swear not to be concubine

Chapter 30

After Jian Yan returned to the room, she asked Bai Wei to bring paper, ink, pen and inkstone, and then she lay down on the small wenge wooden waist-carved kang table, and concentrated on tracing things on the paper.

Bai Wei stood aside and helped her sharpen the ink, and saw that the things drawn on the paper were gradually taking shape, but they were not flowers, birds, grass insects or the like, but a naive beckoning cat, and there were small words beside it that said where to go. What color to use, where should there be blessings and so on.

Bai Wei was curious, thinking that Jian Yan was going to embroider a lucky cat again, so she asked, "Girl, do you still want to embroider a lucky cat purse this time?"

"No." Jian Yan put the brush pen in her hand on the pen stand, picked up the paper on the table and blew it to dry the ink on it, then folded it carefully and handed it to Bai Wei, " Take the appearance of this lucky cat to Brother Zhou, and ask him to find a folk kiln and burn some lucky cats. One is placed on the counter of our woolen shop—I embroidered a red one in the past two days When the mat comes out, just put it on the red mat. Bring me the other two, and I will give them away.”

After getting along for so many years, Bai Wei believed in Jian Yan very much. She only felt that although she was two years younger than herself, what she said and what she did had deep meaning, so whatever Jian Yan ordered, she They don't ask half a sentence, just follow her orders.

At that moment, she took the paper with the lucky cat on it with both hands, carefully put it in her arms, and then said: "Yes, I will go to the kitchen and talk to Mama Xia when I have time later."

Jian Yan nodded, her body was crooked, and she leaned her back on Suo Zijin's backrest behind her, but she turned her head and looked out of the window.

There are two plantains planted outside the window, which are like trees with drooping leaves.In the corner a little further away is a crape myrtle tree.Now the flowering season of crape myrtle has not yet arrived, only the green leaves are shaded.

Sitting on the wooden kang by the south window, she could see the screen door, so Jian Yan saw Si Yue hurried in through the screen door, with an anxious expression on her face.

"Girl," the next moment, Siyue reached out and lifted the bamboo curtain of Concubine Xiang on the green gauze cabinet, walked in, and called her.

Jian Yan glanced at her, and then asked her: "What's wrong? Why is your face so anxious?"

Si Yue twisted the white gauze handkerchief restlessly in her hand, and said: "The girl sent me to the shore to look for the light green handkerchief you lost, with orchids embroidered on one corner, but I was just here. I searched all over the bank, even in the grass, but I couldn't find the handkerchief the girl mentioned, what should I do?"

"If you didn't find it, you didn't find it. The left and right sides are not valuable things. Why are you so anxious? If you teach other people to see it, what do you think in your heart? In the future, if you have something in your heart, you can't show it on the surface. Beware of someone who is interested in seeing it, maybe they will say something."

Although Si Yue agreed, but after thinking about it, she finally said: "It's just a girl, that's your personal handkerchief."

"What's wrong with the handkerchiefs I use next to my body?" Jian Yan wondered, "I don't have twenty but eighteen handkerchiefs. What's wrong with losing one? That's not my favorite handkerchief."

After all, Si Yue is still young, so she only knows that this personal handkerchief is extremely important and cannot be lost, but she can't explain why, and in the end it was Bai Wei who explained: "Girl, this handkerchief is no more important than other things. You haven’t seen that in the play, the things that a gifted man and a beautiful woman make love for are nothing more than sachets, hairpin rings, jade pendants, and handkerchiefs. The handkerchief you lost, although the item is small, But if you tell those frivolous people to pick it up, and take seven or eight of them to say something, but then you can't tell, wouldn't it ruin your reputation?"

It was only then that Jian Yan realized that there was such a thing.

Although she is an ancient person, she has been there for [-] or [-] years, but some of her thinking is still modern.It's just a handkerchief, she thought to herself, she had lost several mobile phones in her previous life, if it was said in this way, wouldn't she have lost her reputation long ago.

Si Yue was still anxious at this time: "What should I do? I have searched everywhere on the shore, but I can't find the girl's handkerchief. Otherwise, Sister Bai Wei, let's go find it together now?"

Before Bai Wei could say anything, Jian Yan said: "Forget it, why are you looking for this again? It was picked up by someone, and the handkerchiefs on the left and right didn't have my name embroidered on them. So what if you find it? Can you still believe it’s mine? Even if it’s confirmed, I’ll just push that it’s not mine, and he can’t do anything about it. Instead, you’ll be looking for it in a hurry, and those who are interested will know it at a glance It’s my handkerchief, so I don’t need to look for it, I just pretend there’s no such thing.”

When Si Yue and Bai Wei heard this, they had no choice but to do so.

