Chapter 2: A Summer of Clouds and Rain (26)
Jingyi took an ice towel and put it on her face. Shu Ma said vaguely through the towel: "This little injury is not in the way." Don't mention it. It's serious to ask the eldest cousin to help find that person. Otherwise, I always feel that I can't get over it in my heart, and I receive such a great favor for no reason. β
She looked at the immaculate and the immaculate, one busy putting on makeup, the other just beginning to change clothes, busy as if no one had listened to her words...... Qiu Wei twisted another handful of ice towels to cover her face and asked her, "Does it hurt?" β
"It hurts." She said.
"What kind of people are they who are so bold, such a bully in the blue sky and daylight? It's not good to stay at home for no reason, and make trouble on the street, and you're not a good person......" Qiu Wei muttered in a low voice.
Jing Yi took off the ice towel on her face, glared at Qiu Wei fiercely, and said, "Don't shut up yet." Zheng"
Qiu Wei was startled by her glare, and really shut up.
Flawless glanced at Jing Yi, waved her hand to let the maid who tied her armpit shirt button dodge, and said while tying it: "What kind of tantrum do you have with Qiu Wei, she doesn't know how to distinguish those ......"
"Second cousin, innocent, little ten!" Outside, there was a loud voice, and someone was calling them guests.
Wufang had already changed his clothes, went out first, and laughed: "Zhishen is here?" β
"Second cousin." The person who came was Cheng Zhishen, the ninth young master of the Cheng family.
The thin and tall Cheng Zhishen was wearing an off-white short-sleeved shirt and light gray plaid suspender shorts, standing under the flower shelf, very handsome and beautiful.
There were sofas and hammocks under the porch outside the house, so if they had no time, they should sit down carefully, let the girl have tea, and said, "They are still washing their faces and changing their clothes, and they will come out later." You came here with your aunt and aunt? Are they all okay? "The aunt in Wufang's mouth is Jingyi's biological mother, Feng Wanwei, the second wife of the Cheng family.
"They're all very good. No, I live well in Xishan, and my father urged my mother with several letters. He had already returned from Tianjin the day before. Zhi Shen did not sit on the sofa honestly, but went to the hammock with his legs crossed.
"The garden has been repaired?" There's no time to ask.
"Repair is repaired. But, you know, my father didn't plan to go back to live in the first place? Bringing the mother back is moving. is making people pick the day, saying that these days are good. Zhi Shen said.
"Moving? What about the original residence? Immaculate was a little surprised. The house where the Cheng family lives now is not the old house of the Cheng family, but the uncle Cheng Shiyun bought it when his grandfather was still on his own. My uncle was quite good at this, and the house was built into him, and over the decades, year after year, the garden was built quite exquisitely. My uncle and a group of classmates called it "Yangyuan". The garden is so well raised, how can you say that you can move it?
"Why move?" Jingyi came out, and before she could say hello to her, she heard the news first. Naturally, she was more surprised than Immaculate.
My father didn't say why. Mother didn't seem too surprised. I suspect my mother knew about it before she left home. Although it was a little sudden, I don't think it's too bad to move this new area, so that's it. Zhishen tilted his head, smiled, and said, "The new home is two blocks away from my aunt's house." Coming out of the front door and going to the back door of my aunt's house, the car didn't need to be set, and I came in a sedan chair for a while. Move here. It was more convenient for my mother to come over and play cards. β
Zhishen is an optimistic person, and in his opinion, this is probably not a big deal.
Jing Yi didn't say anything for a long time.
"Where else is there a spare mansion here...... Could it be Qingyuan? Wujian came out after Jingyi, and only then did he speak. Qingyuan is the former Qing Prince's Mansion, and it has been idle for a while. "I heard that Prince Qing bought Qingyuan at a good price."
"It's Qingyuan. I really didn't know that my father had already taken Qingyuan down. A few months ago, I heard that Prince Qing was short of money and sold the garden, and I was still talking at home, the decline of Prince Qing's Mansion has really fallen to the end, and he has sold the old roots handed down by his ancestors, how can he have the face to go to Taimiao to worship his ancestors in the future? My father was speechless. Who knew that it was my father who did it? "Cautious tsk twice.
Wujian took a breath and said, "Qing Wang Ye has the difficulties of Qing Wang Ye. His whole family pointed to him selling his ancestral property to support him. Isn't it time to sell the house after selling the land? I heard that he sold the money from the house and bought some houses in Shanghai, and his more than a dozen wives and concubines lived in separate courtyards. β
"I really like Qingyuan. Their seventeen Gege were the most naughty, and when they used to study, they often invited us over to play, and they always teased us. In any case, Qingyuan is a good garden. Big and beautiful. Uncle can really do it. "There is no time to admire.
