Chapter 80: Miscalculation

Mai Miao didn't understand when her own lady became what she is now, when she was in Qingzhou, her own lady was also a lady, because the deceased lord was a local parent official in Qingzhou, so the girls in Qingzhou were proud to be able to make friends with Miss Du Ruodu, Qingzhou has not produced any big people, and the degree of food and clothing is not necessarily better than that of the capital, but at that time, Du Ruo was smiling proudly and brightly every day, and he was very lenient with the people who served around him, unlike now...... Mai Miao didn't want to see the scars on her body anymore.

After all, at that time, the master of the Du family was infected with a violent illness overnight, and his wife served all day, but he also failed to serve the old man well, and the old man went early, and the lady was also overworked and sad, and it didn't take long for him to follow in the footsteps of the master. Although the lord is a parent official in Qingzhou, but the official position is such a thing, I don't want the title to be inherited by father and son, brother to brother, and the court quickly appointed a new parent official, but naturally it will not consider how the family of the deceased predecessor should be settled. Miss's maternal uncle sold all the valuable things in the family, including many slaves who had served in the Du family for many years, and then used the money to hold a funeral for the old lady, and I don't know how much oil and water I got from it. The reason why she was not sold to Renyazi by Miss's maternal uncle was because Miss begged bitterly.

But he still forced a smile and said: "Why does Miss have to talk to the second and third ladies about entering the palace draft? The future of the second and third ladies is naturally concerned by the second master and the second lady, and the young lady's own situation is not as good as before, so why worry about others?"

Du Ruo calmed down for a while, and quietly stroked the green hosta in his palm, which was not very good: "People are under the eaves, and they have to bow their heads." Mai Miao, do you remember, when I came to the capital, I once told me that I should work hard to be able to marry into the mansion and be a young grandmother, and the future glory and wealth are indispensable. ”

Mai Miao cried and held Du Ruo's hand in her palm: "My miss, what kind of person is your uncle." It's not like you don't know. Eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling did all kinds of evil, sold the entire Du family, and said that it was a funeral for the lord and the wife, but in the end, the coffin boards of the lord and the lady were so thin, how much money he took from the middle, haven't you counted it in your heart?"

Du Ruo laughed instead, and that smile looked a little miserable on her face, a little mocking: "Yes, my uncle is indeed nothing." When my mother was still alive, every time he owed gambling debts and prostitution, he always asked my mother for silver, and my mother pulled him up single-handedly, and naturally he wanted to give something, and now my father and my mother are gone, and his cash cow has fallen. But Hun people also have the benefits of Hun people, how to drill camps, how to make their lives better, he understands much more than serious people. ”

Mai Miao took the green jade hairpin from Du Ruo's hand, and silently curled Du Ruo's hair for him, while listening to Du Ruo say: "Actually, my uncle's method is also a method, but it doesn't work in this Liang State Mansion." My aunt didn't give birth to a son, and although Mrs. Guo has two sons, but the eldest young master has already been married, I naturally can't dream of the eldest young grandmother, the second young master has not married a wife yet, and the Duchess is also consulting which girl to marry for the second young master, but the Duchess is very secretive to her aunt, how can I make me, surnamed Du, become the second young grandmother. What's more, my heart was not in these two young masters in the first place. ”

Mai Miao is a little older than Du Ruo, and the other person who used to serve by Du Ruo's side has already been released to get married, so he doesn't know anything about these things, and when he heard Du Ruo say the last sentence, he was holding a hand for Du Ruo for a moment: "When did Miss have a sweetheart?" Mai Miao didn't know at all. Miss's sweetheart, is he from Qingzhou?"

If it is a person in Qingzhou, it is easy to do, Miss has no other relatives in Qingzhou except for the uncle who is only good at eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, so Miss is impossible to return to Qingzhou anyway, if Miss's sweetheart is in Qingzhou, she can also persuade it, after all, people who can never have the opportunity to meet again, it is easy to break the thought.

Du Ruo seemed to feel the stagnation of the hands in his hair, turned his head, and looked at Mai Miao fixedly: "Qingzhou? What kind of place is Qingzhou? People who have eaten the delicacies of the mountains and seas, where do they still think that eating bran is a happy thing? Qingzhou is compared with the imperial capital, even if it is the most prosperous place in Qingzhou and the most dilapidated place in the imperial capital, it is not comparable, let alone the people of Qingzhou. ”

Mai Miao continued to tie her hair for Du Ruo: "But when the young lady came to the imperial capital, it was only a few months, and she rarely went out, where is the chance to find any sweetheart." ”

"Do you remember the last time, I went with Mrs. Guo and Bai Hui to celebrate Mrs. Gong Changbo's birthday? That time He Changan felt a little depressed, and wanted to come out to breathe, but I, and those noble ladies who had basically never met, there was really no common topic, so I also went out for a walk, and I met him. ”

When Du Ruo said "him", the expression on his face was very soft, and his eyes were full of tenderness: "Do you know, when I saw him in a robe in the middle of the snow, he was facing away from me, and his figure was long and straight, as if he was a god from the sky. When he turned around and I saw his face, I was right, how could a person with such a long figure be too bad, and his manners and cultivation were ......."

