The thick black feather eyelashes trembled slightly like the light wings of a butterfly in the breeze. Jiang Nianjun looked at the hazy environment through his long eyelashes.
She was lying on a cypress bed carved with plum blossom patterns and lotus petals, with a curtain of blue chardonnay and hibiscus flowers on her head. Through the shadowy screen, a bed screen embroidered with pink lotus gauze was not far away.
On the left side of the bed screen, near the lattice window, is an elm wood single board clamp tenon case with ink, calligraphy and inkstone on it. The white jade carved landscape paperweight has a warm luster in the sunlight through the window lattice. The paperweight is smooth and moist, and the case is reflected with light color. Both the paper and the case seem to be new and unused.
At the bottom left of the case is a red sandalwood bookshelf. On the bookshelf are books filled with poems about spring flowers and drizzle. Poetry collections such as "Southern Dynasties Hurt Spring" and "Late Spring Twilight Rain" are full of bookshelves. Everything is clean. Obviously, people often clean it. But the poetry collections seem to have not been read several times by the owner. They are neatly placed on the bookshelf, without even seeing any book folds.
On the lower right side of the case is a yellow pear multi treasure box, on which there are Longquan celadon vases, jade pot spring bottles and other objects. In addition, when looking carefully, there is a dark box near the case. The handle of the dark box is smooth and worn, and it seems that the owner often opens it for fun. Jiang Nianjun knew that it was his Baoge when he was twelve years old. It contained twelve wonderful porcelain dolls with different expressions and postures that his father got from the Western Regions.
Although Jiang Nianjun didn't see the furniture clearly, she was too familiar with these things. Isn't this the boudoir that her father tried his best to decorate for her? She has stayed in the boudoir for ten years. For her, everything in the room has a kind of intimacy.
Jiang Nianjun shed tears. If going to hell is to go back to her own boudoir and stay with her father, mother and sister, she is willing to go through fire and water.
Jiang Nianjun wept silently until her tears wetted the stomach pocket of the emerald lotus embroidery on her chest. She felt cold, and her arms were cold with pimples. But how can the dead feel cold?
Jiang Nianjun sat up abruptly and raised his hand. It was a small hand with smooth skin but some yellowing. There was a slight cocoon in the palm. It seemed that the owner of these hands had done a lot of hard work.
Jiang Nianjun lifted the brocade quilt on his body. He was excited and trembling. He trotted to the makeup chamber and looked at the brass gilded glass mirror. The face in his memory was an ordinary little face, but only a pair of big eyes with bright light. It seemed that there were ripples of water when turning, which added color to such an ordinary face, However, the yellow skin color also shows that the girl in the mirror is sickly and has no spirit.
Jiang Nianjun finally determined that she was reborn, and this incredible thing really happened to her!
In a great shock, Jiang Nianjun staggers back a few steps, not noticing that the dressing chair after a few steps is stirred, and even people with the chair roll on the ground.
The noise in the room alerted the servant girl in the outer wing, Su Qin. Su Qin hurriedly opens the door of the room and comes in to look at it. She is shocked. "Why don't you wake up? Are you thirsty for tea?" Su Qin suppresses the cry to her mouth and hurries to help Jiang Nianjun, who is only wearing a belly pocket.
Jiang Nianjun looked at Su Qin and opened his mouth. Before he could say anything, tears began to flow down. Su Qin was even more shocked and frightened. While helping Jiang Nianjun back to warm his bed, she hurriedly wiped her tears with a handkerchief. "What's wrong with the eldest lady? Is it a nightmare? I'm not afraid. Su Qin is with you."
Looking at Su Qin, who is one year younger than himself but holds himself in his arms like a small adult, Jiang Nianjun's tears flow more fiercely, but he doesn't make a choking sound. However, the silent tears are even more painful. Su Qin didn't understand how she woke up and the eldest daughter cried so bitterly, as if she had experienced some painful experience. However, Su Qin didn't dare to comfort her again, but held Jiang Nianjun tighter and wrapped the brocade quilt on the cypress bed to prevent her from catching cold.
