There’s a Dragon Girl in the Desolate Sea: 692|The fifty-eighth dragon scale (five)

The fifty-eighth dragon scale (five)

When Xun Chen went to greet Linglong, Linglong was teaching Xun Tao how to distinguish the color of jade. This cheap granddaughter grew up in the countryside. The best thing she saw was the salesman passing by at the head of the village selling more than a dozen A copper plate bracelet, just such a bracelet, if a woman in the village has one, she can go to heaven.

After returning to the mansion, she realized that there are so many good things in the world, what is a table with a dozen copper plates?

Linglong took her by her side, and besides letting her mother teach her to read and read, she even took Xun Tao to enjoy it at the most. Food, clothing, housing, and transportation, all of which are exquisite and luxurious, always make Xun Tao stunned, feeling that she is really short-sighted. Over time, she won't look like she hasn't seen the world again when she sees anything good, and her temperament has become more and more gentle and restrained. In addition, she is very hard at reading and recognizing words, and she has a bookish air about her.

Gao was very moved by the mother-in-law's care for her daughter, and even collected a lot of good things to send to Linglong. Knowing that Linglong has a good appetite, she even went back to her parents' house and hired a chef who is good at pastry!

Nowadays, Xun Tao is no longer the black and thin country girl she used to be. She is much whiter and has grown a lot of flesh. Seeing that she has the style of a girl in the government's government, she is also generous in dealing with people. Not to mention this is all thanks to Linglong.

Xun Chen sees all of this in her eyes. At first, when Sister Tao talks to herself, she will be shy. She will lower her head and dare not look at people. She will even hold her sleeves nervously and squeeze hard. , but in the eyes of outsiders, it is inevitable to be said to be petty. But now Sister Tao is not like that anymore. She will laugh when she sees him, and she will take the initiative to talk to him and care about him. These are all changes brought by her grandmother.

But the more so, the heavier he felt. On the one hand, he wanted to tell his grandmother about his own affairs, and on the other hand, he was burdened with his mother's expectations. He was afraid that if he said it himself, his grandmother would blame his mother. Even if his grandmother did not blame him, what about his father? Wouldn't the father be to blame? Over the years, my father has always carefully cultivated himself as his son-in-law. Even if his brain is not smart and his reading is not very good, his father does not care. He didn't want to enter the military camp, and his father respected his own ideas, but the more he did, the more incompetent he became in his mother's heart.

In Zhang Shi's opinion, the fact that her husband condoned Brother Chen so much is not because he is really open-minded, but because he still has two outstanding sons.

So she pushed Xun Chen more and more to make progress, but she didn't know, the more pressure, the more pressure on Xun Chen, that is to say, living in Linglong Courtyard was much better these days, and there was a smile on his face. , but this does not mean that he has become healthy. Under Zhang's high-pressure education, Xun Chen became very sensitive. He would think a lot about a little word that others said unintentionally, and then fell into a vicious circle of self-pity and self-pity, but Zhang never felt that Xun There was something wrong with Chen, she only felt that Xun Chen was a daughter after all, and there was no hope for a son, otherwise, how could she not be good at reading, and she would not be able to please her father, and she would not be able to do anything?

Under such pressure, Xun Chen became more and more reticent.

Linglong intends to let Xun Tao and Xun Chen develop a relationship. After more than ten years of hardship, Xun Tao understands the difficulty of others. Seeing that this younger brother always looks bitter, he takes the initiative to care about him, especially Xun Chen. Xun Tao also specifically asked the doctor about the fact that he was not tall. Since then, he has often asked the kitchen to cook some milk or bone soup, but it has little effect.

Listening to Grandma and Sister Tao talking, Xun Chen sat quietly on the side, Linglong asked him how he was in the academy today, and he didn't say that he was bullied again. In front of Linglong, he always reported good news. To report the worry, I don't want my grandmother to worry about herself at such an old age.

As a result, he sat down and suddenly felt a heat flow in his lower abdomen, and then his stomach started to hurt! Xun Chen's heart skipped a beat, knowing that his completely inaccurate Guishui was coming, but now he was in his grandmother's room, and he was wearing a white robe again today!

