The maid of the red house

Today is the day off that Xueyan deserves. She told Daiyu and Zijuan that she was going out. Daiyu and Zijuan are not meddlesome people. Knowing that she does things properly, she is allowed to go out without asking her what she is going to do. Yes, I just have to call back to Sister Feng.

Sister Feng was so busy that her feet never touched the ground, so Ping'er was in charge of all these trivial matters.

Ping'er knew that Sister Feng and Daiyu were good friends, and had acquired a lot recently, so she agreed after asking a few casual questions.

Xueyan went out the back door, saw Wang Zhong said hello, Wang Zhong was at ease, and asked with a smile, "What are you doing out there?"

Xueyan smiled and said: "The rouge distributed in the house is not good, I'll go buy some good ones and use them back."

This is Xue Yan's well-thought-out excuse for others, but she can't hide it from Wang Zhong. Daiyu is keeping her filial piety now, how can she use rouge?She didn't use it, girls like Xueyan are not easy to put on makeup, so he just smiled and didn't ask any more questions, and said: "I don't worry about going out as a young girl, you take two wives with you .”

Xueyan agreed, she is the big girl next to Daiyu, she is the master of the low-level servants vying to curry favor with each other, when she heard that Wang Zhong had such a meaning, she immediately had several self-recommendations, Xueyan picked two strong At the same time, the middle-aged servant woman took out two hundred coins from her sleeve and distributed them to the servants who were not selected by herself, saying: "It's hot, let's buy you a bowl of sour plum soup."

The people living in the back street are servants of Jia's mansion, and it has become a custom for those who watch the back door to let little maids and women out to get some money.

Xueyan took the two women out of the house smoothly, walked through the back street, walked southward, and passed through several alleys.

She learned from her memory that the snow geese were very lively in the mansion, wandering around, often sneaking out through the back door to see what was going on, and people were innocent and ignorant. Following the winter when Daiyu returned to the south, she secretly went out to buy Stir-fried chestnuts in sugar, and someone stole the purse. Just in a hurry, the ten-year-old boy who stole the purse was brought by another boy to apologize and returned the purse.

It turns out that the big eunuchs are often very powerful. Many people’s lives are difficult and their income is not enough to make ends meet. They are envious and jealous, so they send their sons to cleanse themselves so that they can enter the palace and become eunuchs. The monthly salary of being a eunuch for one month is enough for the family Zifeng has enough food and clothing.However, there are very strict regulations on the number of eunuchs in the palace. There are often many young eunuchs who are cleansed, but there are few posts. This has caused a large number of alternate eunuchs to stay in the capital. Seeing that they were incompetent and felt ashamed, most refused to take them in. Therefore, these alternate eunuchs wandered alone, which was extremely desolate.

That young man was an alternate eunuch named Yu Liansheng. The one who stole was another alternate eunuch he rescued named Wang Bao. Both of them made a living by begging. Wang Bao learned from others. Temper, steal things.

Xueyan was kind-hearted and thought they were pitiful, so she gave them the two taels of silver in her purse to buy food, and then went back south with Daiyu, not knowing how Yu Liansheng and Wang Bao are doing now.

Fortunately, Xueyan knew the address of the shack where they lived, not far from the shelter.

But she has a great forgetfulness, so she doesn't remember this matter for a long time, but Xueyan's mind is very shrewd, 360 lines, and she can be the number one scholar. Didn't she see the powerful eunuchs who dare not even offend the dignitaries?She thought that Daiyu didn't have any foreign aid so far. Although she had an old friend with Lin Ruhai, it was too late for tea, so Mo Ruo tried every means to change the situation.

Xueyan knew that Yu Liansheng's nature was a bit volatile, so if he didn't have an errand yet, she would help him. Although she wanted to use her to change her life, for Yu Liansheng, her help was his help. opportunity.

Xueyan was lucky. When she came out, she wondered if Yu Liansheng was still there. Unexpectedly, when she came, Yu Liansheng was still there. From a distance, he looked a little cleaner than before, but he was still there. Clothes were ragged, so he told the two women to wait at the entrance of the alley, and he stepped forward and called out, "Brother Yu."

Julienson was sitting cross-legged at the door of the shabby shed where he was living, making clay figurines. Hearing the sound, he raised his eyes and saw a pretty girl approaching, not yet old enough. Hairpins, pearl pendants hanging by the ears, a goose-yellow shirt on the upper body, and a white gauze skirt on the upper body, graceful in action, watery Danfeng eyes full of smiles, can't hide the natural beauty, not seen more than a year ago Which snow geese passed by?

Yu Liansheng stood up quickly, almost crushing the mud ball in his hand, looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "You said you were working in a rich family, why did you come out again? It's fine to come out, how about bringing two people? Alone Be careful that someone else has your idea."

Xueyan's heart warmed, she looked at Yu Liansheng's fair face and said with a smile, "Someone is with me!"

As he spoke, he pointed in the direction of the two women, and Yu Liansheng was relieved when he saw it, and while letting her into the shed, he gave her a dilapidated stool to sit on, and asked, "What are you looking for me for? "

"In the old year, I accompanied our master to our hometown in the south. I just came back a few days ago. I finished all the chores. Come and see how Brother Yu is doing." Xueyan looked at the shed, and there was only a wooden table with missing legs in the shed. And a small stool, without a bed, the floor was covered with thick straw, and the woven straw cushion was covered with a white-washed and patched linen sheet, but it was cleaned very cleanly. I looked behind him, Asked: "Where is Xiaobao? Why didn't you see him?"

