Did the third place winner regret it today?
Chapter 8 Chapter 8
Chapter 8
With only a child like Yunjuan around him, Yin Shi doesn't have to be so cautious and can relax a lot.
Under the pretext of testing Yunjuan, he asked her all sorts of questions all day long, but in fact he was secretly getting familiar with the people and rules in the mansion.
She also made a big promise to Yunjuan: "When Qingyan gets married in the future, I will bring her to your house, and you will get more monthly salary."
Little maids all dream of becoming big maids, increasing their monthly wages, and being able to choose a decent man when they get married in the future. Therefore, Yun Juan cherished the opportunity to serve Yin Shi very much, and worked very hard to serve Yin Shi comfortably.
Mother Gao quickly became familiar with the villagers at the foot of the mountain. She no longer had to go down the mountain to buy groceries, and she arranged for the villagers to bring them up.
The water he drank in the mountains was sweet and clear, and of better quality than the water Yin Shi drank in the mansion. Upon asking, he found out that it was indeed mountain spring water.
After walking a short distance from the courtyard gate, there is a pavilion on the viewing platform halfway up the mountain. Sitting there, you can feel the breeze and the green scenery. After breakfast every day, Yin Shi would take his maid out to stroll on the mountain to exercise.
As long as you overcome the guilt of using child labor, life can be pretty good.
But such a monotonous life would get boring after a long time, because there was too little entertainment. At Yin Shi's age, she was just a person who knew a few words and was not blind in the eyes of others. Besides, she was still in mourning, so no one thought of preparing some books for her to pass the time.
Yin Shi was extremely bored and finally remembered that she could attend classes in the temple, so she decided to go.
Don't tell me, it's quite interesting.
Because this kind of class is not for monks, but for people like them who pay to live in the temple, worship Buddha or observe mourning. Yin Shi actually understands that this is to make the sponsors believe in Buddhism more and donate more incense money, but the monks who preach the sutras are still quite good, and listening to them is not boring.
Especially for someone like Yin Shi, who had been involved in a lot of trouble in his previous life and even fled the big city, it sounded like he had more sighs and lamentations.
Yin Shi persisted and came to attend morning classes every day.
She didn't know that her way of killing time attracted other people's attention.
The chief monk who was giving the lecture said to the abbot, "The girl from the Yin family who came to mourn for her aunt is quite intelligent."
That's for sure. Although she has a child's body, her soul is that of an adult. Of course, she can understand. But in the eyes of the monks, this little girl is "intelligent".
On the other side, the women who were worshipping Buddha and listening to the sutras nearby were also asking, "Whose daughter is that? She is so young, yet she can sit still like this. It's really rare."
When I asked him, I found out that he was here to mourn for his biological mother, and he sighed, "He is a filial child."
So someone sent maids and old women to deliver things here. They were not expensive, just food and fruits. Chunchun treated her like a child.
Yin Shi didn't expect that living in a temple would require socializing. It would be bad not to return the favor when someone gave you something, no matter what time or space.
She scratched her head and asked Mama Gao to find Monk Chunyuan: "I think the flower pots in the front hall courtyard are pretty good. Ask him if he has a good-looking one to sell me. I'll transplant the flower I dug from the back mountain into it as a return gift."
Mother Gao, who could not read a single word and had neither culture nor much knowledge, said, "What's so good about the wild flowers on the mountain as a gift?" They could just pick them up at random.
Yin Shi said, "Just go buy a pot."
In addition to listening to lectures and borrowing a few Buddhist story books from monks, Yin Shi also often walks around the mountain.
After arriving at Donglin Temple, she deliberately let Qiaoque be lazy and only let Yunjuan serve her personally. Gao Mama was a stranger to her, so she could relax and be herself. When walking in the mountains, she would dig up beautiful flowers and plants and plant them in the yard.
After leaving the big city with her savings in her previous life, she chose a small place and built a flower shed to make a living.
Non-professionals relied on self-study and exploration, stumbling and paying a lot of tuition fees, taking many detours, but later they were able to make a small profit and finally stopped losing money.
As long as the fourth girl behaved well and nothing unexpected happened, it was a good thing for her to fiddle with the flowers and plants, and Gao Mama didn't interfere. She just watched her fiddle with them, prune the branches, water them, or sprinkle a handful of plant ash, and the wild flowers would grow better, and she couldn't help but sigh.
