This is actually a story of a praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches.

The eldest prince, King Liang, rebelled and killed the crown prince and forced the old emperor to write an edict of abdication. Unexpectedly, the second prince Rong, who has always been inconspicuous, first took out the old nest of King Liang, and killed Princess Liang and Prince Liang's heir, and then entered the palace under the banner of Qingjun's side and cut King Liang.

The old emperor was already in poor health, this toss went directly to the west sky, and before he died, he pointed to King Rong "You ......" for a long time, and the big eunuch with him said directly: "The emperor will die, and King Rong will succeed to the throne." ”

In fact, there is no one else to say, because the old emperor has been pampering the precious concubine for Chinese New Year's Eve more than forty years, and the three thousand beauties of the harem have only given birth to three sons and two princesses, and two sons have died at once, leaving such a lone seedling, I have to say that King Rong is scheming.

The king was defeated, so after dawn, the new emperor had not yet ascended the throne, and the first holy decree had already arrived at the Liguo Mansion.

All the sons and daughters over the age of fifteen were beheaded for public display, and the boys under the age of fifteen were exiled to the northwest; Except for the former Duchess of Liguo, Qin, who signed and left the book, the female dependents were all official slaves, and the Qin family exchanged their large dowry for the free body of their own daughter.

The old lady of the Liguo Mansion was ashamed of her ancestors and hanged herself, and for a time the whole mansion cried and shook the sky.

All the female dependents took off their hairpin rings and purses under the supervision of the Praetorian Guards, and only one of their clothes was put in the women's prison, and there was only one way for them to be sold, and it was impossible for them to get rid of their slavery unless they had great merit as official slaves.

Every official slave has a record in the government, and once he becomes an official slave, it means that he has been a slave for generations, and he cannot be redeemed, and he can't even compare with the children born in the family.

At first, everyone would cry and cry, but after being locked up for two days, each person was only given a bowl of water and a black-faced nest a day, so how could they still have the strength to cry.

Ruan Susu secretly packed the snacks and gave them to the second sister-in-law's little niece who was just two years old, she was not a virgin, but she couldn't watch such a young child starve to death.

It was dark in the women's prison, there was only one toilet, there was only some damp thatch on the ground, and there was not enough water to drink every day, let alone wash your face and rinse your mouth.

Ruan Susu has been hiding in the corner and watching the heroine, seeing that it only took half a day for her to go from despair and loss to calm, she dared to ask the cell boss for a flint and set the thatch on fire and dried the other thatch.

After that, Su Su, who was hungry and had no strength, could only lean against the corner and secretly took out a piece of jerky and chewed it slowly.

Five days later, the hungry women were pulled out of the women's prison and confronted by several women, two or three of whom were constantly walking around the palace.

In the past, it was the ladies who chose the girls brought by the tooth women, but now it is the tooth women who pick and choose them, which is really feng shui in turn.

The maids are not locked up with the masters, so they must have been bought a long time ago.

The subordinates of the Guogong Mansion are still very marketable, but the female dependents who sell them have no market in the capital. Most of the ladies of each family know each other, so there is no embarrassment to buy it.

The status of the official Ya Po is higher than that of the private Ya Po, and the Ya Po who goes to and from the official eunuch's house is higher than the Ya Po who goes to the landlord's house, and the lowest are those who interact with the brothel.

The burly female cell head laughed and said: "You are also lucky, Mrs. Qin spoke, you are slaves and maids are the sins created by your fathers, and she can't control it, but the seventh girl will never allow any sisters to be sold into dirty places." ”

Hearing this, all the ladies wept bitterly. Although it was for the sake of the Seventh Girl, he also knew how much pressure Madam Qin was under when she said this, after all, the new emperor hated the Liguo Mansion so much that the root of his teeth hurt, and it would be difficult to eliminate the hatred in his heart if he didn't kill them all!

The first person to pick someone was a well-dressed Ya woman in her thirties, and Ruan Susu shrank back quietly.

She knew that the heroine was the first batch to be picked away, and sure enough, the girls from the age of ten were all picked by her, and it seemed that she wanted to see it again, a forty-year-old Ya Po who looked very kind smiled and said: "My sister is neat, it seems that she doesn't even call us soup?" ”

This tooth woman Su Su has the impression that she is Zhao's mother who often goes to the Guogong Mansion.

The first woman also felt a little embarrassed, but said on her face: "Sister, don't say that, follow my sister, these little ladies will not suffer." "But in the end, let's stop.

Mother Zhao knew that she had some background, and when she saw her stop, she didn't say anything, but only picked three people, that is, the remaining seven or eight-year-old girls - Eleven Niang, Twelfth Niang and Su Su, and then the girls left with different Ya Po before they could say goodbye, and they didn't know when they would meet again.

Ruan Susu and the three of them followed Zhao's mother into a carriage, and there were three or four seven or eight-year-old girls in the carriage, all of whom looked like young ladies from official eunuchs.

The original owner didn't go out much, so he didn't recognize it, but Eleven Niang and Twelfth Niang were the daughters of three rooms and four rooms, and they knew some people, so they cried again for a while.

Mother Zhao didn't care about them, she just watched them coldly. Ruan Susu shrank aside, and also felt the gaze of looking for her mother.

The carriage walked slowly for about half an hour before it reached the place, and it was a small courtyard with two entrances. The women got out of the carriage and went into the courtyard, and there were five or six girls of the same size, whom another woman had bought.

