Chapter 254: Fan Wai (Lu Wei)
My name is Lu Wei, and I have many daughters in the family, and I am the fifth. But in fact, in addition to the four older sisters above, there is an older brother and a younger brother below.
My brother is the fifth in my family, but when I was born, he fell into the river and drowned at the age of three because he was negligent. Then my mother gave birth to me in shock, but it was a girl, and she hated me even more.
My childhood was unfortunate, the same as my eldest sister.
The eldest sister is the one who didn't take good care of her brother. She was doing the laundry, and her brother was playing beside her. As a result, my brother somehow fell into the river, and when she fished it up, she was already out of breath.
That year, the eldest sister was fourteen and was already discussing marriage. Later, her parents were furious and sold her to a lame old widower in a neighboring village at a high price.
Of course, I was too young to know about it.
Later, when I was four or five years old, I started to do laundry and cook for the family. Because my sisters had to go to the fields with my parents, I had to work at home alone.
The rice was mushy and beaten. If the food is unpalatable, you will also be beaten.
But slowly, I grew up to be seven or eight years old, and my appearance got better. At that time, the second sister was already married, and the third sister was also discussing marriage. My father and mother saw that I was good-looking, and maybe I could bring some benefits to the family in the future, so they treated me better.
When he was ten years old, his mother finally gave birth to a younger brother, and they were older, so they treated him as an eyeball and couldn't take care of him.
Over the years, my father and mother have supported us to do this and that, and the eldest sister has asked for a lot of money to get married, so she has really saved a lot of money. But aren't our sisters dressed in tatters? The sisters have played the matter of the eldest sister, and they all stammered with their fathers and mothers, not to mention how well they were married, so they didn't sell them.
I also listened to them to find out about the eldest sister.
I also resent my eldest sister. If it weren't for her negligence. How could I be so unfavored in my life? So after knowing about this, I tried my best to slap my father and brother together.
My father and mother don't worry about others taking care of my younger brother, which shows that I am solid, and I am slowly getting in touch with my younger brother. Naturally, I didn't dare to have any evil thoughts, but I just took care of my younger brother meticulously, hoping that my father and mother would remember me well.
The hard work paid off, and my father and mother were getting better and better to me. I also feel like I have a bright future ahead of me.
When I thought I was going to marry a nice guy. A piece of paper is down.
Draft.
That's a word that's so far away from us!
Even if we live in the suburbs of Beijing, we have heard that the daughters of many big officials have become imperial concubines, but for old farmers like us. The palace is still something that cannot be imagined.
In the past, there were also people in the village who went to the draft. But what kind of draft, it sounds good, is actually to be a palace maid. But the girls in the village are too embarrassed to be palace women. They were all brushed off in the first round.
But I'm different.
In the past few years, anyone has seen me. will say that I am good-looking, but my family's conditions and reputation are not good, and no rich and noble family is willing to marry me as a wife.
Of course, I won't do it as a concubine. In that case, I will be a subordinate person for the rest of my life, and I don't want to live a life of serving people in the future.
We're just going through the motions here. Except for a few squires who have settled down, the rest of the families are just foils. Reputedly. I'm afraid the officer in charge won't even remember what you look like.
But I know it's my chance.
The palace maid is different from others. If you get the blue eyes of your master, you will at least point to a guard to yourself. If you are more careful, it is not impossible to become a nobleman!
Although I am at home every day, in the end, because my father and mother look at me differently, I have also saved a little copper coin.
For the draft, I went out of my way to buy rouge, and after applying it, I myself was stunned.
I was unique among a group of dusty peasant girls, and so I was elected to the palace.
After entering the palace, I was the lowest palace maid in the Huanyi Bureau, and my proud appearance turned out to be in the middle and lower classes in the Huanyi Bureau!
I started to be careful to please again, but I was a newcomer, and I was always inevitably bullied. At this time, I was so homesick, but after my family took the money from my palace entry subsidy, they didn't come to see me once! After all, I was still like the eldest sister, just abandoned by them.
Day after day, an older palace maid came to the Huanyi Bureau, who came out of the cold palace, called Lin Yu.
I have always been kind to people, and this older palace maid is unwilling to be contaminated by others, so I will take more care of her. She is going to be released from the palace, and even her father-in-law is too lazy to embarrass her, I am good to her, more or less let the father-in-law have a blue eye, and have to be idle.
It was an unexpected joy, before she left the palace, she actually gave me a gilded hairpin. Although I don't say how expensive it is, but she has served the mother in the end, and the style of this thing is not bad.
I used the hairpin she gave me and the money I had saved to finally dredge a little eunuch from the Internal Affairs Office, and he helped me out of the Huanyi Bureau.
Although it was just a sprinkler, I still felt a lot more free and relaxed.
I have a good personality and popularity, and it didn't take long for me to be promoted little by little.
However, just when I thought I could finally enter the temple to serve, the master fell, and we were all arrested.
It was the first time I was so frightened, watching the big girl next to my master suffer all kinds of torture, I felt that my guts were about to burst!
Also this time, I'm glad I didn't enter the inner sanctum to serve!
Around the master, those who are close to him will be killed with a rod. We are a small and insignificant character, but in the end we picked up a life, but we will never be allowed to enter Beijing.
I have been a palace maid, and my household registration is independent, but in the final analysis, I am also guilty, my father and mother can't sell me, and they don't want to support me, so they won't let me go home. Fathers and mothers are like this, and relatives have nothing to take in.
I walked in a daze, confused as to where to go.
At this time, an old woman beat me and walked by, and she said, she is my eldest sister. She was blind in one eye, and many of her teeth were missing, which were beaten by her man. So in her thirties, she looks like she is in her fifties and sixties. She came out to beg for food, and when she went to her mother's house, everyone recognized her.
She saw me and said I was much luckier than she was. She laughed almost like crazy, and I was so scared that I ran away from the place I thought was home.
But I'm a woman, I have no home, I don't know anything, where should I go when I leave the capital?
Suddenly, I thought of Lin Yu, who said that she lived in the northern border. I heard that although the border passes were bitterly cold, there were few wars, and the peasants were self-sufficient, but they lived very comfortably. My heart yearns, and Li Yun has become the hope that supports me. (To be continued.) )