The Lord of the Seven Counties discussed with Second Mrs. Li yesterday, and she has been serving Princess Fengge every step these days, and she also got up early today.

Jiang Ruoning ordered the seven county lords and Miss Mu to sit together in the phoenix.

The two first refused, and then stalemate, Shang Huan said: "Why can't the Lord of the Seven Counties sit down?" You're still a royal daughter. Come up, the princess is in a hurry to worship, there is no delay, and she has to go back to the city for dinner at noon. ”

The lord of the seven counties lifted her skirt up, and Miss Mu was helped up by Cui Qian.

There were about 300 people in the group, and Cui Leng and Bi Mama stayed in the Li Mansion to take care of them.

Hejiazhuang, located in the county seat three miles away from a big village, once called Jing'an Zhuang, legend has it that earlier this piece of excellent fertile land of more than 2,000 acres are a Qingxi County Yao surnamed officials, later, he committed a big crime, the family business was confiscated, the descendants of the family were also sent to exile, leaving only a few Yao surnamed people to live here. The earliest ancestral land of more than 300 acres was left to his people, but later embezzled and bought the surrounding three Zhuangzi with a total of 2,600 acres of fertile land was confiscated as official land.

The emperor felt that the old lady of the river raised the princess of Dafengge, and gave the old lady of the river a thousand acres of fertile land east of Jing'an Village, and gave the old lady of the river mother and son, and since then it was the big village of Jing'an Village, which was divided into Hejiazhuang and Jing'an Village.

He Deping's family owned thousands of acres of fertile land, and the original Hetang Village was divided, he himself brought more than 300 clansmen to settle here, he became the patriarch, and the eldest son He Tiezhu became the young patriarch.

The more Jiang Ruoning thinks about it, the more he feels bloody, He Deping and his son are honest farmers, like the former patriarch of Hetang Village, Master He, who has also been an official, reads and knows etiquette, and knows the law, but He Deping's father and son are simply nonsense, the lanterns bought for ten cents will cost one or two pieces of silver to merchants and people, and these two pieces of silver can be equivalent to one thousand dollars, which is simply a hundred times the profit, if it takes a long time, I am afraid that it will arouse public anger.

The tomb of the old lady of the river is built at the foot of the mountain of Hejiazhuang, there is a poor ridge of land here, the emperor gave thousands of acres of fertile land earlier, the southern slope of the barren mountain near the fertile land is also rewarded to the Hejia family as an ancestral grave, the north slope is the ancestral graveyard of another big family, the farmers are reluctant to bury their deceased relatives in the fertile land, and most of them choose the hillside land.

The tomb was built with stones, and the tombstone was engraved with "The Tomb of the Jiang Family of the Hemen Ruren", and the names of He Deping and his three sons were engraved on the tombstone, and the date of the monument was engraved.

The wind in April has warmed, and the mountains are in the time of locust blossoms, and the air is filled with the fragrance of acacia flowers.

Jiang Ruoning saluted, Xiao Deng and Xiao Ma lit a fire, threw baskets of dark paper into it, and on the other side, a fire was set up and the ingots were thrown in.

"Grandma, you are most afraid of having no money to spend in your life, Ruoning bought you a lot today, you see that there is a carriage, all of which have been burned for you, even if you use ingots to reward people, you are not afraid of no flowers."

When the people in the countryside heard the news, they came one after another to see the excitement, so they stood not far away and watched, watching the baskets of ingots and paper thrown into it.

An old woman trembled slightly and leaned on crutches: "This Hejiang clan is not in vain?" Look at those ingots and dark money, how much wow, which one is willing to burn like this. This adopted daughter has passed all her children and grandchildren. She turned her head and looked at the thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl beside her, who was born with picturesque eyebrows and eyes, and was a rare beauty, and looked at the middle-aged woman watching from one side.

The girl lowered her head and said, "Grandma, I will honor you." ”

The old woman gently stroked her hand and made eye contact with a gaze that only the grandparents and grandchildren could understand.

The middle-aged woman said: "What's wrong with letting you go and be a concubine for Second Master He, now that Second Grandma He has a body, she can't serve it, so she bought you as a concubine in the past, but there are ten taels of silver." Look at the Hejia family, there is a lot of scenery, the second master of the river is still on the errand in the Royal Pharmaceutical Factory, and he has a fortune every month. Your eldest cousin is in his early twenties, and he is too honest, and he will be old if he doesn't marry......"

"With the second master of the river, there is a girl to serve, and there is a sedan car to travel when you go out, isn't it better than you marrying a farmer? You're not happy yet? ”

The girl hung her head, her face swelled with a look of tangle and struggle, her mother was gone when she gave birth to her, although her father was a showman but married another stepmother, she was not good to treat her, less than a year old she was taken by her grandmother to feed, grandma, uncle are good, but the aunt wants to exchange her for a few more silver, so that her eldest son can marry a daughter-in-law, and she also said to her second cousin earlier, but grandma does not want to wronged her, and wants to find a good family to be a mother-in-law.

The girl gritted her teeth, suddenly ran out of the crowd, and knelt on the ground: "Princess Qiyu, you buy the people's daughter!" Please princess save the life of the people's daughter! Please princess buy the maiden! ”

Jiang Ruoning was burning the dark paper, and suddenly a girl rushed out, looked back, and Cui Qian said, "You want to buy it yourself?" ”

The old woman on crutches in the crowd thought for many days: if her granddaughter followed Princess Fengge, she would have a good future, her family's situation was surprisingly similar to the He family, she was also a servant girl in the capital when she was young, and she only had a son and a daughter-in-law under her knees, but she had two grandchildren, a granddaughter, and a grandson, and the granddaughter of the year had a change of relatives with another family surnamed Wang, she married the son of that family, and the girl of that family married the second grandson as a wife. Now, what the daughter-in-law Zhenri is thinking about is how to marry a woman to her honest eldest son, which can be regarded as the end of a heartfelt matter.

