Chapter Twenty-Eight: Heartbeat (4000)
The Xuanping Hou Mansion on Chinese New Year's Eve is full of flowers, and many aunts are responsible for one dish on this day, fried double crispy, husband and wife lung slices, pine nut mandarin fish, grunt beef, Buddha jumping over the wall, Longjing shrimp, spicy chicken, honey red taro and so on. These eight major dishes were served together in the Xuanping Marquis Mansion.
is like a soft lady with different appearances, which is beautiful and delicious. Most of the people in the capital are envious of Xuanping Hou Ji Jingwen, and life is a trip in vain.
Ji Yechen watched the people in the mansion busy as usual, the aunts were all busy over there with a smile, and today my grandmother would also come over to eat together, and the gap between her and her mother was that it had the power to create icebergs. In fact, if there were no such chattering aunts in the house, it would be a lifeless mansion.
But the more lively the house, the more he felt that it had nothing to do with him, at this time he wanted to find Bai Qirui, a fox friend, to go out for a casual drink and listen to music, but at this time of year, the emperor must have shouted proton into the palace to keep the New Year.
Ji Yechen could only ride his horse out to the suburbs with some boredom. In the tea house outside the city, he happened to hear a couple of men and women scolding Su Man for being a greedy man for money. Originally, I thought that Su Man's name was really a passerby, but I heard the other party say that the daughter of the General's Mansion was extremely arrogant. Only then did I know that this Su Man is really that Su Man.
Ji Yechen casually listened to two sentences to the effect that the couple wanted to redeem their daughter, and the death deed of one hundred taels asked someone to pay 10,000 taels to redeem them, and when they saw that they had no money, they directly blasted people out of the Zhenyuan General's Mansion to prevent them from seeing their daughter again. is extremely arrogant, unlike the pig and fox's behavior, but she has her style.
Ji Yechen, who was bored, was a little curious about which maid in her hand was worth 10,000 taels of silver.
At night, after a gluttonous meal in the general's mansion, the family members cleaned up the table and the whole house gathered around to celebrate the New Year.
Drumming and passing flowers are mixed with a variety of interactive board games, plus the ultimate jackpot of 50 taels funded by Sioux City. The housekeepers and maids in the house are all like chicken blood, and they are very energetic.
The time has passed, and all the fighting cocks have reached their limit at this time, and they all go back to the yard to rest after winning their respective lottery heads. Tang Yuan followed behind Su Man, quietly following, she didn't think about redeeming herself and leaving the house, let alone going to be Zhao Xiong's concubine, she didn't want the young lady to misunderstand but she didn't know where to speak. The two of them returned to Lanting Garden without saying a word.
"Glutinous rice balls"
Hearing Su Man suddenly call her, Tang Yuan instinctively trembled, seeing this, Su Man had to sigh slightly, maybe in this place, no matter how much you talk to the other party, she doesn't dare to really treat you as a friend, the difference between master and servant is already ingrained in the other party's heart, so is it the same to obey the arrangement of your parents?
"If you really want to leave the house in the future, I will definitely let you redeem yourself," Su Man looked at the other party and said seriously, "This is my promise to you." ”
"The slave doesn't want to go!" Tang Yuan knelt down and kowtowed directly without thinking about it, "Miss, you believe in the slave, the slave really doesn't want to go, and I don't want to be a concubine for that Zhao Xiong, Miss, please believe in the slave, don't drive the slave and the maid away, woo woo woo woo"
"Don't kowtow, why are you crying" Su Man scratched his hair, pulled up the rice balls, and coaxed, "My ancestor of the rice balls, don't cry no, I didn't drive you away!" Don't cry, don't cry."
But at this moment, Tang Yuan started crying as if she had released all the pressure from the previous period at once, and she couldn't stop if she wanted to, so she knelt on the ground and cried and sobbed, so pitiful.
"Slave maid...... The slave can't stop herself, woo woo woo woo"
Seeing this, Su Man could only sit on the ground with Tang Yuan, hugged the other party and gently patted her back to comfort her
"Okay, okay, my good rice balls, don't cry, I will never drive you away, I will never drive you away, I swear no, I swear."
Su Man immediately raised his hand at the rice balls and made a swear.
"Woo woo, miss....... You've sworn before that if it's useful, this Thunderbolt Mother will break dance in the sky every day. ”
Ya, I remember this clearly.
"Then how can I stop you from crying?"
"The slave just wants Miss not to drive the slave away, woo woo woo"
“.......”
