Splendid Book

Chapter 40
Lin's yard was guarded, and it was natural to declare to the outside world that his wife was not in good health and needed to rest.All of a sudden, the servants in the entire mansion felt that the sky was about to change.Although there were signs before, everyone could have imagined that the Duke would really attack his wife.

But in the afternoon, Shen Lingcheng led the doctor to Lin's yard again.The servants in the mansion felt strange again, could it be that the wife is really sick?
After Shen Lingcheng led the doctor into the yard, he went straight to the inner room.At this time, the servants in the entire Lin's courtyard were not allowed to enter or leave, so no matter if it was a maid or a woman, after seeing Shen Lingcheng, they all burst into joy from the bottom of their hearts.Could it be that the wife is really sick, that's why the Duke forbids them to disturb the wife?

The maidservants around Lin's family were also panicked in the room at this time, but they couldn't go out to inquire about the news.At this time, Mrs. Lin was asleep in the yard, and there were two women guarding the door of the inner room, and they couldn't get any closer.

So when Shen Lingcheng came in, the maidservants greeted Shen Lingcheng one after another as if they had come to life.It's just that the Duke waved his hand to signal them to get up, and he went straight to the inner room without even stopping his eyes.

After he led the doctor into the inner room, there was a sound from inside, and He Xiang stepped forward a few steps, wanting to look inside.But she was scolded by the woman who was guarding the door.

Seeing this, He Xiang immediately took out the purse from his cuff, handed it to them, and said in a low voice: "Two mothers, I don't know what disease Madam has, I am really worried, please let me take a look at the door How are you?"

The two women glanced at her, and the one on the left with darker complexion said in a low voice, "The doctor is treating madam inside, you can wait here."

Although they talked, they didn't receive He Xiang's purse.

The doctor inside took Lin's pulse, and kept stroking his beard. This lady of the Duke's Mansion, seeing the pulse, did not belong to someone who was seriously ill.Shen Lingcheng waited at the side, seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, he asked: "Doctor, my wife has been unwell before, does she need to rest for a long time?

Rest for a long time?
The doctor is also used to seeing patients of high-ranking and wealthy families. Before the Duke of Wei's mansion had a master who was sick, he was always invited.One reason is that his medical skills are indeed the best in Guangping Mansion, and the other reason is that he is very tight-lipped and doesn't worry about talking right and wrong.

So at this time, he listened to Shen Lingcheng's words, stroked his beard again, and nodded after a long while: "What the Duke said is true, Madam's pulse condition is vain, and it is like a disease from overwork. I am afraid that if you want to rest and recuperate, you must not do it in the future." Work hard."

Shen Lingcheng nodded in satisfaction, looked back at the woman behind, and said: "You must have heard what the doctor said. Madam is overworked and sick from overwork. I'm afraid I won't be able to work hard on housekeeping in the future. I will let you Madame is resting well."

His voice was so loud that even He Xiang and the others standing outside the door heard it.And Nian Xia, who was always impatient behind him, finally couldn't help it, tugged on He Xiang's sleeve, and shouted: "Sister He Xiang, Madam has always been in good health, how could she be sick from overwork. The doctor must have made a wrong diagnosis." , Sister, hurry up and talk to the master."

They are all big servant girls around Lin, and they could make a good family when they are old.But if Mrs. Lin really rests, then the power of housekeeper of the back house will be handed over, and these maids may not be as good as the maid who sweeps the floor in the end.

They have all survived here, and they are about to make their debut, how could such a thing happen.

Shen Lingcheng asked the doctor to go out to prescribe medicine first, and asked the maid to decoct Lin's medicine quickly.And he himself was in the inner room, waiting for Lin to wake up.It's just that after the maids all went out, they saw a woman with a silver hairpin on her head, walking over, holding something in the shape of a snuff bottle, and put it under Lin's nose, and after a while, she caught sight of her eyelids He moved, as if he was about to wake up.

Seeing such a scene, Shen Lingcheng also gave a wry smile.There are so many tricks in this back house, even in the hands of the mother, there are such things.

Lin soon woke up. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Shen Lingcheng sitting beside her bed.The originally pale cheeks were suddenly stained with a blush.She supported the bed and struggled to get up, with a cheerful expression on her face, as if she was extremely happy.

She said, "My lord, you have come to see me at last."

But as soon as she finished speaking, she remembered another thing, immediately grabbed his sleeve, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Master, can you go to the old lady's yard and ask for me, when will sister Jin come back?" ?”

