Sometimes the palace is sunny

"Since the Second Young Madam and Eldest Young Master came back, our house has really been in chaos."

Early in the morning, Tong Yaer heard her father squatting at the door of the house and said this in a muffled voice. After finishing speaking, her father took a sip of the noodle soup.

Her mother didn't speak, and Tong Yaer didn't make a sound. Today, the big kitchen distributed noodle soup mixed with radish leaves and double-packed buns with vegetarian cabbage. She huddled aside with half a bowl of noodle soup and half a bun. Eat carefully.

The stuffing of the buns is bland, and the wheat bran can be seen on the skin of the buns, which makes people's throats dry after eating, and they have to be served with noodle soup.

Her mother took out a piece of pickles from a porcelain bowl, broke off a piece and gave it to her father, and took the rest back, before she said to her father: "Go to the garden earlier after you finish eating. Yesterday Liu Cheng was at the west gate. Watching outside, I just met Aunt Liu coming back from outside, she just helped to move some things, but she got a reward, then you should guard the west side door, why did you let others get the benefits?"

"Huh, your eyelids are shallower than that old woman's straw sandals, and you can miss them all night with a few meat buns? Liu Cheng is from outside, and he will move up if he gets some benefits, and he doesn't even think about it. Anyhow, a concubine who goes in and out every day is not proper. Can the buns she gave me be eaten? Not to mention buns, I would still think it dirty if she gave me money! The reputation of our uncle's mansion for more than 100 years really makes this A litter of girls is ruined!"

Her father's voice became louder and louder, and Si Ya felt that if his father had an ax in his hand, it could have hit Aunt Liu's door.

The shards of steamed stuffed bun with a slight smell of rotten vegetables splashed out of her father's mouth and fell on the floor of the house.

Her mother quickly squatted on the ground and picked up all the debris, and threw them into the chicken coop in the corner of the room.

"What's the use of saying this? Then Liu Cheng let the whole family eat meat buns last night, how about you?"

"What about me?" Tong Ya'er's father threw the buns and pickles into the noodle soup bowl, "My grandpa used to manage the yard for the old man! Don't talk about the meat buns, I was in the old man's house when I was young. I have played in the yard! I have played with citron and bergamot!"

Si Ya shrank her shoulders, squeezed her throat and ate the buns and noodle soup together.

Every few days, her father would come to such a scene, and her mother said that her father was insane.

Once her mother told her face to face that her father broke her mother's head when he lifted the door latch, and her mother lay in bed for two months before she could get up again.

Her mother was supposed to escort the water carts in the yard of the wives, but because of this incident, her errand was delayed, her father was beaten twenty times by the steward, and her previous errand of washing the barrels was also lost.

On the contrary, it was her mother, because she was worried about her by the nanny in charge, so she managed to save her job. Now every day at Yinshi, she fetches water and sends it to the yards of the wives and aunts. When she comes back, it is dawn, and she just took the food again. return.

It's just that the meal is getting worse and worse.

"Mom, I'm full, I'm going to wait for my errands!"

After washing the dishes and wiping the floor, Tong Yaer hurried out.

She is also thirteen this year. Twenty little girls were selected in the yard the year before last, and six were selected last year. This year, she only lets out people and does not let people in. A home-born girl like her can only be outside by the wall. Waiting for some errands, maybe there will be some errands every three to five days.

"Wait." Her mother stopped her, and re-arranged her hair with her hands dipped in water:

"It's cold, if it's still there after noon, then don't wait, I'm going to deliver water, you stay at home and watch over my brother."

"Ah."

She straightened her hair like a chicken feather, and patted her on the shoulder again:

"If you get your clothes dirty again, don't come back today!"

"Understood, mother." Tong Ya'er retracted her hands, even her toes curled up obediently.

At the side door of the inner courtyard, there were seven or eight people waiting for errands like her, most of them were girls who were about her age, and some were about the same age as her parents.

Qiaoer, the niece of the aunt of the Lin family next door to her house, was also standing in the corner, and when she saw her, she quickly waved her over.

"Bucket! Bucket! Come!"

Tong Ya'er quickly slipped through the gap between the people.

The two little girls were not dressed too thickly, and Tong Ya'er had a cotton scarf wrapped around her neck by his mother, and most of Qiao'er's slender neck was exposed, and she huddled her neck in the corner of the wall. Like a little sparrow about to sleep.

Tong Ya'er was with her in front of the little sparrow, and put Qiao'er's hand inside her short jacket to keep her warm.

