April Xinwei, 14, Qianyuan Festival.

This is the birthday of the current emperor, if compared with Xu Ping's previous life, this is the National Day of the Great Song Dynasty at this time, the scale may be different, but it is also about the same. The officials in Tokyo celebrated the emperor's birthday early in the morning, and began to enlarge the holiday. The same is true among the people, and people of all colors magnify the fake to celebrate the emperor's birthday. Of course, brokers like Xu Pingjia Restaurant are the time to make money, not only do they not have holidays, but they are also busier.

After breakfast, Xu Ping changed into a new suit and shook it out gracefully.

When the villagers saw him, they saluted and greeted him, and they were obviously much closer.

When I was about to get to the gate, I happened to bump into a little girl coming in from the outside, wearing a new dress, with white skin, a pair of willow leaf bent eyebrows, and a smile before she spoke, carrying a string of zongzi in her hand.

The Zhuang guests at the door asked her one after another: "Little lady Su'er got up early. ”

The little girl smiled and signaled one by one, entered the door, just bumped into Xu Ping, looked at it for a while, and said with a smile: "This is Xiao Langjun, right?" My lady wrapped some zongzi and asked me to bring them to you. ”

Xu Ping was dumbfounded, the little girl looked like she was about ten years old, and she actually spoke Wu Nong's soft language, which made people feel kind when they saw it. But this man himself had never seen or even heard of it!

Seeing Xu Chang passing by him, Xu Ping grabbed him, came to the side and asked in a low voice, "Who is this little girl?" How come I've never seen one? ”

Xu Chang looked at the little girl and whispered to Xu Ping: "This is Lin Xiucai's new female envoy, to be a personal maidservant for the Lin family's lady, it was a little late when Xiucai brought it back yesterday, so Da Lang didn't know." She and Xiucai are generally from Suzhou, and they were sold to the Lin family when they lived in the capital. Because she missed her hometown, Xiucai named her Su'er. ”

Xu Ping nodded suddenly. Suzhou was the Pingjiang Army in the Wuyue era, and it has been changed back to its original name after returning to the Song Dynasty. Lin Wensi is a native of Suzhou, but he and Lin Suniang have lived in Bianliang for many years and have no hometown accent.

Xu Chang looked at Xu Ping's face, and said in a low voice: "Su Er's little lady is said to have been born in a family of eunuchs, and she was sold into slavery because of her family's downfall, and she is knowledgeable and knowledgeable. ”

This was a bit ambiguous, but Xu Ping didn't hear the meaning.

went up to see Su'er, took the zongzi in her hand, and thanked her.

Su Er said: "This is our Suzhou flavor of brown, with good glutinous rice, wrapped in leaves, and Kaifeng Mansion is a little different, officials taste the taste." ”

Xu Ping replied casually: "The lady of the Lin family has a heart. ”

Isn't it strange that I don't think so? In his previous life, all the streets were selling this kind of zongzi, and it was difficult to change the taste! It's just that most of the palm seeds in the Song Dynasty are still sticky millet, and the outside is mushroom leaves, which is very different from later generations.

Su Er didn't care about Xu Ping's expression, and said: "My lady still has something to ask the officials, I heard that the officials are leveling the fields, and please come over to help when you have time, plant a few mulberry trees around your home, and raise silkworms and weave a few silk silks when you have nothing to do." ”

Lin Wensi's family lives in a newly built courtyard by the river, and because they are scholars, what they want is quiet. Xu Ping was going to plant mulberry trees around the courtyard, and he agreed to come down.

Su'er smiled and thanked him, then said goodbye and left.

The crowd greeted her again and watched her leave.

Xu Ping looked at Su'er's back, but felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. are all servants, this little girl is a new dress, and she is flattered wherever she goes, but Xiuxiu does not have this treatment. These villagers all look at people by their clothes, and they also make new clothes for Xiuxiu when they come.

There was no mood to go out and hang out, Xu Ping carried the brown back to his small courtyard.

Xiuxiu was still cleaning up, and when she saw Xu Ping coming back, she said strangely: "Why did the official come back so soon?" ”

Xu Ping shook the zongzi in his hand: "The lady of the Lin family sent the zongzi, and it was sent by Su'er, a new female envoy of their family. ”

Xiuxiu took the zongzi and said happily: "It turned out to be the taste of Jiangnan, I often hear people say that it is sold in Tokyo, but I haven't seen it yet!" ”

Xu Ping didn't think it was strange, and said to Xiuxiu: "What's this, I'll take you to pack more strange ones in a while, but I haven't seen it before!" ”

Xiuxiu smiled and shook her head, regardless of Xu Ping.

Xu Ping said again: "I saw that Su'er was wearing a new dress, and everyone was flattering, and he was very angry. I'll make you new clothes and go out to show off. ”

Xiuxiu just smiled and shook her head, but didn't speak.

Xu Ping was still a little indignant: "It's usually a personal call, I'm the master of this village, so I've never seen others flatter you like this!" ”

Xiuxiu smiled: "It turns out that the official is angry like this, isn't it redundant!" Who is she? Now that I am going to marry with Mrs. Lin, who can compare? Of course, they have to be pleased. ”

After speaking, he took the zongzi into the kitchen.

Xu Ping was stunned and looked up at the sky.

