In a small house without a door plaque in Renshoufang Hutong, the thick snow covered the small yard with a silvery white, and even the old plane tree in the yard that had lost its leaves was bent by the snow, and the door of the house was closed, and there were no people walking around. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The few rooms that were there looked very shabby, with their exposed doors closed, and they were quiet and lifeless.

A small brazier was lit in the main room, and it was only a few pieces of charcoal, the fire was not burning, a little girl curled up by the brazier, and her thin and small appearance looked very pitiful, and from time to time she tightened her thin jacket and breathed a sigh at her frozen hand.

She turned around and said to Mrs. Qi, who was lying on the couch covered with a quilt: "Madam, the firewood in the kitchen has been burned, if you don't let people carry firewood anymore, I'm afraid you won't even be able to cook." ”

When this little girl Cuicui just moved into this small house, Xue Wenhao asked people to buy it from the girl to serve the lady Qi, she was born very ordinary and inconspicuous, thin and small, your mansion refused to want her, it was only worth a few taels of silver, and now she is alone in the house to cook and burn the fire.

Mrs. Qi waited all night on Chinese New Year's Eve and didn't see Xue Wenhao coming, and when he left, he obviously promised to be good, saying that he would come back here to have a happy banquet at the Hou Mansion and accompany her to spend Chinese New Year's Eve, but she let Cuicui make two or three small dishes hot and hot, and in the middle of the night he didn't see him coming, so he drank all the pot of vegetarian wine he had prepared in anger and rested dizzily.

Listening to Cuicui, she turned over in annoyance, the wing room of this house is too low and cold, she feels cold hands and feet even when she sleeps in the futon, compared to it, the Qi family's house is much better.

"You go to the door to see if you have come back." Mrs. Qi frowned and ordered, what can she do, Xue Wenhao only left her ten taels of silver, saying that he would wait for him to come over and send some silver, but he never came back as soon as he left, and seeing that there was no silver under the New Year's Festival, he couldn't even afford firewood.

Cuicui listened to Mrs. Qi's instructions and asked her to go to the door to see, and she reluctantly shrunk her neck: "I've been there several times, and there is no carriage coming, otherwise I can hear the sound in the house." No one swept the thick snow outside, and she went back and forth several times, and her thin cotton shoes were soaked, and her feet were as cold as ice, and she was willing to go again.

"Lazy!" Mrs. Qi scolded fiercely, "Carefully, I peeled your skin and sold you." "It's just scolding and scolding, and you can't really sell Cuicui, you have to rely on this little girl to serve.

Cuicui stood up very reluctantly, moved her steps out, and said with a pout: "I've been going to see since yesterday, but the master hasn't come yet, and I don't know if I'm coming or not......"

Before she finished speaking, the lady Qi who was turned over smacked her head and face: "I don't know if the master hasn't come back, I want you to chew maggots!" ”

Seeing that Cuicui was frightened, Mrs. Qi was also sullen, Xue Wenhao has not been seen yet, and he has not sent anyone to send silver, seeing that there is no silver to use, how can they live with their master and servant. She walked to the side of the makeup niche and pulled for a long time, and found that none of the few pieces of jewelry left could be taken out and pawned for silver, and even this last idea was gone, what should she do!

Suddenly she remembered that when she first moved into this house a few years ago, she asked Cuicui to quietly send a message to Qi's house in Yongyang Lane, and told Mrs. Qi that she was now placed outside the Hou Mansion by Xue Wenhao, and Mrs. Qi asked Cuicui to come back and say that if Xue Wenhao was willing to accept her into the Hou Mansion as an aunt and let people carry the news to the past, she didn't ask a few more words.

Mrs. Qi sat in front of her shabby jewelry, thought about it for a while, and finally turned her heart sideways, it seems that Xue Wenhao didn't plan to come over for a while, she can't go to the Hou Mansion to make trouble now, and she is still planning to be virtuous and docile, looking forward to Xue Wenhao taking her into the Hou Mansion. So instead of worrying about where to get the money here, it is better to go back to Yongyang Lane and take a look, she doesn't believe that her mother, Mrs. Qi, will bear to look at her situation, and she can't say that she will stuff some body into her in private, and she can live for a while.

When she thought of this, her heart suddenly became lively, and she hurriedly called Cuicui: "Cuicui, Cuicui, the dead girl hasn't come to serve me to change clothes and make up!" Where did you die and hide again! ”

Cuicui came in with her head down, and hurriedly changed her dress according to Mrs. Qi's instructions, and combed her hair again: "Where are you going, Mrs.?" ”

Mrs. Qi took a few peach hairpins on her head for a while, and finally put it down in frustration, she really didn't have decent jewelry, Xue Wenhao also gave her the money in the inn before, and now she can't take out a look-a-eye, think about when she first entered the Guangping Marquis Mansion, she saw the jeweled head and face jewelry that Shen Ruohua was wearing, just one piece made her greedy for a long time, but unfortunately she couldn't even touch it, and now she has to be wronged to live here, and she is not as good as a decent girl!

She gritted her teeth, and no longer thought about how to dress herself, and called Cuicui to follow her out of the door, she wanted to go back to the Qi family in Yongyang Lane, and let Mrs. Qi make an idea for her, how to let Xue Wenhao quickly take her into the Hou Mansion, and then don't stay in such a small and dilapidated mansion to sneak around as an outer room.

Renshoufang Hutong and Yongyang Lane are not far apart, but the lady Qi and Cuicui's master and servant still walked for more than half an hour to reach the door of the Qi family's house, their shoes were soaked in snow, and they were cold and hungry. When Mrs. Qi was about to ask Cuicui to go up and knock on the door, she found that the door of the house was ajar, and the mother-in-law who was guarding the door was nowhere to be seen.

She suspiciously pushed open the door and walked in, but found that there was chaos inside, the only few girls in the Qi family were in a mess, and they brought hot water and towels to Qi Guangru and Mrs. Qi's wing, their faces were shocked and frightened, as if there was something terrible in the room, they all crowded the door and went inside to look inside. Next to the well on the other side of the yard, Mrs. Qi Lin was hoarse and crying on the edge of the well with her head open, howling that she was going to die in the well, and the second lady and the third lady Qi behind her pulled her skirt with tears and refused to let go, looking frightened, and the mother-in-law standing on the side was still holding the fourth lady and the fifth child in her hands, and the two children were still young but they were also crying.

The second wife of Qi, Peng, who was standing not far away, smiled gloatingly, and said coldly: "Sister-in-law doesn't have to be wronged, after all, our uncle is a serious court official, even if he goes out to eat a table and order a prostitute, it's not unusual, but he shouldn't rob anyone of any oiran, it's not that his head was broken, and he was accused of going to the yamen, this is really a romantic affair!" ”

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