Chapter 125 Night Talk (I)

Looking at Jing Mo's puzzled expression, Winter patiently began to explain to her.
"Nowadays, it's not easy to find a good carriage driver. The more skilled they are, the more in demand they are. If we only need one or two, we can easily find someone to fill in. But now that three are gone at once, and one of them recently fell ill, leaving only one person who can work, it's a bit troublesome."
Honeysuckle tugged on Jingmo's sleeve and pulled her closer to whisper in her ear.
"Those wealthy families all have their own trained coachmen, they feel more at ease that way. But, by chance, all the ones that ran away from the village are actually all trained by our own mansion. Sister Yuzan said, it's likely that someone is deliberately causing trouble."
有人故意捣乱?
京墨一愣,这会儿倒是想起来,马车夫都是住在田庄子里,说不得就能跟叶宣竹他们扯上关系。甚至可以大胆猜一猜,他们的离开,是不是叶宣竹搞的。
"I understand."
只是现在还是猜测,也不好说给忍冬听。京墨应了一声,回头点上了蜡烛,却被忍冬催着熄灭。
“你别点蜡烛呀!”
忍冬皱着小脸,捂着眼睛道。
“这才几点啊,我要是没猜错时辰,现在还正是深更半夜的时候。叫他们看见了,明天又得过来问了。”
"Why is it so late?"
Jingmo quickly extinguished the candle, put the hairpin back, and sat back next to the winter bed.
"It's really late, I was busy all day with Sister Yuzan, posting notices, but no one showed up. When I came back in the evening and saw you sleeping soundly, I thought about how you've been staying up late these past few days, so I purposely didn't wake you. Who knew you, this ungrateful little thing, would blame me instead."
小小的打了一个哈欠,忍冬揉着眼睛,挥着手赶京墨走。
“我不跟你说了,困死了,我得睡觉了,你回自己床上想去吧。”
Honeysuckle lay back, and Jingmo didn't want to get closer to her, so she just went back to bed.
Having slept for so long, now Jingmo really had no trace of sleepiness, but gradually felt hungry. It was the middle of the night, and Jingmo tossed and turned, unable to sleep, holding his stomach and feeling tormented.
She didn't know how long it had been, feeling drowsy, when she was about to fall asleep, she heard a rustling sound outside.
Jing Mo was already having trouble sleeping, and being woken up by the noise made it even harder for her to fall asleep. Feeling her empty stomach, she couldn't resist anymore, she quietly got out of bed and sneaked to grab some snacks to fill her stomach.
"Jing Mo?"
Just as he sneaked up to the dressing table, a very familiar voice came from outside. Jing Mo raised his eyebrows. It was already this late, how come there was still the voice of Huo Jingcheng?
It seems that I can't stay up late. Staying up late is really bad for my health. I am starting to hear hallucinations now.
She slapped her face hard, reminding herself to treat everything as a dream. Turning around and taking two steps, she leaped back into bed, tightly covering herself with the blanket. She closed her eyes and silently recited a prayer in her heart, praying for the day to break as soon as possible.
只是那声音还是阴魂不散,没过一会儿,又重新回荡在了耳边。
“京墨?不会睡着了吧?她刚刚还在说话呢,不会这么快就睡着了吧,京墨?”
无论是声音的声色,还是语调,都格外的熟悉,叫人忍不住相信,那就是霍景澄在说话。
What's going on?
重新从床上爬起来,京墨寻着声音所来之处,重新摸回了梳妆台前。梳妆台正后方是一个不能完全打开的窗子,只能翘起一个小小的缝隙。
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窗子外并排紧挨着三个脑袋,一个接着一个,全是熟悉的面孔。
白檀在中间,歪着脑袋,眨巴着眼睛看热闹,左边是霍景澄,嘴里嘟嘟囔囔的小声说个不停,右边的景平似乎还没有睡醒,揉着大眼睛直打哈欠,一看就是被强行拉过来的。
“你们三个这是……这是要干什么呀?”
强忍住骂人的欲望,京墨手上使劲儿,把持住窗户,探着头问道。
“这个人他睡不着觉,翻来覆去吵的慌,我们就干脆把他弄了出去。结果他睡不着觉,还非要过来鼓捣我们,这下可好,我们三个都睡不着觉了,干脆就都跑了出来。”
Baitan pointed to Huo Jingcheng beside him, feeling somewhat helpless and a bit exasperated.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have kept you here. I originally wanted to keep you here so we could chat and catch up. Who would have thought you would come over and cause trouble for me, making it so that I couldn't even sleep."
