The Maid's Strategy in the Red Chamber

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Such a movement made everyone's eyes involuntarily cast towards Xueyan. Xueyan, who had lowered her head, felt that something was wrong, so she raised her head in surprise.

As soon as she raised her head, Aunt Mo's heart beat even more after seeing her facial features clearly, she was so much like that person!

It's just that after the momentary loss of focus just now, she has calmed down a lot now, and she is no longer making such a fuss, but pretending to be calm and asking: "What's your name?"

Xueyan was a little puzzled, but hearing that the female officials in the Queen's Palace treated her very well, she didn't want to offend her, so she replied respectfully: "If you want to go back to aunt, the servant's name is Xueyan."

"Snow goose? It matches your temperament." After all, it was an old man who had been in the palace for many years, and he had completely calmed down after only a moment.The other party's accent should be from the Jiangnan area, maybe it's just a long imagination.She smiled calmly and said, "You look very similar to an old friend of mine, and you have a blessed face."

After finishing speaking, he nodded slightly to Mrs. Liu, and brought a group of young ladies and eunuchs into Fengning Palace.

Just before she was about to step into the palace gate, she hurriedly winked at a young eunuch beside her.The little eunuch nodded, turned around and quickly disappeared at the end of the palace road.

The female official who sent Liu Shi and his party out of the palace also looked at Xueyan in private for a long time, but she couldn't find anyone who looked similar in her memory.It's just that this servant girl is a bit interesting. If she doesn't speak, her temperament looks like a native of the capital, not at all like an ordinary woman from a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.The graceful and graceful girl from the Lin family seems to be the standard for Jiangnan girls.

After thinking about it for a while, the female officer guessed that this girl might indeed be similar in appearance to Aunt Mo's old friend.Since people didn't pursue it in the end, and I couldn't hold on to it, so I didn't take this matter to heart.

Xueyan, who left the palace quickly, just dismissed the incident as an accident, and never thought that Aunt Mo would have her life investigated to the bottom of her life just because of a one-sided relationship.

A few days later, Aunt Mo frowned at the information collected by her subordinates. Jia Min bought this girl from Ren Yazi when Lin Ruhai's family went to Yangzhou to serve as a salt censor and passed through Jinling.As for where the parents were born before, there is no news at all.

well!Aunt Mo sighed in her heart, guessing that she was wrong, that person had never been out of the capital, how could she give birth to a child in Jiangnan?There are not no people with long imaginations in this world, and everything may be just a coincidence.The master has always been looking forward to finding that man's heir, and has not given up after so many years. There are too many examples of hope and then disappointment like this, but they are just similar, so don't add to the loss of the master.

Aunt Mo probably didn't expect Xue Yan to be a servant for two more years because of her so-called "considerateness".

Back in the mansion, as soon as he got off the carriage at the second gate, Jin Luo greeted him, walked up to Mrs. Liu and whispered a few words.Xueyan clearly saw the color change on Liu's face, and finally asked calmly, "Where are they?"

Jin Luo replied, "I'm waiting in the flower hall."

Seeing her stepmother's unkind expression, Daiyu couldn't help asking, "Who made mother so difficult."

Master and apprentice for many years, Daiyu is very clear about the bad things in her natal family, so although Liu Shi felt a little bit embarrassed, she was still able to live steadily, and smiled with Daiyu: "Who else is it? coming."

Then, Liu Shi said again: "You go back and rest first, I will meet them."

Daiyu thought for a while, then gritted her teeth and said, "Since I'm from my mother's natal family, I'm still a relative, how can I, as a junior, not pay my respects?"

Knowing that she was trying to protect her dignity, Liu was moved and shook her head: "They are all used to hanging out in the market, and they never talk about manners. You are a rich man, and I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it if you go. forget it!"

At this time, Xueyan had already heard from Jin Luo that all the people from the Liu family were female relatives, two sister-in-laws of the Liu family, three nieces and daughters-in-law, two nieces, three grand-nephews and one grand-niece, there were more than a dozen of them. mouth people.

The battle is quite big!Xueyan complained in her heart, and after hearing what Mrs. Liu said to Daiyu, she laughed and interjected: "Ma'am, you are worrying too much. The so-called guests do as they please. Since we are here, our Lin family must abide by the rules of our family. Are you still afraid of others on your own land?"

Then she glanced at Daiyu with a smile, and then said with a chuckle: "I think the madam has given away things to her mother's house all these years. Now that you picked up a daughter for nothing, it's time to return to the original. How can you not let the girl go?" Woolen cloth!"

Seeing her malicious eyes, Daiyu smiled and nodded her forehead: "You are so courageous, even I dare to arrange it."

Xueyan pouted and said: "This servant is telling the truth, it's not arbitrarily arranged!" Then she rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Not only is it a girl, Madam also has a son, so I should invite you over to see the guests together. yes."

Hearing this, Jin Luo said hesitantly: "But the uncle hasn't finished school yet." Lin Ruhai attaches great importance to the eldest son's studies, if he is called away on the way to school, I don't know if the master will blame him when he comes back?

Xueyan glanced at the inexplicable expression on Liu's face, and quickly winked at Jin Luo.Jin Luo was startled, and turned around and said: "But the first time my uncle and wife came back, they asked for half an hour's leave. The master must have something to say when he comes back. The slaves will go and invite the master." After speaking, he went to the front in person. Courtyard study.

Seeing her go, Xueyan let out a sigh of relief in her heart. After getting along with her for many years, Xueyan knew in her heart that Mrs. Liu is a person with a cold face and a cold heart.She knew that Jin Luo still had scruples in her heart at this moment, and she couldn't make a thorough choice between Liu Shi and Qiu Yue, but according to Liu Shi's temperament, if she couldn't show her loyalty when her heels were not stable, she might not be able to do it again in the future. Can't get her reuse.Even if I gave Liu's enough face because of my point at this moment, the balance may not be tilted to this side in the future, it seems that I have to discuss it with her when I find an opportunity.

Liu Shi glanced at Xueyan without any trace, thought for a while, and went back to her room to change clothes.She really wanted to wear this imperial dress to show off in front of her natal sister-in-law, but she thought that they had no scruples in their actions, and if the clothes were dirty or damaged again, the gain would outweigh the loss.

Daiyu also went to change into homely clothes. Although the big phoenix hairpin on her head was light, it also weighed more than half a catty with the beads and precious stones, so it was heavy to wear on her head.In Daiyu's words: "My neck is sore from the pressure, I really don't know how my mother has endured these hours.

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Xueyan smiled and said: "The so-called 'if you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight', a girl with such a phoenix hairpin is too heavy. If she becomes a first-class princess someday, she won't be able to hold her head up!"

"You don't have to gloat there. I didn't hear that aunt in the palace said that you are a blessed person. Maybe you are just a golden branch and jade leaf that was accidentally left among the people. Someday you will recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors than the headgear I wear. It's still heavy!" Daiyu smiled.

Originally it was just a joke, at this time, who would have thought that Daiyu's words would come true in the future!