Datang beauty walk

By the side of the road, they can walk through the city gate normally after the armored soldiers pass by.

After spending the night at Xiaoxing all the way, Lu Xiaotian came to the house where Danniang and her parents used to live.Three years later, the house has been covered with a desolate scene, the house is dilapidated, and the iron lock on the door is rotted and rusted.

Because the Chen's house was dilapidated and uninhabitable, Lu Xiaotian first found a place near the Chen's house, and then contacted the buyer.However, the situation of selling houses at this time is even more sluggish, and no one is willing to take this house.After more than half a month, the house was finally sold at a low price.

After selling the Chen family's house, Lu Xiaotian planned to return the same way, but then he remembered that when he was working as a nursing home in Mr. Liang's Liang Yong's mansion, Mr. Liang and his wife treated him and Qi Qing well. The county is also close to the Liang Mansion in Jingzhou City, so I just took this opportunity to visit.So, he bought some meeting gifts and went to Liang Mansion.

The family members of Liang's mansion saw Lu Xiaotian and hurriedly welcomed him in. Lu Xiaotian talked with the family members of Liang's mansion who were familiar with him and had guarded Liang's mansion together for a while. After a while, Liang Yong sent someone to tell him to come See you in the hall.

Lu Xiaotian stepped into the front hall and saw Liang Yong and his wife sitting upright in the hall.

"I've met Mrs. Madam!" Lu Xiaotian cupped his hands and said.

"Xiao Tian, ​​are you here? Please sit down!" Liang Yong said.

"Please sit down!" Madam also said.

"Thank you, Mrs. Madam!"

Lu Xiaotian sat on the single couch at the lower left of Mr. Liang, and asked:

"Master, madam have been safe?"

"It's an eventful time right now, and my Liang mansion is not at peace! It's just a few more gray hairs! Why do you have time to come here today?" Liang Yong asked with a sigh.

"More than half a month ago, I went to Sui County to deal with the old house left by the deceased. Now that the work over there is finished, I came here to visit you two."

"How is the house?" Madam asked.

"Okay." Lu Xiaotian replied.

"Xiaotian, my Liang residence is short of manpower, I would like to invite you to continue working as a nursing home here, what do you think?" Master Liang asked him.

"Thank you, master, for your kindness. It's just that I'm a laid-back person, and I like to be free, and I have something to do with my family, so I can't get away for a while. If the master wants to find a nursing home, I can recommend a few people for you."

After Liang Yong heard this, he didn't insist, and asked him again:

"when are you going back?"

"I'll be back today."

"Since we're here, why are we in a hurry to go back? You and I take this opportunity to have a few drinks and catch up on the old days. It's not too late to go back tomorrow!"

Lu Xiaotian saw that Mr. Liang wanted to stay with great enthusiasm, so he also readily replied:

"Then respect is worse than obedience!"

Liang Yong's mansion covers an area of ​​more than 20 mu, and there are [-] mu of fertile land outside the city. There are not many people in his family, but Liang Yong's parents are both in good health.Mrs. Liang was originally a lady of the family, with a straightforward personality and a good relationship with Liang Yong. Although she could not be called the Lion Roar of the River East, she did not allow her husband to marry another house. Liang Yong only had her wife.

Liang Yong ordered people to set up a banquet, and chatted with Lu Xiaotian over warm wine, and they soon talked about the current situation in their home country.

"Xiaotian, you've been traveling all the way, what's the situation outside?" Master Liang asked.

"My lord, the situation is similar everywhere. There were uprisings in many places. I was on the road, and I saw soldiers in armor passing through the streets frequently. There were also a large number of exiles. Many good fields were abandoned and no one cultivated them. "Lu Xiaotian poured wine for Liang Yong and said.

"Hey, the world is in such turmoil that the Great Sui Dynasty seems to be coming to an end!" Liang Yong raised his wine glass and drank the wine inside.

"No way, this Great Sui, although it has only been a few decades since unified the world, has a strong army and only a few generals gathered in the court. Why is it dying so soon?"

"So what? Didn't the mighty Qin Shihuang, who was so powerful in the six kingdoms, perish after only two generations? All these things are a waste of money. Those huge projects have exhausted all the money in the treasury, and they have extorted money from the common people, causing public grievances. However, the heroes took the opportunity to revolt, open warehouses to release grain, and relieve the people, in order to meet the public's will. Therefore, So many people responded to them one after another. Even if there are some useful generals in the court, it is difficult to resist the chaos of the whole world."

