The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Xia Siling has been on a hunger strike since yesterday, and did not eat a drop of rice for three consecutive meals, which made the servants around her extremely panicked; these people were all assigned by Xia Song to serve Xia Siling, and of course they were also for the inseparable monitoring of Xia Siling , to prevent her from making any further moves.

Now that the lady has not eaten any rice, the servants are running around in a hurry. If there is something wrong with the lady, people like myself will be skinned alive by Master Xia, so they approached carefully one by one, and Xia Siling naturally refused. ignore.

In the morning and at noon, Xia Siling didn't eat, only drank some tea, and her already frail body was staggering. When the servants were discussing whether to force Xia Siling to eat, Xia Siling took the initiative to speak.

"It's not that I don't want to eat it, it's just that these meals are really not to my taste, and it's really hard for my family to swallow."

"What do you want to eat, miss? The servants will cook it for you right away." All the servants were pleasantly surprised. It turned out that it was because of this that Miss Gui Jiajiao was different. She would rather go hungry for two days than eat unsuitable meals. In the eyes of everyone, it is simply a delicacy, but it does not suit Miss Jiao's appetite.

"My family suddenly wants to eat the hand-rolled noodle soup made by Mrs. Chen. In the past, Mrs. Chen served by my side. Her hand-rolled noodle soup is the most delicious. I don't want to eat anything except that."

Aunt Chen was a servant who served Xia Siling by her side not long ago. Since Xia Siling lost her freedom, Xia Song replaced all the servants and maids around her. Knowing that these people were by Xia Siling's side, Xia Song gave them Xia Siling has a lot of conveniences, maybe taking advantage of these people, Xia Siling will get in touch with Su Jin again.

"This... Mrs. Chen has been transferred to serve in a foreign house. Miss wants to eat hand-rolled noodle soup, and this old slave can also make it. The taste is no worse than Mrs. Chen's. How about this old slave cook a bowl for Mrs.?" A woman said with a smile on her face.

Xia Siling said: "If you don't eat it, I just want to eat Mrs. Chen's noodle soup. Since I can't eat it, it's fine. You wait until you step back, I want to be alone."

After saying that, Xia Siling turned her pale face from hunger, and stared out of the window blankly.

The old woman scolded angrily, but she was helpless. Force-feeding Xia Siling must not be used unless it is a last resort, otherwise Xia Siling would not starve to death, and when Xia Song came back, she would definitely sue herself and others for the crime. Father and daughter, no matter how awkward they are, they will never come to protect themselves and others. At that time, he will not care about saving his daughter's life by doing this.

After the woman went out, she invited all the servants to discuss together, and someone said: "Just make a bowl of noodle soup and serve it, just say it was made by Mrs. Chen."

So everyone hurried to cook, and after a while, a bowl of hot noodle soup was brought up, put it on the table and said: "Miss, this is the noodle soup you want made by Mrs. Chen herself."

Xia Siling used a spoon to scoop up a small spoon and brought it to her mouth, just licked it lightly, and immediately swept a large bowl of noodle soup on the ground with a wave of her hand, the hot soup splashed on the faces of several servants, and they quickly stretched out their hands Covering his face, he kept yelling.

Xia Siling panted and pointed at the servants and scolded: "You slaves, taking advantage of my father's absence, you don't take the master's house seriously. It's okay to eat and be lazy on weekdays. The servants have no appetite and want to eat a bowl of Mrs. Chen's. You dare to fool me with noodle soup, well, I will keep this account for you, after my father comes back, I will ask him to let me out of this, and make you one by one, how dare you deceive the master?"

The maids' faces turned pale with fright, and they knelt down to beg for forgiveness, regardless of their burning faces. Someone hurriedly shouted: "Miss, don't be angry, I'll ask Mrs. Chen to make a bowl for you to taste."

Xia Siling reprimanded: "Are you going to bully the master again? Go and call Aunt Chen in from the outer house, I want to see her making noodle soup with my own hands, so that you won't fool the slave again."

The servants hurriedly agreed, and came downstairs in desperation, looking at each other in astonishment, the red spots on their faces were the blisters from hot noodle soup.

"What should I do? Before leaving, Master Xia explained that people from the outer house must not be allowed to come in to see Miss."

"What's the matter? Miss doesn't eat anymore, I'm afraid she won't survive for a few days. Have you seen her? She just waved her hand and was out of breath. This is a sign of weakness. If Miss starves to death, we are all finished. "

"That's right, call the Chen family's lady to come in and make a bowl of noodle soup and then leave. We'll follow and watch, so what's the big deal? As long as we don't tell, how will Mr. Xia know?"

"Alright, that's all there is to it."

The plan was made, a woman went out of the inner house to find Aunt Chen and told her that Aunt Chen had served Xia Siling in the Xia Mansion since she was a child, and that although they were masters and servants with Xia Siling, they had a mother-daughter licking affection, Hearing that Miss hadn't eaten four or five meals, she was in a hurry, left her work and followed into the inner house.

