8. Chapter 5
hurriedly entered the Chu Mansion, it was almost dinner time, and the busy subordinates shuttled back and forth, and no one looked back at her.
Ruoyun breathed a sigh of relief, but took a detour to Xiaohong's shop, but Xiaohong, who was usually washing her hands and face at this time, was nowhere to be seen.
She frowned, always feeling that Xiaohong shouldn't have disappeared suddenly.
Although she knew more or less that her uncle was embarrassed, she was afraid that her father did not assist him in business back then, but after coming to Chu Mansion for three years, although she was blinded by Chu Rulan, her uncle finally took her in and gave her a place to live, and he was not really sad for Xiaohong.
Xiaohong...... It should be fine.
"Ruoyun, you are so bold!" As soon as she entered the backyard, Chu Rulan's deliberately raised voice came, and then she was sitting on a stone bench staring at her.
Knowing that she had tricks, Ruoyun stepped forward and said, "Miss, what are your instructions?" ”
"Hmph, what's the command?" Chu Rulan narrowed her eyes, "I asked you to go to Jinyifang, why are you so slow!" The hairpin on her head clanged with her words.
Ruoyun pursed her lips and said slowly: "Miss Hui, someone on Chang'an Street is making trouble and blocking the road, so it's too late to come back." ”
"Oh?" Chu Rulan raised one side of her eyebrows, obviously not believing it, "Even if there is trouble on Chang'an Street, who will allow you to go out without washing my clothes!" My floral satin skirt is going to be worn out tomorrow, and you haven't dried it yet, so don't you want Miss Ben to be beautiful?! ”
"Miss forgive me, I'll go." If Yun is busy, he has to turn around.
"Stop!" Chu Rulan looked at the hairpin in her hand with sharp eyes, "What are you holding in your hand?!" ”
Ruoyun instinctively wanted to hide, but this action immediately aroused the anger of the young lady in front of her, who was half a head taller than herself.
"What a guts! How dare you steal! Without saying a word, Chu Rulan pinched her wrist and held it up in front of her, "Don't tell me, you bought it!" ”
"Miss, this is a ...... named Cheng'er" Ruoyun saw the anger in her eyes, and the disgust when she saw the hairpin, she instantly understood, she took a breath, and didn't say anything after all.
Anyway, even if she believed it, she wouldn't spare her.
This cousin, who is pampered and pampered, came to Su Mansion as a guest, and also saw the things she liked, whether she liked it or not, she snatched it, but her father and mother were all in love with her, and Lord Chu also turned a blind eye and acquiesced in his daughter's wanton behavior.
Today's Chu Rulan is almost sixteen years old, tall and thin, with a well-defined face, shining almond eyes, slender eyebrows, and small lips, she is her uncle's daughter-in-law, and she is also very much like her mother.
But this is the face, now looking at her from above.
She looked at her angry appearance, and was silent in her heart: "If Miss likes it, take it." ”
"You-!" Chu Rulan's face turned red in an instant, as if she had been greatly insulted, "Who cares about your broken hairpin!" Someone! Teach me a lesson! Lock her up for three days! Look at how dare she steal! ”
After speaking, he pulled the hairpin in her hand and smashed it to the ground, and lifted the hem of her skirt and stepped on it with the sole of her pink embroidered shoes.
That kick, as if stepping on her face, didn't leave any emotion.
Staring at the broken butterfly wings on the ground, Ruoyun gritted her teeth, turned her head and saw Mother Wu coming over with a rattan stick, followed by a few rough girls.
This lesson is not the first time, but it is usually Mother Wu who is looking for her, but Chu Rulan directly gave the order, but it is the first time.
She was wriggled to the ground, falling as the rattan crackled on her back.
"Originally, I wanted you to go back to Su Mansion to have a look, but if you dare to steal this time, don't think about it in the future." Chu Rulan intentionally or unintentionally dropped this sentence and left with a smile.
Ruoyun's face turned pale: she poked the pain in her heart! Knowing that her most taboo is that now that the Su Mansion is sealed and her family is not a family, Chu Rulan mentioned it at this moment, which was several times sharper than the rattan next to her, and it hurt her heart.
