If she could endure it any longer, even if her willpower could bear it, her body might not be able to bear it either.
However, the progress in the Shen family was extremely slow and clueless, which made Liu Yingying quite distressed.
It is said that the next day, Yao Yulan and Shen Yueling both came to visit her. However, Liu Yingying's complexion was abnormally scarlet and her body was exhausted. It was inconvenient to see guests, so she sent them away.
After enduring it for four or five days, I finally got down to the ground.
This morning, I just got up and was about to go to the third room to have a look. Shen Yueling has been here in the past two days. She is in Qinfangyuan. I heard that she had an anxious look on her face when she came yesterday. Color, I don’t know if there is something wrong with the silkworm babies.
Before she had time to go, she saw Shen Yueling running over in a hurry, shouting: "Sister Ying'er, sister Ying'er, come and help me, hurry up." Come and help me take a look. Most of the little silkworm babies that just emerged the day before yesterday were alive in less than two days. They are exactly the same as last year. They are almost dead. What's going on? ? What should I do? Sister Ying'er, please go and help me take a look, okay?"
Shen Yueling was so anxious that she almost cried. She didn't even have time to inform the maid running errands in the yard, so she ran in in a hurry.
After entering the house, I saw Liu Yingying, who was slightly pale and unpainted, and smelled the strong smell of medicine in the house. Then I suddenly remembered that Liu Yingying was too sick to get out of bed.
He immediately regretted his recklessness and trotted over in a few steps. He said with concern: "Sister Ying, are you feeling better? Are you feeling completely better? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Your health is more important. If ...If it’s not completely healed yet, it’s better to keep it for a few more days. Where are the silkworm babies? It’s okay. I’ll observe it for another two days.”
Although Shen Yueling said this, she was clearly very anxious in her heart.
When Liu Yingying saw it, she couldn't help but laugh and said: "I'm completely fine now. Don't worry, the old problem is gone. It's no longer a serious problem."
As he spoke, he tapped Shen Yueling's nose and said, "Let's go and take a look at our silkworm babies."
Shen Yueling felt relieved after hearing this, and walked around Liu Yingying a few times to observe. After confirming that she was fine, she immediately pulled Liu Yingying and ran towards the third room in a hurry. .
After arriving at the silkworm house in the third room, I saw that the silkworm seeds I received a few days ago had hatched into small silkworms one after another in the past two days. Each one was smaller than a sesame seed and densely packed. They are distributed in several woven baskets padded with soft cloth. The baskets are sprinkled with torn mulberry leaves. If you look closely, you can see that some small dots are nibbling and moving on the mulberry leaves, and some are He lay there motionless, and when he moved it with his fingertips, he saw that it had dried into small hard spots and was completely dead.
Shen Yueling said anxiously: "It was the same last year. A large number of them died just after they were born, and then most of them died one after another when they molted. In the end, only a dozen or so animals were fed. I'm afraid this year it won't be the same." They are going to make the same mistake as last year. I just don’t know how they died. Is it because other people can’t take care of them, but I can’t take care of them. For these little guys, I gave up yesterday. I got up four times in one night, sister Ying'er, am I particularly bad?"
Shen Yueling looked at the silkworms in the basket, which were several more dead than before, and suddenly felt depressed and depressed.
Liu Yingying checked the temperature in the room one by one, tested the warmth and coolness, and checked the integrity of the silkworm seeds. Finally, she set her sights on the mulberry leaves on the side, and saw both sides of the wooden frame with silkworm babies. Two baskets of mulberry leaves were placed separately.
One of the baskets was a little dry, and the other basket was too fresh, and there was even water dripping from it.
Liu Yingying suddenly frowned, pointed at the two baskets of mulberry leaves, and said, "What's going on with these two baskets of mulberry leaves?"
