Sometimes the palace is sunny

Early in the morning, something seemed to have happened in the yard opposite the lotus pond, and the noise was shocking.

"Don't look, go back quickly. Sister Tunan brought a lot of wontons this morning. Let's go now just in time for the second pot."

Pulling Chunxin along the river, Xiaobao fumbled with the other hand, took out a pair of gloves, and handed them to her.

"My grandma's eyesight is not good. Sister Qingying and Sister Diecui helped with a few stitches last night. At least they are done."

Chun Xin held the glove in both hands and looked over and over again. It was made of brand-new crow-blue cotton cloth with dense stitches. The thumb was on one side and the four fingers were on the other.

Xiao Bao watched Chun Xin holding the glove endlessly from outside, and impatiently took it over and put it on for her.

"These are gloves made for you, you can look at them however you like, at least after you put them on."

"ah."

The little girl looked at her hands and let out a cry of surprise.

Only then did she realize that this pair of gloves, which looked very warm at first glance, was for herself.

Looking at her surprised little face, Xiaobao was very happy: "My grandma said that you and Qiao'er both have chilblains on your hands, and you need to take care of them to get better. You two should do some cleaning work before spring, and then learn to read. Learn quickly, you will have to learn with us after the beginning of spring."

Chunxin heard about sister Litang talking about learning to read and write yesterday, and he still finds it unbelievable to hear it again.

"Xiaobao! Come quickly! The wontons are ready, and Sister Tunan said that there is still an egg for each of us this morning!"

"Wow!" Xiao Bao was about to run wildly while pulling Chun Xin, but when Chun Xin came back to his senses, she took a step and dragged Xiao Bao.

Xiao Bao, who was half a head taller than Chun Xin, was speechless for a while.

The waterside suite belonging to the second young master of Uncle Ning'an's mansion originally had a kitchen on the edge of the main courtyard. Now the walls of the main courtyard have been demolished, and the open space in front of the study has become a place for the maids to practice and study every day. place.

The steaming wontons were packed in a ceramic bowl in the shape of a bamboo hat. Chun Xin didn't forget to quickly take off his gloves and put them away when he went to pick them up.

Seeing her in a hurry, the woman who served her had a smile on her face:
"Gloves are beautiful."

Chunxin looked at her carefully, and said in a low voice:
"Thank you."

Tunan smiled and patted her head.

"Eat more, if you don't have enough."

Seeing the uncontrollable joy on the face of this little girl who changed her name to Chun Xin staring at Wonton, Tu Nan straightened up and looked at the distant sky again.

Day is coming.

She ordered the food distribution, and put down the horse-face skirt with black background and pink border from her waist, and put on a sky-blue jacket embroidered with pink plum blossoms from the hanger beside her. After finishing her clothes, she took out a gold hairpin inlaid with turquoise from her bosom and put it on her head.

Chun Xin used to eat wontons without raising her head, but now she saw that the "cook" who had just handed her wontons suddenly changed, she couldn't help being dumbfounded.

"This is Sister Tunan I told you about." Xiao Bao whispered in her ear, "Second Young Madam is our real master, and she is the most capable and powerful maid beside Second Young Madam!"

Xiaobao also looked at Tunan, his eyes full of longing.

"Don't look at her just in charge of the kitchen. My grandma told me that if I can learn [-]% of sister Tunan's skills, she can wake up laughing in her dreams."

How powerful can a maid be, can be.

Eating the most delicious wontons that he had never eaten in his life, Chun Xin felt that the person who could make this kind of wontons was already the most powerful maid in the world.

Open the pot, take out the sprouts, leek and pork box*, then take out the chestnut porridge that was placed on the hot water and put several cold dishes into the food box.

When she was ready, Ah Chi, who was on duty last night, sent someone to deliver the meal. She carried a food box in one hand and a porcelain jar filled with porridge in one hand and walked towards Qingfengxu.

Passing by the pond, she also looked up.

Lowering her eyes, she was just another ordinary maid in the back house.

After breakfast, Zhao Surui didn't rush to carry bricks to strengthen his body, but sat on the writing chair, and casually found a collection of books by Shen Sanwei to read.

He suddenly smiled when he saw the word "ke" was written next to the sentence "take it from the ground and put it in the inner mouth, bite it and spit it out"* with a black pen.

"A Chi."

"girl."

"Open the window."

A Chi was also better-behaved than before, so instead of just trying to persuade her, he first covered his girl with a rolled-hair cloak, and then heated up the fire in the fire cage before opening the window.

Outside the window are the plum blossoms sent by Shen Sanwai yesterday.

Zhao Surui looked at it for a while, and then said: "Achi, tell me, if I want to catch the mouse hiding in the hole, what should I do?"

