pretty lady in disguise

Chapter 42

Zhan Huaichun left, Changqing Garden became quiet all of a sudden.

A Yu thought she would not get used to it, but after two days, she found that it didn't make any difference whether Zhan Huaichun was there or not.When he didn't go to the capital, he didn't spend much time at home during the day, the two just ate together, she waited on him in the morning and evening, and spent most of the rest of the time by himself.Now that he is gone, she eats three meals a day with Dangui Danxia, ​​talking and laughing makes it more lively.

At the end of the month, Dangui Danxia took a day off. She went out in the morning and came back at dusk.Danxia didn't seem very happy. Ayu wanted to ask, but was persuaded by Dangui's eyes. Then Dangui gave the two of them the dried sweet potatoes she brought back from home.The dried potatoes were dry and hard for a whole winter, and they couldn't be chewed at all. When steaming the steamed buns at home, they were steamed and softened, sweet and chewy.

"Ayu, didn't you want to get your ears pierced last time? This time I brought all the things I needed. It's dark and inconvenient. Let me do it for you tomorrow?" He took out a folded handkerchief and unfolded it in front of A Yu.

There is a small bottle inside, which is filled with wine soaked with peppercorns.There is a silver needle with a red thread, two small beans, and a few thin jujube needles.Dangui pointed the same way and introduced the same, and finally said confidently: "Ayu, don't worry, I helped the neighbor's little sister get the ear piercing, there is only a little pain, and it's over. How about it, I will help you wear it tomorrow." ?”

Ayu was very moved, but looking at the needle, she still hesitated: "How about waiting until I buy the earrings?" She was afraid of pain.

Dangui saw her thoughts and laughed at her: "You are afraid of pain, and you still make so many excuses. Let me tell you, it will take a while to wear earrings after piercing, so it doesn't matter if you don't have them now. Ayu, it's not me To scare you, the bigger we get pierced, the more painful it will be, you really want to dress yourself up pretty, you'd better wear it now."

She spoke clearly and logically, and Ayu looked at Danxia questioningly. Danxia pursed her lips and nodded in agreement, and Ayu decided, "Okay, then you can help me tomorrow." She really likes earrings.

The next morning, the three of them finished their errands respectively and gathered together in Ayu's room. Her room was bright and bright.

Afraid that Ayu would get nervous when she saw it, Dangui covered her eyes with a cloth belt and asked her to sit by the window and wait.She stood aside by herself, holding a silver needle and roasting it over a candle, and put it on a clean veil after baking.Then dipped the pepper wine with the fingers of the left and right hands and wiped it on Ayu's fine white earlobe, and then used two small beans to clamp the place where Ayu's left ear was going to be pierced, and rubbed it numb. After a while, Ayu It won't hurt too much.

Dangui was very patient, rubbing and talking to distract Ayu.Danxia helped guard outside the door, lest someone come over and startle her and stab her in the wrong place.

Ayu was still flustered, when Dangui pinched her earlobe, she was so nervous that her heart almost jumped out.

"Okay, the left ear is finished, how is it? Doesn't it hurt?" Dangui carefully wiped off a little blood for Ayu, and then pierced a jujube needle with skillful movements.

A Yu's eyes rolled into tears.There was no pain when I pricked it, but the pain gradually came up later.She wanted to say no to piercing the other side, Dangui had already started rubbing her right ear.Ayu endured it, feeling that she couldn't give up halfway, so she tried hard to recall the pair of beautiful light red earrings on the shelf, they were so beautiful, she wanted to wear them.

After thinking about it, the right ear was also tied.

Dangui helped Ayu take off the cloth belt, met her red eye circles, smiled, and deliberately turned her head to let Ayu look at the jasper earrings she specially wore today, and gently swayed them for her to see.When Ah Yu is not in pain, she will tell her the next things to pay attention to, such as being careful not to get water when washing her face, turning the needle every day to prevent her ears from growing dead, and so on.Ayu listened carefully, feeling especially grateful to Dangui.

"Okay, let's go find Danxia." Dangui packed up her things and was ready to go out.

At this time, Danxia walked in with a strange face, and seeing that the two had packed up, she handed the book in her hand to Ayu: "The young master just sent someone over, saying that it is for you to read it yourself, read it a few more times. After reading it all over, the young master Yue Yue asked you for a question."

"What book?" Dangui first snatched the book out of curiosity, flipped through two pages, but couldn't understand anything.

Neither she nor Danxia could read.

"Changgui said, the young master let Ayu see for himself, and don't tell others." Danxia looked at Ayu even more strangely.It stands to reason that A Yu is the servant girl next to the Second Young Master, even if it is just an ordinary maid, it is not appropriate for the Eldest Young Master to do this, not to mention that the Second Young Master treats A Yu so preferentially, it is possible to raise an aunt in the future.

