When they arrived outside the village, they saw Ruan Qingyan, Ruan Yi and several servants standing under a thatched eaves to avoid the rain. Their raincoats and bamboo hats had been taken off and they were hanging against the earth wall to dry. Because he went out, he wore a moon-white cloak over his filial piety. The cloak got a few pieces wet, but he did not look embarrassed, but had an upright and unruly demeanor.
"Cousin, why are you here?" Seeing Qiu Yilan coming out, Ruan Yi and others hurriedly held umbrellas and hid outside the eaves.
Ruan Qingyan took a look at her complexion and then said: "I heard that the heavy rain has blocked the way back to the city, and you have to stay here for a few days. I am worried, so I came to take a look."
"I'm fine, don't worry." Qiu Yilan felt warm in her heart and said with a smile, "But cousin, why did you come in person when it's raining so heavily and you have to take a detour?"
"If you don't come in person, the guy over there should be happy, right?" Ruan Qingyan suddenly looked behind her and said calmly.
Qiu Yilan was startled, and turned around to look, only to see Jiang Yashuang, who had changed into a blue robe, stepped out of the village gate with a spring breeze on her face, walked closer, and greeted with a smile: "Brother Ruan, I haven't seen you for many days, I really miss you. Since today Come to visit your sister, why don’t you go to the village and talk about it?”
There is a village guard in front of the village gate. Although we are far away, some words are not suitable to be said. Ruan Qingyan said calmly: "I am still serving my filial piety and it is inconvenient to enter. I will leave after saying a few words to my cousin."
Jiang Yashuang chuckled lightly and said: "In the past, I might have been a little more particular about it, but now, Princess Huainan's mourning hall has been set up inside. Of course Chu Weixian and the others have not yet worn heavy mourning, but our family has changed Wear a plainer colored robe to show respect for Princess Huainan... Just don’t go to the main hall.”
He added, "The road back and forth to the city will not be easy these two days. Go in and take a shower, change your clothes, and loosen up quickly when you go back. Otherwise, it will be bad for your health if you go a long way in wet clothes."
Qiu Yilan didn't know that Jiang Yashuang had dated Ruan Qingyan as his love rival. She thought that they were still in a relationship where one was trying to please the other. Looking at Ruan Qingyan's muddy and water-stained cloak, she felt that it would be uncomfortable to wear it back home like this, so she Said: "Cousin, what he said..."
"Little General Jiang, I have something to ask my cousin alone. Please step aside." Ruan Qingyan glared at her fiercely and rejected Jiang Yashuang's proposal unceremoniously. Instead, he motioned for Qiu Yilan to follow him towards the field. While walking.
"You go back first." Qiu Yilan hurriedly followed her obediently. After walking a few steps, she saw Jiang Yashuang also wanted to follow. She was afraid that Ruan Qingyan would be angry, so she hurriedly said.
It was rare that Jiang Yashuang didn't listen to her words, but still followed unhurriedly: "My sister said it was raining and the roads were slippery, and she was afraid that Princess Ningyi would not be able to leave the village alone, so she asked me to come over and keep an eye on her."
"I will take care of my cousin." Ruan Qingyan stopped and said expressionlessly, "You don't need to worry!"
"Now that Princess Ningyi is visiting my village, we should keep an eye on it." Jiang Yashuang still smiled, but her eyes became sharper, "Besides, it may not be safe in the wild right now... Lan Lan, you think so." "?"
At this time, the three of them walked a few steps and were far away from the village gate. It was estimated that the villagers could not hear them, so Jiang Yashuang immediately changed the title.
Ruan Qingyan also scowled: "Don't get in the way! I don't have time to fight with you today!"
Jiang Yashuang smiled lightly: "So Brother Ruan is in trouble? Why don't you tell us and go over the details together... Maybe I can help?"
"It has nothing to do with you." Ruan Qingyan said coldly, "Are you leaving? If you don't leave, don't think I can't touch you in front of your village!"
Jiang Yashuang narrowed her eyes: "Brother Ruan and I have not met in private once or twice. When have we ever relied on family?"
Qiu Yilan stayed until now, then woke up from her dream, and said in surprise: "What's wrong with you...?"
Ruan Qingyan's attitude towards Jiang Yashuang has never been very good, and she knows this. But Jiang Yashuang was very restrained towards Ruan Qingyan? Occasionally, Qiu Yilan would say something funny or jokingly, but Qiu Yilan never took it seriously at all.
