When I came to the third young master's room, there was already a young master's Fu Mu Xie Mama standing outside with a few little girls, thinking that the young master was getting up to freshen up. Fu Mu is a middle-aged woman who specializes in taking care of her children and teaching rules, only in the palace and in the families of noble ministers, and sometimes she is a nurse. But if you don't know the etiquette and know the rules, you can't do it.

According to the rules of the house, the master's Fu Mu can not only teach the young master and miss, but also all the maids in this room. When the young master and Miss grow up, Fu Mu only comes to see how well the maids are served, but they don't have to serve in person.

Xiao She'er stepped forward to salute Fu Mu, Mama Xie nodded, and asked quietly, "More than ten this year?" How many years have you been in the house? ”

"Back to my mother, I'm thirteen years old, and I've been serving in the house for six years."

"Good boy, so perceptive, and well-behaved, although he is a big girl, he doesn't take it big. No wonder, whether you can be a big girl or not, there is no difference in age. Mama Xie smiled and liked Xiao She'er's courtesy.

The people in the room had already lifted the curtains, and a pair of little girls followed the young master out, thinking that the young master had finished grooming and went to the old lady to say good morning.

The original big girl in the house, Fangcao and Luoying, led a little girl over, and Fangcao and this little girl Qiantao were picked out from the third young master's room and pointed out to be given to his uncle's wife's house. Fangcao glanced at Xiao She'er casually, but did not speak, as if she was very reluctant. Unlike Qian Tao, the maid sent by Zhilu Dao, the new master must be more preferential, and his face is full of joy. Luo Ying said with a smile: "Little She'er, it's so good!" ”

Mama Xie coughed, Luo Ying stopped talking, and Mama Fang spoke: "Being able to serve the young master is the creation of our minions, and it is even better to be able to be pointed out and sent to Mrs. Aunt and Uncle." Fangcao and Qiantao went, they had to serve well, and don't embarrass the master, wife, and young master. ”

Yerba and Akane said yes.

"Xiao She'er is short of grass, and for the rest, my wife said to look at each other slowly and then buy a maid, you have to work harder."

Xiao She'er saluted with the little maid below and said "yes". Mama Xie saw that Xiao She'er was so polite, but Fangcao didn't seem to belong to her heart, and Qiantao looked like a big one, and sighed secretly in her heart.

Mama Xie led Xiao She'er to clean up and stop as a residence, gently instructed a few words, and stared at Xiao She'er's eyebrows and eyes carefully before slowly leaving.

Xiao She'er sat alone, thinking that her grandfather said that she had just turned one year old, and she had not yet taken the correct name before she was broken up, and she couldn't help but feel sad, and for a while she remembered that her grandfather didn't know if she had breakfast, and for a while she didn't know what case her father was involved in, and she was full of sorrow, until Luo Ying opened the curtain and came in, still in a trance.

"Little She'er, let's go." Luo Ying had one foot in the door and one foot still outside the door, waving at her.

Xiao She'er hurriedly stood up, "Is the young master back?" ”

"Look at the way you don't give up, you were thinking about the young master." Luo Ying pursed the corners of her lips, saw that Xiao She'er lowered her head and was silent, and lost the interest in bickering, so she continued: "Go for breakfast!" How are you so stupid. ”

While Luoying pulled Xiao She'er to the small room where the maids ate, she said: "The young master doesn't like the crowd next to him, I will serve by my side on even-numbered days, and you will serve on odd-numbered days, and do needlework when you are idle, and restrain and teach the little girls." There is nothing else. ”

Xiao She'er nodded and said, "I just arrived here, I'm young, I don't know anything, and I listen to my sister's arrangement." If I make a mistake, my sister must remind and teach me a lot. ”

Luo Ying felt that she had chosen Fangcao, but she didn't choose herself, she was secretly angry for this, and she saw that Xiao She'er was young and had a scar on her face, and she had become a big girl like herself, and she was even more angry.

But said that today is the third day of the new year, Luo Ying remembered that his wife rewarded her clothes and didn't know what patterns to embroider, and she was going to discuss with others, so she asked Xiao She'er to wait for odd days, so she hurried to see it today.

Luo Ying saw that Xiao She'er had no intention of tea and dinner, and took the opportunity to tell her some trivial things, thinking that there was nothing to do today, so she went by herself.

It turns out that although all the young masters and ladies have small kitchens in the courtyard, they eat with their wives on weekdays. The old man and the eldest young master don't eat with everyone because they have a business trip, and the young grandmother also follows his wife. Three meals a day are eaten in his wife's house, and after returning to his room, he eats breakfast, and then eats the usual "decoction of some soup, tea and medicine" [Note].

Decoction of tea medicine is like decoction, with tea, mung beans, musk and other things fried together. As soon as the market started in the early fifth day, the cries of decoction and tea medicine in the market came and went. Of course, these are only the tea medicines that are commonly eaten by ordinary people and small people in the market. The mansion of the king of Han has to pay much attention to the materials and techniques. What is Erchen soup, mint soup, dust-free soup, woody soup, and what is broken qi soup, puzzle soup, Dongting soup, and so on.

Xiao She'er came to the small tea shop next to the young master's study, and a little girl was ordering tea. When watching the charcoal fire boil the tea to a boiling point, add some cold water, and when it boils again, light it with cold water again, and so on three times, and then bring the tea off the fire. Suddenly, I looked up, jumped down, and saw Xiao She'er coming, so I hurriedly stood up and called "sister". Xiao She'er asked her name, seeing that this little girl was younger and a little timid, thinking that she was recognizing her life, remembering that she had just arrived in the house that day, she was like this, or Lilac took her hand and took herself to get her clothes to change into, and her heart was warm. So Wen Yan said: "It's me who is not good, I see how good you are at ordering refreshments, so I didn't say hello to you, which scared you." ”

The little girl smiled at this time, "Sister, don't blame me for not having eyes." He handed her the boiling water, and said, "Our young master doesn't like to eat some tea, only drink tea." When Xiao She'er was making tea on the tea table, she only heard the sound of the curtain, and the young master had already entered the house.

[Note] decoction of tea medicine: part of the tea drinking culture of the Song Dynasty, it was customary to drink it in the morning.