"If the imperial court can't calm down the riots in various places, the world will fall into pieces, right?"

"Right now, many people want to establish themselves as kings and expand their respective powers. In the future, their ambitions will expand day by day, and they will covet the throne of the emperor. Therefore, there will be times when you will fight each other and fight with each other. But I don't think there is such a thing in the world. For long-term things, there will always be someone to reunify the world, but I don’t know who will have the blessing of the emperor and how long it will take.”

"I'm just a warrior. I don't know much about the country's major affairs. I don't have a far-sighted vision. I can't see the future form. I only hope that the world will be peaceful soon, and the common people will stop suffering."

"I, Liang, don't have any great talents, so why don't I hope for the peace of my family and country? It's just that things backfired!"

……

Lu Xiaotian and Liang Yong talked about the world situation in the small world in the room. They chatted while drinking, and talked until midnight. When they were drunk, they went to rest separately.

☆, divination

On the second day, Lu Xiaotian woke up drunk. After washing up, he went to bid farewell to Mr. Liang. As soon as he arrived at the door of the hall of the Liang residence, he saw Mrs. Liang coming out of the hall fully dressed. Lu Xiaotian cupped his hands and saluted:

"Ma'am, are you going out?"

"Master Lu is up? Today is the first day of the new year, and I am going to take Chen He to the temple to burn incense." Mrs. Liang said.

Lu Xiaotian looked down at the little man in brocade clothes next to Mrs. Liang, and asked:

"Is this Miss Chen He? I haven't seen you for more than three years. I've grown up so much. I've seen Miss before."

Mrs. Liang turned sideways and said to her daughter beside her:

"Chen He, this is Uncle Lu. When you were young, you used to play with Uncle Lu's daughter, Qiqing. Do you remember? Uncle Lu!"

By this time, Chen He didn't have much impression of Qi Qing, and she didn't seem to know this Uncle Lu anymore, she just called "Uncle Lu" obediently.

After Lu Xiaotian agreed, he asked Mrs. Liang:

"Ma'am, where is the master?"

"Master, he is still drunk and fell asleep in the dormitory."

"Then I won't bother you anymore, Madam, please tell the master, and I will take my leave."

"Lu Zhuangshi, are you going home?"

"Yes, ma'am."

"Oh, then I won't send it off, you go slowly!"

After Lu Xiaotian bid farewell to Madam Liang, he left the Liang residence.Mrs. Liang then took her daughter, Chen He, and her servants to the temple on Lanping Mountain, more than ten miles away from home, to offer incense and pray.

Lanping Mountain is on the south side of Liang's mansion. It is a mound mountain. The shape of the mountain is east-west, the hill is low and the slope is gentle. Blue Screen Mountain".There is an ancient temple on the mountain called "Baoxiang Temple". In the main hall behind the Tianwang Hall in this temple, there are three Buddhas enshrined in the middle. Past and future Buddha.There are statues of Manjushri and Samantabhadra on the east and west sides.

Today is the first day of the first lunar month, and there is an endless stream of people going up the mountain to enter the temple. Devout men and women from all over the mountain came to the temple early with offerings of fragrant fruits.

Mrs. Liang had left the four servants and a coachman she had brought outside the temple gate, while she brought two maids and nurse Zhang into the main hall.

The two maids took out fragrant fruits and other things from the carrying boxes they brought, and respectfully placed them on the confession case.Mrs. Liang walked to the confession case and took the incense sticks on it, lit it, and held it in her hands. She stood facing the Buddha statue and closed her eyes. After praying in a low voice, she opened her eyes and bowed to the Buddha statue. , Then put the incense into the censer, and then kowtow to worship.

After Mrs. Liang kowtowed, she took the incense on the table and lit it again, and handed it to Chen He, asking her to burn incense and kowtow to each Buddha statue.Holding incense sticks in both hands, Chen He bowed to the statues of Buddha and Bodhisattva just like her mother did just now.

After worshiping all the statues in the halls of Baoxiang Temple, Mrs. Liang and the others went back to the main hall.After entering the main hall, Mrs. Liang walked to the right side of the hall. Behind the wooden table at the right corner of the Buddha statue in the hall, a 50-year-old monk was sitting cross-legged. Sit down on the mat and ask the monk for good or bad luck.

