[Red Mansions] The big maid struggles daily

The whole plant of lily of the valley is poisonous and can be used as medicine. It is usually picked in summer and just remove the soil and dry it in the sun. Moreover, the fragrance of lily of the valley itself can inhibit the growth of bacteria in the environment, and it is very cold-resistant and easy to live. It is a very practical good. Material.While picking, Zhu Xiu reviewed the efficacy of lily of the valley in her mind, and as expected, she gained a lot of proficiency.However, special attention should be paid to picking lily of the valley, as the water used to preserve the flowers is poisonous.

The leaves are the most poisonous part of Lily of the Valley, so Zhuxiu naturally only needs the leaves.An errand will be assigned tomorrow, if this matter is not resolved as soon as possible, once the errand is on the job, it will be difficult to get out of the second door.

There were only three of them left in the small courtyard, and Hua Zhenzhu went out to seek camp again, which happened to be convenient for Zhu Xiu to do things.

Without time to dry the lily-of-the-valley leaves, Zhu Xiu pounded the leaves into a paste with a wooden stick, added water and boiled the juice on the tea stove.Fortunately, the earthenware teapot never cracked, Zhu Xiu slightly plugged the spout with a rag, and opened the teapot wide, so as not to pour out her own medicine first.While pounding and boiling, the pounded leaf paste was added to the teapot. In less than half an hour, the leaves of that clump of lily of the valley turned into green juice.

When the soup became thick, Zhu Xiu took down the teapot, still wrapped the spout with the piece of cloth, carefully filtered out the black and green juice, and got a small cup altogether.

Xiaoyan'er sat on the threshold of the small courtyard doing embroidery work, looking up from time to time to look around.

Zhu Xiu smashed the earthen pottery teapot for boiling the medicine to pieces, and dug a hole among the flowers next to the latrine to bury it together with cloth ends and leaf residue.

After finishing all this, it was almost time for dinner.The daughter-in-law who often ran errands to deliver meals brought their dinner from the big kitchen, Zhu Xiu grabbed the sister-in-law and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, let's eat with us, Pearl hasn't come back by this time, maybe she won't eat here again. In the morning, Lao Song’s mother also said that since she will send an errand tomorrow, we will not be under her control in the future, and she also said that she would ask the chef to cook some delicious food for us, and she also showed her affection.”

Xiaoyan also smiled and said: "That's right, I ate normally at noon, so it can be seen that this evening meal is good." As he said, he opened the suitcase, and sure enough, the evening meal was much better. There were three dishes, one soup and one meal. , a plate of stir-fried pork with cabbage, a plate of bean sprouts in meat oil, and even a large fish.

The daughter-in-law looked at this dish and found that it was indeed not something she could eat often, so she couldn't help but feel a little greedy, and seeing the two maids eager to keep her, she didn't refuse any more, and sat down to eat with them.

Gossiping while eating.

The daughter-in-law picked up two chopstick fish, and the chatterbox opened up, talking about this and that, Zhu Xiu and Xiaoyan'er spoke softly and nicely, which made the daughter-in-law smile and become more and more satisfied.

Zhu Xiu said: "We will assign errands tomorrow. I heard that Mama Xie is in charge of this matter. Good sister-in-law, you are familiar with Mama Xie. If you are, how about asking for a favor and assigning us to a good place? We will remember Good for sister-in-law."

The daughter-in-law laughed, "It's thanks to my mother for palming, but it's not because of her face. To be honest, I have no connections. I can only do rough work all day long. If I have a connection, I will soon So I went in there, and I still need to suffer this idleness!"

She also ridiculed Mrs. Xie, "She is becoming more and more disorganized now. When I first came here, she was arguing with her good daughter-in-law. The two of them were choking so badly. Her daughter-in-law was talking about 'vile' and 'poisonous woman'. How can this be?" Like a daughter-in-law, but an ancestor. But her son is really not up to date, timid, just get drunk, I don't care about life and death at all."

Zhu Xiu then laughed: "It's none of our business what happened to her family, it's just that Mama Xie is very strict, so we're afraid."

