Daming female local tyrant

As soon as Jing Lan returned to Shen's other courtyard and reported to Huixiangju, she met Cuizhu first in the courtyard.

Cui Zhu grabbed her hand so painfully, and told her excitedly: "Sister Lan, I was picked by my aunt, and I'm going to the city with you to Xiao's house!"

After hearing this, Jing Lan congratulated her, saying that now she finally got what she wanted, and she didn't have to stay in this country anymore.

But Cui Zhu said that it is thanks to Jing Lan, because she went in to see her aunt just now, and her aunt said that because she has a good relationship with Jing Lan, she let her and Jing Lan make a pair together, learning from An Dong and An Chun How to serve my aunt.In this way, she and Jing Lan have a bright future.

"The future is great?" Jing Lan asked puzzled.

Cui Zhu pulled Jing Lan behind a clump of flowering trees in the yard, and leaned against her ear and told her, "Aunt and grandma probably mean that we two will be the nests of An Dong and An Chun in the future. Think about it." , An Dong and An Chun are both [-] and [-], and in a few years, they should be released to make a match. By that time, the aunt and grandma will no longer have a maid in charge, and you and I can be promoted to be maids."

Now Jing Lan understood, and patted Cui Zhu on the shoulder: "Work hard, you will have a bright future."

Cui Zhu giggled, she said that her aunt told her to wait for Jing Lan outside, Jing Lan went in to meet her when she came back, and went to dinner with Jing Lan, so she told Jing Lan to go in quickly to see Shen Wan.

"Then wait for me." Jing Lan grabbed a handful of dried sweet potatoes from the basket and gave them to her.

Cui Zhu immediately stuffed two dried sweet potatoes into his mouth, and told Jing Lan to go in quickly to see Shen Wan while saying it was delicious.

Jing Lan originally wanted to let Cuizhu carry the basket and tell her to wait for him outside, but when she looked back, she thought that the girl was a foodie, so if she asked her to watch the basket for herself, she would have to eat too much.Although these things in the basket were worthless, they were the wishes of the family, so of course she wanted to keep them and enjoy them slowly.

So, she took the basket and went directly to the main room of Huixiangju to meet Shen Wan.

At that time, Shen Wan had already finished her calculations and was resting on the beauty's couch. She looked at the sky outside and guessed that it was time for Jing Lan to come back.

Sure enough, the maid guarding outside the room came in and told that Jing Lan had returned and was waiting outside.

Shen Wan asked the servant girl to ask Jing Lan to come in and meet her. At this time, An Chun and An Dong were waiting in front of Shen Wan.

An Dong rubbed Shen Wan's shoulders, An Chun took a pair of beauty hammers to knock Shen Wan's legs.

After Jing Lan came in with the basket, she saluted Shen Wan and said, "Girl, I'm back."

Shen Wan told her to get up and talk, and then let An Dong and An Chun go down for a while, and came back when they were eating, saying that they were also tired today.

Now that Jing Lan is back, let her massage her body.

An Dong and An Chun accompanied Shen Wan to settle accounts today, and they were indeed tired after a day of calculation. Now that Jing Lan, who is good at serving the master, has returned, they also want to go down and rest for a while.

So they withdrew.

Shen Wan beckoned Jing Lan to go over, and when Jing Lan came to her, she stretched out a hand and said in a harmonious voice, "Help me up."

Jing Lan hurriedly put down the basket in her hand, and stretched out an arm to help Shen Wan. Shen Wan helped her to sit up, and then asked her to go back and bid farewell to her family, was everything going well?

When asking this question, Shen Wan noticed that Jing Lan's eyes were not red or swollen, it seemed that after returning home, she was not as inseparable from her family as she thought, and her eyes were swollen from crying.When she settled the score in vain, she was still secretly worried that this girl would see her family when she went back, and she would not want to leave them, she cried so badly, and felt sorry for her when she came back and saw her.

Shen Wan felt that Jing Lan's current life was indeed a little different from her previous life. For example, in her previous life, Jing Lan bid farewell to her family, but her eyes were swollen from crying.At that time, she didn't pay special attention to Jing Lan, but she still remembered seeing Jing Lan sweeping the floor in front of her with swollen eyes.

Jing Lan in this life is more generous and lively, and doesn't seem to be sentimental.