When they first met, at Wang Bao's instigation, the three of them shared their ages. Yu Liansheng was one year older than her, while Wang Bao was one year younger.

Speaking of Wang Bao, Yu Liansheng shrunk back the broken straw sandals with two toes exposed, sighed and said, "You gave us two taels of silver that year, and we agreed to buy some gifts to honor the eunuch who came to choose someone. It's a good job, I don't want to be Ye Xiaobao, so I stole the money, I bought a gift to honor the superior, and I got the job and went to the palace."

Xueyan said: "You saved him back then, but he did such a thing!"

Yu Liansheng's expression was exhausted, and he said indifferently: "He's a big deal, how can he care about me, anyway, his own future is the most important thing."

Xueyan didn't like Wang Bao in the first place, and only came here because of Yu Liansheng's character. Now that she heard about this, she was not worried but happy. After thinking about it for a while, Fang asked, "Then what's the plan for the elder brother?"

Yu Liansheng squeezed the mud ball in his hand, squeezed a small steed several times, and said with a smile: "The year you left, I helped an old man chop firewood. I am poor, so I use mud to knead, and I can earn a few pennies a day. I have saved more than 300 pennies now, and I want to save more, so I can buy things to honor the superiors in the spring of next year, so that I can find an errand."

Xue Yan heard that he had a plan, she was a little appreciative, and said: "Brother, do you want to enter the palace?"

Yu Liansheng nodded.

Xueyan asked: "If I lend money to elder brother to do business, will elder brother still be willing to enter the palace?"

Hearing Xueyan's words, Yu Liansheng looked at her in surprise. Seeing her serious expression, it seemed that she was not joking, so he couldn't help but shake his head and said, "People like me just do business and make money. Others still look down on me, so I might as well enter the palace and put some thought into it, I don’t know if I can be safe and healthy.”

The only wish of these rootless people is to serve as servants in the palace and work hard to climb up. When they climb high, they will have power. When they retire and return home, they will have a house and land, or adopt or adopt a son. It's also peace.

Xueyan understood, put the package on the table and opened it, and said: "Brother Yu has plans, these just come in handy."

Seeing a set of green cloth clothes and shoes, a stack of rulers of various colors and a small brocade box in the bundle, Yu Liansheng was puzzled and asked, "Sister Xueyan, what are you doing?"

Xueyan said: "At first when we were making summer clothes, I had some fabric left over. I chose to make a suit of clothes, shoes and socks for elder brother. Don't dislike it. It's not that I don't want to make satin clothes for elder brother, but it's just that elder brother is in this place, it's too uncomfortable to wear clothes. To attract attention, so as not to cause disasters, although the clothes are made of cloth, they are also made of fine cotton, and they are not very conspicuous."

She lived in a room by herself, and the Rongguo Mansion was not afraid of wasting lights, so she quietly prepared it and took it out.Xueyan is very courageous, and she has mustard seeds as her secret backing, otherwise she should be kicked out for being indecent just because she made this dress.

Winning and nurturing Yu Liansheng, Xue Yan thought carefully before and after, and said: "These rulers are all good things for the world. Don't look at the pieces, but they are worth more than an ordinary piece of silk. Wait until the top When he came to choose someone to be an errand, the elder brother took two rulers to give as a gift. Too many rulers are not good. He just said that the rulers he bought with his savings were only suitable for them to wear. Now, I naturally feel that I am satisfied, so I must choose my eldest brother to arrange a good errand."

He opened the small brocade box again, and inside were some gold and silver zippers, gold and silver hairpins, bracelets, rings, cloves, ear picks, etc., there were about twenty pieces, all of which were extremely small and unique in style, all of which she picked from her own. Picked out from the jewelry, said: "After the eldest brother enters the palace, these things are most suitable for managing the powerful chief eunuchs and palace daughters."

Seeing her sending clothes, fabrics, and gold and silver jewellery, Yu Liansheng remained silent for a long time before he said, "Sister Xueyan, I have no possessions, no power, no power, why are you bothering?"

Being able not to be confused by foreign things, Xue Yan had a third more confidence in him, and said: "It would be too pretentious to say that you and I feel sorry for each other. After all, although I don't remember where my hometown is or where my parents are, I have met kind-hearted people. Life is no worse than that of a young lady from a poor family. It is beyond the reach of my elder brother. It would be too hypocritical to say that I have nothing to ask for. Brother Yu, since you and I have known each other for a while, as a younger sister, I will tell the truth today. I hope elder brother will forgive me. I just want to protect my younger sister after elder brother becomes famous."

On the contrary, Yu Liansheng breathed a sigh of relief, and said ashamedly: "My sister's words make me feel ashamed. Even if I enter the palace today, if I want to gain a firm foothold, I don't know when it will be!" He has nothing, and he doesn't think Xueyan is right He has a plan, and even if he has a plan, as long as he enters the palace, Xue Yan will be beyond his reach.

Therefore, Yu Liansheng didn't expect that Xueyan was telling the truth, in order to promote him to the top, and then he would protect her.

Of course, before Xue Yan came here, she also thought that maybe Yu Liansheng was mediocre and doing nothing, which would be of no help to herself and Daiyu.

One more friend and one more road, why not do it?