In the late spring, most of Chang'an Fangfei has withered away, but Qishan has saved a few minutes of spring, a peach blossom is blooming, and the crimson is like a glow.
After a day of driving and horses, everyone was exhausted when they arrived at the Hunting Palace. When they got off the car, they went to their residence in a scattered manner, leaving the mountains and haze for tomorrow's banquet to enjoy.
Su Shiyu politely thanked his colleagues for their concern, and then planned to leave.
He stood alone not far away, leaning on a peach tree with his hands, looking at this side with no expression, looking thoughtful.
Su Shiyu hesitated for a while, but walked over and said with a faint smile, "You are tired all the way, Master Chu doesn't go to rest, what are you thinking about here?"
Chu Mingyun's eyes were quiet, and he fixedly watched him walk in front of him, then suddenly smiled at him, "I'm thinking of you."
Su Shiyu paused for a while, then smiled nonchalantly, and said, "With the Xiongnu envoys here, the Lord of Chu must be more troublesome tomorrow, or it's better to rest earlier."
"I don't have the time to rest," Chu Mingyun put down his hands and stood up straight. "There is something I haven't figured out yet, so I can't calm down."
"What is so important?" Su Shiyu asked.
"It's very important." Chu Mingyun looked at him and said slowly, "Do you want to know, Master Su?"
"Appreciate further details."
"Then what if I don't tell you?" Chu Mingyun smiled, scrutinizing Su Shiyu's expression, and said, "Why don't Master Su accompany me there, maybe I want to talk when I'm in a good mood, and I'll have thoughts. rest."
Su Shiyu chuckled helplessly, "Okay."
Lu Qinghe opened the embroidered curtain, jumped out of the carriage, clutched his chest as soon as his feet touched the ground, and complained, "I told you earlier that I would ride a horse behind me, but this trip will really suffocate me!"
The maid smiled and came to help her, "It's more leisurely to ride in a car than to ride a horse. After you get used to it, the lady will be fine."
"I don't want to get used to it." Lu Qinghe said, "Where is my father?"
"Master just saw an old friend, went over to say hello, and will be back later. He specially ordered us to wait here, so that you can stop by..." The maid said with pursed lips and a smile, "...by the way, take a good look."
"... Take a good look." Lu Qinghe twitched the corners of his mouth and looked around, "What are you looking at, all the handsome young men have been bumped and wilted along the way, what's good..."
The voice suddenly stopped.
In the distance, under the peach tree, someone stood tall and the corners of his lips twitched. He didn't know what he was saying to the person, but his eyes were gleaming, and a deep smile was flowing.
Her scarlet dress was slightly raised, and the spring breeze rose from ten miles, brushing the man's eyebrows, wanting to share a piece of peerless elegance with Taoyao.
Lu Qinghe put one hand on the shoulder of the maid, his eyes still fixed there, he couldn't help sighing: "...It's so beautiful."
"What's so beautiful?" Lu Shi walked over after him.
"Father!" Lu Qinghe turned around, "I'm optimistic!"
"So fast?" Lu Shi asked, "Who is it?"
"Over there!" Lu Qinghe raised his finger, "I want him!"
Lu Shi looked over and saw Su Shiyu who had turned around at a glance. His tone was a little relieved, "Is it the one in white? As expected of my daughter, her eyes really don't..."
"No!" Lu Qinghe hurriedly interrupted, "The one next to me in dark blue clothes!"
Lu Shi's face suddenly darkened.
"no!"
"Father—" Lu Qinghe chased behind Lu Shi, wandering in the hall.
"If you say you can't do it, you can't. It's useless for you to say anything!" Lu Shi's attitude was firm.
"Why not?" Lu Qinghe said dissatisfiedly, "You said let me choose it myself!"
"You..." Lu Shi was annoyed, stopped abruptly, turned to look at her, "what's the matter with you, you chose not to choose so many young talents, but you fell in love with that prefect Chu!" Lu Shi said sadly, "Where did you see him?"
Lu Qinghe couldn't help shrinking his neck and said frankly, "...he's beautiful."
