Chapter VII
Umalu shook his head: "This can't be counted like this. I don't know if you've ever heard of a sentence called Seon losing his horse, and he knows the blessing and the curse. ”
Sister Wei shook her head, so Umalu told her the story.
After listening to this, Sister Wei Shuang thought for a while and asked her: "Ma Lu, are you trying to say that good things are not necessarily good things, and bad things are not necessarily bad things, right?" ”
Umalus nodded.
Sister Wei Shuang continued: "So let's pick up the golden hairpin and hide it by ourselves, which is not necessarily a good thing. We've exchanged the gold hairpin for the pastry, which is not necessarily a bad thing. ”
"Yes." Umalu laughed, "Our two sisters are so smart. ”
Sister Wei shook her head: "You are not as smart as Malu." ”
The two talked while walking: "I sometimes envy you, envy Niuniu for being so cheerful and generous, envy Yueyue for always seeing things very thoroughly, not as stupid as me." Envy Marrou You know a lot of things, I don't seem to be able to do anything. ”
She said with some sadness: "At home, I am also the one who is not smart. ”
She sighed softly, "If I can be smarter, I can help the family." ”
Umalu patted her forearm lightly and comforted: "Sister Shuang, if you want to open some, how can there be a perfect person in this world." You always envy others, but I envy you for doing a good job of embroidery, unlike me, your hands are very clumsy. ”
These words more or less comforted Sister Wei Shuang.
The two of them went back slowly.
In the evening, the girls in the house sat together and chatted, chatting about the family, talking about the future, and also beckoning the same group of clothed ladies who came in the next room to talk together.
They only whispered to avoid being reprimanded by the aunt who was in charge.
A few days passed without incident, and the day's aunt was watching, and there was a pair of people talking to another aunt, and two palace maids came, holding a tray in their hands, covered with a red cloth, and knocked on the door.
The aunt of the steward went out to negotiate with them, and then Umalus called out.
Umalus knotted the veil in his hand, and then went out.
The aunt in charge said: "Ma Jia knows that it is the golden hairpin you found, and he will reward you." ”
Umalu didn't want it, but when she saw the aunt in charge shaking her head at her, she saluted and took it, saying, "Thank you, Master, for your grace." ”
The two palace maids smiled and saluted and left.
The aunt waited for the two to leave, and looked at her with a slight smile. Said: "I thought you were going to refuse with an iron heart. ”
Umalu said: "I was going to refuse, but when I saw my aunt shaking her head at me, I took it." ”
Umalu gave the money to the aunt in charge: "I will borrow flowers to offer the Buddha to my aunt with this money, if there is no aunt, I will not be where I am today." ”
The housekeeper's aunt refused: "You kid...... Keep it for yourself. ”
Umalus took the money back.
She put the money away, and in the afternoon, when everyone had dispersed, she gave a purse to the aunt of the housekeeper.
The aunt of the housekeeper opened the purse and saw that there was half of the silver in it, and she returned it.
Umalu was extremely firm, and said earnestly: "This is to thank my aunt, without my aunt's words, it would be impossible for the noble Ma Jia to know that I picked up the hairpin." ”
She smiled: "Thank you, aunt, for your kindness." ”
The housekeeper's aunt stared at her for a long time, and finally gave it back to her.
The aunt in charge has always had a smile on her cold face: "Good boy, it's good that you have this intention." ”
When the housekeeper's aunt went back, Umalu saw the palace maid following her from a distance, she smiled and shook her head, and asked Wan Liuha Niuniu to go to the dining room with her, and gave fifty taels of silver to her grandfather.
Eshen was a man with a wide body and a fat body, with wrinkles on his face, and when he saw Umalu, he laughed: "Why are you here?" ”
Umalu also smiled: "I got fifty taels of silver today, and I can't leave the palace on weekdays, so I want Marfa to bring it to my family." ”
Eshen refused: "This palace is full of places to spend money, you Ama and I are still here, where do you need your money?" Keep it for yourself. ”
While they were talking, Wan Liuha Niuniu was waiting in the distance.
Umalu glanced at Wan Liuha Niuniu and said: "When the nobles rewarded me, everyone looked at it, although this money is not much, but what if they can't think about it for a while?" You might as well take it home. If Marfa feels sorry for me and brings me some pastries on weekdays, that's enough. ”
Eshen looked at her with satisfaction: "It's great if you can think about it." ”
He persuaded her: "Don't blame you Ama Eniang, we can't do anything." ”
She smiled obediently: "I know." ”
Eshen accepted her money, and then brought her a bag of pastries from the dining room.
Eshen wanted to touch her head, but finally just patted her on the shoulder and said, "You have money in your hand, you have to collect it yourself." ”
"Okay."
Eshen looked at the sky and found that it was not early, so he urged her to go back.
Umalus did not refuse, but smiled and saluted before leaving.
Wan Liuha Niuniu asked her, "Why do you want to come to see you Marfa today, is it because of the silver you just got?" ”
Umalu stuffed the pastry in his hand into Wan Liuha Niuniu's hand, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, I know that you are smart, so you don't have to show me anything about it." ”
Umalu said, "Let's go back and divide it in a while." ”
"Okay."
Umalus walked easily to the place where he now lived.
She went to see the body's grandfather today, of course, not just because of the silver.
It's been more than a month since she came to this era. In terms of emotion, she should go and meet the family members of this body.
She must have known what was going on with this body.
The family of this body is very good, except for selling women for glory, but it is also really good for the original owner.
The original owner will not be spared, and neither will the thousands of women in the world.
And this is the sadness of this era.
She lowered her eyes and evaluated calmly and objectively.
She is like an outsider in this era, silently watching everything.
Everything was so unreal to her.
They went back to the house, talked and laughed, and played all day.
Umalu was right, the little girl in the same room naturally didn't have any opinion about her because of this matter, and in the other room, there were only one or two people who sometimes mocked her, but they didn't do anything evil.
Often at this time, Umalugh Quan didn't hear it, sometimes Wan Liuha Niuniu heard it, and she would cry out for her, and she had to rush up and scold the two girls several times, but it was Umalu who pulled Wan Liuha Niuniu back.
After many times, the two girls stopped saying anything.
Everyone passed this period without incident.