Chapter 5 The Iron Box
After Tong's mother left, a thought suddenly flashed in Su Ximei's mind. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The thought of a rusty box, hidden in a corner against the wall under the bed, seemed to be important.
Her memory of Miss Seven's past was a little strange, she knew that this iron box was left by the Xie family, but she didn't remember the reason for the existence of this iron box.
After thinking about it for a while, she didn't understand it, so she found the tin box, which was very hidden, and even if she opened the bottom of the wooden bed, she might not find that there was a box in the corner.
When I opened the lid of the box, there was only a copy of the "Domain Chronicles" that had been turned over.
This "Domain Chronicle" is a rough record of the history, folklore, and distribution map of today. But these kinds of books are available in the market, so why do you think they are important?
His eyes fell on the book, and he opened it casually and looked at it.
The history recorded in this book is similar to what she heard from the storyteller in the teahouse in her previous life.
It is said that five hundred years ago, Qin Huigong, who was still a lord of a small country at that time, had a great talent and strategy, and recruited capable people from all over the world to lead a group of heroes to fight in the south and north.
Forty years later, the Central Plains achieved great unification.
Qin Huigong granted amnesty to the world, crowned the king and knighted, divided the land, and changed the name of the country to Qin.
For a time, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the Qin country was rich and prosperous.
But more than 100 years later, the emperor of Qin had no way, the princes of all sides rose up, and the Central Plains fell into a beacon of fire, and it didn't take long for the war to spread to the capital, and the short-lived Qin regime collapsed.
After that, the princes of various parties continued to annex the small states that sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and finally the world was divided into three parts: the Chiyan Kingdom adjacent to the eastern coast, the Wei Kingdom located in the southwest inland, and the Xi Kingdom entrenched in the northwest.
The three countries were evenly matched, and they all had ambitions to reunify the Central Plains, but decades later, the fierce and murderous nomadic regimes north of the desert invaded south, and the three countries had to join forces to resist.
The nomadic regime was driven back to the Northern Desert, so that the devastated scorched earth of the Central Plains finally had a chance to recuperate, and the war between the Three Kingdoms subsided. Although there were constant wars in the following hundreds of years, the political situation in the Central Plains was relatively stable.
Su Ximei closed the yellowed book, and gently stroked the word "Yuzhi" with her fingertips.
The territory of Chiyan is vast, the people are gentle, and the imperial court attaches great importance to education.
As the saying goes: everything is inferior, but reading is high.
If it weren't for Zhang Chengguo's identity as a prisoner, how could Master Fang, who was the Shaoqing of Taifu Temple, agree to let his daughter marry him?
What Master Fang likes is the usefulness of the other party's family in the future, and what he looks at is the power and status of the Fang family.
It's a good business for mutual benefit!
Su Ximei sighed lightly, and there was no mockery in her tone, just a simple sigh, as if everything that happened in her previous life had nothing to do with her, she just sighed as an outsider.
Looking up at the window, the sunset has already dyed the sky red, and it should be the time to deliver food.
Sure enough, as soon as she stood up, the courtyard door was pushed open. A maid in a cyan bikini walked in with a food box.
At the beginning of March, it was still a bit cold in the evening. She only wore a plain linen robe, and this linen dress was still what she wore when she went out to the funeral, and it was not as warm as the maid's cyan armor.
The only old cabinet in the room was empty, and the coarse cotton clothes that Miss Seven had worn before had probably been thrown out by those subordinates.
Who would have thought that a person who had lost his breath would suddenly come back to life?
What's more, those coarse cloth clothes that have been washed white are not even eye-catching to those subordinates.
The maid walked into the room with the food box and put it on the square table with a "bang".
"Miss Seven, it's time to eat." She rolled her eyes and cried out in displeasure.
Delivering food to Miss Seven, that is an errand that will only be assigned to a girl who has made a mistake if she is punished, otherwise who would want to come to this remote and deserted northwest chamber?
Two days ago, the ugly Miss Seven finally survived, but now she is inexplicably alive, she has to deliver food on time, I really don't know what bad luck she had!
Su Ximei looked at the food box on the table, stepped forward to open the lid of the box, and the plate was full of rice residues without any oil and meat.
Picking up the chopsticks and flicking them on the plate, Su Ximei looked up at the maid.
"That's all?" She asked.
The maid laughed.
"There are two dishes and one soup in the food box, they are all distributed according to the conventions of the house, the rules cannot be broken, if Miss Seven has any additional needs, you can talk to the housekeeper about it, the slave and maid can't be the master."
She pushed things off the ground.
Su Ximei looked down at the food in the food box and smiled.
