Guangzhou, December 1899.

Since she was caught in this escape, she thought that she would not be able to escape from this mansion in this life, not that the ropes bound her hands and feet, but that her heart had already been tortured by this dead and dull official compound, maybe ordinary people would envy the life of this deep mansion compound, but she was not happy to stay here for a moment longer, just because staying for a moment longer was torment.

The cold winter wind whistled through the crack in the door, and she was tied to a chair and shivered, but the wind blowing through the crack in the door was not very strong, and the main west window swept in, and the window was specially opened by the person who tied her, and of course the man was also acting on orders.

I have been living in my uncle's house for two years, and two years ago, my revolutionary father Shen Chai was captured and beheaded by the imperial court, which was a great crime of beheading, and my uncle didn't want to wade into this troubled water.

But she was grateful to her for the pleas of her seriously ill aunt, and she was grateful to her for replacing the prisoners at the execution ground under the supervision of Pan Zhan, the governor of Liangguang, and she also enjoyed two months of peace under the care of her aunt and uncle.

After her aunt died, she knew that her good days were coming to an end, so she mentioned to her uncle many times to leave the house, but his uncle did not allow it.

The last straw that plunged her into disaster was that her uncle was transferred back to Fengtian to defend the capital, and the entire Pan family completely fell into the hands of Yu Ruping, the second room, and since then she has only been five years old and has begun a nightmare life.

"What are you doing here?"

Suddenly the door was opened, she was startled by a burst of light in front of her and subconsciously closed her eyes, and then at a glance, she found the figure of the maid Wu Xue, and she didn't want to look at the person in front of her, and then lowered her head again.

"Miss, you should admit your mistake to Madame, or I will starve with you tonight."

Yu Ruping did say to the maid Wu Xue that if the young lady made a mistake, they would be punished together, so now they are in the same boat, after all, the lady has long seen Wu Xue unpleasantly, she always feels that Wu Xue is not attentive enough to beat the young lady, and disobeys her will.

"If you promise me, I'll let you loose and take you to eat something delicious."

Wu Xue deliberately squatted down to loosen the tie, but Shen Anyue's hurried shaking made her feel very unhappy, her eyes glared fiercely and saw that there was no effect, so she had to give up, so she thought that she might be able to do what she liked, a few days ago, the young lady mentioned to her that she wanted to read a book, didn't she have a Dream of Red Mansions, maybe that book would make her heart move.

"As long as you admit your mistake, I'll give you a book."

As soon as she heard that she could have a book to read, Shen Anyue's eyes suddenly lit up, she really wanted to get something different from the book, that kind of thing might allow her to increase her knowledge, broaden her horizons, grow physically and mentally, and so on.

In short, she really wants to read and read that kind of good book, not that kind of feudal book that teaches women three obedience and four virtues, and was forced by Mrs. to read a few books, but she felt that she didn't agree with the truth very much, and those words were too much and felt like clichés, and I really wanted to see new things.

Although she is a young lady in the Pan family on the surface, she is actually a maid, she has to do laundry and cooking, and if she doesn't do it well, she will be beaten by Wu Xue, but she still lets her subordinates call her Miss in the house, and it is also the standard of a rich family in terms of eating, drinking and dressing.

It's not that Mrs. Yu Ruping treats her well, it's just that she is afraid of losing a bad reputation in the eyes of outsiders.

"What book?" Shen Anyue's melancholy and innocent eyes were full of curiosity for a moment, she pursed her lips lightly, looked at the thirteen or fourteen-year-old young lady in front of her and asked softly.

"Dream of Red Mansions." When Wu Xue said this, her eyes were full of expectations for love and yearning for a better life, but a touch of sadness flooded her heart, she knew that it was just her dream, after all, she was sold to the Pan family by her father, and she probably couldn't escape the cage in this life.

That book turned out to be "Dream of Red Mansions", Shen Anyue also heard about that book from the mouths of people bits and pieces when she was washing clothes, but she heard that it was a strange book, and everyone who read it was amazed by the story in it, and she also wanted to see it.

"Okay, deal." Shen Anyue nodded happily and smiled, the corners of her mouth were filled with short-term happiness and then she was swallowed up by fear, she was happy that she could finally read a new book, at least she could no longer let her brain be bound by the woman's three from the four virtues, and the future she was afraid of would be difficult for her aunt.

"Miss, that book is lent to you to read, not given to you, oh, by the way, Madame is in the ancestral hall, and I have to take care of the eldest young master, so I'll go and get busy first."

The maid Wu Xue untied Shen Anyue and deliberately said this, after all, the book was also her spiritual food, Shen Anyue didn't ask anything, looking at Wu Xue's thin back, she didn't know when a trace of tears appeared in the corners of her eyes, she had heard a lot of Wu Xue's story, and she was sympathetic in her heart, just because many things were also powerless.

Although the eldest young master Pan Long is only fifteen years old, he is a very scoundrel, and most of the people who treat him are scolded or beaten, and he is mostly teasing the maids, and his domineering temperament inherits the talent of his wife Yu Ruping very well.

They are all the kind of people who must be right as long as they think it is right, and this time Shen Anyue was locked up in a small black room because Pan Long molested her, and she gave him a punch in the stomach in anger, whether it was right or wrong, of course, Madame was on her precious son's side, the beating was light, and restricting freedom was inhumane.

It is said that people have to bow their heads under the eaves, and the now seven-year-old Shen Anyue knows this truth very well, but what she has been ushering in again and again is repeated bullying, and she thinks that she can't spend her life like that again.

She doesn't want to be a boy like Pan Long, who goes to the kiln all day long, watches plays, eats and waits for death, and doesn't want to be a maid who washes clothes and cooks and is tortured, she wants to escape from that dead and strange cage, but if she wants to get out of here, it is obviously not enough to rely on her own strength.

If Shen Anyue can be as well-behaved and obedient and likable as those official ladies, presumably her life in the Pan family will also be very good.

Mrs. didn't have a daughter, and she wanted to raise this girl as her own daughter, but this girl always disobeyed her mind, and what to say about equality, what to say about fairness, and other words that were contrary to this era made Mrs. very disgusted, and naturally Shen Anyue was a monster in the eyes of Mrs.

Those new ideas were said by Wu Xue and Shen Anyue, of course, there are a lot of interesting and interesting stories, and I hate and pity the maid Wu Xue in my heart, but in general, only Wu Xue treats her better in the house, but some people's endings have already been written, while some people's endings are not doomed, everything is unknown.

It may be that the hard-working child is precocious, Shen Anyue, who is only seven years old, knows a lot of things, neither the domineering nor the dignified official lady, some are equal and casual, she hates those official ladies who deliberately eat and walk and talk, she thinks it is very contrived, but how can she be independent in this era.