Chapter 5: Xiaoqing dies suddenly
When Xiyan and Xia Yue rushed back to the medical hall, they saw Du Liang, who was dressed in gray shirts, carefully sorting out the freshly picked medicinal herbs.
"Cousin?"
The man in Tsing Yi named Du Liang hurriedly turned around after hearing this, and a real smile rose from the corner of his mouth, "Xi'er, I heard them say that you have been here, I thought it was so late, you should have gone back." ”
Xiyan shook his head, "Cousin, are you okay?" Where did you come back from? She looked around the room again and asked, "What about her?" What about the wind? ”
Du Liang smiled softly, "Miss Feng has already gone back." What's wrong with you, where are you not going back? How do you ......" Du Liang pointed to her clothes and hair, "Still wearing a veil...... I heard Miss Feng say, your cheek is seriously injured this time, and the medicine that Xia Yue asked to catch you before has no effect after drinking it? Show me another one, and I'll give you another pair in a moment. He stepped forward as he spoke, wanting to take a look at Xiyan's face.
Xi Yan took a step back and raised his hand to stop him, "You don't have to worry about my cheeks, it's good to wear a veil like this." Cousin, I want to ask you: Are you familiar with Feng Yin? Why did you ask her to accompany you to Cuilin Mountain to pick herbs? Xiyan had a nameless fire in his belly.
Du Liang didn't feel Xiyan's anger, and said with a smirk: "After your father passed away, you were very out of the Rong Mansion, but Miss Feng came twice, and she said that you are still very sad in the mansion, and she can't help you, so she feels very sad." However, she knows a little about medical books, and she helped me when she came. ”
"She's here to help? Is there a shortage of people in the hospital? Cousin, you ......" Xiyan pursed her lips and hesitated and asked, "Do you think she is very beautiful and has a crush on her?" ”
Du Liang smiled again, "What did you say?" We went together this afternoon to pick herbs, and I was impressed by her ability to identify herbs. Just look at today's harvest. He gestured to the basket of herbs.
Xi Yan took a look, there were indeed a lot of medicinal herbs in it: rabbit grass, gentian grass, winter sunflower seeds, snake tongue grass, verbena, motherwort, etc., "Cousin, are you going to Cuilin Mountain?" ”
"It's not. At first, I planned to go to Cuilin Mountain, but I ended up going to the slightly closer Foggy Gorge Mountain. ”
Xiyan pulled the corners of her mouth, what a coincidence! She said weakly, "I see." Then I'll go back. By the way, cousin, I will often come to the hospital to help in the future. ”
When she came out, she explained that she didn't need anyone to pick her up, and when she went back so late, she was not as scared as before, and her steps were fast. Although her body is still a fourteen-year-old girl, she has experienced life and death and intrigues, and her mind is already more mature than that of an adult.
Xia Yue didn't understand why Xiyan was suddenly so cold all over her body, and the previous young lady was timid, like such a dark sky, she didn't dare to take a step forward at all, "Miss, what's wrong with you?" Not happy? ”
Xiyan shook his head and didn't speak.
After returning to Zhudiexuan, it was already the time of the year. Chun Hui was still weaving a scarf around the charcoal fire outside, and after seeing Xiyan come back, she hurriedly put down the work in her hand and brought a cup of hot tea to cover Xiyan's hands, "Why did the girl come back so late?" As she spoke, she took the cloak on Xiyan's body, and when she saw Xiyan shaking her head, she knew that something was wrong.
"What's wrong?" Xiyan saw that she wanted to speak and stopped, "What happened?" ”
"The mansion is lively this afternoon!"
"What's going on?" After Xiyan said this, he sat down and said to Xia Yue: "Go and rest, change out of wet clothes, and be careful not to catch a cold." ”
Xia Yue nodded and left.
Chun Gui continued: "The second master and Aunt Deng had another trouble, and the second master thought that she had taken her mother's family to the Rong Mansion, and said that our Darong Mansion should simply be renamed "Deng Mansion"! Both families spoke very hard and quarreled. ”
Hehe...... Xiyan doesn't come out often these days, but he has also heard a lot of things, since the second master has been a prince since his son, they have become the state mansion is very aggressive, and he also prefers to talk nonsense and point fingers at people.
Chun Gui continued, "Aunt Deng argued with him, but he pointed at Aunt Deng and scolded: You can roll up and leave with your family, Rongfu doesn't need an aunt like you." Aunt Deng is already very popular, and her nephew has been with the master for a few years, and she has not done anything good, but now she is finally able to hold the small courtyard of the Rong Mansion, where is she willing to let go easily? So, the two families ended up fighting! It's a shame that you're not here, otherwise you'll be angry. ”
Aunt Deng's eldest nephew, Deng Songyue, although not as good as his second master's eldest son Rong Fu, is honest and brave at fighting. But he is not a simple person, when he is out fighting, he always makes some clever moves and is frequently praised by Rong Guogong, and he is good at making friends, has a wide network in the capital, and has a good relationship with the princes and nobles.
Xiyan was already uneasy, and when she heard this incident again, she said upsetly: "Let them be!" It's hard to fill the craze, and no one can do it! You should also rest early, don't stay up late weaving. ”
Chungui nodded, knowing that Xiyan was in a bad mood, so he didn't say anything more.
