Chapter 33: Unease
The night breeze pierced through the cracks in the windows, and the night lights and curtains danced slightly.
Cheng Jianniang looked at the jumping lamp, smiled slightly and shook her head.
"I don't even see anyone." "I just recognize the name," she said. ”
Recognizable by name?
Banqin was surprised.
Cheng Jianniang changed her posture and sat cross-legged, yes, she recognized the name, so far this is the second memory of the name heard in reality.
The first is Cheng Fang, who is herself.
"And whose name is it?" Banqin asked.
Cheng Jianniang was silent, and the hand on her lap clenched slightly.
"I think, drink water." She said.
Lady, this is nervous? Banqin was even more surprised, and hurriedly lowered her head and got up to pour water.
Cheng Jianniang held the water bowl and drank it slowly, and Banqin knelt and sat without asking again.
"Lady, do you want to read?" She thought of something and asked.
Cheng Jianniang shook her head.
"I don't know much, and I can't read to my mother." Banqin sighed and said, "If only Sister Banqin was here." ”
Cheng Jianniang smiled slightly.
"I wouldn't let her read it at night." She said.
Banqin thought about it and clapped her hands happily.
"By the way, I have to forget, you said that I should visit Xia Banqin... That Qingmei's parents? She asked.
"Who is Qingmei?" Cheng Jianniang asked.
Banqin was stunned and immediately covered her mouth and giggled.
"Lady, do you really not remember our names?" She asked.
"It's just a name, the most important thing is the person with this name...."Cheng Jianniang said.
It's just the name, and the most important thing is the person.
That name appeared. Someone with that name. Who will it be?
Cheng Jianniang's voice came to an abrupt end. If it's true....if it's true....
The upright body bent down, the water bowl in his hand trembled slightly, and a few drops of water spilled out.
"Lady, lady." Banqin got up in a panic, reached out and patted her shoulder, and tears of self-blame flowed out.
said that she wanted to divert the conversation, why did she say it back, she was really stupid. If those two and a half celeries were there, it wouldn't be like this.
She reached out to take Cheng Jiaoniang's water bowl, and it took her strength to pull it out, which made Banqin's tears flow down again.
She didn't dare to speak, she just reached out and patted Cheng Jiaoniang's shoulder again and again.
When the sky was dark, the streets of Jiangzhou Mansion ran by with the sound of footsteps.
"No, there's no hiding here..."
The low voice of speech accompanied by the frightened cries of chickens sounded in the alley.
"Oh, what are you doing?"
The woman's rebuke was immediately heard.
Outside the chicken coop, two children in tattered clothes ran away.
"I came early in the morning to steal chickens!" The woman took a broom and scolded after her, and when she saw that the two little children had turned and disappeared, she came back in a daze.
Seeing that the chicken nest has been turned into a mess, I counted the chickens and put my mind at ease. While urging the men in the family to move the chicken coop into the yard, they casually pulled grass from the abandoned straw basket used for hay on the side. The grass didn't come out, but someone screamed.
"Oh my mother." The woman was so frightened that she took a step back and sat down on the ground, watching a man crawl out of the straw basket.
"Big lady, thank you for letting me live in the straw basket." The young man laughed as he shook the grass off her head as she shook the grass from the woman sitting on the ground.
"Catch the thief!" The woman screamed.
"The eldest lady is really joking, how can I look like a thief like this! Obviously poor homeless people. The young man said in surprise, while stepping forward, "Big lady, you and I are destined, I see that your face is black, this is bound to be a disaster of blood and light, come, I will give you a divination, see how to resolve it, as long as a penny...."
Before he could finish speaking, the woman in front of him stretched out her hand and pointed at it.
"Hit!" She shouted.
As soon as she stretched out her hand, the young man jerked down, and a wooden stick swept dangerously over his head.
"If you have something to say, how can you beat someone?" The young man shouted, looking at a man behind him, three and a half years old, holding a broomstick, stick, and wooden stool menacingly.
"Hit this thief, hit this thief!" The woman got up from the ground and screamed.
This movement made the alley lively, and other people ran out to see the excitement.
"I'm not a thief, I'm not a thief, why don't you listen to people." The young man shouted, dodging the whirring sticks, and ran away from the crowd with two blows.
"Don't let me see it again!" The man shouted, raising the stick in his hand and waving it fiercely, pointing at the young man's distant back.
"Kill this thief! They want to steal my chickens, and they say that I have a bloody disaster and want to relieve me, and I can't cheat them...."The woman jumped to her feet and shouted, and stretched out her hand to curse.
Before he finished speaking, the man beside him turned around, and the wooden stick in his hand happened to be thrown on the woman's face, and with a scream, the woman covered her face and fell.
"you..."
The scene was chaotic, and there were people who surrounded to help and those who laughed.
"Isn't this the Bloodlight Disaster?" Someone couldn't help but laugh at the nosebleed that came out of the woman's hand covering her face.
