Chapter 21: Nightmares
"Qingzhu, don't you really want to go back and take a look?" Gu Anning looked at Qingzhu who was making the whole bed, raised her eyebrows, lowered her eyes slightly, and stopped asking when she saw that she didn't speak.
At the dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve, she just showed her side and ate some and came back, probably because she was cold when she went to the temple, and she was actually sleepy.
Qingzhu quilts have been changed, these errands are done by Qingyuan, today Qingyuan and Qingglaze are allowed to go back, and they will come the day after tomorrow.
"Girl, hurry up and rest, the slave and maid went to boil the soup, and tomorrow morning I have to go to the main courtyard to pay New Year's greetings!"
She knew that Qingzhu was always thinking about her hometown, but she hadn't gone back for so many years, and naturally this year was no exception.
Lying on the bed with wide clothes, tossing and turning before the little sleepiness was gone, she should have gone to the main courtyard to watch the New Year together on Chinese New Year's Eve, and Madame let her come back because she was unwell.
The main courtyard should be lively.
But several maids in this courtyard were allowed to go back, and Ning's mother also went back for a reunion, and she selfishly wondered if she should go to North Park.
After half a ring, Gu Anning got up again, and was about to go out to the North Park when Miao Lin from the main courtyard came over.
Seeing that her face was not good, he helped her forward and said. "Where is the girl, Madame asked the slave to send some night soup. ”
As he spoke, he helped the person into the house, put down the food box in his hand, and knew that all the people in the courtyard were allowed to go back, and it was strange to look at it.
"The girl still has a good rest, and she will move around a lot tomorrow. ”
At this time, if you are sick, you will naturally not be able to go out of the yard tomorrow, and the great opportunity is in vain, and the masters of each yard are also gossiping.
Miao Lin knew this, how could Gu Anning not know, bowed slightly, looked at the food box on the table, covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed lightly, Miao Lin turned his face away slightly. "The girl is resting, and there is something to do on the lady's side, so the slave and maid will go back first. ”
After Gu Anning responded, Miao Lin was also in a hurry.
After sitting in the house for a while, looking at the red lanterns hanging in the corridor outside, it is naturally bright to not pick up the lights on Chinese New Year's Eve.
"Why is the girl still doing it!" Qingzhu came in with the decoction and saw that she was still sitting in the room, and hurriedly went to get a cloak to put it on her.
Gu Anning glanced at her and said. "Mother Li has looked for you in private?"
Hearing her ask, Qingzhu shook his head. "I met it before, and it was also the end of the year, and the North Courtyard was busy when the North Park was busy, so I didn't see it since. ”
At dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve today, Gu Anning did not see Aunt Liu.
"If the girl misses Aunt Liu, let's go to the North Garden. After a pause, he said. "After all, she is the girl's biological mother, and the second lady will not be estranged here. ”
It should be like this in the New Year, but Qingzhu thought about it more simply.
The second lady is not estranged, it is natural, the estrangement is the big house, the most unhappy thing about her going to the North Park is naturally the eldest lady, and then Aunt Liu has to be obedient in front of the eldest lady, yes, why should the second lady estranged her!
"Let's rest early!"
Qingzhu saw that she drank the medicine and fell asleep, relieved, and then went to close the courtyard door, and then went into the house and slept in the ear room.
Gu Anning and Qingzhu couldn't fall asleep at night, although the main courtyard was far away, they could still hear the movement, there were many maids and mothers in the main courtyard, and it was not like this courtyard, and everyone was allowed to go back today.
I don't know when the master and servant fell asleep, and in the second half of the night, Gu Anning suddenly woke up from a nightmare and sat up sweating.
Qingzhu slept soundly, and even Gu Anning got up and went out of the door without waking up.
In the second half of the night, the people in each courtyard went to rest, and Ruoda's Gu family fell silent, and the lanterns hung everywhere were also extinguished.
Gu Anning just came out with a cloak, walked through the corridor, walked out of the south courtyard, passed the garden, and stood next to the lotus pond fixedly.
The bright moon is long, the clear water is long, the wind and the moon are gentle, how can it be a cool autumn night.
The voice was crisp and long, a word she had never pronounced before, and she had heard of before, but she said it casually.
"Who? Who's where?"
The person who burned the paper money on the other side trembled slightly and looked at the figure standing by the lotus pond, because his back was to her, but he couldn't see who it was.
Although I couldn't see it, the sound and words were very familiar, and when I suddenly heard a word that I hadn't heard for years, the person who burned the paper suddenly turned pale. "Who doesn't sleep here in the middle of the night and pretends to be a ghost?"
It was none other than Mrs. Dafang who spoke.
Hearing this, Gu Anning looked at Mrs. Dafang not far away with blank eyes, and said something in her mouth, and the basket in the hand of the eldest lady who listened to, completely lost the appearance of a noble lady on weekdays, and ran to the other side in a panic.
After seeing the people leave, Gu Anning went back to the South Courtyard.
Qingzhu woke up in a daze, and saw that the door had just opened, and his girl came in from outside, and hurriedly said. "Why did the girl wake up?" After saying that, he went to close the door, who knew that Gu Anning had not seen her walk to the edge of the bed, take off the cloak on her body, and lie down to sleep.
Early the next morning, Gu Anning couldn't wake up, Qingzhu couldn't wake her up no matter how much she told her, and her body was hot, so she immediately went to invite a doctor to come over.
At the same time, the eldest lady of the North Courtyard also fell asleep and couldn't wake up, talking nonsense in her mouth, chattering non-stop, and talking about ghosts and other filthy words in her mouth on the first day of the new year.
The eldest lord only thought that she was a nightmare, and asked a doctor to show her, the strange thing is that the body is not bad, as if she was frightened, and the good festive day is because of the illness of the eldest lady, and the main courtyard has not come to the door to pay New Year's greetings, and she is afraid that she will be sick.
"I heard that the nine girls in the courtyard of the second sister-in-law are also sick, why do you have to pick people with this illness!"
The second lady glanced at her when she heard this. "An Ning went to the temple in Gongshan yesterday in order to ask for a sign for me, and I came back from the cold on the way. ”
In order to ask for a signature for her, it is true that she is unwell after she comes back, how can she be compared with the eldest lady who bumped into filth.
Today, the eldest lady is missing in the fourth room, and the third lady and the eldest lady are in the palm of their hands at the same time, listening to the words of the two. "Recently, the eldest sister-in-law is afraid that she can't manage things, and the fourth brother and sister are weak, so I let the second brother and sister help take care of it. ”
"Third sister-in-law, you're wrong, I've been raising my body for so many years..."
"The matter was settled. ”
The third room master is a master in the court, and the third room lady is from a famous family and is more in charge than the eldest lady.
"That sister-in-law, this evil thing, but I also have to invite a Taoist to solve it?" The second lady has never done anything bad on weekdays, so she is naturally not afraid, but she will inevitably get into trouble with things that should not be messed with.
This is also why, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, none of the girls and boys from all parties went to the North Courtyard.