Qingwan sat beside her and said softly: "Don't worry, wait for your body to recover a little, and tell me slowly, ah?" ”

The girl nodded gratefully, tears streaming down her cheeks.

Qingwan wiped away her tears with her own hands: "No matter what happens, it will pass after all, you are still so young, let alone so." ”

"Yes," Lu Xiufang looked at the girl pitifully, and said: "My second sister-in-law is right, there is no hurdle that cannot be passed, only if you are healthy, you can talk about other things." ”

At this time, Changyong had already brought in a bowl of steaming ginseng soup, Qingwan took it, blew it gently, and fed it to the girl spoonful by spoonful.

The girl was in tears and drank the ginseng soup with her tears.

After drinking a bowl of hot ginseng soup, the girl's pale face gradually appeared rosy, and Lu Xiufang said happily: "It's really a good thing, it really has a miraculous effect!" Seeing that this girl is dying, after such a while, it is so much better! ”

The girl consciously regained some strength, and was about to get out of bed and kowtow: "Thank you for the life-saving grace of the two ladies, the slave maid has nothing to repay, kowtow here!" ”

"Don't, don't," Qingwan hurriedly helped her, and said softly: "You're a little better, you can't move easily, listen to me, rest in bed, and wait for a little more recovery before you can get out of bed." ”

"It doesn't matter," the girl reluctantly got out of bed, although she was exhausted: "The slave is already fine"

Before she finished speaking, the girl only felt that the sky was spinning for a while, and she was almost about to faint again!

Changyong rushed up with an arrow step, and held on, even if he didn't fall to the ground.

"The slave is so angry!" The girl who was helped back to bed by Chang Yong felt very embarrassed: "I can't even kowtow"

"I know how to heal, can't you believe what I say?" Qingwan said: "Who gave you the needle?" Lie down! ”

The girl was helpless, and tears fell: "Madam, you shouldn't save the slave maid, a person like the slave maid, it is better to die early!" ”

"What stupid things are you talking about?" When Qingwan saw her appearance, she knew that she must be a suffering woman, "In life, who has not gone through countless hardships?" You are so young, and you are so handsome, you still have a long road ahead, and good days are ahead, how can you say such things easily? Even if you don't want to live anymore, don't you think about your father and mother at home? ”

Hearing this, the girl's tears flowed down more and more like beads of broken thread: "Madam, the slave has been an orphan since she was a child, where is there a home?" ”

"Girl, are you the maid of a big family?" In fact, from the moment he entered the shop and said that he needed to buy back makeup, Qingwan guessed nine points.

The girl nodded: "Madame is right, the slave maid is the maid of the family of Lord Chen, the secretary of the Ministry of War." ”

"Then why do you look like this?" Qingwan asked, "Did your wife send you out to buy cosmetics?" ”

"Yes," the girl's voice became bitter, and her voice slowed down: "The slave maid is from Hedong, and she has no father or mother since she was a child, and she lives in her aunt's house. The slave maid clearly remembers that when she was five years old, there was a famine in Hedong, and most of the people left their hometowns to flee, on the way, she met a family and wanted to buy a child daughter-in-law while it was cheap, and the aunt was unwilling, so she had to take the slave and maid with her anyway, but the uncle discussed with the man, and secretly tied up the slave and maid in the middle of the night and sent them away, and since then, she has never seen any relatives. ”

"This is also a common thing," Qingwan sighed, "Later, you grew up in this family?" ”

The girl shook her head: "That family behaves meanly, beat and punish at every turn, the slave and maid are miserable, and then the famine passed, the days have improved, and the slave and maid have grown to eight or nine years old, because they work all day long, and they can't eat enough, so they are still thin and small, that year's Spring Festival, counting nine cold days, washing clothes outside for a day, but frostbite, and reluctant to invite Lang Zhong to see, the condition is getting worse and worse, the family is afraid that the slave and maid will die at home, and quickly threw the slave and maid out. ”

Lu Xiufang trembled when she heard this: "In the winter, you will be seriously ill and thrown out?" ”

"Yes," the girl nodded slightly: "It is also the slave maid's life should not be extinguished, just passing by an uncle, rescued the slave maid, brought it home, and boiled a bowl of hot ginger soup, fortunately, the uncle himself is a Langzhong, personally prescribed medicine to the slave maid, drank a few doses, and the illness was cured." ”

"There are still a lot of well-wishers in the world," Lu Xiufang sighed: "What happened later? Do you live in his house? ”

"Slaves and maids are miserable people, how can they have that blessing?" The girl whispered: "Uncle Wu has traveled all over the world, there is no place to live, the slave maid originally said, no matter the ends of the world, no matter how difficult it is, he is willing to worship his father-in-law and serve for life, but Uncle Wu is afraid of missing the slave maid's life, so he resolutely refuses to agree, and entrusts it to a local friend's house, and then drifts away." Since then, the great benefactor has never been seen again. ”

