Chapter 3: Spring is like a dream
It is the early spring of the year, and the sky is gradually warming. The green place on the ground is spring, the dead trees in the back courtyard quietly pull out new shoots, and last night there was a heavy rain, and under the sunlight, the green leaves are verdant.
It's only been one night's work, and green shoots have already popped out of the cobblestone paved road, and it is gratifying to look at.
In the backyard of the Shen family's old house, a maid in a pink jacket was walking around anxiously, and after half a cup of tea, she saw a mother-in-law leading a Lang Zhong with a medicine box walking along the path in a hurry.
Lang Zhong is over half a hundred years old, with a gray beard, thinking that he is following his mother-in-law all the way, he is already holding his waist and gasping for breath.
Seeing this, Yu Yu couldn't care so much, so he hurriedly stepped forward and pulled his sleeve and brought it to the house: "You are faster, the third girl is seriously ill, and she is still burning!" ”
Thinking that human life was at stake, Lang Zhong listened, and followed her into the house before he had time to stand still.
There was no fire in the house, but it was cold and shivering. The furnishings in the back room are also minimalist, with only a few vases, a small couple and a carved wooden bed.
And lying on the bed is Shen Shisha.
Two years ago, the Shen family was promoted to Kyoto, because she was weak since she was a child, and her biological mother Wang Da Niangzi gave birth to her fifth brother Brother Yuan six years ago and died in childbirth, so she had no support, so she was left in the old house in Qingzhou by her father's successor and grandson, and only such an old and two young people were left around to take care of her.
Just stayed like this for three years, and the Shen family still ordered a few small servants to buy some New Year's items a few years ago, and then they avoided the plague and never came again, except for the letter sent by their grandmother, the Shen family ignored it.
No, a while ago, I don't know which ear reported that Mrs. Shen was going to take her back in the courtyard, and she got into the hookah's ears, counting that last day was the day to pick her up, and the hookah waited in front of the door for a day, and the cold wind was bone-chilling and rainy, and finally she couldn't hold it and fainted.
Seeing Lang Zhong come in, the hosta wiped her red and swollen eyes, and hurriedly lifted the curtain to let him take the pulse, Xu was crying for a long time, and her body couldn't stop sobbing.
This old man is a local, and he is often invited to see the hookah, and seeing that he is already familiar with the road, he opened a prescription as usual, and gave a few instructions.
"This girl has always been in a bad health, why don't you see the family asking?" Lang Zhong couldn't stand it, sighed lightly, and said the words to his lips.
"The old gentleman doesn't know, our girl's stepmother is a difficult person to get along with, and it's not easy to ask about the monarch's busy affairs, and it has dragged on for a long time." The mother-in-law who was standing answered and was about to send him off.
It's not easy to ask too much about the affairs of the side family, Lang Zhong nodded sympathetically, got up and flicked his sleeves, and was led out by his mother-in-law.
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The room was instantly cold, and Yu Yu went to tuck the quilt for the master, and sat on the pestle on the side: "A while ago, the girl was still complaining when she saw the letter sent by her ancestors, saying that she couldn't send it in time when her eldest sister got married. ”
"In the past, our girl and the eldest girl were the best, and she was a delicate person, but now she can't eat her wine, and she should blame herself for a while." The hosta took a breath and answered the girl's words, but her tone was still choked.
Yu Yu listened, looked at the kang where the hookah was, and said in a low voice: "It's all out of a belly, that big girl is married to a good man, I heard that the dowry under the husband's family is piled up in the whole house, and then look at our girl, nothing will be good." ”
"How can I say this, now it's no longer the first lady to take care of things, our girl is straight-hearted, and she displeases the lady who continues to string, how can a big girl be sweet and coaxing?" The hosta said quite unpleasantly, her face instantly turned red, and she was a little sad.
The two of them were still talking, the hookah head on the kang was still dizzy, and when she was half-asleep and half-awake, she heard the sound of continuous talking in her ears, which could be vaguely identified as hosta and hosta, she seemed to have been comforted a little, her frowning brows relaxed a little, and her eyelashes trembled slightly.
