this time
Is there a “last time”
Zhou Shaojin said, "You just walked away like that. Is Uncle Chi okay?"
"What's the big deal?" Ji Ying said unhappily, "Isn't he Cheng Zichuan? How could such a small matter stump him?" Then he pulled Zhou Shaojin, "Let's go, let's go! What are you standing here for?"
Zhou Shaojin was still a little hesitant.
Ji Ying said, "Do you know what happened last time? Madam Guo suddenly wanted to go to the home of a colleague of the old master who had died for who knows how many years and lived in Lai'an to attend a wedding banquet. She also said that the journey was too long and inconvenient, and insisted that your uncle Chi take her there. Your uncle Chi agreed readily, and when he was leaving, he suddenly said that he wanted to take me with him. At that time, I didn't know your uncle Chi as well as I do now, and I thought your uncle Chi had changed his personality. Seeing that I was trapped at home and was about to grow moss, his heart softened and decided to take me out for a walk. I was so excited that I even made a few new clothes and happily followed him to Lai'an..."
When she said this, her chest heaved with anger.
Zhou Shaojin asked hurriedly: "What happened later? Did anyone bully you?"
"Who dares to bully me?" Ji Ying said with a "Pah" sound, cursed, and gritted his teeth, "Others treat me as your uncle Chi's concubine!"
Aren't you
Zhou Shaojin almost blurted it out.
She quickly covered her mouth.
Thinking of my previous suspicion of Jiying, I couldn't help but feel ashamed.
Ji Ying thought Zhou Shaojin was too surprised and had no doubts at all, so she continued, "Why did Madam Guo insist on calling your uncle Chi to Lai'an? It turns out that he was going on a blind date. Your uncle Chi knew everything, but he kept it from me. I was like a fool, being manipulated by him. I knew that others misunderstood me, but I didn't explain. I was so unlucky that I became Cheng Zichuan's maid..."
Zhou Shaojin was embarrassed.
Jiying looked a little embarrassed.
It was not good for me to speak about her uncle in front of Zhou Shaojin like this.
She quickly changed the subject and said, "Let's go to the tea room. Let's go to the tea room."
Zhou Shaojin didn't want to stay here either, so she smiled and said, "I'll go tell my companions so they don't look for me everywhere if they see I'm missing."
Jiying nodded.
"Clang clang clang" from the stage, the play has started again.
Fortunately, Zhou Shaojin had become familiar with the maids and servants in Hanbi Mountain House these days. She turned around and found someone to help take the letter to Cheng Ji and Gu Shiqigu, and went to the tea room with Jiying.
There were two maids watching the fire in the tea room. Although the two maids did not know Jiying, they knew Zhou Shaojin, and they came forward to greet Zhou Shaojin enthusiastically.
Zhou Shaojin rewarded the two maids with a few hundred coins and asked them to make a cup of tea for him and Jiying.
The two maids were used to reading people's expressions and knew that many young ladies had come to their house today. Seeing that Ji Ying was well dressed, they thought that Zhou Shaojin and Ji Ying wanted to find a place to talk away from others. They thanked them with a smile, brewed two cups of tea, served two plates of snacks, and went out with two large copper kettles, using the excuse of going to the stage to see if anyone needed more hot water.
After entering the tea room, the sound of gongs and drums suddenly became much quieter. Zhou Shaojin's ears became quiet and his heart felt a little lighter.
She sat down and drank her tea.
Ji Ying, however, could not sit still. He walked back and forth in the tea room, looking around, and then he took out a small bowl of broad beans from somewhere.
She said excitedly, "Second Miss, shall we roast some broad beans?"
Zhou Shaojin saw that the broad beans were cooked with five spices and asked curiously, "Can these broad beans be roasted and eaten?"
"Why not?" Ji Ying smiled, "When we were little, our father would often roast five-spice broad beans for us in the brazier. They were better than ordinary broad beans, but every time the broad beans were buried in the brazier, they would pop out with a crackling sound when cooked, filling the whole house with charcoal ash. It took a lot of effort to clean it up, which made my mother very angry. She wouldn't let us roast food in the brazier, and my father would always do it behind my mother's back."
She wants to recapture the feeling she had at that time instead of just eating the roasted spiced broad beans, right
Zhou Shaojin smiled.
Jiying took the copper stove off the stove, picked up some charcoal with tongs, and buried the beans in the charcoal ash. He patted the ash in his hands and smiled, "Okay, we will have broad beans to eat soon."
Zhou Shaojin thought about what Ji Ying had just said and said, "Since Madam Guo specially brought Uncle Chi to a blind date, why didn't it work out?"
In her opinion, Cheng Chi was tall, handsome, gentle, and had achieved great success, so it would not be difficult for him to get married.
Ji Ying curled her lips and said disdainfully: "At that time, your Uncle Chi was already old but was still a scholar. When others saw that I was a concubine by his side, would those parents who were heartbroken for their children still marry their daughters to your Uncle Chi?"
Zhou Shaojin laughed dryly twice.
"So your uncle Chi is a very cunning person." Ji Ying said, his expression gradually became a little dazed, and he said sadly, "It just so happened that time, I also ran into Jiao Ziyang..."
Jiao Ziyang, it sounds like a boy's name.
Zhou Shaojin's curiosity was aroused, and he asked hurriedly, "Who is Jiao Ziyang? Did you know him when you were at home?"
