Lose the lights and spend another night

My lord's illness is gradually getting better. This year's lord's birthday, Bai Zisheng brought his wife and children to Shen's mansion to celebrate his birthday.The elder brother of the eldest lady has an only son named Bai Zhongyu, who is more than three years older than Yingsheng. After all, Yingsheng should call him "cousin".

A 14-year-old boy is always a little restless, and it was still some time before the dinner party, Bai Zhongyu had already been bored by the chattering of the adults, and wandered around the Shen residence bored.

At this time, I was practicing the shadow puppetry in the courtyard with Yingsheng to celebrate my birthday tonight, when this young boy in fine clothes barged in so abruptly.

"Huh? This is fun!" Bai Zhongyu jumped behind the screen, snatched the shadow puppet from me, and kept playing with it.

"Where did you come from, you little rascal? Give me back the doll!" Ying Sheng's eyes widened, and he pointed at the doll in Bai Zhongyu's hand, "This is mine! Take it without asking, it's no different from a thief ?”

I didn't expect that after Yingsheng's knowledge gradually increased, he could even swear at people to the point.

Two servant girls who followed Bai Zhongyu quickly walked into the courtyard, and said to Ying Shengfu, "Miss, this is Young Master Biao."

"I don't have such an impolite cousin!" Yingsheng blushed with anger, she handed the doll in my hand, and was about to grab the doll in Bai Zhongyu's hand.

Bai Zhongyu finally found a fun thing, how could he easily give it back to Yingsheng, he raised the doll high above his head almost provocatively, relying on his own high Yingsheng's head, he shouted: "Cousin Sheng, here, The doll is here, come and get it, and return it to you if you can get it!"

"You..." Yingsheng tried her best to jump to grab the doll, but when she jumped up, Bai Zhongyu also jumped up. She tried several times, but she couldn't grab the doll.

"Rascal! Rascal!"

These two are little masters who can't be messed with. Children fight in private, and it's not easy for us servants to get involved too much.

I looked at Yingsheng's indomitable spirit, and I was a little worried that she might get hurt, so I didn't care so much. I stepped forward and pulled Yingsheng behind me, shook my head, took her palm, and wrote on it One sentence - no more.

Yingsheng held back his breath, looked at me again, and only turned his head to stare at Bai Zhongyu, "Huanxi said no, and I don't want it either! Hmph! Reward you rascal!"

Bai Zhongyu, who was enjoying playing with Ying Sheng, froze, smashed the puppet in his hand to the ground, stepped on it, gritted his teeth, and said, "I don't have anything in my house. The ghosts care about your broken shadow puppet!"

Seeing Bai Zhongyu's furry, Yingsheng felt relieved a lot, she held my hand tightly, and stuck out her tongue towards Bai Zhongyu, "Yeah, so the one who snatched my doll just now must not be a human being! "

"You..." When did Bai Zhongyu suffer such a great humiliation, his youthful heart rushed up, glanced left and right, went straight to the edge of the rockery, picked up a stone, and threw it at Yingsheng.

Be careful!

I hurriedly blocked the stone with my body, afraid of hurting Yingsheng.

Although Bai Zhongyu was still a child, his strength was relatively small, but the stone had edges and corners after all, it grazed the corner of my left eyebrow, and cut half of my left eyebrow.

Blood suddenly gushed out and dripped on Yingsheng's beanie. Yingsheng looked at me in a panic and exclaimed: "Huanxi, you are bleeding!"

I smiled and shook my head, indicating that I am not in pain.

Yingsheng's eyes were full of distress, she glanced at me hastily with tearful eyes, bent down to pick up the blood-stained stone on the ground, and threw it at Bai Zhongyu, "Who allowed you to hurt my Huanxi?"

When Bai Zhongyu saw that someone was hurt, he felt a little guilty and flustered. He didn't expect Yingsheng to return him a stone. When he realized that he wanted to dodge, it was too late, so he could only forcefully let the stone hit his shoulder.

"Ugh-"

I thought that the most miserable cry in the world should be that of a girl, but I didn't expect Bai Zhongyu to cry after receiving this blow, as if someone poked a big hole in his body.

"Master said, a man doesn't shed tears lightly, you still have the nerve to cry!" Ying Sheng scolded her contemptuously, then quickly looked at my wound.

She squeezed her sleeves nervously to wipe the blood from the corner of my eyebrows, her beautiful eyebrows were furrowed really hard, "Huanxi, does it hurt?"

I stopped her movement, I was just a servant, the master shouldn't have such a movement.

I wrote in her palm - go in, change clothes.

"I don't! Huanxi, I'm scared... I'm really scared..." Yingsheng shook her head stubbornly. She was just worried about me, afraid that if I kept bleeding like this, I wouldn't be able to wake up again.

Bai Zhongyu couldn't wait for two stunned servant girls to come forward to comfort him, so he cried even more sadly, and finally alarmed the adults in the front yard.

Bai Zisheng and his wife untied Bai Zhongyu's clothes with great distress, and found a slightly red spot, "Yu'er, who dares to hurt you like this? Tell me, Daddy will support you today, don't be afraid!"

Bai Zhongyu sobbed a few times. He wanted to point at Yingsheng, but he was forced out by Yingsheng's knife-like gaze. In the end, he could only vent his anger on me.

"It's her, it's the mute!"

What he said at a young age is so poignant.

