Yijuan cloud

Chapter 104 Sudden Engagement

Aunt Jin stopped what she was doing and looked up at me doubtfully.

My heart skipped a beat, and I was about to explain why I suddenly asked this question, but Aunt Jin was already arranging her needlework again.

She thought seriously for a while and then said: "It's too early to say when. Our family went to Hangzhou to escape. Just a few days after we left, you got separated from us and lost most of your things. Madam was anxious to go up. I had a high fever for a few days, but then the fever subsided, and I kept coughing again. I thought I was cured. I still coughed when I saw a cool breeze, or when I was tired, and I always said I had a headache. But these are minor problems. No problem, it only became serious when I came here to settle down. Madam is tired from running a medical clinic."

"Do my mother... and Aunt Xue still get along?" I asked gently.

Aunt Jin glanced out the door, leaned closer to me, and whispered: "Don't tell me, I used to think she was a vixen. When we got along with each other, I found that she was not a bad person, and she didn't cause trouble. She was honest. , she will do whatever the lady asks her to do, but she is not the material for work, she is delicate."

After saying that, Aunt Jin continued to sew Daddy's shirt.

After a while, he looked up and saw that I was stunned and silent, and then said: "But she has other abilities. Madam is gone. She is taking care of the house both inside and outside. Even if she talks softly, Zhao Uncle and the others are listening, she even taught Baoxiang how to read, and now even Baoxiang listens to her."

I chuckled and stared at Aunt Jin: "Does Auntie think she is good too?"

Only then did Aunt Jin come back to her senses. At home in Yangzhou, my mother and she had hated and disdained Aunt Xue, but now they were like sisters.

"Miss, times have changed. When we came out of my hometown, there were so many people, but in the end there were only a few left. Everyone was fleeing on the road and we had been working together for a long time. Now there is one more person to help. This family Only then can I stand firmer. Madam is giving up on her. I don't think she is very good, but I admire her for being very capable." Aunt Jin came closer to me and whispered, "Look, there's nothing else He said that when the wife left, she held funerals, selected the cemetery, and asked the monks to chant sutras... Which thing was not handled by others? Apart from these, just talking about her, the master didn't care about anything, so he said Ah, the eldest lady should be more polite to her in the future. You are not young anymore, and she will be in charge of your future marriages..."

"I know." I nodded and smiled, stood up and left.

The room was filled with the smell of incense.

There are memorial tablets and fruit melon cakes on the table. The furnishings are said to be the same as when my mother was alive, and the bedding is also neatly folded.

I flipped through the prescriptions prescribed by my mother and chatted casually with Yunxian who was cleaning the room.

"Madam was sick in the past, but did she insist on taking her medicine?"

Yun Xian said: "Why didn't you take it? Madam prepared the medicine herself, and I took it myself every day. Alas, I don't know if it's tuberculosis, but it didn't work out."

After Yunxian left, I closed the door, slowly caressed my mother's pillow and quilt, and then leaned over to touch it...

I checked all the clothes in my mother's closet and dug through the soil on the flowers and trees in the house with a dagger. In the end, I took it for granted that I found nothing.

I knelt on the futon and stared at the tablet on the table for a moment...

Xing'er and Youting led the group of people escorting us out to sea in a boat.

When I was about to board the boat, I blurted out that I was feeling unwell and did not follow.

"The wind is blowing now. Miss, let's go back quickly."

Yunxian tied the Ruyi sash for me, and we walked home along the beach.

After walking out of the beach, I pointed at the village and said, "I don't know what this village looks like yet, so why don't we take this opportunity to take a look around."

There are only about a hundred people in the village, and most of them are known to Yunxian.

Without me asking, I recognized several people who came to my hospital for treatment.

So Yunxian and I walked around and sometimes went to a villager's house to drink tea and chat for a while.

If one person's words cannot be trusted, and if everyone agrees, then that is the fact.

In fact, when Uncle Zhao picked me up and Yunxian and I sat in the carriage home, I figured it out, but I just didn't want to accept it.

I was dejected and kicked a pebble glumly. When I could already see the roof of the Lin family, I accidentally looked up and was surprised to see Aunt Xue standing not far away.

Yun Xian went home first, leaving Aunt Xue and I standing facing each other.She wore a simple moon-white coat, and her navy blue pleated skirt was fluttering in the wind. Her waist was fully exposed, and she was so graceful and graceful that I felt pity for her.

