Yangcheng

What Ji Xue said was sincere. Although she regarded herself as a maidservant, her words were neither humble nor overbearing, and there was nothing glib about them. They could be heard from the bottom of her heart, and Tang Jianwei, who was always eloquent, did not refute her again.

Nowadays, people in Dacang, even if they were originally slaves, can change their status as slaves through business management, marriage or even imperial examinations. Although they will work harder than ordinary people, their way to rise is not blocked.For example, Bai Erniang's family worked hard, they were freed from slavery, and their daughter entered the academy, no different from ordinary people.

It is impossible for everyone in Dacang to have the best life, but everyone has the possibility of getting the best life.

Ji Xue's fate was not good, she became an orphan when she was young, and was sold by Ren Yazi from Suichuan to Su County.Seeing that she was clever and sympathetic to her background, Song Qiao bought her and asked her to take care of the young and sick Tong Shaoxuan.

If the slaves and maidservants in Tianxian's reign were well protected, they would be able to live well and live comfortably without anger.Ji Xue and Tong Shaoxuan grew up together like sisters, and Tong Shaoxuan never said a harsh word to her since childhood.

Ji Xue is very smart, she can read all Tong Shaoxuan's books at will, and Tong Shaoxuan will patiently teach her when she encounters something she doesn't understand.

Compared with the students from serious schools, Ji Xue's knowledge is still a bit behind, but it is enough for daily life.

With the deep friendship between her and the Tongfu, if he begged Song Qiao one day, Song Qiao would definitely be willing to let her go without taking money, and even help her escape from slavery.

It is not impossible for her to marry Tang Guanqiu home, and the two of them will live as ordinary couples.

Probably Ji Xue's low profile made Tang Jianwei feel a little pity, but most of them were upset.

Tong Shaoxuan's back was a little tight.

On one side is his wife, and on the other side is Ji Xue who grew up loving like a sister since childhood. It is really difficult for Tong Shaoxuan to be in the middle.

But she had to settle the matter.

"Ji Xue, what happened between you and the eldest lady of the Tang family, would you like to tell us?" Tong Shaoxuan said, "We can't ask sister Tang about this matter, I'm afraid only you can explain it clearly." gone."

Ji Xue folded her hands together, and after a few breaths of silence, she looked up at Tang Jianwei.

Tang Jianwei knew what she meant: "You just say it's okay, I also want to know how things started and how they got to where they are today."

Speaking of this, Tang Jianwei paused and added: "I hope you tell all the truth and don't hide anything from us, whether it's what you did... or what my sister did."

Hearing what Tang Jianwei said, Tong Shaoxuan had some guesses in his mind.

Tang Jianwei still knows her sister's condition very well, and I'm afraid she has already thought of some unexpected situations.

With Tang Jianwei's words, the pressure on Ji Xue's heart for many days eased a little.

"Actually, at the beginning, I was really curious about Ah Jing."

When Tang Jianwei brought Tang Guanqiu and Zitan into the Tongfu, not to mention Ji Xue, everyone in the Tongfu was curious about Tang Jianwei's demented sister.

But because of Song Qiao's perennial teaching, even if they were curious in their hearts, they couldn't show it to the outside, and they didn't regard Tang Guanqiu as a different kind.

After carefully looking at Tang Guanqiu, Ji Xue and Qiu Xin felt sorry for him.

"Such a beautiful sister actually got such a fatal disease, but there is still a day of recovery?"

"It's too difficult. I heard that Mrs. Tang San has been raising money to seek medical treatment these days. Several doctors have visited and prescribed some medicine for her to drink. The chef is full of the bitter taste of decocting medicine all day long. After drinking so much I took many medicines, but I didn't see any improvement in her."

Ji Xue said: "I know about this disease. A Yue next door also had this disease since she was a child. Others can't communicate with her, and she can't control herself."

Qiu Xin remembered: "You mean Ah Yue who got lost and was never found again?"

"It's her..." Ji Xue still felt a little sad when she thought of Ah Yue, a friend she had a good relationship with.

Although everyone said Ah Yue was stupid and disliked her inability to communicate with others, Ji Xue knew that as long as she had more patience and a desire to understand, Ah Yue could also communicate.

Ah Yue also has her own world, and she is also a living person, but the door of her world is not open to everyone.

