in spring

Chapter 57
Just when Chunying rushed to the curtain, she heard a clear slap, followed by the third young master shouting "What are you doing..." Before he finished speaking, there was another slap, but it was weaker than the previous one.Worried, she opened the curtain and looked out, only to see the second young master and the third young master confronting each other. The former turned his back to her and froze there with his palm outstretched, while the third young master was stroking his right cheek, staring at his elder brother , almost spewing fire.

This is... a fight?Was it the third young master who was beaten? !Chunying immediately had a bad premonition, letting people know that she was beaten by him when she went out with the third young master, would she still have something good to eat?She was anxious to go out, Zhou Nian just looked over at this moment, winked, shook his head, and signaled her to go back.

Chunying was stunned for a moment, hesitating and hesitating, she quietly put down the curtain and hid back in the bedroom.The third young master was beaten, but it was the second young master who beat her. How can she be stopped by a little girl?If the old lady and the wife know that they are angry, and they are also scolding the young masters, they shouldn't be angry with themselves, right?
Li Chang and Li You were so busy staring at each other that they didn't notice that Chunying, especially the former, was panicking.

He is very clear that although the old lady loves him, she also loves her younger brother. If she knows that she beat the third child, a reprimand will be unavoidable. If she alienates herself from now on, who else will support him?But as soon as he changed his mind, resentment arose in his heart. Obviously the old lady loved him the most since he was a child, and his father also regarded him as the hope of the Marquis Mansion, and the whole family regarded him as a treasure. Such an embarrassing field now?The third child is neither learned nor skilled, but also knows how to pretend to be innocent and deceptive at a young age. How can such a sinister and cunning child be worthy of great responsibility? !How could he be willing to let this kind of person take away everything that originally belonged to him? !

He suddenly thought, the scene in front of him could not be the third one deliberately framed him?There were only three people in the room, Zhou Nian was always close to the third child, maybe they deliberately provoked him, forced him to do something, and then used the mark on the third child's face to sue, his father always trusted Zhou Nian, if Zhou Nian and The third child insisted that he was the cause of the trouble, and beat them again. His father must have misunderstood him!Damn it, the lady who came to report the letter must have been bought by the third child, and she also said that the third child brought the girl into the garden in a sneaky way, she must be doing something bad and asked him to arrest her.joke!Doesn't he know what the third child is going to do when he comes in? !
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, so that's what happened, you deliberately set up a trick to plot against me...don't think you can succeed!"

Li You laughed back angrily: "Set up a trick? What kind of trick? Is it possible that I can still possess my second brother and let you beat me?!"

"You must have done it on purpose!" Li Chang straightened up suddenly, straightened his clothes, glanced at the food box on the table with disdain, and said with a sneer, "Don't think that grandma and father really believe you! It’s good to eat and drink in our house, and you still provoke our brothers to discord all day long. Even if your father sees that your father has a little friendship with our family, he doesn’t care about you, and he won’t trust you anymore. I heard that you are planning to reverse the case for the Zhou family? I advise you to calm down, that kind of thing is impossible!" He cupped his hands in the air: "Nowadays, the sage governs the country with filial piety, and Grand Master Liang is even more serious about it. The rebellious officials and thieves who disrupt the country by writing hate it deeply, and will never let you take advantage of it!"

Zhou Nian's face turned pale, and he gritted his teeth: "Second Young Master...don't speak too much!" How could he slander his father like this? !

Li You stared at his elder brother and said, "Second brother, where do you put your father when you say such things?! If Zhou Shibo is a traitor, then what is his father who has been with him for decades?!"

Li Chang's complexion changed, and he said angrily, "Don't try to frame me again! I'll tell my grandmother that you sneaked out to see Zhou Nian again, let's see what she will say?!"

"Then you go and sue? I'm not afraid! At worst, I will be reprimanded. Is it possible that grandma can still beat me?! But don't forget, if you don't come, you won't know I'm here. I want to listen How would you explain hitting me!"

