Jin Zhen and Man Xi were frightened and wanted to leave quickly, but unfortunately they were still a step behind Han's maid. To catch up with the Wilderness, you have to be quick.
Then a stout maid came over quickly, glared at Jin Zhen, and said loudly and rudely, "Aunt Jin Zhen, what are you doing here?"
This shout startled Han and Fendai. Even the actor on the stage stopped and stared at the direction where Jin Zhen and the others were. Han's face was full of joy before she could subside. She was already furious. Just as she was about to explode, Fendai grabbed her wrist. Then she heard Fendai shouting, "It's Aunt Jin Zhen. Pei'er is so rude. Hurry up and invite Aunt Jin Zhen to come in and sit down."
The maid named Pei'er turned around and bowed to Fendai, and answered, "Yes." Then she frowned and made a gesture of invitation to Jinzhen, "Please come in, Auntie." Her attitude was not like inviting her to listen to the opera, but like interrogating a criminal, which made Jinzhen shudder.
However, Manxi reacted faster and said quickly: "We were just passing by here. We heard the sound of opera and came to take a look. We won't disturb the fourth lady and Aunt Han." Then he was about to pull Jinzhen away.
But Na Pei'er moved quickly and blocked the way immediately. She didn't say much, just one sentence: "The fourth lady invites you."
Manxi frowned, knowing that today's test would be difficult. Han was clearly looking for trouble. If it was just her, it would be easy to deal with. After all, they were all concubines, and no one was more noble than the other. But Feng Fendai happened to be here. Although she was a concubine, her status was much higher than that of a concubine.
"Let's go and take a look." Jin Zhen said helplessly, tightened his cloak, and walked into the garden on his own initiative.
Han looked at Jin Zhen walking towards her step by step, and then looked at the winter robe with rich flowers on it that she was wearing, and she felt particularly uncomfortable.
A few days ago, Feng Jinyuan didn't know where he got a piece of material from. He didn't put it into the public treasury, but directly made clothes for Jin Zhen. There was only one piece for all the women in the mansion. She was jealous to death, but she could only worry.
Now Jin Zhen walked in front of her wearing this. Wasn't this a provocation or something else?
When she thought of this, Han's anger rose. She glared at Jin Zhen and asked her coldly, "Why are you sneaking here instead of staying in your yard?"
Jin Zhen had no intention of arguing with her, and only said, "Sister, the sound of your drama can be heard by half of the Feng Mansion. I just came here to take a look out of curiosity and am about to go back."
"Curious?" Han snorted coldly, "Since you didn't enter the garden openly, why are you hiding in the dark?" She glanced at the young man on the stage with her phoenix eyes, "Could it be that my sister saw that this young man is handsome and fell in love with him?"
"Sister, please don't talk nonsense." Jin Zhen blushed, "I really just came here to take a look. I'm going back now."
Fen Dai glanced at Jin Zhen and said, "Don't be anxious, Auntie. Since you are here, why don't you sit down and listen for a while. Oh, by the way—" She glanced at the teacup on the table, "The tea is gone. Auntie, please pour it for me."
Jin Zhen gritted her teeth and thought that the fourth young lady had always liked to pick trouble since she was a child, and she still hadn't changed her bad habits even after growing up.
But she didn't dare to disobey her concubines. After all, no matter whether they were legitimate daughters or illegitimate daughters, concubines were slaves and could not be seen in public. It was understandable for the young ladies to order them around.
She walked forward, picked up the teapot and poured tea for Fendai.
She was born a servant, so she was very skilled in pouring tea. She didn't pant, her hands didn't shake, and she poured a bowl of tea steadily.
"Miss Fourth, please have some tea." He put down the teapot and leaned forward.
Fendai picked up the tea bowl and brought it to her mouth, then her expression suddenly changed and she threw the bowl of tea to the ground.
The tea bowl broke with a loud "snap" and the water spilled all over the floor.
"You want to scald me to death?" Fen Dai screamed, then her eyes widened in anger, and she pointed at Jin Zhen and said, "What are you thinking? You poured such hot tea for me to drink, do you want to scald me to death?"
Manxi couldn't bear to watch it anymore and blurted out, "The teapot was on the table. Miss Fourth drank it for a long time, how could it be hot?"
"Are you talking to me?" Fendai was furious. "Sure enough! You are indeed the slaves from the former Jinyu Courtyard, each one is sharper than the other, but you haven't learned any rules at all. Who are you? Who am I? Do you have the right to interrupt me when I'm talking?"
Manxi also knew that he had overstepped his authority and for a moment he didn't know what to do.
Jin Zhen was helpless, knowing that it was their bad luck to run into this mother and daughter today. Feng Fendai was clearly deliberately making things difficult for them, and Man Xi retorted that if they annoyed her, who knows what kind of trouble would arise.
She gritted her teeth, deliberately put on a stern face and scolded Manxi: "You don't know the rules! How can you interrupt the master when he is talking? Why don't you slap him!"
Manxi also knew that Jinzhen was trying to offend her, so without saying a word, she raised her hand and slapped herself twice.
Watching Manxi beat herself, Han and Fendai, the mother and daughter, really enjoyed themselves. In the past, Jinzhen and Manxi were both in Shen's house. Shen was the mistress, always arrogant and domineering, and even the maids in her yard had their status raised, and they were all arrogant. Feng Fendai was just a concubine's daughter, and these two people really never took her seriously.
