When I returned home, my mother had not yet returned, so I leaned against the window, hugged my knees, and said nothing. Cai Qing persuaded the tea a few times, but when he saw that I ignored it, he consciously retreated.

I don't remember how I came out of the soft incense pavilion, and in a trance, Yushi seemed to have said a lot of things to me, but I can't remember what it said.

I still vaguely remember passing through the street, the unkempt silly old man came up to stop me with a smile, and the people around him hurriedly dodged for fear that he would stain his clothes. When I saw that he was horribly thin, I took out two copper plates and wanted to give him so that he could take care of his own food and clothing.

I handed the copper plate to him, he thought I was going to hit him, covered his head and hid in the corner, I put the copper coin in front of him, and explained with a gesture, "Don't be afraid, this is money, you are hungry, you can buy food." ”

He raised his eyes and looked at me in a daze, perhaps because of the lack of food for many years, his whole eye socket was sunken, and his eyes were full of doubts.

I was about to leave, but he stretched out his hand in front of me, holding a small dandelion in his hand, looked at me stupidly, and said cautiously, "Alain..... I.... I like you. ”

If I had put the money in front of him and left, but today I myself have been poisoned by lovesickness, and the words of the stupid boss pierced my heart, and I really wanted to stand in front of Lian Gongzi and say my heart to him.

However, I was expecting his response, but I did not dare to imagine his response.

I took the dandelion from the stupid boss's hand, nodded and smiled, "Thank you!" ”

The silly boss looked at me in a daze, and his eyes gradually brightened. I got up to leave, and suddenly there was a heart-rending cry behind me.

I looked down at the dandelion in my hand, and my heart was full of mixed feelings, my feelings for Lian Gongzi were no less than the stupid boss for his Alan, the stupid boss was already stupid, so the next stupid person, would it be me.................

I don't know why, my mother stayed in Wanfu all night and didn't come back, the second aunt asked Cai Wei to go to Wanfu to ask, Cai Wei came back and said that the whole Wanfu was in a mess, and it became a pot of porridge, she didn't see her mother, and found Cai Su next to her mother, Cai Su was busy somehow, and she didn't care about explaining at the time, but said that she would rest assured that she would come back tomorrow.

After the second aunt listened to Cai Wei's words, her expression darkened, and she asked Cai Qing to serve me for dinner and then get up and go to the account room, I stopped her and asked the reason, the second aunt stared at her, waved her hand and said, "The child is from the family, what are you asking about, eat your meal!" Then he turned and went to the bookkeeper, and the figure was very fast.

I had no appetite, went straight back to the room to rest, didn't close my eyes all night, sat on the bed with my knees crossed, until the sound of roosters crowed, I fell asleep, in a dream I returned to the pear orchard, heard the faint sound of the piano.

There was a faint commotion outside, and I woke up when I heard the movement, called Caiqing into the house, and asked, "What's going on outside?" Why is it so noisy? ”

Cai Qing went out to look, and after a while, he came back, "Miss, it's a florist." Today is the day they go into the house to renovate the garden, and I have already told them that they will not disturb you again. ”

"Gardener.........." I sat up suddenly, hurriedly put on my clothes, and said, "Cai Qing, go and call them." ”

"Miss, where are they qualified to see you! If you have any orders, just say no. Cai Qing hurriedly stepped forward to stop me, and when he saw that I couldn't listen to it, he persuaded again, "Besides, you haven't left the cabinet now, if there are any rumors...............

I knew her worries, so I had to dispel my thoughts and sit down in front of the window again: "I saw that the pear blossoms were blooming on the side of the road, and I was happy in my heart, so you go and tell the gardener to move a pear tree outside my window." ”

"Understood, I'll go."

The gardener was quite quick, and it didn't take long to move a pear tree, and the flowers on the branches were blooming, and faintly I seemed to hear the faint sound of the piano, and my heart was secretly excited, and I asked Cai Qing to take some money to reward the gardener, so as to comfort them for their hard work.

I was stupid in front of the window and watched, picking green to urge tea and rice, I didn't pay attention to it, only said that I was not hungry. The second aunt found out and came to arrest me in person, escorted me to the dinner table, and sent someone to buy a small peach cake in the south of the city, saying that it would be eaten as a snack when I finished eating.

We finished our meal and were eating tea to relieve the taste, only to hear Cai Wei shouting outside the hall, "Madame has returned home." ”

My second aunt and I hurriedly went to pick it up, only to see my mother dressed in plain clothes, her expression was gloomy, her face was pale, and the same was true for the pickers around her, and there were shallow tears on her face that had not dried, and she staggered with her mother.

"Mother, what's wrong with you?"

The second aunt helped the mother and said to me, "Don't panic, let's go into the house." Cai Wei went to bring the stewed bird's nest in the kitchen, I ordered it yesterday, it's time to go. Cai Qing went to fetch a basin of water and washed his wife's face. ”

The mother entered the house, took two sips of tea and eased down, sighed heavily, turned her eyes to look at the second aunt, and said in a dumb voice, "I stayed up for two hours last night, and when I was... It's gone...."

