Chapter 7: Fright
Banqin set the contents of the food box away.
"Lady, eat better." She said happily.
Cheng Jianniang looked at it.
"Food is not expensive." She said, reaching for one of the pancakes.
Banqin hurriedly broke a small piece for her, revealing the dates in it.
"Ah, it's much better than the cooking cakes in the Taoist temple." She said with a grin.
"It's not tasty." Cheng Jianniang shook her head and stopped eating after only taking a small bite.
Since the lady got better, although she didn't eat much, she was extremely picky, and most of the money they earned was spent on food in addition to traveling, and I don't know how she came up with those exquisite foods.
For example, the cold tao that the lady wants to eat is to use green locust leaves to pound juice and noodles to make noodles, pork is fried in oil, a bowl of noodles is not much material, and the effort is worth others to make a pot.
Fortunately, the lady doesn't eat much, sometimes a few pieces of dim sum a day are enough, otherwise they are afraid that they will not be able to leave home now.
Cheng Jianniang looked at the food box and stretched out her hand to point.
"Fry this, tear up this steamed cake and cook it in the soup, it's enough." She said.
Banqin is used to doing this, and Ying Sheng happily went out.
"You squat, you squat." Cheng Liuniang turned left and right, thought of something, and pointed to the little girl and said.
The little girl was timid.
"Lady, let's go back, it's time for Madam to look for you." She said.
Cheng Liuniang booed her.
"Be quiet! Don't be stupid! She whispered.
The little girl was about to cry.
"Lady, don't look at it, fools will beat people." She said in a trembling voice.
For teenagers, fools are terrible existences.
"This is in my house, what are you afraid of, quick, squat, I'll climb up and see what the fool looks like." Cheng Liuniang said, waving her hand, urging the girl to lie down quickly.
The little girl had no choice but to lie down with tears, Cheng Liuniang stepped on the little girl against the wall, grabbed the windowsill, and looked into the window.
The sound of clattering footsteps made the frightened Cheng Liuniang squat, and the little girl swayed and almost made her fall.
"Lady, the pancakes are ready, you eat this first, and I'll cook the cake porridge."
Cheng Liuniang poked her head out cautiously and watched a girl in a green cloth skirt run by, and at the same time, a scorching aroma came.
"What smells like this?" She muttered, tiptoeing against the window, and there were two figures sitting opposite each other behind the bamboo curtain on the left.
"Lady, I'll serve the soup......"
"Lady, can you try this?"
The little girl came and went in the room, and the crisp voice echoed, but there was no response except for her voice.
"That fool can't speak." Cheng Liuniang turned her head and whispered to the little girl, with a little excitement to find out the latest news.
I was afraid and hurt again, and the little girl trembled so much that she couldn't kneel.
"Lady, let's go......" she said in a trembling voice.
"Don't move, I haven't seen what she looks like, how long her snot is, whether her eyes and mouth are crooked......" Cheng Liuniang said, turning her head again.
A pair of big eyes looked at her.
Cheng Liuniang screamed, and the whole person fell down and fell to the ground.
The little girl didn't know what was wrong with Lu Dao, so she was so frightened that she screamed, and then saw Cheng Liuniang fall to the ground, she was so frightened that she screamed three times in a row, and dragged Cheng Liuniang up and ran away.
Cheng Jianniang looked at the two people who were crawling away with a gust of wind.
"Lady, who is that?" Banqin stood up and asked with a surprised and worried face.
Cheng Jianniang's expression was wooden.
Banqin muttered a few words, and there was a sound of oil smoke on the stove, so she hurriedly turned around and ran away.
"I don't know who Lu Dao is." Only then did Cheng Jianniang say it.
After saying that, she herself was a little sullen.
It took a few turns in my mind before the words came out of my mouth.
You seven-trick heart monkey mouth, teach you to become a wooden mouth in the next life, and suffocate you.
A sentence flashed in her mind, Cheng Jianniang only felt a sudden pain in her heart, the pain spread from the cracks in her bones, her ears were buzzing, she couldn't stand still, she reached out to grab the windowsill, the thought flashed, and it was already too late for her hand to stretch out.