If he didn't get this Gui water, it would definitely hurt like a knife, and the first two days were huge, and then it stopped abruptly on the third day. Xun Chen knew that this was abnormal, but he didn't Dare to ask the doctor to see, the mother is very glad that his Guishui is only for two days, for fear that the secret that has been hidden for many years will be discovered.

Mother Zeng saw Xun Chen's face pale and quickly said, "Brother Chen is not feeling well? Would you like a doctor to take a look?"

There are many nanny in the manor, but only Mama Zeng, who once followed the old lady and the old lady on horseback to meet the enemy, and served the old lady all her life, so only she can be called brother or sister, and the servant next to her. They are all respectfully called young master and girl.

Mother Zeng is getting older and more loving, her eyes don't fake Xun Chen's worries, but Xun Chen didn't dare to answer. …”

Linglong retreated, leaving only Mama Zeng and Xun Tao. Her deep eyes stared at Xun Chen, Xun Chen was already nervous, but now she was stared at by her grandmother, and she became more and more nervous. In a cold sweat, he closed his eyes and fainted!

When I woke up, I was lying in the warm bed, and there was a warm soup on my stomach, which effectively relieved the cramping abdomen. Xun Chen looked at the tent above his head indifferently, and suddenly remembered what happened before he fainted, this is not his room!

Sadly sat up, while sitting, there was another heat flow under him, he was about to cry, only to realize that his clothes had been changed, and he was only wearing white pajamas.

"Are you awake?"

It was Xun Tao who was talking to him, and Xun Tao was holding a bowl in his hand. She was very happy when she saw Xun Chen woke up and sat down carefully, "This is **** jujube brown sugar water. Grandma specially ordered the kitchen to cook it for you. , you're not feeling well, I'll feed you."

As he spoke, he scooped a spoonful, blew it, and brought it to Xun Chen's mouth. Xun Chen gritted his teeth, Xun Tao found that his body was trembling, and felt more pity in his heart, and said, "Don't be afraid. , Grandma will call the shots for you."

When Xun Chen heard this, tears immediately fell.

Seeing that he was crying, Xun Tao was even more anxious: "You, don't cry, tears are not good for your body, why don't you drink brown sugar water first? Don't cry, don't cry."

Xun Chen didn't speak, the tears kept falling like beads with a broken thread. He deeply felt that he had screwed up everything! Living up to his mother's expectations, his father's trust, and his grandmother's love, he has achieved nothing, a monster that should not exist in this world at all!

Xun Tao hurriedly put down the bowl, took out the handkerchief and gently wiped Xun Chen's tears. She looked at this younger sister who was not a few years younger than herself, but was much thinner. After all, she couldn't hold back and hugged Xun Chen into the in his arms. He gently patted Xun Chen's back like he was coaxing a baby: "Don't be afraid, don't cry, don't cry... Let me tell you what I was like before, okay? You may not have seen it before, when I just returned to the house , as thin as a hemp."

Xun Chen wept silently, but did not reject her hug. He really needed such a hug at this moment.

"When I was with that family, I could only eat one meal a day, and it was all gruel, and I couldn't find even a grain of rice, but I had to do a lot of work every day. When I get prickly heat in summer, I had frostbite in winter. I thought, what did I do wrong? My parents treated me like that? Later, I didn’t want to know why my parents treated me like that. I was so hungry. I thought my whole life was going to be like this, but my grandmother sent someone to find me."

Xun Tao couldn't help laughing when she thought of her past. She was no longer afraid, and could even face those ordeals calmly. "Grandma doesn't dislike me at all. You didn't see how ugly I was at that time! I can't know anything, I can't read or read, and I'm not proficient in everything, the only one who knows how to read and write. It's just washing clothes. But the clothes in the Guogong Mansion are so delicate, the servants wear them better than the ones I wash, and with my only specialty, it's useless!"

She said, laughing softly, Xun Chen was also fascinated, and Xun Tao said again: "Don't be afraid, grandma is very good, no matter what, you can tell grandma, Don't be afraid, okay? If you don't want to continue living in the shadows, you should at least reach out and let someone who is willing to rescue you hold it."

