After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the wind in the Zhuangzi outside Yanjing City cooled down.

Through the small window, you can still see the wild geese returning to the south during the day, and at night, there are only a few stars decorating by the window.

Occasionally, there are fireflies hooking and crushing light to entangle outside, or crickets chirp twice intermittently, and they are also a little listless.

More listless than the cricket was the maidservant Ah Chi who stood with the lamp in her hand, guarding the candle flame, and she sighed again.

The woman who was sitting in front of the window pinching the grinding stone suddenly laughed:

"The crickets outside are screaming so hard that they can't succeed in courtship, where are you so worried?"

Ah Chi wanted to sigh again, but halfway through the sigh he held back again: "Girl, I heard from someone in the house that my uncle is coming back." ”

Looking left and right, Ah Chi walked to the window and closed it, then looked at the other maid who was guarding the outer room and said:

"You go boil water to scrub the second young lady."

Seeing that others were leaving, Ah Chi turned around and saw that his girl was still in front of the window, and she picked up water with her hand and continued to grind the cyan paste, and couldn't help but sigh again:

"My girl, it's not that Ah Chi wants to talk more, the Xie family's mansion doesn't even mention the Mid-Autumn Festival to let you go back, this time my uncle comes back, I'm afraid I'm going to bring that Miss Feng back."

After saying a few words, Ah Chi almost shed tears for his girl, her girl was the only daughter of the late scholar Shen Shao, Shen Shiqing, who was held in the palm of her hand like a jewel by the family since she was a child, and calculated carefully, if it weren't for the sudden departure of the master, the lady couldn't afford to be ill, the uncle was unreliable, and the uncle was in another country, and he wouldn't settle down with Xie Feng, the second young master of the Xie family, before he was in time, and hurriedly married in the old man's 100 days with filial piety.

Who would have thought that Ning Anbo said it nicely, what could be done with the care of the lord and treat her girl as his own, and what would make the old lady rest in peace in the spirit of heaven during the New Year, but in fact, it was just for a good reputation.

As soon as the girl got married, her parents were double filial piety, until she was filial piety, she didn't even see her aunt twice, she accompanied the girl from fifteen to twenty-two years old in the deep house of Ning'an Bo Mansion for seven years, watching the girl grow up, the childishness faded in her eyebrows, and she also watched the girl live indifferently like a nun day by day.

Seeing that she sleeps alone in bed every day, there are already five or six people outside the yard who are her sons and daughters!

What kind of poetry and books is known as the heirloom of the dignified Ning An Bomen, how can there be such a reason to hang the lady of the main house? What kind of door is this? Which poetry book is it?

Even if she can barely bear all this, a Miss Feng suddenly appeared on Jinyang's side this year, and she inquired carefully to find out that Xie Feng'an and his aunt's cousin Feng were childhood sweethearts in the early years, and the two families were about to marry, and Ning Anbo suddenly asked him to marry the daughter of their Shen family.

Miss Feng used to marry a five-grade military attaché, last year the military attache was removed from her post because of the unfavorable garrison, and she went after a few months, Miss Feng was widowed, but she took the heart of the Xie family's aunt, she only felt that those concubines looked a little similar between their eyebrows, and it turned out to be like that Miss Feng.

Her young lady originally lived well in the house, although she rarely said a few words to the second young master of the Xie family, but she never lacked the two mothers-in-law in the morning and dusk, Mrs. Xie scolded her son for not knowing how to sympathize with her daughter-in-law, and when her son and her sister's daughter had an accident, the first thing Mrs. Bo, who was well-behaved and chaste on weekdays, did was to let her young lady avoid Zhuangzi because she was sick, and she didn't even let Miss go back in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

After counting it like this, their Xie family actually deceived their own girl to keep the widow!

"Lao Tzu is not virtuous, his son is shameless, and he has ruined the girl for a lifetime!" Angry and anxious, Ah Chi scolded this.

