noffsinger Chapter 5 Fingers Connected to Heart
Chapter 5 Fingers Connected to Heart
That's why they say sincerity is always the ultimate weapon.
Wei Qiuci was taken aback by Wei Dongning's question and suddenly didn't know how to answer.
Because no matter how I answer, it doesn't seem quite right.
Fortunately, they had already arrived at the Marquis's residence, and the coachman had opened the sedan chair door for them, sparing her from such an embarrassing situation.
Wei Qiuci got off the carriage and prepared to shake off Wei Dongning and return to his own courtyard.
But a single sentence from the doorman forced her to stop.
"Second Miss, Madam requests your presence in the front hall."
Wei Dongning also stopped and approached the gatekeeper to ask, "Did Mother tell me to go?"
The doorman shook his head: "No."
Wei Dongning thought to herself, "Oh ho!" and then said goodbye to Wei Qiuci before leaving.
You have to understand, she really doesn't have much experience getting along with her parents.
Even though they were so good to her, she couldn't help feeling awkward after spending a lot of time with them.
Xiao Fu noticed the wink Wei Dongning gave him before she left.
After walking alongside her for a while, I turned around and headed straight for the front hall.
Back in her courtyard, Wei Dongning followed the original owner's memories and found the storybooks she had treasured.
To be honest, the stories written in this era were just as good as those written by modern people.
Modern novelists inevitably produce some illogical elements when creating novels set in ancient times.
However, this problem does not exist when reading writings by ancient people.
Wei Dongning became more and more engrossed in watching, ignoring Ren Xiaowu's thoughts no matter how much they jumped around in her mind.
Just like an old monk entering into deep meditation.
Xiao Wu, furious, kept punching in her mind: "If I had known it would turn out like this, I should have asked my dad to install an anti-addiction system for minors in this world!"
Wei Dongning took everything Xiao Wu said as its accompaniment to her music.
While reading, she didn't forget to feed herself a few sweet and delicious cakes.
This is the kind of life she had always dreamed of.
It was incredibly awesome!
Speaking of "爽歪歪" (a Chinese internet slang term meaning "satisfyingly delicious"), one of the drawbacks of this era is the lack of freedom in accessing snacks.
She couldn't even get a carbonated drink.
The things Xiao Wu eats cannot be materialized; she can only watch enviously as Xiao Wu feasts and drinks in her mind every day.
When she got to the most exciting part of the storybook, Wei Dongning excitedly bit her nails to control her surging emotions, and didn't even hear Xiao Fu's footsteps outside.
As a result, he was startled by the sound of Xiao Fu pushing the door open and coming in.
In a daze, I thought I was Wei Dongning, the girl who didn't pay attention in class and got caught by the teacher.
Feeling guilty, he tried to hide the evidence that he had been reading a novel.
I accidentally threw myself hard to the ground.
The falling wooden stool struck her finger squarely.
"Ouch! It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!"
Not only do my hands hurt, but my butt hurts terribly from the fall.
Wei Dongning was in so much pain that tears streamed down her face.
I habitually shake my arms in an attempt to reduce the pain.
But the house leaked every night rain.
When you're really short of breath, even drinking cold water can cause food to get stuck in your teeth.
As luck would have it, her hand swung onto the table leg again.
"Miss! Are you alright?"
Wei Dongning couldn't even speak properly, two lines of tears streaming down her face as she looked pitifully at Xiao Fu, who rushed over to help her.
The sobbing never stopped.
The ten fingers are connected to the heart.
She was in so much pain that she broke out in a cold sweat.
"Don't worry, miss, I'll go find you some ointment to help with bruising right away."
Xiao Fu helped Wei Dongning sit down on the small couch, placed the pastries on the small table on the couch, and then found the ointment in the medicine box before squatting down in front of her.
He pulled her hand over and carefully applied ointment to the bruise, even bending down to gently blow on it a couple of times.
Wei Dongning's thoughts immediately drifted back to the scene of her childhood when she was naughty and fell down, and her older brother applied medicine to her.
The pain in her hands was a constant reminder that things were different now.
Once her hand wasn't hurting so much, she realized she hadn't heard the gossip she'd asked Xiao Fu to find out.
She sniffled, forcing back her tears: "Xiao Fu, is there something important that my mother wants my sister to come over with?"
Xiao Fu lowered his eyes and continued to massage the ointment on her hands, telling her everything he had heard in the front hall.
"What? A marriage proposal?"
Wei Dongning wondered if the fall had damaged her ear.
After a moment, she calmed down and said, "That's true. She's more than two months older than me, and I'm already engaged."
“What you say is true, Miss. Madam originally intended to let you choose at your leisure. However, with the imperial decree issued, everything needs to be arranged as soon as possible.”
Wei Dongning pouted: "Everyone else follows the order of seniority, but in our Marquis's mansion, it's all the opposite now."
It's like a joke.
The older brother didn't get married, the older sister didn't get married, but the younger sister was the first in the family to have a happy occasion.
I doubt you could find another one like it anywhere else in the whole country.
Xiao Wu echoed in her mind, "Your family is indeed extraordinary."
Wei Dongning silently rolled her eyes: "Didn't you choose it for me?"
It's as if she has the right to choose for herself.
"Eek".
"Don't try to be cute, it won't work."
Wei Dongning doesn't regret transmigrating here.
Although she has been trying to avoid those adoptive parents these past two days, to be fair, they have been incredibly indulgent towards her.
If you want to sleep in, that's fine.
Don't want to eat with them? No problem.
I want to go out of the manor to play.
Getting home before dinner is barely possible.
Besides, her vengeful older brother came along too, so she had no regrets.
Wei Dongning continued gossiping, "Xiao Fu, has my mother decided which family it's with yet?"
"Miss, Madam only briefly introduced the conditions of the families who came to propose marriage, and let the Second Miss make the decision herself."
Xiao Fu helped her wipe off the excess ointment, and then put the bottle containing the ointment back into the medicine box before sitting back down next to her.
"Oh." Wei Dongning kept blowing on the injured area, her eyes darting around: "Whose homes are they?"
Her mother, as the matriarch of the household, was quite considerate. She didn't act arbitrarily; instead, she gave her children the maximum autonomy to choose, even those who weren't her own.
Even in modern times, not every parent can do this.
Xiao Fu counted on his fingers: "The third son of the Vice Minister of Revenue, the eldest son of the Censor-in-Chief, and..."
Five or six families came to propose marriage, but given Wei Qiuci's personality, she probably wouldn't be interested in any of them.
Wei Dongning made a bet with Xiao Wu in her mind.
The same is true.
In fact, Wei Qiuci already had an impossible figure in her heart.
Their social statuses were worlds apart, and she dared not even dream of the bright moon.
She knew she couldn't marry him, but she didn't want to marry someone whose social status was inferior to the Gu family's.
Otherwise, wouldn't she always be inferior to Wei Dongning?
She doesn't want to.
Holding the keepsake left to her by her aunt, Wei Qiuci sat on the bronze mirror and murmured to herself, "Mother, you must bless your daughter."