I'm a humble concubine. My acting skills are off the charts. You can check my performance.

If Zhao Fangyu had not been wearing a brocade jacket with peony lace today, the makeup and clothes of this sudden Miss Yao would have been 50% similar to Zhao Fangyu's.

Zhao Fangyu wore a jade-colored tiger-head jasmine tube top with a folded skirt, and a few small pearl hairpins on her head, but no step-shaking ornaments. She wore white jade gourd earrings. Compared to her usual make-up, which was like that of a pearl girl, it was not so obvious today.

Yao Yirong looked around calmly, and her eyes finally fell on Zhao Fangyu who was holding a phoenix-head guzheng.

Zhao Fangyu was young, but his appearance was stunning. Yao Yirong thought she was a rare beauty in the world, but she didn't expect that after meeting Zhao Fangyu, she would be inferior to him.

Zhao Fangyu didn't seem to notice that her makeup was intentionally imitating hers. Instead, he asked with a smile what she usually did for fun at home.

Shisiniang and the others watched for a while, and when they saw Li Lin's eyes moving implicitly between Zhao Fangyu and Yao Yirong, they couldn't help feeling a little annoyed.

Yao Yirong said that she had learned to play the pipa, and naturally joined Zhao Fangyu and his group.

Shisiniang was teaching Zhao Fangyu to play the Requiem. Yao Yirong was obviously familiar with the pipa and gradually learned half of the Requiem.

After all, she was not really angry with her. After Shisiniang and the others finished teaching the Requiem, the slight grudge they had towards Yao Yirong because of Zhao Fangyu slowly dissipated.

They couldn't help but ask about her family affairs.

Fortunately, the girls never exposed anyone's scars and mostly asked about customs and habits, just like when Zhao Fangyu first came.

Shisiniang and Zhao Fangyu were of similar age and played best together. After repeatedly observing Zhao Fangyu and Yao Yirong with her round eyes, she said, "I was wondering why I felt so close to Sister Yao the moment I saw her. It turns out that Sister Yao and Yu Niang are 50% alike."

Everyone nodded as they looked at it: "Indeed, Yu'er was also dressed like this when she came."

Zhao Fangyu smiled and pointed at the ten kinds of brocade jackets on his body: "So what? Now is the time to adapt to the local customs and pick some colorful ones to wear."

It is well known that Zhao Fangyu likes to dress simply, but after all, she is the girl under the name of the eldest lady, and she has a lot of good things in her hands.

Even if Li Lin wanted to find a similar set for Yao Yirong, she couldn't find so many good pearls at once.

Yao Yirong knew that she had fallen into her aunt's trap, but she was not angry. She smiled and explained, "I don't usually like to dress so plainly, but I was exhausted from the long journey and really didn't have the energy to dress up."

Of course she knew what her aunt was planning for her, but she was unwilling to follow blindly. There were many sons in the Li family, and it didn't necessarily have to be her aunt's son.

When she was at home, she was oppressed by her stepmother and could not go out. Filial piety was restricted in every way. The people left by her mother were also sent away. If someone had not come to report the news, Yao Yirong would probably have been married off by the stepmother.

Yao Yirong was very good at dealing with people, and in no time she was able to play with everyone. The girls put her and Zhao Fangyu together, one of them played the pipa with her slender white hands, and the other played the konghou with her rosy jade fingers. The pearls on their heads sparkled, and behind them was a mountain house, a garden modeled after the water villages of the south of the Yangtze River, so beautiful that one would want to be drunk with the flowers at one glance.

When the song ended, the whole garden fell silent. Even the younger ones like Zhao Fangmo sat there and listened to the tune attentively.

This is not a song from Longxi, but a minor tune from Jiangnan, accompanied by the Lanzhou lyrics written by Cui Lang. It may not be popular all over the country, but at least half of the ten people have heard it.

The style was completely different from that of Longxi, which made all the ladies of the Li family stop and watch.

Although they are 50% similar, obvious differences can be seen at this time.

