Ordinary clear day

Chapter 59 Family
Tong's situation was not good, Shu Ning hurriedly called two maids to help her up, Nala saw that there was something strange here, so she also rushed over to see, everyone rushed to help Tong's half Half carried back to Huaiyuan.Then Nala asked people to invite the doctor and Mrs. Wen.

Tong Shi rested for a while, and she has recovered a lot, but she is still sweating coldly.Shuning wiped it for her anxiously, and asked softly, "Emiang, how are you doing? Are you feeling better?" Tong Shi nodded slightly, and closed her eyes in silence.

A maid named Cuiyu in the old lady's house came over to Shuning at this moment and said, "Miss San, please go back to the room, the old lady ordered that the punishment be started immediately."

Before Shuning could reply, Nala yelled sharply: "What are you urging?! Didn't you see that the third wife is sick?"

That Cuiyu shrank back embarrassingly, and said in her mouth: "Is this what the old lady ordered, how dare I, a little girl, disobey the order?"

Tong opened her eyes and said: "I'm fine, Shu'er go, just stay there, don't be sad, when my mother is well, I'll go see you."

Shu Ning felt sad for a while: "I have to wait for the doctor to check the pulse before leaving."

Fortunately, Dr. Wang, whom I used to know, happened to be at the mansion today, and came here not long after. I checked Tong's pulse carefully, and said that it was all right, but I was a little tired and overthinking, so I just need to relax and give birth. It's fine.Only then did everyone feel relieved.

Shuning followed Cuiyu back to her room, heard her lock the outside, and then said: "Every day there will be a special person to bring tea and food to the third girl, and there is a little girl guarding outside the door, waiting for the girl to wash. Ten days later The old lady will tell the girl to come out, please take care of her."

Shuning ignored her, sat by the bed and looked around her room.I'll be here for the next ten days, it shouldn't be boring, right?Usually I am not a person who likes to go out to play, and these ten days don't have to get up early in the morning to go to each room to say hello, and I can go to bed later, which is not bad, the so-called "summer is long and good for sleep".

If you want to pass the time, there are books, pens and ink, piano, chess, and a lot of needlework and cloth in the room, and there are plenty of ways.

It's a pity that she remembered that there were not many left of two of the paints for painting. Maybe she wanted to paint red and blue chickens, but anyway, what she had to practice was brushwork, and the color didn't matter.

Just when Shu Ning was thinking wildly, there was a commotion in the yard. Listening carefully, it should be that her father and elder brother had returned.Her elder brother is a sister-in-law, I hope he won't do something stupid on the spur of the moment.

Sure enough, a little girl's voice was heard outside the door: "Master Duan, the old lady ordered that the third girl can't see anyone for ten days." Then Duan Ning's voice: "I know this is the old lady's order, Is it okay for me to talk to my sister?"

After a while of silence, Duanning's voice came from the crack of the door: "Sister, can you hear me?"

Shu Ning hurried over and said: "I heard you, brother, I'm fine, you don't have to worry."

Duan Ning said in a low voice: "I've heard it all. It's all caused by Wan Ning, who made you suffer. My sister has been wronged. I will definitely ask my grandmother to let you go."

Shu Ning said: "Brother, you don't need to ask. Grandma is angry. If you get angry, it will be very bad. Ten days of kung fu is easy to pass. I have books to read in the room, and I can practice calligraphy and calligraphy." Painting and practicing piano, maybe after ten days, Mr. Cai will say that I have made great progress in my homework and praise me."

Duanning smiled softly, and said softly: "Okay, then you should practice hard. You don't need to greet the elders sooner or later, and you don't need to worry about doing homework. You might as well go to bed later in the morning and then get up."

Shu Ning clapped her hands together: "It's exactly what I want! Brother is so amazing, he actually guessed my thoughts!"

Duanning laughed, and after being quiet for a while, he said, "I will study hard."

what?
"I will also practice martial arts well, and I will stand out in the future, and I will never let Eniang and my sister be wronged again." His voice was extremely firm, as if expressing some determination.

Shuning felt warm in her heart, and felt that it was really good to have such a big brother.

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Zhang Bao touched Tong's forehead: "Are you all right now? Everyone was frightened today."

Tong Shi shook her head and said, "How is Shuning?"

"In the room, I've already had dinner. Although it's lighter, it's okay. Just now the child was still comforting me, telling me not to worry."

"This child has always been the most sensible." Tong couldn't help but shed tears, "It's me, the mother-in-law, who hurt her."

Zhang Bao hurriedly comforted her: "What are you thinking about? What does this have to do with you?"

"Emiang did this specially for me to see. I refused to let Cuiying in, so she tossed my daughter in different ways. She was trying to force me to nod."

"Don't talk nonsense, Cuiying is the second brother's interested person. Even if you nod, I won't agree. Shuning was punished this time because Erniang was angered by Wanning, so she turned her anger on her, and waited for Erniang's anger to disappear. If so, Shuning will be released."

Tong shook her head: "Even if it is released this time, what about in the future? Husband, are we really going to stay here all the time? Next year you will take over the seat of Shuntian Mansion Cheng, won't you have to live here for another three years? Is it just Can't find a job in another place? Even if I can bear it, what about the children? I really can't bear to let them be wronged."

"How can the children be wronged? It's just that Shuning was implicated this time. Didn't I say that it will be fine in two days?"

"Do you think I can't see? Duanning always has small injuries on his body, either bruised or swollen. If you ask him, he will just say that he accidentally bumped into it. He has always been a prudent child, how can he always be careless? If If he wasn't beaten at school, he must have been bullied by his brothers. Especially since he is usually valued by my mother, those cousins ​​must be jealous."

"How could it be? They are all children of our own family, why is this?"