Xiao Chenhe sat beside her mother, and after waiting for a while, she felt bored and couldn't sit still, so Mrs. Liang asked the nurse to take the young lady to wait outside first.

Nanny Zhang took Xiao Chenhe's hand, left the hall, and wandered to the back of the hall.There are also many people behind this, some are resting or filling their hunger, and more people are sitting together in groups of three or four, or singing scriptures, or talking about Buddhism.

"Miss, do you want to relieve yourself?" the nanny asked Chen He in a low voice.

The lady nodded.

"It's just right, the slaves are also anxious."

Mrs. Zhang found the hut in the corner of the courtyard, and after helping the young lady relieve her, she took her outside and said:

"Miss, you wait here first, the servant will come out soon after untying her hands."

After hearing this, Xiao Chenhe walked to the open space in front of the hut and stood there waiting for Mrs. Zhang.

At this time, a young woman appeared in front of Xiao Chenhe with a panicked expression, and said to her:

"Miss, my wife fainted in the front hall, please call our coachman!"

As the woman spoke, she pointed to the back door in the distance. At this time, there was a carriage parked outside the back door of the temple, and a person in the carriage was sitting sideways with his back facing this side.

"Is that the carriage?" Chen He raised her hand and asked.

"Yes, please miss! I'll take care of my wife!" The woman left in a hurry after she finished speaking.

The back door is only a stone's throw away, and Xiao Chenhe was worried about the lady who fainted in the front hall, so she walked quickly to the carriage parked outside the back door of the temple with her calves. The driver said:

"Hi! Your wife fainted in the front hall, someone told you to hurry over and help."

The tall and thin man sitting in the carriage heard this, turned his head and glanced behind Chen He, jumped off his seat, and said at the same time: "Oh, is that so? I see, please ask the lady to look at the carriage for me." The man said He walked over to Xiao Chenhe, picked her up, turned around and stuffed her into the carriage behind him.

Unexpectedly, there was another person in the carriage, the fat man took Chen He who was stuffed in by the man outside, covered her mouth with one hand to prevent her from yelling, and held her body with the other to prevent her from struggling.Before Xiao Chenhe understood what was going on, the man outside the carriage had already flicked his whip, and the carriage ran away like a ghost.

At this time, nurse Zhang came out of the latrine, but she couldn't see Miss Chen He. She hurriedly looked around, but she couldn't find her.Mrs. Zhang couldn't find the young lady, so she became anxious. She hurriedly asked the people who were chatting in the courtyard, but no one knew about her young lady.The nurse hurried to the main hall again, came to Mrs. Liang who was talking with the monk, and said:

"Ma'am, Miss is gone!"

Mrs. Liang was shocked, she stood up and hurriedly asked:

"What happened to Chen He?"

"Just now... the servant took the young lady to relieve her hands. After the young lady finished, the servant asked the young lady to wait outside the latrine. Who knows...after a while, the young lady disappeared when the servant came out of the latrine again!" The wet nurse shook her tongue. finish talking.

"Have you looked around?" Mrs. Liang asked.

"I've searched for it three times, but I can't find Miss..." Mrs. Zhang was so nervous that her hands and legs trembled.

Mrs. Liang's face turned completely pale, and she shouted:

"Look again! Why are you still standing? If you can't find Miss, I'll break your legs!"

After hearing this, the nanny ran out to look for it, and the maids also ran away. The monks in the temple also called everyone to help in the search. was called over.Everyone searched every place in the temple back and forth, but they couldn't find Miss Chen He.

At this time, Mrs. Liang suddenly heard a boy say:

"Not long ago, I saw a sister in a beautiful dress walking out the back door."

Mrs. Liang heard this, and hurriedly sent people to look for it near the back door of the temple, but there was nowhere for the young lady at this time.

Seeing that Chen He could not be found, Mrs. Liang was anxious physically and mentally, and fainted for a while. The family hurriedly helped her up, moved her to the nearby platform and sat down, and brought a bowl of hot water for her to drink.Madam just woke up and said:

"Call someone to find the master!"

☆, being sold

The weather was getting colder and colder, Xiao Chenhe felt that the tattered clothes on her body could no longer keep out the cold of early autumn.She sat quietly in the car, seemingly half asleep, and the "creaking" sound of the bullock cart rang in her ears one after another.Sitting with her in the carriage were two boys whom she had never seen before she left home, and those two boys also sat on one side of the carriage with dejected expressions.