Now that the two of them were fighting in front of her, Qiu Yilan felt that she was caught off guard!
"Send him back to the village and don't stop us from talking!" Ruan Qingyan ordered coldly.
Before Qiu Yilan did as she was told, Jiang Yashuang also looked at her with a half-smile: "Lanlan, you really don't want me to accompany you? What Qiu Daxia said... right? Although your cousin is powerful, the enemy is overt and I am secretly , you brothers and sisters can feel free to talk while I’m here, right?”
Qiu Yilan glanced at him suspiciously: "Why did you treat my cousin like this today?"
Jiang Yashuang choked - I treated him as my brother-in-law before, but now I treat him as my love rival. How could I continue to spoil him? ! Especially Ruan Qingyan knew that you were living in my village now, and he still came here in the rain. This clearly shows that he was deliberately trying to increase his favorability... I still let him go as he pleased, what does this mean? !
But he couldn't tell Qiu Yilan directly, so he had to say: "I'm worried about you."
"Then don't talk to my cousin like that!" Qiu Yilan twitched the corner of her mouth, feeling that he was very hostile to Ruan Qingyan now - something he had never had before. Just as he was about to persuade him to apologize to Ruan Qingyan, Ruan Qingyan frowned and asked, "Have you seen the autumn wind?"
"Yes, he just said that he saw Concubine Mo being killed last night." Although Qiu Yilan deliberately lowered her voice because she was worried about the presence of many people, she still did not dare to mention "Tianya". "Xia Ran is about to send someone to the city to tell you!"
Ruan Qingyan thought thoughtfully: "How did he know you were here?"
"We met on Jinxiu Slope yesterday." Qiu Yilan said, "Last night Zhuangzi sent a lot of people to Huainan Prince's Mansion to look for someone. Maybe he heard the servant talking about it..."
Ruan Qingyan asked suspiciously: "Yesterday? Jinxiu Slope? How did we meet?"
At this time, a gust of wind blew, carrying icy raindrops, and Qiu Yilan couldn't help but shiver.
Jiang Yashuang said solemnly: "Go to Zhuangzi and talk about it. If you don't feel uncomfortable in wet clothes, think about Lanlan being frozen!"
Ruan Qingyan glanced at him, waved to Ruan Yi, took out a cloak from the baggage on his back, and was about to put it on Qiu Yilan's shoulders - Jiang Yashuang, who had already forced himself to endure it, couldn't help but became furious. , stepped forward to stop him, and asked with a livid face: "What do you mean?!"
"This cloak belongs to my eldest sister!" Ruan Qingyan frowned, "What are you doing?"
"Then I should tie it for Lanlan!" Jiang Yashuang's eyes flashed coldly, "I know Lanlan treats you like a brother, but you are just cousins after all! Everyone in the village behind you is watching, and you are in front of What do you think of me wearing a cape on Lan Lan?" He gritted his teeth, "I've given in to you again and again, don't go too far!"
"You...you suspect that I'm having an affair with my cousin?!" Qiu Yilan was surprised before why he stopped her, but how could she not feel relieved after hearing these words? He couldn't help but turned pale with anger, "You are really siblings! Yesterday on Jinxiu Slope, Qiu Feng and the others accidentally offended Zhuang Man, so I called out 'Shixiong' and asked Zhuang Man for a favor - your sister followed immediately I can't stand it if I ask Shui Jin to trick me. I don't want you to tolerate my cousin! Now that we are nameless and have no identity, how can we still get along with you in the future?"
Jiang Yashuang was startled: "Sister Shiba, did you trick me?" He couldn't help but secretly complained: before, Jiang Qizheng only reminded her that Qiu Yilan knew "He Feng", but she didn't tell him that she had let him He Shuijin had sidetracked Qiu Yilan!
It's better now. He was suspected once yesterday, and he was suspected again today - based on his understanding of Qiu Yilan, it would be strange not to have an attack!
Before he had time to apologize, Ruan Qingyan's face had completely darkened: "Asshole! I didn't know who climbed over the wall to seduce my cousin at the beginning, why do you think she is bad now?! What do you think of my cousin? Do you think she is? It’s easy to bully without the support of parents!”
Jiang Yashuang didn't care about fighting with him at this moment and hurriedly explained: "I don't know what happened on Jinxiu Slope!"
