After the fight, the lively cooks also dispersed, and Wen Wen cleaned up the kitchen alone, and Sister-in-law Liu locked the door before sending her back to rest.

Zhao's mansion is very big, gentle to come these days, have been staying in the house to recuperate, today is the first time to go out, was led by Yan Hong here a pocket, there a turn, although already trying to remember the road, but at this time the sky is dark, there is only a hazy hair moon above the head, surrounded by flowers and grass, there are a few stone paved road, she can't recognize which is the way back, and dare not ask people, so I have to pick a random road to take a look, if it is wrong, it is not too late to go back.

Calculate the time, at most at nine or ten o'clock in the evening, but used to the brightly lit night in the city, gentle is really afraid that the darkness here is getting darker, and the environment where the five fingers are almost invisible is reached, fortunately, although the road is dark, she is still carrying a paper lantern in her hand, although it is swayed by the wind, and the surrounding area is more eerie, but she can finally vaguely distinguish the road under her feet.

After going around in the garden for nearly an hour, Wen Rou finally found the house where the Zhao Mansion lived, because most of the lights in the house were lit, and the light came out of the papier-mâché window.

Finding the hut where she lived, she pushed the door, only to find that the door had been bolted, so she tapped it twice, and after a long time, a lazy voice came from inside: "Who?" ”

"I, Wen ......" The voice came out, and Wen Rou realized that she almost missed her mouth, but fortunately she stopped it in time, paused, and slapped the door again: "It's me, like a flower." ”

I don't know if the people in the house heard it clearly, in short, no one paid attention to her for a long time, just when Wen Rou couldn't help but want to knock on the door again, the door suddenly "squeaked" open, and then a flower cloth bag was thrown out, followed by a quilt, and finally Jin Yu poked her head out, she held the door frame with her hands, kicked on the threshold, and said to Gentle with her sleepy eyes: "These are your things, now check it clearly in front of you, we don't know what soft you are." ”

Does that mean you've been kicked out of this room? So where is she going to sleep tonight? Wen Wen frowned and glanced at the flower cloth burden under her feet, it was not her thing at all, even if she looked at it, she didn't know what was more or what was missing, so she shook her head and said, "Don't look at it, it's just that you don't let me enter the house, so where will I sleep tonight?" ”

"Didn't you get sent to the kitchen by Madame? Naturally, he went to the house where the rough maids lived on the west side. Jin Yu said impatiently: "If you don't look at the baggage, don't rely on us if you have anything missing." With that, she stepped back, and with a touch she closed the door, and heard a bang against the door, thinking that she was bolting the door inside.

It was a terrible day! Gently and weakly bent down to pick up the quilt and put it under his armpit, and hung the flower cloth bag in his hand, and carried the lantern to argue the direction, I really couldn't figure out which side was the west, so I had to walk around, and then I finally met a maid who came out to fetch water, and saw that she was wearing a coarse cloth dress with a few patches, not as clean and decent as the clothes of Jin Yu and others, and guessed that she was probably a rough maid, so when she fetched water, she followed closely behind her and walked to a more remote house.

Seeing that Gentleness was following her, the rough maid looked back at her by the dim light of the lantern, and asked, "Are you the flower in Madame's house?" ”

It seems that in this Zhao Mansion, he is still a celebrity, but the reason for being famous is really not glorious! Nodding gently, she squeezed out a bitter smile and said, "I'm working in the kitchen now, I don't know where to sleep tonight, can my sister take me there?" "It's not strange to have many people, it's nothing to call my sister, anyway, I have already estimated the age of Ruhua, but I am fourteen or fifteen years old, and the rough maid in front of me looks like she is sixteen or seventeen, and it is not wrong to call her sister.

The rough maid saw that her mouth was gentle and sweet, and her heart was also happy, so she said, "There is still a vacant shop in the house where I live, so you might as well come with me." As he spoke, he told her that his name was Xiaoyan.

Gentleness followed Xiaoyan to the house, and when she looked, the room was extremely narrow, only a bean-like oil lamp was lit, and six girls were sleeping on a large bunk, if you count her and Xiaoyan, there would be a full eight people, and the dormitory she lived in when she was in college was not so crowded. It seems that this Zhao Mansion is really rich and can afford to support this group of slaves.

Xiao Yan closed the door and put down the bucket, pointed to the innermost bed and said to Wen Wen, "You can sleep there." As soon as she spoke, the two maids who were not yet asleep turned their faces and looked out, and they did not say hello, but muttered vaguely, "Be quiet." Then he turned back to sleep.

Gently blew out the lantern and put it in the corner of the wall, walked to the end of the Chase shop, put the quilt and baggage on the empty bunk, and carefully looked at the room, and saw that there were a few damaged New Year's pictures pasted on the wall, and there were full of miscellaneous items everywhere, leaving only a small empty way to walk, and at the moment there were still a few pairs of coarse cloth shoes, which looked extremely simple and cramped.

There were a lot of things in the room, and there were many people, and they didn't open the window, and sat gently for a while, and they couldn't help but feel very depressed, but they knew that ancient women were feudal and lived in bungalows, so they couldn't be asked to sleep with the window open, so they had to sigh and endure it, anyway, it was better than having no place to sleep. Remembering that she would have to pay a lot of money to Sister-in-law Liu tomorrow, she hurriedly opened the flower cloth bag to find out if there was any money in it.

There are two changes of clothes in the baggage, the material is still quite exquisite, and the gentleness doesn't know whether it is silk or satin, anyway, it is smooth and greasy and comfortable to the touch with her hands, and the material of the clothes she is wearing now is similar, much better than the coarse cloth clothes worn by Xiaoyan, presumably it is the unique high-class treatment of the maid called in the upper room.

She flipped through it again, and found a few pairs of socks, a pair of embroidered shoes, two embroidered sachets, and a few sweat towels and handkerchiefs, but when she turned to the bottom, she couldn't find any money, and her heart suddenly became cold, and she picked up those clothes and handkerchiefs one by one and shook them, and finally dropped a silver hairpin from them.

Is this all the property of Ruhua? She's so poor!

Although Wen Rou didn't know the purchasing power of a hanging of money in this year, he always knew that a hanging of money was equivalent to a thousand copper coins, which was about equal to one tael of silver. This silver hairpin is quite heavy in my hand, I don't know how heavy it is, it's really not good, I'll take it tomorrow to pay off the debt! It's ridiculous to myself, I still want to pay back Zhao An's medicine money, I am so poor, what can I pay back!

"Hey, don't you sleep? I'm going to blow the lights. ”

Wen Rou was sitting on the bed in a daze, Xiao Yan was about to fall asleep after washing her feet, she had to nod, wrapped those clothes and bits and pieces in the bag, laid out the quilt and lay down, thinking to herself, how to get some money to pay off the debt. I suddenly remembered that I had read some ancient novels before, and the maids and maids in them seemed to be able to receive monthly money every month, but they turned over in the dark, and asked Xiao Yan who was lying beside him in a low voice, "How much monthly money can we receive in a month?" ”

"Isn't the maid in your room able to receive five hundred dollars a month?" Xiao Yan's tone sounded a little envious, "We don't have so much rough Yahuan, we barely receive a hundred dollars every month, speaking of which, those little guys who go out with the master have money, and there is a little bit of reward, and sometimes the reward is silver!" ”

A hundred bucks? Gentle and wry smiled again. Since she has been sent to the kitchen to make a rough maid ring, the monthly money will definitely be reduced, a hundred yuan, even if it is not spent at all, it will have to be saved for ten months before one hanging, how can this repay the debt!