Jiang Nianjun enjoyed the considerate care of Suqin. Thinking about the loyal servant girl in the previous life, she was punished by Mammy Shen for saying to herself that she was far away from the King of Jin. Later, she went to Chuangzi to recuperate, but she died of illness. Then, Mammy Shen's niece, Jiao Hongding, went to Suqin's place.
Jiang Nianjun can't help but wonder now whether Mammy Shen, who has a kind and smiling face, really thinks for herself wholeheartedly?
"Girl, girl, what's the matter with you?" A woman in her fifties who was wearing a crimson satin coat and slightly fattened came in. It was Mammy Shen who saw Jiang Nianjun crying and lying in the arms of Su Qin. She hurried forward without asking why. Regardless of Jiang Nianjun lying on his stomach, she played the Su Qin, raised her hands and landed heavily on Su Qin's face, "Damn you, I just walked away for a while. You mean servant girl made the girl cry angrily. If I don't punish you, the less you care about the master!"
Jiang Nianjun didn't know whether he was dazzled or hallucinated, but he found that Mammy Shen was secretly happy and jealous of Su Qin.
Su Qin was stunned by the beating, and half of her face was swollen. It could be seen that her eyes were full of tears because of pain, but she just didn't cry. She just knelt down silently and asked Mammy for punishment
"You are still aware of your mistake, but the death penalty can be avoided, and the death penalty cannot be avoided. You should kneel outside for two hours, and deduct one year's salary. Go." Mammy Shen proudly lost her lute, and even said the word "I". In this age when the master and servant are distinct, it is disrespectful for the servant to call me "I" in front of the master. It can be seen that Mammy Shen is very proud. Otherwise, why would she make such a low grade mistake if she always claimed that she knows etiquette best?
Jiang Nianjun looked at the farce coldly. As soon as Mammy Shen came in, she gave up her warm Suqin and condemned her without asking her opinion in front of the master. Does she think she will follow her instructions or pick up soft persimmons to wring?
Mammy Shen finished sending Su Qin out of the room, and after watching Su Qin go out of the room, she turned her face to carefully observe Jiang Nianjun's face, and said with worry, "Look, girl, I have already sent Su Qin out of my humble servant. Don't be sad, girl. Mammy is with you."
"Why didn't Mammy ask me why I was crying?" Jiang Nianjun had already dried his tears and sat on the bed with his water eyes now deep and frightening. When Mammy Shen saw Jiang Nianjun's unusual performance, she was a little uncertain and said, "It's not Suqin's little girl, otherwise, how could the girl be unprovoked?"
Before Mammy Shen finished, Jiang Nianjun calmly interrupted her, "I'm just a nightmare. You go out and ask Su Qin to get up and give her the jade cream I got in front of me. Her daughter's family looks the most delicate. Seeing Su Qin's face swollen like that, it's not convenient to go into the room to wait on her and dial two little girls to take care of her. But the salary is based on it."
Mammy Shen's face was blue and white, and now it turned red. She knew she was angry without looking. The girl really slapped herself in the face when she said this. After she ordered Su Qin to be punished, she was exempted from the punishment of Su Qin and rewarded the precious jade cream. When it's done, I don't know how the driver slave in the yard can arrange himself. So Mammy Shen repressed her anger and said in a deep voice, "It's not right for you to do this."
"I don't need you to teach me how to do it, Mammy. Go out."
Mammy Shen choked. She didn't believe Jiang Nianjun would say such words. Seeing Jiang Nianjun, she seemed really angry, so she had to bite her teeth and quit the wing room. Out of the wing room of the inner room, Mammy Shen could not figure out why Jiang Nianjun would not listen to her. Slowly strolled to the door. After all, he did not dare to oppose Jiang Nianjun. He walked out of the wing room of the outer room and opened the door. It was deep winter. It was snowing outside. There was a dragon in the room, but it was still cold, but when he got out of the room, he shivered.
