That Anda was indeed quite capable. After taking one pill, Snowball stopped having diarrhea an hour later, and was able to stand up tremblingly early the next morning.
Zhou Shaojin was overjoyed and personally fed Snowball a few mouthfuls of rice soup.
Snowball barked and rubbed Zhou Shaojin's skirt affectionately.
Zhou Shaojin picked it up and put it in the bamboo basket.
Snowball lay obediently in the basket, staring at Zhou Shaojin with his big round, dark eyes, which melted Zhou Shaojin's heart.
Shi Xiang, who came in to collect the bowls, saw this and said with a smile, "It's no wonder that the second young lady spent so much effort to save it. It knows how to repay the kindness."
Zhou Shaojin nodded, took the embroidery frame and sat beside Xueqiu's bamboo basket to embroider the forehead scarf: "Otherwise why do some people say that this dog is the most loyal!"
Shi Xiang answered "yes" with a smile, and couldn't help but touch Snowball's head, then she walked out with the dishes.
During lunch, Zhou Shaojin and Shi Xiang fed Snowball another pill.
Jiying came over.
She asked Zhou Shaojin: "Is Snowball feeling better? I have asked someone to find a few doctors who can treat dogs. Don't worry, Snowball will definitely get better."
Zhou Shaojin thanked her and said, "I can stand up now. If I take another pill today, I should be able to walk tomorrow."
"That's good!" Ji Ying felt relieved after hearing this and said, "It's getting late. You should go to Hanbi Mountain House! I'll be watching over you here."
Zhou Shaojin didn't have a better idea, so he told Jiying some things to pay attention to and went to Hanbi Mountain House.
Because he was always thinking about Snowball, Zhou Shaojin wrote a little sloppily at the beginning. It was only after he wrote two pages that he calmed down. He then rewrote the two pages. As a result, it took him an entire afternoon to copy only half of the original scriptures.
Biyu asked her what was wrong with her, and she just said that she didn't sleep well and went back half an hour earlier than usual.
Jiying held Snowball in his arms and sat on the bed, combing its hair while reading a book.
This went on for three days.
Zhou Shaojin was very surprised.
She thought Jiying just felt guilty when she saw that Snowball was sick, so she took time out to take care of Snowball, but she didn't expect that she would come every afternoon.
According to the date, Uncle Chi should be back soon.
Isn't she afraid of being blamed by Uncle Chi for doing this
The socks were clearly made by herself, and Nanping should have been able to tell at a glance. Or maybe she had already given up, and simply fell out with Nanping
On the fourth day, Zhou Shaojin asked Jiying, "Is everything okay in your room? Miss Nanping hasn't said anything about you coming here every day, right?"
This is clearly an attempt to drive her away!
Jiying felt very uncomfortable and said, "Don't worry, I won't bother you again when Xueqiu gets better."
Zhou Shaojin had quarreled with Jiying before, and she was angry. But now that time has passed and Jiying has given her such a cute and well-behaved Snowball, the anger in her heart has subsided.
She couldn't help but say, "I'm not trying to drive you away. I'm just worried that you won't be able to explain yourself to Uncle Chi."
"It's okay." Ji Ying heaved a sigh of relief and said disapprovingly, "With Nan Ping here, your uncle Chi will have people serving him."
She still had that cool and elegant look, but inexplicably, Zhou Shaojin felt that she looked a little lonely.
Or maybe this is the case with people who are too good-looking. They can't blend in with the crowd as easily as people with average looks.
Zhou Shaojin had also suffered similar hardships in his previous life.
Her heart softened, and she said, "How's the bet between you and Nanping going? With her eyesight, I'm afraid you can't hide it from her."
Ji Ying waved her hand nonchalantly and said, "I admit defeat. What else can she do to me? She just asked me to serve tea and water to your uncle Chi to warm his feet. I made up my mind, what can I not do!"
Are your feet still hot
Just look at Jiying's arrogant look and you will know that she must regard this as a great shame and humiliation, just like herself in her previous life.
Zhou Shaojin hesitated and said, "Why don't you learn the cross stitch from me? Miss Nanping only asked you to make four pairs of socks, but she didn't say what kind of socks you had to make? As long as Uncle Chi thinks you did a good job, Miss Nanping can't say you didn't do a good job, right?"
Ji Ying was stunned, looked at Zhou Shaojin for a long while, and said, "You, you are still willing to teach me needlework?"
"Why wouldn't you be reluctant?" Zhou Shaojin said with a smile, "Didn't you give me a snowball? I can help you, too."
Jiying didn't say anything for a long time.
Zhou Shaojin said what she had been holding in her heart for many days: "You are so smart, you don't seem like someone who can't learn needlework. Is it that you... don't like to learn it?"
"I don't really like studying..." Ji Ying was stunned and said, "You mean, I, I don't want to be a maid?"
"Yes!" Zhou Shaojin said sincerely, "The early bird catches the worm! You are so smart. If you really want to, you can learn anything. I think the reason you can't learn is because you don't want to learn."
Ji Ying's expression seemed a little obscure and he didn't say anything for a long time.
