"He said it," Gu Shiba Niang said without hesitation.
As soon as he finished speaking, Lingbao had already rushed towards the door.
So, what she saw that day was not an apparition.
There was a dense flow of people outside the door, shouts of shouts and laughter, but there was no sign of Lingyuan.
Until the daylight gradually faded, Lingbao, who was standing outside the door and stared blankly, did not see the person he wanted to see.
"Maybe I guessed wrong." Gu Shiba Niang patted her on the shoulder, with a worried look on her face.
"No, no, Miss must have guessed right." Lingbao shook his head quickly and looked at Gu Shiba Niang with some pleading.
Gu Shiba Niang couldn't help but smile bitterly, secretly regretting why she had to say what she was thinking so straightforwardly just now. Thinking about it now, this idea was a bit too rash.
"Maybe it's not convenient for him to come, so I'll send a kite over first to put your mind at ease..." She said softly, took Lingbao back to the medicine hall, let her sit down on the chair, and then He took the hot tea and stuffed it into her hand.
Lingbao took a few sips of tea in a daze. The more he thought about it, the more he realized it was true, and his face became happy again.
"Yes, that must be the case. My brother must have no control over being a slave..." She nodded and said.
She stood up excitedly, as if she didn't know what to do first.
"I made clothes and shoes for my brother. I don't know if he has grown taller, thinner or fatter..." She rubbed her hands and said, then ran to the inner hall.
Gu Shiba Niang sighed, she just felt sad and didn't know what to say. She lowered her head and looked at the beauty kite in her hand, right? That child must still remember what he said that day, right
Beauty Kite was brought home by Gu Shiba Niang at Lingbao's insistence, while Butterfly Kite blamed Lingbao for keeping it in her bedroom like a treasure.
"Do you want to fly a kite?" Mrs. Cao was a little surprised and a little happy when she saw Gu Shiba Niang coming in with a kite.
If she could, she would rather eat chaffy vegetables, and would also like to see her daughter happy and enjoying this short and fleeting cardamom years every day.
"It was a gift from someone else..." Gu Shiba Niang said casually.
"Did someone give it to me?" Ms. Cao's face was even more surprised when she heard this. She walked over a few steps with a strange smile, "Who gave it to me?"
My mother's thoughts were like those of a teenage girl in front of Gu Shiba Niang, and she burst into laughter.
"No, it's...I bought it." Then she said again.
Mrs. Cao looked unbelieving, but she also knew that her daughter had an idea. If she didn't tell her, she would definitely not tell her. Asking would be in vain, so she stopped asking any more questions.
In the next few days, Lingyuan did not appear as they imagined. Gu Shiba Niang's heart sank. She felt that she had really thought too much. This kite should have been dropped by someone else, but when she looked at Lingbao With an expectant look on his face, he felt that having hope was better than having no hope.
As the pharmacist meeting mentioned by Gu Lingyun approached day by day, Gu Shiba Niang practiced even harder.
"Miss Miss"
Bletilla striata was being cooked on this day. According to the traditional method, bletilla striata should be soaked first and then steamed. However, Gu Shiba Niang mentioned in the book combined with Liu Gong that it might be possible to steam the bletilla striata without soaking it.
After taking out the steamed Bletilla striata until soft, Gu Shiba Niang picked up the knife and prepared to slice it when she heard the shopkeeper shouting and ran in from the outer hall.
Naturally, he would not enter the processing room, so he just stood in the yard and shouted.
"What's the matter?" Gu Shiba Niang looked a little displeased. Without stopping, she picked up the knife and dropped it into pieces. It was not sticky at all, and she couldn't help but be overjoyed on her face.
"Miss, go and take a look. There are many people outside, saying they are looking for Miss..." The shopkeeper seemed not to notice Gu Shiba Niang's displeasure and still shouted outside.
"No," Gu Shiba Niang replied.
"No, no, I'm not looking for you, miss. I'm looking for Miss Lingbao. I have to take Miss Lingbao away..." The shopkeeper's voice was anxious, with a hint of panic.
Those people from outside were dressed in extraordinary clothes, and their movements showed their noble status. That kind of aura was not something that ordinary wealthy people could develop.
They keep saying something about our young master. Could it be that a young master from some family has taken a liking to Lingbao
Although the legal system in the capital is strict, because the dignitaries from the entire Zhou Dynasty are concentrated here, it is inevitable that some innocuous bullying of men and women will occasionally occur.
"What?" The door of the processing room suddenly opened, and Gu Shiba Niang strode out, holding a medicine knife in her hand.
Apparently she thought of this too.
"Little Miss..." The shopkeeper was startled and looked at the eighteenth lady who had already gone to the lobby.
In the lobby, Lingbao was so frightened by these people that his face turned pale.
"I don't know your young master, I don't know your young master..." She just repeated this sentence.
"Who are you?" Gu Shiba Niang's voice sounded like the sound of nature.
Lingbao squeezed out from the crowd of three or four maids, grabbed Gu Shiba Niang's arm and stood behind her.
The maids and the four young men in green clothes were stunned for a moment when they first saw the girl holding a knife standing over with an unfriendly expression, and then the other young men laughed.
"Ha~ Is this a fish killer?"
"It's a pig butcher, right?"
Gu Shiba Niang sneered and glanced at these people.
"Whoever you are, get out of here," she shouted.
The boys were not afraid at all and stood up straight.
"Hey, brothers, this is the first time I heard someone tell us to get out..."
