Walking into the Red Mansion starts from the maid

Chapter 23
Listening to the voices outside, Qingwen also realized that what she just said was inappropriate, so she hurriedly stopped talking.

Sniffing, then pulled out a piece of handkerchief from his bosom to wipe away his tears, raised his head and took a few deep breaths, then looked at the two people and said in a breathless tone: "I'll go to Xuezhai first, and I'll wait for you there after I've finished shopping? Go home now, we'll just go back before dark."

Hearing this thorough arrangement, Yunzhu felt more and more cramped. She thought that Qingwen's arrogant personality was caused by someone, but she didn't expect her life experience to be a bit worse than her own. No wonder she never mentioned her family in ordinary chats.

It turned out to be the case.

Thinking of this, Yunzhu's heart became softer, her baby fat face was full of seriousness, and she said in an old-fashioned way like a little adult: "Don't worry, we can depend on each other in the future, if I have a bite of meat, I will definitely have a bite of meat for you!"

Qingwen snorted, and said unceremoniously: "I will share the pine nut candy on my body."

Seeing that Yunzhu's mouth became O-shaped in surprise, Zhuzhu also suppressed her smile and joked: "Oh, pine nut candy is not meat after all. They only say to share a piece of meat with you. Why do you want other people's pine nut candy!"

Yunzhu likes pine nut candy very much. The sugar content is insufficient, but the aroma is overflowing. Feeling the crumbling front teeth in her mouth, all she can eat is traditional low-sugar snacks like pine nut candy, which are full of oily fragrance.

She shared all the other snacks very generously, only pine nut candy, and she was heartbroken for a long time even when she gave Qi Xing two pieces.

Now seeing Qingwen begging seriously, she thought she was changing the subject, but seeing the other party's expression, another white and tender hand was waving back and forth in front of her eyes, she was dazed for several breaths, before she wrinkled her face into a walnut, and took out a small oiled paper bag from her purse under Yinwei.

"That's all. The kitchen said that the price of pine nuts has increased, and it's been a long time since I made them." Yunzhu looked distressed, and carefully only opened the two corners of the oiled paper bag.

Seeing Qingwen unceremoniously picked up a big piece, Yunzhu, whose eyes were glued to the pine nut candy, almost cried, this is the last stock in stock!

The masters don't seem to like pine nut candy, they like the kind of pastry candy that is either oily or sour, so this stuff is made fresh in Jia's mansion for seasonal solar terms.

And the gang in the kitchen are ruthless. They only say that buying pine nuts is expensive, but they charge two to three hundred cash for a catty of pine nut candies, plus extra human tips. If you want to eat pine nut candies, you have to prepare half a month's wages!

It doesn't get any darker than that.

"Look at how stingy you are, can I teach you how to embroider double-sided cats later?" Qingwen was busy early in the morning, and then she was dragged by Qilu to talk privately, and she hurried out of the house before she had a good lunch. Now, smelling the smell of food coming in from outside, she suddenly felt hungry.

Yunzhu was the closest to her, and the aroma of pine nuts from the purse in her bosom almost permeated her whole body, plus what the child said about meat and soup, Qingwen, who was always outspoken, naturally spoke uprightly.

I just pity Yunzhu, she opened her mouth in pain after hearing this, she didn't know what to do to answer, the two older ones couldn't straighten up laughing even more when they saw this.

A few people were laughing and playing, following the carriage, they stopped after a while, looked up, and there was the words Xuezhai hanging on the archway.

Xuezhai is located on the West Street. This area is full of teahouses, bookstores and antique shops. Every household is covered with green walls and black tiles. The heights are scattered and interesting. Even the stone lions placed at the entrances of the shops look stunning.

It's completely different from the down-and-out figure in the busy city just now, with a taste of nobility everywhere.

When Qingwen was put down at the gate of Xuezhai, the officials pulled the three of them and told them: "I thought it was difficult for you to come out of the house, so I wanted to take you to see the jugglers on the long street. Last year, there was a team of jugglers from the Western Regions stationed there. The acrobatics of dancing fire and knives are quite beautiful.

It's a pity that I have important work to do today, and now I have to go out of the city after taking you to the place, so I can't make a special trip to accompany you to see it.

But I will return home at about the right time, you can wait for me in Xuezhai together, or you can wait for me at the overpass on the long street, we can take a detour there, take a look along the way, and don't run around to other places. "

Duoguan often wandered around the capital and was very familiar with the terrain. He instructed the four of them to confirm the meeting place, then pulled two pearls straight across the West Street, turned a few turns along the alley, and stopped the car firmly in front of an alley, and then called into the car: "Miss Pearl, this is your house, you go, I see you enter the house before going."

In Yunzhu's view, although this official is a little casual, he has a chivalrous heart, which is not as unbearable as Xiren's frequent ridicule of Qingwen's family background.

Zhu Zhen bid farewell to Yun Zhu, then turned to get out of the car, bowed to the officials, thanked many officials, and then turned around and left gracefully. There was a pair of copper rings embedded in the old elm courtyard door, only Pearl clicked a few times, and a little doubtful head poked out from inside after a while.

Seeing Pearl's appearance, the puzzled expression on his little head immediately turned into joy. Pearl entered the yard and waved to the carriage before closing the door.

Zhao Liu's former "home" lived in a remote place, which was half a slum in the west of Gyeonggi.

