Chapter 001: Ma Ya
It is said that people are clothes, horses are saddles.
And Ma Ya is different, Ma Ya not only has to have new clothes, but also has to not be exposed to the wind and sun, and she has to let the years filter it out, and filter out the marks left on her face by the once suffering moon and sun.
After two months of life in Sun's Mansion, Ma Ya has changed back to what she should be: Ma Ya is still very beautiful!
When Ma Ya first came to Sun's Mansion, she was dark and thin, and she belonged to the kind of skin and bones.
If the person in charge of the Sun Mansion buys such a girl, she will be scolded by the grandmother of the Sun Mansion.
Because the uncle bought it back, it's different.
Uncle is in his forties, and he has been traveling south and north for more than 20 years, and he understands a truth, that is, people do good deeds regardless of their future.
This time when he went out to do business, he met a beggar mother and daughter on the road, stopped his horse's head, and his mother took the horse, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging him to take the child in.
What can Uncle say?
If a mother has a way, who wants to sell her daughter?!
What's more, this mother only needs two taels of silver, and she said that she would buy a thin-skinned coffin for the leprosy dead ghost at home when she went back, which was not in vain for their husband and wife.
The uncle can imagine that when the coffin of this leprosy husband is put on the ground, this woman, in order to survive, will find a matchmaker, and then she will remarry herself and fill the house of others.
And it can only be done to fill the house.
Otherwise, who would want to marry a widow in a family with a good life?!
Regardless of her, saving a child anyway is also creation.
The uncle was attracted by the wooden eyes of this skinny horse.
This kid is only seven years old, how can he have such a look? It's distressing to watch!
Who doesn't have a kind side, isn't it just to give food, there are so many girls in the house, and there is not much more than her.
Besides, this year, there are still three or four big girls, who have reached the age of being released, and they should also get married.
Two taels of silver, Uncle Sun felt that this was too cheap, no matter what, he couldn't ask for the hardships to be cheap, so he gave five taels.
Uncle Sun thought about it for a while, every time he bought a maid in the house, it was only about five or six taels.
With her appearance, these five taels of silver are already a lot!
The uncle said: "Ma Ya, you have met the uncle and me, otherwise, whether you can survive this cold winter is not necessarily!" β
The little guy at the door hurriedly took the hemp rope from the uncle's hand and tied the horse.
Ma Ya lowered her head and followed the uncle into Sun's mansion.
The uncle instructed the attendant: "You go and tell Mother Wu, don't treat her badly, take care of it, let her teach her well, and leave it to the eldest grandmother to choose." β
"Alas!" The attendant agreed and took the horse to the door of the hanging flower.
The attendant said to the mother in the door: "Uncle asked me to hand her over to Mother Wu, and you can always bring her over." Uncle has an explanation, let Wu's mother adjust her and teach her well. β
"Why did you bring it here? Why don't you take him around the back door and hand it over to Mother Wu inside? The mother guarding the door seemed to be dissatisfied.
"Uncle has just come back, and there are still many things to send me to do, how can I have time to do such trivial work?" After saying that, the little guy left without looking back.
"Yes, you're doing big things, and we're all doing small things!" The mother guarding the door said a word to the uncle's attendant.
The little guy ignored him and walked away.
Another mother smiled and said, "What are you messing with him, one day he will be promoted, don't look for your old stubble when the time comes!" β
"What am I afraid of? I'm so old, how many years can I still do it?! The old woman glared at the little man who had gone away.
"You can't say that, you're fine, but you've thought that you still have a grandson, and if it falls into someone's hands, he'll be comfortable!" Another mother said: "That's it, I'll just run this leg, your old eyes are brighter, give me this door, don't let anything break in, it's not good to scare the young lady inside!" β
The mother stopped talking, and looked Ma Ya up and down with her eyes.
Another mother guarding the door saw that Ma Ya was thin and black, and she didn't pay attention to it, so she took Ma Ya to the back and handed her over to Wu's mother.
The mother guarding the door said: "This is a girl bought by the uncle, let you train it well." β
Wu's mother accepted Ma Ya.
During the whole communication process, Ma Ya was there, and Ma Ya felt that through the words of these three people, the meaning of the master was completely wrong.
Later, it became a good training!
Ma Ya felt that her life was really miserable, and she met such a group of strange messengers in Sun Mansion.
