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Lu Jue laughed angrily, and said, "You sleepwalked from your house to mine? And you only picked me to sleepwalk when I was resting?" He just came home last night, and he didn't know what time it was when he fell asleep. Who knows how Xie Qiao sleepwalked across a street to his bed in the middle of the night with his eyes closed.

"Brother Huaiyu," Xie Qiao lowered her eyebrows and her shoulders slumped, "Apart from those servants in my house, I am the only one who is cold... Even those two stupid fish have been dead for two years. You can no longer accompany me..." A pitiful look of frustration.

Lu Jue just liked his way. Seeing his appearance, his heart softened, and even his voice became gentler, and said: "Then you can come to my house generously, and your room is next door. You climb over the wall in the middle of the night What's the matter with coming in and grabbing a sleeping place with me?"

"I didn't climb over the wall." Upon hearing this, Xie Qiao raised his head and said seriously, "How could I do such an indecent thing like climbing over the wall? The back door of your house is behind your yard, and my aunt has already You gave me the key, so I entered the door openly last night without waking anyone up."

Lu Jue: "..."

Seeing Lu Jue's expression of wanting to say something but being unable to say anything, Xie Qiao knew that this matter was about to be fooled, and an indistinct smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and then he said, "Brother Huaiyu, Today is the Lantern Festival, I specially prepared a gift for you." Then he leaned over and said towards the door: "Xu Lai, bring up the things this king prepared."

"Slave is here!" A lady with slender eyebrows listened to the words and hurriedly opened a door, and walked quickly into Lu Jue's room from the next door with a smile, holding a tray in her hand, and inside the tray was a red brocade dress .He stood still before the collapse, saluted first, and then held the tray in front of Lu Jue, but replied to Xie Qiao: "Your Highness, these are the clothes you prepared for Master Lu."

"Brother Huaiyu, you should wear this outfit today. It happens to be the Lantern Festival, so new clothes are also appropriate." Xie Qiao pointed to the clothes on the tray, with a look of 'this is settled' as a matter of course.

Lu Jue supported his knees with one arm, and bent his fingers with the other hand. Like a jade hook, he tapped on Xie Qiao's forehead, and said with a smile on his face, "You give clothes in spring and summer, and clothes all year round. Now even Clothes are sent for the Lantern Festival, can I wear them?"

In the past few years, almost all the clothes he wore were given by Xie Qiao, and even his mother hadn't invited a tailor to his house for a long time.

"Clothes are things that can withstand letting go. Brother Huaiyu, you can wear them slowly. I brought them all today. If you don't wear them, it will be a waste."

After hearing what he said, Lu Jue reached out to take the clothes in the tray, with a bit of helplessness and pampering on his face that he didn't even realize.Xie Qiao watched Lu Jue start to put on clothes, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth again, and he said to Xu Lai, "Xu Lai, did you rest well next door last night?"

Xu Lai couldn't figure out what the master wanted to do, but he knew that he couldn't say anything bad in the Lu family, so he smiled and said, "Thank you for your concern, I'm sleeping well."

"Really," Xie Qiao smiled even more: "My room and my bed are naturally comfortable. Do you like it?"

Xu Lai's scalp was numb from the laughter from his highness, and he was aroused by the desire to survive, so he finally said something that was very pleasing to Xie Qiao's ear: "Slave... I naturally like it. His Highness Xie gave the room to the slave yesterday."

Xie Qiao looked at Lu Jue: I really didn't want to sleep in your bed last night. Xu Lai took my bed, so I can only climb your bed... As for the future, I can't let Xu Lai sleep in the yard Bar……

Lu Jue, who had already dressed and understood Xie Qiao's meaning: "..."

When Xu Lai came, even the maids in Lu Jue's room were out of work. Although he followed Xie Qiao after he sealed the king's mansion, after so many years, he was not very clear about his master's thoughts. , so he respected Lu Jue very much, and he was very attentive when serving him.

The Lu family usually eats breakfast together as a family, and Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu are not surprised to see Xie Qiao at the dinner table—after all, they are children who almost grew up in their own parents. They know that this child has a good relationship with their son, and Based on the friendship of the past few years, Xie Qiao was treated more cordially.

"Hey, Jue'er, are you wearing new clothes today?" Mrs. Lu was born in the general family, and she spoke very sharply. Before eating, he looked at his son and said, "Is it Qiaoer who sent you again? They regard you as an elder brother and send you every day." Things, why don’t you know what to give as a brother?”

Lu Jue: "..."

Xie Qiao said in her heart that I didn't give it to "brother", and what I wanted was not a gift, with a light smile on his face, he said with sincerity: "Auntie, this is what I should do. I was grateful to you when I was young." The family and brother Huaiyu took care of me, and I can't repay anything, so I can only give two clothes."

After a pause, he said again: "However, I don't know much about women's clothes, so I just gave some fabrics and a good inkstone to your maid." Lu Jue's father is a literati, and he loves poetry books and collected good books on weekdays. Inkstone.

Mrs. Lu looked at Xie Qiao more kindly and lovingly, and even Mr. Lu, who was always serious, rarely smiled.Seeing her parents' love for Xie Qiao, Lu Jue shook her head helplessly, but couldn't help but smile.