But Jian Yan's handkerchief is now in Xu Zhongxuan's hands.

After talking with Xu Miaojin for a while in Ning Cui Xuan, he also got up and planned to go back to his study.

Just standing at the courtyard gate of Ningcui Xuan, watching the peach blossoms on the bank is really good, so I walked along the bank, admiring the red peach and green willows.

And after walking like this for a while, he saw the branch of peach blossom planted under a peach tree.

He recognized this peach blossom right away, it was the one he handed to Jian Yan when he left Ning Cui Xuan.Because when he picked up the peach blossom from the table at that time, he accidentally knocked off one of the peach blossoms, and the spot was bare.

Xu Zhongxuan looked at the peach blossom, his eyes turned slightly, and the corners of his lips curved into an arc.

How much does Jian Yan hate him, that she doesn't even want a peach blossom that he has handled.It's just that she was also interesting, she didn't just throw away the peach blossom by the roadside or into the water, but found a place that was almost wet and planted it. Why, could it be that she still expected that the broken peach branch would be able to grow? Can't sprout?
Xu Zhongxuan looked down at the peach blossom, when the wind blew by, the soft willow branch gently rippled in the water, but the pink and white petals on the peach branch were blown off two pieces .

I'm afraid it won't be until tomorrow morning, all the peach blossoms will be blown away by the wind, right?Wouldn't it be just a bare peach branch?
Like a ghost, he squatted down halfway, stretched out his hand and pulled out the peach blossom.

There was some soil at the bottom of the peach branch, so he took the peach branch, found a relatively low place on the bank, and carefully washed the soil at the bottom.

After washing the soil at the bottom of the peach branches, he was about to straighten up when he caught a glimpse of something on the grass beside him out of the corner of his eye.

He turned his head and stared at the past, and saw that it was a handkerchief.

Because the handkerchief is light green, it is not conspicuous when it falls on the grass, and it is easily overlooked.

The corner of the handkerchief was embroidered with a cluster of orchids.At first glance, this clump of orchids does not seem to be embroidered, but rather painted, exquisite and lifelike.

Xu Zhongxuan had just seen the rogue rabbit purse embroidered by Jian Yan at Xu Miaojin's place, so he could immediately tell that this clump of orchids was embroidered by Jian Yan, so of course, this handkerchief should belong to Jian Yan .

He reached out and picked up the handkerchief.

Some parts of the handkerchief still had traces of being soaked by water. Presumably, it should have been taken out to wipe hands just now, and when it was stuffed back into the sleeve, it accidentally dropped on the grass.Because the color of the handkerchief was close to the color of the grass, I didn't notice it for a while.

When Xu Zhongxuan was neutral in his mind, he imagined that Jian Yan squatted here with her head down to plant peach blossoms, and then washed her hands on the bank. The transparent water droplets danced between her fair fingers, and the shimmering flowers reflected her agile eyes. One piece.Then she straightened up, took out the handkerchief and wiped her hands, and without paying attention, the handkerchief fluttered down and lay quietly on the grass.

Finally, he stuffed the handkerchief into his sleeve, took the peach blossom in his hand, and went back to his study.

In the study, Qi Sang was feeding the little hair ball and eating yam and jujube paste cake.

Now he can be considered to have discovered that this little hairball is a foodie at all, and it seems that he especially likes to eat pastries.It will raise its head after eating, open its big eyes, lick its fleshy little paws, and meow meow at you in a low voice.Naturally, when you don't give it food, it will raise its head, open its eyes, blink and blink, and meow meow meow at you.So when Qi Sang saw its cute and pitiful appearance, he had no choice but to resign himself to his fate and go get him something to eat.While feeding, he was still talking: "No wonder people say cat's eyes, cat's eyes, you said your eyes are flexible and bright, why don't you just take a look at the most precious opal? Really look at it It’s crispy at a glance. Don’t say it’s just a few pieces of pastry, I’ll catch you even if you want to eat mice.”

While speaking, he stretched out his hand to smooth its fur.

But there was another strange thing, Qi Sang's hand just stretched out, before touching the little hairball, it flashed nimbly and jumped onto Xu Zhongxuan's bookshelf.

Qi Sang immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

The bookshelves are full of precious ancient books that the young master has collected over the years, if this little hairy ball wants to sharpen its claws with these ancient books, Qi Sang feels that he will not have to live.

He immediately ran over to catch the little hairball.But the little Maotuan was already agile, and Qi Sang was afraid that he would lose control of his strength and accidentally injure it, so he watched it jump around on the bookshelf, but he didn't catch it.

He was thinking that it was time to show his true abilities.

So he grinned, showing his sharp white teeth, and then turned his five fingers into claws, trying to grab the little hairball that was squatting on the corner of the bookshelf and meowing and demonstrating to him...

