Colorful

Chapter 116
Usually the aches and pains in the body don’t show up until the next day. Yesterday Ji Cheng was able to cook freely, let alone cooking today, if he walks around a little, his chest will feel unbearable pain rubbing against his clothes, not to mention his sore waist limbs and weak legs.

Ji Cheng didn't help Huang Yuanniang at Nanxun Garden, and when he left, he only asked Yu Qian'er to talk to Huang Yuanniang.

Back at the old lady's Rui Yingtang, Shen Xian and Shen Xun were also there. After greeting the old lady, they all went to Ji Cheng's room.

Because Shen Xian's wedding date was set in May, the Zeng family valued Shen Xian very much, and all the Zeng family in Tongxiang came to the capital for this marriage.

The Zeng family planned to let Zeng Xiuwen marry Shen Xian in the capital. Regardless of whether Zeng Xiuwen passed the Jinshi exam or not, they planned to let the young couple stay in the capital.

This arrangement made the second wife, Mrs. Huang, very satisfied with this marriage. Isn't it the best for Shen Xian not to marry far away in Tongxiang?
It was already the end of February, and the whole family was busy preparing for Shen Xian's marriage.Shen Xian has been busy making shoes for her future uncle recently, and she has to cuddle up with her cooking skills, so she has less time to talk to Ji Cheng.

Today is a rare chance to get together, Shen Xian smiled at Ji Cheng: "After all, the ancestors raised people in the house, look at your face, it's white and rosy, like a new peach, tender and tender. "

Shen Xun answered, "I also think sister Cheng looks better, it's really strange, but I haven't seen you for two or three days, how come she looks a lot better?"

Several sisters were talking together, but Lu Yuan, who usually talked a lot, sat quietly by the side and didn't talk much.

Ji Cheng sat next to Lu Yuan: "A Yuan, what's wrong with you?"

Shen Xian looked at Lu Yuan with a funny face: "Yesterday my mother took her to see the third son of the Luo family. She disliked his thin arms and legs, so she came back and complained all night."

Lu Yuan was used to the thick and strong old and young men in the frontier, so naturally she couldn't understand the third son of the Luo family who was full of scholarly habits.

"Which Luo family?" Ji Cheng asked.

"It's the grandson of Yushi Zhongcheng Luo's family." Shen Yuan said.

That was a close minister of the emperor, Ji Cheng turned his head and said to Lu Yuan, "Didn't you say that your mother sent you back to Beijing, because she didn't want you to marry a military officer? The family style and character of the family that the second lady will let you see must be very bad." Difference."

But Lu Yuan likes the kind of muscular man, she feels safe in that way, she really doesn't like Mr. Luo who is powerless, but Mrs. Huang and Shen Xian kept scolding her last night.

Moreover, the person Lu Yuan has always been thinking about is Shen Yu, and she doesn't believe that her aunt, Mrs. Huang, doesn't know about it.And her aunt suddenly offered her a kiss, which meant that she was not her aunt's ideal choice for a daughter-in-law, and this was what made Lu Yuan feel the most depressed.

Ji Cheng knew what Lu Yuan was thinking. She used to see that Lu Yuan often went to Changheng Yuan, Madam Huang didn't say anything, she thought that Madam Huang intended to marry Lu Yuan as Shen Yu's successor, but now she changed her mind .

After sitting and talking for a while, Shen Xian and Shen Xun left hand in hand, but Lu Yuan stayed with Ji Cheng.Before leaving, Shen Xian winked at Ji Cheng and asked her to persuade Lu Yuan.

"Sister Cheng, what do you think if I tell my aunt what's on my mind?" Lu Yuan asked.

Ji Cheng thought of Mrs. Huang's appearance. Although she had a kind face, she acted very neatly and capablely. She sighed lightly: "How can someone as shrewd as Second Madam not know your thoughts? She must have wanted you to be a Her daughter-in-law, so you often go to see Brother Hong and she doesn't say anything. Now you are suddenly asked to meet her, but what happened recently?"

Lu Yuan thought for a while, then shook her head decisively: "No, does Auntie still mind the fact that I caused Brother Hong to fall into the water last time?"

This is not impossible, after all, Brother Hong is Erfang's only direct grandson, and he is the eldest grandson, even if Lu Yuan is not wrong, it will always make Madam Huang feel bad.