Xiao Chenhe just seemed to be asleep like that, sitting there wearily, she thought of her family, her parents, and the day when she and her mother went up to the mountain to burn incense—

That afternoon, she was tied into a carriage by two strangers.In that small space where she was held hostage and made it difficult for her to breathe, she felt the carriage going down the hill at a fast gallop.Then turned left and right again, as if going up a hill, and then the car went down again, walking on the rough road for a long time.Along the way, she could hear the voices of many passers-by and pedestrians, but she was powerless to shout for help to those who heard the voices as good people—her mouth was blocked with a cloth, and those The voice from outside quickly disappeared from her ears.

The carriage seemed to have been going for a long time. After getting off the carriage, she was locked up in a dilapidated house. In that dilapidated house, she saw the woman who had begged her for help in the temple again.The women and what they saw in the temple changed completely - fierce and rude.

There were also two boys who were slightly older than her in that house, both of them were tied up with ropes, and they also had expressions of fear on their faces.

The woman stripped off her clothes and threw her two dirty and old coarse clothes.At the same time, he took out a dagger and threatened her nose:

"All of you be honest, if you are disobedient, I will take you one by one to feed the wolves!"

She was locked in a dark house, waiting for her parents to rescue her all the time, but more than ten days passed, and her parents did not come.When she was taken out of the house by them, she saw the sunlight outside, but she was quickly pushed into the car by them.The car drove for a long time, and finally came to the river.

Still later, they handed the three of them over to a man wearing a yellow-brown turban and disappeared.So she spent another period of time on the boat, day and night, with only one dirty steamed bun to satisfy her hunger every day.After disembarking, he was locked up in a house for five days.

Early this morning, that strange and fierce-looking man brought a basin of water from outside, asked her to wash her face, gave her a clean dress to change into, and gave her an extra bowl of water. Leftovers.In order to avoid being whipped, she obediently obeyed the strange man's words.Then, she and the two boys who came with her were once again driven onto a bullock cart.

The bullock cart was still moving, and Xiao Chenhe sat in the carriage blankly. She knew that she would never see her parents again, and now she was cold and hungry.

The car finally stopped, and Xiao Chenhe was also called down.In front of him is a rich family, although the family background is not as rich as hers, it is still a wealthy family.

The gatekeeper of the house led the man and the three of them through several doors and into the hall behind.

Xiao Chenhe stood in the middle of the hall, looking nervously at the people in the room, and saw a fat woman sitting in front of her and another not-so-fat woman, beside the two young women, each standing There are three or two young maidservants, and there are also several maid servants waiting outside the hall door.

The fat woman sitting on the left said to the elderly man who brought them here: "These two big ones, let them stay, that girl...is too small." The fat woman said to her again The maid next to him said: "Take them down, teach them the rules, and ask the accountant to pay him."

"Yes!" The servant girl replied.

"Thank you ma'am!" the man said.

At this time, the woman sitting next to the fat lady looked at Chen He and said:

"This child is too young, she looks only six or seven years old, why are her parents willing to send her to be a girl?"

After entering the hall, the man who had been standing humbly on his knees was about to take Chen He out of the room with a servant girl of the family. Hearing what the lady said, he hurriedly responded:

"To tell you the truth, Ma'am, this child's parents died not long ago. It was one of her cousins ​​who asked me to find a place for her to settle down and eat. I brought it here, I would like to ask Madam to give her a bite of food."

Although Xiao Chenhe couldn't quite understand their conversation, she knew that they were talking about her, but now, how dare she speak indiscriminately, the frequent whipping made her learn to keep silent and endure.

"Since you don't like my cousin and think she's small, then I'll take it!" The woman sitting on the right who didn't look fat continued.

The man immediately put a smile on his face when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed and said:

"Thank you ma'am!"

"Cousin, do you want to buy her? Maid girl, you asked the accountant to pay Mrs. Xia's maidservant money." The fat lady said.

"Hey, how can I ask my cousin to spend it? I brought silver taels before I went out—Chunxiang, give him the money."

Mrs. Xia then asked her maid to hand over the money for the maidservant to the man, and asked the fat lady to let her servants bring the pen and ink. Then, Mrs. Xia and the man wrote a deed.After the man pressed his fingerprints, he took the money, thanked him and returned.

