Chapter 001: Beauty
The morning light shines warmly on the ordinary small courtyard of the market, where two pear trees are planted, and the flowers are crushed with branches. There was still a slight chill in the air, and pear blossoms were scattered like snow in every corner of the courtyard.
This place is Ewha Town, and in early spring, there is snow in Pear Blossom everywhere.
The yard is small but very quiet, in addition to the two tall pear trees, there are also some evergreen flowers and plants.
In the open area of the courtyard, a girl of about thirteen years old was pouring herbs into a dustpan on top of a wooden frame.
Her jet-black hair was curled into a bun, her forehead was broken into bangs, and her short hair hung down around her ears. There is not half a pearl in the hair, only the pink headband flutters with the snow-white pear blossoms.
Wearing an emerald collared jacket and a white silk skirt, the simplicity couldn't be simpler. But the peach-like face suddenly brought this inconspicuous makeup to life.
Rushui Mingyan carefully selected the herb impurities in the dustpan, smiled lightly from time to time, revealing a few shell teeth, and the pear vortex at the corner of his mouth also came out. It's cute and cute!
At the square table under the pear tree, a child about ten years old saw the girl's laughter, and involuntarily laughed along, picked up the book in his hand and began to read.
"There are beautiful women in the north, peerless and independent. One look at the city, and then look at the country. Rather than know the city and the country? Beauty is rare! ”
Although his voice is immature, it is also suppressed and frustrated, and with the child's shaking of his head, he has a bit of a little adult image. The other two people in the courtyard laughed.
The girl smiled: "Yo, I really can't see it, my Xi'er still knows how to be a beauty." ”
Nie Tianxi scratched his head embarrassedly, and explained with a smile: "Mr. Xi'er often hears this poem on his lips, and he only got this poetry collection from the senior brother in the school a few days ago. I didn't understand what it meant, but I just saw my sister drying herbs, and suddenly I understood, it turns out that the beauty is like this! ”
Nie Shuyao originally wanted to use this to tease her lovely brother, but when she heard this, she was reluctant, and said with a smile: "Hmph, even if we know each other, I will let you go for the time being." ”
Turning her head to concentrate on her herbs.
"Hehe, in Xi'er's eyes, my sister is the most beautiful beauty!"
Nie Tianxi is eleven years old this year, and he has just begun to tie his hair, and a small bun on the top of his head is like grabbing a small bag, although it is a little funny, but it is difficult to hide his cleverness.
The two sisters and brothers started today's life in your words and my words.
Under another pear tree, Nie sat leisurely on a chair and listened to their frolic with a smile on his lips.
Nie Shi looked like he was in his thirties, and his fair face was slightly sickly. Wrap your head with a white flower and green silk cloth, don't have a silver hairpin, and the earrings are also inconspicuous silver. The dark blue placket and blue horse-faced skirt are also very simple makeup.
But when she raised her eyes, there was a fleeting look in her eyes, but she couldn't be regarded as an ordinary market woman.
She raised her hand and saw the old woman whose hands were like crane skin chicken feet, and sighed in her heart, fourteen years have passed like this. Looking at the righteous daughter who was called a beautiful woman by Yizi, the memories of the Nie family that had been dusty several times couldn't stop flowing out.
The wealth and glory of the past are not worth his words; And that full of love and pity can't resist the erosion of a glass of poisonous wine!
Nie Shi flicked the comb in his hand lightly, then put it on his head again, got up and said, "Shu Yao, Xi'er, don't forget that you haven't done your homework today!" ”
As soon as they heard the homework, Nie Shuyao's sister and brother immediately glanced at each other, turned around and bowed to her and said, "Yes, stepmother." ”
Nie Shi looked at the two bitter gourd faces, smiled more kindly, and paced to the medicine shelf, pulling the medicinal materials in the dustpan back and forth with his hands.
This action made Nie Tianxi quickly run to Nie Shuyao's side and whispered, "Sister, is my stepmother going to let us find something again?" ”
Nie Shuyao didn't know either, so both of them looked at Nie Shi a little nervously.
Nie Shi said quietly: "The medicinal materials collected in the past two days are good, but the stepmother has added a little material to it, you can pick it up for me." If there is a little residue left, the medicine will be mixed in this Chuanbei, but it will really eat the dead! ”
After she finished speaking, she looked at the two children with a smile and reminded: "Not much, just a dozen pieces, the size of a fingernail." ”
Nie Shuyao and Nie Tianxi knew that when the stepmother said this, there must be such a thing, if you find a different herb with a big fingernail, you can really eat the dead.
