Lou Yunchun drank two cups of tea and left in a hot mood. Before leaving, he told Xu Jiang not to go to places with too many people, and asked her to bring her badge with her and find the patrol guard if anything happened.
Xu Jiang agreed to all of her requests, and also reminded him to be careful, then watched him leave.
Speaking of which, it’s a bit of a pity that I can’t watch the lanterns and visit the night market with him.
Lou Yunchun is a taciturn person, but he is not shy. He knows how to eat and drink when he should. He is free and easy-going and generous in nature, and his personality is sincere and amiable, but it is usually hidden by his cold appearance and he does not reveal it easily.
But it is precisely this difficulty that makes Xu Jiang feel it is so precious.
She stared at Lou Yunchun's back in a daze, sighing in her heart, why was he still worried about her after we said goodbye so late?
"What are you looking at, sister?"
"Oh, my God." A voice sounded in her ears, scaring Xu Jiang. She turned around and saw that it was Yuan Yanyan.
She patted her chest and pinched Yuan Yanyan's face, "You appear and disappear like a ghost, you almost scared me to death."
"I called you from a distance, but you ignored me." Yuan Yanyan pouted because of her pinching.
Today she was wearing a crimson dress and a fox fur cloak of the same color. She also had two rabbit fur earmuffs on her ears. She looked so round and cute that Xu Jiang couldn't help but pinch her face a few more times.
"You came by yourself?" Xu Jiang looked behind her and saw two maids and four servants standing in the distance, but no Madam Yuan.
"Mother has guests today, and father is out for a banquet, so I came out on my own."
"How did Madam agree?" She usually kept him like a treasure, but today she was willing to let her go out alone.
"Of course, I begged you for a long time, said I would come to see you, and promised to return home before midnight before you agreed." Yuan Yanyan took out a letter from her sleeve and handed it to Xu Jiang, "This is a letter from your mother."
Xu Jiang took it, opened it and saw that it was some words of entrustment written by Mrs. Yuan, asking her to take care of Yuan Yanyan on her behalf. At the end, there were many words of thanks, which were very solemn.
"What did mother say? When she asked my sister to look after me?"
"You know it well."
Xu Jiang put the letter away, pulled Yuan Yanyan to her side and asked, "Do you want to go see the lanterns later?"
Yuan Yanyan nodded, her face full of anticipation.
"It's still early. Why don't you stay in my stall for a while? I'll close it and then we can go together."
"OK."
Yuan Yanyan turned around and waved to the two maids, who immediately took out a few gift boxes from the carriage and walked towards them.
"This is a holiday gift for my sister."
"You're so polite, and you brought so much?"
"I have also accepted many things from you, sister. These are all carefully prepared by me, sister, you can't refuse them."
Xu Jiang scratched her nose helplessly, then led her into the shop and let her admire it for herself. She then sorted out the gift boxes that the maids had brought in, took out a bamboo basket of snacks, and invited the maids and servants to sit under the tree to drink tea and share the food.
Yuan Yanyan looked at the room full of books, feeling like a little mouse that had fallen into a rice jar, not knowing which book to start with. Xu Jiang selected several poetry collections for her according to her taste and asked her to sit in the bookstore and read them slowly.
But she felt lonely in the stall and insisted on following Xu Jiang. Xu Jiang had no choice but to set up a chair for her behind the stall, make her a cup of tea, and let her work with him to guard the stall.
Guests came from time to time, and Xu Jiang was busy greeting them. Yuan Yanyan was reading poetry with tea in the market, but she couldn't continue reading.
Her eyes involuntarily fell on Xu Jiang, on the guests, and on the passers-by. She felt that the scene before her was a thousand times more vivid than the poem.
At this time, a group of female guests came, and Xu Jiang was surrounded and had no time to spare. Yuan Yanyan put down the book, stood up naturally and stood beside her, helping her and handing her things.
This group of female customers were exactly the same girls who would go out to play during market days. They were already regular customers at Xu Jiang's stall. This time, they were attracted by the set of plum blossom paper albums that Xu Jiang had sold, and each of them bought one.
"Everyone has good taste," Yuan Yanyan praised. "This set of music notes has beautiful paper, beautiful calligraphy, and beautiful poetry. Reading each word fills my mouth with the fragrance of plum blossoms. If I have the leisure time, I can enjoy it with tea on a sunny day or with wine on a rainy day. It is truly the most pure and elegant pleasure in the world."
The girls were filled with longing after what she said, and they wished that the sun would shine and the rain would come out immediately, so that they could hold the music and ask about the history while drunk.
Xu Jiang sighed, this little girl is naturally smart and has a beautiful figure, which is really rare in the world. No wonder the Yuan couple regards her as a treasure, who wouldn't like her?
The girls held the paper like a treasure in their arms. Then the girl with the round face asked, "I haven't seen you before. Are you this sister's new helper?"
"Help?" Yuan Yanyan felt it was novel and interesting, and nodded quickly, "Yes, yes."
Xu Jiang saw her trying to coax someone and quickly said with a smile, "She is my sister, her name is Yanyan."
"Yan Yan?" A girl in a light yellow dress came over, stared at Yuan Yan Yan for a while, and asked, "Is it Yuan Yan Yan?"
"Exactly." Yuan Yanyan nodded, then asked, "Do you know me?"
"You don't recognize me? It's me, Song Yi." Song Yi leaned forward to let Yuan Yanyan recognize him.
Yuan Yanyan cried out in joy and cupped her cheeks, "Oh, it's Sister Song."
"It's so rare for you to come out. I didn't expect to see you here." Song Yi looked about the same age as Yuan Yanyan, but because she called him sister, his words and behavior became more calm. "I was saying that your quirky words sounded strangely familiar. So it's you. I haven't seen you in two years. You've grown so tall."
Xu Jiang heard that the two seemed to be reminiscing about the past, so she invited them into the inn. The two maids who came with Yuan Yanyan saw this and stepped forward to help make tea and set out snacks.
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