Chapter 25: A steamed bun
In the dining hall, Zhang's mother, who was sipping melon seeds in her mouth, looked at Zhang Wan calmly with cold eyes, and a sneer couldn't help but rise at the corner of her mouth. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Oh, my Miss Zhang Wan," she snorted off the skin of the melon seeds in her mouth, deliberately shook the handkerchief in her hand, and shouted loudly, "You are a noble person from Chuxiu Palace, why are you still waiting for the slaves and maids to bring you food?"
After speaking, Zhang's mother sneered a few more times, then reached out and covered the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, and said with a sarcastic smile, "It's a pity, we are a cold palace." I'm afraid there's no one to serve you!"
Zhang Wan faced Zhang's mother's cynicism, but still bowed calmly and calmly. Then, they crossed the other party and walked towards the dinner table.
However, at the empty dining table, there were only a few palace maids who bowed their heads and ate without daring to look up at her.
Zhang Wan looked around, but didn't find anything to eat. She just wanted to ask the palace maid next to her, but when she saw that the other party was casting her gaze, the head that was already bowed instantly lowered a little more.
It seems that under the obscenity of Zhang's mother on the side, these palace maids probably don't dare to talk to themselves, right?
Seeing this, Zhang Wan couldn't help but sigh in her heart. She knew that it must be because she hadn't given this mother any benefits today, so she deliberately targeted herself.
"Mom, dare to ask where my food is?" Zhang Wan turned around, looked at Zhang's mother with a sneering face on the side, and asked lightly.
Those timid palace maids, she didn't want to be embarrassed, and the only one who could ask was this mother Zhang opposite. After all, she's the aunt in charge of this cold palace, isn't she?
"Food?" Zhang's mother heard this, but deliberately pretended to be stupid, and then sighed as if she suddenly realized, "Oh, I said Miss Zhang Wan, you're late." We're in the Cold Palace, no better than you in the Chuxiu Palace!"
Speaking of this, Zhang's mother deliberately paused for a few breaths before she said slowly, "In our cold palace, if it's late, then there will naturally be no food." "Although Your Majesty is merciful and has decreed that you are not allowed to beat the palace people for no reason, if someone is late herself, it is none of her business as an aunt in charge.
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhang's mother looked at Zhang Wan with a smug face, her eyes full of inexplicable ridicule.
Zhang Wan didn't care much about this. After all, she has long been in the valley, and it doesn't matter if she eats a few fewer meals.
Merely...... After she sighed secretly, she still didn't say anything, just nodded at Zhang's mother, and turned to leave.
Looking at Zhang Wan's back as she calmly left, the ridicule in Zhang's mother's eyes instantly turned into anger.
What an uninteresting girl, I see how long you can starve!
Zhang's mother took off the skin of the melon seeds in her mouth, and when she turned back, she saw a group of palace maids in the room looking up at something.
"What are you looking at?" Zhang's mother crossed her waist with one hand, pinched the handkerchief with the other, stretched out her index finger forward and pointed at everyone, "Look again, it's the same as the newcomer, you are not allowed to eat......"
When everyone heard this, they quickly lowered their heads and looked away, and finished the dinner of the day amid the scolding of Zhang's mother.
The unitary hour has passed, and the moon has ascended to heaven.
Zhang Wan, who returned to the small courtyard of Yongxiang, sat at the stone table in the courtyard, and couldn't help but hold her cheek with one hand, looking at the crescent moon in the night sky.
It's been more than a few months since I came to the world, and I don't know when I'll be able to return to the Little Spirit Realm and see the elders and brothers of the master.
After Zhang Wan sighed lightly at Yue, when she lowered her head again, she casually kicked a few small pebbles on the side with her toes.
Hey, the display of this hexagram ......
How could it be so strange? Zhang Wan was surprised in her heart, and when she was about to make a deduction, there was a slight sound of footsteps outside the small courtyard.
After a few breaths, the sound of knocking on the door reached the courtyard.
"Please come in. Zhang Wan got up, but she was a little suspicious in her heart. It's so late, who would come to their own little broken courtyard?
"Crunch", the sound of the dilapidated small courtyard door being pushed open is particularly clear in this silent night.
Immediately, a timid face with a shallow smile appeared in front of Zhang Wan's eyes.
"You're Zhang Wan, right?" The person who came was dressed as a palace maid, and after seeing Zhang Wan nodding, he reflexively closed the courtyard door, and only walked in front of Zhang Wan in a few steps.
"My name is Liu'er, and I am also the palace maid in this cold palace. Liu Er lowered her head and smiled, and introduced herself with a bit of jerky.
Seeing this, Zhang Wan couldn't help but look at it with a light smile. Isn't the eighteen or nineteen-year-old palace maid in front of her who was about to ask questions in the dining hall before?
At that time, she avoided her own gaze. At this time, this palace maid named Liu'er found her own courtyard again, but for what?
"Liu'er," Zhang Wan looked at the trace of guilt in Liu'er's eyes, and couldn't help laughing, "Why did you come to me?"
It's hard to think that this girl is still guilty about what happened before! This Liu Er is like Mother Li in Chuxiu Palace, and she is a rare kind-hearted person in this palace.
Liu Er saw the girl on the other side look over, and couldn't help but smile jerkily again, and then quickly took out a paper bag from her arms and handed it to the girl.
"Here you go," she said, opening the paper bag in her hand with her own hands, "Eat it, I've been keeping it on my chest, it's still hot!"
A white steamed bun quietly appeared in front of Zhang Wan like this.
"Eat it. Seeing that Zhang Wan was a little stunned, Liu Er couldn't help but take a step forward and put the steamed bun in her hand into the other party's hand.
"This is what I specially left for you while Mother Zhang was not paying attention. Liu Er said as she looked up at Zhang Wan, her eyes full of timid smiles.
She looked at Zhang Wan without moving, as if she remembered something again, and then nodded heavily, and explained a little timidly. "Don't worry, it's clean. ”
Zhang Wan didn't expect that Liu Er came to her small broken courtyard at this time, but it was to bring food to herself. This reminded her of her eldest brother involuntarily.
When he was only three years old, because he naughtily let go of the mountain spirit beast of the master in the Guigu Valley, the master was angry and locked himself in the forbidden place in the back mountain.
At that time, when he was dizzy from hunger, it was the senior brother who secretly broke into the forbidden land and brought him a steamed bun.
At that time, how wonderful. The division is prosperous, and the brothers and sisters around him are also very fond of themselves.
But now, in the end, he is the only one left, and he is alone in the world.
"Zhang Wan, Zhang Wan!" Liu Er on the side saw that the girl opposite was a little stunned, and couldn't help shouting anxiously, "What's wrong with you, is this steamed bun not to your liking?"
She knew from Zhang's mother's mouth that Zhang Wan in front of her was a show girl from Chuxiu Palace, and the food, clothing, housing and transportation over there were definitely different from their cold palace.
Liu Er's anxious voice made Zhang Wan come back to her senses at once.
"No, this steamed bun is very good. Thank you, Liu'er. She took the steamed bun, took a careful bite, and chewed it slowly.
The master is right, how lonely it is on the road of cultivation. Those who can endure loneliness can achieve the avenue.
That's fine, let's let it pass.