"Alas......." The second aunt had red eyes and choked up, "I guessed it as soon as Cai Wei came back yesterday, this child is really miserable, he just came to Yuxiu Pavilion half a month ago, saying that he wanted to order a pair of jade bracelets for her mother to make a birthday, such a well-behaved and sensible person, how can he work hard in a blink of an eye, and if he says no, it will be gone............."

The mother sighed and sighed, and said with red eyes, "Who said it wasn't!" She took my hand in front of her eyes, looked at me with teary eyes, and begged me to spend more time behind her mother. That kid, his throat was swollen like that, and he was still holding on to finish his words, pitiful, how could people not feel distressed, not sad..............."

I listened to the clouds next to me and asked, "Mother, who is gone?" ”

"Wan Kexin, Wan girl."

"Wan girl!" I heard my mother say that she was seriously ill, but I would only exaggerate it if Lang Zhong wanted to raise the price, and I didn't want to leave like this.

Mrs. Wan has always been good friends with her mother, and I have seen her daughter, who is beautiful and beautiful, and loves to wear goose-yellow clothes, and her smile is very cute. She just came out of the cabinet a month ago, and her mother specially picked a pair of dragons and phoenixes to give to her, how could she blink an eye and her kung fu was gone.

"Mother, what kind of illness did she have, how did she attack so quickly!"

"What a disease!" The mother's voice changed, and her eyes were full of coldness, "Although the child is weak, he will not fall down when he sees the wind, it is not that the husband's family is angry, and such a transparent person is forced to die!" ”

The second aunt was stunned, her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she asked, "Madam, what do you mean by this?" What did you hear? ”

"Humph! Kexin has a good rough girl at her husband's house, and she asked to see her in the middle of the night last night, and told Kexin all about her suffering in her husband's house. It turned out that the child had not lived a happy day since he got married. Her husband's family relied on the fact that he was a famous family, and he looked down on the threshold of the business, and he was embarrassed everywhere. Kexin has been weak since she was a child, her mother felt sorry for her and didn't force her to go to women's school, so she only learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and failed to study poetry, song and dance. I was wronged every day, how could I not get sick, I took a few medicines and it was not necessarily good, and I was delayed for many days. ”

The mother looked at the second aunt with a sad face, and said in a dumb voice, "You didn't go to see it, I don't know, it was originally a lovely child, but when I saw it yesterday, I was thin and not human." Lying on the bed, I was angry, and if I didn't look closely, I thought it was ....... It's cold! ”

The second aunt sighed and sighed with red eyes, and she was also sad, "That child's life is miserable............ So what's going on with Wanfu now? ”

The mother sighed, "Master Wan went out to do business, Mrs. Wan didn't dare to tell the whole thing, for fear that Master Wan would be in a hurry and go wrong on the road. Everything, wait until he returns home, and then talk about it in detail. ”

"Lady Nawan.............."

"What else can she do, a life went with her daughter, and now the whole house is presided over by her alone, she is now gritting her teeth and holding on, most of her hair is gray, and when Master Wan returns to the house, she will definitely be seriously ill. But the good thing is that now everything that should be done in the house is almost done, and only the hurdles in my heart are left."

Cai Wei came forward with the bird's nest, and her mother looked a lot better after eating the bird's nest, and then Cai Qing suddenly walked in from outside, took a bag of things, and said with a smile, "The slave and maid excuse the lady and disturb your meal." The housekeeper just sent me a bag of snacks, saying that the second aunt ordered me to buy them. ”

The second aunt nodded and said, "Yes, it's just in time, it just so happens that the meal is finished, so you can put the snacks on the plate and bring them!" ”

The mother asked, "What kind of dim sew?" ”

The second aunt smiled and said, "It's a little peach cake, Zhen'er has a bad appetite today, and she didn't move a bite of breakfast, if it wasn't for my persuasion, this lunch might not have been on the table." I remember that Zhen'er has always liked small peach cakes, so I sent someone to the south of the city to buy some back to boost her appetite. ”

"She's not small now, why are you still spoiling her like this!"

Cai Wei, who handed over the bird's nest to her mother, wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, and said to the second aunt with some displeasure, "Seeing her, it's almost time to get married, and soon a matchmaker will come to the door to say goodbye." You spoil her like this, what should you do when she is out of the cabinet, when she has a bad appetite at her mother-in-law's house, people will buy some snacks for her to eat like you? ”

My mother said the second aunt, turned her eyes to look at me again, and said bitterly, "Don't blame my mother for saying you, you are such a big person, you can't follow your own temperament like this, and you will suffer when you get to your mother-in-law's house." ”

My mother looked at me and sighed and sighed, her eyes were full of worry, "Tell me about you, such a big person, you don't know anything, you are not proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and you can't do anything in poetry and songs. ”

As she spoke, she was anxious, as if she had seen the tragic scene of me being bullied after I got married, and my mother took the hand of the second aunt, and she was anxious to shed tears, "Xilan, what if Zhen'er goes out of the cabinet in the future and is bullied by her in-laws!" You've always had a lot of ideas, so help Zhen'er figure it out! ”

The second aunt comforted, "Mrs. is too worried, I see that our young lady is not nothing, although the embroidery of the female worker is not as good as the embroidery in the palace, but it is not bad, the chess is passed down by the lord himself, it is not bad." Calligraphy and painting are also said in the past, it's the piano....."