Lin Suniang is so powerful? A little girl by her side, even if she gets married, she is just a girl who accompanies her to marry, how can she compare with her personal Xiuxiu?

After thinking about it for a long time, I inexplicably remembered Granny Hong walking sideways at home, and then I suddenly realized that Su Er is an ordinary personal maid, this is the status of Granny Hong in the future, of course, you have to please as a subordinate.

In this era, there is no saying about marrying girls, that is after their status is reduced, and the special noun at this time is the maid, and the status can be seen from the name.

Mei, send also, from the pre-Qin, originally all of his wife's various sisters and nieces and the like. It can be seen from the identity that the status is by no means comparable to that of slaves and maids. The more to the descendants, the lower the status of the concubine, and after the Song Dynasty, the legal concubine has disappeared. In the Tang Dynasty, there were concubines above the five grades, and there were grades, and the Song Dynasty was already a common name for concubines, but they were still in front of the concubines. After the Qin and Han dynasties, they mostly used handmaidens to act as servants, and they became maidservants, but they were not ordinary handmaidens. They are a natural extension of the wife's power in the family, and naturally they are born with a part of the majesty of the wife.

Seriously, the master of a family can sleep casually, but the maid must have the permission of his wife. Her status is also high, except that the master is naturally higher than others, which is also the institutional guarantee within the heroine.

Most of the maidservants in the Song Dynasty were hired, and they were originally good people, and their status with concubines was extremely blurred. Song Luzhong's sense of existence is very small, and her status in the family should not even be as good as that of a maid.

Zhang Sanniang married Granny Hong soon after she got married, and that was because she was an iron lady and didn't need anyone to help her. This grange was originally under the management of Xu Chang, because it was a foreign product at that time, and when the Xu family moved back, it became part of the family, and Zhang Sanniang immediately sent Granny Hong over. Where is it just because Granny Hong has a good relationship with the housemother, this is her natural duty.

The maids are natural concubines, and their status is higher than that of all concubines, or they are part of the authority of their wives, so the villagers outside look at Xu Ping so ambiguously. Of course, in fact, there are not many who really become concubines, and the popularity of concubines in the Song Dynasty is neither as good as that of the Tang Dynasty, nor as good as the Ming and Qing dynasties.

After thinking about it for a long time, Xu Ping finally had to let out a long sigh. In ancient times, men and women were not equal, but men were not so free, at least they entered the house, the majesty of the wife was protected by law, and men could not do whatever they wanted, and the higher the social status of the family, the more so.

Thinking about this, Xu Ping was a little disappointed. He has never experienced love, although he doesn't know Lin Suniang well, he can't say that he hates it, and he doesn't resist spending his life with her. But when there are too many things involved in this relationship, there is an instinctive discomfort.

Calming down, Xu Ping walked into the kitchen.

Xiuxiu was lighting the fire, and when she saw Xu Ping coming in, she said: "Official, as the saying goes, a gentleman is far away from cooking, don't you come in here if you have nothing to do, okay?" ”

Xu Ping smiled reluctantly: "I have something I want to eat in my heart, but you can't burn it, what else can I do if I don't come in?" Besides, when did an agent like us have a relationship with a gentleman. ”

Xiuxiu shook her head with a smile and didn't speak.

Xu Ping said again: "Today's holiday, I'll go to Granny Hong in a while and make you new clothes." ”

Xiuxiu smiled: "Officials save it, I don't want to wear it brightly, I don't look like a worker, and I am pointed at by others wherever I go." ”

Xu Ping felt very empty in his heart for no reason, and squatted down beside Xiuxiu, staring at the fire blankly.

After a while, Xu Ping said: "Xiuxiu, I'll teach you how to make strange zongzi, I guarantee that you haven't seen or eaten it." Good no good? ”

Xiuxiu said: "How good it is for officials to have time to read and write, what are they doing here." ”

Xu Ping said: "I don't want to read and write, I have read enough books." ”

After a while, Xu Ping said again: "Xiuxiu, I taught you how to make zongzi, there is meat and fish in it, you must not have eaten it." Good no good? ”

Xiuxiu said with a smile: "I've heard of wrapping lotus seeds and red dates in zongzi, but I haven't heard of wrapping meat and fish or anything." ”

After watching the fire for a while, Xu Ping said again: "Xiuxiu, I'll teach you to wrap a kind of zongzi, you don't need to make mushroom leaves, you have to wrap it so big, it's like a pillow, and you can't finish it." Good no good? ”

Xiuxiu smiled: "What's wrong with the official today?" The more I talk about it, the more out of tune it becomes. ”

Xu Ping looked at Xiuxiu, her face was delicate and her complexion was pale, and she got closer, but she saw a little roughness. This is the trace left by his father and mother working outside with the sheep since childhood.

This is the most ordinary peasant child, if she was not born in such an era and encountered such an encounter, what would she do? She would have liked to go to school.

Xiuxiu looked at the fire.

Xu Ping said again: "Xiuxiu, I will teach you to wrap such a big and big zongzi, which contains rice, meat, salt, and oil, and you can't eat it all in your life." Good no good? ”

Xiuxiu just smiled and shook her head.

Xu Ping saw that Xiuxiu was concentrating on burning the fire, and ignored himself, squatted for a while, then turned around and walked out.

He always felt that he had lost something today and that he had to find something special to do.