Chapter 13: On the Beam
The willow tops on the moon, and the white silk on the west building.
The sky was dark, and the long-haired white-clothed woman's clothes were flying.
The moon was just outside the window, so close that it was uncomfortable. It was unusually large, like a lake, and the moonlight that was usually cold became a little dazzling, and it was impossible to look at it directly.
The whole white moonlight cast on the indoor blue brick floor, like years of snow, looks thick and cold, but it is cut into strange pieces by the partition and beams, like broken porcelain pieces scattered all over the ground, so sharp that it seems that your feet will be drenched in blood when you step on it.
The woman in white walked under the beam step by step, her footsteps sounded like a pearl falling on a jade plate in the broken moonlight, as if every foot was stepping on her heart, only to see the woman slowly pull the black lacquer drum stool beside her, step on it steadily, and firmly and calmly throw the white silk into a snow ball over the beam.
She slowly turned her face with the hanging white silk, and an elegant smile hung down at the corner of her mouth, cold and bewitching.
"Mother!" Xiusun screamed and jumped up, but when she opened her eyes, she saw the round face of the little magpie.
She was lying on the yellow rosewood tunic Ganoderma lucidum pattern banana leg small kang table to play with sandbags, and saw Xiusun screaming and waking up and twisting her little body to look at her.
Xiusun looked at the colorful sandbags on the kang table, and she finally understood where the footsteps beating on the brain in Fang Cai's dream came from, the sandbags were dried and stuffed by mung beans, and they couldn't make a noise when they were thrown on the kang table.
As if relieved, he was covered in cold sweat for a while, and his head was still groggy.
"Miss, you woke up, it's almost time to turn on the lamp, just now Mrs. came back and saw that you were sleeping soundly, and you didn't wake up......"
"What did you say!" When Xiusun heard that his wife was coming back, he hurriedly jumped up and grabbed the little magpie's clothes and asked, which startled the little magpie.
"I ...... I'm ...... me, I'm " The little magpie looked at Xiusun's burning gaze with wide eyes, and suddenly felt that her brain was blank.
Xiusun didn't have time to listen to her word by word, and asked anxiously, "Where is the wife?" ”
The little magpie was caught tightly by Xiusun, so he could only point out the window in vain, "It's in the onion Jiexuan." ”
She was wondering why her young lady was so excited, as if she was going to die, oh no, she couldn't describe her miss like that, she would be beaten by Mama Shen.
Xiusun didn't wait for her to finish, and rushed out of the room like a sword off the string.
"Little, Miss......" The little magpie was stunned, hesitated for a moment, and hurriedly chased out with his shoes.
Walk through the cornice, arch through the moon cave door, and run through the cobblestone road.
Varnished pillars swept across her eyes, lush flowers and trees brushed her side, and the faint reddish sky light sometimes disappeared, sometimes shining on her head.
Xiusun ran hard, and the wind passed by her ears, and she seemed to feel the tears flowing from her eyes running down her ears.
As if she had used the strength to eat *milk, the shoes she was simply pulling on almost tripped her many times, but her heartbeat seemed to be faster and more messy than her steps.
The scene in the dream crossed in front of her eyes, and Nguyen's smile pierced her heart deeply, and a cry erupted from the depths of her soul to stop, don't, don't do this.
The side door of the green door is finally close in front of you, and the lush bamboo waves cover the emerald green door.
The hidden door seemed to be enveloped in hope, and it seemed to be filled with cruel reality, which made Xiusun's heart suddenly cool down a little.
She jumped on Ruyi and stomped on it, but was suddenly intercepted by a mother-in-law, "Miss, Mrs. told no one to go in." ”
Xiusun's eyes turned red in a hurry, and she shook off the woman's arm and shouted, "Who am I?" Who do you say I am? Then he rushed into the yard without looking back.
