spring cloud warm

Chapter 24
Xu Chunjun and Jiang Nuan sat in the teahouse for nearly two hours, and the maids who went out for a stroll came back.

Jiang Nuan poured out all the unhappiness in her heart, and became lively and bright again.

"It's getting late, we should go back." Xu Chunjun picked up a handkerchief and helped Jiang Nuan wipe off the tea stains from his lips.

"I still have something to ask my sister for help." Jiang Nuan smiled a little shyly this time.

"You say, as long as I can help." Xu Chunjun is only one year older than Jiang Nuan, but he is extraordinarily calm and assertive.

Jiang Nuan often thought that it would be great if she had such a sister.

There is nothing to worry about.

"It will be my father's birthday in a few days. I have never given him a birthday gift. I want you to give me an idea of ​​what to give." Jiang Nuan is just like her name, born A warm heart.She will always remember the kindness of others to her.If you treat her badly, you will often forget about it as soon as you turn around.

Although her father did not fulfill the responsibility of raising her, he was her father after all, and Jiang Nuan still showed great filial piety to him.

"There is a shop selling the Four Treasures of the Study on this street. Let's go downstairs and have a look." Xu Chunjun happily agreed, "The gift is important, and it doesn't need to be expensive, otherwise it will make the elders unhappy."

"Everything my sister said is for my own good," Jiang Nuan took Xu Chunjun's hand and followed her to get up, "I will do whatever you say."

They came down from the second floor and saw a handkerchief dropped at the turn of the stairs.

Green watercraft bent down and picked it up.

"I don't know which lady's handkerchief fell off." Jiang Nuan glanced at it and said.

"Looking at the color of the pattern above, the owner of the handkerchief is not very old." Xu Chunjun speculated, "It's not good to drop this thing outside, it's better to give it back to others."

"Isn't Missy going to choose a gift for the master? I took this handkerchief and went upstairs to ask, and I will go to you after returning the handkerchief." Liu'er took the handkerchief from Lvshu and said.

"Let's go to the shop opposite," Xu Chunjun winked at Lvzhen, and said to Liu'er, "You can find us there after you return the handkerchief."

After coming out of the teahouse, Lüzhen tugged at the corner of Ziling's clothes, and asked in a low voice, "Why did the girl wink at me just now? I just wanted to be a companion with Liu'er."

"You idiot! Really don't know why Liu'er snatched the handkerchief from you?" Zi Ling asked her back.

"Why do you say?" Lvshi couldn't figure it out.

"Do you think this handkerchief is returned for nothing? No matter which family's lady loses something and is sent back by a maid from another family, she will be rewarded." Zi Ling lowered her voice and said, "Liu'er must not I would like someone to share the money with her."

Zi Ling suddenly realized, and couldn't help curling her lips.

I feel that Liu'er is too petty, even if they are servants, they don't have to show such an ugly look.

When they arrived at the store, Xu Chunjun helped Jiang Nuan choose an inkstone. Two lines of words were engraved on the side of the inkstone: the body is like a Nanshan stone, and the four bodies are healthy and straight.

"The words engraved on it are also auspicious, and it is suitable for you to give to Uncle Jiang." Xu Chunjun said to Jiang Nuan with a smile, "The price is also moderate."

"My father really likes inkstones very much. There are more than a dozen square meters in his study." Jiang Nuan rubbed the inkstone and said, "A few times when I went to say hello, I saw him playing with the inkstone. To be honest, I really don't like it. I know what's so good about this black lacquered stone lump."

"Giving a gift is to match what the person likes, as long as the recipient likes it." Xu Chunjun couldn't help laughing when he said this, remembering that he seems to have done nothing these days, only helping people choose gifts.

They asked the shopkeeper to wrap up the inkstone, and they paid back the silver, but Liu'er did not come.

"It's been a long time, hasn't she come out of the tea house yet?" Jiang Nuan asked suspiciously.

"I didn't see her come out." Ling Dang spoke softly, and Xu Chunjun didn't hear a few words from her.

"That's strange. There are only twenty or so private rooms in the teahouse, so why haven't you finished asking after so long?" Xu Chunjun also thought it shouldn't be.

"Anyway, the carriage is still there, why don't we go over and ask." Zi Ling said.

Then everyone walked back, and Ziling went into the teahouse to ask, but the shopkeeper also said that he didn't see Liu'er coming out.

"Sister Xu, it's getting late, you guys go back first! Let's wait here for a while, she must come out soon." Jiang Nuan felt that she had delayed Xu Chunjun for a long time, and didn't want to cause her any more trouble.

"It's not too late, Ziling and Green Watershed, you and Lingdang go upstairs to look for it." Xu Chunjun ordered his servant girl.

The three servant girls searched upstairs and downstairs, but they still didn't see Liu'er.

"We asked several guests in the private room on the second floor, and they all said that there was indeed a maid who asked them who had dropped their veil." Zi Ling was sweating on the tip of her nose, and she was a little out of breath when she spoke, "But we searched all over the teahouse. , and no Liu'er."

"Could it be that she went somewhere else?" Jiang Nuan just felt puzzled, "It's sunny, how can a living person disappear without seeing it?"

So Xu Chunjun went into the teahouse and asked the shopkeeper himself. The shopkeeper spread his hands and said, "I didn't see that girl go out, but I kept my head down to settle accounts, and I don't guarantee that she will go out during this period. Anyway, you have already settled the tea money. I There is no need to pay attention to it.”

Xu Chun saw that he couldn't find anything when he asked him, so he went upstairs to look for it with Jiang Nuan.

Didn't even find Liu'er.

"Let me tell you, you have searched several times, but you haven't found him. Obviously this person is no longer with us. Please don't disturb our business." The shopkeeper became impatient.

People who come here to drink tea are all dignified people, if they are always disturbed like this, the guests will of course be displeased.

"Sister Xu, let's wait outside, maybe Liu'er has really gone to another shop." Jiang Nuan tugged on Xu Chunjun's sleeve and said.

"But our coachman didn't see Liu'er either." Xu Chunjun only felt that this incident was rather strange. "If she goes shopping, she should explain it. There is no reason for us to wait."

When they were having a hard time making up their minds, a group of people came from there.

Xu Chunjun knew that he was a member of the Zhenfu Division who was in charge of the public security and defense of the capital, and he routinely patrolled the streets.

"Ask the officials to help, it will be faster than us to find it." Xu Chunjun said.

But before they opened their mouths, the leader came over and asked Xu Chunjun with a smile: "Miss Xu, what happened?"

Xu Chunjun suddenly remembered that this person was the son who picked up his pearl hairpin in the county prince's mansion that day.It's just because he was wearing an official uniform and hat today, so I didn't recognize him for a while.

(End of this chapter)