Enter Chang Xiangsi and help Jingzhai fight

Seeing me staring at him, Tu Shanjing seemed a little embarrassed and asked, "Would you like some tea? This is Naxi Meiling. You can compare it with the Mianzhou Songling in the teahouse."

I thought to myself, how can I taste the difference? It's already good enough to be able to distinguish green tea, black tea, and oolong tea. But speaking of teahouses, I wanted to tease him, so I smiled at him and said, "Thank you, sir. By the way, I remembered something. The young lady of the Jiang family seemed to like you very much, but she was so ruthless. Why did you run away?"

His ears suddenly turned red, and he pursed his lips to blow the hot steam from the tea, and said quietly, "I won't run away. Do you want me to stay there and play a song with her? The Jiang family is also a famous family in the Central Plains. If I don't avoid suspicion, whether they send someone to ask about it later, or my grandmother hears about it and asks me to take a concubine, it will be a troublesome matter. I don't want to settle this bad debt."

I was stunned. I didn't expect that the etiquette here is like this. Playing a song together can be linked to marriage. Then I...

He stared at me and said, "Besides, I have no interest in her. The flowing water is ruthless, but if it doesn't sweep away the fallen flowers, it can be considered as affection."

I pondered the deep meaning of these words and couldn't help but be lost in thought.

At this time, Ruo Feng knocked on the door outside and said softly, "Young Master, the Madam has sent someone to invite you."

Tu Shanjing walked over, opened the door, and let Ruofeng in.

After hearing this, I struggled to stand up, supported my waist and went to get a comb to comb Tu Shanjing's hair which had been messed up by the wind during the day.

Tu Shanjing put on a blue-green robe with silver thread embroidered with sea clouds and asked me with a comb, "Does your waist still hurt? Or don't comb it?"

I bent down slightly and replied, "It's fine if you don't lower it too much. You should comb your hair. The wind has messed it up during the day."

Ruo Feng asked curiously: "Hey? Why does your waist hurt?"

As I untied Tu Shanjing's hair crown, I replied, "It's nothing, it just stretched a little."

Tu Shanjing instructed Ruofeng: "Go find Jingye to accompany me to grandma's banquet. Lanxiang will go to my eldest brother's place to deliver New Year's goods for me tonight, so follow her and don't let anything go wrong."

Ruo Feng bowed and said, "Yes, young master. I'll go find it now." After that, he turned around and walked out the door quickly.

After I combed Tu Shanjing's hair and put on a pearl-inlaid jade crown, Jingye and Ruofeng came over.

"Young Master, Ruofeng told me that she wanted to send New Year's goods. Now our courtyard hasn't purchased all of them yet. The game sent by Young Master Chunming is the most complete. I wonder if it is suitable?" Jingye bowed and asked hurriedly.

"Game is fine. You can ask Ruofeng to do it. We have to leave now." Tu Shanjing stood up, glanced at me, and said, "Be careful. I'm going to the banquet."

I bowed and said, "Don't worry, sir. Lanxiang knows."

Jingye nodded to me and followed Tu Shanjing out.

Ruo Feng said very tactfully, "Miss, if you have a backache, don't go back and forth. This is the medicine that the young master asked me to get. I will go to prepare the New Year's goods, and call you when I am ready. Let's go to the eldest young master's place and then come back for dinner."

I had eaten a lot at noon, so I wasn’t hungry at this time, so I nodded and said, “Thank you very much. I’ll just be lazy here.”

Ruofeng smiled and went to take care of it.

I stayed in the room, feeling a little restless. I thought about it, but I had no idea what to do at Tushanhou's place, but I felt unwilling to do nothing.

Ruofeng soon came back with a few bags, followed by a servant whom I didn't recognize. In his hand, the servant was holding something that looked like half a wild deer. It was frozen stiff and covered with a red cloth, with only one hoof exposed.

"Miss, this is Cheng Man who was transferred over from Aunt Zhao to help while you were away. There are too many things to carry, so he's coming with us."

The servant held up the half deer fan and bowed respectfully, saying, "Greetings, Miss Lanxiang."

I nodded: "Thank you. Let's go now. Ruofeng, can I get something for you?"

Ruo Feng stepped back and said, "No need, young lady, your waist hurts, just walk, don't carry these heavy things."

I thanked him and led them out the door towards Tushan Hou's residence.

As the New Year approaches, Tushan Mansion is decorated even more magnificently, with bright lights everywhere, octagonal gilded lamps and bright red lanterns hung high, and luminous pearls dotted in between.

I looked up at the light in the garden and forgot that I couldn't move my waist too much. A sharp pain came over me and I couldn't help but support my lower back with my hands.

"Girl?" Ruo Feng followed behind me and hurried forward to ask me.

"It's okay, it's okay, keep walking." I smiled at him, retracted my gaze, and concentrated on walking.

Tushan Hou's residence looked a little more gloomy than Tushan Jing's, but there were a few big red lanterns hung in the yard symbolically. It would have been fine if they weren't hung up, but once they were hung up, it seemed to add some ghostliness, which was quite creepy.

The guard at the door stopped us and asked, "Who are you?!"

Ruofeng stepped forward and said, "Brother, are you new here? You don't even recognize the Second Young Master? I'm Ruofeng, this is Miss Lanxiang, the Second Young Master's personal attendant, and here's Chengman from our place. We're here on the Second Young Master's orders to bring some wild game to the First Young Master for a taste of something new."

The two guards looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"Hey! Isn't this Ruofeng?!" A young servant wearing a melon green satin coat walked out of the door. He was short and had a square face, which made him look like a bloated winter melon.

"Hello, Brother Guanglin." Ruofeng bowed politely.

When I heard the name, my heart trembled. I looked at the servant carefully and saw a big black mole on his mouth with a long hair fluttering in the wind. He was the servant of Tushan Hou that Tushan Jing and Ruiyang had mentioned before. I guess he and Tushan Hou must be exhausted after traveling through mountains and rivers to rush back, so Tushan Hou let him rest here.

"You're welcome! I wonder what brings Miss Ruofeng and Miss Lanxiang here?" Guanglin was also looking me up and down.

"We are here to deliver New Year's goods to the eldest young master on behalf of the second young master. I wonder if the rules here are that we are not even allowed to enter the door and need to unload the goods at the door?" I said with a sneer.

"No, no! Miss Lanxiang is joking. This new gatekeeper doesn't know a great man, so how could I not recognize him? Please come in!" Guanglin rolled his eyes at the two guards, then put on a smiling face and invited us in.

I followed him into the door and saw that the courtyard was cleaned. There were no dead branches or snow on the ground, revealing the original blue bricks. There was a small rockery in the courtyard, and next to the rockery was a large snow pile with two lamps on it.

Seeing me looking at the snow pile, Guanglin smiled and said, "The eldest young master had a dream the other day. He dreamed of the master. When he woke up, he said that he and the master were building snowmen and watching lanterns in the dream. Now, they have started to build a snowman, and they won't let us remove it after we finished building it."

I smiled and said, "Young Master is so elegant and filial, it's so touching."