The little sisters whispered inside, and Linglong was drinking milk tea calmly outside. Seeing her upright and upright appearance, Mama Zeng smiled: "How can the old lady be so sure that Sister Tao can persuade Brother Chen to wake up? "

"Although the two of them live in different environments, their moods are similar. If Sister Tao is careful, she will naturally be able to persuade her to wake up." Linglong said, and took another sip.

Mother Zeng sighed, "I really didn't expect that the third lady could not handle it so well, and a good sister has to pretend to be a brother, and she has been wronged for so many years." If Xun Chen fainted, she and Tao sister helped her. When he woke up, he found that his clothes were stained with blood. Who would have thought that a sister would be raised as a brother for more than ten years?

As she spoke, Mama Zeng suddenly became alert: "Old lady, what kind of tea are you drinking?!"

Linglong quickly dries up the rest of the milk tea without changing her face, and put it on the table indifferently: "Of course it is a very ordinary tea."

Mother Zeng came over to take a look, and she was immediately angry and funny, "This old slave is preventing you from drinking such sweet food for your own good. How old are you, eating too much sweet food is not good for your health!"

Linglong immediately perfunctory three times: "Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes."

Mother Zeng wanted to continue lecturing again, but Xun Tao came out holding Xun Chen's hand, put on her pajamas, and let down her hair. Xun Chen looked at him, far younger than his actual age.

Xun Chen was apprehensive, he clenched Xun Tao's hand, Xun Tao knew he was nervous, so he comforted him: "It's okay, my grandmother likes you very much and won't blame you."

Xun Chen bit her lip, raised her head timidly, and saw her grandmother beckoning to him, "Come here."

Xun Tao nodded vigorously at him, smiling.

He looked at Mammy Zeng again. Mammy Zeng was also smiling. She didn't have the anger and disappointment of being deceived as Xun Chen imagined. It was only then that he realized that he was actually more afraid of the disappointment from his grandmother, Grandma Zeng, Sister Tao, and his father than to be discovered as a daughter. He is afraid that they won't hurt him and don't want him anymore. Compared with the panic of loss, he would rather pretend to be a brother for life.

The steps towards Linglong are slow and slow, it seems that every step is on the tip of the knife, but Linglong doesn't care. When Xun Chen approached, she raised the corner of her mouth, pinched Xun Chen's chin and looked left and right, The smile deepened: "It is said that Brother Chen is the one who looks the most like me, and it really is."

Mother Zeng knew the master's intentions best, and immediately teased: "The old lady always said that Brother Chen is so like her, but she is not a sister, and her heart is depressed. Now it can be considered as her wish!"

Xun Chen's eyes widened, "Ancestor, grandmother..."

He called Linglong, and then the tears fell down. I don't know where the courage came from. Maybe it was her smile, maybe it was her natural attitude, or maybe it was her hand. He jumped directly into Linglong. She burst into tears in her arms, and she cried so much that Sister Tao and Aunt Zeng shed tears along with her, especially Aunt Zeng, who was so pitiful while crying. I have never seen Brother Chen show such emotions. Do evil...

Linglong let him cry, but Xun Chen couldn't stop at all, and finally Linglong was desperate: "Baby, if you cry again, my new clothes will make you cry."

Xun Chen cried until she hiccupped. After all, she was just a thirteen-year-old girl. She had been acting as a brother under pressure for so many years. She was already on the verge of collapse.

In the end, she bravely told Linglong everything, and looked at her: "Grandma, my mother... She didn't do it on purpose, she was just too nervous about her father, too afraid of losing her father."

Linglong touched her head, but did not feel any pity for Mrs. Zhang, "No matter what the reason is, if you do something wrong, you need to be punished. Can you do something wrong because you don't want to lose it? That Xun Fang is Can't I be forgiven?"

Xun Chen was at a loss, she didn't understand very well.

Linglong asked Sister Tao to take Xun Chen down first, let her have a good rest, and let the doctor take a look and prescribe medicine to regulate her body.

