Chapter 5: Misfortune III
Zhang Erzhen lowered her eyelids and said slowly, "You know?"
Sun Baijian smiled bitterly: "I've seen my mother." ”
"What do you think?" Zhang Erzhen poured a cup of tea with a small teapot with a red glazed gold background and handed it over, Sun Baijian took it with both hands, Zhang Erzhen could clearly see his white fingertips, and his neatly trimmed nails appeared an unhealthy milky white, Zhang Erzhen's heart ached slightly, and asked, "Why are you sick, how many days have you been?"
Sun Baijian took the tea and didn't drink it, retracted his gaze, stared at the still warm teacup in his hand and said slowly: "My mother told me three days ago, I am naturally ...... Disagree. For so many years, I have never had any other thoughts, and my heart and mind are all Zhang family girls. There is only one possibility for me to give up, and that is ......" Sun Baijian looked at Zhang Erzhen with hot eyes and said firmly: "She doesn't want me anymore, that's all." ”
Zhang Erzhen's heart trembled slightly, and the resoluteness in Sun Baijian's eyes was so clear, Zhang Erzhen couldn't help but wonder, is there anything else she didn't know? Sun Baijian didn't continue, took a sip of tea, and only felt that his lips and teeth were fragrant, and the mint fragrance that vaguely wafted from his mouth went straight to the bottom of his nose. Zhang Erzhen knew the answer, and there was a little joy in her heart. Many years ago, when she knew that she would spend a white head with Sun Baijian in the future, she also hesitated, but she later accepted her fate, Sun Gongzi Yushu is in the wind, and he is infinitely suave, and it is more than enough for her. Heaven don't joke with her again and again, since she accepts the setting, it's fine.
Sun Baijian seemed to be sad and hesitated between his eyebrows, as if he still had something to say, but he hesitated and refused to speak.
Mingyue had already knocked on the door and came in, Zhang Erzhen understood, it had been a long time, they should go back to the house, Zhang Erzhen smiled and said: "Brother Baijian, thank you for your willingness to help me back then, that is, what Mrs. Sun will say, as long as you are here, I will be with you." Take care of yourself, and we'll see you another day. "The eyebrows are open and soothing.
Sun Baijian also evacuated the depression between his eyebrows, and sent Zhang Erzhen away with a smile. After the separation, the hearts of the two were sinking, and Zhang Erzhen asked himself, why didn't he ask about his cousin?
Sun Baijian sat in Ruyulou for a long time, and it wasn't until Shengmin came in that Sun Baijian asked, "Madame is back?"
"Madame is looking for you. ”
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From ancient times to the present, marriages that are restricted by one parent are basically not successfully combined. Zhang Erzhen's thoughts were chaotic, thinking about what was the reason for Sun Baijian's illness, was it because Mrs. Sun had retired Gengti, and on the other hand, she had a headache about whether she was really willing to marry into the Sun family regardless of her death. Mrs. Sun did not appear for a few days after that day, and the Zhang family temporarily stabilized. Zhang Erzhen's heart was unstable all day, and she was trembling and pale when she died in her sleep, and finally on a dusk afternoon, Mrs. Sun came again, looking embarrassed, her eye sockets were deep, this time there was no last time's domineering, and the thick sadness revealed stabbed Zhang Erzhen's eyes, and Zhang Erzhen felt bad.
Jin instructed the maid to help Mrs. Sun sit down, and retired the maids. Mrs. Sun first sobbed softly, pinching the handkerchief and shaking her shoulders constantly, Jin couldn't bear to look at her heart and said: "Sister, don't be like this, you seem to be unreasonable and mean to us like this, if you have something to say, you can do it, you can do it." "Jin's words seem to be a compromise, everyone is like this, it's not good to marry their own girl into the Sun family.
Mrs. Sun said in a hoarse voice: "I let my sister and niece see the joke." Since I went back from Zhang's house that day, my brother Jian has been sick, lying in bed all day long and can't get out of bed, only blindly having a high fever. I panicked, and then I went to the temple and Taoist temple to worship, but I didn't see it well. It wasn't until noon today that I met an old Taoist priest, who went to see Brother Jian'er, saying that Brother Jian'er's life was unstable, just because he was now scattered and not around, I begged for it, and the Taoist priest said, saying that since I had retired from other people's girls' Geng posts, why didn't I ask for my own son, I didn't have to cause trouble......"
