My surname is Qiu, my name is Ziluo, I am of Chinese descent, and I am 21 years old this year. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the day I can remember, I have been by Mrs. Xu's side. It is said that I am an orphan, Qiu, is my original surname, Ziluo is the name given to me by Mrs. Xu, and I was adopted by them since I was a child. However, I don't have the blessing of being the eldest lady of the Xu family, because I am just a maid.

In the Xu family, all the maids have to perform their duties and be busy, and I am no exception.

When I was a child, I was probably young, so the housekeeper assigned me the task of picking strawberries in the strawberry field. I would always wear a small floral skirt and hold a small bamboo basket, sweating profusely in the sunny strawberry fields.

I've never worn a new dress of my own. All my little dresses were made for me by an older maid from the beautiful curtain cloth that had been replaced at home.

Her name is Kelly, and she is an aunt who lives in the same nanny's room with me, and she is a tailor who specializes in sewing and things like that.

We have a total of 8 beds in the nanny room, all of them are maids, in the Xu family, there are many such nanny rooms, because the Xu family is too big, the big one is like a museum.

When I turned six, I was no longer just picking strawberries. The housekeeper gave me a worksheet that was my own. I couldn't fully read the words at the time, but after Mei Zizi took it back to the nanny's room, Aunt Kelly frowned and went straight to the housekeeper with my worksheet.

I didn't know why Aunt Kelly was so angry, so I just quietly hid behind the stone pillar at home and listened.

Aunt Kelly said to the housekeeper, "She's only six years old, and she can't do so much work. Get up before dawn to mop the floor, and go to the kitchen to wash the dishes, she's still a child, it's time for her to go to school! The young master has been in nursery class since she was three years old, and she will be seven years old after this winter! ”

But the housekeeper said, "I can't help it, that's what Madame meant." Besides, how can Qiu be compared with the young master? She's just a maid, why send her to school? ”

I wiped my tears, ran back to the nanny room barefoot and waited quietly, after Aunt Kelly came back with a regretful face, I looked at her with a big smile: "Aunt Kelly, don't be angry, I will do whatever the housekeeper arranges me to do." I can do it. ”

Aunt Kelly looked at me and hugged me in her arms with a distressed expression: "I don't know what Mrs. thinks, you are still so young, how can you do so many things." ”

Despite the desire to go to school, I had to surrender to fate.

Since then, I have been getting up at half past four every morning with my eyes rubbed, and then carrying a small basin of water, rubbing my towel, starting from the first staircase in the house, and going up step by step.

In the beginning, I would always cry because of the sore arm, I was hungry, and the smell of cheese would always waft from the kitchen by the stairs, but I could only smell it, and I couldn't even see the shadow of the food.

This life lasted until I was ten years old. After I was ten years old, Mrs. Xu suddenly called me to her side, and I became her personal maid.

Although I still have endless dirty work, Mrs. Xu gave me a chance to read and write.

I didn't know Chinese before, everyone around me spoke English, and my spoken English was very good, but I wasn't told how to spell the sentences I said, in other words, I was just an illiterate person who could speak, but didn't recognize English.

I was eager to learn how English was spelled, how it was grammar, how it was written, and something deeper.

However, Mrs. Xu asked me to learn Chinese with Young Master Xu, and from that day on, everyone I came into contact with spoke Chinese.

Mrs. Xu said, I am originally Chinese, and every Chinese must learn the language of their motherland.

When she said this, her eyes lit up, and I understood that Mrs. Xu is a person who misses the motherland very much.

The study of Chinese is very strict, and if I can't complete the knowledge taught by the teacher, I will be punished for hitting my palm. It was beaten by the teacher with a small bamboo, and it hurt very much.

Still, I'm just as grateful.

I often think that if it weren't for Mrs. Xu, maybe I would have starved to death.

Mrs. Xu is the most perfect woman in my eyes: she is elegant, beautiful, gentle, demure, she is full of wisdom and kindness.

She likes art, and there is an entire floor in the castle, which is full of Mr. Xu's famous painting gallery for Mrs. Xu, as well as her own independent art studio.

She doesn't like to be disturbed or close to her when she paints, so she only asks me to make coffee and bring it to her desk every time. Whenever the sun sets, she will always look at the eastern sky in a daze, sometimes she will shed tears, when she finishes thinking about her distant relatives, she will turn her head to look at me, that kind and detached eyes, very ethereal, as if through me, to fantasize about another person.

Because of the Chinese class, I became good friends with the young master.

He said that when he heard my family call me "Qiu", he felt that it was not good, and he wanted to give me a nice English name.

I waited with great anticipation until I was fourteen years old, once Mr. Xu's family went to Paris for a vacation, I heard that the winter there was particularly beautiful, the young master had to take me, we spent Christmas together in Paris, the sky was snowing, I happily stretched out my little hand in the snowy street jumping and laughing.

It was the first time I left the Xu Family Castle and saw the outside world, and I was full of novelty about everything.

The young master looked at me quietly, grinning at the corner of his mouth, he stepped forward and pulled me, looked into my eyes, and said softly: "Do you know, how beautiful your eyes were just now, those are the clearest and cleanest eyes I have ever seen." ”

After saying that, he took my face and kissed me on the forehead, and I was startled, and he said, "I have you figured out your English name, Lillian, which means purity and a covenant with God." ”

"A covenant with God? Chaste? Lillian? ”

I whispered, and he took my hand and wrote the spelling of my new name in the palm of my hand, and I remembered it with my heart, looking up at him, his smile so warm and charming in the sun.

After returning to the Xu Family Castle, the young master gathered all his subordinates and officially announced that he was not allowed to call me "Qiu" in the future, but to call me "Lilian".

But a week later, Mrs. Xu arranged for me to leave the Xu family and go to Singapore to study, the young master asked Mrs. to lose her temper, but Mrs. said that Singapore is more suitable for me to study, and she will not take me back in the future.

Seven years have passed in a flash, and now, I am 21 years old, and Mrs. Xu said that I can go back to Xu's house.

Looking at the ticket in my hand that I can fly back to the United States in two days, I think of the castle that carried the most years of my life, and my prince - Xu Ning, will you still remember me?

[Author's digression]: Smart babies, can you guess who the 21-year-old Qiu Ziluo is?