I was Idle and Cool Chapter 50: Lu Jinxi’s choice

She doesn't know anything?

Xue Mingli suddenly suffocated, standing outside the door a little overwhelmed, and then whispered after a long while: "But you don't tell me, how do I know..."

Xue Minglang inside, did not speak any more.

In the study, there was a faint choking sound, as if trying to suppress something, but the more this happened, the more sad it sounded.

Xue Mingli's heart twitched when she heard this.

She knows Ming Lang.

Although Sister Lang has a bad temper, she has always been more coquettish to her mother. The word rude, Ben has nothing to do with her.

But today, this situation is almost contradictory.

And so for no reason, inexplicable.

She mentioned the aunt, did the aunt say something?

Xue Mingli was in a hurry and wanted to clarify.

But no matter how she knocked on the door or persuaded her, Xue Minglang inside was just crying and didn't answer her at all.

In the past, she went into the study angrily, but never came out for an hour.

Maybe...

She is angry today, will she come out later?

Xue Mingli pressed the door and pushed it, but still didn't move, so she had to say: "Then if you don't want to come out, then I'll wait for you outside. For dinner at night, I'll tell Mommy and let the kitchen keep you warm. I have your favorite candied cheese. When you're hungry, I'll ask someone to bring it to you, okay?"

There is still no response from the room.

The repressed cry stopped for a moment, but in the blink of an eye, the cry increased again.

The servant girls who were serving had long been watching from the outside, looking at each other in dismay.

They know a little bit about Xue Minglang being shy or being mad at people.

When the second grandmother forbade her to go to the eldest son, there was a scene, and then it was coaxed out.

This time, there is trouble again, I don't know why?

At that moment, a little maid whispered to persuade: "What kind of temperament Miss Lang is, you should know about it. Why don't we wait?"

“…”

What can you do without waiting?

Xue Mingli guessed that she would not come out for a while, so she could only sigh, her two delicate brows furrowed, and she said in a thin voice, "Go tell your mother, and tell others not to look for her. My sister is here. In the study, when I came back, I didn't run around. Just let my mother relax, and I'll wait for Sister Lang."

"Sit first, sister, and the servant will go for a run."

It only took a few steps to get to Lu Jinxi's side. The maid first helped Xue Mingli to the outside, poured tea, and then hurriedly ran to inform everyone.

Xue Mingli sat outside waiting, looking at the half-embroidered Begonia in the sewing basket from time to time, and from time to time to the study door.

Time slips by without knowing it.

I waited until late at night.

The dinner prepared in the kitchen outside has been reheated several times.

She was afraid that it was too hot to eat, so she whispered to Mama Jiao and went to the kitchen to make a supper. But Xue Minglang still didn't come out.

The maids and maids who were serving were worried when they saw it, and could not help but persuade Xue Mingli: "Miss, Sister Lang is not the way to do this. Why don't we call someone and force the door to open? Or do you go to bed earlier? The study room. There is also a couch in the room, and the rest will be guarded by the servants."

"No need." Xue Mingli shook her head, but when she lowered her eyes, a firm light flashed in her eyes, she only said, "Everyone, go back to sleep, and I will go back to sleep too."

"Sister Li? This is..."

Mother Jiao is getting old, so she can't handle it very well at this time, but when she heard Xue Mingli's words, she felt a little stupid.

But Xue Mingli didn't explain it, still the same sentence: "Go back to sleep."

The maids were at a loss, but since she had said it, she had to do it.

A few people waited for Xue Mingli to fall asleep. When Jiao Ma saw that she was lying down obediently, she blew out the candles in the room and turned out by herself.

In the boudoir, it suddenly became dark and quiet.

Only the moonlight outside the window cast a white snow, reflecting a hazy light and shadow on the furnishings in the house.

Xue Mingli, who was on the bed, quietly opened her eyes again.

The maids are gone.

She then silently got up from the bed, and with some difficulty picked up a warm quilt, barefoot, like a cat, and walked towards the study without making any sound.

The study was also pitch-dark, and no lights were lit at all.

Xue Mingli's heartbeat was a little faster. Looking around, she was still a little scared, so she only dared to knock on the door lightly.

“Dong dong dong.”

"Ming Lang, are you asleep?"

Standing outside the door, her voice was also low and thin.

It was quiet inside, as if someone had fallen asleep.

The quilt in Xue Mingli's hand slipped halfway down, almost unable to hold it. But she was unwilling to give up.