Jiying was silent for a long time and then nodded slightly.
There's hope!
Zhou Shaojin asked tentatively: "Could it be your fiancé?"
Jiying said nothing.
Zhou Shaojin suddenly became anxious and asked, "Didn't you explain it to him?"
"How do you explain?" Ji Ying said, her eyes suddenly turned red, and she said, "He ran away as soon as he saw me. I chased him for two blocks but couldn't catch him." As she said this, she suddenly burst into tears, "Cheng Zichuan, that bastard, I asked him to help me explain, but he didn't say a word... I will remember his 'good' to me all my life..."
Zhou Shaojin didn't believe that Uncle Chi was such a person.
He would even protect a stranger like me, so how could he intentionally hurt Jiying's feelings
Zhou Shaojin thought of Cheng Lu.
If someone had told her in her previous life that Cheng Lu had lied to her, she probably would not have believed it no matter what.
She asked Ji Ying: "Have you never met Jiao Ziyang again?"
"No." Perhaps she felt that crying in front of a twelve-year-old girl was too inappropriate, Ji Ying quickly controlled her emotions, wiped her tears, and said in a low voice, "Your uncle doesn't agree, so I can't leave Jinling City. And I can't hang out outside every day..." She paused here, and her voice became even lower, "Others may not know, but Jiao Ziyang must know that I'm in Jinling... If he wanted to, he would have come to find me long ago. Do you still want me to explain to him?"
This too!
Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but ask: "Could it be that there is something wrong with Jiao Ziyang, so Uncle Chi did this?"
Ji Ying glared at her angrily and said, "What's wrong with Jiao Ziyang? What's wrong with Jiao Ziyang! I think the problem is your uncle Chi! He's so old and still hasn't married, and he makes his mother worry all day long. Others go out to find a prostitute, but he stays at home every day and doesn't go anywhere. When someone comes to see him, he pretends that he's not at home..."
Zhou Shaojin was very embarrassed and was about to persuade her.
Ji Ying's face turned pale and he stopped talking abruptly as he looked at the door of the tea room.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Shaojin asked, turning around and looking towards the door following Jiying's gaze.
Cheng Chi stood straight at the door of the tea room with one hand behind his back and the other hand hanging naturally at his side.
The afternoon sun slanted down on his back, casting a golden glow on his figure and making it difficult to see his expression.
"Uncle Chi!" Zhou Shaojin quickly stood up and couldn't help but prick up his ears to listen to the noise coming from the stage.
Gao Huizhu's clear voice and the women's cheers could be heard from time to time.
The show on the stage hasn't ended yet, why is Uncle Chi here
Mrs. Guo couldn't keep him? Or did he find an excuse to get some fresh air
Zhou Shaojin thought about it and knelt down to salute Cheng Chi.
Cheng Chi walked in.
The golden light behind him disappeared, and his handsome yet elegant face appeared in front of Zhou Shaojin.
Jiying stood up suddenly and stepped back repeatedly, standing close to the wall.
That defensive posture made it seem as if Cheng Chi was a monster.
Zhou Shaojin looked at Cheng Chi in confusion, then at Ji Ying.
Cheng Chi smiled slightly and said, "Why didn't you go to the opera?"
Zhou Shaojin was just thinking about finding an excuse when there was a crackling sound in the stove and a bean popped out and fell at Cheng Chi's feet.
"So you are roasting broad beans here!" Cheng Chi looked at the exploding broad beans under his feet and smiled faintly.
Zhou Shaojin's face suddenly turned red.
Uncle Chi seemed to think she was a child who stole food.
"I..." She murmured, not knowing what to say.
The broad beans in the stove made a crackling sound.
Zhou Shaojin's face turned even redder.
Cheng Chi chuckled and said, "Take out the beans quickly, or they will get mushy."
"Oh!" Zhou Shaojin hurriedly took the tongs to clamp it.
Jiying seemed to come to his senses at this time and went to help.
Soon, all the broad beans were picked out.
Cheng Chi said to Zhou Shaojin, "People are singing "Garden Tour" outside, don't you want to go and listen?"
Zhou Shaojin felt that Jiying seemed to pull her gently.
She smiled and said, "I don't like listening to operas. Why is Uncle Chi here? Don't you like listening to "Garden Tour"?"
Cheng Chi smiled and said, "I was just about to leave. I didn't see Jiying, so I came over to look for her."
Ji Ying said "Oh" and said goodbye to Zhou Shaojin.
Zhou Shaojin had no choice but to watch Ji Ying follow Cheng Chi out of the tea room.
She sat alone in the tea room for a long time.
Judging from Ji Ying's tone, she should be getting along well with Uncle Chi. Why did she become so scared when she saw Uncle Chi
Is Uncle Chi very fierce when he gets angry
Zhou Shaojin thought about it and went to the stage.
There was a lively singing going on on the stage, and the people in the audience were watching intently, just like when she left.
Zhou Shaojin asked Cheng Ji: "Why did Uncle Chi leave?"
"I don't know." Cheng Ji stared at Gao Huizhu intently and said absentmindedly, "It seems like something happened, so he left."
Zhou Shaojin felt a little uneasy.
She called Shi Xiang and whispered, "Accompany me to the Xiaoshan Conggui Courtyard."
Shi Xiang glanced at the stage and said in surprise, "Now?"
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Sisters, today’s extra update!
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※(To be continued)