Chapter 118: Monastic Life
Yueying rested for most of the day, and finally felt a little more comfortable, so she came over to ask Yueyao how to arrange the house. Yue Yao really didn't know how to make such a simple house, but when she entered Yue Yao's house, she found that the inside of the house had been cleaned up.
The bed was made, a new aqua blue heavy quilt was placed on the bed, a table was placed at the head of the bed, a dressing box was placed on the table, the cupboard next to the bed was also full of clothes, and the table by the window was placed with pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
After Yue Ying paused, she forced a smile and said, "Third sister, are you ready to clean up?" She didn't expect Yueyao to move so neatly.
Yue Yao snorted and said, "Eldest sister, the night on the mountain will be much colder than under the mountain, change the quilts you will bring, otherwise it will be cold." You should also add an extra layer of clothing, otherwise it is easy to catch a cold. ”
Yueying had long known that the mountain was cooler than the mountain, and last time she specially reminded Yueyao for this reason, and replied, "Third sister, I know." ”
Yue Yao smiled and didn't speak again.
After a conversation, Yueying went back to her house. Cai Lan whispered: "Girl, why don't you let Qiao Lan and Hua Bud come over and help us!" "She is weak in her hands and feet now, she doesn't want to do anything, and she has endless energy to look at Hua Bud and Qiaolan.
Cai Qing glanced at Cai Lan, smiled bitterly and did not speak. She didn't know how Cai Lan could have such a thought, she thought that Qiao Lan and Hua Bud were little maids in their yard who could be called at will, but fortunately, before she could speak, Yueying opened her mouth and refused.
Yueying couldn't open this mouth, and said, "Let's get it ourselves, we can always get it right." ”
Cai Lan carried the thick quilt with Cai Qing, and Yueying watched from the side, and she didn't think about taking a hand. After Yueying waited for the bed to be made, she touched it, and it was hard, and she didn't know how to sleep at night.
Cai Lan wanted to go to the toilet, went out and came back. Cai Lan said with an ugly face: "Girl." There is no clean room in the yard. I just went to ask Hao's mother, and Hao's mother said that there was a thatched house nearby. "The hut is a little half an hour away from here.
Yueying sighed. He asked, "Thatched house, what is that?" "Yueying has never seen a thatched house. Wait until she listened to Cailan's description. The face is as white as paper. She won't go to such a dirty and smelly place, but what if she doesn't go to the toilet?
Cai Qing thought more than Cai Lan and said, "Let's go and ask the third girl how to solve this problem." Compared with her own girl, Cai Qing feels that the third girl is more reliable.
After listening to Cai Qing's question, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Didn't you open the cupboard?" The bucket is inside. ”
Cai Qing hurried back to the house. Sure enough, I found a bucket under the cupboard.
It doesn't look like much, but it's hard work to pack up. It's been a day of traveling. After walking for most of the day, my body couldn't bear it. And do these things. Cai Lan really doesn't want to move. Cai Lan whispered: "Sister Cai Qing, let's go and ask Hua Bud to help us, right?" "In the past, they didn't have to do these manual tasks in the mansion, they were all ordered to do it by the maid or mother-in-law, where did they suffer such hardship.
Cai Qing glanced at Cai Lan. said: "Hua Bud and Qiao Lan are the three girls' side - wait for the big girl, you go and ask them to help, be careful to spray your face spitting Xingzi...... "Hua Bud is a spicy mansion who doesn't know?" Hua Bud has the trust of the three girls again, and there are not many mansion rules on the mountain, so she won't come over to help when the time comes, not to mention, she has to eat and fall.
I can't move anymore. The girl's house was not cleaned up. Later, I will have to clean up my house, and I want to lie down and sleep in bed when I think about picking blue.
Cai Qing couldn't help but be lazy, and urged: "Hurry up." It's going to be dark. Don't sleep at night until you get it right. "Because the waxing moon has delayed so long. It was late on the mountain, and they had rested for most of the day, and the sun was about to set.
Cai Lan had to work hard, and it was easy to take care of Yueying's yard, when she heard Yueying calling for them to fetch water.
Cai Lan really didn't want to move, and said, "Sister Cai Qing." There you go! ”
Cai Qing was actually very tired, but seeing Cai Lan's appearance, he had to put down what he was in his hand and take the copper basin to the kitchen.
