Chapter 19: Calm on the Surface [Complete]
After settling down in Yueluju that night, the faces of the two little girls, Cai Wan and Ganoderma lucidum fairy grass, had a lot of brilliance on their faces. After begging for life in front of the Chi family for so long, several maids of all sizes never dreamed that there would be such a day when they could raise their eyebrows like this.
Ru Xi just smiled, asked Cai Wan to take some scattered silver and copper coins to reward the girl who worked hard, and then freshened up, and also asked the maid to rest by herself.
The moon is clear, the night breeze is wet, and in the evening of early autumn, the Pu family mansion is quiet for a long time.
Ru Xi had already laid down to rest, but she was still holding the handkerchief that Shuang'e had stuffed in her hand.
At that time, when Shuang'e stuffed over, it was a ball, and she immediately picked it up, thinking it was a soft paper ball. When I finally opened it when no one was around, I found that it was a quarter of a shabby handkerchief, the color of which was somewhat similar to papyrus, and there was no writing on this corner of the handkerchief, but I don't know if it was rouge or what kind of pigment dyed a ball of crimson.
What does that mean?
Ru Xi didn't think that Shuang'e was a reckless person, and she saw it very clearly when Shuang'e stopped talking in the carriage that day. Shuang'e must be reminding herself of something, but what exactly is this scarlet scarf?
Could it be a blood book? Does the Chi clan really have the courage to kill?
If the Chi clan really wants to get rid of themselves, the purpose cannot be just to vent their anger. But now that she has been valued by the Yan family, if she dies in vain, is the Chi family, a woman in the back house, really sure that she will be able to hide from the world?
Although it is said that the ignorant are fearless, Yan Xuan's whip, the signboard of the Earl's Palace, is not at all deterrent. Chi is literate, although he can't recite poetry, and he is not a country woman, so he shouldn't be ignorant to that point.
If not killing, then what?
What is it that makes Shuang'e unable to sit idly by and take the risk to warn herself?
Crimson, is it cinnabar? The poisons of the ancients were relatively simple, mainly those minerals, would Chi want to drug himself? But this is back to the previous speculation, the anger and resentment in Chi's heart at this moment may have been wishing that she would disappear forever immediately, but with Chi's scheming and ability, would she really poison herself?
Even if the Chi clan really had a plan to poison them, would they let Cuiliu and Shuang'e know about it together?
Ru Ji turned over, carefully thinking about the causes of various accidents in her past life and this life, and between her thoughts, the vague uneasiness in her heart became more and more intense. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration dawned on me, and I came to a conclusion - I see! Chi's really has a good calculation!
No matter how many people in the Pu family mansion slept peacefully and tossed and turned on this seemingly peaceful early autumn night. After several days of incidents, the return of Yueluju to the old owner seems to have really allowed the Pu family to enter a period of peace and harmony.
Especially when the news came that Mrs. Huan Ningbo was seriously ill, and the "Yan family's mother" mentioned by Yan Xuan before was not sent, the harmony in the Pu family's house was even higher.
The once routine family-friendly greeting was tacitly stopped. Ru Ji is not the real owner of the bun, and she doesn't have much to meet with her scum dad Pu Luo except for slapping her face*. And the Chi family, who was repeatedly stimulated by the Yan family and seemed to need to regroup, also didn't want to see Ruji. Coupled with the return of the land of Yuelu Ju to its original owner, everyone really experienced the beauty of the distance for a while. Ruji was too lazy to go over to say goodbye, and the Chi family was also happy not to see each other.
As for the Yan family, they did not follow up closely on the affairs of Ru Ji or the Pu family for the time being, and everyone on the table put on a steady attitude of waiting to see the changes in the situation, not in a hurry or impatient.
And under the table, who is happy in their hearts and who is anxious in their hearts, everyone knows it and can think of each other, but they did not quickly find it out in person within a few days.
As time passed, Cai Wan saw that Shuangcicada and others seemed to gradually regain their original confidence and arrogance, and even occasionally met them when they met them when they were fetching water or fetching food, and they would half-smile and ridicule a few words: "I heard that Mrs. Bo is seriously ill, and your girl is also a granddaughter, and she was not taken to serve the sick?" Don't come to visit and do your filial piety? ”
When Cai Wan first heard similar words, she was afraid that Yan Xuan would just be in love for a while, and would not really support Ru Xi, listening to the half-temptation and half-sarcasm insinuations of these big girls in the main house of the double cicadas and butterflies, the more anxious she was, the more worried she became, and the more she couldn't reply.
Who knew that after talking to Ru Xi, Ru Xi didn't take it seriously at all, just buried her head in front of the dressing table to write and paint, and the more Cai Wan looked at it, the more she wondered. It's really good that the eldest girl has been able to do a lot after recovering from her illness this time, but why did the original hairpin flower Xiaokai regress a lot? Although he didn't know many words, he had never seen the girl write five or six pages in the past, and he knew almost nothing. In particular, this ...... What is this strange round symbol?
plana,planb,planc……
What the hell is this?
