Yijing remembered the ninth year of Yuanqing, which was the first time she heard Mingyue's name.

It was just over the New Year, and after a heavy snowfall, the lotus pond in Guan Sui Yuan was covered with a layer of mirror-like thin ice.

It was the winter rain and a few maids were whispering, there was a maid in the front yard who accidentally fell into the pond at night, and someone found that there were broken glass lamps and long slip marks on the edge of the pond early in the morning, and there was an embroidered boot floating on the lake. Who was then? Xia Yun is still a warbler, I don't remember it clearly, when it was a look of horror, and his tone was full of caution: "I heard that it was the maid in Erlang's courtyard, and the slave maid had seen Lang Xing, but she hadn't seen this ...... The person was fished up, but unfortunately he died early...... At night, I don't know why she went to the pond, and no one found out when she came out of Xiwuyuan...... There is still a section of the pond across the Xiwu Courtyard...... Mrs. suspected that Mingyue had a private meeting with the little girl in the front yard, and there was such an unfortunate thing during the New Year...... As soon as the mat was wrapped, she didn't even let her mother take a look, and was sent directly to the mass grave. ”

Yi Jingyuan didn't care about these things, but I heard that it was related to Yu Zhou, and when I met, I suddenly asked, what did Yu Zhou say?

"The maidservant girl that my grandmother rewarded many years ago, she is getting older, and her heart and eyes are more, and she quietly opened the Xiwu Courtyard in the middle of the night, who knows what she is doing there......" is always an indifferent tone.

But in this life, after inquiring about it, Yijing found that Mingyue was extremely favored.

At this time, she sat on the rose chair in the flower hall of the atrium, glanced at it, and then took out a plate of mung bean glutinous rice that was still hot from the food box, with six petals of plum printed on it, which was very delicate.

Guan Sui Yuan received food from outside, and it was generally dealt with at the clear sky, unless it was something sent by the Weiguo Mansion to Yijing, but today the clear sky said: "It's the pastry sent by Xiyuan Yiren to invent the moon, and Mingyue said that Yiren has something to tell and asks to meet the princess in person." ”

If you want to pass the clear sky and hand the words to Yijing, this girl must be very persistent.

She knelt on the ground, drooping her face, her forehead was bright and white, two straight and beautiful eyebrows, black eyelashes were soft and long, trembling slightly to reveal her self-pressed nervousness, and the green calyx plum blossoms were embroidered very delicately on the water-red jacket.

When I saw her for the first time, she was pressed to the ground by two mothers-in-law with her sideburns scattered, and she looked embarrassed, but Yijing remembered that compared with Zhiniang, who was in the pear blossoms with rain, although her eyes were swollen, there were no tears on her face.

At this time, it seems that he is more calm and self-controlled than he was then.

Only Mingyue knows herself, and the string in her heart has been stretched to the point that her fingers can be broken.

This is a possible "bright" future that she finally chose after several trade-offs and hesitations, of course, when she made a decision, she had completely eliminated the attempt to become an "aunt", Erlang is unreliable, although the prince is better than Erlang, but Mingyue is also very clear that there will never be a place for her by the side of the son.

The aunt is not such a bright road, but it is better than the ration of the little girl, the humility of being frightened and afraid to raise her voice all her life, and the helplessness of even holding a servant in front of her children in the future is not Mingyue's willingness.

However, in the palace at that time, she had no better choice.

In the end, she is still unwilling to match a small servant casually, just like her own mother, who has survived year after year, has exhausted her youth, and has survived until she is old, and finally became a "fish eyeball", still carefully calculating for food and clothing, and being careful about the owner, but with a little extra money, she did not forget to go around to manage things, lest the messenger in her hand be taken away by others inexplicably, and the days became more and more miserable.

Although he is a slave of the royal family, he will never live on the street without three meals, but once he is not valued by the master, he will only live a cold and overstretched life, not to mention being ignored, groveling in front of those powerful slaves, and straightening his waist and spine has become a luxury.

Even if it's a small guy, it's not bad if it's down-to-earth and willing to hurt people, but if the luck is not good, it points to someone like my father...... Just pointing to the half of the money in the monthly case, assigning some heavy work, eating and gambling money when he got the monthly case, when he was happy, he came back drunk and fell asleep, and when he was unhappy, he beat people with his arm, and when he lost the money, he knew that he reached out and begged for it, and he didn't worry about his livelihood, and he couldn't let him lack food, rice, and white noodles to fall into his stomach, otherwise it would be a good fight.