"Is the appearance of your skin confusing you?" Lu Shi said angrily, "Isn't Mr. Su beautiful?"
"... Dad." Lu Qinghe looked at him in shock.
Lu Shi was stunned for a moment, and was also shocked to realize that he had made a slip of the tongue. He looked around and saw no one else, so he simply continued to speak, "Qinghe, just talk about it, what do you think?"
Lu Qinghe looked at Lu Shi's expression, thought about it, and said solemnly: "Sir Su is also... but the two of them are different. Mr. Su is beautiful, but he is the kind that can only be seen but not touched... "
"You still want to touch that Prefect Chu?" Lu Shi's anger that couldn't be suppressed came to his head again, "Although I condone your willful behavior since I was a child, why are you so unrestrained now?!"
... I didn't say that. Lu Qinghe closed his mouth with tears in his eyes, lowered his head and listened to his anger.
Lu Shi was annoyed for a while, and his anger subsided for the most part. Seeing Lu Qinghe's low eyebrows and pleasing appearance, he couldn't help but slow down his tone and put down the last sentence: "It's just that you don't care about Mr. Su, just help your father. You choose, you choose slowly." He paused, "But you don't have to think about it, Mrs. Chu, let alone what he is like, no one in the court knows that he is brazenly pursuing Mr. Su, you don't allow it. Stop messing around with it!"
Lu Qinghe lowered his head and pouted, secretly lamenting that her father could even make up such a lie.
It's just that Lu Qinghe is a person who has traveled all over the world after all, so he is different from an ordinary lady. Since Lu Shi refused to agree, there was no hope for the matchmaker's words, so she thought she could try private life.
The night is like ink, and the sounds are loud.
Lu Qinghe sat at the table, and when he saw the maid returning with the lantern, he hurriedly asked, "How is it?"
"This..." The maid stepped forward, glanced at her, and hesitated: "Miss, you really like that one..."
"Of course, otherwise I'll ask you to spread the word?" Lu Qinghe interrupted her, "How is it?"
"The slave did not see Master Chu, he is not in the courtyard." The maid said.
Lu Qing was surprised: "Where can he go if he is not at his residence in the middle of the night?"
The maid paused for a while, but replied in due course: "The guard said that he saw Lord Chu carrying a pot of wine and went to the mountain pavilion alone."
"Drinking alone in the middle of the night, it's really romantic." Lu Qinghe nodded in appreciation, and suddenly woke up, "Tonight everyone is so tired that they only want to rest, and no one will come over to the mountain pavilion again." She patted the maid on the back, in difficulty. Yi was overjoyed, "God-sent a great opportunity!"
Hearing this, the maid ignored the pain in her back, and hurriedly said, "Miss, don't you want to go too?"
"Of course!" Lu Qinghe stood up and straightened his clothes, "The beautiful scenery of the good time is suitable for a tryst and confession."
The maid couldn't react, and she said in a daze: "Then... It's cold in the mountain pavilion at night, so the servant will go and find a cloak for you."
"No need." Lu Qinghe raised his hand to stop her, and said boldly: "Weak women are more lovable, and it's better to be colder on the mountain pavilion."
"Miss… "
"What are you doing on the mountain pavilion?" Lu Shi's voice suddenly sounded.
Lu Qing and Da Yi's awe-inspiring figure trembled in response, turned their heads stiffly, and said with a smile, "Father..."
Lu Shi frowned and asked the maid, "Who is she going to see?"
The maid was about to answer when Lu Qinghe said, "Go see Master Su!"
"Master Su?"
Lu Qinghe gave a 'um', turned away shyly, gave the maid a wink, and said, "It's Mr. Su."
"Why do you want to see him?" Lu Shi looked at her suspiciously.
Lu Qinghe took a deep breath and said, "Dad, haven't you always liked Mr. Su? After you left, my daughter thought about it carefully, and it's not that she didn't feel anything about him... So I sent someone a message to meet up. , to see if he is as good as you say."
"Sir Su is of course unquestionable." Lu Shi said.