Shen Wan felt that Jing Lan, who was different from her previous life, was not bad.

After Jing Lan came in, she had already heard that Shen Wan was going to ask her to tap her shoulders for a massage, so after Shen Wan sat up, she asked herself to rub her shoulders.

Shen Wan said no need, pointing to the basket on the ground, she curiously asked Jing Lan what was inside.

Jing Lan went to uncover the floral cloth on the basket, and introduced to Shen Wan what was inside. After finishing speaking, before Shen Wan could speak, she went to get a plate and put the dried walnut kernels, sweet potatoes, etc. in the basket. Grabbed some and put them in.

Then she brought the dish to Shen Wan, and said with a smile: "Girl, these are some earthen things made by our country people, you can have a taste."

Shen Wan hadn't eaten anything, and the plate Jing Lan was carrying contained four items, dried sweet potatoes, walnut kernels, fried peanuts, and rice crackers, which looked very rough.It must be said that if Jing Lan didn't bring these things to her, she would definitely not eat them.

But at the moment Jing Lan had a smile on her lips, and she served it to her, of course she wanted to eat.

Shen Wan picked up one of each and put it into her mouth to eat, and soon found that although these earthen objects were rough and not good in appearance, they still tasted good, especially the rice cracker was very distinctive, salty and sweet.

So she ate two yuan, and told Jing Lan that the rice crust was very special.

Jing Lan cheerfully told her that it was her grandmother's handicraft. She added honey, salt and leftover rice to the iron pot of the firewood stove and baked it over low heat.If you want to bake this crispy rice into a golden yellow color with three flavors of salty, sweet and fragrant, you must master the heat. If the heat is not enough, it will not be fragrant. If the heat is too high, it will be messed up.

"Then you know how to make this rice crust?" Shen Wan asked.

Jing Lan said that she could cook it, but not as well as her grandmother. She asked Shen Wan if she liked to eat this crispy rice.

Shen Wan said it was okay, since Jing Lan returned to the city with her, she could make some and put them in front of her, she would eat them occasionally.

Jing Lan agreed immediately.

Shen Wan then told her: "I have decided to bring Cuizhu back to the city, I brought you both back to the city from the Shen family's other courtyard, so it will be convenient for us to work and talk together in the future."

Jing Lan said: "I was outside just now, and I saw green bamboos, she said that the girl told her to have dinner with her when I came back."

Shen Wan: "That's what I said, you can go now, and you will come when you are on duty, and you are still on duty tonight."

Jing Lan agreed, and left her own basket in Shen Wan's room. Anyway, she would go to eat with Cui Zhu later and come to serve Shen Wan to sleep, so she was on night duty.

Compared to sleeping with that girl Cuizhu, and having to be disturbed by her grinding her teeth and talking in her sleep, which made her insomnia and irritable, it was a pleasure to come to stay with Shen Wan on night duty.

She likes this job, chatting with beauties, sleeping with beauties...

Thinking of accompanying Shen Wan to chat in the tent burning with goose pear fragrance the night before, and sleeping next to the beauty, she still felt happy.

So when Jinglan had dinner with Cuizhu in the dining hall of Shen's courtyard, she was in a very happy mood.

Compared to Jinglan's happy mood, Cuizhu was extremely excited. Her mouth was always talking, and it was hard for her to take care of eating.All the maids in the dining hall knew that Cuizhu was about to follow her aunt to Xiao's house in Jinling City, and from then on she would leave the Shen's courtyard in the countryside and fly to Gaozhi to become a phoenix.In their hearts, being able to go to the Shen family or Xiao family in the city to be a maid is equivalent to turning a chicken into a phoenix.

All of a sudden, Cui Zhu received all kinds of eyes, and Jing Lan, who was next to her, could see it very clearly. She summed it up in five words: envy, jealousy, hatred.

When Jinglan suddenly found that Cuizhu had replaced her as the object of envy of the maids in the dining hall, she couldn't help but laugh secretly, her appetite whetted, and she ate three bowls of rice in a row.

Cuizhu was so focused on showing off and bragging, that she didn't even finish a bowl of rice when she was taken away by Jing Lan.

Jing Lan said that she couldn't stay here for too long, she was going to take a bath, changed into clean clothes and went to watch the night in front of Shen Wan, if she was late, the master would be upset.

