Chapter 6: Encounter Again
When Yu Yu came back from taking hot water, she found that there were people coming and going in Lingxiao Courtyard, and she was no longer as quiet and serene as before, she was suddenly startled, and hurriedly pulled Shui Jing, who was sending tea to the main room, and asked in a low voice: "Sister Shui, what's wrong?" β
Generally, the little maid pours water for the water thorn to serve tea, how can the water thorn hold the tea by herself today?
Shui Jing hurriedly said: "The second son is back!" β
With that, she hurried towards the bright room.
Seeing that she was about to go up the steps, Shui Jing's heart suddenly moved, turned her head to look at Yu Yu, and saw that she was still standing there, her little face was white and crystalline, her eyes were black, her pink cherry lips were slightly pursed, her waist was slender, and she stood there, gilded with a circle of soft light by the early winter morning sun, quiet and beautiful like a little fairy.
Shui Jing thought of the second son who was now picking and choosing what he was looking at in the bright room, and subconsciously said: "Yuyu, there's nothing for you here, you go back and rest!" β
The second son is no longer favored, but he is also the serious master of the county king's mansion, and he can't let these little goblins get close to the second son!
Seeing this, Yu Yu was overjoyed, and hurriedly agreed crisply, and left generously.
Although Shui Lian and Shui Jing didn't say it, the unspoken rules of Lingxiao Courtyard Yu Yu understood it all in his heart.
If the second prince is not in the palace, the big maid allows them, the little maids who do rough work, to appear in Lingxiao Courtyard; If the second son returns to the palace, these little maids who do rough work dare to come to the second son to offer courtesy, and they must be strangled to death by the big maid.
At three o'clock the next day, before dawn, Yu Yu appeared in the courtyard of Lingxiao Courtyard on time again.
She first went to pluck the dried mint in the flower bed in front of the main house.
The mint was verdant and green in spring and summer, but now in early winter, it has already dried up, and it is strange and bleak in the cold wind of the early morning.
Yu Yu sighed in her heart as she carefully cleaned up the withered mint in the flower bed.
After the flower garden was cleaned up, Yu Yu picked up the bamboo broom and began to sweep the fallen leaves in the yard - there were too many flowers and trees in the yard, and the wind blew all night last night, and the remaining dead flowers and yellow leaves on the branches were blown off, and the ground was thickly paved, and it was soft to step on, but it was not easy to sweep up!
Yu Yu is naturally easy to be happy, even if she is working, she is also interesting.
She swept the dead flowers and leaves backwards, and hummed a nursery rhyme softly: "...... The wind is blowing, the columbine bean leaves, and suddenly a flower sister ......"
Swept backwards to the top of the steps of the main room, Yu Yu was just about to turn around and sweep under the corridor, who knew that someone suddenly opened the brocade cotton curtain on the door of the main room and strode out.
Yu Yu was caught off guard and crashed into the other party's arms at once, and the broom in his hand also fell to the ground, making a crisp "pop" sound.
Yu Yu was stunned for a moment, and then came back to her senses, and hurriedly pushed the other party away and tried to stand up straight.
The tentacles are soft silk, and under the silk are solid and warm muscles......
Yu Yu subconsciously looked up at the other party.
The man was looking down at her, too.
The two looked at each other.
The rising sun in the east was shining on the man's face, gilding his face with a golden halo, his long eyelashes cast a heavy fan-shaped shadow on his eyelids, a pair of beautiful eyes sparkling under the cover of long eyelashes, the bridge of his nose was quite beautiful, and his lips were tightly pursedβit turned out to be an extremely handsome young man!
Yu Yu took a step back in a panic.
Who knew that she was at the edge of the corridor at this time, and seeing that she was about to fall into the air with one foot, the handsome young man reacted quickly, reached out and grabbed Yu Yu's arm, and pulled her back.
Yu Yu was shocked, and a layer of cold sweat instantly broke out on her back.
She stood there gasping softly, her mind blank.
The handsome young man glanced at Yu Yu, pushed her to the side gently, and walked down the steps with his hands in his hands, and walked outside with his head held high.
Yu Yu gently covered his hot face, watched the young man's figure disappear into the shadow wall, and said in his heart: At this time, when he came out of the main room, he should be the second son!
The second son was born so handsome, why didn't everyone like him?
Is his personality originally stubborn, or is it because of other reasons, such as his stepmother being in charge......
The more she thought about it, the more complicated she felt, so she simply didn't want to, bent down to pick up the bamboo broom that had fallen on the ground, and continued to clean the porch.
By the time Yu Yu finished cleaning the Lingxiao Courtyard, the sun had already come out.
The eldest girl who lives in the west side room Shui Lian pushed open the bedroom window, and her temples stood fluffy in front of the window, her voice still drowsy: "Yu Yu, go get me hot water, I'm going to wash up and wait for the second son!" β
Yu Yu knew that the second son had left, Shui Lian was talking nonsense, but she didn't expose it, but she agreed crisply in her mouth, and said with a smile: "Sister Shui Lian, do you still wipe your teeth with green salt today?" β
Shui Lian yawned and said, "Green salt is fine!" β
After sending hot water, green salt and fragrant pancreas to the water lotus and water wattle, Yu Yu waited for a while, and when Qingcha, Vanilla and Xiuyun came over, the four of them met with the food box, and went to the big kitchen to get food for the sisters of Lingxiao Courtyard.