The jade on the side thought carefully, noticed the master's movement, put his hand on the hookah's forehead and tried it, and the burning intention was almost backwards.
Because of this movement, the hookah had long since lost its sleepiness, and its apricot eyes opened slightly, and what caught my eye was the face of a child with baby fat and delicateness.
Seeing that she was awake, the jade hurriedly patted the hosta on the side, and went outside to scoop a bowl of fried medicine.
There were tears in the corners of the hosta's eyes, and now that she saw that the girl was safe and sound, she burst into tears and smiled, and her words were quite excited: "Wake up, finally wake up." ”
The hookah saw them smiling, looked up and down a little blankly, and then leaned on the side of the bed with the help of the hosta, she pinched the brocade quilt under her with both hands, and before she could ease her mind, the jade sat on the edge of the bed, and looked at her holding the decoction, leaning over to blow it, and the heat instantly blurred the hookah's sight.
When he saw the person again, the hookah was already in a state of flux, and he coughed violently.
Isn't she already dead after taking the medicine sent by the concubine? How can you still see hostas and hostas?
Seeing this, the hosta hurriedly stepped forward to smooth her back, and said in a trembling voice: "The girl is cold, you can't be greedy for the cold, wait until you take this bowl of medicine and then go to sleep and sweat, it will be good tomorrow." ”
When she heard this, her hands tightened, the voice came immaturely, and when she looked at her again, she saw a pair of big watery eyes looking at herself worriedly, and then down was a pink and tender face, this look was clearly a childish teenage girl, look at her combing double buns, which is the hosta that broke her heart for her when she married into the Zhao family?
With a glint of water in his eyes, he slowly turned his gaze, and a guess flashed in his mind. Seeing her smile on her face, she leaned forward, and knew that the hookah was weak, so he took it upon himself to take a spoon and scoop a small sip to her mouth.
"I am..."The hookah couldn't help but tilt his head, pulling his dry throat, unable to suppress all kinds of doubts in his heart, and endured the uncomfortable words.
"The girl forgot? Yesterday, you thought that the old ancestor came to pick you up, waited in the rain for a day, and fainted from the cold," Yu Yu replied, her face was already bad, and she muttered: "The girl's body is weak, and the wind and rain are the most unsympathetic, so you believe the words of others, and wait so stupidly." ”
The hookah's eyelashes trembled a few times in succession, this is the bull's head is not in the horse's mouth, it is clear that he died of poisoning, where did she get the cold, how could she be so stupid to wait for the Shen family?
She became more and more puzzled, so she could only listen to the jade nagging while taking medicine.
For a while, the bitterness entered the throat and filled the entire mouth, and the taste was so real that the hookah couldn't help but confirm Fang Cai's guess.
Somehow, I saw the decoration of the house through the gap on the side of the jade.
A jade-colored bottle, a few pieces that can barely be old, with a few books on it......
This is clearly the house where she grew up as a child, and it is still the west courtyard of the Earl's Court!
There was a bitterness in my heart, and I only felt the pain in my head. The hookah pursed her pale lips, as if trying to remember something, but her brain seemed to be rusty, and she only remembered a few mottled and scattered fragments, and she thought carefully, and in an instant many things gradually surfaced like stones on the bank of the river after the tide receded.
The old house of the Shen family......
waited for the Shen family to be cold for half a month......
Isn't this exactly what happened in the nine years of Da Mo Guanying? And this year is the third year that she was abandoned in the old house by the Sun family to recuperate!
Oh, the hookah figured it out instantly.
It turned out that God had eyes, and he also took pity on the injustice she had suffered in her previous life, and really made her go back to eight years ago, when she was thirteen years old......
Thinking about her previous life, her mother accidentally passed away when she gave birth to her fifth brother, but she didn't expect that many years later, she was also harmed by a concubine to follow her mother's footsteps, and it was miserable to think about.
Thinking about it now, she had to be a little suspicious of her mother's death.