Enter Chang Xiangsi and help Jingzhai fight

When their eyes met, she immediately lowered her eyes and handed the plate with the sky-blue porcelain wine bottle and wine cup to Tu Shanjing.

Tu Shanjing took it and told her, "Go find a servant or a maid and ask for some clean gauze."

Sen Ying lowered her head, said "yes", then closed the door and left.

I watched her walk away, feeling a little upset, and thought about finding an opportunity to have a good chat with her later.

Tu Shanjing took the food tray and placed it on the table, then returned to the inner room, took out a small red beech box from his sleeve and handed it to me.

I took it curiously and asked, "Sir, is this for me?"

He nodded and said, "Open it and see if you like it."

I saw that the box was exquisitely made and there was a small snap on the lid, so I pressed it.

With a click, the mechanism inside the box turned and the lid opened. Inside was a layer of red satin with two pearl earrings pinned on it. The pearls were neither too big nor too small, but the color was very good. The white pearls were slightly pink and could reflect a person's image like a mirror. What was even more rare was that the two pearls were of the same size, both were perfectly round and flawless.

I laughed and said, "Sir, are you going to compensate me for the pearl earring I lost? You are at a loss, I lost one and you compensated me with two!"

Tu Shanjing smiled and said, "You worked so hard and got hurt. You are the one who lost out. Unfortunately, there are only freshwater pearls in this city. I asked someone to search for two days before I found a pair of decent ones. You can wear them for now. I will buy you another pair of seawater pearls when I see good ones in the future."

I turned my head and fumbled to put it on my ear, and said with a smile: "That's great! I'm sorry to have spent money on it, young master."

For some reason, I couldn't get the needle into my ear hole no matter how hard I tried. It seemed as if the hole had shrunk as the weather got colder, and there was a feeling of blockage that prevented the silver needle from going in.

Tu Shanjing leaned over, took the pearl earrings from my hand with one hand, gently pulled my earlobe with the other hand, and gently put them on me.

My face flushed, my ears felt hot and itchy. I smiled sheepishly and turned my other face to him, saying, "Thank you, sir."

He put on the other side for me, took a step back and looked at me, which made me even more embarrassed.

I lowered my head and listened to his voice above my head: "It looks good."

How could anyone be unhappy when being praised for being pretty? I looked at the ground and smiled silently.

Thinking that Mori Ying would be back soon, I subconsciously looked towards the door.

A pair of light pink satin shoes came into view, with yellow-stamen hibiscus flowers embroidered on the toes, and above them was the blue satin skirt that Mori Ying wore during the day.

Her skirt moved, she took a step back, and then Mori Ying knocked on the door.

Tu Shanjing said loudly: "Come in."

Sen Ying pushed open the door, holding a roll of gauze in her hand, and said, "Young Master, I got the gauze."

I was just about to have a detailed chat with her, and I happened to need to wrap the gauze, but I couldn't let Tu Shanjing do it for me, so I got off the couch and said to Tu Shanjing, "Sir, I will leave with Senying now, and come back after I wash up."

Tu Shanjing nodded and said, "You are tired too. You don't have to come back after washing up. I don't need to serve you at night. You should have a good rest."

Sen Ying and I cleaned up the leftovers on the table, put them back into the big food box and plate, carried them to the door and placed them on the ground, greeted Tu Shan Jing, closed the door and went back to my room.

Sen Ying said that my room was arranged next to hers. I followed her to her door but did not go in. She looked at me and knew that I had something to say. She opened her door and said to me, "Miss, please come in. I will bandage you."

I followed her into the room. She lit the candle, stirred the charcoal basin, and said, "Girl, the charcoal is a little bit out. Bandage it later. Be careful not to get cold."

I watched the charcoal fire turn red and my eyes turned to her.

She remained silent and looked back at me.

I thought to myself, since we were staring at each other in silence, someone had to break the silence, so I cleared my throat and said, "Sen Ying, we finally have some free time to talk alone, so I'll get straight to the point. In the Xuanxuan Inn, you said you were a ruined person, but I don't think that's right, you clearly-"

Senying interrupted me and said coldly, "What's wrong?"

I stood up quickly, held her hand, and said, "Of course it's not right. You are flawless, just a few drops of mud splashed on you. Wash it and it will be as clean as before. You did nothing wrong, don't punish yourself with the mistakes of others."

Tears fell down her cheeks, she cried, "What white jade, flawless? Ink dripped into clear water, and the water can never be clean again! So many people have seen it, they know what happened at the time, how many times can I wash it clean?"

She looked at me with her eyes wide open. "You don't know, I have washed countless times in the past few days, and rubbed myself raw. But when I closed my eyes at night, I felt that... that damn thief's face was flashing in front of me, and then a stream of blood splashed on my face. The blood was so hot that it burned me like fire, and it also had a fishy smell. I could still smell it in my nose when I woke up..."

After that, she spread out her hands, as if they were stained with blood. Then she rubbed her fingers together, stirring them restlessly, and said, "You are lucky. Anyway, you have seen the young master's body, and the young master has also seen yours. You will definitely be taken in by the young master in the future. Unlike me, I have a miserable life..."

I exclaimed in surprise, "Huh?" and then said carefully, "Not really...Isn't it my job to help him take a bath?...He just applied some medicine to me."

Sen Ying snorted coldly, her face twisted a little, and said: "Do you think anyone can serve the young master closely? It has been many years since I and Lan Mei were transferred here! You and Jing Ye were carefully selected by the old lady after a long observation, and you have been serving by her side since you were young. If you don't believe me, look at that sweeping Jingui, including Man Sheng who is one level higher than her, which one can get close to the young master?! If the young master wants to marry you, it's just a matter of words. This is something that everyone in the mansion knows inside and out! You think you do your job well and you get along well in the mansion. Don't you think you are outstanding? Everyone has to look at you for a little face and curry favor with the future concubine of the head of Tushan family. Isn't it that they do it just because you say so? What do you know about music, chess, calligraphy and painting--"

At the end, she bit her lip and swallowed the second half.

After she said that, my mind was a little confused, and my heart was even more sad. I murmured, "I know I have many shortcomings, but I have no choice. I have been trying to make up for it with what I know. But I don't understand, do we have to get married just by looking at it...?"

She couldn't help but say, "Do you want to marry someone else?!"