She smiled at me, stretched out her hand to brush a strand of hair that was blown away by the sea breeze, turned her face to look at the sea, and said, "I know what you are looking for. You doubt me and blame me for rejecting me, just because you don't want to believe it." The lady has passed away, girl, I understand that you feel sad, and you were thinking..."

She suddenly became emotional, wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and then said in a solemn voice: "I was very sad when Sese's accident happened, and I wished I could die, so I understand the girl's mood. After Sese left, except for the whole Lin family, , I am helpless, it’s just the two of us now, I dare to swear to God, I, Xue Lanshan, have never done anything to harm Mrs. Lin, if I lie, I will die badly."

I suddenly looked up at her.

She looked solemn and said solemnly: "I wonder what rumors you have heard, girl. I will also put my words down today. No matter now or in the future, I will not be the wife of the Lin family. There is only one Mrs. Lin."

I frowned, lowered my eyes and said softly, "Why do you need to say this, Aunt Xue? I don't suspect anything, and you don't have to think too much."

As she walked back, she said: "There is something that we need to discuss in private. I originally wanted to ask Xing'er when the people who escorted you will return, so that I can prepare things for them, but I heard what Xing'er said. , girl, are you going back to the north?"

I hurriedly shook my head.

When I came here, I had no attachment to this place, and I didn’t even think it was my home. But when I really came back, I saw those familiar faces, saw my mother’s house, and was able to visit the mountain every day. My mother's tomb, I quickly developed feelings for this place.

This is the home my mother built little by little.

This is my home.

In the north, there is only Prince Yi.

The next day, I just came back from the mountain. I heard from Yunxian that my father had looked for me several times, so I hurriedly changed my clothes and went over.

The study was ajar, so I knocked lightly on the door. After a while, I heard my father calling me in in a deep voice.

My father asked me to sit down with a rare kindness, and said with a smile: "It's a happy event. You are not young anymore, and you have Youting below. No matter what, you have to take care of your life-long affairs first, and then you can talk about the younger ones. Today's grandson A matchmaker has come to visit me. Master Sun is two years older than you. He has already passed the provincial examination and looks very talented. My father is very satisfied and has accepted the offer."

"Why didn't dad discuss it with his daughter and just accept it casually? My daughter didn't want to!"

I suppressed the shock in my heart and knelt down as calmly as I could.

"Marriage is an important matter, which is the order of the parents. Why should I discuss it with you because of the matchmaker's words?"

My father said angrily. As he spoke, he became more and more angry. He simply walked out from behind the desk and said, "You rebel! You don't want to? Do you still want to rebel?"

At this time, a figure walked out quickly from behind the screen. It was Aunt Xue. She was wearing an [-]% new red satin coat, her hair was loosely tied, and she took my father's arm in a charming and gorgeous way.

I had already kissed and hugged Prince Yi. When I saw Aunt Xue like this, I immediately thought of the situation before I came in. My face immediately turned red and I lowered my head and stopped talking.

"Master, although this is a great thing, at least let the eldest lady meet that person first. Besides, the eldest lady is full of filial piety, so she is not in the same mood right now, is she?" She comforted my father in a soft voice.

My father really lost his temper and said, "Young Master Sun is a good person, talented and beautiful, and his family is also good. I didn't just find Zhang San and Li Si. If you look at her attitude, you think I'm going to throw her into a pit of fire." No! Her mother has been gone for a few months. Even if the marriage is arranged, you still have to choose a date. How can you still have filial piety by then? She is the eldest son in the family. Only when her marriage is arranged can Youting get a wife and have children. , to spread the branches and leaves of the Lin family..."

These words coming from my father’s mouth were beyond my expectations.

I looked at the whitened black cloth uppers of his shoes and imagined the rumors Xinger had heard from his father.

Who would have thought that a person who wanted to live in seclusion and become a monk when he was young would one day talk about opening up branches for his family. People can really change.

After we parted on bad terms, I returned to my room and looked out of the window at the sea and sky.

Yunxian spread the dried bedding beside the bed and murmured: "...when the seasons change, I lose a lot of hair. Aunt Xue thought I was losing hair, so she gave me a prescription, saying it was... It can cure hair loss, but I don’t know if it’s useful or not…”

I turned my face suddenly, like a huge thunder in my mind. It took me a long time to speak, and asked Yunxian in a low voice: "You said... Aunt Xue prepared a new prescription for you?"

(End of this chapter)