At this moment, she wanted to take the free wild flowers as a return gift. Mother Gao thought about it and decided that she was indeed a child and did not have anything decent on hand, so she might as well just give her the flowers.
Mother Gao went to find Chunyuan and brought back a blue and white porcelain flowerpot.
Yin Shi was happy to see it: "This is good."
She selected a plant with the best flower buds and moved it into a pot. She then used the round and crystal-clear pebbles she picked up from the mountain streams to press the soil, and then slightly trimmed the branches.
Mother Gao was amazed when she saw it: "It really looks like it."
Everything was ready and Gao Mama carried it over. It took Gao Mama a full incense stick of time to come back.
Yin Shi asked curiously, "Why is it taking so long?"
Gao Mama's face lit up, and she said, "That lady liked it very much, and she even invited another lady to come and appreciate it with her. She asked me a lot of questions about flowers and plants."
Of course she had no answer, she could only say "My daughter likes to play with these flowers and plants every day", and there was no need to tell Yin Shi that the two ladies rewarded her.
He only boasted, "One of them is the wife of a Jinshi."
Jinshi is not an official, but a title and status. Xiucai, Juren, Jinshi. From Juren, one can become an official. The wife of this Jinshi is most likely the wife of an official.
But the fact that he didn't mention his official position means he didn't want to say it and wanted to keep a low profile.
In fact, Yin Shi didn't think it was a big deal. The novels she read in another time and space were full of prime ministers, prime ministers, regents, and the top two and third place winners. If it was just an ordinary second-class Jinshi, she really wouldn't think it was a big deal.
But Mother Gao's proud look on her face of "having spoken to the wife of a Jinshi" reminded Yin Shi how much ordinary people in this time and space yearned for fame and official positions.
Especially since although the Yin family was wealthy and had donated official positions, they were not of high status after all, and their masters were not of high status either. When the servants saw the wives of officials, they bowed even lower to the ground.
The texture of the four words "class society" hit Yin Shi so strongly that he sighed and suffered from insomnia for a while at night.
Because class society is a complete systematic social system, there are too many bad things in this system, and these are what Yin Shi will have to face in the future.
Not having bound feet is already very lucky. This kind of luck is not available in everything. Yin Shi kept his eyes open until midnight, and finally felt that he was so stupid. These things in the future could not be solved by his current anxiety. Live one day at a time, eat one bite of food.
She finally closed her eyes, but as expected she woke up late the next day. Since she woke up late, she naturally didn't go to the morning class.
Who would have thought that around noon, a young monk came to visit: "Master asked me to come and see the girl."
The little monk was a head shorter than Yin Shi, and even shorter than Shen Ti, the cousin of the Shen family. His bald head was particularly cute.
Yin Shichao wanted to stroke the little bald head, but he didn't dare to do it and held back.
He asked Yunjuan to take some maltose for the little monk and said to him, "You played and slept late yesterday, and you didn't get up today. You will go tomorrow. Please rest assured, Master."
The young monk chewed some candy and went back to report: "She got up late."
The monk who was giving the lecture finally felt relieved.
It was because the little girl Yin Shi had been insisting on it. If she was always lazy, no one would worry. But if a person who insists on self-discipline suddenly loses the rules, people will worry. Especially since she lived alone in the temple, with no elders around her, only a few maids, the monk sent a novice to check on her.
"Amitabha." The monk said, "I'm glad you're alright."
Yin Shi was a little touched that the monk cared about her.
Because all the relationships she inherited now actually came from Yin Shi, the fourth daughter of the third room of the Yin family. But the monk did not know Yin Shi, so his concern was really for her. It was the connection between people that she had established with another person in this time and space by insisting on listening to the sutras these days.
And then there was the lady who sent her maid to bring her food.
Yin Shi also said to Yun Juan: "I'll see her again in class tomorrow, I should say hello to her."
The lady probably just liked children very much. They had seen each other several times when they listened to the monk's lectures. But Yin Shi keenly discovered that just like she wanted to stroke the little bald head, the lady's eyes expressed a strong desire to stroke her - the original body really left her with a good appearance, and those common adjectives with snow and jade could be used to describe her.
Who wouldn't want to rub such a cute little girl?
But Yin Shi, who has an adult soul, doesn't want to be treated like a child.
