Chapter 1 Family Motto
After copying the last family motto, Mu Qingyun put down the ink pen, sighed lightly, and rubbed his cold purple hands.
It was already a warm spring in March, and the Buddha Hall was still very cold, and it seemed to be three points colder than the cold winter in my memory.
A pair of feet were numb from the cold, and a cold air rose from the soles of the feet, as if even the bones were oozing with coldness.
The maid Liuying came in with the curtain, and when she saw her rubbing her hands coldly, she hurriedly put down the embroidery basket in her hand, and said, "Girl, you are so cold, why don't you call the slave ......." ”
As he spoke, the warbler's nose was sour, and tears swirled in her eyes.
How did she forget it again.
The girl hurt her throat and hurt when she spoke.
Qingyun saw her crying, and subconsciously opened her mouth to speak, who wanted to have an itchy throat, she couldn't help coughing.
Coughing, her tears flowed.
It's a pain in my throat when I swallow saliva.
How dare Liuying be sad again, wiped the tears in the corners of her eyes, and hurriedly said, "Girl, you bear with it, the slave will pour you a cup of tea." ”
As she spoke, she walked towards the charcoal stove beside her.
The cold people in the room shivered, and the tea on the table had already cooled, but fortunately there was a charcoal stove to warm the copper kettle.
When her hand touched the copper kettle, she felt a cold chill.
The warbler endured the hand that was about to be withdrawn and picked up the copper kettle.
In the stove, there is no charcoal, it has burned to ashes, and there is no heat at all.
Liuying bit her lip angrily, and then heard Qingyun's cough getting heavier than the other, and she didn't have time to get angry, so she hurriedly said, "Girl, wait a while, the slave will go and boil hot water." ”
After speaking, she ran out with a copper kettle in one hand and a charcoal stove in the other.
In front of the desk, Qingyun looked at the embroidered handkerchief embroidered with the hollow valley orchid in her hand with a pale face.
There are dots of blood on the embroidered handkerchief, like a plum blossom blooming brightly.
A wry smile overflowed at the corner of Qingyun's mouth, her throat hurt like this, she was still in the mood to think about plum blossoms.
Think about what happened three days ago, and then think about her current situation, no matter how strong she is, no matter how much she persuades herself to come, she will be safe, it is better to die than to live, and at this moment she can't suppress the urge to hit the wall and die.
Qingyun shook her head, trying not to think about the blood-soaked half of the embroidery needle that had been taken from her throat.
But the sore throat reminded her all the time that someone wanted her life.
Feeling that her throat was itching again, she quickly reached out and pinched her neck, biting her lip flap tightly to endure the itch.
Unable to bear it, she hurriedly took the tea on the table, regardless of the cold, and poured it violently.
The cold tea went down her throat, and she shivered with the cold.
As soon as the teacup was put down, there was a clang outside the door.
Qingyun frowned, and then heard a quarrel outside.
It's the voice of a warbler.
She gritted her teeth and said, "Mother Wu, people are watching the sky, the third girl and you have no grievances, why do you embarrass us everywhere!" ”
Qingyun's cold heart has a trace of warmth, and there are sighs.
Liuying is loyal, she sees it in her eyes and remembers it in her heart, but her temperament is a little impatient and reckless, and she can't see her being wronged, but there are some things that can be solved without quarrelling, and people don't even pay attention to her as a master, and they are afraid that she will scream as a maid?
Afraid that she would suffer a loss, Qingyun stood up with the table and walked out.
Standing at the door, I saw a stout woman scolding angrily, "You little cheap hoof, this is a Buddhist hall, a quiet place, how can you let you scream, I must tell the eldest lady when I turn around, I think you can still live a comfortable life here!" ”
The mother-in-law scolded and scolded, while saying that the Buddhist hall was clean and did not allow people to shout, but she usually spoke, which was louder than Liuying's scolding, not to mention her angry voice.
Moreover, that posture, it seems that if the warbler replies again, she is about to reach out and fight.
Qingyun was angry when she saw it, she came for three days, and she saw this Wu Pozi for three days, and when she first wore it, she stood in front of her bed and chattered crookedly, openly and secretly ridiculed her for being a starving ghost reincarnated, and she could choke on eating a steamed bun.
Qingyun walked over.
Seeing her coming, Liuying hurriedly helped her and said, "Girl, you are not well yet, why did you come out?" ”
Mrs. Wu also smiled, but she didn't have any respect for what she said, but poured salt on Qingyun's wound, "It's windy outside, and the third girl has only been beaten by twenty boards, I'm afraid it's not all right, but the eldest lady has passed the word, the family motto Buddhist scriptures, fifty articles each day, if you don't copy it today, Ming'er will have no food, and the girl can't embarrass the slave maid......." ”
As she spoke, the smile on Mrs. Wu's face gradually stiffened.