The carriage left the market, and it took a few miles to arrive at the original Zhao Liu's house.To play a full set, this trip should be inquiring about housing prices in the capital, you can't use the excuse of going home to go out, but don't do business at all, right?What's more, I want to find out where Zhao San is now.

Xiren intentionally or unintentionally didn't tell her where Zhao Sanmarried was. She didn't know until she got out of the gate of Rongguo Mansion. The capital is so big that there is no place to ask.

In the big city of Nuo, looking around, there is no other place for the original body to go except for the sturdy old lady's family?
What a pity!

But seeing Duoguan riding a carriage all the way west, Yunzhu had no choice but to lift the curtain of the carriage, sit behind Duoguan, let the east wind blow on his face, and start looking at the shops and scenes on both sides.

"Miss Yunzhu, this outer city is notoriously noisy and remote. Are you sure your family still lives here? You heard it just now, and asked the old man. He also said that there is no family named Zhao nearby with seven children!" Duo Guan drove the carriage and walked slowly, intending to let Yunzhu see more clearly.

I haven't lived in the place for a long time, Yunzhu is rarely silent, thinking about her current appearance, what if she comes to the door and is treated as a little fat sheep?
When the carriage turned a corner along the main road, the scene ahead became brighter again.The familiar pond, the crooked-neck tree.

"That's right, big brother, it's just ahead, the yard behind that locust tree is my home! Just put me down here, it's not easy to turn around in front." This place should be the original Zhao Liu's home, and Yunzhu has neither sadness nor joy in her heart, only some flustered emotions that don't belong to her.

"Okay, you go ahead." After visually inspecting the road ahead, Duoguan nodded, stopped the carriage in place, and said that he would watch Yunzhu go back before leaving.

She leaned on the side of the car, caressing her chest seemingly unintentionally, and said to herself, silly boy, where were you sold from, and that was the place you should hate.

But as the pace approached, perhaps because of the original body, the heart that did not belong to her beat even more happily, Yunzhu sighed, the original body was still a child at heart.

At this time, Duoguan was dubious in his heart. It didn't make sense for the old man to say that he didn't know about such a close place?But he didn't like to ask too many questions, and Yunzhu was a little girl, so it's normal if she couldn't remember clearly, at worst, she went around to look for it, anyway, it was still early.

He looked up at the sun, well, the Wei hour had just passed, and it was too late to go out of the city at the Shen hour.

However, Yunzhu couldn't help thinking too much, Duoguan laughed heartily and said, "Go and see, it's still like a pearl, I'll leave after you enter the house."

Yunzhu smiled sweetly and said, "Hey! Thank you, Brother, today, so I will take my leave."

Getting on and off the carriage with short legs is not as convenient as two big ones. Duoguan was about to help put a small table, when Yunzhu walked out of the carriage, sat on the edge of the carriage with her skirts in her arms, propped up her hands, jumped, and stood conveniently on the ground.

Unlike the girl next to her, she was a little bit dexterous in her actions, Duoguan thought with a smile, turned around and sat up straight again, watching Yunzhu walk towards the old locust tree.

Yunzhu trotted a few steps, and stood in front of the gate, she didn't hear the crowing of the chickens in the house, she had been feeding those chickens for a month, and the afternoon was the time for laying eggs, and she liked to cluck the most, and it was quiet today.

Although he had doubts in his heart, he bent his fingers kindly and knocked on the wooden door with his joints.

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No one answered.

After listening carefully, she knocked a few more times. Not long after this, there was the sound of rustling footsteps from inside. Yunzhu took a breath, brushed off her skirt, and waited to see the surprised expression of the sturdy old lady.

After a while, the wooden door squeaked, and a handsome young man came out from inside, and met Yunzhu's eyes as soon as he lowered his head.

"Who are you looking for?"

The hoarse voice in the voice-changing period did not match the handsome young man's face. He was wrapped in an old gray linen jacket, and his face was full of doubts, adding a bit of leisure.

This is not from the Zhao family. Looking at the spotless small courtyard behind the young man, although the light and shadow are a bit dim, the air is faintly scented with the scent of Sophora japonica flowers. Where is this Zhao family full of chicken feces and stale smell?Yunzhu was suffocated, and then asked cautiously: "Is this the Zhao family?"

"You found the wrong one." The young man's face changed from doubt to indifference, and he was about to close the courtyard door when another beautiful female voice came from the courtyard.

The female voice asked delicately: "Husband, who is it?"

The indifference on the young man's face bloomed like a spring flower, he changed his face instantly, turned around and said, no one, just the one who came to the wrong door.

Seeing that the courtyard door was about to close, Yunzhu woke up suddenly, inserted one hand into the door to block the door that was about to close, and asked urgently, "It's the Zhao family who lived here before! Do you know where her house is?"

Before the man could answer, a beautiful woman with a big belly came out from the shadows, wearing a white-washed cotton skirt, standing behind the young man with her big belly full of kindness, seemingly pulling the man unintentionally.

With this pull, the man immediately gave up the place under his feet, and the hand that closed the door immediately went to support the woman, and he couldn't help complaining: "Didn't you talk about a stranger, what are you doing here? Get a good rest."

The indifference just now was completely gone in the expression, full of worry and concern, and when the beautiful woman spoke, she held her waist carefully.

"Where are you so delicate? The doctor also said that you need to walk more, you don't have to be so careful." Qingli woman said to the man, then turned to look at Yunzhu, and she was even more surprised after seeing Yunzhu's appearance.

She tentatively asked, "Are you Zhao Liu?"

(End of this chapter)