Today's sky is very good, the sky is blue and blue, it seems that God has changed the previous cloudy clouds into snow and made it clean.

It's a pity that the eaves of their uncle's mansion are too big, and the alleys are too narrow, few people can stand in the bright ground.

After a while, someone came out from the side door, and those who were just squatting or standing immediately rushed up.

It's like the brood of chickens in the corner of her house saw the meal scum sprayed out by her father.

Tong Ya'er wanted to squeeze in, but Qiao'er grabbed her clothes.

"Tong Ya'er, let me tell you, if someone comes out later, follow me."

Qiao'er lowered her voice very low: "Last night my sister came back and said that Aunt Liu will pick someone to enter the inner courtyard today. My sister has made an agreement with Sister Litang to ask me to go in when the time comes, and you will follow." I."

Enter, enter the inner courtyard?
Tong Ya'er's eyes widened.

Thinking that Tong Yaer didn't believe it, Qiaoer cautiously opened her other hand.

There is a piece of oil paper inside, wrapped in a piece of red bean snacks,

Tong Ya'er was so frightened that she immediately covered her back.

"I don't believe it! You can do this good thing yourself."

A smile appeared on Qiao'er's face: "I'm afraid alone."

Tong Ya'er felt uneasy.

Qiao'er's older sister, Qin'er, is just a rough servant girl who works in the yard, and the eldest maid, Li Tang, who is next to Aunt Liu, is nothing more than a little old friendship. Well, what is she doing by the way?

The two waited for a while, watching the shadow cast by the eaves get shorter and shorter.

"Qiaoer, my mother asked me to go back to see my brother earlier..."

Tong Yaer whispered.

Qiaoer still dragged her.

Tong Ya'er struggled, Qiao'er's hands were red from the cold, and her hands were already turning white due to the ruthless pinching.

"Qiaoer?"

"I heard from your father that day that he wanted to send you to the soldier in the Kuayuan without telling your mother."

The unswept snow on the eaves was frozen solid, melted by the sun, and slid down from the eaves.

It was as if it hit Tong Ya'er on the head and heart.

There lived in Kuayuan a great master, who was said to be the son of the royal family, and brought with him more than a dozen maids and servants, and more than 100 soldiers.

The servants who were waiting for errands were crowded together in the alleys, and the whole family was stretching their necks from room to room, waiting for Dongkuayuan to pick someone up. Unexpectedly, four or five soldiers came along with the manager on the first day. , Picked seven or eight sisters into the yard.

The next day, two bodies were brought out.

The person in charge said that they did not serve the nobles well.

After that, families with fifteen or sixteen-year-old daughters closed the door tightly to prevent them from coming out.

It's not over.

The entire uncle's mansion was sealed off, even her father was interrogated for half an hour when he wanted to go out to gamble with others.

Gradually, a lot of right and wrong happened in the narrow alley where hundreds of people lived.

One night, the housekeeper Xiao Han, who was serving in the uncle's courtyard at home, disappeared.

At dawn, four or five corpses were carried out, and someone even came to find her mother to wash the yard. Her mother went, and she didn't eat for a few days when she came back.

Steward Xiaohan's family used to be decent. His daughter wore a bright red satin skirt, and in spring and summer, when she walked through the aisle with only a ray of light, the wind she carried was fragrant.

Her father said in secret that Manager Xiao Han wanted to give his daughter to his uncle. Later, his uncle was imprisoned and Shi Zi Ye became the family. Her father said that Manager Xiao Han wanted to give his daughter to Shi Zi Ye.

In fact, Tong Yaer knew that what her father said was nothing.

Manager Xiao Han begged for the grace of the eldest son, and sister Ping'er was going to marry a commoner outside.

Sister Pinger said that it was a very ordinary family. The family had more than ten acres of land outside the city, and a small shop in the city. The only advantage was that there were two peach trees in front of the house, and the flowers bloomed very beautifully.

Everyone knows who did such a thing, but no one dared to say it, her father who scolded the aunt in the yard at home didn't dare to say it, the manager who came out to choose people to handle things every day dared not say it, even the high courtyard wall The masters inside, they dare not speak.

"Those soldiers are not good people." Qiaoer said to her with her eyes wide open.

Tong Ya'er slowly sat back in the corner.

The noon light poured down from the middle of the narrow eaves, she blinked, and the hot tears fell on the ground and became cold.

Like snow.

Qiao'er held her tightly, and choked up in a low voice.

"Miss Litang, do you have any errands to order?" A voice came from inside the courtyard wall.

"Open the door."

