Chapter Twenty-Four: The Handmaiden
At the gate kneeling a thin figure in a green robe, he was wearing a wooden hairpin on his head, and his posture was upright. His wheat-colored skin had been turned red by the sun, and there was a stubbornness on his young face.
"Fourth uncle. Hanyu stepped forward and called softly.
He heard the voice and looked slowly. "Hanyu?" Because he knelt for too long, his vision was a little blurry for a while, "I haven't seen you for a year, and I've grown so tall." He saw the person clearly, and a smile was raised on his face, and the row of teeth was as white and neat as a choreographed seashell.
"I haven't seen the fourth uncle for a long time, does the fourth uncle want to kneel and talk to Hanyu?" Hanyu didn't look strange and detached on his face.
Yan Xuewu, the fourth master, didn't have a trace of annoyance on his face at the moment, and he couldn't see that he was tired, so he only asked her, "You girl, you are usually silent, how can you come out today?"
"Hanyu came to invite the fourth uncle in. ”
"Does Dad approve of me marrying Alan?" he was about to stand up happily, his knees stiffened and he fell to the ground.
Ah Lan, when Hanyu heard that name, he should be the fourth uncle's sweetheart.
"Let the porter come over and help the fourth master. "Hanyu said.
Chunzhi called the porter, and when he heard that he was helping the fourth master to enter, he hesitated to help people and spoke, "Miss, the master explained that he didn't have the permission of the master, and he refused to let the fourth master enter the house." ”
Yan Xuewu's face froze, his steps stagnated, and his voice was disappointed, "My father didn't agree......
Yan Hanyu looked up at him, and the golden light shone on his side face in the sun.
"Fourth uncle?"
"Hanyu, I won't go in. Yan Xuewu turned around and left.
"Fourth uncle, where are you going?" Hanyu called out to him.
Yan Xuewu's footsteps paused, "My father will not agree to this marriage, but I must marry her." ”
A marriage that is not approved by the family, a family affair that is not the right family, of course my grandfather will not agree.
"Grandfather doesn't agree, why can't the fourth uncle let her be wronged and be the fourth uncle's concubine?"
"Ah Lan can't be recorded in the genealogy of the Yan family, so I'd rather not be a member of the Yan family. Hanyu, I'm leaving. ”
Yan Hanyu looked at the figure who was determined to leave, dazed. At this moment, the fourth uncle would rather marry that woman than the clan, but why did she kill herself after many years because of the clan? She can't change anything, and the fourth uncle is gone, as if he is saying goodbye forever, and he will never see each other again.
Is her nightmare really going to happen again?
Mama Hong saw that Hanyu's mental state was not good, so she boiled a soothing medicinal meal for her that night and kept her a night's sleep. She always felt that although the eldest lady was young, she was often preoccupied, which would not be very good for her own physical condition.
The next day, Fang Gu came to Yan's Mansion and taught Hanyu.
Hanyu had a good night's sleep, and her spirit was much better, and the pent-up thoughts in her heart suddenly brightened up when she woke up in the morning. She is still young, and she can't intervene in family affairs, so it's better to do her own thing and grow up healthy, and then she will have the opportunity to change her fate.
When Aunt Fang was teaching, Hanyu saw that Aunt Fang's eyebrows and eyes were full of fatigue.
"Aunt Fang, but you're sick, why do you look unenergetic?"
"I don't know, I've been feeling tired these days, I haven't slept enough, and I don't know why. ”
"I had lunch and asked Mama Hong to show you. ”
Fang Gu was still pressed by Hanyu to let Mama Hong take the pulse, but the result she learned was that Fang Ruyun had a body of more than a month.
Fang Gu was stunned, but she quickly smiled on her face, you must know that she has been looking forward to the child for many years, and now she has no more children.
