Liu Yingxue's paintings sold some scattered silver, and the calligraphy and paintings would depreciate in times of turmoil, after all, medicinal herbs and food were necessities, and she was already relieved to be able to exchange some silver taels.

She opened the food that Xiao Cui brought back, there were hot meat buns and a roast chicken, and a trace of fragrance wafted out, just smelling the fragrance made her lick her lips greedily.

Liu Yingxue took out the roast chicken, put it in an empty porcelain bowl, rubbed her hands and said: "Even if it's the winter solstice today, it's the right time for you to buy food and come back, so we can have a delicious meal." ”

She and Xiaocui have a chicken leg for each person, the master and servant eat a lot of food, the winter solstice was supposed to eat dumplings, but now the food has become a luxury, just now she passed by the stove room, smelled the fragrance of the food inside, presumably the people of the Gao family are preparing to eat, she doesn't want to be bored, it would be good to have a bowl of hot rice to fill her stomach.

"Miss Biao, the shopkeeper of the bookstore likes your paintings, and he said that he will wait for you to paint some more in a while, and he may be able to sell them for a good price at the beginning of spring." Xiaocui ate the chicken leg and said happily, "The slave doesn't understand this, but it's okay to help the young lady run errands." ”

Liu Yingxue is also very happy to be affirmed by others, but selling paintings is only one of the methods, she is not good for her daughter's family to do business outside, otherwise these people in the Gao family may have a worse attitude towards her.

After the master and servant finished dinner, Liu Yingxue opened the window, pointed to a piece of barren grass behind and said: "When the spring comes, let's buy some seeds and scatter them in the soil, and then we can eat some fresh vegetables, but following a master like me, in the end, I have wronged you." ”

"Miss Cousin, how can there be any grievances that are not wronged, the slave and maid follow you and feel comfortable from the bottom of your heart, you treat the slave and the maid sincerely, compared to those ruthless ladies, it is really a heaven and an earth." Xiao Cui smiled.

Although the life is a little simpler, Liu Yingxue feels that it is not bad to be quiet, but I hope that the lady in the house will not come to trouble her again, so it is not bad to hide.

She leaned against the window, looking at the gradually darkening black curtain, and her heart longed to float to the place where Gao Mingxuan was, she said to herself: "I don't know what happened to my cousin now, I haven't seen him send a letter from home, I'm a little worried." ”

"Miss Cousin, Ming'er slave maid asked Uncle Chang to inquire about the news of the young master, they won't take the initiative to tell you, it's better for the slave maid to ask, Uncle Chang is different from Mrs. Wu Niangzi, but he is a loyal old housekeeper, but now the mansion is in the hands of Mrs. Wei, and Uncle Chang can take care of fewer and fewer things." When Xiao Cui mentioned this, there was a trace of resentment in her eyes.

Liu Yingxue passed Xiao Cui's words, and then thought about the scene of the decline of the Hou Mansion, it was not without reason, the Hou Mansion began to decline in Gao Mingxuan's father's generation, the old lady Gao was ill, Gao Mingxuan's parents died early, the uncle and cousin were not successful, and he was the only one in the mansion who could be civil and martial.

She has seen the decline of many families, there are too many mediocre people in the clan, and they probably can't escape the fate of decline, if their Liu family hadn't been killed by their father and brother in battle, it would have been a prosperous vein.

"We women are helpless after all, we can neither go to the battlefield nor assist the emperor." Liu Yingxue sighed secretly, if it weren't for her identity as a woman, she would have gone to the army with her father at this age, but she had to be a lady in Jiangmen.