The kitchen was very small, only two people could turn back and forth, but it was clear that someone had cleaned the kitchen and put oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in it. Cai Qing searched for a while but didn't find water, so he asked the flower buds who came to the kitchen.
Said briskly: "Go out and turn left, just walk for a few minutes." "Regarding the situation here, Hao's mother asked Xiao Shami, and she asked in detail.
Cai Qing went out with a copper basin and came back for a long time, and there was only a small half basin of water in the copper basin. Not to mention blue picking. It's just that Cai Qing can't stand it now. It's so hard here. Where there is a mansion that is brisk, everything is ordered to be done by the maid and the maid. They just stayed with the girl and waited close to her.
Cai Lan saw Cai Qing coming back, and said loudly: "Why do you have to make a basin of water for half a day, where can I go to get water?" ”
Cai Qing glanced at Cai Lan. Without saying a word, he followed.
Flower Bud said unhappily, "You whisper no." Don't bother my girl. "As if I was afraid that I didn't know her high voice.
Hua Bud This is actually not for Lan Cai, the main reason is that Yueyao really likes to be quiet and doesn't like to be noisy, so everyone in Lanxi Courtyard speaks quietly. No one would talk loudly in the yard. Cai Lan shouted loudly, which would naturally affect Yueyao.
Cai Lan just wanted to open his mouth, but Cai Qing hurriedly said: "The well is quite far away from here, and it will take a lot of time to go back and forth." "She doesn't want to pick blue and quarrel with the buds. It will definitely be the blue picking that suffers.
Hua Bud went back to the room and said to Yueyao, who was sitting on a chair reading a book, "Girl, did you quarrel with you just now?"
Yue Yao didn't speak, the noise must have been noisy; She just thought that when she finished eating, she had to let Yueying restrain Cai Lan, such a loud voice, making people.
Qiao Lan's mind was also very lively, and said: "Girl, I see that Cai Lan and Cai Qing are not hard-working people. Not only did they clean the house, but they also got the kitchen in order, but the three of them didn't move.
Yue Yao was silent. She had long expected that Yueying would not be able to endure this hardship. Normal people are reluctant to live in temples and nunnery because the conditions in these places are very difficult, and they have to do everything by themselves. People who are used to enjoying living in the mountains are like going to prison. It's just the beginning, and it won't take more than two days. I believe that Yueying and the maids around her will be miserable. Yueyao shook her head, as for whether she could stay until Layue, there was a chance that she would not be able to.
Hao's mother walked in and asked, "Girl, what do you want to eat at night?" This time, I brought a lot of fresh vegetables, but after a few days, there will be no more.
Yue Yao smiled and said, "Just fry two rais, there is not so much attention here, just eat enough." "People who want to enjoy it won't come here.
In fact, for Yue Yao, the current environment is already good, and the food is not bad. When she used to be in the nunnery, at the beginning, she only ate two meals a day, with only one steamed bun and a small bowl of vegetables at each meal, and that day was really bitter. Later, it was her income generation that changed it to three meals a day. There are also two steamed buns and one dish in one meal.
Hao's mother got the word and immediately went down.
Yue Yao said to the two people beside her: "Hua Bud, Qiao Lan, you go over and give Mother Hao a hand." Now that the sun has set, you don't have to help to discredit before you can eat. ”
Qiao Lan and Hua Bud immediately followed.
Yueyao continued to read.
Hao's mother went to fetch water first. The buds scooped up the rice and began to cook the rice. Flower Bud used to work on the farm, and she did all these things when she was a child. It's just that I didn't do these rough jobs with Yueyao anymore. Now I'll do it again. Naturally, he is very skilled.
Qiao Lan didn't look at it, she immediately washed the vegetables and picked them, and then divided them. After Hao's mother came over, she began to fry Lai, and the three of them were busy in the kitchen.
Ma Chengteng came back from a business trip and heard that Yueyao had gone to the mountain, and he was ready to go to see Yueyao when he was ready to rest. This child can't tell her if he suffers, so he needs to visit her.
Ma Peng also told Zhuang Ruolan to let her send someone to the mountain to visit Yueyao every once in a while in the future, so as not to let her suffer.