Almost instantly, Tong Ya'er and Qiao'er stood up together.

The side door opened, and Qiao'er dragged Tong Ya'er to the woman in the light water red horse-face skirt.

"Girl! If you want someone to do an errand, come to us! We can do anything!"

Qiao'er, who is also like a little sparrow, pushes Tong Ya'er towards her.

"If you want only one person, go to her! She is very clever!"

The hands of the two girls are like two extremely thin silk threads, which have to be wrapped tightly so that they will not break.

"What's your name?" The woman lowered her head slightly and asked the two little girls.

"Her name is Qiaoer!" Qiaoer said loudly.

Tong Ya'er burst into tears.

Qiao'er has no parents, and her uncle always snatches the things her sister Qin'er gave her. She and her sister dreamed of taking her into the yard.

She went in, she was alone outside, how could she live?

"No." Tong Ya'er shook her head, "I'm not..."

"Qiao'er, you are naughty, I gave you some snacks before, how come you don't even remember your appearance? I haven't seen you for a few years, but I have become naughty with me."

The woman touched Qiao'er's head with one hand, and held Tong Ya'er with the other.

"Just the two of you, come with me."

When the courtyard door closed behind her, Tong Ya'er looked back at the alleyway where she grew up.

It's so bright in the yard.

Not only bright, but also big.

"My name is Litang, and I have always served Aunt Liu. My aunt wants to take in a few more girls. The second young lady has already agreed. You two will serve in Lingbo Garden from now on."

The two little girls followed behind Li Tang, zigzag, and walked along a pond. Tong Ya'er lowered her head, even her eyes were honest.

Finally, Li Tang stopped in her tracks, and Tong Ya'er raised her head, only to find that she had entered a yard, which was square, with trees, flowers and plants planted, and the sun shone brightly on the remaining snow on the eaves.

The door curtain of a room was lifted, and a woman wearing a bamboo leaf pattern embroidered robe came out, with a round and white face.

Tong Ya'er knew that she had offended her, but she couldn't help but widen her eyes.

This is Aunt Liu?Is this too small?

Just when she was about to kneel down and salute, the woman spoke first: "Sister Litang, this is the little girl you went to find today? They are so small!"

Tong Ya'er was glad that her knees hadn't had time to bend down yet, so the one who dressed so nicely was also a maid?
Li Tang smiled and said, "Xiao Bao, you half-sized girl, why do you have the face to call them small? You go find two old clothes you used to give them."

Xiaobao snorted: "Why did you want to find me? I still have to wear my clothes!"

Li Tang walked over in two steps and grabbed her ear: "You have gained more than ten catties in four months with your aunt, and you have grown an inch and a half. Where can you still wear those clothes? Find them quickly."

Xiao Bao was muttering, but he was happy when he came to Tong Ya'er and Qiao'er.

"Three or two of them didn't come back with me. With you, I'm not the youngest! Let's walk around, I'll take you to eat first, then ask my grandma to give you a bath, and finally change your clothes."

Xiaobao still has a plan.

The three of them went to the back of the house together.

Li Tang watched and couldn't help laughing.

When Liu Tianxing came out of the house, she saw her big maid couldn't stop laughing.

"Pear candy? What's wrong?"

"Look, aunt, does that look like a fat pigeon leading a sparrow and a quail?"

Liu Tianxing tiptoed her body and looked over, "Hahaha" laughed.

It was already an hour after Xiaobao brought her back. Xiaobao's old clothes were about seventy-eight percent new, and her grandma ironed and sewed up any minor problems.

Finally seeing the legendary Aunt Liu, Tong Ya'er and Qiao'er quickly knelt down and kowtowed, Liu Tianxing looked at them with a smile, and asked their names again.

"Lin Qiao'er sounds very nice, don't need to change it, what do you mean, you bastard?"

Tong Ya'er only felt that her feet were soft as if she was stepping on the clouds, and she felt timid, but she was not really timid, so she braced her neck and said in a nutshell:

"My servant was born prematurely. My mother was still carrying water when she gave birth to me. She had no choice but to give birth to me in a bucket of water."

"Oh." Liu Tianxing blinked, "I'm called Tianxing because my mother always wanted to eat sweet apricot when she was pregnant with me, but she couldn't eat it raw. She wanted to eat it during the day and at night, but she said she never wanted to eat sweet apricot, yes I was thinking, so I named me Tian Xing. Do you want to change your name?"

Tong Ya'er thought for a while: "My maidservant, please give me a name from my aunt."

Liu Tianxing's eyes lit up instantly.

