Chapter 21 He Was Wrong
Without paying any more attention to this side, Rong Jianxue returned to the study and closed the door.
He began to copy scriptures again.
The human spirit desires clarity, but the mind disturbs it; the human heart desires tranquility, but desires pull it away.
"Your Excellency is right. This piece of rotten wood of mine is very difficult to carve."
[True constancy responds to things, true constancy obtains nature; constant response and constant tranquility lead to constant purity and tranquility.]
"Although I am stupid, I am not worthy of your teasing."
The reason why sentient beings cannot obtain the true path is because they have false minds.
"If you want to humiliate me, you can just do what my mother-in-law did and make me kneel in the ancestral hall for a few days. There's no need to condescend to give me hope and then destroy it with your own hands."
…
"Sir, please let me go..."
"Please let me go..."
"Click——"
It was the muffled sound of ink dripping onto rice paper.
Rong Jianxue pursed her lips tightly, heavily put down the brush in her hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "Jiang Hui."
"I'm here."
Jiang Hui pushed the door open and walked in. When he saw the scene in front of him, his eyes widened in surprise.
——All around the desk in the study, there was rice paper discarded by the young master, crumpled into balls and scattered all over the floor.
Jiang Hui looked at Rong Jianxue in shock.
The man raised his eyes slightly, his deep eyes filled with heavy emotions.
"Go to the bookshelf and get some rice paper. I'm out of it."
I spent dozens of sheets of rice paper but still couldn't write the complete "Classic of Purity and Tranquility".
Jiang Hui swallowed and replied softly, "Yes."
It was already dusk the next day when Zhang Zheng finished copying the Women's Virtues and Training a hundred times. During this time, he fainted several times, but Jiang Hui woke him up with mint-soaked water and asked him to continue writing.
Rong Jianxue had once interrogated prisoners in the Dali Temple prison and knew a lot about how to torture people.
In the end, Zhang Zheng had the servants carry him away. When he was carried out of the house, Rong Jianxue did not ask anyone to be discreet, so Old Madam Rong naturally got the news.
For a moment, the servants in Madam Rong's house fell silent, and they dared not cause trouble for the Pei family again.
When Mrs. Rong learned about this, she was furious!
She slammed the table hard a few times, her voice shrill: "What is Jianxue trying to do! He punished Zhang Zheng severely, wasn't he doing it for me to see?"
"Humph! You want me to apologize to that bitch? No way!"
Seeing this, the maid beside her whispered, "Madam, you know the eldest son's temper. He means what he says. If he really takes this matter to the Dali Temple..."
"Then what do you say we should do?" asked Madam Rong unhappily.
The old woman rolled her eyes and said, "The eldest master asked you to apologize, so you apologized. Would Pei still dare to hold you back?"
"As the mistress of the Rong family, I apologize to that jinx!?" Old Madam Rong's tone changed.
"There's no need to apologize. It's just for the eldest son to see. Madam, why don't you set up a small table in the front hall tomorrow and invite the eldest son and Pei to come. After the meal, the gift will be considered an apology, right?"
Hearing this, Rong narrowed her eyes and sneered, "That's right. If I really invited Pei to dinner, she wouldn't dare not come."
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For two consecutive days, there was no movement in the west courtyard.
I heard that the Second Lady had not recovered from a cold and was not able to see guests. Even her three meals a day were taken from the kitchen by Hongyao and sent to her bedroom.
Although the Rong family has not yet split up, the East and West courtyards and Old Madam Rong's main courtyard all have separate meals, so they are not often seen on weekdays.
Jiang Hui went to the kitchen to keep watch and finally caught sight of Hongyao.
"Hey, hey, Miss Hongyao, long time no see!"
Jiang Hui stopped Hongyao, who was holding a lunch box, and smiled awkwardly.
Hongyao glanced at Jiang Hui and bowed slightly: "Greetings, Master Jiang."
After saying that, she didn't stop, but walked around Jiang Hui and prepared to continue walking.
Seeing this, Jiang Hui hurried forward a few steps: "Miss Hongyao, um... I heard that the Second Lady caught a cold?"
Hongyao snorted, "I've been kneeling in the ancestral hall for several hours, and it's windy and rainy outside. Even if Second Lady had a body of steel and a brain of iron, it wouldn't be enough!"
"Miss Hongyao is right," Jiang Hui laughed dryly and hurriedly handed over the prepared ointment. "This is a wound medicine specially prepared by my young master. Second Madam has an injury on her palm. This medicine is very effective!"
Hongyao took a look at the ointment and said, "No need. My daughter has already seen a doctor. Lord Jiang, please keep this ointment for yourself."
"Miss Hongyao, Miss Hongyao!" Jiang Hui took two more steps to catch up. "My master wants to talk to the Second Lady. I wonder when she'll feel better?"
Hongyao frowned: "Before, our girl wanted to say something but was not allowed to, but now the girl and the eldest master have nothing to say."
"What do you mean you want to say it but aren't allowed to?" Jiang Hui scratched his face helplessly. "After all, it was Second Madam who broke the rules by attending the banquet during the mourning period. That's why Master wanted to warn her. Master doesn't know what Zhang Zheng taught her. Ultimately, it was Second Madam who made the mistake first..."
"The Second Madam made the mistake first? The Second Madam made the mistake first!?" Hongyao angrily repeated this twice, glaring with her almond-shaped eyes and shouting, "If it weren't for that Miss Shen family spreading the news and telling you that they had found the Second Young Master's whereabouts, you would never have attended that stupid birthday banquet even if they invited you in a sedan chair!"
This time, Jiang Hui was stunned.
His smile froze slightly, and he seemed to have not yet reacted after hearing Hongyao's words.
Hongyao didn't plan to say anything more to him. She pushed Jiang Hui away and angrily returned to the west courtyard with her lunch box.
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East courtyard, study.
The movement of holding the pen in her hand stopped, Rong Jianxue's eyelashes trembled, and she raised her eyes belatedly and looked at Jiang Hui.
Jiang Hui lowered his head and said cautiously, "Sir, I... I just went to the Shen residence to ask the servant who delivered the letter. The servant said... it is true. Miss Shen asked him to pass on the message."
The brush in his hand was dipped in red ink, and an account book was spread out on the table, with annotations made in red pen. He was learning how to read the accounts.
Red ink dripped onto the account book, creating a glaring red stain.
Rong Jianxue rarely does anything wrong.
Whether it was academics, memorials, or official business, no matter how complicated the matter was, he could always organize it in an orderly manner without any mistakes.
But he misunderstood her.
Not once, but twice.
He scolded her for being "a piece of rotten wood that is difficult to carve" and not being able to be used for any important purpose. He also criticized her for doing something wrong by going to the banquet at the Shen Mansion.
In fact, he has always been the one who is superior and has a preconceived notion.
Just like those rumors about the Pei family, although he didn't care, he still listened to them and believed them to some extent.
Therefore, his attitude towards her at the beginning was not fair.
He did not investigate the reason why Pei attended the banquet, nor did he ask how far her teacher had taught her.
He said that it was wrong for you to attend a wedding banquet during mourning period.
He said, Pei Jingxu, speak.
He said, Pei, you don't have to be so petty with me.
——In fact, she had never been angry with him.
But she did trust him, so when he asked her about her homework in a mocking manner, she looked at him stubbornly with tears in her eyes.
She did nothing wrong, she just didn't trust him anymore.
——He was wrong.
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