0p0 Chapter 166 Is there something wrong?
Chapter 166 Is there something wrong?
It seems that something must have happened. Wang Jinyi looked back at the clepsydra. It was just past two quarters of an hour. I agreed to practice calligraphy for an hour every day, but I can never finish it. Forget it, I'll make up for it before going to bed!
When the wet nurse saw that the young lady was about to get off the chair, she quickly carried her down and tidied her clothes, guessing that the young lady was going to meet another man.
"Nurse, please put away the writing and wash the brush for me. I'll be right back."
Initially, Wang Jinlai and his wife were asked to visit the Wen family. The nurse didn't know, and it's better for her not to know now. When the nurse saw Qingyu going out with the young lady, she said:
"Qingyu, follow the young lady closely and don't let her be alone with other men. Do you understand?!"
Qingyu glanced at the young lady and then at the nurse, and finally nodded twice firmly.
"Yeah! I know."
The master and servant saw Wang Jinlai, who was dressed in rags, at the second gate. They remembered that they had asked Wang Jinlai to buy a set of ready-made clothes before leaving. They were both made of coarse cloth. What were they wearing now? What was going on?
Wang Jinlai was wearing a silk round-necked robe that was stained with dirty water. Not only was the robe covered in mud, but the sleeves were torn into strips. His body was so dirty that the color could not be seen, and a large part of the front of the robe was missing.
Now you can only tell it's Wang Jinlai from his face, his clothes don't match him at all. Considering Wang Jinlai's style of doing things, Wang Jinyi guessed that Wang Jinlai must have encountered something.
The king came in and bowed:
"Miss."
"You have something to report, right?"
"Yes, miss!"
"Okay! Wait a moment."
"Qingyu, bring some food to Wang Jinlai and bring it to the small accounting office.
Wang Jinlai, come with me to the small accounting office."
After hearing the order, Qingyu stopped and called out:
"Miss."
Wang Jinyi nodded, indicating that she understood what she meant, which was that she could not be alone with a man outside of her family. After all, she was just a three-year-old child who had no ability to fight back.
"You go ahead, I'll ask Fuling to accompany me."
"Miss, I have to hand you over to Fuling in person before I can go. Otherwise, please wait a moment and I will go call the wet nurse."
Wang Jinyi thought about it and decided that Fuling must go to Kushui Mountain to help him build a house. It would be more convenient to let Fuling know some information about Kushui as soon as possible so that it would be more convenient to arrange things for her in the future.
Wang Jinlai followed Miss and Qingyu and saw the girl drawing seriously under the shade of the tree. Yes, she was a girl who looked more mature than Wang Jinlai. Wang Jinlai lowered his head as soon as he saw her and didn't dare to look at her carelessly.
Qingyu explained to Fuling seriously:
"Don't leave the young lady at all. You are the only one by her side now. Protect her! Wherever she goes, you go. You can only leave if someone replaces you. Do you understand?"
"Yeah! I understand."
Even though Fuling and Baizhu had just arrived at the Wang family and had not yet learned the rules, they were still the young lady's maids in the Cheng family and they had to stay by her side and not allow her to meet other men alone.
As a result, in the distance of less than 200 meters from the main hall gate to the small accounting office, two groups of people caught up with Wang Jinyi one after another.
First, the professional invisible person - the wet nurse, probably worried about the young lady going out, washed the young lady's wolf-hair brush, hung it on the brush holder, and chased out of the door. As a result, she saw Qingyu going to the side courtyard, so she hurried over.
The other one was Zhu Yu, who was running back. Seeing the two of them following him, Wang Jinyi turned around and said:
"Fuling, go back and continue painting. Don't forget what I told you."
"Miss, I can't leave. Qingyu says I have to be wherever you are."
Zhu Yu spoke:
"You go ahead, we'll follow the lady."
When Fuling saw that Zhu Yu, the head maid, was there, she repeated Qing Yu's words verbatim.
Wang Jinyi watched several people handing over her seriously, and looked around when she had nothing to do. As a result, she saw Wang Jinlai standing not far away, with his head down and silent. Suddenly, she realized one thing: everyone attached so much importance to her contact with other men, and they were actually guarding against him.
He became a fanatic who imagined he would offend the lady.
Wang Jinyi knew that he had to take necessary precautions, after all, he was a weak child.
Wang Jinyi will not pretend to be a saint and think that everyone is a good person. I will take necessary precautions to prevent any accidents. This is my principle in doing things!
Several people entered the small accounting office one after another. Wang Jinyi arranged for Zhu Yu to take Wang Jinlai to clean up first.
Wang Jinlai came back again and said as soon as he entered the door:
"Miss, I have something to say."
"it is good."
"Nurse, get some water."
The wet nurse didn't move until Qingyu came in with a tray with a few simple meals on it. The wet nurse and Qingyu exchanged glances and went out.
At this time, Wang Jinlai said in a low voice:
"Miss, the fewer people who know what I am about to say, the better."
This meant that everyone in the room should leave. Wang Jinyi looked at him. Qingyu was the only one in the room now, so he would not send anyone out.
So he said, "Speak."
Wang Jinlai actually took another step closer to the young lady. Qingyu almost shouted out loud,
"You stop."
Wang Jinyi just sat there, not moving a muscle.
Qingyu stood between Wang Jinlai and the young lady and angrily shouted:
"Don't go any further. It would be rude to go any further!"
Wang Jinlai acted as if he didn't notice Qingyu's anger and said in a very low voice:
"Miss, I saved a man when I returned home. This man seemed to have been imprisoned and could no longer move. He rolled down the mountain and was covered in wounds. He is now in the back mountain of Shuiyue Temple outside the city and is still unconscious."
Qingyu turned around and looked at the young lady, wondering whether she should still stand between the two of them.
"Oh? What's going on?"
Wang Jinlai began by telling the story of his return to the city in stages by donkey cart.
When changing cars in Linyang Town, I heard a horseman say that when they were passing through a small road through the mountains, they saw someone rolling down the mountain. He looked in a bad condition. There were woods all around at the time, so they didn't dare to rescue him easily. He gestured as he spoke.
When Wang Jinlai heard this, he remembered how he was rescued by Wang Shuyan'an, the third master of the Wang family.
Without listening to the discussions of the group of people, he hired a mule and headed towards the mountain road that the groom mentioned. However, before he had run far, he saw two teams of soldiers running towards him.
Wang Jinyi was shocked and blurted out:
"Is this person a fugitive?!"
In order not to make the young lady anxious, Wang Jinlai quickly said:
"Miss, don't worry. I saw this person when I posted a missing person notice at the city gate. There seemed to be four of them, all wearing scholar's robes and hiring a carriage. They looked like scholars."
Seeing that both the young lady and Qingyu were staring at him intently and no one asked him any questions, he continued:
"Miss, you said that we should try to unify the rewards for the four city gates to one price. I spent some time at the city gates."