"What are you doing?"

Suddenly there was a faint inquiry from behind.Although the voice was as peaceful as before, Qi Sang could still hear a gloomy feeling from it for no reason.

He felt white hairs all over his body, and then he turned around immediately, knelt down on one knee, lowered his head and called out: "Master."

Xu Zhongxuan stood in front of him, but he didn't look at him, he just looked up at the little hair ball on the bookshelf.

As soon as the little hairball saw him, the appearance of blowing hair and protesting at Qi Sang just now disappeared immediately, and turned to drooping its little tail, the beard around its mouth trembled, and its cat eyes looked at him with watery eyes, and whispered Can't stop screaming, meow meow meow.

It was like how Qi Sang tortured it just now.

When Qi Sang heard this, he secretly gritted his teeth in hatred.Who gave you the yam and jujube cake just now?When you see the young master, you will act cute and pretend to be pitiful, which makes me bully you more.

He was about to open his mouth to defend, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the hem of the blue clothes in front of him had gone away.

He raised his head and peeked over, and saw the young master's right thumb and index finger together, stretched out like lightning, and then clamped the skin of the neck of the little hairball effortlessly, and then held it in the palm of his left hand, but stretched out again. He pointed out his right index finger, curled it up, and gently scratched its chin.

The little hairball was meowing and meowing comfortably in his palm, and the originally big eyes were narrowed into a slit.

Qi Sang: ...

He decided that he would never make pastries for the poor cat again.

While Xu Zhongxuan shaved and rubbed the little hairball's chin, he walked to the armchair behind the desk and sat down, without looking up, he just asked indifferently: "What happened to the matter I asked you to investigate?"

Qi Sang maintained the posture of kneeling on one knee, but turned around, facing Xu Zhongxuan, and then replied: "Young master, I went to the kitchen and Hexiangyuan to find someone to inquire about it. The maid over there said that Mrs. Jane said that Miss Jane has a bad spleen and stomach, she can't eat meat, and she can't eat too much in one meal, so she informs the kitchen in advance of every meal of Miss Jane, so that the people in the kitchen cook it as usual. According to the maids, most of these meals are vegetarian dishes, and the staple food is a bowl of porridge in the morning and evening, and the lunch is only half a bowl of white rice. The big maid next to Mrs. Jian goes to the kitchen to get it The meals were handed over to Miss Jian, and she ate in her own room. In the kitchen, Bai Wei, the big maid next to Miss Jian, secretly stuffed a lot of money into Mama Xia who was in charge of the small kitchen. She also stuffed the other maids and maids in the house with money, so that every time Bai Wei passed by, Xia's mother would secretly give her some pastries or food. As for whether these pastries should be eaten by Bai Wei herself or by Miss Jian Sorry, my subordinates are incompetent and have not found out."

After all, the other leg also knelt down, and his head bowed deeply.

It's just that he was thinking in his heart, it was a good morning, and the son insisted on him to find out what Miss Jane ate every day.Since when did the son pay so much attention to Miss Jane?Even people have to check what they eat every day.

What Xu Zhongxuan was thinking in his heart was, no wonder that when Hui Jianyan took out that piece of jujube paste cake to eat for Xiao Maotuan, she would say something like, I'm going to starve tonight if I feed it to you.But why does Mrs. Jian feed Jian Yan so little?Could it be that she has a bad spleen and stomach and can't eat too much?But where did the maid next to her get so much money to bribe Mother Xia?Obviously, this should belong to Jian Yan, so those pastries must have ended up in Jian Yan's hands.

As he slowly stroked the hair of the little hairball, he was thinking about these things.Thinking of the later, thinking of Jian Yan's lithe figure, as if she would be blown away by a gust of wind, her long eyebrows frowned unconsciously.

Seeing that Qi Sang was still kneeling on the ground, he said, "Get up."

Qi Sang responded, got up from the ground and stood up, standing aside respectfully with his hands down, peeking at the little hair ball in Xu Zhongxuan's hand.

The little hairball had already fallen asleep comfortably lying on his hands, Xu Zhongxuan got up, put it in the cage on one side, and then he went to find a Dingyao white-glazed jade pot and spring bottle, filled it with water, Inserted the peach blossoms brought back earlier, looked at it carefully, and then put it on the desk.

Qi Sang peeked at the peach blossom again, thinking again, what the hell is this peach blossom?Young master, he never knew how to raise these flowers and grass.Even the bonsai in the room are either Tianmu pine or a piece of Yingshi, at most a pot of narcissus dotted with Xuanshi in the cold winter months, it looks very clean and elegant.So what the hell is such a beautiful and charming peach blossom with broken branches?

(End of this chapter)