The girl gave a brief account of her situation.

Cui Qian said: "If you want to serve the princess, do you know that the people who serve the princess are carefully selected from the palace, so they say that I can read and write, know how to embroider women's red, and know how to cook, what will you do?" ”

The girl was silent.

Although she is Xiucai's daughter, when she was six or seven years old, she studied in Xiucai's private school for two years, and she can read and write, and she can also embroider female red, which must not be compared with this talking Dagong'e.

The Lord of the Seven Counties reprimanded: "You girl, the princess should be around you who you want to serve, and you can go by selling yourself?" If you want to go to the princess, you have to go through the selection of the internal affairs office, and you have to carefully check the eight generations of each person's ancestors to see what their character is and how they act? What are the merits of this to be able to go. ”

Jiang Ruoning said lightly: "If you really want to be a service girl, this palace can let Grandma Li Wu buy you." ”

She wanted to go to the princess's side, and when she got to the princess's side, she knew all the dignitaries, and the people who came and went were either rich or noble, as long as she climbed one, she could fly on the branches one day.

The girl said: "The folk girl is willing to serve the princess." ”

Cui Qian said: "Just like you, even sprinkling and sweeping the floor in the capital palace is better than you, do you know the rules of the palace?" ”

"Can folk girls learn?"

Cui Qian, Xiaoma and others have been in the palace for many years, what is this girl's thoughts, how can she not see it, relying on her own appearance, she wants to use Jiang Ruoning as a springboard. Such a character, how can the princess serve with peace of mind, I am afraid that all she thinks about all day long is how to fly on the branches and become a phoenix, and she must be a person who causes trouble.

Cui Qian said: "Beside the princess, how can you come to learn skills." You have to learn the ability, and you have to learn the ability. You and I waited for the palace to be sent to the palace from all over Dayan, and said that I entered the palace at the age of twelve, and worked as a raccoon wash palace in the Huanyi Bureau, and raised flowers and plants in the Huamusi, until I was nineteen years old, I was picked by the chief steward to serve the princess. The palace people in the palace, who did not stay up for seven or eight years before they had to serve their masters. You are a country girl, you don't know the etiquette, you don't know the rules, you want to serve the princess directly, it is so easy for you to be by the princess's side. ”

Eight years to serve by the master's side?

The girl was thirteen or fourteen years old, and by the time she reached the service, she was not already old.

The old woman in the crowd has always wanted her granddaughter to marry into a rich family, so that she can help the family, and walked over with a slight tremble at this moment, "Please also ask the princess to buy this child, she has a strong temperament, if she is forced to be a concubine, she will not be able to live." Leave her to make tea and water for the princess, and serve the foot washer. ”

Cui Qian has never seen the elders, and he actually wants to sell his granddaughter as a foot-washing maid, and he is more and more sure that he didn't see it, this is looking for an opportunity to become a phoenix, and he can't help but despise a little more in his heart, "The princess's foot-washing maid is Gong'e who has learned how to wash her feet from the Tai Hospital for three or five years." Proficient in foot massage, knows the 100 acupoints of the human body, knows how to wash feet to cure diseases, how to wash feet to strengthen the body, how to wash feet and relieve fatigue and calm the nerves, will she? Or maybe you've been studying medicine for more than a decade and think you're even better at it than theirs? ”

When the people around heard this, didn't it just wash their feet, there were so many sayings, it turned out that serving the royal princess as a foot washing maid, even this beautiful girl couldn't do it, because she wouldn't, and other people's foot washing maids also learned from the Tai Hospital for three or five years.

The girl was retorted sharply by Cuiqian, and her face turned red, "Is this the girl?" ”

"Ben girl will, you won't. This girl is the eldest palace lady in front of the princess, and work like foot washing and massage is done by the little palace ladies. The princess has a palace lady who specializes in washing her feet; It is also specialized in grooming...... There are all kinds of people, and there are nearly 100 palace people serving around them. Like this, you can see the princess once a day, such as those who clean the courtyard and water the flowers, let alone see them in January, even if they don't have a face-to-face with the princess for a year......

When the people heard this, one by one it was a new thing, and there were nearly 100 subordinates around the princess alone, and many of them couldn't even see the princess for a year.

Jiang Ruoning secretly said in his heart: Cui Qian is not the kind of person who shows off, what does this mean by this? She has no good impression of this girl who begs to sell herself, and there are many ways to change her fate and embarrassment, and she chose the most shameless method.

"If you really want to sell yourself, like the Mu family, the Li family, the Tang family, the Hetang Village and the He family in Qingxi and He, etc., which family can't be sold, you have to pester Princess Fengge, you are so easy to serve the palace people as a princess? The palace has its own rules. ”

The Lord of the Seven Counties didn't like this woman either.

Miss Mu was moved by compassion, and stood carefully beside Jiang Ruoning at this moment, helping to throw the ingots into the fire.

Jiang Ruoning said in a low voice: "That girl's eyes are not right, she is here to climb the high branches. ”

As soon as Miss Mu heard her, she immediately looked at the beautiful girl kneeling on the ground.

The Lord of the Seven Counties replied: "When she has a little bit of beauty, it is amazing, this kind of person is the most despised. (To be continued.) )