"Since the second young lady and the eldest young master came back, our house has really been in chaos."

Early in the morning, the bucket girl heard her father squatting at the door of the house and saying this in a sullen voice, and after speaking, her father took a sip of noodle soup.

Her mother didn't speak, and the bucket girl didn't say anything, and today's big kitchen gave each family a noodle soup mixed with radish leaves and a pair of bread with vegetarian cabbage, and she held half a bowl of noodle soup and half a bun and shrunk aside and ate carefully.

The stuffing of the buns is light, and the wheat bran can be seen on the skin of the buns, and the throat of people is dry when they eat it, so they have to send it down with noodle soup.

Her mother took out a piece of pickles from a porcelain bowl, broke a piece for her father, and took the rest back, before saying to her father, "You went into the garden early after eating, yesterday Liu Cheng was guarding outside the west gate, and I met Aunt Liu coming back from outside, but I helped move some things, but I got a reward, so you should also guard the west door, how can you let others get benefits?"

"Hmph, your eyelids are shallower than the old woman's straw sandal nests, and a few meat buns can be remembered all night? Liu Cheng is an outsider, he will make up when he gets a little benefit, and he doesn't want to think about it, a cheap concubine who doesn't know what to do, she goes in and out every day and is not in a proper manner, can she eat the buns she gave? Don't talk about buns, I'm still dirty when she gives me silver! The reputation of our Bofu for more than a hundred years has really ruined this nest of girls!"

Her father's voice became louder and louder, and Siya felt that if his father could have an axe in his hand, he could cut it to Aunt Liu's door.

Broken buns with a faint smell of rotten vegetables splattered out of her father's mouth and landed on the floor of the house.

Her mother quickly squatted on the ground and picked up all the debris and threw it into the chicken coop in the corner of the house.

"What's the use of saying this? Then Liu Cheng let the family eat meat buns last night, what about you?"

"What about me?" Bucket girl's father threw the buns in his hand into the noodle soup bowl along with the pickles, "My grandfather took care of the yard for the old country! Not to mention a few meat buns, I used to play in the yard of the old man when I was a child! I've played with all the citrons and bergamots!"

Siya shrunk her shoulders, pinched her throat and ate the bun and noodle soup together.

Every few days, her father was going to come to such a scene, and her mother said that her father was crazy.

Once her mother said to her face that her father lifted the deadbolt and broke her mother's head, and her mother lay down for two months before she could get up again.

Her mother had been carrying a water cart in the yard of her husbands, but because of this incident, her errand was delayed, and her father was beaten with twenty boards by the steward, and the errand of washing the bucket in the past was also lost.

On the contrary, it was her mother, because there was a housekeeper and the mother was worried, and the errand was kept in the end, and now she went to fetch water and sent it to the yard of the ladies and aunts every day, and when she came back, it was dawn, and she happened to bring the meal back.

It's just that the meal is getting worse and worse.

"Mother, I'm full, I'm going to wait for an errand!"

The dishes were washed, the floor was wiped, and the bucket girl was in a hurry to go out.

She is also thirteen years old this year, the year before last year, there were twenty little girls in the yard, six last year, and this year there are only people who do not enter the people, and a family girl like her can only wait for some errands by the wall outside, and maybe there will be some errands every other three or five days.

"Wait." Her mother stopped her, and re-combed her hair with her hands dipped in water:

"It's cold, if it's not past noon, don't wait, just when I'm going to deliver water, you're watching my brother at home."

"Hmm."

She straightened her hair like a chicken feather, and patted her on the shoulder:

"If you get your clothes dirty again, you won't come back today!"

"Got it, mother." The bucket girl shrank her hand, and even her toes curled up obediently.

When I got to the side gate of the inner courtyard, there were seven or eight people waiting for errands like her, most of them were little girls about the same age as her, and some were about the same age as her parents.

Qiao'er, the niece of the Lin family's aunt next door to her house, was also standing in the corner, and when she saw her, she hurriedly waved her hand to let her come over.

"Bucket girl, bucket girl! Come on!"

The bucket girl hurriedly sewed from the person

Drilled through.

The two little girls were not dressed very thickly, the bucket girl had the cotton towel his mother gave her around her neck, Qiao'er's most thin neck was exposed unobstructed, and she shrunk her neck in the corner of the wall like a little sparrow about to sleep.