"What are you afraid of! I'll go in to wait on you tomorrow, and she won't be in charge. She's just eating and drinking now, but she's just taking the title of being in charge for nothing."

Zhu Xiu saw that this daughter-in-law was not in harmony with Mrs. Xie.He intentionally induced her to speak to vent her anger.

The daughter-in-law talked miscellaneously, and Zhu Xiu knew it in her heart.The sky has eyes too, Xie You was so drunk that he drank like mud, others hated him and refused to pay attention to him, his wife and daughter-in-law quarreled again, and they usually didn't quarrel until the last night when they came to drink or stop no.

After a while, the food was used up, and the whole side of the fish remained untouched. The daughter-in-law said it was a pity, Zhu Xiu and Xiaoyan'er persuaded her to take it home and feed the cat.

Sending away the daughter-in-law who delivered the meal, Zhu Xiu went out with a small lamp, avoiding people all the way, her ears are good, she can hear the sound of talking and footsteps from a distance, and she avoided it before meeting her.

In this way, it took a quarter of an hour to find the whereabouts of Xie Youyou and his mother in Rongfu.

That old Xie was full of alcohol, and he was paralyzed on the wooden couch. Zhu Xiu was no longer afraid, and went forward to push Xie Youmo to see his movements.

Dazedly, Mr. Xie saw a little beauty in front of him, thought he was dreaming, half got up and stretched out his hand to grab it, and his mouth was dirty.

Mr. Xie has been timid since he was a child, and others look down on him. Although he has found a job with his mother's favor, he is not reused. Thinking of him, I also gave him the nickname of "Old Man".It was so hard to marry a daughter-in-law, but the daughter-in-law beat and scolded her so often that she couldn't get close.As time went by, he would only show his prestige in the group of boys and girls with no errands in the back streets.Those people who wanted to enter the mansion had no way out, and some glib people would even flatter him, and once in a while he took advantage of his gallbladder to mobilize a few hands, but the man still didn't dare to say anything.Xie Laomo got it for fun, and he often did this kind of thing, and felt that he was not strong enough, but the back streets were full of daughters, so he didn't dare to go too far.Only when his wife wanted to marry off Xiangxifa from Uncle Zhu's room did he get Xiangxi's girl, Xiangdou'er.

It's just the first time, who knows that yesterday, taking advantage of the alcohol, he accidentally killed someone.Xie Laomo was terrified and excited, his heart felt like something was about to rush out, his eyes were so red that he couldn't sleep, so he had to drink some yellow soup again.

In Xie Laotong's situation, once the beast in his heart came out, he couldn't keep it shut anymore.

Zhu Xiu saw Mr. Xie get up, dodged nimbly, and hit him on the back of the neck with his hand, and Mr. Xie fell down on the couch in an instant and did not move.

Zhu Xiu's hands trembled slightly, picked up the small cup that had just been placed on the ground, poured it down for him, and pressed the acupuncture point with one hand so that he could swallow...

When Zhu Xiu went back, she was a little out of her mind, but luckily she was not caught by anyone.An Ansheng fell asleep without mentioning it.

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Early the next morning, the three of them washed and dressed, and waited in the courtyard.

Unexpectedly, it was almost noon, and I didn't see Mrs. Xie and others, and even Old Song's mother didn't know where she was.

Hua Zhenzhu was restless, she was about to run to the gate of the courtyard in a moment, holding on to the door clapper to have a look.

After a while, the three of them were so hungry that their intestines ached, because they were going to move out today, and there was no dry food left in the waiter, so they could only hold on.It was so easy to wait for someone, and the leader was Wu Xindeng's family who brought them to kowtow to Mrs. Wang that day.

