Every day, only the two lanterns on the roof beam in the courtyard of Mrs. and the horse lantern she carried swayed and a little fire came out, so that she could strengthen her courage with such a little light, but fortunately the moon was full today, and the moonlight gently sprinkled down, illuminating her heart.

Today, she is not afraid of the dark sky, she has been continuously punished by Mrs. Qiyao wheel she vigil, and she has to do rough work non-stop during the day, she feels that she is a little unbearable, dozing off vigorously when washing during the day, and is scolded by the housekeeper and grandmother, but tomorrow she will not need to keep vigil, tomorrow night she can lie on the bed in the back cover room and sleep soundly for a night, well, hurry up and dawn, tomorrow must be a good day.

It's almost the end of the month again, it's good, there is another monthly case this month, and when the monthly case is issued, you can ask Uncle Zhang to bring her back to her home far away in Chang'an City, that home with four walls but extremely warm.

Whenever she was tortured and couldn't support it, when she thought of her father and aunt who loved her, she wiped away her tears, continued to do rough work, was beaten and scolded, and was able to send her to the general's mansion in Chang'an City as a slave, which was already a great honor for her ancestors.

I think when Daddy and Auntie made a good deal for her to be sent to the General's Mansion, she was happy for more than half a month, and when she met the neighbors in the village, she talked loudly, although she was a daughter, Daddy and Auntie always loved her, after all, in the General's Mansion, she wore warm and starved not to death, and every year when she encountered a famine or flood season, her hometown was full of mourning.

In the first half of the month, I heard Uncle Zhang say that Daddy carried water for Luo's family and flashed his waist, I don't know the monthly case he sent back, did Daddy stop Daddy from buying medicine, Daddy used to buy something for Daddy, Daddy would always block it, shouting that the money was left for them, Daddy was always like this, reluctant to spend half a penny for himself, Daddy's waist is an old problem, and I don't know if Daddy is better now?

Chunchan lightly put down the night patrol lantern, although the lantern in the lady's house has been blown out, she still didn't dare to make a sound, she looked at the bright and soft full moon on her head, and folded her hands: "Goddess Chan'e, you see that my name also has a chan character, for the sake of our name having the same word, please bless my father and aunt in good health, and my sister Chunmian grows up healthy and safe."

She also has a five-year-old sister Chunmian, who was frugal and frugal, and scraped together a penny from between her teeth and handed it to Uncle Zhang, who was a groom for the eldest lady Su to drive horses.

Uncle Zhang bought off the servant steward of the General's Mansion, and the steward sent someone to investigate Chunchan's family situation, and saw that the ancestors were all ordinary people's families, and the ancestors were not implicated in the General's Mansion within three generations, which gave Uncle Zhang a face, after all, Uncle Zhang has been in the General's Mansion for 20 years, although he is a groom, he is also a little qualified.

In addition, the steward gave the face of the hundred copper coins, so he left a place for Chunchan, otherwise with the harsh conditions of the General's Mansion to select slaves and maids, Chunchan, who was thin and thin and illiterate, couldn't even enter the gate of the General's Mansion.

When she packed up a few patched rags from her mother and came to the general's mansion as a maid, Chunmian was only three years old, pulling her legs and crying, too, she was good to play with her sister every day, and when she left, there was no one to accompany her to take care of her all day.

After all, Daddy and Auntie have to go to the big family to work and earn food every day, and they can only go home at night, and Chunmian can only be locked at home during the day, but in another two or three years, when Chunmian grows up, she can also follow A-Niang to Luo Dahu's house as a helper, it is better than locking up at home all day, Chunchan is always afraid that something will happen to Chunmian, after all, Chunmian is too small, and it is always unreassuring.

If she has a firm foothold in the General's Mansion in the future, she can also bring Chunmian to the General's Mansion, but she is now in danger, and when she first arrived at the General's Mansion and opened the package in the back room, she will never forget the situation that day.

The rest of the servants took her patched clothes and pointed at her and laughed for a long time, and laughed at her for her humble background, not knowing a few big characters, although they are also servants, there are also superior, medium and inferior, besides, people are like this, and they can only highlight their superiority by pressing the most humble under them with others, although the servants actually have little dignity in front of their masters.

General Mo's Mansion recruits slaves and maids every year The conditions are quite harsh, first of all, you have to send someone to investigate whether the three generations of slaves and maids are innocent, and whether they have anything to do with the General's Mansion, after all, the General's Mansion has too many enemies and too many enemies, which is the top priority, and it must be strictly screened.

The second level is that the household registration of the slaves and maids is best to be a person from Chang'an, so it is easier to investigate, the families of the slaves and maids are in Chang'an, and the general's mansion is also easy to control, unless there is an excellent once-in-a-century slave and maid, the restrictions on the household registration can be relaxed.