The bucket girl was in front of the little sparrow with her, and she also put one of Qiao'er's hands in her short jacket to warm her.

Today's day is very good, the sky is blue, as if God has turned the previous clouds into snow and cleared.

It's a pity that the eaves in their mansion are too big, and the lanes are too narrow, and few people can stand in the bright ground.

After a while, someone came out of the side door, and the people who had just been squatting or standing immediately swarmed up.

It's like the nest of chickens in the corner of her house that saw the rice crumbs that her father squirted out of his mouth.

The bucket girl was about to squeeze up, but Qiao'er dragged her clothes.

"Bucket girl, let me tell you, you will follow me when someone comes out in a while."

Qiao'er lowered her voice very low: "My sister came back last night, saying that Aunt Liu would pick someone to enter the inner courtyard today, and my sister told Sister Litang that she would call me in when the time came, and you would follow me."

Into the inner yard?

Bucket's eyes widened.

Thinking that the bucket girl didn't believe it, Qiao'er cautiously opened her other hand.

There is a piece of oiled paper inside, wrapped in a piece of red bean snacks,

Frightened, the bucket girl immediately covered her back.

"I didn't disbelieve! You can do this good thing by yourself."

A smile appeared on Qiao'er's face, "I'm scared alone."

But the bucket girl was worried in her heart.

Qiao'er's sister Qin'er is just a rough maid who listens to the dispatch in the yard, and the big girl Pear Candy girl next to Aunt Liu is just a little old friendship, and it is already a great favor to let Qiao'er in.

The two of them waited a little longer, watching the shadows cast by the eaves get shorter and shorter.

"Qiao'er, my mother asked me to go back to see my brother earlier......

The bucket girl whispered.

Qiao'er still dragged her.

The bucket girl struggled, Qiao'er was frozen red, and her hands were already white because of the hard work.

"Qiao'er?"

"I heard your father say that day, I want to hide from your mother and give you to the soldiers in the courtyard."

The snow on the eaves, which no one had cleared, was frozen, melted away by the sun, and slipped down the eaves with a clatter.

It seemed to have smashed on the bucket's head and heart.

There was an amazing master living in the courtyard, saying that he was the prince of the palace, and he brought more than a dozen maids and more than 100 soldiers.

The people who were waiting for errands were crowded in the mezzanine, and the family was waiting for the east courtyard to pick people from the east across the courtyard in a room, but I didn't expect that four or five soldiers would come on the first day with the steward, and seven or eight sisters were picked into the courtyard.

The next day, two bodies were brought out.

The steward said that they did not serve the nobles well.

After that, the family with a fifteen or sixteen-year-old daughter closed the door and did not let them come out again.

But it's not over.

The entire Bofu was blocked, and even her father wanted to go out to gamble with others for half an hour.

Gradually, there are a lot of rights and wrongs in the mezzanine where hundreds of people live.

One night, the family of Xiao Han, who was serving in the uncle's courtyard, was gone.

At dawn, four or five corpses were carried out, and someone came to her mother to bring water to wash the yard, and her mother went, and she didn't eat for a few days when she came back.

Xiao Han's housekeeper used to be decent, his daughter wore a red silk skirt, and walked through the mezzanine with only a ray of light in spring and summer, and the wind was fragrant.

Her father secretly said that Xiao Han wanted to dedicate his daughter to his uncle, and later the uncle was imprisoned, and the prince became the family, and her father said that Xiao Han was going to give his daughter to the prince.

Actually, the barrel

Ya'er knew that what her father said was nothing.

Steward Xiao Han asked for the grace of the prince, and Sister Ping'er was going to marry a commoner outside.

Sister Ping'er said that it was a very ordinary family, the family has more than a dozen acres of land outside the city, a small shop in the city, and the only advantage is that there are two peach trees at the door of the house, and the flowers are very beautiful.

Everyone knows who did such a thing, but no one dares to say it, her father who scolds the aunt in the yard at home doesn't dare to say it, the steward who comes out every day to choose people to do things, and even the masters in the high courtyard wall, they don't dare to say it.

"Those soldiers are not good people." Qiao'er's eyes widened and she said to her.

The bucket slowly sat back in the corner.

The noonday light poured down from the middle of the narrow eaves, and she blinked, and the hot tears fell on the ground and became cold.

It's like snow.

