Chapter 4 The Long Night Is Long and Sleepless
When Su Man woke up again, it was already the third watch in the middle of the night, and it was the dead of night.
She slowly opened her eyes and looked at the Chengchen above her head who was trapped in darkness, but her thoughts were chaotic.
She had a long, long dream in which a girl told her a story. The story is very long, long and spans a person's life, and the story is very short, so short that it seems to end in the blink of an eye.
Su Man thought about the story that he didn't know whether it was true or not, and sighed leisurely.
Who knew that the people guarding outside had not slept, and when they heard her sigh, they immediately brought the candlestick. Before Su Man could react, the man had already lifted the bed tent.
The faint candlelight emitted a soft glow in the dark night, and Su Man looked at the candle flame in a daze, but he didn't notice the person holding the candlestick.
Dai Lan was wearing a plain knitted blouse, and was holding a candlestick and looking worriedly at the stunned girl on the bed.
Dai Lan was originally a second-class girl beside Mrs. Su, and she was fourteen years old this year.
In the past few days, she was afraid that her girl would not be able to sleep well at night, so she rolled up the bed and slept at the foot of Su Man's bed every night. So Su Man just sighed, and she immediately got up.
"What does the girl think is wrong?" Dai Lan waited for a long time with the candlestick, and saw that Su Man on the bed did not respond, so she asked again, "Do you want to drink water?" ”
The master and servant just said these two words, and there was a movement of getting up from Mrs. Su in the compartment, and after a while, Mother Zhou took Mrs. Su and lifted the curtain and walked in.
Seeing that Old Madam Su was coming, Dai Lan hurriedly bowed back and took two steps back, and saluted: "Old Madam." ”
Old Madam Su bowed slightly, but her eyes looked behind the bed tent: "Sister Man'er is awake?" ”
"I looked awake, but the maid asked a few words, and the girl ignored it, and I don't know if I was in a nightmare." Dalan reached out and lifted the bed net, her tone tinged with anxiety.
Mrs. Su listened, walked to the shelf bed in a few steps, leaned over and looked into the bed.
Su Man had completely come back to her senses at this time, she sat up with the thin quilt in her arms, and before she could make any more movements, she saw a woman about forty years old sitting on the edge of her bed.
The woman's hair was scattered, and she wore only a plain white middle coat, and only a honey-colored round-necked shirt was draped over her shoulders.
Although Wu's skin is well maintained, the corners of his eyes and eyebrows still show signs of age. But even so, it is not difficult to see the charm of this woman's youth.
Su Man looked at the Wu family in front of him blankly, only to feel a sourness surging from his chest, and the sourness slowly rose until the tip of his nose and the corners of his eyes.
Wu, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, was already worried about his precious granddaughter, but now when he saw her, his eyes were red before he could say anything, and he was even more distressed for a while, and he reached out and hugged Su Man into his arms.
Feeling the warmth of the Wu family, Su Man's tears burst out of his eyes instantly. She stretched out her hand and grabbed the placket of Wu's clothes, and finally no longer forbeared, and howled loudly, as if the grievances that had accumulated for a lifetime were about to be vented at this moment.
Wu heard Su Man crying here, and his eyes were red in distress. She raised her hand and patted Su Man's back, and muttered in a low voice: "It's good to cry, it's all right to cry, and Grandma Ming will tell your father to slaughter the horse and give you anger." ”
Su Man, who was crying bitterly, heard Wu say this, but stopped in an instant. She pulled out of Wu's arms, pouted and sobbed, "No, the granddaughter will be willing to tame the horse herself!" ”
Wu looked at her granddaughter, although there were still tears on her face, but her expression was no longer as sluggish as a few days ago, and she regained her former vitality again, and she really put her mind at ease.
Wu sat and coaxed Su Man for a while, watched the girl feed her some water, and then got up and went back.
The room was quiet again, and Su Man was lying on the bed, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.
She turned over lightly, her mind was full of the messy dreams of Fang Cai, and the more she thought about it, the more bored she became, and the whole person turned over and over on the bed.
There was also a rustling sound at the foot of the bed, and Su Man remembered that he was not alone in the room.
Thinking of this, Su Man stiffened and didn't dare to move anymore.
She just lay on the bed stiffly, her eyes widened, staring straight at Chengchen above her head.
But this action lasted only five minutes, and Su Man couldn't stay still. She only felt that the bed under her was extremely hard, the bed net was also stuffy, and the clothes on her body were sticky to her skin.
In short, it's just that nothing is right, and nothing is comfortable.
Finally, Su Man couldn't pretend anymore, she kicked the quilt away and sat up with a snort.
Dai Lan, who was lying at the foot of the bed, also heard Su Man's movement, she quickly sat up, didn't care about lighting the candles, reached out and lifted the bed tent, and asked urgently, "Girl, what's wrong?" ”
Su Man sat cross-legged on the bed with sweat, and whispered a little embarrassedly: "It's okay, it's okay, you can be quiet, but don't wake up your grandmother." ”
Hearing this, Dai Lan glanced in the direction of the compartment, and saw that the other end was still quiet, so she lowered her voice and said, "What's wrong with the girl?" ”
Su Man leaned in the direction of Dai Lan, bared his teeth and whispered, "I'm afraid I've slept too much during the day, and I'm not sleepy at all at this time." Su Man said, and moved to Dai Lan again, "Otherwise, Sister Dai Lan, you can talk to me." ”
Dai Lan turned her head to look at the leak on the high table on the side, this time it was already in the middle of the middle, I am afraid that it will be bright in half an hour.
But thinking that my girl has been asleep since yesterday afternoon, it is normal that I can't sleep.
No, Dai Lan had to cover her mouth and yawn lowly, and nodded slightly: "What does the girl want to say?" ”
Su Man sat on the bed, his eyes purring twice: "Sister Dailan, I've been in a mess these days, and I don't know what's going on outside, you tell me." ”
Dai Lan stretched out her hand to cover her mouth and yawned, then rubbed the tears in the corners of her eyes, and replied softly: "Girl, you fell off the horse, the house was in a mess, where is there anything else, the whole house is staring at the old lady's mercy courtyard." ”
Su Man knew that Dailan was telling the truth, in the two days she pretended to be asleep, the people in the entire Su Mansion were afraid that they would run to the old lady's yard eight times a day, and her mother came over at dawn every day, and she was reluctant to leave every day after dark.
Thinking of these, Su Man's heart was very ironing. She looked down at Dai Lan's somewhat confused face, and finally asked what she wanted to ask: "Then, Brother Yan, are you back?" ”