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Chapter 21 was chosen by my sister, didn't she?

The Xie family's birthday banquet didn't end until nightfall.

The guests left the residence and returned home, and Yunxi was also tired, so he ate longevity noodles with Mrs. Xie, and said a lot of congratulatory speeches, which made her smile so much that she rubbed her eyes and said she was sleepy.

So he bid farewell to everyone and took Lvqi back to Tangluo Garden.

Lu Qi came back before the dinner.

A good girl, with a cut on her forehead and red eyes, she obviously cried a lot.

Yun Xi sighed, looked at the wound on her forehead and asked her, "Does it hurt?"

Her voice was soft, Lu Qi sniffed, her eyes became even redder.

"It hurts." She asked her in a low voice, "Girl, will I lose my appearance?"

"Now I'm worried, why don't you look at me when you walk?"

It's okay not to say, but after talking about it, Luqi became more and more angry, touched her forehead and muttered: "I clearly saw it, and it's also strange, how many times I have to walk in and out on weekdays, I can remember it without looking at it." How could I stumble over it today? Girl, do you think I’ve run into something evil? Why don’t we go to the temple tomorrow to pray.”

"What are you praying for?" Yun Xi snorted secretly, gently twisting the crabapple cake in his hand, and crumbs fell all over the floor.

"People's hearts are terrible, so what's the use of worshiping Buddha?"

Luqi didn't understand it at the time, and after a long time of ignorance, she still didn't understand.

She followed Yunxi, watching her green gauze dress pass by the veranda.

Then around the corner, the hem of the skirt fell silent for an instant.

"Brother Xingzhi."

Yun Xi Na Na opened her mouth, lowered her eyes again, twisted her skirt with pale fingers and said nothing, and did not look at the figure standing opposite her with her hands behind her back.

"Sister, where are you going in such a hurry?"

He couldn't stand the hospitality of his tablemate at the dinner party, so he drank two more glasses, his eyes were drunk at the moment, and his voice was also drunk.

"I'll go back to Tangluo Garden." She answered obediently, still bowing her head.

Xie Heng smiled, took out the white jade hairpin from his sleeve and handed it to her, "My sister's hairpin fell to me."

She looked up suddenly.

The lights flickered under the eaves, he smiled gently and looked at her quietly.

"Thank you brother..." she murmured, accepting the hairpin in a daze.

It took a long time to recover, and she turned her head to tell Luqi, "I'm here to talk to my brother for a while. It's getting cold, go back to the garden and get me a cloak."

Lu Qi responded.

It wasn't until the figure disappeared at the end of the veranda that Yunxi pursed her lips and tightly clenched the white jade hairpin in her hand.

Xie Heng kept looking down at her.

There is no one around, and everything is silent.Only the faint candlelight under the eaves shone on the girl's slightly trembling eyelashes.

After a long time, she finally made up her mind, gritted her teeth, and said, "Big brother, nothing happened."

Her voice trembled imperceptibly, and further down, the hand holding the white jade hairpin also trembled slightly.

"My brother is going to marry his sister-in-law next year, and I will follow my grandmother's advice to marry brother Xu."

The girl couldn't help sobbing, tears filled her eyes covered by her long eyelashes, "I will forget all about it."

"Elder brother forget it too. Just pretend nothing happened. After today, elder brother is still my good elder brother."

"Did nothing happen?" He followed her words and asked her, smiled again, and stroked her tear-soaked cheek with his fingertips, "Then why is my sister crying?"

"My sister wants to whitewash the peace and cover it up. But how to cover it up?"

Gently lifting her chin, he looked at her with a deep voice, "Isn't it done?"

"My sister chose it herself, didn't she?"

(End of this chapter)