Qiao'er dragged her to death, and also choked quietly.

"Miss Pear Candy, do you have any errands?" There was a voice of speech from within the courtyard walls.

"Open the door."

Almost instantly, Bucket Ya'er and Qiao'er stood up together.

The side door opened, and Qiao'er dragged the bucket and jumped in front of the woman in a shallow red horse-faced skirt.

"Girl! If you're looking for someone to do an errand, come to us! We can do anything!"

Qiao'er, who was also like a little sparrow, pushed the bucket in front of him.

"If you're alone, you're looking for her! She's smart!"

The hands of the two girls were like two very thin silk threads, which had to be wound tighter so that they would not break.

"What's your name?" The woman bowed her head slightly and asked the two little girls.

"Her name is Qiao'er!" Qiao'er said loudly.

The bucket girl burst into tears.

Qiao'er doesn't have a father, and the things that her sister Qin'er sent to her are always robbed by her uncle, and she and her sister dream of scooping her into the yard.

She's in, she's alone outside, how can she live?

"It's not." The bucket girl shook her head, "I'm not ......."

"Qiao'er, you are naughty, I gave you snacks before, why don't you even remember what you look like? I haven't seen you for a few years, but I'm naughty."

One of the woman's hands touched Qiao'er's head, and the other hand held the bucket.

"Just the two of you, come with me."

When the courtyard door closed behind her, the bucket girl looked back at the alley where she had grown up.

It's so bright in the yard.

Not only bright, but also big.

"My name is Pear Candy, and I have always served by Aunt Liu's side, Aunt Liu wants to charge a few more little girls, the second young lady has already approved, and the two of you will serve in Lingbo Yuan in the future."

The two little girls followed behind Pear Candy all the way and twisted all the way, walking all the way along a pool, the bucket girl lowered her head, and even her eyes were honest.

Finally, Pear Candy stopped, and the bucket girl raised her head to find that she had actually entered a courtyard, which was square, planted with trees and flowers, and the sun shone on the residual snow of the eaves, shining.

The curtain of a room was lifted, and out came a woman wearing a brocade robe with a bamboo leaf pattern, her face round and white.

The bucket girl knew she was offended, but she couldn't help but widen her eyes.

This is Aunt Liu? Is this too small?

Just as she was about to kneel down and salute, the woman spoke first, "Sister Litang, this is the little girl you went to find today? They're so small!"

The bucket girl is glad that her knees haven't had time to bend down, it turns out that she is also a maid who is dressed so well?

Pear Candy smiled and said, "Xiaobao, how can you have the face to say that they are small? Go and find two of your old garments and give them them."

Xiaobao snorted, "Why are you looking for me?" I still have to wear my clothes!"

Pear Candy walked over in two steps and grabbed her ear: "You follow your aunt out for four."

Yue has gained more than ten pounds, and his height has grown an inch and a half, where can I still wear those clothes? Find it quickly."

Xiaobao muttered and muttered, but walked to the bucket girl and Qiao'er, but was happy.

"None of them came back with me, and I'm not the youngest with you! Let's go, I'll take you to eat first, then find my grandmother to bathe you, and finally change your clothes."

The small bag is quite planned.

The three of them went to the back of the house together.

Pear Candy looked at it and couldn't help but smile.

Liu Tianxing came out of the house and saw her eldest girl laughing uncontrollably.

"Pear candy? What's wrong?"

"Auntie, don't you look like a fat pigeon leading a sparrow and a quail?"

Liu Tianxing tiptoed and tilted her body to look over, laughing out loud.

By the time Xiaobao brought people back, it had already been an hour later, and Xiaobao's old clothes were also seven or eight points new, and the slightest minor problems had been ironed and sewn neatly by her grandmother.

Finally saw the legendary Aunt Liu, Bucket Ya'er and Qiao'er hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, Liu Tianxing looked at them with a smile and asked their names.

"Lin Qiao'er is very good-sounding, you don't need to change it, what do you mean by this bucket?"

The bucket girl only felt that her feet were soft as if she was stepping on a cloud, and she was scared in her heart, but she was not really timid, and she was forced to hold her neck and say something:

"The slave was born prematurely, and my mother was still delivering water when she gave birth to me, so she gave birth to me in a bucket of water."

