Chapter 55 (2/2)

Qin Yi waited for a while and found Chu Jinyao bowed her head. She didn't know what she was thinking. Qin Yi frowned secretly and asked, ”what's the matter?”

”Nothing.” Chu Jinyao shook her head slowly. After a while, he added, ”I'm not alienating you. I'm just... I'm not used to it for a while. I'll be fine when I get used to it.”

”What a big breath.” he dared to say to the prince that he was used to reading. Qin Yi smiled and glanced at Chu Jinyao. Then he bowed his head and continued to read the calligraphy. This time it was a satisfactory book. Qin Yi quickly turned it in half and waved to Chu Jinyao without looking back: ”come here.”

Chu Jinyao moved over and looked down at the calligraphy with Qin Yi: ”do you want me to come here?”

”That's right. You're a beginner. You have to face the characters with strong bones and regular strokes. The previous elegant running style is not suitable for you.” Qin Yi took the pen from the pen holder. He glanced down at Chu Jinyao, ”look at your eyesight and study ink.”

Chu Jinyao gave a ”Oh” sound, half rolled up her sleeve and revealed a bright wrist to study ink for Qin Yi. Qin Yi was stained with ink, his wrists were hanging in the air, and he wrote a long and snake on the paper. A line of regular and square small letters jumped on the paper. These words are beautiful, clean and tidy. They are no worse than the copy in the calligraphy book. Chu Jinyao looked at it for a while and sighed, ”it's nice.”

Chu Jinyao read the words of Changxing Hou and the words of eldest brother from the old lady. It may be the best written by the young master. It has always been the pride of the old lady of Chu. Every time people come, they have to show it. But Chu Jinyao now saw Qin Yi's, and suddenly felt that the eldest young master had to be in shape rather than bone. It was Qin Yi who really wrote well.

Chu Jinyao sighed: ”how can you do anything?” Mingming has just become a master. Are all the things that Jingguai learned so scary?

”If you practice more since childhood, you will.” Qin Yi replied carelessly.

”Our brothers have been practicing calligraphy since they were seven years old. They practice very hard every day. Why don't they write well?” Chu Jinyao didn't believe Qin Yi's words. She carefully patted Qin Yi's arm and leaned over to whisper, ”I think you learn everything quickly. Do you have any unique secret script? You secretly told me that I won't spread it!”

A low smile came from Qin Yi's chest. His whole chest was shaking. The laughter sounded low and hooked. It was obviously amused. He had to stop writing. When his hand was stable, he could continue to write: ”Chu Jinyao, you are really a talent.”

After 20 years of prosperity, after 15 years, the flavor of the new year dissipated. All families put their minds away and began to make a living in the new year. Those who work for large families should also clean up and go back to their master's house.

In Changxing Hou's residence, a girl with a peach Ruyi lined jacket, an indigo pleated skirt and a bun tied on her head opened the curtain. She was just playing with people and had a smile on her face. When she saw someone, her smile stagnated.

However, Qiuye is the person who has rolled in the back house after all. Very open, she covered up her real reaction and welcomed the visitors in with hospitality and kindness.

”Five girls, you're early today. It's cold outside. Come in quickly!”

Chu Jinyao didn't get started directly. She learned what she saw secretly and blessed Qiu Ye. Then she got up and said, ”Hello, sister Qiu Ye. Is mother in there?”

After all, Chu Jinyao is a young lady. Even if Qiu Ye is the big servant girl around Zhao, the wife of Changxing Hou, there is really no need to be so polite. Nodding and saying hello is actually enough.

But Chu Jinyao didn't know, even she knew, didn't know how to nod, and how to say hello. These things are as natural as breathing and drinking water for Miss Houzhai, but they are too difficult for Chu Jinyao.

In fact, Chu Jinyao should be the fourth girl, the second legitimate daughter of Mrs. Zhao, the main room of Changxing Hou's house. But her fate was a little bumpy. When she was just born, she caught up with Tatar. Zhao gave birth to a daughter outside. Unexpectedly, she held her daughter wrong and took another girl back to her house. She was named Chu Jinmiao. Chu Jinyao had just been found back a few days ago. Chu Jinmiao had stayed in the Marquis house for 13 years and had deep feelings with her mother and servants. Her grandmother, old lady Chu, was not willing to let her granddaughter who had been in pain for 13 years go back. She simply made the decision and let both girls stay. Chu Jinmiao continued to be the fourth girl. Chu Jinyao ranked behind Chu Jinmiao in order to be the fifth girl.

Chu Jinyao grew up in a farmhouse and didn't understand all these Hou door etiquette. She was afraid of being laughed at by others. She secretly observed how others saluted and spoke, and then thought about learning it by herself. In this way, she made many mistakes without knowing it, just like today's greetings.

Qiu ye received Chu Jinyao's gift and returned a gift. She hurriedly welcomed Chu Jinyao. As soon as the heavy rat and mink curtain was put away, the temperature in the main hall was better and the cold air was no longer poured back. Autumn leaf breathed a sigh and said, ”it's really windy today. If the curtain is opened for a long time, it's nothing to blow us. If it's frozen, my wife will be broken.”

Chu Jinyao didn't expect it, and hurriedly said, ”I didn't mean it, I didn't expect...”