"Maybe." Ji Cheng said.

Lu Yuan said anxiously: "Then what should I do with Sister Cheng?" Mrs. Huang disagreed, and the marriage would fail.

Ji Cheng said, "Why don't you ask your mother to talk to your aunt? They are sisters, so I'm afraid they can talk. Sister Xian is getting married soon, but your mother is coming back?"

Lu Yuan felt that even her mother would be of no use.She often heard from her mother that when she was a girl at home, her aunt had a very good temper.

Lu Yuan made up her mind that this matter had to be attributed to her eldest cousin Shen Yu. If Shen Yu took a fancy to her, her aunt would not object.

It's just that Mrs. Huang told Lu Yuan a few days ago that after Shen Xian got married, brother Hong would move to the outer courtyard, and told her to avoid going to Changheng courtyard. She was not too young, so she had to avoid suspicion.

Lu Yuan took Ji Cheng's hand and said, "Shangsi Festival is coming up on March [-]rd. I promised to make paper kites for Brother Hong. Sister Cheng, let's go and find Brother Hong later. He met you." Be sure to be happy."

Ji Cheng didn't want to move at all, but his arm was almost broken by Lu Yuan's shaking, so he could only respond with a smile.

It wasn't until late in the evening that Lu Yuan came to look for Ji Cheng. After resting for a long time, Ji Cheng recovered a little bit of energy, and then went to Changheng Courtyard with Lu Yuan.

Seeing Ji Cheng, Brother Hong was so happy that he was about to jump up, but he still didn't jump up, because Shen Yu happened to be returning to Changheng Courtyard at this time, so Brother Hong didn't dare to shout for joy.

"Brother Hong, didn't aunt promise you to make paper kites for you? Look, I brought all the bamboo sticks." Lu Yuan stretched out her hand hidden behind her back.

Brother Hong lowered his head and said sullenly: "I have to ask Daddy first."

Brother Hong turned around and went to Shen Yu's room, and soon ran out again, happily saying: "Daddy said yes."

Lu Yuan and Ji Cheng took Brother Hong's hand and went to Brother Hong's room in the East Wing. However, the bamboo strips brought by Lu Yuan still needed to be trimmed, and there would be bamboo chips, so the three of them simply sat on the stairs in the East Wing. Before finishing the bamboo strips.

Ji Cheng asked Brother Hong: "What kind of paper kite do you want? Big tiger's? Little rabbit's? Goldfish's?"

Brother Hong said very assertively: "I want a big eagle." Brother Hong said while making gestures.

Ji Cheng turned to Lu Yuan and said, "The longest bamboo stick should be used to support the eagle's wings." Ji Cheng picked up the longest bamboo stick and looked at it against the light. The bamboo stick was almost as thick as Lu Yuan. Yuan's hands are so long, and they are not cut very finely. One end is thick and the other is thin. Zhiyuan is top-heavy and will stumble in the air.

"This bamboo stick needs to be split again with a knife," Ji Cheng said to Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan made paper kites for Brother Hong just as an excuse, not serious. Hearing what Ji Cheng said, she had no choice but to say, "But it's not easy to split."

Ji Cheng bent down and said to Brother Hong: "Brother Hong, do you have a small knife?"

"Yes." Brother Hong turned around and went to his desk to take a paper cutter with a wooden handle wrapped in silver.

Ji Cheng put the bamboo strips on the ladder, and started to chop along the thick part with a knife, but this kind is the most difficult, not to mention the effort, and it is not easy to chop neatly, Ji Cheng just chopped a short section, and the palm of the handle My heart started to hurt, my hand slipped, the knife went out, and my elbow rubbed against the bamboo stick, leaving a bloodstain.

"Ouch." Before Ji Cheng could speak, Brother Hong gave her a pain first.

There was a lot of noise in the yard, especially with a half-grown child, Shen Yu couldn't even rest in the house, so he just walked out the door, Brother Hong immediately stopped talking when he saw Shen Yu.

"What's wrong?" Shen Yu asked as he looked at Ji Cheng who was holding his wrist.

"It's nothing, I scratched the skin a little while splitting the bamboo," Ji Cheng said.

Shen Yu looked at the messy bamboo strips on the ground: "I'll do it."

As if seeing the sun rising from the west, Brother Hong opened his eyes as big as copper bells and looked at Shen Yu.

