The early summer sun made people feel lazy and unfocused. Chen Weiwan was carrying a lunch box and walking with Chuntao towards the corner gate of the garden. The lunch box contained freshly baked peach blossom cakes. She planned to visit the old nanny who had retired from the mansion and take a detour to avoid her aunt Liu's courtyard - that woman had recently treated her like a creditor, her eyes could cut through people.

"Miss, you said that cripple Li Xiu was so angry that he spit out blood yesterday. Shouldn't he be quiet today?" Chun Tao tiptoed to peek behind the rockery. "And the second young lady, I heard the twitching at the corner of her eye has gotten worse. I used half a box of powder yesterday and it still didn't cover it up."

Chen Weiwan raised her eyebrows, picked up a piece of peach blossom pastry and took a small bite: "Quiet? A dog will always eat shit. The more anxious they are to whitewash themselves, the easier it is for them to reveal their true colors." As soon as she finished speaking, a deliberately suppressed quarrel suddenly came from the moon gate in front.

"Mr. Li, let me go! What would it look like if someone saw us?" It was Shen Ruoruo's voice, with a hint of barely perceptible excitement.

"Ruorou, listen to my explanation. My feelings for Chen Weiwan are really just brotherly and sisterly!" Li Xiu's voice followed closely behind, with a bit of "affectionate" greasyness, "Only you are the one in my heart!"

Chun Tao's eyes widened immediately: "Miss, what are they...what are they doing?"

Shen Weiwan sneered, stuffed the lunch box to Chuntao, and straightened the wrinkles on her skirt: "What else could it be? Seeing that you can't trick me alone, you want to play the role of 'deeply affectionate couple' to disgust me." She paused, lowered her voice and ordered, "If I 'accidentally' break in later, you will follow the old rules and run to where there are more people, understand?"

Chuntao immediately understood and nodded vigorously.

The two tiptoed to the moon cave door, only to see Li Zhengzheng holding Shen Ruoruo's wrist. The two stood under the blooming rose trellis, their posture "intimate". Shen Ruoruo was half-hearted, the red mark at the end of her eye was particularly conspicuous in the sunlight, but she pretended to be shy: "Mr. Li, let go quickly, if Weiwan sees, she will misunderstand again..."

"Misunderstanding?" Li Xiu took the opportunity to move forward half a step, almost sticking to Shen Ruorou, "Let her misunderstand! I want everyone to know that I, Li Xiu, like you!"

Shen Weiwan saw this scene and almost vomited out the peach blossom pastry she had just eaten. She took a deep breath and rushed forward, and the handkerchief in her hand "accidentally" fell to the ground.

"Ouch!" Shen Weiwan covered her eyes and screamed, "Cousin! Why are you tugging and tugging with a strange man in the garden!"

Li Xiu and Shen Ruorou were startled and hurriedly separated. Li Xiu forced himself to remain calm: "Sister Weiwan, don't misunderstand me, your cousin and I are just..."

"Just what?" Shen Weiwan peeked through her fingers, her expression "horrified", "Just a secret meeting between a man and a woman in a storybook? Oh my God! If this gets out, how can you get married, cousin!"

As she spoke, she deliberately took a few steps back, her voice rising higher and higher: "I didn't see anything! Keep going! Keep going!"

"You're talking nonsense!" Shen Ruorou was angry and anxious. Shen Weiwan looked like a frightened little white rabbit, and anyone who saw her would think she was in the wrong. "Mr. Li and I are innocent. It was you who barged in and looked around!"

"I was looking around?" Shen Weiwan blinked, looking "wronged". "I was just passing by. Who knew I would run into my cousin and... a 'strange man' talking here." She deliberately emphasized the word "strange man" and deliberately glanced at Li Xiu's lame leg.

Li Xiu's temples throbbed when she looked at him, and he suppressed his anger: "Wei Wan, I am your Big Brother Li, how can you say I am a stranger?"

"Brother Li?" Shen Weiwan tilted her head, pretending to think, "But I remember that 'Brother Li' was still telling me that he was 'sincere' the other day, and today he is 'in love' with my cousin? This change is too fast, isn't it? Could it be..."

She suddenly covered her mouth with her hands, revealing an expression of sudden enlightenment: "Brother Li, are you lame in both your feet and your heart, falling in love with every woman you meet? Oh, luckily I didn't agree to your 'true love', otherwise wouldn't you have dumped me in the future?"

"You!" Li Xiu was so angry that he slammed his crutch on the ground and almost lost his balance. "Chen Weiwan! Watch your words!"

"I'm talking carefully?" Shen Weiwan jumped back, avoiding the cane that almost hit her. "Brother Li, men and women shouldn't touch each other. Why are you pointing your cane at me? Are you planning to hit me?"

As she spoke, she retreated deeper into the garden, her voice deliberately spreading throughout the garden: "Chun Tao! Come quickly! Master Li wants to beat me! And my cousin is helping him! Wuuuuuu..."

Chuntao had already run to the main road of the garden as planned. When she heard the shouting, she immediately ran over with a few passing sweeping boys and a noble lady from the Taifu Mansion who came to visit.

"Miss! What's wrong with you?" Chun Tao rushed to Shen Weiwan's side and saw Li Xiu and Shen Ruoruo standing under the flower stand. She deliberately exclaimed, "Ah! Second Miss? Mr. Li? You...why are you here?"

The noble lady originally came to have tea with Liu, but she didn't expect to see this "good show". She immediately became interested and looked up and down at Li Xiu and Shen Ruoruo, her eyes full of inquiry.

Seeing this, Shen Ruorou's face flushed red, and she hurriedly explained: "Miss Wang, don't misunderstand me, Master Li and I just...just met by chance and were chatting about some family matters."

"Homely?" Shen Weiwan immediately answered, tears of "fright" still on her face, "Cousin, your 'homely' is really special, holding hands and getting close, it's exactly the same as the 'secret meeting' I saw in the storybook!"

"Shut up!" Shen Ruoruo screamed, no longer able to maintain the false appearance of gentleness, "Shen Weiwan! You clearly did it on purpose!"

"I did it on purpose?" Shen Weiwan blinked her innocent eyes, "Cousin, you can't say that. I was just passing by and saw it accidentally. But cousin and Mr. Li are so 'close' in public, I'm afraid it won't sound good if it gets out, right?"

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