spring cloud warm

Chapter 4

There was a torrential rain at noon, and it was still pattering now.

Xu Chunjun sat on the chair by the window, looked sideways at the rain outside the window, the water dripping from the eaves fell on the granite strips under the window, and over the years, the stones dripped out into small round pits.

Her face was not very good-looking, her lips were gray, and there was cold sweat on her forehead.

Green water shield came in from the outside with red and swollen eyes and wet hair, carrying a half bucket of hot water.

Ziling had obviously cried too, but she was more restrained, and brought gauze and medicine powder to change Xu Chunjun's medicine.

"The rain has stopped, so I'll go out and ask a doctor to come over." Cheng's mother looked at Xu Chunjun's feet covered with bruises and blood blisters, and she panicked in her heart: "Although we prepared medicine in advance, we'd better be careful. "

"No need, Mama Cheng," Xu Chunjun hurriedly stopped her, "It's just an injury on the inside and outside of the skin, it just looks scary, but it doesn't really matter."

Although the rain outside was much less, the ground was wet and slippery. Besides, the road here was not easy to walk. Mother Cheng was old after all, so it would be bad if she fell.

"The girl's hand is also injured, I'll fetch some water from the washbasin and soak it with medicine." Zi Ling's nose was stuffy and her voice was heavy, trying not to let herself cry.

Xu Chunjun got up before dawn to climb Moyunding, and the three people who followed her wanted to climb together. Xu Chunjun refused to let them say anything, and told them to wait for her on the top of the mountain ahead of time.

To be honest, the steps were really difficult to walk on, and it was excruciating pain to step on them with bare feet. Every step, not only the flesh hurts, but the bones also hurt sharply.

Halfway through the walk, Xu Chunjun couldn't hold on anymore, so he climbed up with hands and feet, causing his hands to be injured.

As I was talking, I heard someone outside asking if Ms. Xu lived here.

Mother Cheng agreed to go out, and saw a woman about the same age as herself, and standing behind her were two thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls, both of similar stature and appearance, one was holding a food box, and the other was holding a food box. a pack of things.

"Does Ms. Xu live here? We are from Chengyihou's Mansion, and I am Mrs. Ye who is in front of my wife." Mother Ye reported her family name.

"It turns out that Mama Ye is here," Mama Cheng greeted her with a smile, "It's still raining, please come in!"

As she let Mother Ye into the room, she thought in her heart that Chengyihou's mansion's ear-reporting was really fast enough. It took only half an hour for their girls to go up Moyunding to ask Bodhizi to go down the mountain, and the people from Hou's mansion arrived.

"It's inconvenient everywhere in the inn, so the three of you are wronged to sit outside first." Cheng's mother said with a smile: "It's inconvenient for us girls to see guests right now."

The house they rented had two rooms, inside and outside. In addition to Xu Chunjun's bed in the inside, a long couch was for the night companion, and the two narrow beds in the outside room were for two other people.In addition, the two male servants who came with the carriage were on the Chase bunk in front.

"Old sister, you don't need to be so polite. I was ordered by my wife to deliver something to Miss Xu. This box is freshly made snacks, and this pack of medicine is soaked in hot water to relieve pain and disperse stasis. It can't be better." Mother Ye said, and the two maids put the things on the table.

Mother Cheng thanked her, and said: "Wait a moment, I will go to the inner room and bring over the bodhi seed that our girl begged for. Please pass it on to your wife, and say that we will go to the mansion after our girl's feet are healed." visit."

"Madam knows well, tell Miss Xu to recover from her injuries." Mother Ye is much more polite now.

She really didn't expect that that seemingly weak little girl could actually complete the nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine ascetic steps.

Mother Cheng came in to get the bodhi seeds, and Xu Chunjun said to her, "Mother Cheng, why don't you send Mama Ye out, just say that I am too immobile to send her in person. There are still a few taels of silver here, take them all for her. Just say that the weather is bad, and it will be late when she enters the city, let her warm a pot of wine to drink."

"My dear girl! You're going to die of pain right now, and you're still thinking of others!" Lu Shu felt sorry for her own girl, but at the same time hated the people in Chengyihou's mansion.

But she wasn't ignorant of propriety, even though she said so, her voice was very small, so that people outside couldn't hear her.

Cheng's mother also sighed in her heart, how thoughtful this fifth girl is.My own feet are almost useless, but even such small things are thoughtful and thoughtful, and I refuse to lack a little courtesy.

She was originally the wife of the old lady of the Xu family, but later she stayed with Xu Lang, the only prostitute of the Xu family's senior generation, and was regarded as the lady in charge of the Xu family.

Xu Chunjun is a concubine, and the third wife, Wei Shi, is not easy to get along with.

But Xu Chunjun never made any mistakes from the beginning to the end, he was gentle and gentle in front of others, and he never saw her say small things behind his back.

Cheng's mother always thought that the fifth girl was sensible and honest, but she never thought that she would actually be a person who handles big things quietly.

At the beginning, she was very uncertain, it was just because there was really no useful person in the family, and when she went to Beijing to ask for help, she couldn't let their servants come forward alone, there had to be a master to act as a show.But now I feel that Xu Chunjun is very likely to rescue the second young master.

After seeing off Mama Ye and others, Mama Cheng took the two things from the Hou's mansion to the inner room and showed them to Xu Chunjun.

"Everyone has been hungry for a whole day, and this snack is still warm, so eat two pads while it's hot." Xu Chunjun said, "Lvshi, take out half of this snack and send it to Uncle Cheng and the others ahead. "

"No way! No way! This snack is for the girls. They two rough men don't deserve to eat such precious things! Why don't they kill them!" Cheng's mother refused to let her go.

The two servants driving the carriage were her husband and her son.

Xu Chunjun said that he would give half of the snacks to them, but Cheng's mother thought it was impolite.She has been a servant for decades, and she has always kept her duty well-behaved, never daring to break the rules.

"Mom, you're too polite. No matter how good this food is, it's for people to eat. Uncle Cheng and the others have worked really hard. Could it be that I, a favored person, can't do it?" Xu Chunjun said with a smile: "It just so happens that the girl named Lvshi will bring half a bucket of hot water. When the water comes in, I want to soak my feet, and I will also try the medicine from the Hou Mansion to see if it works."

"That's a good deal, I'll give you two yuan for extra snacks later." Lvzhen smiled, she knew her girl's temper well, and she was always so considerate, no wonder everyone liked her.

Turning around, Lvzhen came back with half a bucket of hot water, and Ziling mixed the medicine, and when she knelt down and put Xu Chunjun's feet into the bucket, she couldn't help crying again.

It's just that the tears fell into the water, and no one else noticed.

Xu Chunjun tried his best to endure, not wanting them to see his pain.But after all, he couldn't hold it back completely, he still hissed a few times in pain, his whole face was pale without a trace of blood, and the clothes on his back were soaked in cold sweat.

Fortunately, after a quarter of an hour or so, the medicine gradually increased, and the pain gradually eased.

After the medicine was finished and bandaged, the two maids put Xu Chunjun on the bed.

Xu Chunjun was so tired that he fell asleep as soon as the pain eased, and slept for nearly two hours.

Because the sky was overcast and everyone was tired for another day, they had an early dinner and rested, and planned to go to the city the next day when the weather was fine, and then went to visit Madam Hou after a few days.

(End of this chapter)