She is the only lady in this garden in this life, she was a noble county lord in her previous life, and her tantrum aura was innate, and the woman was so roared by her that she didn't dare to move, and after a while, she slowly chased a few steps, and then retreated to the courtyard gate to guard.
Mrs. kicked everyone out, and let people guard the door, of course, I don't want anyone to go in and see what I hear, if I want to say that Mrs. doesn't have to guard against anyone, that is Miss, since Miss has broken in, at most she will be fined some months or beaten.
And if she heard something she shouldn't hear when she went in to chase the young lady, then she didn't know what the wife was going to do with her, or An Sheng continued to guard here, don't let others go in again, sure enough, she intercepted the little magpie who was chasing.
There was no one in the courtyard, it was so quiet that it could be heard that the needles were falling, Xiusun's heart sank again, and she rushed all the way to the main house in a panic, passing by the eaves corridor, and saw Ruan's figure in lilac-colored embroidered branches and begonias through the glass partition, and she was hunched over to move the stool!
Seeing this scene, Xiusun almost didn't catch her breath, and her heart that fell to the bottom instantly rose to her throat and almost jumped out.
She only felt that her eyes were sour, and she kicked open the door and rushed in regardless of it, and when she saw that Ruan was about to step on the black lacquer luodian drum stool, she knelt down with a thud, and grabbed Ruan's skirt with two knees.
"Mother, if you want to go, take me with you." Rushing all the way, Xiusun only felt a burst of darkness in front of her, and every pore in her body was spraying open, introducing a lot of cold air, so cold that she shivered, every muscle in her body was tense, and her teeth were also clenched, so that the pain from her knees was not very felt.
-- I'm the breathless dividing line --
"Hey, hey, my little ancestor." Ruan Shi was grabbed by Xiusun's skirt, and almost fell off the drum bench, and the things he was holding in his hand also fell on the ground of the bluestone bricks, making a few "bang-la-la" sounds that were neither muffled nor brittle.
Xiusun looked at it intently, and it turned out to be a small gold-inlaid black lacquer Luodian Fangsheng box.
At this moment, the Fang Sheng box was lying on the green brick floor, the lid of the box was wide open, and the granular things contained in it were scattered all over the ground, all of them were gray, and the size was a bit like the almond cake she loved to eat on weekdays.
Looking down Ruan's skirt again, Ruan was looking at her worriedly, and his expression gradually changed from nervous to crying and laughing.
Behind Ruan, a drum stool was placed next to a black lacquer square table, and next to the table was a black lacquer tunic flower stand.
Behind her, Chen's mother was standing behind the flower stand, looking at her with a shocked expression.
Well, Xiusun struggled to restart her paralyzed head, and she even faintly heard a squeaking sound from her head not working properly, like a waterwheel that had fallen into disrepair, and it was dark in front of her eyes.
She risked wanting to break her head, and finally understood two things, first, who was still interested in building a ladder to climb up one step at a time when she was hanging? Also, Chen's mother is definitely not here to help his wife vote.
"Mother......" Xiusun felt that she had misunderstood, no, it was ten out of ten misunderstandings.
Why did she have a feeling of wanting to faint, and a feeling of wanting to burrow into the cracks of the floor tiles, and then these two feelings intertwined, causing the temperature of her cheeks to rise sharply.
"Ah Sun," Ruan Shi was distressed, and quickly took a handkerchief to wipe Xiusun's tearful little face, picked Xiusun up, patted her shoulder, and coaxed her.
Xiu Sun is seven years old, but he is very short and thin, and Ruan's is not difficult to hold.
On weekdays, the sallow and sallow little face is congested with blood due to crying, coupled with the washing of tears, it looks white and red, and with a pair of black and white apricot eyes, it shows the delicate pear blossom with rain.
Ruan's heart cherished a little more, although his children are now weak and a little stumbling, they still have great potential for development.
Xiusun was suddenly wrapped in such a warm and fragrant embrace, and the long-lost sense of security made her cry again, "Mother, I had a nightmare." I'm so scared......"
