Walking into the Red Mansion starts from the maid

Chapter 25

"Excuse me, my lord, is there a woman named Zhao San here? We have something to look for her."

I heard that there have always been kidnappers in the capital, and the ones I like the most are single children of a few years old. Aunt Xue's house in Lixiangyuan bought a girl named Xiangling by accident.

If you want Yunzhu to say, whether that child is good or not, no matter how you look at it, it makes people feel like a fool.The maids privately rumored that it was because she was abducted when she was young and her fate was displaced.

The first time she saw this strange man, Yunzhu took a step back subconsciously, and couldn't help but glance at Duoguan, indicating that the man in front of her was not alone.

Standing outside the steps, Liu Ping saw the other party's vigilant look, the man in brown coarse shorts moved the corners of his mouth, and uncomfortably put down his high rolled up sleeves to cover his tanned and strong arms, then he cupped his hands and said, "Young lady is looking for a wife, why?"

Oh, not a kidnapper.

But, wife?
Sure enough, Yunzhu sent many officials away, and looked at Zhao San, who was dressed in coarse cloth, busy sweeping the mat. After sweeping the mat, he pulled her to look up and down. After a while, her eyes were red, and she dug out a bag of fried wheat tea from the cabinet step by step and handed it to Yunzhu.

After a year and a half apart, Zhao Sanming, who is in his teens, is still childish, but he wears a woman's hair in a bun. His sallow face shows that life is not going well, and the 'Liu Lang' outside is the one she married.

It's just that it's more like selling than marrying.

After all, Zhao San did not escape the fate of being sold for a few taels of silver. The Zhao family moved south after the autumn harvest a year ago, but Zhao San became Liu's daughter-in-law because of a foot injury that had not healed.

When she heard about moving south, Yunzhu completely let go of her grievances, as long as the family doesn't suck blood, she would like to die wherever she wants.

Liu's family was not in a good situation, as soon as he entered the house, there were bare walls visible to the naked eye, and the five liang of silver was estimated to be the entire savings of the family. Liu Ping was simply an orphan, and although Zhao San married, life was hard, but there was no other pressure.

Then as Zhao San slowly confided, Yunzhu was at a loss from the beginning, and then knew the reason for Zhao San's lameness, and then heard that after the Zhao family's parents moved south with only four siblings Zhao Qi, she sat stiffly on the threshold with anger, squeezed the teacup tightly, and there was a crackling sound from the joints, and gritted her teeth and growled, "Beast!"

Even if the tiger's poison does not eat children, this Zhao family is simply worse than the Devil's Den!
It's not enough to sell yourself, even the injured daughter is thrown away so casually, how can they be called individuals?

Zhao San's lameness was due to the fact that he stepped on the hunter's trap in order to go up the mountain to dig kudzu root for food. He followed the corner of the hunter's skirt and looked at the flesh-red scars on his ankle, which almost ran through the entire calf. It is enough to imagine the pain at that time.

She also has a bit of a tongue when she speaks now. The crux of the problem is that apart from the psychological damage caused by her foot injury, it is more because she bit her tongue repeatedly in the middle of her recovery.

After Yunzhu heard this, she couldn't suppress the anger all over her body. The red eyes of the two were filled with tears. Yunzhu stood up angrily, and squirmed back and forth in the room like flies.Seeing this, Zhao San had no choice but to go forward and hold her hand, and said slowly: "Don't... I'm angry, I'm not angry anymore."

Zhao San speaks very slowly now, and she is not as crisp and bright as she was more than a year ago. She tried her best to pronounce her words clearly, and her pronunciation was no different from that of ordinary people. The veins appeared on her tense neck. It is not difficult to see the great effort she has put in to speak well.

"They're gone, they're gone, Liu Lang and I have moved three times, and we'll never see them again." Zhao San spoke quickly, his brows and eyes were full of anger when he talked about the emergency, and his decisive tone was even more distressing.

Zhao Liu couldn't bear it for a long time. From the corner of his eyes, he saw Liu Lang going out with a bamboo basket. Two little girls, one tall and one low, hugged each other, and regarded each other as their own salvation.

Yunzhu sobbed and talked intermittently about what happened in the past year or so, but deliberately picked up some trivial things to make Zhao San laugh.She always complained in her heart that her fate was too short, that people who are used to freedom are trapped in that small world, waiting for the sledgehammer of fate to come again at some point.

She had been depressed, depressed, and depressed. When she woke up in the middle of the night, she didn't know where to go. She waited for the dawn and started to do repetitive, complicated and careful work again.Struggling to learn a craft, imagining that she can live and work in the distant future, so she took the trouble to ask Qingwen for advice.

The Q version of animal flowers has been drawn a lot, and Qingwen likes to play with her more and more. In this rich nest, she has seen three generations of mistresses wrestle their arms, and also see Xiren and their intrigues. Whenever she is clean, she hesitates and does not know where to go.

But seeing Zhao San at this moment, he suddenly redraws the blueprint for the future in his heart, and suddenly feels a strong force running through him.

"I can't always lose! I can't always be called to endure! I..." Looking at Zhao San's frown, Yunzhu realized that she was full of anger and followed the roar out of her heart.