After dinner, Ma Peng went to the study. The maid brought the crystal pear. Ruolan took a piece of the tooth and ate it, and said, "Hmm." Very sweet. But she couldn't eat too much, only one.
Caiyun came in with a dark face, and after seeing Ruolan hesitate for a moment, he said, "Girl, on the way to the study, the eldest young master met the early summer who came to ask for peace. The eldest young master had a good conversation with Chu Xia, but he didn't find out what he said. Ma Peng didn't pay much attention to early summer, but it didn't prevent Caiyun and Caiyi from strictly guarding early summer. This time in early summer, meeting the young master on the road was definitely not a good thing for the few of them.
Ruolan's hand paused. smiled and said: "If you touch it, you will touch it, what is the fuss." Caiyun also wanted to say. Ruolan waved her hand and asked her not to speak. The husband really wanted to find other women, but she couldn't stop her. This kind of thing can't be prevented, and if the defense is too tight at home, he will go outside to find it.
Ruolan can see it so openly, mainly because she has seen too many such things in the Guogong Mansion, just like her third uncle, there are several concubines in the Guogong Mansion, and all of these concubines are beauties, but he also has to buy an outer room outside the house without hiding from his family, and not only that, but he often lingers in the brothel of the Qinglou. My husband has no one to press, and it's good to be able to stay for five months during his pregnancy. As for looking for it now, she didn't feel much of it. As long as her husband doesn't spoil his concubine and kill his wife, her position as a wife is not threatened, and she really doesn't look at a maid in a room.
After Ma Peng came back, he looked at Ruolan for a while before he said, "Ruolan, I saw early summer today." She's a lot thinner than she used to ......."
Ruolan snorted, and then asked, "What did she say?" "I hope it's not these indiscriminate methods that treat her harshly, it's too low-level.
Zhuang Ruolan even served Xiao Ma and Lu Yan with good food and drink, how could the fork deduct the food and clothing of a room.
Ma Peng shook his head and said, "I didn't say anything in the early summer, but I saw that it would delay her if it went on like this." Ruolan, you can help choose a family to marry out in early summer! ”
Ruolan was surprised, this result was not what she thought, and asked in surprise: "Marry out?" "It looks beautiful in early summer. The husband actually gave it up.
Ma Peng didn't bend his intestines so much, and he was husband and wife in his heart, so he said his true thoughts: "Originally, I was ready to wait for you to have a child, but when I met her today, I saw that she looked very pitiful." Ruolan, you have served me for so many years in the early summer, there is no merit and hard work, you choose a good family for her, and give her a dowry to marry her out, which is also my heart. ”
Ruolan almost laughed, how incomprehensible her husband must be! In the early summer, I dressed up today to look for him, but I was miserable in vain. Her husband really doesn't understand the amorous feelings, but it's good to not understand the amorous customs, which saves her a lot of things.
Ruolan was moved. But I wasn't moved by this to completely let go of my mind. The future is still long, and no one can guarantee that it will always be the same as it is now. The greater the expectation, the deeper the hurt, and if you don't have too many expectations, you won't be disappointed, and you won't be hurt.
Ruolan asked the maid to bring a plate of crystal pears and said, "Today, my grandmother asked me to send it, it is very sweet, try it." "It's all rare and expensive, Ruolan's mother is the only concubine of the Duchess of the Kingdom, and this only granddaughter is naturally a baby.
Ma Peng tasted it and praised: "Well, it's really sweet." "It's like life, it's sweet every day.
When it got dark, Yueyao didn't continue to do anything, but she didn't snatch the buds and Qiaolan to do, but she went to the cupboard to take out the clothes for bathing at night.
Hua Bud said with a distressed face, "Mom, where are you going to eat?" Yueyao's two tables have already been filled with things, and they will definitely not be used as dinner tables.
Hao's mother wiped her hands and said, "You go and ask the eldest girl if there is any spare table." If not, eat them separately. "If you don't have a table, you have to eat separately.
Yueying said generously: "Just use our table!"
Hua Bud said happily: "Cheng." "When I finished, I called Qiaolan to come over and moved the table in Cai Qing and Cai Lan's house to their house.
Cai Lan was reluctant, and said unhappily: "Why do you want to move to your house, just put food in our house." ”
Hua Bud glanced at Cai Lan and asked, "Eat in your house?" After saying this, he looked at the few packages in the room that had not yet been unscattered.
