Little Fujin

As soon as it was warmed up, the weather immediately warmed up.The winter jasmine flowers that Lin Ruan saw a few days ago were only buds. These days, the flowers have bloomed and hung on the branches. A long and thin branch is decorated with flowers the size of rice grains, which is very beautiful.

Lin Ruan saw several female students folded flower branches and put them in the buttons on their chests, laughing and smelling flowers all the way.

Tong Bo called a tailor to come home to cut clothes for his family, and specially made two suits for Lin Ruan that he could wear out.Over there, Tong Bo went out of the Xiaohua hall for something, and Ah Yue was still talking to the tailor.Sitting on a chair, Lin Ruan peeled oranges and ate them, listening to Ah Yue telling the tailor to make him a bean-green satin cheongsam.

Lin Ruan asked: "Don't you like to wear skirts, why did you remember to wear a cheongsam?"

While choosing the fabric, Ah Yue said, "I'm used to wearing skirts, and wearing a cheongsam, doesn't it make my eyes shine?"

Ah Yue pulled Lin Ruan to look, "You are also a man, which one do you think looks better?"

Lin Ruan was still holding a handful of melon seeds, and said, "They all look pretty."

Ah Yue gave him a blank look, but still turned her head to talk to the tailor, and finally chose a satin with pea green background embroidered with pear flowers, which looked extremely beautiful.

The tailor measured Ah Yue's waist, Ah Yue sat back beside Lin Ruan, Lin Ruan handed her a handful of melon seeds, Ah Yue didn't want it, "I won't eat a couple of melon seeds and two taels of oil."

Lin Ruan spat out the melon seeds, "What about losing weight?"

"That's not it," Ah Yue glanced at Lin Ruan, and said, "It doesn't look good to wear a cheongsam if you are fat. I just saw the tailor's note. Our waists are actually about the same. You are so much taller than me!"

Lin Ruan just laughed, Ah Yue looked Lin Ruan up and down, and said, "I think you must look better in cheongsam than me."

Lin Ruan said: "What nonsense, I'm a man."

"What's wrong with men?" Ah Yue said, "Beauty does not distinguish between men and women."

Ah Yue leaned closer to Lin Ruan and said, "I found a piece of red satin just now, it is very beautiful, Tong Bo said it is old, otherwise such a precious satin would not be taken out."

Ah Yue looked at Lin Ruan, "Why don't you tell Uncle Tong to make a cheongsam for you to wear? A girl's cheongsam is similar to the gown you usually wear!"

Lin Ruan shook her head, "I don't know how to wear a cheongsam even if I have no clothes to wear and freeze to death."

Ah Yue curled her lips, and after a while, she came over excitedly, "During the Chinese New Year, my master gave me a string of pearl necklaces, do you think it looks good with the cheongsam that I just looked like?"

Although girls nowadays don’t wear the old gold and silver jewelry, they still like pearls and diamonds. Every year, Zhanxi will prepare gifts for Tong Bo and Ah Yue and the others. It's called a red envelope.Because it is not spread out for everyone to see, so there is no need to be so strict.

Ah Yue remembered something, and said, "I have something to ask for your help."

"what's up?"

"Please write a letter for me." Ah Yue said.

Lin Ruan looked at her, "You can also write, why did you let me write for you?"

"My handwriting is not good-looking." Ah Yue took Lin Ruan back to the room and brought him a pen and paper.

The paper is a beautiful cardboard sprinkled with golden peach blossoms, and Ah Yue specially sprinkled perfume on it, which has a faint fragrance of peach blossoms.

Lin Ruan was pushed down on the stool by Ah Yue, and said: "I don't read as much as you, and I can't think of any good words. Let me give you an overview, and you write for me."

Lin Ruan looked at Ah Yue, "Who do you want to write to?"

Ah Yue pursed her lips and laughed, "His name is Zhong, and his name is a single word, the language is Yan."

"Zhong Yan," Lin Ruan repeated, "is it a man's name?"

Ah Yue nodded, Lin Ruan became a little curious, "Who is he?"

"He's someone I met at the pastry shop. He's a bank employee." Ah Yue lowered her head, looking a little shy, "It's my boyfriend."

Lin Ruan was slightly surprised, "I've never heard of you before."

"I only confirmed the relationship not long ago," Ah Yue said, "One night a year ago, I really wanted to eat chestnuts, so I called him. After a while, he came to see me."

Lin Ruan's eyes widened, "Is it because of a bag of chestnuts?"

Ah Yue looked at Lin Ruan inexplicably, "Is it the chestnuts that matter? He is the one who brought chestnuts to me as soon as I said a word!"

"Oh." Lin Ruan thought for a while, and began to write.

"I want to ask him to go out of the city to visit the West Mountain next weekend," Ah Yue said, "Please wait for me at Dongzhimen, and if possible, bring me a rose."

As Ah Yue said, she smiled unconsciously.Lin Ruan stopped to look at her and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

Ah Yue didn't answer, but said: "When you meet someone you like one day, you will know why I laughed."

