incense as a medium

Chapter 7

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Instead of letting her hear random thoughts from other places in the future, it is better to tell her now so that she can be mentally prepared: "Mr. Bai said that Zhang San came to our house to search that night, and after going out, he wore a lot of gossip and said It's very ugly. My mother didn't want to believe it, so she went out in person. In the teahouse outside, my mother heard a lot of rumors, but Bai Lu, don't worry, my mother listened to the meaning. That night, the officers and soldiers searched many people's houses. There are also some daughters from good families who were thrown off the quilt on the bed in their bellybands. Those people are just taking advantage of their mouths..."

Liu Su couldn't help but get red eyes as she spoke. If it was in the capital, a woman would not only be seen with half of her bare arms, but she would spread such gossip that people would take advantage of her verbally. If they are cheap, they will ruin their reputation and they will not be able to marry a good family.

Liu Bailu pursed her lips, and her teeth grazed heavily across her lips, leaving a string of fine white marks. She smiled and snuggled up to Liu Su's side, and said, "Those who believe in their daughter will naturally be kind to her. Don't believe me." There is no need for the daughter to pay attention to the daughter's person, right? Mother, rest assured, no matter what, the daughter will not wrong her. The big deal is that the daughter will not marry and will guard her mother for the rest of her life. "

"Say silly things again!" Liu Sushi turned her head and wiped her tears. When she looked back at Liu Bailu, the smile on her face could not see the slightest bit of sadness. She put her arms around Liu Bailu and smiled: "You, just I'm afraid that I, an old woman, will be bothered by then."

Liu Bailu smiled coquettishly and said, "How could it be? How could a daughter bother her mother? A daughter will guard her mother for the rest of her life."

Liu Su's arms hugged Liu Bailu's shoulders in comfort, but she made up her mind to find a proper marriage for her daughter.Who doesn't want their daughter to be happy?If her daughter really can't marry a good man, she is willing to keep her daughter for the rest of her life, but the Qin family can't tolerate a little sister-in-law like Bailu...

After that day, Liu Sushi took Liu Bailu to visit neighbors in the daytime, but after all, there are differences in living habits, and the education they received from childhood to adulthood is not the same, Liu Su and Liu Bailu are very close It is difficult to mingle with neighbors.

After a few days, in everyone's eyes, it became more and more difficult for the members of the Liu family to get along with.

Such comments naturally reached Liu Su's ears, and she asked Liu Junge worriedly: "Do you really want our daughter to fill in the house?"

Liu Junge frowned and said: "It's really not possible to find it in the army, those people don't care so much."

"In the army?" Liu Su's obvious reluctance, what kind of people are in the army?How can my daughter who is as delicate as a flower serve those people?
Liu Junge sighed: "Originally, Zixuan asked me to hide it from you. Those rumors reached Feng Xiucai's ears. Although Feng Xiucai was born and bred in Xiongtang County, he was different from these Xiongtang County people in his bones. After all, he is a scholar, and he respects Confucianism."

The implication is that Feng Xiucai is very concerned about women's reputation, Liu Su said angrily: "What's wrong with my daughter! When will he be allowed to be so picky and picky like a poor scholar!"

Seeing his wife crying in anger, Liu Junge said helplessly: "Now that we have come to this point, we can't allow us to pick and choose. Fortunately, the border is much more open than the capital. Let Bailu go to the army for a while. We can't Choose a good one for Bailu, at least one she likes."

"But master," Liu Su's heart was still very worried, "there are all men in the army, how inconvenient is Bailu for a woman to come in and out?"

"What's the inconvenience? She goes to deliver food to me at noon every day, and comes back after delivering the food. It only takes more than an hour to go back and forth. There are troops stationed in Xiongtang County, and there are no bandits or bandits. Those hooligans You're a bastard, because there is an army here and you don't dare to be too presumptuous." Liu Junge made up his mind, and didn't change his mind: "What's more, Bailu's temperament will suffer here, so it's better as before..."

At this time, Liu Bailu didn't know that her future had been planned by her parents. She was still embroidering in her room. From sunrise to sunset, after dinner, she took a copy of the Heart Sutra and began to practice calligraphy.

The best pens, inks, papers and inkstones have long been put away, and now she only uses the most common pens and papers.

One by one beautiful small seal characters fell on the paper, Liu Bailu's heart gradually calmed down, and finally she became completely focused. After she finished writing the last word, she realized that there was another person beside her, and she said without raising her head: " Shuang Jiang helps me grind ink."

She is in a good mood today, and she will continue to copy another scripture, so that she can share it with others when she and her mother burn incense together in a few days.

After finishing speaking, she finally sensed something was wrong, Liu Bailu straightened up slowly and turned her head away.

With a soft "pa", the small blemishes of the bamboo tube fell off, and the writing brush rolled aside on the paper, and the soft hairs drew an unusually beautiful arc on the paper.

Guilt flashed in Qi Peiyun's eyes, he turned his head away, and with an idea, he took out something from his arms and threw it on the table, saying, "I'm here to pay you back this, that, and there will be no future."

