The rest of the Wen family had already arrived at the pier where Wen Wanzheng and his wife's flower boat was docked, and the couple had already been waiting at the pier.
"Where's Jiao Jiao?"
Wen Wanzheng and her mother looked at each other with tears. After meeting the other younger siblings of the Wen family, they found that Wen Jiaojiao hadn't come yet.
"Still behind."
Aunt Meng wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and turned to look back.
Wen Wanzheng followed Aunt Meng's line of sight and soon saw Wen Jiaojiao standing in front of a stall selling lanterns not far away. She was very eye-catching in her red dress.
She also saw a young man with a tall figure and outstanding temperament beside her.
"Beside Jiao Jiao, that's..."
Aunt Meng smiled slightly and said, "It's the second son of the Xiao family."
"Erlang Xuan'an? He has grown so big."
When Wen Wanzheng got married, he was not yet sixteen. He still looked like a child, but he seemed to be a good man who was upright and upright.
Wen Zhao on the side said excitedly: "I'll call the fourth sister over."
"Hey, Zhao, don't go."
The mother and daughter grabbed Ah Zhao at the same time, and then looked at each other and smiled in tacit understanding.
Wen Wanzheng patted the ignorant little brother and said, "No need to call you Fourth Sister. Let her have fun on her own for a while. I'll ask two boys to follow me. We will get on the boat after she has had enough fun."
Wen Wanzheng took everyone in the Wen family on board the boat. Wen Jiaojiao was still looking at the various lanterns. For every style she liked, Xiao Xuanan asked people around her to buy the same style for her to take home.
superior.
"Miss Wen!"
A clear voice came, and Wen Jiaojiao and Xiao Xuanan both turned their heads and saw a handsome young man walking quickly towards them with a happy face.
This is Lingyang Hou Shizi, Qi Shuo.
"I said it looked like you from a distance, and it turned out to be you."
Qi Shuo walked up to Wen Jiaojiao and looked at Wen Jiaojiao with bright dog eyes.
Xiao Xuanan stood sideways to block Qi Shuo and said coldly: "Is there something wrong, Your Majesty?"
Qi Shuo saw that Xiao Xuanan was blocking his view of Wen Jiaojiao, and changed his position to face her, "Miss Wen, are you here to swim in the lake too? I happened to have chartered a flower boat, and Miss Wen can swim with me."
Xiao Xuanan saw Qi Shuo getting closer and closer, stretched out his hand to push him, "No need, Prince Qi, we have our own boat."
Qi Shuo: "Then I can come with you."
Xiao Xuanan didn't expect that Qi Shuo would be so shameless and would follow them no matter what.
Wen Jiaojiao looked at Qi Shuo staring at her with anticipation on his face. If there was a tail behind him, he would probably be wagging it.
Hey, fixing the dog's hook or something, it's so cute.
She couldn't bear it, so... she rejected Qi Shuo.
"Your Majesty, today is my eldest sister's return home to reunite with her family, so it is inconvenient for her to be with the Crown Prince. The Crown Prince might as well go and play on her own."
After saying that, Xiao Xuanan took Wen Jiaojiao and turned around to leave.
Qi Shuo was rejected by Wen Jiaojiao and felt lost for a moment. He immediately adjusted his mood and followed her not far or near.
Xiao Xuanan glanced behind him and saw Qi Shuo still following him. The veins on his forehead jumped. This Qi Shuo was really a dog.
Wen Jiaojiao also followed Xiao Xuanan's movements and looked back. Qi Shuo was following them not far or near. It seemed that he had made up his mind to follow her.
In the days after returning from the paddock, Qi Shuo visited her several times, but she always refused her on the grounds that she was not well.
He left a lot of gifts and said he would come to visit her when she got better.
Originally, he also wrote a letter to invite her to the Lake Lantern Festival this time, and Xiao Yurong saw it. Xiao Yurong still held the letter and laughed there for a long time.
He said that Qi Shuo was a little fool, and even praised him for being cute.
Xiao Yurong knew about the Marquis of Lingyang, and naturally she also knew about Qi Shuo. She had even included Qi Shuo among the candidates for choosing a son-in-law.
Xiao Yurong had suffered losses herself and knew that civil servants were sentimental and unfeeling. She also had a clever mouth and most of the ink in her belly was used to deceive women. Because of Wen Tingshan, she had no good impression of civil servants and disliked him very much.
But Wen Jiaojiao's marriage still depends on what she likes.
Of course she hopes that she can make the decision for her, but if she doesn't like it, no matter how she makes the decision, it will be in vain.
It was precisely because Xiao Xuanan knew that Qi Shuo had some connection with the Xiao family, and the Xiao family quite liked Qi Shuo, that he was so afraid of him.
If he hangs around Wen Jiaojiao every day, becomes familiar even if he has no feelings for her, and exchanges a few words with her here and there, it will be very difficult for him to develop further.
He couldn't let Qi Shuo just push the little cabbage he had watched grow up like this.
Qi Shuo's purpose was too clear. If he could, he would hire him immediately. He couldn't help but be on guard.
"Second brother, let's get on the boat. Eldest sister must still be waiting for us to sail."
"good."
In order to prevent Qi Shuo from following them, Wen Jiaojiao and Xiao Xuanan walked to Wen Wanzheng's boat.
Wen Wanzheng and Aunt Meng were waiting for Wen Jiaojiao and the others on one of the flower boats. The rest of the Wen family were on another boat and had already gone to swim on the lake.
After seeing Wen Jiaojiao and the others boarding the boat, they sailed towards the center of the lake.
After Wen Jiaojiao and her eldest sister had a meal on the boat, they lay on the side of the boat and looked at the various flower boats on the lake.
Yuzhu and the others were hanging lanterns on the boat. They were the lanterns she had just spotted on the shore. They were very beautiful hanging on the boat.
Wen Wanzheng and Aunt Meng were chatting and reminiscing about the past, and Wen Jiaojiao did not disturb their mother-daughter reunion.
She was slightly seasick and didn't eat much for dinner. Xiao Xuanan stood beside her, took out a cloth bag from her arms, and poured out a few pieces of candy from the bag.
"I know you will feel a little uncomfortable on the boat, so I bought you orange candies. You will feel better after eating them."
Wen Jiaojiao took a piece of candy that exuded the sweet smell of orange from Xiao Xuanan's hand and stuffed it into his mouth, hugged Xiao Xuanan's arm, raised his head and smiled at him: "Thank you, second brother."
Xiao Xuanan touched Wen Jiaojiao's head and looked at her with gentle eyes, "How can I say thank you to my second brother?"
Wen Jiaojiao suddenly thought of something and said to Xiao Xuan'an: "The second brother is the best brother given to me by the tree god."
After hearing this, Xiao Xuan'an remembered the time when Wen Jiaojiao stood under the tree when he was a child, waiting for his brother who grew up in the tree. He couldn't help laughing and said: "It seems that Xiaoyue'er still remembers that I grew up on the tree?"
Wen Jiaojiao suddenly remembered that Wen Ruyue fell into an icy lake when she was six years old and had a high fever. She couldn't remember anything before. The matter of her brother growing up in the tree happened before she was six years old.
Wen Jiaojiao said to Xiao Xuanan: "Well, my mother-in-law told me that when I was a child, I hoped that a brother would grow on the tree and come out to me, and then there would be a second brother."
Xiao Xuan'an looked at her with a gentle smile. Looking at the bright face in front of him, Xiao Xuan'an's heart moved, his throat moved, and he couldn't help but ask: "Yue'er, do you just want a brother?"