Today, the subordinates of the Ji family ate steamed buns for lunch, and the kitchen was in front of Yu Shu's small bungalow, and Aunt Liu, who worked in the kitchen, brought a basket of steamed buns to the sisters and brothers, as well as two bowls of green vegetable soup and a plate of pickles.

Guarding the two sisters and brothers under the fence from starving to death is also one of Aunt Liu's duties.

The vegetarian bun with radish filling, the size of a fist, only a little bit of stuffing in it, Yu Xiaoxiu still eats it with relish, as if everything that can be eaten, this kid doesn't care about the taste.

Yu Shu has been lying in bed for the past few days to recuperate, and after trying dry pancakes, clear soup noodles and really thin porridge, he can basically adapt to the simple food here.

Yu Shu is very knowledgeable about current affairs, she can eat white food without working, there is really nothing to pick, but she was very particular about food and clothing in her previous life, and she also started to think about how to improve her life, she is a person who has suffered hardships, but she is not a person who loves to endure hardships.

She looked at Yu Xiaoxiu who was eating opposite, when the child was growing up, he couldn't even eat a meal of meat all day long, no wonder he was skinny, a child with very delicate facial features, his yellowish complexion due to malnutrition made people feel that he was gloomy.

"Miss Young Master, have you finished eating, give me the dishes and chopsticks, and I'll go outside to wash them."

Aunt Liu wore an apron and walked in to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, Yu Shu just wanted to help, Yu Xiaoxiu had neatly put the dishes together and handed them to Aunt Liu, and picked up a rag stuffed in the side corner of the table to wipe the table.

Yu Shu saw that he was working hard and it was not easy to interfere, so he got up and moved a place for him, and stood aside to talk:

"After dinner, I'm going to go outside for a walk, I haven't been out of this yard for a few days."

Aunt Liu is just a servant woman who can't read big words, Yu Shu can find out limited information from her, so far she doesn't even know which dynasty she is in, when she asks Aunt Liu, she only knows that the current country name is "Da'an", this is Yiyang City, the Ji family is a big family, and the rest don't understand, Yu Shu wants to know more, you have to go outside, and it is of course better to be able to pull Yu Xiaoxiu together.

Yu Xiaoxiu looked up at her, with the expression of "I just know that you can't be honest for a few days" on his face, and after wiping the table a few times, he said in a muffled voice:

"Don't go out of your way and cause trouble again."

This sentence hit Yu Shu's heart, and she took advantage of the situation to propose: "Then you can join me, so that you can also take care of me, right?" ”

Yu Xiaoxiu hesitated for a moment before nodding reluctantly.

Yu Shu's purpose was achieved, and he was secretly happy, so he happily went to the pillow and touched the comb, hair rope, and a copper box with a headdress, and went outside to find Aunt Liu to comb her hair.

She used to have a capable short hair, but now she has thick long hair, and she can't take care of it at all, but fortunately, there is such a person as Aunt Liu.

Yu Shu found Aunt Liu by the well, she had already washed a stack of dishes and chopsticks, and after listening to her explanation, she rubbed her two rough palms on the apron, took the comb, and moved the small bamboo stool under her to the sun for Yu Shu to sit on, and combed her hair.

Just in the spring, the small yard without pavilions can just be exposed to the sun, sitting in the yard for a while, I feel warm, Yu Shu used to hate sunny days, you must wear sunglasses when you go out, but since you let go of the knot before the car accident, you like such a sunny and clean weather in just a few days.

"Miss's hair is really good, if you hadn't secretly cut it last year to exchange it for money, you would have grown to the root of your thighs by now." Aunt Liu likes to nag when she is working.

The parents of the ancients regarded it as their fate, and there were few people who voluntarily cut their hair, it was nothing more than the poor who couldn't, Yu Shu was secretly thinking about the touching scene of the little girl who secretly exchanged her hair for money and subsidized the family, and Aunt Liu then poured a basin of cold water on her:

"That's triangular money and silver, more than 300 copper plates, and the meat can be eaten for more than half a month, but you spent it all in two days, and bought a lot of flower beads, not to eat or wear, alas."

Yu Shu was dumbfounded, looking down at the copper box on his lap, there were a lot of beads and hairpins thrown in it, and he only looked good, and he could see that it was not a high-end thing with a little eyesight.

For work reasons, Yu Shu is very sensitive to the value of money, and probably knows the value of 300 copper here, Aunt Liu's monthly salary here is 50 copper plates, and she can only save 300 without spending a penny for half a year, which is a small fortune.

Thinking that the sister and brother were in such a bad environment, the younger brother was malnourished, his face was yellow and thin, and the girl exchanged her hair for such a sum of money, and bought all these fake beads and rotten copper, she couldn't help but want to scold.

"Comb it," Aunt Liu put down the comb, turned to Yu Shu, scooped in her copper box, picked out two pink hair bands, tied them to her left and right horns, tied them in a knot, looked at her with a straight face, and said with a smile:

"If the young lady sits and doesn't speak, she will look really watery."

In other words, she has nothing to offer except this face.

Yu Shu thanked Aunt Liu, Shi Shiran returned to the house with the heavy copper box, Yu Xiaoxiu had already cleaned the house, and changed out of the wrinkled gown.

"Hurry up and clean up, I'll wait for you outside." Yu Xiaoxiu dropped such a sentence and was about to go out.

