Ling'er, who was shrinking in the corner, peeked at the fourth lady who was leaning on the bed, but it was the hairstyle of the daughter's family in the usual country family, there was no headdress in the hair, one long black hair was simply tied with a pigtail at each ear, and the others were casually draped over the shoulders, and the skin under the black hair under the firelight was like ice, the eyebrows were like ink, and the eyes were dark blue, like a bottomless lake. The bridge of the nose is high, and the most unavoidable thing is that it is as white as a shelled egg white, silky and clear, where it is like a child who grew up among the villagers, and a smile is impressive. And the only flaw seems to be that there is a daunting chill in those leisurely and deep eyes.

"You come forward."

Ling'er was wandering, and suddenly heard a soft voice floating in her ears, as if it came from a long distance, she was going to freeze to death if she stayed in such an ice cave before, and now this room is so warm, and there is a faint fragrance, this fragrance is not the smell of herbs and spices on the ladies and ladies on weekdays, like the fragrance of food, what she doesn't know.

Probably very hungry, the meal at noon was simply killing people, but it was a strange thing, it would be fine after an hour or two, the itching feeling before seemed to be itchy in the eyes, and I couldn't wait to dig it out to be happy, but now it seems that the environment has changed, Ling'er is a little sleepy, and when she heard the call, she thought she had heard it wrong.

After seeing Fang Jinyan call the girl who was cowering in the corner, Yudian looked at herself blankly and made a move. As if frightened, she stepped forward, and the girl saw her passing. Standing up suddenly, it startled the raindrops.

Fang Jinyan looked at the girl named Ling'er who was quite delicate, although her eyes were not big, but her skin was excellent, probably frozen, and her face was pale without a trace of blood.

Ling'er trembled and took a few steps forward, skirting the brazier. Walked in front of Fang Jinyan and bowed down and said, "Slave Yun'er asks for peace to the fourth young lady, and the fourth young lady is blessed." ”

"Yuzhu, go and bring a bowl of hot water to Ling'er. Then look at the nest in the brazier if it is baked, and bring her one to eat. Yuzhu went to pour water after hearing this, and Fang Jinyan asked Ziyuan to bring a stool to Ling'er and let her sit down.

"How old are you?" Fang Jinyan thought that he was a little tired, so he sat up and talked to Ling'er.

Ling'er looked at Yuzhu. Whispered, "Thirteen." Sister Yuzhu is a fellow villager, a native of Shouzhou. Trembling as she spoke, she didn't dare to sit down immediately, seeing Yuzhu signaling herself, she sat down carefully, probably because of the reason why the brazier was closer, her clothes that had been wet before began to smoke faintly, and she also felt much warmer.

"Oh, I didn't know if you and Yuzhu were fellow villagers, Yuzhu. Is it? ”

Yuzhu hurriedly stepped forward and replied: "If you go back to Miss Four, Yuzhu and I are not only fellow villagers but also from the same village." And it was the Fang family who entered in the same year. ”

"How do you ...... that?"

Yuzhu seemed to guess what Fang Jinyan was going to say, and hurriedly said: "This Wang's mother knows, there was a famine in our village that year, and most of the people in our village went to Beijing to beg for food, I was bought into the mansion by the third lady in April, Ling'er entered the mansion in September, and Ling'er was bought by the eldest lady, so I ......"

Fang Jinyan snorted, before meeting, this girl named Ling'er didn't look as annoying as Yun'er, nor was she as deep and cunning as Jiu'er, but a little more innocent.

Fang Jinyan didn't speak, and the room was suddenly quiet, as if he could even hear each other's breathing, and then suddenly Ling'er knelt on the ground, still holding the tea bowl in both hands, and tears kept rolling down like pearls.

Fang Jinyan not only frowned slightly, but there was coldness in his eyes: "What are you doing here?" ”

"Fourth Miss, please let Ling'er go, Ling'er will not sue the eldest lady, and second, she will not be disrespectful to Miss Four, Ling'er is naturally clumsy and will not please her master, so Miss Fourth will let Ling'er go."

Yuzhu was startled, hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Ling'er's shoulder, and said urgently: "Ling'er, what are you doing, our fourth miss is not difficult for you, hurry up!" ”

"Yuzhu, you go aside."

Yuzhu saw Fang Jinyan sweeping himself coldly, his heart was shocked, and he didn't dare to say more, so he stepped aside, but his eyes were full of worry.

