in spring

Chapter 89
Chunying buried her head in her needlework, raising her eyes from time to time to look in the direction of the courtyard gate, to see if the third young master had come back.Today Hou Ye went out to meet friends and took his youngest son with him. It is almost evening and he has not returned home.However, Mei Xiang was not around, and she didn't even have anyone to discuss with.

Manru came over with a sewing basket, sat down on the porch railing next to her, and started embroidery as well.Chunying frowned and glanced at her, but ignored her.As Manru was doing, she looked up at her from time to time, as if she wanted to say something.She turned her head away, pretending not to see it.

Xia He ran over from the courtyard, her face turned pale: "Chun'er, Chun'er, someone died in the garden, did you see that?!"

Chunying paused and nodded: "I heard, have you gone to see it?"

"I heard people say it, but I dare not go and see it." Xia He squeezed to sit on the corridor between Chunying and Manru, "Others said it was Sister Lian from the second young master's courtyard, but I heard from Shi'er , her family seems to belong to the same courtyard as you two?"

Chunying lowered her head and did not answer, Manru forced a smile and said, "So it was her? We only heard that someone died, but we didn't know which one. But I don't have any friendship, and I haven't met each other since I entered the mansion."

"It's better if you don't have friendship, I heard that she is not a good person." Xia He lowered her voice, with a mysterious look on her face, "I came back from the second young lady's courtyard, and heard a sister in the second young master's room say, that sister Lian Restless, bickering with the big girl all day long, even flirting with the boys, her hands and feet are not clean, today she sneaked out without saying hello, and even avoided people and hid in a remote place in the garden, He must be doing something shameful, and he deserves his death!"

The needle in Chunying's hand tilted, and she poked her finger, and a drop of blood leaked out.She pulled out the needle, and said in a muffled voice: "Everyone is dead, why bother to speak ill of her? She works for the second young master, how many clean people do you think there are in that yard?! That sister treats a little girl like you , and dare to say some nonsense, it can be seen that it is not much better!"

Xia He stopped talking embarrassingly, but Man Ru's face turned even paler in fright: "Chun'er, don't talk nonsense..."

"What did I say wrong?" Chunying raised her eyes and stared at her, "If it was changed to our yard, which elder sister would say such things to the little girl?! It's still the second lady's yard! Tell the housekeeper Ladies hear it, see if they punish her?!"

Manru shut up.She was just afraid for a while, worried that Chunying would slip up, but she forgot that the girl who spoke ill of Sister Lian was inappropriate.She lowered her head in a low voice and continued her sewing, occasionally raising her head to peek at Chunying's expression.

Xia He knew that she had said something wrong, and seeing Chunying's serious face, she didn't dare to joke anymore, so she quickly stood up and tugged at Chunying's sleeve: "Chun'er... Sister Lu'er told me to do a good job. I gave the bead flowers to the young mistress, the second miss and the third miss, and the eldest mistress and the second miss gave me things, can you put them away for me?" She took out a small bag made of silk handkerchief from her sleeve, revealing the contents inside. A piece of silver and a pair of gold flowers.

Chunying looked at Xia He's pitiful appearance, her heart softened, she put down her needle and thread, and took the silk bag: "Come with me, I will let you know where the things are kept."

Xia He grinned happily, followed Chunying into the room, and watched her take out a red mirror dowry in the shape of a lotus flower from the cabinet under the window, and opened the second small window on the left. The drawer is full of broken silver and copper coins, and the third small drawer on the right is for headgear.Xia He watched Chunying put the things away, and took out a pink pearl flower from the small drawer with a smile: "I want to wear this!" Chunying still put the hairpin on for her, and said: "What else? Tell me as soon as possible." Come on!"

Xia He smiled embarrassedly, stretched out his hand to hug her left arm, and said coquettishly: "My good sister, I know I was wrong, and if I don't dare to talk nonsense in the future, please forgive me."