In the bare yard, only a small body in a stone blue cotton padded jacket knelt there. From time to time, in the ear rooms and corridors on the east and west sides of the main room, a little girl or woman looked out to see the kneeling lute.
In the more spacious and comfortable ear room in the east of the main room, two girls of about 10 years old, dressed in stone blue cotton padded jackets like plain zither, were sitting anxiously in the room. At this time, the curtain of the ear room was lifted, and another girl with the same dress came in. The two girls who were sitting greeted him: "Zhihua, what's the matter? What's the matter? How was Sister Suqin punished to kneel in the yard? It was snowing outside, so Sister Suqin's legs were destroyed!"
I got news from outside and told my companion that Zhihua was the girl, Zhihua sighed: "The girl who didn't leave her head said that she didn't dare to approach the house when she heard a noise in the house. She was curious to go to the window eaves that weren't closed tightly to see what was going on, but the eldest lady somehow had a nightmare. She cried against the vegetable lute, and was misunderstood by Mammy Shen who came in later. She was punished for kneeling for two hours in the yard, and was also fined a year's salary. The little girl was frightened. She knew that I was good with Su Qin, so she came to tell me quickly and let us discuss countermeasures. "
Yongqi tightened her handkerchief and said, "What's the solution? The eldest daughter has listened to Mammy Shen. Do you see when she rejected Mammy Shen's decision in the past year?"
Shu Yi also sighed, "Don't mention the misunderstanding, Mammy Shen is not clear, and it is estimated that only the eldest lady thinks she is good. What's more, Mammy Shen is angry with Su Qin when that happens."
After hearing this, the other two girls were silent, thinking that Su Qin might not pass this test.
Besides, Mammy Shen's teeth itched with hatred when she looked at the Su Qin, which was kneeling on the snow and had begun to show its beauty at a young age. This time, the girl refuted her old face. It must be the dead girl who slandered in front of the girl. Last time, my nephew was so obsessed that he wanted to marry the little goblin. His handsome nephew, even the serious daughter of a small family, also married him. But the little goblin was despised and dared to satirize. If you look down on your nephew, you look down on your old woman. Now I finally found a chance to destroy this disdainful dead girl, but the girl said something. OK, I'll spare you this time. I can't kill you next time.
Mammy Shen showed her fierce eyes and walked up to Su Qin. She saw Su Qin raising her face and staring at herself obstinately. Her hands were itching and she wanted to slap her face on that beautiful little face. But she remembered the girl's attitude, so she had to hold back and gnash her teeth and said, "I should let you see your attitude of disregarding dignity and inferiority. This is your good luck. She is kind and merciful, and let you go. Next time you won't be so lucky! "
"Regardless of the seniority? Su Qin thinks that she always abides by her duty as a servant to the first lady. If you are Mammy, you are the first lady's nurse in name, but in fact Mammy also knows that everyone came to wait on the first lady only a year ago. Everyone is a slave. To Mammy, Su Qin only respects the elderly. When it comes to seniority, Mammy can't really be called" respect "." Su Qin knew that she and Mammy Shen had split their skins long ago, and no one else was there at this time. She just poured salt on Mammy Shen's wound, so Su Qin, who was usually calm and steady, said every word of what she said now. She was so angry that Mammy Shen could hardly stand still, pointing to Su Qin and trembling, "You, you"
Su Qin paid no attention to Mother Shen. She knocked her head to the main room and shouted, "Thank you, Miss." Of course, Jiang Nianjun, who lives in the wing room of the inner room, could not hear her. Su Qin only told the servants who were looking around to see the situation. It was the Miss who pardoned herself, not Mother Shen. This is the invisible suppression of Mammy Shen.
Although Mammy Shen was proud of her favor, she was not a fool. It was because of this that she understood Su Qin's behavior and was even more angry and dizzy.
Suqin stood up after knocking her head, because she hadn't been kneeling for long, but the cotton padded trousers on her knees were wet, and the others didn't matter much. Suqin stood up and went straight to the east ear room without looking at Mammy Shen.
