Walking into the Red Mansion starts from the maid

The capital is at the foot of the emperor, the capital of wealth and wealth.

No, just after the New Year's Eve, all the prefectures often have celestial music, and the streets are even more colorfully lit.

And the Jia Mansion, which always pays attention to luxury and ostentation, has won the honor of concubine visiting relatives this year, so it is naturally the most romantic of all.

All of a sudden, invitations from the families of princes in Beijing were flying all over the Jia mansion like snowflakes.

Years ago, the various prefectures traveled the most frequently, and even Baoyu had to meet Tianer to visit friends and show his face in person.As a result, Jiang Yunxuan's servants only need to keep a few gatekeepers, and the rest are all arranged to do 'coolies' elsewhere.

"Today, while the girls and wives are going to the Beijing Prince's Mansion Poetry Club, we are going to hang up the colorful silks in the family-saving villa. Everyone cheer up. This is the last time of the year. After finishing it, we can rest in peace. It's the Chinese New Year." The butler's wife shouted, and the colorful silks fell into the hands of everyone like clouds, waiting to send them to their final destination.

Yunzhu crumpled and held the silk. Fortunately, she also had a pair of rabbit leather gloves, otherwise it would be hard not to get chilblains this winter.

She took a closer look, and found that the girls sweeping in the yard had frostbite, and the red carrot-like fingers were soaked in hot water at night, not to mention painful and itchy, and there was a risk of ulceration. A box of clam oil It has become a precious object in the inner house.

Things that don't cost a penny in the summer, now soar to more than a dozen pennies, and they may not be available for purchase.

The two children gasped when they saw it, and Xiao Hong even stayed up late that night to make a pair of mouse leather gloves.

But let Yunzhu see that Xiaohong's gloves are for nothing, she is useless at all!

Just like in this cold day, Xiaohong entrusted her father and mother's blessings, and the lady in charge directly skipped her when she was catching the strong man. She only needed to guard Jiang Yunxuan, and she was already doing her duty, so why would she need to do such rough work? ?
"Ah!" Yunzhu sighed, feeling in her heart that regardless of any dynasty, fighting for father is the only way of life.

"My name is Cui Liu, and I'm in charge of cleaning in the west courtyard. Sister Yunzhu, let's rest. I'm used to these jobs. It's easy to do." Seeing a girl half a head taller than me smiling, she not only called me Sister, I still want to take the colored silk in my hand and prepare to do it alone.

This enthusiasm startled Yun Zhu, and she hurriedly said: "Sister Cui Liu is polite, wouldn't it be faster if we work together."

The girl smiled, and immediately took Yunzhu's arm, as if they were very close, and said with a smile: "First, Baoyu inscribed a plaque on the villa, such a grand and exquisite courtyard is not common in our house, let's take it easy If you work slowly, you will be lucky enough to see the yard."

This made Yunzhu unable to answer. The servant girl said that she was walking in the Rongguo Mansion. In fact, the wealth and romance in the mansion have nothing to do with these people. Just serving the master every day is already getting up early and working late. How much time to appreciate the exquisiteness of the yard?
It feels like a modern social animal, eager to be welded to death at the work station. How do you know the humanistic delicacy and natural nature in the city?
Those who visit them must not be laborers with a monthly salary of three to five thousand.

Seeing that Yunzhu didn't get along with her, Cui Liu babbled in front of Yunzhu again: "I'm afraid my sister doesn't know me, but I do know my sister."

"Oh?" Yunzhu cheered very politely, and motioned her to continue talking. It's a cold day, and it's good to be idle when you're idle. It's better to listen to other people's gossip and warm your ears.

"Qingwen, the needleworker in the front yard, can be regarded as a man of the hour in our house."

"That is."

"You also worshiped her as your master."

"Hey, it's embarrassing for her if she's not good at learning, don't talk about it, I'm ashamed."

"Her elder brother Wu Gui married Miss Zhao Deng'er in our yard last month to fill in the house. Why didn't you see my sister? You went with sister Qingwen?" Cui Liu went, and Zhao Deng'er happily invited everyone A servant who is familiar with the yard.

Everyone went for Qingwen's face, who knew that Qingwen didn't go, not even the sisters and sisters who were close to Qingwen on weekdays.

When the calculation came to nothing, Cui Liu took a deep breath in her heart and vowed to make Zhao Deng'er feel ashamed to be worthy of the twenty Wenxi money she had given her.

"Ah?" Yunzhu was confused, didn't Duoguan already married a wife and had children, how did this appear to fill the house?Yunzhu's doubts cannot be faked, Cui Liu's heart sank when she saw it.

It's over, twenty Wen is in vain.