Yueying obviously didn't want to fight, and said, "It's the same to go over there and eat." "This kind of place is really bad, there is not even a place to eat. This is eaten in the house, and the smell of the food will go into the clothes and quilts.
Cai Lan was no longer willing, and she had nothing to say after Yueying spoke.
Hua Bud was obviously happier than Cai Lan, and when she returned to their house, she muttered to Qiao Lan, "Sister Qiao Lan, won't you want us to serve the two of them in the future, right?" In the future, I will really provide them with good food and drink. If so, she wouldn't want to.
Qiao Lan didn't answer, but said, "Go serve the food, it's dark this day." Qiao Lan felt that the mountains were darker than the capital.
The buds were lit with tung oil lamps and placed on the table. The meal is very simple, with only four dishes; Green cabbage leaves, fried beans with eggplant, mapo tofu, egg drop soup.
Hao's mother's craftsmanship is actually quite good, but the rice cooked by the flower buds is burned. The bud used to have a good craft in the countryside, but now the craft is rusty and I can't control it.
Yueying is used to it, where can she eat such a meal, and she put down her chopsticks after eating two bites. Where is this kind of food eaten? The rice burned out. The dishes are also tasteless. Yueying used to think that the food in her yard was really unpalatable, but compared to now, those meals were really delicious.
Yue Yao didn't even frown. I ate it slowly, one bite at a time, and ate it quite elegantly, as if I didn't know that the rice was mushy. In fact, it is also the moon is delicate, although this rice is mushy, but only the lower layer is burnt, and there is no response from the top. Although this dish can't be compared with the cook, it is not unpalatable. In the mountains, you can eat enough, don't think about eating well.
Hua Bud looked at this Yueyao's appearance, which was more uncomfortable than looking at Yueying's disgusted look, she made the girl suffer, and she must not burn the food next time.
Yueyao chewed slowly, but she also ate two bowls of rice. No matter how bad the food is, Yue Yao has to eat two bowls of rice every day, and it is precisely because of this insistence that Yue Yao's body is so good.
The rule is that the master has finished eating. Only the people below can start eating. Yueyao put down the dishes and chopsticks, and entered the room with clean hands, and Yueying followed her.
After eating two bites, Cai Lan put down her chopsticks and said with an unhappy face: "Who made such an unpalatable meal?" Is this what people eat?" Pigs don't eat such meals.
Hua Bud's face turned black and said, "If you don't eat it, don't eat it." And no one asks you to eat. "She was so angry that the person who didn't do anything and only ate dry rice still disliked her food for being unpalatable.
Qiao Lan winked. Flower Bud looked at Yueyao and Yueying who came out of the room. I didn't speak anymore.
Yue Yao said to Cai Lan: "I heard Mother Hao say that not only did you not help with this meal at night, but also stood next to you and pointed fingers. "The last course. Cai Lan was very hungry and walked over and said a few words.
Yueying didn't know about this, and immediately asked, "Cai Lan, what's going on?"
Cai Lan hurriedly said, "Girl." I'm not pointing fingers. It's just that I saw that they were slow, so I said a few words on the side. Three girls, I didn't point fingers in front of them. They are the personal maids and mothers of the three girls, how can I have the courage. ”
Yue Yao didn't bother to argue with Cai Lan at all, lost her identity, and said: "Eldest sister, we didn't take the mother-in-law and cook to the mountain, and now we have to do the laundry, cooking, carrying water, chopping wood, and cleaning the yard." ”
Yueying naturally nodded, if she didn't let the maid do it, she had to do it herself, and responded: "This is natural, let them help Mother Hao from tomorrow." ”
Yue Yao didn't immediately divide the labor, but just said to Cai Lan: "Since you don't think the food is delicious, the kitchen will be handed over to you in the future." ”
As soon as Hua Bud wanted to say no, she was pinched by Qiao Lan, and Hua Bud shut up in a funny manner.
Cai Lan has never done rough work since he was a child, let alone cooked or cooked. Of course, it's not that she doesn't know how to do. Even if I knew how to do it, I didn't plan to nest in the kitchen. The kitchen smells of oil smoke, and you can't become a yellow-faced woman after you go? How to preserve perfect skin with fair and supple hands.
