Chapter 50(1/2)
"Miss, are you thirsty? Have a drink of water."
Zi Kui held the teacup and sent it to the little master who was still sitting on the bed.
The sky was shining outside, and the soft orange-red lighted into the window, dyeing the white porcelain vases placed on the windowsill warmly.
It has been almost four hours since Lin Yian left, and Su Mei curled up on the bed, and did not move except to drink the bowl of soup he ordered to leave.
She was still silent. Zi Kui received no reply. She put the cup on the high table with concern and asked again: "Girl, you should be hungry. I asked the kitchen to make you love sweet and sour fish. You can clean it up and have a meal later."
She slept heavily when she returned home. The chicken blood dyed on her hair was simply wiped and wrapped in a piece of cloth. Even the chicken blood was stained on her clothes.
Zi Kui finished the meeting, but she remained silent and couldn't help but sigh, and even began to think about asking Lin Yian to come again.
At least the girl listened to Mr. Lin, she drank all the medicine obediently.
Zi Kui was thinking, the motionless girl finally made some noise.
She also sighed a long time, moved her numb feet in the sight of Zi Kui's surprise, and slowly leaned against the edge of the bed.
"I want to take a shower." Su Mei sat down on the edge of the bed and bent down to wear embroidered shoes.
Zi Kui happily went out and told the little maid to wear water, then went into the room to help her lay her hair down and take off her coat.
The hot water was sent in at this time. Su Mei quietly helped herself to the clean room and soaked it in the wooden barrel on the stool.
The warmth gradually spread to her limbs, and she let out a long breath, her tense and her spirits slowly relaxed, and then lay on the edge of the bucket and asked Zi Kui to help her clean her hair.
She thought a lot throughout the afternoon.
The mistake has been made and cannot be avoided.
This matter is too shameful, but she did it after all, and she couldn't shirk responsibility, because she was in trouble in how to deal with it.
She is wrong and she promised her life to save her?
But she couldn't get over the hurdle in her heart.
She once married, and that person was Lin Hengli. She used herself to repay her kindness, wouldn’t it be that she insulted him?
Uncle Lin San has always been a gentleman who cannot be blasphemed in her heart. When she was unable to afford to get sick in her previous life, he was already the prince's most capable helper.
He had great talent and strategy. He helped the prince to return from deposed and returned to the Eastern Palace. He just waited for the prince to ascend the throne. Even if he was inconvenient, he could have a place in the court. By that time, he would be worthy of the princess.
This life will definitely be like the previous life, and he will be able to follow the dragon's achievements and gain success every step. So... how can she destroy the marriage he deserves.
Su Mei was distressed and sad. After thinking for an afternoon, she still had no idea. She couldn't help asking Zikui: "You said, if one person saved a woman who had married, the young man had not yet married, and had a bright future in the future, and could meet a better wife than that woman. Who knows this, should he promise?"
Zi Kui was helping her to comb her hair, but when she heard this, she paused and thought for a while before saying, "It depends on what the woman's intention to repay kindness with her body is. If she really likes that young man and that young man likes her, then she is the best wife in the young man's mind. If it's a bad intention and simply wants to rely on the young man to enjoy the future, it is to destroy the marriage and be despised."
"You mean, are you in love?" Su Mei reached out to pluck the water, and her heart thumped in the sound of the water.
But Uncle San was so moved by her, she was passive, and what about her... Is Uncle Xinyue?
Her head buzzed, and the problem made her cheeks hot.
She knew that she admired Uncle Lin San, admired his talent, but loved her... She never thought that she had a past marriage and a declining body, and she had never thought about such things.
Even if I think about it now through etiquette and law, I still feel that I cannot love him.
Although she has not married Lin Hengli in this life, she has been married to him. She really wants to implicate him with her body!
That's her Uncle Lin San, how could he be pointed at by outsiders? It's because of her!
Su Mei shook her head suddenly and shook off the idea of giving her body to her mind. Her heartbeat that had already sprouted was instantly strangled to death by her in the cradle.
So, she returned to her initial entanglement, what should I do about this matter?
Could it be that she will be a heartless girl and make Uncle Lin San sad?!
She wanted to cry very much, her eyes were dry and astringent, but crying was useless. No matter what, Uncle Lin San would find that she remembered the matter. The longer she delayed, the more unfair it would be to him.
She could no longer do anything to deceive him, it was a sin that could not be forgiven even if she struck him.
How can we achieve both ways? It is really embarrassing now.
She remembered the scenes of her obsessed with Lin Yian again, and she was so embarrassed that she even curled up in the water. She really didn't have the courage to see Uncle Lin San.
Maybe she can find a middleman to ease between the two of them first?
But who is she looking for?
Wu Zisen?
She subconsciously shook her head.
My cousin has a special relationship with her. Uncle Lin San knew about it. She asked her cousin to come forward. Then he would misunderstand her cruelty, which would hurt him even more.