Seeing a trace of flinching in Li Chang's eyes, Li You sneered, brushed off the non-existing dust on his sleeves, and said disdainfully: "Just a word, I want to remind you. It will be open next spring, second brother is not good Studying in the house, but wandering around in the cold, is it too big? I don’t know what my grandmother will think? What will my father think? Do you think you will definitely pass the exam? My brother advises you to use more Focus on the books, as a mere Juren, you will still suffer in the future when your family is separated, after all, you are not like me, you have already had a superior status since you were born..." He leaned closer to Li Chang and lowered his voice : "If you can really pass the Jinshi exam, our Li family will also have a bright face. When the family is divided in the future, I will give you a little more land, so that you don't have money to support that aunt..." smiled, "And your house Aunt Li!"

Li Chang pushed him away vigorously, trembling with anger: "Okay...Okay! I will remember what you said today! Don't think I will forget!" After saying that, he turned around and left, kicking away the clods of snow and mud along the way, He stepped on the bamboo fiercely again, but accidentally kicked a stone, screamed out in pain, turned around and gave them a hateful look, then shook his sleeves and left.

Chunying watched him walk away from afar before jumping out: "Third Young Master, did he hit you? Did you get hurt?!" She circled around Li You and saw that his right cheek was a little red, thinking of Just hearing two slaps just now made her feel relieved a bit, but thinking that the second young master could do something to such a tender and delicate wife, she was also angry: "Who is it?! It's still brother! Quality!"

Li You blinked, coughed, turned to Zhou Nian and said, "Don't take his words to heart, he's just an idiot, how can he know this, what my father is going to do, I know what I'm going to do, and I will never give up just because of his few words." A change of heart."

Zhou Nian's face became better, and he forced a smile and said, "Of course I can trust Lord Hou." He calmed down a little, and then smiled, "It's just that you were too impulsive just now, so you just said it directly, if he doesn't care Don't care about it, if you do something, don't you harm yourself?"

Li You sneered: "What can he do? Don't say that I underestimate him, he's just a guy with a heart and no guts! Hiss—" He touched his face: "It's really strong, I'm just him The wrong backhand hit hurts so much, you must have suffered that slap just now, right? Why didn’t you hide?!”

Chunying was taken aback, and hurriedly asked Zhou Nian: "Master Nian, he also beat you just now?!"

Zhou Nian smiled and said: "I didn't know he would hit someone suddenly, and he didn't dodge for a while, but it's okay. Chun'er, on the bookshelf in my bedroom, there is a box of boxwood with medicine in it. You can take it." Come and wipe it off for your young master, lest he go back and let others see that there is another disturbance."

Chunying agreed, and hurriedly ran into the room, rummaged through the bookshelves, and heard the conversation between the two people outside: "So what if someone sees it? Anyway, I'm going to make trouble in front of my grandmother. The more serious the injury, the more proof it is." his guilt?"

"I guess he will probably not say a word. The old lady doesn't want you to come to see me, and she doesn't want him to come either. To be honest, our Zhou family and your family used to be on good terms, and the old lady loved me a lot when I was young, but It's because of my current status that I'm so indifferent. Brother Chang should have worked hard in the study, but he came to trouble me and hit you again. He will never be able to please the old lady. You are afraid that the old lady will know that he will be better than you. You are even more afraid, after you go back, you probably won’t say anything. If he doesn’t say anything, why do you let people know that you’ve suffered?”

"That's true, I don't want to be taught by my grandmother again..."

Chunying found the box, opened it, and there were several bottles of medicine, a pair of small copper scissors, and a stack of clean white cloth inside. It must be the medicine box that Zhou Nian mentioned. When Yau was taking the medicine, he was worried again: "Which bottle of medicine should I use?"

Zhou Nian said: "The blue one is for reducing swelling, the white one is for stopping bleeding, and the azure one has the effect of removing bruises. Brother You just looks a little red now, and it should be swollen after a while. You put blue on him. Color that bottle."

Chunying hurriedly opened the stopper of the small blue porcelain bottle, took out a clean handkerchief, poured some medicinal juice, and gently rubbed it on Li You's face.The latter made another "hiss", and she hurriedly moved her hand away: "Does it hurt?"

