Chapter 53 Qinghe Chen Family
On the birthday, Konjac got up early to prepare.
Cui Qingyi wanted to help but was driven back to the back room. Watching Konjac busying around in the kitchen, Cui Qingyi was amused at first, then gradually felt warmed.
She returned to the back room before her nose and eyes became sore, curled up on the kang, closed her eyes and thought about random things.
The Cui family's dinner that day was exceptionally sumptuous. Although the portions of chicken, duck, fish and meat were small, they had everything they needed.
A huge longevity peach was placed in the center of the table, looking like the moon surrounded by stars, which was very festive.
First, there is a small bowl of longevity noodles with hot chicken soup as the base, topped with a golden fried egg and juicy vegetables.
The longevity noodles at this time are very particular. There is only one whole noodle in a bowl, which symbolizes longevity and continuous life.
You can't bite it off when eating. Konjac originally wanted to make the noodles longer and longer, but she was afraid that her daughter would get angry and bite the longevity noodles off, so she could only make it the length of a small bowl.
Seeing Cui Qingyi finish a bowl of longevity noodles obediently, Konjac smiled widely. She had practiced for a long time for this bowl of longevity noodles.
After they finished eating the noodles, their meal officially began.
Konjac raised his glass and said, "Happy birthday, young lady. May you live a long and healthy life."
Cui Qingyi raised his glass, clinked it with his, and then drank it all in one gulp.
After finishing the wine, Konjac took out a red purse from his arms and handed it to her happily: "Miss, this is the birthday red envelope I prepared for you."
Seeing her excited look, Cui Qingyi did not refuse and reached out to take it.
The purse was bulging. When Cui Qingyi opened it, she knew that this silly girl had given her all the money she had earned from embroidery work in recent days.
In the end, my nose felt sore and my vision blurred for a moment.
Cui Qingyi took a deep breath and tried her best to hold back the sob rising in her throat. She spoke in a hoarse voice, "Thank you, Konjac. I'm very happy."
Konjac was already looking at Cui Qingyi with full anticipation, and naturally noticed all of her reactions. At this moment, her eyes were red unconsciously. "Well, if the girl is happy, I am happy too."
She had grown up and received a birthday red envelope for the first time on her fifth birthday, which was one or two taels of silver given by the girl.
She had been with the girl for more than ten years and received red envelopes every year on her birthday. But her girl, who obviously had a father and a mother, rarely had a proper birthday.
It’s great now, she can also give red envelopes to girls on their birthdays.
After the sentimental segment ended, the two sat in a warm house and had the freest and most peaceful birthday meal in their lives.
Because of her happiness, Cui Qingyi allowed herself to drink a few more glasses.
It was probably because of the alcohol, but Cui Qingyi started crying while drinking even though it was a very good day.
She cried for a long time in the evening while feeling drunk. She didn't know why she was crying. She just felt so aggrieved that she had no place to vent after drinking too much.
If you ask her to tell you what exactly she is wronged about, Cui Qingyi can't say it either. It's just that the lingering feeling is impossible to ignore, and she can only vent it by crying under the influence of alcohol.
Konjac saw her crying and started crying too.
Finally, the master and servant cried until they were dizzy and fell asleep slowly in the warmth of the kang.
Wangcai, who was guarding outside the door, lay with his big head under his two front paws and whimpered a few times after hearing the gradually steady breathing sounds in the house.
Qinghe City
The Chen family's inner residence.
Lin Ying waited and waited but Chen Linan didn't come. She threw the jade comb in her hand on the dressing table in frustration and asked, "Where is the young master? Why hasn't he come back yet?"
The maid lowered her head and said, "I don't know. The young master is in the front yard and we can't see him."
Lin Ying was already irritable, and upon hearing this, she became even more furious. She turned around and slapped the maid in the face, angrily scolding, "A bunch of useless people, what's the point of me raising you?"
The little girl looked about thirteen or fourteen years old and was a little thin. She fell to the ground after being slapped. She covered her face and wanted to cry but didn't dare to. She could only sob uncontrollably.
At this moment, the door curtain was lifted and a peach-colored figure walked in quickly. It was Lin Ying's personal maid Lancao.
"What are you doing, girl? Why bother getting angry with a little girl? It's not worth hurting yourself."
Lancao reached out and helped Linying sit down. She picked up the jade comb to comb her hair and signaled the little girl to go out quickly with her eyes.
After beating someone, Lin Ying's anger subsided a lot. Now, all the grievances in her heart surged up. She covered her face and cried, "I don't want to be like this, but my cousin hasn't come into my room for more than a month. What did I do wrong to make him hate me like this?"
Lancao patted Linying's shoulder gently and said softly, "The young master is busy reviewing his lessons. He hasn't come to your place, and he hasn't gone anywhere else.
You have your wife as your backer, so you don't have to worry about anything. Once you have a son, your position will be even more secure."
Speaking of Madam Lin Ying, she felt even more aggrieved. Before she married her cousin, her aunt was very kind to her, but what about now?
Her cousin ignored her, and she wanted to ask her aunt for help, but her aunt scolded her, saying that she did not know how to be considerate of her husband. As a lady of a wealthy family, she should not just think about playing with her husband all day long, and should learn to be more stable.
Lin Ying felt that she was extremely wronged, and she just wanted to drag her cousin into trouble.
Her aunt always told her to get pregnant as soon as possible, but her cousin never came to her room, so how could she get pregnant?
It had been almost four months since she got married and there was still no movement in her belly. Those in the Chen family who had followed her in making up stories about Cui being unable to have children now looked at her with strange eyes.
But how could she tell others that her cousin didn't come to her room?
It's really like a dumb person eating bitter herbs, unable to express his pain.
forecourt
Chen Linan was drinking alone, while the servant was waiting on the side, seeming to speak but hesitant.
People from the young lady's side came again and again in the backyard, but the young master ignored them, waiting for the young lady to come and trouble one of his servants again.
But he didn't dare say anything seeing the young master in this state. If he got drunk and acted crazy, he would be the one who would suffer in the end.
The servant murmured to himself that his young master was really weird. When Madam Cui was around, he was obsessed with his cousin from the Lin family and always tried to make things difficult for her.
Now that he had finally driven away the young lady of the Cui family and married a woman from the Lin family, he should have gotten what he wanted. But less than half a year had passed, and his young master was already thinking about the divorced Cui again.
The servant couldn't tell what kind of behavior this was, he just felt that his young master was really greedy.
Chen Linan drank glass after glass of wine. He remembered that today was Cui's birthday, and he felt annoyed when thinking about the news coming back from Linshui.
He never knew that Cui was so bold as to break off relations with the Cui family. Now he didn't know where she had ended up or how miserable her life was.
He wanted to send someone to look for Cui, but even the people in Cui's family didn't know where she had gone.
He felt uncomfortable whenever he thought that Cui might not be living a good life, or that she would just marry someone casually because of her difficult life.
He couldn't tell anyone about this kind of thing, so he could only hide away and drink alone. Drinking more would make him feel better.
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