Those many officials are now working on the Zhuangzi, and they may not come back three or two times a month. There is a saying that husbands sing and women follow, and Zhao Denger asked for the master's grace when he appointed, and followed to Zhuangzi.

You don't have to tell people to separate their husbands and wives, right?
Cui Liu seriously shook her head, sighed and said: "If you want me to say, with a decent girl like Sister Qingwen, even if she fills the house, many officials wouldn't want that notorious woman, she must have resorted to tricks to get into the position. "

As he said, the matter of Zhao Deng'er hanging out with Lai Shangrong, hanging out with a young man in the mansion in the flowers, and flirting with the second master Lian was accurate to the time and place, and he poured out Yunzhu in a low voice and excitedly. The appearance of the ground, as if personally experienced.

"Did you see it with your own eyes?" Yunzhu asked her suspiciously.

"That's not true, it's just that everyone spread it like this, and I heard it with my own ears." Cui Liu was a little embarrassed. She didn't expect Yun Zhu to react like this, but it was hard to continue talking about it, so she just talked about it without saying anything. come next.

No one would complain about their boss with someone they didn't know well, and it was the same in ancient times.

Even though there were so many gossips between the master and the son, and the little love of the second master Lian in the mansion alone could be talked about for a day and a night, the two still tacitly kept silent.It's just that the parents in the world are talking about the family's shortcomings, and Yunzhu feels that she can't get along with others, so she loses interest without saying a few words.

The colored silk on the beams of the house has long been hung up by craftsmen, just to keep the colors fresh and not dirty. The colored silk among the flowers and trees in the corridor needs to be hung by the maids, just to make everything perfect on the day of Yuan Shengqin.

After the two finished hanging up the colored silk in their hands, they went to other places to help.Said it was helping, but the discrimination was wandering around, walking and turning. This was the first time Yunzhu looked at such a huge yard.

Although it is unavoidable to be depressed in winter, the tables and positions have been set up under the corridor next to the flowers and trees. We only need to wait for the delicate flowers and green trees provided in the greenhouse to be moved over on the day of the Lantern Festival. I don't know what a beautiful image it is.

As he walked under his feet, he couldn't help but stared blankly.

So big and so beautiful.

She is a little poor at words, she was locked in Jiangyun Xuan in the past, and all she had contact with was making tea, delivering water, and making connections...

Looking at the empty plaque on the attic, it seems that the final nomination will not appear until Yuan Chun's approval. Ming Yunzhu didn't know where Yihong Courtyard was.

But no matter where, it is surrounded by pavilions, towers and pavilions, filled with rockery and flowing water. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is a scene at every step. Even if the cold wind blows her face, she unconsciously begins to look forward to the days after moving into this fairyland.

Before he knew it, he came to an attic above the running water, and when he was about to go around, he heard a string of smiles like silver bells.

Yunzhu was taken aback, and subconsciously moved a few times to the side of the rockery, only to see a woman in green trousers and a magenta pomegranate skirt walking in at the door. She looked coldly like an ordinary servant, with a delicate figure, and the person who pushed the door His hands were white and tender, and they looked even less like servants doing rough work.

On the contrary, it is like the girl next to the wives and grandmas, or it may be a girl.Seeing her walk in, Yunzhu wanted to leave, seeing that the ground was covered with ice, lest she would stain the newly made cotton shoes.So she was about to step back to the porch, when she raised her skirt and raised her legs, she heard the indistinct voice of a human being.

"Why are you here now, didn't you tell you to stay at home?" It was a male voice, and it was not surprising that there was a servant cleaning up the yard in the inner courtyard right now.

"If I don't come, you're a blind man. I don't know what kind of rags you'll take back." This beautiful female voice sounded a little old, with a sarcastic and eager look, which made Yunzhu stop in her tracks.

Collect the trash.

The servants took the idle items rewarded by the master out of the house, some were sold, and some were used for their own use. Many big girls with high status called this kind of behavior in private as collecting rags. After all, the master would rather keep the good things in the warehouse. , and will not reward people easily.

"What's this talking about? The eldest girl hasn't come back to visit her relatives, and I can't take those conspicuous things? Go back, and we'll talk about it after the first month."

"Oh, it's all here." The female voice said hastily.

"Shut up, I'm not at home on weekdays, and I've moved a lot of things back, and you should take care of your sister, come to our house for free if you have nothing to do, what do you say?"

The female voice remained silent for a long time, and the voice in the room paused for 2 minutes, before conceding again: "I am also straightforward, don't get angry, you are healthy now, don't come out to run around in winter, if something goes wrong , tell me and Jing Jing how to live?"

Jingjing might be their family, Yunzhu guessed.

