Maid of a wealthy family

Chapter 2 The wealthy beggar (2)
But the little girl gave Lan Hongen a cute "me" and pushed Lan Hongen away.Lan Hongen was stunned, looked at the woman puzzled, and asked: "What's the matter, don't you do this?"

The little girl twisted her body coquettishly, a very professional smile flew out of her dark eyes, but she didn't say anything, she just stretched out her slender hand to Lan Hongen.

Lan Hongen understood, and immediately took out a handful of money from his pocket, stacked them neatly on the table, looked at the little girl and said, "Are you afraid that the master won't give you the money? If the master can afford a woman, will he give it to you?" money?!"

The little girl tilted the money on the table, shook her head and remained unmoved.Lan Hongen got anxious, and said unhappily: "Why, do you still think it's too little? Well, if you let the master have a good time, you can add more if you make the master happy." After finishing speaking, he took out another handful of money and added more.

The little girl's charming big eyes were filled with endless tenderness, and she smiled at Lan Hongen.Then, he started to untie the coat on his body.

Lanfu Manor is located in the countryside two miles away from Liujiangchang.The manor faces south from the north, and is mainly composed of three entrance buildings: the chaomen, the front hall, the back hall, and the left and right wing rooms.There is a crane flying pattern in the middle.There are wing rooms on both sides of the facing gate, and a watchtower to the west.There are windows on all sides of the watchtower. Standing on the upper floor, you can observe the surrounding movement; to the east is the stable.Entering the chaomen, there is an empty yard inside, called the front yard.The yard is built with one-color bluestone slabs, and a corridor is built with red glazed bricks in the middle.There are wing rooms on both sides of the courtyard, and on the left is the academy, where generations of scholars from the Lan family receive enlightenment education.Of course, at the same time, some management personnel and rich gentry children of Lan Mansion were recruited to enroll here.On the right is the theater building. During festivals and birthday celebrations, Lanfu invites disciples from Liyuan to perform on stage here.But the owner of the Lan Mansion usually doesn't watch plays here, it's just a place for servants and handymen to entertain.The owner of the Lan Mansion mostly watches plays in the Dongwan Building in the back garden.

After walking through the front yard and going up two steps, it is the front hall of the Lan Mansion.The building in the front hall is tall and spacious, and the main room is called the living room.The reception in Lan Mansion is graded, and the upper living room will only be for ordinary guests, so the equipment is relatively simple. The rooms on both sides of the upper living room are called "Reading Table" and the other is called "Yangxinzhai". When Ding Xingwang, one of the masters of the Lan Mansion really studied and nourished his heart.But now there is only one seedling of Lan Hongen in Lan Mansion, and there is a huge back garden, so this place has no real name, and now it is the place where the chief housekeeper and the accountant work respectively.Behind the upper living room, there is another empty yard, and a south road is still made of red glazed bricks in the middle.The wing rooms on both sides are called "East Guest Building" and "West Guest Building".This may be regarded as a souvenir from the time when the population of Lan Mansion was prosperous, there were many guests, and the house was full of high-profile friends, and now the management staff of Lan Mansion live.

After passing the backyard, there is another building, which is the back hall.The main room in the middle of the back hall is called the middle living room.Lan Manor's special guests met here, and the furnishings were naturally more solemn and complete than the upper living room.The buildings on both sides of the living room have poetic names, one is "Wangchun Building" and the other is "Yicui Pavilion".Why are there such two names?It turned out that besides the three entrances and the wing rooms on both sides, this building in Lan Mansion also had a back garden connected to the middle living room by a passage—Ouhe Garden.The building of this lotus garden is extraordinary, with towers, pavilions and pavilions in a well-arranged arrangement, cornices flowing, twists and turns, rockery, flower beds, ponds, and verandas, everything you expect to find.This is where the owner of the Lan Mansion lives. Because lotus roots are planted all over the pond in the garden, this probably also shows the taste and ambition of the owners of the Lan Mansion for generations.The scholarly family of Lanfu for generations follows the legacy of the ancestors that "men and women are not intimacy" and "there are differences between inside and outside". The servants and servants of Helan Mansion are not allowed to enter this garden.Even the big butler can only stop at the "Zhizu Pavilion" in front of the garden gate.An old woman named Wang Ma is in charge of the garden's logistics service.When the big steward has important matters, he will report to Wang Ma in the "Zhizu Pavilion" at the entrance of the garden, and Wang Ma will then inform the master of the Lan Mansion.It is the water used in the "Ouhe Garden". First, the servants of Lanfu carry water from the well, pick it up next to the "Zhizu Pavilion", and then pour it into a large tank, letting the water follow a curved path. The crooked "Qudi" gurgled into a huge stone jar under the "Yongyue Tower", and then Mama Liu took it for the master.Because this garden is as fortified as the dormitory of empresses and concubines, although the scenery inside is beautiful all year round, many people in Lan Mansion have no chance to enjoy it, so they can only stand upstairs on both sides of the middle living room, Looking here, you can feast your eyes on the green color.Therefore, there are two names, "Wangchun Tower" and "Jiancui Pavilion".It's just that I don't know whether the master chose these two names on purpose, or whether they were added by others, and I have no way of investigating.

