The winter of Xiping 23 years is colder than usual, December has just arrived, Fancheng in Youzhou has already had the fifth heavy snowfall, located in Mitsui Hutong Zhujia gate in the middle of the hour to open the gate, because the snow accumulated a thick layer, reflecting the sky looks brighter than before.

"His grandmother's, it's so much." The servant with his hands in his sleeves frowned and scolded.

"What are you talking about, don't hurry up and sweep it, wait for the second housekeeper to come out and see it, and say that it is all good, it affects the guest carriage to come in, and there are also a few boards to drive out." The other servant said as he took two large brooms and handed them to the man next to him.

When the two of them were about to sweep, the second manager came out, the second manager surnamed Zou, in his forties, was very stern, not smiling, and looked older than the chief manager in his early sixties.

Today is the 60th birthday of the old lady of the Zhu family, and Manager Zou is also in a good mood, and he praised the two of them, and went in to check elsewhere.

Compared with the busyness of the outer courtyard, the brightly lit hanging flower door has just begun to wake up.

Mao Zheng was still a little closer, Kapok entered the bedroom, and saw that her young lady had already gotten up, wearing a half-old lotus lotus-colored cotton jacket and leaning on the warm couch near the window, lighting a small lamp, holding a book and looking at it, no wonder she saw the bright light of the stars from the outside.

Kapok stepped forward to turn on the lamp a little, and made the brazier a little stronger, and said with some disgust: "Why don't you call the slave when the young lady wakes up, and she is not afraid of damaging her eyes with such a dim light." "Miss didn't want to be accompanied at night, so she sent them all to bed, and if she didn't go, she would lose her temper, otherwise she wouldn't know that Miss had gotten up.

The person she said was the eldest lady of the Zhu family, thirteen-year-old Zhu Mingyu, she was not annoyed when she heard the maid's words, and said with a slight smile: "I can't sleep and just get up, I saw half of it last night and now I just finished reading it." ”

Saying that, he closed the book, when Zhu Mingyu was not smiling, he looked arrogant and indifferent, and when he smiled, he was as bright as the ice and snow melting, which made people unable to take their eyes off, very contradictory and harmonious.

Kapok took a quilt and put it on Zhu Mingyu's body and stuffed a hand stove into her hand, and said, "The eldest lady should also pay attention to her body, the heavy snow stopped last night, and it was cold." ”

Holding the warm hand stove, Zhu Mingyu obediently only showed his head outside the quilt, and muttered: "Kapok is really more and more like Mama Jiang." ”

Kapok looked at Zhu Mingyu's well-behaved appearance and was a little stunned, the eldest lady suddenly became a lot more sensible these days, did she come back from Hengwang Mansion or after falling? In the past, she was obviously the most impatient with Mama Jiang preaching, but this time Mama Jiang came back later, and Miss was in a very good mood because no one was nagging around.

Zhu Mingyu looked at Kapok's changing expression and stopped talking, she was not the original Zhu Mingyu, so she couldn't be her original appearance, so they could only let them slowly adapt to her new Zhu Mingyu. In fact, she prefers the feeling of being colder, which makes people more sober, and she is not cold at all, but it is a little hot when she holds the stove and covers the quilt, but the original Miss Zhu is particularly afraid of cold, so that the people around her are used to it, and she can't behave too unlike the original Zhu Mingyu.

Five days ago, she was waiting for death in the hospital when she woke up and became Zhu Mingyu here, a little girl who was only half her age in an era she had never heard of, although her original name was also Zhu Mingyu, but everyone called her Zhu Yu.

She inherited this body as well as the memories of her original owner.

Although Zhu Mingyu is the eldest lady of the Zhu family, but her biological mother Meng died not long after giving birth to her, and Master Zhu soon continued the strings, although the step-room Qin family also gave birth to a daughter at the beginning, and gave birth to a son after two years.

However, as a motherless child, Zhu Mingyu's experience was not very bad, not because the Zhu family had a conscience, but because the Meng family had a sister-in-law who married the younger brother of the current saint and became Princess Heng. Princess Heng only has this one sister, and she pities her for the only blood left by her sister, and she loves her mother at a young age, and she loves her very much, and every year she will send someone to pick up Zhu Mingyu to live in the Hengwang Mansion in the capital, at least a few months, and more than half a year away, and she is more concerned about Zhu Mingyu than her own daughter.

With Princess Heng in front, the Zhu family almost offered her up, where would anyone dare to detain and abuse Zhu Mingyu, but no one dared to discipline her. As for Master Zhu, who should have taken on the responsibility of raising his daughter, he is not close to this daughter at all, and if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather, which is not false at all.

So, Zhu Mingyu used the first thirteen years of her life to tell the growth story of a young and unruly little girl who became an arrogant daughter, she was sensitive, suspicious, withdrawn and indifferent. She walked sideways in Zhu's house, no one liked her, and no one dared to mess with her.

It wasn't until six days ago that a teenager came and let Zhu Mingyu touch the nail. He stopped Zhu Mingyu when she was teaching a maid, because she ignored her and made sarcastic remarks, and the young man was not to be outdone and fought back against her, his words were mean but accurate and sharp.