Although Yao Yirong was dressed elegantly, she was not inferior to others in imposing manner. When she plucked the strings with her bare hands, she was like Gu Yue from the Moon Palace. Her ancestral home was in Zhongzhou, and her music had an indescribable vast meaning.

Zhao Fangyu's music was more ethereal and clear than Yao Yirong's, as if in the next moment, this brilliant and beautiful figure like a splendid concubine was going to ride a crane to fly straight to the Penglai Fairy Mountain to live in seclusion from the world.

The two grew up in completely different places, one in a pile of splendor, the other in a den of tigers and wolves, but Zhao Fangyu was not a child, he had suffered and worked hard, so it was not uncomfortable for him to play a song with Yao Yirong's melody.

The sound of the pipa is mournful and the konghou is clear and melodious. There is no better music and person than this, and can compare to the scene of the fairy flowers blooming today.

Some words don't need to be said much, the two of them could also discover a hint of kindness from the music, they smiled at each other, and for a moment they felt like they were close friends.

It was getting late, so Yao Yirong left on the pretext of something. Zhao Fangjin followed Jiu Niang to go boating on the lake. In the garden, only Zhao Fangyu sat there playing the guzheng, accompanying Zhao Fangmo and his younger brothers to play the jujube mill.

Suddenly, the voice of "Fourth Sister" rang out, and Zhao Fangyu was so frightened that he almost dropped the konghou in his hand!

This is not an easy item to buy. If it breaks, you will have to ask the lady to compensate for it.

Zhao Fangyu placed the guzheng neatly on the table before turning around to see who the person was.

It is not difficult to guess that the only one in the Li family who can call her "Fourth Sister" is Meng Yangjiang.

Zhao Fangyu took a few steps back and saluted Meng Yangjiang from a distance.

When they met again, Meng Yanjiang was no longer the foreign boy in colorful peacock clothes. Now Meng Yanjiang had taken off the earrings made of peacock tail feathers, and still had a pigtail and jeweled headband on his head, just like before. However, due to days of wind and sun, his skin color had become similar to Shi Er Lang's.

Although his skin was not as shiny as Shierlang's, Meng Yangjiang could still see some of the nobleness and arrogance of a young man from an aristocratic family.

"Don't be afraid, Fourth Sister. I'm here to apologize."

Seeing this, the smile on Meng Yanjiang's face became a little forced.

But it was no wonder that Zhao Fangyu avoided him as if he were a flood or a beast. Who told him that he was young and ignorant at the time, and was so reckless and rude?

Knowing that Zhao Fangyu didn't want to have much to do with him, Meng Yanjiang smiled bitterly in his heart, but his face remained the same as usual: "I was very offensive in my words when I was young, I hope Fourth Sister will forgive me."

Meng Yanjiang knew that it was the Zhao family's idea for him to come to the border, but he was rude first, so he couldn't blame anyone. He heard that she was even scared sick by him...

He didn't know at the time that her situation was so difficult, even worse than his.

I have also thought about how my words and actions when I was young brought her a lot of troubles, and I felt regretful.

If he hadn't been young and willful, Meng Yunxiang wouldn't have caught her now...

Meng Yanjiang had already experienced Meng Yunxiang's poison. When he learned that Meng Yunxiang had set his eyes on Zhao Fangyu, Meng Yanjiang felt even more guilty.

I thought it was just a joke, but it hurt her for many years and gave her something to hold against her.

"Don't worry, Fourth Sister. Sixth Sister has been engaged and will marry in Sichuan in the future. You don't need to worry about her, Fourth Sister."

"Since I came to Jiayu Pass, I have become indifferent to many things. If you see my little six after returning to Beijing, please tell her that everything is fine in Longxi and she doesn't need to worry. If Yunxiang has any problems, just write to let me know. As long as she is in the Zhao family, I will take care of her."

"I came to the Li family to discuss something, and I also visited the eldest lady. I haven't seen you for a long time, so I hope you take care of yourself after we part."