After bringing the rice back, Yu Yu, together with Qingcha, Vanilla and Xiuyun, put the food on the table of the Eight Immortals in the east wing, and then went to invite the two first-class maids Shui Lian, Shui Jing and four second-class maids to come over for breakfast.
Because the second son had already gone to the outer study to read with his husband, Shui Lian and Shui Jing also relaxed, and sat around the Eight Immortals table in the east wing with the four second-class maids, and let Yu Yu and the four little maids wait for breakfast.
After the big maids finished breakfast, Yu Yu and the other three little maids cleaned up the mess, sent the cups, plates, dishes and chopsticks back to the big kitchen, took back their breakfast, and went back to the small courtyard where they lived, and gathered together to chat and eat.
The rest of the time, as long as the big maids don't scream, they do some needlework in their respective rooms.
In the routine of Yu Yu's daily routine of leaving early and returning early, it gradually came to the end of October to receive the moon silver.
Yu Yu is a third-class little maid, and Yueyin is one or two.
The girls of the Great Zhou Dynasty are very cheap, five taels of silver is enough to buy a little girl, like a beautiful little girl in Yuyu, and her worth is only fifteen taels of silver.
For Yu Yu, these two taels of silver can be called a huge amount of money, as long as she stays in the Xingping County Mansion honestly, she can save one or two taels of silver a month, and she can save thirty-six taels of silver in three years, which is enough for her to redeem herself.
Therefore, on the day of receiving the moon silver, Yu Yu is very happy.
The rule of Xingping County Wangfu is that when it comes to the day of receiving the moon silver, the steward of each courtyard receives the moon silver from everyone in advance, and then distributes it to everyone one by one.
On this day, when the second son left Lingxiao Courtyard, Yu Yu went with Qingcha, Vanilla and Xiuyun, who were also third-class little maids, to find the big girl Water Lotus and Shui Jing Lingyueyin.
The water lotus is comparing the rouge gouache they bought with the water thorn.
Hearing that the little maids came to receive the moon silver, Shui Lian snorted coldly and said: "These little sluts are really petty children, just one or two silver, I can't wait for a day, and I come to get it in a hurry!" β
The water wattle dipped some rouge and wiped it on her lips, took a picture in the target mirror, felt delicate and cute, and said with a smile: "I'll tell them, just say that I won't send it for the time being this month, and I will send it together after saving enough for three months!" β
Shuilian picked up the newly bought silver-encrusted garnet earrings and compared them to the mirror on her ears: "Go and say!" β
They didn't dare to deduct the moon silver of the four second-class maids, but the third-class little maids were fine, all of them lived like little mice, who dared to say a word in front of her and Shui Jing!
These little maids' moonsilver this month has been spent by her and Shui Jing, so naturally they can't send it to them.
Shui Xuan stood under the corridor of the west wing, looked at the jade gardenia, clear tea, vanilla and Xiuyun standing under the steps, and ignored it with drooping eyelids: "Mother Xia, the housekeeper of the inner courtyard, said that the four of you will not issue the monthly silver for the time being, and you will send it together after saving enough for three months!" β
Vanilla and the others were immediately disappointed and stood there in a daze.
Yu Yu looked at Shui Jing and felt that Shui Jing's words were full of loopholes, so she kept it in her heart, and prepared to find an opportunity to find Yu Aimei, Zhu Lingling or Hong Yuli, who were also third-class maids, to see how much they had received.
After finishing the work arranged by the big girls, Yu Yu and the four of them went back to the small courtyard.
Vanilla is anxious and has been scolding in a low voice.
Xiuyun's family was waiting for the silver, and she was so anxious that she cried.
She is a native of Qingzhou, her grandmother was seriously ill and bedridden, and in order to treat her grandmother, the family sold her into the county palace.
Now that my grandmother's condition is getting more and more serious, the family is looking forward to using Xiuyun's monthly silver to buy medicine for my grandmother every month. Do you want your grandmother to die?
Qingcha has always been based on jade gardenia as the main backbone, so I have always looked at jade gardenia.
Yu Yu didn't say much, and pulled the tea and said, "The weather is not bad today, let's go outside!" β
Xiuyun was regarded as a cash cow by his family, and he was squeezed so that there was no oil star left, but he was still looking at home everywhere, and now that Yueyin didn't get it for a while, he didn't think of a solution, he would only cry non-stop.
Xiuyun has such a temperament, Yu Yu is sympathetic, but she is a little sad and angry, and she dislikes Xiuyun too much.
She didn't want to listen to Xiuyun crying about the troubles at home, and second, she wanted to ask Yu Aimei to see if all the third-class maids Yueyin had been postponed for three months, or if they were the only ones in Lingxiao Courtyard.