Only those with a sincere heart can open it.

The loss of Ah Yue made Ji Xue sad for a long time, and even today she still thinks of this poor friend, wondering whether she is dead or alive.

Although Tang Guanqiu is completely different from Ah Yue in terms of appearance and family background, their silence and timidity have the same pitiful atmosphere.

Tang Jianwei and Zitan often have to run around for their livelihood, so they will ask the people in Tongfu to help take care of Tang Guanqiu.

Song Qiao told Ji Xue and the others about this, and Ji Xue kept it in mind, and would go over to check on Tang Guanqiu's situation from time to time, and supervise her eating according to the timing of her eating.

Tang Guanqiu was afraid of her at first, and had scratched her too, but Ji Xue knew that she was just like Ah Yue, that she was aggressive only because of inner fear, so she was full of vigilance towards everything around her.

In fact, she didn't intend to hurt others, but just wanted to protect herself.

Ji Xue was not angry at all after being scratched, put on a pair of gloves after applying medicine to herself, and came over to coax her to eat patiently. Rough.

After another ten days, Ji Xue was finally able to feed food into her mouth smoothly, and also trimmed her nails well, so there was no danger of scratching anyone.

In fact, Tang Guanqiu didn't arrest her anymore.

After getting in touch for a while, Ji Xue discovered that Tang Guanqiu was actually very different from Ah Yue.

Ah Yue was born this way, but Tang Guanqiu was injured the day after tomorrow. When Ji Xue came into contact with her, she found that although Tang Guanqiu was often confused and illiterate, she could still read and practice calligraphy.

Tang Guanqiu is so beautiful and special, Ji Xue was attracted to her unknowingly, at first Ji Xue didn't know her growing feelings, she just regarded it as an ordinary friendship between women.

One day when Ji Xue was carrying a bucket to wash the room, she saw Tang Guanqiu standing alone in front of the bamboo forest path, she immediately put down the bucket, and ran over to ask her:

"Miss Tang, why are you here by yourself? Come with me back?"

Tang Guanqiu didn't seem to hear her words, still looking up at the winter day from among the green bamboo leaves.

"Miss Tang, looking directly at the scorching sun like this may hurt your eyes."

After Ji Xue persuaded her a few words, she found that she was still stubborn, as if she didn't hear her own words.

In fact, Tang Guanqiu is often in her own world, and others have no way of knowing what she is thinking.

Ji Xue saw too much and stopped communicating with her verbally, covered her eyes, and patiently and gently took her away from here.

Ji Xue stopped here, and Tong Shaoxuan said curiously:

"Then?"

Ji Xue and Tang Jianwei looked at each other for a moment, Tang Jianwei held his breath in his chest, hesitant to speak.

Ji Xue said: "I don't know why, and then, she hugged me and called me Shen Yue."

Tong Shaoxuan looked at Tang Jianwei in surprise, but Tang Jianwei's expression was completely different from hers, not too surprised, but hidden in pain.

"The bamboo forest is where my sister and Shen agreed to fall in love."

After a while, Tang Jianwei spoke slowly: "My sister told me about this matter, and Shen Yue confessed to her after blindfolding her in the bamboo forest."

Ji Xue: "...I, I didn't know about it at all. At that time, I just wanted to protect her eyes!"

"Well, it's impossible for my sister to tell you. I believe it's a coincidence. So it's understandable for her to treat you as Shen Yue afterwards. "

No wonder my sister didn't recognize me as Shen Yue anymore, Tang Jianwei thought, I'm afraid the blindfold in the bamboo forest aroused my sister's memory. others.

Tang Jianwei asked: "My sister initiated all of this, right?"

Ji Xue blushed, her head was calm and she said nothing.

In fact, Tang Jianwei was not without a premonition.

Both she and Zitan had seen Ji Xue and her sister being intimate before, and among these intimacy, her sister was the more active one.

It's been a year since she got along with Ji Xue, and Tang Jianwei is quite accurate. She knows that Ji Xue is a peaceful person and has no malicious intentions.Tang Jianwei was a little out of control when he angrily scolded her before because of his sister's affairs.

"Please tell me." Tang Jianwei was depressed like never before, "About my sister... only you can tell me."

Tang Jianwei's weakness and pleading squeezed Ji Xue's heart, making her feel very uncomfortable.

