"Madame...... I don't want money. Xiaowan already knew that silver didn't solve the problem, and she felt that Mrs. Sun was a little strange, but she had to respond, "I'm doing chores in the store, Madame, if you have anything, just tell me." ”

Mrs. Sun looked at her with a smile, put the dishes and chopsticks back in the basin, and suddenly grabbed Xiaowan's wrist.

Because she was afraid of revealing her scars, Xiao Wan didn't dare to roll up her sleeves to work, so she could only get wet from her sleeves, and at this time, the sleeves that were close to her skin were lifted, revealing the bruises left by the rope binding.

"Are the people in the store abusing you?" Mrs. Sun asked distressedly, "I saw it yesterday, late, Shopkeeper Ling is not good to you?" ”

"No, it's not." Xiaowan hurriedly withdrew her hand and hid it behind her back, lowering her head and lowering her long eyelashes.

When she was a child, her stepmother beat her, and occasionally the people in the village cared about her, and the stepmother said that she went to someone to sue her to ruin her reputation, and then beat her even harder, again and again, Xiaowan would never show her scars to anyone again.

"We're going to take medicine with us, can I give you medicine? Otherwise, if you leave a scar, such a beautiful hand will not look good. Mrs. Sun was as gentle as a bodhisattva, "Late, does it still hurt?" ”

"I'm fine." Xiaowan shook her head and raised her eyes, "Madam, what do you want to tell me?" ”

"It's nothing important...... "Mrs. Sun seemed to hide a thousand emotions in her eyes, and said slowly.

In the afternoon, the two ladies used dim sum, and Uncle Biao looked at the five big and three coarse people, but they had extremely exquisite cooking skills.

A bowl of red bean soup, there are delicate and small glutinous rice dumplings scattered among them, white snow and red plums, poured with a spoonful of crystal clear osmanthus nectar, sweet breath, so greedy that Xiaowan almost forgot the troubles in his heart.

"Send it to the ladies, my aunt left you a big bowl, come back and eat." Aunt Zhang smiled, wiped the outside of the soup cup, and said to Xiaowan, "That second lady is not good to serve, don't pay attention to her, if she wants to eat, you just have to listen and tell Uncle Biao." ”

Xiaowan responded, carefully sent the red bean soup upstairs, she went to "Yunlai" first, and after a while, she took another bowl and knocked on the door of "Yunpeng".

The maidservant took her in, Xiaowan put the red bean soup on the table, and said softly: "Madam, this is a snack, please enjoy it." ”

The bewitching woman got down from the couch and sat down lazily at the table, fiddling with the spoon a few times.

The round glutinous rice dumplings rose and fell in the soup, she glanced at Xiao Wan with bad intentions, and the maid beside her pretended to say: "In the countryside, don't you dare to eat indiscriminately for our wife, who knows if you are clean here, little girl, you eat two bites first." ”

"Me?" Xiao Wan hurriedly took two steps back, "This is a snack that Mrs. eats, I can't eat it." ”

The master and servant looked at each other, as if they were suspicious of something, and the maid came up fiercely to arrest people: "Madame rewarded you with food, why can't you eat it, come and eat it." ”

Xiaowan was almost pressed on the edge of the table, the servant girl insisted on taking a spoon and sending it to her mouth, Xiaowan didn't comply, the two pushed back and forth, the handmaid's hand slipped, and the whole bowl of red bean soup fell out, falling to the ground and falling to the ground.

Hearing the movement outside, Mrs. Sun soon appeared at the door, looking a little panicked, and when she saw the red bean soup on the ground, she said with a twinkle in her eyes: "What are you doing, this is outside, don't embarrass the master." ”

The second lady was about to have a seizure, but when she saw Ling Chaofeng coming, he stood in front of the door and didn't come in, but just asked politely, "Madame, is she frightened?" ”

Aunt Zhang also came upstairs, as if she was used to seeing this kind of scene, and she cleaned up the mess with her hands and feet.

The group retreated and returned to the kitchen, Aunt Zhang took out a silver hairpin from her bun and inserted it into the leftovers that were cleaned up, and the silver hairpin quickly covered with a black shadow.

Everyone's eyes looked at Xiao Wan in unison, and Xiao Wan stepped back in a panic, her face pale with fright.

"Evening, what's going on?" Aunt Zhang asked nervously.

Ling Chaofeng was so angry that he picked up Xiaowan with one hand and slipped her out of the kitchen. She was almost carried upstairs and returned to their "wedding room", Ling Chaofeng did not have the slightest pity for her, threw her into the door, and said sternly: "Don't meddle anymore." ”

The two stared at each other, Ling Chaofeng was angry, but she didn't know what Xiaowan's mood was, she had always been afraid to tremble when she saw herself, only to see that the silver hairpin was black, and her face was pale, but she was not afraid at this time?

"Honestly stay in the house, it's none of your business outside." Ling Chaofeng scolded in a low voice, "I'll clean you up when the guests leave." ”

Xiaowan didn't answer him, full of stubbornness, and soon, the door was closed.

All afternoon, the inn was quiet, the second lady did not act as a demon, and Mrs. Sun did not come to look for Xiaowan again, she secretly looked out through the crack in the door, and only vaguely saw a few guards chatting softly underneath.

Until before sunset, Aunt Zhang came quietly and brought red bean soup for Xiaowan to eat.

The red beans are crispy, the soup is sweet, the dumplings are soft and glutinous and not sticky to the teeth, the aroma of osmanthus nectar is refreshing, and the depressed mood of Xiaowan is almost swept away.