”Five girls don't have to say that. You're the master. It's a big mistake, and it's also the bad service of your servants.” as she said, Qiu Ye raised her face and stared round her eyes to see the people behind Chu Jinyao, ”you two little hooves, have you just come back? If you're so careless, take care of your skin!”

The lilacs and camellias behind Chu Jinyao hurried to admit their mistakes. Autumn leaf scolded a few more words before easing her face and said, ”OK, if you can correct your mistakes, you should pay attention next time!”

This time, Chu Jinyao also heard that she had just behaved improperly. Qiu Ye was hard to say about her, so she scolded the servant girl who came to greet her.

Chu Jinyao feels sorry and implicates others for no reason. If she does better, how can she let others be scolded for her?

In fact, Chu Jinyao was still confined by his original family. In the big Hou family, the young ladies who haven't left the cabinet are all golden branches and jade leaves. If they make a mistake, it's a great punishment to forbid them to copy the women's ring. The pain of beating boards and other flesh and blood is all suffered by the lower people. Who doesn't remind the master when he wants to make a mistake? What's more, clove and Camellia are not wronged at all. Chu Jinyao has just been found. She doesn't know how to salute and say hello. Don't clove slaves understand? If you remind one or two before going out, it won't be like this. However, clove is a stuffy gourd. It can't say a word with a pole, and Camellia's eyes are wandering. At first glance, it's a big jump, and she won't think about it for her master.

Qiuye sighed in her heart, but all she could do was knock one or two across the floor. It was because she was also sold from a farmer's house to Hou's house. She felt empathy, so she had pity for Chu Jinyao, who also grew up from a farmer's house. No matter how much, autumn leaves won't do it.

In high-ranking families, it is so realistic and fickle.

Mother Zhang came out from the west room and was very unhappy: ”who opened the door curtain just now, madam has just got up, and there is still sweat on her body. If madam catches a cold, who can afford it?”

Qiuye immediately bowed her head to apologize. Chu Jinyao was frightened and quickly said, ”it's none of Qiuye's business. I opened it when I came in.”

Mammy Zhang really hasn't seen Miss Qianjin rush to admit her mistake. Usually, a girl either asks people around her to confess, or she has done something wrong, and she won't admit it by herself. With a look in her side, someone came forward to take the blame, let alone Chu Jinyao. Let Chu Jinyao say this. Mammy Zhang really has a bad attack. Even if she is the wife's dowry servant girl, she is also a slave. How can she say that the master is not?

Mammy Zhang had to immediately change her face, squeeze out a smiling face and said, ”it's Miss five. It's really early for Miss five to ask ANN to come. Madam is dressing up in there. Come in quickly.”

Chu Jinyao thanked mammy Zhang, and then walked gently to xicijian.

Mammy Zhang turned sideways to let Chu Jinyao go first, and then she kept up. She looked at Chu Jinyao's back and deliberately lightened her movements. Her heart was very complex.

Chu Jinyao is a serious girl. She is a proud girl who climbed out of Mrs. Zhao's belly. How can she be so polite and careful? If the fourth young lady who grew up in front of her wife, she must have started talking and laughing loudly as soon as she entered the door, and then she would run all the way into the second room and fall into her arms, regardless of whether she was dressing up and winding her hair. Instead, the wife's real legitimate daughter Chu Jinyao was so cautious.

Mama Zhang sighed. Who would have thought that this kind of thing that she dared not write in the play actually happened in the Changxing Marquis house, a first-class noble gentry in Taiyuan house.

In the late autumn of the 19th year of Jianxing, that is, around October last year, the woman in the Zhao family's courtyard of Mrs. Hou of Changxing was drunk. She began to talk big with the servant woman in other hospitals. She boasted that she was old and knew many things about her wife, even that the four girls were not her husband's own children.

The servants knew as soon as they heard that the woman was bragging. Who was the fourth girl? It was the second lady of the wife's line. The youngest child hurt in the palm of her hand. How could it not be her own? On weekdays, if the woman blows, the people next to her should listen to music. This matter will pass. However, the Marquis's elder passed by and heard this sentence that day.

When Chang Sui went back, he immediately told Changxing Hou that he was annoyed and arranged the master at will. What are these women arranging? Changxing Hou immediately asked people to bring the servants in the backyard, and he himself asked for a crime. The woman was frightened at once. She immediately knelt on the ground and told Changxing Hou everything she knew.

Changxing Hou didn't believe it, but he hesitated when he saw what the woman said. Finally, he sent his own people to investigate the matter in order to keep his daughter innocent. As a result, there was an accident after such an investigation. The four most favored maidens in the Hou house may not really be his daughter.

When Mrs. Hou Zhao was pregnant, the tartar invaded the border and went south to the capital. Beizhili almost had an accident, and Shanxi suffered even more. Tatars killed and set fire to many places and looted them all, including Taiyuan government. Changxing Hou's house is a famous family in Taiyuan. Naturally, it is also the target of these barbarians. At that time, Changxing Hou led troops outside and didn't care about home for a while. The wives and young ladies of the Hou's house had to flee south in a hurry. Fortunately, soon Changxing Hou led the troops to recover Taiyuan, and the scattered family members were picked up again and again. Mrs. Hou's Zhao was pregnant and frightened. She couldn't hold on to production on the way to the south.