Suddenly, she heard her father sneaking out the door quietly.
She was startled and quickly put down the bowl and chased her out: "Where are you going? You're going to eat and drink randomly again! When your shift is in the afternoon, the supervisor will find out and scold you! You will lose the face you had for several lifetimes!"
Her father had already disappeared, and the leaves in the alley were scattered all over the sky by his footsteps.
"Are you wearing a coat? Carefully, you caught a cold——!"
His father seemed to be wearing a new silk suit, a new ready-made suit that Liu Ruhai gave when he delivered materials. Although the clothes were decent, they were still a little thin. He was about to freeze.
She stamped her feet in anger, but looked helplessly and saw that the neighbor's door was still locked. Scholar Liu hadn't come back yet.
As soon as she closed the door, she heard a knock on the door: "Cousin——"
Her second uncle's daughter Ting Niang came.
The second uncle's family is the one who wants to adopt his son Xiaotian to her parents, and also wants to sell his daughter Tingniang to become a maid in the Hou Mansion.
Ting Niang looked at Cao Xiwan uneasily. She grew up in a neighborhood market, and she didn't want to be sold into the Hou Mansion by her parents, but she had nowhere to go. She asked her cousin to find a job. She could also sign a short contract to be a maid.
Today I came to hear the news.
"Come in quickly." Cao Xiwan opened the door without saying much.
She asked Ting Niang to sit in the room. She went to the kitchen and hurriedly wrote a small circle of paper, using the Jinyiwei secret code, to write the secret message "Be careful of the hidden river in the prince's house of wine and jealousy", and kept it in her sleeve. Then she served tea.
Go back to your room.
She carefully looked at Ting Niang's clothes. Although they were not newly cut, they were clean and decent.
She smiled and nodded, took out a silver-copper-wrapped double-stranded carved hairpin from her makeup box, and inserted it into her bun.
Ting Niang bowed her knees shyly: "Thank you, sister."
She pulled her cousin and thought: "Okay, I'll change my clothes and take you there."
Ting Niang was overjoyed and couldn't stop paying homage.
She tied on a dark red silk laminated silk cloak, and gave Ting Niang the fine lake green silk cloak given by the Marquis. Although Ting Niang's eyebrows were ordinary, she had very clean skin, and this green cloak made her look even more beautiful.
Her beauty is highlighted, her face is like jade, and she has the beauty of a lady with a faint fragrance and plump sleeves.
Seeing that her cousin looked very respectable, she locked the door and went together to Supervisor Zhou's new house.
Her father is not afraid of the cold, but she is not.
The new house is not far away, near the Wucheng Bingma Si Yamen, across the street from the Nanhe Jinyiwei Hundred Household Residence.
Clusters of bright red camellias bloom beside the green river. From a distance, you can see green pines and cypresses hanging on the eaves, and the sound of firecrackers is loud. Sure enough, there is a wedding party in the new house.
Once here, congratulations on your new home.
Secondly, the grandson of Zhou Daguan became successful.
She told her cousin that Zhou Cheng had a grandson who was sent to a commoner's family to be his son, and he was sent to study in the county school. The eldest son of the Zhou family also bought an eighth-grade school captain position in Jinyiwei. Double happiness came to his family.
Zhou Cheng and his wife were both at home greeting guests.
She walked in and greeted the familiar neighborhood slaves. Mrs. Fan, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, quickly took her to have tea. She smiled and said:
"Sister-in-law, there's no need to greet me. I don't know the way yet? I think Uncle Zhou laughed at me - this is my cousin."
"What a neat kid." Madam Fan smiled and quickly gave her a hairpin as a greeting gift. She then quietly asked Cao Xiwan: "How about you going to my wife's room? I heard it has been decided?"
"It's settled. Just wait until the time comes."
"Your monthly payment has come down. The accountant will pay it to you in two days." Mrs. Fan counted the money.
Cao Xiwan must have thought that it was double the monthly money of a first-class girl.
If the wife is willing to just give her double the monthly salary and not let her go into the house, she will be happy to take care of her at home.
What a good lady.
she thought movedly.
Madam Fan saw that she felt relieved knowing that the monthly money was in her pocket, so she also smiled and went out of her way to chat with her.
As Ting Niang listened, she knew that the Cao family and the Zhou family had been neighbors for several years, and they got along well with each other.
She was still a little uneasy, so she touched this extremely fine lake silk cloak. Even Mrs. Fan looked surprised and envious when she saw it for the first time. She knew that her cousin was trying to save her face.
She thought to herself, didn't she come to Zhou Mansion to be a maid? She originally asked her cousin to help introduce her to a job that included food and accommodation.
"How can she be a girl?" Cao Xiwan couldn't help laughing. Ting Niang was her cousin. "The reason why you come here is because the Zhou family lacks a daughter from a relative who can accompany the third wife to talk. My father is the deceased elder.
They live in one room. The old lady of the Zhou family lives with them. They are mother and son. Our two families are naturally close."
She whispered to her cousin. The Cao family and the Zhou family were relatives. How could they ask their cousin to be the maid?
That can't be stopped.
Ting Niang became more and more uneasy.
Along the way, we looked at the new house, with snow walls and black pillars, and rich flowers and trees. Even in late autumn, you can see various camellias blooming. Cao Xiwan was satisfied. She touched the small spy scroll she carried with her and looked left and right. Feiyu
Although there were many Jinyiwei guests in the service, I didn't see anyone who was convenient.
She touched the banknotes in her purse again, thinking that she had already planned to buy a small courtyard and a few houses on this street for her parents, so that they could live there temporarily for a year, so as not to get into trouble.
Stay away from Liu Xiaozi.
My parents live here and can often come to the house to take care of each other.
Suddenly, she heard something.
"The Marquis has taken a fancy to Xiliu..."
"Scared, no way. We've only been married for ten days?"
She stopped in shock when she heard that Song Chengming and Lou Shuluan also had a real relationship, a relationship that existed in Beijing. How could Mr. Hou be so shameless to Mrs. Hou?
Xiliu, I have never heard of this name.
Could it be that Mrs. Hou is accompanying the room girl?
This is so boring! She lived in the monastery for more than half a month, thinking that they were a loving couple.
result?
She curled her lips and glared, seeing two young men in green clothes behind a wall of green pine trees.
She saw that they were the slave boys from the Nankang Hou Mansion. They were eating fruits and talking nonsense in the corner. She recognized one of them named Da Lei, and his mother was from the old lady's room.
By the way, his aunt is now working as a second-class mother-in-law in Mrs. Hou's room.
She knew this big news. For example, she, Cao Xiwan, was working as an errand in charge of the small accounting room in the study, and she was the maid of the Marquis. This kid had said this all the time!
Later, when he was eating and drinking outside, she called Mao Ergou and a few others to beat him up secretly. Only then did he learn to shut up.
Just as she was about to go up and scold the boy, her cousin Ting Niang pulled her and winked.
There was a green shadow like smoke on the corridor. Who did it look like? She took a closer look and was shocked. Liu Ruhai, a white-faced doctor in a green shirt, was led by the servants of the Zhou family and passed through the back corridor with a consultation box on his back.
This kid actually got here? Cao Xiwan's eyes turned cold.
Is he looking for death?
Seeing that he had medical skills and was the one saved by the Sixth Young Master, she did not touch him.
If he becomes impatient with life, she will naturally help him.