Zhou Shaojin buried her face in the soft quilt, tears streaming down her face. Soon, a large area of the quilt was wet, making her face wet.
She changed her position and continued crying.
Chun Wan was at a loss beside the bed, bending over, looking anxious but not daring to show it, and whispered: "Second Miss, what's wrong with you? Is there something wrong with you? Do you want me to tell the eldest lady to ask a doctor..."
"No!" Zhou Shaojin's voice was vague, but his tone was very urgent, "Don't tell my sister! If you tell my sister, I will never talk to you again."
What should she do then
Am I just going to watch the Second Young Lady lying on the bed crying sadly
Chun Wan was in a dilemma, thought for a while, and said softly: "How about I make some pear juice with rock sugar for the second young lady?"
A dry throat is common after crying.
Zhou Shaojin said nothing.
Chunwan took it as her consent and tiptoed out of the inner room.
Xiao Tan and the others were anxiously waiting outside the door. When they saw her appear, they surrounded her and asked quietly, "What did the Second Miss say?"
"She refused to say anything." Chun Wan shook her head solemnly, and said, "When Imperial Physician Cao was checking Miss's pulse, we left. Only Nanny Li and Imperial Physician Cao were left in the room... If it doesn't work, we can only ask Nanny Li?"
The young Jixiang said anxiously: "Could it be that the young lady's illness..."
"Don't talk nonsense." Bi Tao scolded her in a low voice with a sullen face, "If the young lady's illness is difficult to cure, how can Master Chi Si and the eldest aunt sit there and talk calmly?"
"But why is the Second Miss crying so sadly?" Xiao Tan frowned and asked, "Did Master Chi Si say something?"
Chun Wan's eyebrows immediately stood up when he heard this. He ordered Jixiang to help Zhou Shaojin stew pear juice, asked Bitao to guard the door, and pulled Xiao Tan to the veranda, whispering, "Did you hear anything?"
They waited in the ear room for a long time, but no one called them in.
It was Xiao Tan who peeked in at that time.
Xiao Tan hesitated for a while before lowering her voice and said, "The yard was quiet at the time, and no one was around. I seemed to hear the Fourth Young Miss crying... but it was intermittent, so I couldn't hear it clearly... You know what happened afterwards—after the Fourth Master left and we came in, the Second Young Miss was like this!"
"It's really frustrating!" Chunwan decided to keep Song Mu's matter to herself and naturally couldn't mention it. But apart from this matter, Chunwan really couldn't think of anything else that was worth Zhou Shaojin crying like this.
She had no choice but to say, "Forget it! If the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. If the Second Miss really has something, don't we still have Master Chi Si and the eldest aunt? We just need to serve the Miss well."
Xiao Tan asked, "Should we discuss this with Nanny Fan and Nanny Shang?"
"Forget it!" Chun Wan felt that if the matter got out of hand, people might notice Song Mu's affair. "They are all experienced maids. If the Second Miss continues to cry like this tomorrow, it won't be too late for us to tell Madam Fan and Madam Shang, lest the two maids think that we can't stand the past."
Xiao Tan still felt that she should tell Nanny Shang, but Chunwan clearly expressed her opposition, so she couldn't insist.
Decided to do as the Spring Festival Gala said and wait a day before making a decision.
Maybe the second young lady was just feeling compassion for the world at the moment
The room gradually became quiet, and Zhou Shaojin was tired of crying.
She crumpled the handkerchief in her hand into a ball.
Uncle Chi... is so abominable!
How could you treat her like that!
She was strangled so hard that she couldn't breathe.
He also told her to be good and stop overthinking, saying that he would take care of everything...
She doesn't believe it!
Zhou Shaojin blushed.
When he spoke, he was so close to her that his breath was beating on her ears, warm, warm, and itchy around her neck. She had goose bumps all over her body but she didn't dare to move...
Thinking of this, her face turned pale.
The pair of eyes stained red by alcohol and the heavy, turbid breathing appeared in my mind... and the pain of the body being torn apart...
Why let her meet Cheng Xu
Why
Zhou Shaojin burst into tears and lay down on the bed and vomited.
"Shao Jin!" It was her elder sister Zhou Chu Jin who came running over. She hurriedly hugged her younger sister in her arms and loudly scolded Chun Wan and others, "Second Miss is already in such a state, why are you still standing there like an idiot? Why don't you go and get a doctor for Second Miss..."
Before she could finish her words, her sister grabbed her hand tightly.
"I'm fine." Zhou Shaojin looked up with a pale face, and smiled with red and swollen eyes, which made people feel sad. "I was choking while crying just now..."
Zhou Chujin didn't believe it.
She sent the servant away and asked suspiciously, "Is it because of Master Song?"
"No!" Zhou Shaojin said hurriedly, "Sister, don't make random guesses. This has nothing to do with Mr. Song."
Zhou Chujin was angry that he did not fight back.
Zhou Shaojin smiled bitterly weakly.
Young Master Song is doomed to suffer this evil disaster!
She had already done something unfair to Young Master Song, so she had no choice but to let him bear with her further.
Zhou Shaojin said: "Sister, I want to take a shower!"
"At this time?" Zhou Chujin was stunned, "It's almost time for dinner..."
"I know." Zhou Shaojin smiled, "Brother-in-law will be back soon! Sister, don't worry about me, I just feel dirty."
