Chapter 60: Ignorance of Conscience
Feng's screams came from the east chamber, Linglong threw down the embroidery needle in his hand and rushed into the hall, as soon as he entered, he saw Feng slamming out from behind the thin bamboo curtain.
She was followed by Qin Fei, and in the past few days, Linglong asked Qin Fei and another rough mother-in-law, Agen's sister-in-law, to help take care of the Feng family on behalf of her mother-in-law.
Qin Fei was thin and small, still holding a freshly broken flower branch in her hand, Feng hit her with her elbow, Qin Fei stumbled, fell backwards, and fell on the Dai Po who came out after her, behind the Dai Po is Ah Gen's sister-in-law, three people, you press me, I press her, and fall to the ground together.
Linglong happened to walk in, and when she saw this, she grabbed Feng's arm, Feng waved her hand and wanted to shake her off, Linglong used skill, and seemed to be gently pulling, but no matter how Feng tried to exert force, her arm couldn't move.
"You slut, hurry up and let go of me, Feng Wanrong, I'm going to fight with you!"
Linglong gritted her teeth and slapped her mother Yintang, Feng was stunned for a moment, and her body fell softly. Linglong hurriedly helped her, and asked the mother-in-law and sister-in-law Agen, who had finally gotten up from the ground, to help her mother go back to the house and lie down.
"Fifth Miss, is the eldest lady okay?" Qin Fei is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and Miss Fifth has asked her to wait for the eldest lady for a few days, but she still encountered the eldest lady's illness for the first time, and her little face turned white with fright.
"It's okay, just let her sleep for a while, where have you been?" Linglong glanced at the flower branches scattered on the ground.
"The maid folded the flower branch for the eldest lady, and as soon as she entered the house, she saw the eldest lady shouting and screaming and running out, but the maid didn't hold it."
"Well, you go and fry the medicine for the eldest lady, and drink the medicine when she wakes up." Linglong commanded, let Xingyu pick up the flower branches on the ground, find a bottle and insert it.
Qin Fei went out in shock, and Linglong walked into the east room where Feng lived, and saw her lying on a half-new chestnut-colored shelf bed, her eyes closed and her breathing evenly.
Linglong breathed a sigh of relief and beckoned her to come out. When she came to the courtyard, Linglong sat down under the wisteria trellis, shook the fan embroidered with the picture of a cat fluttering butterflies, and asked slowly: "Tell me, my mother is frightened when she sees something that shouldn't be seen?" ”
When she spoke, her eyes glanced at the mother-in-law intentionally or unintentionally, and the corners of her mouth seemed to be smiling, as if she knew everything and was waiting for you to confess by yourself.
She was still a twelve-year-old girl, and she spoke with a childlike voice, full of milk, but the mother-in-law couldn't help but tremble, twisting the handkerchief in her hand with both hands, and her head hung lower.
Linglong still spoke softly, with a hint of complaint in her voice: "Why don't you speak?" It must be that you were lazy, didn't accompany the eldest wife, and didn't care if something happened to her. ”
She grew up in Wuzhong, Jiangsu, and spoke Wu Nong's soft language, and when she came to the capital, she spoke official language, but she was still different from the natives of Beijing, with a silky soft tone. In her previous life, she often changed her appearance and learned the method of changing her voice, so when she wore men's clothes, she sounded like a teenager in the voice change period, except for that singing, even Shi Er didn't find a flaw.
Now she was dressed in women's clothes, and her voice was undisguised, it was her original voice. The soft and soft children's voice, even if they are angry, sounds just the coquettish words of a little girl.
But it was this voice that made the mother-in-law uneasy, and a thin layer of sweat oozed from her forehead.
Linglong didn't seem to see it, shaking the fan and fanning it down, and a pair of wonderful eyes swept over the two of them.
