"Old Nine Gates" Frost Forest is dyed red in February

☆、chapter03

When I saw this battle, I couldn't help being startled and a little embarrassed, so I hurriedly went to the housekeeper, who said it was Er Ye's intention.

I still think it's wrong, the butler said, these are old men from Liyuan, similar to family members, you don't have to worry about them, just cook your noodles.

After getting along for a few days, I think these guys from Liyuan are much more fun than those well-behaved guys.

These girls who come out of the pear garden can sing a few words more or less, and they sing in a low voice while working on weekdays, babbling, and even I can hum a few words after listening too much. One of the two girls is called Juanhua , and one is called Tsing Yi, which is a kind of costume in Beijing opera.

Theatrical equipment is called the outfit, and the outfit is divided into four boxes: clothes, helmets, miscellaneous items, and handles. The suitcases are divided into large suitcases, second suitcases, and third suitcases. The clothes in different suitcases also represent different statuses.

Tsing Yi is the costume in Er Ye's suitcase, and the silk flower is the headgear in the helmet box. These two people have been learning arts in the theater since they were young. One is called Yunlu, and the other is called Chaofang. They are both the shoes in the second master's third suitcase, and their status is worse than that of the previous two girls.

The ancestral business handed down by the second master's family has a deep foundation, and even the names of the staff are well-behaved. I don't understand what they are saying. I can only cook noodles.

But Tsing Yi told me that when my wife first got married, she could only cook noodles, but the second master treated her better than anyone else.

And those two girls have been with the second master since they were young. They can do somersaults and sing operas with ease.

I said: "Then you never thought about leaving the Red Mansion and establishing your own family?"

Tsing Yi shook his head, "Second Master's kung fu is unfathomable, how can we compare it to others, besides, Second Master has a gentle temper, never beats and scolds servants, it is our blessing to be able to follow Second Master."

I nodded half-understood. I am willing to hear about the second master. I really want to know what kind of person the second master was when he didn't meet his wife before.

I'm only responsible for cooking noodles every day, so I'm a little free. Occasionally, when I'm bored, I help Qingyi cut flowers, help silk flowers wash clothes, help Yunlu sweep the yard, and turn over the flower soil. These guys don't just stay in the kitchen It's so simple, I feel that the second master is about to hand over all the servants in the house to me.

A lot of people have been added to the yard one after another, Buddha also sent someone to send a Western cook, and the new year is approaching, the house is very lively for a while, but when the second master returns to the house, he still likes to stay in his wife's room, drinking Drinking tea, cutting flowers, sitting alone as long as I can see, there is a pot of red bamboo in my wife's room, which is more finely trimmed than any pot of flowers in the house.

When I see the second master every day, I feel as if my wife is still alive...

The second master's first scene was on the first day of the new year. I heard from the eighth master that this day is very auspicious and good luck for the new year.

The day before the [-]th, Master Buddha came to the door with his eighth master, ninth master, and fifth master, whom I had never seen before. The fifth master was holding a dog by his hand. The dog stood up almost to my shoulder, dressed in black. The fur is quite clean, I couldn't help but take a closer look, the dog bared its teeth, almost as long as my index finger.

Everyone in the yard was busy, only I was idle. Two pots of good Longjing were served in the front hall, and the table was filled with melon and fruit snacks. Thick iron chains were tied outside the door, jumping up and down anxiously.

The master's dog is also the master.

Seeing that it was anxious and uncomfortable, I bravely went to the kitchen to make a pot of tea, poured it into a porcelain basin, and took it out with both hands.

The dog was still looking in from the door, and when it saw me, it immediately turned around. I tentatively took two steps towards it, and the dog bared its teeth at me.

I took two quick steps and put the porcelain basin on the ground. The dog rushed over in a few steps, and the iron chain on the ground was tightened with a bang.

"Bean sprouts!"

I heard the second master calling me from the house, and his voice changed.

This is the first time that Second Master called my name in front of others. I turned around and saw Second Master's frowning, and vaguely felt that I had caused trouble again.

Ba Ye came out, seeing the tea I made for Hei Mao, he couldn't laugh or cry, "It's really strange that Wu Ye's dog didn't bite her when he saw this girl."

Second Master stood at the door, staring at me with a pair of phoenix eyes, "Why are you so unruly, did you touch Fifth Master's dog too?"

I lowered my head a little aggrieved, and saw the black hair drank the water in the basin, and brought the celadon back to my feet.

"Go back to the backyard and stay, don't come here without me!"

Second Master didn't speak loudly, and his tone was very calm, but I knew that Second Master was angry.

I huddled in the pavilion in the backyard, and vaguely heard people coming to the front yard again. It was very lively coming and going, and I didn't know what happened to the black hair, and whether anyone brought it something to eat.

The winter in Changsha is not warm, not cold but very cold. It is the kind of coolness that penetrates into the bones. When the wind blows, it seems to be able to blow into the bones, and the cold teeth tremble.

This season, only the second master's garden can bloom such bright flowers. The previous rhododendrons have all fallen, and the second master asked someone to replace them with red plums.

It suddenly occurred to me that my wife loved the red plums the most when she was still here. The second master often cut a few blooming ones, and trimmed them himself in a white jade bottle. Now, I haven't seen the second master come to cut flowers again.

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly noticed someone patting me from behind, "You girl, why are you in a daze here? The second master called you and didn't hear you a few times."

I turned my head and saw that it was the eighth master, and the second master was sitting at the stone table in the center of the pavilion, looking at me with cool eyes.

