There was a faint medicinal fragrance floating in the room, and the smell of those medicinal herbs in the cabinet of baizi was emanating.

The door was closed from the inside, and the candles were burning silently.

The dumb aunt spread out a book, "Lingzhou Centennial Palm Story Test". It was given by Bai Ziqi, and the other one was "Dongliang Famous Places and Historic Sites". The dumb aunt glanced at it and was happy in her heart, this seemed to be exactly what she was looking for, she didn't expect Bai Ziqi to be a warm man, and she was so intimate in everything. However, as soon as this joy and appreciation hit her heart, she hurriedly reminded herself to be calm, and then calm, since the road ahead has a direction, don't make any more extraneous branches, and move forward according to her goals.

I don't want to provoke anyone, I don't want to breed any emotional entanglements, I just want to be a quiet passerby in someone else's life.

Lancao came over silently, his eyes rubbed on the bound book, his eyes were full of envy, it was a book from Cousin Bai, but unfortunately he didn't know a word, if he could write and read like that person in this life, and talk to him about the things in the book, what a happy thing it would be, and regret that he could only be a blind man with his eyes open in this life.

"The place I am in now is called Lingzhou Mansion, and Lingzhou Mansion is only one of the nine state capitals that make up this country, and it is the most remote one in the northwest, now this country is called Dongliang, what a strange name, I only knew that there was a daughter country called Xiliang in the past, and I only saw it in the TV series Journey to the West, and I thought it was just a legend, is it really not necessarily, I can't imagine that there will be a Dongliang country in the world...... Xiliang's daughter country, Dongliang shouldn't be a men's country?Oh, no, there are obviously women, everywhere, just one Liu Jinshi, who is idle at home because of continuous Ding worry, can marry a woman from the ninth room and come in......"

Under the lamp, the dumb aunt muttered softly while flipping through the book.

What she said, how did Lancao understand, she didn't dare to answer, she didn't dare to disturb, she stood on the side and was quietly stunned.

Peeking at it, the warm yellow light fell obliquely, shining on a small child's face, the scar on the forehead finally faded away from the bruises, forming a big scar, the face seemed to be a little better than the blood loss in the past few days, the tender cheeks were glowing with a faint glow, while quietly turning the book, while pursing the corners of his mouth and smiling lightly, I don't know what joy I saw.

The new hairstyle combed in the morning is now loose, and the forehead is covered with a layer of soft black hair, and the black pupils under the black hair are as deep as two pools of quiet clear water.

That's the orchid's comb, the orchid is very important to the little grandmother now, if it weren't for the fact that she still sleeps with the little grandmother every night, the orchid really doesn't know what she will lose into, the little grandmother's mind is deep and hard to guess, and she naturally dare not reveal the grievances in her heart.

After a while, Lan Cao saw that the little face frowned slightly, and gently tapped the pages with the brush stick, but the contents of the book could not satisfy her.

This movement and silence, if it weren't for the fact that Lancao had been following her for a long time, coupled with her delicate mind and good observation, ordinary people really couldn't see it.

Lancao sighed softly in her heart, what does the little grandmother say, she used to be mute, she suffered a lot, but now she can speak, but the whole person has changed, she has not become like a child who has not grown up, she is completely an adult, she doesn't laugh or play all day long, she stays alone and sullenly, will it be boring if she goes on like this? When she was dumb in the past, she secretly got naughty with Lancao whenever she had time. After all, she is still a child, will she be crushed by carrying the burden of adults so early?

Lancao was stunned.

"Lancao, do you want to learn to read with me? ”

Lancao was stunned, and suddenly stood away, surprised, "Ah, really? I, I...... Slave and maid are very stupid. ”

The dumb aunt's soft little hand took the hand of the blue grass and rubbed it carefully, she couldn't help but be stunned by this rubbing, and pulled closer to the lamp to check. Lan Cao panicked and hurriedly retreated, but the dumb aunt grabbed it, and with the help of the oil light, the dumb aunt saw that the back of Lan Cao's slender and thin little hand was full of pits, and there were large patches of chilblains. Some are still red and swollen, some are broken, and when the fingers press down, there is pus in them.

"It hurts—" Lancao couldn't help but inhale.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?

The little grandmother raised her voice suddenly, surprised and distressed.

Lancao's nasal cavity suddenly soured, and she hurriedly looked at the window, "Little grandma, you keep your voice down, what if someone passes by - it's okay, the slave doesn't hurt, the slave doesn't hurt, it was long when she first entered the house, and it was red and swollen every year in winter, and now is not the most painful time, and when the redness and swelling subside, it was itchy and painful at that time, and that was the drill heart." ”

"Silly boy, no one loved you before, but when you meet me, why are you still hiding and not letting me find out? You kid, everything is good, but your mind is too heavy, you know? It's not good for you to go on like this. ”

Is it reproach?

The tone is so soft, so gentle.

As he spoke, he got up, picked up a few medicinal materials from the medicine cabinet, took a small scale and weighed them one by one, and then threw them into the stone mortar and carefully mashed them, and after a while, he poured out some white, white, green, yellow, and yellow grinding powder, mixed the water evenly, put it in a small diskette, dipped it in a small spoon, and applied it to the back of the bluegrass hand.

Lancao stood stupidly, letting her apply a thick layer of medicinal powder on the backs of her two hands.

It's a little painful, it's a little cold, and those tender rotten flesh give off an itchy feeling.

