In the next few days, Qiu Yilan ignored Jiang Yashuang's invitation, but took the initiative to ask Zhuang Man to go out and play for a few days.
But there was no trace of Qiu Feng. One day she mentioned it to Ruan Ciyi casually, and Ruan Ciyi burst out laughing: "Do you really believe your brother? Aren't you running outside these two days? That Qiu Feng From early in the morning, I brought a pot of wine and lay on the tree by the pool, drinking it all day long. Even the food was only served when the servants called me. I can see him when I open the window upstairs... Could it be that he can go there alone? Follow you?"
Qiu Yilan suddenly realized, gritted her teeth and said, "I knew my brother didn't love me anymore! He actually lied to me like this!"
"It's because you're not smart enough!" Ruan Ciyi slapped her with a silk fan and said casually, "Didn't you say it yourself? Then Qiu Feng's temperament changed drastically when he came here this time. Your brother clearly told you that he had something on his mind. Under such circumstances, how could he want to be sent by your brother? I think he just came here to relax!"
"Anyway, my brother is so annoying!" Qiu Yilan said angrily, "I'll go find him to argue!"
"Wait a minute!" Seeing that she was about to run away, Ruan Ciyi quickly grabbed hold of her and said angrily, "The day after tomorrow is Wanshou Festival. You haven't matched your clothes and jewelry yet, and you still want to leave? Sit down for me. ! Listen carefully and I will explain to you!"
Qiu Yilan sat back with a grimace and complained: "Eldest cousin, don't you think you are becoming more and more fierce like my brother now?"
"Oh, this is what your brother said." Ruan Ciyi said casually while asking someone to bring over Qiu Yilan's newly made dresses, jewelry boxes, etc., "He said that you should eat hard things but not soft things. It’s useless if you talk nicely, if you don’t speak fiercely, you won’t listen!”
"..." Qiu Yilan secretly vomited a mouthful of blood, "I'm definitely not his biological sister!" Is there anyone who can deceive a sister like this
Ruan Ciyi stuffed a skirt and some jewelry into her arms and glared: "You are the one who picked it up. Now go in and put these on for me!"
From then until the evening before the Longevity Festival, Qiu Yilan, in addition to eating and sleeping and other necessary things, was constantly trying on dresses, matching jewelry, and choosing makeup under the supervision of Ruan Ciyi... Ruan Ciyi even The tailors were called over to make various changes to Qiu Yilan's new clothes, in order to be unique among the many noble ladies.
"Don't think these are trivial details!" Ruan Ciyi finally decided on what to wear for the Wanshou Festival and the spare clothes. She looked at Qiu Yilan lying facelessly on the couch and refused to get up, and said earnestly, "Three generations Only when you are an official do you know how to dress and eat! Although it is superficial to judge people based on appearance, most of the people in the world are superficial! If you dress well, you can avoid countless cynics. Wouldn't it be cleaner? "
Qiu Yilan said feebly: "How can I be so pure? Apart from other things, those people from the Gu family must be gearing up to deal with me!"
"What are you afraid of!" Ruan Ciyi disagreed, "You are the princess. Among the girls in the scene, the only one who can suppress you is the princess - all serious princesses are under the control of the Queen! The Queen's most beloved nephew is Jiang Jiu, which one Would Jinzhi Yuye be so stupid as to take the initiative to offend you? As for Princess Shou'an from the Gu family, isn't there also a Princess Chunfu from the Jiang family? Just keep close to her!"
Qiu Yilan got up: "It's not that I'm afraid, I just feel that someone is going to cause trouble. Why bother dressing up like this?"
"What is trouble!" The senior lady was annoyed, "Do you think the Longevity Festival is a family banquet for ordinary people? This is the second major celebration you have participated in after your filial piety - the Queen's Thousand Autumn Festival was disturbed last time. If you wait, This is your first time showing up at a celebration, especially now that you are the soon-to-be daughter-in-law of the Jiang family! I dressed you up like this, not for the people of the Gu family, but for your future sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law. !Do you understand?!"
