Chapter 10 The Misery
Retreat Pavilion.
Linlang personally held a bowl of medicinal soup, walked leisurely, and walked indifferently in the corridor. Behind her, Yan Xiang followed with her head down, feeling uneasy in her heart.
On weekdays, the old lady's medicine was sent by Yan Xiang, but today, the young lady actually held it herself, and she always had an inexplicable smile on her face. This smile made Yan Xiang incomprehensible, as if she had changed her personality all of a sudden, from an ordinary maid to a young lady in the city.
The decoction rippled in the air with a slightly sweet bitter taste, and Linlang didn't have to send it herself, but she really wanted to talk to the old lady. I want to, I want to!
Let's talk about how the eldest lady framed her, how she fought back, and if possible, talk about the past ten years ago, so that the old lady will not forget it......
A happy smile did not appear on Linlang's face, but became more and more cold. She will never forget Jì, this grandmother who once brought her endless humiliation!
"Little brute, go, call your mother-in-law!" With every step Linlang took, the cold and charming face of the old lady appeared in front of her.
Jin Xiaoqi lowered his head, and his little hands clutched the corners of his clothes tightly. The big watery eyes blinked, and she quietly raised her eyes to look at the old lady with a bitter gourd face.
"Don't go yet! Wait to me off, no one can control you, right? ”
The old lady's majestic voice exploded in Jin Xiaoqi's ears, her petite body shook violently, and she turned around and ran away with tears.
Linlang's footsteps did not change significantly, and she still walked slowly with the medicinal soup.
The finely carved and ground porcelain casserole pan seals all the hot heat inside, and the delicate and oily white porcelain transmits the temperature to the fingertips, just in time.
Every grass and tree in the idle pavilion is a testimony of Jin Xiaoqi's punishment back then, and it is all an accomplice of the old lady punishing her! For example, the green bamboo, the old lady didn't know how many branches she had broken off, and pumped it on Jin Xiaoqi's thin back!
It is said that the children of large families grew up in honey pots, and they have been accompanied by a companion since they were children. But she, the daughter of the Golden Mansion, has been alone since she was a child, and not only that, but she also has to do some rough work by the old lady's side every day, and in retrospect, some days she is not even as good as a maid.
The eldest lady came to the idle pavilion early, and looked at Mrs. Lin behind Jin Xiaoqi with a sarcastic smile on the corner of her lips.
"It's been so long! Get on my knees! ”
Mrs. Lin's willow eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she looked at the angry and fierce old lady in puzzlement. Jin Xiaoqi looked at his mother with blank eyes, shook his head and hugged Mrs. Lin's legs.
"Get on your knees!"
The sharp scolding echoed throughout the room, and even though it had been a long time, Linlang couldn't help but shake violently when she thought about it. The old lady's gloomy demeanor, the gritted teeth, and ...... every detail were like dry ears full of spikes, deeply stirring in Linlang's heart.
Mrs. Lin stroked Jin Xiaoqi's hair, her eyes full of doubts: What did Xiaoqi do wrong to cause the old lady to have such a heavy resentment?
"Old lady, Xiao Qi made a mistake and corrected it, why are you so angry?" Mrs. Lin's words were tactful, but she was unwilling! Since marrying into the Jin family, I have never seen this respected old lady have a good face.
"I'm talking about you! Lin Yibin! You get on my knees! ”
Jin Xiaoqi knelt on the ground with a puff, and pleaded with tears: "Grandma, it was Xiao Qi who made a mistake, if you want to punish Xiao Qi, punish Xiao Qi, mother...... Mother's ......"
"Humph!" The old lady let out a heavy cold snort with her nose, "Your good daughter! Both must be punished severely! ”
The eldest lady observed her words and looks, and saw that the old lady's anger had subsided a little, so she hurriedly said: "The old lady is angry, a yellow-haired girl, why should she be angry?" ”
It's okay not to say this, the old lady suddenly remembered the mistake Jin Xiaoqi had just made, "Yellow-haired girl!" If it weren't for the yellow-haired girl, I would have beaten her skin and flesh blooming! ”
"Xiao Qi, what did you do? Angered the old lady! Mrs. Lin's unwilled reproach came from behind Jin Xiaoqi.