The second aunt smiled and said gently, "If you talk about appreciation, no one is as good as our young lady." But if you play the harp yourself..... Only.... It's not very prominent. But Miss is talented and intelligent, let's just find a pianist to teach Miss! ”

"Now it's only like this, we can't follow the old path of thousands of families." My mother looked me up and down, and her expression was a little disgusted, "Xilan, when you look for a violinist, you will find a dancer, let's do both." ”

The second aunt smiled and nodded.

I was so furious by the gaze of these two that I wanted to get out of the door at any moment. Cai Qing brought the dim sum, I pinched a small piece of peach crisp in my hand, and ate it without a bite. My mother and second aunt were sitting next to me and were discussing whether to ask the fifty-year-old grandmother Liu from the east of the city to teach me how to play the qin, or to ask the Zheng Sanniang from the west of the city to teach me.

"That .......," I said suddenly, interrupting their heated discussion.

The two of them turned their eyes to me at the same time, and for a moment I forgot what I was going to say, took a bite of snack, and forced myself to calm down, "I have a good candidate, but I don't know if you can invite someone here." ”

My mother looked at me suspiciously, and said, "You come and listen." ”

"I... I've heard people say that there is a lotus boy in Qingzhu Courtyard, who is very good at the piano, and it is difficult to find it in the world, if you can .............. it."

"Where is Qingzhuyuan? A new tea shop? ”

"Madame......."

The second aunt whispered a few words in her ear, and her mother's face changed suddenly, and she slapped the table heavily, and the movement almost swept the tea cup out.

"Nonsense! Is that the place for you to go! ”

I stiffened my neck and hurriedly waved my hand and said, "I didn't."

"If you hadn't go, how would you have known about other people's piano skills, and you would have even known what they were called, so you must have deliberately inquired. Don't you rely on your father's absence in the house, sneak out to play blindly, and no one will punish you! When I went to the ancestral hall and knelt, I became more and more bold, I really dared to go anywhere, and I dared to see anyone. Cai Qing is too, and I don't know how to teach some good ones when I follow Miss around, and I mess around all day long, what kind of system I have. Cai Su will take Cai Qing down and receive the punishment! ”

I thought that my mother would be angry, but I didn't expect to be punished together with Cai Qing, I stood in front of Cai Qing, and said unfairly, "The fault is mine, what does it have to do with Cai Qing, why punish her?" Besides, you also want to invite an extraordinary piano master to teach me, the people's Lian Gongzi's piano skills are not bad, but the situation is a little exceptional. If this is not the case, even if you go to the palace to play the piano to the saint, it is also deserved, why can't such a good luthier be invited to teach me! ”

"You know he's in a different situation than we are! Do you dare to mention it........... You... You're so angry! ”

My mother coughed suddenly, I was startled, hurriedly stepped forward, and asked at a loss, "Mother, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Madame!" The second aunt hurriedly brought tea and stepped forward to appease her, and the mother coughed a few times, then took a sip of tea on the second aunt's hand, and slowly exhaled, finally stopped coughing.

The second aunt breathed a sigh of relief, and the phoenix glared, "You girl, look at your motherhood, you must not say this again in the future." If your mother doesn't feel sorry for you in the days after you leave the cabinet, why bother with this liver fire. If your father is here, just say what you just said, I don't know how many rattans have been broken, admit your mistake to your mother, and go and get the punishment yourself! ”

Mother's face became more and more pale, it can be seen that she is really angry, I know that I am too impulsive, no one needs to say, after admitting my mistake, I went to the ancestral hall and knelt.

I thought that my mother's anger would only be for a while, and maybe she would come to call me for dinner when it was dark, but I knelt all day, and no one told me to get up. Even if it was enough, no one even brought dinner, and my stomach beat all night, and I shrank on the ground hungry and cold and shivered all night.

When I woke up again, it was already dawn, and there were many girls who cleaned the ancestral hall who were already working beside me, I rubbed my eyes and felt unbearable pain in my throat, and reached out and grabbed a girl who was about to walk past me, "You can pour me a cup of tea, and bring some snacks by the way." ”

The girl looked frightened, hurriedly walked away from me a few steps away, and saw me like a beast in a flood, "Miss, don't embarrass the slave, Madame let go, no one can give you food during the kneeling in the ancestral hall, you just bear with it first, and when Madame's anger is gone, someone will take you out of the ancestral hall!" ”

I rubbed my neck, only to feel that my throat was as hot as swallowing charcoal, very uncomfortable, and I forcibly asked, "What about my mother's relatives!" ”

"I'm going to the Dance Pavilion early in the morning."

Get! My mother is gone, and I can't come back after four or five hours.