Chapter 4: The Oath
"You just returned home, and your body is weak, why rush at this time, it's not too late to go back in the spring." Liu Shi said while wondering why Zhou Huan suddenly changed sex.
A pair of slender Danfeng eyes looked at her secretly, and there was a doubt in her heart, and she didn't dare to treat her with an indifferent attitude in the past.
There was a faint mist in the starry eyes, and he was crying, and he grabbed Liu's hand hard: "Please, madam, I have never seen my mother's true face, I am already pitiful, and now I am separated from my mother's yin and yang, and I can never see each other in this life, I just want to go and put three incense sticks on my mother, kowtow twice, and ask Mrs. for mercy."
Without waiting for the Liu family to speak, she changed her tone again: "That's it, if Madam doesn't want me, I will go to the ancestor and ask her for mercy."
With that, she wiped away her tears and turned to walk out the door.
Liu Shi hurriedly gave the maid a look, stopped her, stepped forward, and wiped the tears on her face distressedly: "It's hard for you to have this filial piety, so I'll arrange a carriage for someone to send you in."
"Thank you, ma'am, ma'am, I will remember it day and night." With red eyes, she finally showed a smile, bent her knees at Liu's blessing, and left happily.
The pretty and slender figure disappeared, and the smile on Liu's face turned from thick to light, and the corners of his eyes and eyebrows were quenched with malice.
Outside the gate of the house, a slightly old carriage was waiting, the old coachman had a gray beard, a pair of eyes could not be opened by the wind, the thin blue curtain of the lake broke a hole, and a strong cold wind was filled.
There was no stove in the car, no cushions, and I don't know what year or month the carriage was, and it was even more dilapidated, creaking, and shaking.
Zhou Huan hugged the hand stove to keep warm, but halfway through the road, the hand stove also cooled down, which really froze her a lot.
She opened the curtain from time to time to look out, remembering the road, and after a while, the carriage stopped, I don't know if she was afraid of dreaming that Mrs. Xian came to look for her in the middle of the night, so she was willing to raise her hand and get off the carriage towards Zhou Huan.
The tomb keeper saluted Zhou Huan and led her into the back garden, where the Zhou family has been buried for generations.
Looking carefully at the cold tombstones, Zhou Huan raised his feet and walked to the corner, looked at the names on them, and knelt down, the unwillingness and grievances in his heart disappeared at this moment.
She caressed the tombstone and whispered: "My daughter is not filial, she was blinded by the Liu family, and she called the wicked as her mother, and today her daughter is here to make amends."
Lifted up his skirt and got up, took a step back, knelt down again, and solemnly kowtowed a few times.
Two "creaks" disturbed her mourning, and she listened intently, faintly hearing a faint moan.
Her heart jumped, and she looked around vigilantly, and a lot of snow fell from the dead treetops on her side, and at this time, the sound was gone.
It must have been the movement of the snow pressing the branches, and when she withdrew her eyes, she was about to kowtow when she heard a sound, which was very clear.
Suspicious in his heart, Zhou Huan got up to look for the sound, lightly, approached step by step, and a moan entered his ears, very clearly.
Behind a tombstone in the middle, a faint touch of the corner of the moon's white clothes was faintly visible, seeing that it was a person, Zhou Huan inadvertently breathed a sigh of relief, and his steps were a little slower.
When I got closer, the man in the silver fox mask came into view, the snow under him was dark red, and the clothes on his body seemed to have been cut by a sword, soaked in a large area of blood.
"Childe, Childe?" Called him twice, but there was no movement, Zhou Huan twisted his eyebrows and thought about it carefully.
It's so cold, if you don't save it, I'm afraid people won't be able to live, but if you save it, it will definitely reach Liu's ears, so as not to cause trouble.
After thinking about it, Zhou Huan looked at his mother's tombstone not far away, took a deep look at him, turned around and called someone in, and asked the next person to help him into the carriage.
The maid looked embarrassed: "This is not in accordance with the rules, the eldest lady is a girl's family, how can she be in the same car with a foreign man, not to mention that his identity is unknown, maybe he is a thief, if it is spread out, it will not be good for the reputation of the eldest lady." ”
Another maid answered: "Yes, Madame will punish the slaves and maids when she knows it, the eldest lady is gracious, don't embarrass us to be slaves." ”
"Since you know that I am the eldest lady, you should have me as the master in your eyes, and Madame can punish you, and I can do the same, if you don't do what I say, I will punish you for kneeling here."
His eyes were cold, and he stared at the two maidservants, and his voice was piercing.
The maidservants glanced at each other, it was freezing on this day, and a layer of snow had accumulated, but the copper wall couldn't hold it.
The clever maidservant hurriedly answered and called for someone to carry him to the carriage.
The carriage was broken and small, and a tall man was forced to enter, and the carriage was even narrower.
Zhou Huan couldn't help but hold down her eyebrows and sigh, shrunk in a corner, and just begged the coachman to go faster, and quickly send the person to the hospital, so that she could be relieved.
"Ahem......" Two low coughs sounded in his ears, suddenly waking up Zhou Huan, who was about to fall asleep.
She immediately propped up half of her body to look, and the man slowly opened his long, narrow and dark eyes, and suddenly, a dangerous light appeared in his eyes.
"Awake? If you don't have any money on you, you can't go to the hospital without money. Lazily rubbing her sour neck, she sat back down.
The carriage didn't know what it had run over, and it "clicked" and turned upside down.
A weight suddenly pressed on his leg, with warmth.
Her body stiffened, lowered her eyes, stared at the man quietly, her eyes were facing each other, and Zhou Huan's jade-like face quietly crept into a blush.
She has never had skin-to-skin contact with other men in her two lives, and now she saved a man, and she is still lying on her lap, is this okay?
The man didn't expect that the roots of his ears were slightly red, and he had an unbearable low cough, accidentally pulling the wound, and his face hidden under the mask turned a little paler.
"Hurry up!" Zhou Huan pushed him like a mountain, unable to move.
"I can't move." When the man spoke, his voice was low and hoarse, crispy and numb, which was very good.
Zhou Huan gritted his teeth secretly: "If you don't get off my lap again, I'll let people throw you down!" ”
The maidservant heard the movement outside and asked, "Miss, what's wrong?"
"It's okay, let the coachman hurry!" There was a faint smell of gnashing of teeth.
After a long pause, the man finally had the strength to move his body, sat up straight, looked at the vacant position beside him, and asked, "Why don't you sit up?"
"Men and women don't kiss." She rubbed her knees and stared at one place with her chin propped up.
It was quiet in my ears, but when I turned a corner, the hawkers' shouts and shouts sounded one after another, followed by the tempting aroma, which caused the gluttonous insects to rage.
When I lifted the curtain, it was almost the market, and there were still fewer people here.
The man took out a jade pendant and handed it to Zhou Huan.
It was a casual glance, and then took the jade pendant and looked at it attentively, this jade tentacle is warm, the color is transparent, with a faint blue color, into a half-moon shape, the front side is carved with strange beasts, and the reverse side is engraved with fine patterns.