Twenty-five years of Jingde.

Winter.

The fourth archway in the south of the capital.

The overnight snow will stop in the early morning.

In the northwest corner of a magnificent house, there is a very quiet small lake, and there is a warm pavilion by the lake. If it is spring and summer, it is a small pavilion pillow clear stream, and the sound of water under the bridge is long, which is really a different style.

The little girl in Tsing Yi held the white jade hand stove in her hand, her hair was stained with a little white snow, she kept stomping her feet, sucking her nose, and standing under the plum tree behind the warm pavilion.

The cold wind whimpered lowly, without any obstruction, unceremoniously burrowed into Lin Xi's jacket, and she subconsciously curled up.

Cold, biting cold.

Little by little, time passed.

The warm pavilion seems to have been sleeping for thousands of years, and there is not a trace of movement.

Lin Xi stomped her foot a few times, and finally realized why such a decent errand as sending a hand stove to the young lady would fall on her, a rough maid who swept the courtyard.

The door squeaked and opened suddenly, and a middle-aged woman with eyes like a torch had a gloomy face, holding a ring ruler, and gently touched Lin Xi.

Lin Xi was grinning at this time, sucking the water that had just been frozen. She was stunned, then naturally shuddered and lowered her head.

The middle-aged woman glanced at Lin Xi coldly, turned her face, and said to the four young ladies in the warm pavilion: "What do you say, how is this maid?" ”

A woman in brocade rose up slowly, and said with a smile: "Mama Tan, in my opinion, this maid is extremely stupid. ”

Lin Xi's ears were sharp, and he heard that it was the eldest lady who spoke, and he couldn't help but bury his head a little deeper.

"Oh, how so?" There was no trace of waves in Mama Tan's deep eyes.

"There are two reasons why this man is stupid."

Gao Jasmine straightened her slightly wrinkled brocade jacket and said unhurriedly: "First, everyone in our sister courtyard knows that Mama teaches for two hours, and she has a ten-minute break every half hour. But this maid doesn't know anything, so it can be seen that she doesn't take the master's affairs to heart every day. What is the use of such a servant? ”

"Two?" Mama Tan raised her eyebrows.

Gao Jasmine glanced contemptuously outside the warm pavilion, and said, "Second, even if she didn't know anything beforehand, she always had eyes and a mouth. She didn't inquire, she didn't observe, she just waited stupidly under the cold wind. It is a felony that the hand stove is cold; It is a double felony to disturb the grandmother's teaching. It can be seen that this girl is stupid! ”

The beautiful snake spat out the letter-like words, making Lin Xi, who was standing in the cold wind, seem to have an illusion of entering the Pansi Cave. She lowered her body, she didn't dare to come out, and her eyes looked through the crack in the door, secretly looking into the warm pavilion.

Not surprisingly, she saw her young lady's cold face and shook her head imperceptibly. Lin Xi shuddered and curled up an inch.

Mama Tan's eyes swept at the four girls like arrows, and the sharpness in her eyes was like the cold wind outside the warm pavilion, which made people feel cold all over her body.

"There are two kinds of subordinates, shrewd and stupid. The shrewd ones are not allowed to bully their masters; The foolish are not allowed to be clumsy and tired of the master. What should you choose as masters?

The four girls in Gaofu opened their eyes wide and listened quietly.

The corners of Mama Tan's mouth drooped slightly, and the dark color in her eyes flashed.

"Remember only one thing, if you are a loyal slave, you can use both; On the contrary, it is discarded! ”

Halfway through the words, Mama Tan's personal maid hurriedly came in, whispered a few words in Mama Tan's ear, and then flashed out.

Mama Tan's eyes were like electricity, and her voice was cold.

"Today I sent someone to spread the word to the four young ladies in the courtyard, and the remaining three were eating tea and chatting in the small room by the lake, just waiting for me to bring the hand stove to the master after class. Only this maid stood under the cold wind for half an hour. Stupid is stupid, but loyal and loyal. Such a person can be of great use! ”

"I have an objection to what Mama said."

It's still Gao Jasmine standing up. I saw her smile and frown.

"How do you know that the remaining three are not loyal to their masters?"

The corners of Mama Tan's mouth were lightly raised, and there was a hint of sneer on her gloomy face for some reason.

She beckoned to Lin Xi and said kindly, "Let me ask you, which courtyard are you a maid?" Do you know my class rules? ”

Lin Xi's eyes looked at his nose, his nose looked at his heart, and he was quietly listening to Mama Tan's lecture.

As far as she knew, Mama Tan's annual teaching fee at Gao's house was 1,200 taels, and it was 100 taels per month.

And as a rough maid beside Miss Gaofusan, Lin Xi's monthly money is only 500 yuan, which is not even a small fraction.

Lin Xi was happily calculating how much Mama Tan's words she had just heard would be worth when converted into silver.

