first class maid

Chapter 2 Entering the palace gate for the first time (1)
A piece of emerald jade the size of a fingernail on her neck caught her attention. She raised her hand and looked at it. There was a character Xun engraved on the front and a real character engraved on the back. It seemed to be the girl's name. She lowered her head and turned over again. Looking through the files at the bottom, he raised his head and asked, "Are you from the Xun family?"

"Yes." Xun Zhen straightened his spine this time, looking directly at this unsmiling face of about 25 years old, with slightly drooping eyebrows covering a pair of cloudy eyes.

She is the daughter of the Xun family, and her mother said that even if the Xun family's house is ransacked now, they will not be able to erase their glory as the family of the first general in Huaguo. Those who were born into the Xun family must always stand upright.

Zhang Sibo lightly put down the jade pendant, "You can put on your clothes now." After looking at her thoughtfully for a while, he went to the next one, "What's your name?"

Xun Zhen ignored Zhang Sibo's inquiring gaze, and quickly put on his linen clothes. The case of the Xun family being charged with collaborating with the enemy and treason was known to the whole country some time ago.

At this moment, she only knew that she had been chosen and had escaped the fate of becoming an official prostitute. She still remembered that when she left the prison and came here with the nuns in the palace, her mother held her hand and stroked her hair over and over again. The reluctant eyes stayed on her all the time, "Zhen'er, you must let yourself be selected, you know?"

"Otherwise it will be very miserable to become an official prostitute." The aunt Xun Lan beside her leaned on the wooden pillar in the cell sadly and looked at her sadly.

Although she is only eight years old, she doesn't know what an official prostitute is, but from the expressions of her mother and aunt, she can know that an official prostitute is ten times worse than being a palace maid.

I remember that when we parted, my mother hugged her and said: "As a mother, I don't want to be true, but I want to be able to protect myself. Do you remember?"

Looking at her mother's expectant and painful eyes, she could only nod heavily.

Mother's words accompanied her through many rough and tumultuous days.

How many harem plots and dangers have passed.

Spent every lonely lonely night in the future.

The little maids of the Hua Kingdom are selected every seven years, and their ages range from eight to ten. There are two sources of origin, one is voluntary entry into the palace, and the other is the family members of criminal officials. Xun Zhen belongs to the latter.

When she changed into the pink dress of the little maid, Xun Zhen was arranged to stand at the last of the little maid, walking mechanically with the people in front, watching the vermilion palace gate getting closer and closer, her In addition to being uneasy, there is also a bit of sadness in my heart. Once I step through that threshold, I will never see my mother and aunt again, right?

With nostalgia, he turned his head and looked in the direction of the prison where his mother and aunt were imprisoned.

Mother, aunt, I miss you so much.

I really want to go back to the old days, where I could lean on my mother's lap and listen to stories told by my mother, and I could also eat my aunt's specialty sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, and the wet nurses and maids who had been serving her all the time.

Tears gradually filled her eyes. Is her brother who was exiled to the frontier all right?The scene of being ransacked once again appeared in front of her eyes.

A large group of soldiers followed the arrogant officials into Xun's house, making the originally quiet General's Mansion jump up and down, but she was tightly protected by her mother, watching the group of people in Xun's house with her eyes open. They searched everywhere, and when they couldn't find much valuable things, they hit them with the tip of the spear in their hands to vent their anger. The mother used her body to block the attack coming towards her.

But her elder brother broke free from the ropes, gritted his teeth, stepped forward and beat up those who beat his mother severely. The elder brother, who was born to be a martial arts prodigy, was no match for those who were more and more The soldiers encircled and suppressed.

A big net that spread all over the sky caught the red-eyed brother. Hidden in her mother's arms, she could only shed tears watching those people beat and kick him to vent on her brother, cursing, "Little bastard!" Dare to hit your grandfather? I have eaten the bear's heart and leopard's guts, and I will kick you to death, you little bastard."

"Brother..." She couldn't stand it any longer, and tried to break free from her mother's arms and go forward to push away those who beat her brother violently. Her mother hugged her tightly with tears in her eyes, preventing her from going forward.

"Bastards, you bastards, without our Xun family defending the country, can you live a stable life?" The aunt stepped forward and pushed the group of people away while cursing.

"The ones behind are not fast enough to catch up."

A rather stern voice interrupted her memory, and when she came back to her senses, she realized that she had fallen behind. A large group of young ladies had already stepped into the threshold, and all of them opened their eyes and looked at her curiously. Only she was still on the threshold. wandering outside.

Her face was flushed, and she looked up to see the leading princess Shi in front of her looking at her displeasedly, her tightly pursed lips were about to utter harsh words again, she didn't dare to neglect and hurried forward, looking Looking at the vermilion threshold, he lifted his foot and bit his lower lip and stepped over, this foot seemed to be worth a thousand gold.

This foot has since doomed her fate to be inseparable from that high palace wall. She is no longer the precious daughter of the general's family, no longer the family member of a criminal official, but a maid of honor in the Huaguo Palace .

She quickly returned to the team and took her place.

"What's your name?" The girl standing in front of her turned her head and asked her in a low voice.

"Xun Zhen." The girl looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen her before.

"My name is Yu Ruyi." The girl smiled at her kindly.

She also returned a friendly smile. It seems that the palace is not a scary place, and it is also possible to make friends here. The little girl's friendship was established extremely quickly at this moment.

"Don't speak." The leader, Wang Nvshi, heard the conversation, turned around and sternly reprimanded her.

The two little girls stuck out their tongues at each other, smiled comfortingly, then walked silently with their heads down.

There are tall red palace walls everywhere. Xun Zhen originally looked at them with some curiosity, but soon lost the fun and everything became boring.When turning several corners in the palace, she suddenly saw a group of maids and guards opening the way ahead, and a gorgeous sedan chair came into view behind her. She saw Wang Nushi signaling them to back away, so she hurried without hesitation Stepping back, the body almost clings to the palace wall.

It seems that it should be a nobleman in the palace, and no one can stop his curiosity. Although many little palace ladies lowered their heads but peeked at the end of their eyes, they could only see the dragon pattern on the orange clothes that the nobleman was wearing. pattern and a pair of black shoes embroidered with golden dragons.

(End of this chapter)