"And how do you say I'm going to let you go?" Fang Jinyan said calmly, no emotion could be heard in his tone, and he didn't know if he was angry or something else. But the more this happens, the more uneasy everyone feels.

Ling'er felt that the atmosphere was wrong, but she had already spoken out, seeing that Miss Four was to Li Fu, Zhao Si and Yun'er, presumably even if she didn't say it, she might not be able to go back alive, even if she went back, she couldn't guarantee that the eldest lady would wonder if she had taken refuge in Miss Four, in short, she couldn't get good in both places, so it was better to fight this time!

Ling'er swallowed her saliva, but she didn't dare to look up at Fang Jinyan, and said boldly: "Ask the fourth lady to let Ling'er go!" ”

"Ahh The people in the room couldn't help but scream, is this Ling'er's brain frozen?

Fang Jinyan snorted and said, "You dare to arrive!" ”

Ling'er's forehead didn't know if it was because she was kneeling on the edge of the brazier, or because she was nervous, there was already a fine layer of sweat, she bit her lip tightly, and the water in the tea bowl in her hand was shaking slightly.

"Why did I let you go? Are you afraid that I will kill you, or are you afraid that the eldest lady will not spare you when you go back? Fang Jinyan's voice was cold, and everyone present couldn't help but shudder.

"If the fourth miss lets me go, I will be killed and will not meet the capital again, and go back to my hometown in Shouzhou directly, there are still grandmothers and mothers and two younger brothers at home, Ling'er misses them day and night, if the fourth miss is willing to let Ling'er go, Ling'er will definitely not cause trouble to the fourth miss, seal this mouth, and don't mention anything about the Fang family to anyone who knows or doesn't know each other."

Fang Jinyan couldn't help laughing when he heard this, the laughter seemed to spread far away and slowly folded back, shaking the tiles on the roof to shake.

"I thought you were simple before, but it seems that I am simple, a girl with such a careful mind. I actually thought of everything I thought, such a person was really cultivated by the eldest lady, and he was very smart. Where am I willing to let you go? ”

When Ling'er heard this, she suddenly raised her head and looked at her with a smile on her face, as if a sharp blade was about to pierce her little beating heart, she knew that now she had no way back but a fight.

"If the fourth lady doesn't believe it, I can exchange it for something and give you such a thing, even if I have the heart to return to the eldest lady. That's also delusional. ”

Fang Jinyan seemed to be very interested, his head was slightly forward, and his eyes were half the size. looked at Ling'er inquiringly, and seeing that Ling'er was not afraid of her eyes, she smiled and straightened up. But he said: "Your things are just the secrets of the eldest lady." I don't want it, you can keep it, okay, you can go. ”

Ling'er was anxious, she thought that everything that was the eldest lady must be of interest to the fourth lady, but she didn't expect that this fourth lady was actually moved by the adult's mind at all, thinking of this, Ling'er hurriedly said: "Ask the fourth lady to give Ling'er a chance, if you don't like it." I Ling'er has no complaints, if I want to kill, I will listen to him. ”

Fang Jinyan waved his hand. Yuzhu understood, retreated with everyone, and then closed the door.

"If you don't tell me, I'll know from other people, do you think I called you here to make you a traitor to your master?"

Ling'er was excited, and the hatred flashed in her eyes, and then there were tears that she couldn't hold.

"Since the day she sold my sister Yu'er to the kiln, she has not been my master."

Fang Jinyan saw the hatred on Ling'er's face, the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, and his hands clenched the tea bowl as if he was about to crush the thing.

"Tell me about it."

"Yes! Seven years ago, my sister and I were bought by the eldest lady to the Fang family, but my sister was four years older than me, she was twelve years old at the time, she was very smart and capable, and soon rose from a third-class girl to a first-class girl, I was not as smart as my sister has been doing some rough work in the kitchen, two years later, my sister became a celebrity around the eldest lady, and became the longest face among the personal girls, but ...... But...... The old man fell in love with his sister, but because the eldest lady has always been powerful, he didn't dare to pick out and take my sister into the house, and one day ......" said here Ling'er couldn't help crying again.

