Le Yu was stunned, her hand to tie her clothes and belt paused in the air, and she didn't know what she remembered, she said slowly: "Where do they live now?"

Zhuji looked at Le Yu's face, and suddenly became a little worried, and said: "I live in the area of the back street outside the house, and Shunzhu's daughter-in-law lives by washing people's clothes. “

Le Yu slowly tied the strap of her coat, and said silently: "I want to go and see." Xiu Yu squatted down to arrange the jade tassel around Le Yu's waist, and frowned: "That kind of place is not suitable for girls, it is dirty and messy." “

Seeing that Le Yu didn't seem to hear it, Zhuji opened her mouth, stopped talking, and said, "Yes, girl." Looking at the back of Le Yu with Zhuji and Qingmei, the eyes of the embroidery who leaned on the door were a little gloomy, the girl trusted Zhuji and this new Qingmei more and more, thinking of the degraded smoke, and then thinking about herself and Lingge, the embroidery sighed faintly.

The Xiao family's big Sima Mansion was originally the Fuqing Princess's Mansion, which occupied a whole street, looking at it through the wall, the clouds were steaming inside, the rockery was fragrant, the pavilions and pavilions were exquisite and splendid, and the weather was different from the ordinary. And from the corner door of the back door to the west, the alleys are all the residences of the children of the Xiao family who have become families or male servants.

Low and dilapidated wooden houses or courtyard houses are crookedly patched together, the road is narrow and rugged, and some portals splash dirty water and flow vertically and horizontally, and there is little place to stay. Although Zhuji is a girl, she has also grown up with Leyu since she was a child, paying attention to food and clothing, and she can't help frowning when she sees such a place. On the other hand, Qingmei is calm and does not change her face, thinking that it is a place where ordinary people often come to these ordinary people. Le Yu was in a trance, holding Qingmei's hand and walking with one foot high and one foot low.

In the alley, there were merchants carrying the load of goods and shouting continuously, and some children of seven or eight years old, five or six years old were running and frolicking, and the little girl Tao'er had been here, and she brought the three of them to a house with mottled walls, "Girl, this is where the daughter-in-law of Shunzhu lives." “

Before he entered the door, he heard a high-pitched voice that was sharp and pungent and plunged into the clouds: "I tolerate you?!Who tolerates me! If you commit a crime and are kicked out, you will no longer be a subordinate of the Great Sima Mansion, this house belongs to the Xiao family, you are not a slave of the Xiao family, of course you have to move out." I said hello to you again and again three days ago, what did you say at the time? You said that you would move out in three days, but now it's been three days, and you still don't want to leave here?! Do you have to let me throw you out these things!"

Le Yu paused, and a tired and hoarse voice sounded in the room: "Sister-in-law Liu, you can give me a few more days, there is really no way, the eldest girl is so sick, I lost my errand again, where to move to for a while? I'm already looking for an errand, wait a few more days, the Jia Yuanwai family in the east of the city is looking for someone, as soon as I sell into the Jia family, I will move out immediately, ah?!"

Jia Yuanwai in the east of the city, Le Yu thought about it for a long time before remembering that he was also a famous figure in the capital, and there were a few stinky money in the family, but the most famous was lustful and cruel, and the subordinates in the family who were a little more delicate could not escape his clutches, but eight out of ten would be tortured to death. At that time, the girl's parents reported to the official, accusing Jia Yuanwai of raping their daughter and abusing her to death, but because they signed a deed of sale, they did not do it, and for a while, Jia Yuanwai's name spread all over the capital.

The sister-in-law Liu inside had already sneered loudly, "I said Shunzhu's daughter-in-law, that Jia Yuanwai is not easy to serve, I said that you can serve? Rather than this, why don't I show you the way, the three managers in the department want to take a small name, and if you take a fancy to you, I don't suspect that you have committed a crime, as long as you lose your sick daughter, you will be allowed to enter the door, eat fragrant and drink spicy, what do you say? It's much better than you going to serve that*!"