Qingyun looked at her, and there was a smile in her cold eyes, but the smile seemed to be covered with a layer of ice, revealing a fierce cold.
Mrs. Wu looked at it twice, and she was afraid to look at it in her heart.
She subconsciously lowered her head, and when she noticed it, she annoyed herself again.
When did she become so timid that even the three girls could make her afraid?
Although the third girl is a concubine, her mother died early, and in the house, she is not as good as the second girl who came out of the house, not to mention the fifth girl born to the eldest lady.
is obviously a concubine, but she has raised a cowardly temperament, in front of the eldest lady, she has always lowered her eyebrows and pleasing her eyes, and she doesn't even dare to breathe roughly, how can she look like a half-point concubine?
If it weren't for the fact that everyone in the house knew her identity, outsiders would come to see her and say that she was a concubine, and people would not suspect it.
Just now, she must have seen it wrong.
Mrs. Wu looked up and saw Liuying complaining to Qingyun.
She held a piece of charcoal in her hand, handed it to Qingyun, and said in a choked voice, "After drying the wind, it could have been used, but she was splashed with a basin of water." ”
Liuying is aggrieved for Qingyun.
The third girl is the daughter of the Zheng'er of the Anding Bofu, but what kind of life is this?
I can't eat enough, I can't dress warmly, and I am punished for 10 months out of 12 months in a year.
Finally, I was fined enough, and I was able to go back to live in my yard, every time, no more than three days, and I was fined back, and it was a month, to say the least.
Half a month ago, the three girls finally copied the Buddhist scriptures and were able to move back to Lingxueyuan.
But after only two nights, the five girls took the three girls to the Mu family's three-room Mu Shangshu Mansion to say hello to the cousins.
Obviously, the fifth girl couldn't see the cousin girl, so she deliberately pushed the third girl, and the third girl planted it forward and pushed down the cousin girl.
The girl slammed into the steps, and her chin was cut deeply.
At that time, Mu Shangshufu couldn't wait to scrape the three girls alive.
After coming back, the old lady ignored it, so she beat the three girls with twenty boards and threw them to the Buddhist hall to copy the family scriptures.
The culprit, the fifth girl, had nothing to do.
It is said that the palms and backs of the hands are full of meat, and she has never seen anyone whose parents are biased to such an extent!
It was useless for the poor third girl to defend herself, at that time, many people obviously saw it, but no one would speak for the unfavored third girl, and offend the eldest lady for her, but took the opportunity to slap the eldest lady, and insisted that the third girl pushed it.
In their eyes, the third girl is slandering the fifth girl, and she is vicious.
The three girls carried the black pot for others and were punished for copying the Buddhist scriptures in the Buddhist hall for half a year.
But that's it, they still don't feel that it's enough, and they do their feet in the food of the three girls.
Three days ago, she thought that the girl was very hungry and was in a hurry to eat steamed buns, and she was choked to death.
But who would have thought that someone would stuff half an embroidery needle in the steamed bun?!
If it weren't for the three girls' lives, how many people would have survived?!
Now that the third girl had hurt her throat, she and the magpie went to beg the eldest lady to find a doctor for the girl.
The eldest lady was happy to agree on the surface, and blamed them for not taking good care of them, but it's been three days!
The doctor never came at all!
Liuying hated to think if the maid sent by the eldest lady to invite the doctor fell to her death on the way, otherwise she crawled out of the house and invited the doctor.
What's even more chilling is the food sent from the big kitchen, knowing that the three girls can't even eat because of their sore throats, and deliberately making the dishes spicy, that is, she loves spicy food, and she can't eat two bites, let alone the three girls?!
It's been three days since she hurt her throat, and the three girls have said no more than five sentences.
It's still a last resort.
March day, cool in the morning and cold in the evening.
The girl was punished in the Buddha hall, and she shivered in the cold night, and she went to get some charcoals.
I didn't get the charcoal, but I was scolded for it.
"The five girls are so delicate, they don't ask for charcoal, the three girls make such a big mistake, what more charcoal do they need? Now the Bofu is not as good as before, that is, even the old lady's use has been reduced again and again, and the three girls still want to be the same as before, before the Hou Mansion was not demoted, those charcoal and ice were not used up, and now, they have to pay their own money to buy it, which is all thanks to the Jiang family! ”
These words are still in my ears, and every word is heart-wrenching.
Will the five girls go to ask for charcoal?
The five girls can't run out of charcoal at all!