"Uncle Wu?" Qingwan's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "This benefactor of yours is a Langzhong surnamed Wu?" ”

"Yes," said the maiden, a little strangely, "why, madam, do you recognize him?" ”

Qingwan carefully described Wu Langzhong's appearance, and the girl's eyes suddenly showed surprise, and she said continuously: "Yes, yes!" That's him! Madam, it seems that you also know Uncle Wu! Can you tell the slave where he is now? The slave must thank him well! has grown so big, he is the only one who has ever given warmth to a slave! ”

Hearing this, Qingwan's tears couldn't help but fall: "Girl, Wu Langzhong, I'm afraid he is no longer alive!" ”

"What?" The girl's eyes widened in disbelief, "Is this true?" No way? The slave doesn't believe it, I don't believe it, how can Uncle Wu be such a good person?"

"I'll tell you the truth, Uncle Wu is also my mentor." Qingwan told the girl about the past of the two of them for so many years, "Before Uncle Wu left, he had already suffered from an incurable disease, since he chose to say goodbye, maybe he just wanted to go through the rest of his life quietly, and he didn't want anyone to disturb him." ”

On the girl's palm-sized face, big tears fell, and they pierced through the placket: "The slave's life was saved by Uncle Wu, and I thought I would be able to repay one or two, but"

"Girl, I understand your feelings," remembering the bits and pieces of the past with Wu Langzhong, Qingwan's heart was also very sad, "But what can we do?" Uncle Wu is a kind-hearted person, he has saved countless people in his life, if you are grateful for his kindness, you must live well, so as to live up to Uncle Wu's intention to save you. ”

"In the first two years, I heard that Uncle Wu was in Huaibei, and the slave maid wrote a letter and brought it to the man, but then there was no news.

"What does the girl recognize?" Lu Xiufang was a little surprised: "And listening to your conversation, it seems that you have read a book." ”

The girl was a little embarrassed: "The slave is a humble body, and it is a blessing to have a life, where can I have the opportunity to study?" The words I recognized were all taught to the slave when I was rescued by Uncle Wu, but I just knew some words, taught the slave and maid to read a few books, and could write a few simple sentences. The lady smiled. ”

"Then you are quite smart," Lu Xiufang said: "In just a few days together, you can learn so much, it is indeed clever." So who did Lieutenant Wu Lang entrust you to? ”

"It is said that the slave maid has a thin life, that family is a friend of Uncle Wu, the population is not large, and it is not rich, but it is very good, although it is said to be a maid, but it is not bad, but the good times do not last long, only a few months later, a great plague broke out, the tragic slave maid still remembers, "Although many years have passed, but when it comes to the past, the girl still can't help but show a look of fear in her eyes: "Ten rooms and nine empty, countless people die every day, and then there are not even a few left in Langzhong, let alone seeing a doctor, even buried, I can't do it anymore. ”

Qingjuan listened to it with a deep heart: "So, Uncle Wu's friend's family has not been spared?" ”

"Exactly, seven or eight people, but in a few days, all of them are gone," said the girl, "and there is only one slave and maid left in the whole family, and there is no choice but to find another way out." But where can you go if you are helpless? It just so happened that the imperial court sent officials down to relieve the disaster, and Lord Chen, the secretary of the military department, was still a foreigner at that time, and he also brought the soldiers with him, so he brought the slave and maid back to Beijing, and since then he has entered the Chen Mansion as a maid, and has been until now. ”

"You can be regarded as ill-fated," Qingwan said: "Then you have not been in the Chen Mansion for a short time, I heard that Mrs. Chen is an extremely kind person, how did you become like this?" ”

Hearing this, the girl almost couldn't cry: "Madam, you two are kind-hearted people, so the slave and maid dare to be bold today, tell the truth, Mrs. Chen has a generous appearance, but she is actually a ruthless person!" For so many years, the slave maid didn't know how much she had been tortured by her! ”

Lu Xiufang glanced at her sister-in-law, with a somewhat suspicious tone: "But everyone in the capital says that Mrs. Chen is kind-hearted and pities the poor and old."

"Madame thinks that the slave maid is lying, framing the master, and it is reasonable," the girl said without hesitation: "But the slave swears to the sky, what she said is true, there is no half of a false, if there is a word that is not true, lightning will kill in the future!" ”

"No, no, I didn't mean that," Lu Xiufang hurriedly said: "Girl, I don't doubt you, but when I heard the news at first glance, I really couldn't believe it, after all, Mrs. Chen has been an excellent reputation for so many years."

"This slave maid naturally knows," the girl couldn't help but sneer: "After so many years in the Chen Mansion, her personality is very clear to the slave maid. In front of people, they will pretend to be kind-hearted, and after people, they will become like a person, if they are not for personal service, what they see with their own eyes, and say it, eight out of ten people will not believe it. ”