Chapter 5 Only the bottom line(1/2)
One of the habits that Li Ran has developed in the past nearly thirty years of life is that she can sleep at any time during the day, but only sleeps for a while at a time.
This habit came here. Even if she lie down and sleeps well, she covered herself with a quilt, and there was no quiet sound around her, she still woke up after only ten minutes of sleep.
Before Qiuyue came back, the little girl standing at the corner of the house with her hands hanging down was very panicked and hurriedly winked at the other little girl standing at the door.
Li Ran got off the bed and walked to the dressing table. She looked at the little girl with obvious panic and asked, "Can you comb your hair? Comb my hair up."
The little girl was ashamed of a general amnesty and hurried over to comb Li Ran's hair.
Li Ran was bored, opened the box on the dressing table, took out the golden hairpin in the box and the headdress she didn't know the name, and looked carefully one by one.
The gold jewelry she saw in the museum before was incomparable to these.
How could this piece in my hand be so thin? It’s not as thick as my hair and so many thin threads, but she’s not messy at all. She’s not obsessive-compulsive, but looking at these extremely delicate and smooth golden threads, I feel quite comfortable to decompress.
What pattern is this? It looks so good!
But Li Ran was worried about the little girl.
The girl's clothes and jewelry are all purchased from outside now, but they are not good things at first glance. Anyone who is more decent will not wear such clothes with a rough edge.
And these golden hairpins and hairpins are not as delicate as Sister Qiuyue’s use. The one in the girl’s hand is outdated and no one used it last year…
This girl saw this carefully and must have seen it. If she asked her, what would she say?
Why has Sister Qiuyue not come back yet?
Perhaps to delay the long term and wait for her sister Qiuyue to come back, the little girl combed Li Ran with an extremely complicated hairstyle. Finally, Qiuyue came back when her hair was combed.
Qiuyue is not as successful as this little girl.
As soon as she entered the yard, she heard that the girl woke up and ran all the way into the room, but she couldn't calm down. Of course, it was probably because Cui Weiju was too small, and it took too short to walk from the yard to the room.
"The girl woke up and didn't sleep well? I just saw the girl fall asleep. The girl was tired for a day and thought she would have to sleep for a while before I went out to get something..." Qiuyue said in a very vague way to take something, "I went to the kitchen again. What do the girl want to eat for dinner?"
"Can I order something for me?" Li Ran raised her eyebrows and asked in surprise, looking at Qiuyue.
Qiuyue choked, she didn't dare to answer this.
"Did the old lady ask you to come, or did the wife ask you to come?" Li Ran looked at Qiuyue, whose face was about to turn red with a choking face, and wanted to laugh.
This girl looks like those newcomers in the workplace who have seen a bunch of promotion techniques, mindfulness and black rules. They are ready to fight all over the company.
"I used to be a job in the old lady's yard." Qiuyue couldn't hold back the smile on her face. Is the girl hitting her?
"If you want to report anything in the future, you don't need to be secretly stolen. It's not shameful. What's the old lady's surname? What's the lady?"
Qiuyue's face turned blue, and she didn't even know how to answer Li Ran's question.
"What's the old lady's surname? What's the lady?" Li Ran looked at Qiuyue who was speechless and asked again.
"Yes, yes, the old lady's surname is Chen, and the wife's surname is Zhang." Qiuyue felt a layer of cold sweat on her back.
"Your Marquis's surname is Li," Li Ran smiled.
The surname Li is really good. If she had a surname of individuals, she would have to adapt for a while.
"Do you marquis have concubines? How many?" Li Ran continued to ask.
"No one." Qiuyue was so confused that her head was dizzy.
"Is it not there now, or hasn't it not before?" Li Ran thought of her biological mother.
"I don't know." Qiu Yue's sweat was about to come down.
This girl is the daughter of the Marquis, but she was not born by her wife. She must have had a concubine or something before. But in the seven or eight years since she entered the mansion, she had never heard of a Marquis having a concubine or a wife, so she couldn't answer this.
"Oh, I don't know." Li Ran slanted the cold sweat on Qiu Yue's forehead. After a few words, the cold sweat came out. He was such a little girl.
"Then how many sons and daughters do you marquis have? They are all born to their wives?" Li Ran continued.
"Three sons and three daughters... no, four daughters." This time, the sweat on Qiuyue's forehead really dripped, "Apart from the girl, they are all born to the wife."
"Say that." Li Ran looked at Qiuyue, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She liked this little girl a little.
"Yes." Qiuyue swallowed and gurgled, "Uncle, Second Master, Third Master..." Qiuyue was stuck, and she was confused, and she no longer knew what to say.
"Is the boss the boss? How old is this year?" Li Ran glanced at Zhou E who was protruding her head into the room from the door.
"Yes, I'm twenty-eight this year."
"I'm twenty-eight years old, then do you marry a wife? Do you have children? How many children are there? Boys and girls? How old are they? What are the old men doing now?"
"Marrying... I've been married, there are two, one man and one woman, the eldest brother is six years old, and the second sister is two years old. The old man is now in the north, under Huo Shuai's account, and he is a general." Qiuyue dared not not answer, dared not answer more, and asked one question and one answer.