A Chi stood aside and said softly: "If you are a slave, you should find the exit of the mouse hole first, wait a few days to see clearly, then block all the holes with mud, and pour hot water inside."

"You are quite precise about this method." Zhao Surui nodded and asked again, "Then do you know how to find a mouse hole?"

How to find it?
A Chi was at a loss, she had never caught a mouse.

"Follow, follow the mouse?"

"Following is not enough. The mouse has become a spirit. It knows that you have followed it. It probably won't go back to the cave unless... it is in a hurry."

A Chi half understood, she knew that what the girl was talking about seemed to be catching mice, but not catching mice.

"Girl, why is the mouse so anxious?"

"It's simple."

Zhao Surui waved his hand, put the book aside, he picked up the kitten who was sleeping on the books on the desk, and put it in his arms.

"Let it have no food in its belly, and all the other ways to go home are blocked, but it still has a way to go. This is called playing hard to get."

Zhao Surui touched the kitten's chubby stomach.

"Let the mouse think that I want to kill it outside the mouse nest, forcing it to use the method of pressing the bottom of the box, but I go straight to its old nest. This is called cheating."

Zhao Surui pinched the kitten's fleshy calf again.

"Let the mouse realize that what it thought could help him was actually harming him, so that it hastily resorted to all means. This is called counter-intuition."

Zhao Surui touched the kitten's beard and stroked it again and again.

Originally sleeping soundly, but being picked up and tossed so much that the tips of the kitten's claws protruded, but it couldn't move, it could only stare at Zhao Surui.

Zhao Surui tapped its pink nose again.

"If you ask me, these schemes are still too neat. One move after another, I don't know how many times I have rehearsed it in my heart. It seems that I have the courage, but it is too cumbersome. I just need to aim at the mouse and use the knife."

He pinched the kitten's paw and raised his eyes to look at the three plum trees outside.

"One knife, another knife, chopped off its mouse claws, chopped off its mouse tail, pulled out its mouse beard, and if you are not honest, just chop off one of its legs, and then follow it, it Wherever it goes, I will slaughter it so that no grass will grow, and wherever it goes, I will kill it completely."

The "female" wrapped in a rolled-hair cloak has elegant and deep eyebrows, but her words are full of murderous intent, as if she came back after killing demons and ghosts and killing corpses and seas of blood.

A Chi took a small step back, remembering that this was her own girl, so she leaned forward again.

The kitten let out an annoyed "meow", and finally found a chance to get away, but it didn't go far, and nimbly jumped onto the desk, looking up.

Zhao Surui sighed leisurely.

He said it was enjoyable, but the Yingjun Palace has inherited from the beginning of the dynasty and has a deep foundation. How many people in the court colluded with them?How many vassals will be in series with the British Palace?If it can't be found out, half of the Yong Dynasty will be caught in a war if there is a little carelessness.

He knew that Shen Sanwau was trying to stop the war, that is, he wanted to find out the accomplices of the Yingjun Palace first, and then force the Yingjun Palace to rush into action and retreat early.

Bright light shone in from the double-opened windows, Zhao Surui picked up the "Shi Shuo Xin Yu" and blinked lightly.

At this time, he heard a burst of laughter from beside him.

"The girl looks like she used to."

before?

Zhao Surui slightly raised the corner of his eyes, and cast a sidelong glance at A Chi.

"I used to sit here?"

"Yes, when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, the magnolia trees outside are very fragrant. The girl reads books and paints with the fragrance of the flowers, and collects the petals to make tea and bookmarks. If it is warmer, the vines and roses on the wall will also bloom. , the orchids surrounded by the fence are also blooming, and the girl is still coloring the petals, and the ink is dotted on the petals and printed on the paper, just like the real thing."

It really sounds like a leisurely and magical day.

The cool wind was majestic, Zhao Surui took a deep breath.

If Shen Sanwa lived this kind of life when he was in the Shen residence, he could indeed be called a god.

But she was in the Xie family, the Xie family that had something to do with his father's death, the Xie family that had usurped her family property and dowry, in such a huge house, except for a few maids around her, almost no one was friendly to her. From the bottom up, everyone wanted to get off a piece of meat from her body.

She pretended to be indifferent to the world, making others think that she was a beauty lamp that could only be seen, and she survived day after day, year after year.

What was she thinking while admiring the flowers?
What was she thinking when she was reading?
What is she thinking when she writes?
Zhao Surui thought and thought, but couldn't guess anything.

He just remembered the occasional gaze of Shen Sanwa in the dream.

It was cold, which made her look different from the "three wastes" he had thought for a long time.

