"Sister, don't cry. I won't hit you."
While Sixth Miss was in tears, Li Shu walked over to her and comforted her, then stretched out her delicate hands to wipe away Sixth Miss's tears.
It would have been fine if she hadn't stretched out her hand, but once she did, Miss Six was so scared that she couldn't stop crying.
"Okay, sister, don't cry. Look, I threw away the whip." Li Shu spoke in the tone of an elder sister comforting her younger sister, and then she threw the whip in her hand to the ground.
Seeing this, Sixth Miss' tears gradually stopped, but because she had just cried too hard, she was still sobbing at this moment.
"Okay, don't cry anymore." Li Shu stretched out her arms, held Miss Six in her arms and comforted her softly.
In the eyes of everyone, Li Shu is a generous and caring older sister. Seeing her sister crying at this moment, she softened her heart and stopped pursuing her sister's fault.
Lady Linhuai was still thinking about how to end the incident, but now she felt relieved when she saw Li Shu hugging the Sixth Miss to comfort her. Li Shu's future husband, Zhu Ping'an, had just won the first place in the imperial examination. If Li Shu insisted on pursuing the matter, she would not be too partial to Zhu'er.
Fortunately, Li Shu stopped in time.
In the eyes of everyone, Li Shu's gentleness continues.
After Li Shu hugged Miss Six and comforted her for a few words, she slowly lowered her head, approached Miss Six's ear with a gentle face, slightly opened her red lips, whispered, and gently comforted her again.
Li Shu was so gentle that no one else could hear her words of comfort, only Miss Six could hear them.
"Sister, please stop crying. Crying too much can kill you. Sister, have you ever heard of a story from the Three Kingdoms period? The lord Yuan Shu, sister, have you heard of it? Yuan Shu had a concubine named Feng, who was very beautiful, with a round face and big eyes. Hehe... She looked just like you, extremely beautiful. Oh, what a coincidence, his concubine is also from the north, just like you."
"Yuan Shu's concubine, Feng, was originally from the north and fled to Yangzhou. Yuan Shu's hometown is in the south. Oh. Just like Zhu Ping'an, he is also a southerner. The girl surnamed Feng was so beautiful that Yuan Shu fell in love with her as soon as she arrived in Yangzhou. He spent a lot of money to buy her and put her in the backyard as a concubine. Concubine Feng was a beauty. She was so beautiful that she was several times more beautiful than the women in Yuan Shu's backyard. Naturally, Yuan Shu was happy and did not want to leave his country. He favored Concubine Feng day and night."
"Yuan Shu's favoritism towards Concubine Feng naturally made the other women in the backyard jealous and dissatisfied. So, they thought of a way. They suppressed their dissatisfaction, put on a smile, and played with Concubine Feng every day. If there was anything delicious or fun, they would take care of Concubine Feng first. Even if Concubine Feng took a fancy to the rarest items Yuan Shu rewarded them with, they would give them to Concubine Feng without hesitation, treating her better than Yuan Shu did. With such kindness, even stones would be warmed. Gradually, Concubine Feng also let go of her heart and became good sisters with them. The backyard was harmonious and beautiful, and Yuan Shu enjoyed the blessing of having many wives, so naturally he would not have any objections."
"Good sisters are naturally able to talk about anything. The other women in the backyard compliment Concubine Feng on her appearance every day, but at the same time they will also discuss the future with Concubine Feng from the heart. Whenever they have the chance, they will whisper in Concubine Feng's ear, saying that a woman's appearance is only temporary and there will never be an ageless face. Sister, you are the most beautiful today and the most beautiful tomorrow. You can also firmly hold our lord's heart in one or two years, but what about five or ten years later? Our lord has ambitions to rule the world, and new sisters will continue to come to the backyard. By then, can you still guarantee that you are the most beautiful and can still hold the lord's heart as firmly as you do today? Concubine Feng was persuaded. She was very worried. At this time, the other women in the backyard began to help Concubine Feng with strategies."
"These women are telling concubine Feng that if you want to tie a man's body, you have to tie his heart, and if you want to tie a man's heart, you have to understand his heart. Our lord is ambitious about the world, so he naturally likes women who are ambitious about the world. We mentally handicapped women can't gallop on the battlefield like a general, nor can we make decisions thousands of miles away like a military advisor, but we can worry about the country and the people."
