On the evening of the second day, Liu Yaoyu brought Tao Ge'er to Yu Jiao to play. Tao Ge'er held a nine-linked ring in his hand and asked Yu Jiao to help him solve it. Yu Jiao was fiddling with the nine-linked ring in her hand when she heard Liu Yaoyu say, "My elder sister came here just yesterday. I don't know why, but mother asked someone to harness a carriage to go to Cui's house now, saying that she wanted to bring my elder sister back to stay for a few days."
Yu Jiao paused slightly. It seemed that Madam Liu also knew about Cui Mubai's taking the medicine.
Liu Yaoyu came closer to her and asked with a smile, "Third sister, is elder sister pregnant? Otherwise, why would mother go to such great lengths to bring elder sister back for no reason?"
When Yu Jiao heard her ask this, she knew Liu Yaoyu had misunderstood. She shook her head and said, "That's not true. Don't talk nonsense. Maybe Madam is just thinking about her elder sister."
Liu Yaoyu looked disapproving. Her father was a cabinet minister and her mother was very particular about etiquette. Her eldest sister had been married for so many years, but unless she brought her brother-in-law home, or even when her mother was ill, she would never take the initiative to call her back to her parents' home.
But she didn't think much about it, and talked to Yu Jiao about something else, "I don't know when big brother will come back. The weather is getting warmer. I'm afraid we will have to go to Pingliang Prefecture with mother to visit relatives soon. If big brother doesn't come back soon, I'm afraid we can only see him after we come back from Pingliang Prefecture."
Tao Ge'er, who was concentrating on watching Yu Jiao solve the Nine Links, heard this and sighed like Liu Yaoyu, "I miss my big brother too."
Yu Jiao touched Brother Tao'er's head and asked, "How long did it take for Big Brother to come back from Jiangnan in previous years?"
Liu Yaoyu lay on the low table, "It doesn't matter, maybe one or two months at least, or half a year at most." She looked at Yu Jiao, and somehow she suddenly remembered when Yu Jiao first came to Beijing. She laughed, "When big brother first brought you home, I felt so jealous. Now that I think about it, I was too stingy, afraid that you would snatch big brother from me."
Yu Jiao also smiled slightly, "Madam is about to find you someone, but you are still clinging to big brother. This is not okay."
Liu Yaoyu blushed slightly, "What do you mean by seeing someone?" She explained, "I... I stuck to my elder brother because he had a disease when he was a child, and he stayed in the countryside for two years before returning to the mansion. I was young at that time and didn't remember much, but I heard the nanny next to me say that I had a brother. Later, my elder brother returned to the mansion, and I didn't recognize him. When I was a child, I was naughty and climbed the rockery with the maids on my back. One time, I fell from the rockery, and it was my elder brother who caught me. Otherwise, you might not have seen me. Because of catching me, my elder brother's arm was dislocated by me. How painful it must have been! My elder brother was not very old at that time. He had just returned to the mansion to recuperate, and I caused him to be injured again."
This really seemed like something Liu Ziqi would do. He treated his two younger sisters as well as he could.
Liu Yaoyu said softly, "Even if I get married, my big brother is still the best in my heart."
Yu Jiao smiled and couldn't help but think of her senior brother Fu Chuan. The big brother in Liu Yaoyu's heart was no different from her senior brother Fu Chuan to her.
It is a very lucky thing for a girl to have an older brother to protect her and grow up with her.
Suddenly, voices were heard in the yard, and Jianjia walked in, "Miss, Yunxiao and the others are back."
Yu Jiao was slightly startled, then she got up and went to the outer room. Jianjia called Yunxiao and others in.
"Greetings, young lady." Yunxiao and his companions bowed respectfully.
Yu Jiao looked them up and down and saw that they had no signs of torture. She asked, "Did Master Cheng let you go?"
Yun Xiao nodded, "That day when we were captured by Cheng Zhangyin's men, we were not locked up in the East Factory's secret cell, but were sent to a large courtyard. There were martial arts masters in that courtyard, who seemed to be specially trained for the East Factory. We were trained until yesterday, and were only released today."
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