Zhou waved his hand, "After you listen to me, even if I am willing to let you go back, you return the silver, what should you do with your aunt and your brother?" You can't bear to watch your family starve to death? You stay, and your brother still has a chance to get in. Saying these two words, Zhou coughed several times.

Lin Yingsleeve was silent, what Zhou said was right, even if she washed and sewed day and night after she went back, she didn't have the money to buy winter clothes for herself, the Lin family and her younger brother, let alone let Lin Xiaofeng go to school.

"You don't know yet! It's the same with selling to large families as maids. Zhou asked Lin Yingsleeve to open the purse, "Your paperwork is here, I really don't want to, and I don't force it." However, this document is as far as you know, the second master and the others in the family only know that you are a good concubine, which is equivalent to marrying in, and your status in this house is second only to me, if you have a son and a half daughter, then you are comparable to me, I am not a person who is jealous and can't tolerate people, as long as you have a little conscience, I will not treat you badly, just think about it. ”

Lin Yingsleeve took out his self-selling documents, pinched them in the palm of his hand, and was about to thank the Zhou family when he heard the servant woman outside reply.

"Madam, the second master has returned home."

Zhou sat up in shock, and was about to order someone to invite Pei Yuan over, when he heard a voice outside: "The second master went to Aunt Zhao's grandmother's house." Zhou lay down with a lost face, and said in a fluke voice: "Fortunately, if the second master goes to the new house, I don't know how to explain to him." ”

Lin Yingsleeve bit her lip and thought about how to tell Zhou.

"You go back to rest, I'm also tired, Vanilla outside will arrange someone to send you, stay here for a day today, and I'll send you out tomorrow."

Lin Yingsleeve thanked him, and a few well-dressed big girls went in to serve the Zhou family, and two servant women carried lanterns to send Lin Yingsleeve back.

Coming out of Zhou's main room, the servants took her through the corridor, "Go this way, it's easy to bump into the housekeepers and ladies on patrol over there, and the wife said that you can't let others know." ”

On the way, Lin Yingsleeve and the servant woman inquired about the origin of the family, Zhou's health is not good, and now the head of the family is an aunt, this aunt is the master of the family, and it is inevitable that she will act out of her way, and she will not be a unit.

Back in the bedroom, the house is spacious, exquisitely furnished, and full of wealth.

"Auntie, our wife personally arranged your house, and the other three aunts and grandmothers in the family don't have such good things." The maid Caixi followed Lin Yingsleeve and waited, and when she saw her looking around, she said a few more words.

Lin Yingsleeve didn't speak, let her be a concubine, even if it was good, she lived as a slave and a maid.

Sending the maids out, Lin Yingsleeve took out his deed of sale and looked at it, and was immediately taken aback by the amount above, no wonder the second uncle's family was so enthusiastic. turned out to be a full thousand taels of silver, and the second uncle's family gave the Lin family only sixty-five taels of silver, plus the house, it was only eighty taels of silver.

If you go out, how can the second uncle's family take out the silver?

The more I thought about it, the more my heart sank, this time I was dead, Lin Xiucai was able to earn seven or eight taels of silver without eating or drinking for a year, how could the Lin family get a thousand taels of silver?

It seemed that he couldn't go, Lin Yingsleeve sighed and sighed, thinking that even if the second uncle was willing to hand over the silver, what should Lin and Xiaofeng do? offended the Lin family's only reliance on the Tang family, and Tang Moxing has always been high-spirited, she refused to get married, and it was good to go out and not fall into the well.

After a night of tossing and turning, Lin Yingsleeve figured out that it was better to stay than to face a lot of headaches when she went back. Last night, the master of this family went to Aunt Zhao's house, and he must have disapproved of Mrs.'s arrangement, so maybe he kept her like an idler.

Before dawn, she called Caixi, these are the two maids arranged by the Zhou family to serve yesterday, Lin Yingsleeve said to her, "I want to see Madame." ”

This maid knew that Lin Yingsleeve was going out yesterday, and knew that she wanted to understand, so she said with a smile: "Auntie and grandma don't know the rules at home!" Our wife is the commander of the three products, she is called Mrs. outside, and everyone in the family is called Mrs., and it seems too frivolous to call Mrs. and make people laugh. ”

Lin Yingsleeve immediately changed her words, Zhou avoided people last night and said that she had left room for herself, and she naturally couldn't shake out last night's events in front of others.

"My aunt and grandmother waited first, and my wife didn't get up so early."

Lin Yingsleeve saw that this maid was articulate, wearing a light green armor, a tender yellow skirt, and a bright appearance, and she looked like a shrewd maid. I chatted with her, and I knew a little bit about the situation at home, so as not to make people laugh at the wrong step.

Without saying a few words, a mother-in-law came over and said to Lin Yingsleeve: "Auntie and grandma, hurry up, Mrs. should almost get up, you are a newcomer, you have to go over first before you lose your courtesy." ”

Before dawn, Lin Yingsleeve hid the deed of sale in her sleeve, followed her mother-in-law out of the door, walked through a back porch, passed through the garden, and went out of the corner gate to be a north-south wide sandwich road, and then passed through an east-west hall, and entered the courtyard where Zhou lived from the west gate. Walking along the back porch, there was already a little girl in front of the door who quickly opened the curtain.

The upper room was quiet, Zhou's courtyard was much more magnificent than her residence, both were some Yao grass flowers, green pines and bamboos, and there were a few beautiful maids sitting under the corridor, or doing needlework, or boiling decoction. There were two cranes standing in the yard, looking for fish to eat in the small pool.

A vine on the rockery is involved, and a bunch of red fruits grow in the emerald green leaves, which are bright and beautiful, and the small fruits reveal a strange fragrance, and the fragrance is refreshing.

When a few maids saw her coming, they nodded politely as a greeting, and did not get up.

Caixi quietly told Lin Yingsleeve that the eldest maid who was serving by his wife's side was the second master, and he would also give some face.

Lin Yingsleeve was a newcomer, and he didn't want to make enemies with people, so he greeted the maids, and stood at the door of the corridor, waiting for the summons inside.

I remember how many concubines in many dramas are pampered and arrogant, and they don't take the main room in their eyes, but the drama is a drama after all, and it can't be taken seriously. First of all, the main room is from a famous family, and the husband is a good family, the concubine status is low, even if she is favored, the deed of sale is in the hands of the main room, and she is not happy to say that she will sell it. If the concubine does not perform the concubine ceremony, if the husband and the owner come out for the concubine after the main room is sold, the family of the main room will ask the guilty to come to the door, if it is not good, it will directly sue the yamen, and a favorite concubine will be charged with killing his wife, even if the official worships the prime minister, he will be belittled by the court.

Concubines are slaves, and wives are dominant, so the daughters of good families are unwilling to be concubines, even if they are official eunuchs. As everyone knows, the more powerful they are, the more important the rules.