Sweet Beauty Chapter 36: Crash and get away

Li went to Jingshu's room to apologize, Jingshu smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, my sister is in Zhuangzi, the aunt and the aunt want to come to visit, and the grandmother has spoken again, where is there anything my sister-in-law can't say? Power?"

Li sighed and said, "Is this my fault? I don't know how to turn around. This suddenly caused trouble for my sister."

Jing Shu smiled, shook her head and said, "Sister-in-law, you have seen it too, it's not too much trouble, it's just that something happened suddenly today, which made the eldest aunt and the third aunt a bit neglectful. It would be good to ask my sister-in-law to help clarify it then.”

Li shi was stunned for a while, then she smiled softly at Jing Shu, and said warmly: "It's natural, my sister is here to meditate and pray for her mother and grandmother. The eldest aunt and the third aunt will not blame the younger sister for neglecting her, so the younger sister can rest assured."

Jing Shu smiled when she heard the words. Although her sister-in-law has a softer temperament, she has always been smart and kind.

But Li said in her heart that when she saw this little sister-in-law three years ago, she only thought that she was a pampered girl who was carved out of pink and jade. The incident of "chasing each other" made the old lady suspicious, thinking that this little sister-in-law was too careless to raise, but now it seems that it is not necessarily, I am afraid there is some mystery here, this little sister-in-law looks forward to Shenfei, frowning and laughing. It has been the first time to see the stunning beauty, the speech is exquisite and clear, the words are deep, where is the stupidity, it is clearly a look of Chen Zhu with a calm mind.

She looked at Zhuangzi, thought about Bai Mansion, thought about the Chen family she saw last time, and the love and stubbornness of her father-in-law's upright character to this little sister, she vaguely guessed something. clues.

After a half-hour break, everyone sorted out their descriptions and said goodbye to Jingshu. When the third wife, Wei Shi suddenly asked Jing Shu to let her daughter Bai Jingyan and her concubine Bai Jingrou stay, the first lady Yang Shi And Li Shi both frowned.

Wei Shi said: "This is also what your grandmother meant. I feel sorry for Sister Shu, you first arrived in Beijing, but because of the fate, you were sent to this remote place to clean up. Your grandmother is actually very unbearable. , so I specially asked Sister Yan and Sister Rou to come and accompany you, so that you can talk and relieve your boredom on weekdays."

Jing Shu had been prepared for a long time, so she was not surprised at all, nor did she reject it on the face.

She smiled and said: "The fourth cousin and the sixth cousin are willing to stay and accompany me to chant the scriptures and pray for my grandmother, which is naturally good, but the life here is also seen by the third aunt and the fourth cousin and the sixth cousin. As long as you don't dislike it, just stay here."

Bai Jingyan felt a little flustered when she said it calmly. She looked at her mother, but Weiss didn't care about her daughter's small eyes. After hearing Jingshu's agreement, she smiled and said: " Don't dislike it, don't dislike it, you are good sisters and get along well. Sister Shu, you just came to Beijing, and you are not familiar with many things, so let your cousin tell you, and go out for a walk together when you have time."

Jing Shu smiled noncommittally, and only personally took them to the gate of Zhuangzi, watching the carriage go away, and then looked back with a smile to the fourth cousin Bai Jingyan and the sixth cousin who stayed behind with two maids. Bai Jingrou.

Jing Shu smiled and said to Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingju: "Thanks to the fourth and sixth cousins ​​for staying with me to recite the sutras and worship the Buddha. Looking at the time, it is time to go back to the small Buddhist hall to recite the sutras. , let's go."

Looking at the maids behind them again, she turned her head to Madam Zhu and said, "Mammy, go and take these maids to arrange accommodation for the fourth and sixth misses. Don't be too wronged Miss Fourth and Miss Six."

Bai Jingyan was taken aback when she heard Jing Shu said that she was going to recite the scriptures and worship the Buddha immediately, she hurriedly said: "Fifth sister, we only arrived today, and we haven't packed our bags or familiarized ourselves with the environment first, how can we do it now? To recite sutras and worship the Buddha?"

Seeing that the smile on Jingshu's face disappeared and her face became stiff, Bai Jingyan was inexplicably excited. She thought of Jingshu's words today, and she suddenly became very spiritual, and said smartly: "We, my sixth sister and I , we are tired of traveling, why should we go to tidy up first, then familiarize ourselves with the environment, and then bathe and burn incense tonight, so that we can meditate and worship the Buddha tomorrow, so that we will not blaspheme the Buddha."

Speaking like a cockfight, she stared at Jing Shu in a defensive and fighting posture.

