XXVIII. The Forbidden City of the Capital

After seven days and six nights of turbulent fatigue, I was finally able to drag my battered body to stand in front of the door of the Niu Hulu house that I had been waiting for for a long time. Although I am ashamed to admit that I am also a social parasite eager to get something for nothing. But when I really stood in the mansion of the Niu Hulu clan, which had been run for several generations and symbolized a powerful clan, my mood was surgingβ€”I could finally get away from all the distractions of the present and the past, and I could live my life like a rice worm in peace and quiet in this incomparable abundance.

When I was still looking forward to my future life, Amma just said to the housekeeper who went out: "Take good care of her!" "I hurriedly rode my horse and chased after the two elder brothers, leaving me alone to face the inquisitive butler, I didn't know where my embarrassed hands and feet were, and I was so anxious that I scolded - damn Ling Zhu, I didn't even explain clearly and left in such a hurry, how do you let me say to the housekeeper? Do you want me to be cheeky and say to the butler, "I am a wild seed that you gave birth to outside with a prostitute, and I have come to recognize my ancestors and return to my ancestors." "No matter how urgent things are, they are so anxious that they are those brothers, do you need to be in such a hurry?

"What is the girl's name?" The butler couldn't figure out where I came from for a moment, so he asked carefully.

I've just arrived here, and I can't show my ambition for wealth by claiming my identity, and I don't know how Amma intends me to enter the Niu Hulu family. Since ancient times, there have been many grievances and grievances of wealthy families, and before the situation is unknown, I better be careful. "If you go back to the manager, my real name is Liu Yun, and I was brought back from Yangzhou by the master."

"Oh, from Yangzhou." The butler's originally respectful tone began to loosen, "Is there anyone else in the house?" ”

He probably regarded me as an orphan girl who was picked up by the old man with kindness, which is exactly what I wanted. Everyone scolds snobs, but how many people in this world can really do it? The power of the housekeeper has given me an opportunity to get a glimpse of the whole picture of Niu Hulu's family, and it has also doomed him to disaster in the future, but I will not sympathize with him. "I don't know." This is true, I really don't know who there are in the Niu Hulu family now.

"Then I'll give you a quiet errand!" The butler said as he turned his head to order other matters, and I knew that he would never be interested in me again.

"Wait, butler, butler." I pretended to be timid and asked, "Well, where did that adult go?" ”

"In the house, you want to call Mr. Zhang," Mr. Zhang looked at me with impatient eyes, as if I was a hillbilly: "There are also adults who have urgent matters to go out of Beijing, just tell me if you have anything, don't bother adults all day long." ”

It seems that Ama is rushing to meet the emperor, and it is now August, and it seems that if the emperor is not in the capital, he should be in Saiwaiqiudi as recorded in the book. I suddenly had a bold idea in my heart, now that the emperor is outside the Saiwai, that is to say, the princes should also be outside the Saiwai, so how could I meet the eighth and tenth in Yangzhou City? They kept saying that they were under the emperor's orders, but they didn't even dare to say anything about the poisoning of the eighth elder brother, could it be that they went out of Beijing without permission at all, at such a sensitive moment, they wouldn't just go to abolish the prince, right? This can explain why Brother Jiu, who has always been inseparable from them, is not in Yangzhou, so he has to leave one as a cover to inquire about the news. It seems that it is no coincidence that the crown prince stepped down this year, but they simply planned it single-handedly. The more I think about it, the more scared I become, so the relationship between my Ama and the Eight Masters is not simple, even the prefect of Yangzhou is also the Eighth Master's person, since the Eighth Father dares to let them know, it means that he trusts them very much. What about me? I made those little tricks, does the eighth master also know everything? If I hadn't pretended to be Amma's daughter, would I have been killed too? The more I think about it, the more scared I become, wasn't the Eight Masters Party all eradicated by Yongzheng in the end? So what should I do, can I still have the life to be the rice worm of my dreams?

Manager Zhang looked at my increasingly frightened face from the side, probably thinking that I had never seen the world, and was frightened by the momentum in the house, and couldn't help but comfort me: "You don't have to worry about not doing well, I'll ask someone to teach you the rules when you catch up with Ming'er, the old lady and the lady are easy-going people, and they will be fine." ”

I'm not worried about this, I don't think in my heart that I'll be liberated when Amma comes back. But what I was thinking in my heart was not in a hurry for a while, so I still made a good job in front of me. Walking forward slowly, I gently blessed my body: "Yun'er Xie Zhang takes care of it." "This sentence alone has established my unshakable status as a maid in the Niu Hulu family.

"Miss Yun, don't thank you, the master has told me to take good care of you." Manager Zhang said as if he was gracious: "I need to ask Mama Gui to inform me." ”

I blessed my body again, pretending to be flattered and said, "Don't dare to bother the manager, Yun'er will learn the rules well." ”

"That's good, I'll go first if there's nothing else." Mr. Zhang took me to a courtyard and handed it to a grandmother, and hurried back.

I raised my head and looked up at the blue sky over the capital - I tossed for more than half a year, tried my best and calculated everything, and in the end, I still have to start from scratch!

A flock of pigeons flew in the distance, hovering above the yard and refusing to leave, I suddenly had an urge to laugh, whether in the 21st century or now, I am constantly fighting against fate, am I also like these pigeons - constantly hovering between the beginning and the end of fate, ridiculously reincarnated.