In an ordinary maid's house, it is generally a large bunk, with a rough wooden box and a set of long tables and benches per person. And in the house of the big maid like them, who is close to the master, even the young lady of the small family can't compare with it, not to mention the ash furniture, the wardrobe, the dressing table, the chair screen, the curtains hanging on the beds, the veil pasted on the window, the material of the quilt pillowcase, and the ordinary daughter of the small household can't use such good material even to make dresses.

Besides, although they are maids, they don't actually do any work, and there are special little maids to serve them.

Qingwen sat on the bed, pulled up the curtain, and took out a small red sandalwood box from under the brocade quilt at the head of the bed, which was specially made by Baoyu for the four big girls around her, and the patterns on it were different.

Qingwen opened the box, which contained the rewards she had given Baoyu over the years, more than ten pieces of various jewelry, the materials were not extremely expensive, but all the workmanship was boutique, looking at these, Qingwen couldn't help but sigh deeply.

In fact, being able to be a concubine for Baoyu with this status is actually an excellent way out, after all, he has no parents, only a cousin who is not angry, and he looks like this, he can't protect himself.

But after experiencing her previous life, Qingwen knew in her heart that although Baoyu was good, he had one thing bad, that is, he couldn't protect himself, in front of outsiders, he would naturally make decisions for himself, but what about his mother?

After all, she is just a maid, even if she is a more satisfactory maid, she is just a maid. Thinking of this, Qingwen came back to her senses and began to take a closer look at her possessions.

The dozen or so pieces of rewarded jewelry, I am afraid that they are worth more than 100 taels, plus their monthly money for these three months and the silver sold as handkerchiefs, a total of five taels, plus the silver beads obtained today, about ten taels, and their entire belongings are almost 120 taels.

Thinking of this, Qingwen couldn't help but smile and bend her eyebrows, so she put away all her belongings, left dozens of dollars on her body, locked the box, put it under the brocade quilt at the head of the bed, and then fell asleep contentedly.

In the dream, she seemed to have really left the house, bought a field and yard, and was no longer afraid. When she woke up the next day, Qingwen still had a lot of memories of this dream.

Unconsciously it has reached the fifteenth day of the first month, this month Qingwen is very happy, not only the monthly money is doubled, but there are also red envelopes to take, although there were before, but at that time the money was not spent as money, so although I was happy to get the money, but it was like that.

And now it's different, Qingwen is now a person who wants to save family property, and the money is very happy, so when she thanked the wife of the house, she was also a few more sincere than usual.

And today, he can go out at night, according to the regulations, the big maid around the masters on the fifteenth day of the first month and Chinese New Year's Eve can choose any day that is not bad, and the raider and Qiu Wen because they have families, so they chose Chinese New Year's Eve to go back to reunite with their families, in the past Qingwen stayed in the mansion for these two nights, after all, her only relative is just a cousin who is not very close.

But this year is different, this year, Qingwen decided to go out for a walk, after all, she plans to leave the house, and it is better to understand the people's livelihood outside as soon as possible.

If you don't even know how much the price of food is, how can you live.

Today, Li Baoyu went to the palace banquet with his wife's ancestor, because during this time, the whole person's behavior is very different from before, and the relationship with the other three maids is much better, although it has not yet reached the point where he can say bosom words, but it is still okay to play together.

Therefore, Qingwen and Musk Yue went directly to the housekeeper in the yard, Mama Li, to report, and the two of them took a pair of cards together and went out.

Along the way, Qingwen threw herself into the ground for the five bodies that Musk Yue admired, and she was also a maid bought from outside, and she had no relatives in Beijing.

When Qingwen went out of the corner gate, not knowing whether to go east or west, Musk Yue had already pulled her skillfully to a wonton stall, and ordered two fresh meat wontons for the two.

The stall is in a small alley, only a few meters away from the entrance of the alley, and outside the alley is the brightly lit and lively street. The stall was surrounded by tables and stools, and it was full of people sitting everywhere, so they had to stand outside first.

Qingwen has never experienced such a scene since she entered Jiafu, standing by the pot and waiting to eat, which reminded Qingwen of her dependence on her parents when she was not sold.

In the low thatched hut, my father was outside breaking bamboo strips, weaving baskets, and selling them at the market tomorrow, while my mother was wrapping her head in a floral cloth and cooking wild vegetable porridge for the family.

I was like this at the time, standing in front of the pot, waiting for the porridge to be cooked, at that time I am afraid that it was the most relaxed and happy time in my two lives combined, but it didn't take long for such a day to come.

Father and mother tried their last strength, but they still couldn't support the family, and when they were sold, Qingwen didn't resent her parents, because she saw too many people on the way to escape, and she fell down while walking.