After listening to Bai Jingyan's words, Jingshu did not dismiss her, but gave her an admiring look, and said with a smile that was not a smile: "The fourth cousin said that too, it seems that the younger sister was inferior earlier. When I saw the fourth cousin, I was afraid that the fourth and sixth cousins ​​would not be used to coming to accompany me to chant the scriptures and worship the Buddha. Now it seems that the fourth cousin was prepared early in the morning, and she even thought about bathing and burning incense.”

She turned around and instructed Mammy Zhu and Biman, "Mammy Zhu, Biman, then you should lead the fourth and sixth misses to tidy up the room, pack your bags, and take them with you when you're done. Miss Four and Miss Six go to Zhuangzi to 'get acquainted' with the environment, and then bring some incense to their room at night, let Miss Four and Miss Six take a good bath and burn incense, and then wake them up tomorrow and lead them to the Buddha Come on."

Without waiting for Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingrou to digest these words, she gave them a slight nod and said lightly, "Then sister, I will go to the Buddhist hall first, because I promised the Buddha earlier. Nuo, before the mother gives birth to a little brother or a little sister, she must not slack off, pray for her mother, and now she must pray for her grandmother to eliminate disasters, and now I will not accompany the fourth and sixth cousins.

Without waiting for the two of them to say anything, they turned around and led Winter Shadow, who had been silently following him, away.

Bai Jingyan stared at Jing Shu in a daze and left, her mouth slightly opened, and it took a long time for her to react. This, what is this all about? What did she say?

Shouldn't she accompany her, at least in the afternoon when she was "familiar with Zhuangzi", should she also accompany her? Looking at this situation, does she throw herself to the servants every day except in the Buddhist hall? Bai Jingyan began to vaguely feel bad in her heart.

Of course, if she followed her past temperament, how could she have been able to obey Jing Shu. Usually in the White House, among the sisters, she is the most "smart" and "articulate". The most favored to know.

But today, after the morning and lunch, she was in an unfamiliar place again. There were only two maids by her side, and there was no grandmother, Mrs. Bai, who supported her. Some of them lost their temper, and didn't dare to explode their temper, and their mouth seemed to be blocked.

Mother Zhu and Biman didn't talk too much. When the young lady left, they only said respectfully to Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingrou, "Miss Fourth, Miss Six, please."

Bai Jingyan retracted her gaze from the direction in which Jingshu disappeared, and then looked at Mammy Zhu and Biman, who had lowered eyebrows and expressionless faces despite their respectful manners. Such a servant couldn't lose his temper, so he raised his chin slightly, and said with some arrogance: "Okay, then please let the mammy lead the way."

Jing Shu did not treat Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingrou harshly and let them live in the same room, but allocated a room for each of them. Each room was separated by a screen, and there were also sleeping couches outside. , Dao is for the two little girls.

If the little maids don't live here, they can also live in the next room built at the back, but the four little maids will share a simple servant room.

This room for two people is so simple that it can't be simple, but the main furniture is still there, such as wooden beds, wooden tables and chairs, wooden bookshelves, bamboo screens, etc. It is enough to live a simple life.

Then another little maid brought bedding such as sheets, bedding, mosquito nets, etc. These looked brand new, but the fabrics of these beddings were ordinary, that is, they were better than ordinary farmhouses, and they were used by ordinary large families for their servants. The plain cloth material is naturally not a star off from the quilts that Bai Jingyan, Bai Jingrou and the others use on weekdays.

Even if Bai Jingrou didn't have a good life under the third lady of the White House, Wei Wei, Wei Wei would not deduct these things from the basic public, so even she would use these things sparingly.

It's just that Bai Jingrou has always swallowed her anger and is accustomed to being taciturn. Although she was a little surprised when she saw this at this time, she didn't make too much fuss about what happened this morning, so she didn't show any strangeness. She thanked Jingshu's eldest maid, Qiu Rui, who came to help her.

But Bai Jingyan's face in the other room is not so bad. Are these things really a temple or a nunnery?

Seeing that Bai Jingyan's face was not good, Biman explained in a low voice, "Fourth Miss, these things are brand new, and they are the best in our place. These are."

Although Biman has been following Jingshu all the time, she was trained by Lan Mama, and she still has a long-term awe for the Bai family in her heart. She went to Beijing with Jingshu three years ago. I often hear Lan Ma's mention, and naturally I know that this fourth young lady is favored in front of the old lady.

Bi Man has a heart and mind. In the past, Jing Shu valued her and treated her to be relaxed and kind. She has blue eyes again. She is the only one in the young lady's yard, so she often does things on her own, instead of being like Bi Xuan. Jing Shu is the most important thing in everything.

But the fact that Mammy Lan was caned still frightened her, and now she is very well-behaved, and she is much more cautious in her actions.

Bai Jingyan stared at the bedding with a dark face for a while, then turned to look at Biman for a while, and then squeezed out a smile that floated on her face, and said, "Listen to Fifth Sister, are you? My name is Biman, right? Thank you for your help in arranging this. Besides, I have been in the carriage all morning, and I have a bad appetite, and my lunch is useless. Why don't you bring some snacks over later."