So every time she would run away as soon as the old monk finished speaking, not giving any of the ladies or old women present a chance to touch her.
But now that someone had sent her food, she had given him a pot of flowers in return. It would be impolite to ignore this kind of courtesy. Yin Shi decided to take the initiative to say hello to the person during class tomorrow.
But when I went to attend morning classes the next day, the lady was gone, and the "wife of the Jinshi" that Gao Mama had mentioned was also gone.
I asked a familiar monk, and he said, "The two ladies have already returned home."
"Oh..." Yin Shi flapped his arms a few times like a bird spreading its wings, then put them down. "It's okay. I just asked. Yeah, nothing."
A few days later, people from the mansion came to send her something again.
It was already June, and Mama Gao and Qiao Que surrounded the old woman who delivered the gifts and asked her all sorts of questions.
The old woman said, "Nothing new. Oh, the Shen family's aunt and cousin went back to the capital. They came back with another official's wife."
Madam Gao said, "I heard that my cousin is as good-looking as a god. It's a pity that I am unlucky and can't see him."
The old woman said proudly, "I saw it."
She was a servant, and women like her were needed to carry the heavy boxes and luggage of the female family members. I was lucky enough to see her.
The old woman said to Yin Shi, "Ms. Qingyan asked me to tell you not to be willful. She is doing this for your own good."
Yin Shi has a headache.
Qingyan was too ambitious and feared that the girl she followed would be forgotten if she was away from home for too long. So in April, she asked her maid to ask Yin Shi to make some handkerchiefs, shoes, purses and other things for the Third Lady in the mountains to honor her as her stepmother.
In this environment, if you don't do it, you will be different. Yin Shi tried to do it, but she knew that although she had the memory of sewing in her mind and her eyes could do it, her hands would not obey her.
She knew immediately it was bad.
Everyone here should be able to do needlework. And it seems that you can even recognize who made it by the stitches. Although I don’t know if it’s really that magical, it’s definitely a problem that “Yin Shi” suddenly can’t do needlework.
Yin Shi thought that by inheriting the original body's memory he could also inherit the skills, but he didn't expect this to happen. He was so scared that he stopped immediately and even pulled out the threads of the few stitches he had already made.
Then she thought of another thing that might expose her flaws, which was her handwriting. Her handwriting was a flaw that was more easily exposed than her needlework.
She carefully probed and was relieved when she found that Gao Mama, Qiao Que, Yun Juan and Li Pozi were all illiterate. But when she asked again, it was all over. Qing Yan could read.
Qingyan was her eldest maidservant. She used to be accompanied by Qingyan in her classes. Smart maidservants like her could learn a little. Qingyan knew a few words and was considered semi-literate.
Yin Shi looked through the boxes they brought with them. Although there were paper, ink, brushes, inkstones, and copybooks, there were none of her previous works.
So when someone came to the mansion in May, she asked Qiao Que to give the old woman some big coins and said, "Mother, go back and tell Qingyan that I am still sad about my aunt's death and I am concentrating on copying Buddhist scriptures. I don't have the heart to do anything else. I have something to tell Qingyan. Ask her to sort out the calligraphy I practiced before and bring it to me next time. I want to compare it with it so that I can know if my calligraphy has improved."
Since the old woman got the money, she naturally had to do things with her.
Now in June, she came again and conveyed Qingyan's words, asking Yin Shi to stop being willful, which naturally meant that she should please her stepmother.
Yin Shi ignored it and just asked, "Where is the thing I want? Did you bring it?"
The old woman said, "Miss Qingyan said she kept it in that flat box."
Just bring it.
After the people in the mansion went back, Yin Shi looked through the original body's handwriting in the room. After reading it, he was greatly relieved. After all, she was still a child, and she could write like this.
There is no need to be afraid of this level. She can actually write much better than the original child. When she goes back, she can say that she has practiced hard in the mountains.
As for needlework, Gao Mama was not familiar with her before, so she naturally didn't know her level. Yin Shi took advantage of this information gap and sent Qiao Que and Yun Juan out to play, leaving only Gao Mama in the house to teach her.
Another hidden danger has been solved.
Yin Shi didn't ask for great wealth and fame, he just wanted his identity not to be exposed and for her to live a peaceful life in this place.
(End of this chapter)
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