Marrying Gold and Jade

"Miss, these are the clothes from Xiangmei Garden today, please wash them carefully!"

"This is from the master's courtyard, and it is also entrusted to the eldest lady."

"She washed clothes for her parents with her own hands. If this gets out, everyone will say that our young lady is a filial son!"

Not far away, Xu Jinxuan saw a group of maids gathered in a circle, laughing and piling the wash basins into the hands of a little maid.

The crowd dispersed, and the little maid's face was still obscured by the stacked wooden basins, but Xu Jinxuan recognized her.

It’s Lin Yu.

I don't know what she is trying to say. She has become the county lady as she wished, so why is she hanging out with a bunch of maids?

The gray sky above was covered with rain, which obscured the girl's face. Xu Jinxuan could not see her appearance clearly.

But she put down the mountain of clothes and started washing them with her own hands.

He felt the absurdity of this scene. She needed someone else to comb her hair and peel her oranges. This little thing, born to enjoy life, how could she be diligent enough to wash clothes for her parents?

All that was left for him was a back view, with two buns on her head tied extremely roughly and carelessly, which made Xu Jinxuan frown and he wished he could take them down and comb them again with his own hands.

But when he tried to move forward, he couldn't move.

I tried to open my mouth, but no sound came out.

He was frozen in place, watching the girl's thin figure curled up on a small stool. She would occasionally pause in her scrubbing movements. When she raised her red, frozen knuckles, she could see the chapped skin on the back of her hands and the glaring blisters.

And every once in a while, she would raise this hand to wipe her face.

How could she sweat in such a cold day? Even though he couldn't see clearly, Xu Jinxuan knew that she was wiping her tears.

She clearly hated hideous wounds the most.

"Your Highness is here."

Suddenly turning his head and seeing that familiar yet unfamiliar face, Xu Jinxuan was certain that this place was not the real world.

Otherwise how can the dead be resurrected?

But the man was unaware, "Daddy is waiting for you in the flower hall, I'll take you there."

My steps followed uncontrollably, with a strange sense of familiarity.

He saw Lin Jianchang. Everyone's face in the hall was so clear, but he couldn't see Lin Yu's face clearly.

why?

After a moment he realized, oh, it turns out he had experienced these things before.

When he came to the Lin family at that time, he might have walked past Lin Yu, but he did not pay attention to what was going on between the maids.

But is the “he” here himself, or another “he”?

The scene before my eyes was churning, and suddenly the sun was setting and it was dark.

This time he was not even standing somewhere, but like a spectator under the stage, seeing the girl working hard for days but being excluded from having meals, and being squeezed out of the big bunk bed by the maids, sitting at the door with her knees hugged and closing her eyes.

During the day, she was either washing clothes or running errands in the huge mansion, and she was harassed by short-sighted men several times.

Xu Jinxuan thought that this might be a dream, a dream that was the opposite of the real situation.

But in the end, he watched Lin Yu die in front of him.

The person who died in her arms was not someone else; he looked very familiar with him.

It seemed as if something that did not belong to him was growing in his brain, something was collapsing and then reshaped, and he changed from a spectator back to himself.

"Do you think I don't dare? Do you think I can't do that to you?"

"I'm telling you, you owe me a life. You owed me one anyway!"

Those once inexplicable screams and accusations that were almost like collapse suddenly found their source.

No wonder, no wonder she was so scared when she heard that he was the "Fifth Prince".

No wonder she was determined to run away from him after losing her virginity that night.

Xu Jinxuan's spirit and body were united, and he was actually forced to laugh at the revolving scenes.

If those were true, if Lin Yu had always remembered them.

She didn't even think about killing herself.

Instead, he said to him: Xu Jinxuan, you must live well.

Is this the present world? He wanted to stand up and hug the crying girl tightly, even if she pushed him away or slapped him.

But he didn't.

All this had happened before. He self-righteously handed Lin Yu a knife, ignored her struggle and pain, and condescendingly asked her to "punish" herself.

This time, he was truly heartbroken.

He regretted it, really regretted it.

But the past is irreversible, and there is nothing he can do to change it.

He regained consciousness completely, and it was still the ringing bells from Qianyun Temple that woke him up.

He sat up suddenly, looked around and murmured, "It was a dream."

She was doing well as a county lady at the foot of the mountain, while he was still living alone on the top of Yunwu Peak, with the blue sky and blue water winding around under his bed.

only……

"Xuanye!"

Xuanye's figure was ghostly and he entered the house through the window.

"What's wrong, Master?"

Xu Jinxuan didn't want to admit that he was trapped in a nightmare, so he just asked as usual: "How is Lin Yu doing recently?"

Usually Xuan Ye would immediately tell about the affairs of the County Lord's Mansion, but today he was obviously stunned. After a while, he tentatively asked: "This... Lin Yu you are talking about, is she the original daughter of the Lin family?"

It seemed that he had found this during the investigation, but he didn't pay attention to it. Now he was also suspicious why Xu Jinxuan thought of this person.

Xu Jinxuan was surprised to find something had changed. He walked a few steps to the dressing mirror and looked closely at the right side of his eyebrow.

Not broken.

Maybe he could do something else.

That evening, in the backyard of the Lin Mansion.

Lin Yu just got rid of a harassing servant and squatted in the corner to wipe away her tears, thinking a lot.

This idea has been around for a long time. Her parents seem to have accepted Wanying as their daughter. The more successful Wanying is, the sadder she will be at home. It would be better...

"Miss!"

Ever since she became a servant in the backyard, the title of "young lady" was a mockery to her, and Lin Yu would not respond to it.

But today this person seemed particularly anxious, calling out louder and louder. After finally finding the person in the corner, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Miss, what are you doing squatting here? Get up and pack your things. The Fifth Prince is coming to pick you up!"

Lin Yu sighed and thought that these people were really boring. They always found ways to laugh at her for losing something, so she hugged her knees and leaned against the wall without moving.

The man was anxious, "Miss, he is the prince of the dynasty. It was the family who neglected him in the past. You should get up first..."

As he said this, he pretended to pull her.

Lin Yu was thinking about how to dodge when he suddenly heard a voice: "Stop!"

A young man with a knife drove away the maid. Lin Yu had no idea what was going on. He lowered his eyes and saw a hand that was too white and too thin.

Looking up along the hand, the young man had a pair of phoenix eyes and slightly sharp eyebrows, but a small mole at the end of his eye added an almost weird color to him.

"I'll take you away."

Lin Yu didn't know whether she was dazzled by his outstanding appearance that day or she really couldn't bear it anymore.

She placed her hand, which was covered with wounds, into the man's palm.