They all laughed as they spoke, and the pretty maids also covered their mouths and giggled.
"Little madam, we are from the Zhu Mansion..." One of the Liu Yaobaomen walked out and pointed out the door.
There were two carriages parked outside the door. They were extremely luxurious and had lanterns with inscriptions on them.
"I don't care if you are pigs, sheep, or dogs, get out of here," Gu Shiba Niang shouted with a stern face, without even looking at the door.
The boys laughed, and some of them wanted to say something else, but an older one waved his hand and stopped everyone's noise.
"This little lady, this matter has nothing to do with you. We are here to take Miss Lingbao back home on the orders of our eldest young master. We have no ill intentions." He said while rushing to Lingbao who was hiding behind Gu Shiba Niang. With a smile on his face, "Miss Lingbao, let's go home."
Reaching out to hold the trembling Lingbao, Gu Shiba Niang casually waved the knife in her hand and inserted it on a table nearby.
"Who is your eldest young master?" she asked.
At this moment, the sound of galloping horse hooves came from a distance.
As if she noticed something, Gu Shiba Niang's heart moved and she looked outside.
Accompanied by the horse's long neigh, a figure strode in. Almost at the same time, all eyes in the room focused on the visitor.
This young man is tall and thin, wearing narrow-sleeved Chinese clothes, with black hair and a crown. He is really a young leader.
When she saw who was coming, no matter what other people were like, Gu Shiba Niang felt her head pounding.
"Brother..." Lingbao rushed over, hugged him tightly and cried loudly.
"Bao'er..." Lingyuan also looked excited, his eyes were red, and he was choking.
Seeing the two brothers and sisters meet each other, the servant and the pretty maids immediately put on expressions of sadness and joy, making the atmosphere in the room very lively.
"Second Young Master..." The young man stepped forward to comfort him, "If you have anything to say about taking the young lady back, we can talk to our family..."
Lingyuan then looked at them and frowned slightly, "Did the eldest young master ask you to come?"
"No," the young man said with a smile, "The young master has made arrangements and the house has been tidied up..."
"Everything about the furniture is new. The eldest young master said that everything will be arranged according to the arrangement of our first wife..." A pretty maid with slender eyebrows, plump breasts and waist rushed to say.
"Thank you very much, young master," Lingyuan nodded, keeping his eyes on Lingbao, "You can go back first."
"Then the young master and the young lady..." The pretty maid wanted to say something more, but was pulled back by the young man and stopped with a look.
"Yes." The boy said respectfully and waved his hand. The people in the room immediately left the room, leaving only the four of them.
The shopkeeper also came to his senses at this time, and quietly backed out.
"Brother, brother, it's really you..." Lingbao still seemed to be in a dream. He couldn't believe that the Lingyuan in front of him was real, and he stretched out his hand to touch his brother's face.
Although this face is thin, it is not rough. On the contrary, it is fairer than before.
When she touched Lingyuan's clothes, she could tell that they were of good quality, covered with exquisite embroidery patterns, and the jade belt around her waist was warm and delicate.
She lowered her head and saw a pair of green-faced and white-soled Xiaochao boots, which were the favorite style of teenagers from the powerful families in Beijing. When she was waiting outside the houses of wealthy families to find out where her brother was, she would often see those on horseback, on foot or in a car. Young men like this show their shoes under their clothes.
She thought of the neatly wrapped clothes and shoes in her house, and she really couldn't take them out.
"Brother..." Her tears began to fall again, and she said the words "you must suffer" in her heart a thousand times but could never say them out again.
"Bao'er, you have suffered..." Lingyuan reached out to wipe her tears and said with sorrowful eyes.
Lingbao bit his lower lip and shook his head, "It's not bitter, it's not bitter. As long as I can be with my brother again, Lingbao won't be bitter at all..."
"Brother will never abandon you again..." Lingyuan said solemnly, stroking his sister's head.
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Gu Shiba Niang's deep voice echoing in the room.
"Lingbao, come here."
As soon as this sound broke into his ears, Lingyuan was suddenly suffocated.
His heartbeat was beating so hard that there was no other sound in his ears, only the thumping of his own heartbeat, which made his eardrums swell.
His head froze, and he seemed to have exhausted all his strength. It took him a long time to land his eyes on the girl. She was the person he wanted to see as soon as he entered the door, but did not dare to look at her.
She stood there with a graceful figure, but she exuded a chilling air. Her eyes collided with his, and it was like a cold knife flew straight into her heart.
Her eyes were so strange and indifferent, Ling Yuan felt as if his heart was about to jump out of his throat and sank suddenly.
"Little..." He opened his mouth to say something, but found that his voice was stiff.
"Miss..." Lingbao just thought that Gu Shiba Niang was still angry, her palms and backs were all flesh, and she couldn't bear to part with any of them, so she let go of her brother, ran over and shook Gu Ba Niang's arm, whispering Begging, "Miss, don't be angry with my brother. It's all my brother's fault. Whatever you want him to do, just forgive him this time, okay..."
Gu Shiba Niang's expression did not move, she just focused on Ling Yuan standing opposite.
She was looking at herself, but Lingyuan felt that the gaze penetrated her and did not fall on her.
she. . . . Don't you want to see yourself
"You don't have a brother." Gu Shiba Niang looked away, her expression becoming even more indifferent.
Lingyuan and Lingbao were startled when they heard this.
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I’m going back tomorrow. I’m tired from the car ride, so I won’t update anymore. I’ll update it on the 6th with more words.