[Red Mansion+Qing Chuan] The heroine comes from the last days

Jiang Ling quietly followed behind the two women, neither looking nor listening, nor speaking.

She knew that in ancient rich and honorable families, the house rules were extremely strict, if ordinary maids gossiped, they would be expelled from the house the next day if they didn't keep it clean.She still has to rely on the Jia Mansion to complete her first step of the plan and take root in this world, so she must not make mistakes.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ling lowered his eyebrows more and more to reduce his sense of existence.

The two women led the nine of them, bypassing the layers of hanging flower doors, and walked towards the main room in the backyard.

Mrs. Wang laughed along with her, and secretly asked how his wife was in a good mood today, for example, if she ever punished a servant, or dropped a cup and chopsticks to eat.One of the women probably took advantage of the benefits, and whispered: "Our wife is angry today, you must remember to be cautious in your words and deeds, especially the word 'Dongfu', and you must not speak in front of your wife. Mention it, remember?"

Wang Pozi even claimed it was, and asked tentatively: "I don't know the East Mansion..."

The old lady came across, and the old lady Wang trembled and dared not ask any more questions.

The woman thought for a while, and felt that what she just said was too serious, so she continued: "Our wife is a kind person. She has always eaten vegetarian food and recited Buddha, so she will definitely not make trouble with a woman like you. Be smart and treat people Take it in, wait for the wife to choose it, and then it's over."

Mrs. Wang responded, and then asked in a low voice: "Old sister, you give my sister a promise, how many do you plan to pick today?"

The woman thought for a while, then whispered: "The little girls you brought, at least half of them must be removed."

When Mrs. Wang heard this, she immediately had a bitter expression on her face, and couldn't help but look behind her.The little girls were either anxious, excited, envious, or eager to try, obviously they were not in the temperament to please the wife.When he glanced at Jiangling, he found that the little girl was quiet, neither crying nor fussing, nor did he show any expression of surprise or envy, so he couldn't help but nodded slightly, and his brows eased a little.

——Sure enough, she has read the book, unlike those little girls who have never seen the world.

As for why a little beggar picked up by the side of the road has been educated, Mrs. Wang couldn't think of it.In other words, she never thought about such a complicated thing at all.

The woman was about to say something more, when she suddenly saw two girls walking in front of her, she was stunned and her expression became tense.Wang Pozi followed her gaze and couldn't help shivering. She whispered, "Second Grandma Lian?"

Jiang Ling followed their gazes and saw two girls in their twenties walking towards this side one after the other.The eyebrows of the person in front raised slightly, and his pair of beautiful red phoenix eyes looked a little sharp.The girl in the back looked much gentler, although her clothes were not as good as the one in the front, but her face was gentle, making people feel close at first glance.

The last girl is Ping'er whom Jiang Ling met yesterday.

She guessed that the person in front of her was Lian's second grandma in what the mother-in-law said, and Wang Xifeng, who was famous in the Dream of the Red Chamber, once again lowered her head, keeping silent and silent, shrinking herself among the crowd, trying to minimize her stress. presence.

This Second Mistress Lian is a famous hot pepper, so you must not touch her bad luck before entering the mansion.

Just thinking about it, the two women in front and Mrs. Wang have already stepped forward to meet her and called Lian's second grandmother.

Wang Xifeng nodded slightly, and was about to pass them by, when she suddenly caught sight of Mrs. Wang at the side, gave a soft "huh", and said with a smile, "I haven't seen Mrs. Wang for a while. My wife told me a few days ago , Mrs. Wang is a smart person, but if she does things for the wives, there will be no disadvantages. Why, the wife wants to add people to the house?"

Wang Pozi bent over and replied in a low tone: "Yes."

Wang Xifeng snorted lightly, and her tone became a little lazy: "It's good to add some people, so that the wife won't worry about the family all day long, and don't even have a good meal. Although the domestic maids are good, they are better than others." Don’t worry about going outside to buy something.” When she said this, she suddenly laughed a few times, then waved her hand in a disinterested manner, and said, “Go.”