……

After breakfast, Xie Qiao followed Lu Jue back to the courtyard, and after a while, Lu Jue practiced his sword under the big begonia tree, Xie Qiao was idly watching with his arms folded, his dark pupils It was full of that red figure.Although Lu Jue likes to wear brocade clothes, he never likes to wear clothes with wide sleeves. He usually wears exquisite wristbands on his cuffs - he is a general, so naturally it is convenient for him to train soldiers and use swords.

Xie Qiao felt a little itchy when she looked at it, and wanted to see how this man would look in the clothes that Confucian scholars and civil servants loved to wear, so she decided to send a set next time.He likes to see Lu Jue wearing the clothes he gave him - his sweetheart wears the clothes he gave him, as if responding to his hidden intention.

Seeing that Lu Jue's white face was sweating, Xie Qiao turned around and went into the study, looking for Fang Pazi and pouring him a cup of tea.The teapot and teacups were placed on a small table. Next to the small table was Lu Jue's desk. Xie Qiao poured tea and was about to go out when he suddenly saw a brocade-wrapped booklet on the desk.

Xie Qiao felt a "thump" in his heart, put down his teacup, approached the table without guilt, and picked up the booklet.

After flipping through it, Xie Qiao laughed angrily—as expected, there were many portraits of young girls in the booklet.Lu Jue is twenty and five years old this year, but he has no plans to get married. He has been a piece of fat that every family in Jinling City has been staring at since ten years ago, and it seems that he will still be ten years later.Madam Lu was also anxious, so she made such a booklet for her son.

Xie Qiao flipped through the booklet and raised her eyebrows: I don't know if Lu Jue has read it...

He glanced at the figure of Lu Jue who was still practicing with his sword outside the door, and he stuffed the booklet into his sleeve without any guilt—unlike Lu Jue who likes to tie his wrists, his sleeves are very wide.After stuffing it, he took the cup of tea and went out with no shame on his face.

Lu Huaiyu doesn't have anyone in his heart yet, if one day Lu Huaiyu really wants to have someone in his heart, it can only be him, Xie Qiao.Lu Huaiyu is his, no one can take it away.

……

Xie Qiao stayed at Lu's house during the day, and at night, Jinling City had a grand lantern festival as usual.Lu Jue likes to be lively, and Xie Qiao also likes to watch the fireworks at the lantern festival. Once it was dark, they went out.

The Lu Mansion is in an alley on the bank of the Qinhuai River, so when they went out, they were surrounded by brilliant lights.Fire trees and silver flowers, people's voices, and cruise ships decorated with red silk palace lanterns are everywhere on the Huaihe River. The lights on both sides of the river are brightly lit, and the whole city is like a city that never sleeps filled with warm fireworks.

The sky is vast and clear, a full moon hangs high, and colorful fireworks explode in the air, as if even the always noble and cold moon is contaminated with the fireworks of the world.

Lu Jue and Xie Qiao walked through the crowded crowd. Lu Jue was so good-looking, so countless girls turned around to look at them. Along the way, there were sachets and purses thrown at them all the time. With the lessons learned, Xie Qiao naturally scratched them with itchy teeth. It's all on Lu Jue.

He pulled Lu Jue's wrist and pulled him out of the crowd, and stood under a huge carp lantern on the side of the street, because just after coming out of the crowd, the two jade discs worn by Xie Qiao's waist jingled together.

Lu Jue looked at Xie Qiao's embarrassed look, smiled and rolled his eyes under the warm yellow light, and said, "We, Qiao'er, have really grown up, and there are girls who gave you sachets, what's the matter, there is someone I like just now Is it?"

Xie Qiao glanced at him, and thought to himself, how far have you not been conscious to think that I was the one who smashed it...

Gritting his teeth, he smiled and said, "Of course I don't like any of them, none of them are as good-looking as brother Huaiyu."

Lu Jue laughed loudly twice, his eyes were full of tiny lights, which made Xie Qiao just want to hide him.At this time, a warm aroma mixed with the aroma of wine and glutinous rice came from nowhere.

"Brother Huaiyu, do you want to eat Jiuniang Yuanzi?" It was still very cold on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so now is a good time to eat something warm.After Xie Qiao finished speaking, he looked around, and sure enough, he saw smoke rising from a stall not far away.

Lu Jue also smelled the fragrance, and nodded with a smile.

Xie Qiao left a sentence "You wait for me here", then turned and walked to the stall.

Lu Jue folded his arms under the light, looking at the young man's straight back under the light, he felt a little emotional for a moment: Xie Qiao, he has really grown up, obviously when he first saw him, he was still a skinny ball A loving child.

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The owner of the stall was an old man. Hearing that Xie Qiao said he wanted two servings of wine to take away, the old man took a bamboo tube, filled it up, and handed it to Xie Qiao with a smile.Xie Qiao thanked her with a smile and walked back.

"Lu Huaiyu, Xie Qiao has grown up now, and he is not a nine-year-old child now, why are you always with him?"

As soon as he walked in, a crisp voice came to his ears, Xie Qiao paused, looked forward, and sure enough, he saw a young man who was a head lower than Lu Jue standing in front of him, the voice just now was his.

Xie Qiao was so angry that he sneered: Very good, very good.He just walked a few steps to buy something, and someone poached his corner under his eyes.