Xu Yue vacated a room for her cousin Gongsun Yun to live temporarily, and went to work with her brother. Naturally, she thought that Gongsun Yun'er, who was a little older than herself, and her fifteen-year-old maid could take care of themselves.

The house is not big, but it is enough to accommodate Gongsun Yun, his master and his servant.

Gongsun Yun knew that she was here to seek refuge, so she didn't ask for anything, even though she had to live in a separate courtyard in Gongsun Wubao.

Most of the maids and servants in this era did not have their own separate rooms. The better ones would make a bunk on the floor next to the master's bed.

I almost slept in the corridor outside the master's room. It was okay in summer, but in winter, it was really uncomfortable with the cold wind and cold wind.

And the maidservant brought by Gongsun Yun usually sleeps with the master and is really attentive to her!

This kind of treatment is top-notch among servants.

So Xu Yue only prepared one room, which could accommodate both the master and the servant.

But there must be some inconvenience. The eldest maid found that there was no servant in the Xu family. The first morning she and her young lady moved to the Xu family, they couldn't find anyone to fetch water for them.

The well in Xu's courtyard was dug deep and used a rocker and pulley to draw water. The maid had no idea what this device was for, so she just lowered the bucket down with a rope to draw water. Naturally, she couldn't draw it up after a long time.

Of course, this would not have been the case with a skilled worker. However, this maid was not very strong and she did not have to do such menial work at Gongsun's house. She was so stunned that she burst into tears when fetching water from the Xu family's well.

The eldest maid felt very aggrieved, but she still had to carry half a bucket of water to boil water for her master to wash himself.

Then, she couldn't find anyone to ask where the kitchen was.

Gongsun Yun got up early. Seeing that the maid had not brought water in for a long time, she got out of bed and went outside to take a look. She found her maid looking around blankly in the courtyard like a headless fly.

"What's wrong?" Gongsun Yun asked doubtfully.

The eldest maid didn't expect that she had alerted her master, so she shook her head and said it was okay.

But Gongsun Yun still saw something was wrong from her red eyes. She went up and touched the water in the bucket, and asked in surprise: "Why is it still cold? Didn't you get hot water?"

The eldest maid finally couldn't help complaining softly with red eyes: "Miss, in such a big yard, I can't find a servant. I'm a newbie here and haven't found the fire room yet. I asked the lady to wait in the house. I feel wronged."

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Hearing this, Gongsun Yun slapped her head and said angrily: "I forgot to tell you that my cousin's family has no servants."

"Ah?" The eldest maid looked at her young lady in disbelief. The Xu family was so grand, but they didn't even have servants to serve them?

Gongsun Yun looked at her maid's aggrieved look and glanced at the wet well in the courtyard, and she already guessed what had just happened.

"You have never drawn well water, right?" Gongsun Yun asked softly.

She always spoke in a gentle voice. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, the eldest maid wouldn't have believed that her master would break off the engagement.

The eldest maid nodded honestly. Seeing that the young lady looked calm, she felt embarrassed and aggrieved.

Gongsun Yun thought about the living habits of his cousin's family. They like to do their own things and don't like others to interfere, so there should be equipment for boiling water in the yard.

With this thought in mind, Gongsun Yun searched in the courtyard. The courtyard was not big, with only three rooms. The left and right sides were locked, like a warehouse.

The middle room was where she lived. Gongsun Yun went back to the room to search for a while, and saw a knee-high pottery stove behind the door.

Beside the stove, there was a bag of charcoal and chopped short firewood packed in linen.

The flint is on the pottery stove.

Gongsun Yun was overjoyed and hurriedly asked the maid to come over to light a fire and boil water.

The master and servant were in a hurry and finally got the hot water for washing their faces.

But, where should I have this breakfast?

Fortunately, the Xu family did not forget them. As soon as the master and servant had finished washing, a short-haired man named A'er came in and asked them to have dinner.

In the Gongsun family's old house, no male servant had ever come into the young lady's boudoir. Ah Er's sudden appearance shocked the maid.

Fortunately for Gongsun Yun, he already knew that the Xu family's living habits were different, and he had been to school before, so he didn't care so much.

But the accompanying maid was so panicked that she began to resent the Xu family. Although she, a servant, could not say that she was not a relative of the master's family, when it came to the defense of men and women, the maid felt that she had a natural moral advantage.

"How can an adult male come in and out of a young lady's boudoir at will?" On the way to dinner, the eldest maid couldn't help complaining to Gongsun Yun about the way the Xu family treated guests.

Gongsun Yun shook her head, "It doesn't matter, Xujiazhuang is like this, there is no such terrible male and female defense here."

horrible?

The eldest maid nodded, it was indeed scary!

But what is terrible is not the defense between men and women, but the lack of ethics in Xujiazhuang!

Gongsun Yun turned around and glanced at the eldest maid. Seeing that she couldn't accept it, she suddenly regretted bringing her here.

If I had known that this personal maid was so old-fashioned, she should have come by herself without anyone.

But Gongsun Yun also knew that this was not the fault of the maid, but the fault of this era.

This era has turned women into monsters who can only follow the rules! And women are not aware of it and are proud of it, thus gaining some rights and continuing to use this theory to reprimand women who disobey the rules.

It seems that only when "the world is united" can these women, who take advantage of certain rights, feel satisfied.

Thinking of this, Gongsun Yun felt a little depressed and her expression didn't look very good.

She had never thought about reforming the people around her before, because the books her cousin Yue'er gave her said that anyone who wanted to change or overthrow must first master strong capital.

Otherwise, the ending will be tragic.

In the backyard managed by Grandma Yan, she obviously cannot gain any strength yet.

Whether it is the housewife sent by Grandma Yan or the obedient and docile eldest sister, they have obtained much more capital than her.

The only person she can win over is her brother.

But now that she has grown up, she cannot stay with her brother all the time. They have divided their courtyards, one on the east side and the other on the west side. It is getting harder and harder to see each other.

In the past two years when she did not go to clan studies, Gongsun Yun often doubted whether she was Gongsun Yun or the second daughter of the second wife of the Gongsun family.

While she was eating and using the food at home, she also wanted to fight for some things she wanted for herself, such as continuing to go to school, not getting engaged so early, and learning to be a housekeeper and a steward.
Chapter completed!