Such a life makes Mingyue tremble when she thinks about it.

But now, she really thinks that staying by Jiro's side is even more dangerous.

What's more, the general's wife was already disgusted with her, otherwise she would not have sent her to Xiyuan to follow Aunt Zhi, who had long been disgusted by Yu Zhou.

Mingyue only felt that she was already on the edge of the cliff, and it became a luxury to be able to match a sincere and diligent house slave.

When she was confused, she saw Hu Xuan.

This girl is also a child, but she is a lonely ghost, Lao Tzu Niang died of illness, there is a sister, who used to work in the pulp washing room, and did not pay attention to the collision with the lady's "cronies", the lady spoke, hit the board and handed it to the human tooth to sell...... How old was Hu Xuan at the time? At the age of six or seven years old, because there is no father and mother to teach him, and his sister does not meet often, fortunately, the mother-in-law in a courtyard is kind-hearted, and she also takes care of Hu Xuan's three meals a day.

When the mother-in-law who was in the same hospital with her also died of illness, Hu Xuan was even more unattended, and the ten-year-old girl was left in the pulp washing room to do heavy work so as not to starve to death.

Later, I didn't know how to vote for Mama Xie, and I sent her to Guan Sui Yuan, three years later, when she appeared in front of Mingyue again, she had already been sentenced to be two.

I knew that after the winter rain was gone, Hu Xuan was promoted to a first-class maid, and officially took over the envoy of the winter rain, just taking care of the matter of giving gifts and bringing words and orders with all over the place.

It's not like the stammering mouth before, and the words are very clever, and when it comes to the princess, she can only praise it.

The princess is tolerant and generous, never harshly criticizes the subordinates, and the reward is also rich, and the steward in Guan Sui will not be arrogant, knowing that she is pitiful and helpless, she only takes care of her, and has never suffered since she entered Guan Sui Yuan, after being valued by the princess, the inside and outside clothes have been changed, and more importantly, the princess promised her the future - as long as she is loyal to the master, she will find a pro-soldier in the palace for her when she is old enough, in addition to slavery, maybe in the future she can also call a slave to call a maid to get an official eunuch.

"I don't want to, it's not good to call slaves and maids, it's a blessing to be able to stay by the side of the princess and wait, and I have to marry and marry the people in the palace in the future, so that I can wait for the master for a long time." Hu Xuan was very sure when he said this.

Mingyue heard this, she was really envious and jealous, to tell the truth, if she could wait for a reliable master, and finally get a good home, as long as she was rich and worry-free, living and working in peace and contentment, she was not willing to grovel for a concubine for a lifetime, others looked at it as brocade clothes and jade food, but how many slave-born aunts, even the servants with more faces around the master could not compare, and they still had to be ridiculed coldly, and they had to be guarded and tempered by the master's mother.

Helplessly, Xiao Xie's family is by no means that kind of master, not to mention others, even her own companion daughter, who was waiting for Erlang and Sanlang's eldest maid, who looked a little better, waited for enough age, but sent out to those soldiers as concubines, or just with a small servant, now the two who are concubines have long been tortured, and the best luck has become the daughter-in-law of the housekeeper, that is, the surface scenery, whether it is dressed, or the generous hands and feet in the past, compared to Hu Xuanlai, it is beyond reach.

At the beginning, the maid who waited in the Lixiang Courtyard did not miss the slightest mistake to stay up to her early twenties, and married to the old Zhuangzi to the hired man who died of his wife as a stepmother, but in addition to the slave status, it was already regarded as the supreme grace of the general's wife, a few years ago I heard that I was sick and had no money to seek medical treatment, so I asked the general's wife to borrow a few medicine money for the sake of the past, but the result was no result, and I heard that life and illness ended in death.

How could Mingyue think that waiting for a good Erlang would be able to get a "good home"? So when she was young, she could only struggle on the road of her aunt with all her heart, thinking that if she could get a little affection from Erlang, at least she would not end up without food, clothing, and money for medical treatment.

After all, it's still too simplistic.

But now there is a way out, if you can take refuge in the princess, you have to pay attention to one or two, even if you can't compare to Chundu, Hu Xuan, these cronies can be expelled from the country in the future, you can also strive to be equipped with a steward, shopkeeper, no matter how bad it is with a house slave, thinking that the princess is lenient and benevolent, she will also find a reliable one for her, as long as she is down-to-earth and does a good job, life will not be stretched.

