The night is quiet.

The dark night seemed like endless thick ink covering the sky.

The deep residence of Su Mansion has two adjacent boudoirs.

One plaque is named Yilanxuan, and the other is named Meiyingzhai.

The former planted orchids, the latter planted plums.

The two courtyards are very close to each other. Between the two courtyard walls, there is a three-step wide bluestone corridor. Looking down from a high place, it looks like a line of sky.

Inside Meiyingzhai, there were several sounds of insects chirping, and a boudoir was sleeping in the dark night.

On the second floor of the boudoir, the doors, windows, and wall panels are all made of precious nanmu. The furniture is classic and there are rows of bookshelves. There is an empty beauty couch by the window, with two or three books scattered beside the pillow.

Every detail in the room reveals the laid-back and elegant character of the mistress of the boudoir.

In the back room, where the moonlight cannot shine.

A very elegant embroidered bed sits quietly, complete with embroidered bed curtains and tents.

A gauze curtain with verdant green double embroidery of flowers, grass and insects was hung, blocking the scene inside the bed.

However, only Su Guo'er knew that this gauze tent was quite special. Looking from the inside out, one could see the general scene outside.

Su Guoer woke up naturally late at night again.

She dreamed again of the old fortune teller with low eyebrows and his maxims.

Su Guo'er's body was slightly curled up, and she turned sideways while holding the embroidered quilt. Her cold eyes looked through the gauze curtain at the half-closed window not far away, and dimly saw the scenery outside the window.

It seemed like he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure from the corner of his eye.

Su Guo'er's eyebrows gathered slightly.

She silently pursed her dry red lips.

Immediately, a slender jade hand stretched out from the gap in the tent, opened the gauze curtain, and a pair of long legs under the skirt bent their calves and leaned out of the bed. Two ice cream-like feet wrapped in light pink socks took two attempts.

I came across the embroidered shoes under the bed.

A girl was slipping on her shoes.

Wrapping a blanket around his arms, he walked to the window, tilted his head and looked up at the lone shadow under the moon on the roof next door.

Su Guo'er paused for a moment, then suddenly pushed open the two windows completely and climbed onto the windowsill.

The girl with plum blossom makeup, who originally looked elegant and quiet, was like an agile cat, climbing out of the balcony and climbing to the roof with ease.

She didn't even look at the sky-like gap between the eaves of the roof here and the eaves of the roof next door. She even jumped over it without hesitation.

Look at this set of movements, which are so smooth and skillful that not even a tile on the roof was knocked off.

If a bun-faced little maid who was sleeping soundly in the escort room downstairs was here at this moment, she would definitely rub her eyes and say, "Well, the lady flew away again..."

Su Guo'er wrapped herself lightly in a thin blanket and came to the roof of Yilanxuan. She walked to the pretty and dazed Xie Lingjiang. She didn't mind the dust on the eaves and sat down calmly.

The two women sat side by side on the roof.

On their heads, there were shining stars, embedded in the dark night sky.

There is another bright moon hanging alone among the stars, like a shining orb.

Xie Lingjiang suddenly felt that the moon looked very much like the night pearl given to her by her senior brother, but it was a pity that she had not taken it back yet.

At this time, the little girl from the Su family extended her hand to Xie Lingjiang who seemed to be in a trance beside her without any courtesy, and asked lightly:

"liquor."

The latter shook his head slightly.

From the moment Su Guoer climbed onto the roof to the time she came and sat down to ask for a drink, Xie Lingjiang didn't even look at her the whole time.

Su Guo'er couldn't help but look sideways.

I saw Xie Lingjiang hugging his knees with one hand, sitting alone under the moon, holding a small pocket wine jar in his right hand.

She tilted her head and looked at the dark courtyard next to a plum grove in the distance, her pretty face seemed to be in a daze, and the red paper on the body of the small wine bottle in her hand was almost touching the girl's fair face.

Sitting on the sloping roof, keeping her knees bent, her long and toned legs pressed hard against her already bulging and broad chest, which was a waste of fabric, causing it to become somewhat deformed.