"Like?" Lin Ruan stopped writing, thought for a while, and asked, "What do you call liking?"

Ah Yue thought for a while, and said: "Like is a very happy emotion. Whenever I see him, I want to laugh. When I can't see him, I think about him, and I am also happy."

Lin Ruan was thoughtful and said, "You should write this letter yourself."

"why?"

Lin Ruan said: "If you like him so much, you should write him a letter yourself. He will think of you when he sees this letter in the future, right? If you think the handwriting is not good-looking, I still have a lot of copybooks. Take your time. Let's practice."

"That makes sense!" Ah Yue said, "That's all right, all right, I don't need you, I'll write for him myself."

Lin Ruan was pushed out of the room by Ah Yue, and happened to meet Zhan Xi.Zhan Xi stopped and asked, "What are you doing in Ah Yue's room?"

Lin Ruan said: "The tailor came just now, Ah Yue asked me to choose fabrics for her."

Zhan Xi nodded and said, "Liufeng and Huixue are coming to live in two days, so don't mess around with them."

Lin Ruan responded.Lin Ruan went upstairs after Zhan Xi's ward meeting. Lin Ruan looked at Zhan Xi's back and scratched his head, but couldn't figure out why.

Tong Bo heard that the Gu family sisters were coming, so he quickly cleaned up their room. The sisters' room was on the second floor, and they could see the back garden by opening the window.

On Friday afternoon, I was afraid to drive the two sisters here.Now that the weather is getting warmer, the girls' dresses are more colorful than spring flowers.

The two sisters were wearing off-white cashmere coats, woolen hats with pearl tassels, and newly picked roses on their chests. Each of them had a small bag in his hand, like beauties who were going on a spring outing.Gu Ji came in after them, carrying two suitcases.

Zhan Xi came up from the downstairs, and put the two suitcases there, "These two aunts are handed over to you."

Gu Ji seemed to be very busy, so he said hello to Zhan Xi and left.

Gu Liufeng Gu Huixue sat down on the sofa and asked, "Where's Brother Ruan?"

Ah Yue brought coffee and snacks to the two of them, and Zhan Xi stood on the stairs with the coffee in his hand, and said, "He hasn't finished school yet."

Gu Liufeng's eyes lit up, "Then let's pick him up."

"Shi Ning is not at home." Zhan Xi meant that no one was driving.

Gu Huixue sat upright, looking like a lady, "cousin can't drive?"

Zhan Xi glanced at the two sisters and asked, "Didn't you two just come out of school, aren't you tired?"

The two sisters looked at each other, knowing that this meant nothing to discuss.Gu Huixue put down his coffee and said, "My cousin is too authoritarian, how can the family bear it?"

When Tong Bo heard this, he laughed, "How can this be said to be autocratic? After all, there are no rules and nothing can be done."

Gu Liufeng snorted, "In Uncle Tong's eyes, there is nothing wrong with my cousin, it would be us instead..."

Gu Liufeng didn't finish speaking, and laughed.

Gu Huixue looked at Zhanxi, "Brother Ruan is educated in advanced thinking, doesn't he feel authoritarian?"

Zhan Xi glanced at Gu Huixue, "Why, are you two here to criticize me?"

Looking at Zhanxi like this, Gu Liufeng was inevitably a little apprehensive, but Gu Huixue was not afraid, and still smiled, "Don't dare."

Lin Ruan had nothing to do on weekends, and was dedicated to accompanying the two eldest ladies.Zhanxi was busy, and the other people in Lan Mansion couldn't talk to them.Although the Lan Mansion is not as old and pedantic as the Wang Mansion, it is definitely not as civilized as the Gu family.To put it bluntly, in the past, the palace was the prince's hall of speech, but now the Lan mansion is Zhanxi's hall of speech. No matter how gentleman Zhanxi is, he can't change this fact.

Gu Huixue got up early in the morning, set up a drawing board and brushes in the back garden, and painted Gu Liufeng in the morning sun.

Gu Liufeng was wearing a long skirt with a bullet necklace hanging on her slender neck. Her long hair reached her waist and was loosely draped behind her, giving her a different kind of laziness.She was sitting on a chair, with the golden sunlight behind her shining on the garden in early spring.

Lin Ruan brought refreshments and stood behind Gu Huixue to watch. Gu Huixue held a brush in one hand and a paint tray in the other, and asked, "How is it? Does it look good?"

Gu Huixue just described a face like her in detail. She is a painter and a model. This situation is really interesting.

Gu Liufeng was tired after sitting on the chair for a while, and he was easily tired if he didn't move.Gu Huixue stopped, and the two sisters walked to the table and sat down to rest.

Gu Huixue wiped her hands, "I'm going to finish this painting today."

Lin Ruan handed her a cup of tea and asked, "Why?"

"Because tomorrow, I will cut my hair." Gu Liufeng straightened her skirt.

