Chapter 22: Auspicious
"Miss, are you still able to eat? Do you want to lie down and sleep for a while? β
Jixiang said that he would arrive at Taoyuan Town in front before dark, so the carriage did not stop all the way.
Lu Wu was worried that Tong Jiayan's body would not be able to bear it, so he proposed to let her lie down and sleep for a while.
"It's okay, I'll just rest for a while." Tong Jiayan smiled, leaned on the wall of the car with her head in her hands, was silent for a while, opened her eyes again, and motioned Qingju to take out the box she gave her before going out.
"Do you want to eat sugar?"
She took out a small porcelain bottle and poured out a few small white sugar pills.
Tong Jiayan took one in his mouth, and the cool feeling instantly filled his mouth, which shocked people's spirits and cleared their ears and eyes.
Green turnip and green orange also took one each and put it in their mouths.
"It's delicious!" Qingju smiled and squinted and said, especially this candy was taught by their young lady in the kitchen herself.
Tong Jiayan touched the green turnip lightly: "Do you want to send some to your brother too?" β
"What kind of candy does he want to eat for a boy's family?" Luwu pushed back the sugar bottle she had handed over, "Don't waste it." β
Tong Jiayan smiled and put the sugar bottle into Qingju's hand: "You go and ask Jixiang if you eat it." β
"Eh-" Luwu stretched out his hand to stop again, and pursed his lips with shyness, "I'd better give it to him." β
Qingju smiled and stuffed the bottle to her again.
She was reluctant to take it all, so she only poured out a mint candy, held it in the palm of her hand, lifted the curtain, and handed it to Jixiang, who was sitting on the board and driving.
"Brotherβ"
"Huh?"
"Open your mouth."
"Huh?" Jixiang turned his head with his mouth open.
Lu Wu grabbed the candy and stuffed it directly into his mouth.
"My young lady invites you to eat candy." She raised her chin slightly, and said faintly ostentatious.
Jixiang almost swallowed the sugar directly and choked.
"Thank you, thank you, Miss Seven, for the reward." Ji Xiang said to the inside of the carriage with a red face.
"Okay, you drive well, I'll help you convey your thanks to my young lady." Luwu clapped his hands and returned to the carriage.
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The carriage did not stop all the way, and finally arrived at Taoyuan Town before sunset, and stopped in front of an inn called Tongyuan Inn.
Mama Zhao and Mama Gui got out of the car first and went to the inn to check in, while Tong Jiayan stayed in the car and waited.
After a short time, the two of them walked out again, followed by a boy of eleven or twelve years old.
The boy was dressed in a gray cloth coat with a blouse tucked into his belt and a white cloth towel over his shoulder. He is slender and looks a little thin, but his facial features are clean, but his eyes are very lively, and he looks very shrewd and capable.
"Jixiang, Ma Guang, you follow this little second brother to lead the carriage to the backyard stable, let's park it, we have completed the check-in procedures, let's take the young lady into the inn to rest first."
After Mama Gui finished speaking, she respectfully asked the car: "Miss, the room has been opened, you can get out of the car now." β
There was a sound of movement in the carriage, and then one hand lifted the curtain, and a woman in a pink skirt walked out from inside.
After Lu Wu got out of the car first, he stood next to the car and stretched out his hand to help Tong Jiayan down.
The shopkeeper thought he had seen a fairy.
He stood stupidly until Jixiang nudged him several times before he came back to his senses.
"Little second brother? Little second brother? Jixiang looked in the direction of the shopkeeper's dumbfounded eyes, and asked him confusedly, "What are you looking at?" "It's all straight-eyed......
"Huh? Oh, no, nothing. The shopkeeper changed the topic in a panic, "The stable is behind, you, you come with me." After speaking, I couldn't wait to lead the way in front, no matter how I looked at the back, there was a taste of running away.
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Mama Gui opened a total of three rooms.
One upper-class room was for Tong Jiayan and two maids, a medium-sized room was for her and Mama Zhao, and the other two lived in a low-class room.
In the first-class room, Qingju couldn't help but complain: "It's really a rotten thing that can watch people get off the plate!" Why can she and Mama Zhao live in a medium room, and Brother Jixiang can only live in a lower room? ! β
The inferior room of a small town inn like this is actually a large shop for ten people. It's no wonder that Qingju will be angry when he finds out.
"Forget it, I'm not angry yet, why are you angry?" Luwu looked at her with some amusement.
Qingju glared at her.
Tong Jiayan had already changed into a regular clothes, sat in front of the window and read a book, and when he heard this, he raised his head and smiled: "I remember that my case money is not all under your control?" β
Qingju nodded and replied, "Yes." β
"Then take one or two out and go to the front desk to upgrade them to a medium room." Tong Jiayan said with a smile.
"Huh?"
Qingju was a little confused, and scratched his ears stupidly, thinking that he had heard it wrong.
Lu Wu frowned and said, "Miss, you don't need to spend money to upgrade their room, anyway, it's just for one night, and it'll be fine." β
She wanted to speak and stopped, and even more wanted to say that acting like this was not slapping Mama Gui in the face? Mama Gui is a second-class grandmother in the old lady's courtyard, and it is not worth offending her for such a trivial matter.
The old lady didn't like Miss in the first place, if Mama Gui put a little eye medicine in front of the old lady, Miss would have a worse time in the future.
Lu Wu looked at Tong Jiayan worriedly.
"So, can you change the room?" Qingju saw that the two had different opinions, and he didn't know how to act for a while.
"Change."
"Don't change!"
Qingju wrinkled his little face and looked embarrassed.
Tong Jiayan said: "Listen to me, go and change." You take the money now, don't be too late, there will be no room to change by then. If someone asks, they will say that I said it, and the two drivers will have to catch a day's car tomorrow, and if they don't get a good rest, they will lose more than they will lose if something goes wrong. β
Qingju happily took the silver money and went downstairs.
For a while, there were only two people left in the room, Tong Jiayan and Lu Wu.
"Miss, why do you bother?" Luwu sighed.
"I know what you're thinking." Tong Jiayan looked at her with a smile, "The old lady has always disliked me, no matter whether Mama Gui gives us eye medicine in front of the old lady or not, it will not change my status in front of the old lady." β
I never had it, so I was afraid of losing it.
After a lifetime, she has already seen through the face of the entire Tong family.
Interests are paramount, and family affection is weak.
Such grandparents and grandmothers, she would not want to be favored and valued by them at all.
"I know you're thinking about me, but now I want to tell you that there is also a green orange."
Luwu's eyes widened and she made a listening gesture.
Tong Jiayan said softly: "It's not just a matter of blindly compromising to get the peace you want. Destiny is in your own hands. If you want to get something, you have to take the initiative to fight for it. The story of waiting for the rabbit doesn't happen every day. β