Time is slow

   Chapter 541 Cold Encounter

  After a few months of not seeing, the originally tall girl with plump cheeks sunk in, wearing a duck-egg blue jacket and a snow fox fur cloak, making the weak girl even more indistinguishable sadness.

   "Miss Kou is cleared." Qiao Zhao walked over.

   Kou Zimo stared at the girl in front of him for a moment, then reached out to hold her hand: "Li San sister has grown taller. It's cold outside, let's go inside and talk."

   Her voice was gentle and calm, but somehow it made people feel a little sad.

  Qiao Zhao followed Kou Zimo into the house.

   There were several braziers in Kou Zimo's boudoir, and as soon as she got in, the big clothes couldn't be worn. She took off the big cloak and handed it to the maid, and greeted Qiao Zhao: "Li Sanmei, sit down."

  The maid served hot tea and quietly backed out.

   "It's almost noon. Sister Li San will have dinner with me."

   "No need, I told my mother to go back to eat when I came out. I'll invite Miss Kou to dinner the other day, and I'll call Miss Zhu Qi and the others to a small gathering."

   Kou Zimo looked at Qiao Zhao seriously, pursed the corner of his mouth, and said softly, "I heard that my cousin recognized Li San's sister as his righteous sister."

  Qiao Zhao nodded calmly: "Well, I have a good relationship with Brother Qiao."

   "How to meet?" Kou Zimo asked.

  Qiao Zhao looked at Kou Zimo deeply. From her eyes, she did not see the girl's wariness and unhappiness caused by her sweetheart being close to other women, but full of curiosity and confusion.

  Qiao Zhao smiled slightly: "When I saw Brother Qiao, I felt that he was the same as my own brother, as if we were brothers and sisters in our previous lives."

   Kou Zimo lowered his head and rubbed the handkerchief in his hand silently.

   "Miss Kou?" Qiao Zhao felt that Kou Zimo was different from usual, as if he had infinite thoughts, and called out softly.

   Kou Zimo raised his head and looked into Qiao Zhao's eyes: "Sister Li San call me Sister Kou. You and my cousin become brothers and sisters, and in my heart they are just like my sister."

  Qiao Zhao nodded with a smile: "Okay, Sister Kou."

   Seeing the girl in front of him can't help but laugh, Kou Zimo suddenly reacted, and his pretty face blushed: "Don't get me wrong, I, I have no other intentions—"

   Qiao Zhao looked at her with a smile.

   She has always known that Kou Zimo has a deep-rooted love for her brother, and her attitude towards this is to let it be.

   She hoped that her brother could marry a girl who was in love with each other.

   "I really didn't mean that..." Kou Zimo suddenly became excited, he couldn't help choking at the end, and then it seemed as if the dam had broken, and he burst into tears in an instant.

   "Sister Kou—"

   Kou Zimo hugged Qiao Zhao, his hands trembled violently, tears ran from his cheeks, it was already cold: "Li Sanmei, you don't need to say anything, just let me lean on it, just lean on it..."

  Qiao Zhao was silent, reaching out and patting Kou Zimo's shoulder.

   She didn't ask Kou Zimo why she was crying, but she vaguely guessed that she was inseparable from her brother.

   Ever since the elder brother moved out of Kou's mansion to live in the champion's mansion, and went to prison, Kou Zimo has visited his elder brother many times, and the relationship between the two is unknown.

   Kou Zimo sat up straight, wiped his tears with a handkerchief, and said bluntly, "Let's let Sister Li San see a joke."

   "Sister Kou doesn't have to feel embarrassed, everyone is sad sometimes. Don't cry when they are sad, don't they laugh? Cry when you need to cry, laugh when you need to laugh, it's no big deal."

   Kou Zimo lowered his eyes, pursed his lips, and smiled lightly: "Lisan sister said yes, thank you very much. You can stay for dinner today, and you can talk to me."

