Chapter 17: Encounter

Turning back to the kitchen, Xia Meizhen began to prepare the pastry to be sold in the afternoon-rice hair cake. Prepare ingredients, utensils, and hot water, although busy, but not messy.

While she was busy, she hummed a song she liked in her previous life:

Clanging in every inch of place

I love this little kitchen

Steamed, stir-fried, yellow stewed and fragrant

………

"Bang bang" twice, there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard gate, and a man's unique voice: "Is there anyone in the house?" ”

The voice was weak, listening to the gentleness of the guests but full of alienation, Xia Meizhen had been here for a long time, and knew that this was a big family, so she stopped what she was doing and looked out of the window lattice.

The courtyard gate of the Xia family is just a fence composed of several wooden sticks, which is no different from having it or not. The unkempt man was peeking into the courtyard before he saw him fall.

Xia Meizhen in the house was startled, and hurriedly rushed out, and saw a young man with unkempt hair but delicate skin, black hair, and torn clothes, but obviously only a water - either rich or expensive!

Xia Meizhen's heart was pounding, and she sniffed before she turned around and ran into the house, fetched water and snacks, and prepared hot water towels, and cleaned up at the gate of the courtyard.

While the water was being fed, the man woke up.

"You're awake! My name is Xia Meizhen, what is your name? Where are the people? Xia Meizhen said anxiously.

The half-lying man on the ground looked at her stunned and did not speak.

"You can't be a fool, right? Doesn't look like it?! Seeing the man's reaction, Xia Meizhen couldn't help muttering in a low voice, and after a moment of silence, she brought a plate of rice cakes next to her to the man, "Freshly made rice cakes, don't you need me to feed them?" ”

Xiao Hengwei only felt that his neck hurt badly, and he was tired, the woman in front of him was imprinted in his eyes, but he couldn't see the appearance clearly, he only heard the chatter in his ears very much, and the daze in front of him darkened a little bit, and he didn't know the world anymore.

When he woke up, it was in bed, and the girl was doing something with her back to her, her back was thin and her hair was a little dull.

"Where is this?" He hesitated and finally asked.

The woman turned around when she heard the voice, was surprised, and said, "You finally woke up!" Fortunately, fortunately, come, I cooked you some millet porridge, give up the shabby, and the son is particular about eating something. As he spoke, he handed him the porridge in his hand.

Xiao Hengwei immediately looked at Xia Meizhen: "There is Miss Lao, I don't know where this is?" A certain and a tourist climbed high and looked far away and accidentally fell into the river valley, if it were not a girl, a certain life was in danger. He also said, "He will come to the door to thank him one day, and remember the great kindness of the lady." ”

Xia Meizhen hurriedly took his hand, not asking him to really bow down to himself, and said: "Saving someone's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, it's really nothing to be gracious or unkind, if you have a heart, it is also my creation." ”

"I don't dare to forget." Xiao Hengwei still said.

Xia Meizhen didn't continue to dwell on this issue with him, urged him to drink porridge and went out, and when he left, Xiao Hengwei somehow saw a cinnabar mole behind the woman's left ear, and immediately closed his mouth.

Xiao Hengwei drank the porridge, rested for a while, and then got up and said goodbye: "Suzaku Avenue Xiao Mansion, if the girl has something to say, she will leave." ”

Xia Meizhen has never heard of Xiao Mansion, but the Great Zhou Dynasty has a strict hierarchy, Shinong industry and commerce, and even the residence is restricted, only the big officials and nobles can live in the mansion, and the rich businessmen can only live in the mansion because of their status, no matter how rich they are. In other words, the person in front of him was from a family of eunuchs and had an extraordinary identity.

"Okay, let's go, this mountain road is not easy to walk, you should be careful." Xia Meizhen looked at it in her heart, although this local tyrant boy looked weaker, but Lingyang Village was not far from the town, and it shouldn't be difficult to walk such a little way, so she let him go with confidence.

Looking at the young man's disappearing back, she suddenly remembered something: this Jiang Yunxian didn't know what to do, and he didn't even go home now.

At this time, a footstep came from behind him, and then a female voice said: "It's the eldest nephew, what are you doing here?" ”

Xia Meizhen turned around, and saw that it was Aunt Wu standing on the edge of the courtyard wall, looking at herself with a smile, and her heart suddenly became furious, and she said, "It's okay, I'm waiting for my mother." ”

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the young man's back and disappeared at the corner of the path, and a big stone fell down in his heart, fortunately he walked fast, otherwise he would not have tarnished his reputation!

Aunt Wu took out a light pink square handkerchief from her sleeve, pressed the invisible beads of sweat on her forehead, and said, "It's really hot this day." ”

She looked at the sky, and then put her eyes on Xia Meizhen, the thick foundation on her face cracked slightly because of her smile, and fell down, "Eldest nephew, did your mother tell you last night?" Can you give me an answer now? This Dai family is one of the best families, there is no such shop in this village, if you don't want to go, I have to contact other girls. ”

Xia Meizhen listened to the clouds, and wondered in her heart that Aunt Wu's words must be what she said to Jiang Yunxian yesterday, but Jiang Yunxian didn't mention it to herself, why is this?

With a roll of his eyes, he said: "Maybe my mother forgot to tell me, you can talk to me, wait for my mother to come back later, I'll go to her." ”

When Aunt Wu heard this, her slender eyebrows furrowed, and she estimated that she had scolded Jiang Yunxian to the bottom in her heart. Jiang Yunxian didn't tell the girl anything, she just couldn't make fun of her, but now that the girl asked herself, then she had no reason to hide it anymore.

"The eldest nephew, the eldest mother is also a decent person in the city, and the people she knows are all high-ranking officials and nobles, and you also know it," Aunt Wu pressed her forehead again, and said: "The Dai family in the town needs a maid to serve the master, and when they found me, I thought of you, so I mentioned it to your mother - the Dai family is a big family, and going to her house to be a maid is the eldest lady of a family like us, don't you say?" ”

said that she looked at Xia Meizhen's expression carefully, but when she saw her pursing her mouth and not speaking, she was a little unhappy in her heart: This girl is stupid, even if she doesn't want it in the past, who calls her son like him!

"Who knows that your mother forgot, I'm not in a hurry to wait at home, and I came to ask," handed the handkerchief in his hand to Xia Meizhen, "Look, give me a hot sweat, your aunt and I are most afraid of the heat." As he spoke, he used a handkerchief as a fan and fanned his face vigorously.

Xia Meizhen was thinking: This is a maid for a rich and noble family, which is equivalent to a modern nanny, the salary may not be high, but there is no need to worry about eating and drinking, and there is monthly money, which is stronger than weaving, of course, the more important thing is that she can also have the opportunity to see the eating and drinking of this ancient family, this is her old business, you can't lose it, maybe one day you can be a cook again.

"Auntie, did the Dai family say that it was a living deed or a dead deed?" Xia Meizhen thought about it for a long time before she thought of what the ancient contract was called.

Isn't it just about looking for a job and looking at the salary and contract? She knew that.

When Aunt Wu heard this, she suddenly felt that this girl was really shrewd, in other people's homes, when the three meals were not full, it would be good to have something to eat, and there was still a deed of death and life, this girl was not wise and foolish? It looks stupid, but it's actually shrewd?

She said, "It's a living deed." You are a scholarly family, where you can give you a death deed. ”

In this way, Xia Meizhen had a bottom in her heart, and she hurriedly inquired about the monthly money, working hours, etc., and then Aunt Wu said goodbye with a smile.