"It's you, Huanxi!" Bai Zisheng looked at me viciously, he knew me, "It's fine if you're dumb, but why are you blind? How dare you bully your own young master?"

Yingsheng didn't expect that annoying little boy to blame me, she shook her head and said angrily: "No, he lied, obviously..."

"Sheng'er!" Madam interrupted Yingsheng, she glanced at me coldly, "You spoil Huanxi too much, you see, you don't even look like a servant." After finishing speaking, She looked at Bai Zisheng apologetically, "I will give you an explanation for this matter."

"Mother, no! It's really not Huanxi!" Yingsheng stood up and stopped in front of me, "Huanxi is already injured, mother, please find a doctor to see her, okay?"

Madam glanced at her personal servant girl, "Pull Miss away!"

"Yes, ma'am."

Yingsheng tried her best to defend me, but she was just a baby after all, so she was pulled aside like this.

I smiled at her, wanting to tell her not to worry about me, and immediately knelt down towards Madam, waiting for Madam's punishment.

"Housekeeper, bring the whip!"

It's good that Yingsheng wasn't hurt.

I lowered my head, and secretly rejoiced, saying that I was not afraid of pain would be a lie.But if it can change everyone's "peace and wellness" with this beating, it is worth it.

"Huanxi..." Yingsheng struggled in the maid's arms, trying to pounce on her, she hissed, "Mother, it's my cousin who smashed it, it's my fault, please, don't hit Huanxi OK?"

Madam was stunned for a moment, and she glanced at Bai Zhongyu hesitantly.

How could Bai Zhongyu admit that he was lying?He pointed at Huanxi more firmly, "It was the dumb who hit me! I should hit her hard! Teach her!"

"You are lying and deceiving people! You will be struck by lightning!" Yingsheng waited fiercely for Bai Zhongyu, his eyes made Bai Zhongyu a little scared, and he couldn't help shrinking back.

"How could my Yu'er plant a servant for no reason?" Bai Zisheng raised his head and glanced at Yingsheng, "Yu'er has always been magnanimous, if you really hit him, you are his cousin. How can I argue with you." After a pause, he looked at me coldly again, "Some maidservants will become more and more oily when they get older, and they won't work if they don't fight! Huanxi, don't you think so?"

I nodded heavily, already accepting my fate.

The blood from the corners of my eyebrows dripped down my cheeks, falling drop by drop into Ying Sheng's eyes.

I didn't raise my eyes to look at her, I didn't know that Ying Sheng was already in tears at this moment.

"Madam, here comes the whip." The butler handed the whip to Madam.

Madam came to my side, and said in a deep voice: "Huanxi, you have to remember these ten whips, why did you eat them, and in what capacity did you eat them?"

I understand the deep meaning of Madam's words, how dare I have the slightest resentment?

It's best to let this matter go like this, the servant is rough-skinned and thick-skinned, so what's wrong with being beaten a few times by the master?

What's more, I'm here for Yingsheng.

Thinking of this, I felt an inexplicable warmth in my heart.

I clenched my fists tightly and endured the madam's whip. It hit my back one after another, it was so painful.If I can speak, if I can breathe out the pain, will the pain be less?

When the ten whips were finished, I felt that I had already lost half my life, and I fell powerlessly on the ground. As long as I moved lightly, the heart-pounding pain seemed to penetrate deep into my flesh and blood.

"Huanxi..."

The first one to come up to help me was my Yingsheng, her eyes were as red as peaches from crying, and big tears rolled down.

I managed to squeeze out a smile, and wanted to wipe her tears, but found that my palms were covered with blood, so I could only retract my hands and shook my head at her.

"Hmph! Do you still dare to be arrogant?!" Bai Zhongyu made a face to this side, I know, most of it was to show off his victory in front of Yingsheng.

"Today is the official's birthday banquet, what are you doing here?" The adult walked in from outside the courtyard, and when he looked at me, I clearly saw deep apology in his eyes.

"Brother-in-law, I just taught a servant girl a lesson. Let's go to the front and watch the play and chat." Bai Zisheng smoothed things over, after all, the master in Shen's residence is the master.

"Daddy...they bullied Huanxi..." Yingsheng thought that the adults would support her, but she didn't think that the adults would also have the difficulties of adults.

This matter has already been considered over, if he causes any aftermath, it will seem that the adults are a little bit petty.

"Housekeeper, find a doctor." The adult ordered coldly.

Bai Zisheng was a little surprised, and asked displeasedly: "It's just a maid, brother-in-law, you... make me feel a little unreasonable."

The lord turned back and looked at him coldly, "There has never been a servant in my Shen residence who carried him out!"

Bai Zisheng's face turned dark immediately, but he couldn't say anything more. After all, Mr. Shen solved the case a few days ago.

"Daddy!"

Seeing the lord preparing to leave like this, Yingsheng called out again.

"Your servant girl, you should be more disciplined, don't let others think that all the servant girls in my Shen Mu mansion have climbed on the master's head!" The lord left a word, and walked out of the courtyard quickly.

"Daddy..."

Yingsheng watched disappointedly as the group of people gradually walked away with the adults, she only felt that her whole body was very cold.

This is not the early summer of Lin'an, but the cold winter of Lin'an.

On this day, for the first time, I saw despair in her eyes.

The author has something to say: growing up is always a bit sour, this can be regarded as a growing up experience for Xiao Yingsheng~