"Prickly, it hurts more than being hit!"

"Be patient." Zhou Nian persuaded softly, "This medicine is very effective. I don't know where Sanqing got it. Just rub a little, and the swelling will disappear in less than a quarter of an hour. It won't be visible outside. Wait a minute You take it back, wipe it again in the afternoon or evening, and it will be fine tomorrow."

Li You reluctantly nodded, and asked Chunying to continue applying the medicine, and then asked her to apply the medicine to Zhou Nian again.

Zhou Nian took Chunying's veil with a smile, and applied the medicine very skillfully, without even needing to look in the mirror.Chun Ying wanted to praise him, but suddenly thought of a possibility: "Master Nian... How do you have these medicines? It seems to be very familiar... Do you often use them?!"

Zhou Nian froze, stopped laughing, and slowly handed the handkerchief back to her, then got up and turned to the bookshelf, silent.

Li You gritted his teeth and asked, "Does the second brother often come to beat you?!" Zhou Nian said nothing, and he stood up angrily: "I thought he was just asking someone to deduct your fees, and occasionally came to taunt you, I didn't expect him...you shouldn't hide it from me! Why didn't you tell my father and me?!"

Zhou Nian smiled wryly: "Why bother... You also know in your heart that Lord Hou loves you three brothers... all very much. He has always been worried about his failure in the imperial examination, so he pinned his hopes on your brothers, Jing Geer Enlightenment is too late, it’s too late, and your mind is not on learning, only Brother Chang... He can read since he was a child, and he won the Juren, Master Hou hopes that he can go to high school, if it is such a small matter, Wouldn't it be my fault to break their father-son relationship?"

"A small matter? You call this a small matter?!" Li You stomped his feet angrily, "Brother Nian! Why are you wronged like this?! We let you live at home, not to make you angry! Especially him, him ..." He sat back heavily on the chair, his eyes were red: "I don't want you to suffer like this, I want to help you..." He felt uncomfortable. The person who has always wanted to help has hidden so much from him. Things don't seem to need him, so why not discourage him?

Chunying listened on the sidelines, both angry and sad: "Master Nian, you are too aggrieved for doing this. Some things will not happen again if you don't tell others. Aren't you condoning crimes like this? Second Young Master I thought that if you didn’t dare to speak out, you would bully you even more, maybe one day he will kill you, and you haven’t gone to redress your grievances yet! Will Master Hou not be sad?!”

Zhou Nian was speechless, and it took him a long time to reply: "At least... Lord Hou can be less angry..."

"Father will never be happy if he finds out!" Li You mumbled, "He is planning to reverse the case for your family. If he succeeds, your father's grievances will be cleared, but you have caused my father's son to kill , How do you tell him to face it?! If you really think about him, you shouldn't tolerate the second brother! I'm back, you think carefully!"

After he finished speaking, he told Chunying to pack up his things and prepare to leave.Chunying glanced at Zhou Nian, seeing him bowed his head in silence, wanted to say a few words to persuade him, but didn't know what to say, so he put away the food box and took the bottle of blue medicine.Li You turned around and said, "Just leave the medicine, I have it in my house." Chunying had no choice but to put down the medicine, and left Zhumengshan Residence after him.

Li You walked in front with a heavy footsteps. Chunying looked around and couldn't help reminding him: "Third Young Master, be gentle, don't let people see..." Li You finally came to his senses, rolled up his sleeves to cover his eyes. She turned around and asked her, "Is my face conspicuous?"

Chunying looked at it carefully: "It's not bad...the medicine is really useful, and the mark is no longer visible."

Li You was relieved a little, and continued to walk forward, before stopping after two steps.Manru trotted towards him and saluted him: "Third young master, you are back, the old lady is urging you to go."

"Old lady?" Li You's heart sank, and he looked back at Chunying.Chunying hurriedly asked: "Sister Cui, is the second young master at the old lady's place?!"

"I heard they are here..." Manru looked at her, then at Li You, "What's wrong?"

Chunying and Li You looked at each other, and they both cried out in their hearts that something was wrong: Is the second young master planning to break the pot?
(End of this chapter)