"I don't know much, but I just know these words on the contract. Yu Niang said modestly.

"You, why didn't you say it earlier. Steward Zhang was very unhappy, but he didn't want to miss this opportunity to make a fortune, so he was quite tolerant of Yu Niang.

Yu Niang squinted and said to Steward Zhang, "You didn't ask." ”

"You ......" Steward Zhang pointed at Yu Niang with his finger, and was speechless angrily.

The account room standing on the side saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly grabbed Steward Zhang, and whispered in his ear: "When she enters the house, it will not be up to you to decide." ”

Steward Zhang nodded, took out the contract he had written before from his arms and threw it in front of Yu Niang, and said, "Sign it!"

Yu Niang picked up the contract again and looked at it, confirmed that there was no problem, and was about to sign it.

I heard the voice of Steward Zhang above my head: "There is no silver for six months, but the house will provide you with food and lodging." There are also two sets of clothes. ”

Yu Niang listened to Steward Zhang's words and did not look up, and continued to sign. In triplicate, after writing it, it was handed to Steward Zhang.

Steward Zhang took out one of them and threw it on the table and said, "The contract is too short, so you don't need to report it to the government." Just keep these two copies in the house, and you can keep the rest yourself. ”

Yu Niang picked up the contract on the table, stuffed it into her purse and prepared to leave.

Steward Zhang stopped her and said, "Early tomorrow morning, go to find Mama Hua in the backyard, and she will arrange it for you." ”

"Yes!"

Yu Niang turned to leave, and the people behind hurriedly stepped forward to wait for Steward Zhang to choose.

Early the next morning, Yu Niang left the room and walked out of the inn with a bag in her hand.

There were only two cotton shirts and a pair of round-mouthed black cloth shoes in the baggage, and the rest were put into the space by Yu Niang.

Soon arrived at the Liang Mansion on South Street, and at this time there were already many people standing in front of the side gate of the Liang Mansion, but it was still much less than yesterday.

Yu Niang also stood in front of the side door and waited like them. Not long after, the side door opened, and a small guy came out of it and said, "Steward Zhang let you in." ”

Then the door was opened wide to let the people waiting outside in. The men and women waiting outside lined up one by one and walked inside, and Yu Niang also followed behind with her head down and her baggage.

Not long after, the people came into the courtyard. Steward Zhang was already waiting in the courtyard, and everyone was there. After a loud reprimand, he took all the boys who had applied for the boys away, leaving behind all the girls.

After Steward Zhang left, a grandmother about forty years old came over and said to the rest of the people: "My surname is Hua, and everyone in the house calls me Mama Hua." ”

After Mama Hua introduced herself, she began to allocate manpower, and those who were literate, skilled in female workers, and skilled in cooking were all assigned one by one.

There were a few people left around her after a while, Yu Niang looked at the people around her who picked the rest, why didn't these people pick her when she was literate?

Just when Yu Niang was strange, Hua Mama pointed to Yu Niang and said, "You, come with me." ”

Yu Niang looked left and right, and found that Mama Hua was indeed calling her, so she had to follow with her baggage.

Yu Niang followed Hua Mo to the open space outside the kitchen, Hua Mama pointed to the pile of wood on the ground and said, "Chop this firewood, you need to use it in the small kitchen at noon, and the knife is over there." ”

Yu Niang pointed to the pile of firewood with some disbelief and said, "I, chopping firewood?"

"It's not you, it's Mama and me! Hurry up, don't try to be lazy. Don't eat until you finish chopping. ”

Hua Mama said viciously to Yu Niang with slanted triangular eyes, and then twisted her thick waist and left.

Shaking her head and sighing as she looked at the thigh-thick wood in front of her falling to the ground. In order to stay in the Liang Mansion, Yu Niang had to pick up the axe on the side to chop wood.

The maid hiding behind the door saw Yu Niang pick up an axe to chop wood, and left with a sinister smile to report to Mama Hua.

Yu Niang chopped the firewood all morning, tired and sweaty, feeling that the hands and feet were not their own, trembling hands to neatly stack the chopped firewood to the corner of the wall and cover it with an oilcloth, so as not to be drenched in the rain.

After Yu Niang covered the firewood, she was about to sit down and rest for a while.

Mama Hua came out from behind coldly and said, "It's not bad, let's go eat first!

Yu Niang pretended to be timid, lowered her head and silently followed behind Mama Hua to have lunch.

said that it was just two white-flour steamed buns for lunch, and Yu Niang took the steamed buns and put them in the baggage, and then followed another little maid to the place where she lived.

The room is quite big, but there are many people who live here. There is only one bunk in the room, and the people who live in this house are all maids who do chores and do rough work, and most of them are relatively stout.

The people who are not alive at the moment are doing their own things in the room, and when they saw Yu Niang entering, they all looked at it strangely.

The maid who brought Yu Niang over said to the people inside: "This is a new maid, currently doing chores in the backyard."

From now on, you will live here, and you will know each other, so that when you look for someone above, you will not know who it is."

After listening to the maid's words, everyone stopped their work and chattered around.

Someone said, "Sister Lotus, why are you here?" Someone said, "Sister Lotus, did Mama Hua ask you to come?" and someone quietly stuffed something into her hand.

In short, they are all trying to please this maid called Lotus. Yu Niang stood behind her and watched all the time, and did not speak.

It wasn't until the lotus flower left with something stuffed in his pocket that he sat down at the innermost foot of the shop and put aside the burden he had been holding in his hand.

The people in the house saw that the lotus flower was gone, and they saw Yu Niang sitting on the bunk.

Some went on to do their own thing, some went out, and obviously these people didn't want to deal with her.

There was only a girl with a round face, a little dark skin, and many white spots on her face, and sat down next to Yu Niang and said, "I'm a black girl, what's your name?"

Yu Niang leaned her head against the wall, showed a tired smile and said, "My name is Yu Niang, the first day I entered the house, please give me more advice!"

The black girl listened to Yu Niang's words, revealed her star eyes and whispered to Yu Niang: "Yu Niang, you are so good-looking, you are leaning against the wall and have no strength to speak, you are better looking than the five aunts who are most favored by the lord in our house." ”

Yu Niang didn't know how to answer after listening to the black girl's words, so she could only show a polite smile.

The black girl seemed to like Yu Niang very much, and seeing that she didn't speak, she stepped forward and took her hand and said, "Yu Niang, you are not only good-looking, but also very eloquent, much better than the fifth aunt."

The fifth aunt will only whisper in front of the master, and she will have a big temper in front of the maid. Last time, I saw her break Sister Green Brocade's head with porcelain, and she bled a lot. ”

Yu Niang still didn't speak, took out a steamed bun from her baggage and ate it slowly.

She has to hurry up to eat, and she has to wash her clothes in the afternoon, and she has to wash the clothes of the maids in each room, which is the task assigned by Mama Hua before leaving.

Seeing Yu Niang eating cold steamed buns, the black girl poured her a glass of water and said, "Drink some water!" ”

"Hmmm! Thank you, brunette. Yu Niang took the teacup and took a sip to thank the black girl.

"No thanks! you hurry up and clean up! You just came and Mama won't give you a quilt, let's cover a quilt with me at night!"

Yu Niang, who was packing up her clothes, listened to the black girl's words, and then sorted out her clothes as if nothing happened, folded them and put them in the empty compartment of the wardrobe.

The black girl saw that the jade girl had been placed, so she said goodbye to her and went to do the work of the flower mama.

The maids in the backyard are very busy, and there is no time to rest at all.

Yu Niang ate, packed up her clothes and hurried to the backyard to wash her clothes.