Walking into the Red Mansion starts from the maid

Miaoyu is a disciple of Buddhism, but his words and deeds are very similar to those of Lao and Zhuang. He is a person who is always troubled and open-minded.

No, when Baoyu smiled brightly, he opened his mouth and poured cold water on it, "I heard that Madam is going to send some people to Zhuangzi. My place is always clean. I didn't say this. Who do you want to ask to leave?"

Seeing Baoyu's expression change, Qixie felt panicked and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade him pitifully, "Baoyu doesn't care about these mundane affairs, and my wife may not be willing to make him sad, so let's not mention this matter for now."

Looking at Baoyu who was stunned at the side, Yunzhu was too lazy to respond.Turning around, she saw Miaoyu in high spirits. Although she said it casually, it was obvious that she wanted to watch the excitement. She didn't like most of the maids in Yihongyuan. She should be happy whoever left.

The autumn wind changes from time to time. It was still cool and golden when I came back from Jia Muyuan. As the sun sets in the west, it gradually becomes bone-chilling.

Baoyu's solemn look passed over the faces of the maids, and he wanted to say something, but in the end he only said, "I'll go find the old lady."

With that said, he and Miaoyu left Yihongyuan and went straight to Jia Muyuan. It seemed that they had developed some sense of responsibility.

In this courtyard, the most disappointed person is Yunzhu.

She originally thought that this was a good time to leave her slave life and find a way to make a living.It also saves me from being melancholy day and night in this wealthy family. If one day an errand gets caught by mistake, it will really be a leap from the wolf's den to the tiger's den.

But if it’s three to two hundred taels, forget it, it’s only 200 taels of silver!

She was confused and at a loss. She felt that it was okay to grit her teeth and push forward, but what happened after she finished pushing through?People have two mouths to eat, drink, and have sex with. The world is difficult, and Zhao San is not sure yet. Is it possible to start wandering around in the world with only 200 taels of silver?

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Qixie coming beaming with joy, "I have something important to tell you."

"Is there any reward?" Yunzhu said reflexively.

Qixie rolled her eyes at her and said angrily, "Go! When did Baoyu become useless to everyone?"

Not that.

"The old lady said that picking is also about picking out those redundant people who are no longer needed. There is no such thing as a boss who has to employ people. It really scares me to do that by relying on everyone..." Qixi was still frightened, looking at He glanced at Yunzhu a few times and said in a low voice, "I thought our family was going bankrupt."

I have to say that you briefly touched the truth.

Yunzhu clutched her handkerchief with a complicated expression, pursed her lips, and finally had no choice but to be happy together with Qixie.

Otherwise, what else could she do? Now she couldn't bear to take 500 taels for Jia's dog.

After working for four years, if she hadn't racked her brains to save money to make money, she would have been able to take out 500 taels, let alone 50 taels.

Look, it is indeed on the verge of bankruptcy. Even the employees who have shared the joys and sorrows together want to squeeze out the bones and suck out the marrow before throwing them away.

As if she suddenly remembered something, she winked at Qi Xie and said to please, "Don't let Baoyu know about it, otherwise he will be unhappy and stop paying the reward."

Just as he was talking, a man wearing red and green walked into the yard...it was Jia Baoyu. This man has always been a man of discretion, but now he doesn't know who made him feel uncomfortable again.

"Hey, Second Master, what's going on? How about asking the kitchen to send you a cup of hawthorn sweet soup tonight? I'll feel sour after eating it." Qixie walked in front of Yunzhu, wanting to make Baoyu happy.

Of course Yunzhu noticed Baoyu's expression.

It's strange. Since Qixie said that Yihongyuan didn't need to send people out, it meant that Jia Baoyu's plea to Jia Mu had worked. Why wasn't he happy?Could it be that he was offended by another girl again?
Qixie was like an old lady who caressed cats, and she was very experienced in handling heavy and heavy tasks. Therefore, after a few words, Baoyu puffed out her mouth and started pouring acid water. How about moving out on your own?"

The expressions of the two girls were "Sure enough".

"There must be a reason. I heard that His Majesty gave Miss Lin a plaque for the Princess's Mansion. It seems that she is asking Miss Lin to go to the house to warm up the house?"

Yunzhu: "Yes, yes, not to mention that this process of accepting gifts and asking for names has no reason to be carried out in the same mansion. If others see it, I'm afraid it will be ugly."

The two maids listened clearly to what was said at noon. Baoyu's marriage was coming to an end. The two mistresses, Mrs. Wang and the old lady, had already made up their minds. Jia Zheng should have nothing to object to. What's more, what's going on with Jia Baoyu now?
If nothing else goes wrong, there will be no accidents in the officialdom in this life. Daiyu, who can climb into the princess's body, has no time to wake up from her dream, so how can she break up the mandarin ducks?
The first lady, Mrs. Wang, thought that Daiyu was too melancholy and sick to sit in the position of Second Grandma Bao, but now that Baoyu had lost half of her future, she still dared to ignore her.

