Chapter 220: Cold Food
(I just got out of class and decided to take a leave of absence...... If nothing else, this should be the last time to ask for leave, because there are fewer things this weekend, and strive to save the manuscript~)
(As before, I changed it before tomorrow night, and I caused trouble for everyone~ I should have broken it directly, but I was afraid that I would be scolded by the editor_(:Π·δΈ¨β )_)
Accompanied by barberry, Xie Wei obediently returned to Jiuzhi.
The courtyard is still the same, with the tall mountain magnolia casting a dark green shadow, enveloping the whole courtyard in the light fragrance of flowers.
Xie Wei sat under the porch, half-closed eyes and stroked the piano.
The sound of the piano enters the Chu business tune, and the sorrow is far away, as if mourning.
Shao Ji sat on the side, cutting clothes and tying flowers wholeheartedly; Yue Nu went in and out, bringing tea from time to time.
Leaning sideways on a tall tree beside him, he closed his eyes and listened carefully to the slight sounds of the piano in all directions.
Half a month has passed since such a leisurely and peaceful day.
Xie Wu did not have the intention of escaping again, she lived a very stable life every day, and the medicine sent to her by the doctor Xi, she drank it after she had identified that it was okay, and her face was much better in the past half a month.
Barberry raised his eyelids, such a day is too good, too long, it almost makes people forget that Pang Cheng is still in a dangerous situation, if there are no such things......
Xie Wei gently closed his eyes, and the long eyelashes of the dense bushes covered him, sifting out a few rays of sunlight, and trembling gently.
She was thinking to herself, if it weren't for those things...... If Jing Xuan hadn't ordered Huang Yao to be shot, if he hadn't punished Kui Bo, maybe she wouldn't have had mixed feelings and hesitation when she faced Jing Xuan.
Avoiding him now is exactly what she wants.
Yue Nu brought the pen and ink book, knelt down at the other end of the bookcase, and laid it out carefully.
Xie Wei narrowed his eyes and smiled, Jing Xuan handed over the medicine scripture to her in order to stabilize her, and let her copy it.
That's fine. When she finishes copying this medicine scripture, it won't be too late to think about leaving here.
Every morning after playing the piano, she would copy it for a while. Until Yixi sent the medicine.
The same is true today.
Xie Wei gently shook off a tail note, flicked his little hand, straightened out the piano spike on one side, got up and moved his stiff legs and back, and then moved to the other end. Concentrate on transcribing the Book of Medicine.
Yue Nu said a few words softly, and hurriedly retired, Shao Ji was still leaning on the bookcase to cut her clothes, and there was a servant girl standing under the corridor, all of them hanging their heads, silent.
In the quiet courtyard, only the sound of carving knives cutting through bamboo pieces sounded from time to time.
Ink is used for writing, and when you make a mistake, you use a carving knife to scrape it off. It continued until the Han Dynasty, when paper was widely spread, and the practice of correcting typos with a carving knife disappeared along with the notation of bamboo slips and wooden slips.
After copying for a long time, he put down his pen and raised his hand to rub his eyebrows.
When he raised his eyes, he happened to see the barberry jumping down from the tree, a pair of sword eyebrows frowning tightly, and a little impatience in his narrow eyes.
Xie Wei tilted his head, propped up one cheek, and stared at his side face with interest.
She knows. Barberry's hearing was unusual for ordinary people, and he suddenly jumped down, most likely because he heard something.
But I didn't see him nervous, but such an impatient and disgusted expression. It's funny.
Barberry felt the burning gaze on his side, although he was uncomfortable, but he didn't understand what to worry about, he only shrugged his eyebrows, stood still, and said solemnly: "Madam." There is a servant. β
There were seven or eight people who came, their steps were sluggish and heavy, and the woman's cry could be faintly heard.
Although Xie Wei is lazy about these things on weekdays, after all, he has the name of a lady, Yan Yao is not in Jiuzhi, and the maid in Shijiang Courtyard is now nominally all under the control of Xie Worry.
"......?" Hearing this, Xie Shan was excited, pushed away some pen and ink, rolled up bamboo slips, piled them up under the case, and finished these in one go, and immediately lay down lazily.
Barberry only felt that his eyebrows were jumping, and he couldn't believe it when he looked at the lazy cat-like girl lying on the desk, and the girl who had just sorted out the bookcase was also a relief for his worries.
Shao Ji was accustomed to being quiet, and he didn't care much about what happened in front of him, and his subordinates didn't stop, and after a while, a gorgeous vermilion bird had been stabbed, and its tail feathers were flying, and it was ready to fly.
Half a moment later, sure enough, seven or eight people poured into Huaisha Temple.
Walking in front were Mei Ji and Yan Yan, four maidservants behind them, escorting an unkempt woman, crying all the way, dragging into the courtyard.
