Chapter 61: The Ominous Man
Situ Ming was puzzled when she heard Mian Gu say that the two sisters Absinthe and Calamus were ominous people. She asked Miangu:
"How are they ominous, and everyone avoids them?"
Aunt Mian squinted at her, and secretly said in her heart, as soon as other girls heard that the twin sisters were ominous people, it was too late to hide, who would investigate how ominous they were.
Situ Cheng saw that Mian Gu did not answer her question for a long time, and she was not afraid of offending Mian Gu, so she squeezed Mian Gu and said:
"While saying that I will choose the girl myself, I will refuse, this will not work, and that will not work, if this reaches the ears of other girls. Everyone will mistakenly think that Miangu turned out to be a person who made random promises. ”
Although Mian Gu is the steward of the Red Dot Cui Pavilion, the girls in the Red Dot Cui are all temperamental people. It was cultivated according to the red-card sisters in various buildings in the future, and her aunt sometimes had to be coaxed.
Originally, he tried his best to suppress those girls. If her words are not good, then how will she serve the public in the future. Maybe he will be beaten back to Yihong Mansion again, not to mention the shame, and he has to go back to his old job with a shy face.
Aunt Mian really regretted it, didn't she lift a stone and hit her feet, how could she say the words that let her pick a portable girl, she took it seriously.
"Since you like absinthe, I'll give it to you. What a big thing, you don't need to sneer at me. You should be careful about the examination after a month, not to mention the girl you carry with you when the time comes, even if you have three meals a day, you have to weigh whether you have a place. Mian Gu said angrily with a dark face.
"Then I'm here to thank my aunt." Situ Cheng saluted Mian Gu and said with a smile.
Absinthe and Calamus were originally born to a good girl in Yihong Mansion, and that girl's name was Manro. Later, for some reason, Manro threw his newborn flesh and blood at the door of Yihong Mansion, and he committed suicide by jumping into the river.
Her body soaked in the river for three days and three nights before it was recovered. After an autopsy, it was determined that it was indeed suicide and not homicide. It's just even stranger that her husband and in-laws refused to come to claim the body.
The husband's family said that she was an ominous person, and gave birth to a pair of demons to their family. His husband was also annoyed in public that he shouldn't have redeemed her. said that he was confused by her means at the beginning, so he married her back in a daze, and was ridiculed by relatives and friends for her, and also seriously broke the hearts of her parents.
Manroe's daughter, who had abandoned her in the Red House, was adopted by her former sister, who is now the owner of Yufang Garden.
Not long after, Absinthe was sent to Situ Ming's room. Situ Cheng saw that she was the only one who came, so she asked her why Calamus didn't come.
"Miss Situ doesn't know, each girl in this red dot pavilion is only equipped with one maid, so it's just me who has been matched." Absinthe replied.
Situ Cheng saw that her face was covered with firewood ash, so she stepped forward and wiped her with her own handkerchief. Absinthe took a step back but dodged, and Situ Cheng stepped forward to hold her hand again. I saw that her hands were rough and calloused, and they were covered with wounds of unknown sizes, which looked like the hands of a young girl.
"Miss Situ......" Absinthe wanted to break free from Situ Ming's hand, holding her hand, and stopped talking.
"Sister Absinthe, thank you for your call to me last night, otherwise I would still be locked in that room and suffering." Situ Ming said to her.
"Sister Absinthe is not complaining about me, I told you to be a girl, and I also dismantled your sisters. It's also my fault, I didn't know in advance that a girl was only destined for one girl. Situ Cheng said to her again.
"Miss Situ, I didn't mean that, being able to come to Cutting Red Dot Cui to do things is something that many sisters can't ask for. It's too late for me to be happy, how can I blame you. It's just ......," Absinthe said in fear.
"If my sister has anything to say, just say it, you are my girl in name, but in fact I treat you as a sister. Don't worry, I won't say anything to outsiders. Especially that Miangu. Situ Cheng lowered her voice and said to her a few words later.
"When I learned that I was asked by the girl, I was extremely happy, but I was afraid that the girl would regret her decision if she didn't know the secret story." Absinthe.
Absinthe and calamus were raised in Yufangyuan.
Except for the guards outside the gate, Yufangen is full of women inside. For example, some of the work of chopping wood, boiling water, cooking rice, and pulping and washing are all done by some mothers-in-law, because they are afraid that the girls inside will do those jobs roughly, and the price of selling them will fall.
Of course, there are also some girls who are suitable for rough work, such as those with inferior qualifications and appearances, and can only be sold to large families to be maids and cooks or something. But the women didn't stay here for a few days, so they moved out.
And absinthe and calamus are the only two girls who have been doing rough work here for more than ten years, is it because the owner of Yufang Garden is the deceased of their mother's family?
Not really!
Absinthe hesitated, but was still ready to tell Situ Cheng some things in advance.
Absinthe took a few steps back, a little distance from Situ Ming, and then said:
"Miss Situ, in fact, we are ominous people, and none of the girls here see us without scolding or avoiding us."
"I know this, Miangu has already told me this. But how ominous you are, how I can't see the slightest hint. Situ knows that many times rumors do not represent the truth, and even rumors can ruin a person.
"Some people say that whoever touches us will be unlucky, and even if you look at it more, you will be haunted by bad luck." Absinthe lowered his head and whispered.
She didn't want to say this, but she had to let Situ Cheng know. Absinthe is a warm-hearted person, and in the past, there were girls who had just arrived and asked her to serve her, but they all kicked her out within two days, and she continued to do some hard and tiring rough work.
"Don't worry, I never believe in such nonsense." Situ Cheng comforted her.
"But it's true, it's not nonsense." Absinthe smiled bitterly, she bit her lower lip vigorously, and finally said something she had never said to others, a self-insulting sentence:
"The two of us were born stone maidens, which is why we are called ominous."
After saying that, she regretted it again, Situ Cheng was just a girl, where did she know what a stone girl was.
But Absinthe was wrong, Situ Ming understood, Situ Ming is not a boudoir woman who does not go out of the door, does not step out of the second door, and does not listen to gossip.
She once disdained the world's eyes and eloped with others. She once married on her own without three books and six ceremonies. She once used heaven as a testimony and the earth as a medium to worship heaven and earth. She was once alone and had children.
If she were to choose, she would even hope that she was also a stone girl in her previous life, at least she would not suffer so much.