景平嘟着小嘴,也跟着委屈的点头,一看就是被折磨的不浅。
京墨目光落回霍景澄身上,见他一副正大光明,故作无事发生的模样,不由得好笑。
“你们三个人睡不着觉,还过来祸害我了?”
“我们只是来找你说说话,怎么能叫祸害你呢?”
霍景澄抢先开口,脸上的无辜仿佛是在说明京墨的话,全部都在污蔑他一样。
"Ah, let me explain, this is all my fault."
There was a hint of embarrassment on Bai Tan's face, and she raised her hand.
"You see, they dragged me out for a walk, and I was hoping to find a quiet place to cool off and clear my head before going back to sleep. But then we ended up here, and from a distance, we saw the lights on in your house."
Jing Mo's eyebrows twitched, and with great effort, he suppressed the annoyance in his heart, maintaining a smile on his face as he continued to ask, \"Just because you saw our lights on here, you came over?\"
\"It's not that! It's purely because he wanted……\"
Huo Jingcheng spoke up eagerly, but before he could say more than a few words, Bai Tan gave him a hard knock on the head, forcing him to pretend to be meek and quiet, lowering his head as if he were mute.
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白檀话音未落,景平就嘟着嘴补充起来。
“结果没想到刚溜过来,就看见姐姐你熄灯了。我哥他不甘心,非要跑到你窗底下,叫叫你的名字,看你睡没睡着。”
这下可好,一句话又把霍景澄买了出来。三个人里头,两个人都没干点儿好事儿,京墨气的握紧了拳头,给两人一人一个脑瓜崩。
这动静可不小,屋里头的忍冬轻轻的哼了一声,也不知道是不是听见了,被吵的醒了过来。
京墨连忙住了手,小心翼翼的回过头去。忍冬睡得很熟,应该只是被惊了一下,下意识地发出了一点动静。确认过忍冬还没醒,京墨又转过身去,对着窗户外的三个人比了一个安静的手势,又指了指门,示意自己出去找他们,才关上了窗户。
It's too cold today, if the windows are not closed, the people inside will probably catch a cold.
Grabbing a thick coat, Jing Mo quietly opened a small door slit and slipped out from it.
葳蕤院的屋子设计的十分有特点,一看就是花了不少心思的,就就连那些做奴婢的,屋子里的窗户都是对着开的。
白檀他们没有进葳蕤院,是在外头的长廊说的话。京墨要想去找他们,就得先出葳蕤院。
The gatekeeper nanny had fallen asleep, and when Jingmo passed by, she peeked in and saw her in deep sleep. So, she quietly took the key, opened the big gate, and slipped out.
刚出了葳蕤院,就看见一个人。原来是白檀,正巧就站在门外。
“你怎么在这儿?刚刚不是还在廊子下面说话呢?你别乱跑呀,叫他们看见了可怎么办?”
Jing Mo was taken aback, lowered his voice, and pulled the person towards the long corridor.
"I came to pick you up because I thought you might be scared in this dark and scary weather outside. I didn't expect you to scold me. You really don't know how to appreciate kindness."
Baitan obediently let Jingmo hold her hand and followed behind her, not arguing or resisting. She listened to her scolding and couldn't help but smile.
"It seems that it's a good thing to come find you. With just your mouth, I'm afraid I don't need to help much, you can persuade him by yourself."
“说服他?什么意思?我要去说服谁?”
京墨又是一愣,这下子可真的是摸不着头脑了。
“还不是霍景澄。”
一声长叹从身后传来,淡淡的气息掠过发间,也略过她稚嫩的皮肤。京墨浑身一僵,还不等这股酥麻劲儿过去,又被那名字一惊,连忙转过身去。
“什么意思?霍景澄他怎么了?出什么事了吗?”
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"You should be worried about him."
Baitan didn't respond to her words, but instead muttered this sentence to herself. After saying this, she gently brushed off Jingmo's hand and walked past her with long strides.
Jing Mo couldn't help but be somewhat dumbfounded, genuinely at a loss as to what was going on. She could vaguely sense that Bai Tan seemed to be unhappy, but couldn't figure out what exactly was bothering him, so she dared not say much and could only follow closely behind him. \n\nNote: I have retained the original HTML tags for context.
"How about...how about you tell me about Huo Jingcheng's situation? I know more now, maybe I can even help persuade him later, what do you think?"
Even after racking his brains, Jingmo couldn't figure out how he had offended this old man, so he could only attribute his anger to the matter with Huo Jingcheng.
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