Ling Yun took Huan Yu out of the house. The two of them walked around the streets of the capital and found it boring.
Ling Yun said he was tired and wanted to go back.
Huan Yu said: "Let's play for a while longer. It took a lot of effort to get out. You feel bored. Look, there is a theater ahead. Let's go and take a look!"
Tonight's performances are "Nan Ke Meng" and "Farewell My Concubine".
When the two of them entered, the play had already started for a long time. There were so many people watching the theater today that almost all the private seats were occupied.
The two of them were walking around, looking for an empty seat, when they suddenly heard a warm greeting: "Hey, it's you two. It's been a long time!"
The person who spoke was none other than Ding Jiying, the second son of the Ding family.
When Huanyu saw him, he felt displeased. He snorted and turned away.
Ling Yun replied: "Second Young Master, you are here too!"
Ding Jiying said: "Who says it's not the case? Let me just say that I have a special fate with you two! Come on, please take a seat!"
Huanyu glanced at him and said coldly: "Where to sit?"
Ding Jiying realized this and scolded the two family members around him, Ding Xin and Ding Cheng: "What are you doing here, you stupid thing? Why don't you go out and wait!"
Ding Xin and Ding Cheng murmured repeatedly, stood up quickly, and walked out dejectedly.
After driving away the two family members, Ding Jiying warmly asked them to sit down.
Huanyu saw that Ding Jiying was at the very back and didn't want to be next to him, so she sat at the very outside next to Ling Yun.
Ding Jiying didn't notice Huan Yu's indifference at all, and said kindly: "Brother Yu, why did you leave without saying goodbye last time at Zuihua Tower, which made it difficult for us two brothers to find each other!"
Huanyu thought to herself: "I sleep in flowers and willows, nestled in red and green, thank you for having the nerve to ask!" She just snorted without saying anything.
Ding Jiying said curiously: "Hey, Brother Yu——"
Ling Yun hurriedly tried to smooth things over by saying, "She is fascinated by the show. Don't disturb her."
As he spoke, he deliberately changed the subject and said, "By the way, why are you the only one here tonight? Where is your old partner, Mr. He?"
Ding Jiying said: "He has so many things to do every day and can't get away from him."
Ling Yun said "Oh?", a little confused.
Ding Jiying said: "Of course, it might be too much to say that he has everything to do every day, but he is indeed very busy these days: he is dealing with the triennial scientific examination and his eldest brother's wedding preparations at the same time."
Ling Yun said: "Why, the eldest son of the He family is getting married?"
Ding Jiying said: "Yes, the time is set on the ninth day of August. As for the bride, of course she is my sister!"
Ling Yun was distracted. He didn't listen to what Ding Jiying said next. It was probably because Ding Jiying was asking him something. He asked him twice in a row before he calmed down.
Huanyu said sourly: "What are you doing with your imagination? Why don't you congratulate me!"
Ding Jiying said: "We don't distinguish between each other, so why are you so polite?"
Huanyu thought to herself: Who is indistinguishable from you? I am about to break up with you!
She couldn't help but interjected and asked: "Young Master Ding just said that Second Young Master He is studying hard behind closed doors to prepare for the scientific examination; why don't you hang your head and stab your buttocks like others, so as to be named on the gold medal list and honor your ancestors?"
Ding Jiying said: "Well, I don't want to risk that foolishness and suffer that kind of suffering. Aren't I living a very carefree life like this? Life is a leisurely life, and I don't force myself to do things I don't want to do. Is it right? What does Brother Yu think?"
Huanyu said "oh" noncommittally, thinking: "You are ignorant and incompetent, and you still think you are not a playboy or a playboy!" She felt more and more displeased with the other party.
Fortunately, Ding Jiying was not the kind of scheming person and didn't care.
He watched the play absentmindedly for a while, feeling bored, and then moved his head closer to Ling Yun and said, "Brother Ling, how did the thing I told you about that day go?"
"What's up?"
Ding Jiying said: "You are really a noble person who forgets things. It's just Miss Lu's business!"
"Miss Lu's matter?" Ling Yun remembered, "There is no grass anywhere in the world, why do you have to pester her?"
Ding Jiying said: "How can you understand this true love if you have never experienced it? I have made up my mind that I will never marry this woman in this life!"
Huan Yu listened angrily and said coldly: "But who knows if she will like you?
Ding Jiying said: "That's why I want to ask Brother Ling to make peace for me!"
Huan Yu snorted and said, "You don't need to look for him, I can tell you the answer."
"you?"
Huan Yu said: "Yes, I have been staying in Lu Mansion these days, and I have occasionally heard some rumors."
"What rumors?"
