in charge

Crows crowed all over the sky.

On a corner of the eaves sits a wind beast, with its claws covered with bluestone balls and its mouth open with fangs.

In the afternoon, the summer branches are watered with spring water, and the ginkgo spits out new green, and several branches stretch out outside the wall.

The girl guarding the courtyard gate was sitting on a wooden bench leaning against a tree, half asleep and half awake.The old copper hairpin is in a bun, and with the sleepy head, it emits a faint light in the sun.

In addition to birds chirping, and then human voice.

Clap—clap—the copper rings on the door vibrated.

The bird started.The girl's eyes suddenly widened.

"Who, pick a good time to come? I don't know where the girl is taking a nap?" Complaining about disturbing the dream, she dared not speak loudly, fearing that it might be some master.

Papa—this is urgent.

The girl just moved the tie, and let the outside force rush back a few steps.

As the saying goes, there are such servants as there are masters.

After seeing who was coming, the girl dared to speak, "Mother An, you are being chased by a dog?"

Mrs. An spat, but she didn't have a real temper, and her face was wrinkled with a smile, "The dog didn't chase, but the magpie pecked it. Luju, is the girl there? Tell me inside."

When Lu Ju saw that the most capable woman in charge in front of her wife actually tolerated her this time, she knew that something good must happen.However, if the good thing happened before, it may not be really a good thing if it falls into this courtyard.

"Mother Ann, take a break." Turning around, she poured a cup of tea from the low table, "I brewed it for a while, and it was still warm. It's neither hot nor cold, and it's refreshing to drink. It's not like you don't know, The girl has been exhausted recently, so she will rest for half an hour after noon, and she is falling asleep now. How about you drink slowly, let's have a casual conversation, and when there is any movement in the room, I will send it to you immediately."

"Oh, is this something we can wait for? All the houses in front are overjoyed, and the maids are serving the girls without touching the ground. You are free. Luju, hurry up and take a look for me, maybe the girls Wake up." Mrs. An smiled and drank the tea to a drip.

Lu Ju is a second-class maid, and Mrs. An is a first-class old servant, but today this woman is extraordinarily polite.

The girl is a clever girl. She usually looks at the wrong nose and eyes, but she stretches out her hand not to slap the smiling face. She also smiled, "Mama, please sit down, I'll ask."

"Good girl, thanks to you. I'll wait outside for the girl's biography." Mrs. An's face froze with a smile.

With a movement of the hibiscus flower skirt, Green Chrysanthemum walked into the main room.

Mrs. An put the saucer in one hand and covered it with the other. She stopped drinking tea and stared in the direction of the main room, her old face showing disgusted disdain, "Master is not like master, and girl is not like girl."

Green Chrysanthemum enters the house through the bamboo curtain.

In the square-eyed copper furnace with half-walled square eyes of plum-bone leaf bamboo, there is a faint ray of pale color, which smells like peonies and lilies. It is not cold but warm in spring, not thick but sweet.

Green Chrysanthemum went to the east again, gently opened the curtain, only poked her head, and looked quietly.A layer of Yunxi gauze is stretched in front of the bed made of bainiaoli wood, revealing a slender figure closing inwards.

That is not waking up.

The girl's temperament is not clay.

Green Chrysanthemum was in a difficult situation, she couldn't offend those in the front, let alone offend those in the inside, so she just hung the curtain there, unable to advance or retreat.

Suddenly, someone patted her on the back, not heavy, but frightening enough.When I turned my head, there was a big commotion accidentally, which made the bamboo curtain want to knock on the door.

A white and moist hand like the tip of a shelled bamboo shoot pulled the swaying curtain and carefully closed the door.

"Mo Zi." Luju caressed her heart, "I was so frightened that I lost my soul."

A pair of autumn-washed water eyes let the fine sky outside cast shadows of broken leaves.The sound is steady and faint, like a drop of emerald green in clear water, so that the listener cannot ignore it.

"Sneaky, wake up the girl, you ask for a beating yourself, but it has nothing to do with me."

The other green hand holds the mahogany tray steadily, with a white porcelain teapot and cups on top of it with a blue smoke bottom.On her wrist, which is more delicate than white porcelain, she doesn't wear a single bracelet.Narrow-sleeved cloud-colored spring pomegranate dress, willow green leaves are as old as armor, a new tea green silver belt around the waist, not even a sachet pouch, and the hair is only tied tightly with satin.

Such a plain-colored person, when he first started serving the girl, he stuck behind him like a gray shadow, and it took half a decade for Lu Ju to gradually take care of him.

"Mo Zi, look at you bringing tea, but the girl is about to wake up?" The first thing the girl wakes up is to drink a cup of warm tea.

"About two minutes. The girl woke up early yesterday. I'm afraid that if I wake up early again, I have something to say when the tea comes late, so I will prepare it first." Mo Zi glanced at the sunlight streaming in from the side, "You are on duty today, run away What are you doing in the house?"

"It should be the job of the little girl. Why didn't she have an assignment when she came to our girl's yard?" Luju said with a broken mouth, "It's obvious that she bullied us. But the girl doesn't care about it, and we have to take turns to guard the gate. Under the big sun, The sun made my throat smoke. I am not afraid of the sun. After all, I have been out with girls and suffered crimes outside. I am annoyed that I have to do the part of the little girls when I go home, and let the people in front of me squeeze us openly and secretly... "

While listening to her complaints, Mo Zi didn't interrupt Green Chrysanthemum, put down the mahogany saucer, took out the plum blossom and snow silk pot basket, and packed the teapot tightly to prevent the tea from getting hot.

After Lu Ju finished speaking, Mo Zi's work was also done.

"Mother An can really sit still." Mo Zi either didn't speak, or thundered Lu Ju when she spoke.

"Look at me, I forgot all about it when I told you. This Mrs. An, knowing that the girl must take a nap in the afternoon, deliberately picked up the time to come here. She must meet the girl and insisted on letting me come in to find out. You see What should I do?" Mo Zi has only been with the girl for more than half a year, but she is more talkative than her who started as a servant.

"What did Mother An tell you just now?" Mo Zi wanted to know more details.

Lu Ju frowned and thought for a while, "She knocked on the door anxiously, and I asked her if she was chased by a dog, but she said it was a magpie."

Mo Zi's eyes were as dark as the moon, and there was a trace of surprise in them, "Magpie?"

"Isn't it? You said you can't wait, and the other rooms are all around the girls." After talking about it, Lu Ju said in a low voice, "It seems that there is really a happy event from what she said, but I want to come. I want to go, but I still can’t figure out what the happy event is. You said that when the girl returned to this house a few years ago, the master took away the account book. The wife was kind on the surface, saying that the girl had been in charge of the family’s shop all these years, and left again. It's too hard going from south to north, so let's rest for Lixia. Our girl rests on this side, and the master on the other side will hand over the ledger to the fourth and fifth masters. What do you mean? It means hard work in vain!"

"Green Chrysanthemum, since the girl made the decision, we just need to do our part." Thinking of those ledgers as high as hills, Mo Zi raised Qing Dai's eyebrows, feeling quite happy.

Luju is the most thoughtless one in the yard, she pouted, "I'm not worth it for our girl. I've worked hard these few years to make wedding clothes for others."

"It's okay to say this here, but if you dare to talk too much outside the courtyard, you will be punished by the girl to kneel on the stone slab." Mo Zi advised.

Lu Ju wanted to say it was a matter of course, when she heard a beautiful and lazy voice from the dormitory.

"Who's out there?"

"Mo Zi."

The subdued tone is light.

The two voices, like two golden beads colliding, compete to shine.