After hearing this, Cuizhu hurriedly said that she would take Jinglan to take a bath. After all, serving the master is more important than anything else. Only by serving the master well can she and Jinglan have a bright future.It was Jing Lan's blessing that she was able to go to the city with her aunt.

Jing Lan said immodestly that it seems that you are still a sensible person.

Cui Zhu chuckled, telling Jing Lan to take care of her more after she enters the city.

Jing Lan patted her on the shoulder: "It's easy to say, easy to say, everyone will take care of each other."

Green Bamboo said cheerfully: "Okay!"

Accompanied by Cui Zhu, Jing Lan went to the maid's bathhouse to take a beautiful bath, changed into clean clothes, saw that it was time to light up the lights again, and went to Huixiangju.

Hui Xiang lives in Shen Wan's bedroom, she has also been taken care of by An Chun and An Dong after taking a bath, changed her pajamas, leaned on the Babu bed, and rested on the big green satin pillow.After doing the calculations for the whole day today, she was a bit tired, so she didn't read a book before going to bed as usual, or set up a chess board and play the endgame by herself according to the chess record.

An Dong put a table lamp on the small table in front of Shen Wan's bed, and put goose pear incense in the gold-plated incense ball in the tent, lit it, and then retreated.

Outside the door, a maid has already announced through the curtain that Jing Lan is here and ready to stay overnight.

Shen Wan asked Jing Lan to come in to take care of her, and the rest of her staff stepped back and went to rest. After getting up early and having breakfast tomorrow, everyone went back to Xiao's house.

An Dong and the others retreated, and Jing Lan came in.

She went to Shen Wan and bowed to her, and then asked if she could beat and rub her shoulders herself.

Shen Wan said yes, she still turned her back, gathered her black hair to her chest, and exposed her entire shoulders to Jing Lan.

Jing Lan stretched out her hand to knead her delicate shoulders like the night before.

To say that Jing Lan's massage skills are mediocre, even inferior to An Chun and An Dong who have served Shen Wan for many years, but Shen Wan inexplicably likes Jing Lan's hands kneading her body. Kneading her shoulders and the back of her neck made her want to let out a comfortable sigh, but she held back.

Just let Jing Lan knead her shoulders three times, and she is already addicted. I hope that every night Jing Lan's hands can be separated by a layer of fine cloth, so that the heat from Jing Lan's palm can pass through that layer of fine cloth and reach her skin. superior……

I don't know if Shen Wan was a little tired today, or if it was too comfortable for Jing Lan to rub her shoulders, after a quarter of an hour, Shen Wan actually fell asleep.

Jing Lan called her softly from behind, but she didn't answer, Jing Lan knew she was asleep.

Pulling back the brocade quilt to cover her, Jing Lan lowered the curtain, replaced the table lamp with a candle, and then walked to Luohan's bed opposite Ba Bu's bed.

Shaking out a quilt as a cushion and a bed as a quilt, she took off her outer dress and got into the bed, her head resting on the pillow, without thinking about anything, and soon fell asleep.

Xiangtian woke up at dawn, this time she and Shen Wan woke up at the same time.

Shen Wan opened the curtain and got out of bed, Jing Lan sat up and rubbed her eyes, and stretched her waist by the way.

"Alan." Shen Wan looked at Jing Lan and called her warmly.

"Hey, miss, are you awake?" Jing Lan turned around and asked with a smile.

Seeing Jing Lan's well-slept appearance and her smiling face, Shen Wan was in a good mood.

She said: "Wash up in a while, you and Cui Zhu will serve me to eat the morning food. After eating the morning food, pack up and go back to Xiao's house in the carriage."

Of course Jing Lan agreed.

Not long after Shen Wan woke up, An Chun and An Dong led the maidservants in to help Shen Wan wash and comb her hair.

Jing Lan was led by other maids to the ear room next door to wash her face, rinse her mouth and comb her hair.

Then when the cook in the kitchen delivered the breakfast specially made for Shen Wan, she was sent to serve Shen Wan for breakfast.

She went in with Cuizhu who was waiting outside the door, and Cuizhu took her to serve Shen Wan porridge and vegetables.

Jing Lan followed suit, she was the one who made the second bowl of porridge for Shen Wan, and she also learned how to cook cloth dishes in no time.

Because Jing Lan was in front of her, Shen Wan ate an extra bowl of porridge than usual.

