Chapter 44 Birthday Eve
Liu Qingyan sat upright in the yard alone, looking at the roof with dry eyes, because the direction of the roof was the only way Lu Siguan would pass every time he came.
Every time Lu Siguan goes to Lu's mansion to find Liu Qingyan, he never goes through the main door and back door because he doesn't want to attract the attention of Lu's mansion, especially Lu Guozheng.
"This guy won't go back on his word again, right?" Liu Qingyan said to herself.
The Lu Mansion was busy hanging lanterns and pasting couplets. Because of the Empress Dowager's birthday, the emperor increased his salary to the court officials and asked officials from all over the capital to take the lead in decorating their residences.
The Empress Dowager's birthday is celebrated together. The emperor hopes to make the Empress Dowager's health amid the blessings.
Only in the courtyard where Liu Qingyan lives, no servant came to decorate it.
In fact, there is no reason for this. No servant in the Lu Mansion dares to get too close to Liu Qingyan and cannot speak for her. If a similar situation occurs, the servant will definitely be driven out of the Lu Mansion.
And if you fight Liu Qingyan in the Lu Mansion, you will be praised by Mrs. Lu. What’s even more excessive is that some servants will double the Yueyin because of making things difficult for Liu Qingyan.
"Hmph, what's the use of these superficial prosperity?" Liu Qingyan felt a little disappointed, because she saw the joy in the Lu family, and she remembered the scene when she was spending the New Year at the Liu family.
At this time, the night was beautiful, and I was alone.
Just as he looked up at the moonlight, he suddenly felt a black shadow flashing in front of him. Liu Qingyan thought he had read it wrong, and rubbed his eyes and found that there was indeed someone in the distance.
Looking at the sleeves floating in the wind and the figure walking in the air, Liu Qingyan knew that this person was Lu Siguan.
She slowly stood up from the stone bench and looked at the direction Lu Siguan came.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Siguan had arrived in front of him, "This is for you." Lu Siguan took out a bouquet of flowers from behind. Although the night was a little dim, the moonlight could tell that these flowers were so beautiful.
The fragrance of flowers was immediately floating in the whole yard. Liu Qingyan quickly took the bouquet and leaned over her nose to smell it. "It smells so good."
Lu Siguan looked at the smile on Liu Qingyan's face quietly. He thought of Lu Huaixiang's smile when he was a child, but he couldn't see so much sourness in that smile.
Liu Qingyan looked at the flowers in her hands for a long time, and her eyes never left the petals in a second. Suddenly, Lu Siguan found that there were tears falling from the corner of Liu Qingyan's eyes.
Then he looked a little sad, and the tears in his eyes flashed under the moonlight.
"What's wrong? Unhappy?" Lu Siguan asked softly, handing over the white handkerchief he had with him.
"Thank you, I just felt a little lonely. The capital was so lively tonight, but my courtyard was so quiet that I could clearly hear the frogs and insects ringing." Liu Qingyan said softly.
"Isn't it all said today that I'll come to see you in the evening? Look at you so stupid!" Lu Siguan said with a smile, reaching out to touch Liu Qingyan's hair. The peace at this moment was something Lu Siguan had dreamed of for many years.
"Although the flowers came a little late, this is also the best gift I have received in the past six months." It has been half a year since I resurrected Lu Huaixiang, and Liu Qingyan has lived more of dire straits in the past six months.
Only in recent days, the capital has been panicked because of Lord Du's affairs. It seems that someone has forgotten Liu Qingyan, but she has given her a quiet and peaceful world.
This is just a moment of tranquility. Tomorrow's birthday, the empress dowager will be on its birthday. At this time, several people will be heading to the capital, including Qin Muyu, Lu Guozheng, nine thousand years old, and Du Yuyan... all have ulterior motives.
After being ridiculed by Liu Qingyan, Du Yuyan returned to Du's mansion. After meditating for a few hours, he secretly swore in his heart that he would let Liu Qingyan bury her father.
Then the birthday of the Empress Dowager tomorrow is a strategy that Du Yuyan and Mrs. Lu had already planned together. She had some concerns before. Since her father was ordered by the emperor to be executed by Qiuhou, Du Yuyan no longer cared about it and didn't care about everything.
At this time, she had only one belief - to take revenge on Liu Qingyan.
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"Yes, when will you teach me martial arts?" Liu Qingyan asked softly at Lu Siguan in front of her.
Liu Qingyan's voice seemed particularly gentle. This was the first time she talked to people in this tone since the accident of the Liu family. It was a kind of weakness that belonged to a woman.
After the Liu family was destroyed, she did not want to show her weakness in her heart to others. Unexpectedly, she would show it unnaturally today, and Liu Qingyan didn't know it.
Lu Siguan was caught off guard by this sudden tenderness and didn't say anything for a long time.
"I will teach you martial arts now. It will be easier to practice with good moonlight." Lu Siguan glanced around and said softly.
"Come on, I'm ready." Liu Qingyan put the bouquet in her hand on the stone table, and then made a battle that seemed to be a big deal.
