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

Jiang Ling and the others hadn't gone far when they heard a soft shout from inside the room: "Get out!"

More than a dozen maids and women came out in a file, and stood in two rows in the courtyard, not even daring to breathe.Intermittent choking sounds came from the room, and someone choked up and said: "That's it, I don't have the face to see my ancestors..." Then there was a crashing sound, like a vase and a teacup being hit by someone. One piece was broken.

Jiang Ling lowered his head slightly, neither looking nor listening, nor speaking.

The two little maids looked at each other, both showing a little anxious expression.One of them asked timidly: "Is this daughter-in-law in charge, the one who got angry just now, the second wife?"

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law stopped, glanced at them, and said flatly: "In this Jia's mansion, the first thing you have to learn is not to listen to what you shouldn't, and not to look at what you shouldn't. If you want to talk nonsense and talk nonsense, I will ask the second wife to show you and beat you out with sticks. Do you remember?"

The two maids were young, so frightened by the housekeeper's wife, they all shrank their heads and answered yes in a low voice.

Jiang Ling was still quiet, not saying a word, not surprised at all by this matter.

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law gave Jiang Ling an appreciative look, as if she was satisfied with her knowledge of advances and retreats, and her sense of proportion.She gave a few more instructions, and the two little maids obediently agreed. Jiang Ling still lowered her head, clutching her palm, with an indifferent expression.

—The indifference of the bystanders.

Jiang Ling actually knew some things. For example, Grandma Rong in the East Mansion, that is, Qin Keqing, was very likely to have been exposed. That's why Grandma Zhen—that is, Qin Keqing's mother-in-law—had a sick look on her face just now. The look is sluggish.But this matter was originally a secret of the East and West Second Mansions, she was a young maid who had just arrived, and she didn't have any position to say more.

What's more, in the next three to five years, or even 20 years, she will have to settle down in Jia's mansion.

Jiang Ling thought for a while, and then remained silent, following behind the butler's daughter-in-law step by step, showing no interest at all.

The three of them followed the housekeeper's daughter-in-law, turned around three times, passed through several hanging flower doors, and came to a servant's room.The Jia Mansion is very large, but most of the maids with grades and aunts who have shown their faces live with the wives and girls, while the maids without grades can only be squeezed into a small servant room Here, there is a place to sleep to get things done.Jiang Ling and the others are little maids who have just bought in. They have not been picked by the wives and girls, and they are not the children of the family, so they can only live in this area.

"You each choose a place to live." The housekeeper's daughter-in-law ordered, "I will take you to dinner when you are ready, let you know the way, and then tell you the rules in the house. The great cause of the Rongguo family Daddy, if you settle down with peace of mind, you will certainly not lose the benefits; but if you have other thoughts, don't blame the wives for not being sympathetic."

She was half exhorting and half threatening, but she was quite dignified.

The little maids all answered yes, each chose an empty room, took the key, and went into the house with a small package.Jiang Ling was a little beggar picked up by Mrs. Wang from the side of the road. Naturally, she didn't have any packages, so she was happy and at ease.She walked into the room and pressed the only wooden bed. It was hard and cold, but fortunately it was clean and stable, which was much better than restless nights in the last days.

Thinking about it this way, being a maid in Jia's mansion didn't seem so unbearable.

Taking advantage of his spare time, Jiang Ling carefully checked every corner of the house.After staying in the last days for too long, her vigilance is far stronger than that of ordinary people.It wasn't until he confirmed that there were no potential safety hazards in the house that he felt relieved and went out to meet the housekeeper's wife.

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law was discussing something with a woman under the shade of a tree.

Seeing Jiang Ling coming out, the housekeeper's wife waved her hand and signaled Jiang Ling to come forward.

Jiang Ling took a closer look, and recognized that woman was Mrs. Wang, that is, the matchmaker who had just sold her to Jia's mansion.She walked forward, saluted, then stared at her toes again, pretending to be shy, and remained silent.

"This girl..." The housekeeper's daughter-in-law shook her head, feeling a little helpless.

"Look at this girl." Mrs. Wang was also laughing, pretending to be familiar with Jiang Ling, and said affectionately, "It's the first time I've been separated from my family, so I'm a little shy. Just look at her." It's convenient, let me tell her some other things, is it appropriate?"

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law nodded and said, "It should be." Then she moved away a little.

As soon as the housekeeper's daughter-in-law turned her back, the smile on Mrs. Wang's face disappeared. She tremblingly took out a cloth bag from her bosom, carefully counted the money of one, two, eight and three cents, and handed it to Jiang Ling. He said kindly: "No, this is for you. But remember, you are an old man who brought you into Jia's mansion, so you must not act recklessly; if you commit a crime, even if you are killed, no one will support you ,do you know?"