Xie Wei glanced at it, and when he saw Yan Yan, he couldn't help but think of the unpleasant experience of that day, flattened his mouth, and turned his head.
"......" Mei Ji and Yan Yu looked at each other wordlessly, this young lady is still the same...... There is no etiquette at all.
"What?" Barberry stopped the two.
Mei Ji seems to be gentle and submissive, but in her bones she is indomitable, calmly saluted to Barberry, and replied without humility or arrogance: "Master, this woman has left Xuetang privately, Yan Yao is not there, and Mrs. should send it down." β
Barberry nodded, and only took a step aside, and a lazy voice came from behind him, "Hair ......?" β
"Exactly." Maggie replied.
"Madame...... Madame ...... "The woman with the disheveled hair suddenly broke free from the pull of the four girls beside her, staggered forward, and fell to her knees at the bottom of the steps, her forehead slammed into the stone steps, and blood flowed.
Yan Yu scolded the four girls sharply, "Pull it down!" β
Relieve her worries and frown, she is not afraid of blood, and I don't know if other noble girls are like this? But after all, her identity is here, and such seven or eight people are making a lot of noise and noisy in front of her, is it really a bit rude?
Mei Ji's face changed slightly, and she hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, explaining, "Madam, this woman ......"
"Let it go." Xie Wu thought to her lightly, although his voice was very soft, but with irrefutable strength.
The maids on the side were startled, and let go of their hands in a daze, Yan Yu was secretly stunned, I didn't expect this girl to look not serious, but she could have such momentum when she opened her mouth, fortunately, she listened to Mei Ji's words and didn't embarrass her too much.
The woman with her cloak looked at her worriedly, and she fell on the steps and wept silently, her curled up body trembled, "Madame......"
"Look up." Xie Wei took out a Supa from his sleeve and threw it at the bottom of the stairs.
The woman grabbed the handkerchief and wiped the blood from her forehead indiscriminately, and these movements were done very neatly, as if she had been in an inferior position for a long time. I have developed such a habit of cowering and getting used to being lowly.
Xie worried's eyes flashed slightly, and the woman raised her head.
A pale goose egg face appeared in front of her, and the woman's forehead was torn with skin. The pale red blood beads were still slowly oozing out, and a piece of hair on the forehead was missing, which seemed to have damaged the scalp after being forcibly dragged off, so it did not grow again; The woman's face was even more unbearable.
The bridge of her nose was collapsed and her right eye was cloudy. Most of them have been blind for a long time, and the two cheekbones that are thin and towering are lined with the two ink characters on their faces very conspicuously.
Xie Wei closed his eyes and didn't look down again.
The woman looked at her calmly with worried eyes, without the contempt and hatred she had seen before, and she bit her chapped lips in a row of crooked and crooked teeth, and fell down to relieve her worries, crying dumbly, "Madam, concubine, concubine...... The concubine is really the princess of Zhou...... Lady Beggar rescues! β
ββ¦β¦οΌβ Xie looked at the woman curled up in front of him in surprise. With a trembling hand, he knocked over a roll of bamboo slips.
Barberry was quick-eyed, grabbed the front and took it steadily, bowed to Xie Wu, and then put the bamboo slip back on the case, and when he turned around, he couldn't help but look strangely at the woman who was kneeling on the ground.
At a glance, this female slave knew that she was beaten a lot on weekdays, but she opened her mouth and called herself Zhou Wangji, isn't she crazy?
Wang refers to the Son of Heaven, and the surname of Zhou Tianzi Ji. Therefore, their sisters are honored as Zhou Wang Ji, and now it has only been more than 30 years since the destruction of the East and West Weeks.
"Wang Ji ......" relieved her worries and recovered her indifferent state. didn't say that he didn't believe it, but raised his eyes for a long time, slowly swept over Mei Ji and Yan Yu, and then swept over the four girls, and finally turned around and watched the sound he had just heard and walked into the porch. Yue Nu, whose face was as pale as paper, smiled lightly, "I don't know that my family has the former Wang Ji as a slave, how fortunate it is!" β
Yue Nu shook and laughed, this smile was too terrifying.
"Concubines, concubines don't know ......" Yue Nu knelt down, sniffed, and cried heavily, "This is the maid of the Snow Hall, then ...... It should be Yan Yao......"
Xie Wu smiled noncommittally, Yue Nu obviously didn't know what she said, but she knew that this was Yan Yao's person, it was really logical.
At this time, she was too lazy to bother with her, after all, she still remembered that Jing Xuan liked Yue Nu quite a lot, she didn't have to embarrass Yue Nu for these trivial things, so she softened her voice and soothed her voice in harmony, "The more women are gentle, they don't see blood, this slave is not beautiful, and Yue Nu is afraid of being frightened, so it is better to retreat temporarily." β
"......" Yue Nu pursed her lips, it stands to reason that she is a slave, how can she retreat before her wife, but she doesn't want to annoy and relieve her worries, so Jing Xuan never cares about her etiquette, and she has no fear, so she meekly responded, bowed and retreated.