The building in the back garden is the same as the building in the front main house, full of the ingenuity of the master of Lan Mansion.The three-entry buildings in the front are closely connected, and there are two empty yards in the middle. The central axis of the yard is specially paved with red glazed bricks to form a straight line, which runs from the front door to the middle living room. seal up.Therefore, the whole building is like a big "field" character, which cannot be separated from the field and planted. This is one of the family heirlooms that the ancestors of Lanfu have kept for generations, and it is the most important family heirloom.However, although the buildings of "Ouheyuan" are sparse and scattered, they are more regular.Just look at the lotus pond, square and upright, with a low-lying middle, and a good inkstone on the end.Surrounding this inkstone, the "Yongyue Tower" in the east is an ingot of ink, and the "Tongming Pavilion" in the north is a standing pen, while the "Banxia Hall" in the south is a pen holder with convex and concave shapes, which is very charming.There is also a flat yard in front of the lotus pond, which is also paved with bluestone. This is a piece of paper spread out.There are also some other buildings, such as the Yiyuan where the old lady lived, the spinning building where Mrs. Lan was a female celebrity, and the Hongyin Pavilion where Lan Hongen met special guests, etc., all of which resemble the "Four Treasures of the Study" of scholars.

When Lan Hongen, Cao Yuru, and Chu Jiamao were drinking at the "Shiqiao Restaurant" in the city in the afternoon, there was a girl on the "Wangchun Building" next to the living room in Lan's mansion, facing the brilliance of the setting sun, while looking at Lan Hongen. The scenery of the back garden of the mansion sank into his mind.

The girl's name is Dacui, and she is a girl from Lanfu Intermediate Court.

She only entered Lan Mansion in spring.

The house was leaking and it was raining continuously.It was the terrible spring famine in March, and Da Cuiniang gave birth to a little sister who was as skinny as a cucumber.Below Dacui, there are Ercui, Sancui and Sicui.Da Cui's father separated the cucumber-like baby's legs and looked at it. He picked it up and walked out without saying anything.

When Da Cui Niang saw her, she hurriedly asked, "Father Cui, what are you doing?"

Da Cui's father didn't turn his head back, and said in a low voice, "Drown this little puppy!"

When Da Cuiniang heard this, her head went "boom", and she rushed over and hugged the man, ignoring the blood dripping from her lower body, and cried, "Oh my God! You've been killed by God, why are you so cruel? She But your own flesh and blood..."

Da Cui's father didn't even look at Da Cui Niang, and said with a "wow": "I'm cruel? I didn't know she came out of my bones? What year is this? The insects and ants don't even eat it." Now, what can I feed her if I leave her? Instead of letting her starve to death with hemp strings in the future, it is better to drown her now!" After finishing speaking, he picked up the naked baby and started to leave again.

At this time, Dacui came back.When Da Cui came back and saw everything, she understood what her father was going to do, so she knelt down to her father with a "plop", and cried, "Dad, let her stay, she will have a good life."

Da Cui's father was tortured by life so that everything was not pleasing to the eye, and after hearing Da Cui's words, he took his anger out on Da Cui, as if his daughter had brought about this poor life.He kicked Da Cui and said, "Leave her?! Leave her to cut off your body to feed her?!"

Da Cui said: "Just sell me!"

Da Cui's father laughed "hehe" a few times, and said, "Even if I sell you, it won't be worth the price of a donkey. What will I do in the future?"

