Rui'er saw that she didn't get it done, but she brought back a bird, she was very surprised, and inevitably asked the reason, and Liuli only said that she picked it up on the road. Rui'er happily took a basket and loaded it, and saw Mo Tuan'er walking around, afraid that it would eat the bird, so she found a broken bamboo dustpan to cover.

Mama Li didn't come back until almost sunset, from head to toe, she was dressed in new clothes, and there were two pomegranate flowers on her sideburns, her face was full of joy, not at all like the previous two days.

By this time, the turtledove had woken up, but it was still limp and weak. Rui'er was holding a bowl to feed it chaff, and when she saw that it didn't open her mouth, she was a little anxious, and Liuli said, "It's better to feed it some water." As he spoke, he picked up the empty bowl and prepared to go to the well.

Mama Li twisted for a long time and saw that no one paid attention to her, and her face sank, "The girl is really getting more and more unruly, when the lord of Chunyang County is as old as you, she is already one of the best ladies in Beijing, and the rules are not bad in front of the mother when she enters the palace, that is, now her eldest girl, who is about the same age as the girl, no matter whether she sits, lies or walks, she is a quasi-girl girl, which is like a girl, taking advantage of no one to control her, she actually plays birds with the maid!" ”

After hearing this, Liuli stood up, looked around her carefully from bottom to bottom, and said, "Mama is dressed so handsome today, dare to go to see the county lord?" ”

Mama Li raised her hand and touched the pomegranate flowers, and hummed: "It's almost inseparable!" Today, on the county lord's birthday, the eldest lady took me to the palace to celebrate the county lord's birthday! The eldest girl and the second girl of the county lord are here, if you want to say that the style of the people, it is really not comparable to ordinary people! ”

Liuli stood for a moment after listening, and said, "I see." ”

That night, Liuli took the initiative to invite Mama Li to dinner at the same table, and presented her with an exclusive lamb's milk soup. Although Mama Li is stupid, she has been crawling in the big household for decades, but she still has the least vigilance, and she refuses to eat at the moment, and her eyes scan her up and down like a shuttle.

Liuli took a breath and said, "Mama, you have also seen it, there are only you and Rui'er left in my house, there were many people in the past, and now there is nothing to worry about?" What's more, your identity is different from others, you are from the Guogong Mansion, and you have served the first aunt and grandmother and the county lord, I am lonely and lonely, in front of the eldest lady in the future, I can only rely on you, and please don't refuse my thoughts. ”

Mama Li didn't expect such a thing to come out of her mouth at all, of course she didn't believe it at first, stared at her for a long time, thought about it, and loosened it again, isn't this ninth girl just a lonely girl? It sounds like "Miss", but which lady would mix up and live in the same yard with her subordinates? There are only three maids around, and two of them are dead, and now four or five days have passed, and there is no news of anyone coming over. As for the little supply sent by the house, the charcoal in Cuiying's house burned worse than the one in the main owner's house! Otherwise, it wouldn't be suffocated to death, would it?

Thinking of Cui Ying, Mama Li was still a little nervous in her heart, who was the enemy. But then again, every maid who dies in the house will be punished repeatedly, and there are not many young ladies like this in the world? As soon as the ninth girl heard that she had returned from the palace, she immediately took the initiative to invite her to the same table......

The aroma of the milk soup can't help but hook Mama Li's mouthpiece like a hook, and it's almost unbearable, how can those cross-faced women in the big kitchen make such a delicate and fragrant thing?

She thought about it sideways, with Liuli's age, how much more likely can she be? swallowed his saliva at the moment, moved the milk soup over, and slowly put the score: "Since the girl has made it clear, then the old woman and I will not beat around the bush, you are indeed worse in terms of background, but you don't have to worry, you just follow what I do, in a few years I will ask the eldest lady for your family, if you are more angry, it is still possible to go to which house in Beijing to be an aunt." ”

Liuli squinted and smiled, and gave half of a plate of fried eel to her, "What Mama said is that I will listen to you in everything in the future." Let's try this - the food in the house is good, in the end, it can't be exquisite, and in the future, I will eat whatever you like! ”

Mama Li let go of her courage, but her eyebrows and eyes were still holding on, "People can't eat a lot when they're old - leave me two pieces of pickled deer breast!" ”

Liuli took a sip of pickled eggplant melon, and said casually: "What do you eat in the big kitchen on weekdays?" "It's been a habit to beat Mama Li and eat her, and her own share hasn't been served at the table, but fortunately, Liuli always has a way to get some food back from her wind sweeping leaves to keep herself full. As for Mama Li, she still has her own share to eat after returning to the room after she is not full.

"What can there be to eat? It's nothing more than fish tofu. ”

Isn't it a good dish to have fish? It seems that her old mouth has really made her spoiled. Liuli glanced at her, and continued, "You don't often eat white rice cakes, do you?" ”

Mama Li raised her head from the milk-pickled deer breast: "Why didn't you eat it?" Just a few days ago, on the days when it snowed heavily, I ate white rice cakes for dinner! That thing is bland and tasteless, and it's better than white-flour steamed buns! ”

"Really?" Liuli poked the back of the unicorn fish with chopsticks, and said very casually: "It's so unpalatable?" I remember that Cui Ying didn't like to eat this. Hey, by the way, you've been eating with me for a few days, how do you know what people eat? ”

Mama Li's face showed some shame, "Although I ate with the girl, the amount of food from this big kitchen was not enough for the two of us to eat. After speaking, she suddenly reacted again: "Who said Cui Ying doesn't like to eat rice cakes?" In those days, she had a cold, and she didn't eat anything else, so she ate this with pickles! Speaking of Cui Ying's name, there was still a hint of avoidance in her words.

Liuli squinted and looked out the window, as if reminiscing, her voice was distant and soft, "Who did Cui Ying have dinner with that night?" ”

"Who else could it be? Sweet and Rui'er! After Mama Li finished speaking, she lowered her head and chewed the venison again.

Liuli was confined by the Yu family, and she was not allowed to go out at night, and these days were very boring, and Shengsheng even went to bed half an hour earlier. So I got up early in the morning and did a half-day exercise under the porch, and it was only when it began to shine.

These days, she insists on stretching her muscles and bones, her physique has improved significantly compared to the past, and her height seems to have grown a little bit. She will be ten years old in February, and perhaps in another year or two, she will be as tall as Rui'er.

Rui'er brought her a glass of water and said, "Girl, rest for a while." She can now walk without leaning against the wall, but she still walks slowly, and the redness and swelling on her hip have not long subsided.

Liuli took the tea and drank it, and said, "My shoulder has been hurting a little for the past two days, you can inquire, if Dr. Wu comes into the house, tell me." ”

Rui'er sighed and said, "The young grandmother seems to be happy again, and it is not difficult to ask for peace and see Dr. Wu every day." It's just that the eldest lady will let him come to see the girl? She didn't believe that the Yu family would really care about her girl's body and bones.

Liuli said: "It's okay, you inquire about it, and I'll go see him." ”