"I ...... I ...... "Jin Xiaoqi Zhiwu," and I accidentally bumped into the table while mopping the floor, knocking over a fairy scattered flower Ruyi tea that my grandmother had just asked for from the Taoist temple. ”
Jin Xiaoqi's voice was as thin as a mosquito fly, his eyes were wet and red as he spoke, and tears of grievance flowed out.
Lin Yibin's heart trembled violently after hearing this, and then he found that Jin Xiaoqi's thin white neck was slightly red, revealing a corner under the brown collar. No wonder she always smelled a faint fragrance of tea on Xiao Qi's body, she didn't go back for a long time, it turned out that she was waiting for her clothes to dry on the road......
Thinking about it, Lin Yilian's eyes were full of mist, she took Jin Xiaoqi into her arms, and said bitterly: "Old lady, Xiaoqi, she is still a child, not to mention being scalded by boiling water for the time being, don't you believe in those messy monsters?" For the sake of a cup of fairy tea, punish Xiao Qi, she is your own granddaughter! ”
"Bastard thing! Dare to talk back! ”
Tears welled up in Linlang's eyes, and every time she thought of the past, all she left was hatred! That time, she and her mother were severely punished for contradicting the old lady, "The Female Ring" was copied dozens of times, and kneeling in the ancestral hall for seven days!
Unconsciously, in the long memory, Linlang has come to the door of the magnificent main house of the Xianju Pavilion.
Since the old lady had a stroke, she asked people to remove the sunken wood sandalwood, and the blackened window paper was also replaced, but the gossip mirror, Linlang didn't say anything.
Looking up at this time, there is an indescribable irony in it. Linlang even thought that the eldest lady should also hang a gossip mirror to comfort the fear in her heart?
I saw Yan Xiang hurriedly step forward and gently push open the door of the house, "Squeak! With a bang, fresh air entered the house along with Linlang.
Linlang put away the cold memories, replaced them with a smile, and gently, put the medicinal soup on the square table beside the old lady.
"You guys, go out first! I'll chat with the old lady and relax! After sending the maid away, Linlang moved a chair and sat opposite the old lady. Looking at the old cheeks that have lost their former elegance, Linlang can't help but sigh that the years have passed!
"Grandma, it's time for you to drink your medicine!"
Hearing Linlang's voice, the old lady shook suddenly, and there were tears hanging in the corners of her dry eyes, as if she had fallen into an ice cave, and the biting cold came to her face.
"Ahh......h
The old lady screamed, poked her head out of the door, and helplessly called the girl, trying to drive away this extremely hateful person in front of her! Seeing that no one had come to respond for a long time, the old lady was anxious, raised the crutches in her hand, and wanted to knock the decoction to the ground.
"Grandma, you have buried half of your body in the loess, and only by drinking the medicinal soup can you watch your great-grandchildren revive the glory of the Jin family. If I leave like this, I won't show mercy! Linlang didn't move to stop her, just looked at her and said to herself.
First of all, we must give the old lady a hope, so that she has a reason to live. Otherwise, she would not drink this bowl of medicinal soup even if she died in front of herself!
The old lady's crutches had just touched the rim of the bowl when she stopped.
She looked deeply at Linlang, trying to see the man's intentions from Yingying's smile. However, the old lady made a mistake, and she didn't know why Linlang came to deliver the medicine in person, but she only knew that this girl had a different purpose.
"Ding!"
A crisp and pleasant sound echoed in the room, and the old lady took a deep breath, turned to the bowl of medicinal soup pushed by her cane, and moved to her side.
She raised her bulging eyelids and glanced at Linlang deeply, although she couldn't see clearly, but Jin Xiaoqi's childhood figure echoed in her mind.
"Ahh Yes~~! ”
The old lady opened her mouth and screamed twice, raised her chin, and drank the bitter medicinal soup in one gulp.
"That's right, it's best to be alive!" This sentence is Linlang's heartfelt thoughts, and ten years ago, she knew this truth when she was ignorant of life.