There was confusion in Shi Jin's eyes for a moment, wondering what the second master meant by his words.

Qi Mojing's eyes suddenly darkened, and he raised his slender fingers and pressed the corners of Shi Jin's lips.

Hiss~

Shi Jin only felt a pain at the corner of his mouth, and in the evening blood beads rolled out from the bruised area under strong pressure.

Qi Mojing was obviously very satisfied with the bright red color. He picked up a pointed tip and dipped it into the blood beads. With a stroke, the red embroidered shoe became particularly eye-catching.

It seemed that he was quite satisfied with his work. The corners of Qi Erye's mouth curled up in a rare gesture. He raised his hand to pick up Shi Jin's sleeve and wiped a trace of blood on his fingers.

Shi Jin's eyes could not stop being frightened.

Her body trembled slightly, her lips muttered for a long time, but she didn't say a single word.

Qi Mojing didn't care about Shi Jin, who was shaking non-stop. He only placed the wet paintings on the high and low mahogany double-layer racks where they were hung to dry, and then sat down to flip through the book again.

Shi Jin felt extremely tormented. Looking at every corner of the study, including the rows of shadows cast by the mahogany bookshelves, they looked like monsters that chose to devour people.

"Second, Second Master, the tea is cold..." Shi Jin worked hard for a long time before reaching for the tea cup on the desk with trembling hands.

When his fingers touched the tea lid, he shook it unconsciously, causing the almost untouched tea to slosh.

Fortunately, Qi Mojing's whole mind was buried in the book, so she bravely put the teacup on the tray and quietly left the study.

The threshold of the study room was extremely high. When Qi Mojing raised his eyelids, he saw Shi Jin stumbled when he went out.

His knuckles tightened and he lowered his head again.

It rained and the wind blew all night, and the remaining red flowers fell into pieces.

Shi Jin was awakened by the sound of wind and rain in the middle of the night. She moved her stiff body and felt a heavy chill on her body.

There were ice cubes placed inside and outside the second master's room, and the weather was suddenly cold, so his thin clothes were not enough to look good.

She was supposed to be weaving and keeping vigil tonight, so she had prepared a thin blanket next to the Arhat couch in the outer room. Shi Jin couldn't help but get up, follow the direction in her memory to find the thin blanket, then return to the footrest and cover herself with it.

superior.

This made her feel a little warmer. The corners of her mouth curled up, and she found a comfortable position. Just as she was about to close her eyes, thunder suddenly flashed past the window, and a straight black figure stood upright.

Sitting on the bed, looking straight at her.

Shi Jin's heart seemed to be pinched by a hand, and he stayed in his original position, unable to move even though he lost his voice.

Her black and white eyes were moving around wildly. She wanted to get up, but her body was limp and she couldn't use the strength.

After a long time, the figure in the dark shadow spoke in a mute voice, "Here you bring a bowl of water."

Listening to Mr. Qi's voice, Shi Jin's mental arithmetic dropped a bit.

She responded softly, then climbed up softly, lit the candle outside the tent, took a teacup, poured a glass of water for Qi Mojing, and handed it to the ancestor.

Qi Mojing drank the glass of water in one breath and said, "One more glass."

Shi Jin had to make another trip.

After drinking two glasses of water, Qi Mojing's mood calmed down a bit.

With the help of the weak candlelight that was not extinguished, he looked at Shi Jin with heavy eyes, as if he wanted to eat her.

Shi Jin quickly lowered his head, not daring to look at Qi Mojing.

Even so, the gaze that hovered over her body took a while and then slowly retracted.

Shi Jin was about to feel relieved when he heard Qi Mojing's cool and chilling voice coming out of his throat, "I want to take a bath."

Shi Jin grinded his molars, but the expression on his face was extremely submissive, "Yes."

After a lot of tossing, Shi Jin yawned and waited for Qi Mojing to finish bathing, then he helped his ancestor lie down and continued to sleep.

Fortunately, Mr. Qi only said cold water, otherwise it would be difficult to find some hot water in the kitchen after midnight.

The next day, Shi Jin was woken up again by the tip of Mr. Qi's shoe.

Seeing the neatly dressed Second Master Qi, Shi Jin also felt shameless, so he finished cleaning up the house and then joined Si Qi and Zhi Hua to serve Second Master Qi for breakfast.

Fortunately, Mr. Qi didn't say anything about how to punish her this morning. He was in a hurry to go out, so he probably forgot about it.

Thinking of this, Shi Jin felt a little more excited.

Shi Jin sent Mr. Qi out of the yard with a cheerful expression. Shi Jin turned around and entered the small kitchen, not paying any attention to Mr. Qi's darkened face.

Maybe she knew that Shi Jin didn't eat properly yesterday, so Aunt Zhao in the kitchen left an egg for her, along with a bowl of porridge, a steamed bun and a plate of stir-fried vegetables, which was a rare sumptuous meal.

Shi Jin brought the food to the ear room and took a mouthful of hot porridge. His whole body felt complete.

While eating, Zhihua came to look for her.