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Lu Siguan walked to Liu Qingyan in one step, reached out to her waist, and jumped gently to the air with Liu Qingyan.
Liu Qingyan looked down at the brightly lit capital in the air and couldn't help but sigh, "It turns out that the night in the capital is so moving."
Slowly, Liu Qingyan subconsciously hugged Lu Siguan tightly, closing her eyes and feeling the warmth of this moment.
"Why, I'm reluctant to let go!"
Lu Siguan's voice made Liu Qingyan come back to her senses from the scene that seemed like a dream. When she opened her eyes, she realized that she had already hugged Liu Qingyan tightly in front of her chest.
After hesitating for a half second, Liu Qingyan suddenly let go of her hand, "What is this?"
"This is the back mountain of the imperial city. Few people come here at night. Usually I will come here alone to practice martial arts." Lu Si said as he watched Liu Qingyan.
The embarrassment just now made Liu Qingyan blush instantly. No matter what Lu Siguan said, she nodded, even if she didn't understand what Lu Siguan was talking about.
"Did you have a foundation in martial arts before?" Lu Siguan asked directly.
Liu Qingyan gestured casually for Lu Si to watch, and Lu Siguan covered his eyes with his hands.
It’s not that Lu Siguan couldn’t bear to look at him, but that Liu Qingyan was not called a martial arts movement at all, and it seemed that her body was not at all harmonious.
Lu Siguan held back and didn't laugh out loud, "Okay, I will teach you slowly. You must forget those actions just now."
Lu Siguan started with the most basic horse stance teaching. Liu Qingyan learned it seriously, but it was not easy for this person who had no skills to learn martial arts. Lu Siguan taught horse stance movements for nearly an hour.
Finally, I was able to make a look, but I could only hold on for a quarter of an hour.
"How could there be someone as stupid as you? How could you live so big? You should have been so stupid long ago." Lu Siguan said helplessly.
Liu Qingyan was very angry when she heard this, but she did not argue with Lu Siguan, but just tried her best to do the only action she had just learned.
Seeing that Liu Qingyan was very serious, Lu Siguan did not make fun of her anymore, but instead guided her more carefully.
"Okay, I'll learn this today's horse stance. I'll teach you a self-defense footstep movement. This movement can prevent some people from attacking you behind your back." While speaking, Lu Siguan fully demonstrated the movement.
"No, you're too fast, do it again." Liu Qingyan looked at Lu Siguan and said anxiously.
Lu Siguan could only break down the movements one by one according to Liu Qingyan's request and practiced them for her to see.
"Okay, I've played it three times, you can practice it yourself." After that, Lu Siguan jumped onto the treetops and watched Liu Qingyan in the distance thinking about the martial arts movements just now.
Half an hour passed, and Liu Qingyan still couldn't play out the movement in full, and seemed a little angry at this time.
Liu Qingyan originally wanted to learn martial arts to avenge the Liu family, but she didn't expect that this martial arts was so difficult to learn, much more difficult than she thought. In her mind, practicing martial arts was similar to dancing.
Lu Siguan could see clearly from the side, and Liu Qingyan kept pounding the trunk beside her, as if she was taking the tree out of breath.
After a while, maybe she was tired, Liu Qingyan actually stopped.
Did Lu Si watch Liu Qingyan? She actually danced. Her skillful dance posture, her graceful body, and the soft moonlight... This scene only comes from the sky and the hardest news on earth.
Every gentle waving movement of Liu Qingyan, she smiled at every frown and smiled, and Lu Siguan felt that she was knocking on her heart.
He hasn't seen such a dance posture for more than ten years. The last time he saw it was in the thatched hut by the lake, which was with Lu Huaixiang when he was a child more than ten years ago.
Lu Siguan stared at the scene in front of him. He did not dare to blink, afraid of missing any small action or any wonderful moment.
Time flies away in seconds, and it was already three o'clock when Lu Siguan came to his senses.
Lu Siguan flew to Liu Qingyan and said softly, "So beautiful, you are beautiful tonight."
"I don't know why I danced this dance. Is it really good to pull me and ask me to dance?" Liu Qingyan looked at Lu Siguan and asked.
"Yes, it's better than everyone I've ever seen, but you don't dance this dance easily in front of others in the future unless it's absolutely necessary." Lu Siguan's tone was very confident, because this dance posture was the most beautiful in his heart.
"Okay, it's already a little late tonight. I'll take you back to rest." Lu Siguan hugged Liu Qingyan and sent her back to the Lu Mansion.
Then Lu Siguan left.
After Lu Siguan left, Liu Qingyan lay alone on the bed in the room, holding flowers in her hands, recalling everything about tonight.
Liu Qingyan, who had already given up on men, seemed to have a small flame burned in her heart. This was the second time that she couldn't sleep because of Lu Siguan.
I don’t know when I will go to bed, but I slept until the morning of the next day.
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"Get up... get up..." Liu Qingyan was awakened by a series of rapid knocks on the door. She opened her eyes and found that the genius was slightly bright.
Chapter completed!