Later, she herself wondered that she still had the strength to cry loudly at that time, and she didn't care about it like a real child, as if the grievances of her two lives had turned into tears and rushed out of her body.
If there is no mother, there will be no most solid support in the world, no matter how beautiful the palace is, no matter how elegant the garden is, it is not a home, this kind of suffering, she deeply remembers.
The slender short fingers tangle the mother's clothes, and the thinning hair of the head is buried deep in the mother's arms.
Ruan Shi saw that his daughter was frightened and frightened like this, and he also choked, sat on the Luohan bed, hugged his daughter and swayed, and comforted in a low voice, "Ah Sun, Ah Sun doesn't cry, Ah Sun is not afraid, my mother will live well, my mother will watch Ah Sun grow up well, marry and have children, and my mother will watch Ah Sun's children and grandchildren ...... full house."
Xiusun was a little embarrassed, shrunk her neck again, grabbed the handkerchief in Ruan's hand to wipe her tears, and blew her nose by the way.
Ruan Shi kept holding Xiusun, shaking slowly, and by the way, he told Chen's mother to send someone to the old lady to say that Xiusun had dinner with her today.
"Okay, don't cry, my good man, let the kitchen make you a lion's head today." Ruan Shi took out another handkerchief and gave Xiusun a face.
When Chen's mother came in again, she personally brought a basin of warm water to Xiusun to wash her face.
"Mother Chen, you are old and have inconvenient legs and feet, why don't you call a maid to serve?" It rained a few days ago, and Chen's mother's old cold legs were still guilty, so Xiusun slowly got down from Ruan's knees, and Ruan's took hands and went to the clean room.
Chen's mother didn't answer and just stood aside, and even looked a little helpless, Xiusun's brain, which had been dull for a long time, finally regained her aura, and she realized that something was wrong.
Why are there only Mrs. and Mother Chen in this courtyard, she quickly glanced at the Fang Sheng box placed on the kang table, and the things that fell out of the box, she recalled carefully.
Pill by pill, the surface is gray, the size of a fingernail, that's ...... Fragrant cakes?
In her previous life, the imperial grandmother was cautious and never let Xiusun come into contact with medicine and cooking, so in order to relieve the imperial grandmother's headache, Xiusun put a lot of effort into incense and massage.
Fragrant cakes were all too familiar to her, and she knew them at a glance.
But why hide the incense cake on the beams of the house?
Xiusun secretly made a note for a while to find an opportunity to take a closer look.
After washing her face, Xiusun dragged Ruan's sleeve back to the west room together, the Fang Sheng box was still placed on the kang table, she let go of Ruan's sleeve and opened her little short legs, and before Ruan's reaction, she had already lifted the lid of the box, sure enough, it was a fragrant cake, there were as many as seven or eight, but this taste, she took a deep breath.
"You kid." Ruan stepped forward to take the palm-sized Fang Sheng box from Xiu Sun's hand, turned around and stepped on the ladder that Fang had just paved with stools, tables and flower stands, and placed Fang Sheng's box above the beam, where there seemed to be a mechanism that could be fixed, Xiu Sun heard a gentle "click", and the curtain hanging on the side was blocked, no one would have thought of it, it seemed that this was the place where Ruan often used to hide things.
Xiusun's expression was a little strange, and he was a little sluggish as he moved the lightest drum stool back to its original position.
The fragrant cake turned out to be ...... Aphrodisiac * love incense! She almost blurted it out.
This is not the kind of strong spice from the Western Regions that is common on the market, but according to the ancient method, the smell is very slight, and it is difficult for ordinary people to notice it when mixed with commonly used spices.
Originally, I had seen it in the remnants of Wenyuan Pavilion, and later I saw the real thing in the palace of Concubine Kangshun, and this time it was the second time I saw it.
Mrs. can get this, which means that Mrs. Mother's pharmacy business is really good.
However, what is the wife hiding this, Xiusun wants to know too much.