She put down her chopsticks, and gave Jinglan and Cuizhu the two uneaten plates of side dishes on the table, and asked them to take clean bowls to serve the porridge, and another pair of chopsticks to eat with the two plates of side dishes.

It wasn't just porridge and side dishes on the table, there were dim sum buns, etc. Shen Wan didn't touch those things with a chopstick, so they gave Jinglan and Cuizhu to eat together.

Since the kitchen specially made breakfast for Shen Wan, of course all the ingredients are the best, and the food is exquisite and delicious.

Jinglan and Cuizhu ate very happily, they were quite satisfied with this breakfast, and both of them were full.

After breakfast, other maids came in to collect all the dishes and chopsticks.

Shen Wan sat under the south window of the east room and drank two courses of tea. An Chun and An Dong came in and reported that the car was ready, and Shen Wan could take them back to Jinling City.

"Okay, let's go." Shen Wan stood up and took the lead to go out.

An Chun and An Dong followed behind, and other maids and wives walked behind carrying burdens and various things brought by Shen Wan.

Jing Lan and Cui Zhu followed behind those maids and women.

Jing Lan was holding a basket in her hand, which contained snacks given to her by her family and Mrs. Chai, and she was carrying an oiled paper umbrella on her back.Cuizhu walked happily at the end, carrying the expensive toilet.

There were several carriages parked at the gate of the Shen family's other courtyard, Shen Wan got into the front one with the large emerald curtained carriage, An Dong and An Chun got into that carriage afterward.The rest of the people got into the carriages behind them one after another.

Jing Lan and Cui Zhu were arranged to ride in a black-painted cab with the two maids Shen Wan brought from Xiao's house.

When the two servant girls saw the two of them, they were far more enthusiastic than when they went to Qixia Temple together last time.

They said that they did not expect Jinglan and Cuizhu to have such luck, they were picked up by their master and brought back to Xiao's house in Jinling City, and now they all became the same servants in front of Shen Wan.

Last time, they just regarded Jinglan and Cuizhu as the two last-class maids, and they didn't think much of them at all, so they didn't introduce themselves to them.This time, they took the initiative to introduce themselves to Jing Lan and Cui Zhu.

Among the two, the taller and thinner one said his name was Pineapple, and the shorter one was called Kumquat.Both are 15 years old this year.

Upon hearing the names of these two maids, Jing Lan wondered why they were the maids of the Xiao family, and the names were the names of fruits, which were different from the names of the maids around Shen Wan.

Sure enough, they went on to say that they were originally maidservants for Shen Wan's mother-in-law, Tang Shi, and after Shen Wan married into the Xiao family, Tang Shi gave them to Shen Wan to order.At that time, they were about the same age as Jing Lan and Cui Zhu, and three years had passed since then.

Pineapple and Kumquat were especially envious of Jing Lan, saying that she was picked up by Shen Wan as soon as she came, and she was there to serve her in the bath, and she was also on duty at night, and in the past few days when Shen Wan came to Shen's other courtyard, Jing Lan had been on duty three times by herself, but It is said that he is very much loved by the master.

"My sister will have a great fortune in the future. If that day comes, don't forget us." Jin Ju said while grabbing Jing Lan's hand.

Jing Lan didn't like being grabbed by unfamiliar people, so she smiled and said that she would not forget them, while calmly pulling her hand out of Kumquat's hand.

Cui Zhu asked the two maids about the situation of the Xiao family. Jing Lan pricked up her ears and listened carefully. She was about to go to a new place and saw many strange faces. When the eyes are dark, it is easy to make mistakes.

According to the two servant girls, the Xiao family has a history of more than 100 years as a prominent family in Jinling.

There are five people in the entire Xiao family, who live in the Baishi Street area, and most of the houses and shops on both sides of the street belong to the Xiao family.The Xiao family made a fortune in the grain business, owned a fleet of grain transport ships, and occupied several freight terminals.In short, in Jinling City, the Xiao family is second to none when it comes to the big family of grain business.

The person Shen Wan married was Xiao Yulang, the grandson of the head of the Xiao family clan. This Xiao Yulang was born to Xiao Yanlu, the eldest son of the great master Xiao Yongqing and the eldest wife Peng, and the Tang family.Xiao Yanlu and the people of the Tang family reached middle age and had only one son and one daughter.The son is Xiao Yulang, who is 19 years old this year, and the daughter is Xiao Ruyu, who is 13 years old this year.