Huan Yu said: "Miss Lu already has her heart and the right person; and the two of them are in love with each other and fall in love with each other. So, I advise you not to have any more sweet autumn dreams!"
Ding Jiying was stunned for a moment and said, "Brother Yu, you really know how to joke."
Huan Yu said: "This matter is related to the reputation of the eldest daughter of the Lu family. Can I just make a joke? If you don't believe me, you can ask Brother Ling."
Ding Jiying felt a little confused, turned her head to Ling Yun and said: "Brother Ling, tell me, that's not the case, right?"
Ling Yun said impatiently: "Whatever you two are arguing about in public, you are not afraid that people will laugh at it! Let's watch the show first."
Only then did Ding Jiying notice that the people around him were looking at him with dissatisfaction.
He sighed and lowered his voice: "Brother Ling, please tell me what's going on. Does Miss Lu really like someone?"
Of course, Ling Yun couldn't tell him about Lu Qiuyue and Jiang Chun. At the same time, he complained about Linglong too many things, so he changed the subject and said, "Mr. Ding, didn't you get engaged to the princess of Jinling Palace?"
Ding Jiying said: "So what? I haven't seen a cat or a dog yet. How can it be compared with Miss Lu?"
Huan Yu felt very annoyed, "How do you know someone is bad if you haven't seen her before?"
Ding Jiying said: "If it's not good, it's not good! If she was good, if she was virtuous, how could she not understand any rules and run away from home without any sense of shame! She almost made her parents angry to death. This kind of woman , sooner or later she will be a nemesis, whoever marries her will be unlucky!"
Huan Yu was so angry that she raised her eyebrows. She was about to get angry, but she was afraid that her identity would be exposed in front of Ling Yun and the quarrel would not end. Besides, it would be disrespectful to make noise and make people laugh in public.
She had nowhere to vent her anger, so she stood up and shouted, "I won't watch!..." She turned around angrily and walked out.
Ding Jiying asked curiously: "Brother Yu, what's wrong with you? We've only played less than half of the play. Why did you leave?"
Huanyu ignored him and walked out without looking back.
When Ling Yun saw Huan Yu suddenly leave in anger, he was afraid that she, a weak woman, would not be safe alone, so he had to stand up, say hello to Ding Jiying, and hurried out.
The two of them left in a hurry, causing Ding Jiying to shout from behind: "Hey, why are you two brothers in such a hurry?"
It attracted the attention of the people around him; what's more, they started whispering and talking about it.
Huan Yu completely ignored the strange looks in everyone's eyes and walked out of the theater.
Ling Yun followed closely, until there were fewer people, he shouted angrily: "Don't leave!"
Huan Yu was now tired from running all the way, so she stopped and let out a breath.
Ling Yun was so annoyed that he asked: "What's wrong with you? You turned around and left without asking. Who provoked you? You are so willful!"
Huan Yu said: "I am willful. If Ding Jiying hadn't bullied others too much..."
"What happened to Ding Jiying? How did he offend you?"
"He..." Huanyu choked. Of course she couldn't explain this to Ling Yun, so she could only destroy herself and said: "Forget it, let's just call it a willful one."
Ling Yun said angrily: "You are so willful! You made a lot of noise and insisted on going to the theater before entering the theatre, and you ran away just a quarter of an hour after entering. Are you just a kid playing house?"
Huan Yu was usually arrogant and willful; but for some reason, she couldn't be tough in front of Ling Yun. She just argued: "No, Brother Ling, I didn't mean that at all. I just think Ding Jiying is too annoying."
Ling Yun was completely uninterested at this time, "Okay, let's go back!"
Huan Yu whispered: "Go back home?"
"nonsense!"
Huan Yu begged: "Oh, are you going back after just a short time? Brother Ling, for the sake of my hard time coming out, let's play for a while longer!"
Ling Yun said: "If you want to play, you can do it by yourself, I have to leave!"
Huan Yu said: "You left, I'm afraid of being alone."
"Then let's go!"
Huan Yu hesitated and followed Ling Yun reluctantly, looking back three times at a time.
Ling Yun urged: "Can you hurry up?"
Huan Yu suddenly caught a glimpse of a bun shop with its lights on by the roadside, and said, "Brother Ling, I'm hungry. Let's go in and have something to eat."
"Didn't you just have dinner?"
"I'm not full. Now I want to eat steamed buns again."
Ling Yun had no choice but to turn into the bun shop with her.
The shop was deserted, with only one customer sitting on a stool, chewing slowly and sighing.
The bun shop is opened by a husband and wife. It was late at night, and only the man was still waiting in front of the fire. Seeing another guest coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.