"Oh." Liu Tianxing blinked, "My name is Tianxing because my mother always wanted to eat sweet apricots when she was pregnant with me, but she couldn't eat them raw, and she thought about them during the day and at night, she said that she never wanted to eat sweet apricots, I was thinking, so she named me Sweet Apricot." Would you like to change your name?"

The bucket girl thought for a while, "The slave maid asks the aunt to give her a name."

Liu Tianxing's eyes lit up all of a sudden.

"I'll have to come up with a good name for you."

The pear candy and Xiaobao on the side glanced at each other, and when they named the two of them, the aunt said the same thing.

Liu Tianxing frowned, put her hands behind her back, and walked around the room twice like an old pedant, her eyes swept over apples, frozen pears, and yellow citrus in turn.

Then, she opened the box containing the snacks and looked at the walnuts, red dates, quince, dried longan and preserved peaches inside.

"Uh-huh......

Dragged her tongue, she grabbed the preserved peach and walked out.

Li Tang couldn't stand it anymore, and persuaded softly, "Auntie, you can't really go to the kitchen to name her."

Yikes! It's been discovered.

Liu Tianxing, who was going to the kitchen to find inspiration, shook her hand and laughed, "Hehe".

"How can I go to the kitchen when I come up with a name?"

When she had finished laughing, she lifted the curtain of the door, and said with her head held high, "I'm here to see...... Oh, the snow on the eaves looks like white rice cakes."

The pear candy and the small bun sank, and it was over, and now the bucket girl had to be renamed rice cake.

"When I was a child, the young lady gave me white rice cakes, which was about your age, and she coaxed me to memorize poems and write, and I could eat rice cakes after I could write."

The bucket girl looked up cautiously and saw Aunt Liu smiling at herself.

"She taught me to memorize, "In the snow, I know that the spring letter is to, and the cold plum is dotted with Qiong branches," * You should call it spring letter."

Spring...... Letter......

The girl's lips trembled when she got her new name.

"Chunxin, slave maid, slave maid will be called Chunxin in the future."

"Well, your surname is Zhu, so your name is Zhu Chunxin."

After speaking, Liu Tianxing herself became proud: "I just said that I will give you an excellent name!" Oh, it's a pity, there are no plum blossoms in our yard, otherwise we should make a plum blossom cake to be happy."

Why did you talk about plum blossom cakes when it was obviously a name?

It's just that Liu Tianxing is greedy again.

Coincidentally, at this time, a maid ran over:

"Aunt Liu, our young lady called you over to watch the excitement."

"Watching the excitement? What's the buzz?"

Liu Tianxing walked out of her side courtyard with her maids, and saw Xia He in the courtyard next to her also coming out with the child, and the two looked at each other a little dazed.

They originally lived in a courtyard, but when Shen Niangzi came back, she pulled down the empty yard and said that so many empty places should be full, so the two of them each had a yard.

"Xia He! The girl asked us to watch the excitement, do you know what the excitement is?"

"How do I know?"

Xia He is not as idle as Liu Tianxing, she has to take care of her own pair of children, An Niannian's son and Cui Jinniang's son She also has to take care of it.

Liu Tianxing took An Niannian's son Duan Ge'er's hand, and the group walked through the main courtyard where Xie Feng lived in the past, and met Su Yao'er again.

"What the hell is the excitement?"

When she arrived at the door of Qingfeng Xu, Liu Tianxing looked inside and saw several men in green robes inside, surrounded by a huge thing wrapped in red silk cloth.

"Madame!" Seeing "Shen Shiqing", Liu Tianxing immediately ran over happily.

Zhao Surui crossed his waist and stared at the big lump of things that were depressed, and he didn't have a good voice when he saw Liu Tianxing:

"Look at it, I thought it was a lot of expensive things, but it turned out to be plum trees, I can't eat or drink, and it took a long time."

I heard that Shen Sanyu sent something over, Zhao Surui was really surprised, and thought that it would be a few thousand taels of silver, or it was the horsewhip, knife and gun he was used to, and as a result, three trees!

She actually sent three trees over!

On the side, the four rats watched the man dig the pit and bury the tree in it, and he himself swung a shovel to fill in the earth.

"Shen Niangzi, this plum tree is from the garden and rises together with the surrounding six feet of soil, a cinnabar plum, a palace pink plum, a jade butterfly plum, there are red, pink and white, you are not lonely when you enjoy the plum."