Su Man could only hold the rice balls and coax them with praise and jokes, how did he feel that he had done Su Da's work. Thinking of what Su Bei had said to her during the day, Su Man's eyes darkened slightly
"Tangyuan, do you have any plans for your future?"
"Miss, what do the slaves and maids have any plans, from the time they were sold into the mansion, the slaves and maids knew that they were born as a member of the General's Mansion in this life, and they were ghosts in the General's Mansion when they died." As if he was afraid that Su Man would drive her away again, Tang Yuan slightly tightened the sleeve of Su Man's hand and said seriously
"The slave maid is to serve the young lady for the rest of her life."
Looking at the tangyuan in front of him, he pulled his sleeve and looked at himself with a pair of extremely innocent eyes, like a stray puppy on the side of the road, hoping that someone would take him in and not abandon him. Su Man shook his head helplessly, and said with his fingers gently stroking the top of the other party's hair
"Okay, don't worry, I won't drive you away. As long as I have a bite to eat with you, I will never starve you.
I'm just going to ask you if you have any dreams, well, if you have any wishes you want to fulfill."
"The slave doesn't have any wishes, the slave just wants to stay by the young lady's side for the rest of her life" After saying that, Tang Yuan hugged Su Man's hand tighter again.
“......”
Is this out of this circle, Su Man raised his eyebrows and said, "Let's put it this way, in addition to following me, do you have any other things you want to do, such as your vision for the future, your career ideals, your life plan, your five-year plan, etc."
People always have to have some of their own dreams to fight for, otherwise what is the difference between being alive and a salted fish. ”
Hearing this, Tang Yuan frowned and thought for a while, then thought about it again and asked puzzledly, "Miss, why do people have no dreams, so they will be no different from salted fish?" ”
"......" Su Man felt that she and Tang Yuan couldn't chat properly, she scratched her head and said directly, "Just say what kind of person you hope you can become in the future, right?" ”
Hearing Su Man's somewhat annoyed voice, Tang Yuan glanced at the other party with some fear, thought about it seriously, and then shook his head and said
"Miss, the slave really didn't think that far, the slave just wanted to live every day in front of her. When the young lady is happy, the slave and maid are happy, and when the young lady is sad, the slave and maid are sad.
The slave hopes that the poison on the young lady's body will be lifted as soon as possible and that she will be free as soon as possible. I hope that Miss can live happily every day, this is the greatest hope of the slave. ”
Su Man looked at the other party's blazing eyes, it was not a fake expression, and his heart was also warm, and the corners of his mouth inadvertently rose and sneered, "You girl is really sweet." ”
Then she sighed lightly and said solemnly to the rice balls
"But Tangyuan, each of us is an independent individual, I hope you have your own preferences and your own life.
You weren't born for me, and you weren't born for your parents. It is true that your parents gave you a body, but your soul is your own.
You are just a little elf who came into this world through them, not their personal possession, and likewise you do not belong to me. The death contract is just a contract of sale for you, your soul and your mind are free.
I want you to live for yourself, not for me, or for anyone. Got it? ”
Hearing this, Tang Yuan just stared at Su Man with innocent eyes, revealing an extremely confused look. "Miss, but my soul was in the flesh when I was alive!"
"......" Su Man was really deflated at this time, feeling that the other party should not understand, she could only pinch her eyebrows helplessly and said
"Yes, count me Su Man's earnings, Tangyuan children, your death contract is with me, and your body and mind are all my Su Man. I order you to cultivate a hobby of your own from now on, and plan your future well. In the future, if I leave, you should have your own life. ”
"Miss~"
Feeling that Tang Yuan was about to think that he was going to drive her out of the house again, Su Man immediately explained, "I mean that there are unforeseen circumstances, what if I hang up in a few years?" It's always a good idea to plan ahead. ”
If it is like what he and Li Yuanfang urged before, maybe it will be six or seven years ago.
"Miss, you'll be fine." Tang Yuan looked at the other party with a worried face, and blamed himself: "The slave and maid should have protected you desperately that day, and you shouldn't have let that thief feed you poison when you die." If you die, the slave will not survive. ”
"Don't worry, the poison on my body is well controlled, you don't have to worry about this." Su Man didn't know how to explain to this girl, so he had to say
"I'm like, if, suppose I went to another world in six years, how would you live?
Don't think about anything to go with me, I'm ...... That's an immortal, your cultivation can't keep up with me, just think about your life plan in six years."
"Poof!"