Chunying knew that she was just venting anger, and she would not care about a child like her, so she softened her tone: "Don't you like my pair of jade butterfly earrings? I will lend you to wear them all night, so they won't break!"

Xia He was overjoyed and nodded hurriedly, Chunying smiled and put away her dressing gown, took out hers, and picked out earrings for her to wear.Xia He happily flaunted herself to the mirror, and then fell in love with a silk flower in Chunying's mirror dowry, Chunying reluctantly let her go.

Turning around, Chunying found that Manru had also entered the room at some time, leaning against the door and staring at them blankly, her gaze seemed to be on her mirror dressing gown.She moved her body uncomfortably, blocking the mirror.It was filled with the monthly money she had accumulated in the past few months, the reward silver and reward jewelry, as well as a few small things from Qiuyu, which were worth at least a dozen taels.Speaking of which, she hasn't been home for more than two months, so she should take a day off to go back and have a look, and bring back all the accumulated things by the way.Anyone can come in this room, it's really not safe.

There was a commotion outside, and Chunying heard someone calling "Third Young Master", so she guessed that he was back, and whispered to Xia He, "Put it in the closet for me when you've picked it, don't let people mess it up." Flip, you know?"

Xia He nodded in agreement, and Chunying hurried out, and saw that the third young master had come back, but he seemed to be drunk, his face was flushed, and he was lying in the girl's arms unconsciously.Lan Xiangluer waited for the big girl to help him back to the backyard in a hurry, Lan Xiang was still scolding: "Which one who doesn't have long eyes tells you to drink so much?! I don't even look at how old you are!"

The third young master murmured "Nahao" inarticulately, and crookedly supported Luer's hand and went back to the house. Lan Xiang stomped her feet, determined to go to the second door to ask the boys who went out, the third young master drank too much So drunk, does Hou Ye know?How do the boys wait on you!As soon as he turned around, he saw Chunying following behind to poke his head into the room, his face darkened: "What are you looking at?! I haven't seen you all afternoon, and I don't know where I went to be lazy, why don't you call the small kitchen?" Prepare hangover soup?!"

Chunying bit her lip, turned around and left, when she left the small kitchen and was returning to the house, she met Manru coming out of the room, saw her, seemed a little uncomfortable, bowed her head and hurried over.Chunying frowned, entered the room, and saw Xia He was still looking in the mirror, two silk flowers had been replaced on her head, and her mirror dowry was still placed on the cabinet.She stepped forward to open the small drawers where valuables were stored, and was relieved when she saw that there was nothing missing, and then asked Xia He: "What did Man Ru do when she came in just now?"

"It's nothing?" Xia He was a little puzzled, "She said that the pink bead flower didn't match the color of the clothes I was wearing, so she asked me to wear something else, and she picked out two silk flowers for me, but they were all ten's. "

The three of them have always shared cheap things like silk flower handkerchiefs. Although Chunying is not used to it in her heart, she and Shi'er have always indulged Xia He, the youngest, so they didn't take it to heart.Thinking about it carefully, she might be too sensitive, no matter how young Xia He is, she is not an idiot, how could she watch Man Ru flip through her mirror?So she put the mirror back away and didn't mention it again.

The third young master was so drunk that he didn't wake up until night, but his head was still hurting.Both the old lady and the wife sent people to pass the message, telling him not to go to pay his respects, but to stay in his own room for dinner.The big girls in the main room came and went, Chunying tried to find an opportunity to talk to the third young master several times, but failed, so she had to wait until the next morning.

Fortunately, Chunying woke up early the next morning when she heard water from the main room to wash her cough.She was in a hurry to wash up, and she didn't even have time to put on the headdress, so she rushed to the backyard, but bumped into Chen'er who came out holding a washbasin towel, and stuffed things to her arrogantly: "Go! Pour out the water!" Chun Ying held back her breath and took the washbasin towel, turned around and came back, Chen'er was already guarding the door with another second-class girl, it was impossible to let the little girl into the house.