Shen Yueling seemed to have never thought that it was the mulberry leaves. She was stunned for a moment and said immediately: "These...these mulberry leaves were picked yesterday and...and the day before yesterday. They are a little dry." , so... so when feeding the silkworm babies, I deliberately sprinkled some water so that the leaves would look fresher."
Saying that, Shen Yueling reacted immediately, her eyes widened slightly, and she said, "Could it be...could it be because of these mulberry leaves?"
Hearing this, Liu Yingying raised a dry mulberry leaf, and then a wet mulberry leaf, and said: "The naturally picked mulberry leaves have their own moisture, which is good for the silkworms to eat, but this one is too dry." , the silkworm babies are still young, it is not easy to digest after eating, and this piece is too wet, and it is easy to have diarrhea after eating. After all, these silkworm babies are still too young, and a leaf is food for them, or it may be... A deadly killer."
As Liu Yingying said, she asked the maids to throw away all the mulberry leaves. She looked at Shen Yueling with some confusion and said, "Isn't Ling'er going to Nayue Lake to pick fresh mulberry leaves every day? How... Why did that basket of dried mulberry leaves look like that?"
Liu Yingying was puzzled.
As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Yueling looked annoyed, but when faced with her doubts, he hesitated. After a long while, he finally held back a sentence: "Brother...brother is back."
Big brother?
Eldest son?
Liu Yingying didn't regain her composure for a moment, and said, "What does this have to do with the return of the eldest young master?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Yueling hesitated and said: "Those...those mulberry trees are right next to Yuqingyuan, where my eldest brother lives."
And she... didn't dare to go.
Seeing the cautious look on Shen Yueling's face, Liu Yingying reacted immediately and couldn't help but laugh a little: "Isn't it possible that your eldest brother is just a ghost? Look at how scared all of you are."
Shen Yueling, as well as the little demon king a few days ago, were both changed by Brother Wen.
Liu Yingying looked unconcerned, but Shen Yueling immediately said mysteriously and alarmed: "Sister Ying'er, you don't know, big brother is much scarier than a ghost!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he remembered something. Suddenly, Shen Yueling's eyes lit up. She came over instantly, took Liu Yingying's arm affectionately, and said coquettishly: " Sister Ying'er, how about you accompany me to pick mulberry leaves later?"
Chapter 029
The eldest son?
Well, originally the eldest son was not within Liu Yingying's consideration range. She had this self-awareness and never considered eating to become a fat man in one go.
However, at the moment, for some reason, the sons of the Shen family seemed to be avoiding her intentionally. This was a situation that she had almost never encountered since she was twelve years old and since she grew older.
It was clear that on the first day of March, when she first met the young men who came to pay homage in the old lady's yard, everyone saw her behavior and eyes, which was considered normal for Liu Yingying.
Later, for some unknown reason, the style of painting suddenly changed.
Liu Yingying even thought that it was because she had been frequently looking for the Shen family's young masters recently, and the news spread among those young masters, which then spread some bad influence on her, causing everyone to shy away from her. Abandon?
After all, the husbands of the Shen family are all studying in the academy set up by the Shen family, and they hang out together every day. It is not impossible to exchange knowledge.
However, since she had just arrived, except for that day when she was looking for a hairpin with Mr. Shen Liu, she had never acted out of the ordinary.
What's more, the first time she asked for directions, there were vague signs of this the day she met the fifth and seventh young masters of the Shen family. That was the first time she asked for directions, so how could they communicate with each other? Nothing?
So, on the way to Yuehu to pick mulberry leaves, Liu Yingying made some subtle inquiries about ten-year-old Shen Yueling, and said vaguely: "The person we met on the way just now is the one from the sixth room. You're just a young master, why would you hide away from us like a mouse seeing a cat?"