"If my sister often shows concern for the country and the people when she is with the lord, and then sheds a few tears, our lord will definitely regard my sister as a confidant and naturally love my sister to the bone. Even if there are new people in the backyard all the time, my sister will still be a treasure in the lord's heart."
"My sisters were so good to me in the past, so they naturally wouldn't lie to me. So, Concubine Feng believed it. Whenever I was with Yuan Shu, I always acted as if I was worried about the country and the people. There was a drought in Nanyang and the people didn't have enough food to eat. I was so worried that I burst into tears. There was a flood in Shouchun, which submerged many crops. My poor crops, the people were going to starve again, and I burst into tears again. There was a plague in Huainan and bandits in Fengqiu..."
"As long as Yuan Shu is around, I will cry day and night, just like my sister, sobbing and tearing up."
Li Shu leaned close to the Sixth Miss's ear, smiling like a flower and looking gentle, but her voice was eerie, just like when Zhu Ping'an told her ghost stories.
"After some time, the other women in the backyard took advantage of Yuan Shu's absence and strangled Concubine Feng to death with a rope, and then hung her from the beam with a white silk."
Hearing this, Miss Six turned pale with fright and tried to break free, but Li Shu held her tightly, and Li Shu continued to speak gently in Miss Six's ear.
"When Yuan Shu arrived, he saw Concubine Feng hanging from the beam and was very sad. The women in the backyard told Yuan Shu that Concubine Feng had committed suicide, saying that Concubine Feng heard that the people in a certain place were living in dire straits and felt depressed, and finally she committed suicide. 'Feng was a man of integrity and often cried with sorrow', which Yuan Shu had known for a long time, so when he heard that Concubine Feng had committed suicide, he did not doubt it, and cried for several days, and then the matter was left unresolved."
"Sister, you said you love to cry. If you cry so sadly today and tomorrow, what will others think if you accidentally repeat the mistakes of Concubine Feng and are hung on the beams by some jealous people?"
Li Shu whispered in Miss Six's ear and asked with a smile.
"ah... "
Finally, Miss Six couldn't bear it anymore. She pushed Li Shu away and screamed, as if she had seen something terrible. She ran away crying.
It's so scary, woooo... Sister Five is so scary! I want to go home...
Miss Six ran back to her yard without looking back, sobbing all the way. She ran very fast as if there was a dog chasing her.
Before the girls could react, they saw Sixth Miss running back to her yard without looking back.
Well
In everyone's eyes, Miss Six, Li Zhu, was almost guilty of a crime. She was moved by the gentleness of others and cried out of guilt...
"Okay, now that the matter is clear, this may be a misunderstanding. Perhaps Shu'er misunderstood my sister. I will go to your house to apologize to my sister Zhu'er another day. Aunt, I think we should just let it go."
After the Sixth Miss left, Li Shu walked up to the wife of Linhuai Marquis and said after a moment of hesitation.
Family disgrace should not be made public. Li Shu was able to take the initiative to sacrifice herself to settle the matter peacefully. How could the wife of Linhuai Hou not agree
Therefore, the matter was resolved under the disposal of Lady Linhuai. Today's poison soup incident was a misunderstanding and had nothing to do with Miss Six. She was not allowed to mention it again in the future. In addition, in order to comfort Li Shu, Lady Linhuai set up a small kitchen in Li Shu's yard. From now on, Li Shu's meals can be cooked by people in Li Shu's yard, and the expenses will be paid by the public account. In addition, Lady Linhuai also decided to leave the girl tied to the tree to Li Shu, and then someone asked someone to ask for the contract from Miss Six and sent it over.
After the matter was resolved, everyone dispersed and Li Shu's courtyard returned to peace.
In Li Shu's boudoir, there were only Li Shu and her maid Baozi. Li Shu sat at her desk and wrote a letter and asked Baozi to take it to Wang Xiaoer:
She was properly settled in a Lingnan manor, and married to an honest local man. Her dowry was treated as a first-class maid's, and was strictly guarded and not allowed to go north. (To be continued.)