Chapter 13: Disputes
"Miss, come and make a wish!" Seeing the wishing pond Hongxing, she immediately became excited, she ran over first and then beckoned Lu Yalan to hurry up.
Maybe it was because they came early and didn't see the scene of people lining up to fetch water to drink, as Mrs. Mu said. The wishing pond is said to be a pool of mountain springs, the water of the pool is crystal clear, the light and slippery beautiful pebbles are paved in the shallow water, and the refraction of the Lingling water light emits a light that is no less than a gemstone.
This pond looks shallow and actually very deep, the stone aquatic plants at the bottom of the pond look black and swarthy, because many people come here to make a wish, the host is worried that someone will fall into the water on the edge of the pool around a low fence, when taking water, there is a long-handled spoon provided by the temple, do not have to lean out to approach the pool, and there is also a warning on the big tree next to it that "this pool is extremely deep, be careful to take water".
At this time, there were only Lu Yalan and Hongxing by the wishing pool, and even the monks who usually take care of the safety of the pilgrims did not know where to go, and there was silence all around, only the sound of Hongxing excitedly taking water.
"Miss, come, hurry up and make a wish!" When Lu Yalan arrived at the pool, Hongxing had already made a wish, and seeing that Lu Yalan finally came, Hongxing picked up the long-handled spoon and was eager to try, so she waited for Miss to make a wish and get water for her to drink.
Lu Yalan teased her: "Hongxing, what wish did you make, tell me!"
Hongxing was a little embarrassed: "I inquired, and the monks all said that the wish cannot be said, otherwise it will not work." ”
Of course, Lu Yalan heard Hongxing say it, but she felt that it was more fun than wishing Hongxing, and she was about to speak, when a somewhat sharp female voice came from behind her.
"Making a wish also depends on reality, an old aunt like your young lady who has been divorced and no one wants it will not come true even if she makes 10,000 wishes of 'I want to marry', so ah, I advise you to make a wish It is better to be practical. ”
Lu Yalan couldn't help but want to hold her forehead, how could she meet this kind of person wherever she went.
The girl who came in front of her was wearing a high-necked, long-sleeved blue velvet satin gown and the same gray skirt, with black leather shoes on her feet, fashionable and foreign, and she didn't mind showing her youth and beauty to others.
Li Qiuling saw Lu Yalan turn around and snorted coldly, and continued to mock without waiting for Lu Yalan to speak: "Why, I am unwilling to be divorced by my cousin, and I want to make a wish to make my cousin change his mind?
Speaking of Yancheng, we have to mention the Lu family and the Li family, both of which are the leading merchants in Yancheng, and the locals are known as the proverb of "Lu Sifen, Li Sifen, and the remaining two are divided into one point", which means that the Lu family and the Li family each occupy four points in Yancheng business, and the remaining small businessmen survive in the cracks.
The business is so big, the friction between the two is naturally indispensable, people will always talk about one when they mention the other, and the juniors will inevitably be compared with each other.
The Li family studied abroad in the early years, and received the impact of new ideas, which is a Western-style family, and the girls in the family are sent to study in Chinese and Western girls' schools when they reach their age. And the old lady Lu who took the idea here of the Lu family is an authentic feudal traditional woman, except for the third girl Lu Yazhu who was taken away by the second lady to death or alive, the other girls have received education in three obedience and four virtues since childhood, and they don't even know a few words.
It is said that Li Qiuling and Lu Yalan should have no grudges, but the social circle in Yancheng is so big, and the two girls of the same age in the Lu and Li families naturally can't escape being compared.
Li Qiuling looked down on Lu Yalan, thinking that Lu Yalan's ignorant feudal scum was not qualified to be compared with her at all. Li Qiuling is extremely popular among his peers, but the elders prefer Lu Yalan, and Li Qiuling, who is used to being popular, is more and more interested in Lu Yalan's nose is not a nose and eyes are not eyes.
Once by chance, she heard Miss Lu San say that Lu Yalan was Zhao Dingsheng's fiancée, and she only felt that it was a bolt from the blue. Thinking that Qingjun's gentle and literary cousin was going to spend his life with such a woman, an evil fire rushed straight to Li Qiuling's brain, and she felt that Lu Yalan was not worthy of her cousin.
As for who deserved, she didn't think deeply.
With this kind of inexplicable careful thinking, Li Qiuling began to look for Lu Yalan's stubble. Not to mention sarcasm in person, every time she discussed freedom and autocracy with her classmates, she had to take Lu Yalan, a feudal woman, as an example. The nickname "Ermutou", which is ridiculous, is famous in Yancheng, and Li Qiuling has half of the credit.
Li Qiuling is troublesome with Lu Yalan, Lu Yalan can avoid it, and if she can't avoid it, she will endure it. First, Lu Yalan's personality dictates that she always forbears when she doesn't want to get into trouble. The second is that she thinks that this is Zhao Dingsheng's cousin, and she will be a family in the future, and it will be too bad to make trouble.
As everyone knows, it was her attitude that made Li Qiuling more and more angry and intensified.
Lu Yalan's good mood in the morning was ruined by Li Qiuling's arrival, she was not good at verbal disputes, but since she decided to change, she naturally couldn't let people bully her head and endure it.
