In winter, snow was flying all over the sky. Ning Qingye carried the famous sword left by his mother and saddled the spring. He bought a pot of local famous Huaihe wine in an old shop in Huainan City and came outside the stone pavilion by the Huaihe River.

In the stone pavilion, Zhongli Chuchu is covered with red gauze, standing tall and graceful, and her green eyes look at the glacier and wind and snow, making her look very excited.

Ning Qingye carried a small wine and looked at it a few times in the distance before walking into the stone pavilion built by an ancestor of the Xiao family, and said softly:

"Miss Chuchu?"

Zhongli Chuchu heard the sound and turned around, her eyes slightly surprised and weird. After hesitating for a moment, she showed her approachable smile as before:

"Xiao Ning, why are you here?"

But this smile, in Ning Qingye's eyes, was no longer as cheerful as the "children of the world, who are happy to be revenge". She made a bench in the stone pavilion, put the wine pot at hand, and raised her hand to lift the hair in her ear:

"Chuchu, are you and I considered friends?"

Zhongli Chuchu blinked her emerald-like eyes and sat down next to her. Maybe she felt that Ning Qingye's eyes were too sharp and it was difficult to look directly. She turned her eyes wide and smiled:

"Of course we are friends. The fights between masters have nothing to do with us... I will persuade Master."

Ning Qingye carefully observed Zhongli Chuchu's expression, and the invisible gap still existed. She had always been outspoken, picked up the porcelain white wine pot beside her and handed it to Zhongli Chuchu:

"I am a person who speaks straightforwardly. If you offend you, you can just say it directly. I can accept other people's opinions and correct them, but I don't like others to misunderstand me."

"Well……"

Zhongli Chuchu took the bottle, her eyes flashed, and she chuckled. Ning Qingye must have not offended her, but after knowing the relationship between Ning Qingye and Xu Buling, she felt strange. When she said that, Ning Qingye would inevitably be angry and embarrassed, and could not speak. She could only shake her head:

"Miss Ning is so serious. I didn't misunderstand you. Well...what should I say..."

Ning Qingye smiled plainly: "Do you think Xu Buling favors me and is dissatisfied?"

?

Zhongli Chuchu sat upright a little. She naturally had no idea, but... but... she was close to Xu Buling's purpose, which was indeed the case. Moreover, Ning Qingye was as bright as Xu Buling, and she pretended to be a white lotus that was not as good as the worldly fireworks. She must be dissatisfied with her...

"How could that be... Well, Qingye, you said before that Mr. Xu just met you, and he was slick about you and was greedy for your beauty?"

Ning Qingye naturally had a clear conscience about this and nodded: "Yes, he is indeed very enthusiastic about me and dares to say anything. But I have nothing to do with him, just a friend I met by chance..."

"But as far as I know, Mr. Xu is arrogant and cold to outsiders. How could he be alone with you..."

When Ning Qingye heard this, he understood that Zhongli Chuchu was indeed alienating her out of jealousy. He shook his head and stood up:

"You have to find the reason for this in yourself. Xu Buling is very smart and can see how a person's character is. If you think about competing with others all day long, it is not surprising that he is cold to you."

After saying that, he left the stone pavilion and left.

"Hey-"

Zhongli Chuchu was immediately unhappy and said to herself: You rely on your private relationship with Mr. Xu to win Mr. Xu’s favor, but on the surface, she said that my character was a problem, which made Mr. Xu treat him coldly. No matter what, I did, I didn’t use my body to hook up with a man…

Zhongli Chuchu sat in the stone pavilion, looked at the porcelain white wine bottle in her hand, and her eyes showed a faint dissatisfaction. She frowned and pondered for a moment, got up and returned to Xiaojiazhuang, and came outside Xiao Xianger's house.

The winter is cold. In the garden of the huge mansion, strange flowers and stones are covered with snow quilts. The carved doors and windows of the room are closed in the middle. Under the eaves are small mahogany signs that record the weather and the drying of mountain medicinal materials.

Zhongli Chuchu quickly walked under the eaves and glanced at the window.

The incense was swaying in the wing room, and there was a purple gold and copper warming stove next to the small mahogany table. The porcelain plates on the table were filled with rare medicinal materials such as ginseng and tiger bones. Two women with the same bright appearance but completely different temperaments sat on the soft blanket. Zhongli Jiujiu held the pounding pestle and grinded it carefully; Xiao Xianger was holding scissors and carefully cut a black mink velvet, which was not very long and looked like a tail, but she didn't know what it was for.

Zhongli Jiujiu is very knowledgeable about medicine, but he knows little about it. Maybe he is a little tired of grinding drugs. His eyes moved and focused on Xiao Xianger, who was intent, asked curiously:

"Xiang'er, what is this piece of mink made of? It's too small to surround the neck, and it doesn't seem appropriate to put it on your hands. Could it be that I'm ignorant?"

Xiao Xiang'er's eyes were as calm as usual. Her tail was not connected to the plug, and she could not see any effect. She just explained softly:

"The decorations on the clothes will be given to her as a gift after my sister and Xu Buling get married."