Yu Shu hurriedly put the things back on the bed, touched a few copper plates that Aunt Tiancui threw at her under the mattress and stuffed them into the cracks of her belt, and followed.

Yu Xiaoxiu turned his head and saw that she came out wearing an old jacket and skirt, and was surprised, "You don't change your clothes?" ”

"What clothes?" Yu Shu looked down at what she was wearing, it was a little old, but the clean clothes she had changed into this morning, couldn't she wear them like this when she went out?

"It's your lace dress, don't you go out without it?"

Yu Xiaoxiu looked at Yu Shu in wonder, always feeling that when she came back from the ancestral hall a few days ago, her behavior began to be a little weird, and he couldn't say anything wrong.

Yu Shu guessed that he was referring to the pink and pink silk skirt in the cabinet, and was speechless, how much was wrong with the little girl in the previous body - causing trouble, brainless, ignorant, extravagant, greedy and vain, can't you have a little good?

"The sleeves are broken," Yu Shu casually found a reason, and when he saw Yu Xiaoxiu showing a sudden realization, he pushed him out of the house, turned around and closed the door of the house, because there was nothing valuable in the house, not even a lock.

"Aunt Liu, the two of us are going to play." Yu Shu greeted Aunt Liu, who was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks by the well.

"Go, go, come back early, don't make it past dinner."

Aunt Liu shouted, watched the sister and brother walk away, turned around and returned to the house with the washed wooden basin, and muttered in a low voice:

"I hope that Miss is really good this time, my aunt will not be favored, just the two of them, and if they don't depend on each other for their lives, how will they live in the future."

***

Yu Shu didn't plan to wander around the Ji family's mansion, she instinctively had a kind of "detour" consciousness for the family, and she broke a piece of jade pendant and was tossed to death, who knows if she will be unlucky today and break another piece.

"Let's go out into the streets." Yu Shu proposed, but she didn't know the way, so she could only find a way to let Yu Xiu take it away.

"Hmm." Yu Xiaoxiu didn't object, in order to show that he was not close to her, he walked forward one body ahead of her, just as Yu Shu intended, and honestly fell behind him.

Their dwelling was very close to the back door, through two rows of lower rooms, along a sheep intestine path, which was the back door for the lower people to enter and exit.

Yu Xiaoxiu familiarly pulled the door bolt open and motioned for Yu Shu to go out first.

As soon as you step out of the door, you will see a clean street, the road surface is smooth, there are several families on the opposite street, all of them are small doors and small courtyards, there are lanterns hanging on the door, stone walls and gray tiles, there are a few trees planted on the side of the road, leaving shade, there are few pedestrians, but they are dressed in long skirts and gowns, and they have bunned hair.

Yu Shu's mood was inexplicably a little excited, she came to ancient times for a few days, and she also got along with a few authentic ancients day and night, but when she really stood on the street, she had a sense of reality in ancient society.

"Let's go." Yu Xiaoxiu closed the door and took the lead to the left, Yu Shu looked up at the bright sun overhead, recognized that it was the west, and secretly recognized the way.

Yu Xiaoxiu took Yu Shuliang to turn west, walked out of this back street, passed through a few alleys, walked about a meal, and came to a noisy street, and his vision was immediately enriched.

There are shops on the street, and there are hawkers shouting at the stalls on the side of the road, looking sideways, full of signboards and flags, people come and go, well-dressed, it can be seen that this is a prosperous area.

Yu Shu saw a tall archway on the street in the east from a distance, like a town she had traveled to, there seemed to be words on the archway, she guessed that it was the name of the place or something, so she pointed to Yu Xiaoxiu over there:

"Let's take a look over there."

Yu Xiaoxiu didn't say a word, Yu Shu took a few steps forward, and when he saw him following, he walked boldly to the archway, wanting to see what was written on it.

However, when she got closer and looked up at the bluestone archway, Yu Shu found a serious problem - she was illiterate.

Strictly speaking, she doesn't know a few traditional Chinese characters, but the plaque has three big characters written on it, plus a small line of payment, and she knows the word "long".

This discovery made Yu Shu, who was aware of it later, break out in a cold sweat, she didn't know traditional Chinese characters, let alone writing, and said that she would go to the school with Yu Xiu tomorrow to take classes, how could it be good.

Now that I think about it, in their single-room hut, I haven't even seen a pen and paper, let alone a book or something, Yu Xiu has never done his homework when he comes back from school every day, either sitting on the doorway and looking at the sky in a daze, or holding an old chopstick and scratching on the ground.

Yu Shu was not in good health two days ago, so he didn't pay much attention to this, and I heard Aunt Liu occasionally mention that the school in the city was built by the Ji family and several other prominent families in the city, and there was such an iron rule, as if all the children of these families, regardless of male and female concubines, had to go to school.

The more Yu Shu thought about it, the more troublesome he felt, so he lost the mind to go shopping, pulled Yu Xiaoxiu back to his home, and turned over the cabinets when he entered the door.

"What are you looking for?"

"Textbooks." Yu Shu wasn't sure if they were called that here, but how could a child who went to school not have a textbook, but she cleaned up the house this morning and didn't find that she had such a thing.

Yu Xiaoxiu sneered, walked to his bed and sat down, "Don't look for it, it's just the two, it's not like you have already sold it." ”

As soon as Yu Shu's hand was released, the suitcase fell and almost hit her hand.

What the? Even textbooks were sold?

This unlucky girl!.