Shen Shiqing sat in front of the window, quietly watching the blue stone powder being ground finer and finer on her terrazzo plate, and drawing circles with a pottery pestle in her hand.

She was wearing a short silver red jacket, a white horse-faced skirt with folded branches and flowers, and there was no decoration on her body except for a white jade bead hairpin with a silver pole on her head.

The bright blue gradually spread out in front of her, as if it was a clear blue borrowed from the autumn sky.

"If you have time to be angry, it's better to go and get the urn over, and float this color again, Huiyifang's color is really not clean, I have to soak the glue to re-study, and wait for tomorrow the cyan to be re-dried and then mixed with glue to use."

Ah Chi still wanted to say something, but he still went to fetch the fine porcelain urn, and when he went outside, he saw the little maid coming in with water, she avoided people and wiped her eyes, and only returned to the inner room after a while.

Shen Shiqing stood up, carefully poured the stone blue that she had grinded overnight into the urn, poured water into it, stirred it a few times, the water became more and more turbid, she poured out the slightly gray water, leaving only the bright blue at the bottom of the urn, which is the most eye-catching head blue in the stone blue color, as for the turbidity in the water, it is two cyan and three cyan.

He looked at the light carefully and nodded with satisfaction.

"In the future, if you buy paints, you will still go to Lenga Zhai to see, or his stone green and cinnabar are comfortable to use, so we don't need to clean it up again."

Ah Chi's eyes turned red again.

Everyone in Ning Anbo's Mansion knows that the second young lady is a fairy daughter-like figure, with no dust under her eyes, no general affairs, and only thinks about chanting poems and painting every day, like a lamp hanging high on the eaves corridor.

She has also heard the gossip of the people in the house, like her girl is as delicate and weak as the willow, how can she know the harmony between husband and wife? It's no wonder that the second young master didn't even want to enter the door of the Pujia Courtyard.

Could it be that the daughter of a scholar and the second young lady of Ning Anbo Mansion still have to learn from the fox to win over men?

But now, I'm afraid that the situation is out of control.

has already been sent from the mansion to Zhuangzi, if you go down again, let the Feng family girl enter the house, I am afraid that there is no place for the girl to stand in the great uncle's mansion.

After cleaning her hands and face, Shen Shiqing sat on the chair and rinsed her mouth, and saw Ah Chi kneeling carefully in front of her.

"Girl, or, why don't we go back to the Bofu to find Mrs. Xie, you can say that it is better for the cousin of the Feng family to enter the door and put her in the mansion as a concubine than now...... I don't think my uncle has a long life, but when he is light to Miss Feng, we can naturally care about it. The so-called name is not right, as long as you are willing to take a step back and firmly hold the name, the rest can naturally be discussed in the long run. ”

"Fading?" Shen Shiqing lowered her eyes to look at her, her tone was soft, revealing some cold spring-like clarity, "What if it's light?" He also always has a newcomer when he is in love, and when the time comes, I will let people carry him in one by one? Sounds good, she's a good tooth woman. ”

Holding his girl's leg, Ah Chi said repeatedly: "Girl, don't be angry." ”

"What am I doing with you? I know that you are for my good, you and Chuiyun, Tu Nan, and Pei Feng accompanied me to marry into this Ning'an Bo Mansion, so naturally everything is planned for me, but I, Shen Shiqing, don't want to live a life of competing for favor by looking at a man's face, and if I refused in the past, I will naturally refuse in the future. ”

Shen Shiqing's face was pale, and she raised her hand to hook a strand of broken hair on her forehead behind her ear.

"The Xie family married me, an orphan of the Shen Mansion, even if they divorced me, even if it was for fame, they wouldn't dare to treat me badly in the open, which was enough."

Shen Shiqing was born extremely white, with long and dark eyebrows, and deep pupils, and she often looked at people with a sense of tranquility, as if she had hidden countless shallow sorrows and hatreds that wanted to talk.