Ji Xue told everything that happened afterwards.

In fact, until yesterday, the two of them only had some relatively intimate physical contact, and Ji Xue didn't have any more complicated thoughts.

When she came to Tang Guanqiu yesterday and wanted to feed her, she found her lying on the ground, as if she was looking for something.

"Sugar—" Tang Guanqiu shouted anxiously.

It turned out that the sugar was gone.

Ji Xue put the food away, came over to help her find it together, and soon found it in the crevice of the closet.

"Look." Ji Xue blew away a little dust on the candy's coat, and put it in Tang Guanqiu's palm again.

Tang Guanqiu looked at the candy happily, wanting to peel it off and eat it.

Usually peeling off the candy wrappers is very easy for her, but for some reason that day, Tang Guanqiu was impetuous, and the way she peeled off the candy wrappers was a bit barbaric, and the more barbarous she was, the more she couldn't peel off the candy wrappers.

Afraid that she would hurt herself, Ji Xue took the candy and peeled it off for her.

Tang Guanqiu happily leaned forward and opened his mouth to ask her to feed him, but Ji Xue had no choice but to feed her because she often behaved like a child.

Tang Jianwei: "In the past, Shen Yue often peeled candy for his sister."

Tong Shaoxuan: "..." Naturally, she thought of the thing that she fed Tang Jianwei with sugar after taking medicine.

Ji Xue: "I really don't know."

"Well, you go on."

Ji Xue handed the candy to Tang Guanqiu's mouth, and Tang Guanqiu's eyes, which seemed to be covered with a layer of gray, suddenly moved, and looked at Ji Xue with full of tears and affection.

"Ah Ying..." Tang Guanqiu wrapped his arms around her waist in attachment.

Tang Guanqiu often acted like a baby like this, and Ji Xue got used to it, so she let her hug her.

Unexpectedly, when hugged and hugged, Tang Guanqiu could not stop pushing forward. Although Ji Xue had some strength from working all the year round, Tang Guanqiu couldn't use her strength because she was afraid of hurting her, so she could only be entangled by her.

"Ah Jing? What's the matter with you?" Ji Xue was pressed under her body, holding her shoulders to prop her up.

Tang Guanqiu was soft on her body, he didn't want to get up at all, he held her face and murmured the word "A Ying", and then kissed her...

This kiss exceeded Ji Xue's expectations, she never thought that she and Tang Guanqiu would have such a deep touch.

She thought that cuddling with each other would be the deepest contact between them, but she completely forgot that Tang Guanqiu was older than her and had a married life for several years.

Even though she was ill, guided by her instinct, she still had more than what Ji Xue desired.

And in Tang Guanqiu's eyes, the person in front of her is Shen Yue, her beloved wife. This kind of contact is reasonable and can happen anytime, anywhere.

Tang Guanqiu's kiss was full of longing, very deep and passionate, with the sweetness of candy, invading Ji Xue's taste.

Ji Xue, who was not a human being, was so excited by this hot kiss that her mind went blank. When she regained consciousness, she found Tang Guanqiu unbuttoning her clothes.

"No, no—"

Ji Xue hurriedly pushed her away, and with such a kick, she just landed on the desk, and kicked the few candies left on the desk all over the floor.

When Tang Guanqiu was in a daze, Ji Xue took the opportunity to break free from her, and when she was fleeing, she bumped into the red sandalwood who was about to enter the house.

When talking to Tang Jianwei and Tong Shaoxuan, Ji Xue also clarified how she and Tang Guanqiu developed to this point one by one.

"Young Madam, in fact, you are right. I should have rejected her when Ah Jing admitted I was wrong, kept a distance from her, and prevented her from getting caught up in it. I know that the person she saw in her eyes was not me, I'm just a substitute for her memory. But I... can't resist her, I always think of her, want to know what she is doing, what words she wrote, did she eat well today... I can't help but worry Did she forget to eat again, could she run to the well or walk into the stable again, causing danger. Ah Jing can't control herself, but I can, I could..."

Ji Xue's eyes were red, her voice was trembling with depression, she paused for a moment, and after rearranging her emotions, she said calmly:

"Young Madam, the previous conflict, Jing, was unintentional. She didn't deliberately want to push you away. In fact, she relies on you very much. You are her extremely important person."

