Chapter 4: Saving the Life
The pozi froze
for a moment, still hesitating, but saw Nangong Yue sweep in with a look, the
sharp edge under her eyes like the cold light of a precious sword, coldly
projecting over with a thunderous might.
Pozi obeyed the orders of Nangong Yue
involuntarily. When the other maids and maids around them saw this, they all
whispered in mingled voices.
"What is
Miss Third doing?"
"Why hasn't
the doctor come yet? It's only right to wait for the doctor to come now."
" Will the
Third Miss be ...... so reckless?"
“……”
Nangong Yue
turned a deaf ear and gave her full attention to her brother. Continuously
pressing his back with the flat of her hand and delicately pressing on the
acupuncture points on his back, trying to pour out the accumulated water in his
trachea and oropharynx ......
One after
another, one after another ...... only An Niang looked at her hopefully.
"Cough!"
Suddenly, a
slight cough sounded, and at once everyone was looking at Nangong Xin with
disbelief.
"Cough!"
Immediately
afterwards, Nangong Xin coughed violently again, as if he was coughing out his
lungs, and vomited up a huge pool of dirty water.
Nangong Yue and pozi
quickly turned him over. Only to see with difficulty, Nangong Xin opened
his big black and white eyes, his originally clear eyes looked a bit confused,
but when he saw Nangong Yue, he showed a smile that was too bright, and his
originally handsome face also added a bit of naive attitude to it. His mouth
moved, but he couldn't speak. It seemed that he was calling for his
sister(meimei).
Nangong Yue
clung to Nangong Xin's right arm, feeling his wet body radiating life again,
and murmured: "Brother, brother, it's okay, it's okay ......" Though
her brother was not smart, he was the best to her. When he had good food and
drink, the first person he would think of was her, his sister! Although other
people secretly look down on her brother, but in her heart, her brother is the
best brother in the world!
Seeing the
situation, An Niang could not help smiling: "Okay! Okay! Second
young Master is alive! "
Nangong Yue's
suspended heart finally dropped at this moment, her body went weak and almost
fell down, fortunately one of the maids behind her was quick-witted and rushed
to hold her up. Nangong Yue took a deep breath to steady her mind again, she
looked around and suddenly frowned, "Where is Yun Niang?" Yun Niang
was Nangong Xin's nurse, so as rule, she should have been at his side for
everything.
When she said
this, the maids and pozis around her also noticed that this Second Young
master was drowning, and the nurse and maids serving around him were actually
no longer around. Looks like a good show is coming!
"Second
Young Master! Second Young Master!" At this time, a woman in green dress
in her forties and a maid in a long green skirt with white silk coat rushed to
this side.
Nangong Yue
looked coldly. Its her big brother Nangong Xin's nanny Yun Niang and first-rank
servant girl Juanbi.
"Second
Young Master!" Yun Niang threw herself on Nangong Xin, crying and
shouting as if she were crying at funeral, "How did you come here? Let
nanny..."
Nangong Yue
didn't want to listen to her nonsense at all. She pulled her right arm and then
slapped heavily on the face of Yun Niang who was kneeling in front of
Nangong Xin.
This blow poured
out almost all of Nangong Yue's resentment from her previous life. Yun Niang
was completely dazed and her body fell backwards, her head hitting the
guardrail at the back so hard that even the guardrail shook slightly from the
impact.
In an instant,
all the maids and pozis present were shocked by this slap from Nangong
Yue.The MissThird had always been known for her soft nature and was the most
sociable. Who would have thought that this rabbit would bite even when it was
anxious!
Yun Niang did
not know whether she was beaten to fool or frightened. She could not recover
for a long time. Juan Bi knew that it would be her turn next and she hurriedly
begged for mercy and said, "Miss Third , please forgive slave. It is the
second young master who insists on playing hide-and-seek with slaves. Slave
look for a moment..."
"Haven't
take good care of the Second young master, you lowly slave still have to
justify it!" Nangong Yue said coldly. If it wasn't for her own weak body,
she really wanted to personally teach these two cheap maids a lesson! She
ordered casually to several pozi who do rough work: "Teach these two lowly
maids who neglected their duties a lesson for me, girl will reward!"
"You
dare!" Yun Niang finally returns to her senses, straightens up her chest
and looks at those pozi proudly.
Those pozis are
all hesitant. They all know that this Yun Niang was a person of great
origins, while they were just rough pozi who were not even third-class
maids.
Seeing this, Yun
Niang was slightly relieved and thought: she is the old Furen's person,
who will beat her for this unpopular Miss Third!
With a cold
smile, Nangong Yue suddenly unfastened the gold collar around her neck, then
raised it high and said: "Whoever gives the beating for me! This gold
collar belongs to him!" Before the words left her mouth, she had already
tossed the gold collar up high, and the moment those pozis saw this
treasure, they were like cats seeing fish, their eyes glowing.
A sturdy pozi
pushed aside the people around her and jumped, grabbing the gold necklace
vigorously and hiding it in her arms. Then she grabbed Yun Niang's lapel
and slapped her face. Then she grabbed Yuniang's lapel and slapped her several
times. This pozi had thick hands and thick palms, and a few slaps had
made Yun Niang's cheeks so red and swollen that she looked like a pig's
head.
"Injustice!
Slave servant is unjustly accused!" Yun Niang cried and screamed as
if she had suffered a great injustice, but Nangong Yue turned a deaf ear to
her.
Just then, a
familiar voice came from the right side: " Xin Ge'er, Yue jie'er!"
[TN NOTE: In
this novels parents and elders call children with jie(sister) and ge(brother).]
Nangong Yue's
body was stiff. She slowly followed the sound and saw a thin and familiar
figure standing at the entrance of the garden, looking at them with dim tearful
eyes.
It's her mother!
"Xin Ge'er,
Yue jie'er!" Lin Shi[3] with a worried face and holding her
skirt, ran excitedly towards her pair of children.
Yue jie'er......
Once upon a time, that was the way my mother called her name with her warm and
loving voice. Memories are intertwined with the present. The eyes of Nangong Yue
are sour, and dense tears fill her eyes instantly.
In her previous
life, her mother suffered repeated blows. First her brother Nangong Xin drowned
and died, followed by her father who betrayed her. After that, her mother was
overly sad and gradually lost her sanity. Finally fell into endless madness and
was imprisoned in a partial courtyard, and then ......
All these years,
every time she thought of that moment, her heart was like a knife, blaming
herself for not paying enough attention to her mother, blaming herself for not
being able to save her mother ...... She never thought that she would actually
be able to see this familiar and gentle figure again, a sense of gratitude for
the loss and recovery surged to her heart, almost choking.
The familiarity
and unfamiliarity of her mother's beautiful face made Nangong Yue's heart part
with sorrow.
She was stunned and
her voice trembled a little. "Mother." She greedily looked at her
mother's young and beautiful face, and couldn't help calling out in her heart:
Mother, it's really mother!
At that time,
her mother was only 27 or 28 year with white oval face, dark almond eyes and
cherry-blossom lips. She was in the most beautiful and splendid years of a
woman, like a delicate flower in full bloom, but suddenly withered in half a
year and went insane ......
Footnotes:
[1]Pozi;-
married woman servant.
[2]Young lady,girl(
姑娘--gū niang ) here they call gu niang for
Miss.Ex;San gu niang--Miss Third.
[3]Shi;-Married
woman's maiden surname.
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