The chaotic young man behind him no longer knows, in this narrow alley that extends in all directions, easily and skillfully turning around, along the way the weeds on his head have been cleaned up, his hair has been put back together, he easily broke off a branch from a tree that he didn't know who leaned out, rubbed his face a few times, and when he stood on the side of the street, he was already refreshing and clean.
He spread his arms and shook them twice, taking a few deep breaths.
"Okay, let's get to work." He said, reaching out and taking out a rolled pentag from the placket of his shirt, and before he could shake it off, he slammed it back in, and ducked back into the alley and stood against the wall.
Two young men on the street shook their heads and looked left and right.
"....that kid is always swindling on this street..."
“… Let's look for him and catch him for a reward..."
The two of them passed as they spoke.
The young man did not poke his head out to look at the two men, but immediately leaned against the wall and took a few steps back, and hid under the doorway of a house. Right the moment he flashed in. The two young men who had been in the past retreated back to look down the alley.
"Let's go. Not here. ”
"Be serious, it's worth a lot of money."
After the two men left this time, the young man hiding in the doorway stood up and reached out to touch his chin with a little consternation.
"First." He stretched out a finger to the side of the street, "I'm not a swagger, I'm a diviner." ”
Then another finger was held out.
"Second, it's just a penny." He shook his fingers and shook his head. Looking at the street, "It's not going to be so aggressive, is it?" ”
Retracted his hand and frowned for a moment.
"Forget it, let's go out and hide."
When the day was bright, Master Cheng stepped into the house, and as soon as he got off the carriage, he heard another bustle behind him, and another carriage drove in, and the tired Cheng Er Master helped the little man get out of the car.
"Why are you back?" Master Cheng asked with some surprise.
"I said I was not feeling well." Second Master Cheng said.
Master Cheng frowned.
"If you are sick, ask a doctor for medicine, there are so many people in the family, and you are not a doctor. What about coming back? He said with a straight face, "You are an official." Shepherd the people for the Son of Heaven, how can he leave at will for the joys and sorrows of a woman? Isn't that child's play? ”
Second Master Cheng was busy and stood respectfully and hung his head.
"Yes, I have written down the teachings of the eldest brother." He said.
Master Cheng nodded with a calm face.
"Go ahead, you're tired too." He said.
Second Master Cheng hurriedly turned around after responding to the salute.
"The second family is sick, why don't you go and take a look?"
Master Cheng stepped into the hall, still pulling his face, looking at Mrs. Cheng who greeted him and said.
"I also let the second child rush back from outside overnight, and people who don't know think it's wrong."
Mrs. Cheng was confused and a little annoyed by what she said.
She couldn't sleep and eat at home for three days and nights, and she had already started to take decoction, so it was easy to wait until her man came back, and she was scolded for her head and face, and she was asked about someone else's daughter-in-law.
"She's sick? I'm going to die. Mrs. Cheng threw back the cloak that Master Cheng had received, turned around and walked away.
Master Cheng was also annoyed, the atmosphere in the room was suddenly tense, and the maids and servants held their breath and silenced.
"Master, the slave and maid are wronged for the lady." Mrs. Cheng's personal servant knelt down and said, "The second lady didn't say that she was sick, the family did invite a doctor, but it was the eldest lady who saw the doctor, and the second lady did not know about it. ”
Master Cheng borrowed the steps with a calm face.
"Then you don't care about her at home, and you're not a young daughter-in-law, where did you get so little temperament." He said.
Over there, Mrs. Cheng sat behind her back and didn't speak.
Master Cheng coughed lightly.
"What did the doctor say?" He asked.
The servant woman waved her hand, and the maid in the house hurriedly retreated, closed the door, and soon heard the sobbing sound of Mrs. Cheng in the house, and the servant girl under the porch hurriedly took a few steps back to avoid it.
"....It's not good, why is it making trouble again?" Master Cheng said helplessly, while handing Mrs. Cheng a handkerchief.
Mrs. Cheng stretched out her hand to wipe away her tears.
"What's good, you don't know what the two of them are thinking in their hearts, where is it better, staring at us one by one, as if we have eaten their flesh and blood, and they can't wait to take a bite all the time." She choked up and said, "Now that I have caught that fool and come back, but I have seized the opportunity, and I can't wait to turn this house upside down." ”
It's because of this stupidity.
Master Cheng naturally knew about the fool's return, but he didn't take it to heart at all.
"What is this stupid, what tricks can they turn up according to her, don't worry about it, isn't the family matter also decided, hurry up and go out." Master Cheng said.
Speaking of this stupid, Mrs. Cheng hurriedly stopped crying.
"Master, there's something really strange." She said, "Yesterday, someone came to the capital to say goodbye to this Cheng Jiaoniang, and I also took a lot of people's Geng posts. ”
Master Cheng snorted.
"The Zhou family's trick is just a trick, what good people can they choose." He said knowingly, as he picked up his tea and ate it.
"The person who came is the Qin family of the princess's mansion." Mrs. Cheng said.
The princess's mansion Qin family!
Master Cheng squirted out a mouthful of tea.
That's a good guy! (To be continued......)