The woman had a bag of tears in her eyes, she also knew that she was ugly, like a ghost, but she didn't want to solve her worries and just said that she was "not beautiful".
"Get up." Xie looked at the woman and sighed lightly, "Come to me." β
"Madame!" Mei Ji stepped forward and waved her hand again and again, "Madame, this slave is suffering from madness!" I'm afraid of hurting my lady's noble body......"
ββ¦β¦ Worry is a healer, and you can also try it in madness. Xie Anxiety dusted off the broken hair on the sideburns, calmed down, took out the needle bag from the sleeve with his slender hand, trembled and picked up a thin long needle, shook it at the light, the long needle trembled under the sun, and the hearts of Mei Ji and others were cold.
Mei Ji stopped talking, Xie Wei is now a righteous grave woman, young and vigorous, and loved by Jing Xuan, even if she is coquettish, she and Yan Fei's lives are taken in anger, and Jing Xuan will not have any blame.
Moreover, the young lady in front of her looked lazy and gentle, and she was only afraid that she would not be able to provoke the mysterious Yan Yao in her bones.
Mei Ji squinted at Yan You, and the two nodded in unison, unanimously deciding not to provoke the worries.
So they bowed together, and turned away from the four anxious and frightened servants who followed behind.
Xie Xie pursed his lips, and the two women really knew each other.
Raising his eyes and sweeping towards the four maids, before he could say a word, he frightened one of them to the ground.
Barberry shrugged her brows, smiling with coldness, while Shao Ji still sat gently and calmly on the side to tie flowers, as if she hadn't heard anything.
The more this happened, the more afraid the four servants became.
Seeing that she lost this female slave, Yan Yao came back and was determined to punish them, but ...... But the ...... is in front of you The seemingly gentle lady was clearly interested in the slave girl, and if she annoyed her......
You can't be a good person at both ends, it's really anxious to cry.
However, this slave girl was captured by the sword guard, and she had to report to Xie Wei.
"Aren't you going to step down?" Xie Wu turned his eyes and looked at the four of them and smiled lightly, the smile was like a warm spring breeze, but at this time, it only made the four of them chill to the bone.
After hesitating for a moment, the four of them unanimously chose to have a good time in front of them, trembling and lying on their stomachs and bowing, and hurriedly escaped from Huaisha Courtyard.
"Who is this woman?" Relief turns to barberry.
Barberry twisted his brows, looked the woman up and down, and shook his head, "Tsukazi hasn't tasted anything about Yan Yao." β
Yan Yao has always lived quite freely in these nine peaks, and Jing Xuan has never been to the Snow Hall, so naturally she will not ask her slaves.
"Abuse of lynching...... And just ask? Xie Xie pursed his lips, and his eyebrows trembled, "It doesn't make sense." β
She Yan Yao is not a prince and noble, a prince and a princess, what qualifications do she have to punish a woman?
Barberry was silent for a while, turned around and jumped back into the tree, and dropped a fluttering sentence: "Madame can send a letter to Pang Cheng to inform the mound." β
Xie Wei glanced sideways at the source of the voice, no longer paid attention to the barberry, turned his head and instructed Shaoji: "Ah Hui fetch water." β
Shao Ji responded gently, then put down the embroidery in his hand and turned around to fetch water.
"Madame......" The woman looked at the worries, the girl before the year was elegant and indifferent, like a wisp of mountain breeze and a clear stream, which made people ashamed of themselves.
But such a gentle girl actually retreated from Yan Yu and Mei Ji in a few words, as well as those domineering maids.
She felt that the move to relieve her worries was not entirely because she had the identity of a lady, but because she ...... She has a natural arrogance on her body, which is heartbreaking.
"Ji's life experience, would you like to tell me?" Xie Wei looked at her gently, not paying attention to the woman's more terrifying face than a ghost in front of him.
The woman settled down and told Xie Xie in detail about her experience.
She was originally the princess of the Western Zhou Kingdom, and this Western Zhou was not the Western Zhou before the king of Zhou Ping moved eastward, but the Western Zhou Dynasty that was rebuilt in the late Warring States period and located in Luoyang, the original capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
The Western Zhou Dynasty was destroyed seven years later than the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
That was twenty-eight years ago, when she was only two or three years old.
She vaguely remembered that her father and mother called her "Hua", as delicate and delicate as a newborn flower.
But before the flower could bloom, the kingdom was destroyed.
She and several sisters became captives, were confiscated into slavery, and after several tosses, they finally fell into the hands of the woman named Yanyao.
Yan Yao often connived at other slaves to beat and abuse her and her sisters, and even tortured them, and her disability was left behind in the torture again and again.
Several sisters died one after another, but she has survived, waiting for the day when she will take revenge on the vicious woman like a femme fatale. (To be continued.) )