Biman didn't find a reason to refuse, she answered "yes" in a low voice, and left a little maid to help clean up in the room, and went out by herself.

After half an hour, Biman brought up a few small plates with a few dim sum and two cold dishes on it. It looked elegant, but when Bai Jingyan picked up a few chopsticks, it would have been heavy. The face is even more ugly.

These dim sum and cold dishes are really unbearable and dry, and they really have no taste at all.

Bai Jingyan put down her chopsticks, suppressed her anger, and asked, "This is what your young lady eats on weekdays?"

Biman also knew that the fourth young lady was not satisfied, but in fact she had done her best. The people in the kitchen strictly obeyed the young lady. , but only so.

Bi Man said: "Yes, no. Our lady rarely uses these snacks on weekdays. Our lady, the extra supplements she uses are ordered by the original lady, and they are specially given to the lady to eat. .”

Miss Yuanjia?

Bai Jingyan rolled her eyes when she heard this, no need for refreshments, and smiled: "Biman, I think this place is almost cleaned up, your lady didn't tell you to take us to Zhuangzi. Go? Let's go right now."

Biman took the order, and called Qiu Rui, who was serving Bai Jingrou on the other side, and led the two of them out of the yard.

It was the beginning of May, and the weather was getting warmer, but because the time was getting late, it was okay to walk all the way, but this former farmhouse was a small farmhouse that was specially set up, and it was really nothing to see, especially for Bai Jing. For Yan, she has no interest at all, and it is even more uncomfortable for Biman and Qiu Rui to stop and say hello to Zhuang Mins occasionally.

Bai Jingyan didn't care that she came out at this time because she was familiar with the familiar environment, but kept asking questions about Jing Shu's life in this village, about the Chen family next door, and about the lady of the Yuan family.

But although Biman didn't dare to offend Bai Jingyan, and even wanted to please her, to be honest, she knew very little. She had never even been to Yingmei Villa, and only followed Jingshu to Chen's house once. , so all she can say is that Jing Shu doesn't mind the White House or deliberately let the White House know.

And Qiu Rui is on the side, that is a only lady who obeys her life and doesn't look at others or cover up for others, so Biman doesn't dare to say anything outrageous.

Bai Jingyan gets all the information she asks and asks, and it's true that Jing Shu is doing such clean repairs here every day, and the news about the Chen family and the Yuan family's miss is completely elusive, and she is very irritable.

She then asked: "On weekdays, your young lady went to study medicine and pharmacy at Zhuangzi of the Chen family, did you serve with him?"

The latter Zhuangzi she mentioned here is actually the main villa of this Yingmei Villa.

Biman felt a little uncomfortable when she heard this question. She shook her head and said, "This servant wants to take care of this yard. I have never been there, but Qiu Rui has been there."

Bai Jingyan turned her attention to Qiu Rui, and asked her about the situation in detail, but Qiu Rui was very reticent, asked a question and answered a question, and said it very vaguely, but still could not get any real answer.

When I asked about the Chen family, Biman and Qiu Rui only said that the miss will go to the Chen family every ten days and a half months. is no longer there.

At dinner, Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingrou finally saw Jing Shu who "recited the Sutra for an afternoon" again.

Bai Jingyan looked at her cousin with a sullen expression, and then looked at the two dishes and one soup served by the little maid. Although it was a little different from lunch, it was the same shabby and unappetizing. Still bitter and green.

This time it was potato chips in water, steamed eggplant, and a bowl of tomato soup with a few slices of tomato floating around.

However, there is another difference. This time, there is also a large bowl of dark soup on the table. The color is so strange that it is impossible for people to ignore it.

Jing Shu completely ignored the strange expressions of the two of them, and said in a serious and serious voice as always: "Fourth cousin, didn't you still wonder what the 'supplement soup' that Senior Sister Yuan gave me every day? Look The black soup on this table is one of them. As the aunt said earlier, we are still growing, and it is not enough to make clear soup every day. This soup is made with different medicinal materials, which can make up for What we lack, we need to supplement what our body needs, and the fourth cousin and sixth cousin should use it after meals.”

After speaking, Jingshu motioned to Biman to divide the large bowl of thick soup into three small bowls, and then placed them in front of the three of them.

Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingrou looked at the food and the bowl of "black soup" in front of them. For some reason, they felt an inexplicable chill rise, and then they both looked at Jing Shu nervously.

Jing Shu smiled and said, "Please use it."

Facing them, Jing Shu has always kept a solemn face. At this time, she just smiled lightly, and her expression seemed to bloom suddenly. There was a momentary blank in front of him, and only Jing Shu's face was like a snow lotus blooming suddenly in the snow and ice.

