Red apricots make spring

Chapter 13 Marriage Age
Rourou was eating, when suddenly she saw Xiaohuan running in from outside, yelling, "I'm starving, I'm starving, what can I eat?"

"Girl, what are you doing in such a panic? There are fresh steamed buns over there, you can eat two." Mrs. Liu seemed to be very strict with Xiaohuan, and she would nag when she saw her unruly behavior.

Xiaohuan walked around the kitchen, lifted the lid of the pot to have a look, and muttered, "Why are there steamed stuffed buns and porridge again? It's been three or four days, why can't I get some fresh ones?"

"If you have food and drink, you still choose? If you have the ability to win, let the third girl pick you up in the house, and follow the girl to eat and drink spicy food, isn't it better than drinking porridge and chewing pickles with me, a poor old lady?" Sister Liu snorted Lu finished the warm porridge in a few sips, picked up a meat bun and handed it to Xiaohuan, which was left by her Tete. The other buns were filled with vegetables and meat, with more vegetables and less meat.Anyway, as the manager of the big kitchen, she saved some meat to cook for her daughter. As long as it wasn't too much, no one would dare to say no.

Xiaohuan took the meat bun and looked at it, then looked at the cooks who lowered their heads to eat and deliberately did not meet her eyes, sighed inwardly, scooped up a bowl of porridge and sat next to Rourou.

Rourou didn't expect that she was beaten and scolded twice yesterday, and she still dared to sit next to her today. Seeing Mrs. Liu who was sending someone to the room to ask for a water card to arrange lunch, she lowered her voice and said, "You and I are so Get close, aren't you afraid that your mother will beat you again?"

"It's okay. My mother hurts me. It looks like she's beating and scolding fiercely, but in fact, the strength in her hands is not heavy. If I cry a few more times, she will be even more reluctant to do so." Xiaohuan laughed secretly in a low voice. , broke off the meat bun in his hand under the table, handed half of it to Wen Rou and said: "But I really don't like my mother leaving me alone to eat, so many eyes are staring at me in this kitchen, I miss her, who is in charge." The location, it won’t look good if something happens in the future, but no matter how many times I say it, my mother won’t listen.”

Wen Wen was surprised that this young girl would notice these intricate infighting in the mansion, but she was so outspoken, she casually said such things to herself, a stranger who had only known him for less than two days, and couldn't help but look up to see what other people were doing. Didn't notice the whispering between the two of them.Fortunately, the cooks were all talking loudly about the gossip in the mansion, and Mrs. Liu didn't know what to do anymore, and no one paid any attention to them, the two little girls sitting in the corner, so she felt relieved and smiled softly Said: "Why do you trust me so much?"

"Trust?" Xiaohuan blinked and smiled, "I hit my sister right the first time I saw her! I know you're a good person, and you're not like them—" she said to the loudly laughing chefs. The girls lifted their chins.

Rourou was confused by Xiaohuan's innocent words, so she just handed back the half of the meat bun and said: "Your mother left this for you, you should eat it."

"Sister, you don't have to be polite to me, I still have some more!" Xiaohuan said, shaking the bun with the meat stuffing that had been bitten off in his hand, and continued: "I know you are used to eating in the upper room. Yes, I won’t be able to adapt to life here for a while, but I’d better bear with it, maybe when my wife’s anger subsides, she’ll call you back to order her.”

Is this little girl trying to comfort her?Feeling warm in her heart, Xiaohuan felt that Xiaohuan's character was very likable, not at all the pampering that modern children are used to, and there was a bit of sophistication in her innocence that she had grown up in a complicated environment. People hate it, but they only find it cute, so they couldn't help laughing: "Madam won't call me back to order me, and I don't want to go back either."

"Don't want to go back?" Xiaohuan was greatly surprised, stared at Rourou, took a mouthful of steamed stuffed bun, and didn't swallow it for a long time.

"Yeah, I don't want to go back." Wen Rou affirmed.

What's the point of going back?Wasn't Ruhua beaten to death because she climbed on the bed of Master Zhao's mansion?No matter whether she is voluntary or forced, anyway, the master of the Zhao family has taken a fancy to her beauty, and his wife, Mrs. Li, regards her as a thorn in her side. She can't think of anything else besides being beaten, scolded and abused, and ending up dead. If she becomes the concubine of the master of the Zhao family, in her opinion, life would be worse than death.

Xiaohuan took a sip of the gruel, finally flushed the steamed stuffed bun out of her mouth, turned around and said, "But...but..." She waited for a long time, but there was no reason for it.

"I forgot to ask you, yesterday you talked about the benefits of being a housemaid, halfway through, what is the most important benefit? I can't figure it out." Rourou really didn't understand why those cooks made fun of her for being infatuated. What is the relationship between being a maid in the house and moving the heart?
"That..." Xiaohuan's face turned red suddenly, she lowered her head and hesitated for a long time, after all, the child couldn't hide her words in her heart, so she said to Wenrou in a voice softer than a mosquito's humming: "Being a housemaid, If you have a chance to marry a good family..."

I see!Tender suddenly realized!
"If the servant girl in the upper house has face, she can choose a promising man in the mansion by herself, and maybe she can be married to a small family, so she doesn't have to be a slave or a servant girl. I've been matched." Xiaohuan said, raised her head and looked at Wenrou worriedly, and said, "Sister is also approaching the age of marriage, and if she says she doesn't want to go back to the room, shouldn't she be worried?"

marry!Gentle never thought of this!Xiaohuan's words stopped her immediately.

She was only 24 years old before time travel, and she had two innocent love affairs with no feelings, but she never thought of getting married.Now that she has traveled back to ancient times, she is even younger, only fourteen or fifteen years old. The pain of time travel and the pressure of survival have already made her extremely worried. Naturally, it is even more impossible for her to think about getting married. At this time, Xiaohuan said, I suddenly realized that when I remembered that people in ancient times got married very early, after the age of 15, they were already at the age of marriage. God knows that one day that Li Shi who regards her as a thorn in the side will send her to marry someone, so that there will be no future troubles!
Thinking about it this way, Wen Rou felt that the sticky palms of his hands were covered with cold sweat!No!She doesn't want her life to be arbitrarily dominated by others!And I don't want to spend my whole life as a servant girl or old lady in the Zhao Mansion!She just wants to feel at ease, be happy, and live a dignified life!Just like before!
"Sister, what's wrong with you? Sister—" Xiaohuan saw that Wen Wen's face suddenly turned pale, and thin cold sweat was still oozing from her forehead. She pours a bowl of water.

"I'm fine!" Wen Rou was called back to her senses, she quickly grabbed Xiao Huan who had half stood up, and asked her solemnly: "How old is the average maidservant in the mansion?"

When Xiaohuan saw her asking this, she felt a little strange, but she didn't ask any more questions, and just said truthfully: "There is no fixed number, usually at the age of seventeen or eighteen, if there is no married servant or old lady in the mansion Unexpectedly, it would be delayed for a year or two. As for the maids in the upper room, they were not allowed until they were eighteen or nineteen years old, but they were all face-saving elder sisters. Two years, if it's normal, seventeen or eighteen years old is enough for a man."

Seventeen or eighteen!Rourou concluded in her heart that Mrs. Li would never keep her for so long, and she might be married to someone earlier, so she only has one year left!But what will she do this year to escape the tragic fate of being assigned a marriage?Gentlely biting her lip and lowering her head to think hard, suddenly a flash of light flashed in her mind——

Have!She can redeem herself!

(End of this chapter)