I don’t know what Yan Gui ordered, but the Kongming lanterns sent over were all white, with a blank slate, no pictures or words on them.
Wei Yang stood quietly in the snow. Because she was still in mourning, she couldn't wear white, so she chose a light blue long skirt with a plain white jacket on top, with only a few butterflies embroidered on the cuffs and collar. He helped her tie up her long black hair, which was only tied with a light blue ribbon. The ribbon had loosened and slid down to her waist, about to fall.
The cold wind blew up the scattered hair on her chest, her light green skirt, and also made Yan Gui's heart beat rapidly.
She is so slender and fragile that I feel pity for her.
The snow was not heavy and the wind was not too bad. Seeing the Kongming lantern she had lit with her own hands flying into the sky, getting farther and farther away, Weiyang's eyes suddenly turned red again. She bit her lips secretly, trying hard not to cry. She tried her best to control herself, and even her hands holding the Kongming lantern began to shake. When she tried to light it, she couldn't light it after several attempts.
Seeing her expression, Yan Gui felt heartbroken, and recalled the time when he went to the capital last year and drank happily with the boys of the Su family. The past was vivid in his mind, as if it were yesterday.
His little girl, who had fallen into poverty at home and now had to leave her hometown, now only had him, but she didn't dare to believe how difficult it was, and that it was because he had not done well enough that she was in so much pain.
"Let me do it." Yan Gui embraced Wei Yang from behind, took the cigarette and lit it for her.
In the garden, ten white Kongming lanterns were lit one by one and flew into the sky one by one, then flew away and disappeared.
Wei Yang leaned quietly in Yan Gui's arms. It was windy and snowy, but the man behind her used his tall body to block all the wind and snow for her. The embrace was warm and reassuring.
"Let's go back to the room. It's snowing heavily and it'll be bad if your shoes get wet. I'll take you to the plum forest tomorrow. I think the plum blossoms should be in bloom soon." Yan Gui gently straightened her shoulders, reached out and held her cold fingers, and led her into the room.
Weiyang's room was in the east courtyard. It didn't have the pavilions, bridges, flowing water, rockeries and strange rocks that the Su Mansion had in the past. It was just a simple courtyard with a bluestone path leading directly to the central hall. There were flower beds on both sides. The east wing was behind the flower beds. There were two small rooms. One room was occupied by two little girls who had just grown up. The other was a temporary newly built kitchen.
Seeing the general and the girl coming in from outside, Konggu hurried to get hot water, and Youlan brought her new shoes to change into.
At this moment, after entering the warm house, Wei Yang felt the cold outside. Her shoes were a little wet and her feet were numb from the cold. When she put her feet into the hot water brought by Kong Gu, Wei Yang couldn't help but let out a soft "hiss".
Yan Gui, who was walking to the door, heard it and turned around and walked in. Seeing Wei Yang sitting on the stool and soaking her feet, he couldn't help but ask, "Does it hurt?"
Weiyang looked up in confusion and shook her head subconsciously.
Suddenly she realized that she was barefoot in front of her uncle, and in panic she stepped on the wooden basin and overturned it. With a cry of surprise, her small white feet fell into Yan Gui's eyes.
Small and white, like smooth white jade, and the toes are like tender lotus buds, round and cute, light and attractive.
Yan Gui suddenly remembered the nonsense said by the ruffians in the army. He could play with that pair of jade feet all night long without feeling sleepy. He wanted to chop them off with a knife and carry them in his arms so that he could play with them all the time.
He had sneered at that time, but now he finally understood what that bastard meant by his nonsense.
Seeing Yan Gui's eyes on her feet, Wei Yang couldn't help but blush. Barefoot and without shoes, she ran all the way from the stool to the bed, not caring whether it was dirty or not, and climbed onto the bed. She pulled the quilt over her whole body, leaving only a pair of big eyes that were moving around outside.
Yan Gui was so flustered that he just ran away in a hurry.