I hurried over and brushed my body, "Second Master, let me make you a pot of tea."

The second master nodded and said yes.

So I went to the kitchen to find a pot, brewed it and brought it to the second master. The eighth master couldn't help laughing when he saw it, "You won't let us drink tea with the fifth master's dog."

I hurriedly shook my head, "No, this pot of slaves has been brewed with more care."

The second master raised his head and looked at me with a half-smile, "I've been with Tsing Yi Silk Flowers for so long, why haven't I learned something from them?"

I lowered my head and thought for a while, how could I know that the second master was referring to politeness and rules, so I didn't hide it at the moment, "I have learned a few operas from them, but they can't sing as well as them."

"Oh? Opera?" The second master seemed to be interested, "Sing a few lines and listen. If you sing well, I will find someone to teach you tomorrow."

I pinched my orchid fingers imitating the silk flower pattern, took another cross step, and slowly slid my arms across the air, "Since I have been fighting with the king in the west and east~~"

"Cough cough..."

The second master spit out a sip of tea, I hurriedly stopped my mouth when I saw it, took the handkerchief and passed it to the second master.

"Is it true that the servants have put too much tea?"

Second Master smiled and waved his hand at me. This was the second time I saw Second Master smiling. His eyes were narrowed and crooked, brighter than Dongmei in the courtyard.

The second master said: "You still don't want to learn this play, but I see that you have a light figure, you can still learn some kung fu when you are on the ground."

I hurriedly bent down, "Thank you, Second Master."

Second Master nodded to me, then turned to Eighth Master and said, "I'll go back to my room and change my clothes."

I stepped forward to put Er Ye's cup into the tea tray, Er Ye got up and wanted to leave, but after walking two steps, he turned around and gave me a look.

The falling plums behind Second Master were like snow, and the breeze floated, blowing the first few plum petals, and they all fell on Second Master's shoulders.

I couldn't help but startled: "Second Lord?"

"You don't want to move this fifth master's dog anymore." The second master said, "This dog is extremely fierce. It won't let go when it bites people. It doesn't even leave a bone when it eats people."

I nodded hurriedly, "The servant girl knows."

The second master turned around and left. I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but for some reason, I always felt that there were still two eyes staring at me from behind.

As soon as I turned around, I saw Eighth Master...

When Ba Ye saw me turn around, he subconsciously smiled. Just now, the second master smiled very nicely, but this Ba Ye's smile is so scary no matter how you look at it.

"What's your name?" Ba Ye asked me.

"The servant's name is Bean Sprout."

"It's really called bean sprouts..." Eighth Master seemed to mutter to himself, and I thought to myself, what's wrong with being called bean sprouts?I used to have an older sister named Cai Ya...

"How did you get into the mansion?"

"The servant girl was picked up by the madam from the street."

"Oh, that's right." Eighth Master stepped forward and patted me on the shoulder, the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose were almost touching my face, "I see you don't usually have much work, your second master likes to drink For tea, I especially like Longjing tea from West Lake, you should learn more at ordinary times, don’t brew it with too boiling water, it will lose the taste.”

I heard this and couldn't help being stunned, "The tea that the second master usually drinks is made from silk flowers, and the silk flowers are very well crafted."

"That's different!" Eighth Master lowered his head and winked at me, "It's okay to spend more time with your second master, I haven't seen him smile like this for a long time."

Eighth Master also turned around and left. When he left, he seemed in a good mood, and couldn't help singing a ditty.

"Since I have been fighting with the king..."

I:"……"

Before the fifth master left, the second master didn't let me go back to the front yard.

However, what the second master said was always consistent. When the second master asked me to learn kung fu, he really found me a master.

On the early morning of the [-]th day, the second master personally took the staff in the house to the Liyuan to prepare. The show will start on the first day of the new year, and the year will not be good. The housekeeper is worried that the second master will not be able to eat noodles at noon, so he takes me along .

This is the first time I have entered the Liyuan. Before I came to the Liyuan, I never knew that Erye still had so many fellows under his command.

Erye’s pear orchard is very beautiful, much larger than the Red Mansion, with bright red silk adorning the four corners of the house, colorful lanterns with paintings hanging everywhere under the dripping eaves of the corridor, and Erye’s many boxes, neatly placed in the In the corner of the backstage, these boxes are carved with dragons and phoenixes, and the patterns are different in size, but they are all lifelike.

The stage is also divided into the foreground and the backstage. The backstage is the side where we came in. There are two painted red pillars at the door, and a pair of Taiwan couplets are held in gold pens. There is a theater in the middle; the second couplet is "Yao and Shundan, the end of civil and military affairs, reckless and ugly, and many roles in ancient and modern times".

The housekeeper said that this stage was a gift from a wealthy businessman more than ten years ago. It was built after the Guanghe Building in Beiping as a whole. The front stage is much more magnificent than the backstage, but I have never been there.

The butler asked me to go to the backstage first, and he went to the front desk to take care of it, but as soon as I entered the door, I was surrounded by several guys, and several men circled around me, making me dizzy.

"You are the legendary bean sprouts? Don't tell me, you are really small..."

"That's right, look, this body hasn't grown yet."

I stood in the middle, my face flushed with embarrassment, and my eyes turned around on me, really using me as an exhibit.

I didn't know what to say for a while, I lowered my head and pursed my lips, and it took me a long time to hold back a sentence.

"My name is bean sprouts, not bean sprouts..."

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