In the always gentle and quiet voice, there was a little more pitiful tremor: "It's so dark outside, sister, can you open the door? I don't dare to sleep alone..."

The floor in front of the study is paved with terrazzo, and there is no carpet.

In this kind of weather, step on the ice and cold, and the cold air rises from the soles of the feet. Even though she was holding a quilt, Xue Mingli was still a little cold.

There was no answer in the door for a long time.

But she was looking forward to something vaguely, and stared at the door with wide eyes.

A long time passed, and it took about half a moment before there was a sound inside.

With a squeak, the door finally opened.

The expressionless Xue Minglang held the door with both hands and stood inside the door. Both eyes were red, and even the eyelashes were still wet.

Seeing that Xue Mingli was still standing outside the door, she stepped aside.

This is what it means to let her in.

Xue Mingli was actually relieved when she saw it. She hugged the quilt and walked silently into the door with a smile on her face: "Thank you Minglang."

Xue Minglang was too lazy to roll his eyes.

She closed the door with a stiff face, but this time she didn't lock the door, she just covered it. Looking back, she saw that Xue Mingli was in the dark and folded the quilt together on the low couch. .

"That way it won't be cold."

"Go to sleep."

Xue Minglang didn't want to talk to anyone for the time being, so he climbed into the bed and lay in the back, leaving half of the bed.

Xue Mingli looked at her for a while, then she also shrank up, buried herself in the quilt, and asked her with a wink, "Are you really not going to tell my sister?"

"...she doesn't want us anymore."

Xue Minglang was silent for a while before saying this.

But then I thought, tell my sister what to do?

What should come can't be stopped.

The mother has changed, not the mother who will depend on them in everything.

So, before Xue Mingli asked, she immediately said: "Before there were only the three of us, but now she even cares about the eldest brother, I'm not happy. Anyway, you are not allowed to ask any more, and I will drive you out."

“…”

If Xue Mingli wanted to exit, he was blocked for a while.

Sister Lang's words were blunt.

But the phrase "she doesn't want us anymore" makes people feel frightened.

She was determined to continue to ask questions, but Xue Minglang had already turned around, turned her back to her, and closed her eyes, obviously not ready to pay attention to anyone.

Everything I had to say, I had to swallow it back in my stomach.

Reached out and put a hand on Xue Minglang's shoulder, Xue Mingli finally didn't ask, only whispered: "See you tomorrow morning."

Sister Lang didn't answer, just curled up.

Slowly, the breathing becomes even.

—asleep.

Xue Mingli couldn't calm down. She always felt that her sister knew something, but she really didn't tell her. But this matter can't be rushed...

She had to close her eyes and lay in bed.

I don't know how long it took, when a very light "knocking" sound suddenly came from outside the house, as if someone was knocking on the door outside. Then, there was a conversation in a lowered voice.

The door opened and someone walked in.

The dim yellow light seems to be the lamp in the room being lit.

A short while later, he came to the door.

"Is it in there?"

Depressed voice, warm and soft.

It's a familiar voice!

Xue Mingli's heart skipped a beat.

Then, with a soft sound, the door of the study opened, and the footsteps were quiet, and they soon came to their bedside.

When you move around, someone seems to be sitting down.

The quilt and quilt covering her body seemed to be tucked in by someone, and it warmed a lot - at this moment, Xue Mingli finally couldn't hold back and quietly opened her eyes.

That figure, illuminated by dim lights, was a little hazy and blurry.

A pair of plain white hands stopped there before they could retract the quilt from the quilt. Perhaps seeing her eyes open suddenly, a little surprise appeared on her face, but she smiled again in a blink of an eye.

It's Lu Jinxi.

She had just finished writing something in the study, but she still wasn't quite made up her mind. Thinking of the two little girls falling asleep, she came over to take a look.

At this moment, she is sitting on the side of the bed, just tucked the quilt for the sisters.

Sister Lang was fine, she really fell asleep; but Sister Li, who was lying outside, opened her eyes and saw that this pair of soft eyes were clear, but she didn't feel sleepy at all.

Man is awake.

Lu Jinxi's lips curled up, just about to speak.

Who would have thought that Xue Mingli stretched out her hand from the bed and put her index finger to her lips: "Shh..." Then she pointed to Sister Lang beside her, then hesitated, and then pointed to the door.

I'm referring to Sister Lang, because I'm afraid of disturbing her; I can point outside the door...

Lu Jinxi also looked in the direction of her finger, only guessing that she had something to say to herself.

The servant on this side went over to reply, only saying that Sister Lang didn't come out and was locked in the study.

