Jing Shu didn’t make a ghost, probably not.
She stretched out her tender, white hand that was almost transparent, and blew on it. The touch of the warm wind blowing through the palm of her hand was so real that it couldn’t be more real.
“Miss, why are you sitting in this attic to blow the air again? What if you catch a cold?” A gentle voice said with some concern and resentment.
Jing Shu turned around and saw her former maid Bi Xuan was walking behind her with a thin silk cloak, and was about to help her put it on as she spoke.
At this time, Bi Xuan was not married yet, and she was still wearing her familiar pair of hairpins and a pretty green shirt, serving by her side.
After that day in the Buddhist hall, her consciousness seemed to have been struggling for many years, but she did not have the kind of “rebirth” as Mrs. Ling said, and it made her unbelievably return to her fourteenth year. year old this year.
At this time, she was still in Shu, where she had lived for more than ten years. After about a year, she would return to Baifu in Beijing with her father and mother.
She had been thinking over and over about the “before she died”, but she completely ignored Bi Xuan’s footsteps.
Bixuan helped her young lady put on a cape and looked at her worriedly. Since she recovered from her illness a few days ago, her young lady has been acting a little weird, even a little naughty, acting strangely all day, asking Some strange questions, and her temperament is not as quiet and graceful as before.
Seeing Bi Xuan’s disapproval, Jing Shu smiled and said, “This place is tall. If my mother comes back, I’ll be able to see it here first.”
Jing Shu’s mother is the successor of her father Bai Er, a native of Shu, and her family is the Chen family, a famous businessman in Shu. The Bai family has been the home of scholars and officials for generations since the previous dynasty. Although after the change of the dynasty, the Bai family’s way of life was relatively unfavorable. His grandfather only worked as an editor in the Hanlin Academy, and his uncle only made a name for himself. But her father was a serious second-class jinshi, and the Bai family was also a real scholar. So her mother was married.
However, her father married her mother not because of her mother’s wealthy Chen family, but because her mother was born very beautiful when she was young, and she was attracted by her father, who was the county magistrate at that time. , Contradicted the family’s will and insisted on marrying her as his wife.
A few days ago, it was the cousin of Jingshu’s grandfather’s Chen family who got married. Her mother had to go back to her parents’ home alone because of her illness.
As soon as Bi Xuan heard this, she felt a little distressed for her young lady, and said with relief, “Miss, after counting the days, the lady should be back, and the lady doesn’t have to wait here all the time. If she catches a cold and falls ill again, won’t the lady feel distressed? “
Jing Shu smiled, but this time she didn’t answer her.
She hadn’t seen her mother for a long time, and it was such an exciting thing to stand in the attic with hope and hope.
And here is high enough, from the attic, she can see through the back garden, see the familiar and unfamiliar street scene outside, see the river farther away, and the faint mountains in the distance, all of which make her Kindly want to cry.
“Miss, have you forgotten? Miss Wen’s family sent a message a few days ago, saying that she came to see you today. Looking at the time, it’s probably coming soon.”
Bixuan sees that her young lady has no intention of going to the attic at all, and the clothes on her body are only simple cloth skirts that she wears at home on weekdays, and she also has no jewelry on her head, so she couldn’t help reminding her.
Miss Wen Jia? Jing Shu almost forgot about this.
Not long after she woke up at that time, she was still in the midst of a huge confusion and apprehension when Bi Xuan sent Miss Wen’s post, she just took it and looked at it, and then she didn’t pay much attention to it. He threw it to the corner of the table and didn’t pay much attention to it.
This Miss Wen family is Wen Yuhan, the younger sister of Wen Xiyuan, a young jinshi who broke up with her after she passed the jinshi exam in her previous life. She remembers when she was still in Shu and did not quit her relationship with Wen Xiyuan. , she and Wen Yuhan are still very good friends.
The father of the brothers and sisters of the Wen family passed away early. Both of them were brought up by their widowed mother, Mrs. Wen. When Mr. Wen died, the Wen family had only a small amount of money. It cost a lot of money for Wen Xiyuan to study. When they went to Beijing to take the exam, their family’s ancestral property was sold for seventy-eighty-eighty.
Wen Xiyuan is also quite strong. Even if he is engaged to her, he refuses the sponsorship of their Bai family. Therefore, her father admires Wen Xiyuan very much and thinks that he has the arrogance of a literati and will make great achievements in the future.
Although as far as Jing Shu knows, her mother secretly helps Madam Wen a lot.
At this time, it was late summer and early autumn, and Wen Xiyuan should not have gone to Beijing to take the exam. In my memory, it seems that he went to Beijing to participate in next year’s spring festival after Chongyang, and he went there with his family.
However, the matter of the Wen family is really far away. Jing Shu took care of those memories and said “oh”, ready to go down to meet the Miss Wen family.