This is what it means to completely disregard the relationship.

Jiang Ling was startled, took the silver in his arms, raised his voice slightly, and said: "Jiang Ling remembered."

Mrs. Wang wants to get rid of the relationship, and she is also happy to get rid of the relationship, and it will never be related again.What they said just now was not only said to each other, but also to the housekeeper's wife, and it can be regarded as a clear road.

Jiang Ling collected the money, then returned to the side of the housekeeper's wife, standing obediently.Mrs. Wang snorted, took the money she had just received, and walked away from the front door familiarly.The housekeeper's daughter-in-law's expression softened a little, and she told Jiang Ling some words, and after the two little maids were tidied up, she took them to the cubicle for lunch.

Calculating carefully, Jiang Ling has not had a normal lunch for more than ten years.

In the early years, because of her busy work, she often used a cup of coffee and a sandwich for lunch, and dealt with it indiscriminately, and it was over.Later, when the virus broke out and the apocalypse came, she was so busy looking for her parents that she had no time to take care of her own basic necessities.Later, she heard that her parents died in the first wave of virus in the last days, and the traces had already been wiped away by the nuclear explosion. It took half a year for her to recover from her depression.Then, there is a long nuclear winter that will never see the light of day.

At that time, food and clothing became extremely scarce, and any morsel of food was very precious. Not to mention an ordinary lunch, even a small potato could trigger people's wanton snatching, which in turn caused a A bloody skirmish.

However, that was the past.

Jiang Ling took a deep breath, looking at the normal meals in front of him, for the first time in his life, he had a desire to "want to eat ten plates of each dish, and count himself to death".After the warm rice was eaten, the fragrance of ordinary home-cooked dishes lingered between the cheeks and teeth, and a very happy thought suddenly arose.

After all, the most common meals in Jia's mansion are extremely precious to her, a visitor from the last days.

She chewed her share of food slowly, rinsed her mouth again, tidied up the dishes, and together with the two maids, stood in front of the housekeeper's wife to listen to the instruction:

"The rules in Jia's mansion are neither too big nor too small. There are three classes of maids in the house, and the first class is naturally the big maids who are served by wives and girls. Children are raised as young ladies. When I see it, I have to call it a girl in a proper manner; the second class is the maid in charge of going in and out, night watch, and mending in front of the ladies and girls, and the standard silver is half that of the first class maid; the third class is in charge of the yard. The maids who sweep, lift the sedan chair, and move around outside occasionally do some things like mending, laundry, and cooking. Specialize in doing things that others don't. The most important thing for the maids in the mansion is four words: perform their duties, you must keep it in your heart."

"Dare to ask the elder sister in charge." A little maid asked timidly, "Then what should we do to be promoted to the third-class maid?"

"Yo." The daughter-in-law in charge smiled, "I'm quite ambitious. But it's a good thing to be ambitious, but it's a bad thing to be too high-minded and to be strong. After waiting for a year or so, you'll have accumulated a lot of credit. If you are satisfied, you can go to Lian's second grandmother and give a message, and you will be registered and receive a monthly payment of half a penny. But now——you can stay here with peace of mind."

The daughter-in-law in charge paused, and then said: "Just now the second wife told me that there is a lack of a girl in the wife's small kitchen to light the fire, and a girl who sweeps the floor in front of the second master's yard. There is another one, which is in front of the old lady. I need a girl to wash the teacups. Jiang Ling, just now my wife told me that you can read and write?"

Jiang Ling nodded, lowered his voice and said, "Thanks to my wife's love, I can read a few words." The answer is also very skillful.

"That's all right." The daughter-in-law in charge nodded to her and said, "Then you can go to the old lady to serve her. It just so happens that Miss Lin also lacks a little girl who runs errands and washes the inkstone. You have to go there to fill up the number in your spare time. Son, that’s it. For the remaining two, whoever of you wants to help in the wife’s small kitchen, and whoever wants to go to the second old man’s yard to clean the yard? Let’s discuss it by yourself. When the negotiation is completed, I will report it to the second grandmother. You know, that’s all right.”

The two little maids looked at each other for a while, and then talked with each other for a while, each of them confirmed their whereabouts.

The steward's daughter-in-law nodded in satisfaction and said, "Very good." She took the three of them to Wang Xifeng, and walked through Ming Road again.Afterwards, Jiang Ling followed a big maid beside Jia Mu, named Yuanyang, to Jia Mu's room to clean the teacups.

On the first day in Jia's mansion, it was quite pleasant.