But things are different now. Shen is dead, and their identities have changed. In addition, there is no Feng Jinyuan to protect them in the mansion now, so these two have truly become fallen phoenixes.
Oh no, Feng Fendai doesn’t think that the two of them are phoenixes, but just toys to be toyed with by others.
"Hmph." She stared at Jin Zhen and snorted coldly. A servant, even if he flew to the branch, was just a crow. There was no way he could become a phoenix.
Han suddenly had a bad taste in her mouth: "Jin Zhen, can you sing opera?"
Jin Zhen was stunned, then shook his head, "No."
Fendai rolled her eyes at her and said, "You can learn if you don't know! Aunt Han likes to listen to operas. Father told her yesterday that when she feels bored at home, she can invite an opera troupe to come in and sing. It just so happens that the troupe is here today, so why not let the opera singer teach you, and sing a piece for us after you learn it well."
Jin Zhen felt a wave of humiliation. She was Feng Jinyuan's bedmate after all, and Feng Fendai actually wanted her to learn acting from an actor? How could she do that to such a lowly person?
Seeing Jin Zhen standing still, Han's face became stern, "Why, you dare not listen to the fourth lady's words?"
Jin Zhen looked at Fendai in embarrassment: "Fourth Miss and Sister Han want to listen to opera, it would be great if there were actors to sing. Jin Zhen really..."
"Sing when I tell you to!" Fendai suddenly burst into a roar, which made Han tremble. "What are you still standing there for? Go to the stage!"
When the maid Pei'er saw her master was getting anxious, she quickly pulled Jin Zhen again, squeezing her arm harder and making it hurt. "Fourth Miss, please ask Auntie to go up on stage, Auntie, go quickly!"
Jin Zhen shook her head, "Fourth Miss, you can't do this."
"Why can't I?" Fendai looked at her provocatively, "How dare a concubine tell a proper young lady in the mansion that you can't? Do you have the qualifications?"
Pei Er interrupted at the right time: "Please think about it carefully, Auntie. After all, the fourth young lady's surname is Feng, and you are just a concubine who can't even sit at the main table at the family banquet."
One sentence woke Jin Zhen up.
Yes, what right did she have to tell Feng Fendai that she couldn't do that? They were clearly bullying her, so what?
Thinking of this, he was no longer stubborn. He turned his head to look at the stage where the performance had stopped. He gritted his teeth and walked upstairs.
The actor moved two steps to the side to make room for Jin Zhen, then smiled coquettishly at Han and asked, "What is the purpose of this lady who has been invited to the stage?"
Han chuckled, "What Madam? She's just a concubine."
Manxi glared at Han, thinking that this woman was so shameless that she had reached a certain level. She was also a concubine, yet she could still say such words.
Jin Zhen had lost interest in arguing with Han, and only said, "Sister really can't sing opera, sister, please don't make it difficult for me." But she kept praying in her heart, hoping that Feng Yuheng could also rush to Guanmei Garden at this time. Feng Jinyuan left Beijing, and the only one who could protect her was the second lady.
Feng Fendai changed the teacup again, and was looking at the stage. She squinted her eyes and asked Jin Zhen, "Ladies from wealthy families can play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Even if they are not proficient in all of them, they are at least good at one or two. What do you think you are good at? You can't play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and you can't sing opera, so what can you do? How can our Feng Mansion keep a useless person like you who can't do anything?"
Feng Fendai's words became more and more unpleasant. Jin Zhen stood on the stage in a daze. She felt that she had been insulted from head to toe, but she had no ability to resist at all.
Han raised her hand towards the young man and said, "Keep singing. Change the song to something more suitable for the occasion."
The young man really knew how to please her. He sang a scene of a little servant climbing onto the master's bed, which made Han laugh so hard.
Fendai also laughed, but at the same time she reminded Han: "You can't laugh too much, be careful not to disturb the fetus."
Han laughed again, and then gently stroked Fendai's head, "How can it be so fast! The fourth young lady is still young, it's normal for her not to understand such things." Although she said so, she was worried about whether she could get pregnant. After so many years, when Feng Jinyuan doted on her, she only gave birth to Fendai. How could it be possible that this occasional time would make her belly move again? But if it really didn't happen, Fendai would continue to make trouble with her, and she herself would not be willing to accept it.
The mother and daughter were extremely arrogant off the stage, but Jin Zhen on the stage couldn't help but shed tears while listening to the young man's singing. She didn't know how long she would have to stand on the stage. The second young lady she had been waiting for hadn't appeared yet, and even the other people in the mansion hadn't come to Guanmei Garden. She began to realize that she was too impulsive and too much of a trouble. It was impossible for people around to not hear such a loud noise, but they could pretend to ignore it, so why did she rush here? In the final analysis, it was still because she was not experienced enough.
At this time, Feng Yuheng was in the pharmacy space preparing to examine Xuan Tianming's legs tomorrow.
She could already conclude that it was a comminuted fracture, but she needed an X-ray to know the extent of the fracture.
Everything in the pharmacy had no expiration date, even the drugs used for surgery were always kept at the best time. The scalpels would not rust, the alcohol cotton would not dry out, and even the operating table would not be covered with dust, but she still wiped all the scalpels carefully.
The first day she came to this world, she treated Xuan Tianming's leg injury. She thought it had been cured that time, but she didn't expect that the leg bone she had connected with her own hands would be injured again at the hands of the soldiers of Qianzhou Kingdom. How could she be willing to accept this?
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