But when she came here, she found that Sister Li was not on the bed. Instead, the door to the study was open a crack and was not closed tightly.

That's why she opened the door and saw their sisters sleeping together.

Lu Jin thought for a while, and when she saw the clear eyes of the little girl, she nodded slightly.

So Xue Mingli gently got out of the bed and pulled Lu Jinxi out.

Her palms are soft and warm.

Lu Jinxi was led by her and returned to her room. There is a distance from the study here, so it won't be noisy if you speak in a low voice.

At this time, Xue Mingli bowed her head a little embarrassedly and whispered: "I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night just now, so I went to my sister with the quilt, and she opened the door for me. Why is my mother here? "

"You can't sleep, how can my mother fall asleep?"

Lu Jinxi's eyes were a little sleepy, but when he smiled, he was very moving.

Seeing that Xue Mingli was not wearing shoes, she frowned slightly, but didn't say anything. She just told her to sit back on the bed and pulled the quilt over to cover her.

"What do you want to tell my mother?"

"...hmm."

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

Lu Jinxi understood immediately, then 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 room.

Lu Jinxi walked up, sat sideways beside Xue Mingli, took her shoulders, helped her wrap the quilt tightly, and then asked with a smile, "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 wants 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 about Song Zhiyan's guess, she had long been in her heart, but she didn't expect that Sister Li, who has always been gentle and quiet, would say it so bluntly.

Xue Mingli mustered up her courage, squeezed her fingers, and said everything she wanted to say.

"But when Mingli asked her questions, she used the fact that you started caring about Big Brother 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 a faint smile on her lips.

She reached out and touched Xue Mingli's head.

In the action, there is a little gentleness.

Xue Mingli felt very relieved.

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, Ming Li 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 muttered 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 room, the egret and the green sparrow have been waiting for a long time.

The egret didn't know the whole story at all, only a little sleepy; the blue bird on the other side had personally handled the matter of sending the letter to Song Zhiyan, and he was already a little uneasy in his heart, and looked up from time to time to see in.

It took two or three minutes before Lu Jinxi came out: "Okay, let's go back."

“Madam, how is it?”

Qing Que, still holding 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 uttered the phrase "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. After the cloak was fastened, she looked at the maids in the house and said, "It's very 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. Sister Lang tucked into the quilt, be careful not to freeze."

Several maids were a little frightened, and hurriedly agreed.

Lu Jinxi had no intention of reprimanding them. After speaking, she went out the door and went down the steps.

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 can go to the warehouse, but ask someone to put everything in Sister Li'er and Sister Lang's house. Put a blanket on it. In this weather, walking barefoot on the ground is afraid of getting cold air."

The egret was stunned 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...

I was speechless for a while.

Qing Que laughed: "I saw you didn't tell me just now, and the slaves thought you didn't find it."

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

Just haven't made up my mind yet.

In the conversation with Xue Mingli just now, almost everything 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 didn't expect to be able to balance emotion and reason in dealing with these things.

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

As she herself said-

There are some details that she, as an unknown person, can't find out, but Lu Jinxi can.

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

For example, Sister Lang has a deep yearning and longing for her 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 Pearl;

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

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

Lu Jinxi said back to her 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, so you all go to bed earlier, I will sleep in the study, Get up early tomorrow 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 she wanted to be alone, so she didn't dare to say anything more concerned, so she retire with Egret.

Lu Jinxi entered the study alone.

A collection of new and old books, neatly placed one by one, has 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 table has dried a little. A thin tube of lake pen is placed on top of it, and next to it is 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 is that the bento is the Lu family.

Comfort the children, and forget about their own life, never think about their 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.

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

So, asking her to lose herself would be tantamount to a dream.

In this way, only the second method is left.

Sister Lang is only seven years old this year. Even though the children of this age may be a little precocious, they are still too early for Sanguan to mature. It is not difficult to exert influence.

The hard part is the ramifications of this approach.

In order for Sister Zhu to marry a good family, Mrs He was a widow and did not allow Sister Zhu to go out.

On the one hand, it is He's own choice; on the other hand, isn't it because the external environment requires women to do this?

If she really taught Sister Lang, and even Sister Li, to be independent women, would they really be better off than other girls in their generation?

Will you not be shaken by being in an environment that is different from those around you?

This is not modern after all.

What's more, the key lies in Lu Jinxi himself.

She does take things lightly about relationships, but not every relationship is a joke. Maybe one day I will find a very suitable one to marry?