Dangui was also confused, but since the young master gave special instructions, she didn't make things difficult for Ayu.Putting the book on the table, Dangui patted Ayu on the shoulder, seeing that she was also puzzled and fearful, and comforted her in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, the young master is not harsh on the servants, you can read it in the room. If your ears are uncomfortable, come to me immediately, remember what I said, and don't touch it by yourself."

A Yu nodded, pretending to be calm and sending them out, her heart was already in a mess.

The eldest young master doesn't like her, so he suddenly sent the book, isn't it because he is afraid that she will be bored by being alone?
Returning to the table worried, Ayu couldn't wait to read it, and was so fascinated by it that he even forgot about his aching ears.

This book really seemed to help her pass the time.

The book tells the story of a pair of maidservants and sisters.The two grew up in Yuanwai's master's house, and were gradually sent to serve in the young master's yard.Because they were beautiful, the young master liked them very much, and promised to raise them as aunts in the future.The elder sister was unwilling, so she begged the young master to let her go out of the house. She already had a sweetheart outside, who was a tenant farmer of Yuan Wai's family, hardworking and honest.Although the young master was reluctant, he still didn't force his sister and let her go out to get married.In the first two years, my sister had a hard life, but the tenant farmer treated her very well. Later, the two saved money to buy land, and their life was ordinary and happy.

The younger sister is different, she has become a member of the young master's house, and the two of them are like glue, but the younger sister's life did not last long, because the young master married a wife at the order of his parents, and he married a young lady from a big family. Knowledgeable and sensible.The young master soon fell in love with his new wife, and gradually forgot about his sister.But no matter how good the young master is to the new wife, the new wife is unhappy. The young master asked repeatedly, and the new wife told him: "I like you, and I hope you have only me in your heart, but you already had a charming maid before you married me. When I think of you being kind to her before, I feel uncomfortable."

After the young master knew the reason, in order to show his heart, he sold his sister's maid.

At the end of the story, the elder sister and the tenant farmer had their own children, and the young master and the new wife had both children. Only the younger sister, who was broken by the young master, was not liked by her husband after remarriage, and died of depression.

This is the first time Ayu saw this kind of story, and she was completely attracted. The book is not thick, but it tells a lot of things from the daily life of the three girls, which Ayu has never learned.

For example, etiquette.When the young master takes a bath, the elder sister will try to avoid it as much as possible, because there are taboos between men and women, and the elder sister always abides by the rules and etiquette, and even after getting married, she is ashamed to look at her husband.The younger sister was different. She wanted to be a member of the young master's house before the young master liked her. Regardless of her sister's repeated dissuasion, she took the initiative to move closer to the young master, and deliberately exposed her arms many times.The maids next to her said that she was seducing, seducing, and being immoral, and they all despised her.

For example, feelings.When the tenant farmer proposed marriage to his sister, he promised to treat her well for the rest of his life, and my sister felt very happy.When the young master got married over there, the younger sister and the new wife were very sad. The younger sister was because the young master didn't like her, and the new wife was because her fiancé liked another woman before marrying her. Dear……

It turns out that there are so many taboos between men and women, and it turns out that there is also a feeling called "like" between men and women.

After reading it, Ayu sat blankly for a long time.

She was annoyed and blamed herself.She had seen Zhan Huaichun several times before, and even slept with him, but Zhan Huaichun lied to her that it was okay, and she believed it.In fact, that's not good. She crawled onto a man's bed and let him hug her. This is not what a good girl should do.If, if she had known, she would not have made those mistakes.

The master said that Zhan Huaichun would marry a wife, so in the future, Zhan Huaichun's wife would be sad when she knew that the young master had hugged her and treated her well, right?Ayu regretted it very much, and secretly warned herself that she would never ask the young master for rewards casually, even if it was something she liked very much.The young master doesn't like her, and she doesn't like the young master either, so it's not good to make the young lady feel bad in the future.

Throughout April, A Yu was completely immersed in this book, learning the etiquette that women should observe through her sister and new wife, learning how ordinary people behave in the world, and at the same time sighing for the stories in it.Both the elder sister and the new wife were happy in the end, only the younger sister, if she had listened to her elder sister's advice and kept her duty, and didn't think about her aunt's status and wealth, she would not have made herself and the new wife sad in the end, and would not have ended up like that Miserable end.

"Miss Ayu, the young master will pass it on to you."