Perhaps the elder is the best. There are many things she is not easy to say, which can be told by the elders. For example, she feels that she has had a marriage with Lin Hengli and is not worthy of him, and for example, she can ask the elders more bluntly what plans he has for the matter between the two.
At least, she can't just think about it herself, but she still has to listen to Uncle Lin San's thoughts. But if she asks these words in person, she can't ask them, so it's best to ask elders to come forward.
However, her father was far away in the border area and could not return to Beijing, so there was only... she thought of her grandfather and grandmother in Baoding.
Su Mei, who had been decadent for half a day, finally got excited. After washing her, she first sacrificed to Wudian Temple and then went straight to Wu Zisen's yard.
She poured Wu Zisen's medicine in the morning, and Doctor Xu was also implicated and was annoyed by him. She had a fever in the afternoon, and he was still angry and did not show up. Although she was famous for her master, he still made him sad when the medicine was poured, so he had to go and coax people.
Then, she set out to Baoding tomorrow. The rebirth of her is a bit incredible. She definitely dare not say a lot to her grandfather and grandmother. She also has to think about how to integrate the causes and consequences so that she will not make mistakes in front of the old man, which will make the old man worry about her.
**
Wu Zisen's temper has always come and gone quickly. Su Mei took the initiative to show up and said a lot of good things. He stopped caring about it after a moment.
But his tone was a little resentful: "My cousin will do this again in the future, no matter how sweet I say, I can't coax me."
Su Mei nodded repeatedly and told him that she thought of seeing her grandfather in Baoding: "There are many things in the capital, so she told the public that I went to the grandfather's house to recuperate. When the matter subsides, I will come back to Beijing."
Wu Zisen naturally agreed, "Then I will give them a command and let them get ready and set off tomorrow." After saying that, he noticed the strangeness and looked at her with a slanted look, "Why are you willing to give up your Master Lin San?"
When Lin Yi'an was mentioned, Su Mei blushed at his bastard and said vaguely: "It's not that I won't come back!" He left his words and fled in panic.
"Why is my cousin weird?" Wu Zisen stared at her back as she walked away, with a confused look on her face.
That night, Lin Yian received two messages.
The first one is about the prince's decision to set up the princess.
As he thought, the prince chose the granddaughter of a great scholar on the spot.
In front of everyone, even the emperor was not easy to refuse the person chosen by the prince. If the emperor refused, it would inevitably make many civil officials feel resentful.
Moreover, the prince's choice at that time was just right, and even the emperor could not say that the prince intended to fight against him.
Isn’t a Crown Princess who has no one in the officialdom at home the least threat to the emperor?
Even though the emperor was dissatisfied, he held back his anger and gave him a marriage on the spot.
The matter between the prince was considered a matter of fact, but Lin Yian had no joy on his face. Today, Su Mei remembered it and it was a heavy blow to him.
After returning home, he carefully recalled it again, and analyzed it layer by layer of her deceiving her, and realized something vaguely.
She clearly remembered the incident and pretended to be the Su Mei who liked her, as if she was afraid of hurting him.
But he was not sure about the result, he was afraid that it was his own guess. He was emotionally biased towards her, and as long as it was her, he thought it was beautiful. He was afraid that his guess was actually another kind of self-deception based on this beauty.
...What a worrying little girl.
Can she pretend for the rest of her life?
That's really cheap.
He sighed again, not knowing how many times he sighed today, so he reached out to get the letter he had just delivered.
After he opened the letter and read a few lines, his handsome face was ashen and he patted the letter back on the table.
——She is actually going to go to Baoding secretly?
If someone hadn't been secretly staring at the spies sent by Wu Zisen and the Wu family guards, and found that they had been called back to the Zhongyi Marquis' Mansion overnight, the little girl would have escaped silently.
Lin Yian curled the corners of his mouth, and she laughed at her anger, and she also mocked herself.
Look, I just thought that she didn't want to make herself sad, so I pretended not to remember anything, and sent him away first, and then figured out a solution.
She really thought of a solution, but she wanted to get out of here.
How could he be so cruel and learn the skills of those unfaithful men in the storybook!
If you flirt with him, you will run away. There is nothing so cheap.
Lin Yian, who was originally hesitant, was aroused by the news that she wanted to go to Baoding, which in turn aroused his fighting spirit.
Lin Yian stared at the letter and narrowed his eyes, knocking on the table with his fingers.
The left and right decided not to let go easily. He was waiting for her at this moment of awakening. Since that's the case, why bother to retreat?
**
In the early morning, the servants in Su Mei's yard got up early.
Their girl is going to her grandfather's house today, and everyone is busy checking the traveling cages again and preparing to load them.
Su Mei also got up early and asked Zikui to wrap her head around, for fear that she would meet someone when she left the city and be seen through.
To put it bluntly, what happened yesterday is a crime of deceiving the king, and even pretending to be like hitting the head.
To be continued...