"Is this okay?"

"No."

"what about this?"

"That's not okay, it's so conspicuous, won't the butler know it as soon as he checks it tomorrow?"

After asking several times in a row if it was okay, Yunzhu was flustered, and felt that she couldn't listen any more, so she raised her skirt quietly, and was about to run to the other end of the corridor in a blink of an eye.

However, God did not wish.

The door creaked again, looking through the cracks in the rockery, the woman in the magenta pleated skirt just stepped out of the room with something in her arms, with a satisfied face on her face: "I'll go back first , waiting for you to come back tonight!"

When she went in, her belly wasn't that big, but when she came out, she was slightly pregnant. Was she looking at people like a fool?

"Okay, okay, be careful on the road, don't..." The man looked around, pushing and shoving the woman out the door.

That appearance, I don't know which wife's new girl, Yunzhu searched all over her mind, but she couldn't figure out her name.

But Yunzhu could see clearly that the young man worked beside Jia Zheng and worked under Xing'er's subordinates, and he was an 'honest man' who was unknown on weekdays, how could he be so crazy?How dare you steal something in the Grand View Garden?
According to the law, slaves and servants who steal are punished according to the degree of whipping, sentencing to be expelled from the house or beheading, and even serious beatings to death. Are these people crazy?
Yunzhu didn't dare to stay longer, and it was almost time for dinner, and she didn't want to be hungry in the Grand View Garden, blowing the cold wind, so the two walked forward, and Yunzhu went straight to the sewing room.

Blowing on the hot water cup in her hand, Yunzhu's expression was hidden in the water vapor, and she couldn't see clearly, but her words reached Qingwen's ears in a daze.

She seemed a little dazed, just because Yunzhu usually didn't like to inquire about news, she looked like a diligent quail, but now she was not used to it.

Seeing that Qingwen was silent, Yunzhu couldn't help asking with concern: "How is sister-in-law recuperating now?" She was still at a loss, although she had some guesses in her heart, she still refused to believe it.

Qingwen was silent for a while before she said to Yunzhu: "Brother said that he fell while washing clothes by the river, and was found after lying in the snow for half a day. After returning home...he had a high fever. At once……"

She stared blankly at the cup.

Yunzhu felt that the warm breath in the room dissipated in an instant, and it was as quiet as a hole in ice.

The two sat opposite each other for a long time, silent, after all, this sounded too bizarre.

"Do you also think I'm too cold-blooded? Poor my niece is now in her infancy. If she can find a kind stepmother, maybe she can still have a job. Originally, I have been looking for the girl who will be released after the next year. We also want to find him a gentle and peaceful place, but he..." Qingwen said these things slowly, her throat choked several times, obviously extremely uncomfortable.

The first is that the gentle and kind sister-in-law has gone;

When Qingwen thought of Duoguan's appearance of being stuck in a dead end, her hands and feet became cold, and she never thought that cousin Wu Gui, who took care of herself as a family member, would think like that!
She never thought of finding someone like Miss Deng to go home to be her sister-in-law, so she deliberately turned a deaf ear to Wu Gui's new marriage, and never told anyone around her. she.

When many people in the mansion who knew the inside story came to congratulate her, they all stabbed them with sneering words.

Because Yunzhu was silent, both of them obviously knew about Zhao Denger's "heroic" deeds, so they both sighed.

Listening to Qingwen's low sobs, Yunzhu didn't know what was going on in her heart.I had no choice but to go forward and hand over the handkerchief, and then comforted me with gentle words, talking about the love affair I saw on the wall when I went to Lai's house to congratulate him last year.

After thinking about it, he told Qingwen about the scene when the multi-official daughter-in-law had a baby and met Zhao Deng'er.

Before Qingwen asked what was going on, Yunzhu smiled wryly and said: "Now that the man is gone, the most important thing is to be alive. I looked at Zhao Deng'er coldly, and he seemed to be able to live a peaceful life. What happened in the past is a foregone conclusion, and now my little niece needs you."

She didn't ask Qingwen why she didn't go and didn't inform everyone. Qingwen has a good face, so there is no need to dig up those old things in detail.Just pointing out Qingwen on the sidelines, it is better to send the lamp girl to Zhuangzishang to be with many officials earlier, so as to avoid a lot of wind and rain in the inner house.

"I also need to find a reliable nanny." Yunzhu thought for a while and added another one.Wu Gui is a reckless man, raising the unweaned toddler may be a laborious effort, no matter how flirtatious Miss Deng is, she is a girl's family after all, and it is difficult for a clever woman to live without rice.

Qingwen was stunned for a moment, then sighed again.

"You are right to be concerned."