Chapter XVIII

"Mother, mother, you believe me, I didn't want her to die, I really didn't know she would jump into the river, mother, hmm......" Qiu Xiang Niang heard her daughter say this, and was so frightened that she hurriedly covered Qiu Xiang's mouth with her hand.

"Are you going to drag the whole family to die together? Are you crazy? Qiu Xiangniang lowered her voice and said.

Qiu Xiang also came back to her taste and quieted down. "How can this be, I thought that she would just be kicked out of Zhuangzi, anyway, she was young, and she would be sold to someone else's house to do it, I was really not sincere, really...... If I had known this, I would, I would have ......"

"How are you? Things have come to this point, everything has been done, what are you going to do? Wu Wenxiu, who was standing next to him, said viciously.

"I sue you, this matter is rotten to my stomach, and it has nothing to do with us, do you hear?" Wu Wenxiu flicked the folds on his clothes, looked at the two of them and continued:

"This matter has been done by your mother from beginning to end, I just told a story, who knows how the wooden fence was loosened, who knows how the water duck ran to make a nest there, and who arranged for you to go to the yard of the second lady to send what Rausch grass and flower seedlings, I don't know anything." After saying that, he opened the door and walked out.

Qiu Xiang and her mother couldn't say a word when they faced each other, "Mother, what should I do?" "Although Qiu Xiang is usually very clever and has sophistication that does not match her age, after all, she is a 13-year-old child, and she doesn't know what to do if something happens.

"Listen to your cousin, this matter has nothing to do with us, you just saved the second miss, that thing was what Ruchun's girl led the second miss to do in order to get a reward, and it was her business to seek her own death, yes, that's it, that's right." After speaking, he waved his fist vigorously, as if to cheer himself up.

Ruchun's matter, she also found out today. She has been taking care of her daughter in the house for the past few days, she didn't expect Qiu Xiang to be so strict, she was really scared at that time, what if she couldn't wake up. The place where the accident happened, I have accompanied Qiu Xiang several times, Qiu Xiang has also practiced, and the pool near the side is also shallow, after falling in, at most drink a few sips of water. and explained that Shuangqiao took advantage of the crowd to pretend to pull the second miss back, and then used a little bit of ingenuity to make the second miss out of control, but not to really fall into the river. All the factors were calculated in it, but I didn't expect the second lady to roll down with such a big momentum, and directly knocked Qiu Xiang into the middle of the pool.

Qiu Xiang, who had already woken up and improved, started to burn again that night, and was talking nonsense. Qiu Xiangniang wiped her tears and looked at her daughter, as if she was frying in oil. sent a girl next to her to send a message to Zirui, Shuangqiao couldn't leave her house, she had to find Zirui for everything.

A few days ago, after Mama Wang came to see Qiu Xiang, she knew that her daughter's creation was coming, so she raised her toes. But today, I heard Wu Wenxiu say about Ruchun, and she had a weak heart. She knew that her daughter was scared by nightmares, let alone her, but as soon as she closed her eyes, she seemed to be able to see Ruchun beside her.

Qiu Xiang's repeated illness attracted the eldest girl Huan Baoping beside Mrs. Shizi. Bao Ping is very ordinary, her skin is not white, and she is of medium height, but she has a pair of beautiful eyes, and she has always smiled before she speaks. Since the marriage of the girl who served by Mrs. Shizi's side, Baoping is the most powerful person around Mrs. Shizi except for Mama He.

Bao Ping brought a bunch of medicinal herbs and brought the words of Mrs. Shizi. Just said that it was well raised, and if it didn't feel good, he would send a carriage back to Beijing to find a doctor first. When Baoping came, Qiu Xiang had already woken up and drank the medicine just prescribed by the doctor in her mother's arms. Hearing this, he was about to kowtow, but Baoping grabbed him and said some words to pay attention to his recuperation and left.

Qiu Xiangniang put down the medicine bowl and wiped her daughter's mouth, "See, you can't do this anymore, this thing is not your intention, she can't think about it herself, what do you have to do with us, you have to get better quickly, take advantage of the old lady and Mrs. Shizi's fancy now, you have to stand firm when you are in Zhuangzi, otherwise there are more people who return to Beijing, and no matter how long it is, who will be patient to protect you." ”

"Mother, I know, I won't think so much anymore, I know what I should do."

Ruchun died, Qiu Xiang also entered the courtyard of the second lady, and Wisteria felt that the Ma Wu family had less constraints on herself, and some of the work of running out was also arranged for her to do. Something happened like spring, and the amount of cooking in the big kitchen suddenly decreased a lot. Wisteria was also happy, picked up a few vegetables that Yu's mother liked to eat on weekdays, put them in the food box and went to the flower garden.