Fortunately, Ma Ya has no other ideas, as long as she can survive.
Only when people live is the last word, and it is useless to say anything else.
In fact, in the eyes of Wu's mother, this Ma Ya is still very obedient except for being a little wooden and talking little.
So Ma Ya was only beaten seven or eight times during the two months of Wu's mother's training.
If it weren't for Ma Ya's obedience, she estimated that in the past two months, she would have to be beaten at least once a day just for the word "training".
Wu's mother still wondered, thinking that this child was quite obedient, how could the master let himself train her well?
You must know that in Sun Mansion, the word "good training" is by no means a good word.
This is contrary to the uncle's "don't treat her badly, adjust it, and teach her well", this word cannot be saved, and it cannot be mixed and matched.
Fortunately, Wu Ma is not the kind of ruthless master, Wu Ma has her own scale.
Wu's mother thinks so, maybe this child provoked the uncle when he was bought by the uncle, such as crying, unwilling, running away or something, this is all normal!
Uncle is angry, what's so strange about saying this sentence to train well?!
Wu's mother beat Ma Ya for the last time in these two months, and it was half a month after Ma Ya arrived in this mansion.
That time, Wu's mother asked Ma Ya to wipe the table.
Being a maid is nothing more than these trivial things.
But that day, Wu's mother came to the fire, and Ma Ya wiped it a few times like a ghost drawing in front of her.
Wu's mother was angry, she thought of her uncle's words to ask her to train her well, she picked up a feather duster and beat the horse with a bamboo handle without a head or face.
Ma Ya stood there motionless, but when she was pumped, she trembled, and then she wept, and then she cried in pain, and then she cried again.
Mother Wu pointed to Ma Ya's forehead and scolded angrily: "You think you are a young lady and don't do anything at home?" I'll let you pretend for me! β
Those dozen times made the mother on the side feel compassion.
You must know that when other little maids are beaten, they all hold their heads and howl like killing pigs, so that they can take a few fewer hits.
And this little girl seems to be slow to react in her brain, and she doesn't know how to hide.
Just like an adult in the family beating a child, it doesn't matter if the child runs away and hides, the child knows that if he is afraid, the adult's anger will disappear.
And this little maid, standing there, does not hide or let go, like a wooden man, generally speaking, children like this are getting angrier and angrier the more they fight, thinking that she is a wordless resistance!
The chubby Wang Ma went over, took Wu's mother's hand and said, "You always dissipate your anger first, she is okay if she is injured, but don't make you angry." β
So Wu's mother also borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and she also knew that the dozen or so hands just now were a little heavy, and the horse must have been injured a lot.
Wang Ma came over to reprimand Ma Ya: "Have you seen which one wiped the table so much?" Well? If the master was here, you would dare to fool around like this? You have to be killed! β
"Woo woo, Wang Ma, I really haven't done it, woo woo woo β’β’β’β’β’β’"
"You're still lyingβ’β’β’β’β’β’" Wu's mother roared, threatening to rush up and beat Ma Ya again, but was stopped by Wang Ma.
Wang's mother said to the mud.
"She's only a seven-year-old child, and it's possible to say no, you see, her family is so poor that she was sold, and I doubt she has a table in her house!"
The chubby Wang Ma comforted Wu Ma like a peacemaker, and Wang Ma came over, picked up a rag, and said in her mouth while demonstrating.
"Look, you have to wipe this horizontally next to each other, and then vertically next to each other, and you have to wash this rag, wash it and wipe it again!"
That day, after Wu's mother and Wang's mother left, Ma Ya first cried for a while, and then wiped the table, chairs, cabinets, windows and other places in the house over and over again.
When Wu's mother came back, she was stunned, the floor was spotless, the tables and chairs were clean, and the windows were bright.
The point is that Ma Ya is still wiping on that mirror-like table.
"It's all clean, what are you going to wipe it off?" Mother Wu still said in an angry tone.
Ma Ya looked at Wu's mother timidly and said, "I just want to practice, I won't β’β’β’β’β’β’ before."
Ma Ya lowered her head and didn't say any more, her hand holding the rag was shaking, and she didn't know where to put it.
Mother Wu looked at the hematoma bulging on Ma Ya's forehead, Mother Wu turned around, said something evil, and left in tears.
Since then, Wu's mother has never done anything to Ma Ya.