Stage [Republic of China]

There are no obstacles, not even a tall tree, how does my sister think I can escape? "

The servant girl didn't expect him to expose it so bluntly, she was stunned.After all, she was a little girl of the thirteenth or fourteenth year. She was a little embarrassed, blushed and replied timidly: "I dare not hide the truth from Miss An. The master has explained it. In three to five days, we have to go back to our hometown in Jingxi. I'm afraid." Miss An, you..."

"Huh? So I have to watch over me even when I go to the toilet?" Shui Jiu cut it off sharply. Seeing that the little girl was too embarrassed to speak, she nodded with a smile on her face, and continued, "Master You're afraid that I'll run away, aren't you?"

The little girl didn't dare to speak, she just bit her lips, showing a pitiful timid look.

Shui Jiu coaxed her, "Of course only your master can see my body. Could it be that you want to see it before your master? Are you not afraid that your master will be jealous?"

"No, Ms. An, you..." The little girl was timid and panicked, and hurriedly took a few steps back. "Miss An, please don't joke with us like this. If the master finds out, it will be really serious."

Since Shui Jiu broke into Zeng's house, she didn't want to be waited on when she changed her clothes and went to bed. She said that she had a weird temper and was not used to getting close to others.But every time Master Zeng asked him to sleep with him, he always followed suit.The maids in Zeng's mansion didn't know and went in, they only knew that Mr. Zeng loved him very much.

So Shui Jiu forced her with words, and the little girl blocked the door and stopped coming in.

Shui Jiu Shi Shi ran into the toilet.

The matter of the latrine is easy to solve, but the most annoying thing is that Mr. Zeng has to summon Shui Jiu to sleep with him every night.Although the two did not sleep on the same bed, Yu Shuijiu was also an annoyance.He wrapped his daughter's corset day and night, and stuffed his chest so bulgingly that he didn't dare to unload it even at night, because he was so hot and flustered.

At noon that day, Shui Jiu saw a thrush locked in a cage under the eaves of Zeng Zhai, his heart moved, and he couldn't help but frown slightly.He used to think that Ning Jimin's participation in the Jiangnan Rebel Army didn't matter. Even if he agreed to join Ning Jimin in the outskirts of the city, it was just because he really didn't want to save the face of Grandma Ning.In the one month since he came to the city, he has only dealt with men, and it is no different from when he was on stage in the past when he was drinking and socializing.It wasn't until the past few days that Mr. Zeng couldn't breath his guard over him, that he suddenly understood why even people like Lulu, a popular dancer from Paramount, wanted to help the Jiangnan Rebels.

The world treats women too harshly!He just had a drink with him at the banquet, and Mr. Zeng took a fancy to him, so he was immediately taken back and kept in captivity like a future concubine.Talking about a concubine's room is still an expression of shame, but in fact it is nothing more than a pig and dog who can be beaten and killed at will.

Shui Jiu stared at the thrush in the cage for a long time on the porch, her mind was so flustered that she didn't even know that Master Zeng was coming from behind him smoking a hookah.

"What are you looking at?"

Master Zeng's eternally dumb voice sounded behind him as if he was holding a mouth full of phlegm.Gulu Gulu, the sound of smoking a hookah is like a phoenix singing and a bird singing.

It's a pity that it's not a bird song.

Without looking back, Shui Jiu pointed at the bird in the cage with a cold white finger, and said with a faint smile, "Look, sir, do I look like this bird?"

"Que'er is just a toy." Master Zeng was smoking a hookah, snoring, and after a while, he clicked a few times and returned to him slowly. "If you follow me wholeheartedly, you are naturally different from them. Even if you go to an ordinary family and become a husband and wife with ordinary hair, it's still not worth the comfortable life in my house."

Shui Jiu lowered her eyes, but there was a bang in her heart, something collapsed.

From that night onwards, Shui Jiu lay crooked on the couch and refused to eat or drink.

In the first two meals, Master Zeng only thought that he was throwing a temper tantrum, and when it was one o'clock, he was ordered to stand beside him as usual to serve Master Zeng.

Master Zeng doesn't care if he eats or not.Shui Jiu's face was pale and he laid the dishes without saying a word, and after standing for a long time, he staggered.Mr. Zeng saw everything in his eyes, but didn't say anything to tell him to rest.Probably hardened his heart and wholeheartedly wanted to teach him a lesson.

As soon as the lights were turned off, he was no longer allowed to sleep with him at night.

Mr. Zeng is an old man, he is very particular about some things, and he especially refrains from being made sick by others.

Shui Jiu was too happy to serve her.For three days in a row, Shui Jiu really didn't eat or drink.By the third night, I couldn't even get out of the bed, and I was so skinny and pitiful.

Master Zeng sent someone to see him, Shui Jiu deliberately coughed continuously in front of those girls, and took out a pure white silk handkerchief from under the pillow to cover his mouth.He half stood up from the couch, struggled forcibly, and said angrily: "It's okay, it won't delay the master's going out of the city."