At the gate of the second entrance of the house, a group of people from the Xia family’s nursing home naturally interrogated them. People from the inner house can come out, but people from the outer house cannot enter. He stopped him and quickly let people in.

Aunt Chen came upstairs, shed tears when she saw Xia Siling's appearance, when Xia Siling saw Aunt Chen, she only called out: "Ma'am," and broke down in tears.

Aunt Chen wiped away tears for Xia Siling, she naturally knew everything that happened in the Xia mansion, and she also knew a little about why Xia Siling was treated like this by Master Xia, although she slandered Master Xia in her heart, even if it was tiger poison, she would not eat it Son, but after all, it is the master's business, and I can't do anything about it.

The maid was watching from the side, and the two of them couldn't talk much, Aunt Chen quickly made a bowl of noodle soup in the downstairs kitchen and served it for Xia Siling to drink slowly.

Xia Siling pulled Aunt Chen to sit in front of her, blocked the gaze of the woman who was watching at the door, quickly took out a piece of paper, wrote a few words with an eyebrow pencil, and put it into Aunt Chen's arms; Aunt Chen was startled , when he was about to ask, Xia Siling stopped him with his eyes.

Xia Siling raised her head and said to the woman at the door: "Go to the kitchen and get me a plate of pickled vegetables, this is the only pickled vegetables I want to eat."

The woman hesitated for a moment, Xia Siling was furious immediately, and said to Aunt Chen: "Look, aunt, these are the servants around me, they can't even scream, you saw it with your own eyes, aunt, when daddy comes back, make me a If I don’t give these servants a good lesson, I will not be able to get rid of my hatred.”

The woman hurriedly confessed, and said repeatedly: "Miss, calm down, I'll get it now." She turned around and hurried downstairs.

The two had a moment to talk, Xia Siling quickly said: "Don't ask why, auntie, I heard from my family that my family is in a very dangerous situation now, my father wants to send me into the palace to be a show girl, and my father invited me from the outer house. Those nursing homes seemed to be doing something wrong, they even broke into the inner house that day, and the slave family felt that they might cause chaos; you take the letterhead I wrote to you, and immediately hand it to the Su residence at the south gate to the Su family after you go out, someone will come naturally Save me, please Auntie, it is up to Auntie whether I live or die; as long as I escape from danger, I will take care of Auntie for the rest of my life.”

Aunt Chen hurriedly said: "Miss, what did you say, I will definitely send it to you, the strange thing is that today those bandits in the outer house are secretly sharpening their weapons, usually they don't enter the kitchen, today they ran to the kitchen It's very strange to ask about the food; miss, the master shouldn't hire these people, these people look like a pack of tigers and wolves, how good it is!"

Xia Siling said: "Leave this aside for the time being, Dad has gone to other places, and there is no time to tell him, and you can't tell Erjin's nursing homes, maybe they are a gang, if the purpose is revealed, you will definitely be killed by them; I don’t know who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. The only one who can be trusted is you, the only one who can save me is Mr. Su Jin and Su; After the outer house, hurry to the street to report the news, there is no delay."

Aunt Chen's complexion turned pale, and she said softly, "I'll save it for you."

Xia Siling was still talking, when she heard the sound of the stairs, the woman quickly brought up a plate of pickled cucumbers mixed with oil.

Xia Siling hurriedly shut up, and drank a bowl of noodle soup with only this pickled vegetables. Beads of sweat broke out on her forehead, she belched softly and sighed softly, "It's really delicious, it's better to eat the noodle soup by auntie, In the evening, I will eat at my slave's house."

Aunt Chen smiled and said: "It's easy to handle. I will come back to make it for the young lady in the evening, but there is not much flour."

Xia Siling said: "Just go out and buy, it's not difficult."

Aunt Chen said: "Yes, my family will go out to buy some flour later. The flour in the Nanmen rice market is the best, and my family will go to the Nanmen rice market to buy."

The woman on the side said: "Miss Chen, you should go out, you are from the outer house, you can't stay for too long, the master will beat and scold you if he finds out."

Aunt Chen hurriedly said: "Let's go now." Taking Xia Siling's loving glance, she turned and went downstairs.

Xia Siling lay on the railing on the second floor, seeing Aunt Chen's back coming out of the courtyard of the inner house and disappearing after interrogation, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Xia Siling withdrew her gaze, and suddenly her gaze met a gaze, condescending to see clearly, under a locust tree on the periphery of Erjin, a person opened his clothes to reveal a chest with tangled black hair, with a dog's tail dangling from his mouth Grass, looking at herself with a straight face.

Xia Siling was taken aback, and hurriedly fled back into the house like a frightened deer, faintly heard the sound of unscrupulous laughter, Xia Siling gritted her silver teeth angrily, hating her endlessly.