A maid came over and called Chen He aside, Chen He was standing beside the maid and the others.The two women chatted again in the hall, but most of the content of their conversation was incomprehensible, and their accents were different from those of Chen He's hometown.

The two ladies sitting at the top of the hall were drinking tea and chatting with sunflower seeds. They talked casually for a long time.And Chen He stood for a long time, and she felt a little drowsy. At this time, the lady who bought Chen He just stood up and said:

"It's getting late, I should go back."

"Let's go after dinner!" The fat lady also got up from the couch and said.

"No, it's too late to go back, the two children of Pu Shan are going to make a fuss."

"If this is the case, then I won't keep you. From now on, cousin, you should come here often!"

"I will come here often, cousin, don't come out to see me off!"

Mrs. Xia left in front, and one of her maids called Chen He and asked her to leave with them.

Xiao Chenhe timidly followed the two servant girls, walking behind Mrs. Xia.After following them out of the gate, Mrs. Xia got into the carriage, while another maid led Chen He into an ox cart at the back.

After walking for a long time, the maid took Chen He out of the car, and the car stopped in front of a house.Chen He saw that the gate and wall pillars of this house were not as grand and grand as the previous one, but its gates, walls, etc. still looked much better than those around it.An old servant came out from the door and said:

"Madam is back?"

Madam Na Xia agreed, entered the gate, and went straight to the back courtyard.Mrs. Xia had just sat down in the main room when two children ran in from the door, shouting "mother" and "mother".They ran forward and plunged into Mrs. Xia's arms.

"Mom, are you back?"

Chen He and the maids came to the main room and stood on one side. She saw that the little girl who ran into the room was as big as herself, wearing a clean, bright red skirt, and the two little buns on the top of her head were also tied with red a red ribbon; another boy, a little older, in a cream gown.

Chen He saw them calling "Mother" after they came in, and snuggling into Madam Xia's arms, she couldn't help but think of her own mother.

"Where have you two been playing while I'm not here?" Mrs. Xia asked them lovingly.

"Mom, I went with my brother to listen to the master's teaching and speaking. I don't want to play, and my brother won't let me go!" The little girl replied.

"Mother, my father invited me to teach you sir, and Pu Yu also wants to study with me!" said the boy.

"Puyu wants to learn books, so let her do it too. As a brother, you have to let her go and don't bully her, you know?" Mrs. Xia coaxed.

"Mother, I didn't bully her—Pu Yu, brother didn't bully you, right?"

"Yeah!" Puyu nodded.

Mrs. Xia looked at them happily, and said:

"Puyu, mother bought you a girl today. How can you follow your brother all day long? Your brother has grown up now and needs to concentrate on studying. From now on, let this girl play with you! "

After hearing this, Pu Yu looked down, and saw a little girl standing next to the servant girl, her thin body stood there timidly, her eyes were brightly exposed.

Mrs. Xia sat on the couch for two, and said to the servant girl below:

"Chunxiang, take this child down, wash her, change her clothes, give her something to eat, and bring her to see me after eating."

"Yes." The servant girl agreed and led Chen He out of the room.

"Mother, do you want to give her to me?" Pu Yu asked.

"Let her follow you in the future."

"Mother, you bought a girl for Puyu, why didn't you buy it for me?" Puyu's brother was dissatisfied.

"Don't you already have two servants by your side? Isn't it good for them to take care of you? Why are you still arguing with your sister?"

……

The servant girl washed Chen He's hands and face, changed her clothes, and asked for food from the kitchen for her. After filling her stomach, she brought her to see Mrs. Xia.

Mrs. Xia looked at Chen He and said, "What should I call her?" She thought for a while and said, "Let's call her Chunyan!"

"Mother, Chunyan can be called by other sisters. Today, I learned another word from my husband, which is the word 'bi' for 'green'. I want to call her 'bihe'?" Pu Yu raised her head. Looking at her mother said.

"Why do you want to call her 'Bi He'?" Mrs. Xia asked following her words.

"When I saw her, I immediately thought of the lotus waiting to be placed in the clear green pool, and I could smell the fragrance of the flowers in the lotus pond!" Pu Yu said innocently.

"Okay, this name is also suitable for people in our family. If you want to call her 'Bi He', just call her!"

When Chen He heard that they wanted to call herself "Bi He", she felt a little conflicted and uncomfortable, but at this moment, she couldn't help it anymore.However, she got used to being called by the people of Xia Mansion many times later.As time passed, she even forgot her original name.