Shen Lingcheng looked at her, she was clearly a weak woman, but why did she have such a hard heart and such vicious thoughts.

He can't read it, and he can't understand it.

After Lin finished speaking, she noticed Shen Lingcheng looking at her expression, and she asked with some fear: "Master, what's wrong with you? You should say something."

"The doctor came just now, and he said that you are overworked and sick from overwork, and you need to rest in the future," Shen Lingcheng said with a flat expression.

Lin was stunned and didn't speak for a while.But her own body, how could she not understand it.It's not that she has a physical problem at all, it's that the master is going to put her under house arrest.So the old lady took sister Jin away on purpose, they wanted to put her under house arrest.

"No, no, I have nothing to do at all. The doctor is a quack doctor. I am in good health. The doctor said before that I can still have a son. How is that possible?" She looked at Shen Lingcheng, trying to see a trace of softness in his eyes .

But no matter how long she looked at it, there was only indifference in Shen Lingcheng's eyes.

"Master, I really have nothing to do. Why is this? Think about Miss Jin, is it possible that you want her to leave my mother at such a young age?" Seeing that the questioning was unsuccessful, Mrs. Lin immediately changed to begging .

Seeing this, Shen Lingcheng understood that she was using Sister Jin to soften her heart.Originally, he thought that he really couldn't bear it. After all, Jin'er is still so young, it's really not good to leave his mother.But Lin's only knows how to love her own daughter.

"Then when you wanted to kill Changle, did you ever think that she was so young and lost her mother, so it's not pitiful?" Shen Lingcheng looked at her and asked.

Lin's whole body trembled when he was asked, and after a while, she immediately shook her head, straightened her back, and tremblingly said: "I don't have it, I don't have it at all."

"You still dare to quibble, Mother Xu's house has been ransacked, don't you know what was found in her house?" Shen Lingcheng saw her visibly shaking, and immediately said with hatred: "That harmful thing, you How dare you use it on Changle, if it wasn't for Jin'er, do you think I would spare the life of a vicious woman like you?"

Lin did not expect Shen Lingcheng to even have the intention of killing her.

She looked up at Shen Lingcheng in disbelief, her lips were trembling all the time, her teeth were trembling, and every word seemed to come out of it.

"For so many years, you and I, husband and wife, only want to believe in a woman, but don't believe in me?" She asked in disbelief.

Seeing that she had reached this point, Shen Lingcheng was still stubborn.He was already extremely disappointed in his heart. He shook his head, pulled out a letter from his sleeve, threw it on the brocade quilt on her body, and said coldly: "Since the accident, I have always hoped that someone is framing you. This way It won't make Jin'er lose her mother at such a young age like Chang Le. But after reading this letter, I am completely chilled."

Lin looked down at the letter, she wrote it herself on the envelope, mother opened it.

It was she who asked Nanny Zhang to send the letter to the capital, but she didn't expect it to fall into Shen Lingcheng's hands.

"If you have no guilt in your heart, why do you need your mother-in-law to save you? It seems that you should also know why I went to the capital this time. For a vicious person like you, I should have a divorce letter, but I don't I would like Jin'er to be burdened by you. If there is such a mother, I am afraid that she will not be able to hold her head up for the rest of her life, so I will keep you in Shen's residence. But in the future, except for the name of Mrs. Wei Guogong, you will not Enjoy any honor."

Shen Lingcheng looked at Mrs. Lin and said decisively.

Lin finally couldn't hold back the tears, she lifted the quilt.Kneeling down from the bed, she knelt in front of Shen Lingcheng, tears falling like rain.She hugged Shen Lingcheng's leg and cried: "Master, think about Jin'er, you pity her. She can't live without me, she is still so small, and her body is so weak. I pissed her It's all my fault, it's all my obsession. But I beg you, give me another chance. Just one time. "

She raised her head, the pear blossoms were covered with rain, her black hair was scattered on the snow-white jacket, her face was bloodless, miserable and pitiful.

"Master, just one chance, you give me another chance. I guarantee that in the future I will treat Changle as my own. If Jin'er has it, I will definitely give it to her." She shook her head desperately and shouted: "No No, even if Sister Jin doesn't have it, I will definitely give it to her. I will never do it again, master, I will never do it again."

Shen Lingcheng watched her go from refusing to admit it to death to using Shen Jin to soften her heart.From the beginning to the end, she didn't have the slightest idea of ​​reforming herself. The only thing she regretted was being caught.

