Chapter 56
It was snowing with goose feathers in the sky, and it was very cold.
The red girl tried to shrink her little body into the corner of the wall, but the wool-like snow still fell on her torn jacket.
She lowered her head and looked at the torn jacket on her body, four years ago it was still thirty percent new, it was given to her by the kind maid of the Li family who wore it out. In the past four years, she has barely grown up, and her clothes are still as empty on her body as they were four years ago.
She remembered that Miss Li was so beautiful, her skin was so white, and her smile was as beautiful as a fairy.
She remembered that she had been huddled here for three days and three nights. Three days earlier, she had been driven by hunger to leave the Temple of the Broken Mountain and come to the town in search of food. was already about to turn over to the back of the Penglai Inn, but the sudden snowstorm made the guys in the inn put away the bucket and kicked her. There must have been bruises on her stomach, but she didn't feel any pain, hunger and cold had made her lose her senses. She thought she was dying, but she was very surprised that she still remembered the beauty of Miss Li.
The snow that had been falling for three days had no intention of stopping, and the snowflakes that fell on Little Red Ya gradually stopped melting—her body temperature was too low.
In a blur, she heard the voices of two men.
"Master, she is dying, and it is difficult to say whether she can be saved or not. ”
"Her body is very strong, as long as she eats a full meal, and she will be fine soon after a little recuperation. Another man said, his voice low but nice. She was happy, she knew someone was going to save her, and he was a man with a nice voice.
Then she had a dream, a beautiful dream, the most beautiful dream of her life. In the dream, she became a woman as beautiful as Miss Li, living in a mansion as gorgeous as a palace, wearing silk and satin, being served by countless beautiful maids, and having all kinds of precious flowers in the garden.
Of course, the "magnificent mansion like a palace" and "all kinds of precious flowers" that she knew were the flowers in the Li family and garden.
In the haze, you can still occasionally hear the voice of the nice man.
"Sir, what do you mean by bringing her back like this? It was another man's voice.
"Will she be unhappy? Boss, are you the first day you've known her?" the life-saving benefactor's tone was indifferent, as if there was still some mockery.
"If Madame is not unhappy, are you not even more unhappy?" muttered the elder, "aren't you torturing yourself?"
"Yes," the life-saving benefactor sighed, and suddenly there was some high-spiritedness: "But whatever, you didn't know me on the first day, do you still need a reason for what I want to do?"
The elder let out a long sigh.
There was also the fragrance of plum blossoms in the dream, she had smelled it outside the courtyard of the Li family, it was clear and fragrant, it smelled very good, and she knew that she was covered with a warm quilt, pillowed with soft pillows, wearing clean clothes, and the house was lit with a soothing fragrance, so she didn't dare to open her eyes, for fear that all of this was a dream and would disappear after waking up.
She was hungry, very hungry, so hungry that she couldn't keep her eyes closed anymore and pretending to be asleep, so she had to wake up.
She didn't look at the structure and layout of the room, but she saw a table not far from the bed where she was lying, and on that table were plates of high-quality and delicious pastries.
She didn't think about her physical condition at all, and the most important thing for her now was to be able to eat the good food on the table.
"You can't eat that yet," her finger stopped less than an inch from the plate of osmanthus cakes, and turned her head to see the person standing in the doorway.
She gasped for breath, forgetting that she was hungry, and that she was shivering in the cold air with only her single clothes, and that she even forgot to breathe.
Fairy, that was her only thought (although the other party was obviously wearing men's clothes, she just stared at the other person's face, and couldn't see anything else).
"You've been hungry for too long, and your stomach can't take such a hard cake. The beautiful man who descended from the earth like a fairy walked slowly towards her, and even a few simple steps he seemed to walk without dust, elegant and moving.
Little Hongya didn't remember anything, just stared at him with her mouth wide open, and saw that his thin pink lips opened and closed, and she didn't listen to her ears at all.
"What's your name?" the beautiful man's dark eyes slowly approached her like a well, almost drowning her, and she couldn't hear his question at all.
The beautiful man felt quite nerve-wracked and helpless smiled, that kind of smile is not enough to describe the country and the city, Xiao Hongya couldn't find the right words at the time, but instinctively felt a trace of evil in such a beautiful smile, and a few years later she found an adjective to describe her feelings at that time - disaster to the country and the people.
His beauty has brought disaster to the country and the people.
But in that hint of evil, she sobered up, and with the experience of beggar from childhood to adulthood, she could almost instinctively smell the other party's malice towards her.
"Can you tell me your name?" he asked so gently, such a beautiful face did not damage his masculinity at all, and now she saw that the other party was a beautiful man who had brought disaster to the country and the people.
"My name is Xiaohongya, which is the name that Uncle Liu gave me. She said that she couldn't lie with that beautiful smile, even though she usually lied more than she ate.
"Little Red Girl?" he straightened up and stroked his chin, "Will you follow me in the future?" he asked softly.
Although Xiao Hongya felt in her heart that he had asked a lot of questions, with such a good place to live, such comfortable clothes to wear, such good things to eat, and such a beautiful and gentle man to accompany her, I am afraid that Chang'e in the moon could not help but go down to earth, let alone her, a little beggar who has been begging for food since childhood?
"I do"
Xiao Hongya has become a person with a very special identity in the fire house.
The benefactor's surname is Huo Mingke, and he is the owner of the fire house. Ever since he brought her into the Fire Mansion, the people in the Fire Mansion have looked at her with a very strange look. At first, she didn't care, every day she was dressed in brand new clothes, and when she was full, she wandered in the garden and by the lotus pond, and there was an independent courtyard at the end of the lotus pond, and there were three black characters on the courtyard door, but unfortunately it knew her, she didn't know it. A month later, after she had gone through the garden and the lotus pond, she sat by the lotus pond every day and looked at the door of the separate courtyard, where many people would come in and out every day, and everyone looked dignified and demure. Occasionally, a very dignified plain-clothed woman and a group of servants would slowly walk out of the door and take a slow walk on the other side of the lotus pond.
That woman is not beautiful at all, not to mention that she is comparable to her benefactor Huo Ke, even if she is not comparable to the young lady of the Li family. But I don't know why, there is a quiet and gentle light on that woman's body, quietly waving in the air, making Little Hongya want to go over and get close, even if she can walk behind her.
This longing slowly turned into a longing, so when Huo Ke offered to teach her to read, she immediately agreed, maybe knowing words, she would be as dignified and quiet as the plain woman.
When she began to follow Huo Ke to read and write, her chances of getting along with Huo Ke gradually increased, and then she knew that the plain woman in the courtyard was Huo Ke's wife, Mrs. Xiuxuan. In addition, there is Huo Ke's daughter, Tong, but because Tong is weak and sick since he was a child, he rarely comes out and walks around.
"Master, the jade girl from Lancuiju is here to find you. The elder stood outside the door of the study and said.
The red girl stopped her hand as she was learning to write. She knew that when she was a beggar, she saw some gorgeously dressed and enchanting women in the market in the evening. And among these women, there has never been a girl from Cuiju, and the girl from Cuiju never has to go out to solicit customers by herself, and the guests who want to find them line up from the door to the door every day.
"Let her in. Huo Ke chuckled, put down the book in his hand, and looked at the door.
The Jade Girl is the top brand of Lan Cuiju, which Hongya only learned about later. The jade girl is really wearing an emerald dress. The girl who came out of the town's largest Goolan courtyard is different.