Dawn opened, a little bit of daylight spilled out from the deep clouds, adding a bit of whiteness to the Lanting Courtyard, the early spring sun was not warm, and the surrounding air was moist and cool.

Jujube had just come out of the house wrapped in a thin jacket, and he saw Siyou carrying something into the courtyard in his hand, and a white cloth was covering the outside of the thing.

"Brother Oil, what are you carrying in your hand, it's weird and mysterious."

Seeing that Song Ting's house was not yet bright, Siyou tiptoed close to Zao Zao, gently teased the corner with his hand, revealing half of the cage under the white cloth, Zao Zao bent down to take a closer look, almost exclaimed, and immediately covered his mouth with his hand, "Where did you catch the cat?" ”

Looking at Zaozao's eyes, Siyou raised his chin proudly: "I went to the woods in the western suburbs yesterday to catch it, and I wanted to bring it back to relieve the boredom of Miss." ”

Zao Zao took a sip of white mist, "Miss will be happy." ”

"Not really!" "Where are you going in the morning?" ”

"I'll go to the kitchen and ask them to prepare some meat today."

After Zao Zao and Siyou finished speaking, they walked towards the kitchen.

In the early morning, the dew is cool, wet and heavy, and the low shrubs and flowers accumulate layers of dew that look like a light rain, shining in the soft sun, and the air is filled with the fragrance of green shoots and grass.

Zao Zao saw that it was Song Yuxin and her maid Cuicui who were coming towards her, so she stopped at a distance and stood on the side of the road to salute.

"Good day, Miss."

Song Yuxin didn't even look at it, as if there was no one in front of him and there was no sound, Cuicui behind him was holding a bowl of blue and white flowers that were emitting hot white smoke, and when he walked past the jujubes, the roots of his feet slipped, ouch!

I only heard a crisp sound of "pop" piercing the silence of the morning, and the hot soup poured on the ground, which made the jujube tremble slightly, "Are you okay?" Immediately squatted down to help Cuicui pick up the bowl of slag on the ground.

"Why are you so careless, seeing that I was holding the soup and deliberately hitting me." Cuicui frowned and complained, and her hand picking up the debris was a little slower.

"Cuicui, I didn't touch you, you accidentally slipped yourself, how can you blame me?" Hurriedly raised her eyes again, looked at Song Yuxin, and found that she had already turned around, and there were dark clouds on the eve of the rainstorm on her charming face, and Zao Zao was shocked: "Miss, it was really not a slave who knocked over." ”

Song Yuxin squinted a pair of beautiful eyes, stared at the bird's nest matsutake mushrooms that were all spilled on the ground, and opened her lips lightly, "This is the soup I made for the old man when I got up an hour, and you spilled it?" ”

Zao Zao's face suddenly lost its blood, covered with a layer of pale haze and snow, and immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Miss is angry, the slave really doesn't have it." ”

Song Yuxin raised her hand and slapped it down, and there was another crisp sound that pierced the silent dawn, Zao Zao only felt that the left side of her face was hot and hot, and her head was buzzing like a thousand mosquitoes and flies, she didn't dare to make a sound again, she didn't even dare to breathe, and her tears rolled in her eyes and staggered.

"A maid is pretty clean! If you didn't hit it, could it still be Miss Ben! Song Yuxin sneered contemptuously, "Escort her back to Juhongyuan for me." ”

Zao Zao was so frightened that he trembled, cowered and curled up on the ground like a helpless lamb, tears flowed down his face: "Miss spare her life, it's really not a slave, a slave doesn't." "I can't use my strength in my whole body, so I can only let a few subordinates drag me to Juhongyuan.

Liu was sitting in the courtyard basking in the sun, with a thick scarlet blanket on his lap, holding a book in his hand and looking at it carefully, only to hear the sound outside the courtyard, like a woman's low sobs and a series of hurried footsteps.

Then a group of people came in, Song Yu waved his sleeves lightly, and motioned to his subordinates to put down the jujubes, "Mother, people brought it." ”

Zao Zao was still whimpering intermittently, Liu Shi unfolded his brows lightly, leisurely supported his head with his hands, raised his eyes from the page, and stabbed at the woman kneeling on the ground.

"Do you know what you've done wrong?"

Zao Zao shook his head, and the tears on his face fell to the ground faster, dripping a few watermarks like raindrops.