The light shadow trembled slightly, and she whispered with relief: "Ah Chi, I'm not bad for the time being." ”

Ah Chi sobbed silently: "Where is it not broken?" The subordinates of the Xie family are also dog and human power, seeing that Miss you haven't returned to the house for a long time, they don't look good one by one, and no one is even willing to do the errand of night patrol, and Tu Nan and Pei Feng take people to patrol the night, which is only a little more than a month, and the slave maid is afraid that she will be more wronged by the girl after a long time. If I knew today, I might as well have recognized Aunt An's son first......"

Shen Shiqing patted her on the shoulder and didn't let her say any more.

What about in the first place? People live in the present and cannot look back.

"Ah Chi, otherwise, I will also arrange family affairs for you."

The maidservant kneeling at her feet almost rubbed her skirt: "Girl? ”

"When Chuiyun got married, she was still white, and now she is also known as a lady, she is a rat, four years older than you, and your affairs can't be delayed."

Shen Shiqing was not temporary, Xie Feng'an went to Jinyang for a few months under the pretext of studying abroad, the wife of the Xie family suddenly changed her attitude, something must have happened, last year's border pass was a great victory, Miss Feng's father was promoted to the command of Sanpin Guangwuwei, how could he be willing to let his daughter be a concubine? But he didn't rush Xie Fengan back to Yanjing early, but I was afraid that there was something unspeakable...... For example, the girl of the Feng family was already pregnant, but she was pregnant but was not in a hurry to enter the Ning'an Bo Mansion, and the Feng family was deliberately pulling the Xie family to let the Xie family offer the position of the second young lady.

And what about her? She joined the Xie family at the age of fifteen, and for seven years now, only one "nothing" can make her have nothing to say.

While she is still in the position of the second young lady of Ning'an Bofu, her maid can still marry safely, and when she really becomes the "lower cousin" trapped in this village, it may be difficult for her maid to marry in style.

Seeing her look at herself steadily, tears finally rolled down in Ah Chi's eyes:

"My girl, think more about yourself!"

On the afternoon of the second day, the remade head cyan had just been reconciled with oil glue, but someone from Ning'anbo's Mansion came.

It's a car of stout mothers-in-law.

"Second young lady, the old lady is unwell these days, and she dreamed of the old uncle at night, and the lady said that the lady of the house should copy the scriptures and worship them in front of the Buddha to pray for the old lady."

Seeing that these people actually brought dozens of scriptures for their girls to copy, the maids around Shen Shiqing turned pale.

Shen Shiqing's face did not change, and he listened to the steward again: "Second young lady, Madame also said, in order to let the Bodhisattva know your sincerity, please kneel in the ancestral hall and read and copy this scripture." ”

This time, Shen Shiqing did not speak.

Several mothers-in-law stood in a row and "invited" her to the Buddhist hall, and several maidservants wanted to rush up to stop them, but she stopped them with her eyes.

There is only a futon and an incense table in the Buddha hall, on which there is a bronze statue of Buddha.

Shen Shiqing fell to the ground, as if his body had been soaked with coldness.

The mother-in-law who was guarding her didn't know where to hide, and she slowly looked up and saw that the incense ash had fallen from the incense case, and it had burned out again.

Outside the window, a few insects chirped, a little distant star.

She looked at it in a daze, raised her hand, and plucked the hairpin from her head, the jade beads on the hairpin head were round and bright, as if another full moon was pinched in her palm.

The hairpin rod is uneven, and a few words are engraved.

- "Kindness is essential".

These four words are not only engraved on this hairpin, but also have long been engraved in her heart.

"Shushan is the best, I have walked this way so far, but I am shocked to find that there is no way to escape."

Retreated from Ning'an Bofu to Zhuangzi, and now retreats to this Buddha hall, the world is so big, she has nowhere to retreat.

With a smirk, she aimed the tip of the hairpin at her shoulder and stabbed it hard.