"...I was wrong!" Seeing that Ruan Ciyi was showing signs of trying to teach herself a lesson, Qiu Yilan resolutely gave in!
Fortunately, after these two days of all-round guidance for ladies, Ruan Ci was tired of clothes. He waved his hand and asked someone to put away the clothes and jewelry he picked out: "Take it over, this Begonia red set is for you to get up early tomorrow. The ones you wear, the others are brought here to change in case of an accident... Have you remembered everything I told you? "
"Remember them all!" Qiu Yilan said hurriedly.
Ruan Ciyi asked her to "take it over", but it was not to take back the house where she and Ruan Ciyi were separated by a corridor, but to the Biye Fangfei Pavilion in the Xihe Palace - after all, the Ruan family was not in trouble yet, and Qiu Yilan Normally no one cares about living here. Tomorrow I am going to wish His Majesty a long life, but the day before I was staying at a funeral home. It will always be troublesome if someone finds out.
Moreover, as an unmarried woman, unless she is summoned alone, she must be led by someone when entering the palace to celebrate. There is no one in the Ruan family to take her now. If she doesn't go back to Fangfei Pavilion, she can't go to the Jiang family to join in the fun, right? This is too unreserved!
... Qiu Yu died of love in March, and Qiu Yilan and others were supposed to have to serve her for nine months. But because Qiu Yuqing "intended to assassinate Deng Yi and blame her mother's family" and thus committed suicide, after the case was judged, Qiu Mengmin naturally expelled her from the Qiu family and disowned her sister!
In this way, there is no need for a mourning ceremony at the Xihe Palace...
Not to mention this, I will just say that when Qiu Yilan entered the museum under the last ray of sunset, Qiu Jinzhu had already been waiting behind the door for a while.
Seeing her, he rushed up to salute: "Fifth sister!"
"Are you okay?" Qiu Yilan has been living in the Ruan family since Qiu Jinglan was assassinated, and has never seen her cousin. At first glance, she seems to have grown a lot taller and her facial features are more delicate. , but his cute look still couldn't hide the anger in his eyes, so he still asked coldly.
Qiu Jinzhu said in a soft voice: "I haven't seen the fifth sister for a while. I heard that the fifth sister is coming back today, so I came here to greet her."
"Thank you for your hard work." Qiu Yilan saw that she was only showing hospitality and not talking about anything, so she didn't ask further questions. She said lightly and asked, "Has my house been cleaned?"
"It has been cleaned a long time ago." Qiu Jinzhu said hurriedly.
But when they arrived at the place, Qiu Yilan frowned. It wasn't that Qiu Jinzhu had lied to her, but: "Didn't I live in the small courtyard in the northeast corner last year? Why did you bring me to where you live?"
"This place was under renovation before, so I was wronged by my fifth sister to temporarily live there. This year, everything has been tidied up. Of course, my sister will live here." Qiu Jinzhu said with a guilty conscience.
During the summer vacation last year, Princess Yang used the excuse that many empty courtyards in the Fangfei Pavilion needed repairs and deliberately allocated a humid and stuffy courtyard in the northeast corner to Qiu Yilan. Qiu Jinzhu had the owner's large yard all to herself - it was for this reason that Qiu Jinglan quickly bought Green Snow Villa.
Before that, he and Ruan Ciyi were invited by the Xue family to live together in a vacant villa of the Xue family.
This year is different from last year. Whether it is Qiu Jinglan's life experience or the Jiang family's favor, Qiu Mengmin and his wife have lost the courage to embarrass Qiu Yilan. Now Qiu Jinzhu obviously came here specifically to repair it - and she was not the only one, because of the scene where the two sisters were standing outside the courtyard door, Ding Qinghong came and said to Qiu Yilan affectionately: "Fifth sister is here? I just sent someone to water the flowerbed outside your door. There are some newly planted crape myrtles in the flowerbed. I wonder if you like them?"
Seeing this, Qiu Jinzhu frowned and said, "Sister-in-law, why are you here? I have always lived here, and I will show Fifth Sister."
