When she was 18, she really found a gardener in the Cai residence. He was 19 years old and was one year older than Xiaolan. Ever since my great-great-grandmother got married, Xiao Lan was responsible for serving my great-great-grandmother's mother, Li. Sometimes, when Xiao Lan accompanied Li in the garden to admire the flowers, the little gardener happened to be trimming the grass and cutting the flowers in the garden. Then, the two of them would steal a few glances at each other. Xiao Lan was very beautiful, and the little gardener was also quite good-looking. They might both like each other.
Later, Xiao Lan would go to the garden whenever she had time and ask the little gardener about growing flowers. In fact, this was just an excuse. She mainly wanted to see the person she liked. As for the little gardener, he loved Xiao Lan as much as Xiao Lan loved him. They were in love and admired each other. It didn't take long for them to get together.
Later on, many people in the Cai residence saw the two lovebirds lovey-dovey in the garden at night. From time to time, they could even hear Xiao Lan's happy laughter. They were very loving, and it made others envious.
This matter quickly spread to Cai Wenye and the Li Consortium. Madam Li told Cai Wenye that it seemed like Xiaolan wanted to get married, so she should prepare a dowry for her in advance. Consort Li also liked Xiaolan very much. Consort Li had always treated her as half a daughter.
However, less than two months after Consort Li said that, just as Xiaolan and the little gardener were about to propose marriage to Cai Wenye, the little gardener fell ill. It was a strange illness. Cai Wenye found a few doctors for him, but they couldn't find the cause of the illness. The more they treated him, the more serious it became. In the end, he died and was separated from Xiaolan…
The little gardener's death was undoubtedly a heavy blow to Xiao Lan, who was in love. One could imagine her mood and state at that time.
In the two months after the little gardener's death, many people in the Cai residence could hear Xiao Lan's heart-wrenching cries in the garden at night. It was simply heartbreaking…
Later on, Xiao Lan started to have mental problems. She seemed to be lonely and gloomy. Sometimes, she would hide in a place where no one was around and talk to herself. Sometimes, she would cry and cry when she was fine. She would even cry and laugh at the same time. She would cry and laugh at the same time. It was scary and strange.
When Cai Wenye and his wife saw Xiao Lan like this, their hearts ached and they had a headache. They looked for a doctor to take a look at her. After the doctor saw her, he said that Xiao Lan's heart was troubled. Even medicine and prescriptions were useless. Heart disease still needed to be treated with heart medicine.
Cai Wenye and his wife thought about it. Xiaolan's heart was on the little gardener, but the little gardener was already dead. Therefore, the couple wanted to find a husband for Xiao Lan. Perhaps after finding a husband, her heart would be relieved.
There weren't many men in the county town who were the same age as Xiao Lan. Later, the old butler Cai Zhang found out that the son of a cloth shop owner in the east of the city hadn't married yet. His family was quite rich, but his son was average looking. He was twenty years old, two years older than Xiao Lan. He felt that his age was quite suitable.
When Cai Wenye heard this, he asked the old butler Cai Zhang to come and matchmake. When the cloth shop owner saw that the old butler of the Cai family had personally come to matchmake his son, he was so happy that he could not close his mouth. Later, when he heard that Cai Zhang was matchmaking a servant girl of the Cai family, he could not help but be a little disappointed. However, the old butler Cai Zhang said that this servant girl was like a biological daughter in the eyes of their master and madam. The dowry would not be small at all. Moreover, if anything happened in the future, the Cai family would help. When the cloth shop owner heard Cai Zhang's words, he felt relieved.
After that, the cloth shop owner brought his son to the Cai residence to give the betrothal gifts and choose a date.
On the day of the betrothal gift, Little Xiang followed Madame Li's instructions and secretly hid in the side hall with Little Lan, allowing her to peek at her future husband through the crack in the door. At this time, the number of times Xiao Lan's madness acted up was decreasing. Perhaps she wanted to leave this sad place as soon as possible. Although the son of the cloth shop owner was average looking, he was quite satisfied with her. Just like that, this marriage was settled.
At this point, some people might say," Is a servant girl qualified to be picky when she marries someone?" Logically speaking, a servant girl was a servant and had no right to be picky. However, this depended on which family the servant girl belonged to. The Cai family was second to none in their county town. A servant girl was also a grade higher than a daughter from an ordinary family. If the family she married into was not good, the Cai family would lose face.
In the days that followed, Xiaolan did not fall ill again. She was almost the same as before. She was cheerful and lively. It seemed that she had given the right medicine to Cai Wenye and his wife. However, at night, the guards would occasionally see Xiao Lan alone in the garden, walking around the flowers and plants. Sometimes, she would even talk to the flowers and plants. However, there were no more cries. Perhaps she still hadn't let go of the little gardener, or perhaps she was saying goodbye to the little gardener.
The day of her marriage with the son of the cloth shop owner was getting closer and closer. The Cai family had already started to prepare her dowry. At such a critical juncture, the cloth shop owner actually broke off the marriage. He did not want the betrothal gifts they had given him before. He said that he would not marry Xiao Lan even if it was a big day.
Cai Wenye and his wife couldn't do anything to the father and son in the cloth shop. They could only comfort Xiaolan and wait for a suitable opportunity to find another one for her.
This was undoubtedly another heavy blow to Xiao Lan, and it even made her think of committing suicide. If she hadn't been discovered early, she would have hanged herself in the big room where the servant girls were resting and sleeping.
Later, Xiao Xiang heard that someone in the residence had secretly told the cloth shop owner about Xiao Lan and the gardener's relationship and the fact that she had been crazy for a while because of the gardener's death. When the cloth shop owner heard this, he realized that Xiao Lan had such a " criminal record ". It was fine if she had been with the gardener, but she was also crazy. Their son was neither crazy nor stupid. Although he was a little old, he would not marry a crazy person. Just like that, the cloth shop owner broke off the marriage and refused to agree no matter what. He even gave the matchmaker, the old butler Cai Zhang, a vicious sentence. My son will not marry your crazy servant girl. Otherwise, you can ask the second young master of your county government to arrest both of us.
What was this called? This was what it meant to be afraid of nothing good, but afraid of nothing good.
In the following days, Xiao Lan returned to her usual depressed state, but it was much better than last time. At least she didn't cry anymore. She just didn't talk much every day and didn't have much contact with the maids and servants. It was as if she had shut herself off and lived in her own world. Occasionally, she would run to the garden at night and look at the flowers and plants talking and crying…
Xiao Lan was already nineteen years old.
Two years later, Xiao Lan was 21 years old. There was a period of time when my great-great-grandmother's mother, Li, was ill. The doctor prescribed a few herbal medicines for Li. Although Xiao Lan was living in a world of isolation, she knew very well who was good to her and who really cared for her. Therefore, she volunteered to take on the responsibility of brewing medicine for Madam Li.
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