Jin Yue covered her mouth and smiled again, looking at her husband - the old lady wanted Sanlang to go over and meet the new cousin.

…

In fact, Jinyue’s information is not entirely correct.

The Lu family didn't just have a cousin, but a pair of sisters. However, the younger sister was only eight or nine years old. Perhaps she was uncomfortable on the boat, so she kept clinging to her sister after arriving on land. After entering the Lu family mansion, in the afternoon, Luo Yunhuan was led by her sister to kowtow to the old lady, and the maid Lingxi took the young lady downstairs to rest with a distressed look. The only one who accompanied the old lady was Luo Lingyu, the eldest lady of the Luo family.

Luo Lingyu's stunning beauty made people ignore the young lady and think that there was only a cousin in the house. After all, this cousin stole all the charm of the girls.

Since the afternoon, Luo Lingyu has been sitting in the house with Mrs. Lu and other elders, like a beautiful vase for people to admire; she carefully answers the elders' questions. The room is deserted. After all, they are not familiar with each other and have nothing to talk about. The smiles of the elders are a little stiff. Looking at Luo Lingyu, this girl is still smiling elegantly, with green fingertips on her knees. For two hours, she knelt straight, and even the wrinkles on her skirt and the sway in her hair did not shake. The women of the Lu family exchanged glances and understood tacitly: although Luo's daughter came from a poor family and did not look like a good family, she was well educated.

In the evening, the women came back. Luo Lingyu got up quickly and was greeted by a woman with long sleeves. The woman was lively and generous, with an average appearance, but her makeup was even better. She wore the most popular flower ornaments in Jianye at the time, and when she walked into the inner room, she grabbed Luo Lingyu's hand. When she looked Luo Lingyu up and down, she had tears in her eyes: "Yu'er, poor Yu'er, are you doing well in Nanyang? Has the Luo family bullied you?"

My niece came to visit and played until the lights went out. What is there to cry about now? Zhang Minglan, the mistress of the main house of the Lu family, who was sitting below Mrs. Lu, curled her lips and stood up. Before she could say a word, she saw the daughter of the Luo family speaking very politely. When Lu Yingcai burst into tears, Luo Lingyu's eyes turned red and tears fell into Lu Ying's arms: "Aunt, I miss you so much. I dream of you and uncle every night..."

The woman whom Lu Sanlang called aunt was the only real relative that Luo Lingyu knew in the Lu family - Luo Lingyu's aunt, Lu Ying. After the Luo family was defeated, Lu Ying took her son back to her parents' home. It had been four years, and this was the first time that Luo Lingyu and her aunt had reunited after they separated.

Lu Ying and Luo Lingyu's greetings were originally three-tenths true and seven-tenths false. Luo Lingyu's choked "Uncle" made Lu Ying's expression startled, her eyes narrowed, and her memory seemed to return to Ruyang many years ago. Although they quarreled and disagreed from time to time, they were still alive... Time flies, and Lu Ying was dazed. This time, Lu Ying held the hand of this cheap niece a little tighter, and the tears in her eyes went from three-tenths true and seven-tenths false to five-tenths true and five-tenths false.

The other women of the Lu family exchanged glances again: Luo's daughter is so scheming.

The aunt and niece cried for a long time. Zhang Minglan, the eldest wife of the Lu family, came to persuade them. Then the old lady Lu spoke up. Only then did Lu Ying pull Luo Lingyu, whose eyes were slightly red, to stop crying. At this time, Lu Ying turned around and introduced to Luo Lingyu the young girls who were following him and looking at them curiously: "Come here, Yu'er, they are all your cousins."

Luo Lingyu, who had just sat down, became nervous again. She called each other sisters and held each other's hands affectionately: "I heard my aunt mention my cousins, so I made some sachets and money bags. They are not worth much, so I will give them to my cousins ​​as a token of my love."

Lu Ying smiled and turned back to her mother. Old Madam Lu said proudly: "My niece, Yu'er, is the most virtuous and well-mannered. She didn't know who her sisters were at home, but she still prepared so many gifts."

The women of the Lu family nodded and smiled: "That's thoughtful, that's thoughtful."

Luo Lingyu immediately asked someone to bring in a small square box and distributed the gifts one by one. She smiled on the surface, but she felt bitter inside, thinking that the unreliable aunt had really screwed her over: Lu Ying never wrote to her about anything, and she had clearly heard that the Lu family was full of sons. But now she looked around, why were there so many cousins? Who were they?

I don’t know any of them.

Everyone is introducing them one by one:

"These two are your great aunt's nieces, their surname is Wang..."

"This is the old lady's cousin..."

"This is the daughter of my sister's uncle..."

Luo Lingyu was stunned, wrapping her handkerchief around her neck, and suddenly realized that among all the cousins, her and her sister's arrival did not seem so abrupt. In fact, her relationship with the Lu family seemed closer than those girls in the third-class family - at least she directly called the second mother of the previous generation of the Lu family "Auntie".

She couldn't live in Nanyang at that time, and she was a little nervous when she wrote to her aunt for help. But now she saw that the Lu family loved to take in beautiful cousins ​​from various families, and they looked at her differently.

Luo Lingyu was relieved. After a while, the men from the Lu family came. Luo Lingyu stood up again.

"This is your second cousin, Lu Xian."

"This is your fourth cousin, Lu Chang."

"This is your second cousin's eldest cousin, third cousin..."

The Lu family was composed entirely of men, without any trace of sons or daughters. Among this generation, Lu Xian was the second son of the Lu family, the most dignified and steady, and led his younger brothers to greet the newly arrived cousin. Brothers and sisters were all called, and sisters were all family. Luo Lingyu was surrounded in the middle, and the eyes of both men and women were on her.

The young men of the Lu family were whispering to each other, looking at their overly beautiful cousin with infatuated eyes; the cousins ​​looked at Luo Lingyu's good looks and figure, and their expressions changed several times.

Luo Lingyu distributed gifts and spoke softly. Every time she saw someone, she looked at them intently; when she met a girl, she straightened her back even more. Looking at the beautiful girls around her, there were many cousins ​​from the Lu family, but the most dazzling one among the beautiful girls was Luo Lingyu. A group of mediocre ladies set off her outstandingness. Luo Lingyu's smile to her cousins ​​became more cordial and sincere: Thank you for your company... I am the most eye-catching one among the cousins.