Chapter 004: Sister Affair
Chapter 004: Sister Affair
Ling Qingyun went back to the house to change her clothes and went to the second aunt's house with her mother.
Tready and Sasha helped her find two sets of clothes and asked her which one she wanted to change.
Ling Qingyun frowned slightly.
a set of lotus-colored plum petal gowns, moon-white blessing skirts; A set of apricot white makeup gowns, lilac skirts. They are all very pure, as if they were widows.
Ling Qingyun's back was cold.
She was very disgusted.
Plain things are soft to the eye, and even if you don't like them, it's hard to hate. Ling Qingyun didn't know why, the disgust in her heart was uncontrollable, and it spontaneously arose.
When she saw the plain dress, her heart seemed to be pierced by something, and it hurt sullenly.
She hated both outfits. Dressed plainly at home, she thought it was thrifty, but she didn't want to let her wear it like this when she went out.
Is it because the family is poor?
It's not like ah, how to say it's also a dignified Jin State Mansion.
The maids are more colorful than her.
"I don't wear this." Ling Qingyun said, "Change the clothes on the side." β
Bang Sha said: "Girl, this is a new autumn dress made a few days ago, and there is a set of blue water and lake color, which set do you want?" β
The lotus color, apricot white, blue sky, and lake color are all plain.
She was a young girl, and she was not a widow.
"Open the cage and I'll see for myself." Ling Qingyun said.
The yarn was a little puzzled, but she didn't question Ling Qingyun, and immediately went to open the cage and let Ling Qingyun pick it herself.
In her cage, there are light-colored dresses all over the place.
Ling Qingyun's face was slightly constricted.
"Auntie, girl, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that Ling Qingyun seemed to be very angry, he was stunned. Ling Qingyun used to not pay attention to dress, eat and drink.
"Don't I have clothes of any other color?" Ling Qingyun said, her voice was still soft, without any emotion, "I like green." β
The two maids opened their mouths wide in surprise.
The green clothes are very eye-catching.
Ling Qingyun hated anything that was conspicuous. She's in the crowd and always wants people not to notice her.
"I love green." Ling Qingyun repeated, "Can there be a bean-green gown?" β
"No, no," Sasha stammered a little in shock.
Ling Qingyun didn't speak, and pursed her lips slightly.
When she pursed her lips, her jaw curved tightly, her chin slightly raised, arrogant and solemn, and majesty revealed from her demeanor.
Bangsha remembered what Tadao said last night: "The girl's eyes have changed. β
It's changed.
From beginning to end, Ling Qingyun did not speak loudly. She spoke in the same tone as usual, only less soft, a little less angry.
It's a complete change of person.
The two maids hurriedly rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to help her find clothes.
Over the years, Ling Qingyun has been growing taller, and she can't wear her former clothes. In the end, I had to find a scarlet folded branch begonia jacket, or a spring dress.
The clothes of spring and autumn are almost the same.
After Ling Qingyun changed her clothes, she said to Bangsha: "You follow me out,"
Bang Sha Dao is.
When she arrived at her mother's side, her mother saw Ling Qingyun and couldn't help but say, "This crimson material was bought for you by your eldest brother, and you never wore it." How did you turn it out today? β
Ling Qingyun's youngest daughter smiled shyly and didn't speak.
Mother doesn't dig deeper. She took Ling Qingyun first and went to see her grandmother.
Ling Qingyun's grandmother is actually a stepfamily, not a relative. Ling Qingyun's own grandmother gave birth to Ling Qingyun's first father and eldest aunt and passed away.
Then, the step-grandmother entered the door.
This step-grandmother, who is only eight years older than Ling Qingyun's mother, has a strong personality, and she always stumbles a little over the long room on weekdays.
Ling Qingyun has been sick for so long, she has never seen her grandmother send someone to see her, let alone visit her in person.
Now that she is well, she has come to say goodbye to her grandmother.
The grandmother sent the eldest maid out and said, "The old lady is sick, and the filial piety of the eldest grandmother and the second girl, the old lady has written it down." You just have to do your work, and you don't have to serve. β
Just sent his mother and Ling Qingyun out like this.
"Let's go." The mother was not surprised, and did not move at all.
Ling Qingyun snorted.
Her mother's personality seems soft, but in fact she is terrifyingly tough. No matter how picky the old lady was, her mother always pretended not to see it and ignored it completely.
The mother did not respond to the old lady, so that the old lady could not find the focus, and the more she had a headache for this eldest daughter-in-law, and she disliked their big house even more.
Ling Qingyun followed her mother and went to the gate to take the car.
The black lacquered flat-topped carriage is unremarkable, but spacious and comfortable.
On the way, my mother was a little sleepy.
Even at home, my mother never slept during the day, and she was very strict with herself. Therefore, she talked to Ling Qingyun to dispel sleepiness.
"Wuwei Zhenren told Mrs. Cheng's fortune, saying that she was short of soil in her life, and there must be a big hurdle when she reaches sixty. You need to take stones from the south and fill in the northwest corner of the old lady's yard to make a small rockery to suppress the calamity.
Your second uncle set off a month ago to personally go to Suzhou to transport stones, and he has not yet returned. Your second aunt's personality is the most indifferent, and the old lady's illness has caused a lot of chaos at home. "Mother sued SΓΉ Ling Qingyun.
The Cheng family is more strange.
Their wife believes in both the Bodhisattva and the Taoist, and neither the Buddha nor the Tao is left behind.
Mrs. Cheng died of three sons. The current second uncle is the second son. At that time, the second brother-in-law was also seriously ill, and he did nothing to continue his life.
