Hearing this, the servant woman opened the curtain and pushed Lin Yingsleeve in, and Lin Yingsleeve crossed her hand forward and said a blessing.

The lady in charge stood up, pulled Lin Ying's sleeve and looked her up and down, nodded, and asked, "How old are you?" Who else is in the house? How many years have you been reading? ”

Lin Yingsleeve answered truthfully, neither arrogant nor humble.

"Big lady, it's not me who said, you can't find a second person so suitable in the entire Liuzhou City." The second aunt smiled and asked people to take Lin Yingsleeve out.

After that, Lin Yingsleeve didn't know how to discuss it, and he didn't say anything all night, and at noon on the second day, he sent two sets of head noodles and two taels of silver. Lin Yingsleeve knew that the matter was done, made up her mind, sewed the silver into a small purse, handed it to the servant woman who took care of her, and asked her to hand over the purse to Lin.

Until the morning of the third day, the servants changed Lin Yingsleeve into a color dress, and wore a few vermilion hairpins on her head, dressed like a fairy daughter descending to earth, and got on a sedan chair and carried it to the master's house.

After walking for about two incense sticks, I went around to the back door of a large family and settled down, two maids opened the curtains, held her hand into the door, passed through the hanging flower door, that is, the two sides are the verandah, the corridor is placed with all kinds of bonsai, and there are a row of canaries, parrots, thrushes and other birds on the beam. Walk through the cloister to see a courtyard, the courtyard is planted with the strange flowers and plants that Lin Yingsleeve can't name, the rockery is lined up, the stream spring is clear, walk through the hall head-on, there is an ivory screen in it, bypass the screen, it is the upper room, the upper room is four or five, all are carved beams and painted buildings, hanging is the silver thread string pearl curtain, it is a rare treasure, Jinrui is incense, the treasure is brilliant, like a fairyland.

I saw a lot of maids along the way, all of them were dressed in gorgeous hairpins, and they were more decent than ordinary young ladies.

Lin Yingsleeve muttered in her heart, most of the curtains hanging in this house are pale and white, and they don't look like a girl's attic, and she is a maid, why does the servant just take her to the upper room?

The two maids helped her sit on the bed and kowtowed to her four times, "The slave maid came to serve the little aunt and grandmother on the order of the wife, and asked the little aunt and grandmother to say goodbye." ”

The words of the two maids were like a thunderbolt from the sky, the aunt and the maid were worlds apart, Lin Yingsleeve suddenly stood up, and said coldly: "Didn't you say to buy a big maid who serves the young lady?" How did she become an aunt, it was not clearly written in the paperwork. ”

As he spoke, he was about to go out to find someone to theorize, but the maid stopped him and said with a smile: "We don't understand what my aunt said, we are subordinates who dare not ask about the affairs of the master's family, and we can't do what you said to us. ”

Lin Ying stomped her feet anxiously, got up and was about to walk out of the door, these two maids were afraid that she would run away or seek death and life, so they called someone to come.

The one who came in to take the lead was the daughter-in-law who came to see her the day before yesterday, and Lin Yingsleeve hurriedly asked her: "This housekeeper, my second uncle and aunt said that a big family wanted to buy a maid, and I just came, I am the daughter of a good family, and I must not be a concubine with others......"

Wang Xijia bowed slightly, and replied nonchalantly: "Auntie, this is not nonsense, our wife gave your family a thousand taels of silver, even the palace daughter used in the palace is not worth this money, you don't have to entangle, our Pei Mansion is not the kind of people who buy and sell strongly, and they are noisy to go out and bring their wife and the reputation of the house, how can people like us afford to provoke people like you?" ”

Lin Yingsleeve's eyes were red, her hands were clenched, she was so angry that she didn't know what to say, she knew that the second uncle was not at ease, she thought it was just a deduction, and she didn't want to sell her to someone else as a concubine.

"I advise my aunt and grandmother to be patient, although they are concubines, they are different from those small families. Our wife is a good talker, and the second master's character and appearance will not insult my aunt and grandmother, so why bother to be boring? ”

Lin Yingsleeve said that she would not say anything, she is the daughter of Xiucai, how can she be willing to be a cheap little wife?

There was a commotion in the new house, and the subordinates didn't dare to make good claims, so they quickly went uphouse and went back to being the housewife.

The mother of this family, Zhou, was injured by giving birth to twins, and there were three aunts in the family, and there were seven or eight people in the room, just because the concubines in the family were not high-born, and Zhou was sick and could not be a director, so she wanted to marry a good concubine back.

was afraid that the newcomer would not be controlled, so the Zhou family secretly bought people, and only said to her husband that she was a concubine, not a concubine.

Hearing that there was a commotion, Zhou was not angry, and asked the housekeeper's daughter-in-law Wang Xi's family, "But you didn't make it clear to others?" Otherwise, how can I make a fuss, fortunately, the second master is not here, if I know that the Zhao family is noisy, I will not give me eye medicine in front of your master? ”

Wang Xi's family knelt in front of the Zhou family, and repeatedly swore to explain it to the family who bought the concubine, "Most of them didn't tell the girl, but everyone brought it in, and the whole family knew it, but how can it be good?" ”

Zhou sneered twice, spat and scolded: "You can't do a little thing, what's the use of you?" Something happened to push me on my head, confused things, she brought it over and asked it clearly, is it up to her to make trouble. ”

Wang Xi's family was scolded and had nothing to say, so he had to bring Lin Yingcuff with him.

Lin Yingsleeve followed the maid's daughter-in-law to Zhou's upper room, the big family married a wife at dusk, and the concubine walked through the main hall in the middle of the night, and the maid in the upper room took her into the courtyard. The front hall is where the Zhou family and the housekeeper's daughters-in-law discuss matters, and the back is the living room.

At the door of Zhou's main room, a decent maid came out and led Lin Yingsleeve in, the little maids on both sides opened the curtain, Lin Yingsleeve bent in, bypassed a screen, and saw a woman in her twenties, with a yellow complexion lying on a soft couch, with a thin figure and Zhou Zheng facial features, but a beautiful embryo.

Looking at the momentum of the dress, Lin Yingsleeve knew that this was the housewife of the family, and immediately knelt down and explained the cause and effect of the incident to the Zhou family.

After hearing this, Zhou Shi showed a sympathetic look on his face, and said softly: "I know that you are the daughter of a good family, get up and speak, there is no one else here, there is no need to be like this." ”

Lin Yingsleeve refused to get up, "Madam, I know you are a good person, I will pay you back the silver as soon as possible-"

"Let's not talk about the silver." Zhou interrupted Lin Yingsleeve's words and pointed to the purse on the small table next to him, "You bring it to me and smell it." ”

Lin Yingsleeve saw that Zhou's breathing was difficult, and knew that she had asthma, so she immediately put her purse with both hands.

Zhou pinched his purse and took a deep breath, rubbed his temples, and said with a reluctant smile: "Don't be surprised, I'm not in good health, and I feel tired and panicked when I say two more words." ”

Lin Yingsleeve's heart moved, she remembered that a classmate who also had asthma when she was in college, she knelt up straight, "Madam, I have a prescription for asthma, if Madame is willing-"