After walking for more than half a month, the team of 8,000 people arrived at Xuanzhou Mansion, Xie Yongzao sent a letter to his father and uncle at home, Xie Xiao led the whole family to the city gate early in the morning to wait for the car, and saw from a distance that the people at the front of the team were riding a bloody BMW with red bodies, and immediately shouted "Welcome to the prince", and knelt on the ground.

Cui Yi's bad mood along the way was dissipated a lot by them kneeling like this, and he didn't put on a show, and said as pleasantly as possible: "Get up, bother Lord Xie." ”

Xie Yong is a rich middle-aged man with a three-layer chin, and this alone can see that Xuanzhou is very rich.

Xie Xiaogong stood up respectfully: "Thank you, please prince." With a wave of his hand, the family members behind him avoided one after another, and Cui Yi entered the city with his eyebrows raised.

Eight thousand soldiers were temporarily stationed on the outskirts of the city, while Cui Yi and his party of ten people were temporarily living in the state governor's mansion.

"Mother!" As soon as Xie Yuchan got out of the car, she threw herself into the arms of her mother-in-law Ye, and the tears of grievance fell in a big string.

Ye hugged his daughter distressedly, rubbed the corners of his eyes and said, "My son! Why have you lost so much weight, this yellow muscle is thin, how do you two dead girls serve Miss? O son of my wretchedness! ”

The mother and daughter hugged their heads and cried in front of the gate, Xie Xiao smiled embarrassedly: "Humble Jing misses the little girl too much, so the prince is smiling, and the prince is invited." ”

Cui Yi entered the door, Xie Xiao followed, chattering all the way: "The prince is tired from the journey, it only takes eleven days from Xuanzhou Mansion to Ganzhou Mansion, and the prince can rest for a few days at our place, and it is not too late for the lower officials to prepare some grain and grass for the prince and then go on the road; Xiaguan has cleaned up the main compartment, this will take the prince to rest, lunch will be sent by the people in the house, the prince and everyone have rested, and in the evening the lower official will arrange a banquet for the prince to catch the wind and wash the dust......"

Bailizan, who fell a few steps behind, covered his mouth with his fist and coughed lightly, lowered his head under the pretense of stroking the little peach crisp in his arms, and whispered: "Xie Xiao is a good person, but it's a pity that the goddaughter is not strict." ”

Xiaoqiu snorted unhappily: "He will only be courteous around the prince, and he doesn't take our wife in his eyes at all, this is also called being a man?" ”

Bailizan didn't know how to explain it, so he had to laugh and say nothing, but said calmly: "It's right not to put me in your eyes, my daughter is about to be a princess, where is the use of pretending to be a good color to a concubine who is equivalent to a maid, don't you see that even the prince doesn't squeak?" ”

After a while, when they arrived at the main compartment, Xie Xiao led Cui Yi to step up the steps, and Zhiying and the others were about to follow in, but they were stopped by a mother-in-law: "This is the residence of the prince, you guys come with me." Sure enough, he responded to Zhiying's words and treated her as a maid.

Lang Yue couldn't help but glare: "The prince's residence also needs to be served, is it reasonable for the Xie family to still have a husband and wife sleeping in separate rooms?" ”

Then the Ye family, who came over, chuckled lightly and said: "I have already arranged the people who serve in front of the prince, although the Xie family is not a scholarly family, but it also knows etiquette and observance, since Yuchan has not passed the door, naturally she can't rest at the prince's place, what are you anxious about?" Xie Yuchan, who was holding her arm beside her, also threw a triumphant smile here.

Xiaoqiu almost rushed up to quarrel with the mother and daughter, but Zhiying grabbed her: "Xiaoqiu, don't be rude." ”

Ye's still have the charm of being old, and it can be seen that they were quite beautiful when they were young, and Xie Yuchan followed her mother's appearance - even the trace of contempt in the corners of her eyes was inherited exactly as well. "You've worked hard all the way, you don't need to serve here, let's go and rest."