Banqin came over happily with the food box, heard a pop, and then saw that Cheng Jiaoniang had fallen to the ground.
The scream, accompanied by the sound of the food box falling to the ground, finally attracted the servant woman at the front door.
When Mrs. Cheng came over, the doctor asked for her to send her away, and the servant woman was talking.
"There's nothing else, it's just frightened, just raise it." She said.
Second Mrs. Cheng's face was scorched, and it had only been a night and a half, and the green powder under her eyes couldn't cover it.
"How frightened you are at home." She said, weakly half explaining and half asking Mrs. Cheng.
"It's because of a new place." Mrs. Cheng said, "That kind of child, whose mind is like a child of a few months, doesn't understand anything. ”
Second Lady Cheng smiled reluctantly.
"That's what my sister-in-law said." She said, and looked at the servant woman with raised eyebrows, "Don't think that I don't know the way, I walk the horse and watch the monkey one by one to go to the eldest lady, and if someone does this in the future, I will sell it, and I will let you see enough of everything on the street." ”
The servants shrank their heads and didn't dare to speak, knowing that this was naturally not because they went to see the fool, but because they gathered together to chew their tongues.
Immediately knelt down and apologized repeatedly, saying that they didn't dare, and Mrs. Cheng sent them out.
"It's hard for you." Mrs. Cheng looked at her and said.
Second Mrs. Cheng suddenly cried, she didn't know what she was crying for, anyway, she just wanted to cry, but she felt aggrieved and aggrieved.
"Qi Niang is about to learn the rules, Brother Xi is young, and the second brother is going to prepare for the post, the three girls in my family are all married, and there is only one Liu Niang left, and your eldest brother is in charge of it outside the house, I don't have to worry about it, let me take this fool first." Mrs. Cheng thought for a while and said.
Mrs. Cheng got up and saluted.
"How can I bother my sister-in-law, it's my job." She choked up.
"Okay, what does the family say?" Mrs. Cheng said, stretched out her hand and patted her hand, "Anyway, I live in the yard, I just let an old mother take care of it, and you don't have to worry about it anymore, you can rest assured, teach the children in the family well, let the second brother go to work with peace of mind, our Cheng family, rely on the second brother to support outside." ”
At this time, it would be hypocritical to excuse herself, and Mrs. Cheng thanked her generously and sincerely, which temporarily relieved her worries.
The servants from outside gathered together again.
"Tell me, what does it look like?" A few people surrounded the servants who were lucky enough to hear the screams and went in to serve Cheng Jianniang, and asked curiously.
"It looks like Mrs. Xian came out of a mold." A servant woman said with a little amazement.
Mrs. Zhou has a good appearance, and several old servants in the family still remember it clearly.
"It's just a pity that I can't even walk, and I can fall down if I stand well." The servant woman shook her head again and sighed, "Dementia, I don't know if Lu Dao is awake when I'm awake, no matter how I look at it, it's all soulless, and I haven't eaten the food that was brought in, I don't know if Lu Dao can eat by himself." ”
The servants here sighed, and the girls from the house gathered together.
"The eyes are so big," Cheng Liuniang said, reaching out and gesturing on her face.
The sisters in the seat all looked surprised and frightened.
"And there are no eyeballs yet!" Cheng Liuniang added another sentence violently, and opened her eyes hard at everyone.
The girls couldn't help but scream and clasped each other's hands on the mats.
"It's scary, it's scary." Everyone said, "Liuniang, don't go to see it again, I heard that fools can beat people!" ”
Cheng Liuniang was a little proud.
"I'm not afraid, I have a brother, if she beats me, I'll let my brother beat her." She said cross-legged.
There is only one son in the second room so far, that is, Brother Xi who is lying on the bed and breastfeeding, and there are three sons in the big room, and there is an elder brother to protect him, which is something that girls envy, and there are still some differences between the elder brother and the cousin.
There was a loud sound of clogs, Cheng Qiniang didn't bother to take off the clogs when she entered the house, and walked straight in, leaving a visible mark on Cheng Liuniang's favorite flower, bird and fish pattern mat.
"Liuniang, that fool is your sister now." Cheng Qiniang shook the small fan, her arms were draped in saros, and she said loudly.