Bing Lanyue looked at the book in her hands. The column of names inside was completely empty, as if it was just copied.
"This item is a small item that I have randomly recorded down for you to use for your enlightenment. You must take a careful look at it." The old lady warned repeatedly, and then gave the order for Bing Lanyue to kneel and think in the ancestral hall for three consecutive days from today onwards, and no one was allowed to disturb him.
Bing Lanyue took the book and knelt in front of the ancestral tablets, flipped open the first page, pursed her lips and muttered to herself, "I'm also familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, I understand astronomy and geography, and I memorized physics and chemistry, and now I still need to be enlightened by politics?"
Bing Lanyue glanced to her left and right, and after confirming that she was the only one in the hall, she changed her kneeling posture to sitting on a praying mat.
The scattered records were actually small stories that Grandmother had written. The vivid words inside immediately brought Bing Lanyue inside, and she even forgot to eat and sleep for a moment.
When Bing Lanyue finished reading the book, she raised her head and looked at the sky outside, and couldn't help but rub her eyes, why was it that the sky wasn't lit yet?
She tried to stand up, but found that her legs had lost all feeling. She hammered a few times, but there was no response. Her heart skipped a beat.
It's over, it's over. I'm not crippled, am I? Bing Lanyue rubbed on it a few more times, only then did she feel a reaction from her thigh, and quickly shouted out: "Someone, is there anyone here?"
Just then, the door opened, and Chun Er ran in anxiously. A pair of eyes with two black circles around her eyes looked at Bing Lanyue with teary eyes, and said: "Miss, you are finally alive!"
"I have always been alive! "What nonsense are you talking about? Every time I see you, you're either wearing a pair of walnut eyes or a pair of panda eyes." Although Bing Lanyue did not show mercy, but in her heart, she felt her heart ache looking at Chun Er's face.
"But Miss, you haven't eaten in two days, holding this book and not moving at all, you scared me to death." Chun Er rubbed Bing Lanyue's legs, her movements gentle and powerful, slowly but surely making Bing Lanyue feel more comfortable.
"Two days? I thought it was the day I came in. " Bing Lanyue was shocked, she never thought that she would have to read this book for two days, but it couldn't be blamed on her, all the ancient books were written in Chinese, and Bing Lanyue had to slowly read and savor them.
"That's right. Miss, you've been maintaining this posture for two days. I thought you were …" Chun Er looked at the Spirit Plates in front of him.
Bing Lanyue shook his head, and lightly knocked on Chun Er's head, and said: "Silly girl, the old ancestors do not wish for me to die so early!"
Chun Er heard Bing Lanyue's words and immediately laughed out loud. She then helped Bing Lanyue up and walked to the dining room at the back of the ancestral hall. There was a small room at the back with a hard bed and an Eight Immortals Table.
"Miss, this place is very simple and crude, not comparable to your courtyard. You must endure it. After eating, quickly go to sleep for a while. After tonight, you can go out."
Chun Er looked at the furnishings in the house and thought about how his young miss had been pampered ever since she was young. When did she receive such treatment?
But in Bing Lanyue's opinion, these things were normal. Although the bed was only covered with a layer of cotton wool, it was pretty good that she had laid on it, so there was no need to be picky about it.
"From the looks of it, you probably haven't slept at all outside the door!" Bing Lanyue looked at Chun Er with a pained expression for a moment, then pulled her to sit down and passed her a bowl and chopsticks.
Chun Er lowered her eyes, and her face finally revealed a look of exhaustion, "Miss has suffered in the Ancestral Hall, how could I dare to sleep by myself? I am so worried that I can't sleep.
While talking, Chun Er's eyes were filled with tears, frightening Bing Lanyue so much that she hurriedly wiped her dry, "Look at you, even if you really did go to sleep, I wouldn't blame you. Don't cry from now on, you're the ugliest one!"
Hearing that, Chun Er's tears that were about to spill out stopped immediately. Chun Er, whose round face was slightly plump in the first place, was afraid that others would call her ugly, furthermore, they would call her Chun Er Pig. It was a huge blow to her.
Under Bing Lanyue's stimulation, the originally gloomy and miserable Chun Er happily ate a meal, and then, the two laid on the bed, slept until the sun rose.
Returning to her own courtyard, Bing Lanyue immediately ordered the servants in the residence to prepare a bath water for him. After that, she took a beautiful bath, and felt much more relaxed.
"Second Miss, you can't go in. The Miss is currently bathing!" Bing Lanyue, who was dressing up, heard the sounds of an argument between Chun Er and the others. She hurriedly put on her clothes and opened the door, just in time to see Bing Ruolan raising her hand.
"Yo, why hasn't little sister learned her lesson yet?" Bing Lanyue squinted her eyes, with a smile on her face, she looked at Bing Ruolan's palm that was raised.
She swore that if Bing Ruolan dared to hit her in front of her, she would hit Bing Ruolan twice in the face.