Xiaoqiu was still indignant, and dragged her away.

The mother-in-law led them to a subordinate room, which was clean and tidy, and she was not picky, she sat down on the bed with her waist back, and hugged Xiao Cui Xian all the way, but she was tired enough.

"Madame is afraid of what they do! If they are not the masters, they dare to bully the people who are the masters, and their Xie family is too indifferent to people! The prince has long said that he will not marry the shrew surnamed Xie, how thick is the face of this family, and he has to use a hot face to make up for a cold ass? Xiaoqiu was so angry that she stomped her feet.

Lang Yue bent down to change Xiao Cui Xian's diaper, while persuading: "Forget it, this time and that time, listen to Mrs. ”

Xiaoqiu pouted: "Madam, you are the wife of the prince, how can you let the Xie family bully, we lowered our heads today, and we will not be able to raise our heads for the rest of our lives." ”

Zhiying slapped her shoulder and smiled bitterly: "Are you willing to be looked down upon?" It's a person under the eaves, I have to bow my head, the prince is in this disaster at first glance, not only can I not help him anything, but also drag him down, the prince is not willing to live under people, so it is a matter of time before he marries Miss Xie. ”

Xiaoqiu was taken aback: "What? The prince said that he wanted to marry that shrew? How can the prince be like this! ”

Zhiying "shh ”

Lang Yue wrapped the child and went to the courtyard to fetch water to boil it, Xiaoqiu finally calmed down a little, and stepped forward to beat Zhiying's back: "Miss, is the prince really going to marry Miss Xie?" ”

Whenever her title becomes Miss, it is equivalent to not standing in the position of the people of the palace, but speaking as Zhiying's personal maid, Zhiying knows that Xiaoqiu has followed her since she was a child, and she is also dedicated to herself and protects herself, of course, she is very sincere in her heart, so she can't say anything serious, only said: "The prince didn't mention it, I said it, I asked him to marry Miss Xie." ”

Xiaoqiu's hand paused, and he continued after a while: "The prince didn't mention it, why did the young lady take the initiative to mention it?" ”

"Nearly half of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are the prince's people, and his father ...... At the expense of my happiness, I have to climb the big tree of the prince tightly, and now even the emperor is helping the prince to rectify the prince together," Zhiying lay on the bed, hugged the pillow and took a deep breath, "The world is so unfair, you don't fight or grab, but you still become a thorn in the side of others." ”

Xiaoqiu said as a matter of course: "Everyone doesn't help the prince, and the lady helps the prince, it is okay, they all say that husband and wife are one." ”

Zhiying smiled again, and then sighed: "It's not enough for me to help the prince, Ganzhou is so desolate, everyone's eating is a problem, the most important thing is food, and now the only one who can help the prince is the Xie family." ”

After all, Xiaoqiu is just a maid, she has never studied, she doesn't have much foresight, and she doesn't know that even if it is only eight thousand people, she will eat thousands of catties of food a day, listening to Zhiying say this, she nodded as if she didn't understand, and asked worriedly: "Then won't we all have to look at Miss Xie's face in the future?" ”

Zhiying turned around and held her hand: "Xiaoqiu, you have followed me for so many years, we are called master and servant, in my heart, I have always regarded you as a sister, I hope I am good and you are good." But what do you think of your young lady now? My father and mother don't want me anymore, my husband also wants to marry another woman, I have to stay up every day in the future, and my face is light, Miss Xie's temperament, I'm afraid that I will suffer from skin and flesh in three days, and the prince may not dare to control her, maybe he will drag you to suffer together, I think it's better to find a solid family in Xuanzhou Mansion to marry you, and save me from following me to Ganzhou to suffer and suffer. ”

"Miss!" Xiaoqiu's eyes suddenly turned red, "Xiaoqiu, don't leave you, Xiaoqiu will serve you for the rest of your life!" No matter how much suffering you suffer, no matter how much you suffer, the slave and maid will accompany the young lady! ”

"Xiaoqiu ......" held a sour nose and hugged her.

