"……Ok."

Xue Mingli hesitated for a while, but still answered, but looked at the egret Qingque and a few maids standing behind Lu Jinxi.

Lu Jinxi immediately understood and turned around and said, "You all go outside and wait for me."

The egret blue bird followed.

Only the two of them were left in the house.

Lu Jinxi came up, sat sideways beside Xue Mingli, took her shoulders, helped her wrap the quilt tightly, and asked with a smile, "Now there's no one left, can we talk?"

Xue Mingli bit her lip and looked at her with a twinkle in her eyes.

But she really just wanted this to pass quickly.

So, she finally opened her mouth: "...Sister Lang said just now, mother, you don't want us anymore."

"..."

At that moment, Lu Jinxi's eyelids twitched and he was suddenly speechless.

In fact, she was relatively calm.

Because Sister Lang knew that Song Zhiyan's guess about this matter had been in her heart for a long time, but she didn't expect that Sister Li, who has always been gentle and quiet, would say it so bluntly.

However, Xue Mingli mustered up his courage, squeezed his fingers, and said everything he wanted to say.

"But when Mingli asked her questions, she used the fact that you started caring about Big Brother again to prevaricate me, and she refused to say anything."

"I am the eldest sister, and I am three years older than Sister Lang."

"Although I don't know what Sister Lang knows or what my mother is doing, Mingli believes: You won't want us."

Lu Jinxi listened, without refuting, just put a slight smile on her lips.

She reached out and touched Xue Mingli's head.

In the action, there is a little gentleness.

Xue Mingli suddenly felt very at ease.

She originally had a trembling voice, but gradually became calmer and more stable.

"My sister has a knife mouth and a tofu heart. She has a little temper, but she is very close to her mother on weekdays."

"Although I don't know what happened, Mingli lives with Sister Lang and knows her well. I want to tell my mother what happened recently."

"Mingli is still young, I don't know if these things will be a problem, but maybe it will be useful to my mother..."

She whispered softly.

Lu Jinxi suddenly felt that Sister Li's voice was very similar to her mother's. It was so soft and soft, and it had a reassuring taste.

Outside, the egret and the green sparrow have been waiting for a long time.

Egret didn't know the whole story at all, only a little sleepy; Qingque on the other side had personally handled the matter of sending a letter to Song Zhiyan, and he was already a little uneasy in his heart, raising his eyes from time to time to look inside.

After a full two or three minutes, Lu Jinxi came out of it: "Okay, let's go back too."

"Ma'am, how is it?"

Qingque still held Lu Jinxi's cape, came up and put it on her, but there was a bit of worry in her eyes.

Lu Jinxi knew what she was worried about.

When Sister Li said the sentence "Mother doesn't want us anymore", she was naturally surprised. But what she said later was actually unexpected to Lu Jinxi.

"I had a heart-to-heart talk with Sister Li, and it wasn't a big deal."

She didn't say much. When the cloak was fastened, she looked at the maids in the house and said, "It's quite cold in the second half of the night, so you don't have to send it away. Go in and serve it. Remember to pour some soup for Sister Li and Sister Lang. Tuck it under the covers, beware of freezing."

Several maids were a little frightened, and quickly agreed.

Lu Jinxi didn't intend to scold them. After speaking, he went out the door and went down the steps.

The moonlight falls like water.

She was walking on the porch leading to the front yard, looked up at the frosty white moon, and only instructed: "When it's dawn, you all go to the warehouse, but ask someone to cover the room of Sister Li Erlang with blankets. In this weather, walking barefoot on the ground is afraid of getting cold air."

Egret was speechless and wanted to say that it would be better for Sister Lang not to wear shoes. But on second thought, it is indeed more foolproof to lay a carpet...

For a moment he was speechless.

Qingque laughed: "I saw you didn't say anything just now, and the slaves still thought you didn't find out."

"Such a little girl, walking barefoot, I'm not blind." Lu Jinxi laughed softly, but did not reply much, only said, "How to deal with Sister Lang's affairs, you don't have to worry, I I already have an idea in my mind."

Just haven't made a final decision yet.

Almost everything in the conversation with Xue Mingli just now confirmed her guess.

The eldest daughter of the Lu family actually doesn't have much to say on weekdays. Among the Lu family's children, she plays a peaceful role.

But she did not expect that in dealing with these things, she could take into account both emotion and reason.

She didn't doubt anything in her words, just tried her best to put herself in the position of bystander, and recalled Sister Lang's recent actions.

As she herself said -

As someone who didn't know, she couldn't find out some details, but Lu Jinxi could.

In fact, Lu Jinxi did draw some useful inferences from the various information she gave.

For example, Sister Lang still has a deep yearning and longing for the father who can hardly remember his face;

For example, mothers and daughters depend on each other, so she has a strong dependence on the only mother;

For example, she likes to make friends, including He's daughter, Sister Zhu;

For example, she loves reading books, but once she came back from Sister Pearl, she turned over the "Girl's Ring" that was about to be dusted in the corner of the bookshelf...

Before leaving, Li sister asked her how to deal with the matter.

Lu Jinxi replied to her and said that she had already made up her mind. As long as she brought Sister Lang over to greet her tomorrow night, she would take care of the rest.

Thinking of this, Lu Jinxi had already seen the lights still lit in his study, and only said slowly: "I will go to the study as usual. I have to go out tomorrow, you should go to bed earlier, I will sleep in the study, you will get up early tomorrow. Zhang Luo, come and call me."

It was normal for Lu Jinxi to stay up late in the study for checking accounts.

Qing Que guessed that she was still thinking about Sister Lang's affairs, or wanted to be alone, so she didn't dare to say anything of concern, so she retire with Egret.

Lu Jinxi entered the study alone.

The old and new collections of books are neatly placed one by one, with a smell of ancient scrolls and ink. The chessboard sent by Gu Juefei earlier was placed on the chess table by the window, and the dim yellow light shone with its own warm luster. And that "Yishan Poems" was placed on the bookcase.

There are several pages of snow-white rice paper on the bookcase, the ink in the inkstone has dried a little, and a thin tube of lake pen rests on it, next to the inkstone drop that controls the amount of ink.

On the left is a stack of ledgers, and on the right is a small box.

Lu Jinxi walked over and sat down again.

Everything she had thought about before flashed through her mind again.

There are generally two ways to deal with Sister Lang's matter.

The first one, Bento himself is the Lu family.

Comfort the children, and leave your own life behind, never think about your previous identity, and be a widow with peace of mind.

The second is to take the initiative to educate Sister Lang.

Use her thoughts and concepts to influence the child and make her identify with everything about herself. To put it simply, it was brainwashing to completely remove Xue Minglang's old concepts and ideas.

For Lu Jinxi, the first one is definitely not in her consideration.

"Self" is the key to a person's identity.

From beginning to end, she just took care of her children on behalf of the Lu family, but she would not have any idea of ​​becoming Lu's family, and she would not confuse her identity and existence just because she passed through.