The family atmosphere was just right. Mu Qingyang had been busy for several months and had some free time these days. Lan Xi suggested admiring the moon in the yard. Mu Qingyang thought about it and nodded in agreement.
"Dad, the music score you brought back when you went to Nanyang for business last time has been practiced by my daughter for a while. Why don't you play it to dad? It's a very good piece of music." Lan Xi raised her eyebrows, and the maid beside her immediately stopped.
He went to pick up the guqin without a trace. Lan Xi hooked her arm with Mu Qingyang and acted sweetly.
"You are so old, and you are still acting like a child like your father. You are not afraid of being laughed at." Ms. Lin pretended to blame her helplessly, but there was a bright smile in her eyes. Her daughter was the most favored by her husband, and she
How can one be dissatisfied?
"No matter how old you are, you are still your father's daughter." Lan Xi smiled gently, raised her face and asked Mu Qingyang, "Dad, do you think so?"
Mu Qingyang laughed and nodded in agreement.
The remaining group of people walked behind them, all with their eyes fixed on Liu Yun. She used to be very jealous and couldn't bear to see anyone stealing her limelight, especially in front of Mu Qingyang and Lin.
If it were normal times, she would have been unable to bear it and stepped forward to make trouble. She would never have calmly stood at the end and talked to Xia like she did now, as if she didn't take it into consideration at all.
"The eldest lady is feeling better now. She looks good." Xia looked at Liu Yun calmly, with a flash of relief in her eyes. It seemed that the eldest lady had really grown up after the Luohu incident.
"Thank you Aunt Xia for your concern. She is almost in good health. I heard that my aunt suffered from head wind again. My father specially invited a doctor to come to the house to treat my aunt. What did the doctor say?" Liu Yun tilted his head slightly and asked very seriously.
serious.
Mrs. Xia was not as flattered as she imagined. Instead, she waved her hand lightly and said, "It's an old problem. It's just a matter of conditioning. I'm doing a lot of work."
"Aunt Xia is my father's cherished treasure, so she naturally has to work hard." Liu Yun covered her mouth and chuckled, her smart eyes full of teasing.
"..." Such intimacy made Xia feel more at a loss.
"Where did the eldest sister's performance come from? On weekdays, isn't the eldest sister always present wherever dad is? Why is it that the second sister is allowed to enjoy so much glory right now, while the eldest sister is hiding at the end?" Mu was the one who spoke.
Siya's appearance is quite charming, but she has a petty air when she opens her mouth. However, it is true that her mother is not favored, and she herself is a concubine with no status, so naturally she has a lot of resentment in her heart.
Such provocative words made even Yu Chen, who was walking aside, pause for a moment, with a flash of coldness in his eyes. Others who heard it also stopped involuntarily and looked at Liu Yun. Only Xia kept her usual expression.
Calm, she had a feeling that Liuyun had changed, and she was no longer the young lady who could irritate anyone before.
"So the fourth sister is jealous of Lan Xi being favored? Haha, but it's no wonder. When it comes to piano art, the fourth sister and Lan Xi are really far apart. I heard that the gentleman who came to teach the piano art praised Lan Xi highly.
As for Fourth Sister, you..." Liu Yun raised his eyebrows with a half-smile, as if hesitant and embarrassed to say it.
"How am I doing?" Mu Siya bit her lip, quite angrily. Not to mention the four daughters of the Mu family, even among the daughters of the entire Linyang City, I'm afraid they couldn't find anyone better than Lan Xi.
Already.
Her father has always favored Lan Xi, and Liu Yun is the legitimate daughter. Although the third sister Jin Han is introverted and quiet, her mother Xia has been favored for many years and will not be treated badly. Only she, the fourth young lady who is often forgotten by the entire Mu family,
But she is an unwilling master. She always thinks that she is no worse than Lan Xi. As for Liu Yun, except for her status as a legitimate daughter, she cannot compare with her. However, her status in Mu Mansion is even higher than that of a maid.
Not as good as.
"I forgot. You can ask Lan Xi. You know, she will never forget anything she has heard." Liu Yun shrugged and spread his hands, but there was a full sneer on his face, with a deep smile on his face.
He was disdainful, and then said, "But you don't have to be discouraged, you are just not as good as Lan Xi."
This was a thorn in Mu Siya's heart. She had been in love with her childhood sweetheart, the second son of the Nan family, but he only wanted to marry Lan Xi. If Liu Yun remembered correctly, her father would marry Siya two years later when she got hairpins.
She found a marriage partner, but she didn't want to marry that person, so she went to Nanfu and was rejected by everyone. From then on, Siya became depressed and locked herself in Mufu, never leaving the house again.
"You..." Mu Siya clenched her fists and stared at her with an ugly expression.
"Miss, I asked you why you haven't come over yet?" The housekeeper came over and said to Liu Yun respectfully.
"We'll be there soon." As he spoke, Liuyun had already left Siya behind and walked towards the yard with gentle steps.
At this time, Meng stepped forward and said softly to Siya, "Why do you keep messing with the eldest lady? I told you not to mess with her."
Siya glanced at Meng who was swallowing her anger, her face flushed, and she noticed the eyes of the people around her, and then looked away bitterly.
She actually resented her mother. If she hadn't been timid and afraid of competing for favors, and had been squeezed into the smallest courtyard of the Mu Mansion, farthest from her father, how could the mother and daughter be in such a state where they could even have the power to do whatever they wanted with the servants?
The ridiculed status, no matter how much she was a young lady from Mu Mansion, was not even as good as a girl. How could she be willing to do so, but her mother kept telling her to be patient, making her even more resentful.
The group of people walked into the huge pavilion. After-dinner snacks were placed on the exquisite stone table, and the servants were standing outside the pavilion waiting.
"The old lady will be here the day after tomorrow, are you ready?" Mu Qingyang took the tea from Lin and asked casually.
"Yes, the old lady's 'Liuxianju' has been cleaned. The peonies that the old lady likes have been ordered to the flower farmer to pick the best ones and sent to the 'Liuxianju', as well as the old lady's favorite peonies.
Kuixiang' has also been delivered, and you can use it when the old lady comes." Lin said in a leisurely manner, and then smiled and said, "Don't worry, sir, nothing will go wrong."
"Of course I'm relieved that you're doing the work. It's all thanks to your hard work." Mu Qingyang patted Lin's hand, and Lin responded with a gentle smile.
The moonlight was just right. Lan Xi walked to the guqin and sat down. She gently stroked the strings with her jade fingers, and the melodious and sad sound of the piano slowly rose, like the sound of nature. The moonlight shone on the black-haired and white-clothed woman, adding to the beauty of the music.
It is so beautiful that everyone is immersed in such wonderful music and cannot extricate themselves.
Until a burst of panicked footsteps interrupted the sound of the piano, and the music suddenly stopped. Lan Xi narrowed her eyes and looked at the maid approaching, with a hint of anger on her face, "What's going on? Do you understand the rules?"
"Second Miss, it's not good, Xiaotong...she committed suicide..."
"What?"
In the chaos of war, no one noticed that a smile flashed across Lan Xi's eyes, a cold and strange smile.