After Xiyan entered the inner room, he walked quickly to the dresser, and opened the veiled mahogany box, a full six, a lot of one. She pulled out the illegible note from her sleeve. After unfolding it, she was stunned after just one glance at Xi Yan - this is her own handwriting, this is her own handwriting!
Why is this happening? She fought a cold war, when did she write it?
She sat down dumbfounded...... Ban Xiang didn't come back to her senses, she was convinced that the people around her would never betray her.
But...... Why? Why did "myself" make an appointment with Chu Yan, but I didn't know who was the "self"?
Her veil has always been embroidered by Qiu Shu, who is timid but careful, and serves herself wholeheartedly, and will never make a mistake because of this.
And his own font, although he used to be playful, he was still forced by Rong Guogong and the teacher to write good handwriting, but who copied that word?
Xiyan became irritable, sat in front of the bronze mirror, raised her hand to remove her veil, and suddenly, a stunning face came into view, although she was slightly tired, but it did not affect the beauty of this beautiful face, she raised her hand to stroke her clean and white cheeks, and murmured: "Who is it?" Who the hell wants you to live in peace? ”
Throughout the night, Xiyan slept very unsteadily, and the nightmare woke up several times, and only fell asleep again in a daze after a while.
Chun Guiyi came to see her twice in the morning, and when he saw her asleep, he frowned tightly, and didn't dare to wake her up.
It was the weather that was about to start spring, but suddenly there were snowflakes overnight. It wasn't until the end of the day that Xi Yan was woken up by the noisy sound outside.
After so much time has passed since she was reborn, she is still in a trance every day after waking up, whether this is in her boudoir Zhu Diexuan, or in the palace, which is like a deep prison.
Are you really going back five years ago?
It was getting noisy outside, and Xi Yan sat up and put on a veil, "Spring return?" She shouted outside, "Spring return...... Xia Yue, what's going on? ”
Xia Yue immediately ran in, looking in a hurry, never hiding half a minute, seeing Xiyan still crying with a sad face, "Miss, it's Xiaoqing next to Miss Feng, dead." Just fished out of the water, the person has been blistered in the water! ”
What?
Xiyan, who had just put on the veil, was shocked, and stood in place unable to move, how could Xiaoqing, who had always been quiet and capable, die?
Xiaoqing was Rong Xifu's maid, because she was too honest and didn't know how to please Rong Xifu, so she gave it to the new righteous girl Fengyin as a maid. Now, it has only been thirty days since Feng Yin entered the mansion, how could Xiaoqing drown?!
Xi Yan stabilized her voice and asked directly, "How did Xiaoqing die?" ”
Xia Yue was obviously undecided, her face turned white, and she said: "I heard that Xiaoqing's hands and feet were not clean and stole Miss Feng's things, which is the piece of Hetian jade pendant that the master gave to Miss Feng." Miss Feng was so anxious that she cried in the house, and it happened that the eldest lady went to Miss Feng's Lock Autumn Pavilion, and after hearing about this, she began to order a large-scale search. In the end, it was in Xiaoqing's box that he found the jade pendant. ”
She continued with a crying voice: "The eldest lady scolded Xiaoqing in public, and ordered someone to clip her fingers. Xiaoqing's hands that can embroider are the most liked by the young lady, but in this way, the eldest lady is not willing to spare her, and wants to drive her out of the mansion, and she will not be able to step into the Prosperous City for half a step again! Xiaoqing was taken back to the room to clean up and salute, but ...... It didn't take long for the news to spread that she had drowned in Zicui Lake in the backyard......"
Xi Yan forcibly suppressed the resentment in his heart. It's this Rong Xifu who is too ruthless, cruel, and too deceitful, and never takes people's lives as his life.
Although Xiyan is a concubine, but in the past, because her mother died early, and her father was away for many years, she was bullied by Rong Xifu a lot, but she didn't take it very seriously, and she has always been a heartless fool but she is also happy.
This time, she didn't want to be so cowardly again.
She knew that Xiaoqing had grown up in the Rong Mansion since she was a child, and she had always been careful and cautious, and it was impossible for her to steal things if she was loyal to the Lord, not to mention that although it was extremely heavy, it was useless to her. After a pause, she said coldly: "Come with me to the Lock Autumn Pavilion!" ”
Xiyan hasn't been here for too long, and the Suoqiu Pavilion is different from her Bamboo Butterfly Pavilion Water Pavilion, which is exquisite and elegant. However, there is also another taste, into here, as if really into the autumn autumn leaf forest, the courtyard planted a row of maple trees, all year round do not fall leaves, that piece of red world, is the maids' favorite place in summer, at the moment the red leaves on the snow fell a layer of snowflakes, people feel cold. The ear room next to the right side of the main house was an incense refining room, which was Feng Yin's only request after coming to the Rong Mansion, and Xi Yan agreed to her without thinking about it at the time.
At this moment, she was not interested in looking at the Suoqiu Pavilion any more, but she felt that the incense refining room was very eye-catching. The faint aroma of the courtyard was refreshing, but she didn't want to breathe a little more, walked a few steps quickly, and her eyes unconsciously glanced at the incense refining room again, and suddenly, a thought rushed to her heart - in her previous life, when she was a concubine in the deep palace, she was pregnant with Chu Yan and two children, and finally all of them accidentally slipped tires, and at that time, the most trusted person around her was only Feng Yin