She looked at Chu Rulan's back fiercely, and boundless anger spread from the corners of her eyes.
Thirty strokes, no dinner.
Mother Wu taught her a lesson without pity, and a few rough girls threw her to the firewood room.
The door closed, and the room became darker and colder.
There was a sharp pain behind her, she fell to the ground and laughed, the afterglow of the sunset was only the warmth of half a cup of tea, why did she force her cousin to show mercy.
"Miss!" There was a shrunken shout from the haystack.
When she raised her eyes, she saw the familiar shadow rushing towards her.
"Xiaohong! Why are you ......" She sat up with the pain, and was relieved to see that Xiaohong's clothes were intact, "Why are you in the firewood room?" They didn't embarrass you, did they? ”
Xiaohong looked at her bleeding back, and didn't know what to do, so she only helped her to sob: "As soon as I turned my head, Miss was gone, thinking that maybe I would go back to the palace first, but I didn't know that I was bumped into by that Chu Rulan, so I ......"
Ruoyun smiled helplessly, reached out and patted her on the back, "If you want to add to the crime, there is no excuse, you relax, we will be fine." ”
Chu Rulan deliberately waited for her, if it wasn't for Xiaohong, she would also be bumped into.
"Miss...... Xiaohong is really useless, I want you to comfort me, Miss......" Xiaohong looked at her torn clothes, and her tears flowed even more fiercely, "Usually Mother Wu takes a few strokes, why is there so many ...... today?"
Xiaohong looked through it with tears, although the rattan would not open the skin and flesh when it was pumped, but the thin scars were ten or twenty all over her smooth back, and it hurt just by looking at it.
Ruoyun looked at the darkened sky and moved to the edge of the haystack, and Xiaohong hurriedly sat down with her.
Can't lean back, she can only rest sideways: "I'm fine......" She closed her eyes, but she was still strange, "Chu Rulan, what's wrong......
Although Chu Rulan looked at her like a thorn in the flesh, it seemed unusual to deliberately trouble her today.
Seeing her say this, Xiaohong showed a look of embarrassment, leaned into her ear and whispered: "I passed by the study today, and I heard Master Chu talking to his wife, saying that Miss lives in the house, and she is afraid of long nights and dreams, so she wants to ......" She hesitated, but still gritted her teeth and continued, "I want to marry Miss, find someone to marry, anyway, the daughter who married out spilled the water, Miss, you have no weight here......"
The voice slowly quieted down, "Chu Rulan seems to be in the room too......" Xiaohong thought and added again.
Ruoyun nodded, this conversation must have also been listened to by Chu Rulan.
She didn't speak, she just closed her eyes.
Even if you get married, you have to earn it with her, and others really won't understand the thoughts of this daughter's family.
But she understands that Mrs. Chu has always disliked herself for marrying a businessman, and now that Master Chu has become Lord Chu, she is not so chattering, Chu Rulan has been affected since she was a child, and like her mother, she has been eyeing dignitaries and nobles.
Now, she is going to be married off by Master Chu, Chu Rulan has not yet landed, and it is normal for her to be anxious.
It's just that even if she is going to be married to an ordinary person casually, will Chu Rulan still be jealous......
She is very glad that in the three years of Chu Mansion, she has not become a person who tends to be inflammatory, chasing fame and fortune, although her father and mother taught her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also taught her to be upright and not to bully the weak.
All the weak are afraid of the strong, they will be submissive in front of them, and turn around to teach those who are weaker than themselves, just like Chu Rulan, picking her thorns everywhere on weekdays is just to enjoy the pleasure of that moment of pride. There are many rich businessmen in the capital who are richer than Lord Chu, and there are countless more powerful than Lord Chu.
It's a pity that she didn't learn the kindness taught by her father, and she couldn't be good at Chu Rulan's malice.
The pain in her back was so severe that she was numb from the pain, and she leaned against the haystack and fell asleep.
When Xiaohong saw her sleeping, she hurriedly brought a cloth wrapped in wood to cover her, and she curled up on the side.
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