Beauty in his mirror

Chapter 11 All the Bad Things

The two chatted for a while, and the servant girl persuaded the young lady to rest.

The candle was extinguished, and the copper mirror was filled with groggy darkness. In the dead of night, there was no disturbance, and the crying stopped. Gu Yan could sleep soundly.

But he didn't feel sleepy.

He listened to it for a long while just now, and he could think of some clues.

This young lady's surname is Yan, and her name is Lan Xi. She is the daughter of the original wife. Her father remarried and her stepmother gave birth to several brothers and sisters.

Because she is the eldest daughter, no matter what good things are in the family, she must be held close to her first. The stepmother's children feel dissatisfied because of this, and make things difficult for her everywhere. The stepmother and her are only superficial courtesy, without any kindness.

She thought she would be able to get away after she got married, but unexpectedly there were monsters in the house, and her stepmother took the opportunity to invite the Taoist priest to come to the house to collect the monsters, but the Taoist priest was scared away. Possession rumors.

Now even her father doesn't want to see her, afraid of being implicated, he lets her stepmother make the decision and sends her to a village in the countryside, where life and death are up to God.

When leaving in a hurry, Yan Lanxi only packed her clothes and jewelry, and the dowry inlaid with red lacquer and jade left by her biological mother.

……

Gu Yan thought about it carefully, if he hadn't been a hindrance, with such a well-behaved character, she should be able to persist until the day she gets married...

But no if.

Now that her marriage has fallen through, I'm afraid she won't be able to get married in the past few years. When she gets older, no matter how beautiful she is, she can only marry an old man to fill in the house. After that... probably she will not have a good life.

The reason for all this is that his misbehavior gave her stepmother an opportunity.

Gu Yan felt depressed, put down the mirror, and fell asleep.

In the next few days, he always remembered Yan Lanxi in the mirror in his heart. Although he firmly remembered Du Hao's advice, he still couldn't help taking a few moments to glance at it.

This ill-fated young lady lived a very hard life. The life in the village was no better than that in the mansion. She was only accompanied by a maid and a cooking woman. Three meals a day were coarse grains. If she wanted to eat fresh If there are any vegetables in the village, they have to buy from people with vegetable gardens in the village, or grow vegetables by themselves.

When I lived in the mansion before, someone took care of everything, but now I live outside, and I have to pay someone to do everything.

Yan Lanxi saved some money by herself, and also had a monthly allowance.The saved money cannot be easily moved, and the monthly silver was delivered late, and half of it was missing.

The servant girl angrily questioned the boy in charge of delivering the monthly cases.

The servant brought back the original words of the mistress: there are no expenses in the countryside, and you don't need too much money. Besides, if you give too much money, it will easily cause disputes and bring misfortune to the young lady.

The maid was trembling with anger.

Such a high-sounding rhetoric can't even pick out a single typo, so Yan Lanxi can only swallow the bitterness.

The old houses in Zhuangzi were in disrepair for a long time, several windows were broken, and grass grew all over the roof, not to mention those chairs with missing legs, moldy mattresses, and leaky wooden basins.

Money is needed everywhere.

Yan Lanxi wanted to write a letter to ask her grandmother's family for help, but thousands of miles away, the letter would have to travel on the road for at least a few months.

The distant water cannot save the near fire, so Yan Lanxi had to start selling jewelry under embarrassment.

But there will always be a day when the jewelry will be sold out, and sooner or later, her private money will be spent. If her stepmother keeps short of her monthly allowance, and she can't see her father, what should she do in the future?
After all, Yan Lanxi was only sixteen or seventeen years old, she usually didn't leave the house, she didn't know much, so she would naturally panic when things happened.

Her maid is also young, so it's okay to whine with her, but she can't do anything about it.

Yan Lanxi was anxious.

She had blisters on her mouth, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, she was more fragile than before, as if a gust of wind could blow her down at any time.

Not long after, Yan Lanxi contracted a cold and became ill.

I couldn't find a serious doctor in the countryside, so the servant girl was so anxious that she ran to the town overnight to ask for a doctor. She didn't know what happened, and she didn't come back for several hours.

It seems that all the bad things in the world happened to Yan Lanxi.

Gu Yan looked at the mirror and sighed heavily.

(End of this chapter)