Aunt Qin stood in front of the window of the wing room and looked at the kitchen not far from her.

The Qin Yu, who claimed to be his niece, was killing fish. Cut the gills of the fish, beat the scales, and cut the belly...... Her movements are graceful and skillful, and she is by no means a skill that can be found in a day or two, but looking at her green fingers, she does not look like a person who often does this.

Aunt Qin walked out of the house and heard Qin Yu tell the cook: "...... The meat is only boiled until it is medium-rare, otherwise it will be like dregs in the mouth...... Remember to take it out and use the water into the town of a town, you can't soak it with straight well water, it's a town ......"

Aunt Qin approached and asked with a smile, "What are you doing delicious?" ”

Qin Yu looked back and smiled, as sweet as honey: "Eat back to the pot today." ”

Aunt Qin nodded.

Qin Yu's cooking skills have nothing to say, she has been here for five days, and it is not the same every year, and several girls who studied with her are now playing with her like sisters, and no one pays attention to the birthmark on her face. In addition to cooking, Qin Yu usually sits on the small bench under the eaves and watches them rehearse, holding her cheeks and squinting her eyes, as cute as a cat.

Aunt Qin touched Qin Yu's sideburns lovingly, and said softly, "Qin Yu, come with me, I have something to tell you." ”

Qin Yu handed the fish in her hand to the cook Hu Siniang, and then washed her hands in the rice washing water on the side, and then followed Aunt Qin into her bedroom.

Aunt Qin's bedroom is simple and generous, there is a red lacquer shelf bed against the wall, hanging a white curtain, a cirrus cloud table next to the shelf bed, and a couple of cirrus clouds are placed on it, next to the cirrus cloud table is a two-door rounded wardrobe, and there is a round table in the middle of the room, with four embroidered piers.

Aunt Qin pointed to the embroidery pier and said, "You sit." As he spoke, he took the lead on another embroidery pier.

Qin Yu lowered his eyebrows and sat down.

"I'll tell you something." Aunt Qin sighed, "I was sold to the immortal class at the age of three, first learned martial arts, and then learned Huadan, the first play I sang on stage at the age of twelve was "Zhan Changzhou", and I sang it for fifteen years, and then I flashed my waist when I turned over the clouds, and I couldn't go on stage again." I took over from the master, and after another five years, I brought the Changsheng class into the first major opera troupe in Jiangnan. Last year, when I sang at Mr. Li's house, Mr. Li took a fancy to the little peach in Tsing Yi in the team, and wanted to accept the house, but the little peach was unwilling, and I was not willing. I think, if he really likes Xiao Taohong, he will accept him as a concubine, and he only says that he will accept the house and not give a promise, and Xiao Taohong will follow him, wouldn't it be unclear. As a result, Master Li said that I didn't appreciate my face, so I gave the little peach to ...... that night It's a waste. Little Peach couldn't think about it for a while, so she hanged herself in the house. ”

Speaking of this, Aunt Qin burst into tears: "Lord Li said to outsiders that Xiao Taohong's hands and feet were unclean and stole their things...... I was imprisoned for more than nine months, the old pianist broke my wrist, and the top brand of the immortal class Fengxian was given an outer room to a seven-rank pusher in the Yuezhou Mansion of Jiangnan County...... The longevity class of the first major opera troupe in Jiangnan was dispersed like this. ”

Qin Yu frowned slightly.

Aunt Qin continued: "For the first time, I felt the impermanence of life, but what made me feel unbearable the most were those masters and sisters of the Immortal Class...... If I hadn't been that tough at the time...... You won't end up like this. But after so many years, the longevity class has also formed some good fate. Thanks to the seventh aunt of the Liu Mansion, who reached out to help, the people who lived for the rest of their lives after such a catastrophe in the Changsheng class could have the life to eat here. ”

Qin Yu comforted her: "There are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck. Auntie, don't be too sad, now that everyone has come out, things will always get better! ”

Aunt Qin smiled reluctantly, and suddenly turned around and stared at Qin Yu sharply: "Yes, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck." Since the accident in the longevity class, I really understand what the old people often say, 'Be kind to others, leave a way for yourself', I now want to make a good relationship, and I also hope that the girl can remember to bear good fruits, get good blessings, and don't affect these innocent people in the yard. ”

Qin Yu's heart was empty, and he forced a smile: "Auntie's teachings, I keep it in mind. ”

Aunt Qin stared at Qin Yu with eyes as sharp as a knife for a long time, and saw that Qin Yu was a little restless, and then Aunt Qin said lightly: "You remember, if the people in this room have any mistakes because of your affairs, I won't let you go!" ”

Qin Yu walked out of Aunt Qin's bedroom, and a soft spring breeze blew in her face, and she found that her vest was wet. A little girl of seven or eight years old was practicing there in a shirt with long water sleeves, her name was Button'er, and she was a little apprentice accepted by Qin Yugang. When Gu'er saw Qin Yu coming out of Aunt Qin's house, she called out to her with a smile: "Sister Yu, what did the master say to you?" Is your food delicious, and you are rewarded with candy? ”

Qin Yu gently stroked the little girl's face and said, "Yes, the master rewarded me with a big candy!" ”

On February 15, Master Gu personally went to the guilty form, saying that the second girl, Gu Xiyan, had chickenpox and needed to worship the pox lady at home, and could not participate in the selection of concubines.

The imperial concubine Niangniang personally sent a female official in the palace to visit.

At the end of February, Gu Panxi, who was sent to Jiangnan Songqi Academy and lived in his uncle's house, returned, along with Mrs. Gu's cousin Liu Jihe.