"Cut?" Lin Ruan was a little surprised.

"That's right," Gu Liufeng said, "I want to cut my hair, but my mother doesn't want me to do it. We had an argument, that's why I only stayed here for two days!"

Gu Huixue said: "Mom said, if my cousin agrees with her cutting, mom won't say anything."

"Then sir agreed?"

"Cousin is too lazy to care about me." Gu Liufeng sat up straight, imitating Zhan Xi's appearance, and said in a casual tone, "It's up to you."

"That's what my cousin said." Gu Huixue looked at Lin Ruan, "Brother Ruan, do you think you should cut your hair?"

Lin Ruan couldn't say well, "Many of my female classmates have cut their hair, and they look beautiful. But I think the hair looks good when it is coiled up. Ms. Biao has kept her hair for more than ten years, and she can cut it whenever she wants. It’s a pity.”

"What's the pity, I still have Huixue." Gu Liufeng said: "She doesn't cut her hair, when I want to grow my hair, just see if she doesn't, anyway, we both look the same."

Gu Huixue laughed, she doesn't cut her hair, she thinks that her hair goes well with the cheongsam, she is determined to be a classic beauty.

"Liufeng cut her hair, it's the same as mine." Gu Huixue said, "I think she's had a good time after cutting her hair."

Lin Ruan thought it was quite interesting. In this way, doesn't it mean that everyone has two kinds of life to live.

The next day was a sunny day, with a little wind, not cold, very comfortable.

Gu Liufeng and Gu Huixue planned to go out to get their hair cut, so they took Lin Ruan to accompany them.

Zhan Xi stood on the second floor, leaning against the railing of the corridor, watching the three of them pack up and ready to go out, and asked, "Why don't you call someone to come home?"

Gu Liufeng put on a light gray hat, and replied: "I said it was a haircut, but I was actually thinking of going out for a walk. What's the fun of staying at home all the time."

Zhan Xi had nothing to do, and asked, "Let Shining send you off?"

"No need," Gu Huixue said, "We'll take a rickshaw and stop wherever we want. Maybe we can visit the entire Forty-Nine City in one day."

Zhan Xi snorted and said nothing.

Lin Ruan stood beside the two sisters. He was wearing a long black trench coat, which was newly made, with several silver lotus-shaped cuff buttons on the cuffs.He was wearing a white shirt and a light sweater over it.The hair is combed up, revealing the forehead, which looks very energetic.

Lin Ruan felt that Zhan Xi was looking at him, and he asked, "Is there anything wrong?"

Zhan Xi shook her head and said, "You don't seem to wear such clothes often."

Lin Ruan looked down at her own attire, a little shy, "Isn't it good-looking?"

Zhan Xi looked at Lin Ruan with lowered eyes, "It's pretty."

Lin Ruan and her two sisters got into a rickshaw and went to a barber shop run by foreigners on Dong'anmen Street.The three of them asked for a small room, Gu Liufeng cut his hair, Gu Huixue also asked someone to make a hairstyle, Lin Ruan had nothing to do, just sat and read a magazine.

Gu Liufeng saw Lin Ruan looking down at the magazine through the mirror. Lin Ruan was a very special person among the people Gu Liufeng knew.He has a good temper and a gentle temper, and he has known Gu Liufeng for many years.But Gu Liufeng always feels that he has a sense of distance, which may not be deliberately created by him, but there is indeed such a result.

Gu Liufeng didn't know what Lin Ruan liked or hated, when he was sitting there, Gu Liufeng couldn't think of what he was thinking.If the person sitting here was Zhan Xi, Gu Liufeng would guess in the direction of business. If it was because of scruples, it must be something in the army.As for Lin Ruan, Gu Liufeng didn't even know where to guess.

"Brother Ruan," Gu Liufeng asked suddenly, "Do you have someone you like?"

Lin Ruan was taken aback, then smiled and said, "Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

Gu Huixue flipped through the magazine and asked without looking back, "Do you like cousin?"

Lin Ruan was caught off guard, and his mind went blank for a moment.

"If you hesitate on this question, then it's probably a definite answer." Gu Huixue glanced at Lin Ruan.

"No," Lin Ruan was a little dumbfounded, "I was just thinking..."

Both Gu Liufeng and Gu Huixue were looking at Lin Ruan, Lin Ruan said: "Okay then, two young ladies, can you please explain to me what is liking?"

Gu Liufeng paused, not knowing how to explain, she looked at Gu Huixue.Gu Huixue has never been in a relationship, she has only read a lot of novels, and her understanding of love is only at the stage of talking on paper.

But both Gu Liufeng and Lin Ruan looked at Gu Huixue, Gu Huixue couldn't lose the chain at this time no matter what.

"I like it..." Gu Huixue looked at Lin Ruan, "You are wearing a new suit, and you don't ask us if you think it looks good, just ask your cousin if it looks good."

Lin Ruan paused, obviously disbelieving, "Does this count as liking?"

"Of course!"

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