Ling Yun ordered a plate of steamed buns for Huan Yu and sat down with her.
Huan Yu peeled off the buns bit by bit, eating them more carefully than the previous person.
Ling Yun was tired and sleepy after a long day's work. He just wanted to go back and rest early. Seeing her slow manner, he couldn't help but urge her, "Can you hurry up?"
Huan Yu said: "This must be the second time you have said this."
The customer who was eating steamed buns was just thinking sadly at first. He overheard the two talking and thought they sounded familiar. He turned around and couldn't help but feel happy. He hurriedly said hello: "Hey, Commander Ling, I'm glad to meet you!"
Ling Yun took a look and saw that it was Zhou Shen, the housekeeper of the Silk House. So he returned the gift and asked, "Butler Zhou doesn't go back so late. How will he explain to Boss Yu tomorrow?"
Wednesday Shen sighed and said: "Yes, I am worried. How will I explain to the boss lady when I go back?"
Ling Yun asked curiously: "What's wrong? What happened?"
Zhou Shen said: "The boss's wife suddenly fell ill a few days ago. She was bedridden for several days and was in a state of depression."
Ling Yun was startled: "Sick? Boss Yu is usually cheerful and in good health."
"That's right," Zhou Shen said: "This is called 'the sky is unpredictable, and people are prone to misfortune and fortune'!"
Ling Yun said: "Didn't you find an effective cure?"
Zhou Shen said: "It goes without saying that I have invited all kinds of famous doctors. Thanks to the good health of the boss lady, her condition has gotten better recently. But if you want to get better, the doctor said, you must also take a main medicine and some auxiliary medicines." Only then can it be effective.”
"Main medicine? What main medicine?"
Shen said on Wednesday: "The best thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum."
Huan Yu interjected: "This thing is worth a thousand dollars."
Shen said on Wednesday: "What this brother is saying is that this Ganoderma lucidum is really hard to buy! I have had people go through all the trouble to get a few of them; but some of these Ganoderma lucidum are not of good quality, and some are not old enough - in short None of them satisfied me.”
Ling Yun pondered: "Is this Ganoderma really so hard to find?"
Zhou Shen said: "Isn't it? But hard work pays off. A few days ago, a guy found a fine thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum on the cliff of Lingshan. With it, there is no need to worry about the boss's wife's health not being able to recover."
"It's just so close to the end of the world. If you want to pick this thing from this cliff, it's really overwhelming." His face suddenly darkened, "In desperation, I made the decision: Whoever can pick this thing will get a thousand pieces of gold."
Huan Yu said: "Qian Jin, hey, you are so generous!"
"Now it is no longer a matter of generosity or not, but a matter of life and death," Shen said on Wednesday.
Huan Yu asked: "How do you say this?"
Zhou Shen said sadly: "Sun Er, the clerk in our store, relied on his physical agility and some light skills, and was moved by the rich gold, so he went down to pick, but unfortunately he lost his footing and fell..."
Ling Yun and Huan Yu were speechless. Huan Yu sighed: "It's true that 'birds die for money and people die for food'..."
When Ling Yun saw that she was speaking freely, he glared at her and said, "Don't talk nonsense."
Huan Yu didn't understand the meaning and said: "Yes, that's wrong. It should be 'people die for money and birds die for food'."
Seeing that she was unreasonable, Ling Yun simply ignored her and only talked to Zhou Shen.
Huanyu felt bored, so she turned her attention to the deserted street outside the store. She saw two men in black trench coats striding towards this side.
As she got closer, she felt that their bodies and manners looked very familiar, and her heart moved. As she approached the door of the bun shop, she saw clearly that both of them were dressed as martial arts masters from the Jinling Palace.
It's Li Xuan and Li Wu!
Huan Yu recognized the two of them at first glance, and her heart almost jumped out of her chest. Is it true that the saying goes: Enemies never get together?
Compared with Zhao Wei and Zhao Yang, although Er Li stayed in Jinling Palace for a shorter time, they could still recognize him.
Ever since she ran away from home, everyone in the Jinling Palace has been in turmoil, and everyone is looking for her. She managed to escape from Li Xuan last time, so how can she tactfully escape from her shell this time?
Seeing that brothers Li Xuan and Li Wu were approaching the door of the bun shop, Huan Yu suddenly became anxious and covered her abdomen with both hands. She cried out "Ouch, ouch", stood up and walked out: "How do you make your buns? Yo...my stomach hurts so much..."
She muttered indistinctly, lowered her head, slipped past Li Xuan and Li Wu, and plunged into the vast night.
Li Wu didn't pay attention; but Li Xuan's eyes flashed, and doubts appeared on his face.
