Since kneeling down for a day in the ancestral hall, Yuan Niang has learned smartly, Xu will go wherever she wants, and she will do whatever she wants, as for the speed and slowness, it is no wonder to her.

Every time he moves slowly, he will attract Xu's scolding, and Yuan Niang has always felt very strange.

Once asked if Xu was her own child.

Xu was stunned, and the final result was that Yuan Niang washed her clothes in the cold water of autumn for an afternoon.

Seeing that the little hands were red and swollen and cracked out of small holes, and the pain was soaking in the water without waiting for healing, Yuan Niang hated this old society again and again, if it was in modern times, it would be to eat and not suffer here.

This is in ancient times, and those who are children only have the opportunity to be sold, where is there a matter of escape.

As for Lan Mei beside her, she is not idle, because she can be an ordinary female celebrity, sitting in the house all day long to sew up the work that Xu picked up from outside, and the finances of the entire table are in the hands of Feng Ma, Xu is using one cent to support one point, and he has to explain what to do, no wonder he lives so poorly.

From summer to the end of the whole autumn, Yuan Niang is up early and greedy to the kitchen to do it, that is, to wash clothes, at the beginning of the ancient well and Ben have not been used, the first few times have been made of the skin on the hand was pulled off a layer, Xu also pointed to her head and scolded, go back to let Lan Mei give a simple medicine, the mouth in his hand is just right, and he began to repeat the work again.

Lying in bed at night, listening to Lan Mei talk about her family's affairs, and also knowing that her brother was a slope and the family was poor, he sold her as a girl and used the money to marry his brother's daughter-in-law.

Speaking of this, Lan Mei was silent.

Yuan Niang will not comfort people, she can only lean her head on Lan Mei's side, hoping that this can give her some warmth and give herself a little strength, she has been here for nearly half a year, and this weak body is not tired of doing such work.

The leaves on the branches fell off, and the first snow was ushered in, Yuan Niang was awakened by freezing in the morning, wrapped the quilt on her body tightly, and couldn't help but shiver, and the whole person was in good spirits.

The window edge has not yet been covered with window paper, and the snowflakes blow in with the wind, Yuan Niang involuntarily sat up, looking at the snow outside the window, unconsciously, it was another year.

Lan Mei woke up at some point, glanced outside, and didn't feel so deeply as Yuan Niang, "I don't know how to survive this winter." ”

The children of poor families are in charge of the family at an early age.

Yuan Niang couldn't help lowering her head when she heard this, "It's impossible to have charcoal, let's see if there is any paper in a while, let's put the window edge on the edge first." ”

"The oil paper now costs ten cents a piece, get ten pieces, this is the consistent money, and Mrs. will not be willing to give it." Lan Mei bit her lower lip, "Miss, it's better to cover the quilt on the window edge at night, and take it down during the day, so that Madame won't say anything." ”

The quilt is penetrated by the wind, when there and not taken seriously.

Yuan Niang thought for a while, "I see that there are some boards on the firewood pile in the back, so it's better to use them first, and when the weather is warm, it happens to be about the same before burning these boards." ”

As soon as the two of them had a clue, Xu's voice had already shouted outside, "Dead girl, it's dawning, and you can't get up yet." ”

"It's coming," Yuan Niang responded.

While getting out of the bed, he quickly put on his clothes, shivered a few times in the cold, and then ran out of the house.

Lan Mei was not idle, after breakfast was ready, she also made up two clothes, and when Yuan Niang pushed the door with two steamed buns and walked in, she was watching her rub her shoulders.

The two of them looked at each other and smiled while holding steaming steamed buns, and savored them in small bites.

After eating, my stomach was hot.

Seeing that the snow outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the little heating in her stomach had also receded, Yuan Niang closed her nose, where did she suffer like this in her previous life, could it be that she had to be like this in this life?

No, she must find an opportunity to change this situation.

"Lan Mei, I've almost learned the needlework these days, you can teach me to embroider the finished product tonight."

"It's okay for the slave, it's just that the young lady did a day's work during the day, is it okay?" Lan Mei stopped what she was doing.

"It's okay, it's okay" Yuan Niang looked at the ventilated room, "When I can embroider things, you mend clothes on weekdays, I will do some embroidery work in private, and we can also subsidize it in private." ”

Lan Mei's eyes lit up, "That night, the slave maid and the young lady embroidered together." ”

Listening to Xu's shouting again, Yuan Niang ran out.

When I came back in the evening, Lan Mei taught me a little bit, practiced all night, had the foundation of needlework, and Yuan Niang's embroidery was also seven or eight points.

At the end of the first month after the winter, with the money from Yuan Niang and Lan Mei privately embroidering things and selling them, they finally bought ten pieces of oiled paper for pasting windows, the wind couldn't come in, and the house was much warmer.

The days are hard, but they are very fulfilling, and they are busy getting up early and greedy for darkness every day.

When the spring flowers bloomed, Yuan Niang and Lan Mei also saved 500 Wen, which is half a piece of money.

With another year older, in the kitchen, Xu also let Yuan Niang come forward to help when cooking, this year Yuan Niang was eight years old, and learned how to cook in the ancient kitchen.

You can even stir-fry a few simple dishes.

And this year, Zhuo Xiyu is ten years old.

According to the rules, it's time to learn female celebrity and cooking, Xu also found an embroidery girl according to Feng's mother's explanation, as for cooking, Xu's made Sichuan cuisine with one hand, so naturally the chef's money was saved.

For Feng's mother's careful budgeting, Yuan Niang has long been accustomed to it.

It's just that according to the rules of the adult's house, the embroidery girl must also have a girl to serve when she enters the house, and Feng's mother asked the Xu family to get Lan Mei over first, thinking that Lan Mei can make some money by sewing clothes.

In the end, Xu got Yuan Niang over, and asked Yuan Niang to explain in front of him before he went.

"You are eight years old, and you should learn to be a girl, and you will do the master's diet and daily life on weekdays, which is also what an apprentice should do, the eldest lady is delicate, what the master said on weekdays, you should take care of it more."

Xu's tone was lukewarm, it could be said to be cold.

When Xu was still an aunt, she always wanted to give birth to a son, so that she could stand firm, how did she know that she gave birth to a daughter, and now she has been raised as a wife, it is not for the eldest lady to marry well in the future, and it will not be said that she is an orphan without a father.

If you give birth to a son, why do you have to live by looking at the faces of others all day long like now.

Thinking of these, the Xu family blamed all the fault on the motherless who was not a boy, so naturally he didn't marry Yuan Niang a good name, only Yuan Niang was called to the present.

Yuan Niang hung her head, a cowardly response.

This look made Xu a little disgusted.

I didn't expect Yuan Niang's appearance to be made by her.