Immediately after, I asked Mama Zeng to spread the word, and I asked the third son to bring his daughter-in-law over immediately when he returned to the house.

The third master, Xun Yuan, is a military attache. Because the world is peaceful and very leisurely, he returned to the palace very early. When he came back, he heard that his mother had summoned him and his wife. Immediately, he felt that his wife had done something stupid, but Mrs. Zhang also Confused, what could she do wrong?

When they met Linglong, they greeted each other with a salute, but Linglong ate the cakes slowly, without any intention of letting them get up.

This is an old mother who needs to be filial. Even if they are punished on their knees for three days and three nights, there is absolutely no reason to refuse.

What's more, Xun Yuan is filial, let the kneeling kneel without saying a word, and don't ask why. All in all, if the mother wants to punish, it must be because she did something wrong, just kneel. When the father was still alive, he committed If you make a mistake, you will be punished by kneeling on the washboard. Now it is not too comfortable to kneel on the carpet.

But Mrs Zhang is not feeling well! Although Mrs. Zhang always complained, when she went out to chat with other noble ladies, she knew that among so many mother-in-law, although her own mother-in-law was strong, she was the most kind-hearted and never embarrassed her daughter-in-law. She has been in the government for many years and has done many stupid things, but her mother-in-law never asked her to set rules and she has always been pampered, so she can't stand it after kneeling for a while.

"Mother, did the daughter-in-law do something wrong? If so, please tell the daughter-in-law so that the daughter-in-law can correct her."

Linglong glanced at her: "Yes, it was you who did something wrong, so you knelt here and thought about it for me, when did you come up with it, when did you wake up, you are the daughter-in-law of the third child, and it is the fault of a wife who does not teach her husband, You husband and wife are in the same boat, and you should be rewarded and punished together."

Thinking to herself, it's really her fault!

She thought and thought, racking her brains, but she couldn't figure out where she made a mistake. These days, she's very self-disciplined, she doesn't compare herself, she doesn't speak out, she's careful all day long, and she doesn't do anything wrong. Didn't do it!

She knelt like this for an hour. Sweat came out from Mrs. Zhang's forehead, and her whole body was shaking. She still couldn't understand, she begged: "Mother... I don't know what's wrong."

Xun Yuan did not speak, he knew that his wife must have done something wrong, otherwise his mother would not be so angry.

Linglong said: "You can't hold it if you only kneel for an hour. I remember when Brother Chen was five years old, because he couldn't memorize books well, you punished him to kneel in the yard for three hours. A five-year-old can kneel for so long, why can't you?"

When my mother-in-law mentioned Brother Chen, Zhang's heart fell directly into the ice cellar! If you say that you really made a big mistake, it is only this one! Although she did not mean to confuse the blood of the Duke's Mansion, but if she had raised her sister into a brother, if her mother-in-law found out... all the resentment in her heart disappeared, and there was only anxiety and fear.

Xun Yuan also felt that his wife was too harsh on his son. Because of this, he was more indulgent towards Brother Chen on weekdays. Is it possible that a person can only survive if he has a future?

How did he know that the more tolerant he was to Brother Chen, the more Mr. Zhang felt that he did not value Brother Chen, otherwise why would he not be tolerant to the two concubines?

Shi Zhang lowered her head and didn't dare to raise her head. Linglong knew at a glance that she would not be able to move, so she directly scolded Xun Yuan: "Young third, you are such a good father!"

Xun Yuan was confused and didn't know where he was wrong, but when his mother scolded, there must be a reason for her, so she honestly said, "My son is wrong."

Linglong sneered, "Then tell me, what's wrong?"

Xun Yuan:...

He really doesn't know that.

Immediately afterwards, Linglong did not continue to go around with these two couples, and directly asked Mrs. Zhang: "The third family, I will ask you again, have you done anything wrong? Don't be in a hurry to answer, you can think about it clearly for me. If the answer is wrong, you will go back to your mother's house, the government cannot afford a person like you."

Her tone was flat, but Mrs. Zhang panicked: "Mother, mother...I, I..."