Chunying went back to her room depressed, deeply missing Mei Xianglai.If Mei Xiang was here, she would have seen the Third Young Master long ago, why bother?
Shi'er came up to her and said with a smile: "Look at your depressed face, what are you worried about? Get dressed soon, and when the third young master goes out, we will drop by."

Chunying forced a smile, dragged the dressing gown, and lazily looked for the jewelry to be worn today.She was wearing a lotus-colored shirt and skirt, which would best match the pair of pink and purple double-layered lotus bead flowers. Thinking that the bead flowers were made by Manru, she felt awkward.

Huh?Why is there one less bead flower?Chunying rummaged through the whole mirror, but could only find one bead flower, and she clearly saw two of them yesterday morning.She turned around and asked Shi'er, Shi'er thought about it, and was a little uncertain: "When Xia He went out this morning, she seemed to be wearing pearl flowers, but I don't remember whether it was yours or her own."

Chunying looked at the beaded flower, and really couldn't figure it out, but she heard someone shouting outside: "Sister Mei Xiang is back!" out.

There was still a touch of blush on Mei Xiang's face, and she handed over a bamboo basket tied with a red string with a smile on her lips: "The small noodles fried at home are not expensive things, let's play with them." The little girls coaxed away On the way, the snacks in the basket were gone, and Mei Xiang nodded to Lan Xiang and Luer who came out: "I was not here yesterday, so I am too tired for you."

Lan Xiang twitched the corner of her mouth: "Where, this is our duty." Then she turned back silently.Luer stepped forward to hold Lan Xiang's hand and joked, and Man Ru walked aside to listen with a smile on her face.Chunying wanted to interrupt several times, but she didn't dare to do it. Suddenly, she saw a pink-purple double-layered lotus flower on Manru's head, which was almost exactly the same as the one she hadn't seen, but the flower core was purple. bead.Manru noticed her gaze and turned her head uncomfortably. Chunying was not in the mood to pay her any attention, so Xunkong gave Meixiang a wink, and the latter knowingly ordered Kai Luer and the others to go to the corner, and Chunying Ying hurriedly went over and told Zhou Nian about meeting the third young master.

Mei Xiang immediately sent a message to the third young master, and after a while, he brought back the news that he would come over in the afternoon and asked her to go with him at that time.Chunying felt a little more settled.

When the time came, she carried a food box and followed the third young master into the garden again. Before reaching Zhou Nian's temporary residence, she saw the second young master Li Chang coming out from there, followed by the man with a mole on his face. Pan Lao Liu.The third young master greeted his elder brother with a smirk, and the second young master also expressed concern for his younger brother with a smirk, his eyes glanced at Chun Ying who was behind him, and he froze immediately: "This girl is..."

Chunying bowed her head and said nothing, she clenched her hands tightly.

"It's just a little girl who does rough work." The third young master tilted his head mockingly, "What? The second brother has changed his preferences recently? He doesn't like beauties, but he likes dry things?" The second young master raised his face and turned to face Pan Laoliu said "go" and left angrily.

The third young master sneered, turned his head and said to Chunying: "Today is really unlucky, if we see him later, remember to take a detour!"

Chunying thought in her heart that I would do it if you didn't say it, but you just belittled me too much, didn't you?She nodded in agreement, and continued walking along with the third young master, still unable to help muttering in her heart.

The second young master Li Chang didn't go far, so he stopped, looked back at his younger brother and Chunying's backs, thoughtfully: "That girl's... seems to be exactly the same as that pearl flower?"

Pan Laoliu rubbed his chin: "I saw it too, but the flower cores are different, not a pair. It's just that the two bead flowers are so similar, maybe they were made by the same person. I'll get that girl to ask Just ask."

Li Chang nodded: "Do it secretly, don't make the youngest suspicious."

(Finally updated early... everyone pat...)
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