's no fun for us to wait here. Otherwise, please go and bring me a pot of hot tea, little girl, shall we wait in the hall?"

With a warm smile on Zhu Yi's face, the maid nodded shyly and ran away quickly.

Xiao Yuan also happened to chase after him with the cloak he had prepared for Ning Yu. He handed the cloak to Fu Di, but Zhu Yi grabbed it.

"Little brother, I see you look familiar, please do us a favor."

"Master, save me!"

Ning Yu heard the sound and asked Zhu Yi not to grab Xiao Yuan. Xiao Yuan hid behind Ning Yu and looked at Zhu Yi with some hostility.

"You, I'm not a bad person, come here."

"Xiao Yuan, don't be afraid, Mr. Zhu won't do anything to you."

Seeing that Xiao Yuan listened to Ning Yu's words, Zhu Yi obediently stopped avoiding Zhu Yi, and Zhu Yi also took the opportunity to say: "Brother Xiao Yuan, we still have something to do, we have to go ahead, and if someone asks you later, you should answer truthfully." .”

"Second Young Master, I..."

"Brother Xiao Yuan, don't ask your son, he is too soft-hearted, come here, and I'll tell you."

So Zhu Yi pulled Xiao Yuan aside and didn't know what to say, Xiao Yuan finally nodded, willing to wait here.

Zhu Yi hurried out with Ning Yu and Fu Di, fearing Shen Ruyan would chase after him.

"Zhu Yi, what did you say to Xiao Yuan just now?"

Xiao Yuan has been with Ning Yu for a long time, but he doesn't think Xiao Yuan will be easily persuaded.

"Well, as the saying goes, money can turn ghosts." Zhu Yi said with his hands behind his back and his head up, a little complacently.

Ning Yu could only shake his head helplessly.

As soon as they finished speaking, Fu Di led a horse over. Zhu Yi also rode a horse when he came. The three of them didn't bring anyone else. Fu Di and Ning Yu took the same horse and started to set off.

As Fu Di led them forward, Ning Yu knew that the Fu family had several other homes in Feiyang City, but Fu Di ran away from home in anger half a month ago, and he never thought of living in those other homes.

"It's not right for you to leave a good young master, you insist on coming to our house to be a servant."

"You are really strange."

Ning Yu found that from the first day he knew Fu Di, he felt that Fu Di was very strange.

Fu Di smiled, but did not respond. He looked ahead, took the reins and continued to move forward. Not long after, their horses stopped;

"Okay, here we are."

The Ning Mansion is in the north of Feiyang City, and the Fu family's courtyard is in the south of the city.

Fu Di took off his beard and hat, and led Ning Yu and Zhu Yi into this courtyard with a simple exterior and an elegant interior.

The doorman led Fu Di and the others into the mansion.Soon, a housekeeper came and saluted Fu Di respectfully.

Fu Di asked him, did Fu Qing come?

The butler replied that the uncle had already arrived in Feiyang City yesterday, and he went out early this morning.

"Help me send a message to a man named Zheng Xiujie next to my brother, just say that I need to find him, and we will wait in this mansion."

"Yes."

The housekeeper withdrew after receiving the order, and Fu Di took Ning Yu and Zhu Yi to take the opportunity to stroll around Fu's other courtyard.

Fu Di didn't say much, that is, Zhu Yi kept chattering, saying that the courtyard of Fu's family is quite elegant.

In the garden, there are small bridges and flowing water, rare flowers and plants, just like a small garden.

Seeing no one around, Zhu Yi began to gossip about the Fu family again. He told Ning Yu that the Fu family moved here from the capital, and that Fu Qing already had a strong background before becoming the city lord.

But Ning Yu wasn't very interested in these things, and Fu Di didn't think he heard what Zhu Yi said.

After shopping around, the three of them returned to the house and started chatting around the fire.In a trance, it seems that I have returned to the time when I was still in the academy.

When it was almost dusk, Zheng Xiujie, who accompanied Fu Qing to attend the meeting at the various chambers of commerce in Feiyang City, received a message from the housekeeper, declined the dinner invitation from City Lord Fu, and returned to Fu's residence.

When he saw the narrow bridge in the garden of Fu's family, Ning Yu, who was dressed in sunset glow and walked towards him step by step, like a jade carved from ice, Zheng Xiujie's eyes were slightly moist.

Finally, not only seeing him in a dream.

Zheng Xiujie had a lot to say to Ning Yu, but he didn't know where to start.

Ning Yu, who walked in, also observed Zheng Xiujie in front of him. The third child's peach blossom eyes are still full of brilliance, and his figure is still tall, but his temperament is more mature than that of more than a month ago, and there is even a little Zheng Xiuyuan's stability between his brows shadow.

Zheng Xiujie gave Ning Yu a big hug, both of them had smiles and tears on their faces.

Fu Di and Zhu Yi, who were standing not far from them, saw the two embracing each other in the garden, they didn't speak, and turned their heads after watching for a while.

It was almost dusk at this time, both Ning Mansion and Zhu Mansion sent people to urge them back to the mansion for a dinner, and even Fu Qing sent experts to take Fu Di to meet City Lord Fu.