At this time, as her daughters, what kind of existence would sister Lang and Sister Li be in the eyes of others?

If you don't have a good family, you may not be able to marry, let alone a child without a mother's upbringing.

Lu Jinxi really had a headache.

But she also knows better than anyone that to solve the problem caused by this choice, there is actually a very simple and rude, and even universal solution——

That is, become the next "Princess Yongning".

At any time, only the weak will be chosen.

The emperor's daughter will not worry about getting married. Even if they do something that is too much, someone will take care of them, so that they won't mix into a miserable state.

Power, wealth.

As long as enough is enough, most of the difficulties will be solved.

Therefore, in order to take into account the kindness of Lu's body and the original wish in her heart, Lu Jinxi actually has no second method to choose from, and there is no second way to go.

She couldn't help shaking her head and laughed, faintly smelling the smell of blood and blood coming from the future, but there was a little bit of brilliance in her eyes.

The higher the mountain, the more people want to reach the top.

Nothing difficult, she has no interest.

"Then, the rest is how to convince Sister Lang..."

Lu Jinxi muttered to herself, finally picked up the pen, wrote down a few words on the paper, listed the problems she needed to solve one by one, and then searched for countermeasures one by one.

In this way, before you know it, the three shifts will come to an end.

Seeing that the analysis was almost done, she went through it again in her mind before she put away the scribbled pages, lay down on the couch, and fell asleep for a while.

When the egret bluebird arrived, he came to call her.

Today, Lu Jinxi has to go out and will be able to print six children. The excuse is that he has recently liked cursive script and running script, so he wants to go out and choose some good copybooks.

There's nothing unusual about this, and of course there's not much criticism.

Lu Jinxi got up to wash up, put a hot towel on her face, she woke up, and only asked, "Did there be any movement from the grandma yesterday?"

"No."

The egret has always been the most well-informed, shaking his head upon hearing this.

"It's still the same as before, only raising Sister Pearl, but I asked the kitchen to ask for a small bowl of bird's nest, and said it's good for Sister Pearl."

"Really?"

Lu Jinxi covered her face with a towel, and the moist heat made her cheeks feel very comfortable. Her voice became a little vague, with a bit of casual laziness.

"It seems that my sister-in-law has a daughter, but she is also very delicate."

Egret's heartbeat suddenly stopped when she heard this voice, she just felt that the words didn't taste very right.

"You..."

"I'm going out today, you can stay in the mansion, I have an urgent errand for you."

Lu Jinxi took off the towel and handed it back to the egret.

"I have a few account books in my study. You take them and go to the great grandma. I see that she has collected a lot of things in the past two months. I just thought it was wrong yesterday. Sister-in-law, an honest person, must have picked it up by mistake, so please don't make a statement, but please return the items to the warehouse. Be careful not to ruin her reputation."

"...this..."

The egret's eyes were wide open, and its mouth was even more open. It was almost enough to put an egg.

They all know it.

Although the second grandma and the eldest grandma do not have much interaction, because they are both widows, Lu often has sympathy for the eldest grandma, and the monthly bills are released in advance.

If the He family had any need, she would never doubt it and just let it go.

This is also the reason why Egret didn't like He Shi before.

The second grandmother treats her so well, but she ignores people.

But she never expected that Lu Jinxi would say such a thing!

It's so cruel!

If you don't count the account, it's done. Once the account is settled, it's like a few slaps in the face.

Two books of accounts?

It's more than just two books!

The egret took a long time to react, but then felt a little excited: "Don't worry, this slave will definitely handle this for you!"

Lu Jinxi just smiled.

Earlier, she had seen the accounts of the manor, and had not settled accounts with anyone. But now, doesn't this come in handy? If you want her to say, Lu's kindness is a perfect match for her cruelty.

The Lu family has been a good man, leaving behind this group of fools who are full of food and drink and full of flaws. When she got here, she was in charge of taking the handle to collect people's heads and hitting them face by face.

He's...

Humph.

She would be a little hesitant about Sister Lang, because she was the Lu family's child; but she was not good-hearted towards the behind-the-scenes gossip of the He family.

Lu Jinxi sneered inwardly, only picked out a silver-gilded lychee earring inlaid with white jade lychee from her makeup gown, leaned over the mirror, hung it on her earlobe, and said nonchalantly, "If she wants to come look for her when she arrives. Me, you just said I'm going out, and I don't know when I'll be back, so let her change the time. It's not a big deal anyway, don't worry."

Don't worry, there is still a stack of account books.

Let her see first what this little grasshopper is doing.