Chapter 63
Falling into the hands of people who hated her, Tan Wanqing knew that sooner or later she would have such a day.
Now that it can be delayed for a year and a half, it can be regarded as giving enough face and identity to the arrogant and rude daughter of a former scholar, in such an era, after a family like her was ruined, the son of a criminal minister who fled out of the country is in a hundred times more miserable than a thousand times.
She knows this very well,* It's just a drizzle, and the bitter cold land in the northwest where the Tan family and his party arrived, where there are all kinds of criminal ministers and evil slaves, men are donkey envoys, women are used by men, and they can't live warmly and eat, so they can't talk about dignity and face.
Outside, it was already dark.
Tan Wanqing got up a little later than usual, but in the end she still got up, wrapped herself in a coat casually, knelt on the warm mattress, and a little wolf bรจi, her hand subconsciously touched her waist, and the faint pain made her stiffen in place for a while.
When Ruizhu came over with breakfast, she saw the young lady slowly kneeling between the futons, her brows furrowed slightly.
Because of the head down, the long hair is black like satin scattered on the back, the water is slippery, the neck can be hung with a red rope, lifted a corner, a glimpse, more moist than goat's milk on three points, probably in recent days goat milk bird's nest food is nutritious, before the meat has recently been slightly made up, it is more obvious ups and downs, if you want to compose a poem, I am afraid that it is the sideburns and fragrant neck clouds to cover the lotus, and the jade run beads are more round than it is difficult to describe completely.
It's a pity that the red marks and blue marks on it are shocking, which makes Ruizhu startled, as if there are unclean stains on the best jade, but I think of last night......
This little girl, who is only fifteen years old, has been in the yard of the young lady since she can remember, and has not seen the "world" much, her face turned red at a loss, and she swallowed back what she wanted to say, and stepped forward to help take care of it without saying a word.
Tan Wanqing cleaned up, stroked the wide sleeves with her hand, took the bowl handed over by Ruizhu, looked at the warm purple goat's milk in the porcelain bowl with an attractive milk fragrance, and then thought about the bowl of bitter rice water without a few grains of rice in the exile land, sighed, put it to her mouth and drank it all.
Rui Zhu saw that the young lady was not happy, but she was really panicked when she was full of work in her heart, and her eyes glanced at Tan Wanqing, who was eating and silent, and her feet involuntarily rubbed the ground again and again, and she didn't ask in the end.
In her mind, there was a little bit of complaint in her heart, last time when Lord Xie said that he wanted to prepare a dowry and propose marriage, Miss shouldn't have refused so quickly, now it's good, how to be non-compliant without a matchmaker, or even ......
If the other party doesn't mention remarrying, and falls into passivity, Miss's innocence will really be ruined.
Although at the beginning, she also felt that such a barbaric place, such a delusional reckless man, was really not worthy of a hair of the young lady, not to mention the poverty, even the residence was more exquisite than an aunt's yard in Tanfu, and when it came to talent and learning, it was not enough to lift shoes for Zheng Yuan's son, not to mention a small five-grade official in a poor countryside, in the capital, such a military attache didn't even pay attention to the doorkeeper of Danfu, it could be said that he was not worthy of anything.
However, in the end, this time is different from the past, although the mouth is hard, but the death of Tanfu, the sale of the sale, and the distribution of the distribution, after all, it is a fact, she and the young lady can keep their innocence and save their lives in such a troubled world, it is all God's mercy and gives Tianda a great opportunity, but from now on, the young lady can no longer be reliable and unprotected, so even this little military attache who was not in the eyes of the past can control their life and death.
For her, for more than half a year, it has been like falling from the world to hell, and she is still like this for a girl in a house, and the young lady doesn't know what kind of mood she feels.
Therefore, she couldn't help but want to say, but also took into account that the young lady didn't dare to ask.
In her heart, a woman's chastity is definitely the same as life, if that Lord Xie doesn't marry Miss, then Miss will suffer a big loss, even her little girl knows, it is a very bad thing. In her heart, the king of Hades dared to raise eyebrows at the young lady before, and he was able to get it back last night, if he really didn't admit it, the two of them had no way to take him, thinking of the way he was grinding the young lady last night, Rui Zhu couldn't help but shudder.
After Tan Wanqing rinsed her mouth, took her cloak, carried her bookbag, and prepared to go out, she couldn't help but persuade: "Miss, if you are not feeling well, I will go to the academy to inform Song Niangzi, and I won't go to the school today......"
Tan Wanqing pondered for a moment and said, "If you don't do it, since you have agreed, you can't fish for three days and dry your nets for two days." Thinking of something, he said, "Go and fetch eighty taels of silver, I will be useful." โ
The food, clothing and housing at home are all taken care of by Ruizhu, and most of the income from painting is also locked in the box by her, light yรฌ does not move, I heard Miss say that she took out eighty taels at once, she felt very painful in her heart, all of which were the hard-earned money earned by Miss more than a dozen taels, in addition to the spent, now added together, it is less than a hundred taels, she is trying to make up a hundred taels for gold ingots, but she has to take out almost all of them at once, this money, if it was in the past, which has been in the eyes.
Although the pain was incomparable, Rui Zhu still didn't ask Miss, turned around and went to the cupboard to take out the box, picked out eight dozen solid small silver ingots, and put a bag of handkerchiefs into the schoolbag for Miss, Tan Wanqing nodded and pushed the door open and walked out.
"Miss, you're really okay." Ruizhu saw that Miss Miss's steps were obviously much smaller than before, and she was still worried when she went out.
"Let's go back." After Tan Wanqing walked out of the courtyard, she also had some doubts in her heart, she knew best what kind of physique she had, like a collision of tile porcelain, not to mention broken bones, but also scarred, this common sin will be born sooner or later.