Hearing a discordant male voice, Su Man couldn't help but look up at the source of the sound, and then her face instantly became colorful. Tang Yuan also looked up and saw the familiar golden silk soft mask on the beam, and as soon as she wanted to open her mouth to call for help, she was hit by Ji Yechen's hidden weapon in the sleeping hole, and fainted directly.
Then, Su Man saw the male protagonist Ji Yechen turn over and fall lightly from the high beam to the chair. Are you all paper people who can do light work, and it's really scary to die like this gravity-defying look.
Su Man kept thinking in his mind about when the other party came in, how many words he had heard, and whether he had just said anything inappropriate. She frowned and pursed her lips, too suddenly, and her mind was a little confused.
Now I don't care about what I said before, and first solve the situation that I fell into a trap to catch the murderer soon after the other party told me that I was the murderer, and I was merciless. Looking for a better reason, Su Man tried his best to calm his emotions.
"Why didn't you say that?" Ji Yechen stared at Su Man so straightly, "Look, aren't you quite able to talk with your maid?" ”
"What do you want me to say, big guy? Hehe" Su Man showed a smile that was more ugly than crying, and she pulled up the rice balls and helped them to the couch on the side.
"It doesn't matter if I knock my maid unconscious every time, it's so cold on the ground, she wants to catch a cold and have a fever, how can she burn out her brain?"
Su Man frowned, the first thing at the moment is to buy as much time as possible to think of countermeasures, after all, his own design to arrest people is equivalent to tearing his face with the other party.
She pretended to go to the cupboard to get a soft quilt for the rice balls, and the kitchen door was open to block Ji Yechen's view, but in fact, she hid a few darts in her sleeves in the cabinet.
It's just that all her small movements were seen by Ji Yechen, and when Su Man turned around, Ji Yechen had already appeared in front of the other party.
"Roar!" Su Man's hand trembled, and the dart almost flew out of her sleeve, and she immediately hugged the quilt in front of Xiong to prevent the dart from falling to the ground.
"Boss, I told you that scaring people will scare people to death. Roar! ”
"Really?" Ji Yechen admired Su Man's pretended calm and playful look like this, and really wanted to tear off this face to see what this person really looked like.
Ji Yechen took another step closer to Su Man, leaning one hand against the higher horizontal board in the cabinet, and pulling the cabinet door with the other. Su Man was so "embraced" and blocked in the closet. He lowered his head and whispered in Su Man's ear, like a lover's joke
"If it's really scared to death, it will save me the need to do it."
He could clearly feel the momentary stiffness of the body of the man below him, and then his eyes glanced at the booklet full of strange symbols he had seen earlier in the kitchen.
As soon as Ji Yechen reached out to take the booklet, he felt a gust of wind in his ears, and the girl under him thought that she was going to do something to her, so she directly took a dart and stabbed it into her palm, and at the same time threw a dart at herself.
Ji Yechen's head dodged, but the palm of his hand was cut out by this girl, and the blood fell down like that, he really underestimated this pig fox.
It's just that before Su Man could attack the second wave, his neck was already tightly pinched by Ji Yechen's other hand. She instantly felt a burst of suffocation, and tried to break Ji Yechen's hand with both hands, but the other party's palm was like an iron tong, and there was no movement at all. She wanted to scream, but she couldn't.
Ji Yechen just watched Su Man struggle over there, as long as his subordinates used a little force, this guy would stop moving completely. He narrowed his eyes slightly and then broke Su Man's mouth open, and pointed the injured palm at her mouth and dripped several drops of blood into it.
Then he sprinkled the shackles, Su Man's hand said slowly: "Do you know how to wake up the dormant golden silkworm?" ”
"......" After Su Man's eyes moved slightly, she fell to her knees on the ground and kept spitting to spit out Ji Yechen's blood, only after a while, her whole body began to have abdominal pain, her facial expression was all distorted, she hadn't been so painful for a long time, and for a moment Su Man fainted directly in pain.
It's just that when she woke up again, Ji Yechen was still in the house, and the other party looked at her with a blue and white porcelain vase and said
"If you betray again, then there will be no antidote after waking up the golden silkworm next time."
After that, Ji Yechen didn't continue to torture Su Man, but just took her English diary from her. Ji Yechen, who returned to the house, frowned slightly as he looked at Su Man's ghost drawing talisman booklet, there are so many secrets in this person.
It's just that when I listened to her and her maid on the beam, my heart beat irregularly for a moment, and it was like a heartbeat. Recently, he was really tired, so Ji Yechen fell asleep with Su Man's booklet in his arms.
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