Shen Lingcheng turned and left, ignoring Lin's crying.

Shen Changle is like a fish in water in the Jining Marquis Mansion, Mrs. Zhang only has her as a granddaughter, so she is very fond of her.And Mrs. Xu was even more careful and considerate, thinking of her everywhere.

Shen Lingcheng also wrote letters from time to time, and now Shen Changle's lowercase script is pretty good, and he will learn to reply to his father's letters by himself.

Originally thought that the Shen family would come back years ago, but who knew that the Shen family hadn't returned to Beijing until the twelfth lunar month.But Shen's mansion has already started to tidy up, and I heard that things from Guangping's mansion have already started to be moved here.

It is estimated that it will be back in spring.

This is Shen Changle's first year, not spending the New Year with his family.But this is also this life, her first time celebrating New Year in Beijing.Not long after entering the twelfth lunar month, the taste of the new year began to become stronger.The needleworkers in the house came several times to measure her figure. She is just growing up, and last year's winter clothes are a bit too small to wear this year.

And since that encounter in the temple, she has never seen Ji Yu again.The capital is not small, so it's not easy to even meet him. What's more, he is still a prince, and he has to stay in the palace all day long.

It didn't take long for Zhang Xun and Zhang Yang's academy to be on vacation, and two days later, even Ji Qijun's brothers didn't have to go to the palace to go to school.So they often come to Jining Hou's mansion for two days to play, because there are no girls in the mansion, so Shen Changle can only play with his four brothers.

Because the elders in the mansion are busy with the New Year, even Zhang Xingzhi, who has always been very strict, hasn't asked about the homework of the Zhang family brothers for a long time.So Ji Qishu clamored to go hunting, saying that he was going to the Western Mountains to hunt roe deer.

His suggestion really tickled everyone's hearts.Even Shen Changle felt itchy when he heard it.The folk customs in the capital are open, and many aristocratic women are very proficient in riding horses.Shen Changle has long wanted to learn, but in the previous life she imprisoned herself to death, but in this life Shen Lingcheng didn't want her to be hurt.

So upon hearing this, she clamored to follow.

"How can this be, you don't know how to ride a horse," Zhang Yang shook his head.

Ji Qishu, who was next to him, was always the friendliest to him, and immediately agreed: "That's right, if you go as a girl, it will only drag us down." He made a gesture of drawing the bow and shouted: "We are going to hunt. .You can't even ride a horse."

"I can learn." Shen Changle blinked his eyes, trying to pretend to be pitiful, so that his brothers could show kindness.

In the end, she still didn't make it.

But the good thing is that Zhang Xun promised to teach her how to ride a horse when spring begins.

Shen Changle waited at home for two days, even the old lady felt distressed when she saw how pitiful she was, and said with a smile to Xu: "Next year, Brother Xun will teach Changle how to ride a horse, so you can go with her too. played."

The old lady is not the kind of person who is extremely rigid, besides, the noble girls in the capital are originally fond of riding horses, let Shen Changle learn it, so it is good to have a topic when they go out to socialize in the future.

Mrs. Xu didn't dare to agree, it was important for a little girl to learn how to ride a horse, if she really wanted to learn, she had to hire a reliable riding and shooting master.

After two days, the four of them finally came back with a carload of prey, which they said were all shot by themselves.So that night, the Marquis of Jining had a roe deer banquet.The chef in the kitchen of the Jining Hou Mansion is very skilled. He used the technique of roasting mutton, and the roasted robe was so fragrant that Shen Changle almost swallowed his own fingers.

On the new year's day, as soon as she woke up, she found that it was snowing outside.She changed into a new red dress, and when she went out, she wore a red cloak with a circle of snow-white rabbit fur around the hood. She walked in the snow like a blooming red plum.

As a result, after New Year's greetings and all the red envelopes, Zhang Yangfei said that her clothes were really pretty, and wanted to make a picture of her.Shen Changle couldn't stand his pleading, she really sat under the octagonal pavilion all morning, and when the servant girl came to ask them to eat, she felt that her hands and feet were numb from the cold.

After entering the flower hall and being roasted by the warm charcoal fire inside, she fell ill.

So other people's New Years are spent in red envelopes, but hers are spent in bed.This disease is really serious. I heard that when the burning is the worst, I even utter nonsense.Shen Changle recovered from his illness later, and asked Chunliu and the others what nonsense he was talking about.