No matter who this Miss Wen family is, this is the first time she has seen a foreigner since she returned to the age of fourteen.
And she was inexplicably divorced from her previous life. In fact, in the end, she couldn’t figure out what the reason was. If it was because Wen Xiyuan wanted to climb higher after high school, she also happened to meet Wen Xiyuan twice. He looked at himself with a look of dissatisfaction and disgust, as if the person who betrayed the engagement was her, not him.
Although he later entered the Imperial Academy, he did have a very helpful marriage.
There were many things in her previous life. She only knew the result, but not the reason and the beginning. This time, she wanted to open her eyes and live clearly.
Jing Shu got down from the attic and went back to her room. She saw that another big maid, Biman, had already prepared clothes and accessories for her. It was a plain skirt with a simple plum pattern embroidered on a moon-white blue border. Two small beaded combs. She has not yet reached the top of the hairpin, and her usual dress is just wearing some accessories on the double bun.
In her previous life, she had a quiet and docile temperament, and she always dressed in a regular, elegant and generous way. Not to mention the Wen family was in a difficult situation. In order to avoid Wen Yuhan’s discomfort, she always wore simple dresses when she saw Wen Yuhan, let alone wearing them. What gorgeous jewelry.
But now she looks at the clothes and the hair accessories, but her heart is a little blocked.
After more than a year of house arrest, she fled from Cangzhou back to the capital alone, and later found out that her past life was a gigantic fraud, and then she was taken with a look of pity but of course righteousness and dignity. She killed her, and said, “Her death is also a virtue.” This time, she no longer wanted to live in a docile, docile and docile way and only blindly looked at other people’s faces and felt others’ feelings.
So she looked at the clothes and hair accessories and shook her head. She only asked Bi Xuan and Biman to choose bright colors, and then went to the dressing box to choose the jewelry again.
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When Wen Yuhan arrived and looked at Bai Jingshu who stood up in the hall, smiled and nodded at her, she almost thought she had mistaken someone.
Before, Bai Jingshu didn’t go to the door to pick her up as usual. She just thought that Jingshu had not recovered from her serious illness and couldn’t go out of the room. But at this time, although her complexion was still a little pale, her skin was clear. , eyes gleaming.
I saw her wearing a light pink and purple embroidered brocade dress, with shiny pearl combs on both sides of her bun, and a purple jade wreath with a faint streamer on her chest. Under this dress, her skin was white. Bright eyes and bright teeth.
Wen Yuhan has never seen such a Bai Jingshu before. For some reason, a trace of displeasure and unpleasantness flashed through her heart. She pursed her lips, and then put aside the emotion and showed a slightly concerned smile. Zhu Jingshu said, “Sister Shu, are you in good shape?”
Jing Shu smiled, nodded slightly and said, “Thank you Miss Wen for your concern, it’s already great.”
Wen Yuhan had another meal. In the past, Bai Jingshu used to call her Sister Wen, so why is she talking so strangely today? And although I can’t pick out any faults in my behavior, I always feel that I have been too polite and alienated.
The two chatted for a while, but it turned out to be a little cold, and the harmony of the past was completely lost.
Wen Yuhan felt a little uncomfortable. Out of the corner of her eyes, she caught a glimpse of the embroidery frame placed in the corner of the room. It was supposed to be a half-embroidered screen. She finally found a reason to smile and said, “Sister Shu, I remember when I came here last time, this There is only a corner of the screen embroidered, but now it has already embroidered most of it. You are not in good health, but you still remember my mother’s birthday and rush to embroider this screen. My mother will know it in the future, and she will be very happy, even my brother will also feel My sister is virtuous and filial.”
Jing Shu was stunned for a moment. She glanced at the embroidered screen. For a while, she couldn’t remember the whole story. But after hearing what Wen Yuhan said, she thought that she had embroidered the embroidered screen and prepared to give it to her. Mrs. Wen’s birthday.
She just smiled and didn’t answer her words, but instead asked her: “How is Mrs. Wen these days? Young Master Wen will go to Beijing to take the exam in a few days. I think Mrs. must be very good. I’m sorry.”
As expected by Jingshu, Wen Yuhan not only did not feel sad when she heard this, but showed a rare joy and expression, she smiled and said, “Speaking of this, I am also going to tell you, the journey to the capital. It’s far away, and the spring season is very hard. My mother is worried that my brother will go to the capital alone and not take care of me, so I’m already preparing, and we will accompany my brother to the capital to take the exam together.”
This is what Jing Shu knew early on. In her previous life, because of the Wen family going to the capital, she also gave Wen Yuhan a lot of private house money to use when she needed it on the road and in the capital.
Although she didn’t like that Wen Xiyuan, she didn’t even have contact with him in private, and she didn’t even remember what he looked like, but because of the engagement, she only thought she would marry him at that time. When his sister or mother had any needs, he would always do his best.