Lu Yuan also looked at Shen Yu in disbelief, her eyes were full of affection, and she was hesitant to say anything, Ji Cheng knew that Lu Yuan and Shen Yu would definitely not succeed, but Lu Yuan herself still wanted to fight, Ji Cheng had to make it happen she.

"Brother Hong, how about we go to your study and draw the big eagle?" Ji Cheng held out his hand to Brother Hong.

Lu Yuan glanced at Ji Cheng gratefully, and Ji Cheng winked at her playfully.

Brother Hong led Ji Cheng to the study room, and skillfully found a large sheet of white paper and put it on the desk. He usually takes care of his study room by himself, so he is very familiar with the arrangement of the utensils.

Ji Cheng measured the width of the paper with his arm, picked up the pen on the desk, and outlined the outline of an eagle soaring in the sky. This was not a difficult task for her, but Brother Hong was stunned Yes, I admire it very much.

Painting an eagle is not an easy task, especially the feathers. To draw realistically, color matching is an important part.Ji Cheng was sitting on the chair, directing Brother Hong to do this and that, the little one was very active, as if he was afraid that Ji Cheng would not command her, he kept asking: "What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do? "

When Ji Cheng drew the last corner of the eagle's wings, he suddenly felt a warm current gushing out from his lower abdomen. According to Ji Cheng's more than one year of experience, it should be a happy day.

But her schedule has always been relatively accurate, counting the date today, it is four days ahead of schedule, Ji Cheng was not prepared at all, and in the past, there would be chest pains and backaches to some extent, but now it is Nothing unusual.

According to Ji Cheng's estimation, when she can clearly feel the heat flow, it usually means that the pants inside should have been soiled long ago, and she doesn't know if the skirt outside is dirty.

Because it was already the end of February, and the thick winter skirts had been replaced. Ji Cheng's dresses had always been made of light fabrics, but now they were suffering the consequences.

Ji Cheng didn't dare to get up at all, so he could only awkwardly call Brother Hong to his side. Fortunately, the child was only five years old, so he probably didn't know much about the girl's family.

"Go and call Yunzhu in, okay? I have something to look for her."

"What's the matter? Can't you tell me? Can't I do well?" Brother Hong asked a little hurt.

Ji Cheng quickly shook his head: "No, I have something to ask her for help, it's about the girl's family."

"What's the girl's business?" Brother Hong asked curiously.

Ji Cheng's face had already started to turn red: "Call her here for me, please?"

Brother Hong said: "Today Yunzhu's elder brother got married, I allowed her to go out for a drink, and she will come back at night."

"What about the other girls in your room?" Ji Cheng asked.

"I don't like too many people serving, I only have Yunya." Brother Hong said.

Just hearing the name Yun Ya, you are still a little girl, even if you are not even ten years old, you will not be able to help if you call her, and she might still yell everywhere, Ji Cheng will be ashamed: "Then you can go and get your Aunt Yuan or Has Rui Xue from your father's room called?"

"Okay." Brother Hong ran out briskly.

Ji Cheng got up quickly, and pulled the skirt behind her to take a look. The light yellow skirt she was wearing today had a little color on the back. Fortunately, the cushion was not stained, otherwise Ji Cheng would really have committed suicide.

But the heat was getting more and more fierce, Ji Cheng really didn't dare to take any chances, he only hoped that Brother Hong would call someone over quickly.

Brother Hong came back very quickly: "Sister Cheng, just now Aunt Yuan ran out crying for some reason, Ruixue also chased her out, but what should I do?"

Ji Cheng was about to cry: "Are there any other fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls in the yard?"

Brother Hong shook his head, because his father didn't like those enchanting girls, so there were not many people serving him, the rest were eight or nine-year-old girls, and there were mothers.

Ji Cheng is most afraid of these mothers, who have the most mouths, and they can make up a storybook about every little thing. If they find out about his carelessness, he doesn't know how it will be made up.

Ji Cheng had no choice but to say to Brother Hong: "This eagle will not be finished for a while, can you go to my room and call Liu Ye'er for me? Just tell her that I have something to do with a girl and ask her to come over." .”

Brother Hong nodded.

Ji Cheng heaved a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Brother Hong was well-behaved, and he didn't ask any further questions afterwards, and he did what he was asked to do.

