Chapter 54: Midsummer
Lin Xi didn't sleep all night, her look was very haggard, she swept the floor in the yard before it was dark, her body was a little unstable, it was already the weather in June at this time, even in the morning, the weather was only a little cool, and after a while, her forehead was covered with fine sweat, and it was not her turn to sweep the floor now, but Lin Xi felt panicked when she was idle, so she took advantage of the fact that before the others woke up, she cleaned the yard and went to clean her face with water, so she felt a little more energetic.
Found a gazebo, Lin Xi sat a little flustered for a long time, she remembered some distant things, that year, she had just turned seven years old, as the eldest daughter of the Lin family, and the only daughter of the only parents, naturally she was cared for by thousands of pets, just the close-fitting maids had four, that year was the height of summer in June, although there was ice in the house, but it was still hot and unbearable, Lin Xi only wore a half-arm collar and skirt, two fleshy pink arms were exposed, and the big girl fanned the wind with a fan. But it's still very hot.
"Sister Qiao, you go and get a basin of ice again, it's really not comfortable at all on this hot day." The little girl waved her chubby little arm annoyedly, Sister Qiao stopped the fan in her hand, she was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, long and delicate, her skin was a little dark, although she was not very beautiful, her eyes were big and bright, she smiled slightly, "Girl, although the weather is hot, but there are already two pots of ice in our house, you wear less, if you are greedy for cold, but you have to drink a lot of bitter medicine." ”
After listening to the bitter medicine, the little girl's face suddenly became as bitter as when she drank the medicine, and she snatched the fan: "Then I'll go to the back flower courtyard for a walk, you are not allowed to follow!" Don't tell your mother. ”
Sister Qiao is a little anxious, the girl has always been like this, as soon as she loses her temper, no one recognizes it, and she says that no one is allowed to follow, so she will not let anyone follow. At the moment, he just nodded and said yes, Lin Xi had just gone out here, and Sister Qiao immediately summoned the other two maids in the house: "You two follow the girl with me."
There are a lot of trees planted in the back garden, as well as grape trellises, the grapes at this time are already ripe, one by one like purple gems, Lin Xi excitedly ran to sleep on the swing on the grape trellis, a gust of breeze blew over, although with a trace of heat, but also extremely comfortable. She soon fell asleep, as if she had a dream, and as if she had not dreamed, she only remembered that she was in her mother's arms when she woke up. The beautiful woman looked at her with a doting smile.
Lin Xi stumbled and fell off the wooden pedestal. When she opened her eyes, she found that she had been pushed, and she fell asleep with her eyes closed, and looked at the surrounding scenery, which was familiar and unfamiliar, and it was completely different from what she saw in her dreams.
"Good! Where are you a maid! I'm lazy here early in the morning. The voice was a little sharp, she looked up, looked at the person who pushed herself, and found that it was a woman in her thirties, wearing a light purple skirt, covered with a light pink dark striped jacket, a wide forehead, thin eyebrows, a little freckles on her face, a pointed chin, but her body was extremely plump. Lin Xi didn't remember where she had seen this woman, but outsiders in the courtyard of the third girl had never been able to enter, maybe it was the new mother, she quickly got up, and she didn't care about the pain in her body and was very careful to compensate the woman: "I slept late yesterday, and I fell asleep accidentally while sitting here, don't blame Mom!"
"At a young age, I know how to be lazy and idle." The woman's eyes widened, and she looked at Lin Xi, who had climbed up, and went up to pinch her arm: "I didn't know that there were so many idlers in the yard of the third girl!" Lazy hooves, I'm the new mom in the girl's yard, and I'm in charge of you disobedient girls! ”
At this time, the weather was already very hot, June was about to end, and it was about to enter August, Lin Xi was only wearing a waist-length skirt, the clothes were very thin, and her arm was just pinched by the woman, the woman was unceremoniously, turned her hand and twisted it, looking at Lin Xi and screaming in pain before letting go proudly.
Lin Xi didn't expect this woman to be so spicy, and when she heard her say that she was a new mother, she thought that she didn't have the slightest power to resist, so she endured it, and only bowed her head and said, "Mom's lesson is that the slave won't dare next time."
But said that this woman, her husband's surname is Zhou, others only teach her Zhou Zhao on weekdays, it is Aunt Zhou's maiden family in the house, Aunt Zhou was originally the maid of Mr. Wang's family of Li Rong's teacher, Mr. Wang saw her smart, so he gave Li Rong as a concubine, Aunt Zhou was sold to Mr. Wang's family since she was a child, the family was originally a farmer, the family of seven or eight people, originally had a hard life haha, Aunt Zhou became an aunt, often Zhou Ji Niang's family, her two brothers also lost her to talk about the daughter-in-law, the little sister is also because of the dowry she gave, married into a well-off family, Moving to the city to live, it's just that the people don't have enough people.
Several people in the family saw that Aunt Zhou had a lot of benefits here, and their actions became more and more serious, and Aunt Zhou didn't know how much money she pasted out, but in the end, she was really annoyed with her mother's family, but she didn't bother to pay attention to it, and only shirked that she had no money. After making trouble like this a few times, Aunt Zhou lost her temper a few times, and her mother's family also restrained a lot.
Later, she returned to Yangcheng with her master from the capital, and it was a lot cleaner, but just a few months ago, her second sister-in-law actually brought her second brother over, and the two rented a small courtyard, so they came to Aunt Zhou, saying that they were looking for something to do, and they wiped their tears, and they were called good sisters and good sisters, Aunt Zhou remembered that when she was a child, her second brother also loved herself, and she was soft-hearted for a while, but she could only bring her second sister-in-law in to be a miscellaneous mother-in-law after a lot of effort, and there was no way to ask someone to find a relationship, and be a shopkeeper in a tea shop, Aunt Zhou's words in the Li family are light, the mother-in-law and maids around her are customized, she can't be the master easily, let the sister-in-law go back and wait for the news for the Qian family to grind for a few days before carefully revealing it, Qian naturally agreed, since then Aunt Zhou arranged for the second sister-in-law to be a housekeeper mother, but Aunt Zhou actually has no oil and water to fish in the yard, she was originally a maid, and these people in her mother's family have hollowed out half of her foundation, and the rest of the money in her yard The maid and mother-in-law also have to raise, although the moon silver in the house is not her, on weekdays, the monthly tips and dots also cost a lot of money.
Zhao worked in Aunt Zhou's yard for half a year, but he didn't get any benefits, so he found a way to find a way to get around, spent a lot of money, and earned a housekeeper mother in the yard of the third girl, everyone knows that there is more oil and water in the yard of the third girl than in other yards.