"The mother-in-law took Feng'er to raise her. I had nothing to do, so I walked around." Ding Qinghong smiled, but when she mentioned "Feng'er", she looked a little unnatural. She was obviously disappointed that Princess Yang had taken Qiu Feng away. Raising is not as willing as it seems on the surface.
Qiu Jinzhu heard this and hummed: "Concubine Mother has left all the family affairs to you. You have to take care of the entire backyard, how can you have time to take care of Feng'er? Concubine Mother is also doing it for your own good!"
"I think so too!" Ding Qinghong smiled lightly, "You make it sound like I complained about my mother and concubine. I don't dare to bear this crime - don't hold the fifth sister to talk at the door, go in quickly!"
Qiu Jinglan's injuries haven't fully healed yet, and tomorrow's Wanshou Festival will definitely be uneventful. At this moment, she has no time to care about the turbulent undercurrents in the Xihe Palace. She followed Ding Qinghong into the courtyard, saw that there was nothing inappropriate about the accommodation arranged for her, and said a few words. As a matter of fact, I served tea to see the guests off.
During this time, Ding Qinghong seemed to have something to say to her, but because he had no chance, he had to say goodbye with regret.
Early the next morning, before dawn, Qiu Yilan was called out by Su He. According to the procedure Ruan Ciyi had given before, she first took a shower and changed clothes, and then freshened up. After cleaning up and using some pastries, Princess Yang also sent someone over: "The princess, the eldest young lady, and the six princesses have all packed up. How is the fifth princess?"
"I'm fine too." Qiu Yilan stood up, Chunran and others hurriedly picked up spare clothes, hairpins, rings and the like, and followed them out to the flower hall where Princess Yang and others were.
In addition to the person mentioned by the servant, there is actually Concubine Bian who has been deliberately ignored here. She is dressed up and looks good. It can be seen that she has lived very proudly in the past two years.
"Is Yilan okay? Let's go then." Seeing Qiu Yilan come in, Princess Yang returned the lion cat on her lap to Qiu Jinzhu and stood up.
"Mother, concubine, will you let the fifth sister and my daughter-in-law ride together in the car?" Everyone just agreed, Ding Qinghong suddenly followed up, "This is the first time for the fifth sister to participate in the Longevity Festival. Maybe there is something that I don't know, so my daughter-in-law can tell her. ”
Princess Yang frowned when she heard this and said, "Miss Ruan was a frequent visitor to the palace back then. Why do you need to worry about this?"
"Princess, that's not what you said." Ding Qinghong was being rushed off the stage. Concubine Bian's eyes flashed and she suddenly smiled, "Miss Ruan is an outsider after all. It's up to her to give advice to the five princesses." Point. Our family can't just ignore everything, right? Besides, Miss Ruan hasn't been back to Beijing for many years. How can the young lady understand the people at the palace banquet now, right?"
Princess Yang had nothing to say, so she could only glare at her fiercely, throw up her sleeves and leave: "It's up to you!"
Ding Qinghong gave Concubine Bian a look of thanks, stepped forward and grabbed Qiu Yilan, who was smiling but not smiling, and whispered in her ear: "Good sister, sister-in-law, I want to ask you something, I hope you will do it!"
"Feng'er?" Qiu Yilan guessed right.
"... Exactly!" Ding Qinghong bit her lower lip, and then begged, "I heard that the mother-in-law often treats him badly when he is behind the scenes, and I really don't trust him! Please say a few words for me, so that I can raise him personally. he!"
Knowing that not only did Qiu Hongzhi have a bad relationship with his cousin, but the two even had a fight, Ding Qinghong was unambiguous, "As long as my sister helps me with this favor, I will never refuse if I am asked to do something in the future!"
"Let's wait until today." Qiu Yilan has been focusing on Qiu Jinglan's recovery in the past few months. She doesn't know the current situation of Xihe Palace, so naturally she is not willing to agree to her easily.
Ding Qinghong sighed secretly when he saw this, and had to say: "Then let me tell my sister about the Longevity Festival..."