Chapter 3: Spring Rains Are as Precious as Oil
A Ning is currently mainly responsible for preparing for the Spring Festival family banquet and waiting for the lord, lady and young lady to come back. There are three people in the room where A Ning lives now, except for A Ning, the other two are all big girls who have been in the house for more than a year, one is called Chunlan, and the other is called Ping'er, both of whom are older than A Ning. Sister Chunlan is a good character, mainly responsible for the diet and daily life of the third young master, Ping'er serves tea and pours water in the fifth lady's room, Ping'er's personality is also like the fifth lady, very unreasonable, and her temper is also very rude. After Chunlan returned to the room after finishing the night, she saw A Ning and said kindly, "You are the new maid today, I heard Mama Li say that your name is A Ning, and you look very delicate and beautiful." After hearing this, Ping'er glanced at A-Ning up and down, frowned, and said in an unkind tone, "Where did this come from, the village girl smelled bad and died, there are two shops here, you sleep with Chunlan at night, don't be next to me, I'm afraid of getting the sour smell on your body, I have to serve Miss Fifth tomorrow, stay away from me." ”
After Ah Ning heard this, she lowered her head and smelled herself, and there was no sour taste as Sister Ping'er said, Chunlan looked at Ah Ning and hurriedly said, "Don't listen to your Sister Ping'er's nonsense, she is the person with a knife mouth, Ah Ning is fragrant, you will live in this room in the future, the three of us will be sisters, and we must get along well and take care of each other in the house." When Ping'er heard this, she immediately replied: "I don't have this kind of sister, you look at her clumsy look, don't implicate me if you cause trouble in the future." Chunlan sighed, and said to A-Ning with a smile, "You can sleep with me in the future, and you will have to get up early tomorrow to purchase materials for the family banquet, the house must be very busy, let's go to bed early." Hearing this, A-Ning hurriedly replied, "Okay, Sister Chunlan, I'll go and put out the candle." At night, A-Ning and Sister Chunlan fell asleep together, feeling very relieved.
The next day, A-Ning slept outside for the first time, woke up early in the morning, and after waking up, A-Ning went to wash and comb, and changed into the clothes of the maid who was collared yesterday. A-Ning got dressed and glanced at herself in the mirror, the woman in the mirror looked no more than thirteen or fourteen years old, in the cardamom years, her eyes were like a pool of spring water, clean and translucent, not contaminated by the world, and the corners of her eyes were slightly raised, with a hint of phoenix eyes, a small goose egg face, smooth lines, a small and straight nose was very delicate, and her lips were red without dots, that is, pure and unparalleled with a hint of coquettishness, this kind of impact made people can't take their eyes off it, but A-Ning is still young now, In addition, the poor at home has developed late, and she still looks like a delicate little girl, and if she looks like this when she becomes an adult, she doesn't know how many princes and nobles she will be fascinated by.
After a while, Sister Chunlan and Sister Ping'er also got up one after another, and after the two freshened up, they went to their respective young masters and young lady's rooms, and A-Ning went to Mama Li's place, Mama Li took a group of their new maids to arrange the Spring Festival family banquet, and Mama Li arranged work for each of them, cleaning the rooms of the lord and the lady respectively, as well as adding new flowers and plants to the yard, purchasing ingredients and utensils for the family banquet and so on.
Mama Li naturally gave Ah Ning the most tiring work, asking Ah Ning to move the newly purchased flowers and plants in the house, Ah Ning was arranged to move flowers and plants in the backyard alone, Ah Ning looked at the flower pots all over the ground and wanted to cry without tears, and only hated himself for not eating more than two mouthfuls of food in the morning. Roll up your sleeves and get to work. The location of Shen Mansion is in a small town in the north, which is the traffic artery between the north and the south, so there is both the heroism of the north, and a trace of the faint fat powder washed by the spring rain in the south of the Yangtze River. Shen Mansion is the head of a hundred families, the house built by the high gate has the atmosphere of the northern mansion, and there are graceful pavilions and pavilions in the south of the Yangtze River in the house, rockery and flowing water, and all kinds of flowers and plants are countless. A-Ning has been busy from morning to noon, fortunately it is early spring, the sun is not stinging, from time to time there is a gust of spring breeze with the fragrance of flowers, but the stomach is really unbearable, and the grunt is screaming, fortunately, there is no one in the yard, otherwise A-Ning's stomach is like thunder now, it is really embarrassing.
As soon as he thought about it, a voice came from behind him, a voice with a hint of ridicule and banter, "Such a loud thunder, is it going to rain at noon, but the spring rain is as expensive as oil, it is good to rain a little more" After speaking, he laughed loudly, A-Ning's face couldn't be raised, and he secretly hated himself for knowing that he should nibble on two more steamed buns if he did so much work, but he had a small appetite, and he wanted to cry without tears. Ah Ning slowly turned his head, and there were two sons standing behind him, one was dressed in white like snow, like a fairy, but there was a little unruly between his eyebrows, it was the fairy he saw that day, and the other was dressed in red, and the neckline opened a lot inadvertently, revealing a white neck and a little chest, standing in the flowers like a flower demon, goblin, put Ah Ning's head lower, Ah Ning had never seen such a character in the village before. And the voice that teased himself just now was this boy in red, A-Ning silently scolded in his heart, "God, is this kind of character in A-Ning's village the little white face that the people in the village say, more beautiful than women, today the stomach is like thunder and was teased, it's really a shame to be thrown out of the village." ”
Immediately, the man in red said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Third brother, is this a new girl in the house, but it is very cute." The third young master immediately frowned, looked at A-Ning's dirty hands and messy hair bun because of running back and forth with a very unhappy expression, and opened his mouth to "There is no one in the house now, any wild girl can be used." A Ning immediately thought of the words explained by Mama Li: The third young master pays the most attention to cleanliness, and now his appearance is no wonder that the third young master is displeased. Ah Ning knew that these two sons were the third and fourth young masters in the mansion, and Ah Ning had to quickly reply softly, "The slave maid is a new maid who has entered the mansion, and she doesn't know the rules of the mansion very well. After saying that, his stomach was screaming again.
The fourth young master of the Prime Minister's Mansion is a character who does not avoid people, and then laughed again, his voice was very hearty, A-Ning wanted to drill into the cracks, but fortunately, the third young master of Shen opened his mouth and said, "It's not a system, why don't you retreat here and stay stunned." After hearing this, A-Ning felt finally relieved, turned around and ran quickly, almost tripped over the steps of the corridor and flew out, but fortunately he held on to the pillar next to him to stabilize himself, but he didn't dare to go back and move forward, for fear of being blamed by the third young master and ridiculed by the fourth young master. Shen Sangongzi shook his head again and again after seeing it, and the peach blossom eyes of the fourth prince smiled even more, although this little girl was young, she was still stupid, but it was quite interesting.