Marrying Gold and Jade

"I, I didn't think..."

Lin Yu didn't know how to explain.

Was I doing something wrong? Wan Ying wanted to see him, didn't he want me to avoid him temporarily?

What else is there to say? Are you in a hurry to push him out?

The noise in the yard was getting closer and closer until the door of the house was thrown open from the outside.

"Lin Yu, what are you doing?"

The evening welcome made a great first impression, and then we saw the snacks on the table.

Among them is the peach pancake.

Qihetang usually has this, but now the oil paper has been removed and put on a plate, so I don’t know if it is the one I drugged.

Lin Yu noticed that something was wrong with her, and since Lin Ji on the opposite side had a weird attitude, she had no time to play Tai Chi with him.

"Talking to my brother, what do you think I'm doing?"

Wan Ying continued to observe her carefully.

It seemed that the food was used to entertain her. Lin Yu was spoiled and certainly did not have such good self-control. If she was really drugged, she would have been unable to sit still by now.

She went to see Lin Ji again and saw that his expression remained unchanged and his breathing was not even rapid, so she knew that he probably hadn't eaten either.

"I...it's so late, are you guys having a tea party?"

She even came uninvited and moved the round stool to sit at the table.

The atmosphere has become extremely weird.

Lin Yu really couldn't sit still, but just as she was about to move, the man opposite her glanced at her and ordered her not to leave.

Since Wan Ying asked if they were having a tea party, she had to pretend to be calm and asked back, "Are you here to join us?"

Two men and one woman held a tea party in Lin Ji's Qihe Hall around the first watch of the night.

Absolutely ridiculous!

But Lin Ji didn't say anything, so Lin Yu became annoyed and picked up the snack in front of him.

"Don't eat it!"

Her wrist froze in the middle of the move, and she looked suspiciously at Wan Ying on her left, "Why not?"

After that, he rebelled and stuffed the whole piece into his mouth.

"Hey--"

Wan Ying tried to stop him with her teeth bared and claws, wishing she could put her hand into Lin Yu's mouth, but her wrist was suddenly clamped with a strong force.

A man's strength naturally comes from Lin Ji.

Seeing that he was still defending himself, Lin Yu felt a little relieved. His cheeks moved again and again, and he chewed the preserved fruit without caring about his image.

Seeing that he couldn't spit out anything anymore, Wan Ying thought to himself that he was doomed.

Not long after, he stood up again and took the initiative to say, "You've eaten that thing, and it's so late, when are you going back?"

Without explaining his purpose, he just urged her to leave.

Lin Yu did not doubt her motives and thought she was just here to "check on the ward."

Having accompanied her enough, he stopped looking at Lin Ji's expression and stood up and said, "I'll go back first."

The drug didn't take effect that quickly. Wan Ying stared at her departing figure until she disappeared into the dark courtyard, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

Just go back.

Even if she had a tantrum when she got back, Lin Ji would not be by her side.

If this medicine today helps the two of them to "make a fait accompli", I will be so upset that I will die.

"Well, if there's nothing else, I'll go back too."

The man at the table said nothing.

His thin lips were slightly pursed, his eyes drooped as he stared at the plates of snacks in front of him, and then he realized something.

Just when Wan Ying thought he would get suspicious, Lin Ji looked up and said, "Go back."

She ran away in a panic again.

There was no one in the room, and Lin Ji recalled what Lin Yu had just said.

She said the color of the preserved fruit was wrong and it was not what she usually bought.

Just now I thought it was an excuse she made to smooth things over.

"Cao Shun."

Someone immediately came in from outside, "Sir?"

"Who took over the peach pancake today? Go and interrogate them immediately."

Cao Shun remembered it very clearly. It was a maid who brought it here. There were only two maids doing chores in Qihe Hall.

……

In autumn, the nights are as cool as water.

Lin Yu became more and more irritated as she walked, and she felt that her thin clothes were very stuffy, which caused her to pull several times.

It was Zhu Lian who accompanied her out. When they returned, Qingdai told her that after Mingyuan left, she went into the greenhouse and no one knew what she was doing in the middle of the night.

Mingyuan.

She was already very irritable on the way back, and when she heard the name, her irritability became even worse.

Inexplicably, she recalled Mingyuan's disheveled appearance as he hurried out of the bath that night.

I really want to see him.

"Is he in the greenhouse?"

Qingdai really refused to give in this time, "Girl, it's time to go to bed now."

But Lin Yu couldn't listen.

He grabbed the lantern and walked out, "I just want to see him!"

"Eh--"

Before Qingdai could start shouting, Zhulian comforted her: "Just now in the young master's courtyard, Miss Wanying suddenly came and I don't know what she said to the young lady."

This explains her abnormality.

"You followed just now, now it's my turn to accompany the young lady."

However, the lantern was taken away by Lin Yu, so she tried to light a new one, which delayed her for a while.

Lin Yu walked quickly on the road and was breathing rapidly when he arrived at the greenhouse.

When I looked closely, I saw that the room was full of lights.

Some are candlesticks, and some are like lanterns held in the hands, illuminating the entire greenhouse as if it were daytime.

"Don't candles cost money?" She only said this one sentence before taking a slight breath.

When Mingyuan turned around and saw that it was her, he stopped what he was doing.

When coming out of Yaoguang Courtyard, Lin Yu was angry with himself. Mingyuan didn't expect that she would come to him after such a while.

Without paper and pen, communication returned to the most basic gestures.

Seeing that he could no longer hide the truth, he pointed to the row of flowers in front of him.

They are all of the same variety, and all have large, plump flower buds that seem ready to bloom at any time.

"Epiphyllum?" She recognized it immediately.

Thinking that he wanted to come to the greenhouse himself tomorrow and light the lights here in the middle of the night, Lin Yu understood.

Epiphyllums bloom at night, but you can light a candle in advance and place them in a dim room to make them bloom during the day.

So, he was preparing for this.

"Don't wait until tomorrow, just tonight, I want to see the flowers bloom."

Perhaps it was because the windows were closed and there were too many lights on in the room, Lin Yu's back was a little sweaty, but he sat down cross-legged with interest.

Waiting for the night-blooming cereus to bloom is a process that requires great patience.

She was extremely irritable now, but she really wanted to be with someone.

It was very late and Mingyuan shouldn't have agreed, but when he thought about his plan and how long he would be separated from her, he began to waver.

The candles in the bright greenhouse went out one by one.

In the meantime, Qingdai came in once, received instructions and then waited outside.

In the end, only the lantern beside Lin Yu's legs remained, softly outlining her figure.

Mingyuan has always been quiet. After turning off the lights, he followed her example and sat cross-legged next to her.

It’s neither too far nor too close, with just enough space for one more Lin Yu in the middle.

There were clearly fewer candles, but Lin Yu didn't feel cooler. Instead, the breathing of the people around him became more obvious.

By the time she really realized that she was not feeling well, Mingyuan had already sat with her for a quarter of an hour.

"A Yuan, I..."

Just as she was about to move, her body fell limply to one side, leaning firmly on the shoulder of the man next to her.