"I have to think of a good name for you."

Litang and Xiaobao looked at each other, and when they named them, Auntie said the same thing.

Liu Tianxing frowned, with her hands behind her back, she walked around the room twice like an old pedant, her eyes passed over apples, frozen pears and yellow oranges in turn.

Then, she opened the box containing snacks, and looked at the walnuts, red dates, torreya, dried longan and preserved peaches inside.

"Um……"

Slowly, she grabbed some preserved peaches and walked out.

Li Tang couldn't stand it anymore, and softly persuaded: "Auntie, you can't really go to the kitchen and name her."

ah!It was discovered.

Liu Tianxing, who was planning to go to the kitchen to find inspiration, gave a big hand, and laughed "hehe".

"Why would I go to the kitchen after my name?"

After laughing, she opened the door curtain, raised her head dryly and said, "I came out to see... Oh, the snow on the eaves is really like white rice cakes."

Li Tang and Xiao Bao's hearts sank, it was over, now Tong Ya'er had to change her name to Rice Cake.

"When I was a child, my young lady gave me white rice cakes. She was about your age. She coaxed me to recite poems and write, and I could eat rice cakes after I learned how to write."

Tong Ya'er raised her head carefully, and saw Aunt Liu smiling at her.

"She taught me to recite 'The letter of spring is known to arrive in the snow, the winter plum is decorated with Qiongzhi',*Your name is Chunxin."

spring...letter...

The lips of the girl with the new name quivered.

"Chun Xin, slave girl, slave girl will be called Chun Xin from now on."

"Well, your surname is Zhu, so your name is Zhu Chunxin."

After finishing speaking, Liu Tianxing became proud first: "I just said that I will give you an excellent name! Oh, it's a pity, we don't have plum blossoms in our yard, otherwise we should make plum blossom cakes to cheer us up."

It is obviously a matter of naming, so why did you talk about plum blossom cakes?
It's just that Liu Tianxing is hungry again.

Coincidentally, at this time a maid came running over:
"Aunt Liu, our young lady called you over to watch the excitement."

"Watching the excitement? What excitement?"

Liu Tianxing walked out of her side courtyard with her maids, and saw Xia He from the nearby courtyard also came out with her children, the two of them looked at each other in a daze.

They used to live in the same courtyard, but when Mrs. Shen came back, she marked off the empty courtyard and said that there should be all the empty spaces, so the two had their own courtyards.

"Xia He! The girl let us watch the excitement, do you know what the excitement is?"

"how could I know?"

Xia He is not as leisurely as Liu Tianxing, she has to take care of her own pair of children, An Niannian's son and Cui Jinniang's son, she also has to take care of her sons. The yard let her take care of the children exclusively.

Liu Tianxing held the hand of An Niannian's son Duan Geer, and the group walked through the main courtyard where Xie Fengan lived before and met Su Yaoer again.

"What the heck is it?"

At the gate of Qingfeng Xu, Liu Tianxing probed in and saw a few men in green robes inside, surrounded by a huge thing wrapped in red silk.

"Ma'am!" Seeing "Shen Shiqing", Liu Tianxing immediately ran over joyfully.

Zhao Surui stared at the big thing with his hips crossed and was feeling depressed, and when he saw Liu Tianxing, he didn't say a word:
"Look, I thought it was something expensive, but it turned out to be a plum tree. I couldn't eat or drink it, and it took me a long time."

Hearing that it was Shen Sanwas who sent something over, Zhao Surui was really pleasantly surprised. He thought it was at least a few thousand taels of silver, or it was the horsewhip, knife and gun he was used to, but it turned out to be three trees!
She actually sent three trees over!
On the side, Sishu watched as the man dug the hole and buried the tree in it. He waved the shovel and filled the soil back.

"Miss Shen, this plum tree came out of the garden together with the surrounding six feet of soil. There is a cinnabar plum, a palace pink plum, and a jade butterfly plum. There are red, pink and white. You can enjoy the plums. Sometimes I'm not lonely."

Who wants to appreciate the plum blossoms!
Giving him two pig legs is not much more affordable than this thing.

Zhao Surui raised his eyebrows, and asked Sishu: "What did she send this for?"

What are you doing?Naturally, this is to make Mrs. Shen happy!

The four mice looked around and whispered:

"Miss Shen, the younger ones can see my master's love for you. The younger ones talk too much. My master has always been coaxed by others. How can he coax others? He really let you go." It was because of my heart that I asked my servant to bring you plum blossoms, how could you not know this kind of intention?"