Zhang Erzhen couldn't help shaking her body, listening to Mrs. Sun's words sentence by sentence as if she was about to pierce her heart, what the hell is going on? Jin was also shocked when she heard this, but she wrote to these old monks and old Taoist priests: "Sister came today to ask for Geng Tie for Brother Jian'er?"
Mrs. Sun kept wiping her tears: "I know I was wrong, but Brother Jian is right, he doesn't know what I do, he is now lingering on the sickbed, how can I bear it, I would rather lie on it......! If I die, what will I do......" She only gave birth to a son like Bai Jian, and the rest of the sons in the house were not from her belly, she pointed to Sun Baijian and made her raise her eyebrows, if this is gone......
Jin originally wanted to wait until the old man came back to reply, but Zhang Erzhen behind him said: "Mrs. Sun, is it convenient for us to enter the mansion to have a look?" Jin also thought that this idea was good, if Sun Gongzi pretended to be sick to scare his mother, Mrs. Sun nodded hurriedly, and pulled Jin tightly to go out, in a hurry. Jin's hand was slightly painful, but he still followed, but Zhang Erzhen ran back to the butterfly garden to pack up the cloth and put it in his arms, with complicated thoughts. Mrs. Sun's helpless appearance made her think that God was probably joking with her again.
The old house of the Sun family is far away from Zhang's house, the carriage is still walking for more than half an hour, the closed carriage is depressed and dull, Mrs. Sun keeps sobbing, Jin comforts her with a bitter face, Zhang Erzhen listens to Mrs. Sun's sigh after sigh, thinking of his appearance when he saw Sun Baijian that day, his heart gradually calmed down, and he tightened the cloth bag in his arms.
After rushing to Sun's house, the carriage went straight to the house, and then got out of the car, Mrs. Sun pulled the Jin family to walk quickly, and the old housekeeper on the side hurriedly said: "Madam, the Taoist insists on leaving, we can't stay, just say that if we don't solve it today, the son will not be able to delay tomorrow." Mrs. Sun almost fainted when she staggered, but Jin vigorously held her, and the little girls led her towards the courtyard of the eldest son.
When they saw Sun Baijian again, Zhang's mother and daughter were shocked, especially Zhang Erzhen, who seemed to see another force, sweating on his forehead, his face was pale, his slender hands were exposed, waxy as paper, unconscious. There was a man guarding in front of the bed, Shengmin stood aside with a sad face, and Mrs. Sun threw herself on the bed, heartache and anxiety: "My son, what's wrong with you, it's all my mother's fault, it's all my mother's fault!"
The voices of the people were like mosquito bites: "...... When the Taoist chief was leaving, he said that if you want to wake up Childe, you should quickly take back Childe's eight-character Geng post and put it by your side, and caress it with calming herbs for a few days before it can be effective, otherwise, ...... Otherwise......"
Mrs. Sun fell to the ground in a hurry, grabbed the hem of Jin's clothes and cried, Jin was also very embarrassed when she saw this, and made great efforts to mix up Mrs. Sun to sit on the chair, on one side was Brother Jian, who was about to die on the hospital bed, and on the other hand, her daughter who had been dismissed, and Jin sat on the chair weakly.
In the midst of a room of crying and begging, Zhang Erzhen walked to the side of the bed and said softly: "Brother Baijian, I hurt you again." ”
Sun Baijian's body hidden under the azure mattress shook slightly, and his forehead began to sweat, as if he was anxious, as if he was shouting, and there was a struggle on his handsome face, Zhang Erzhen took out the red cloth bag from his arms and slowly put it on Sun Baijian's pillow, Sun Baijian struggled even more, and opened his eyes suddenly, a tear fell out of the corner of his eye, Zhang Erzhen wiped the corners of his eyes with a silk handkerchief, but he didn't know that he had burst into tears, Brother Baijian, our fate is over......
Zhang Erzhen compromised again.
These supernatural powers were so terrifying that Zhang Erzhen would tremble even after hiding in the Butterfly Courtyard for a few days. Zhang Luan went to Sun Mansion once, came to Butterfly Courtyard once, looked at his daughter who was in a daze, and said: "Bai Jian is fine, Zhen Zhen, if you are uncomfortable, cry out......"