She really didn't know what the mother-in-law meant. Could it be that Brother Chen's gender was really revealed? What if it wasn't? So Zhang Shi gritted his teeth and prepared to carry it to the end: "My daughter-in-law really doesn't know what's wrong, why is my mother-in-law forcing her so much! Could it be that your daughter-in-law makes you so unhappy, and you use such means to scold her?!"

Xun Yuan immediately said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Mr. Zhang closed her eyes, "What my daughter-in-law said was what she said from her heart!"

Rao is as good-hearted as Mama Zeng, and she felt disgusted when she saw that Mrs. Zhang didn't shed tears without seeing the coffin.

At this moment, a thin and weak "father" sounded in the room, Xun Yuan immediately heard that it was his son's voice, turned his head, but was stunned. After a while, he stammered: "Morning, Brother Chen...you, why are you dressed like this?!"

It turned out to be Xun Chen who had changed into women's clothes.

She was born to be slender and petite, and she didn't violate the law when she changed into women's clothes. At first glance, she looked like a delicate girl. Xun Tao stood beside her, holding her hand all the time to encourage her.

Who knew that Mrs. Zhang saw it, but she stood up like crazy and rushed over: "Brother Chen! Who allowed you to wear this kind of clothes! You unfilial son of neither yin nor yang! Take it off for me! Take it off for me! "

Mother Zeng stepped in front of Xun Chen and grabbed Mrs Zhang's shoulder with a cold expression: "Third Madam, don't be presumptuous in front of the old lady."

Xun Yuan was still in shock, Xun Chen walked slowly to him, tears streaming down, "I'm sorry, Dad...I-I lied to you! I'm not a brother... Dad, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

And after she said it, she had no regrets, no regrets, only a sense of relief.

She has kept this secret in her heart for more than ten years, and it often drives her crazy. Her mother's oppression makes her more and more afraid and sad. Now that she has spoken out bravely, it seems that she has broken some kind of shackles. Xun Chen knelt down directly facing Xun Yuan and Mrs. Zhang, and kowtowed a few times: "My daughter is not filial, please forgive me, my daughter and my daughter really don't want to lie to you again!"

Xun Yuan was in a trance, and he didn't understand how his son became a daughter...

Mr. Zeng did not dare to go crazy, but she glared at Xun Chen with hatred. In her opinion, this daughter is really useless and disobedient!

Linglong said: "Sister Chen, don't be afraid, tell your father about this matter slowly."

Xun Chen sucked her nose and held back her tears. From the beginning of pretending to be a brother, to being bullied in the academy, being persecuted by her mother day and night, to her own fear, despair, panic, and even thinking about suicide to get rid of it This stalemate... Every word was sobbing with blood, and a man like Xun Yuan couldn't help but redden his eyes.

He took his daughter into his arms!

Xun Chen used to be a brother, Xun Yuan felt that if his son was to be raised well, he couldn't be a mother-in-law. He had never hugged her like this before. Mrs. Zhang only wanted Xun Chen to stand out, and he would not have much warmth. Now he is held by his father. In his arms, feeling the deep love and tenderness of iron blood, Xun Chen immediately understood that his father did not blame her at all! Father loves her!

She put her arms around Xun Yuan's neck, tears soaking Xun Yuan's neckline.

Only Mrs. Zhang looked mad: "Brother Chen! What nonsense are you talking about! You are a brother! You are a brother! You forgot what your mother told you, you hurt your mother like this! How can you hurt your mother like this? ?! Are you going to kill your mother?! You are going to ruin your mother!"

Xun Yuan hugged her daughter, stood up from the ground, and slapped Mrs Zhang with a backhand!

The mad Zhang Shi was stunned by the slap in the face. Her hair was messy, and there was blood on the corner of her mouth. She muttered: "Master... Master, you beat me? How can you beat me? I, I are all for you. ..."

"Are you doing it for me?" After slapping Mrs. Zhang, Xun Yuan was extraordinarily calm. He held down his daughter's head to prevent her from seeing this scene, and only asked Mrs. Zhang, "Did you touch yours? Ask your conscience, are you for me or for yourself?"

Shi Zhang was immediately stunned by his question.