Yueyao had no objection when she saw Yueying. The four maidens below didn't speak. The current division of labor: "Hao's mother's cooking skills are still successful." In the future, the kitchen will be handed over to Hao's mother; The four of you take turns to give Hao's mother a hand; As for the menial work of carrying water and chopping wood, the four of you should do it separately. Say it yourself, what do you choose?" Sweeping the yard is a trivial matter, and the most important thing is to carry water and chop firewood, which are both heavy work, and ordinary girls can't stand it.
Qiao Lan was very personable: "You pick first." "I gave the choice to the two of them.
Cai Lan's face was all sauce-colored, and he even asked them to carry water and chop wood. What could be more terrifying? Cai Lan looked at his hands as white as jade and thought for a while before saying, "Let's carry water." "Compared to chopping wood, she is still willing to carry water. Carrying water can press the shoulders at most, and when the time comes, the hands will be wasted.
Hua Bud also had a headache when she thought about chopping wood, but since Qiao Lan had already said courtesy, it would be bad to regret it, so she responded: "Since this is the case, then we will choose to chop wood." ”
Yue Yao glanced at Cai Lan and said, "Since you have already chosen, I won't say much about the others." You have to remember not to make excuses for doing bad things. When Yue Yao said this, she said it directly to Cai Lan, with a warning in her words. At first glance, this maid is a master who enjoys comfort and can't stand suffering.
Cai Lan quickly lowered her head, and she didn't dare to say anything no matter how dissatisfied she was.
Yueying felt that this distribution was very good, although she felt that such rough work should not be done by the maids around her. But no one did it except let the maid do it. I can't let her do it, and said, "Since the third sister has arranged it, then it will be executed like this!"
Yueying has spoken, and this matter is equivalent to being settled. After dinner, because it was already dark, Yueyao didn't go out, but walked around the small courtyard twice to eliminate food, and then went back to the house to start practicing calligraphy.
The light of the kerosene lamp was too dim for Yueyao to use. It doesn't matter if you eat with this. Practicing calligraphy and reading is a must, and you can't use kerosene lamps. And he took the buds and lit them with candles.
I really admire my master. I even remember to bring candles. Yue Yao used two candles in the daily department of Lianfu, and the light of one candle was too small. Yueyao didn't care about the cost of candles. Naturally, Hua Bud lit two candles this time.
Waiting for Yueyao to quiet down and practice calligraphy, Hua Bud pulled Qiaolan back to the room outside and said, "Why do you let them carry water, and we will chop firewood?" Where do we have so much strength to chop firewood? "With their little strength, where can they move.
Qiao Lan chuckled: "It's all sent by the temple, tomorrow we will go and plead with the temple steward, and ask them to send us the chopped firewood." "If it doesn't work, just give them money when the time comes, and let them chop firewood will definitely not work.
Hua Bud clapped her hands and said, "This is a good idea, don't be angry with them when the time comes." Hua Bud didn't even think about what to do if the monks of the temple didn't help.
Bud and Qiao Lan go to the kitchen to help. Hao's mother didn't let them help. He said, "Don't get these greasy things. Hurt hands. "It doesn't matter if you wash rice, cook rice, and wash vegetables, but after a long time asking about salt water, your hands are definitely not as good as they are now. Hao's mother and Qiao Lan have also been together for so long, and she really feels sorry for them. As for herself, she doesn't care about that at such a young age.
Hua Bud and Qiao Lan were also obedient, and when they returned to the house, they had nothing to do, so they took a needle and thread to Yueyao's house to do needlework.
Hao's mother came over and saw the three of them doing their own things around the candlelight, and she felt very harmonious. Hao's mother unconsciously calmed down. Although she was a little tired and bitter in the mountains, her heart settled down.
The reason why Hua Bud and Qiao Lan adapted so quickly and didn't have any complaints was because they had already prepared for this thought. It's different to pick green and blue, and the two of them are not prepared at all. It's okay to pick green, although she is a little unaccustomed to it, but she tries to adapt to it, and she can't do it, she hasn't suffered so much.
Yueying returned to the house after dinner and wanted to sleep, she was so tired today.
Cai Lan went to the kitchen to fetch hot water for Yueying, and after Yueying fell asleep, she also went to fetch water to freshen up, and when she got it done, she climbed into bed and went to bed, she was tired, and she fell asleep in bed.