"My cousin is such a great celebrity, why don't you give us some comments on our paintings?"
Lu Yun's eyebrows jumped and he looked at Luo Lingyu: "...It's so hot, you guys really have the leisure time."
In fact, it is not hot here with the shade of trees and the clear lake. It is just that Lu Yun just came back from the hot sun and his summer clothes were half wet, so he felt that they were idle. Lu Yun felt that he was very busy, the war in the north was constantly changing, but the cousins at home were still eating, drinking and playing, carefree, and even painting and writing poetry. Although the men worked hard outside, they were actually just to let the girls at home live a comfortable and happy life.
Thinking of this, Lu Yun began to feel more favorable towards all the cousins, and his expression was no longer so distant and polite.
But he still looked at Luo Lingyu: "Where is the painting you drew? Let me see it."
Jiang Wanyi bit her lips, holding back tears, and watched the lazy girl Luo stand up slowly, her waist as soft as a willow in the smoke. Lu Yun lowered his eyes and swept across her waist, as if he felt something was wrong, and he looked away. However, he only looked away for a moment, and then he looked at Luo Lingyu's waist again, and then followed Luo Lingyu to the table to look at the paintings.
Women are actually very sensitive to the gaze of men.
What he is looking at, what he is not looking at; what he likes, what he hates. If a girl stares at him often, it is not difficult to find out what he is thinking.
Jiang Wanyi could tell that Lu Yun treated Luo Lingyu differently.
Having already thought this in mind, Jiang Wanyi was not so surprised when she saw Lu Yun standing behind Luo Lingyu, looking at her paintings and talking to her. She only saw the man standing behind the girl. He stretched out his hand, leaned down, held the girl's hand, and taught her how to paint. His voice was as clear as spring water flowing through her heart: "... I can tell you haven't painted for a long time. You are getting lazier. Look at this bamboo..."
Luo Lingyu said in a gentle voice: "I just can't draw well."
Lu Yun paused and looked at her slowly. He was about to get suspicious and guess that she was using him as a tool for her flirting, but Luo Lingyu quickly turned her head away to avoid his burning gaze. Lu Yun did not pursue the matter, but continued: "I'll teach you..."
The spots of light leaking through the gaps between the leaves hit the golden boy and jade girl, and the light flowed away. Jiang Wanyi turned her face away stiffly.
The other cousins also liked Lu Yun to some extent, and they all felt a little disappointed when they saw Lu Yun and Luo Lingyu talking like that - although they had felt it a long time ago, it was still not pleasant to see it with their own eyes.
In the evening, a girl she knew came to persuade Jiang Wanyi, and spoke of Luo Lingyu indignantly: "...she has a seductive face and will seduce my third cousin. Don't worry, the old lady will not let such a girl marry into the family."
Jiang Wanyi couldn't explain how she felt: "It was my third cousin who wanted to talk to her, and she didn't do anything."
The girl who tried to please Jiang Wanyi said, "You are just too kind, you can't see how scheming she is! Let me tell you this, before you came, Miss Luo was always competitive and never fell behind anyone, we were all inferior to her. But after you came, she acted humble. Usually she was good in everything, but suddenly she became bad, and Lu Sanlang noticed her. Madam Jiang, don't be fooled by her!"
Jiang Wanyi lowered her head, feeling sad and uncomfortable. She hadn't figured out whether Luo Lingyu was kind and generous or sinister and vicious, but she already felt that Lu Sanlang was getting further and further away from her. When she met Lu Sanlang in the past, although he had never been close to her, he was the same to other women, and she couldn't tell the difference; this time, with Luo Lingyu as a comparison, she realized that Lu Yun was not always cold, and he also stared at women sometimes.
However, despite thinking so much, her heart was in turmoil because Lu Yun was not at home most of the time, so the war between the girls was difficult to escalate.
Jiang Wanyi was from a good family, and all the girls around her were praising her. She quickly adjusted her mood and decided to continue to work hard, after all, Mrs. Lu had high hopes for her. This afternoon, after a nap, a group of girls surrounded her and went to play with Luo Lingyu. When she arrived at the girls' yard, she vaguely heard the voices in the house, and Jiang Wanyi sensitively caught the two words "Sanlang". In the Lu family, who else could Sanlang represent besides Lu Yun?
The door creaked open, and Jiang Wanyi recognized the beautiful maid who came out of the door and asked in surprise, "Jinyue, why are you here?"
Luo Lingyu saw Jinyue out. The two girls talked while putting on their shoes outside the door. When they turned around, they saw the girl coming out of the yard. They both smiled and greeted her. Jiang Wanyi's eyes shuttled between Luo Lingyu and Jinyue's fingertips in doubt. Before the cousin asked, Jinyue smiled and said, "I just came to give something to Madam Luo."
Jiang Wanyi: "Did my third cousin ask you to send it?"
Jinyue paused for a moment and said intelligently, "Sanlang is not at home."
She did not deny Jiang Wanyi's words, but she seemed to deny them if she did not listen carefully. The cousins were all masters, and Jinyue certainly could not participate in the fight between masters. However, after she told the truth, she was afraid that these cousins would target Luo Lingyu and bring trouble to Luo Lingyu. She usually dealt with Lu Sanlang's affairs after his death. Even if Jinyue did not like Luo Lingyu before, she would be smart to make herself like her; what's more, Jinyue originally liked this smart cousin.
Jinyue said in her heart: ...After all, this person is the apple of our Sanlang's eye.
Jiang Wanyi was more innocent and didn't hear the hidden meaning of Jinyue's words. She thought that Lu Sanlang was not giving Luo Lingyu a gift, so she smiled. The other cousins' eyebrows jumped and looked at Luo Lingyu. Luo Lingyu pretended not to know and invited them into the house: "... There are some new cakes, please taste them together and give me some suggestions."
The cousins originally thought that the cakes were sent by Lu Saburo, but Luo Lingyu's words "giving suggestions" confused them again.
...I don’t know whether I should be jealous or not.
Friendship between girls is really complicated, sometimes good and sometimes bad.
When Lu Yun returned to the Lu family again, it was already the eve of the Qixi Festival. No matter how busy the court was, they would give them two days off. Some of the Lu family's young men returned to Wuyi Lane, and some returned to the Lu family in Danyang. When they arrived in Danyang, they went their separate ways. When they returned to the courtyard of the old lady Lu to pay their respects, only Lu Erlang Lu Xian and Lu Sanlang Lu Yun were left.