"Actually, that's fine." She whispered, but her eyes were as calm as the surface of a lake.
Sure enough, there was something wrong with the brain.
These dishes are all rice that the house takes to feed the pigs.
The maid snorted disdainfully, turned around and walked out, but suddenly paused, turned back and smiled.
"Miss Seven, your body is expensive, but you need to eat more."
Su Ximei smiled.
"Of course my body is expensive." She said, without the slightest hint of anger or provocation in her tone, and simply said, "But are you sure you want me to eat more?" ”
The maid was stunned for a moment, and looked at her with a frown.
What does that mean? No wonder everyone says she's stupid, I'm afraid no one can understand what she says.
But if she can eat the rice, then eat more. Anyway, pigs can eat it, and it can't hurt her stomach.
Thinking of this, the maid smiled.
"Miss Seven has just returned home, and she needs to eat more to take care of herself."
Su Ximei listened to her calmly, and finally nodded, as if she agreed with her "kindness"
After the maid left, Su Ximei gently closed the lid of the food box.
Originally, I thought that if I didn't go back to her residence in her previous life, I took out the two taels of silver at the bottom of the box and went to the restaurant to have a good meal, but she was tired and hungry after tossing in Yizhuang for most of the day, but some people didn't want her to live a good life, so she didn't need to be polite.
She looked up into the room, where the brilliant glow of the sky was fading, and some of the nearest ones were faintly gray. She took the food box and walked towards the courtyard gate.
Her expression was very calm, her steps were steady and powerful, and a quarter of an hour later, her petite figure stood in front of the door of the courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
This is a separate courtyard with three entrances and three exits, and my father's daily life is in this courtyard on weekdays.
A servant saw her from afar, and stepped forward to call "Miss Seven" respectfully.
The servants in my father's courtyard were obviously much more eye-catching than the subordinates in the other courtyards of the house.
She is now the seventh lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and she still has to give face, after all, this courtyard is the rule of the entire mansion, and the servants who follow the eldest lord are very discerning, and they will never be exposed because of the gains and losses in front of them.
There are so many people in the house who want to be servants in the courtyard, so the servants who are on errand in front of their father are a little arrogant, whether it is the second master, the third master, or the aunt or young lady in the house, they all treat everyone equally or do not enter the oil and salt.
Even if there are some small calculations in my heart, I am the same to everyone on the surface, and I look respectful and humble, which makes people feel a kind of estrangement that is difficult to approach.
Su Ximei nodded.
"Has my father eaten?" She asked with a smile.
The servant was a little surprised for a moment, in the past, Miss Seven would never take the initiative to greet people, let alone smile deeply.
Although she is still the yellow and thin Miss Seven, those eyes seem to be different.
It is as bright as the stars at night.
The servant thought as he bowed down and replied, "Madame and Third Miss are eating with the master. ”
The second lady Su Luo and the third lady Su Xin of the Prime Minister's Mansion are both the flesh and blood of the Zheng family, but what can really make the Zheng family's status in the mansion extraordinary is that her son Hao Ge'er is the only son in the Xiangfu.
The middle courtyard should be the courtyard where the lord of the prime minister and his wife live, but his father's original wife Zhao has been dead for five years, but he lives alone in this courtyard.
But Zheng's status in the mansion is equal to that of his wife, although he can't live in the middle courtyard, he also comes to the courtyard from time to time to accompany his father to eat.
Su Ximei smiled.
"It turns out that my mother and third sister are also here." She said, "Then Brother Lao will go in and report it." ”
For her, Zheng's presence or absence has nothing to do with it.
The servant was stunned for a moment, feeling that Miss Seven was really a little different. But he has been by Xiangye's side for many years, and he is steady and sophisticated, and he just glanced up at her, then said yes, turned around and walked into the courtyard to report.
But in a few moments the servant returned to the gate and led her in.
A servant woman took the food box in her hand, and as she walked through the corridor and the moon gate, she stopped in front of a room with green eaves and glazed tiles.
At this time, the sky had already darkened, and the Xiangfu was hung with sheep's horn lamps, and the room in front of him was even brighter and more transparent.
In front of the door, a servant woman opened the curtain and blessed Su Ximei slightly.
"Miss Seven." His voice was faint, and there was no expression on his face.
Su Ximei returned the salute slightly, and strode in.
When Zheng saw her, his eyebrows bent, and he stretched out his hand to beckon: "Seven girls, why did you come here at this time?" You've just returned to your house, and you haven't rested much. ”
Su Ximei walked in front of Zheng and lowered her head.
"When the daughter returns to the house, she should come to greet her father and mother." As he spoke, he glanced at Su De, who was sitting on the main seat.