Wishful Things

Cai Jin hurriedly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and quickly walked down the stone steps.

The two figures were also approaching.

Cai Jin recognized the person in front, smiled and said: "So it's Miss Qingying."

Her smile was obviously forced.

After all, this feeling that everyone knows her intentions, but she still has to watch her intentions fail day by day, she really can't bear it now.

"Tonight is New Year's Eve, Madam specially asked the servant girl to bring something to Miss Cai as a gift."

"Thank you, Miss Qingying, to thank Mrs. Shizi for me."

While talking, Cai Jin ushered people into the hall.

After the maid following Qingying put the things on the table, the two left.

Cai Jin looked at the pens and inks on the table, and sat weakly in the chair, even feeling a dull pain in his chest.

Pen and ink again...

And it looks really expensive.

But she came to Zhen Guogong Mansion, did she come to write poems and create?

Is this Mrs. Cui Shizi's heart too sincere, or does she want to suffocate her to death?

Thinking of this, Cai Jin couldn't help thinking about the situation when he moved into this courtyard on the first day.

On that day, it was the Shizi's wife who accompanied her here in person, and she was very flattered at that time.

Seeing seven or eight maidservants prepared for her, one of them couldn't hold back, so he said, "This is too much to mobilize the teacher and mobilize the crowd, and it makes me feel uneasy."

It doesn't matter if she said this, she saw that Mrs. Shizi's face was stunned, and then she apologized—"Miss Cai is a literati, she likes quietness, but I was careless. I blame me for being a rough person. With this in mind, please don't be offended by Miss Cai"——then without waiting for her to explain anything, they sent back all the maids and wives who had prepared, leaving only one maid...

At that time, she knew that she could never say any kind words in front of this family.

Earlier, because of the sentence "I am willing to be a slave and a maidservant", Xu Yun really treated her as a rough envoy and servant;

Now, because of a polite word, a huge yard has only one servant girl to take care of it——

But this maid named A Li is not an ordinary girl.

Don't work with your heart and don't talk, talk, make small expressions... that's called a yin and yang!

She had never seen such a strange person in her life.

She even wondered if the other party had studied the knowledge of how to speak in order to be yin and yang.

Thinking of this, Cai Jin couldn't help looking at the maid who was wiping the vase with a rag.

A Li wiped the vase clean perfunctorily, passed by the table, glanced at the pen and ink on the table, curled her lips slightly, said "tsk tsk" twice, and walked away.

The ordinary tone made Cai Jin feel dizzy for a while.

What is she "tsk tsk" again?

Are you mocking her for putting on a show?

After these days, Cai Jin, who was almost unbearable, did not hold back at this time, like a broken string, fell into the chair, couldn't hold back the tears anymore, lowered his head and closed his eyes. Eyes pursed mouth and cried.

She is really wronged!

Suddenly, it occurred to her that a vulture had thrown a large lump of bird feces into her room during the day, which made her feel extremely unlucky due to the big festival, and she cried out in grief and anger for a while.

Ah Li turned her head to look, and then showed a look of disgust.

This Miss Cai is really bad, she didn't dare to do anything.

It is said that scholars are not angry, and she believes it.

With this little ability to bear, you still have to learn how to be a spy. You still have to be self-aware.

Forget it, at this time, she'd better not go up to provoke the other party with words, and let people take it easy.

After all, it is generally more effective to hit people after they have finally slowed down - the little maid who knows this well summed up cruelly.

Cai Jin sat alone in the hall, crying all over the place.

She thought she would have a good cry, and after crying out all the grievances and hardships that could not be said, she would feel better.

But the fact is that the more she cried, the more miserable she felt, and the more she felt that the people in the town government's mansion were really scary and weird, and she even couldn't help but miss the days in Yongxiang in the palace——

At midnight, a string of lively firecrackers sounded outside.

In Beijing, firecrackers are set off to eat glutinous rice balls on New Year's Eve. The sound of firecrackers symbolizes getting rid of the old and ushering in the new, while glutinous rice balls are the hope for a happy reunion in the new year.

"Miss Cai, I'm eating glutinous rice balls."

Ah Li came over with a bowl of glutinous rice balls, glanced at Cai Jin who was in a hurry to wipe away her tears, sighed and was about to say something when she heard a burst of unhurried footsteps outside.

Cai Jin paused as she wiped her tears—couldn't it be that just after midnight, she made a special trip to give her the pens and inks she needs for the new year?

Ah Li quickly walked out to have a look, and when she saw who was coming, she quickly stepped forward to salute: "My servant has seen the girl."

girl?

Cai Jin's face changed slightly, and he stood up immediately.

Soon a girl came in.

The girl is tall and slender, wearing a red cloak, she looks delicate and flamboyant, but her brows and eyes are as calm as water when she is not smiling, which makes people dare not despise her.

"I have something to say, I want to talk to Miss Cai alone." Xu Mingyi came to the hall, sat down in the chair, and talked to the maids who followed.

Ali hesitated inwardly.

The girl's violent temper, isn't it a pretense to talk about it alone, and it's true to beat her up alone?

But seeing that Ah Kui had already taken the lead to go out, she had no choice but to follow quickly and close the door from the outside—if the girl really wants to fight, she should close the door to fight, so that they can pretend that they don't know anything afterwards. There is a decent reason.

"I don't know what orders Miss Xu has?" Cai Jin stood there with eyes that were red and swollen from crying halfway down.

Sensing that the girl's gaze fell on her face, she felt more and more embarrassed, but she could only stand there motionless, trying not to show herself any more strangeness.

"I can't talk about orders. After all, Miss Cai is not a servant of my Xu family."

Xu Mingyi looked at her, and said in the usual tone: "I just came here to ask, what is the purpose of Miss Cai's visit to our Zhen Guogong's mansion——Is it convenient for Miss Cai to explain this to me in detail?"

"..." Cai Jin's pupils trembled, and he looked up at the speaking girl almost in disbelief.

Miss Xu, do you know what you are asking?

If the other party's way of talking was straight to the point, then the door was opened too... too fast and too violently, she even felt that the mountain was directly pressing on her face!

And... "Is it convenient"?

——Is this a matter of convenience? !

Who are the masters in the Duke's Mansion of this town...?

At this moment, Cai Jin was even more confused.