When she reacted from her stunned stare, Bai Jingyan clenched her hands abruptly. All kinds of sourness, hatred, unwillingness, dissatisfaction, resentment, and other feelings came up in her heart, and the unspeakable grievance and grievances in her heart almost couldn't bear it. Tears were shed.

But Jingshu doesn't know what it is. In fact, because she has been practising the "jade bone" skill, she doesn't know that her frowns and smiles have begun to have an effect of promoting hallucinations, and she doesn't know how to restrain and adjust. Different temperament, just make people feel beautiful and dazzling.

Of course, sisters Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingrou don't even know.

After Jingshu finished speaking, she started eating without waiting for them. When she finished using the food in front of the two sisters, Bai Jingrou used about half of it, and Bai Jingyan only moved a few chopsticks.

It's too flimsy and tasteless to swallow. Even if Bai Jingyan is actually hungry, eating these things just feels unappetizing.

Jing Shu ignored them. After she finished eating, she took up the bowl of dark soup in front of her, and then drank the bowl of noodles without changing its color. Put it back on the table, and then look up at Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingrou.

Bei Jingyan and Bai Jingrou didn't know whether it was because of curiosity or because they couldn't stand the pressure of Jing Shu's eyes, so they reached out and took the bowl of "black soup", took it up and tried it carefully.

Then, Bai Jingrou put down the bowl, pursed her lips, took a handkerchief and pressed it to her mouth, her face was painful and uncomfortable. She could endure it, but she could endure it, but she had never suffered any pain in the flesh. She, Also a daughter of a daughter is not.

Bai Jingyan didn't have Bai Jingrou's patience anymore, so she sprayed it out, and the sprayed table was a mess. Fortunately, the table was a long table, Jing Shu sat in the main seat, and Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingrou sat On the same side, there was no one seated opposite her, to avoid being poisoned by her spray.

Jing Shu still didn't change her face about this change. She glanced at the little maid next to her, and the little maid stepped forward neatly to clean up the mess on the table.

Another little girl methodically brought hot water over to Jing Shu, Jing Shu cleaned her hands and wiped her face, and then she said to the two sisters Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingrou, "This soup has a strong taste. There are some rare and precious medicinal materials in the market. They have been used for more than ten years, such as poisonous scorpions, poisonous centipedes, etc., so the fishy smell is a bit heavy, and a lot of coptis is used to cover the fishy smell. You are not used to that. The taste is normal, and you will get used to it after a few days."

The two of them were only startled by the taste of the thick soup. At this time, they turned pale when they heard the words, and then Bai Jingyan lay on the table and began to vomit. Bai Jingrou also felt nauseated while pressing her chest. , although they just didn't actually drink much of the soup.

Jing Shu fixed her eyes on them, as if she couldn't stand such "squeamish" behavior, she turned to Bi Man and said, "Serve them and rest well, and get up early in the morning to recite sutras."

He said hello and didn't fight the two of them, let alone the state of the two of them, so he got up and left.

Such a variety of tossing every day.

Three days later, Bai Jingyan finally couldn't help crying and shouting to leave. She wanted Jingshu to send someone to send them back to Baifu, but she still wanted to grab Jingshu's clothes when she was in a state of collapse. But it was easily avoided by Jing Shu, without even a corner of her clothes being pulled.

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Not to mention Bai Jingyan and Bai Jingrou's sisters, just the day after the two sisters moved to Zhuangzi, Jingshu received a reply from Dongying about the marriage of the Wen family cousin.

This intermediate result is a bit of an inside story.

The Wen family spent the whole family to cultivate Wen Xiyuan, and had high expectations for him. At the beginning, it was the marriage with Jingshu, and Mrs. Wen was still a little lacking in her heart. How can you be willing to let Wen Xiyuan marry his cousin Zhou Lanyue?

When they arrived in the capital, they rented a small yard to live in the eastern outskirts of the city. It was close to the city and not far from Yanglin Academy, so many surrounding yards were rented to candidates who came from far away to take the exam. In this way, these candidates can prepare for the exam with peace of mind, and sometimes it is convenient to discuss together.

I also met some people in the Wen family over there. Zhou Lanyue's marriage was decided at that time, and it was also a candidate who came to Beijing to take the exam. set.

Dongying said: "That Juzi is from Fujian, and the servants sent someone to check it. That Zhong surnamed Juzi was already married in his hometown. He just saw Zhou Lanyue's beautiful appearance and the Wen family wanted to get rid of Zhou Lanyue, so he thought about it. He kidnapped that Zhou Lanyue as his concubine. Anyway, Fujian was far away, and Zhou Lanyue was an orphan again. When he and that Zhou Lanyue 'became a relative' and brought her back to Fujian, who would investigate the matter? He even sold Wen Family is a favor."