Maid of a wealthy family

Chapter 12
Ran Longgui sat for a while, then stood up, and mustered up the courage to go to Chrysanthemum's room.When I arrived at the chrysanthemum room, I saw that chrysanthemum was holding a small bundle with both hands, her head was buried on the bundle, and she was still sobbing sadly.

As if he was afraid of approaching, Ran Longgui stopped a few steps away from the chrysanthemum, staring at the chrysanthemum in a daze, only his lips moved slightly.

Chrysanthemum heard the noise, raised her head, saw Ran Longgui, and suddenly stopped crying.After a while, she loosened the burden on her chest, took out two pairs of special cloth shoes, and put them on the bed.

Seeing Ran Longgui, he still didn't move, but his lips trembled even more.

After Chrysanthemum took out the shoes, she tied up her bag silently without looking at Ran Longgui.She tied the knot of the burden a few times, but as soon as she lifted it, the knot became loose.In the end, she tied a knot cruelly, then put it on her arm, brushed a lock of messy hair on her forehead, and was about to go out with dull eyes.

At this time, Ran Longgui ran over, hugged Chrysanthemum, and cried out in pain: "No! Chrysanthemum, I won't let you go! Don't go, don't go..."

Chrysanthemum struggled a few times in his arms, but did not break free.

Ran Longgui continued to cry out in pain: "I beg you, Chrysanthemum, don't rush away... Can you please... Your heart is so hard!"

Chrysanthemum's lips trembled again, and tears were quietly dripping on her pale face.For a moment, she seemed to fall powerlessly on the bed again.

Only then did Ran Longgui let go of her.

Chrysanthemum's chest was heaving, she didn't dare to look into Ran Longgui's eyes, she seemed to turn her head away angrily.

The room was silent for a moment, and the morning sun shone into the room from the broken windows and the roof, shining a beam of golden light among them.In the warm light, some very tiny dust flies up and down joyfully.

After a while, Chrysanthemum involuntarily picked up two pairs of newly made cloth shoes, looked at them over and over again, and then broke the silence and said: "These two pairs of shoes, one pair was made by me in the past. These are for you to wear. A pair was rushed to make in the past two nights. You have to take care to wear them, and if they are torn, you can use twine to connect them yourself."

Ran Longgui didn't look at the shoes, but took them out in his arms.After a while, I took out a faded red cloth bag, the side of the cloth bag against the chest was already wet with sweat.He slowly opened the two layers of cloth on the outside, revealing a pair of milky white imitation jade bracelets inside, and handed them to Chrysanthemum, saying: "This is a gift from my family's ancestors to the new daughter-in-law! When my mother died, she said to me, On the night of entering the bridal chamber, she asked me to put it on my new wife’s hand. She said that she would be happy to see it in the underworld. I will give it to you first, and you can take it with you. Take a look when you miss me. forget me!"

Chrysanthemum looked back at the pair of jade bracelets, her long eyelashes fluttering.For a long time, she stretched out her hand tremblingly and just wanted to pick it up, but suddenly changed her mind, withdrew her hand, untied the tight knot of the bundle, and said to Ran Longgui, "Put it inside."

Ran Longgui hesitated for a while, wrapped the opened cloth, and finally put the jade bracelet into the chrysanthemum's bag according to chrysanthemum's words.

Chrysanthemum tied the knot of the burden again, and said to Ran Longgui, "Go to work first."

Ran Longgui said, "Why?"

Chrysanthemum said: "I will leave only after you leave."

Ran Longgui understood that she was afraid that he would feel sad again when he saw her go, so he simply said, "I'll see you off!"

Chrysanthemum got angry, and said loudly dissatisfied: "Who wants you to give it? I feel better if you give it to me?"

At this time, Wang Ma woke up outside. "Girl Chrysanthemum, it's getting late, hurry up while it's cool!"

Ran Longgui stood for a while, staring blankly at Chrysanthemum, with pain, attachment, and expectation intertwined in his eyes.After a while, seeing that Juhua hardened her heart to ignore him, she finally couldn't help shouting angrily: "Juhua, listen, in half a year, I will definitely come to Lan Mansion to redeem you! Fuck, spit and drown yourself! Half a year, remember! It happens to be the [-]th day of the first lunar month next year, you are waiting for me in Lan Mansion! Waiting for me..." After finishing speaking, he angrily looked at Chrysanthemum , turned around abruptly and went out of the house.

Chrysanthemum immediately chased to the window and saw Ran Longgui grab a hoe and walk away shaking like drunk.His head was bowed down, making his back look slightly crooked.