Xingyu, who was standing beside Linglong, was already impatient, she pointed to Agen's sister-in-law and said: "I saw that you were diligent, so I begged Miss Fifth to let you serve the eldest lady, it's only been a few days, you have raised a lazy bone, Qinfei is a child who is not sensible, you are the eldest person, go and go, don't stay here, go back and sweep the yard." ”
Sister-in-law Agen is an honest person, she can't hear that Xingyu is pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, I heard that she was going to go back to sweep the yard, she was so anxious that she knelt down: "Fifth Miss, Miss Xingyu, the slave is really wronged, today I am not lazy, Qin Fei saw that the eldest lady was in good spirits, so she ran outside to fold the flower branch and said that she wanted to insert a bottle, and I would not do anything else, so I folded the handkerchief and gave the eldest lady a little mouse to play. Later"
Speaking of which, Sister-in-law Agen peeked at the mother-in-law, and she didn't know whether to say the rest or not.
The corners of Dai Pozi's mouth twitched, as if she wanted to speak, but she still closed her lips.
Linglong smiled slightly, and then Sister-in-law Agen's words said: "Later, my mother said that she couldn't fold new patterns with a handkerchief, so she took out the paper to fold things, right?" ”
Sister-in-law Agen was taken aback: "Miss Fifth is not in the house, how did you know?" ”
Linglong smiled like a flower, turned his head sideways and said to Xingyu: "The screen hasn't been embroidered yet, the fourth sister is in a hurry, let's go back." ”
She said to Sister-in-law Agen: "This green brick has just been sprinkled with water, and it is cold, you get up quickly, go to Xingyu to get a few more handkerchiefs, and accompany the eldest lady to roll." ”
Even if she asked her to accompany the eldest lady to roll a handkerchief, she would not be allowed to sweep the yard, Agen's sister-in-law was overjoyed, and she followed Xingyu to get the handkerchief.
Linglong stood up, shook the fan and walked past the mother-in-law, but turned around again, and said with a smile: "On behalf of the mother, when I was in the house, I said that in the future, I will take out an extra tael from my monthly silver to make up for you, and this will not be uncounted, if Xingyu is not sent to you, you will come directly to me to receive it." ”
The mother-in-law woke up like a dream, and said busily: "Fifth Miss bothered, this little thing is still for the slave maid to remember, Miss Xingyu is doing things safely, this silver is not short for the slave maid, and she has been giving it." ”
Linglong chuckled: "That's good, I thought I forgot everything." ”
She walked away, but the substitute mother-in-law was still there, and the last words of the fifth lady still echoed in her ears.
The fifth lady said, "I thought I had forgotten everything", of course, she didn't mean the monthly silver, she reminded herself not to ignore her conscience.
The woman wrung the handkerchief in her hand, as if she wanted to smash it. If they could, who would want to do such a conscientious thing, but if they didn't, what would they do with that wicked man?
Linglong went back to the house and continued to embroider the screen, as if nothing had happened. Xingyu couldn't hold her breath and asked in a low voice: "Miss, Fang Cai has obviously done something bad on behalf of her mother-in-law, why don't you demolish her?" ”
Linglong said softly: "I have debunked the acting mother-in-law, will I come to Mrs. Li and Mrs. Wang again, do I have to demolish them one by one?" ”
Xingyu was confused, for more than a year, she couldn't guess Miss's mind more and more, Miss was only twelve years old, but she didn't know where so many hearts and eyes came from.
"Miss, if you don't demolish her, how can she harm the eldest lady?"
Linglong chuckled: "After today's incident, she won't dare, and she will be more and more afraid in the future, until the day she is used by us." ”
"Used by us? Will she? ”
Linglong was helpless to be asked by Xingyu, so she had to stop the needle and thread in her hand and said to Xingyu: "This time, the Song family and that sister have come out of the garden, and are accompanying their father and brother to meet the old lady outside the city, if you are curious, go to the fourth sister to wait for news, don't ask here, disturb me embroidering the screen." ”
Xingyu scratched her neatly combed bun, what news did she wait for from Miss Four, how did her own miss know that there would be news delivered?