Even the size of the overflow from the edge of the leg was even larger than Cai Shou, in the eyes of Su Guo'er, who had eliminated her first.

Xie Lingjiang seemed to be unaware of all this, his eyes reflecting the starlight silently staring in the direction of Meiluyuan,

Su Guo'er silently withdrew her gaze.

"It would be boring if you just drink it by yourself." She stared at the moon and said without squinting.

Xie Lingjiang shook his head, "No more wine."

She silently put down the wine jar in her hand and took a long breath.

Su Guoer curled her lips, "Then why are you still holding a wine jar in your hand? Looking at the plum blossoms to quench your thirst?"

Xie Ling Jiang turned a deaf ear and suddenly turned around and said: "Some wine can relieve sorrow, and some sorrow can also eliminate wine."

"..." Su Bao'er.

"You don't understand." Xie Lingjiang shook his head gently.

The room between them was quiet for a while, then she turned around and asked:

"Have you found the poem about returning home?"

Su Guoer sighed softly:

"It may have been burned down, either by the Lotus Pagoda fire a hundred years ago or the Merit Pagoda that was rebuilt later. Anyway, looking at it now, it is difficult to survive."

Xie Lingjiang nodded, "Is this important to you?"

Su Guo'er was silent for a while, looked up at the moon and said, "There is not much time left for the Su family."

Xie Lingjiang glanced at her and said:

"Uncle Su and Mother Weber are just talking about these things. You, a newlywed girl, have a lot to worry about. Besides, what is the relationship between the two?"

Su Guo'er turned around and asked, "Do you believe in fate?"

"Do not believe."

After a pause, Xie Lingjiang looked into the distance and said without squinting: "Senior brother doesn't believe in fate either. He says everything depends on human effort."

"So you don't believe it too?" Su Bao'er squinted at her.

"No, I just think what he said makes sense." Xie Lingjiang lowered his eyes.

She turned around and said seriously: "Actually, it's good to be safe now."

Su Guo'er looked away: "Maybe."

There was silence between the two of them for a while, only the night wind howled, and Su wrapped the blanket tightly around her body.

Xie Lingjiang asked curiously: "Is your birthday coming soon?"

"how do you know?"

"I see that some of the maids and servants in the house have been very busy recently, and they seem to be organizing a birthday ceremony for you."

"Yeah." Su Guo'er said casually: "It's just that some relatives or strangers are coming again and it will make a lot of noise."

Xie Lingjiang laughed.

Those distant relatives in your family are not simple at all.

However, she didn't say this, maintaining a certain tacit understanding.

Su Guoer's mind was obviously on other things. She turned around and said:

"After the fifteenth of this month, find some free time and accompany me to Donglin Temple again. Without you as an excuse, I won't trust me to go out."

"You've been there too many times." Xie Lingjiang shook his head and asked curiously: "Why is it that it's the fifteenth day of this month, isn't there still half a month left?"

Su Guoer curled her lips and said:

"Those monks at Donglin Temple are not good at learning. They want to fool some believers and good women into burning incense and praying for marriage at some kind of temple fair on the fifteenth day of the year.

"I heard it's being warmed up these days. It looks like it's going to be lively on the mountain. It's best not to go there before the 15th. It would be bad if my mother, father and others misunderstand something."

"Marriage Festival Temple Fair..."

Xie Lingjiang's face was startled, he muttered something, and asked calmly: "Is it effective to seek marriage in Donglin Temple?"

"I don't know. If you're interested, ask yourself."

Su Guo'er answered casually, and after a pause, she turned around:

"What are you doing? Why are you interested in this? Didn't your father say before that you turned down many marriage proposals from young talents and wanted to pursue Confucianism?"

Seeing the suspicious look on his female companion's face, Xie Lingjiang pretended to frown and stared intently at the night scene ahead, waving his sleeves and saying:

"What are you talking about, sister of the Su family? I'm asking... I'm asking my senior brother. Every time she goes over to have dinner, Aunt Zhen always asks questions about this and that. She worries about senior brother's marriage and wants me to help him recommend sisters from the clan.

, it’s really boring.”
To be continued...