The capital is at the foot of the Son of Heaven and the capital of wealth and wealth.

No, just after entering the New Year, there are often fairy music fluttering in various prefectures, and the streets are even more colorful as daylight.

And Jiafu, which has always paid attention to luxury and pomp, has won the honor of the provincial concubine this year, which is naturally the romance in this romance.

Suddenly, the invitations of the Marquis of Jingzhong flew like snowflakes in the Jiafu.

Years ago, the movement of various mansions was the most frequent, and even Baoyu had to show his face when he went to visit Tian'er. As a direct result, Jiang Yunxuan's subordinates only need to stay a few guards in the nursing home, and the rest are all arranged to work as 'coolies' elsewhere.

"Today, while the girls and wives are going to the Beijing Wangfu Poetry Club, we just went to hang the colorful silk in the provincial villa, everyone cheered up, this is the last time before the year, and we can rest in peace after we finish the New Year." The housekeeper's lady pulled her throat, and the overwhelming colored silk fell into everyone's hands like a cloud, waiting to send it to its final destination.

Yunzhu was holding the silk wrinkledly, fortunately there was a pair of rabbit skin gloves, otherwise it would be difficult not to get frostbite this winter.

She took a closer look, the girls who swept the courtyard already had chilblains, and the fingers that were red like carrots were soaked in hot water at night, not to mention the pain and itching, and the risk of ulceration, a box of clam oil became a precious thing in the inner house.

Things that don't cost a penny in the summer have now soared directly to more than a dozen yuan, and they may not be able to buy it.

The two children gasped when they saw it, and Xiaohong stayed up late that night to make a pair of ratskin gloves and came out.

But let Yunzhu see, Xiaohong's gloves are done in vain, and she has no use for it at all!

It's like this cold day, Xiaohong entrusted her father's blessing, and the housekeeper directly skipped her when she caught the strong man, she only needed to guard Jiang Yunxuan, she was already dutiful, where did she need to do such rough work?

"Alas!" Yunzhu sighed, and sighed in his heart that no matter what dynasty, fighting his father is the only way to live.

"My name is Cuiliu, I am in charge of the West Courtyard, Sister Yunzhu is resting, I am used to doing these jobs, and I am handy." Seeing a girl who was half a head taller than herself, she was smiling, not only calling her sister, but also wanting to take the colored silk in her hand and prepare to do it alone.

This enthusiasm made Yun Zhu startled, and he hurriedly said: "Sister Cuiliu is polite, wouldn't it be faster for us to do it together." ”

The girl smiled, and immediately held Yunzhu's arm, as if the relationship was very close, and said with a smile: "The first Baoyu inscribed a plaque on the villa, such a magnificent and exquisite yard is not common in our house, let's do it slowly, and there are a lot of blessings to see the yard." ”

This is called Yunzhu can't pick up the stubble, the maid said that she is walking in the Rongguo Mansion, in fact, the wealth and romance in the house have nothing to do with these people, just serving the master every day is already getting up early and greedy for darkness, and where is how much time there is to enjoy the delicacy of the yard?

This feels like a modern social animal, eager to die on the workstation, where do you know the humanistic delicacy and natural nature in the city?

It is not the migrant workers who earn 35,000 a month who will appreciate them.

Seeing that Yunzhu didn't have a stubble, Cuiliu chattered in front of Yunzhu again: "I'm afraid my sister doesn't know me, but I know my sister." ”

"Oh?" Yunzhu was very upbeat, and motioned for her to continue, on a cold day, being idle is also idle, it is better to listen to how others gossip, and it is good to warm your ears.

"Qingwen, the needleman in the front yard, can also be regarded as a man of the year in our house."

"That's it."

"You also worshipped her as a master."

"Hey, I'm not good at learning, I'm ashamed of her, but if you say this, I'm ashamed."

"Her brother Wu Gui, married Zhao Deng'er Zhao girl in our yard last month to fill the house, why didn't you see your sister and Sister Qingwen?" Cuiliu went, and Zhao Deng'er happily invited people who were familiar with each other in the yard.

Everyone went for Qingwen's face, who knew that Qingwen didn't go, and even the sisters and sisters who were good with Qingwen in Su Ri didn't go alone.

The abacus failed, Cuiliu held her breath in her heart, and vowed to make Zhao Deng'er lose face to be worthy of the twenty Wen Xi money she packed.

"Huh?" Yunzhu is confused, isn't the official already married and has children, how can this come out to fill the house? Yunzhu's doubts can't be faked, Cuiliu saw it, and her heart sank.

It's over, and the twenty wen is gone.