Zhou Shaojin felt that this matter might be related to Jiying's background. But since Jiying didn't say anything, she couldn't point it out. She could only persuade her vaguely: "Unless you don't want to be a maid, you will have to learn these things sooner or later. Why do you have to make things difficult for yourself?" She thought of the time when she went to Qingyin Pavilion and Jiying's miserable appearance lying on the ground. She felt that Uncle Chi might treat her very ordinary. After thinking about it, she said, "Nanping is the head of Uncle Chi's house now. Although she has some rifts with you, she is not a petty person. But she can't stay in Uncle Chi's house all the time. When she gets married one day, you can't fulfill the duties of a maid like this. Are you going to wait for someone with less experience than you to order you around? You have to plan for your future."
Jiying said nothing.
Zhou Shaojin sighed secretly in his heart.
Every family has its own problems.
Some things you can only figure out on your own.
She said no more and continued to embroider her forehead scarf.
When she had embroidered almost half of the flower, Ji Ying suddenly spoke up and said, "Second Miss, I was actually forced to be Cheng Zichuan's maid because my father and Cheng Zichuan... lost the bet."
"Ah!" Zhou Shaojin's hand trembled, and his finger was pricked by the embroidery needle, and blood beads rolled out.
She quickly put her finger in her mouth and sucked it, then said: "What is going on? I don't think Uncle Chi is the kind of person you said?"
Ji Ying snorted coldly and said, "Your uncle Chi is not such a person? Then what kind of person is he?" After that, she stopped the topic again and said, "Anyway, this is a long story. In the end, my father lost the bet. According to what my father had agreed with Cheng Zichuan, my second brother had to be Cheng Zichuan's servant for ten years. But at that time, my second brother was already married, and my second sister-in-law was pregnant. In ten years, when my second brother returned, their children would be old enough to help with cooking. What's more, my second sister-in-law is my best friend, and I couldn't bear to see my second sister-in-law and my second brother go their separate ways... So I persuaded my father to let me go to the mansion and be Cheng Zichuan's maid."
"Ten years?" Zhou Shaojin's eyes widened. "You entered the mansion when you were eighteen. Staying here for ten years, doesn't that mean..."
Twenty-eight years old!
I've become an old maid!
Zhou Shaojin was speechless.
"Yeah!" Ji Ying said sadly, "Ten years... When I go back, I don't know what it has become?"
Zhou Shaojin was silent.
Why did Uncle Chi make such a bet with Jiying's father
Jiying's father lost, and he even asked Jiying to enter the mansion to force Jiying's father to fulfill his promise... Is there something strange about this
Zhou Shaojin's heart moved, and he asked, "Why did Uncle Chi bet with your father?"
Jiying wanted to say something but stopped.
Zhou Shaojin felt relieved.
If it was Uncle Chi's fault, why would Jiying remain silent
She knew that Uncle Chi was not the kind of person who would bully girls.
Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but say, "You can't blame Uncle Chi for this, right? It takes two to tango, let alone a bet. If one party doesn't agree, how can the bet be fought?"
"So I don't blame Cheng Zichuan!" Ji Ying said indignantly, "What tasks did he give me that I didn't complete? I'm just annoyed by Nan Ping, who keeps nagging me about what a maid should and shouldn't do, what taboos I violated, what I did wrong... It's as if I'm not loyal if I don't bow down to Cheng Zichuan..."
Nanping really has a personality a bit like what Jiying described.
Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Really? Really?" Ji Ying immediately seemed to have found an ally and said loudly, "You think so too, right? I didn't wrongly accuse her, did I?"
If I say that Jiying is right, won't Jiying be more determined to oppose Nanping? Then Uncle Chi won't be able to have peace in his room.
Zhou Shaojin said, "But you are also wrong. I just asked you to do some needlework for Uncle Chi, but you were unwilling to learn. Since you have entered the mansion, you have to behave like a maid. Otherwise, even if you don't have Nanping, you will still be criticized when you meet other people."
Ji Ying snorted twice and said, "I just don't want to learn. When Cheng Zichuan made a bet with my father, he wanted my second brother to come to the mansion to be a servant. I can do the job of a servant, why did he want me to be a maid? Even though he was in need of a maid, why did he want my second brother to come to the mansion to be a servant?"
Zhou Shaojin smiled and said, "Then can you help Uncle Chi lead the horse and drive the carriage, clean yourself up and guard the night, and ask for directions?"
Upon hearing this, Ji Ying opened her eyes wide and stared at Zhou Shaojin, and finally squeezed out the word "no" from between her teeth.
Zhou Shaojin laughed, picked up two pieces of cloth and handed them to Jiying: "Then you should study needlework with me, right?"
Ji Ying gritted her teeth and asked Zhou Shaoyin impatiently: "Where is the thimble? Give me a needle!"
Zhou Shaojin not only found a needle for her, but also threaded the needle with a smile before handing it to her.
Ji Ying followed Zhou Shaojin to learn needlework with resentment.
Zhou Shaojin immediately felt the change in Jiying.
Not only did she learn the cross stitch technique quickly, but she was also able to apply it to other situations. After Zhou Shaojin briefly mentioned it, she knew where her problem lay. In just half a day, her stitches were at least on the same line. The next question was how to make the stitches consistent.
Zhou Shaojin encouraged her: "You are much better than I was back then - it took me almost three months to learn the cross stitch method!"
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Today's update, sisters.
Thanks to janeuoo for the spirit beast egg. It's too late today, I will make up for it tomorrow.
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※(To be continued)