From then on, "Chen He" became "Bi He", and everyone in the Xia Mansion called her that, but Pu Yu preferred to call her "Bi Er".

Puyu is Bi'er's little master to take care of, and naturally becomes the center of Bi'er's future life.

☆, stay at Xia's house

If you know that one day, each other will imprint each other deeply in your heart, will you still be so unconscious?

When they met, there was no expectation and hope from each other in advance, but she or she came to her side silently without knowing it.

Is their meeting luck among misfortunes, or the beginning of another kind of suffering?All in all, how can we sort out the two mortal hearts born in this confused world?Maybe, they are still children, how can they know the future life?Why is my life different from others?No one can give them an answer.

But at this moment, Pu Yu looked at the little girl who was slightly taller than herself, with a hint of timidity and sadness in her exquisite bright eyes, and thought that this was the best thing she had received today. a gift of .

Pu Yu was full of joy, walked up to Bi He, looked at her and said:

"This is my home, don't be afraid, my name is Pu Yu, I'm over five years old this year, how old are you?"

Bi He looked timidly at the young lady in front of her with joy on her face and gentle eyes, and replied softly:

"I'm six and a half years old."

"You are one year older than me, I should call you sister." Pu Yu said.

"Pu Yu!" Madam Xia called her.

"Huh? Mother, what's the matter?" Pu Yu turned to look at her mother.

"I bought her to be your maid, how can you call her sister maid? Chunmei—"

As Mrs. Xia spoke, she called in a maid in a green shirt.After hearing Madam's call, the servant girl stepped forward and stood up.

"Take her down and teach her the etiquette at home. After you finish teaching her, bring her to see me." Mrs. Xia said to the maid.

"Yes." Chunmei agreed, turned around and walked up to Bi'er, and said, "Bi He, come with me!"

Bi'er hurriedly followed the maid out.

Coming out of the main room, Bier followed Chunmei closely, and Chunmei said to her as she walked:

"Madam asked you to take care of Miss. Of course, we won't let you do heavy and rough work. You just need to take care of Miss. Our lady is a very smart person. Although the Xia family is not a big family in Chang'an City, it is The House of Scholars. You serve the lady, you must know the family rules of the Xia family. In the future, first of all, don't mess up your identity.

You are young, and others will do the heavy work, but you still have to learn sewing, which is a must for girls.As slaves, we each have our own division of labor. If you don't know anything, you can ask me, and Chunxiang. ...Our wife has a very good heart, as long as you don't make mistakes, she won't make things difficult for you..."

Regardless of whether Bi'er could understand her or not, Chunmei was talking nonsense, and Bi'er followed behind her nonchalantly.Turn around the corridor, pass through a round door opening, and come to a wing room in the north.

After entering the room, the first thing Bi'er saw was a long and low couch by the wall, which occupied a large area of ​​the room and could accommodate five or six people. The bedding on it was the same color.

"This is the room where the girls sleep." Chunmei said, she took a few steps inward, pointed to the leftmost position of the bed, and said to Bi'er, "You will sleep here from now on."

Chunmei took out an old dress from the wooden cabinet on the other side and said: "There is no such a small girl as you at home anymore. I will ask Chun'e to change this old dress for you, and I will wear it for you later." , you go to wash your body first, come to my room after washing, and I will teach you slowly." She walked outside the door and turned her head to add: "My room, the second room in front is .”

After going out, go to the right and pass a few houses next door, and Chunmei takes Bi'er to the bath room where the maids cleanse themselves.There are three large bathtubs in the bathroom, and two maids are working there.One of the bathtubs was half filled with hot water.

"Give her a wash!" Chunmei left after finishing her sentence.

The two servant girls were both wearing dark green shirts. They rolled their sleeves up to their elbows. Following Chunmei's order, they came over and grabbed Bi'er, took off her clothes in a few moments, and pulled her into the Scrub in the tub of water.While they were scrubbing Bier's body, they were talking to each other, and one of the maids asked her a few words, but it was unknown if Bier understood what they were saying, so she lowered her head to her chest, Did not say anything.Not long after, the two servant girls scrubbed Bi'er's body clean, but they also rubbed her whole body so painfully that her delicate skin turned red.