Leng Buding was questioned, Lin Xi's heart trembled a few times, and he slowly raised his head. Unexpectedly, it has been frozen for a long time, and even the snot is unconscious.

In this way, Lin Xi was ignorant and didn't feel that he was dragging two pieces of clear water and snot, and Nuo Nuo replied: "The slave maid is a rough maid in the Pingwu Courtyard, and before the slave and maid came, I inquired about the rules of Mama's class. ”

Mama Tan's eyes shrank suddenly, and she looked at Miss Gao Fusan, smiling more and more amiably.

"Then why are you still standing on this tuyere? It's warm in the room over there, with both hot tea and snacks, why don't you go there and rest, and it's not too late for me to send the hand stove to your young lady after class. "Mama Tan is kind and seductive.

I wipe, there is actually a wing room to avoid the cold! Grandpa's, why didn't you say it earlier? It caused me to blow cold wind by the lake here for a long time, and even my bones were ice.

Lin Xi secretly greeted his mother, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it seemed that some cold liquid had fallen to his lips. She stuck out her tongue and licked it, a little salty.

The temperature on Lin Xi's face rose involuntarily, and he quickly rolled up his sleeves and wiped his nose, and said vaguely: "The slave maid thinks that Miss is in a hurry to use it, for fear of delaying Miss's business......"

Mama Tan nodded with satisfaction, smiled at Lin Xi lightly, and turned around, without any expression on her face.

"There are only two things in the world. One is to do things; the second is to be a man; It's easy to do things, but it's not easy to do the right things; It is easy to see people, but it is not easy to see people clearly. It is more difficult to be a person than to do things, and it is more difficult to see the people around you clearly than to deal with outsiders. ”

Mama Tan saw the four girls in the house laughing as she wished, and looked at her with blazing eyes.

"The Gao family's bells are ringing and eating, the poetry is heirloom, and the people around the girls are carefully selected from the house, if they are loyal, they will not be bad. However, you can't just look at the surface. When the girls are happy, everyone will be loyal slaves; But once the girls get into the quagmire......"

Mama Tan stretched out her ring ruler and pointed straight at Lin Xi outside the door, and her voice suddenly rose a few points.

"The so-called loyal slave is only like her, who does not ask the reason, does not listen to right and wrong, does not steal and cheat, and only obeys the orders of the master. Therefore, the girls should not only use the strengths of others, but also use the weaknesses of others......"

The door of the warm pavilion was suddenly closed, and Mama Tan's voice turned into a gust of cold wind, wantonly and tyrannically blowing away the last trace of temperature on Lin Xi's body.

She was a little hesitant, at this point, should she continue to shiver in the cold wind? Or go to the room where Mama Tan's fingers are to rest?

Just as the Lynsey Celestials were fighting, the door opened again. Mama Tan walked past Lin Xi without squinting, and there was no trace of superfluous expression on her face.

The Gao family's poetry and etiquette officials were born in a family, and the rules left by the ancestors, whether it was a young master or a young lady in the house, they had to be literate. Therefore, all the daughters of the Gao family, who have reached the age of six, must sit in the school hall and follow the master to school.

The women of the Gao family read differently from the men. Men study nothing more than the Four Books and Five Classics, Mencius, Universities, and the like, just for fame.

Women are not, poetry and books are also read, women also read, piano, chess, books, and paintings each have a gentleman raised in the house, and there is even a special upbringing to teach the rules.

Mama Tan is the upbringing grandma who is responsible for teaching the four young ladies in the house.

Mama Tan has a big background and is known as the first mama in the palace. Some people say that she once served the queen mother, and some people say that she is the current queen's upbringing grandmother, and there are all kinds of things, and I don't know which one is true and which one is false.

Lin Xi didn't know what this person's original name was, but she had a nickname named Tan Yichi, and Lin Xi knew very well.

I heard the gossip of the third lady that this person is good at corporal punishment and likes to hit the palms of students with a ring ruler.

Mama Tan's ruler has three characteristics: fast, accurate, and ruthless! Start quickly, shoot accurately, and be ruthless. Hence the name Tan Yichi. The four young ladies of Gaofu, regardless of their concubines, have all been beaten by her board. is so strict, the mansion where the capital wants her to come to teach has been lined up for ten years.

Lin Xi once looked at the third lady's shallot-like jade hand slightly red and swollen through the backs of all the maidservants, and recited Amitabha.

Sure enough, there is a precedence in hearing the Tao, and there is a specialization in the art industry. can run the business of grandma so well, this woman is not an ordinary person.

Lin Xi owed to Mama Tan and bowed her head to the side.

……

As soon as he stood firm, a pair of red deerskin boots suddenly appeared in Linxi's line of sight.

Lin Xi slowly raised his head.

The eye-catching girl has a pink placket, a pink collar mid-shirt, moth eyebrows are frowning, fragrant skin is like snow, and she is staring at her with a smile.

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