After a long time, Qin Yu bowed down and stood up, slowly gasped, and wiped the sweat stains on her forehead.

Putting down the rag in her hand, Qin Yu sat a little tired on the almost immaculate table and chair that had been wiped.

On the ground, there are blackened rags.

Look around-

The wood on the windowsill is still rotten, but it is not dirty, and the bed tent has also been removed by Qin Yu one by one, ready to wash it when she has free time in the past few days.

The dust accumulated on the ground was also roughly cleaned up by her, although it was still dirty, but it was much better than before, and it was black and bright at the moment.

It's not like Tong Rui's girl's room, the floor of the house is covered with soft velvet blankets, and all the master's rooms in the house are not so shabby, which is really stretched.

She was sent by Mrs. Tong, Linghuai is Tong Yao's personal girl, and she must still ask her for something.

But, even if Linghuai doesn't clean the room, as she said, what are the other two girls doing?

Qin Yu sighed, got up, exhaled two breaths, put the things she brought neatly, and then walked out of the hut, going to ask her master Tong Yao for peace first.

But this time out of the courtyard, before she could say a word, Qin Yu was angry by the scene in front of her.

Under the grove not far away, in the small pavilion not far in front of the maid's house, is it not Linghuai who is sitting?

With a shallow smile on his round and white face, his demeanor is pretentious, and he is talking and laughing with the two or three girls around him at the moment, so unhappy.

The close-fitting big girl is lazy and can do it here, and it's the only one!

Who else is beside Tong Yao besides Linghuai? If Linghuai doesn't serve, wouldn't Tong Yao have to do everything herself?

At that moment, Ling Huai seemed to be aware of it, stopped smiling and grinning, and suddenly turned her head to look at Qin Yu's side, her face instantly froze, only to see Qin Yu smile inexplicably at her, the former obviously looked at Qin Yu with a less friendly look.

Qin Yu was disappointed in her heart, and felt more and more bleak about Tong Yao, the eldest lady.

In the previous life, what happened to Tong Yao, she couldn't remember clearly, she only knew that Tong Yao was finally married to the local prefect by Mrs. Tong, and she was a fourth-grade junior member, and she didn't know how she was doing later, you must know that when Tong Yao was seventeen years old, Tongfu was already a second-grade adult, how could an eldest daughter marry a fourth-grade daughter?

On the other hand, Tong Rui, with the rise of her status and the strength of her mother's family, finally took her into the Hou Mansion and became the second lady of the Hou Mansion, enjoying endless glory and wealth in a steady life.

"Let's go—"

But for a moment, in Qin Yu's line of sight, Ling Huai walked in front of him with great pleasure.

Qin Yu nodded, bowed and saluted.

Ling Huai lowered her head to see Qin Yu's posture, rolled her eyes, and couldn't help pouting.

……

"Slave maid to the eldest lady to say goodbye-" Qin Yu lowered her head, leaned over slightly, and said respectfully and politely.

Tong Yao's small courtyard is located in the remote west, Mrs. Tong's courtyard is next to Tong Rui's courtyard, and the main hall is in the center, needless to say, Tong Rui's courtyard is leaning on the nearest place for Mrs. Tong, birds and flowers, willows and greenery, except for a few elders, it is definitely the best among the concubines.

In the last life alone, Qin Yu has seen how many gold and silver jewelry in Tong Yao's room, that is really glorious and rich, enviable, all the tables and chairs, tents, books, pen and ink in the house are selected from the first-class shops in Beijing, celadon danqing's tea cups, all say that people raise jade, jade raises people, and every object delicately outlined is precious.

Looking at it, although Qin Yu already knew what was going on in her heart, she couldn't help but suffer the impact of reality.

Tong Yao's room, not to mention the tables and chairs for the time being, even the jewelry and rouge boxes on the dresser are not few, the wooden beams of the windows are still the sandalwood that Yueyang City has not used for a long time a few years ago, and the celadon tea ware on the table, although it is clean, it still looks worn.

Don't think about it, as a concubine, she is worse off than a concubine.

There had been no sound for a long time, and only the faint sound of the pages turning in the quiet room sounded.

Qin Yu said again: "The slave maid greets the eldest lady." ”

Linghuai stood on the side, squinting at Qin Yu, joking in her heart: What do you look like? Maybe I hate the eldest lady, which of the slaves and maids who came here to serve in the past was not respectful at first, and in the end?

Their young lady is not a competitive character, otherwise why would she be pressed by the second lady everywhere?

Where is there a loyal girl like her?

"Coming?" The female voice was faintly hoarse, but it revealed the clarity of the strands.

Qin Yu frowned.

"There's nothing good in this courtyard, since your grandmother called you here, Linghuai, you go and arrange for her to do something."

Qin Yu slowly raised her head.

The face that was not very clear in the original impression was extremely clear in front of her eyes at this moment.

Pale and almost close to transparent complexion, Tong Yao's cheeks did not have a trace of residual flesh, nor did she wear rouge makeup, just like a layer of white skin on the bones, her eyes were round and big, her thin lips were slightly pursed, and her hair was black, but she simply pulled a bun and hung it on her shoulders.

The ends of the hair are dry and frizzy, and they are not bright.

The clothes on her body were swaying, obviously not windy, but they were already wide, and the wrist holding the book was as thin as a bamboo pole, still pale.

Tong Yao, as a young lady, should have a beautiful face, but at this moment she looked a little scary because of her skinny skinny, wearing a soft silk long skirt, two crescent white plackets, the luxurious dress was not beautiful when worn on the body, there was no noble temperament at all, but it looked more and more thin, in addition to being thin or thin.

That shirt can be regarded as the best of all the things that Qin Yu has seen Tong Yao today.

Shabby.

Qin Yu's evaluation of this is only two words: shabby.

But Tong Yao seemed to care carelessly about anything, the house, the jewelry, the clothes, as if nothing was as important to the nursery rhymes as the book.

Tong Yao didn't say anything after saying a few simple words, lowered her cheeks, and read her book quietly.

Odd.

Qin Yu's brows became more and more furrowed, and her eyes carefully examined Tong Yao's pale face with her head lowered.

"Let's go." What's so good-looking, Miss isn't just like that, or can you see what else can't be done?

Linghuai was a little irritable, glanced at Qin Yu, and urged.

Qin Yu didn't want to disobey Ling Huai, so she didn't say a few words to Tong Yao, and hurriedly saluted, "Slave and maid down." He turned around and followed Ling out of the house.

As soon as she stepped out of the house, Ling Huai looked around, pointed her finger, and said, "That's it, you can sweep the yard every day with those two girls and deliver food." ”

Qin Yu looked at the two girls who were squatting on the ground in the yard, hanging their heads and weeding silently, and her heart was even heavier.

With such a chorus as weeding, there is not a single gardener in Miss Yan's yard?