Chapter Twenty-Three: Helping to Bury My Father
Probably because Su Manxue's reason was too invincible, and Ji Jiuhua couldn't find anything wrong.
Well, people work hard to spend money and work hard to lose for his own good. If you are injured, you have to worry about how to spend money, and she is really a good daughter-in-law.
Su Manxue changed her clothes, the silk fabric was more silky and cool, and the ice bucket had already been prepared in the sedan chair, and it was also cool and comfortable to lie down in the sedan chair.
This sedan chair was also decorated by Su Manxue himself, whether it was jewelry or devices, everything was valuable, and any piece removed casually was enough for ordinary people to spend a month.
Su Manxue thought that the Ji family was the richest man's family, and there was no shortage of gold, silver and jade at home.
Thinking so, Su Manxue chose the largest calligraphy and painting shop in Lizhou City-Ruyi Zhai.
It is said that there are many literati and ink writers here throughout the ages, as long as you are willing to pay, as long as you have everything you have, you can sell it.
Su Manxue picks and picks like choosing cabbage, in addition to a few pairs of calligraphy and paintings, she also picked several pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, and she can also use them when she goes back to practice calligraphy.
The shopkeeper looked at Su Manxue, who was generous, and kindly recommended a lot of good things, Su Manxue wanted to stop, but she happened to see a paperweight.
There was a little rabbit carved from white jade squatting on the paperweight, and the rabbit's eyes were vivid, and it also gave people two strokes in red. Su Manxue liked it very much, and spent a few hundred taels of silver to take it down before she was satisfied.
Su Manxue returned to the sedan chair, pulled her small purse, and sighed helplessly.
Although I have never experienced this feeling of having money that I can't spend in my previous life, I have indeed been worried about this feeling in this life, and I am about to go bald.
"Let's go, let's go back to the house first." Su Manxue sighed again, and after choosing something for a long time, she had an injury on her waist, and now she was even more sore.
If she knew it was so troublesome, she might as well recuperate at home for a few more days.
Everything she had to do had been done, and nothing she could have done had been left behind. Ji Jiuhua's injury yesterday made her even more guilty and worried, for fear that she would do something inappropriate and hurt him later.
The sedan chair swayed towards the house, Su Manxue was worried about Ji Jiuhua's safety last night, and she didn't sleep well because she had a sore back, so she was a little more sleepy at this time.
Just when Su Manxue was so sleepy that she was about to fall asleep, a hoarse cry suddenly came from outside the sedan chair.
Su Manxue was puzzled, and ordered someone to quietly stop the sedan chair on the side of the road, and she opened the curtain to watch from afar.
The one who cried breathlessly was a girl who looked delicate and delicate. Although she is not very old, she is full of anger when she cries, and her face is covered with tears, which does not affect her appearance.
Su Manxue looked at a person lying next to her, covered with a shabby mat, and probably knew what this scene was.
Poor girl, some family must have died.
"Madame, do you want to take a closer look?" Cai Lian knows Su Manxue's temperament, she has always been the one who pulls out a knife to help when she sees injustice, not to mention that this girl looks so miserable, presumably her wife will also be moved by compassion.
"Cai Wei went and asked what the situation was." Su Manxue rubbed her waist, it seems that the opportunity to go back to the house for lunch is gone, if it is processed quickly enough, maybe she can catch up with a little hot dinner.
Cai Wei was killed, and she came back after a short while.
"Miss, this girl's name is Xia Xia, and she is the only daughter in the family. Because she had a large blue-black birthmark on her face, and her mother died because of her difficult childbirth, her neighbors said that she killed her mother. Lying on the ground was her father, who was unaffected by the gossip and brought her up alone. Now Xia Xia's father has passed away, but her family is very poor, and she hopes to sell her body to bury her father. ”
Cai Wei showed a look of pity, although she was just a little maid, her parents sold her into the mansion, and she grew up with Su Manxue since she was a child. But she also longs for family affection, and when she sees this tragic experience of others, she can't help but sympathize.
"Miss, you just watched her from afar, because of the birthmark on her face, and no one was willing to buy her to bury her father for her. But even if she has that ugly birthmark on her face, when I came up to talk to her just now, I could tell from her tone that she was a gentle and kind girl. ”
Cai Wei couldn't help but say a few kind words for her, hoping that her wife could help Xia Xia solve this difficulty.
"Okay, okay, I don't know that little bit of your thoughts?" Su Manxue looked at Cai Wei's pleading eyes, and a smile appeared on her lips, "Don't you know what kind of person I am?" As long as she genuinely needs help, I will solve it for her. ”
After that, Su Manxue got off the sedan chair and walked into the center of the circle that was watched by the crowd.
"Xia Xia." Su Manxue listened to Cai Wei's words, and made some preparations in her heart. But when I saw her face, I couldn't help but take a quiet breath in my heart, the girl's family is ruined for a lifetime.
"Are you ......" Xia Xia couldn't help but hesitate when she looked at the richly dressed woman in front of her.
She originally thought that her face, not to mention selling herself, would definitely be indispensable for ridicule and swearing, which was also a situation that she had never changed since she was a child.
When she was a child, she was verbally insulted by her playmates of the same age, and when she grew up, she was ridiculed by little girls, and she was called a monster who couldn't get married.
What's more, she has been kneeling here for almost two hours, crying and crying and getting tired, and resting for a while when she is tired before continuing, relying on her own feelings to support her efforts here.
"You come with me." Su Manxue handed her a snow-white handkerchief, "Wipe away your tears, I will definitely help you with Ling Zun's funeral." ”
Xia Xia looked at the girl standing in front of her in surprise, Su Manxue nodded at her, and ordered the sedan chair man to carry the sedan chair and let her sit on it.
"I've already asked the family servant to make arrangements, and it will take some time to buy a coffin and a cemetery, but your father will be buried tomorrow."
Xia Xia sat opposite Su Manxue stiffly, this sedan chair was too gorgeous, she knelt on the ground for a long time, her body was already full of dust, and she didn't dare to move when she sat in such a beautiful sedan chair.
"In the future, you can follow me, but it's just a birthmark on your face, if you're afraid of scaring people, I'll make a mask for you, just cover half of your face with birthmarks."
Su Manxue explained everything word by word, she believed that this girl would never be the one who would take revenge.
Xia Xia nodded solemnly.