A door with rounded corners of hanging flowers separates the study outside the prison mansion from the back garden. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The outer study room is called the study, which is actually where Chu Fan's daily office is located, and it is also the core decision-making place of this emerging force in Tamna. The outer study room is not just a room, but is composed of several independent and nested small courtyards, and several small courtyards are being built, and the sound of ding ding dong is endless.

To the south of the outer study, through a short road, is the children's camp, which is also in a state of expansion. This "military and political academy" that Chu Fan often talks about is about to usher in the second batch of more than 50 new students, and the current building is of course insufficient.

As the core of the Tamna Dynasty, the outer study room was of course heavily guarded, with three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and almost every small courtyard was lined with soldiers of the guard regiment with loaded guns and ammunition standing in front of the door, and no matter how familiar the faces were, they would only be allowed to pass through after repeated checks.

Outside the gate of the Hanging Flower Corner, two warriors also stood unmoving, guarding the two closed red lacquered gates.

"Squeak~~"

With a tooth-aching sound of the doorshaft rubbing, the red-lacquered door slowly opened a crack, and a small head with cute twin screws poked out.

"Who?"

The two guards snapped in unison, their muskets on their shoulders in their hands, and looked warily into the door.

"Ah~~"

The twin screws let out an exclamation and flashed back to the door, followed by the sound of books falling to the ground.

The two guards looked at each other and looked at each other for some reason—who was the face with baby fat just now, who was it? They want to wait until they enter the door to find out, but they are in the way of the back garden of the prison mansion, which is not just anyone who can enter, as a man, you have to avoid suspicion, right?

Before the two guards could hesitate, the twin buns reappeared. It was a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old, with a few crystal tears on her pink cheeks, and her rosy lower lip stretched out, trying to pull upward, looking like a pouting and a pout.

Looking at the little girl's big teary eyes, and then looking at the scattered letter box she was holding in her arms, the guards guessed that this was the maid who sent letters to Nangong Niangniang every day. However, the two of them still interrogated them routinely, but their tone was much softer, and the muzzle of the gun naturally drooped.

"Who are you? What are you doing in the study? ”

"I ...... My name is Little Bead...... I came to help the third grandmother deliver a letter. Timidly replied with a hint of crying.

"Do you have a token?"

There was no answer this time, and a gold-painted black lacquer token was carefully handed over, with a lifelike pigeon engraved on it.

After checking the token, the guard put away his gun and asked, "Why did you deliver it today?" What about Sister Jade? ”

Xiao Zhu'er returned timidly while holding the sign in her arms, "Sister Cuiyu is sick, and I will take her place." ”

After saying this, she saw that the two guards had no other orders, so she squatted lightly and turned away.

Xiao Zhu'er's surname is Chen, she is a girl in the idle tea house, and she has been eating and living for 800 Wen a month, and it has been almost two months since she came in.

Speaking of which, she is also an ill-fated child. She was born in a fisherman's family on Kinmen Island in Fujian Province, and there are more than a dozen children in the family, including more than a dozen older brothers, sisters, younger brothers and sisters, all of whom point to her father's leaky fishing boat for dinner. There are too many children to raise, so they can only be sold out one by one, Xiao Zhuer was sold into the Yang family in Jinjiang when she was seven years old, and became the Yang family's young lady, that is, Yang Dijiao's cousin's little follower. After that, she went all the way to Hakushi Island and then to this Tamna Island, and now she is thirteen years old. Miss Yang Jiafang became a dowry girl when Yan Ruxue got married, and Xiao Zhuer couldn't follow at that time, after being idle for half a year, she caught up with the prison government to recruit the third batch of girls, and her young lady was sisterly, so she signed up for her and recruited her. The master and servant reunited, but this identity became an equal sister, and her young lady was the jade sister in the mouth of the guards.

Xiao Zhu'er is young, this curiosity is naturally very heavy, and when she arrives in an unfamiliar environment, she inevitably has to inquire up and down.

Xiao Zhu'er, a big family, has only stayed in the Yang Mansion and the Jianguo Mansion, so it is natural to make a comparison.

In her little heart, the Yang Mansion is the same as the Prison Mansion, it is strictly guarded, and even the Prison Mansion is even tighter. There were hardly any faces to be seen in the inner courtyard of this deep house, and occasionally there were a few of them mostly the family members of old friends—the high walls of the prison mansion were almost all women's world, and there were not even the small servants and servants common to ordinary large families, and the heavy physical work was either done by machinery or servants.

In addition, the biggest difference that Xiao Zhu'er felt was that the prison government treated his subordinates too leniently, to the point of arrogance. Compared to the strict hierarchy and complicated rules of the Yang Mansion, the Prison Mansion is more like a big family. From the old lady Zhang, the old man of the prison country, to the three wives, and then to their personal maids, they are nominally the masters, but in fact they are more like the heads of the big family. As long as they don't touch the few prohibitions in the house, the maids rarely get beaten when they make mistakes, and even if they break the old lady's beloved Buddha statue, it is just a few reprimands.

None of the servants signed a deed of sale! Don't look at the deed of sale, it's just a thin piece of paper, but for a sensitive child like Xiaozhu'er, it is a huge distance in my heart. In Yang's Mansion, no matter how close Jade treats her like a sister, she is always a master and servant; In the Prison Mansion, they have become real sisters, with the same identity, doing similar things, and no longer have that sense of distance - Xiao Zhu'er herself didn't realize that the power of a piece of paper was so great!

Another huge difference is that the Jianguo Mansion is simply the supreme existence in this Yingzhou City, which Xiao Zhu'er has never felt when she was in the Yang Mansion - since she entered the mansion, Xiao Zhu'er has not heard the aunts and aunts in the mansion who often go out to buy boast, and whether it is a merchant or a hawker outside, it is because of how the Jianguo Mansion reveres and stammers with them.

At first, Xiao Zhu'er was a little suspicious that they were bragging, but it wasn't until a few days ago that Xiao Zhu'er helped the master of the prison to send a warrant to the headquarters of the Liao Army, and she deeply experienced the feeling of being praised to the sky - the headquarters was extremely polite to her, and she was respectful for fear of losing half of the courtesy. Even the old lady in Yang Mansion who didn't even look at her when she saw her bowed down this time and greeted him with a smile for a long time.

This made Xiao Zhu'er feel comfortable and couldn't help but add a lot of longing to the big family of the prison country, and she was more enthusiastic and worked harder to do her part, such as taking the initiative to deliver a letter for the sick sister Cuiyu this time.

Of course, she took the initiative to be a little careful: for the maids of the prison mansion, the outer study is an extremely mysterious and extremely important place - the first rule of the family is that no matter what you see or hear in the outer study, you are never allowed to reveal it, and you can't even chat in private!

Such an important place must have been a magnificent place in Xiao Zhu'er's mind, but when she strolled through it with a letter box, she was greatly disappointed. (To be continued.) )