Therefore, if they are not true people, they will be given a holy decree.
"Why don't you send a family member to get it, you have to go to the second uncle?" Ling Qingyun asked.
"If others go to luck, it won't work, and the filial son needs to go in person." Mother smiled, "Your second uncle has calculated the days, and he will definitely come back before twenty." Where to take precautions, the old lady has not yet done her birthday, so something big happened? β
Ling Qingyun sighed.
She knew that the second aunt was the biological daughter of her step-grandmother and the half-sister of Ling Qingyun's father.
But what the second aunt looked like and what their family was, Ling Qingyun couldn't remember it anymore.
There is a feeling of being in a different world.
The carriage went slowly to Cheng's house.
Soon, I arrived at Chengfu.
The Cheng family does not have a title, but a family of eunuchs. Their family is an official from the fifth grade, and they can be regarded as a noble family.
Ling Qingyun's mother and daughter got out of the car at the main entrance.
The little guy at the door went in and went in.
In a moment, a housekeeper in an apricot yellow shirt came out to greet Ling Qingyun and her mother.
"My aunt and cousin are here." The mother-in-law's surname is Meng, who used to be a slave of the Ling family and the companion of the second aunt, and said to Ling Qingyun's mother and daughter with a smile.
"Mother Meng, how is the old lady today?" Ling Qingyun's mother, Jing, hurriedly asked the mother-in-law.
"Alas, the doctor gave way to the board." Mother Meng had a little sobbing in her voice, "Our lady has no opinion, and I don't know what to do." βγ
Placing the board means that you have to prepare the coffin board, and this disease is not saved.
Ling Qingyun glanced at her mother.
Her mother's face turned pale.
Mother also has a bad relationship with Mrs. Cheng, and the reason why she is like this is because she is still worried about retribution.
Mrs. Cheng collided with the Buddha, and everyone present was inevitable, and her mother Jing was also one of the people present.
Look at Mrs. Cheng, who is usually in good spirits and has no disasters or diseases, but she suddenly has to put a board. So sudden, so strict, isn't it retribution?
Jing's heart was cold.
"Didn't you say yesterday that it was just a coma, a syncope?" Jing's voice was ethereal, a little empty.
"I've tried all kinds of medicines, but I still can't wake up, and it's getting worse and worse." Mother Meng sighed.
While they were talking, they came to the old lady's yard.
At the gate of the yard, two wooden trees were planted. In the mid-autumn season, the osmanthus competes for beauty, and the branches of the green tree are batch with a piece of tender yellow tulle, which is rich and pure and fragrant.
The treetops leaned against the courtyard wall, and the corners of the wall were full of soft fragrant broken stamens, as if they were covered with a brocade quilt.
When they went into the courtyard, they saw that Jacques was silent. The maids and ladies all held their breath and walked on their tiptoes.
Ling Qingyun and her mother Jing followed Mother Meng into the room next to the inner bedroom. The second aunt and her two daughters and two sons were all there.
The second aunt still has a fever. When she returned from the temple, she began to have a fever. She wrapped her head in an apricot-colored handkerchief, and leaned on the kang near the window with her dying breath, as if she had only half a breath left, and her face was blue.
Ling Qingyun's mother, Jing, was stimulated again.
The grandmother in the family was seriously ill, and so was the second aunt, and the old lady who was lying in the house was not even good.
Ling Qingyun gently squeezed her mother's hand.
Mother is so suspicious, sooner or later she will fall ill.
When a disease arises, there must be a cause. If the cause of the disease can't be found, it will be pushed to the ghosts and gods, which will make people panic, which is really terrifying.
"Sister-in-law, you're here" The second aunt had a fever, her lips were blistering, and she became more and more haggard. Her voice was also powerless.
"You're better than you were yesterday?" Jing's speech was also a little unfavorable.
"Auntie, can't you see?" A girl wearing a white pink and green embroidered bamboo leaf plum blossom gown said to Jing Shi in a displeased tone, "My mother is much worse than yesterday." You came yesterday and came again today, is it to see the excitement? β
The girl was about thirteen years old, not very tall, and looked puffy.
Jing's ran twice in a row, and he was so enthusiastic that he really gave people the impression of being lively. If the relationship is good on weekdays, it's nothing. In the past, I didn't interact much, but now I am so enthusiastic, how can I not make people suspicious?
What do children know? It must be the maids and women who are talking behind their backs.
Jing's face burned with fire.
Her mind was seen through, which made Jing a little ugly.
"Second sister, don't be rude." Another girl, about the same age as Ling Qingyun, scolded her sister.
This girl is the eldest daughter of the second aunt, named Cheng Ziying, who is sixteen years old this year, a few months older than Chen Jing. She wore a homely scarlet gown, her face was fair, and her hair was neatly combed.
The people in this room, including the maids and mothers, are somewhat wolf bèi, or tired. They all had to stay up all night taking care of the old lady.
Only Cheng Ziying looked refreshed.
"Auntie, cousin, my second sister is not sensible, don't worry about her." Cheng Ziying smiled and said to Jing and Ling Qingyun.
She spoke in a friendly tone and helped Jing out of the siege.
But when his eyes touched Ling Qingyun, he became more cunning, and some essence flashed from the bottom of his eyes, and he was cold.
Her gaze swept over Ling Qingyun.
Ling Qingyun immediately understood: This cousin, who was about the same age as her, didn't like her.
Worriedly, Ling Qingyun didn't know why.
She couldn't remember how she had a falling out with her cousin.
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