"As a maid, there are some things that should not be said, you can't chew the root of your tongue, the etiquette is not upright, humble and disorderly, Song Ting can't bear to discipline, I can't stand by as a big lady." Liu Shi closed the book, his eyes were sharp, as if he had pierced the feather arrow into the jujube body: "Come on, give me the palm." ”

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Song Ting got up and didn't see the jujubes, so he looked around the house, and Siyou was teasing the cat in the courtyard.

"Where did this cat come from?"

"I went to the western suburbs yesterday to catch it, do you like it?"

Song Ting nodded, only to see that the cat's whole body was snow-white, like a hairball, but it had lost some weight, and reached out and rubbed its head, "By the way, have you seen the jujube?" ”

Siyou wondered, "Hasn't she come back yet?" I met her in the morning and went to the kitchen, and it was time to come back at this time. ”

"I'll take a look."

Song Ting walked along the corridor, through the pavilion and the lotus lake in the rockery of the building, her heart beat inexplicably fast, and her steps gradually became steeper, and she came to the kitchen of the remote garden, where only one person was choosing dishes with his back to her.

"Do you see dates?"

The next person turned around and saw that it was the fifth lady of Lan Tingyuan, but she bowed her head slightly, and the salute was perfunctory, she had already been used to it in the past few days in the house

"Miss Hui's words, I didn't see it."

The uneasiness in Song Ting's heart gradually spread, and she walked out quickly, just as she happened to meet two maids passing by.

"Have you seen where the dates are?"

The maid shook her head, and another maid suddenly came over, "I saw her with the eldest lady and Cuicui in the morning, I don't know where she is now." ”

What good things can Song Yuxin have...... Song Ting's brows tightened, and he quickly ran towards Ju Hongyuan.

When I arrived at Ju Hongyuan, Zao Zao was kneeling in the courtyard for an hour, shrunk into a small ball and did not dare to move, the girl of Ju Hongyuan dragged her neckline and wanted to pull it up to continue to palm her mouth, and the sobbing of low mosquitoes and flies was particularly piercing in the quiet courtyard.

"Jujube!" Song Ting ran to Zao Zao's side in a few steps and took her in his arms.

The little face wet with tears was half swollen by the fan, and there was a faint purple in the red, and the eyes of the jujube were as big as walnuts, and he shouted weakly Miss Miss, like a heavy hammer hitting Song Ting's heart.

"Fifth Miss, the eldest lady ordered me to discipline this unruly subordinate well, you better not interfere." Cuicui raised her arrogant chin, snorted contemptuously, and reached out to pull the jujube from Song Ting's arms and continue to slap her mouth.

A raging anger suddenly surged, Song Ting bounced up, and slapped his palm on Cuicui's cheek, his white skin turned red.

"You dare to take care of Lao Tzu's maid!" After speaking, he slapped his palm on the other side, and the sound was even clearer and louder than the one that fell on Zaozao's face just now, "Are you comfortable?" ”

Cuicui's face turned pale, screaming and covering her face and falling back a few steps, the Venus splashed in front of her, and the surrounding scenery was covered with black mist.

Song Ting began to roll up the sleeves of his arms, the fire in his eyes became more and more intense, as if he would not give up, Song Yuxin immediately got up from the chair, stepped forward to stop Song Ting who was approaching Cuicui, Cuicui sat on the ground with her buttocks, supported her body and waved her hands in a panic to hide behind Song Yushi's skirt.

Song Yushi looked at the woman in front of her with a fierce face, and felt a little jealous in her heart, but pretended to be calm and scolded: Song Ting, you are so bold, you dare to fight my maid! ”

Song Ting was furious, and the grease-smeared face in front of him was very eye-catching: "What are you!" Holding Song Yushi's thin arm and pulling it back with all her might, the delicate eldest lady was thrown out like a boneless and fell to the ground.

Song Ting's figure pressed over to this side, Cuicui changed her previous eyes from no one, and covered her face in a panic: "I was wrong, Miss!" I was wrong! The slave doesn't dare anymore! ”

"Don't dare? I saw that you wanted to fight me just now, and now you say you don't dare? Song Ting raised his hand and prepared an ear scraper to hit it.

"Stop!"

Liu Shi heard a lot of commotion outside in the inner room and wanted to see what was going on, but as soon as he opened the door, he saw this scene, and he was so angry that his whole body trembled: "Song Ting, you dare to go wild in Juhong Garden!" Don't stop yet! ”

At the moment when the palm fell, Song Ting finally restrained himself, it was they Lan Tingyuan who was wronged, if they continued to do it, then they would not be reasonable, and it passed into Song Cheng's ears and maybe it would become a different look, Song Ting thought for a moment, then put down his hand, straightened the bun that had just been messed up by Song Yuxin, walked to Zao Zao and picked her up, and a pair of eyes seemed to be riding the moon and flying snow to pounce on Liu.