On the day Gu Panxi came back, Qin Yu was happily trying the powder fat she had made by herself for the first time in her life. Kou'er carefully smeared the powder made by Qin Yu on the back of her hand, smelled it, and said happily: "Sister Yu, this powder is so fine and fragrant." ”

Qin Yu became proud, and also picked a little bit with his little fingernail and wiped it on the back of his hand to take a look, nodded and said, "Not bad, not bad." If you take it out and sell it, I don't know if anyone will buy it? ”

"You go to Tongxinfang to buy a box of powder and fat, and when you come back, you will know the difference by comparing and contrasting carefully." The one who gave Qin Yu the idea was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl named Qionghua, with a complexion like honey and heavy eyebrows, she was another apprentice of Aunt Qin, who studied Tsing Yi.

Qin Yu really went out and bought a box of fat powder from Tongxinfang and came back, and his heart was cold when he tried it.

The color is not natural, the time is not long-lasting, and the fragrance is not pure......

Qiong Hua covered her mouth and smiled: "The people's Tongxin Fang has a history of almost five hundred years......

Qin Yu asked: "Gu Xiyan asked: "Did it rise during the Taichu Dynasty?" ”

Qionghua smiled: "Maybe! ”

Qin Yu muttered a few words in his mouth, turned around and went to dig rice.

Kou Yuyu Qionghua: "What did Sister Yu say?" ”

Qionghua turned her head and thought, "It seems that she is saying something like 'do you want people to live'!" “

Kou'er looked at the fat powder box in Tongxinfang in his hand: "What does this have to do with not knowing what to do?" ”

Qiong Hua smiled puzzled, turned around and went to practice.

In the blink of an eye, at the beginning of March, Shengjing seemed to have suddenly had a lot of happy events overnight. First of all, the crown prince who has been hanging undecided fell on the head of the fifth prince Yang Yu without accident, Shengjing held a series of celebrations, and then the fourth prince and the daughter of Liang Guogong Zheng Pengfei were married, the royal family's dowry was placed all over Suzaku Street, the gift box in front entered Liang Guogong's mansion, and the back ceremony just came out of the noon gate of the Forbidden City. When the people in Shengjing were still talking about this marriage, Fang Shaoqing, the grandson of Fang Jinxiu, the Marquis of Xuzhen, who had dissolved his marriage, became a low-key relative, and it was said that the woman was the daughter of a prison in the Criminal Department. During this period, the Xu family was not idle, and did a happy event, and the Xu family accepted a new concubine room, which was as beautiful as a flower and was very talented......

The longevity class also followed suit. was first invited by the Zheng family to Shengjing's famous opera troupe to sing in the hall, Aunt Qin found a relationship to be a "green leaf", and then followed to Xu's house to sing a song. Since the Changsheng class arrived in Shengjing, this is a very rare grand occasion, although it is only a supporting role in the church, but being able to sing two church meetings a month has greatly improved Aunt Qin's overstretched financial situation, and everyone in the troupe is happy. Kou'er said innocently: "It would be nice if Lord Xu took a concubine every day." It drew a burst of laughter from everyone.

Only Qin Yu always had a trace of sorrow, even with worry in his smile.

Qionghua is playing the best with Qin Yu now, and handed a grape to Qin Yu: "Taste it, Fengtai's tribute, the Xu family's reward." ”

Qin Yuxin took the grapes and threw them into his mouth, and said vaguely: "If only I could go to the Fang family to take a look!" ”

Qionghua spit out the grape seeds and pulled them with her hands, saying, "It's the Fang family's six rooms that do happy events, and their family has never been interested in these." ”

Qin Yu seemed to be a little distracted.

Qiong Hua grabbed Qin Yu: "Let's go, let's go, didn't you say that you want to go and see the largest Wanxiu Building in Shengjing, today our opera troupe will sing an excerpt there......

Qin Yu followed the people of the Immortal Class to Wanxiu Tower.

Wanxiu Lou is a theater, is the largest and best theater in Shengjing, a bit like an opera house, square, two-story structure, the first floor is the hall, the second floor only picks out a piece around the box to make a box, the ground is covered with a red carpet, there is a square table of mahogany and a Taishi chair, there are melon and fruit cakes and tea sets on the table, and there are plum vases with seasonal flowers, and the people who run the hall wear a unified green shirt and long shirt, with a cloth belt of the same color tied around their waists, a white towel on their shoulders, a straight back, a look of modest expression showing a trace of pride, running upstairs and downstairs. There is a beaded curtain hanging in front of the box on the second floor, so you can't see the scene from below, but you can look down on the theater from above.

When the people of the immortal class went, the stage was already full of play cards made of flowers, with the name of the play sung today, and the stage name of the protagonist also written.

Qin Yu is also a follower in the Changsheng class, helping to deliver tea and run errands, which is similar to the status of the Changsheng class in Wanxiu Building, and the Changsheng class can go to Wanxiu Lou to sing a play today because an old sister that Aunt Qin met before is now the head of the Lianzhu class, the largest opera troupe in Shengjing, and she recommended to try to sing a fold, and the two "church meetings" were also introduced by her.

Except for Qin Yu in the Changsheng class, people up and down are very nervous about this performance, they don't want to become famous in one fell swoop, they just want not to be applauded, and then they can occasionally sing in Wanxiu Building, which can be regarded as opening up the situation in Shengjing, a place where the dragon and the tiger are hidden.

Gu'er is young and has no drama, Qin Yu was added temporarily, and the two idle people are scurrying around the backstage of the theater.

The backstage is full of banging, makeup, wearing costumes, hanging throats, asking for tea, asking for ****, and the little followers running around, seeing Qin Yu and Kou'er like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, especially Qin Yu, who is more curious than Kou'er, ran to touch other people's props, and was dragged out by a big man in black and shouted: "Which girl's daughter is this, running around, and don't take it with you." Frightened, Qin Yu and Kou'er ran back to the small dressing room of the immortal class.