"But I can really hold my breath. Even the co-author is hiding from his son, this is going to change our father, so don't you have to wake up laughing in the middle of the night? Innocent smiled.
Jingyi sat on the sofa, a little dazed.
What Qingyuan, what beautiful scenery or something, she didn't think about that.
The old garden of the Cheng family is good for its own old garden.
Even if it's not good, it's where she grew up after all...... Her mother had returned from Berlin with her father with her, and it was the mansion she lived in. She was born there. All her childhood was thereβbut what, is this about to be gone? How can a father be like this! Does this mean that if you give up, you can give up?
"I don't want to." Jingyi endured for a long time and said these four words.
"Yi'er, don't be sad yet. The old garden is not for sale, but for you to dowry. Zhi Shen said.
Immaculate and Immaculate groaned at the same time and asked, "What?" "I almost thought I heard it wrong.
Jing Yi stood up even more suddenly, staring at him with a pair of big eyes.
Zhishen said: "Look at you, let me tell you, and that's it." Do you know that Aunt Hong is going to smash the vinegar vat at home? said that Luan Zhifeng got married, and he must marry like this. He laughed instead. He wanted to tease Jingyi for a while. This little sister doesn't care about these things. Her temperament follows the second wife, indisputable.
But if you don't fight, you fight.
Presumably for the father, this little daughter is a little different from his second wife. Otherwise, the sisters in front of them got married, and there were two sisters-in-law, and no one got such a generous gift?
"In Aunt Hong's eyes, your family business is very good." Zhi Shen smiled. The third wife is very competitive, and her twin daughters are the same. They were about the same age, and Zhiluan Zhifeng was only two months older than him. He's better, Jingyi is honest, and he doesn't know how much he lost by those two sisters since he was a child.
Jing Yi gritted her teeth and gurgled for a while, before she said, "Who is rare...... Whoever marries! β
That's not a bad thing.
They were silenced by her cold tone.
"It's so childish. When he set you up, my father didn't even consider the five and six sisters of the same age, so of course he had a reason. Zhishen got down from the hammock, brought a bowl of sour plum soup, took a sip, and said, "Mother and Aunt Wei came to visit my aunt today, and I will take you back by the way." You've also eaten your aunt's rice for a summer, and if you don't leave, your aunt will be a pick-up. β
Zhishen was joking, and Flawless and Immaculate didn't laugh.
Jingyi twisted her face away, still standing.
"You should go back and pack your things, too. But Mother's meaning, if you don't take your things, it's just that. So, I can still stay here for a few days. "Zhi Shen said it seriously. This serious remark is unacceptable to Jingyi.
Her fate ...... Could it be that it was so easy to be tied up with that old house and sent out by my father? Zhishen is right, the father's arrangement is free of the father's truth. But she's not an object.
"Brother Jiu......" she began.
A maid came in at the gate of the courtyard, and she recognized that it was Bai Zhi, the personal maid next to her aunt. She swallowed for a moment. Bai Zhi approached, and asked An Cai one by one to say, "Mrs. asked the ladies and Young Master Cheng to go to her for lunch." β
"Got it, we'll go right away." Wujian looked at Jingyi's ugly face and hurriedly sent Bai Zhi away.
Jingyi stood for a moment, then turned around and ran in.
She sat at the table, clutching a handful of rice paper, her palms soaked with sweat.
She slowly smoothed out the rice paper...... I don't know how long it took, the screen window sounded, and when she saw it, it was Zhishen and Wuzhi lying on the edge of the window, holding their arms and looking at her quietly.
Their concerned eyes made her want to cry instantly. So she sniffed and said to them, "I'll come." β
"Wash your face again. Wipe my face with that newfound balm. "Innocent said.
Qiu Wei came over quietly and waited for Jingyi to clean her face again with cold water.
Jingyi knew that her face must be very ugly at this time, and it would not work without wiping something. But in the pile of cosmetics without cleanliness, she couldn't figure out which one was new what she had said.
Seeing that she was going to go out like that, Qiu Wei looked at her worriedly, and said softly: "Miss, let's use some fat powder, otherwise the wife will see it and ask......
Still came over without stains, put some fragrant powder and rouge on Jingyi's face, and said, "It's so good to cover it up, I can't see anything at first glance." Qiu Wei, when you go home, bring all these with your young lady. And this, this perfume has a beautiful name...... I fell in love with it the first time I heard it, and Lao Kong asked people to help bring back a dozen at once. I'll give you a bottle, spray it, and spray it on the side of your pillow for use as a sleep scent. β