The gardener is about the same as a gardener, and it seems that his grandmother lives in this yard. Ruri said, "Why haven't I seen you before?" The boy said, "I usually live in the back alley, but today I came in with my grandfather." ”

Liuli said again: "Do you know why the kitchen is locked? He shook his head ignorantly, and looked at the bamboo dragonfly again. Seeing that she couldn't ask anything, Liuli was a little discouraged, gave him the bamboo dragonfly, and planned to enter the house. Suddenly someone under the corridor said: "Orange fruit!" Come inside! Turning his head, he saw that this person was stubby and short, with a big mouth that was good at talking, and it turned out to be the mother-in-law Wang who was on the mattress with Feng Chun'er that day.

The boy is having fun with the dragonfly, where is the call? Mrs. Wang swept over like a gust of wind, grabbed his arm and reprimanded: "Little rabbit! When you see people coming, you go up! A slap slapped off the bamboo dragonfly in his hand, straightened up, as if he had just seen Liuli, oh, and smiled to the root of his ears: "Yo, this is the ninth girl?" I'm a lazy little girl somewhere! As he spoke, he dragged the orange fruit back to the house.

The courtyard fell silent for a while. Liuli picked up the bamboo dragonfly and returned to the house, thinking that maybe she should drink a cup of tea to moisten her throat, and when she touched the pot, it was cold, so she had to rub the cup and drink two sips.

When Cui Ying came back, the sun was already setting in the west, and Liuli fell asleep against the corner of the table at some point, and when she heard the curtain of the door, she woke up in shock.

"I'm late to come back, I didn't rush when I went, there was nothing left, so I had to temporarily turn on the stove to make it, and the sister-in-law Wu who was in charge of the stove was newly appointed, and asked her if she didn't know anything, and it took a long time to make a fire before opening the stove, and it was very tight. Now I have boiled a pot of millet porridge, and there are two snacks left, and the girl will eat it. Cui Ying took out two or three pieces of food and grumbled.

Liuli looked at the sky, and when she counted that she had been gone for nearly two hours, Ren was able to calm down again, and she couldn't help but feel a little angry at this time. At the moment, he ate the things first without saying a word, and pondered that he would have the strength to treat her again. Suddenly thinking back to her words, I felt abnormal again.

Last time, Cheng Yingniang said that the newly appointed person who managed the stove was the younger sister of Xu He, the kitchen steward, or was replaced by Yu immediately after getting rid of the previous mother-in-law, if the speculation that Yu meddled in the big kitchen and Xu He became her person was true, then Cui Ying complained about her dissatisfaction with her so unabashedly, which side of the person is it?

When Biyun brought her back last night to continue to wait for her, she still firmly thought that it was Yu's people, but if Xu He and her were both working for Yu's family, she would have no reason to express her dissatisfaction with Wu's mother to herself. The Yu family should not let them have conflicts in private, and even if they do, they will not show it to outsiders.

After eating a bowl of porridge, Liuli had already extinguished the fire in her heart and decided to wait for the fox's tail to reveal itself.

For the sudden appearance of an additional master, there was a not small craze among the people, and some of them did not know the inside story, and after hearing the notice from the housekeeper Qian Changsheng, they expressed their surprise. Specifically, sometimes Liuli was walking, and suddenly a person jumped out to block the way: "This is the ninth girl?" Or while napping in the room, a few heads suddenly appeared outside the window. Raising one's head suddenly, sometimes it can really startle people.

No one regards a nine-year-old girl who suddenly came into the house to live in a remote courtyard and goes in and out with her as the real master, and as for the situation that the mother-in-law who was worried about in the past not being able to tolerate the concubine and not making her feel better all the time does not seem to have appeared, a real housewife with a real posture may not take a helpless child to heart at all, because she is not qualified enough to let her take action.

Other people are all old ladies and the like, naturally they can't see it, but except for stipulating that all the women in the house must go to the main courtyard to ask for peace on the fifteenth day of the first month, they must be present in the future.

Liuli began a quiet life in this situation, and occasionally she was glad that she was just a child, and around the age of nine was another important beginning of physical development, and when no one was aiming at her, she could seize this opportunity to make her body stronger.

However, although there is no direct threat from Yu and others for the time being, it does not mean that Liuli will be at ease from now on.

After a few days of fine weather, it began to rain, and a plane tree planted in the courtyard was destroyed by the rain for several days, and its leaves fell to the ground. Tian'er was drying her clothes under the porch, and her little face was blown by the cold wind, and she was red from the cold. Rui'er came out of the next room with a small basket of charcoal, and her hands were shrunk into the sleeves as much as she could.

These two are third-class maids sent by Fuqian Changsheng to wait, Tian'er is a family child, Rui'er is brought by Renyazi, and there is a second-class maid missing, and there is no one yet. According to the example, there should have been two more rough men, but because they were already crowded in the courtyard, they didn't have to watch the door and sweep the yard, so they were saved.

As for the room, someone later came to give a few futons and gauze tents, a pear wood wardrobe, a set of four treasures of the study, and a soft couch. There are examples of rouge and gouache for clothes in all seasons, and needlework needs to be collared in the warehouse. As for the monthly money, the concubine is three taels of silver, the concubine is two taels, and the young masters are five hundred wen.

This house was not originally a regulation of the main house, there was no fire kang, and there was no plan to move the glass out for the time being, so the three rooms next door were opened, the largest one was changed into a bedroom, and a fire kang was added, and the outer one was used as a living room, an ear room was given to three maids to live, and the remaining one was used as a miscellaneous room.

There were originally four mothers-in-law and two daughters-in-law in the courtyard, and two were transferred away two days ago, leaving the mother-in-law Wang who was in charge of watering the flowers and trees, the grandmother-in-law who guarded the gate of the back garden, the mother-in-law Li who sprinkled and swept the Buddhist hall, and Feng Chun'er who sprinkled and swept the lake in the pipe.

These people all chose to live because they had to stay at night, or because they lived far away, they could choose to live or not to live, but the other daughter-in-law moved away, and Feng Chun'er chose to stay.

When the glass has nothing to do, she sits under the window and embroiders, if it is cold today, she snuggles up to the stove to write and read, no one rarely sparks her to go to the morning and dusk province, she has a lot of time.

Tian'er finished drying her clothes, and rushed into the house to roast the fire, Cui Ying came in from outside with an umbrella, and shook off her body of rain powder: "Go to the big kitchen to get food." Tian'er pouted and stood up: "I just washed my clothes with cold water, and let me go to the rain!" ”

Cui Ying said: "Don't you want to eat it yourself?" ”

Tian'er pouted, took the umbrella in her hand and went out.

Rui'er lit a hand stove for Liuli in the room, heard the conversation, and turned her head from time to time to look over there. Cui Ying walked in, and she had already changed into a dry jacket. Seeing that Rui'er didn't say a word, she frowned and scolded: "One is lazier than the other!" That's a good saying, it's good, there's not even a sound! ”

I don't know what kind of anger she got when she went out, and it didn't please anyone when she came back. Liuli didn't intend to pay attention to her, and lowered her head to copy "Zi Xuan Fu".