The chrysanthemum twitched involuntarily, and the tears "squeaked" like a river with an open gate, pouring down on the window sill.In order not to fall down, she held on to the window rails on both sides tightly with both hands.She watched Ran Longgui walk past the weir with tears in his eyes, his figure gradually getting smaller.She trembled involuntarily with every step he took.It seemed that there was an invisible silk thread, one end was tied to Ran Longgui's feet, and the other end was wrapped around her heart.She yelled Ran Longgui's name in her heart, and said, "Long Gui, Long Gui, I will remember what you said! I will wait for you on the Lantern Festival next year! I know you are a strong man, and you will do what you say! It's here At that time, I will give you everything, Long Gui."

Finally, Ran Longgui turned a small hill and disappeared.But Chrysanthemum is still staring at the place where Ran Longgui disappeared.The sun made her eyes hurt a little, and the crops, trees, flowers and plants beside the road were not only blurred, but also changed.After a while, Chrysanthemum looked back and turned around. It took a lot of effort to slowly adapt to the light in the room.At this time, I saw clearly that my mother had come behind me at some point, looking at her with tears in my eyes.

Chrysanthemum was stunned for a while, then suddenly threw herself on Mother's body, and cried out in grief: "Mother—"

Mother Chrysanthemum stretched out her skinny hand, caressing her daughter's face and head affectionately, then helped Chrysanthemum to the side of the bed, and sat down.After a while, she said while shedding tears, "My child, mother... I want to say a few words to you..."

Chrysanthemum choked up a sob, looked up at her mother and said, "Mother, tell me."

Mother Chrysanthemum trembled, and hugged the chrysanthemum even tighter. After a long time, she trembled and said: "My child, mother told you, you are not, not mother, your own..."

As if a huge thunder rolled over, Chrysanthemum was stunned. She looked at her mother for a long time and was speechless.After a long time, she said in fear: "Mother, mother, what are you talking about? What..." She asked, shaking her mother.

Daisy's mother stared at her tearful eyes, didn't look at her daughter, but looked into the distance, seemed to recall the distant past, and said: "It's true, Daisy! It's been 19 years, and my mother and your father have never told this Others. Mother is sick, she has damaged the pot, she has broken the vat, and after breakfast, I don’t know if I can have lunch. You are leaving, mother is afraid I won’t be able to see you, so mother will tell you..."

Chrysanthemum didn't wait for her mother to say anything, she was already crying like tears, she shook her mother violently and said: "Mother, don't say it! Don't say it..."

Mother Chrysanthemum paused for a while, hugged Chrysanthemum, and continued holding back her tears: "No, child, listen to Mother! It was not long after your father and I got married. That day, we were working on the slope. At noon, we suddenly heard a baby crying in the ditch below. We didn't pay attention to it at first, but the baby's crying came and went, and your father and I ran down to look, and saw you wrapped in a swaddling baby. Abandoned on the side of the road. We took pity on you so much, so we brought you back..."

Chrysanthemum's face was pale, she didn't let her mother say anything, hugged her body, and cried out in pain: "No! No! I don't believe it! Mom, you lied to me..." After speaking, she burst into tears.

Mother Chrysanthemum didn't stop her right away, and after she had cried enough, she tremblingly took out a silver collar worn by a child from her bosom, and there was a longevity lock on the collar, and handed it to Chrysanthemum, saying: "My child! , Mom didn’t lie to you, what Mom said is the truth. Look, this is the silver collar and longevity lock that you hung around your neck at that time. Once we see these two things, we know that you have some background. Or, it’s a rich family The young lady hooked up with the long-time worker, or the master and the servant girl were born together, anyway, they are not children of poor families..."

Chrysanthemum cried again, she didn't look at the physical evidence, she just hugged her mother and said: "No, I don't believe it! Mother, you are my real mother, my mother..."

After hearing this, Chrysanthemum Mother said: "Yes, child, I am your mother! It has been 19 years, and I have not treated you as an outsider, and I know that no one will come to recognize you. But I want to tell you the truth, Even if you die, you can close your eyes. Come, Chrysanthemum, take this thing with you!"

Chrysanthemum twisted her body and said, "No, I don't want it."

Mother Chrysanthemum said: "Silly boy! They will bless you to live a long life without disease or disaster!" After finishing speaking, regardless of whether Chrysanthemum agreed or not, she stood up and put the silver collar and longevity lock into the into the chrysanthemum's bundle, and then came to stroke the chrysanthemum's head and said: "Okay, child, let's go!"

Chrysanthemum suddenly knelt down towards her mother, and cried out again, but she was choked up and unable to speak, she just put her head on the ground.

Mother Chrysanthemum lifted her daughter tremblingly, brushed off a little dust on her forehead with her hands, took the bundle on the bed, handed it to Chrysanthemum, and then looked at her silently.

Chrysanthemum knew it was time to go on the road.Thousands of words were still surging in her heart, and she wanted to tell her mother, but she couldn't say anything.After a while, she ruthlessly pulled the burden on her arm, and strode outside.