Tang Jianwei laughed bitterly in his heart: "An extremely important person? She doesn't remember who I am at all."

Ji Xue looked at her wonderingly: "No, why do you think that? She remembers you."

"……how is this possible?"

"It's true. These days you are busy setting up a stall and opening a shop, and you spend less and less time with her. She often stands in front of your and Si Niang's bedroom, without knocking or talking, just standing like this. I Guess she misses you and worries about you, but she doesn't know how to express it."

Tang Jian had a slightly sore nose, turned his face away, and suppressed tears.

She suddenly remembered that Zitan told her that her sister was watching nervously at the door the night she vomited. Although she was talking about A Niang, the person she was worried about must be Tang Jianwei.

"She may not remember her face or match her name, but her care is still there. You must have felt it, Young Madam."

Ji Xue's every word pressed Tang Jianwei's heart, making Tang Jianwei have to admit that Ji Xue, a stranger who has only been with her sister for a year, actually knows her sister so well, and understands her sister who is so difficult to understand now.

She must have put a lot of thought into it.

There was a moment of silence in the bedroom, Ji Xue saluted and said, "I've finished everything, I beg the young lady to keep me by Ah Jing's side to serve her. It's just... ordinary service, just like I serve Si Niang In this way, taking care of her daily necessities, I swear that I will never have any evil thoughts. If I can be given this opportunity, I will never leave this life. If... If I feel inappropriate, I feel that what I do is out of line, I am fine It's easy to argue, Ji Xue is willing to accept all punishments."

Tang Jian said in a low voice, "You do have a lot of backbone."

"It has nothing to do with my bones. I know who I am, but I can't let go of Ah Jing easily."

Tong Shaoxuan was a little anxious, she was afraid that Tang Jianwei would really sell Ji Xue out once his temper came up!

After all, when it comes to her eldest sister, she is refusing to budge and her attitude is very tough.

Tang Jianwei didn't talk to her again and went out.

Tong Shaoxuan and Ji Xue looked at each other, and Tong Shaoxuan followed out.

Tang Jianwei left Tong's Mansion and walked along the night road.

Tong Shaoxuan followed her silently.

There is a small pond in the workshop, Tong Changting often likes to fish here, and when he catches fish, he happily hands it to Tang Jianwei and asks her to cook it.

Tang Jianwei never told Tong Changting that the fish in this pond had an earthy smell, and it was not edible at all. Every time she went outside, she would buy another fish and make it for him with non-smelly fish.

Life is full of countless white lies, Tang Jianwei has long learned not to expose all these, and learned the way to get the best results for all things.

However, when it came to her sister, she kept pulling her hair to make herself see clearly all her sister's wounds and not allow her to heal.

"Am I cruel?" Tang Jianwei sat by the pond, hugging his knees and looking at the calm water, "Obviously it can make my sister's life happier. Not everyone needs to be sober, let alone sick people. What she needs may not be the truth, and she can't see the truth clearly. What she wants is to live happily, even if it is an illusion. We all deceive ourselves sometimes, let alone the current sister..."

As Tang Jianwei spoke, tears rolled down uncontrollably. Tong Shaoxuan looked at her like this, and felt as if he was being rubbed vigorously.

"It's not your fault, don't talk about cruelty. You are just trying your best to take care of your important relatives and don't want her to suffer any harm. You are not cruel at all, on the contrary, you are a very good person... just because you want to care about you too much Only when people take good care of themselves will they make themselves so sad."

Tang Jian sniffed slightly, tears had already wet the knee part of the skirt.

Tong Shaoxuan hesitated for a moment, bravely stopped Tang Jianwei's shoulders, and wrapped her in his arms:

"Don't bear it when you want to cry, or your mood won't get better. After crying hard, make up your mind that you won't regret the choice. This is the Tang Jianwei who people like and admire, right?"

Tang Jianwei leaned on her shoulder speechlessly, Tong Shaoxuan's heart was beating endlessly.

Tang Jianwei was so close to her heart that Tong Shaoxuan even felt that she had heard his own voice.

Leaning on Tong Shaoxuan's shoulder for a long time, Tang Jianwei looked at the lights in the distance, and finally said:

"Shen Yue is dead, and it is impossible to return to my sister. I only hope that my sister can be happy. The one who can make my sister happy now...is Ji Xue?"

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※

(˙-˙)

------------