"oh……"

Zhongli Jiujiu seemed to understand but didn't understand it, and she just thought it was a unique custom of marriage in Jiangnan. Just like the skirt and silver jewelry in Nanyue, she replied casually: "Xiang'er is really clever and clever. When will she prepare one for me, what if she can use it in the future."

Xiao Xiang'er raised her eyes and blinked, nodding seriously.

Zhongli Jiujiu thanked her, and was about to talk about Xu Buling who was about to come back, so she asked Xiao Xianger to blow the pillow wind for her. Yu Guang saw Zhongli Chuchu standing outside the window, turned around and smiled:

"Chuchu, why are you here? Didn't you accompany Miss Song to go out to enjoy the snow?"

Zhongli Chuchu is only seventeen or eighteen years old, she is a little nervous when facing Xu Buling's pampering wife. She did not enter the room, but just hooked her hands:

"Master, I have something to look for you."

"oh."

Zhongli Jiujiu nodded with a smile, put down the grinding medicinal materials, got up, patted herbs, and came outside the room.

Zhongli Chuchu took his master to the corner of the corridor of the back house, hesitated for a moment, and said softly:

"Master, I want to make friends with Mr. Xu. You asked me to learn from Ning Qingye, but I have learned about it these days. Mr. Xu is not what you and I think. Mr. Xu is cold to everyone, the same to you and me, and the same to Miss Song. It is not the difference, but the personality is like this..."

The days when Zhongli Jiujiu met Xu Buling, he did feel that way. He nodded:

"Well, then what."

Zhongli Chuchu looked around and said softly:

"Mr. Xu was polite to Ning Qingye, and even took the initiative to pursue her identity, while Ning Qingye was ignoring her cold-heartedly. At first I thought there was something special about Ning Qingye, but now it seems that it is just like that..."

Zhongli Jiujiu was confused when she heard this and frowned, "What? Isn't this child Qingye always like this? Could it be that there are other things that cannot be told?"

Zhongli Chuchu nodded and leaned into his master's ear and whispered: "I only knew when I heard Miss Song talk about it. It turns out that the reason why Mr. Xu favors Ning Qingye is because Ning Qingye has long been with Mr. Xu..."

"Um??!"

Zhongli Jiujiu turned her cheek and glanced at her apprentice in disbelief, making sure she was not joking.

Zhongli Chuchu knew that the master did not believe it, but she actually didn't believe it either, but Song Yufu saw it as real, and it could not be fake. She said seriously:

"It's true. It's because of this that Mr. Xu is very special to Ning Qingye, not because Ning Qingye is unique. I was deceived by Ning Qingye's cold appearance. Fortunately, I learned from her for a long time. She completely misleads people's children..."

Zhongli Jiujiu had a strange look. She had seen it when Ning Qingye was a child. She had a cold and straightforward personality and wanted to trick her into being an apprentice. Unexpectedly, the cold little girl back then had sex so much when she grew up...

Seeing his apprentice thinking, Zhongli Jiujiu thought about it: "Chuchu, do you like Xu Buling?"

When Zhongli Chuchu heard this, her face turned slightly red and she looked at Zhongli Jiujiu: "Master, what are you talking nonsense? I just want to be friends with Mr. Xu, which is different from Ning Qingye..."

Zhongli Jiujiu hugged her chest and leaned against the red pillar in the corridor, frowned slightly: "Since you just want to be friends, what do you care about Ning Qingye? It has nothing to do with you..."

“…”

Zhongli Chuchu pursed her lips and sat down in front of Zhongli Jiujiu, a little dissatisfied: "She fooled me, which made me think Mr. Xu looked down on me and made so many things. And... and... she also said today that Mr. Xu was cold to me, which was my own problem. What's the problem? I didn't use my body to please men, right? If I put down my figure and hook up with Mr. Xu, would she have the right to talk?"

Zhongli Jiujiu looked at his apprentice who had grown up, hesitated for a while, and sighed softly:

"Chuchu, you have to make your own decisions about this kind of thing. I am a master. If I make a mistake in the future, you must blame me."

Zhongli Chuchu sat in the veranda for a moment and thought for a while: "Master, I...I don't know how to do it."

Zhongli Jiujiu sighed, thought for a while, and said softly:

"After talking for a long time, I just want Xu Buling to treat you differently. You are the eight masters of the contemporary era. You have all the money here, dress up a little, and wear less..."

“I’ve tried it before…”

"Um???"

"Uh...that's autumn, it's not cold, I've worn little..."

"Oh..." Zhongli Jiujiu pursed her lips. She wanted to say something, but when she thought that a woman would not stay or stay, she would become a grudge. She still sighed: "Then wear less clothes. There is no man who is not lewd. As long as she is moved, no matter how cold a man is, he will be very attentive..."

Zhongli Chuchu tightened her skirt tightly and hesitated a little: "Master, I just want to be normal friends with Mr. Xu, a confidant in the world, no...I don't want that..."

Zhongli Jiujiu shook his head: "You have your own idea of ​​this kind of thing. Master, I have never even held a man, and I have no friends. If you ask me, it is equivalent to asking the blind."

Zhongli Chuchu frowned and hesitated for a long time before nodding slowly and replied:

"I...I'll try..."
Chapter completed!