"Anyway, in the eyes of your family, I just don't have the rules and don't follow the rules of a woman!" Qiu Yilan sneered, "I finally understand why my cousin always wants me to be polite and behave..."
"I don't doubt your intentions, I just think he's too good to you." Jiang Yashuang had no choice but to bite the bullet and tell the truth, "Not as good as my cousin, I just think he's plotting against you!"
Qiu Yilan said coldly: "I know very well how good he is to me! Besides, if he wanted to trick me, I would have been tricked countless times. Do you still need to doubt me?!"
Jiang Yashuang still wanted to explain, but Ruan Qingyan was already telling Su He, who had followed Qiu Yilan out: "Go in and let Chunran and the others pack the princess's things, and tell Princess Chunfu that I bought a house in the village three miles away. In the yard, I want to take the princess to live there now, so as not to disturb the Jiang family anymore... I also want to tell Princess Chunfu: My own cousin can discipline herself, and whether she knows Qiu Feng or He Feng, I don’t think there is any need for Her Royal Highness to do this. Heart!"
He looked at Jiang Yashuang, who was gradually turning pale, "After all, you have no name and no status, right?!"
"I..." Jiang Yashuang opened her mouth but was interrupted by Qiu Yilan: "That's enough! I don't want to hear anything now!"
Knowing that she was angry now, Jiang Yashuang was silent for a moment, and forced herself to suppress her violent mood: "Then I will give you a gift!"
... After a while, he watched Ruan Qingyan and his entourage enter the village, but stopped himself outside. His eyes changed for a while, and then he turned around in silence.
On the way back to Zhuangzi, Jiang Tan tried to express comfort several times, but he kept silent because his face was too gloomy.
Just before reaching the village gate, a young man in brocade robes who was about the same age as Jiang Yashuang suddenly appeared from behind a big willow tree by the road.
This young man has bright eyebrows, a face like a crown of jade, and his black hair is loosely draped. He only has a gold ring tied behind his head, and his clothes are half-undressed, giving him a wild look. He was neither holding an umbrella nor wearing a hat, just letting the rain wet his robes, and he was holding two bottles of wine in his hands. After coming out, he immediately threw one of the pots towards Jiang Yashuang and said with a smile: "I saw you looking so lost when I came here... Don't tell me the reason, do it first and then talk about it!"
Jiang Yashuang's original gloomy expression softened a bit when she saw the young man. She caught the wine bottle and weighed it, but smiled bitterly and said, "What can I say after drying this bottle?"
"That's right, your ability to drink is quite bad!" The young man in the golden robe opened his own pot of wine, took a sip, and said, "Your Bage's specialty is to get people drunk and cook raw rice into cooked rice. It seems that you can only If you only hope that your nephew will succeed you, you will never get ahead!"
"Bicheng, when did you come here?" Jiang Yashuang sighed, did not answer the teasing words, and said, "Didn't you say before that you would come back after taking the provincial examination?"
Oubicheng, the young man in brocade robes, said: "I think so, but the place in Northern Xinjiang is really boring. Except for hunting, everything else is lackluster... At the end of last year, my father's subordinates honored several beauties, and my mother's nature... You don’t know yet? The backyard is busy all day long... Where can I study here? Why don’t you come back and relax on the occasion of my great-aunt’s birthday?”
He glanced at Jiang Tan who was standing behind Jiang Yashuang and kept lip-syncing. He stepped forward and put his arms around Jiang Yashuang's shoulders. "I heard that you were bullied just after you came back? Tell me, brother, what's going on?" ? Do you need me to get you back?"
Jiang Yashuang narrowed her eyes, flicked her fingers, and a ray of invisible strength opened his hand, half-smiling: "After a trip to Northern Xinjiang, you learned how to be a grown-up? Have you forgotten who has always stood up for you since you were a child? How dare you call yourself my brother?"
"Haha... don't pay attention to these little details!" Oubicheng said haha in an attempt to get through. "To tell you the truth, I will go back to the provincial examination in July at the latest. This time, Aunt Zhuang gave me an errand to watch for her. Let’s see what kind of beauty your sweetheart is. She can charm you so much that you can write a lot of praises in your letters to them!”
Before he finished speaking, Jiang Yashuang's face, which had just improved a little before, turned expressionless again...