But now walking, except for a place that is faintly uncomfortable, the spirit is fine, when I get up in the morning, when I take the bronze mirror, there is still a trace of ruddy blood on my face, is it because I have suffered a lot on the way to exile, and my physique has become a lot better?
Today's arrival time in the school was a little later, and Song Xiucai's mother had already finished two classes, and she didn't delay at the moment, and walked in directly with her bookbag.
To deal with a group of energetic buns, you really have to have an extraordinary body and energy, weekdays and two classes down, every time there is a feeling of exhaustion, today is strange, in addition to dry mouth, the spirit has been very full, the state has never been better.
Tan Wanqing also had to think, throwing away her physique, is it also the relationship between the purple goat milk she drinks these days?
At noon, he politely declined Mrs. Song's invitation to share lunch, and walked out of the gate along the sheep intestine path in the college.
As soon as Tan Wanqing walked out, his eyes lit up, and he stepped forward in a few steps, and said respectfully, "Miss Tao'er." โ
This person is none other than the Xu steward of the former Tan Mansion who was raided.
Tan Wanqing, who was preoccupied, saw him, and a smile appeared on his face, "Steward Xu." โ
When Xu Jin heard the three words of Steward Xu, he didn't know whether he recalled the past or responded to the embarrassing reality, and a wry smile appeared on his vicissitudes of life, "Miss Tao'er, the former Steward Xu of Danfu is now just a groom driving the carriage in Baifu, and he really can't afford to be in charge." โ
Tan Wanqing's eyes also darkened, a master and a servant stood there, but she didn't say anything for a long time, and only after a long time did she say softly: "...... I'm no longer the young lady of Tanfu in the past, Uncle Xu, let's call me Tao'er in the future. "There are few old people in Tanfu back then.
"Never, the eldest lady will always be the eldest lady......"
Tan Wanqing raised her hand to interrupt these meaningless words, led them to the plum tree, and swept her gaze as if unintentionally to a figure not far away.
Since Zuo was exposed, and when the swinger of the Bai family happened, after he received a military stick, he also broke the jar and began to haunt openly, Tan Wanqing did what he did every day, where he went, who he saw, and even how long he slept in a night, it is estimated that he knows everything well.
Tan Wanqing is now in the name of "reminiscing", but she must make a long story short, the longer this matter is delayed, the more uneasy she becomes, and she is afraid that she will have many dreams at night, which will arouse suspicion.
"Baifu didn't embarrass you, did it?"
"Since the last incident, the people in Baifu have been very polite." The two knew that this was neither because of the identity of the groom, nor because of a young lady in distress, but because of the name of Xie Yanluo.
"After all, Baifu is not a long-term place." Tan Wanqing took out the small packet of silver ingots from the bookbag, stuffed it into Steward Xu's hand, and said with an unprecedentedly serious expression: "Take back the deed of sale, Baifu should not embarrass you anymore, and the remaining silver is enough for you to go back to the capital to visit relatives." โ
After hearing this, Xu Jin opened his mouth in surprise, he had originally thought that with Miss's old affection, he might want to redeem him and stay by his side, which was a great gift for him, and he could leave the Bai family and return to Miss's side, even if he was willing to eat bran every day.
Unexpectedly, the young lady actually let him go back to Beijing.
If you don't want to go back to Beijing, it's false, there is still his mansion, wife and concubine, children, for most of the past six months, he has not been worried for a moment, anxious, and even angry about what he faintly guessed, God knows, when he can't sleep in the middle of the night tossing and turning, he wants to go back to find out how strong his heart is like a cat scratch.
Now, such an idea has a chance, I can't help but be stunned, when I react, I refuse reasonably, he has been mixed in Tanfu for more than 30 years, what kind of person, what kind of mind is not a ten, there are seven or eight points, in his opinion, the current situation of the young lady is not good, no matter the behavior or gaze of the guard on that day, Miss Tao'er is full of possession of Chiguoguo, desire, lost the protection of Tanfu and the lord, fell into the hands of men, what happened, there is no better thing than him.
Miss has only Ruizhu by her side, and there is no one to support her, so I am afraid that this loss will be swallowed in the stomach, if you keep yourself by your side to take care of it, you may not be able to turn the situation around immediately, but at least you can let Miss have more people to instruct, and it is more convenient to go out to do things, and it can also make Miss Tao'er a little more confident.
If he really wants to return to Beijing and return to his relatives, it is absolutely impossible.
He was about to push back the bag of cloth in his hand, when he suddenly felt that at the same time as the young lady handed him the bag silver, there was a semi-hard paper-like thing stuffed into his palm.
Tan Wanqing pressed the silver pair wrapped in the handkerchief tightly on his hand, looked at him and said: "Without further ado, it will change later, redeem the deed of sale and return to Beijing to reunite with your family as soon as possible, although the money is not much, but it saves a little use, and the toll is enough, don't worry about me, I have my own arrangements here......"
After Tan Wanqing finished saying what she wanted to say, she didn't delay long and left in a hurry.
Xu Jin put the silver on his waist, and returned to Baifu in a trance, at noon it was the time when the master of the house needed to use people, he saw that there was no one around, and he hurriedly opened the paper ball in his hand when he entered the wing......
The more Xu Jin looked at it, the more dignified he became, paused after reading it, and then unfolded it and hurriedly wrote down the address and name on it, immediately tore it to pieces, and found a charcoal basin with only cigarette seedlings left, and threw it in, and after a while, the paper was slowly burned and burned to ashes.
The next day, when the sky was still bright, a figure got into a carriage out of the city and quietly left Wei'an City.