According to Mr. Zeng's plan, originally the matter of returning to his hometown in Jingxi was not very urgent, but since he turned his face with Li Daotai, who is in charge of Jibei City, at the Paramount banquet, he openly reprimanded Li Daotai's concubine's younger brother Qin After the second young master, Mr. Zeng became very uncomfortable in this place.So I temporarily changed the itinerary, and planned to set off in a mighty way the next day.Shui Jiu heard that he had rented fifty or sixty mule carts. During that battle, even the printed paper on the walls had to be scraped off with fingernails, and then the land was shoveled and packed back to the Jingxi countryside.

The little girls didn't dare to force him very much.One of the older maids was about 25-[-], with a well-proportioned figure, and was originally Master Zeng's maid.Seeing that Shui Jiu was coughing so badly, she moved forward, and just about to touch Shui Jiu's shoulder, Shui Jiu shrank back and said to her, "Sister, don't come here! I'm afraid it will be contagious."

As he spoke, he coughed violently again.

Seemingly intentional or unintentional, Shui Jiu dropped the white silk veil that covered her lips on the edge of the bed, and the veil fluttered along the curtain and fell to the ground.

The big maid lowered her head and picked it up, only to see that the veil was dotted with blood spots like red plum blossoms.

"Oh, it's not good, Miss An is coughing up blood!" The big girl immediately screamed.

Soon this incident alarmed Mr. Zeng.

That night, Zeng Zhai and his family lit up the lamps and asked the doctor to get medicine, causing a lot of trouble.

18, 18

◎"Caged Sparrow"◎

Master Zeng was still angry at first, and hated Shuijiu for being petty with him for the past two days, but now he heard that he had coughed up blood, and after puffing three times in a row on the hookah that night, he finally let out a long sigh. "Forget it, send someone to find a doctor to have a look."

Mr. Zeng didn't know that, in the eyes of his servants, his indifferent appearance of Shui Jiu meant that Shui Jiu might fall out of favor.The butler sent someone out, and at midnight with a lamp, he looked for a doctor from the street. Because they felt that the old man was angry, the servants deliberately did not look for the familiar old doctors in the mansion.

At around five o'clock in the morning, a young doctor came to the west wing.After asking a few words through the curtain, his face was quite panicked, and he didn't dare to lift the curtain to look at Shui Jiu.Shui Jiu knew very well that it meant that he was afraid that he would get an infectious disease. Now that there are a large number of refugees pouring into the city, it is said that some of them died of swine fever.

Shui Jiu's eyeballs moved slightly, coughed heavily again, and deliberately threw the veil stained with bright red blood out of the tent again.

The young doctor looked at it, and he was really uncomfortable, his hands and feet were shaking, but he still forced himself to leave a sentence. "Miss An, your illness...it's nothing, it's nothing, you just need to keep it alive. When you go out later, I, I will prescribe you some medicines for clearing the lungs and relieving cough."

Shui Jiu didn't make a sound, just coughed repeatedly, as if she was going to die soon.

The doctor didn't dare to speak anymore, he hurriedly carried the medicine box and followed the girls out.When going out, one was careless and tripped over the three-inch-high threshold.

The next day, just after noon, a blind fortune teller wearing tea crystal lenses came to Zeng's house.Da da da, the sound of crutches gradually approached, from the threshold to the gauze curtain one by one.Shui Jiu, who was lying in the gauze tent, knew that this was the last divination for him. If the divination was auspicious, perhaps Mr. Zeng would have kind thoughts for him and let him go. They won't even take him with them on the way to Jingxi.

Shui Jiu knew everything in his heart, but deliberately pretended not to know, just closed his eyes and waited for the blind fortune-teller to be helped out of the gauze tent.Dimly, some hands lifted the gauze curtain, and then supported Shui Jiu to sit up, so that the blind fortune-teller could see him.

Shui Jiu's eyes were slightly closed, just as if he was sick and drowsy, and there was a constant crackling cough in his throat.

The blind fortune-teller fumbled, and managed to touch his wrist bone. He closed his eyes and pondered for an unknown amount of time before suddenly sternly saying, "Ominous! Ominous! This is an ominous omen."

Shui Jiu sneered inwardly.

The blind fortune-teller said again, "This woman was born in a dusty world, but it is very unlucky in the noble house! It's okay if I send it away now, if I don't send it away..."

The blind fortune-teller murmured on purpose.

"Can it be calculated accurately?"

Master Zeng's voice that was always full of phlegm came out.

Shui Jiu's heart trembled slightly, he didn't expect Master Zeng to come in person.He immediately closed his eyes tightly, clenched his jade-like nails into his palms, and coughed more and more.He was originally born thin, and these days he was lying on the bed, in order to avoid showing his feet, he never taught the maids to cleanse and change clothes.This cough, on the contrary, made his thin back curve more charming.

Mr. Zeng probably saw it, and his tone was quite reluctant. "What is the calculation of this hexagram? If the old man brings her by his side..."

"My lord, you must not!" The blind fortune-teller quickly interrupted Mr. Zeng, "This woman committed crimes."