But Jia Baoyu has a very clear mind. He is still struggling, "Our house is so big and there is no place to hang a plaque. How good is the Xiaoxiang Pavilion?"

Yunzhu, Qixie: "..."

Do you hear what you are saying? This is human language. The plaque I gave to the Lin family is hanging on your Jia family. What do you want to do?
Yunzhu looked at Qixie and said goodbye. When he went out, he couldn't help but think about a question: Can a marriage between two jade lovers really happen?

Xiaoxiang Pavilion always turns off the lights early, and Daiyu is a well-behaved person. In Xueyan's words, she has never had such a comfortable sleep since she was born, so of course she must seize the time to sleep.

When it gets dark, no one knocks on the door.

But Xueyan will be a night wandering god for a while today.Before Yunzhu started to start the bird's nest stewed with hoof flowers, he heard Snow Goose knocking on the door, "What are you eating? It smells so good. Open the door quickly, I have something for you!"

Yunzhu straightened her back, pushed a bowl of mixed dinner to the table that made the cook roll her eyes, and said with a smile, "New dishes, new dishes, hahaha, what are you holding? It's so big."

A long piece of paper wrapped in furoshiki had to be held upright to enter Yunzhu's bedroom door, causing the maids on the left and right to gather around to watch.

"Originally I wanted to ask you to get it, but I thought that my girl was asleep and it was difficult to open the courtyard door, so I got through the corner door." After saying that, he unfolded the baggage and opened a few corn stalks in the room. Lying down, there was still an ear of corn on the cob that had not been broken off, and the snow goose said like a treasure,

"Look, it's Mrs. Hu who sent it to you. I wanted to show it to you by name. It has just been delivered to our yard. I was afraid that the color would not be visible after drying it early tomorrow morning, so I sent it to you first."

"corn?"

"It's Yumai." Xue Yan corrected him, but after a moment he also laughed. What does it matter what he calls it?She just did what her girl's benefactor told her to do.

Yunzhu broke off the two palm-long corn cobs. Maybe he had been walking on the road for several days. The corn kernels were all dry and dented, and they looked dull. No one who looked at them would think that this was a corn cob. Something to eat.

"Just, how many food crops have been sent from so far away?" Yunzhu looked at Xueyan in disbelief.

She was very considerate. Once she became an official, she could just send the escort agency to work at will. She traveled thousands of miles just to deliver two corns. Mrs. Hu's willfulness was beyond imagination.

Xue Yan nodded and said that there was actually a letter that came with him, but her girl hadn't read it yet, and she didn't know if there was any content for Yunzhu in it, so she excused herself from asking the girl tomorrow before telling her if there was any. Nothing follows.

A group of maids were chattering. Seeing that they were two worthless plants, neither attractive nor valuable, they exchanged a few words and dispersed. Only Xueyan was still asking, why did Mrs. Hu give this to her? thing. "you ask me?"

Yunzhu was able to take out her own bird's nest hoof flowers, and then took out a small plate to hold the red oil chili sauce she made. She carefully cut the stewed hoof buns into small pieces with chopsticks and dipped them in. Chili, and roll in a piece of green chopped green onion.

"You have to wait until your girl reads the letter to know what Mrs. Hu means?"

Yunzhu was always extremely pious and patient when it came to eating. Now facing the two corn cobs on the table, she actually ate with a sense of tranquility and ease.

Yunzhu chewed the tendons and raised another piece of hoof meat, "I stewed it myself. Do you want to eat it?"

Xue Yan was too young to withstand the temptation, so she nodded immediately, took out a pair of chopsticks and sat down, saying, "Can I accompany you with the bird's nest and pig's trotters?"The movements of his hands did not stop at all, and he praised, "I think your pudding recipe is very good. We make it every day in our yard now. Let me try this."

Yunzhu: Actually, I'm just being polite.

"Delicious!" Xue Yan squinted her eyes. The girl in her family didn't like meat and fish. Over time, the tastes of the servants also became lighter. Now, a sudden mouthful of rich red sauce brought back the long-lost happiness.

"But, why add bird's nest?" The bird's nest dipped in chili sauce is really weird.

Now that you have the initiative to eat, Yunzhu lightly dragged the plate, and a chopstick fight ensued. She gritted her teeth and said, "The bird's nest is the dregs collected by Sister Qi from the warehouse." It’s about not eating and wasting food.”

Not only stewed pig's trotters, Yunzhu also made spicy shredded chicken and bird's nest, and spicy and sour bird's nest and vermicelli soup... She has been very concerned about raising herself since the first day she entered Jia's house.

"Leave a piece for me and stew a pig's trotters."