After a pause, he said with a faintly joking and troubled smile: "Speaking of which, in the past half month since I have been here in the Shen family, I have gotten along very well with several girls from the Shen family. But for some reason, I always feel that every time I meet The gentlemen who came to the house were all strangely tight, and they felt as if they were hiding from me. Neither I nor others dared to mention this matter, I just thought it was my own fault. It’s my own misunderstanding, and I’m vaguely worried that maybe I’ve done something wrong somewhere, which has aroused everyone’s disgust, or I’m just worried that I don’t know where I made the mistake, and even if I want to correct it, I can’t correct it.”
Liu Yingying sighed, her expression was exactly the same as that of the silkworm babies that Shen Yueling saw dead just now, and she looked the same distressed.
After hearing this, Shen Yueling rolled her clear eyes. After a long moment, Fang Yiming said in shock: "Sister Ying'er, it's not your imagination. The brothers in the mansion are indeed avoiding you——"
Shen Yueling suddenly uttered some bold words.
But Liu Yingying looked stunned.
I saw Liu Yingying looking at Shen Yueling in astonishment. She was about to speak, but before she could speak, Shen Yueling immediately said again: "But it's not because of you, Sister Ying'er. It was my grandmother who warned my brothers to put their studies first. Of course, it was not my grandmother who was fighting against Sister Ying'er. Even when my cousin lived in the mansion, my grandmother also warned my brothers like this. My brothers are never allowed to get too close to my cousin—"
Shen Yuelingru said it.
But she heard Liu Yingying's heart skip a beat and said, "Linger, do you know why this is?" He then asked, "Cousin, is she referring to the cousin from Xiliang?"
Shen Yueling nodded like a chicken pecking at rice and said, "Exactly."
After a pause, she smiled and said: "First of all, it must be because sister Ying'er and cousin are both born so beautiful. Grandma is afraid that the brothers will be distracted. Grandma is strict and controls the lower brothers extremely severely! "
"Secondly, the Shen family attaches great importance to literature and attaches great importance to the studies of several brothers. Now there are more than a hundred plaques hanging in the ancestral hall of the Shen family. Only the sons of the Shen family who have won the title of scholar are eligible. When entering the ancestral hall of the Shen family, only the son who has won the title of son-in-law will have the right to have his name engraved on a plaque. Those who are Jinshi and No. 1 in the rankings have stone statues engraved and built at the expense of the Shen family. Every year, thousands of sons and daughters of the Shen family visit and worship, and they will be enshrined by the Shen family incense forever. Therefore, the Shen family attaches great importance to literature. To the point of shocking the whole world, the Shen family has a large family, with many descendants, and the competition between the brothers is particularly fierce. It is not easy to stand out among the dozens or even hundreds of sons in the Shen family, so even if Grandma never warned me, but now my brothers will definitely focus on their studies. However, this situation is not the same every year. I want to come to April Mansion and give it a try before I can breathe a sigh of relief——"
Shen Yueling was talking boastfully.
The young lady, who is only ten years old, actually cherishes the entire Shen family's fortune.
But Liu Yingying's heart was slightly shaken.
She had stayed in Yuanling City for five years, but she knew the scholar very well. The people in Yuanling City were open and there were many literati. It was an important place for students in the world, but she didn't pay such attention to it. , it can be seen that there is a certain reason why the Shen family has been able to shine for hundreds of years and become the head of the four major families.
It was only after listening to Shen Yueling's words that she quietly woke up and realized that everyone had been avoiding her these days. It turned out that there was such a profound reason behind it. It turned out that she was the one who worshiped Buddha devoutly every day. But I didn't expect that I worshiped the wrong Buddha, and what I asked for in the strange way never came true.
It seems that after she left that day, the old lady must have "admonished" all the young gentlemen.
What to do?
It turns out that the young masters in the mansion have to take exams and have to wait until April. The sons of the Shen family may be able to take some free time. And as soon as April passes, it will be May and March. The time was coming soon, but Liu Yingying couldn't wait for that time at all.
what can we do about it?
At this time, a name jumped into Liu Yingying's mind without any warning.