Could it be that the girl can draw talismans?!
Ru Ji was concentrating on writing, and when she didn't look up, she saw Cai Wan's face surprised, and then she noticed her worry when she coped. Ru Xiao smiled, Chi's little trick of throwing stones to ask for directions, who to play with?
I simply taught Cai Wan a few words, and continued to bury my head in writing my counterattack plan through life!
When Cai Wan met the cicadas again in the next day, he had more confidence, and looked at the past with the same smile: "The parents are sick, and the wife doesn't say it, if the eldest girl goes by herself, won't it be rude to the wife?" I heard that the palace sent a number of imperial doctors to take turns to come over, and our house is not interesting at all, so it is really going to offend people. The future of the old man...... Ay. ”
Throwing off these few words, Cai Wan learned from the previous appearance of the double cicadas, rolled his eyes and left.
That night, the news of Chi's heartache came from the main room, and the usual Li Langzhong came to the door again. However, after a night of diagnosis and decoction, the housekeeper of the family still carried a large bag of medicinal herb gift boxes and ran to Huanningbo Mansion.
Ru Ji just smiled when she heard it: "Pu ...... The old man is a scumbag who only cares about himself, and even if the wife makes trouble, she is sick, and this gift can be obtained. Get to the bottom of me? Count your money! ”
Cai Wan thought about Chi's sullenness, and also laughed, but she also had some doubts about Ruji: "Girl, didn't you want to make a fan cover for the master before?" After all, the lord is—"
Ru Xi smiled at all, raised her eyes and sneered: "What kind of fan cover?" The old man is thirteen, no, the old man has been elegant enough for a long time. It's time for him to know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are high and thick! ”
Cai Wan finally got used to Ruji's current style. Although Pu Yu is Ruji's father, what he does is really worthy of a scumbag with a capital letter. Between the hardships and hardships of three lives, even if Cai Wan is obedient and loyal, he will not persuade him to say anything about "filial piety".
Cai Wan nodded, lowered her voice and said to Ru Xi: "Girl, Cai Lan has been very peaceful recently. ”
Ru Xi looked outside: "Cai Lan is a transparent person, she saw that there was no way out after she saw me dead, so she helped his wife without hesitation." But the current situation is very delicate, and the wife looks at the dissipation, and there must be action in secret. You told the fairy grass and Ganoderma lucidum to wake up, pay more attention to the blue picking. ”
"Got it, girl." The light in Cai Wan's eyes also firmed, "Actually, Cai Lan also has a handle in my hands." I was also wrong before, but now that I have seen the girl's actions, I really know that I can't be soft-hearted towards that person. ”
Ru Xi nodded with satisfaction, quite a tearful look at finally bringing the rookie intern to the road.
At that moment, he told Cai Wan to be careful about eating and drinking, and the master and servant rested in peace.
It was nearly September, and Mrs. Huanningbo's illness seemed to be gradually stabilizing. The most obvious sign is that the number of imperial doctors who frequently come and go to Huanningbo's Mansion has changed from two or three a day to one imperial doctor every two or three days.
At the same time, the relationship between the Yan family and their in-laws has also become delicate.
The first to bear the brunt is the Wen family, even if she is in the back house of the Pu family, and her social circle of the same age is almost equal to 0, she has heard the rumor that the nieces and nephews of the Wen family, who originally lived in the Yan family, have returned to the Yiyang Hou Mansion. The external statement is naturally because of Mrs. Bo's illness and recuperation, the children and grandchildren of the Yan family all need to be filial piety, and it is inconvenient for outsiders to disturb more.
But among the rumors, there is inevitably more speculation about the sons of the Yan family and the girls of the Wen family. It's just a little different from the previous life in Ruxi's memory, this time the spearhead is not Yan Rong and Wen Yingluo, but the biological son of Mrs. Shizi, Yan Wei of the third young master of Da Pai and Wen Sango, the daughter of the Wen family.
If it is said that the door is right, of course the Yiyang Hou Mansion and the Huan Ningbo Mansion can be kissed, but the third young master Yan Wei has already made a kiss! The wedding date is March next year, and he will marry the daughter of the Jiangling clan.
Ru Xi thought about it carefully, and felt more and more that the gossip was tight.
According to the memory of her previous life, Yan Wei's career was mediocre, and she was really not eye-catching among the children of the Yan family, but because of this, she didn't make any big waves when she divorced and remarried a few years later.
It's just that compared with today's rumors, it seems that Yan Wei and Wen Coral had a beginning and an end at this time, and only then did they lead to a discord with Qu's husband and wife in the future and even end up in harmony. So now that JQ has broken out in advance, will it change Qu's marriage?
Are all these changes the butterfly effect brought about by one's own rebirth?
Ru Ji thought as she played with the flower club post sprinkled with gold incense in her hand.