Mai Miao was a little flustered in her heart: "Who is Miss talking about?"

"Actually, he has something to do with the Liang Guo Mansion, the only son of the third aunt's wife, the second young master of the Xu family, Xu Huanche. But do you know that when I met him, he stuffed one of the most precious things in his house into He Chang'an's hands. At that time, when He Changan's cousin talked to He Changan, his attitude was very blunt and unpolite, Xu Huanche watched from the side, his eyes were almost on fire, and he didn't notice me standing not far from his oblique side. I was thinking, if I was really the concubine of Gongchangbo's Mansion, would Xu Huan Che take a more look at me?"

Mai Miao finally combed Du Ruo's hair. Du Ruo was actually born very beautiful, but unlike He Chang'an and Bai Hui, who were born in a high-ranking family since childhood, Du Ruo did not even have the feeling that Bai You and Bai Ci could bring people a sense of beauty. But Du Ruomei is beautiful in her low eyebrows, revealing a kind of charm that I see pity.

"Miss, you see that the slave maid has changed your hairstyle, what do you think? The slave maid thinks that the young lady is very suitable for this hairstyle, the young lady is so beautiful. ”

Du Ruo looked at himself in the mirror, and gently scratched his side face with his beautifully trimmed nails: "Yes, when I was in Qingzhou, I was a famous beauty within a radius of dozens of miles in Qingzhou, and after I was ten years old, I have been seeing what Zhang Matchmaker Li Matchmaker came to propose, and my father and mother also asked me what I meant, but I have a high vision and high spirit, and no one can look down on it. But if I had really decided on a family affair early, I might not have met Second Young Master Xu. Mai Miao, I have nothing left now, I am left with me, I don't have to worry, I just want to live for myself once. ”

Mai Miao walked to the side of the small table, picked up the teapot and poured a cup of flower tea and handed it to Du Ruo: "Miss, the slave maid has always felt that there is an old saying that is very true, sometimes there must be in life, and there is no time in life to force it." Now that you are in trouble and have come to join Mrs. Gu, for the sake of your own reputation, the princess will not let go of the young lady in the future, if you are like the eldest lady, isn't it not bad to marry? After all, ...... The slave maid thinks that maybe the second young master Xu likes Miss Chang'an, right?"

Du Ruo took the cup of tea from Mai Miao's hand, and he was quite hateful: "But the eldest lady is just a concubine, the person she marries may be a good person for her, but it is definitely not the good person I Du Ruo wants, I Du Ruo would rather die alone, than be as mediocre as a lotus leaf in the mud." Mai Miao, you also say, I am beautiful. I think He Chang'an is good, Bai Hui is good, in fact, he can be called a general person, not a national color, what is Xu Huanche's eye on He Changan......"

Mai Miao was poked by Du Ruo's nails and felt a little pain, but she didn't pull out her hand, she knew that Du Ruo had too many things in her heart, if she struggled, she was afraid that it would add fuel to the fire, so she could only change the topic: "But Miss, after saying so much, the slave still doesn't understand, why did you tell the second and third ladies about the draft." ”

Du Ruo really let go of his hand, and Mai Miao breathed a low sigh of relief.

"You don't know, even if it's a small election, it depends on the family lineage, as long as one of Bai You and Bai Ci can be selected, the Bai family will definitely not let their daughter enter the palace to serve others, most of them are side concubines or something, since this is the case, it must be brought with a dowry, if I am the henchman of a certain prince's side concubine to marry, won't I have more opportunities in the future? Although he is the only son of the Hou Shizi of Anshun, he will definitely not be too big for the imperial power. If I ask the princess and prince to let me be his person, as long as I don't want to be a wife, it won't be difficult to come. ”

But I secretly hated in my heart, if it weren't for the fact that the draft that He Changan said was not a good thing, how could Bai You and Bai Ci be so easy to dispel the idea of entering the palace draft? You must know how much it took for her to make the two sisters feel that entering the palace draft is something that can not only benefit themselves but also win glory for the family? But a He Chang'an, who can not only make Xu Huan fall in love with his mediocre purple, but also let her miscalculate in a few words, why should she?

Gritting his teeth, three words popped out of his mouth: "He Chang'an!"