Dacui said: "I will go out and be a servant to earn money to support her!"

Da Cui's father said disdainfully: "In these days, who has the money to hire you? Unless you are a big family like Lanfu."

One sentence reminded Da Cui.The next day, she quietly rushed to Lan's mansion to meet the butler—in terms of seniority, the butler was an uncle from her distant room.

Da Cui told the uncle what she thought.After hearing Da Cui's words, the big housekeeper glanced at her, pondered for a while and said, "I can't decide this matter, I have to agree with the master! You wait, let me tell the master before I can talk about it!"

Da Cui was afraid that the housekeeper would not help wholeheartedly, so she begged, "Uncle, I will leave this matter to you, you have to say something nice for me!"

The big butler said: "It all depends on whether the master is happy or not!" After finishing speaking, the big butler walked out.

After a while, the butler came back and said to Da Cui: "Come with me, the master wants to see you."

Da Cui went with the butler with some trepidation.The butler brought Dacui to the "Yangxinzhai" next to the upper living room.Lan Horn was already waiting there.Master Lan's eyes widened when he saw Dacui. Although the face of the 17-year-old girl was a little yellow, her body, which had been tempered by the wind and rain of nature, was extraordinarily plump and strong, which was fascinating.The two newly mature hills on the chest are slightly raised, and from the patched clothes, there is a special charm that only virgins have.Master Lan's eyes fell there, motionless, as if he wanted to peel off Da Cui's clothes, and see through the body of this poor girl who came from the crop field.

Da Cui was embarrassed by the sight, and a blush welled up, covering the disheveled face.She lowered her head, staring at the ground anxiously with her big eyes.

The housekeeper saw Master Lan's expression.The butler has worked in Lan Mansion for decades, and he has become a roundworm in the stomachs of Lan Manor people.He looked at Lan Hongen's dazed look, smiled slyly, and said to Dacui: "You want to work in Lan Mansion, but you must make the master happy, do you hear me? Whatever the master wants you to do, you have to do it. Otherwise, you don't even want to stay in Lan Mansion!" After speaking, the butler went out and closed the door behind him.

As if everything was premeditated, as soon as the butler left, Master Lan rushed over like a bull in heat, and pushed the panicked Da Cui to the ground.

In this way, Lan Hongen left Dacui to do some hard work as a maid in the middle courtyard.

During the past three months, Dacui has been restless.Although her expression looks very quiet, sometimes, there is even a kind smile of a farmer's daughter on the corner of her mouth.However, she dared not think about what the master did that day.Everything is like a person who has no way out and is in a desperate situation. She can only resign to fate and let God arrange it.What's more, she herself is a weak little girl?She wants to eat, she wants to live, she wants to save that poor little sister who just fell out of her mother's womb... She has to bear the humiliation.She might have been born that way.Therefore, she kept her eyes open, endured the pain of her stomach being hollowed out, and silently endured the master's ravages.

Fortunately, after that time, the master never came to harass her again.She thought, maybe the master has forgotten her, maybe the master has no chance.

Now, Miss Dacui is leaning on the railing of the "Wangchun Building", silently looking at the scenery of the "Ouhe Garden" where the master, the old lady, and the wife live. The setting sun is smeared on the towers, pavilions, rockery, flowers and trees, and it is brilliant. The splendor makes the garden even more mysterious.Looking at it, Miss Dacui suddenly heard what Wang Ma told her two days ago: "Miss Cui, have you heard? The old lady let out her mouth and said that she wants to find a girl who is close to her!"

Da Cui remembered hearing this, was taken aback, and blurted out: "Really?"

Wang Ma said: "But the old lady told me herself! She said that I will look for it after the 'Qixi'." After a pause, Wang Ma stared at Dacui again and said, "Miss Cui, I think you are very clever. She is quite honest and quiet, you might as well go tell the old lady and go to her side!"

Dacui thought "Gorden" in his heart, but said lightly: "Wherever I go, I will work!"

Wang Ma said: "That's different! Being a girl in the back garden not only makes life easy, but also eats well and dresses decently. The old lady and wife are happy, and the reward is higher than the salary. Besides, the prime minister's family Seventh-rank official, what kind of family does this family have to look at: they have to be around the prime minister! Being a maid next to the old lady is also a servant, but it is quite different from the servants and maids in the front yard! "

(End of this chapter)