It was as if there was deep, invisible hatred in her heart, and those hatreds were like flames, which had tempered her three souls and seven souls, and a little bit of cover would reveal a frightening cold light.

What is Shen Sanwa hating?

She hated the Xie family, not just the Xie family, she hated men in this world, but not just men... If he were her, she probably hated this world.

Several little maids walked under the plum tree talking and laughing.

Zhao Surui frowned slightly.

But there are too many treasures of Shen Sanwei in this world.

It is not only her desire for revenge that wraps her hatred.

That's why she is cautious, like a fierce tiger, who wants to protect the delicate flowers, like a big roc, who can't bear the cold and rain to invade her dream.

"What a waste." Zhao Surui cursed.

At this time, there was another voice outside.

"Girl, Mrs. Uncle is hosting a banquet in the Peony Pavilion to welcome you. She said that she not only invited you, but also the old lady and Mrs. Shizi."

old lady?
Zhao Surui said lazily:
"I won't go, let the person who sent the message tell them that I have left the uncle's mansion for so many days, I have no gold, silver, jewels, and no clothes that can be worn to look good, so I won't be an eyesore."

The Peony Pavilion behind the main hall of Ning'an Bo's Mansion is full of warmth.

After hearing the servant girl's message, Mrs. Sun of Ning An Bo's Mansion took a deep breath:

"What does Shen mean by this? Is she trying to blackmail me?!"

"In this case, Su Yan, you go back, open my private storehouse, get the fashionable satin and clothes, and then send my emerald jade hair mask to Mrs. Shen."

The person who spoke was the old lady of Ning'anbo Mansion who seldom appeared in front of people outside the New Year's Eve.

Seeing what her mother-in-law said, Sun was furious: "Old madam, then it's okay for Shen to pretend to be Qiao, but she is so disobedient and disobeying women's morals that she has sex with a foreigner..."

After speaking halfway, Mrs. Sun became quiet again.

Because the old lady was looking at her.

"Mrs. Shen is the second youngest wife of our uncle's mansion. She has always been diligent and never caused trouble. Mrs. Sun, there are some things you can't say as a mother-in-law."

Sun closed her mouth, her eyes were almost red with anger.

In this way, after waiting for a full moment, another servant girl came to deliver the message.

"Ma'am, the second young lady said that although she has a head and clothes, the room is empty, and the clothes make her look even more shabby. She, she is ashamed and dare not see people."

"Boom!" Mrs. Sun patted the table.

"Su Yu, go and sort out the decorations I received last year, pick out the exquisite and beautiful ones, choose ten pieces, and send them to the second young lady."

Mrs. Sun was too angry to speak.

Nearly two minutes later, the servant girl came to send another message.

This time it was the bad furniture in the room.

The old lady sent someone to send the table and chairs made of huanghuali wood.

The sun had risen to the middle of the sky, and the maids ran back and forth six or seven times.

Finally, even the old lady was a little angry:

"What does she want this time?"

"Second Young Madam, Second Young Madam..."

"Speak well, what does she want?"

The little maid fell to her knees with a plop:
"The second young lady said that the things sent are... ugly, why not just give her 1 taels of silver and she can choose it herself."

Siri Zhao: Hahaha Shen Sanwa, you see, I'm going to piss them off!
Shen Shiqing: Well, after all, no one can compare with a dog.

Siri Zhao: ...

Sprouts and chive-flavored pork box is used from the yellow sprouts and leek pork box in "Jin Ping Mei". Yellow sprouts and chives should mean chives. I adjusted the configuration and put some bean sprouts, and the leeks were replaced with leeks, because I like it more .

*From "Shi Shuo Xin Yu"

Wang Lantian Eating Chicken
Original: Wang Lantian is impatient.He tasted the chicken, stabbed it with chopsticks, and if he couldn't get it, he was furious and threw it to the ground.The rooster does not stop turning around on the ground, but it still goes down to the ground and uses its clogs to shove it, but it doesn't get it. It is very angry, and it returns to the ground and takes it into the inner mouth. When it is bitten, it spits it out.Wang Youjun laughed when he heard it and said: "If Anqi has this nature, there is no one to talk about, let alone Lantian Xie?"

Translation: Wang Lantian has a quick temper.I once ate eggs and poked them with chopsticks, but when I failed, I was very angry and threw the eggs on the ground.The egg kept spinning on the ground, and he got off the mat and stepped on it with the teeth of his shoes, but it didn't work.Extremely angry, he picked up the egg from the ground and put it in his mouth, and spit it out after biting the egg.When Wang Xizhi heard about this, he laughed and said, "Even if An Qi (Wang Lantian's father, Wang Cheng) has such a temper, there is nothing worth mentioning, let alone Wang Lantian!"