It's a pity that Ji Cheng was "unfortunately ill-fated", Hong Geer just ran out and ran into his father Shen Yu.

"Where are you going in a panic? Where is the girl who serves you?" Shen Yu scolded with a sullen face.

Brother Hong was afraid of Shen Yu, so he immediately finished talking about Ji Cheng's request like beans.

Shen Yu frowned, thought for a while, and finally walked to Brother Hong's study. Brother Hong hesitated whether he should go to Liu Ye'er, but he always admired his father, what did he think of him? Everything can be solved, so his father can definitely solve his sister Cheng's matter.

Ji Cheng didn't expect Brother Hong to come back so soon, and brought Shen Yu with him, when she saw Shen Yu, her face was probably frozen.

"Cousin Yu." Ji Cheng said, but his butt did not leave the chair.

Ji Cheng has never been such a rude person, Shen Yu looked at her and said: "What happened?"

Ji Cheng looked at Shen Yu and blinked his eyes: "It's nothing, I'm helping Brother Hong draw a big eagle to make a paper kite." Ji Cheng said this, but what he thought in his heart was that you, a big man, are so busy doing so much?How nice it was to be cold and ignore people before.

"Is there anything I need Brother Hong to call a girl for you?" Shen Yu asked.

Ji Cheng's face turned red like a piece of pig's blood, she was thinking about how to answer so that Shen Yu would let her go, but when Shen Yu asked this sentence and saw Ji Cheng's face was as red as a monkey, she immediately realized something was wrong up.

A rare expression of embarrassment appeared on Shen Yu's face, he coughed twice, turned around and said to Brother Hong: "Let's go. I'll send someone to find your girl."

Ji Cheng said in a mosquito-like voice from behind, "Thank you."

When Ji Cheng returned to Rui Yingtang in a secretive way, his whole body turned red like a shrimp: "I don't think I'll have the face to see people anymore." After changing into clean pants, Ji Cheng buried his face in the quilt, wishing that he was not in this world existed.

Liu Ye'er laughed and said: "What's the matter? No one knows."

Ji Cheng didn't dare to tell Liu Ye'er, Shen Yu knew it, it was too embarrassing: "Why did you have a premonition before the little days came, why didn't you have anything this time? And it was several days earlier?"

"That's right, the one who caught us off guard didn't even prepare a cloth bag for you." Liu Ye'er said.

Because the little days came, Ji Cheng couldn't take a bath anymore, Liu Ye'er brought water for Ji Cheng to wash his feet before going to bed, his snow-white feet were very eye-catching in the celadon porcelain basin.Liu Ye'er splashed water on Ji Cheng's instep with her hands, and took the ointment and rubbed it on her feet.

"Hey, didn't the girl have a scar before, why is it gone now?" Liu Ye'er looked at Ji Cheng's little toe strangely and asked.

Yu Qian'er answered from the side: "Did you remember the wrong foot, isn't it the right foot?"

Liu Ye'er said angrily: "Can I remember the girl's affairs correctly?"

After Liu Ye'er finished washing Ji Cheng's feet, she put her feet in front of her eyes and looked at them curiously: "It seems that they are really gone. How did the scars of so many years disappear?"

Ji Cheng pulled up his trouser legs, and looked at the dark marks left by the horse fall in Nanyuan last time: "Hey, the ones here are gone too."

Liu Ye'er felt so magical.

But Yu Qian'er said: "Girls are naturally beautiful, and the scars will gradually fade away, what's so strange about that?"

Ji Cheng also couldn't think of the reason, could it be because of his health recently?It seems that the prescription prescribed by Imperial Physician Liu is quite effective.Once a person's body is warmed up, any problems can be easily eliminated.

Probably because of too much blood flow, so his mind was groggy, and Ji Cheng fell asleep until dawn, without waking up in between.

And when Ji Cheng was falling asleep, Shen Yu lay on his back on the bed and thought of what happened in the afternoon and thought it was funny, it was really embarrassing at that time, he always thought that Ji Cheng was a very calm girl, he never thought that there would be such a mistake.

Shen Yu not only didn't feel disgusted as Ji Cheng imagined, but felt that this kind of mistake made people feel more at ease towards her.

Shen Yu turned over and thought of the rumor that Ji Cheng was barren, so he couldn't help feeling sorry for her, it was all because of saving Brother Hong.

(End of this chapter)