"What else? Don't you know that our wife is a famous jealous woman in Donghu County? ”

Thinking of Wan Xiaogui's words before, Ling'er was silent, sure enough, none of the masters in this mansion are good things!

Not long after lunch, Mama Li came, and the maids lined up silently, standing in several columns in turn, leaving a distance between the two of them, just like middle school students doing morning exercises, Ling'er also found a place to stand at the end of the queue.

"Hello Mama Li!" All the maidservants bowed their heads and squatted slightly to make a blessing salute, and Mama Li took the ring ruler and walked around slowly in the maidservant girl, and when she saw the irregular ring ruler, she snapped down and knocked the squatting maid over.

The beaten maid would not complain, and she didn't dare to squeak no matter how painful it was, so she quickly got up and squatted again. Ling'er had learned it before, but she didn't know if the standard was standard, she only knew that she couldn't last long.

But Mama Li just paced to her side, and walked around her with a ring ruler but didn't go away, in order not to suffer pain, she could only grit her teeth and insist, and endured sweating profusely, Mama Li finally spoke: "No courtesy!" ”

The handmaidens thanked each other in unison and stood up straight. Then Tan's mother coughed lightly, and shouted in a long tone: "First row, go forward." ”

The maid in the first row lowered her eyebrows and walked slowly forward with small steps, Mama Li held the ring ruler and guarded it, and if she was slightly wrong, she would be beaten, and then the second row and the third row, going down in turn.

That's what they call training? It took a whole hour to practice like this, and Mama Li seemed to be tired, so she left after leaving a word for Mother Tan.

Everyone had just sat down to rest, and Tan's mother ordered everyone to go to work again. Of course, the work is the rough work that used to be.

Ling'er searched her eyes and quickly found a few people from the lotus flower of Chungmi, and she lowered her head and slowly leaned over. The lotus people glanced at her, didn't say anything, and still bowed their heads and worked by themselves.

This rice is a fine job, the boss in the middle has a stone mortar, and the wooden poles of the two rice sticks on the side are stepped on by people, and they are regularly stepped on and loosened, as long as they are well coordinated. The speed will be much faster than usual, and you will have to add millet to the stone mortar for a while, and wait until the shell is almost off. Then scoop out the rice mixed with the bran and sift it through a fine sieve several times.

The largest and whitest grains sieved out are the best high-quality rice, followed by second-class rice with the size of half a grain and very little rice bran, and broken rice with rice bran sandwiched. Ling'er, the Western Zhou they ate was boiled with broken rice.

Here Chung Mi is two people cooperating to step on. Ling'er hadn't done it before, and she was afraid of being pressed when she added millet, so she sifted the rice bran with Xiaocui. There is also a rice bran sifting by Xiaocui's side, which is the lame girl.

Ling'er asked her surname, and she said lightly: "I have no name and no surname, and after entering the mansion, my wife gave her the name of a chrysanthemum." ”

Ling'er stared at her legs, wanting to ask her why her legs were lame, but Ling'er hesitated how to speak. I heard Chrysanthemum herself say: "I was originally a beggar begging on the street, and I was caught by the government and sent here." Madame asked me to serve the eldest lady, I didn't want to stay in such a ghost place, I wanted to escape, and then I was caught and broke a leg and threw into this big compound. ”

Ling'er looked at her in surprise, the Jiang family was so powerful, she actually dared to escape, she was the most assertive among these maidservants! Peach Blossom suddenly raised her head: "Since you came in, don't think about going out, unless you have a way to bring down Master Jiang, don't want to escape from the palm of the Jiang family in this life." ”

Ling'er was stunned for a moment, pulled the corners of her mouth with an embarrassed smile, and said in a low voice: "I didn't want to escape, I just wanted to ......"

"Don't tell me a lie, although I am a beggar, I have seen a lot of people, there are so many different people in the world, people like you are different from us at a glance, I don't care what your purpose is, but you can't affect my sisters, they are hard-working people, and they can't stand the toss anymore."

Listening to Chrysanthemum's words, like an old man who has seen through the world, his heart is full of devastation but he tries his best to defend his sisters, who said that the deep house compound is the most ruthless? These most humble handmaidens are more affectionate than anyone else.

Chrysanthemum's attitude was cold, and the others were not necessarily enthusiastic, Ling'er wanted to get close to them to find out the roots of the Jiang family, but their mouths were very tight, and they only talked about their own affairs, and never mentioned other things about the master.

Ling'er wanted to exchange terms with them, but she was afraid that she would be too reckless when she first met, and it would be troublesome if they went to tell the truth, so she fell silent, didn't ask anything, and ate with them every day, trained and worked together.

After staying in the compound for half a month, eating bran and vegetables every day made her face green, and Tan's mother brought a news, saying that Mrs. Jiang was going to inspect Ling'er's rules and etiquette tomorrow, and if she passed, she could go to the eldest lady to serve.

Ling'er didn't know whether to be happy when she got the news, but the first thing she did was to go to the lotus flowers, and several people looked at her sympathetically when they heard the words, and the chrysanthemum's words were more direct: "I hope you don't come back too quickly." ”

Lotus said: "It's not a bad thing to come back, it's better than those who are beaten to death and sold to the wilderness." ”

Ling'er was not happy, after all, she was quite familiar with them, and she didn't have so many scruples when she spoke: "Why don't you say something nice?" What if I escape? Or take that one down, and maybe get you out. ”

Hearing the word out, a few glimmers of light flashed in the eyes of several people, but it soon faded away, and Lotus shook her head and said, "We don't expect you to save us, save yourself first!" ”

Ling'er twitched the corners of her mouth, leaned over and whispered, "How about we make a deal?" If I can get you out, can you tell me what I want to know? Of course, you must swear to God that you will not tell the truth, or you will not die a good death. ”

The lotus people looked at each other, the lotus was not optimistic about Ling'er, and wanted to deny it, but Chrysanthemum said: "Okay, I swear to God, if any of us tell the secret, we will not die well, but you also have to swear that you must save us in the future." ”

The lotus people looked at the chrysanthemum in surprise, and the chrysanthemum waved her hand: "You don't believe her, believe me." ”

Ling'er nodded with satisfaction, and also swore an oath, Chrysanthemum said: "Don't you just want to inquire about the news with us for so long, let's say, what do you want to ask?" ”

Since everyone has sworn an oath, there is nothing to hide, Ling'er directly explained her intentions, and she didn't even hide her relationship with the Jiang family, for this group of maids who are no worse than now, being honest with each other is the most important thing.

Several handmaidens were very surprised when they heard this, and Lotus was surprised: "You...... Since you are Master Jiang's biological daughter, why don't you recognize Master Jiang directly, but come here to suffer? ”

Ling'er said disdainfully: "Back then, their family abused my mother so much, how do I know if he will recognize me, and besides, I can't be completely sure that Master Jiang is my biological father, I have to see him in person and find a way to confirm it." ”

Several people were silent, and after a while, Chrysanthemum said: "I have a way, you come and listen to me." (To be continued......)