Chapter 17: Two Jade Pendants
Jiang Yu's body was buried in the snow for a long time, soaked in a lot of cold, and now it has only improved slightly, she went to the hot spring to find the jade pendant in the snowy and unobstructed place for an afternoon, and when she returned to Tangtang that night, she felt a little lightheaded.
At that time, Chi Ying personally took the little girl to the old lady to fetch the meal left for her, and Yingcui was busy preparing things for soaking and protecting her hands.
She wanted to go to bed and lie down, but looking at Yingcui's busy figure, she still cheered up and wanted to wait for Yingcui to finish soaking her hands with her before going to sleep.
As a result, after Yingcui had made the flower juice, milk, honey and glycerin, she already felt like her mind weighed a thousand pounds.
There seemed to be a little person living in Lili, and as if her brain was not messy enough, she ran around, making her whole head sting like a pinprick.
"Miss!" In a daze, she seemed to hear Yingcui shouting, and then she was so sleepy that she couldn't hold on, so she closed her eyes, and she was still very sorry for Yingcui in her heart.
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At night in Jiangfu, the main courtyard has already been lit under the eaves and on the side of the road, and under the candles everywhere, it is not as quiet as usual.
Mrs. Jiang stayed in Tangtang until late at night, and was finally persuaded by the eldest lady to return to Jiufutang.
The other people who came to visit Jiang Yu were also sent back.
On the bluestone pavement, under the pine and birch forest, a young man with a slightly sturdy physique with his head bowed and a little bit mixed in the maids and small houses slowly withdrew from the flow of people, standing quietly in the shadow of a tree, and after waiting for less, he changed to a different road and went to a remote courtyard in Jiangfu.
The courtyard was extremely clean and simple, and there was not a single slave or maid, only an old man with a rickety shoulder. The door of the main room was closed, and only one pane was opened around the window, revealing a warm yellow light like a bean.
"Ann, but you're back?" Lao Su coughed, as if trying to hold back, but in the end the cough became more and more severe.
The young man hurriedly crossed the threshold, bolted the door, and then went to sit down on a shabby rattan chair under the cloister of Fu Laosu.
"Lin Bo, you don't have to be busy, the young master said, I'll do this."
The old man coughed for a while, waved his hand to show that he was out of the way, and then turned to look at the quiet inner room without a sound, and said in a low voice: "Now that the young master has a plan, you naturally have other things to worry about. ”
Ji An also looked inside and didn't say anything more.
After a while, Limber stood up, thumped his back, and bowed to the window of the inner room, said a word, and left the courtyard.
That is, when An saw that Lin Bo's figure in the distance could not be seen, he bolted the door again and entered the inner room.
After he bowed, he stood beside him with his hands down, and shouted, "Young Master." ”
Jiang Yuzhi was in front of the desk, holding a book in his hand and facing the bean-sized kerosene lamp, and hummed without raising his head.
Ji'an knew that this meant that he just spoke, so he said: "The eldest lady has had a high fever since the middle of the night last year, and although she also had a fever today, she took medicine and slowly reduced her fever, and after vomiting for a while, she has rested. I heard the little girls in Tangtang say that the eldest lady's personal maid guarded her tightly, except for the old lady and a few ladies, no one was allowed to enter the eldest lady's room, and everything that served tea and water, and prepared to wash was done by the two first-class girls themselves. ”
After Ji An finished speaking, he quieted down, Jiang Yuzhi still looked at the book in his hand carefully, occasionally the wind poured in from the window, the firelight jumped a little, and his eyebrows would wrinkle slightly, and they would spread out.
After reading about an article, Jiang Yuzhi raised his head, as if he had just noticed Ji'an, and ordered: "Tianzifang, you don't have to go every day, although Lin Bo's son has less experience, it is more than enough to deal with one." ”
Ann agreed.
Jiang Yuzhi let him go down.
After Ji'an's figure passed by the window and disappeared again, Jiang Yuzhi didn't know where to take out a piece of jade pendant, put it on the table, stared at it for a long time, and sneered.
He took out another jade pendant from his arms, untied it, and put it together with the previous jade pendant.
At first glance, the two jade pendants look almost identical, the jade light is warm and moist, and under the faint yellow light, the jade texture is delicate as if it can be melted at your fingertips.
If there is a master who is good at jade carving, after observing for a while, you should be able to see that these two jade pendants are from the same jade rough stone.
And judging from the habit of using a knife and the method of polishing the notch, it was almost the same person's hand.
Jiang Yuzhi looked at it for a while, and put one of them close to his body again.
Another jade pendant, he thought about it, took a silk cloth dipped in some salt water, and wiped it carefully.
The smooth touch of his fingers touching the bottom of the jade pendant still made his eyes a little more pensive.
The difference between this jade pendant and the previous one, which can only be distinguished by the naked eye, is that there is a line of words at the bottom of the former, and there is only one mark on it, which is that the person has not had time to finish carving.
He didn't know what the little bully wanted to do this afternoon, but as soon as she was well, her mind began to stir again—and instead of warning her that morning, she became even more violent, thinking of revenge.
Then he saw that she didn't want Song Zhenzhen to come with him, and listening to her defense, he sneered in his heart at that time, she had a long memory, and she didn't dare to stay with him and Song Zhenzhen at the same time.
He didn't speak, and he knew what he said, and the old lady and the others didn't care at all.
followed Xiaobawang all the way, she didn't move, let alone speak, just sat quietly, leaning on her maid, her eyes lowered, not knowing what she was thinking.
But at that time, looking at the road the carriage was traveling, he had a new conjecture.
After entering the hot spring hospital, her actions became more and more in the direction he had guessed.
Then the little overlord gave him another hand stove, watching the pink and tender little face try to raise up, looking at him with blank eyes, he knew that the warning of that day was still somewhat useful - the little overlord was really afraid, and now he even learned to please him carefully.
What is this called, called Feng Shui Rotation? Or is it called, bullying the soft and afraid of the hard?
He felt more and more ridiculous, but he still took the stove and held it in his hand.
Seeing the master and servant looking for the place where the little overlord was buried last time, he moved in his heart and wanted to verify the answer, so he casually threw the jade pendant without the inscription into the snow next to him, and then kicked some snow to cover it again.
Sure enough, after a while, she really took the maid into the shelter in a hurry, and then wrapped the jade pendant he had just thrown down in a handkerchief and returned it to him.
The powder-carved jade-like bun face has not yet opened because of the puff after exercise, like a New Year's doll.
The facial features are still very childish, and the big black eyes are full of expectation, not the domineering and disdainful on weekdays, but let him take a second look.
She explained again, to the effect that she wanted to return the jade pendant to him a long time ago, but she couldn't speak, so that he misunderstood.
What did she misunderstand, did she forget, that day she watched Song Zhenzhen push her into the snow and was dizzy, but she left without looking back.
So Jiang Yu just picked up the things he threw and gave him again, why did he look forward to it, and then saw that he didn't react, and looked disappointed?
Why is she?
In fact, what Jiang Yu didn't know was that Jiang Yuzhi never expected Jian Jian's conscience to find out.
After he had asked her that morning, he had speculated that the jade pendant was not on Jian Jian, and had already sneaked into the hot spring to find it.
It's just that he didn't tell anyone about it.