"Then let's talk about the second one, just say that." Li Ran glanced at Zhou E who quietly entered the house and stood in the corner of the house watching the fun.
"Yes, the second master is 26 years old this year and has married. He has a daughter, eldest sister, four years old this year. The second master was awarded the title of Jinshi. Now he is a sixth-rank official in the Ministry of Revenue.
The third master is nineteen this year and has not yet discussed his relatives. He is now studying at the Imperial Academy and is the prince’s companion.
The eldest girl is 23 years old this year and is already married. She went to work with her son-in-law at the beginning of this year.
The second girl is married on the 21st year, so she is also married. My son-in-law..." Qiuyue whipped her tongue. Needless to say, what the son-in-law does, she didn't ask her son-in-law. "...I'm studying. My third girl is seventeen this year."
Li Ran let out a light whisper.
The third girl is seventeen, and she is seventeen.
Li Ran then sighed. Men are all big pig's hooves, and traveling through time and space is also a famous saying.
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The supper was delivered to Cuiweiju by several servants carrying food boxes.
Radish and pork rib soup, braised mutton, shrimp-skinned winter melon, roasted cabbage, mixed with shredded mustard greens and red oil fermented bean curd, and the rice is almost transparent, very beautiful and delicious, and there are three extremely small steamed buns on a plate.
It was very rich and tasted very well. Li Ran was very satisfied with the food.
After serving Li Ran for dinner, Qiuyue said she wanted to go and return the food box and eat by the way. Li Ran simply agreed and left the house, preparing to take a walk to digest food by the way.
Qiuyue handed over the food box and went to the kitchen leader Guo Wang's house first.
"Sister-in-law, you are so careless. No matter what that girl does, that's the same...what is right? Look at the dinner today, the pork rib soup and the cabbage, and the braised mutton. This is supper, such a greasy thing, is this too much, right?
The Marquis pointed Aunt Zhou to the girl. Have you heard of this?
No matter what, you can't find fault, right? Otherwise, if you really make trouble, aren't we still unlucky? Sister-in-law, I tell you, I look at that person, it doesn't seem like a simplified person."
Qiuyue’s complaint was not malicious, she was still intimate with Guo Wang’s family.
"It's not that I was careless, I whitened several hairs just for her meal." Guo Wang's belly was even more resentful. "In our mansion, Marquis, the old lady will not say anything, and will not serve me. Madam, second and second grandma, third grandma, third grandma, every day, I buy and cook everything I eat. Do you think, can you, can you do the same? What she orders, what to buy and what I do here?"
Qiuyue was dumb, how could she know if she could? But according to her intuition, she probably couldn't.
"If you can't want to eat something, who will decide what dishes she eats every day? I asked Madam Ren, do you know what Madam Ren said? Madam Ren said, isn't there any rules in the mansion? I still have to ask? There are such rules in the mansion?"
Qiuyue was asked by Guo Wang's family and leaned back. She didn't know if there was such a rule in the mansion, it seemed that there was no one.
"There has never been such a person in our mansion!
I have six masters here, and I won’t talk about them. The child who has just been weaned, the third master has at most one or two meals at home. The third lady has 10 meals for ten meals with the old lady. The rest are the second master and second grandma, and the wife’s two suppers. Who do you think I’ll compare with?
The second master and the second grandma are together. She can’t eat the amount of two people alone, right? Then which dish should be removed and which one is left? Who will decide? Or you have to compare with the wife? But she can compare with the wife? It must not work, right? Then there are only Madam Ren and the others? What else can I do if you think I can do?"
"Okay, okay." Qiuyue heard one big head and two big ones, "I don't care, I'm going to have a meal."
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By the afternoon of the third day, Li Ran had basically confirmed one thing:
From Shanxian to here, she was always a bird kept in a cage. The difference was that in Shanxian, it was a wooden cage, but it was replaced with a golden cage here.
The bird doesn't often tease her when she has her owner. She can't even see her owner's face.
She even suspected that when she was in Shan County, she was the one who raised her, Mr. Hou, with the same style.
Li Ran sat in the corridor and thought seriously for a long time.
This sudden life is tentatively possible for her to live her whole life. What is her bottom line in this life?
Well, life is too long, let’s first think about where her bottom line is now.
As for the idea of what kind of life she had never lived in her previous life, she didn't have to think about it now.
Life is not something you can live whatever you want, you can only live the life you can.
So she has always only one bottom line for life. As for the rest, it depends on the conditions.
First of all, she could not tolerate being detained in this small courtyard like she was in jail.
Well, this is the only bottom line with limited knowledge.
Where should she start to break through this limitation?
Li Ran stood up, with her hands behind her back, shook her way along the corridor, and stood in front of Qiuyue, "Is there a study in this mansion?"
"Yes." Qiuyue answered completely subconsciously.
It has been three days, except for the time when she asked her what the old lady’s surname was, what the lady’s surname was, and who was in the family, she never said a word.
Now that I suddenly spoke and asked this question, Qiu Yue was so stunned that she couldn't react.
"Take me to see." Li Ran raised her foot and walked out.
To be continued...