That's why she's kneeling here now to "surrender".

But the princess was silent for too long, Mingyue didn't dare to raise her eyes to look directly, and the palm in front of her knee was already covered with sweat.

was too much looking forward and very nervous, so that when the princess suddenly said that sentence, Mingyue didn't wake up until half a ring, but she didn't know how to react.

That sentence is-

"Mingyue, what did the third sister tell you...... Is that what you just said...... Willing to pledge allegiance to me? ”

The corners of Yijing's lips curled slightly, her eyes had already moved away from Mingyue, she took a cup of hot tea handed by Xia Ke, and took a sip slightly.

There was a long silence, and he didn't feel the bright moon that was looking at him, but his sideburns were soaked with fragrant sweat.

Xia Ke coughed lightly, and Wen Yan reminded: "The princess asked, don't hurry back." ”

Mingyue was completely sober at this time, and prostrate her head: "The slave is guilty...... Yiren didn't have anything to say...... It was an excuse made up by the slave maid to ask to see the princess...... The slave and maid know that they have offended their wife, and it will be difficult to save their lives in the future, so the slave and maid have no other way......"

"How did you offend Madame? What is the heinous sin that makes it impossible to save your life, but if the sin is not enough to die, I can plead for you. Yijing still has a shallow smile.

Mingyue was stunned again, this was not what she was asking for...... If you say those words again, can you really be blunt with the princess?

In the past few months, she has measured and observed, and found that the princess is indeed wise and decisive, and the servants in the inner house are very in awe of her, but the princess has never been as arrogant and domineering as the general's wife...... The princess has only been married into the palace for half a year, and she is not in the palm of her hand, but she can make the stewards everywhere awe but eager to please and flatter, which is more convincing than the harsh and cruel methods of the general's wife.

At present, the reason why the princess is still willing to listen to her is an opportunity and a temptation, and she must seize it, maybe if she hides it slightly, she will be regarded as disloyal and disobedient.

Mingyue made up her mind in a moment, so she told her all these years of planning step by step, and said that Xiao Xie's never regarded slaves and maids as human beings, and how ruthless Erlang was, how dangerous her situation was, and when it came to the end, she finally couldn't help choking.

The beautiful scenery was another deep groan.

This maid is wise, I don't know what choice she made after seeing Yu Zhou's "face" in the previous life, and finally ended up in a "stumbling pond".

Since being reborn, Yi Jing has never seriously thought about Yu Zhou's mentality, at the beginning, it was because he was too resentful, so that he only gritted his teeth when he thought of this person, and later, he gradually felt indifferent, but he didn't want to waste his heart thinking about this person, thinking that it was nothing more than the words "power and greed", the reason was not important, and in this life, it would definitely make him pay for his blood debts.

But now that he listened to Mingyue's words, Yi Jing fell into one of the sentences: "You said that Erlang is only superficially submissive to his wife, but in fact he is dissatisfied?" ”

"Yes, the slave maid had this feeling in the early years, in addition to the slave maid and Lang Xing, there was a housekeeper by Erlang's side, who was the daughter of Mrs. Nurse's mother, and she had a lot of persuasion to Erlang, and she opened her mouth and closed her mouth to 'Mrs. confess'...... On the surface, Erlang has great respect for Mama...... Once, Mama somehow ate her stomach and intestines, and went back to her private house to recuperate, before leaving, Erlang also rewarded her with dozens of taels of silver, and repeatedly told her to wait until her body was completely good before returning home, don't worry about it, but the slave looked at Erlang's eyes, how could she be a little sarcastic and cold...... The grandmother never came back, her son and daughter-in-law helped the lady take care of the dowry, lived in the suburbs of the village in the village, the grandmother was better, and somehow slipped into the river during a walk in the evening, and rushed down more than ten miles before being discovered...... No one saw how Mama lost her foot, and after Mrs. knew about it, she cried in front of Erlang, who was Mrs. Boudoir's personal maid when she was in the boudoir, and she got along with her for decades...... The slave saw the disgust that Erlang revealed carelessly when he comforted his wife...... Jiro was only fourteen at the time. ”

Mingyue took a heavy breath again: "And Lang Xing, who also learns from that grandma, opens and closes his mouth 'Madame', but there is no deterrent effect on Erlang, but Erlang sometimes looks at her secretly, and his eyes are also gloomy." ”

This is another one who stumbled and fell into the river, Yi Jing thought silently, but asked Mingyue: "Why do you think I will help you?" ”