When I opened the curtain, I saw Zirui sitting on the bed, her eyes were red, as if she had cried. Yu's mother was twisting a towel on the basin shelf at the door. Seeing Wisteria come in, he handed the towel to Wisteria, motioned her to take it, and picked up a small blue fruit on the table and walked out.

Wisteria handed the handkerchief to Zirui, who didn't say a word, wiped it little by little, and finally covered the towel over her face for a while. Wisteria sat on a small stool beside the bed and said nothing.

"Makes you laugh."

"What my sister said, we are a family, why not joke about it." Wisteria took the towel and put it on the wooden beam of the washstand, "If my sister can speak, talk to me, if you can't solve the problem, you can also relieve the depression in your heart!" ”

"Hey~ It's not the second lady who happened this time." Yu's mother walked in with the washed fruit, took a plum and handed it to Zirui, who shook her head and gave it to Wisteria.

"The second lady was grounded because of this incident, and her knee was injured, and I don't know which girl with a broken mouth said that the knee may be scarred. I called your sister to ask, and your sister first comforted her to insist on taking the medicine, and it will be fine after a long time. But she said that your sister can't see her well like others, and she doesn't even tell the truth, so she can't help but say that the doctor just says that, and she will be fine if she raises her well.

"Xu is hot weather, and I haven't been able to go out for a few days, the second lady is angry, and at noon because of a ball soup, she has another attack, and she said something unpleasant, and asked your sister to get out, saying that she doesn't need to wait anymore. This is nothing, how can there be a master who doesn't lose his temper, the key is that in front of those little girls, it is really a slap in the face. ”

"Auntie doesn't need to say any more, blame me, I just want to talk to you, but I can't help but ......"

"What do you endure to do here, hey, it's good for us to have a place to cry after we are really wronged."

"Actually, the second lady is okay on weekdays, although she is a little more domineering, but she still listens to the words clearly, that is, she was reprimanded by the old man after this incident, and she was grounded, you also know that the second miss likes to go to the garden the most on weekdays, and she is stuffy in the house for several days at once, how can she not have a temper."

"Sister, the second lady is just staying in the house these days, what does she do?" Wisteria asked, turning the plum in his hand, without looking up.

"What else can I do, I can't sit still, I don't like to read, and I don't like to do needlework. I only asked someone to get the pair of birds into the house every day to toss, and after a long time, it tasted like it. Or let people move those flowers and grass to this pot and pour that pot on the low table, and nothing is pleasing to the eye.

"Second Miss, do you like to listen to stories on weekdays?"

"Storytelling?" The two men spoke in unison.

"Yes, tell stories like you usually tell stories, I don't know if the second lady can like it?" Just now Wisteria thought about the feasibility of this matter, first, twelve years old, just a primary school student in modern times, like to watch those TV series and novels. Second, since the incident with Qiu Xiang, she has been thinking about what methods she can use to get opportunities, those heroines in the time-traveling novels either know how to cook or dispense medicine, or bring a space to come and go at will. She has nothing and will not know anything. But storytelling is different, I lived in my grandmother's house when I was a child, and my grandfather has a hobby all his life, he likes to listen to book reviews, and he likes to listen to her too, so it shouldn't be a problem to deal with a 12-year-old child.

"Oh, Zirui, Wisteria is a good idea, find someone to tell the second lady a story, if she listens to it, she won't feel bored, so naturally she won't have time to trouble you. Even if she can't listen to it, she's not making a lot of trouble these days anyway. ”

"It's good, it's good, it's just that this is on Zhuangzi, who to talk to, and what else to say, after all, it's for the young lady, but not everything can be said."

"Godmother, sister, I will speak, and I promise that I will talk about those interesting things, and I will never let the second lady listen to something that should not be heard."

"You say? Wisteria, when will you tell the story to pull? Yu's mother looked puzzled.

"When I was a child, my dad was a listener, and I heard him talk a little bit."

"It's La, Zirui, wasn't that dish last time also Wisteria listened to his father? Maybe you can give it a try. Ask Wisteria to talk about it, and it won't go wrong after all. And it can make Wisteria show her face in front of the second lady, maybe it's still a way! Yu's mother was overjoyed in a blink of an eye.

Zirui didn't speak, looking Wisteria up and down. I saw the little girl standing in a regular manner, dressed in half-worn cloth clothes and trousers, and her two hands hanging generously on both sides. In the face of Zirui's scrutiny, he didn't avoid it at all, but smiled faintly at her, and two small pear nests loomed.

"Okay, then I'll go back first to find out what the masters mean, you wait for the letter."

Lying in bed at night, Wisteria didn't feel sleepy at all, she thought about all the healthy stories she could think of that were suitable for children to listen to, and decided to start with "Journey to the West" first.

Early the next morning, Wisteria saw Yu's mother walking in with the second-class girl Jiaohong next to the second lady through the half-open window, and knew that her opportunity had come.