Standing in the courtyard, Mother Zhao said coldly: "You are all girls from big families, you know the rules best, and you don't need me to bother to adjust anything, tomorrow we will go to the south, if anyone on the road gives me any moths, but it doesn't matter if you kill them." ”

Mother Zhao looked at the trembling little girls, and softened her tone for a while: "Mom, I'm not the black-hearted, I won't harm you, those dirty places don't go, only to the rich and noble, there is always a way to go according to your appearance and rules." ”

After speaking, he asked the lady next to him to take the little girls into the house, and there was no need to think about taking a hot bath, each person could wipe it with a basin of warm water, and the clothes on the body should be taken off and replaced with a uniform style of coarse cloth clothes, fortunately, the middle coat still wears its own.

Dinner was a bowl of brown rice porridge, a white-flour steamed bun, after eating it was dark, a dozen little girls crowded on a large bunk, each with only a thin quilt. Fortunately, there was a fire on the kang and some temperature.

Ruan Susu thought that she couldn't sleep, but she fell asleep after less than two minutes, and in the dream she was still the dick who earned 2,000 yuan a month to rent a house, although she was tired, she had her own.

In a battle for the throne, it was not only the nobles and high-ranking officials in the capital who seized the throne, but also how many people were implicated in the local government.

The carriages that pulled the little girls changed from one to two, and then to three, to four, and to no less than thirty or forty people.

In addition to the handlebar type of the car, each car is equipped with a mother-in-law and two strong men, and each little girl is two bowls of water a day, two palm-sized cornmeal and white flour mixed with two nests, although it is not delicious, but it is stronger than the hard black noodles eaten in the women's prison.

In addition to the regular release of the wind, it is not allowed to get out of the car, not that no one wants to escape, but unfortunately he was caught after not running a few steps.

Mother Zhao didn't beat or scold, she was just hungry, and everyone's food was halved, Su Su shrank in the corner, touched the silver tickets and jewelry on her body, and ate whatever she wanted, without saying a word.

Ruan Susu and Eleven Niang, Twelfth Niang are not in the same car, she bought this car later, and the obedient voice is not all official daughters, several of them are peasant girls in the suburbs of Beijing, but Yishui looks good, two of them are older, about ten years old, one is too many brothers and sisters in the family to raise, and the other is sold by the stepmother, seeing that Su Su is good-looking, delicate and weak, but can say a few words to Su Su.

After walking on the official road for a few days and getting on the boat again, Ruan Susu knew that she had come to Tianjin Wei from the capital, and it was estimated that she would have to take the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and in Tianjin, several familiar faces of Su Su were gone, including the eleventh and twelfth mothers of the Ruan family, who should have been bought.

After that, the merchant ship stopped when it arrived at the port, and some little girls were pulled down, some came back and some did not come back, and on the way, Zhao's mother would buy some girls, and there were also some rough servants and some women who knew how to trade.

Su Su looked at it secretly, it seems that this Zhao's mother's teeth should not be small, at least ordinary people can pack a whole merchant ship.

I don't know if it's Ruan Susu's illusion, Zhao's mother picks on her every time she pulls someone off the boat, but she never lets Su Su get off the boat, it's more like seeing if her body is good.

Halfway through the boat, there was no one left except Su Su for the prisoners and daughters bought in the capital.

After walking on the water for almost a month, I finally arrived at the destination - Yangzhou.

There are only two people left around Ruan Susu who are quite familiar, that is, the two peasant girls in the suburbs of Beijing, and now Su Su already knows their names, one is called Da Ya and the other is called Peach Blossom, they are all very down-to-earth.

And Su Su himself didn't mention a word about his life experience, only told them his nickname Su Su, and when he mentioned his life experience, he looked sad and sad, and the two girls only said: "I've never seen anyone better looking than Su Su, and it's a sin to even make her sad." ”

The problem of life experience was naturally revealed, and Su Su also learned their habits, adding some local flavor to the standard Beijing accent.

A group of more than a dozen little girls, seven or eight women were pulled down by two carriages from Yangzhou Port to a small house in Yangzhou City, and there were already servant women who had prepared hot water and clothes, this time from the inside to the outside.

Although the little belly pocket on his body has been worn for almost a month and a half, and it has long been dirty, Su Su still secretly tied it to his body with his belt, and now it is November, and his clothes are thick and inconspicuous.

The clothes provided are cotton jackets and pants made of dirt-resistant coarse cloth, and there is a blouse on the outside, although it is only five or six percent new, but fortunately it is clean.

Dry the hair, the little girls helped each other tie two maids, and then they were taken to the courtyard, Zhao's mother lectured again: "Ming Yangzhou Mansion Song family picks maids, the Song family not only has a lot of silver in the family, but the master treats people the most generously, these days I have taught you the rules for me, whether you can pick it or not depends on your creation." ”

Su Su remembered the rules he learned on the boat, but they were actually simple, and they were summed up in seven words: "Say less, do more, don't look blindly".

Generally, large families rarely buy outsiders, and some of them are born to the family, but some of the children are released, or they are sold by the whole family, so it is natural to replenish new blood.

After Zhao's mother finished speaking, she asked the servant woman to take the little girls into the house, which was still a chase shop, with a bed of quilts on the wooden board, and then each little girl was taken to see Zhao's mother alone, and when she came back, she said that Zhao's mother just warned her that she was not allowed to embarrass her when she went to Song Mansion tomorrow.

In the end, it was Susu's turn......