Chapter 7 The Maiden
The golden rooster sings, and the sky will be bright.
In the bedroom, Xu Hao turned over and jumped up from the bed, and without waiting to beckon Qiu Xiang to come and serve, he picked up the clean clothes placed in front of the bed.
The weather is hot and there are few clothes, and after a while, they are all dressed neatly, and the remaining long hair is pulled a few times, first with a velvet rope, covered with a sky blue scarf, covered with a headband, and then inserted a hosta.
While sorting out the scattered hanging hair, he walked out of the bedroom, like a sloppy female classmate in college, it was really cumbersome and troublesome, Xu Hao couldn't wait to cut it all, but the parents of the body hair and skin, only monks who were monks had this benefit.
On the small bed separated by a curtain in the aisle, I saw Qiu Xiang rubbing her sleepy eyes and half-leaning on the head of the bed, looking like she had just woken up, Xu Hao made a gesture and walked out.
Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps inside, and Xu Hao, who was breathing a fresh breath, didn't look back, and there were already a few people in the yard who had already gotten up and were busy freshening up, and asked, "Is there something?" ”
Qiu Xiang, who was chasing after her, raised her hand and tightened the small clothes in front of her chest, and said, "I forgot to say it last night, I have something to ask you." ”
"What's the matter, tell me." Xu Hao stood under the porch and moved his muscles and kicked his legs.
Qiu Xiang looked a little embarrassed, lowered her head and said: "My two younger sisters are going to enter the house today, the older one is called Xi'er, who looks good, and is fourteen years old this year; The smaller one is called Lian'er, an ignorant little girl. For my sake, you can accept Xi'er as a maid, and Lian'er can wait a few years. ”
Xu Hao smiled: "Xi'er? Aren't you afraid that I'm Yang Bailao? Hehe, it's all your cousin, you are near and far. Okay, I know, maybe they'll be picked up halfway, and I'll stay if there's anyone left. ”
"Thank you." Qiu Xiang showed a smile and looked left and right, "It's not that I only care about my own family, whose sister doesn't care?" Spring moon, summer rain, and winter snow have all asked the two girls, and they will come to you for a favor after a while. If I don't open my mouth to beg you, won't it hurt our relationship in the past few years, and it seems that you and I are better than them?"
"I hear that awkwardly." Xu Hao frowned, feeling a little disgusted in his heart, "You guys are slippery!" Sisters and sisters have to be together, not to mention joining forces to form gangs, who will have to cover up each other in the future if something is wrong, and their sisters will cover each other, so if it takes a long time? ”
Qiu Xiang smiled and said: "You have become as careful as a hair, the personnel in the back house, is the wife and girl not as good as you?" Let me tell you the truth, they are asking for the same purpose as me, they all want you to leave people in our house, so that they can stay at home in the future. ”
"I'm a little confused. Oh. Xu Hao finally reacted, it turned out that their purpose was the same, they all expected to keep their sister by their side, otherwise when the eldest sister and the younger sister got married in the future, they might have to be ordered as a dowry maid by their wife, and then they would have to leave the Xu family.
"I see." Xu Hao sighed lightly, although he didn't want to see the scene of the separation of flesh and blood, but the eldest sister and the younger sister always had to be helped by their own people, just like choosing a maid today, nakedly dividing people into two classes, all evil, all evil!
In fact, gritting his teeth is just that, people's adaptability is incomparable, Xu Hao doesn't have the concept of equality at all, it's completely a rotten feudal thought, for him, what kind of virgin mentality should be thrown into the toilet quickly.
Qiu Xiang felt a little guilty and said: "I'm going to offend you, but the opportunity to be a maid is really rare, if you are not selected, maybe what will happen in the future." ”
"How?" Xu Hao frowned.
Qiu Xiang sighed faintly: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and the pain in it is hard to describe, in short, if you don't stay in the house, it is nothing more than being forced to marry or sell to the tooth woman, alas, in short, the life of the woman's family is really bitter." ”
Xu Hao frowned and looked at Qiu Xiang, who sighed and turned around to return to the room silently, for a long time, and said with a dumb smile: "Good acting, the ghost girl who learned from the red leaves, right?" ”
Qiu Xiang is also bad at learning with red leaves now, or people have grown up and their thoughts have become complicated, Xu Hao smiled and walked outside.
It is true that women's lives are miserable in this era, but they are ordinary small families who are struggling for hunger, such as the Xu family, no matter how poor they are, they can't starve to death.
"Do you really think you don't know the suffering of the people? I have been a common man for more than 20 years, and I look down on people too much. ”
Yoyoda walked out of the gate of the inner house and walked towards Laibao's house. Most of the people in the second room live in the two small courtyard houses next to each other, and a few families have built their own small courtyards outside the house.
Xiaojia Village, where the Xu family is located, is called the village, but it is actually a town, backed by green mountains and facing water in the south. There are probably hundreds of residents in the town, and when it comes to the area of the mansion, it is naturally the largest of the ancestral houses of the Xiao family, and the area of the Xu family is one of the best in the local area.
The Lai Bao family and several subordinates are crowded together, next door is the old steward Li and his four sons, Qiu Xiang's father is the fourth child of the Li family, so the Lai Bao family and Qiu Xiang's family have been neighbors of each other since childhood.
Xu Hao has been here a few times on weekdays, but he didn't expect the yard to be particularly lively this morning, the men gathered under the wall to talk, the women blocked a room outside talking and laughing, and Noble and five or six children were lying on the edge of the window, peeking into the house.
"Ahem!" Xu Hao, who walked to the door, coughed lightly.
"Yo, Third Young Master, you're here, please sit in the house."
Noble Father's father saw Xu Hao coming in from outside, and hurriedly greeted him, and the other men also nodded and said hello, and some of them shouted loudly: "You girls, don't make trouble, I didn't see the third young master coming, hurry up and call the girls out and give the third young master a salute." ”
Suddenly, the whole courtyard became a mess, several women ran over with smiles on their faces, and the children clapped their hands and shouted for fear that the world would not be chaotic.
"Alright." Xu Hao hurriedly made a hole in the top and stretched out his hand to stop the wolf-like women from pounced, "You are busy with you, I can't stand the commotion, Noble come here, what's going on?" ”
Although the big guy is not afraid of him, he is also afraid that if he is smoked out because of the crowd, it will be bad.
Suddenly, Lai Bao's father widened his eyes, stepped forward with his hands on his hips, and scolded a few words loudly, and there was only one unwilling woman.
Noble ran over with a smile, pulled Xu Hao to the side, and said: "The little one is not very clear, I only know that the wife sent someone to pass the word, asking each family to send a girl of appropriate age to send it in, not last night, everyone was busy picking up the daughters of relatives, urging them to get up early in the morning to freshen up and change into new clothes." ”
Xu Hao suddenly realized when he heard this, looking at the spontaneous enthusiasm of the big guy, he was more than a hundred times more willing than the palace draft.
Large families pick maids, which is equivalent to recruiting senior clerks in large companies in later generations, with high wages and good treatment, and there is a chance that they can be promoted to the boss's personal secretary or even a real junior.
The palace maid is estimated to be similar to Foxconn's treatment, and the most important thing is that there is no personal security. If a maid dies due to an accident, she must report to the local government, and if the relatives at home are going to file a lawsuit, the government must also take over the trial; And the death of the palace maid is a vain death, and rewarding some money is considered to be the ancestor burning high incense.