Perhaps it was because Bi'er was still young, and she had only just arrived at Xia's house, and they were afraid that she would not wash well, so the two older maids prepared hot water for Bi'er and washed her body.Afterwards, every time Bi'er cleansed herself, she carried and poured the bath water by herself, and she never received such treatment again.

Under Chunmei's step-by-step guidance, Bi'er quickly became familiar with the etiquette rules of Xia's family.In fact, it's nothing, the Liang family has more maids and servants than here, and the etiquette and rules of the servants are much more complicated than that of the Xia family.

It's just that if she, a young lady who was worshiped and served by many people in the past, is asked to perform the etiquette of a maid today and do what a servant does, she feels a lot of confusion and awkwardness in her heart.But more than just awkwardness and confusion?Only she herself will have a deep understanding of the taste in that.

Although those tastes that were not tastes disappeared quickly, because at this time she clearly knew that such a change was not a small game of changing identities, but a real life - cruel enough to make her confused, Overwhelmed life.She doesn't have any choice.However, the sense of uneasiness brought about in the depths of her young heart accompanied her for a long time afterward.The so-called being well-informed means that when Bi'er puts aside her once noble lady status and really learns the etiquette of a maid, she will be able to learn it after a few times with Chunmei.

Moreover, she gradually got acquainted with the Xia family - the Xia family had a total of sixteen members, including her, there were seventeen: this was what Chunmei told her.Master Xia and his wife have a sensible and cheerful son, and a smart lady.Their old lady has a strong body and likes to walk around. She is not at home now and has gone to live with the second master.

Bi'er saw that the Xia's house was not too big, and she entered the main courtyard three times.Chunmei led her to each courtyard, and pointed out to her one by one where the old lady's courtyard was and where the young lady's residence was; she also made her acquainted with the male and female servants.

Two days later, Chunmei brought her to Mrs. Xia.Beau stood respectfully before them.

Mrs. Xia looked at the child carefully again, and felt that she was different from ordinary children.Although she is now wearing rough servant clothes and her body is a little weak, there seems to be a kind of agility and nobility in her eyebrows.And there seemed to be something hidden in those bright eyes.She had never seen this feeling in other children.Perhaps it was this feeling that gave her the idea of ​​having this child.

Seeing that Chunmei had trained Bihe very well, Mrs. Xia was very satisfied, and said:

"Very good. Bihe, from today onwards, you will follow Miss Puyu and take good care of her."

"Yes." Billy replied.

Just now when Chunmei led Bier in, Puyu was lying in Mrs. Xia's arms and playing around. When she heard what her mother said, she ran over happily and took Bier's hand, saying:

"Bill, let's go play!"

Bi'er didn't move immediately, she looked at Mrs. Xia questioningly.Madam Xia nodded and said:

"Go!"

With Mrs. Xia's consent, the two children ran outside to play freely.

Bi'er cautiously followed Pu Yu, who was bouncing around, to the west courtyard connected to Mrs. Xia's courtyard.Pu Yu led Bi'er into her room, which was decorated in an elegant and warm way.

"Come on, let's play with clay figurines!" Pu Yu said as she walked to a short table in front of the window. After she knelt down on the mattress in front of the short table, she picked up a small object on the table and stuffed it into it. Bi'er held it in her hand and said, "You play with this."

Bi'er looked down and saw that it was a colorful clay doll.It was wearing a small red flower dress, turned sideways, and tilted its head; one leg stepped forward, and it opened its mouth and laughed.

Looking at the table, there are two different dolls, Miss Pu Yu, lying on the table and playing with them.

Bi'er remembered that when she was at home, her father bought her a lot of clay dolls before, the colors were much more colorful than this one, and they were very delicate and meticulous.The clay dolls in their hands and tables are a bit rough in comparison.

"Bi'er, if you don't like that one, choose one of these two!" Seeing that Bi'er was still standing blankly, Pu Yu raised his head and said.

"Oh, I like it!"

"Then sit down!" Pu Yu said again.

"Yes."

Bi'er also knelt down to the side, and after she sat down and looked closely, she realized that the clay doll in her hand was the prettiest of the three.Obviously, Miss Puyu gave her best clay doll to play with herself.

"Bi'er, look at this one, she is still asleep! When she wakes up, she will be very happy to see you..."

Bi'er went to see the clay sculpture that Pu Yu mentioned, really, she slept so soundly, as if she was sleeping on her mother's bed.