Zhang Erzhen was at a loss, she was driven forward by the gears of fate, never took a wrong step, never ostentatious or proclaimed, but she was so unlucky, the people around her had accidents one after another, Zhang Erzhen even began to review herself, should she really not live?
“...... Zhenzhen, Dad is really afraid, if you are like Bai Jian's child...... , how can Dad save you?" Zhang Luan's worried face gradually became clear, Dad is really much older, no longer the young and elegant appearance when he first met, now Zhang Luan has traces of time in the corners of his eyes, and his calm air has been trained in his officialdom over the years, and now he is also sad. Zhang Erzhen's eyes were red, and she fell into Zhang Luan's arms, and finally cried. Waiting outside the door, Mama Hua, the nurse, Mingyue, Jin Qiu and Yin Qiu couldn't stop sobbing softly, the girl came back for many days, and she looked like this all day, it was really distressing.
Mrs. Sun sent someone to send a few boxes of gifts, satin, brocade, fur and spices, and the Jin family returned half of them, and patrolled the same value from the treasury and asked the housekeeper of the Sun Mansion to bring them back, the meaning was obvious, no one owed anyone.
Zhang Erzhen closed the door during this period of time, a lot of things happened in the capital, first of all, the marriage of Wan Rong, the sister-in-law of the military department Shangshu Wan, and the concubine of Taichang Temple Shaoqing Li, blowing and playing are extraordinary, Zhang Erzhen vaguely heard the sound of suona gongs and drums in the butterfly courtyard, Mingyue went to see it, and when she came back, she was not very interested, and replied: "The dowry is enough to be sixty-four lifts, and the maids who follow the dowry, the slaves and maids don't recognize any of them." Zhang Erzhen couldn't help but think, is it Li Zhuozhuo or Li Yanyan who is marrying today?
Then came Liang Aiyuan's post, which did not go because Zhang Erzhen had been in an extremely bad mood recently. Liang Aiyuan finally broke away from the Confucian Mansion as Heli, she is an innocent girl, and it will not be too difficult to remarry.
Then there are the rumors that the saint is going to draft, and it has not yet been decided whether the girl from the official family will run. Zhang Luan and the Jin family were very sad about this, at this juncture, the people who didn't want their girls to climb the dragon and the phoenix and take risks all looked at each other tightly, and wanted to settle down when the emperor's order came down. Zhang Luan was also inquiring closely, but Zhang Erzhen persuaded: "Dad, I have already made a kiss, and I don't want to do it again in a hurry." Have you forgotten? I'm only thirteen years old, how many might the saints choose me?" Zhang Luan also felt reasonable, the saints wanted to choose concubines, they should be those sixteen or seventeen-year-old girls, like their own daughters who have not grown up, they are generally unsuccessful. Zhang Luan hesitated a little again, is Zhen Zhen's appearance really okay?
Zhang Erzhen thought resignedly, she knew that she would be a concubine for the old emperor when she came back, so she might as well follow Mr. Fang to southern Yunnan.
That night, the groom Guan Wanrong, who was dressed in a big red wedding cannon, stepped into the courtyard of the grandmother with vain steps, and the lights were everywhere, and the little girls welcomed the son in with the curtains. Wan Rong squinted his eyes and looked at the woman in red sitting on the bed, and said contemptuously: "Don't take off the hijab yourself, are you still waiting for me to reveal it to you?" The woman's body trembled, and her slender white hand slowly removed the red hijab, revealing a shy and delicate little face, Wan Rong rushed up with wine, even touched it softly, and said in his mouth: "You are much stronger than your ugly sister, and it is not in vain that I will marry a concubine and come back, come and come, serve the master well, and make you happy!"
Li Yanyan was gentle and careful, trying to cater to Wanrong's strong body, and was a little embarrassed, and the maids in the room were there. Wan Rong, who was in high spirits, suddenly twitched, and then shook a few times, and Wan Rong shouted irritably: "Bring it to the master!"
The little guy outside the door immediately came in with a delicate golden jade bucket, Wan Rong shook his hand and took it in his mouth, took a few sips with satisfaction, looked intoxicated, and muttered in his mouth: "****, lady, you can taste it too!" After that, he shook off the golden jade bucket, and the golden jade bucket shattered in response, leaving only the low and delicate sound of the room......