"Elder sister, you came out?" Bing Ruolan sized up Bing Lanyue's attire from head to toe, and did not seem to be haggard from kneeling for three days in the Ancestral Hall. Instead, she became even more spirited, and an unspeakable rage arose in her heart.
Facing Bing Ruolan's pun of words, Bing Lanyue only smiled faintly, and said with a stern gaze: "Could it be that little sister doesn't want me to come out?"
"Of course not, sister is getting stronger and stronger, she doesn't even want her own dignity!" Bing Ruolan sized Bing Lanyue up from head to toe.
"My sister came here just to laugh at my lack of dignity?" Bing Lanyue looked at Bing Ruolan with a pair of cold eyes.
Seeing Bing Lanyue's expression, Bing Ruolan thought that she was just bluffing, and immediately raised her head and said with a stern look, "I heard that Grandmother gave you a little thing, I find it pleasing to the eye, how about giving it to me?"
If it was before, Bing Lanyue, she would definitely obediently hand it over to him because she was afraid of her mania. However, the current Bing Lanyue was no longer the Bing Lanyue of the past, and she said with a faint smile, "What if I don't give it to you?"
"Not giving? Aren't you afraid that I'll beat you up? " Bing Ruolan was obviously surprised, she did not expect Bing Lanyue to actually reject it.
As for Bing Lanyue, she felt that this Bing Ruolan was simply a idiot. She did not even remember the last time she suffered, and now she wanted to take advantage of him? Also, only the two of them had given her the jade token. Who was it that informed Bing Ruolan?
Thinking about how Bing Ruolan always seemed to know that Bing Lanyue had obtained something, her gaze uncontrollably fell on the pearl gold bracelet on Bing Ruolan's wrist.
If it wasn't the old lady's place, then it was his! Bing Lanyue looked at the servants for a week, seeing that they all had their heads lowered with a cautious look, she did not know what to say, so she decided to put this matter aside, and wait till she had time.
"You hit me? "Then come and try it!" Bing Lanyue's face had a faint smile on it, and she turned to leave, but how could Bing Ruolan's personality allow him to leave so easily, she immediately grabbed onto Bing Lanyue's clothes.
"Give me the thing!"
Bing Ruolan's voice was especially fierce, scaring even Chun Er, but after a moment, she immediately recovered and stood in front of Bing Lanyue, saying, "Second Miss, you cannot treat my family's young miss like this."
"Scoundrel, you don't even have the right to speak here. Scram!" Bing Ruolan slapped Chun Er's face, and didn't forget to give him a kick, immediately angering Bing Lanyue.
Did a tiger not show off his might because he thought she was a sick cat!? Without waiting for Bing Ruolan to catch her again, Bing Lanyue grabbed Bing Ruolan's arm and twisted her body, causing her to scream miserably.
"Chun Er, prepare some vines for me. I think this little sister is getting more and more lawless!" Bing Lanyue's eyes were filled with anger, the power in his hands did not slacken at all.
Bing Ruolan had never expected Bing Lanyue to have such strength. In the past, it had always been him bullying her, and this person had never dared to complain, but after being smashed by him, she seemed to have become a completely different person.
"Bing Lanyue, let go of me. My mother will take care of you!" Bing Ruolan clamored, but her face was filled with pain.
"Get rid of me? What right do you have to punish me if your mother is just an aunt? "If it were in the past, I would not have bothered with you. You are already a teenager, but you still have no rules. As the young mistress, I think I should teach you about ethics and respect!" Bing Lanyue did not cower, seeing Chun Er bringing the vine, she immediately let go of Bing Ruolan and took the vine.
After releasing the restrictions, Bing Ruolan immediately pounced towards Bing Lanyue, baring her fangs and brandishing her claws like she was possessed, "Bing Lanyue, I will kill you!"
"Bing Ruolan, are you sure you want to fight me in front of all these people? "Don't forget that I am the direct daughter, and that you are born from a concubine. If your father were to pursue the matter, you will be punished as if you had committed a crime." When Bing Lanyue saw a corner of the courtyard gate floating up, the light in her eyes dimmed.
"My mother is currently the head of the Inner Academy. These maids, who would dare not listen to me?" "Even if I beat you up, so what? They all know that I have manic illness, so it's understandable for me to go into an intermittent flare-up!" Bing Ruolan's face revealed a complacent look, a pair of eyes wrote the word 'scorn' towards Bing Lanyue.
However, the smile on Bing Lanyue's face became wider and wider, then she actually started laughing out loud, "Little sister, you look like you can't even detect any signs of manic illness, are you pretending?"
"There is no need to pretend. I am simply being very impetuous when I see you. It would be best if you hand the thing over right now, or else I will properly beat you up." Bing Ruolan saw that Bing Lanyue was laughing happily and felt a bit of unease in her heart. Looking around, he realised that the maidservants had all left, only Chun Er was still guarding Bing Lanyue.