Who wants to enjoy the plums!

Giving him two pork legs isn't much more affordable than this.

Zhao Surui raised his eyebrows and asked the four rats, "What did she send this for?"

Doing, doing? That's naturally to please Shen Niangzi!

The four rats looked left and right and whispered:

"Shen Niangzi, my master's heart for you, the little ones can see it, the small ones are talkative, my master's golden body, others have always coaxed him, how can he coax others? I really put you in my heart, so I specially asked the slave to send you plum blossoms, how can you not know such intentions?"

The four rats said and spoke, and they first touched the heart of the emperor.

The expression on Zhao Surui's face gradually faded.

Shen Sanfu, what does she have in mind?

The intention to usurp power?

This is to tell him that there is no hope for him to change his body in the future?

"Think about it, when you were in the procuratorate, our master asked about your daily life almost every day, for fear that you would be wronged, and he had never had such a heart."

Hmph, specially invited me to have a meal and then told me that I don't have any meat to eat in the future?

Let him be hungry and hungry and hungry?

can serve in front of the emperor, and the four rats are also a master of observing words and feelings, but it is a pity that he can't care about observing words and feelings at this time.

"And your old mansion, our master also specially asked us to repair it for you."

That's repairing her own home!

Of course, it's mine.

Zhao Surui glanced at the tree in the distance, cut it, and let the four rats carry it back to Shen Sanfu as a coffin.

"That's right!" The four rats suddenly remembered something very important, "Our master even made you noodle soup with his own hands! There is no second person in the world who wants to eat noodle soup and let our master cook it himself!"

His voice was a little louder than before.

Zhao Surui:

「……」

He touched his chin.

The noodle soup is really delicious.

Let's keep this plum tree.

"I thought it was something expensive, but it turned out to be a few trees, so let's see for yourself." Waving his hand at Liu Tianxing and the others, Zhao Surui turned around a little boredly.

Liu Tianxing smiled and said, "Girl, let's make plum blossom cakes and eat them!"

Plum cakes?

What is that?

The wise and martial Emperor Zhaode stopped.

The red silk wrapped in the plum tree was finally removed, and many petals fell on the satin, and Liu Tianxing hurriedly led people to put away the clean petals.

Red, pink and white, plum blossom cakes must look great!

The four rats didn't dare to stay in front of Shen Niangzi for a long time, so they retreated cautiously, and saw Xie Lin'an standing at the gate of the courtyard smiling.

"Adults come for a cup of tea?"

"No need." Away from the eyes of the emperor's sweetheart, the four rats are also the great eunuchs in front of the emperor who holds the West Factory, where can people like Xie Linan be invited.

"Serve well."

"Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry!"

Walking towards the main gate with people, the four rats noticed that someone was snooping at a courtyard gate, and his heart moved.

The prince of Yingjun has objections, but now Shen Niangzi is still living in Ning'an Bo Mansion.

"How can you allow snooping on the affairs of the West Factory?"

As soon as his words fell, several fans immediately pulled out embroidered spring knives and pounced.

With the knife in hand, several men wearing the guard uniforms of the Yingjun Royal Mansion were dragged out.

"The people of the prince of Yingjun dare to spy on the West Factory?"

As soon as he waved his hand, the fans raised their knives and cut off all the right hands of these guards.

"Prince Yingjun Wang, it's just that you can be powerful and prosperous in the Yingjun Palace, and when you arrive in Yanjing City, it's better to be honest."

After saying that, he led the people away.

Separated by a wall, Zhao Qinyang, who was wearing a sable robe, looked gloomy, and he dared to show him a face even if he was a eunuch?

Little did he know that this was just the beginning.

One night passed, his dark stake in Yanjing City was pulled out, and the group of people who had taken the opportunity to go to Shen Mansion to kill Shi Xinmei were uprooted.

"Girl, it's all done."

Naturally, it was the West Factory that did it, but it was not only the West Factory that was tracking down this matter, smelling the faint blood on Tu Nan's body, Zhao Surui glanced at the beating lights.

"The ones who killed our family, their heads hung at the door of Zhao Qinyang's room, cut the one who was three taels, chopped off his two hands, salted them, and sent them to the Yingjun Palace."

After speaking.

He lowered his head and took a bite of the plum blossom cake.

Sweet, feminine stuff.

He finished eating one and picked up another.