But who knows that the maids kept silent, and only said that she spoke in a daze, but they didn't understand.

And Zhang Yang was also pitiful, if it wasn't for the unfashionable beating of children during the Chinese New Year, I'm afraid her uncle's ruler would have to be brought out.So Zhang Yang didn't go out much this year, and basically came to report every day, and the two talked through a screen.

Sometimes when she was in better spirits, Zhang Yang would talk to her more, and sometimes when she was sleeping, Zhang Yang would sit outside on the kang and read a book.

So when Ji Yu came, Shen Changle didn't expect anything.Ji Yu was brought here by Ji Qijun, and she was almost recovered this day, because the next day was the Lantern Festival, so she also wanted to go out to watch the lanterns together.

But this time, even if the old lady loves her again, she is not allowed to go out, for fear that she will catch cold and get sick again.

Shen Changle is being wronged, in fact, she has always been in good health, and this time she got sick because of sitting in the gazebo for so long.But no matter how much she acted like a baby, the old lady would not let go.

"It's all your fault, second cousin, if it wasn't for you, I would be able to go out to watch the lanterns tomorrow," the little girl went out in such a serious manner, only a few times a year, and it was such a lively Lantern Festival matter.

Zhang Yang on the opposite side bowed his head again, admitting his heinous crime.

Shen Changle rested her chin on her hands, and looked at the opposite side helplessly, how could she convince her grandmother.While she was thinking hard, she heard the rumor from the servant girl that the young master Biao had come.Because this is in the Jining Marquis Mansion, the young master Biao in this mansion can only be Ji Qijun and Ji Qishu now.

She was overjoyed, so she thought about asking her two cousins ​​to intercede together. Maybe her grandmother agreed when her heart softened.

As a result, when she looked up, she saw Ji Yu who came in with Ji Qijun.Although he is not as tall as Ji Qijun, but he is wearing a black robe, his face is white and clear, like glazed transparent white porcelain, it is so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off it.

She did stare at Ji Yu. Others always said that she was a beauty, but she felt that Ji Yu was the real beauty.

And she is a beauty in the bones and skin.

Zhang Yang also looked at the young man next to Ji Qijun with some curiosity. It was the first time he saw such a graceful and noble young man, but when his eyes fell on the suet white jade pendant with yellow tassels hanging from his waist , The whole person bounced up at once.

prince.

Ji Qijun rubbed his nose, a little helpless, originally Ji Yu went to his home to pay New Year's greetings, and he wanted to come to his grandfather's home to give something, but he actually wanted to come with him.He said that he heard that the lanterns in the Marquis of Jining were amazing and wanted to see them first.

Every year during the Lantern Festival, wealthy families in the capital will make lanterns and place them at the door of their homes.If anyone's lanterns can stand out in a unique way, it will be very respectable in the noble circle of the capital.Besides, I heard that last year the emperor went out to visit the palace in private during the Lantern Festival, and saw the exquisite lanterns in Uncle Shunping's mansion, so he even rewarded Uncle Shunping for this.

So this year, all the families have put in all their energy and used their housekeeping skills.If this is really taken by the emperor, it will be a great blessing.

So Ji Qijun was not suspicious of Ji Yu's statement.It's just that after he came, he actually wanted to visit his cousin with him, which he didn't expect.It's just that he said that he had met his cousin several times, and even the old lady had some doubts.

"I heard that you have been sick all this year," Ji Yu asked with a faint smile, hands behind his back.

Shen Changle squeezed the veil in his hand, feeling ashamed, wishing he could lift the veil to cover his face.Who is as unlucky as her to fall ill on the first day of the new year.

"Are you feeling better?" he asked again.

Ji Yu's tone was too gentle, which surprised Ji Qijun who had dealt with him all the year round.Originally, he thought that Ji Yu just made up a random reason, but he didn't expect that he really knew his cousin.

Shen Changle nodded, her ears blushed shyly, she nodded and said, "It's done, thank you little brother."

When Ji Yu heard this familiar address, the smile on the corner of his mouth deepened.

"Then can I still go to see the lanterns tomorrow?"

Shen Changle looked up eagerly and looked at him in surprise.She felt that Ji Yu must have come to help her from heaven, otherwise why would he always show up every time she had something to do.

She nodded emphatically.

Ji Yu chuckled: "Then let's go to see the lanterns together tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)