The many officials are now working in Zhuangzi, and they may not come back three or twice a month, and there is a way for the husband to sing and the wife to follow, and Zhao Deng'er also asked for the master's grace and followed him to the Zhuangzi.

You don't have to separate husband and wife, do you?

Cuiliu shook her head with a pretentious gesture and sighed: "If you want me to say, if you have a decent girl like Sister Qingwen, it is to fill the house, and many officials will not want that notorious woman, it must have been a means to get to the top." ”

Saying that, Zhao Deng'er mixed up with Lai Shangrong, which little guy in the house was in the flowers, and the matter of pulling and pulling with Lian Erye, accurate to the time and place, and quietly and excitedly poured Yunzhu clean, and the sound and color of the ground looked like he had experienced it himself.

"Did you see it with your own eyes?" Yunzhu asked her suspiciously.

"That's not true, it's just that everyone says it, and I heard it with my own ears." Cuiliu was a little embarrassed, but she didn't expect Yunzhu to react like this, but it was not good to continue to talk about the side, so she simply talked about the side without a match.

No one would complain about their boss with someone they don't know, and it was the same in ancient times.

Even if there is a lot of gossip between the masters, just the little love of the second master in the mansion can be talked about for a day and a night, and the two still tacitly keep silent. It's just that the parents in the world are short, and Yunzhu feels that no one is right, and he lost interest without saying a few words.

The colored silk on the beams of the house has long been hung by craftsmen, just for the color is fresh and not dirty, and the colored silk between the flowers and trees in these cloisters needs to be hung by the maids, just for the day of the Yuan Province to be perfect everywhere.

After the two of them hung up the colored silk in their hands, they went elsewhere to help get it. said that it was to help, and discrimination was to wander around, walking and turning, and this was the first time Yunzhu had looked at such a huge courtyard.

Although it is inevitably depressed in winter, but under the corridor next to those flowers and trees, the platform and position have been placed, just waiting for the Lantern Festival day to move the delicate flowers and green trees in the conservatory.

Walking under my feet, I couldn't help but be stunned.

It's big, and it's beautiful.

She is a little poor in words, and she used to be locked up in Qianyunxuan, and all she came into contact with was boiling tea, delivering water, and making contacts......

Looking at the empty plaque above the attic, I thought that I would have to wait for Yuan Chun's approval before the final nomination appeared, and Yun Zhu didn't know where it was for a while.

But no matter where it is, it is surrounded by pavilions and pavilions, and the rockery is full of flowing water, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a step and a scene, even if the cold wind blows her face, she unconsciously begins to look forward to the days after moving into such a fairyland.

Before I knew it, I walked to an attic on living water, and just as I was about to go around, I heard a string of silver bell-like laughter.

Yunzhu was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously moved to the side of the rockery a few times, but saw a woman wearing a green gown and a magenta pomegranate skirt walking in at the door.

On the contrary, like the girls around the wives and grandmothers, they may also be girls. Seeing her walk in, Yunzhu wanted to leave, but she could see that the ice on the ground was finely sealed, lest she stain her newly made cotton shoes. So I was about to step back to the porch, and when I was lifting my skirt and legs, I heard the faint voice of the people.

"Why are you here now, didn't you call you home?" It's a male voice, and it's not surprising that there are little servants cleaning up the yard in the inner courtyard right now.

"If I don't come, you're a blind person, and I don't know what kind of rags you will take back." This beautiful female voice sounded a little old, a little sarcastic and eager, and unconsciously made Yunzhu pause.

Collect the rags.

The subordinates took the idle goods rewarded by the master out of the house, some were sold, some were used for their own use, and many big girls with status privately called this kind of behavior collection of rags, after all, the good things, the master's family would rather put them in the warehouse and put them, and would not easily reward people.

"What are these words? The eldest girl hasn't come back yet, so I can't take those conspicuous things, right? Let's go back, and we'll talk about it after the first month. ”

"Oops, it's all here." The female voice said hurriedly.

"Shut up, I'm not at home all day, I've moved a lot of things back, and you take care of your sister, just come to our house to eat white food in the autumn breeze if you're fine, what are you talking about?"

The female voice was silent for a long time, and the voice in the room paused, and she didn't breathe hard for two minutes, and then she relented: "I'm also straightforward and fast-talking, don't be angry, now that you have a body, don't come out and run around in the winter, if there are three long and two short, how can I live with Jingjing?" ”

Jing Jing Xu is their family, Yun Zhu guessed.

"Is this okay?"

"Nope."

"Where's this?"

"This is not good, it is so conspicuous, Ming'er Butler will know it as soon as he checks it out?"

After asking several times in a row if it was okay, Yun Zhu couldn't listen to his intuition anymore, so he quietly raised his skirt and prepared to run to the end of the corridor as soon as he slipped away.

However, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes.

The door creaked again, and looking through the cracks in the rockery, the woman in the magenta pleated skirt just now was holding something in her arms, and stepped out of the house with difficulty, and said with a satisfied face: "I'll go back first, and wait for you to come back at night!" ”

When she went in, her belly was not so big, and when she came out, she was slightly pregnant, was she looking at people for fools?

"Okay, okay, be careful on the road, don't ......" The man looked around and pushed the woman out of the door.

That look, I don't know which lady is the new girl next to her, Yun Zhu searched her mind, but she didn't think of who her surname was.

But Yun Zhu can see clearly that the little guy is Jia Zheng's side and works under Xing'er, and he is also an unknown 'honest man' on weekdays, how can he be so crazy? How dare you steal in the Grand View Garden?

According to the law, slaves and maids steal, according to the degree of punishment, punished with whipping, sentenced to clean out of the house or beheaded, whether there are serious beatings or deaths, are these people crazy?

Yunzhu didn't dare to stay longer, there was still an hour before dinner, she didn't want to be hungry and blow the cold wind in the Grand View Garden, so the two of them walked on the front foot, and Yunzhu went straight to the needlework room on the back foot.

Blowing the hot water cup in his hand, Yunzhu's expression was hidden between the water vapor, and he couldn't see it really, but the words reached Qingwen's ears in a daze.

She seemed to be a little dazed, just because Yunzhu didn't like to listen to the news, and she looked like a diligent quail, but now she was like this, but people were not used to it.

Seeing that Qingwen was silent, Yun Zhu couldn't help but be concerned: "How is my sister-in-law recuperating now?" She was still at a loss, and although she had some guesses in her heart, she refused to believe it.

Qingwen was silent for a long time before she said to Yunzhu: "My brother said that he fell when he went to the river to wash clothes, and he was found after lying in the snow for a long time, and he went home to ...... Convenient...... I had a high fever and ...... in a few days."

She looked at the cup in a daze.

Yunzhu felt that the warm breath in the room dissipated in an instant, and it was as quiet as an ice cave.

The two sat opposite each other for a long time, silent, after all, it sounded too bizarre.

"Do you think I'm too cold-blooded? Pity my niece and nephew who is now in infancy, if she can get a kind stepmother, maybe she can still have a life. Originally, I searched for the girls who were going to be released after the year, and I also wanted to find him a safe and gentle one, but he ......" Qingwen said these things slowly, choked up several times in her throat, obviously extremely uncomfortable.

One is uncomfortable that the gentle and kind sister-in-law went; the second is to empathize with the infant child; The third is that it is uncomfortable for many officials to remarry, and they completely ignore the persuasion of her sister and find such a 'dangerous element' to go home.

Qingwen was so angry that her hands and feet were cold when she thought of the appearance of many officials who had gotten into a dead end and couldn't get in, she never thought that Cousin Wu Gui, who was a family member with her heart and lungs, would think like that!

She never thought of finding someone like the lamp girl to go home to be her sister-in-law, so she deliberately turned a deaf ear to Wu Gui's new marriage, and never told the people around her, she was afraid that others would laugh at her, and she was afraid that others would look down on her.

Many people in the house who knew the inside story came to say hello to her, but they didn't have a good face and stabbed them coldly.

Because Yunzhu was silent, it was obvious that both of them knew about Zhao Deng'er's 'heroic' deeds, so they sighed in unison.

Listening to Qingwen's low sobbing, Yunzhu didn't know what it was like in her heart. I had to step forward and hand over the handkerchief, and gently soothed him, talking about the wind and moon I saw on the wall when I went to Lai's house to congratulate him last year.

After thinking about it, he told Qingwen about the scene when he met Zhao Deng'er on the day his daughter-in-law gave birth.

Before Qingwen Haosheng asked what the situation was, Yun Zhu smiled bitterly: "Now that the Si people are gone, the living is the most important thing, I looked at Zhao Deng'er coldly and seemed to be a person who could live a stable life, no matter what happened in the past, it was a foregone conclusion, and now the little niece needs you." ”

She didn't ask Qingwen why she didn't go or inform everyone, Qingwen has a good face, and there is no need to dig out those old things and talk about them in detail. only knocked on the side to mention Qingwen, or send the lamp girl to Zhuangzi and the officials earlier, so as not to have a lot of wind and rain in the inner house.

"Find a reliable nurse too." Yunzhu thought about it and added another one. Wu Gui is a reckless man, raising a young child who has not yet been weaned is probably laborious, no matter how romantic the lamp girl is, in the end it is a girl's family, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

Qingwen was stunned for a moment, then sighed again.

"You're right."