"You are outside every day, how do you know my difficulties at home?" Mrs. Tong was crying next to the bed, and Zhang Bao was very sad to see it.Although he said he would not, he was also worried that his children and wife would be angry at home.But if you don't wait for the vacancy of Shuntian Mansion Cheng, you will only have a fifth-rank colleague to choose from.Whether he really wanted to give up the rare fourth-rank official position for the sake of his family, he hesitated in his heart and didn't know how to choose.

Regardless of whether Zhang Bao was worried about choosing family happiness or official career, the next day, Ermo heard the news from various places in the mansion, and quietly reported it to Mrs. Tong: "Yesterday, the second girl took advantage of the eldest wife's absence. I was prepared to take the eldest girl out secretly, thinking that I would go back and forth quietly so as not to disturb the family. Who knows where the old lady got the news, and sent the big housekeeper to take people to the teahouse. It happened that the eldest girl followed The boy from the Fan family was alone and was brought back immediately. It is said that Miss Four told the old lady the secret."

Tong Shi gritted her teeth with hatred when she heard the words: "The three stinky girls are not good! We, Shuning, have been implicated!"

Ermo continued: "I heard that although the Fan family only opened a small teahouse, there were many high-ranking officials and dignitaries who came and went. They bought two tables and chairs. But the old man was a little dissatisfied and threatened to drive them out of the capital."

Tong said indifferently: "What do these things have to do with us? By the way, this time the fourth girl caused the three sisters to be punished. What about her?"

The second wife said: "Speaking of it, it's retribution. The second wife has always wanted to curry favor with the second girl to give her advice to earn money, but she didn't expect that the fourth girl's words would cause the second girl to be scolded by the old lady. The second wife went back to the house. , I beat the fourth girl directly, and heard that the second master scolded her, and locked her in the room and didn't allow her to come out."

Tong's sneered and said: "It's cheaper for that girl, now all the noisy ones are locked up, and the house can be kept clean."

She felt deeply wronged for her daughter, and she made up her mind to do everything possible to get her husband to agree to find a job elsewhere.

Shuning didn't feel bored in the house, she had many things to do, and she didn't worry about being disturbed by anyone, so she practiced calligraphy and painting a lot more diligently.And these two things have the same advantage, that is, they can make people calm.Because the weather was too hot and she couldn't open the door, she didn't dare to do things with a lot of exercise, lest she would sweat profusely, and it was inconvenient to take a bath now, and it would be bad if the whole room smelled of sweat.

However, it is possible to open the window, and there is a small window behind the changing screen at the back of the room, facing a small passage, and no one passes by on weekdays.And for the past two days, Duan Ning used the excuse of taking care of his mother and asked for leave from the school. Then, when his mother was resting, he passed through this small aisle and quietly sent some snacks and toys into the window to make Shu Ning happy.The brother and sister opened the window a crack, and whispered through it, while the girl guarding the front door heard.

On the third day, Duanning received a letter from Fengtian's good friend Tongying, and specially showed it to his sister.It turned out that Tong Ying had put a stack of drawing paper in the letter, and when she opened it, it was exactly the situation when she was testing the horse that day.There are himself, Duanning, and Shuning in the painting, even Master Cheng, Chunxing, Ma Saner, and his servant Tianyang are all there. Although the lines are simple, they are lifelike and interesting. I couldn't help but feel happy, as if I was reading ancient comics.

Duan Ning pointed to Shu Ning on the painting and said to himself: "Look, he even drew a picture of someone sitting on the grass so rudely, oh my, someone will pretend to be a lady in front of him in the future, but I can’t put it on anymore.”

Hearing this, Shu Ning punched him twice, snorted and said: "Even if this girl is sitting on the ground, she is still a lady, so you don't need to worry about it."

The siblings made fun of it, and Shuning said, "I didn't know before, but it turns out that Brother Tongying is so good at drawing. Looking at his pictures, it's like seeing the scene."

Duan Ning said: "You don't know, he is the best at drawing, and he draws quickly and well. He looks like what he draws. Unfortunately, Ama doesn't like him doing this, so he usually draws very little. I wrote to He said that life here is boring, so he specially sent this to me. He also said that if we haven't left by the New Year, he will come to the capital to visit us."

After hearing this, Shu Ning also had some expectations, and was about to chat with her brother about the details, but when she heard the sound of the front door being unlocked, she quickly winked at Duan Ning, closed the window, walked back to the desk quickly, picked up a pen and pretended to be drawing Draw, and draw a black bump that looks like a beetle.

The door opened, but it was Cuiyu. She smiled and said to Shuning: "Congratulations to the third lady. The old lady said that the girl has been wronged these days, and the rest of the punishment will be avoided." She turned around and called a few little girls: " Hurry up and wait for the girl to wash and change clothes."

Shu Ning reached out her hand to stop her: "No need, just ask Chun Xing and Qiao Yun to wait on her. Thank you for the kindness of the old lady, I will kowtow later." Cui Yu smiled and led the people back.

After grooming, Shu Ning went to see her mother, only to find out that it was her eldest aunt who revealed to her grandmother that she had already known about the "report" and thus was "released" early.She went to the main courtyard and kowtowed to her grandmother, and after listening to the other party say a few insipid words, she returned to her own courtyard.

Although the punishment was reduced a lot, when she saw that snobbish, headstrong and indifferent old lady, and recalled her kind and loving grandparents in her previous life, Shu Ning couldn't develop any admiration for her, even though she shouted "" Grandmother", but he didn't regard her as a relative in his heart.

In the early morning of the next day, Shu Ning was arranging the things to be used in class later, when she heard a voice coming from the yard, someone shouted: "Miss Xiaofen in the big room has come to kowtow to the masters."

(End of this chapter)