Third Yiniang turned around and said, "No matter what, it's always good for us to try. This is the only way now."
"Well, let's split up and make a cuckoo kite right away!"
So, the three of them went to the backyard to prepare materials for making kites. Third Yiniang knelt down in front of the Guanyin Bodhisattva on the shrine in the room——
"Bodhisattva, please bless the moon. Success or failure will depend on tonight."
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Yonghe Garden.
The old lady's condition became more and more serious. She didn't get out of bed for several days in a row. The room was filled with the smell of traditional Chinese medicine, and she kept chanting Su Yueming's name.
The sadness on Su Ying's brows became more and more serious. After she put the old lady to sleep, she walked to the garden to get some fresh air.
These days, she had a vague feeling that something was wrong. There were more and more nursing homes being guarded outside, and the second lady, Mrs. Liu, didn't know what was wrong. She said she was feeling unwell and did not come to Yonghe Garden to pay her respects.
She always only took care of the old lady. She never asked anything about what happened in the house, she just kept her head down and did things.
And these days, she never left the old lady's side. She didn't know anything about anything going on outside, and she didn't care at all.
After walking along the garden for a while, I found that the azaleas clustered in front of me were in bloom again.
A feeling of sadness surged into her heart, and she couldn't help but raise her lips and murmured——
"Zhuang Sheng dreamed of butterflies at dawn, and looked forward to the emperor's spring heart filled with cuckoos.
The moon in the sea sheds tears, and the warm sun in Lantian produces smoke.
Can this feeling be recalled? But it was already at a loss.”
As I recited these sentences, my heart ached a little.
"Hey, look, who is flying a kite over there."
Suddenly, the voices of several maids interrupted her thoughts, and she followed the maids' gaze and looked over. Suddenly, her heart tightened, and an emotional expression flashed across her face——
Cuckoo, that is actually a cuckoo kite, how could anyone fly a cuckoo kite in this house?"
"Is it you? Furong, Furong..." She stumbled and ran outside Yonghe Garden.
"Auntie, where are you going? The eldest lady has given orders that no one is allowed to step out of Yonghe Garden." Several nursing staff came forward and blocked her way.
"How dare you, the old lady is still alive, you bunch of dog slaves dare to do such a treasonous thing. Yonghe Garden is the old lady's yard, how dare you surround Yonghe Garden?"
After hearing this, the nursing staff suddenly showed hesitant expressions on their faces and said, "Auntie, we are also following orders. Please don't embarrass these slaves."
Su Ying had already vaguely noticed something, she said——
"I didn't do anything when I went out. It's just that the old lady was a little tired of dinner. She said she wanted to drink a bowl of mung bean soup that I cooked. She didn't like to eat the one cooked by others."
Several nurses huddled together and talked about something, thinking that they were just making mung bean soup, and besides, my aunt never cared about anything, so she didn't think it would be anything.
They said -
"Then aunt please go quickly, we can't keep the old lady waiting too long."
Su Ying then led Zijuan towards the kitchen. Along the way, Su Ying felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the entire house.
Third Yiniang was walking around uneasily in the room, Lu Rong and Bi'er were flying cuckoo kites in the courtyard, and Xiang Qiao was waiting at the door to see if Su Ying would come.
"How's it going? Is aunt here?" The third aunt was anxious, and she had already asked this question at least a hundred times.