Mrs. Wang obediently replied yes, and together with the two previous wives, she took the little girls and left, not even daring to breathe.It wasn't until Wang Xifeng and Heping'er could no longer be seen that he covered his chest and recited the Buddha vigorously: "Second Grandma Lian is becoming more and more dignified."

The two women looked at each other and said with a smile: "Our wife is lovely to hear that."

Mrs. Wang laughed again, turned around, and said to the little girls with a tiger face, "Be smarter one by one, don't spoil the big business of my wife." After saying that, he took a few little girls, Go to Mrs. Wang's yard.

Mrs. Wang's courtyard is in the main courtyard of Rongguo Mansion, facing Jiamu's courtyard far away.The two women led the nine of them to the gate of Mrs. Wang's yard, and said with a smile: "The madam's yard is well behaved, we just send you here, and it's over. Remember to be smart later, don't mess with me." Mrs. De and Grandma Zhen got angry, remember?"

Mrs. Wang responded with a sigh, and suddenly said in surprise: "Grandma Zhen?"

The previous woman said vaguely: "It's in Dongfu after all... Just remember, don't listen to what you shouldn't listen to, don't watch what you shouldn't look at, don't annoy your wife and Grandma Zhen, that's all." For the rest, I don't want to chat with you as an outsider. Well, you go in." The woman said, gently pushing the arm of Mrs. Wang, and pushed her in.

Mrs. Wang had no choice but to take the eight little girls who bought them back to the house to greet the wives.

After the point made by the woman just now, Mrs. Wang has confidence in her heart, at least she will not show any inappropriate expressions when she sees Grandma Zhen.The eight little girls she brought over also stood in a row in the hall, and two of them even panicked and almost fell in front of their wife.Looking at the two little girls, Mrs. Wang felt her heart pounding.

Mrs. Wang's eyebrows were filled with anger, as if she had just let out a fire, and her voice was also firm: "This is the little girl you bought?" Her eyes flicked to the eight little girls in front of her, and only one of them fell down. The little girl cried in fright.

Mrs. Wang pointed at the little girl wearily, and said: "You are not calm, take it out."

As soon as the words were finished, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old maid led the little girl who had just cried out to the outside of the courtyard.This is what it means to leave no one behind.The remaining seven girls all lowered their heads, either silent or anxious, and the other two showed a little panic.

Mrs. Wang raised her hand, and an old mother came forward, lifted their chins with a ruler, and looked carefully.

Jiang Ling clenched her palms tightly, resisting the urge to turn around and leave, pretending to be a sculpture, and remained silent for a while.

The old mother stood in front of her and looked at it carefully for a moment. The cold ruler was cruising around her chin and palm, and she felt a little uncomfortable all over.After a while, the old mother took half a step back and said to Mrs. Wang, "Your appearance is not bad."

Jiang Ling lowered his head, and looked at his hands out of the corner of his eyes. He was dry and thin, and he couldn't see anything good at all.

On the contrary, Mrs. Wang above heard the word Shang Ke, hummed lightly, motioned to the old mother and said, "Next."

The old mother really went to see the next one.The next one is also "fair", and the next one is "not good-looking".Jiang Ling was very surprised, and quietly counted to the side, the second girl on her right was just seen, the only one of the eight little girls who was over 16 years old, with a pointed chin and a charming appearance, It's quite a romantic state.

……Oh.

She seemed to remember that in the Dream of Red Mansions, Madam Wang once sent such a maid.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ling couldn't laugh or cry.

Unexpectedly, in this life, my life experience looks quite bleak (no father and no mother), my face is sallow and emaciated from hunger, and my fingernails are blue, but I get an evaluation of fair appearance.I don't know what I really look like, but according to the current look, it will take at least three or four years to raise my original appearance.

She couldn't laugh or cry more and more.

But in such a flash, the old mother had already seen the faces of the seven people, except for the older one with outstanding appearance just now, she also picked out a thick-skinned and uneven-looking one.In Mrs. Wang's words, "the mansion does not raise such a vicious girl, nor does it need such an uneven maid, so as not to lose the face of the Rongguo mansion", so the two maids were picked out.

Now, there are only five little girls left in the room.