This day, Ah Yu started reading again from the beginning. Just after reading the part where my younger sister thought she would be the roommate first and then the aunt, Changgui came to call her out.Ayu's heart skipped a beat, she forgot about it!

She quickly put down the book, followed Chang Gui with her head down to meet Zhan Zhihan.

Ayu, whom Zhan Zhihan met in the gazebo by the lake, was open on all sides, and Changgui was guarding in the distance. There were only him and Ayu here.

After returning to the mansion, he sent someone to watch A Yu secretly, and gradually believed in A Yu's innocence based on the reports from Lao Wang and other servants.Knowing that she grew up in a nunnery and knew nothing about the world, Zhan Zhihan specially hired someone to compile a book to remind her.The Four Books for Women is too dead, it is not as good as the stories told in a simple and easy-to-understand way.

"Have you finished reading?" He asked, looking at the lake.

"I've finished reading." A Yu kept his head down, not daring to look at the man in front of him.

"The big family is the most polite, and there are differences between masters and servants. No matter how much the master likes the maid around him, he can't marry her for the sake of fame. At most, he will praise her as a concubine... A wife and a concubine are in the house. In today's world, women are required to obey four virtues, and husbands have three virtues." Wives and four concubines have to endure it too. But people’s hearts are full of flesh, I believe no woman is willing to share her husband with other women, don’t you think so?”

"Yes." Ayu agreed softly.In the story, the young master slept with his younger sister, and the new wife was so sad that she didn’t sleep all night, the pillow towel was soaked with tears, and when the young master and the new wife had sex, the younger sister also cried all night.Both Ayu and Ayu sympathized. When the young master agreed to marry his wife, she cried for her younger sister, but what her elder sister said was right. My younger sister had already expected this day, didn't she?The path is her own choice.

Her short words contained infinite emotion, Zhan Zhihan turned his head, looked at her and asked: "What about you, do you want to be your young master's aunt and enjoy all the glory and wealth, or marry out and be the wife that someone else is marrying? You have a clear conscience when you are poor?" The second younger brother has a stubborn personality, and he can't listen to anything if he decides, so he can only start with this maid.

"Ah?" Ah Yu looked up in astonishment, why did she suddenly mention that she and Zhan Huaichun?

Zhan Zhihan kept staring at A Yu. When A Yu raised his head, he could see the expression on her face clearly. There were shock, confusion and inconceivable in those clear water eyes, but there was no guilty conscience or uneasiness that had been seen through.

It seems that the second brother is hot...

Thinking of Zhan Huaichun's various denials, Zhan Zhihan inexplicably wanted to laugh.The two brothers tried all kinds of temptations, and the girl didn't have any thoughts.But that's fine, she is pure and kind, as long as she learns the etiquette she should know from the book, she should abide by her duty in the future, then if she disagrees, no matter how mischievous the second brother is, it is impossible to force her.

It's not that he is cruel, it's just that his aunt and concubine have a lot of right and wrong, and the ancestors of the Zhan family taught that if you are forty and childless, you can't take a concubine, so he can't condone his second brother to mess around.And Ayu, a nun who came out of Fengyue Nunnery, no matter how simple she is, she is not suitable to be the second wife of the Zhan family.

Knowing that she was ignorant, Zhan Zhihan was afraid that speaking too clearly would have the opposite effect, so he softened his voice slightly: "Don't think too much, you are the servant girl next to the second young master, I just asked casually, and I want to know your plan, what will happen in the future? I can also arrange for you."

Ayu breathed a sigh of relief, and continued: "I didn't want to be the young master's aunt, and I don't like the young master, besides, the young master will marry a wife in the future, so I don't want to make my wife feel bad. Marry, marry..." Ayu said blankly Clenching fingers, "I haven't thought about getting married yet, and now I want to serve the young master well."

"That's good." Zhan Zhihan nodded, and finally pointed out: "How to be a good maid, you just need to learn from the elder sister in the book, serve the young master with all your heart when you should serve the young master, and avoid it when you need to avoid it. If the young master If you mess with you in a moment of confusion, you can call for help, and I will make the decision for you."

"Well, I see." A Yu wrote it down seriously.

Zhan Zhihan looked at the satin clothes that were clearly out of character on her body, thought for a while, but still didn't mention it.He gave the book, he taught her secular etiquette, no matter how dissatisfied the second brother is, he has no reason to blame him, as for the little maid's dressing, let them go.

Zhan Zhihan sent Ayu back, and in the evening, he heard that Ayu had changed back to a normal maid.

This was something Zhan Zhihan didn't expect. He looked at the setting sun in the sky and sighed silently.

She is simple and sensible, she can see through a little bit, she is really a good girl, but unfortunately, fate tricks her.

(End of this chapter)