"I know what I'm going to do!" Glancing at Zhao San's expression, the original goal in his heart became brighter, I want to make money!I want to break free from the mud, I want to watch the sun rise, the trees grow, the flowers bloom, the world pours cold water on me, and I mix it all up!

Yunzhu stood on the kang with her head upright, her eyes were so clear, she opened her mouth and drew a big cake: "Zhao San, believe me, we will live a happy and free life!"

Looking at the young girl who used to only know how to follow behind her buttocks, now she is full of pride, Zhao San is unconsciously led by her to look forward to it.

It's just that after looking up at the starry sky, you have to keep your feet on the ground. Yunzhu pulled Zhao San, who was five points similar to her, and the dog whispered against her ear and asked, "Have you two consummated your marriage?"

Shicai's admiring gaze towards the younger sister suddenly turned into fright, and then the blush slowly rose from the neck until his face was flushed, and then he slightly shook his head under Yunzhu's calm gaze.

Although no one has taught her, she probably knows the process of getting married... Although Zhao San doesn't understand it in detail, but such embarrassing things, even sisters, don't have any reason to make nonsense.

"Excellent, just keep it like this, let me tell you, girl..." Yunzhu pulled Zhao San straight and talked dryly, breaking apart the knowledge in the physiology class and pouring it into Zhao Liu's head.

From the beginning, Zhao San was arguing about Ai Ai, and turned into a blushing face behind him stuttering and answering eight or nine points. Only then did he get Yun Strict Master Zhu's approval.

In fact, Yunzhu didn't need to say it, Zhao San also knew that she couldn't have a child right now, but she only knew that she was short of money and couldn't raise a child. Now that Yunzhu explained it in detail, she clearly understood that she was not only responsible for the child, but also responsible for herself.

Thinking of what his parents did earlier, he took Zhao Liu's words as a standard in his heart, chewed them over and over again, and then turned them into deep approval.

"It's really different for a big family. Even these things are taught. Don't worry, I will definitely plan for myself, and I will definitely persuade Liu Lang. I will discuss this matter when I am seventeen or eighteen years old and I have some furniture." Although Zhao San blushed, he also agreed firmly.

She caressed Yunzhu's bun, recalling that when the two parted, Liu'er was still a silly little girl, but now she has grown so much in just over a year, even though the weather is calm, she doesn't know how much suffering she will suffer in that courtyard: "Have you suffered a lot?"

Although the heartfelt sentiments were expressed calmly, the twists and turns may only be known to those who have experienced them. Zhao San thought of this, and hurriedly changed the subject: "Eat something. Didn't the man driving the carriage at noon say he will pick you up in the evening?"

After finishing speaking, he got up and took out a small bag of flour from the cabinet, and went out to the kitchen with Yunzhu.

"It's not bitter, I'm not bitter, you don't have to worry about me, what do you and...brother-in-law do for a living now? How is the livelihood?" Yunzhu followed behind, twitching her tongue twice, remembering Zhao Santong's red face just now, and it took a lot of effort to call out the word brother-in-law.

"It's not really a job. Now your brother-in-law is a peddler, selling trinkets and seasonal snacks in the streets and alleys. I help people wash clothes outside, and the family occasionally sends some old food. Life is still going on." Zhao Sansheng lit the fire on the stove and asked Yunzhu to watch the fire, while he was busy kneading miscellaneous grain noodles.

Thinking of the much sought-after sugar seller she saw when she went out, Yun Zhu thought about it, and said softly: "The West Street is bustling, and I see that fresh sugar balls are easy to sell."

Lollipops, I haven't seen any child who doesn't like or is obsessed with them.

Zhao San pondered for a moment, showed a sour smile, shook his head and said, "I heard Liu Lang talk about the candy balls, and I heard that they can be made into fresh styles with bright colors, but the malt candies we buy now are only available in yellow and brown colors. Compared with the bright ones, our sales volume is mediocre."

In this era, maltose needs to be germinated and extracted from wheat. Wheat is a life-saving staple food in the northern region. There are not many people who have surplus food for sugar production. Refined sugar is rare. It is the ingenuity of rich people to make tricks on the basis of refined sugar.

In the era without artificial pigments, bright colors are even more difficult to find, such as spinach green, pomegranate red, chrysanthemum yellow...

Ordinary people don't even think about it.

Perhaps there was not enough flour, so Zhao San leaned over and took out two sweet potatoes under the chopping board, washed them, peeled them, and boiled them together in a pot. Seeing Zhao Liu's gaze on the sweet potatoes, he said, "This is sweet potato. Our family has grown it before. Maybe it's a different variety. The sweet potato in the capital is sweeter and softer. Although it's cheap, it's a pity that people don't like to buy it if they eat too much."

After a while, the steam around the pot was steaming, and Yun Zhu sat in front of the stove, her little face flushed, Zhao San saw her, and couldn't help but pick up her sister's money: "Let's eat sweet potato and mochi tonight, your favorite when you were young."

Mashi is the old cat's ears, and it is also called noodle slices in some places. It is not an amazing food, but in the poor families with expensive food, a bowl of carbon water is a rare delicacy.

(End of this chapter)