Yesterday, Shi Jin was supposed to be on night duty, but the second master was angry, so Shi Jin had to take the blame. Although Shi Jin had the reason, she was a little embarrassed after all.

"The rain was very pleasant yesterday. Sister Siqi said that while it was cool, she wanted to go to the lotus pond to collect some dewdrops for me to make tea. Are you going?" Zhi Hua sat on the edge of the bed and asked Shi Jin.

Shi Jin's eyes lit up.

Lotus is full of treasures. When she was at home, every midsummer, she would pick up some fresh lotus leaves and make lotus leaf hawthorn tea, which has the effects of clearing away heat and reducing dampness, regenerating spleen yang, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It can also help digestion and make it easy to

Kehua, I used to love drinking it.

Thinking like this, the movements in her hands became a little faster. After finishing her breakfast and washing her hands and face, she followed Zhihua to look for Siqi.

Si Qi, who was like a willow blowing in the wind, was now wearing a pink and white skirt and a bamboo hat, waving to call her two.

When he got closer, Shi Jin saw that Si Qi still had some thin white jade open-mouthed porcelain vases and a sealed black altar painted orchid pottery jar.

"Why don't you wear a hat?" Si Qi asked.

Shi Jin pursed his lips and smiled, "Sister, I will know later."

After two days here, she is now more familiar with Qi Erye's yard. There are many rockeries and rocks in the second master's yard, and the flowers and plants are only raised in the room, but they are not prosperous.

If you want to collect dew, you have to go to the water channel next to the lotus terrace in the garden.

Shi Jin only took a glance at it from a distance when he entered the mansion on the first day. He felt that the water channel was surrounded by poplar trees and there were pink lotus flowers clustered around it, which was quite impressive.

At that moment, several people each carried some utensils and two maidservants, and came along the Hefeng Terrace in a mighty manner.

Because it rained yesterday, there are quite muddy places in the garden that are difficult to walk through. Fortunately, the roads are paved with bluestones. If you pay more attention, you can go there.

Shi Jin was wearing a pair of rain boots and was actually a bit faster than Siqi and Zhihua who were wearing embroidered shoes.

Seeing the Hefeng Tower looming, she volunteered to go down and touch the boat.

The edge of the lotus pond is already slippery, but fortunately the lotus platform is made of wood, and a long bridge as wide as two people leads directly to the water.

Shi Jin walked along the long bridge, untied a small boat from the wooden pile at the top, and then carefully stepped into the boat while holding on to the wooden pile.

She turned around with a smile and helped Siqi and Zhihua get on the boat one by one. Then she rowed the boat with the long pole, and the ink boat made waves and sailed towards the distance.

The closer we got to the lotus bush, the denser the lotus leaves became. The boat pushed aside the lotus leaves and disappeared after a while.

The ones left on the shore were Cui'er and Bi'er in Erye's yard.

The two of them were sitting in the pavilion, waiting for Siqi and others to come back.

At this moment, Shi Jin was like a fish in the sea, picking a round leaf and putting it on his head, which was quite interesting.

Zhihua looked amused, so he followed suit and picked up a wide lotus leaf and put it on top of his head.

Siqi just laughed at their naughtyness, picked up a white jade bottle and followed the dewy lotus leaves to collect it, "You two, don't play around, collect the dew quickly while the sun is not bright, otherwise the sun will get thicker later.

I’m afraid it’s impossible.”

Shi Jin quickly took out a small bottle and collected the dewdrops on the lotus leaves beside him bit by bit.

Because it rained last night, the dewdrops were shining brightly at this time, and they stayed on the lotus leaves one by one, like clear pearls, with full and crystal clear grains.

Shi Jin got the idea, and his hands were quick, so he filled the porcelain bottle in his hand in a short time.

She poured the collected dew water into a black clay pot, and then looked at another round leaf.

However, I know how to draw, and I am quite impatient of these detailed tasks. After a while, I became a little bored.

"You two collect them while I help Shi Jin pick some young lotus leaves." As she spoke, she stretched out her hand to the lotus leaves hanging in the air.

Si Qi laughed at her, "I didn't want you to come, but you decided to come. Let me ask you, if the second master comes back during the day, there will be no maid by his side, just wait and be punished!"

"Second Master keeps seeing dragons every day. If he hadn't come back to spend the night, I'd be afraid that there wouldn't be such a person in this house." Zhihua couldn't help complaining.

They were in the water at this time, surrounded by lotuses. Zhi Hua became more courageous, "Speaking of which, the Second Master didn't make things difficult for you yesterday, right?"

Shi Jin shook his head, "It's not difficult, it's just..."

She hesitated to speak, and swallowed what she wanted to say.

Zhihua hurriedly poked her, "Speak quickly! There is no one around here. Just tell us and we will check the details for you."

Si Qi looked disapproving, but didn't say anything to stop him.

Shi Jin hesitated, unable to hold back Zhihua's enthusiasm, so he frowned and said, "Our second master, is this here..."

She pointed to her head, "...is there something wrong?"


Chapter completed!