Lu Yalan deliberately ignored Li Qiuling and said to Hong Xing: "I don't know who didn't rinse their mouths early in the morning, it stinks!"
"You!" Li Qiuling was furious, he didn't expect Lu Yalan, who had been retreating, to suddenly open his mouth to refute.
"What am I! I make a wish here, and you are talking to yourself, you are an unmarried girl who is not ashamed to talk about her cousin and cousin all day long. In the wide sleeves, Lu Yalan clutched the hem of her clothes tightly, in fact, she was very nervous now, but she was stubbornly holding herself up so that she would not fall behind.
Li Qiuling was annoyed and angry when she was said, and then she said disdainfully: "The pursuit of freedom and romance is the right that everyone is born with, what's wrong with us exercising our rights, but people like you who are outdated and backward and still living in a dream will not understand the beauty of love at all, it's not that your cousin abandoned you, it's that you are willing to fall and don't know what progress is and what is ideal!"
"The pursuit of happiness is everyone's right and freedom...... Not everyone is like you...... We are pure revolutionary friendship ......"
The words that Zhao Dingsheng said when he quit the marriage once again came out of his ears, Lu Yalan felt a little tired, why didn't these people let go of themselves!
"Yes, I don't understand your ideal love, but I know that if a person only cares about himself and does not pay attention to faith, he will lose the foundation of his life and be selfish, can such a person be called a person?
"You ......"
Lu Yalan interrupted Li Qiuling's words and continued: "You claim to be a new-school person, look down on old-fashioned women, and want to break feudalism, then why do you want to accept your mother's money, and you even despise your mother? You bully me because you like Zhao Dingsheng, since you advocate freedom of love, why don't you say it generously, but sneakily come to me to trouble? Your freedom is to hurt others unscrupulously? This makes me look down on the so-called progress in your mouth even more!"
Li Qiuling has never been said like this, as if her face has been ripped off and put on the ground and stepped on countless feet, it hurts hotly. She is used to the life of the stars holding the moon, and countless boys applaud every word she says, she didn't expect that one day she would be ridiculed by people like Lu Yalan.
Li Qiuling was so angry that she just wanted to go up and tear Lu Yalan's mouth apart, so that she could no longer speak.
Li Qiuling is used to being willful, she thinks so, and she is ready to do so, she is still followed by a few family members and there are only two people on Lu Yalan's side, even if Lu Yalan is cleaned up, no one knows.
Suddenly, her sleeves were pulled, and her henchman approached and whispered, "Miss, do you remember the script we read a few days ago?"
Li Qiuling thought of the content of the script, and suddenly became a little excited.
Li Qiuling's book is no different from other scripts on the market, telling the story of the two daughters fighting for a husband, but there is a plot in it, the eldest lady saw that the second lady was charming and charming, and she was afraid that her husband would be damaged, so she found a place where no one was and pushed the second lady off the cliff.
How similar this plot is to now, it is simply prepared for her! There is no one here, if Lu Yalan's master and servant fall into the water, no one will find out, even if someone sees her coming here, it is not her fault that she has not had time to save people. As for these subordinates, the people she brought out are all in the Li family, and they won't talk much if they want to come for a good future.
The Li family's mansion is not completely clean, she has been exposed to it since she was a child, and she has dealt with a lot of maids, if she really doesn't know anything, how can she stand out among the children of the Li family and become the most favored.
The more Li Qiuling thought about it, the more excited he became, and waved his hand to signal Jia Ding to throw Lu Yalan and the others into the water.
Lu Yalan felt wrong when she saw Li Qiuling staring at her with a strange expression, and wanted to leave with Hongxing first, but before she could leave, she was pushed close to the wishing fountain by the Li family.
"Ahh
Lu Yalan struggled desperately, wanting to shout to attract the attention of passers-by, but how could she, a woman, be able to resist the strength of an adult man, and she didn't break free after a few struggles, but was covered by someone.
"Poof!"
The sound of heavy objects falling into the water was particularly loud on this cold morning.
In the early spring, the weather was so cold that people shrank their necks, and their cotton clothes were soaked in the cold and biting pool water, so heavy that people couldn't lift their arms, dragging people straight down, Lu Yalan struggled desperately, but her body gradually stiffened, she reached out again and again to clasp the gap in the pool wall, but the pool wall was covered with green clothes and slipped so slippery that she couldn't hold it at all, Lu Yalan's fingers became more and more disobedient, there seemed to be a monster tearing her at the bottom of the pool, she felt that the pool water flooded her mouth and her nose.
One last glance, she caught a glimpse of Hongxing desperately approaching her.
I'm sorry, Hongxing.....
Li Qiuling saw that Lu Yalan was thrown down, smiled proudly, and beckoned people to leave.
Look at how people like you still fight me!
The maid who followed behind Li Qiuling also smiled slightly, what Qian's mother entrusted her with was done!
The maid and Ah Xiang are cousins, when the family was so poor that they couldn't open the pot or Qian's mother helped her arrange errands, she did a few years of sprinkling and sweeping maids in the Li family, and saw that the eldest lady often changed maids around her, and she found a relationship to serve the eldest lady in order to fight for a way out, and often gave advice to the eldest lady, and the eldest lady also relied on her more and more.
Originally, Qian's mother only asked her to take the eldest lady up the mountain to find Lu Yalan's trouble, but she didn't expect it to go so smoothly.