It was the first time Luo Wen Yao came to Duan Wang Fu. She found that Rui Wang Fu was much grander and more exquisite than Cheng Wang Fu. She couldn't help but tighten her grip on He Ming's hand, her heart aching for the person walking beside her.
He Ming thought she was nervous and smiled at her, "What do you like to eat later, just tell er sao. Let's not skimp on their behalf."
"Even if you want to skimp, you can't," He Heng smiled as he led them to the main hall. After everyone sat down, he said, "Your er sao has always been particular about food and clothing. With her here, there's nothing to skimp on."
"Does wang ye dislike me for eating too much?" Qu Qing Ju took the teacup from the hands of a yahuan. Hearing this, she snorted.
"I'm happy that you eat and drink well, how could I bear to dislike you," He Heng smiled as he replied, "Qian Chang Xin, quickly go to the kitchen and urge them to bring up the peanut pastries that wang fei likes to eat. Otherwise, your wang fei won't forgive me today."
"Nonsense, if they didn't know, they would think I was a lion," Qu Qing Ju put down the teacup and burst into laughter, "Si shu and si dimei are still here. You just want them to laugh at me."
"Er sao, I didn't hear anything," He Ming smiled as he continued, "Er ge and er sao love each other. As didi and dimei, we can only be happy, we won't laugh at you."
Luo Wen Yao used a handkerchief to cover the smile at the corner of her mouth. Even though she didn't speak, but the awkwardness between the four of them slowly disappeared.
Qu Qing Ju could see that He Ming wanted to be close to He Heng, and He Heng clearly accepted He Ming's good intentions. That was why his attitude towards He Ming was so casual. In terms of how to treat people, if He Heng said he was second, no one would dare say they were first.
As expected, the topic gradually shifted towards the assassination attempt on He Ming. He Heng held the teacup as he said: "From what I see, si di, the assassination attempt on you has nothing to do with san di, but the Jiang Nan case definitely has something to do with san di."
He Ming nodded, unconcernedly saying: "Since fuhuang isn't pursuing it, I don't have anything to think about. I don't have anything to do right now anyway. It doesn't matter who did it. I just have to live well in the future."
Hearing this, Qu Qing Ju felt that He Ming was probably the one with the least ambition and the easiest to satisfy among the four He brothers. But this must have been a helpless move. He Qi had the eldest son, He Heng had a useful mother, He Yuan had favor, what did He Ming have? His mother was not favored, and his father did not value him. If he did not have a good attitude, how could he continue living?
Maybe He Ming knew that He Heng's shadow was in these matters so he said it was fine as long as it was good in the future. This was to express his attitude to He Heng. Did it mean that he, the younger brother, was going to work together with lao er?
The peanut pastries came up. Qu Qing Ju randomly picked a piece and put it in her mouth. Her gaze landed on Luo Wen Yao and saw that she was completely oblivious as she ate the pastries.
Qu Qing Ju smiled. No matter if she really didn't know or faked ignorance, this girl wasn't dumb. At least, she was smarter than Qin Bai Lu.
"The days will get better and better," He Heng smiled, "It's good that si di has this thought."
Hearing this, He Ming smiled. Even his eyes were tinged with obvious mirth.
The few of them chatted for quite a while. When it was time for lunch, the four of them sat at the table and watched as the servant girls served the dishes one by one. The dishes of Sichuan had always been sour and spicy. First of all, from the color, it gave people the impression that it must be very spicy and delicious.
Even though most of the dishes on the table were Shu dishes, there were also some light dishes. Qu Qing Ju never had any resistance to these delicacies. In her own home, she didn't want other people to pick food for her. Sometimes, reaching out to pick a dish she liked was a part of the process of enjoying the food.
The meat slices in the Spicy Boiled Fish were all chosen from the most delicate part of the fish belly. The Spicy Boiled Meat had to come from the live meat of the pork leg. The pickled cabbage in the Pickled Cabbage and Sour Cabbage Fish was old jar pickled cabbage, making people salivate when they smelled it. The fish head tofu soup was rich and delicious, the braised pork tendons were smooth and smooth. There were also some mushroom cabbage, stir-fried wild mushrooms and other light dishes. The ingredients used in these dishes weren't very expensive, but the taste made it was enough to make Qu Qing Ju eat an extra bowl of rice.
Qu Qing Ju would never eat less than one bowl of rice to maintain her image in front of He Heng. She elegantly and unhurriedly ate two bowls of rice before rinsing her mouth and washing her hands. In the end, she slowly wiped the corner of her mouth as she looked at the table full of dishes. She said regretfully: "Tonight, let's eat hotpot. It's more lively with the four of us."
Luo Wen Yao knew about hotpot but before she married, she hadn't eaten it at home because the family felt that it wasn't elegant to cook around a pot. Hearing er sao mention it, she was slightly moved. She couldn't resist asking, "Is it the yuanyang double soup?"
"Of course, if the moon isn't bad tonight, we can set up hotpot in the moon viewing pavilion outside. We can eat while admiring the moon. There's no need to talk while eating or sleeping. We can tell some interesting stories, it's more lively." Qu Qing Ju felt that hotpot needed people to brag. Without this, life wouldn't be perfect.