When Zhou Chujin saw the vomit on the bed, he no longer objected and ordered Chunwan to help Zhou Shaojin bathe.
Zhou Shaojin buried himself completely in the water and only emerged from the water with a splash when he was about to suffocate.
Chun Wan was terrified and kept saying, "Second Miss, don't do this! If she chokes on the water, it will be terrible!"
Zhou Shaojin did this several times until water got into her nose and then she lay on the edge of the wooden barrel, letting Chunwan and others wash her hair.
Looking at her flawless and shiny skin like fresh snow, Jixiang couldn't help but exclaimed: "Second Miss is so beautiful."
Chunwan glared at Jixiang.
I don’t know why, but the second young lady doesn’t like people saying she is pretty.
She looked at Zhou Shaojin secretly.
Zhou Shaojin lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes casting a shadow on his eyelids, as if he didn't hear anything.
Chunwan breathed a sigh of relief and quickly helped Zhou Shaojin wash his hair.
Zhou Shaojin felt like his brain was stuck with paste and he couldn't think at all.
Just a few days ago, she was still happy that she had arranged her future life. But now, she didn't know where to go.
What does Uncle Chi want to do
Could she never see him again
No, she wanted to never meet Uncle Chi again... She just wanted to forget all this... and occasionally look at him from a distance...
Can she still successfully become a lay Buddhist
If she became a lay Buddhist and Uncle Chi still treated her like this, what should she do
Could it be... Could it be that we are just going to let him do whatever he wants
Her waist suddenly began to ache slightly, as if she still had the feeling of Cheng Chi holding her waist tightly.
Zhou Shaojin couldn't help but grit his teeth.
She wants to go back to Baoding Prefecture!
Zhou Chujin pushed the door open and walked in.
"Why are you still in the tub?" she asked in surprise. "Although the weather is gradually warming up, it can't stand your reckless behavior. Hurry up and get dressed. I have something to tell you."
Zhou Shaojin was being wiped by Chunwan, and asked his sister across the screen: "Is my brother-in-law not back yet? What do you want to talk to me about?"
"Your brother-in-law said that a colleague who is also a copyist in the Hanlin Academy invited him to dinner today, so he will be back later." Zhou Chujin sat in front of the dressing table, fiddling with Zhou Shaojin's jewelry curiously, and smiled, "I came to you to talk to you about moving..."
"Moving?" Zhou Shaojin poked his head out from behind the screen and looked at Zhou Chujin strangely before shrinking back. Chunwan helped him put on his underwear and asked, "Where are you moving to? Didn't your mother-in-law want you to move to the Liao family's house in the capital? Didn't she not want you to get too close to the Liao family's relatives in the capital?"
"It's not me who's moving!" Zhou Chujin said with a smile, "It's you, your wife, and Youjin who's moving—to Uncle Chi's Yuqian Hutong."
"What?" Zhou Shaojin ran out in her embroidered shoes. "Why should I move to Yuqian Hutong? I won't go!"
Chunwan chased out and put a jacket on her shoulders.
Zhou Shaojin's face felt hot when he thought of the kiss just now.
Was this his idea
He really dares to think!
He even wanted her to move in with him!
She didn't want to live with him!
He must want to bully her... She is not stupid,
"Why is your temper like a firecracker?" Zhou Chujin saw her usually docile sister suddenly become rough, she couldn't help laughing, and said, "Uncle Chi came to my place after leaving your place today, and talked about my mother-in-law's move to Beijing. Uncle Chi meant that after my mother-in-law came to Beijing, she would definitely visit with the Liao family's relatives in Beijing. This house was bought by my mother-in-law with her dowry for me and your brother-in-law. Those people are jealous to begin with, and I'm afraid they will say all kinds of things when they see you living here. Uncle Chi probably doesn't want you and the first wife to suffer from the Liao family's nonsense, so he asked you to move over..."
Having lived two lifetimes, no one knows better than Zhou Shaojin the difficulties his sister faced in the Liao family.
In her previous life, she had been looked down upon by the Liao family during the time she lived in her sister's house.
Moreover, she was a little worried when she first moved into Yushu Hutong - it was so small here, if Madam Liao came to the capital, would she ask her sister, brother-in-law and Guan Ge to vacate the main house and move into the west wing which was used as a warehouse
She thought she should move out, but she didn't want to move to Yuqian Hutong.
Uncle Chi dared to do whatever he wanted when she was in Yushu Hutong. If she moved to Yuqian Hutong, wouldn't she become a piece of meat on Uncle Chi's chopping board
But if I don't move out, it will only make things difficult for my sister and brother-in-law.
She said, "Then let Uncle Chi live in Xinglin Hutong, or at worst move in to keep the Second Old Master company!"
Zhou Chujin was so embarrassed that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He said, "I didn't realize you were so bold. How dare you control where Uncle Chi lives? He was kind enough to let you live with him, but you wanted to drive Uncle Chi to live in Xinglin Hutong... He is really nice. He fed someone he couldn't tame..."
"What do you mean by unteachable?" Zhou Shaojin said with embarrassment, "I, I just feel that there is no one to take care of the household in Uncle Chi's house. It's not good for my wife and I, a group of women, to live in like this..."
"You still have to tell me that!" Zhou Chujin smiled and shook his head, saying, "Uncle Chi has already thought of this. After you move in, he will move to his house near Chaoyang Gate and will not live with you at all!"
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※(To be continued)