Looking at the entire Shen family, it seems that the only one of the right age is the eldest son of the Shen family, Shen Lang, who has just returned from a study tour.
A person who has never entered Liu Yingying's field of vision.
However, even though I haven't seen him yet, I can glean something about the Grand Duke from Shen Yueling's fearful and sneaky posture today, and from the behavior of the Shen family's little devil that day. The inside story of zi.
It seems that it is not... a good thing.
Everyone in the entire Shen family kept a secret about the eldest son of the Shen family, and all the juniors in the entire Shen family were trembling with fear towards him. They even said frankly that he was scarier than a ghost?
Regardless of all identities and status, is this something she can afford to offend?
Also, was it possible that the person who "caught" her and the sixth son of the Shen family that day was the eldest son?
Liu Yingying was distracted and scratching her heart for a moment, but she was a little... afraid to make a mistake. However, the pain and suffering of the full moon night was still vivid in her mind.
Just when Liu Yingying was having troubled thoughts, Yuehu arrived.
Around the bank of Yue Lake and the peach blossom forest, Shen Yueling sneakily led Liu Yingying to the rockery where she happened to rest after her sprained feet that day, and then walked around the rugged rockery seven times. Seeing that they came to a peach blossom forest again, the two sneaked through the peach blossom forest. Soon, they saw a courtyard in the distance, in a bamboo forest, quiet and elegant.
On the west side of the bamboo forest, you can vaguely see a small mulberry forest and Yin Taolin forest, which is very inconsistent with this elegant yard.
Just when Liu Yingying was surprised, Shen Yueling lowered her voice and said, "My eldest brother originally raised some birds and loved to eat wild fruits, so he planted this mulberry forest. He didn't like outsiders to disturb him, so he planted this mulberry forest." Every time I come back, I don’t dare to bring my maid over. Every time I come back, I act like a thief, and I’m so scared—”
Shen Yueling covered her chest and lowered her voice and whispered.
As he spoke, Liu Yingying sneaked into the familiar door and led Liu Yingying around to the bamboo forest and then refused to leave. For a moment, she looked at Liu Yingying with pitiful eyes and said: "Sister Ying'er, look, my calves are always I'm trembling, I'm afraid... I'm afraid I won't be able to walk."
Then he said bitterly: "When my eldest brother was not in the house, I was scared when he came. Now that he is back, when I think that he might be in this courtyard, I... I'm afraid -"
Shen Yueling looked at Liu Yingying with a very spineless expression.
Liu Yingying naturally saw her intention clearly.
He suddenly looked confused.
Feelings: The fourteenth girl of the Shen family did not bring her to pick mulberry leaves, but actually encouraged her to steal them?
Moreover, he encouraged her to steal alone?
Three black lines flashed across Liu Yingying's eyes instantly.
Is this good?
Did she come to Shen's house as a guest? Are you here to steal something?
Even when Liu Yingying was reduced to a brothel in the past, she never stole anything. She never thought that she would be coaxed and deceived by such a ten-year-old girl?
Liu Yingying was speechless and choked for a moment, and she couldn't laugh or cry for a moment. However, when she raised her eyes, she saw Shen Yueling pitifully pulling her sleeves and shaking her sleeves, and she suddenly became angry and funny.
For a moment, he raised his eyes to look at the silent mulberry forest. After a long while, he raised his hand and tapped Shen Yueling's forehead vigorously, saying, "I'll see how I deal with you when I get back later."
Shen Yueling heard the relaxation in her words, and immediately shook Liu Yingying's sleeves happily and said: "Sister Ying, you are so kind. You are the best person to me besides my mother. From now on, you She is my biological sister."
After saying that, he quickly handed over all the small baskets in his hands.
Looking at Shen Yueling who was flattering and looking disgusting, Liu Yingying rolled her eyes for a moment, and finally gave the person a vicious look, then took the basket and walked towards the mulberry forest.
You’re already here, what else can you do?
Did he come back empty-handed?