Yan Hanyu looked at her with a smile on her eyebrows, she knew what she was looking forward to this child, and was happy for her, "Aunt Fang, congratulations." ”
"Miss, now ......" Fang Ruyun felt guilty about her, she had only been teaching for a long time, and now she was afraid that she would have to stop the class, and she would not have time to give birth to a child in the future, she had been looking forward to the child for so long, and she just wanted to take good care of the child when she had a child.
"It's okay Aunt Fang. Aunt Fang has a good rest, and if she has any difficulties in the house in the future, just come to me. ”
Fang Gu returned to the Gu house with a feeling of guilt and joy.
Over there, Mama Zhou brought in three slightly younger maids after noon, and they still had a few pieces of paper in their hands.
"Miss, these three maids were sent by the master, this is a deed of sale, and the second lady also sent all the maids in our yard to the deed of sale. ”
"How could my second uncle and mother be willing to give me the deed of sale?" Yan Hanyu was surprised, you must know that the second uncle and mother had been pinching the deed of sale of the maid in her courtyard in her previous life, and now she gave it to her so happily, which made her unbelievable.
Mama Zhou said, "It's what the lord meant, the lord asked the second room to pick a few more maids, and the eldest lady's yard was given to the eldest lady, and the second lady naturally didn't dare to say much." ”
Cuiyun and Mama Zhou went together, and couldn't help but speak at this moment, "Miss, you don't know, the old lady picked a few of the most unruly maids, if it weren't for the old man who happened to come back and saw it, I'm afraid that those few who didn't make it would have to be given to the eldest lady." ”
Grandfather really cares about her!
"Where are Cuiyun and Chunzhi's deed of sale here?" Hanyu took the deed of sale from Mama Zhou's hand and flipped through the pages one by one.
"Back to the eldest lady, Cuiyun and Chunzhi are also old, and it is not suitable to put them next to the eldest lady, the second lady means that there is a new maid, let the two of them take it first, and when the three younger ones can be used, let them go back to the second room, so that they can be married. ”
"Hmm. ”
The three little girls kneeling below kept their heads down in a regular manner.
"What's your name, how old are you this year, did you have a child from the family or did you come in from outside?"
"Miss Hui, the slave maid Xiao Ya'er, is eight years old this year, and she is the granddaughter of the manager of the Chengxi Xiang Farm. "One knelt on the left, looking very clever, with a pair of pretty eyes, and spoke crisply.
"Miss Hui, the slave is safe, she is seven years old this year, and she is the daughter of Zhang Wei in the house. ”
"Miss Hui, slave Xiaoyu, is seven years old this year, and she has just entered the house for a month. The last one spoke weakly, his head hanging so that he could not see his face, and his voice was like that of a mosquito.
"Xiaoyu's name has touched the name of the eldest lady, and the name has to be changed. ”
Hanyu echoed, "Well, you will call Xiao Liu'er in the future." ”
"It's Miss. "Xiao Liu'er and Nuo Nuo responded," Miss Xie gave the name. ”
"Ping'an is Zhang Wei's daughter, but Zhang Wei by my grandfather's side?" Hanyu asked.
"Yes, Miss. "Ping An speaks neatly, and he has a little calmness at a young age. It seems that her grandfather picked up the good ones and picked them up for her.
Zhang Wei is the entourage of Master Yan, that is, the bodyguard.
Mama Zhou took the three of them down and asked them to follow the spring branches and cuiyun to study hard in the future.
Mama Hong also went out and said to the three of them, "In two months, the eldest lady will choose two people from the three of you to be her personal maids." ”
When Hanyu woke up from her lunch break, she said to Mama Hong, "Aunt Fang is not here, I plan to learn medical science from Mama Hong in the future, how is Mama Hong's pharmacy prepared?"
"It's pretty much the same, and some of the things that are missing don't have much impact on the eldest lady. With the permission of Master Yan, Mama Hong built a pharmacy in a vacant side room facing the sun in Yusheng Juli, just to make it more convenient to teach Hanyu to study medicine.
"Okay, let's start tomorrow then. ”