After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for Liu Bailu to express anything, he rushed to the bedroom and ran away in a flash.

Liu Bailu stared blankly at the green apron on the table, her face turned red like blood, pale as paper, and black as ink, she clutched her heart, her eyelashes fluttered like wings, but in the end she didn't pout. past.

After an unknown amount of time, Liu Bailu felt a pain in her heart, and she woke up slowly. When she saw Liu Su's face full of worry, she subconsciously put on a perfect smile: "Mother."

"My dear girl, what's the matter with you? Why did you faint all of a sudden?" Liu Sushi asked while holding Liu Bailu's hand, but such a few breaths of effort seemed so long to her, she was really afraid that her daughter wouldn't be able to wake up just like that coming.

Liu Bailu glanced around, it was on the Arhat bed in the flower hall, her gaze swept across the table, and when she saw the touch of green, her complexion changed slightly, then she smiled and said: "Daughter is fine, just a sudden headache , and passed out, probably because I haven’t rested these days.”

Liu Su made some calculations in her heart, secretly thought, it's impossible, but still worried, she said: "Bailu, why don't you ask the doctor to show you?"

Liu Bailu didn't want to worry Liu Su, so she nodded.

Liu Sushi hurriedly called Shuangjiang over, and whispered some instructions in her ear, Shuangjiang glanced at Liu Bailu with a strange expression on her face, then bent her knees and retreated.

Liu Bailu pretended not to see Shuang Jiang's glance, but kept looking at the table, for fear that Liu Su would notice the things on the table.

Sure enough, she was afraid of something, Liu Su felt Liu Bailu's eyes, followed by a glance, her complexion changed, she walked quickly to the table, grabbed her bellyband, turned it over lightly, there was no blood stains, she wrinkled Frowning, he said, "Why is your bellyband on the table? I'll put it away for you."

Liu Bailu pursed her lips, watching Liu Sushi enter the inner room, her heart turned a thousand times.

After a while, Liu Su came back with red eyes. She patted Liu Bailu's hand and said with a smile, "Don't worry, your mother will make the decisions for you. If you have any difficulties, just tell your mother."

Liu Bailu forced a smile and said, "My daughter has her father loving her and her mother pampering her. What's the problem? It's the daughter's matter that makes the mother worry. It's the daughter's unfilial piety."

Liu Sushi turned her head and spat, and said angrily: "It's because the Zhou family doesn't have that kind of blessing! I don't think the Zhou family boy is a good one. It's just as good if you don't marry him, otherwise you will be squeezed out by their family in the future. Don't worry, mother will find you a good one, one that loves you."

"Mother!"

Liu Bailu blushed at the right time, and cuddled into Liu Su's arms and acted like a baby.

Because it was night, it was difficult to find a doctor, and it took about an hour before Shuang Jiang led the doctor in.

Liu Sushi originally wanted to draw the curtain to let the doctor treat him, but Liu Bailu stopped him: "Mother, today is different, we should also do as the Romans do. You don't need these vain rituals."

Hearing this, Liu Sushi stared at Liu Bailu for a long time, then sighed, took out a silk handkerchief, rolled up Liu Bailu's sleeves, and covered the silk handkerchief to her wrist, not leaking a trace of skin. Let Shuang Jiang call the doctor in.

The doctor took the pulse, and said with a smile under Liu Su's eager eyes: "It's okay, it's just the anger and depression in the heart that will cause the sudden fainting. As long as you let go of your heart, don't hold it in your heart if you have anything, and you will be fine." .”

Liu Su asked, "Don't you need to prescribe some medicine?"

The doctor thought for a while, and said: "Forget it, since you want to prescribe medicine, then prescribe some warming and recuperating things. If your mind is stagnant, it will easily lead to irregular sunflower water, poor sleep, and dull complexion. Well, warming and tonic , Ning Xin's pill will be fine."

After speaking, the doctor opened the medicine box and took out two bottles of medicine to explain in detail how Shuang Jiang used the medicine.

Seeing that the doctor didn't say anything else, Liu Su was completely relieved just now, it turned out that her daughter's sunflower water was a few days late because of this.

After sending the doctor away, Mrs. Liu Su looked at Liu Bailu's books all over the room and the embroidery under the window, and told Shuangjiang: "Put away the embroidery frame, and don't make your lady tired these days. Also, The books are also put away, so you can’t bother reading any more.”

Liu Bailu looked at Liu Su's appearance like a forest enemy, and said with a smile: "Mother, I won't let you do this, and you won't let me do that. What do you want your daughter to do?"

Liu Su stared at Shuangjiang and put away the embroidery frame, and said, "Then play chess." After finishing speaking, he waved his hand again, and said, "No, playing chess is also exhausting, then play the piano, yes, practice the piano , and then deliver meals to your father at noon every day. Zimo will take you there a few times tomorrow, and then you will go by yourself."

As Liu Su said, she remembered what Liu Junge had said to her. Now it seems that she should let her go out for a walk more and meet more people. If she sees too much, she will naturally forget what happened that night .

(End of this chapter)