"Auntie." Xiao Wan lovingly held the soup bowl and whispered, "It's not me who poisoned it." ”

When I was a child, people from my stepmother's family came and saw that her face was swollen with marks from being beaten by ear scrapers, and quietly told my stepmother, don't abuse the child too much, be careful to provoke her to poison the food.

At that time, the stepmother plucked the silver hairpin from her hair and said, "I stir it into the food, and if it is black and poisonous, I will feed the food into the stomach of the little beast one by one, and poison herself." He even called Xiaowan in front of him, stabbed her desperately, and watched her cry and beg for mercy for fun.

So Xiaowan knew that Aunt Zhang's hairpin was black, and that bowl of red bean soup was poisonous.

"No, how could it be you." Aunt Zhang touched Xiaowan's head lovingly and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, there is a shopkeeper here." ”

But Xiaowan thought that Ling Chaofeng said that he wanted to clean her up when he turned around, wouldn't he be going to beat her, she looked at Aunt Zhang helplessly, opened her mouth slightly, and stopped talking.

Aunt Zhang sighed: "It's not easy for Mrs. Sun, she must not think about it." ”

It turned out that Lord Sun was originally from a humble background, and Mrs. Sun was his wife of the chaff.

Six years ago, when Lord Sun entered Beijing to take the exam, he suddenly contracted a vicious illness and stayed at the Lingxiao Inn, and it was Ling Chaofeng who saved his life, not only catching up with the imperial examination, but also being the top student in the higher school.

Later, Lord Sun entered the court as an official, and rose step by step, so he connected his wife and family to the capital. It's just that providence makes people, Mrs. Sun has been infertile for many years, and the Sun family's incense has no successor.

I heard that Mrs. Sun sought medical advice and tossed for several years, until two years ago, Lord Sun married the daughter of her mentor into the door, although it was a concubine, her status and treatment in the house were the same as the main room, and the second lady also gave birth to a son for her husband last year. Poor Mrs. Sun, who has no children under her knees, has passed away the only years she has left, and she is alone in the empty house.

"Madame came to me at noon and instructed me to bring tea and water to the second lady in the future, and I had to send it to her room first." Xiaowan said, "Auntie, I didn't lie. ”

"It's okay, there's a shopkeeper here." The aunt smiled disapprerovingly, as if she had been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and instead comforted Xiaowan, "When they leave, they will be clean." ”

But that night, Master Sun was going to leave Baisha Town tomorrow, and when he had dinner, he called all the guys in the store to receive the reward, Ling Chaofeng originally defaulted to Xiaowan and didn't have to go, but the second lady deliberately said: "What about that beautiful little girl, why don't you see her?" ”

When Xiaowan went downstairs, she happened to see Mrs. Sun coming out of the kitchen with a bowl of soup, smiled at her gently, and then went to the table and put it down, and said with a smile: "Master, I made this soup, you can taste it." ”

Master Sun tasted it, his eyes lit up, he looked at his wife in surprise, took a few more sips, and asked, "Isn't this the soup I drank when I was recuperating here, how can you make it?" ”

Mrs. Sun said with a smile: "I know that the master misses this, I specially learned it from Uncle Biao." ”

"Master, I'll drink it too." The second lady said coquettishly, "The master also rewarded me." ”

Mrs. Sun faintly: "I'll give it to you." ”

As she spoke, she filled a bowl of soup with her own hands, took a spoon from the table and put it in it, and placed it in front of the second lady.

"It's better for my sister to drink it herself, I'll just taste it in the old man's bowl." The second lady sent the soup back, sprinkled it coquettishly, drank two mouthfuls of soup from her husband's bowl, and said, "Sister's craftsmanship is really amazing." ”

"Drink it too." Master Sun smiled at his wife, "It's hard for you to cook for me." ”

The soup in front of Mrs. Sun was originally handed to the second lady, but she sent it back, she glanced at it in a daze, and then looked at her husband, and Lord Sun also said, "You taste it?" ”

Xiaowan stood aside and watched this scene, suddenly thinking of the red bean soup in the afternoon, her heart twitched, and seeing Mrs. Sun picking up the soup bowl to drink, she subconsciously opened her mouth to shout, but she was dragged from behind and even covered her mouth.

Xiaowan was dragged all the way to the bottom of the stairs, and when she looked up, she saw that it was Ling Chaofeng.

"Shut up." Ling Chaofeng said.

"But...... Hmm......" Xiaowan's mouth was covered again.

There were not many people in the store, Lord Sun thought that the guards and maids were an eyesore, so he sent them outside to wait, Aunt Zhang, Uncle Biao and Ershan received the reward and stood aside, indifferently looking at the three people on the table, indifferently watching Mrs. Sun drink the soup she made herself.

"Sir, tomorrow we get on the boat, where are we going...... Ah......h

Xiaowan was stunned, but Ling Chaofeng finally let go of her and stepped forward alone.

There was a mess around the table, and the guards could also hear the movement and break in, Xiao Wan watched Mrs. Sun fall to the ground, spit out a mouthful of blood, and at the last moment, he met Xiao Wan's eyes, with a full of guilt in his eyes.

"Ma'am? Madam? Lord Sun hugged his wife and shouted loudly, but the person in his arms was already unconscious.

Xiaowan trembled all over, her legs were weak and she couldn't take a step, what's going on, what the hell is going on? Why did Ling Chaofeng stop himself just now, did he know anything? How could he be so ruthless, how could he be so cold-blooded?