There is also the appearance of the slaves and maids is also a pass, you can't recruit some crooked melons and cracked dates to knock the eyes of the generals' wives, the knowledge of the slaves and maids is another level, and the illiterate characters will reduce the cultural heritage of the general's mansion.

In addition, the qualifications and experience are another level, and the general recruits are also experienced in helping the rich and wealthy families to be slaves and maids, so that the masters who serve the general's mansion are also handy, and many people are eliminated every year by relying on these main four levels.

There are other small conditions such as family background, never recruit destitute, in case of petty theft by the lowly people, after all, a decorative ornament in the lady's house is enough for ordinary people to chew for half a month.

However, although Chunchan doesn't know how many big characters, she is also upright and honest, but the second lady seems to be like a thorn in her eye, if she is not in the second lady's snow willow courtyard, how good it would be, if she had copper coins at the beginning, she could also give the copper coins to the maid housekeeper and let her go to the eldest lady's glass courtyard, but unfortunately, she only brought a package of patched clothes to the general's mansion, penniless.

When Uncle Zhang swore that she would be assigned to the eldest lady's Liuli Courtyard, before waiting for the list to come out, she was secretly happy for several days, but after the list came out, another maid with copper coins had already known that the second lady Liu was ruthless, and bribed the housekeeper with copper coins to transfer her list.

She didn't go to Mrs. Chengda's Liuli Courtyard, but came to the second lady's Snow Willow Courtyard, Uncle Zhang was sorry for her for many days because of this matter, but he had no choice but to tell her to be cautious and careful in everything.

She didn't dare to go to the third lady's Zhiqiu Courtyard, but it would be good if she could do things in the eldest lady's Liuli Courtyard, at least the maids in the Liuli Courtyard would not be beaten, they were well fed, the eldest lady believed in Buddhism and was kind-hearted, she had never seen the eldest lady scolding the maids loudly, let alone the maids being slapped.

As for the third lady Zhiqiu Courtyard, for her, it was a daydream in the daytime, one was empty, the general favored the third lady, and deliberately re-established the hanging flower door in the fourth and fifth courtyards, inverted the room, and copied the corridor, just like the front yard, which increased the safety and concealment of the Zhiqiu Courtyard.

The general seems to want to protect the entire Zhiqiu Courtyard, and in the east cross courtyard of the Zhiqiu Courtyard, he has set up pavilions, pavilions, rockeries and lakes for the three ladies to watch and play.

She rarely saw the servants and maids of Zhiqiu Courtyard, and the servants and maids of Zhiqiu Courtyard were not under the control of the steward and grandmother of the front yard, and were only sent by the third lady.

The third lady was deeply favored by the general, and gave the third lady a lot of rewards, and the third lady often gave the reward to the servants as soon as she turned around, and when she rested in the back cover room for a few nights, the servants often talked about who and who won the favor of the master.

Then there was a sense of jealousy and sourness, who was reprimanded by the master, and then a sense of joy and happiness, of course, the most said was Zhiqiuyuan, and they were so envious of the maids of Zhiqiuyuan, after all, this is a place they all want to go.

I heard them say that last time the third lady rewarded Yan'er with a pair of excellent jade bracelets, if the jade bracelets are sold, they can be exchanged for one or two silver, one or two silver is ten coins, a thousand Wen, a thousand copper coins, a whole thousand copper coins, she is afraid that she will have to count half an hour.

If she gets a reward of one or two silvers, she will buy Daddy an excellent bruise ointment, completely cure Daddy's waist disease, pull a few pieces of good cloth for Daddy, and make a few decent clothes, Auntie has not worn new clothes for several years.

By the way, she made a beautiful set of clothes for Chunmian, and bought the rock sugar gourd she wanted to eat the most but had never eaten, Chunchan and Chunmian had never eaten rock sugar gourd, they only saw that Luo Dahu's son often ate it, and she knew that it must be delicious when she saw the crunchy shape of what he ate.

Whoever you follow, maybe you can become someone, the servants and maids of the Snow Willow Courtyard are all in bad stomachs, fighting openly and secretly, they are scolded in front of their ladies during the day, and they take her out of anger at night.

It is common to deliberately sprinkle some fragrant ash on her food, put some small insects, and deliberately turn the wooden basin of her freshly washed clothes upside down, causing her to have to wash it again, there are too many things to bully her, she can't count them.

At first, she often ate with tears in her eyes, but gradually she got used to it, calmly used chopsticks to pick out the fragrant ash insects, ate them deliciously, washed the clothes, and immediately rushed to dry, so as not to let them have a chance.

However, in this big dye vat, Chunchan did not learn badly, and she did not practice the skill of intrigue, she felt that it was very tiring, she still maintained her original intention of kindness, waiting for the monthly routine to be sent to her home every month, and found happiness from some small things, such as not having to serve the second lady today, you don't have to be scolded and beaten, and you don't need her to keep vigil tomorrow, you can sleep peacefully.