Lu Qinghe quickly agreed, and sneaked over to see Lu Shi's expression, "That's why my daughter wants to see her."
Lu Shi nodded, "It's alright to get in touch."
Lu Qinghe smiled cleverly and asked, "Then what's the matter with you coming here?"
"It's nothing," Lu Shi said, "I was planning to come back to discuss this matter with you. Since you have already thought so, I am relieved."
"Then you go, I'll go talk to some old friends." Lu Shi was about to leave, and Lu Qinghe breathed a sigh of relief. He suddenly turned his head again, "But..."
Lu Qinghe looked at him nervously, "What's wrong?"
"You'd better add a cloak and go over there."
Lu Qinghe's heart moved, and he lowered his head to respond.
Seeing that Lu Shi had already left, the maid next to him, who didn't dare to come out, finally asked cautiously, "Miss, then... do you still want to go to Shanting?"
"Of course," Lu Qinghe raised his head and brushed a stray strand of hair behind his ear, "It's all here, how can you not go?" She said after a pause, feeling a lot of guilty conscience, "But we'll have to wait until later. Go again... so as not to be seen by my father."
Over there, Lu Shi's heart fell, and he was in a good mood. As he stepped into the courtyard of Wei Song, the minister of households, he said loudly, "Master Wei, I want you to sleep late tonight, and play a few games of chess with me!"
In the hall, Wei Song smiled and got up to greet him. Someone behind him stood up under the bright lights, and said with a faint smile, "Master Lu is in such a good mood, is there a happy event?"
Lu Shi was immediately stunned, "... Master Su"
Su Shiyu nodded, "Come in and talk."
Lu Shi didn't move, "Why are you here?"
Wei Song pulled Lu Shi to sit down in the hall, "Your Excellency came to inquire about the Hun envoy, and chatted with me for a while, you came just in time, since you want to play chess, why not have a discussion with Master Su? "
Lu Shi responded. Seeing that Wei Songguo really went into the room to get the chess set, he couldn't help but ask Su Shiyu, "Don't you have an appointment tonight, my lord?"
Su Shiyu shook his head and smiled, "I didn't have an appointment with anyone."
Lu Shi was silent, his complexion changed a bit, and it was quite complicated. Su Shiyu couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with Mr. Lu?"
"...It's nothing." Lu Shi came back to his senses, smiled, and then sighed again, and said, "I'm ashamed to say, the little girl has admired the lord for a long time, and now I came to the hunting palace with me, and sent a maid to invite you privately. When I saw you at Shanting, I was busy with dressing up and getting ready, and only when I bumped into it was I willing to confess."
Su Shiyu frowned slightly, "But I haven't received any invitations..."
"That's what I'm curious about," Lu Shi said hurriedly. "But if you think about it carefully, since you've been here with Sir Wei, I'm afraid it's the maid who sent the message."
At this point, Lu Shi's meaning has been understood. Su Shiyu sighed lightly, "Thanks to Lord Lu's love, but I have no intention of starting a family, so I don't dare to delay Lingyuan."
"It's the little girl who is infatuated, and the old man has nothing to do." Lu Shi said, "Now the little girl is afraid that she has already gone to the mountain pavilion to make an appointment. I think she will not come back easily until she can wait for the adults. After all, the night on this mountain is a little cold, even if the adults do not come back easily. You have no intention of meeting, but you are worried about it."
Su Shiyu pondered for a while, and had no choice but to say, "Lord Lu loves her daughter very much, and I understand it naturally. Since that's the case, I'll excuse me first."
"Okay, okay." Lu Shi followed Su Shiyu and got up, "Master Su, please hurry up."
He stood outside the threshold and watched Su Shiyu's back go away. Behind him, Wei Song came out of the house holding the chess set, and said in surprise, "Why did Master Su leave?"
Lu Shi turned around and returned to the hall, patted him on the shoulder, but answered indifferently: "Fortunately, Mr. Wei, you have a son under your knees, and you got married early."
Wei Song looked at him in confusion, "Lord Lu, what did you say?"
"Hey," Lu Shi sighed deeply, "I really want to break my heart."