He Ming hadn't thought that er sao would be like this in private. He looked in shock at er ge and found that his gaze was on er sao, his face full of smiles. In an instant, he understood.
"Alright, if that's the case, then si di and si dimei shouldn't go back tonight. After dinner, stay the night in the fu. It'll be lively," He Heng called Ming He over and ordered him to get the kitchen to prepare the food. After he finished, he added, "Prepare more wild mushrooms."
"Yes," Ming He knew that wang fei liked to eat all kinds of mushrooms. Wang ye was doting on wang fei.
"Dimei, it's your first time coming to the fu. Why don't we take a walk? You just ate, you'll get fat if you sit for too long," Qu Qing Ju smiled as she stood, giving the He brothers some space to talk.
"Then I'll trouble er sao," Luo Wen Yao stood as told and followed Qu Qing Ju out of the main hall. She herself understood that wang ye most likely had important matters to discuss with Duan Wang.
He Ming watched as his wife followed his sao out before saying: "Er ge, er sao's paternal family … …" Chang De Gong Fu had an affair with He Yuan, even he knew.
"She doesn't have a good relationship with the Qu Family. These years, she has suffered a lot at the Qu Family," He Heng furrowed his brows. When the Qu Family was mentioned, he wasn't in a good mood, "You don't have to worry about the people of Chang De Gong Fu. Your er sao wouldn't care."
He Ming nodded, "If that's the case, then the matter between the Liang Family and the Qu Family, I'll have someone leak it out."
"Families like this, they shouldn't have been allowed to exist a long time ago," He Heng thought of the suffering Qu Qing Ju had suffered at the Qu Family and coldly said, "Keep them alive. Living but having nothing, it's better than death."
He hadn't expected that er ge would hate the Qu Family so much. He Ming paused before nodding. He remembered that the Qu Family still had a daughter in He Yuan's fu as a qie and said: "I wonder if san ge will help."
"Lao san's personality, is he the kind of person that would act for a qie?" He Heng raised a teacup to take a sip, a faint smile on his face as he asked, "He always liked people to circle around him. When would he circle around someone else?"
"That's true," These years, He Yuan had been arrogant even to him, much less a qie. A hint of a smile appeared on his face, "Then the Qu Family is pitiful."
After Luo Wen Yao and Qu Qing Ju strolled around the garden, they followed to zhengyuan. When she saw the decorations inside Qu Qing Ju's room, she couldn't help but gape. The glass lanterns that were worth cities, the night pearls that were the work of nature, and all kinds of exquisite decorations. She had heard her grandmother mention that when Duan Wang Fei had married, the Qu Family hadn't added much as a dowry. What she had brought to the wang fu was only the dowry that her birth mother had received when she had married into Chang De Gong Fu, and the dowry that the Tian Family and other relatives had added.
Luo Wen Yao's dowry had already been generous, but the decorations in this room were even more exquisite than those things in her dowry. So she knew very well that these things definitely weren't Duan Wang Fei's own, but Duan Wang had bought them for her. Thinking about the dowry that Duan Wang Fei had given her before she had married, Luo Wen Yao couldn't help but remark: "Er bo treats er sao so well."
Hearing this, Qu Qing Ju laughed lightly and pulled her to sit by the window. Outside the window was a blooming white magnolia.
"Isn't si shu also very good," Qu Qing Ju smiled as she looked at Luo Wen Yao, "I see that si shu is really good to you. This is the best."
Hearing this, Luo Wen Yao gave a sweet smile. For some reason, she felt that er sao mentioning the word "really" was strange. She hesitated as she looked at Qu Qing Ju, her gaze unknowingly landing on the magnolia outside the window, "These words are really beautiful."
Many people in Jing City liked to plant magnolia in their courtyards because it was rumoured that if a magnolia was planted in their home, their days would become more beautiful. Some lovers also liked to give magnolia to each other, using the white magnolia to represent their sincere love.
Luo Wen Yao didn't know what the truth of the matter was, but she believed that if a man would spend so much effort to find these things to give to a woman, no matter what, he had this woman in his heart. She looked at the faint smile on Qu Qing Ju's face and hesitated before opening: "A person's heart is formed over time. There isn't a clear boundary between what is true and what is false."
Qu Qing Ju's hand that was holding the teacup paused. She looked at Luo Wen Yao. She didn't know if she was talking about He Ming or if there was another meaning. She followed Luo Wen Yao's gaze to look at the magnolia outside the window. She smiled as she replied, "You are right, it isn't easy to distinguish what is true and what is false. Living better and better is what is true."
"Er sao's words are reasonable." Luo Wen Yao smiled as she nodded. She pointed at the magnolia outside the window, "Just be like the magnolia, your days will naturally become better."
Qu Qing Ju blew on the surface of the tea and carelessly glanced at the magnolia. She suddenly remembered that a few days ago, He Heng had sent over a set of hairpins and jewellery from the magnolia. But due to the fact that He Heng would send things over for no reason, she had never worn this set of magnolia jewellery.
Thinking about it, she curled her lips. Good days were in the hands of others. Could one live well just by relying on a flower?
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