Lang Yue came in with hot water, and saw that their master and servant were hugging each other, their faces were full of misery, and they were also sad in their hearts, so they forced a smile and twisted the hot handkerchief and sent it over: "Madame, don't be sad, wipe your face, lie down and rest for a while, every day I hold Miss in the car like this, I must be tired, I can't be listless at the evening reception banquet." ”

Holding the urn agreed, took the hot handkerchief and wiped her face and hands, and then lay down with her clothes, Xiaoqiu covered her with a quilt, and then followed Langyue to the outer bed to fall down and rest.

The three of them were tired from the journey, and they missed lunch directly, and when Zhiying was woken up by her daughter's crying, she was already close to Shenshi, her stomach was hungry, and she didn't have much milk and water, so she had to support her sore body and get out of bed to eat.

The food was cold, and Zhiying wanted to call someone to serve it hot, but he didn't want to be ridiculed by the people of the Xie Mansion. A mother-in-law who did needlework mocked: "The subordinates of the palace are not subordinates? If you want to eat a hot meal, you go to the kitchen to heat it up, and it arouses people. The women who were sitting together in the courtyard laughed.

Zhiying was so angry that his teeth were shaking, he couldn't hold back his breath a few times and didn't put on any face, turned back to the room and wanted to wake up Xiaoqiu or Langyue, but he saw that they were sleeping soundly, and he didn't wake up after a few calls, and he didn't dare to leave his daughter alone in the house, so he had to pick up the hard rice and eat it with cold dishes.

A plate of pork with skin and tendons that the superior people disdain to eat is so hard that it can't chew, the soup cooked with rotten vegetable stalks floats on top of the lumps of oil condensation, and the only decent dish is a plate of tofu, but unfortunately eating it in your mouth is like eating ice.

When she ate the first few bites, Zhiying almost vomited, but when she thought that she was hungry, she had no milk [Zongheng] water to feed her child, and most of the Xie family was not happy to see her child healthy, so she didn't have to think about finding a wet nurse or anything, so she could only continue to eat hard, and the dry and hard rice was eaten, and the stomach hurt for a while.

The two maids slept until the time when they woke up, and Zhiying changed into neat clothes, and waited for someone in the room to pass them to eat the wind wine. I thought that I had a bad meal at noon, and I could eat a little better at night, but I never thought that there was nothing to do with them at this reception banquet, Xie Xiao actually only invited Cui Yi to go alone, and Langyue went to the kitchen to get food, and on the way back, I met Bailizan, and there was a nest in the bowl, and there was a plate of black pickles, not to mention rice, and there was no hot soup to drink.

"I have to take it back in the afternoon," Bai Lizan pinched the nest in his hand and smiled bitterly, "Miss Xiaoqiu is right, Xie Xiao doesn't know how to be a person at all, I still have a cat in the house, so why don't you give some loaches." ”

Lang Yue carried the food of the three people, but it was only two dishes and one soup, one person and a small bowl of rice, which was not enough to eat at all, and Bailizan kindly divided the nest head into one of them, in exchange for a small half bowl of soup.

Zhiying's heart brightened, knowing that if it wasn't for Xie Xiao's lack of being a man, and he started to be mean before he could do anything, it must be Xie Yuchan who instructed the people in the house to deliberately make things difficult for them, but poor Bailizan never offended her, and she had to eat with her.

The three of them ate a half-hungry meal, and they were hungry again before it was dark, Xiaoqiu went to the kitchen to eat again, and finally came back empty-handed, with some more stains on his body, and he didn't know what he had been thrown with.

"Madame is so hungry, what should I do if Miss wakes up in the middle of the night to feed?" Langyue was so worried that her hair was going to turn white.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.