"Then please also ask Ju Hongyuan not to meddle in the affairs of our Lanting Garden."

Song Ting took off his cloak and put it on the trembling Zao Zao, and helped her to leave the courtyard, but was stopped by the Liu family behind him.

"What? Want to leave when you hit someone? When did this Hou Ye's Mansion become so unruly. ”

Hearing Liu's words, Zao Zao reflexively shrank and pressed towards Song Ting's side, for fear that he would be caught back by Cuicui if he was not careful.

Song Ting stretched out his hand to hug her skinny tightly, and the strength coming out of his palm calmed Zaozao's panicked heart.

"Cuicui beat the maid of Lan Ting Yuan, as the master of Lan Ting Yuan, it seems that there is nothing unruly for me to teach a subordinate, what do you say, auntie?"

was caught off guard by Song Ting, and the Liu family couldn't refute it, so he snorted coldly with a red face and turned into the house.

Song Yuxin stood up as if he was unwilling, and wanted to stop the two from leaving, but he thought of Song Ting's posture against Cuicui, and finally gave up.

Siyou saw Song Ting slowly coming in with the jujube with weak legs, and immediately ran up to pick it up and hugged it into the house.

The weather in early spring is still cool with the end of winter, and the jujube is already thin and small, and it can't bear to kneel outside for an hour, and just enter the house to bake hot charcoal and fall asleep. Song Ting hurriedly brought her quilt over and covered it for her.

Said to Siyou: "You go to the kitchen to cook a few white eggs, and then tell Mother Lin to boil a bowl of ginger soup." ”

"Oh, good."

Song Ting went back to the house and took some ointment to invigorate blood and reduce swelling, and gently smeared it for her while the jujube was asleep, a few blood bruises were very shocking, Song Ting's eyes were faint with tears, she could guess why the Liu family punished the jujube today, it was her fault, and she thought too simply.

Zao Zao fell asleep for a while, and was awakened by a nightmare, in the dream, Song Yushi and Cuicui turned into two evil ghosts, their palms and mouths showed sharp fangs, and their teeth were wrapped in red blood and rushed towards her, and they opened their eyes in horror and saw that the person in front of them was Song Ting, and they relaxed and cried in a aggrieved whisper: "Xiao ...... Sister ......"

Song Ting rolled eggs back and forth on her face, and said softly, "Why don't you sleep anymore?" Don't be afraid, I'm here with you. ”

Zao Zao grabbed Song Ting's wrist and immediately prepared to get up, "How can you let Miss do these things......

Song Ting sighed and helped her back to lie on the pillow, "Blame me for this, if I hadn't thought it through and told my father about inviting a Taoist priest, you wouldn't have suffered so much." ”

"It's okay miss, as long as they don't fight you." Zao Zao's fingertips touched the cold ointment on his cheeks, and a smile squeezed out of the corners of his mouth, but this warm smile made Song Ting extremely worried, holding Zao Zao's hand tightly, and looking at her firmly: "Zao Zao, I will never let anyone bully you again in the future." ”

Zao Zao nodded with tears in his eyes, "Miss, as long as you can be safe for a lifetime, it is Zao Zao's greatest wish." ”

Song Ting smeared the medicine for her and accompanied her for a while, and only after Zao Zao fell asleep again did Song Ting get up and go out. Siyou sat on the bench outside and saw her come out and hurriedly asked, "Are the dates okay?" ”

"It's okay."

Siyou held his sullen breath and punched the pillar: "This eldest lady is really too deceitful!" ”

When Song Ting heard Siyou's words, he wondered, "What is the origin of this Liu family?" ”

"I heard the girl in Hongyuan say that she is the daughter of the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, and even the lord who is powerful has to give three points of courtesy."

No wonder he was able to act as a tiger in the Song Mansion, and it turned out to be a second-generation official. are all court officials, Song Cheng must be worried about the face of the Liu family, and he will not be too concerned about what the Liu family does, but if she is helpless, if it really makes the Liu family focus on making things difficult everywhere, the four oil dates and dates at the moment will inevitably suffer with her.

Looking at the clouds in the sky for a long time, Song Ting sighed softly.