Qiu Yun opened and closed the folding fan in his hand, shook his head and smiled, "We are not children, we don't play that."
Ren Yijian rolled his eyes and ran away.
Ren Yijun glanced at his mother and secretly walked towards Ren Yaoqi. The eldest wife frowned and said, "Yijun, come here. Come with me and your sister-in-law to draw lots."
Ren Yijun was more obedient to his mother at this moment, so even though he looked unwilling, he finally stopped and walked back to his mother. The depressed look on his face alone could make people retreat.
The eldest wife said to Ren Yaoyin, who was leaning against the old woman with a rather unhappy look on her face, "I asked the monk in charge of reception to prepare a room for us to rest. Come with me and rest for a while."
Ren Yaoyin couldn't stand the bumps of the carriage and felt a little uncomfortable. She couldn't travel long distances in a carriage, and the Fifth Madam once joked that Ren Yaoyin was too spoiled and would only be able to find a husband nearby and not too far away.
Ren Yaoqi hesitated whether to go with Ren Yijun. After thinking about it, she said to the eldest wife, "Aunt, I will go with you to draw lots."
The eldest wife looked at her with some surprise, but said gently, "You don't need to go at your age. You should go with your sisters. I remember there's an apricot blossom forest on the hill behind Bailong Temple. I wonder if it's in bloom now."
Ren Yaoyu curled her lips and said, "In previous years, when it wasn't cold, the flowers wouldn't bloom until March or April. This year is colder than usual, so how could they bloom so early?"
The eldest wife had already walked away with the eldest young lady, Ren Yaoyin. Ren Yijun followed them with his hands behind his back, looking listless. The eldest wife saw him and turned around to lecture him. He could only force himself to cheer up.
When Ren Yaoyu saw the eldest wife and the others leave, she immediately said to Qiu Yun, "Cousin, where are we going?"
Qiu Yun glanced at Yun Wenfang, then at the Ren sisters.
Ren Yaoyu looked at him with a smile on her face, but the sisters Ren Yaohua and Ren Yaoqi were not sure what they were thinking and their attention was not on them.
"Why don't we go to the apricot blossom forest on the back mountain first? Even if the apricot blossoms aren't in bloom, the mountain view is still nice. We originally planned to go for an outing, didn't we? This temple only has clay statues of Bodhisattvas and a hall with carved beams. There's no sign of life at all."
No one had any objection.
Qiu Yun was no stranger to Bailong Temple, and without the help of the monks, he led the group toward the back of the mountain, while wittily introducing the origins of Bailong Temple and the stories behind some of the temple's buildings.
Qiu Yun is such a person: if he wants to be friendly, then he is your most intimate and understanding friend. But if he wants to keep his distance from you, then he is a stranger who is difficult to approach but impeccable in etiquette.
Because of this, Ren Yaoqi hated him in her previous life. In this life, she just wanted to keep her distance from him.
In the early spring of this year, the apricot blossoms behind Bailong Temple have not yet fully bloomed, but there are still some scattered buds on the branches of some apricot trees.
"Shall we go sit in that pavilion?" Qiu Yun said to the few people, looking like a good guide, pointing to a corner pavilion hidden in the apricot forest.
When they approached, they found that there were already people sitting in the pavilion, two boys and two girls, both about thirteen or fourteen years old.
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