   Hearing what Kou Zimo said, Qiao Zhao nodded in response.

  The two chatted for a while and then it was time for dinner. The maid brought the food box from the big kitchen and put the food on the table.

   Kou Zimo cried a bit in front of Qiao Zhao, and felt that the two were quite close, so he asked casually, "Didn't I tell you to tell the big kitchen to add a yam and mutton soup and two ice-sugar stewed snow clams?"

   The maid bit her lip, glanced at Qiao Zhao quickly, and lowered her eyes, "The big kitchen said that the girl's order was too late, and it was too late to make the yam and mutton soup."

   "What about the snow clams stewed in rock sugar?"

  The head of the maid hangs even lower: "It happens that the snow clams are gone, so I will go to buy them tomorrow."

   Kou Zimo frowned slightly, then took a closer look at the dishes, and suddenly his heart moved, and he understood something.

   She has a calm temperament, even though the knuckles of her fingers in her big sleeves have been pinched white, her face is calm, and she said lightly to the maid: "Go back."

  After the maid withdrew, Kou Zimo reluctantly smiled at Qiao Zhao: "I'm in a hurry today, the reception was not good, I'm sorry to Miss Li San."

  Qiao Zhaoyun smiled lightly: "How come, the food at Sister Kou's house is much richer than ours. This braised carp happens to be my favorite."

   Kou Zimo breathed a sigh of relief: "It just suits your taste, winter dishes get cold quickly, let's talk after eating."

   The two of them ate silently, adhering to the rule of not speaking or sleeping.

   The half-cool and lukewarm fish meat was eaten in his mouth, and Qiao Zhao could only feel the taste of chewing wax.

   The corners of her eyes were a little sore, and she blinked before pressing down Shiran.

   A married daughter is a coquettish guest when she returns to her parents' home, and she is also a little coquettish guest as a granddaughter. She has been to her grandfather's house many times, and she knows that the grandfather's house is divided into six classes. She used to use the first class, but now she uses the last class.

  Li Zhao, the little girl, may not understand, but she remembers clearly that the last reception of the Kou family was a respectable servant brought by a distinguished guest.

The meaning of    Kou's house entertaining the friends of the eldest girl in the house is self-evident.

   They bullied the girls of the Li family who didn't understand, and their intention was to tell Kou Zimo that she hoped that she would not invite the girls of the Li family again in the future.

  The eldest aunt was imprisoned under the name of being insane, and now the second aunt, Dou Shi, is in charge of the Shangshu Mansion.

   But Mrs. Dou can't afford to lose face like this. Being an aunt's meddling in making friends with her niece is purely thankless. Why don't you use this time to raise your own children?

   So the person who signaled the big kitchen to do this is already very clear, it is her grandmother Xue Shi.

   Once, her grandmother treated her kindly and lovingly, more affectionate than her own granddaughter every time she came, but now, she has become Li Zhao, but she can only get a meal to entertain her servants.

   The initial grievance passed, and Qiao Zhao straightened his back.

   It's nothing, she has parents who love her because she is Li Zhao, and now she is treated like this, or because she is Li Zhao.

   There are gains and losses. At least she can live again, which is already a big profit.

  Qiao Zhao's heart suddenly brightened, and the food tasted in his mouth.

   Kou Zimo was sitting on pins and needles, and when Qiao Zhao left, he lifted his feet and went to Madam Xue's house.

   "Zimo is here." Madam Xue glanced at Kou Zimo lightly, "Why didn't you speak when you got to my grandmother's place?"

   Kou Zimo bit his lip: "Grandma, today—"

   "You want to ask about lunch, right?"

   Kou Zimo lowered his eyes by default.

   Mrs. Xue said lightly, "Zimo, don't interact with the girl of the Li family in the future."

"why?"

   Announced the answer, the friend in the bed next door is Da Yunji. But today I will abandon her and go out with other friends.

   (end of this chapter)