The dumb aunt said while applying the medicine: "Follow me to learn words from tomorrow, Orchid can also teach you, you remember, you will learn quickly, because you are not a stupid child, on the contrary, you are very smart, you have to believe in yourself." Why learn words, one day you will understand. Learning well will be good for you for the rest of your life. It may also change the fate of your life. ”

The blue grass was sour, the nasal cavity was sour, and the heart was weird, the little grandmother's words were so strange, what did she say, she called me a child, in fact, I was a few years older than her, alas, the little grandmother is getting more and more strange, how old is she herself, she has become so vicissitudes of life, is it because she has been dumb for many years, so her heart is not the same as others?

Lancao nodded hurriedly, saying that she was willing to learn, she must study hard, as for what changed her fate, she didn't dare to hope for it, she was a lowly girl, the fate of this life can be seen through at a glance, these years to do the first girl, and when she is older, the master will match a little girl to ask her to marry, such a fate is naturally difficult to change.

However, thinking that if she learned to read and write, Cousin Bai would come back to write, and she would be able to come forward and grind the paper for him like an orchid, and she would be able to recognize what he had written. What kind of happiness would that be, just for that reason, she is willing to learn words, and from now on.

Seeing that she was so studious, the dumb aunt pursed her lips and smiled, and immediately taught her to practice grabbing the pen, the blue grass wrist was as soft as a noodle, the dumb aunt simply grabbed her pen, walked slowly on the paper, skimmed and pinched, wrote a crooked and twisted big character, and then pointed to her, this is a human character, just like a person standing between heaven and earth with his legs crossed.

Lancao looked at it for a while, tried to write it by itself, but unfortunately it was still unstable, the dumb aunt pointed to the half-embroidered pattern on the pillow and said that you can even hold the embroidery needle so small, what is the difficulty of a pen, but I am not familiar with it at first, and it will naturally be smooth after practicing more.

The white teeth of the blue grass bit her lip, unwilling to admit defeat, and repeated the practice one by one, the dumb aunt simply looked down on the other side to read the book, the master and servant were busy with their own work, and the oil lamp burned until the depths of the night.

After nightfall, the weather changed, and the clouds were heavy in the air.

A light is like a bean, in Liuyun Hall, Liu Yan heard that everyone had stopped, got up and lit the lamp again, and unfolded the crumpled page of rice paper on the pillow to see, this line of words has long been memorized, but she still can't help but look at it, since a glance, those words are like the tip of a needle, stabbing her eyes instantly pain, slowly recalling, but I feel that they are like small fish, slippery and swimming into their hearts, can't drive away, can't disperse, just want to see, just want to look at it again, want to make sure that these words are really not imagined in their hearts, but the little mute wrote for themselves, white paper and black words, just held in the palm of his hand。

Her words are very simple, if you don't want to get married, you can die, only death, the cleanest.

If she doesn't want to drag down her loved ones, she can provide a medicine that is dead but can't be seen as man-made.

It's as simple as that.

She told her to die.

This little mute, she is the only one in the Great Willow Mansion who sues her, and there is a second way to go besides marriage.

Dare to instigate others to seek death, and are willing to be accomplices?!

Is that little mute crazy? Aren't you afraid that I'll yell out and hurt herself?

Did she expect that I would not shout out, but would accept her advice?

Liu Yan lifted the rice paper close to the candle flame, the soft rice paper danced happily on the fire, and the sparks instantly brightened, so startled that the girl ring who was on duty at night under the kang got up from her sleep and hurriedly rushed over to extinguish the fire.

Liu Yan watched the burning ashes and butterflies fluttering outside the curtain in front of the kang, like a floating world, blooming followed by withering, like a spring dream in the boudoir overnight, and after waking up from the dream, a qiē turned into fragments and slowly scattered.

The eldest lady in the middle courtyard did not go to bed early, and what was even more exceptional was that Liu's mother was also in the house, and they were gossiping under the lamp.

"It's not easy to know what the disease is for the time being, but it seems to be very strict, this disease makes Aunt Jiu's temper worse and worse, and she has invited several doctors before and after, but there is no improvement, so I can only call her over. Sure enough, her medicine is different from others, others are oral, she also has a decoction of sitz bath in addition to oral administration, and Mu Fengju boiled it in the evening, and the yard was full of medicine. ”

Liu's mother said slowly.

The eldest lady slowly twisted her fingers, and on her well-maintained right wrist, there was a string of rosewood Buddha beads, so that she was more like a kind woman who was obsessed with Buddhist things.

Her voice was more like that of a calm layman who had been practicing for many years, "She, can really see a doctor? I sent people to Tianjiazhuang twice, and the family of the tenants had already left, and they didn't know where to beg for food, and the neighbors said that she was born a mute, and she had been working for the family since she was a child, and she was so bitter that she died alive, and her ancestors had never heard of anyone who knew medicine, and it seemed that she had grown so big and didn't see anything different from ordinary people, nor had she heard of any adventures, so why did she see a doctor?

After saying that, he fell into deep thought.

Liu Wan fell asleep, saying a series of dream words from time to time, shouting something in his dreams.

Chen Shi glanced back at the kang, "But what she said seems to have some truth, such as this Brother Wan'er, let's do what she commanded, Brother Wan'er has not been sick so often recently, it seems to have a little effect." ”

As she spoke, she picked up a jet-black pill from the disk on the table, which was exactly what the little mute had sent to her, and told her to take it orally three times a day. To be on the safe side, she hasn't taken it yet. She said that she should avoid meat and only eat fruits and vegetables, she can do it, but this pill, I still ask a doctor who understands medicine to take a look at it, after all, what is in the mouth, in case there is anything wrong.

Chen suddenly made up his mind: "Tomorrow morning, Lanmei, you go again, go and invite Mr. Xie, if you are not in the medicine hall, you can go to his house to invite." Let's just say that I have died of a heavy illness and it is difficult to see improvement, so I must invite him to visit. ”