As the name suggests, Xiao Yulang is called Yumian Langjun, which fits perfectly with Shen Wan, a beauty of ice and snow.

When the two got married back then, the scene was a sensation in Jinling City, full of red makeup, and joyous joy.Everyone was very optimistic about this marriage, saying that they were the right couple, and they must be extremely loving and enviable after marriage.

However, after marriage, the two can't be called loving, they can only be said to be on equal footing, respecting each other as guests.

As the two got married for longer and Shen Wan was not pregnant, the elders of the Xiao family became more and more dissatisfied with Shen Wan as a daughter-in-law.Because Xiao Yulang is the eldest grandson of the patriarch of the clan, if nothing happens in the future, he will be in charge of the Xiao family and become the patriarch.

No matter what, Xiao Yulang couldn't have no heirs, otherwise the position of patriarch would have to be changed.

Therefore, after three years of marriage between the two, and Shen Wan's stomach still hadn't moved, the elder of Xiao's clan and others had strongly expressed their opinion, that is, they wanted to take concubines for Xiao Yulang, let the concubine's room give birth to a son for Xiao Yulang, and the son would be raised by Shen Wan. with.In this way, Xiao Yulang will have a descendant, and the position of head of the Xiao family will not be left behind.

Kumquat and Pineapple expressed the same concern, that is, if Shen Wan can't conceive again, then the matter of Xiao Yulang's concubine will definitely be settled.Since there is a concubine, there will be a second and a third.Such things are commonplace in the Xiao family.

Speaking of which, the masters and young masters of the Xiao family had quite a few concubines, but these concubines rarely gave birth to sons, and most of those who had children were daughters.

When Cuizhu heard this, she asked them why the Xiao family's concubines seldom had sons, but most of them gave birth to daughters.

Kumquat hesitated for a long time before telling Cuizhu quietly, not to mention the Xiao family, even other big families in Jinling City, few concubines can have children, and even fewer have sons.Because these concubines, whether they can give birth depends on the meaning of the main wife. If the main wife doesn't let you have a baby, she will give you avoiding son soup.

Even Jing Lan, a traveler, knows about Bizitang, but she read it in a novel and thought it was a non-existent thing. She didn't expect to hear Jinju talking about it now, and there is such a thing.

Those who gave birth to children were mostly people trusted by the main wife, such as dowry maids, and girls from distant and poor relatives from their natal families.

Speaking of this, Jin Ju looked at Jing Lan and said with a smile, "Maybe my sister is a lucky one."

Jing Lan looked at her eyes and immediately understood what Kumquat meant.Before, she heard Cui Zhu always said that she had good luck, but she thought Cui Zhu was talking nonsense and didn't take it seriously.But now after hearing Jin Ju's words, she couldn't help wondering if Shen Wan was so kind to her. Could it be that she made up her mind to accept herself as a confidant, and then give herself to her husband Xiao Yulang as a concubine, which is better than letting an outsider be Xiao Yulang's concubine.Many regular wives of wealthy families do this when they take concubines for their husbands.

If this was the case, Jing Lan would really hate Shen Wan to death.

She will feel that she has been used by Shen Wan and has been ruined by her for the rest of her life.

However, she immediately thought that she was only 13 years old, at such a young age, she must be a little too young to be a concubine.

So she said to Kumquat: "Sister, I'm only 13 years old, too young, I don't have that kind of luck."

After hearing this, Kumquat laughed at Jing Lan. She said that there were many maids who were taken in as roommates by the master at the age of 13. If you want to be a concubine, your regular wife must be willing to take your tea, or you can only be a concubine if you are pregnant.

So, being a concubine is not something a maid can do as she wants, even if you are confiscated by the master.

Jing Lan's chest was congested, and she thought that if she was coaxed by Shen Wan to be Xiao Yulang's roommate as Jin Ju said, wouldn't that be even worse?

This evil and inhuman feudal society!

And that sinister Shen Wan who is beautiful on the outside and evil on the inside!

Seeing that the carriage had entered the bustling Jinling City and was getting closer to Xiao's house, Jing Lan's resentment was getting bigger and bigger. In her eyes, that Xiao's house was like a fire pit, and she was about to be pushed down by Shen Wan up.