When they walked to the capital, their family's belongings were only three pieces of torn clothes, the whole capital was homeless, no one would hire them, and they made money in the capital for several days, they met their mother's maternal cousin's family, and the cousin took them into the house to live, the cousin was the ancestor of Jiafu's ancestor, Lai's mother's family, although Lai's mother used to be a descendant of Jiafu, but she had already redeemed her nationality, and now she has bought her own house and land outside, and she is the master.

Although her cousin's family is not rich, they can still live their lives, and at that time, Qingwen saw that her cousin had a dress without patches, and Qingwen realized that children can also wear clothes without patches.

It may be that the spirit was too tense for too long along the way, Qingwen and her mother fell ill on the night she arrived at her cousin's house, and her father went out to fight against the big bag in order to see her mother, and that day he brought back the white-flour wharf from the construction site for the two to eat.

Then he never came back, I heard that he was probably too hungry, and when he crossed the springboard, he was dizzy and fell into the river, and he didn't even find a corpse, and his mother couldn't afford to get sick after hearing the news.

Her cousin's family also has to live, Qingwen watched her aunt go from being happy, stir-frying vegetables and cooking rice to welcome them in, and then to scolding Huai with a straight face every time she saw them, and finally to scolding at the door, Qingwen understood the hot and cold world in just half a month.

Later, once, Qingwen's cousin and cousin walked into the house where her mother lived, and asked Qingwen to go out with her cousin to buy soy sauce in the alley, and when Qingwen came back, she saw her mother crying on the bed, and the pillow was soaked with tears.

Qingwen didn't understand why her mother was crying, at that time in her heart, she didn't think that selling into the Lai family as a maid was a bad thing, but a great thing, because I heard my cousin say that being a maid can not only get a sum of money from selling her body, but also never starve in the future, and have new clothes to wear, and when she grows up, she will have money every month, Qingwen thought, she can buy medicine for her mother to see a doctor, and when she has monthly money, she will save it and buy new clothes for her mother, so that she can wear clothes without patches like her aunt.

So Qingwen was very happy the next morning, Qingwen still remembers, that day her aunt bathed her and changed into clean clothes, after washing, she sat in front of her mother's bed, her mother combed her two beautiful little tugs, and her cousin also took out a red head rope from his arms like a trick. After tying her hair, her mother touched her face and shed tears, Qingwen still remembered that she said at the time, "Mother, I went out to earn money, and when I get the money back, I can cure your illness." Mother's tears fell even harder.

When Qingwen went to apply for the election, all the little girls were crying, she didn't understand why they were crying, wasn't that a good thing?

Only she didn't cry, she smiled, so Lai's mother took a fancy to her at a glance, and asked her why she sold herself, Qingwen said: "My mother is sick, I want to take medicine, and I have to pay for medicine, so I sell my body." Lai's mother just sighed deeply, didn't say anything, and gave her cousin five taels of silver to buy her.

Lai's mother gave her half a day to go back and give the silver to her mother, Qingwen gave the silver to her mother and then went back to Lai's mother's house, at that time she and the maid's sister were learning the rules, while thinking that when they went home next month, maybe their mother's illness had been cured.

In the next month, when Qingwen returned to her cousin's house, she saw white sails hanging all over the house, and her cousin said that her mother had refused to drink medicine since she left, and the night before yesterday, she couldn't hold it and left, Qingwen felt as if she couldn't hear anything and couldn't see anything all of a sudden, but felt that everything around was white.

She stumbled to her mother's house, but there was no one in the house, only a coffin, and her mother was lying in the coffin, her expression was very peaceful, there was neither pain nor struggle, just like sleeping, lying there, Qingwen called her, pushed her, she didn't wake up or move, her cousin came up and took her away, and closed the coffin.

As for how the funeral was treated and how it was buried, Qingwen can't remember it at all, she only remembers that those days were blank. Later, Qingwen rarely returned to her cousin's house, and after another two years, Lai's mother saw that she was clever and sensible, so she gave her to the ancestor of Jiafu, who liked her very much, and after half a year, she gave her to her most beloved grandson to be a big girl.

"Qingwen, don't be in a daze, eat quickly, if you don't eat again, the wontons will be mushy." Musk Moon nudged Qingwen and said.

"Uh-uh, okay." It turned out that when Qingwen was thinking back to the experience before entering the mansion, Musk Yue had already pulled her to find a table where someone else had just left and sat down.

Originally, Qingwen's face was wrong, and Musk Yue didn't want to disturb her, but the wontons were served for a long time, and she ate several of them, but Qingwen still didn't move the chopsticks, and Musk Yue couldn't help but remind her, after all, the wontons were not delicious if they were paste.