"Senior brother, aren't you going to work on the new river channel?"

"I have nothing to do today, come and see my junior sister."

"It turns out that senior brother can also be lazy."

"It's not that I'm lazy, I'm really busy. Besides, I haven't been idle these days. I've been running around everywhere. I even went to Donglin Temple yesterday."

"What are you going to do at Donglin Temple?"

"The matter of Broken Wings Canal."

"Zheyi Canal? A new river channel... Senior brother really knows how to name it."

"How do you know it was me who took it?"

"It's very similar to my senior brother's style of doing things."

"What kind of style do I have... Forget it, come to think of it, I didn't expect Master Shandao to be so hospitable, considerate of the government, and insisted on joining the joint construction of Zheyi Canal led by Longcheng County Government..."

"That's good. So senior brother is really done with everything and is coming here again, right?"

"That's right, little junior sister, don't worry, you didn't delay your business."

"oh……"

"Hey, why is little junior sister silent?"

"tired."

"Then I'll retreat first and you can have a good rest?"

"Wait, you...come in."

"Um, wouldn't it be inconvenient?"

"I stayed in bed with my clothes on."

"Okay. I just brought you some grapes."

"Grape?"

In a boudoir that doesn't smell much of her daughter's makeup but has a bookish smell.

Ouyang Rong, who was lingering in the front hall, pushed open the gauze curtain in the back room and approached a fragrant couch with a dim shadow.

The beaded curtain on the bed was half open and half rolled up, and the girl in scholar's shirt bit her lip and sat on the head of the bed with her black hair pulled up by a red rope. She hugged the quilt and covered her huge chest. She glanced at him sideways. When someone came closer, she looked at him again.

Look straight back, without squinting.

"What's wrong with senior brother's face?"

Ouyang Rong went first and opened the window. With squinting eyes, he could see the maid waiting in the yard.

He pulled out a chair, sat down by the window, took a long breath, pointed at the two small red marks on his right face and said:

"Is this it? Last night when we were picking grapes, the grape trellis fell down. Well, I would have known better not to let Wei Lai hold up the ladder. It almost hit her, and besides, she didn't have much strength. I admit, I was careless and sat there for too long.

My desk skills are a bit inflexible..."

Xie Lingjiang frowned slightly and did not look at him:

"Shouldn't Senior Brother reflect on why he likes to show off his actions? Senior Brother told me not to act impulsively after I was beaten that day. But Senior Brother, shouldn't I let servants do these things? A rich man can't sit down in the hall.

Senior brother, you have nothing to do to pick grapes."

Ouyang Rong was slightly stunned and turned to look at his junior sister who sounded a little reproachful.

Why do I feel like I haven't seen you for a few days? It seems a little different.

Is this a bit mature?

Without arguing, Ouyang Rong lowered his head and took out a plate of washed grapes from the box he brought, and silently handed it to the small table next to the bed.

Xie Ling Jiang Yuguang saw it and seemed to realize something. He paused in his small plaintive words and was reluctant to say any more.

Ouyang Rong smiled and pushed the plate, "Here."

Xie Ling Jiang's head didn't turn around, "I won't eat it."

Ouyang Rong nodded and took the plate back.

"Wait... put it down."

"Don't you want to eat?"

"You give it away or you take it away?"

The girl inside the bead curtain stared at him angrily.

"Oh oh oh."

Ouyang Rong smiled inwardly and put his hand down honestly.

The duplicitous little junior sister is a bit generous.

"How did senior brother know that I like eating grapes?" Xie Lingjiang asked in a low voice.

"Your father said so."

"Senior brother, are you still asking my father this?" She couldn't help turning her head to look at him.

Ouyang Rong smiled and said nothing.

He had no problem asking the younger junior sister about her hobbies and tastes. Not only did she not know how to do it before, she also doesn't know how to do it now.

In fact, it was his aunt who asked his teacher Xie Xun to inquire about it before, and she was the only one who cared about such things.

My aunt talked about it during dinner yesterday, so that night, a grape trellis in Meiluyuan was brutally murdered by a young county magistrate.

After all, you can't come empty-handed when you come to visit someone. It's so embarrassing.

Ouyang Rong did not explain, fearing that the junior sister would become sullen and drive people away again.

"Senior brother has found out clearly."

Xie Lingjiang turned his eyes away and whispered.

Her hand slipped out of the bead curtain and reached towards the grape plate, but paused midway and retracted.

"Young junior sister, you won't spit out the skin when you eat grapes, right?"

"Senior brother, don't you vomit?"

Xie Lingjiang paused in his words, because in the corner of his eye, someone had already pinched the grapes, threw them into his mouth and started eating them without any politeness.

"Hmm." Ouyang Rong chewed and answered vaguely, but it was actually the same as not saying anything.

Xie Lingjiang has dark lines on his forehead.

Senior brother really doesn't treat him as an outsider.

The originally reserved and shy girl suddenly lost her formality and hurriedly rescued some grapes from her senior brother's clutches.

Outside, in the courtyard full of orchids, several maids on duty occasionally looked back curiously, and saw a pair of handsome men and beautiful women grabbing grapes from each other through the beaded curtain in the window.

A maid serving Xie Ling Jiang for many days couldn't help but look at her companion in surprise.

This noble lady of the Xie family has not smiled for many days, let alone shown such vitality, even when Miss Su came to visit her.

There was a lot of commotion in the house for a while, and a plate of grapes was blown away like clouds in the wind.

Ouyang Rong looked at the junior sister behind the bead curtain and couldn't help but ask:

"Junior sister, isn't it injured on your back? Why are you sitting on the bedside?"

Xie Ling Jiang lowered his eyes, "Why don't you lie down and grab grapes with your senior brother?"

Ouyang Rong suddenly became speechless.

It's true, you can't just sit down to meet guests, and my junior sister is so strong.

"That's right. How is Junior Sister's injury?" After a pause, he added, "It looks like it's not serious, right?"

"Senior Brother, don't you know what you did?"

There was silence for a while inside and outside the bead curtain.

The atmosphere was a bit chilly.

"Sorry." Ouyang Rong said, "At that time..."

"No, it's okay, no need to apologize."

The girl behind the curtain lowered her head and whispered:

"Senior brother's discipline... was very appropriate. I was... actually quite happy because senior brother didn't treat me like an outsider.

"My father once said that except for your family and... the people who care about you, no one outside will explain your mistakes, let alone be angry with you.

"So senior brother... junior sister understood at that time, thank you for your discipline."

Xie Lingjiang bit her lower lip subconsciously again, "If you make a mistake again next time, senior brother can...continue to discipline me."

"That day was a special situation."
To be continued...