Chapter 52: Xiaoqi
"Mother...... I seem to have forgotten again...... Who am I going to marry. Xiaoqi lowered his head, like a child who had done something wrong.
"Xiaoqi, why did you forget again?" the woman asked with a hint of displeasure in her tone.
"I'm sorry, mother......"
Xiaoqi's voice was mixed with crying, she also hated herself like this, and she would always make her mother angry.
"Hey...... Actually, I don't blame you for that!"
The woman sighed lightly, touched Xiao Qi's head lovingly with the palm of her hand, and suddenly, her eyes stared viciously behind Xiao Qi, but she seemed to be staring at Xiao Qi, "It's all because the big tiger forced you down the cliff, and I pity my son......"
These Xiaoqi heard her mother mention a few days ago that she opened a pharmacy in the city, and the business was booming, but that day, there was a lack of medicinal materials in the pharmacy, and the store was short of manpower, so she had to go to the mountains alone to collect medicine, but she didn't want to meet a big tiger in the mountains, and when she was chased to a dead end, she jumped off the cliff.
After waking up, she was in a daze, often forgetting some things, but it was not amnesia, and the doctor in the pharmacy was only vaguely diagnosed as frightened, and he couldn't say why.
"Mother, don't be sad, doesn't your daughter still remember you?" Xiao Qi finished drinking the medicine and put the empty bowl back on the table.
The door opened.
The maid Zhuhuan sent another bowl of bubbling black bubble decoction, took away the empty bowl that Xiao Qi put on the table, and then retreated and covered the door.
The whole process was silent, as if he was afraid of disturbing the conversation between the mother and daughter.
Xiaoqi was afraid that mentioning her fiancΓ© would upset her mother again, so she immediately changed the topic.
"Mother, what are you going to do with that big tiger?" asked Xiao Qi.
"Of course it's killing and eating meat, the beasts in the mountains just like to come out to harm people, I heard that there are people in those villages below the mountain who have been bitten off by a tiger and have a leg broken, but it's scary!"
The woman's face was frightened, as if she had seen it with her own eyes.
Madame continued to explain: "When the time comes, they will feast on the big families in this city, and our family will naturally be invited. β
Xiao Qimu nodded.
Looking at himself seriously in the mirror, a pair of slightly raised peach blossom eyes, half-squinted smile, bent like a crescent moon, beautiful like a painting, but the black eyes were dull.
Xiao Qi touched her own face, this is a beautiful face, a face that can make a man fascinated, but there is no trace of life on this face, only lifeless dullness.
Was she like that before?
Xiao Qi had a trace of suspicion.
"Mother, I want to go out for a walk!" Xiao Qi said.
"Xiaoqi, the doctor said, your injury is just right, it is not suitable to go out, it is best to rest at home for a while. β
The woman looked at Xiao Qi with a concerned expression.
Xiaoqi, knowing that her mother was worried about her, her heart softened, so she didn't say anything.
"Comb it up, my Xiaoqi is really captivating, look at these two beads, which one do you prefer?" The woman glanced at the well-behaved person in the mirror, and was sincerely admired, as she spoke, she took out two bead hairpins from a delicate wooden box, and raised them in front of Xiaoqi's eyes with a smile on her face and asked.
Xiao Qi looked at himself in the mirror sluggishly, and squeezed out an extremely stiff smile: "Xiao Qi likes it all, which one my mother thinks is good-looking, so she will wear it for her daughter." β
In the mirror, she smiled very badly, like a hard piece of wood.
Xiao Qi was so engrossed that she didn't even seem to be able to smile.
"Okay, Xiaoqi, my mother will go to prepare the wedding dress for you first, you have to stay at home obediently, don't run around!" The woman smiled and put the remaining beaded hairpin back into the wooden box, got up and told Xiaoqi a few words, and left the boudoir.
Xiao Qi faced the mirror, fiddling left and right, and the red beaded flowers on his head also gently rippled with the amplitude of his head.
The red color is in full swing, like a death announcement......
An inexplicable anger suddenly rose on Xiao Qi's body, grabbed the hairpin on his bun, and threw it to the ground!
A crisp sound rang out from all directions, and red pearls splashed all over the ground, eventually scattering all corners of the ground.
The sound of the hairpin falling alarmed the people outside the door.
"Miss Qi, what's wrong?" a maid pushed the door in, looking at the pearls scattered all over the ground, and frowned.
The anger on Xiao Qi's body suddenly decreased, and he returned to his usual wooden tone: "I...... I accidentally broke my mother's hairpin......"
The maid was stunned for a moment, the different color in her eyes flashed, and then she smiled: "These are all things for Miss Qi, how Miss Qi wants to deal with it, then how to deal with it." β
The maid's tone was as usual, not respectful, not disrespectful, everything seemed to be as usual, but there was a hint of weirdness in the usual.
"I want to go out for a walk. Xiao Qi stared blankly at the door.
The maid smiled: "Madam has instructed, as long as the young lady does not leave the house, she can go anywhere." β
Xiao Qi nodded, raised his feet and was about to walk out the door, but was stopped by the maid.
"Miss's hairpin didn't bring it, the slave seems to see a hairpin in the drawer, Miss please sit down first, and the slave will put it on for you. β
The maid skillfully took out the delicate wooden box from the dresser, and there was a red hairpin in it, which was redder and brighter than the original one.
Xiao Qi did not refuse, still meekly sat back in front of the dresser, and let the maid insert the treacherous red bead hairpin into her bun.
"Miss, it's okay!" the maid showed a comfortable smile, "Miss, it's so beautiful!"
Xiao Qi's blank expression gradually faded, the light in his eyes gradually converged, and the corner of his mouth picked an arrogant smile: "Yes, even I like this face!"
Xiao Qi stared at himself in plain clothes, shook his head quite dissatisfied, and then, as if thinking of something, asked in a tough tone: "Slave, what about Miss Ben's set of golden silk and jade silk hundred birds and phoenix clothes?"
"Huh, that set of clothes?" the slave raised his head in confusion, and stopped talking, "That set of clothes...... Didn't the young lady dislike it too much two days ago, and then let the slave give it to ......"
"When did Miss Ben say that you didn't like it? Miss Ben saw that it was you, a dog minion, who took the clothes and sold them for silver, right?"
"Miss, the slave will never dare!" The slave knelt on the ground in a panic, lowered his head, and couldn't see his emotions clearly.
Xiao Qi stretched out two fingers as long as tender shoots, pinched the chin of the slave, and showed a creepy smile: "If you are short of silver, you can tell Miss Ben, can our Yuefu still not afford to give you a few hundred taels of silver?"
But my suit of clothes is not something that can only be bought with silver, but it also requires the blood of three living people to make it, and you say that you lost it, what should I do now?"