There is no other way, Ning Yu and Zheng Xiujie can only bid farewell to Zhu Yi and Fu Di, and make an appointment to meet again tomorrow.

But Ning Yu didn't bring Zheng Xiujie back to Ning Mansion, he sent someone to bring a message saying that he would return home later today, and asked his brother not to wait for him.

The two of them walked slowly into the market side by side.

The night of the Shangyuan Festival in Feiyang City is very lively, people on the street are crowded with each other, and there are lights and festoons everywhere.

Ning Yu took Zheng Xiujie to eat a bowl of glutinous rice balls at a roadside stall, and the two went to guess lantern riddles again. Zheng Xiujie guessed right and got a palace lantern with a very cute rabbit drawn on it.

He gave the palace lantern to Ning Yu.

Then they walked and chatted, Ning Yu did not hide the fact that his letter to Zheng's brother was stopped by his brother, Zheng Xiujie expressed his understanding, as long as Ning Yu's life is good after returning, they will be relieved.

"Then what happened to Big Brother Zheng and Second Brother?"

The last time Ning Yu learned about the Zheng family from Huiniang, he was very worried. This time, after listening to Zheng Xiujie's explanation, he realized that what happened after he left made him even more worried.

Zheng Xiuyuan was touched by Wang Dafu, and after Ma'er accidentally kicked Wang Dafu's hand and broke it, the village chief gave him two choices, either take responsibility for his daughter and marry her, or cut off his own arm.

At that time, Zheng Xiujie went alone and had no way to communicate with the unreasonable chief. The chief insisted that it was Zheng Xiuyuan who hurt his daughter, and even tried to break the boss's hand.

He almost got into a fight with those big guys hired by the village chief, but he was still persuaded by his elder brother not to be impulsive.

So he went to beg City Master Fu, fortunately, City Master Fu came forward, and the chief released his elder brother, but he also took back the orchard allocated to them by the village under the pretext of taking them back, and made them pay a large sum of money.

Later, when the army was recruited, the head of the village borrowed Zheng's family to enroll in the village and no one had served in the army. He demanded that one member of the Zheng family must be on the conscription list.

Conscription is a requirement of the imperial court, and City Lord Fu is also helpless about this matter. Zheng Xiuran has already gone to Beijing, and only two brothers Zheng Xiuyuan and Zheng Xiujie are left in the Zheng family. In the end, Zheng Xiuyuan himself volunteered to join the army, and this matter was completely resolved.

"Brother has been away for almost half a month, and he told me not to tell you about it, because so many things happened suddenly at home, so later... I don't know how to write to you."

"Second brother sent greetings to you in every letter he sent back. I haven't told him about my eldest brother's joining the army and your failure to reply. Recently, his letters have decreased. Calculating the time, they should be arriving in the capital soon."

"Third brother..."

Ning Yu tightly clutched the wooden handle of the palace lantern in his hand, feeling a little uncomfortable.

He never thought that fate would play tricks like this.

"Third brother, have you been working with City Lord Fu now?"

"Yes, I have been staying in Feiyu City since my eldest brother left. It was all thanks to Ning Yu who first told me about the idea of ​​preserved chili peppers. City Lord Fu was very satisfied with the preserved fruit plan I submitted to him, so I have been helping him until now. "

"That's great!"

Ning Yu looked at Zheng Xiujie who was beside him. It was a very happy thing for Zheng Xiujie to be appreciated by City Lord Fu.

"When I come to Feiyang City this time, City Lord Fu still wants to implement his plan here, so after the new year, maybe I can stay here."

"Stay in Feiyang City! Then we can meet often!"

Ning Yu was overjoyed, if Zheng Xiujie could stay in Feiyang City, he could come out to look for him often.

"Ah."

Zheng Xiujie's peach blossom eyes are full of tenderness, and now he has no other nostalgia in Feiyu City, and this opportunity to come to Feiyang City is exactly what he tried his best to win from City Lord Fu.

"Third brother, let's go release the sky lanterns."

With the sound of fireworks, they saw the incomparably gorgeous fireworks blooming in the dark on the top of the city. Ning Yu remembered that every year, sky lanterns could be released at the gate of the city.

Wishes to fly into the night sky, he always hoped they would come true.

Zheng Xiujie was dragged by Ning Yu to the gate of the city, and Ning Yu skillfully went to a roadside vendor to buy a sky lantern tied with paper, and brought a pen and ink.

"Third brother, let's write our blessings on this and put it in the sky."

While talking, Ning Yu picked up the brush and concentrated on writing. He didn't have any big wishes, and the dim yellow paper was filled with "happy reunion and fate every year".

Seeing this, Zheng Xiujie also picked up a pen, but the blessing he wrote was a little different from Ning Yu's. On his side, he wrote "Reunion always, reunion every day".

The two borrowed candlelight and lit the white wax in the sky lantern.After a while, the oval-shaped paper began to expand magically.Immediately afterwards, the sky lanterns began to have a tendency to fly.

The two of them looked at each other and smiled, and let go of their hands. The light sky lantern carried their blessings for the coming year and flew higher and higher, farther and farther, until it became a spot of light in the dark night.