As the four mice talked, they touched the emperor's heart first.

The expression on Zhao Surui's face gradually faded.

Shen Sanwai, what does she have in mind?
The intention to usurp power?
Is this to tell him that there is no hope (Mei) for him to change his body in the future?
"Think about it, when you were in the procuratorate, our master asked about your daily life almost every day, for fear that you would be wronged. He has never had this kind of intention."

Hmph, specially invite me to have a meal and then tell me that I don't have any intention of eating meat in the future?

The intention to let him be hungry and have diarrhea?
Being able to serve in front of the imperial court, Sishu is also a master at observing words and demeanor, but it is a pity that he can't care about observing words and demeanor at this time.

"And your old house, our master specially asked us to repair it for you."

That was repairing her own home!
Of course, it's mine when it's finished.

Zhao Surui glanced at the tree in the distance, let's cut it down, let Sishu carry it back and use it as Shen Sanwas coffin.

"That's right!" Sishu suddenly remembered something very important, "Our master even made you noodle soup! There is no one in this world who wants to eat noodle soup and let our master cook for you!"

His voice was louder than before.

Zhao Surui: "..."

He touched his chin.

The noodle soup is really delicious.

That's all, let's keep the plum tree.

"I thought it was something expensive, but it turned out to be a few trees, you can see for yourself." Waving to Liu Tianxing and the others, Zhao Surui turned around dully.

Liu Tianxing smiled and said, "Girl, let's make plum cakes and eat them!"

Plum cake?
what is that?
The wise and mighty Emperor Zhaode stopped in his tracks.

The red silk wrapped around the plum tree was finally taken off, and many petals fell on the silk. Liu Tianxing hurriedly led someone to collect all the clean petals.

Red, pink and white, plum blossom cakes must look great!

The four mice didn't dare to stay in front of Mrs. Shen for long, and retreated cautiously, and saw Xie Lin'an standing at the gate of the courtyard smiling apologetically.

"Sir, would you like a cup of tea?"

"No need." In front of the emperor's sweetheart, Sishu is also the former imperial eunuch who holds the Xichang in his hand, how can people like Xie Lin'an be able to invite them.

"Take care of me."

"My lord, don't worry, my lord, don't worry!"

Leading people to the main entrance, Sishu noticed that someone was spying on a courtyard gate, and his heart moved.

The Crown Prince of Yingjun objected, but now Mrs. Shen still lives in Ning'anbo Mansion.

"How can you allow prying eyes when you work in the West Factory?"

As soon as he finished speaking, several fans immediately drew out their Xiuchun knives and rushed towards him.

With a knife in his hand, several men in the uniform of the British Prince's Palace were dragged out.

"The people of the Prince of England dare to spy on Xichang?"

As soon as he waved his hand, the fans raised their knives and chopped off all the right hands of these guards.

"Young Prince of the British Commander, it's all right for you to be a domineering prince in the British Commander's Mansion. When you arrive in Yanjing City, it's better to be honest."

After speaking, he led the people away.

Across the wall, Zhao Qinyang, who was wearing a sable fur coat, looked gloomy. How dare a mere eunuch show him face?
He never thought that this was just the beginning.

Overnight, his hidden stake in Yanjing City was uprooted in sevens and eights, and the group who took the opportunity to go to Shen's house to kill Shi Xinmei were even uprooted.

"Girl, it's all done."

Naturally, it was Xichang who did the attack, but Xichang was not the only one investigating this matter, smelling the bloody smell on Tunan's body, Zhao Surui glanced at the dancing lights.

"The heads of those who killed our family were hung at the door of Zhao Qinyang's room. The one who cut two or three had his hands chopped off, salted, and sent to the Prince of England."

Done.

He lowered his head and took a bite of the plum cake.

It's sweet, a woman's thing.

He finished one and picked up another.

Zhao Surui: Finally!At!kill!people!up!

What Shen Shiqing taught Liu Tianxing was Li Qingzhao's "Fisherman's Pride"

It is known that Chunxin will arrive in Xueli.Samuume embellished Qiongzhi greasy.Xiang's face is half open and charming.In court.The beauty washes out new makeup in the bath.

Creation may be intentional.So teach the bright moon exquisitely.A total bounty will be given to Shen Green Ant.Don't get drunk.This flower does not compare with group flowers.

"This statement is not comparable to other flowers," Shen Shiqing told this statement to a little girl who was bullied because of her gluttonous food and low EQ.

There was no update last night, so the next breath is [-].

See you tomorrow.