"Well, I'll bring you three pig's trotters tomorrow!"

Everything in Yihongyuan is good, but it's too big, not close to the kitchen, and it's inconvenient to open a fire by yourself because of the crowds of people.

That night, Yunzhu fell asleep with a flat stomach again.She fell asleep quickly with an empty stomach, but in her dream, she saw the mountains and seas full of Mrs. Wang shouting at her, 500 taels, 500 taels, you can't even think of walking out of the gate of Rongguo Mansion without 500 taels!
Sure enough, I woke up with a fright.

The genius was bright, and when he looked out the window, what caught his eye were two corn stalks inserted among the flowers, with their thin, curled and yellowed leaves hanging down.

The corn cobs on the table in the house were even more shriveled, and white mycelium had grown between the seeds.

Mrs. Hu gave this to her, what was she doing?

Xueyan said that she didn't come to see her the next day. It wasn't that Yunzhu missed the three pig trotters, but she was curious whether Mrs. Hu mentioned herself in the letter to Daiyu.

But three days passed, and all I could tell was that Madam Hu had returned to Beijing. Seeing Xue Yan's face full of apologies, she thought that Dai Yu would never withhold letters from others, so she didn't mention herself?
Yunzhu decided to go out of the house to have a look.

How could a living person choke to death? Two stalks of corn were brought to her out of nowhere. It couldn't be that she wanted to taste the roasted corn rice.

Just after saying that Yihongyuan had few things to do, the busyness at the end of the year got in the way. Yihongyuan removed its layoff target. Everyone felt relaxed and became a little lazy at work.

After the seniority ranking, Yunzhu didn't get a holiday until November.

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Following the direction of Zhao San's house, they ran all the way towards Hu Junrong's house. The carriage stopped at the door. Yunzhu carried a bag of ginkgo fruits, a bag of jasmine tea, and a knife of lamb meat, bringing out all the Spring Festival etiquette.

After getting out of the car, I straightened my clothes and then knocked on the door of Hu's house.

"Who are you?"

Yunzhu met the silly boy from the Hu family. The two of them were about the same height when they were separated last time. Now that he has grown half a head, he felt a little strange about his height.

Then he stepped up the steps with a smile, and said in a friendly and polite manner, "I am the younger sister of Sister Zhao San. I am here to visit Mrs. Hu. May I ask if this is Dr. Hu's family?"

The sicker the child is, the more he expects to be treated with normal social attitudes. When the boy heard Yunzhu's impartial words, his tone suddenly improved a lot, "It turns out to be Sister Zhao Liu, and this is the Hu family."

Then he said in a friendly manner, "My mother mentioned you last month and asked if you were detained."

Detained?
Just as Mrs. Hu arrived, Yunzhu saw Mrs. Hu holding a basin of yellow flour in her hand. She looked around at the door and suddenly pulled Yunzhu into the yard.

"Come on, are you okay?"

"Oh, how can a big family and a big business be short of two mouths of food? It's really a crime to send people to Zhuangzi in the middle of winter!"

"You kid, you're just here. What do you want to bring? I'll get you some Jinling's dried duck wings in a while, and you can take them back to make snacks!"

Before Yunzhu could speak, he first heard Mrs. Hu complaining. It seemed that a lot of things had happened outside these days.

It was difficult to answer what the Jia family was like, so Yunzhu asked first, "How do you know that the Rongguo family sent people to Zhuangzi?"

Mrs. Hu looked at the sky speechlessly and took the child to the kitchen to watch the fire before explaining, "You know, the storytellers on the street have spread the word. If I hadn't invited Hanako to guard the city gate and knew you didn't come out, I’m afraid I can’t help but go see Miss Lin.”

Although Xue Yan regarded Mrs. Hu as her savior, in fact, it was extremely difficult for a female family member of a low-ranking sixth-grade imperial family to meet the daughter of a guest princess.

Yunzhu said with a smile, "It's so easy to come out. If you want to leave your country, you need 500 taels of silver."

Speaking of silver, Mrs. Hu turned around and started looking through the dowry.

Looking at the interior decoration and the homely atmosphere throughout the house, I thought that I wouldn't be moving for a while.Now that Dr. Hu has returned from Jinling, he has made a great contribution. Maybe in the future, Mrs. Hu, the wife of an official, will be able to follow her to the next level.

Mrs. Hu held a letter and a bag of corn seeds and handed them to Yunzhu with a solemn expression, "This is what Zhao Santuo Lao Hu wrote for you. The couple..."

Her heart was squeezed in an instant, and Yunzhu was taking in more air and outgoing air without pausing. Mrs. Hu's expression alone was enough to send chills to her limbs, "What's wrong with them?"

She asked cautiously, with a cry in her voice. She didn't know for a moment whether she felt sorry for Zhao San or for her own 900 taels of silver.

(End of this chapter)