Also, although she is not the son of the family of Anding Bofu, she has been serving in Bofu for seven or eight years, and Bofu has only been demoted for two years, and she has not seen the use of Bofu weakened at all.
Don't say that the master's monthly rule has been weakened, that's a joke!
Obviously, the eldest lady was unhappy with those concubines and aunts, and took the opportunity to pinch them, those aunts were angry, but they couldn't help the eldest lady, so they threw their anger on the girl, complaining about everything, and thinking about it.
If nothing happened to the Jiang family, who would dare to treat the third girl so slowly?!
Those villains who are high and low!
The Jiang family is Mu Qingyun's maternal grandfather.
Old lady Jiang, the official worships the prince, and is favored for a while, but the good times do not last long, and the old lady Jiang offended the emperor and was demoted.
The Jiang family was defeated, and the Hou Ye, as a son-in-law, helped the old lady Jiang to ask for a mercy in front of the emperor, which angered the emperor, and the Anding Marquis Mansion was demoted to the Anding Uncle's Mansion.
Liuying couldn't understand that all this obviously had little to do with the three girls, it was the Hou Ye who valued love and righteousness and wanted to help the Jiang family, which led to the depreciation of the Hou Mansion.
Kebofu, up to the old lady and down to the maid and mother-in-law, all put this mistake on the eldest girl and the third girl, and wanted to restore the title of marquis.
In order to win over the courtiers to help speak, the old lady did not hesitate to marry the eldest girl to the eldest young master of the Dingguo Mansion, you know, the eldest young master of the Dingguo Mansion suffered a stroke and was paralyzed and sick in bed!
Thinking of the big girl who used to smile brightly and speak softly, she had only been married for a year, and she was emaciated, and Liuying wanted to cry in distress.
Now that the three girls are about to get married, she doesn't dare to think about who the old lady will marry the three girls......
Qingyun didn't know that Liuying was worried about her future.
She was looking at the charcoal in her hand, and she couldn't relieve it anymore.
Yesterday, for the sake of these charcoals, she had to speak, and her throat hurt so much that she almost didn't cough up her heart and lungs, but she didn't expect to be trampled so badly.
The warbler went to ask for charcoal, but she didn't arrive, she couldn't stand the cold, so she thought of a way.
In the past, the charcoal in the house was bought, and the best one was, of course, the silver frost charcoal, which had no smell of smoke in the house.
Most of them still use ordinary charcoal, and again, it is their own charcoal.
It is the kind of fire that burns vigorously, and is placed in a closed jar, which is extinguished because of lack of oxygen.
When Qingyun asked Liuying to serve food, she asked the kitchen woman for some charcoal, but there was no jar, so she had to extinguish it with water and bring it back, dry it and use it again.
But I didn't expect Mrs. Wu to be ruthless, and she couldn't even burn charcoal for heating.
A sneer overflowed at the corner of Qingyun's mouth, and she looked at Mrs. Wu coldly.
Although Qingyun didn't speak, but Wu Pozi knew what she wanted to say, she was a little afraid, but she wouldn't show it, if others knew that she was afraid of the third girl, she wouldn't be laughed at to death?
She poured water on the charcoal fire, what's wrong, who called the warbler who doesn't have long eyes and hangs the charcoal here, if you want to blame her, she is not good at doing things.
Mrs. Wu patted the clothes on her body, and in a casual tone, blamed Liuying for making a fuss, "It's windy outside, even if the charcoal fire is wet, the wind will dry after a few times, if the three girls delay it any longer, they can't copy the Buddhist scriptures and family mottos, and Ming'er will be hungry, don't blame the slave for not reminding you." ”
Liuying was angry and wanted to scold, but was stopped by Qingyun with her eyes, there was no need to talk to her.
Liuying was indignant, and helped Qingyun to go back.
Just turned around, and a little maid ran in at the gate of the courtyard.
Mrs. Wu got angry when she saw it, "You dead girl, you ran out to play for a long time, and you didn't see anyone, and you still know how to come back?!" ”
The maid was scolded, but she was not angry, but smiled, "Didn't you go to Chunhui Courtyard to join in the fun, Mother Wu, do you guess what's going on in the house again?" ”
As soon as Mrs. Wu heard this, her eyes lit up, and she was still scolding, "Little cheap hoof, you know how to flirt with people, so don't hurry up." ”
The maid smiled and said, "The eldest lady of Mu Shangshufu is making trouble in Chunhui Courtyard, saying that the cousin's chin is badly injured and disfigured, and she wants the uncle to give an explanation." ”
Qingyun paused and looked back.
I saw the maid with a gloating smile on her face.
Qingyun's heart fluttered.
It's over, it's going to be bad luck again.