Le Yu was so disgusted that she wanted to vomit, and Zhuji said: "The wife of the third steward in the back office is fierce and jealous but can't give birth to children, and the three stewards have been tortured to death after a few years, and they are not much better than Jia Yuan's foreign family." “

Shunzhu's daughter-in-law choked up slightly but said in a resolute tone: "Sister-in-law Liu doesn't need to say it, even if I starve to death, I won't leave the big girl, let alone make people small." I don't care what happens to Jia Yuan, I just eat with my own hands, no matter how difficult it is, I will cure the big girl. “

Inside, Sister-in-law Liu's tone was instantly difficult to sound, and the mockery was vicious, "You are a widow and unemployed, and you still want to be a person if you don't make a small mistake for others?" Your eldest girl has a hemorrhage, and if you want to be cured, you can't afford at least 100 taels of silver, and you catch ginseng and bird's nest every day to raise it, who can afford it from ordinary people? It's just waiting for death......

The chatter continued, Le Yu bit her lip tightly, and her mind was full of the sentence just now, "The widow is unemployed, and she still wants to be a person if she doesn't make a small mistake?", how did her mother come over with her?

Zhuji saw that Le Yu's face changed suddenly, and she knew that her feelings were not good, so she hurriedly stood out and shouted, "Who is inside?" Le Yu lowered her head and stood silently behind Zhuji Qingmei. Her identity was inconvenient to come, so she pretended to be a girl with a change of pearl clothes.

There was a stumbling inside for a while, and a daughter-in-law with a white and fat round face in her thirties and a daughter-in-law with a haggard face in her clothes came out.

Sister-in-law Liu squinted her eyes and looked at it, and knew that there was a decent girl in the house, so she greeted her with a smile, rubbed her hands and said, "Hello two girls, I am from Liu Fu's family, I didn't know that the girls were here, I was really offended." Zhuji lowered her eyes and thought for a while, "Liu Fu, is that Liu Fu on the corner door?"

Sister-in-law Liu rubbed her hands with joy, "No, the girl has a good memory." The people on our card name remember it as well. “

Zhu Ji was disgusted with her, and said lightly: "Shunzhu's daughter-in-law is no longer from the house, and she should move away." But I am the girl next to the fourth girl, and our girl heard that Shunzhu's daughter-in-law and daughter were sick and very pitiful, so she sent us to take a look, and we will come back when we see you. “

Sister-in-law Liu was still afraid that these brightly dressed big girls would be nosy, and when she saw that she still let Shunzhu's daughter-in-law out, she was overjoyed and walked away.

Shunzhu's daughter-in-law moved her lips a few times, but she still silently let a few people in. The inside and outside of the two rooms are separated by a curtain of cloth, the outside is the kitchen, and the inside sleeps people, the air in the low room is very poor, and it looks very dim without windows, and it is very hot and humid at this time, mixed with the pungent smell of medicine, and the smell of sweat, which is very unpleasant.

Standing in the room for a while before slowly getting used to the light, Le Yu saw a little girl lying on a wooden bed inside, covered with a thin quilt, her face was pale as death, and a bowl of pickled soybeans was placed on a clean table next to the door of a dilapidated cabinet in the west, which was all the belongings.

Shunzhu's daughter-in-law saw that it was Le Yu who followed the last gray robe, and she knelt down in a hurry, "The slave doesn't know that the fourth girl is coming, and the fourth girl forgives her sins." “

Le Yu sighed, and personally reached out to help Shunzhu's daughter-in-law up, but in the summer, her hands were skinny, cold and rough, "I'll take a look, don't make a noise." As he spoke, he walked to the side of the bed and reached out to touch the girl's forehead, "How sick is she?"

Shunzhu's daughter-in-law looked at her dying daughter and couldn't help shedding tears, "The eldest girl is getting weaker and weaker day by day, and the slave maid only bought the last few coppers for medicine two days ago, and it didn't improve, but I was afraid of ......."