But her lips were visibly trembling violently.His face was not only pale, but also had a haggard look.When she walked to the door, she couldn't help turning her head back, and looked at the dilapidated hut she had lived in for more than ten years. One leg, a bed made of stones, and two pairs of boat-like cloth shoes on the bed.

She finally couldn't control her emotions, and cried "Wow".

But then, she immediately covered her mouth with her hand, and didn't let herself continue to cry, she immediately turned around, ran out of the room, plunged into the sun, and started running.

She didn't see that in the yard, her father, a group of siblings, and the half-grown little black dog were all standing in the sun, waiting for her to say goodbye.

Covering her face, she ran past them without looking.

Lady Chrysanthemum chased her out from the house, and shouted loudly: "Chrysanthemum——"

Luo Luocheng and a group of younger brothers and sisters also understood, and shouted: "Chrysanthemum, wait a moment" "Sister—"

But Chrysanthemum didn't seem to hear, and ran faster and faster.Under the sun, her body was staggering like she was drunk.

After a while, the chrysanthemum ran across the mountain mouth and disappeared.

lotus garden fog
At noon, Chrysanthemum followed Wang Ma to Lan Mansion.This was the first time that Chrysanthemum saw the red walls and yellow tiles of Lan Mansion, kissing the flying beasts on the ridge, she suddenly stopped hesitantly, and looked at Wang Ma in bewilderment.Wang Ma said, "Let's go, don't be afraid."

Chrysanthemum stood for a while, and then mustered up the courage to step into the first vermilion gate of Lan Mansion - Chaomen.

Entering the chaomen, Chrysanthemum was about to look to both sides, when suddenly a group of half-sized children burst out from the academy, house sparrows were screaming and jumping like a nest, when they saw Chrysanthemum, they stopped screaming and jumping all of a sudden. She turned her eyes on Chrysanthemum, and Chrysanthemum blushed suddenly, lowered her head even more, and hurried on her way in a panic.Wang Ma rushed to her side and said, "Don't be afraid! This is the school of the master's house."

Chrysanthemum was startled, and blurted out: "Master still has a school at home?"

Wang Ma said: "Master is kind! No one in the master's family studies, but the master said that the rich do not produce books, the poor do not produce pigs, and the school cannot be closed. The only ones who come to study are relatives and children from the housekeeper's family. The master has to pay a lot of money every year." Money." After finishing speaking, he went on to say: "You just came, take a good look! That's the theater building, where operas are performed during festivals and festivals. That's the stable, where people who come to visit the master tie their horses , and watchtowers."

While Wang Ma pointed out, Chrysanthemum looked at the houses in the front yard and thought to herself: "Then where do the master, the old lady, and the wife live?" Thinking about it, she turned her head and saw the building in the upper living room, and thought that Lan Hongen, the old lady , My wife must be living there, and I feel a little flustered.Enduring her heartbeat, she stepped up the steps, crossed the threshold of the main room, and sure enough, she saw a large vermilion table in the living room, and a few imperial chairs on both sides, also red, polished to spotless, shiny.Calligraphy and paintings are hung on the wall, and tea utensils are placed on the small tables on both sides.Seeing both sides of the main hall and the small door leading to the side room, Chrysanthemum was even more sure of her judgment and stood down involuntarily.

When Wang Ma saw her, she hurriedly asked, "Why didn't you leave?"

Chrysanthemum asked anxiously: "Master, old lady, madam..."

Wang Ma said: "The master, the old lady, and the wife all live in the back."

Chrysanthemum asked in surprise: "Is there still a house?"

Wang Ma said: "It's early! This is just the place where the housekeeper and the others live."

Just as he was talking, the door of the room on the right squeaked.Then, the butler came out of the room with an account book in his hand.The butler was wearing a Ning silk gown, his face was radiant, and he looked less than 40 years old, but his actual age was already fifty.Chrysanthemum has never met Lan Hongen, nor the butler, but saw a kind and kind master standing in front of her, hurriedly bowed, and shouted: "Master!"

Wang Ma hurriedly said: "He is not the master, but the big housekeeper."

Chrysanthemum blushed, and hurriedly glanced at the butler again.She suddenly remembered what Ran Longgui said about borrowing rice from the big steward, and when she saw the big butler, he really had a benevolent face, so she hurriedly shouted gratefully: "The big steward!"

The butler looked Chrysanthemum up and down, and said with a smile, "Here you are?" His tone was kind, making Chrysanthemum sound like a loving father.She didn't know how to answer, but Wang Ma answered for her: "Here we are."

The butler went on to say: "It's good if you come!" After speaking, he gave Chrysanthemum a meaningful look, and hurried away with the account book between his hands.

(End of this chapter)