Wu Xindeng's face was drooping, and she was very unhappy: she knew that the head of the family and Xie You's wife were on good terms, but she hadn't given birth to a son in these years, and it was all because of her wife's work outside. She couldn't stand up at home. When he got up, he turned a blind eye and closed his eyes to fool around.Unexpectedly, Wu Xindeng actually paid Mrs. Xie's family ten hangs of money, but it broke the Wu family's heart, but he dared not say it.Last night, Mr. Xie drank a lot of dirty soup, instead of getting drunk to death, he started to make trouble, beating and scolding like being chased by a ghost, the little whore of Xie's family actually had the face to go to her house, and finally stayed at home for a while Wu Xindeng put down his tea bowl and followed.The Wu family was angry and hated, but they couldn't bear the face and insisted on following them. It happened that Xie Laoman had red spots on his face and vomited in a mess. Wu Xindeng's family was guilty of nausea. up.Wouldn't it be extremely unlucky.

However, Mrs. Xie was beaten to the point of bleeding by him first, and when she saw that her son was gone, she was about to die, she was like a madman, and she almost alarmed the wife.

Mr. Xie's daughter-in-law fainted from the fright, and Wu Xin felt that the little hoof was cheap in his heart.Old Mrs. Xie was useless here, and Mrs. Song didn't know what kind of evil had fallen on her, and she was so sick that she couldn't get up overnight.She has to work for her, the nanny who is in charge of the room, to come and inquire about the whereabouts of the little girls, so she won't be angry.

Wu Xindeng's family scolded angrily: "A group of useless people! Crazy, crazy, sick." He said to the three impatiently: "Pearl goes to the upper courtyard, and Niuzi goes to the main courtyard first to obey." Then he pointed to Zhu Xiu and said : "You go to the big kitchen! The back of the big kitchen is full, you live with this girl first, and you can move when there is space." After finishing speaking, he threw his hands and left.

The rest will naturally be taken care of by mothers who are in charge everywhere.All three of them came in naked, and they had no clothes to tidy up to salute.On the contrary, the mother in the main courtyard said to Xiaoyaner: "Your name is too rustic. When the time comes, Niuzi Niuzi, who is willing to order it? You should change your name first, and in the future, if you are lucky, you will have a sister from above." We picked it up for you."

Xiaoyan'er was holding Zhu Xiu's hand, happy that the two of them could live together, it was hard to hear what the steward said, and looked at Zhu Xiu eagerly like a puppy.

Zhu Xiu thought for a while, and said: "Qing Jin, how about it, blue brocade. Qing Jin and Zhu Xiu seem to be a pair."

Qing Jin's eyes widened from her smile, and she hurriedly replied to Mammy's words, and Mammy also nodded: "That's right, the name is called "Exit."

When they arrived in the big kitchen, they didn't let a little girl like Zhu Xiu touch the spatula, but told her to do some errands such as delivering hot water and collecting food boxes every day.

After only a few days in the big kitchen, Zhu Xiu has mastered several important places in the inner courtyard.Mother Jia's upper courtyard and Mrs. Wang's main courtyard are naturally the most important. Originally, there were people vying for the errands in these two places no matter how big or small they were. A boy is coming.The second master just lost his eldest son who had been given high hopes in the twelfth lunar month of last year, and he had a younger son in the last lunar month of this year. He was not happy, and immediately named him Jia Huan.Aunt Zhao has held the two for three years, and this child is a son again, so she has a lot of fun in the house, and she can ask for hot water nine times a day, and other people in the big kitchen hide, so this mostly falls on the little girl who is rough. .

Zhu Xiu was still happy in her heart.The big kitchen is full of oil and water, even if the rough girls under them don't get anything, the food is good.It's just that there are too many people here, and relatives from various families contact each other to fight, hide out and clean up, but it's just a matter of a little effort.

On this day, it snowed all night before, and it was sunny. When Zhu Xiu was delivering hot water to Aunt Zhao who lived in the west ear room of the main courtyard, she bumped into Jia Baoyu who was being hugged by the nanny and wrapped into a red bun.

This chubby and cute baby was like a snow ball born by Master Bao. Zhu Xiu took the hot water to avoid the way, and Jia Baoyu stretched out his hand from the big hairy cloak, and smiled at Zhu Xiu and called her sister, The nanny and all the girls and women were afraid that he would blow the wind, and a group of people surrounded the nanny and hurried away.

Zhu Xiu listened to the ding ding dong dong sound of reminders in his head, and froze in place.