Fang Jinyan handed over his own side of Supa, Ling'er was stunned for a moment, then took it and wiped her tears, calmed her mood, and then Ling'er continued: "One day I was working in the kitchen, and I saw my sister hurriedly find it, handed me something, and then cried and said to me, she was pregnant with the old man's child and let the eldest lady know, the eldest lady didn't spare her, and she might have to attack her, and before she could tell me anything else, she was dragged away by a few mothers around the eldest lady, and then ...... Later, I heard that they had beaten the child from my sister's womb alive, and because she was so beautiful, she sold it to the kiln, but within three months, my sister hanged herself on a white silk because she could not stand the inhuman torture. ”

"Is what you are going to give me what your sister gave you at the time?" Fang Jinyan asked.

Ling'er nodded, took out a handkerchief from her close-fitting clothes and handed it to Fang Jinyan: "Fourth Miss, now I have said everything I should have said, I know the methods of the eldest lady, she asked me to come this time thinking that I would not go back alive, so ......"

Fang Jinyan was puzzled, could it be that this eldest lady knew that she would have such a means to deal with her? Could it be that she has been secretly spying on herself?

"You mean the eldest lady is already thinking that I will clean up the people who come to her room? Then how dare she let so many people around her? ”

Ling'er wiped away her tears, she was not so excited at the moment, she put the tea bowl aside, held the handkerchief handed by Fang Jinyan with both hands, and said coldly: "It's not that I said that hers is not behind the back of the eldest lady, to please Miss Fourth, but this master is indeed not a thing!" If you inquire carefully about these people she sent, except for five or six of the minions she believes in on weekdays, the others are just some inferior girls who serve her mothers beside her, besides, even if she likes it like Jiu'er, but it is just a use, put it on her own sons and daughters, what is the value of our lives? ”

Fang Jinyan believed Ling'er, because she knew that Ling'er was not lying. She opened the handkerchief that Ling'er handed to herself, and opened it, but it was an earring, which was a pendant made of white jade, shaped like a tear, and the white jade was surrounded by lace hollowed out with gold wire, which was very exquisite, but why was there only one?

Ling'er saw Fang Jinyan staring at the earrings with a puzzled expression, so she said: "At first, I couldn't understand it, I didn't know what my sister meant, but later when I was cleaning up the things left by my sister, I found that it was not my sister's, it should be someone else's." ”

Fang Jinyan had already flashed countless thoughts in Ling'er's mind when she spoke, but she didn't say anything, just put away the earrings, and said to Ling'er: "When you leave the Fang family, didn't such a careful person as the eldest lady even search your body?" ”

Ling'er knew that Fang Jinyan was doubting her intentions, in case it was a trap that the eldest lady put on Fang Jinyan, she didn't know, so she said: "Nothing can escape the eyes of the fourth lady, as soon as I put this thing away, I was worried that if this thing was the eldest lady's, the eldest lady would definitely find it, if I found it here, wouldn't I be killed, so on the day my sister gave it to me, I secretly hid under a big tree outside the side gate of the Fang Mansion when I went out to buy vegetables, and I secretly took it out on the day I left." ”

"It's a clever girl, and you're older than me, well, let me think about it."

Ling'er naturally knew what Fang Jinyan meant when she said this, since the fourth lady said to think about it, let her think about it.

At this time, not far from the front of Jinyan's room.

"Jiu'er, you are talking, what kind of idea did you say that fourth lady was fighting, why did you call Ling'er away at this time, she wouldn't be killed, right?" Yun'er said anxiously that her relationship with Ling'er was good on weekdays.

Jiu'er skillfully picked up the beans and said, "How do I know what that fourth lady thinks, she is the master, and whoever she wants to call is her freedom." She said this because she didn't hear any terrible sounds and screams coming from this courtyard at this moment, which showed that the fourth lady did not attack Ling'er, maybe she was just going to ask questions, and wanted to know something about the eldest lady from Ling'er's mouth.

"Phew!" Yun'er spat disdainfully, and was about to speak, when a girl came in from outside the door, walked up to Yun'er with a sneer, and said, "Who are you talking about?" ”

Yun'er was shocked, thinking that the girls and servants in the Fang family's third lady's room in the past were not in her eyes at all, so she squinted her neck and squinted, and said hatefully: "What do you care about me, you have been listening outside the door for a night, and you probably told that person all these things I said to that person, and that person didn't see what I said to me, but it was just a bluff, I want to see what you can do to me?" (To be continued......)