The Nie family opened several shops in this pear blossom town, including a medicinal herb shop. The ones sold are all medicines for ordinary people, that is, headaches and brain fever, and the most expensive thing in the store is only the ginseng that has been the treasure of the town store for 200 years.
And this shop never sells poison-medicine, not even arsenic, let alone any medicine for the dead.
But the Nie family has a soft spot for poisons, and in the small courtyard where they live, such a drug drama is staged every once in a while.
In Nie's words, if you want to cure a disease, you must first learn to recognize and make drugs!
Nie Shuyao looked at Nie Shi who was walking step by step, and sighed in his heart, what kind of crooked reason is this? In her past and present lives, she has lived all these years and has never seen anyone stranger than their stepmother.
If Nie Shi abandons that sick face is a very beautiful person, although he deliberately imitates those rough women in the market with a smile on weekdays, it is difficult to hide the arrogance and nobility in his bones.
He was very particular about his food, and he had no servants at home, so he was still thirteen years old and had developed a good cooking skill a few years ago. It stands to reason that she doesn't want to do this, but no, if she doesn't, her stepmother's whip will fall.
Nie Shuyao touched his arm, he was still faintly painful from being beaten by the whip last time, what was that for? It seems that the wrong thread was used for embroidery.
"Alas, the female red!" Nie Shuyao really hated the death of the girl, and she was willing to lie in the pile of medicine to find poison.
Thinking of the whip, she thought of the first time she had come into this world.
At that time, it was also a whip that woke her up, but she never thought that she was just a three-year-old child at that time, and I heard that she was a dumb girl before the age of three, and she couldn't say it and only cried.
Before the age of three, her memory was intermittent and almost blank, and she always thought that the whip had hooked her from the soul of the modern age, but when she saw the jade pendant in the carved box on the ground, she realized that what really brought her over was the superb white jade carved with jade lotus.
It was the evidence that I had just gotten from a bizarre case scene in my previous life, and I liked this piece of jade at first sight, so I secretly took it home and wanted to study it, but I didn't expect to be sucked into such a world by this piece of jade that night.
Sure enough, people can't do bad things, it's retribution! Fortunately, she was an orphan with no father and mother in her previous life, and she didn't have anything to worry about, and her only regret was that she couldn't get back to her old business.
In his previous life, he was the backbone agent of a detective agency, and he dealt with all kinds of strange cases every day, and his life was very interesting.
It's like now, for ten years, every day I was forced by my stepmother to learn the compulsory courses of ancient women, embroidery and writing, not to mention, I was trained by my stepmother to be more like a girl than everyone.
Nie Shuyao almost forgot his own nature.
"Alas!" Nie Shuyao sighed unconsciously.
touched Nie Tianxi, who was almost up to her ear, fortunately there was a sensible younger brother to accompany her, so this day was not so boring.
Speaking of Nie Tianxi's younger brother, she had to go back to ten years ago, when Nie Shuyao had just woken up and saw that Nie was whipping herself, she shouted: "Why did you beat me?" ”
When I saw the qiē here, I couldn't accept it for a while, so I struggled to get out of the door, and I didn't know how to run to the small river outside the town.
It was a harsh winter, and the river was covered with a thin layer of ice, and it didn't take long for my teeth to chatter with cold.
The cold calmed her mind, and combined with the only memory of this body for three years, she knew that this was not the place where she lived, but the Ming Dynasty.
Later, as she got older, and she kept inquiring about this aspect, she finally figured out what kind of Ming Dynasty this was.
also picked up Nie Tianxi, who was half frozen to death, by the small river, when he was only a little more than a year old and just knew how to walk. was finally brought home by his three-year-old self with that incomplete memory.
In this way, the Nie family is a person with children and daughters.
Now that I think about it, the things that Nie taught them were all good things, but her teaching methods were a little more violent.
"Sister!" Nie Tianxi tugged at her sleeve.
This pull pulled Nie Shuyao back from his thoughts, and when he looked up, he saw Nie Shi with an ugly face.
Nie Shuyao hurriedly lowered her head and asked, "Yi, stepmother, what else do you command?" ”
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