Chapter 4.1 - Temple (1/2)

The rain kept falling throughout the night; the next day, the sky cleared up. However, the cotton-padded mattress inside the room was already completely wet.

Tong’er took the mattress out to dry in the sun while Jiang Lî sat inside the house. A pile of shoe soles was on top of the table. This was also her daily task, to make 50 pieces of soles in exchange for a string of copper coins. There was no use for copper coins in the mountain, and Tong’er couldn’t go down the mountain either. They could only wait for a peddler to go up the mountain and buy some cakes to eat.

This was the only luxury Jiang Lî and Tong’er could enjoy.

Through the window, she could see Tong’er standing on a small stool to hang the mattress. Not so far away, a nun wearing a grey daoist robe walked by, not even sparing them a glance.

They could not send these nuns on errands, and originally Jiang Lî was sent here after committing a mistake, with only Tong’er by her side. Tong’er was the servant girl that had been picked by Ye Zhen Zhen and had always been by Jiang Lî’s side.

The small servant girl’s temperament was quite big. Looking at the rear view of the two nuns going further away, she spat, “Pah!” Then in a high tone scolded, “Featherless hens!”

Jiang Lî knew that she was turned down when she requested a dry bed this morning and only scolded them because her heart felt unhappy. She couldn’t stop herself from laughing.

What kind of servant reflects what kind of master. Tong’er had stayed here for six years and still acted this way. Probably the former Jiang second young miss’s temper was even more intense. Thinking about it, if her temper wasn’t very intense, she wouldn’t have cut her life short out of anger.

Such a hot-tempered person, would she cry out injustice after pushing her stepmother and causing her to miscarry?

Jiang Lî thought about what Tong’er had told her about this matter when she inquired about it. It was said that the Jiang second young miss would rather die than admit that she had harmed her stepmother. Jiang Lî thought, if it was really her doing, she would have boldly and confidently admitted it.

But at the moment, it was not important.