red makeup

Chapter 8 Where are the people?

The original owner's aunt, Gao Shi, was the concubine daughter of the Taishi of the current dynasty, and the original owner's biological mother, Gao Zhiyan, was the concubine daughter of the Gao family. She died of illness within two years after giving birth to the original owner's sister and the original owner.

As the head of the house in the Yun family, Gao is serious and serious, and the most important thing is the distinction between the son and the concubine.

In the mansion, she will spend money to train and educate the sons and daughters of each house.The harshness towards the concubine and the concubine is simply outrageous.

Whether it is food and clothing, monthly allowance, or education, he will only be one point better than the servants in the mansion, and will never be two points better.

The original owner was the fifth young lady of the Yun family. According to the usual practice, there should be two sweeping maids, two rough envoys, and two personal maids in the yard.As a result, the manpower was allocated by various courts, and there were only two personal maids, Lu He and Qiu Yun, left.

Even these two maids are often borrowed by those prostitutes with various excuses.Even if I went to the Rongguo Duke's mansion today, I was arranged to go to the elder brother Yun Yunming's side early in the morning, so that the original owner could only go there alone, and there was no one to order her around. It's no wonder that outsiders looked down on her as a concubine female.It's clear that the Yun family doesn't want to give this concubine a face at all.

Yun Jiu'an found Huozhezi to light the oil lamp, and searched all over Qiluoxuan but couldn't find a bite to eat.Searched all the boxes and cabinets, but didn't find a single penny - Yun Jiu'an, a concubine, really lived a miserable life.

Don't blame her, Gao's treatment of concubine children is like this.

Concubine sons have five taels of silver per month, concubine sons have two taels, and concubine daughters only have one tael.

The children of concubines in each courtyard have their own aunts to help them, and they are not so poor that they jingle.

And her aunt has long since passed away, and small stoves are not allowed in the yard, so she usually eats together in the hall, under Gao's pressure, Yun Jiuan dared not even show her grandeur, and there are so many rules, how could she dare to squeeze too much One chopstick dish?
So one tael of silver was not enough for her to let the boy go out to buy food. Of course, the boy in the middle had to deduct some errand fees, and there was almost nothing left that could be eaten.

No wonder people are so thin that only a few ribs remain.

Today, she only drank two bowls of millet porridge and ate two buns before going out.I didn't eat at the Duke's Mansion at noon, and I didn't even see half a grain of rice at night. Now I'm so hungry that my chest sticks to my back, and my eyes are blurry. The most urgent thing is how to find food.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but when she was imagining a pot of braised pork, she actually smelled the aroma of beef that pierced her heart.

She searched for the smell and found that the smell of beef came from the wall of the next courtyard.

Hasn't the house next door been abandoned for many years?

The Liu family next to them moved to Jiangnan more than ten years ago, and they have kept a lame old Liu Tou to guard and clean them. Some time ago, I heard that the old Liu Tou fell, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to get off the ground...

Could it be that old Liu was cooking beef alone in the backyard of the Liu family?

Yun Jiu'an swallowed, and didn't care too much, it's good to be able to smell the aroma now to relieve her cravings.

So she followed the big tree by the wall, and nimbly climbed to the top of the wall, only to find that the yard opposite was dark, with no sound of people, no light and shadow, only the smell of meat remained.

When people are extremely hungry, they will go to any risk to fill their stomachs.

Yun Jiu'an went back to the house and took the fire bag and candles, blew out the oil lamp in the yard, and then jumped into the next yard.

She lit the candle and walked straight to a kitchen looking for the scent.

The stove is not cold, but the rice in the pot is warm.There are two white porcelain bowls on the table, one is filled with half a bowl of braised beef, and the other is filled with a half bowl of sauce-flavored pig's trotters.

When the lid was lifted, the aroma was like an insect with wings that burrowed into his nose, Yun Jiuan couldn't hold back his hunger anymore, took clean dishes from the cupboard, and started to eat.

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In the Nuanhua Garden of the Yun Family.

Gao sat in front of the lamp and slowly read the letter from her husband Yun Zhongliang.

"Mother, did father say when he would come back from Jiangnan?" Yun Lan'an looked at Gao Shizhong's letter with a little anxiety.

Gao put the letter away, "Don't worry, your father Jiangnan's official business has not been completed yet, I don't know if he can return before the end of the year."

Yun Lan'an secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "I only hope that Jiu'an's marriage has been finalized before Dad returns to Beijing, and she can be carried to the Liang family as soon as she reaches Ji next year..."

Mrs. Gao shook her head, "Wait until next year? I'm afraid I can't wait. According to what Jiu'an has said and done in the Duke's Mansion today, I'm afraid she doesn't want to be a concubine. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, the only way is to let her enter Liang's house as soon as possible. The better."

"Madam, don't worry too much. Miss Wu didn't bring any girls with her today. Now she's locked up outside the house alone. The night is heavy and she's hungry and hungry. No matter how high-spirited she is, I'm afraid she's gone now." Frightened by some passers-by, I huddled in the corner of the wall and dared not move. Let her in later when she couldn't stand outside the door begging for mercy, isn't it Mrs. Ren's choice?"

Mama Wu is Gao's dowry, and she followed her since she was a child, so she talks like a family, without any scruples.

Yun Lan'an looked out of the window, there was no starlight in the dark night sky, "It's already the end of Xushi, and it will be Haishi soon, there is still no movement from Jiu'an, could it be that this girl wants to fight her mother to the end?"

"I don't know what kind of girl that girl is. She is timid and afraid of the dark. It's probably just a matter of time." Gao picked up the teacup indifferently, and she was patiently waiting for Lan An's marriage.

Yun Lan'an was still uneasy, for some reason, she always felt that something would happen.And her intuition for no reason has always been more accurate.

She said to Wu's mother: "No matter what, Wu's mother still asks someone to go outside the gate of the house to have a look. Maybe something happened to Jiu'an, and everything will be too late."

"That's right, be careful when sailing for thousands of years. I'll let Qiuyuan take a look."

In order to reassure Yun Lan, Mother Wu then ordered people to go outside the gate to see what Yun Jiu'an was doing.

After a while, Qiuyuan ran out of breath and said that Yun Jiu'an was nowhere to be seen outside.

Yun Lan'an was startled, and suddenly stood up, "Did you look around?"

Qiuyuan said: "As soon as the slave girl found out that the fifth girl was not outside, she immediately asked the porter to search around, but there was no sign of the fifth girl. This is why the slave girl hastened to report."

Mrs. Gao couldn't sit still anymore, "Could it be that she was afraid of the dark, so she ran to the Nanping Marquis Mansion alone? Come on, and immediately send someone to Lu's house to look for Miss Wu. If she is there, it's easy to bring her back; if No, don't say too much, just say that this girl lost her temper because of the marriage. Don't let outsiders see the joke. "

Several people also thought that Yun Jiu'an probably went to Nanping Marquis Mansion. After all, when she came back in the Lu family's carriage and had nowhere to go, only the Lu family could avoid it.

Unexpectedly, after waiting for nearly an hour, the manager who went to pick him up came to report that Yun Jiu'an had never been to the Nanping Marquis Mansion at all.

Everyone in the room panicked. If something happened to Yun Jiu'an, the entire Yun family might not be able to explain to the Liang family and the Fifth Prince.

At this moment, Mrs. Gao didn't care about beating Yun Jiuan anymore, so she hurriedly sent people out to search carefully, and then sent people to the Duke's mansion overnight to find Liang Ziyuan to confirm whether Yun Jiuan had gone there...

(End of this chapter)