On the way back, the fat girl walked so fast that she almost bumped into the temple man leading the way in front of her several times. Looking at her anxious look, I knew that she must have held back a lot of things to say, and most of them were related to the main mother Ran Ying. Although I don't know why Wu Feng sent me to Baili Mansion, this is really a dangerous place. Fortunately, I only need to stay for a few months, otherwise I will not be tired to death every day.

"Alright, now you can talk!" When I sent the temple staff back, I collapsed on the bed.

"Noble girl, the housewife in their house is really fierce, and she dares to say this about you when her husband is still around."

"She's not wrong, I'm a humble person. Besides, she is the younger sister of the king, and no one can be honored in her eyes. ”

"How does the noble lady know that the one on the right is the king's sister? Obviously, the beauty on the left is dressed more richly! ”

"Before coming, the general had already instructed that there was a widow in the Baili Doctor's Mansion, three concubines and seven concubines, among which the most noble and important one was this widow Ran Huan. In the Qin State, the right is up and the left is the bottom, although the beauty Shao's clothes look much more gorgeous, but the color is not the right color, and the embroidery is only a butterfly and daylily pattern, which is far less than the golden silk bird embroidered on Ran Huan's hem. You can see at a glance which is more expensive and which is lighter. ”

"Xuanniao?" The fat girl looked puzzled.

"It is our common swallow in spring, the Qin State Gong clan and the Jin State Zhao clan both use the Xuanniao as the clan symbol."

"Oh, I see."

"If you send a new person tomorrow, remember what I taught you, don't talk too much, and wait until no one has anything to say."

"Well, I made a note of it." The fat girl nodded obediently.

In frustration and hesitation, I spent my first night in Baili Mansion.

When I got up in a daze the next day, my grandmother brought two maidservants to my room with a dresser. The storehouse also sent several topaz and green jade accessories and a large number of red and black lacquerware. At dusk, the man from the clothes department came to measure my size, and sent me a lot of cloth and needlework by the way, saying that it was the order of the noble concubine Shao of the house, and gave me to pass the time every day.

In the next few days, although I was not comfortable in the General's Mansion, I was still quite idle. Ran Huan excused me from saying hello in the morning and dusk, and my daughter-in-law Hongyao hadn't returned home yet, except for going to Meirenshao to sit for a while, the rest of the time I spent the rest of my time with a few girls gathering under the plum tree to roast and drink.

In the middle of winter, whether it is a nobleman or a commoner, this warm thing is indispensable every day.

My four sons and I both like to drink, and when we were nine years old, we were drunk for three days and three nights because we drank burnt wine by mistake. Everyone said that wine can be spiritual, but that time, neither of us saw the legendary god, but our heads hurt for more than half a month. Since then, I have never touched the rebrewed liquor, and when I am in the mood, I only drink some homemade peach blossom brew and sweet liquor handed over by the farmers.

Listening to the two new little girls, we have been drinking the fruit brew of Baili Mansion in the past few days. Because the Baili doctor's mining is in Yucheng, which borders the Chu State, there is a kind of red and soft fruit, which is sweet and sour in the food, and it is sweet and mellow when used in wine. Anyone who knows Dr. Baili knows that he knows how to enjoy himself, only eats the finest food, drinks the sweetest wine, and appreciates the most beautiful women.

"Have you two seen the red medicine lady in the house?" The fat girl drank a few glasses of wine, her face was already flushed, and she asked intermittently.

The two new maidservants were two years younger than me, and looked thin and weak, but now they were drunk, and their tongues were soft, and they looked no better than fat girls.

"Of course I have seen it, our noble daughter is the monarch's own niece, and she looks better than a flower."

"Yes, it's more beautiful than any flower!"

"Then she is kind to others?" I smiled and poured them ear cups again.

"Kindness, of course kindness, and noble girls are all good people." The one who spoke was a little maid named Ping, who had been in the house for less than two months, with squinting little eyes and a very white birth.

"The noble lady has not spoken to me, and the person who serves her must be the best in the house, and I can't do it yet." Xiao Dou tugged at his hair and replied shyly. The reason why Xiaodou is called Xiaodou is because when she was seven years old, the harvest in the field was not good, and she was sold by her father and mother into Baili Mansion to fill a small bucket of corn that she had paid less.

"Is it as good as you say? Look at the appearance of your housewife, you will know that the temperament of that noble girl is not much better! After the fat girl finished speaking, she fell to the ground with a thud.

"She's drunk, don't listen to her nonsense." If the fat girl's words reach Ran Huan's ears, I am afraid that her life will be in danger. Fortunately, the two little girls were already drunk.

"Noble girl, you are a blessed person, not a mountain ghost." Xiao Dou hung his head and muttered.

"Yes, you won't eat people either, those who chew the root of their tongue behind their backs are all lies!" Ping squinted her eyes and nodded desperately.

Mountain ghosts? Cannibalism? No wonder the servants in this house looked at me so strangely, it turns out that the rumors of this mountain ghost have spread here.

The winter sun sets very early, and the time between words has disappeared into the clouds. Only the mottled clouds were left alone facing the little new pale white starlight on the cyan sky.

The two little girls looked very drunk, and I smiled and took off the ear cups in their hands: "It's getting dark, go back to the room, it's easy to get cold when the wine subsides." I pulled the two of them up and staggered to help the fat girl on the ground.

The fat girl was tall and strong, and the three of us barely managed to drag her into the side room on the right. I helped the fat girl cover the quilt, turned to the two little maids and said, "You two should go to bed early, and I will freshen up later." ”

"No!" The two little girls shook and saluted, and their bodies bumped into one place at a different point.

I closed the door for them, and went back to the plum tree alone, flicking the fire that was about to be extinguished, and couldn't help but giggle with my mouth covered. If the housewife Ran Huan knew that I was drunk in the courtyard with the maids in her house, she would definitely be so angry that her eyebrows and eyes would be puffed up, and then she would scold me for being from a humble background, not knowing etiquette, and having no education.

"What about being from a humble background? I have my own happy way of living! I threw my head up and drank the wine from my ear glass, and then lay down reclining under the plum tree.

Why is origin so important? When heaven and earth created man, did they really divide the high and the low? Why is it that the nobles can enjoy the best things in this world as a matter of course, while the common people are worthless even their lives?

That night, I looked at the starry sky under the plum tree with a dark fragrance, and thought about this question very seriously.

When the smell of alcohol rises, my cheeks are hot, it dispels the cold of the winter night, but it also makes my head more and more groggy.

I closed my eyes, and dimly I heard the sound of a tree blooming......