You are a naïve, mean, loveless and annoying loser, and the farce never made your father look at you more, but made him hide further, do you know why? Because he's afraid of you, annoyed you, and only you can come up with such a stupid solution.

These are the exact words of the teenager.

In essence, although Zhu Mingyu is arrogant and domineering, she is not a ruthless person, and the lesson to the maid is just because she chews her tongue behind her back, saying that the eldest lady is a bad star, and the sky is gloomy, which provokes Zhu Mingyu, who happened to be passing by, to be angry. However, Zhu Mingyu will not explain her reasons even when she is ridiculed by a teenager, her pride makes her not need the approval of others, the sympathy of others, and she will never tolerate others sticking knives in her most vulnerable places.

So Zhu Mingyu, who was seen through the loneliest and darkest in his heart, really went crazy, picked up a landscape stone that he didn't know where it was, and smashed it on the young man's head. Not to be outdone, the boy kicked her to the ground, knocked her head on a stone, and woke up again with a different soul.

Those who can stay by the side of this thorn are loyal enough, and the big girl Kapok didn't expect Zhu Mingyu to make such a fuss, she was left by the Meng family, and she has been silently following Zhu Mingyu to clean up the mess, in fact, she is only three years older than her.

The ladies of the Zhu family all have two big maids, four second-class maids, and a few little maids and servants. In addition to kapok, there is also a big girl who is hibiscus.

She has always been very adaptable, it took half a day to adjust to her new identity, and in the last days of her life in the hospital, she felt every day that she would die in those treatments, and it was a luxury to be healthy like she is now, but she felt that she owed her parents too much. But that's fine, they don't have to worry about themselves every day, although she is their adopted child, but the love is not less than half a point, even if she has a younger brother later, the younger brother just went to high school, she was found to have leukemia, her biological parents have long been missing, the probability of successful matching is comparable to winning the lottery, she also secretly cried, but she has always been optimistic in front of people......

Seeing that Zhu Mingyu was a little drowsy, Kapok gently shook her shoulder and said, "Miss, it's time to drink medicine." ”

Zhu Mingyu was opening her eyes, she didn't really fall asleep, she had always felt less, just now she just remembered the past, and she didn't want to be seen by Kapok. In fact, she just hit the ground on the back of her head, except that her head was a little swollen and she didn't even have a little broken skin, but she still had to drink medicine, but drinking medicine couldn't change her back to the original Zhu Mingyu.

Kapok looked at Zhu Mingyu's brows and drank the medicine in one go, remembering that the young lady had to be persuaded and begged by them to take some medicine.

"It's bitter." Zhu Mingyu stuck out his tongue, and his eyebrows and eyes were wrinkled together.

Kapok smiled, how could she think that Miss was different from before, she was still so afraid of bitterness, so she hurriedly handed over water for Zhu Mingyu to rinse her mouth, and held a pickled cherry preserve.

After drinking the medicinal kapok, she called in mint to serve her to freshen up, and Mama Zheng also came in with her, Zhu Mingyu's not small embroidery room seemed a little crowded, Mama Zheng was in her fifties, young and widowed, Mrs. Zhu was a little disgusted with her life, and she was not very embarrassed by her side, and she was sent to serve her after what happened, so as to watch her stop making any more trouble. Mama Zheng is not a person who talks a lot, except for staring at Zhu Mingyu a little uncomfortable, it is not difficult to get along with.

After cleaning up, Zhu Yu glanced at the gorgeous chiming clock in the room, and said in a casual tone: "Since it's still early, let's go to Baiyuan to have a look." ”

The Zhu family was originally a scholarly family, but in Zhu Mingyu's ancestors' generation, they abandoned literature and business, and after several generations of hard work, they achieved the position of an imperial businessman, and they had money and wanted status, so they donated an official to Zhu Mingyu's grandfather and was promoted to an official eunuch. The Zhu family is rich and has put a lot of effort into the interior, and the interior is definitely worthy of the words magnificent.

Until Zhu Yu's grandfather's generation, because Mrs. Zhu Li is a person from Jiangnan, when Mrs. Zhu was alive, in order to let his wife talk about homesickness, he renovated the Zhu family garden in the Zhu family, and designed a lot of pavilions and water pavilions with Jiangnan scenery, and the names of the gardens were named after trees.

After Mrs. Zhu died five years ago, Mrs. Zhu took charge and divided the family, but the second master went two years earlier than the old lady, so although the second room was separated, he still lived in the Zhu family, the big room lived in Baiyuan, and the second room lived in Liuyuan.

However, Zhu Mingyu did not live in Baiyuan with Dafang, but lived alone in Yuyuan, which was slightly smaller than Baiyuan, but it was also a small and exquisite two-entry courtyard, not to mention that among the young ladies of the Zhu family, even the young master of the Zhu family was the first. This can be said to be a preferential treatment for her, and it is also a manifestation of the Zhu family's respect for her.