When two women who were usually better with Mammy Shen saw that Mammy Shen was not quite right, they hurried forward to hold Mammy Shen and help her back to the west wing room (Mammy Shen's room), cursing at Su Qin all the way.
Mammy Shen went back to the room to have a rest for a while, and finally got her breath out of her mouth. But she didn't dare to disobey Jiang Nianjun's words and took the Yurong Paste from the storeroom. But she really didn't want to see Suqin, so she asked the servant girl to send the Yurong Paste to the east ear room.
Besides, the East Room was originally a heavy atmosphere, but it was soon broken with the return of Suqin.
Yongqi, Shuyihe and Zhihua were surprised and delighted when they saw Suqin coming back. They welcomed Suqin and saw that her face was half swollen. They were distressed and in a hurry. Yongqi went to get clean cotton pants for Suqin to replace wet cotton pants. Shuyi went to get a small ice cube to help Suqin cover the swelling on her face. Zhihua brewed a cup of hot tea to warm Suqin's stomach.
Yongqi, who was straightforward, could not hide her joy when she saw Suqin who had changed her cotton pants. "How could Sister Suqin escape from Mammy Shen's punishment so easily this time?"
Su Chin's calm face couldn't help smiling. "It's a gift from the eldest lady."
"The eldest lady is finally not confused this time." Yongqi, who was talking, was hit by Zhihua with his elbow. He immediately responded, and then looked at Suqin's face. The smile disappeared, and his face stared at him. Wing Chess can't help but be afraid. Su Qin loves her best, and can't let others say no to her. How could he forget it?
Shuyi put ice on Suqin's face and quickly opened the topic: "Sister Suqin, it will hurt a little. Please bear it."
Suqin nodded, endured the pain, and stared at the chess. "Next time, don't let me hear you say something wrong about the eldest lady."
After listening to Yong Qi, she kept nodding and saying yes. She was curious about Su Qin. Su Qin is usually cautious, so Mammy Shen can't catch her mistakes. This time, because Mammy Shen almost destroyed her legs, does she really care about her? However, if Yongqi knew that Suqin was now thinking of putting on her face and returning to the main room to wait on Jiang Nianjun when he woke up, I didn't know how he would feel.
Just at this time, a young girl's voice came from outside, "Sister Suqin, Mammy Shen asked Yishui to send jade cream to her sister."
The four girls in the ear room were stunned when they heard this. Zhihua hurried to the door, opened the door and let Yi Shui in. "Is it really the jade cream?" Zhihua knew that the master had got the jade cream from the imperial physician because he was afraid of the first and second young ladies knocking. So the eldest lady has only a few boxes of jade cream. Now she rewards such precious jade cream to Su Qin?
Yi Shui presents a box with delicate peach petals on it. Su Qin gently takes it and slowly opens the box. A faint fragrance of peach blossoms slowly spreads in the room. Looking at the translucent ointment in the box, Su Qin finally believes that it is really jade cream. Su Qin knew that Mammy Shen had neither the kindness nor the courage to anoint herself. The person who told Mammy Shen must be the eldest lady.
"Yishui, thank you. I got some silk flowers before. I thought it was the most suitable for you. Yongqi, help me go to the box of silk flowers in the cloth cabinet and bring them to Yishui." Suqin smiled at Yishui, and saw Yishui's eyes brighten. Her big eyes twinkled with joy. "Thank you, Sister Suqin."
It has to be said that Su Qin knows how to guess people's hearts and will bribe others appropriately. Therefore, the servants of the whole Ziwei Garden have been more or less favored by her. So she was punished, and a girl came to inform her and wanted to help her.
Before she left, Yi Shui also told Su Qin that Mammy Shen would send two little girls to wait on her. She also reminded Su Qin that she was afraid that she might stumble on her.
After seeing Yi Shui off, Yong Qi looks at Su Qin and stops. "Sister Su Qin, look, what does this mean, eldest lady?"
Suqin stood up, carefully put the jade cream into the inner sleeve pocket, and walked out of the ear room. "No matter what the eldest lady means, I have to thank her."