The old mother retreated back holding the ruler, Mrs. Wang nodded to the servant girl beside her again, the servant girl understood, she went to the outside room and brought back a woman who was serving outside.Jiang Ling could see clearly that this woman was the one who led them in and told Mrs. Wang just now.

When the woman saw Mrs. Wang, she said good-bye first, and then explained what she had just seen in detail.

From the moment the little girls walked into Jia's mansion, their every move, every word and deed was recounted in detail by the woman, and reported to Mrs. Wang's ears.Mrs. Wang listened for a while, frowned slightly, pointed to the two little girls who were "noisy as soon as they entered the mansion", and said: "Pick these two out too."

Jiang Ling was so shocked that he couldn't help but began to admire him faintly.

With such amazing memory and observation skills, it is hard to imagine that he is just a servant in Jia's mansion.

Time passed bit by bit, and Mrs. Wang also seemed a little anxious.She only brought eight little girls into the mansion, but Mrs. Wang picked five out in one go. If she continued to pick and choose like this, she would not have to earn any money, and would have to pay a large sum of fare .Just as she was about to step forward to plead with Mrs. Wang, she suddenly heard Mrs. Wang ask, "Why did you only sign a 20-year contract?"

Mrs. Wang thumped in her heart, seeing Mrs. Wang rummaging through the contract of sale in her hand, her tone was rather displeased.

As a well-versed toothmaid, she is all too familiar with this kind of scene.Jiang Ling is a costless business, if his wife picks him out, he won't have to earn any money today, so he took a step forward and said with a smile: "Back to my wife, this is the next-door niece raised by my niece. , Those who read some books in the early years can also know a few words. The old man heard that all the girls in the mansion are excellent in poetry and painting, so he thought of sending her to the mansion to get some fairy spirit. In the past 20 years The deed is actually because the in-laws of my own niece are all of good nationality, this - I really can't decide."

When Mrs. Wang heard what Mrs. Wang said, her brows gradually relaxed: "Literacy?"

The latter sentence was asked to Jiang Ling.

Jiang Ling thought that he had indeed practiced calligraphy for two years, and had read a lot of traditional Chinese books, so he lowered his eyebrows and said pleasantly, "I can quite recognize some characters."

Mrs. Wang hummed lightly.Literate maids have always been scarce, and if it weren't for the fact that the family couldn't get rid of it, they wouldn't let their literate daughters sell themselves to be maids.The children of Jia's family can read and write, but they were brought up together with the girls from an early age.Madam Wang thought of this, and then looked at the 20-year contract of selling herself, it didn't seem so abrupt anymore.

She put the sale contract together with the other two death contracts, and said, "Just these three."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Wang breathed a sigh of relief.These two clean little girls, together with the "no-cost business" just picked up from outside the city, she can earn 35 taels of silver at least this trip, it's worth the trip.

As for the so-called "nephew in the next room raised by my niece", it was naturally nonsense made up by Mrs. Wang.

However, Mrs. Wang and her are not relatives or relatives, and she would not go to investigate the daughter of a poor family, so she fooled it like this.

After everything was finalized, the big maid took Mrs. Wang down to receive the reward, and then left with the remaining five little girls.The five little girls were all sobbing, as if they were quite unwilling.Mrs. Wang carefully questioned the three maids who stayed behind, and confirmed that they were all innocent and sold themselves as servants only because of their poor families. Then she called a housekeeper's daughter-in-law and took them down to freshen up.

Zhou Zheng, who looked like the housekeeper's wife, had a round face and looked quite amiable.Jiang Ling couldn't remember the details of the Dream of the Red Chamber, so naturally he didn't know which housekeeper's wife this was.She followed behind the other two little girls, still keeping her eyebrows low and pleasing to the eye, without saying a word.

When she walked out the door, she suddenly heard sobbing and crying.

The crying sound came from Mrs. Wang's main room. Apart from Mrs. Wang and the maid, there was only Grandma Zhen from the East Mansion.Jiang Ling suddenly remembered that when she was in the room just now, Grandma Zhen was sitting next to Mrs. Wang with a sluggish and sickly look, as if she had received a great blow.

Then when she connected with the vague "Dongfu..." that the mother-in-law just said, she vaguely understood something in her heart.