Red apricots make spring

Chapter 30
Ever since Zhao Yan, the third daughter of the Zhao family, Wenrou's life has suddenly changed. Although she has to get up early and go to bed late every day, she has to prepare breakfast and supper for Zhao Yan, and at noon and night she has to be with Yaqin and Shulan for herself. The two maids cook, but after all, it is much more relaxed than when they were rough maids.

She has nothing to do after dinner, and she doesn't have to wait in front of Zhao Yan. Even if she is lazy and takes a nap, no one will say anything about her, and she has never been beaten or scolded. Even if she is sometimes squeezed out by other maids, it is revealed in secret A kind of emotion, face-to-face ridicule is much less, as for Yaqin and Shulan, because they eat too much of her cooked food, they feel sorry, and occasionally give her a smile.

Life is much more comfortable, but gentle troubles have not diminished. How to make money has become the most difficult thing for her, and she is quite confused about how to spend her days when she is free.Now she lives alone in a small single room, without books, entertainment, or even talking to anyone. She can only lie on the bed during the long night, listening to the sound of wind blowing bamboo leaves or rain hitting plantains, thinking about the past. Thinking about living in the modern day, thinking about the future that made her feel at a loss, and thinking about it often, she felt an inexplicable sense of loss and helplessness.

All the money she earned was given to Ruhua's mother, she didn't even have much money left for her small business, and preparing food for Zhao Yan every day was enough pain and annoyance, and she had to take care of her taste and She often turns out the old to bring forth the new, and has no interest in selling food secretly anymore. She is worried, even if she can sell it for money, it is only a few copper coins. How long will she have to scrape together to save enough money?
It's not that she's not pragmatic enough and ambitious, but that this little money is really just a drop in the bucket, and it can't solve her current practical difficulties. Besides, the servants are all poor people, and there is no reason to take care of her business and buy snacks every day. The business will definitely increase in the future. The harder it is to do, so Wen Rou thought and thought, and thought and thought again, and felt that the scope of making money should not be confined within the mansion, and she had to find a way to expand outside the mansion, but she had no good idea, so she could only make money day after day. secretly worried.

"Sister, why are you always frowning these days? Is there anything bothering you?" Xiaohuan beside her looked at Wenrou a few times, took a pair of scissors and snapped off a dragon's claw chrysanthemum, and handed it to Wenrou for her. Take it, and go to cut another flower, this is the flower that is going to be put in the vase for the third girl in the morning, and each flower has to be carefully selected.

"It's a headache to make money." Wen Rou said with a helpless smile: "There are only four or five days left, and if I can't raise any more money, my family will have to drink northwest wind." Xiaohuan is the only one she can do in the mansion. The person who said the last two words, although telling her these difficulties, she may not be able to help her solve any problems, but it is better than keeping the words in her heart and worrying about herself.

Sure enough, Xiaohuan didn't have any ideas, she frowned and thought for a long time before she sighed and said, "It would be great if my sister could go out."

"Go out? It's useless to go out. I'm a girl, and I can't find a job that can make money." It's not that I am gentle and inferior, but that ancient times were too patriarchal. Even the waitresses in restaurants are all male. In addition to doing some laundry and mending work at home, women probably have to sell themselves to go to the fence, and those who accompany wine and laugh can save a few private money!But the first point, she won't, and the second point, she would rather die than do it.

"I heard from my mother that many restaurants outside are hiring cooks. If you cook special dishes, you will be paid a lot of money." Xiaohuan said, and regretted: "But what my sister said is also true, there are no women in big restaurants. In charge of the spoon, women can hold the spoon in their own small restaurants, mom-and-pop shops, and small businesses with two hard-earned money to make a living. My mother often complains, but if my father is still alive, if he can go out to work, maybe one day he can save Money to redeem me!"

Redemption, how difficult it is!Rourou stretched out her hand to caress Xiaohuan's hair and said, "How much money do you need to redeem yourself?"

Xiaohuan's eyes dimmed all of a sudden, she lowered her head and said, "A lot..."

"How much is a lot? There is always a price, right?" When Ruhua's mother came here a few days ago, Rourou had already asked her the price of redemption. She looks good, and the Zhao family gave her worth six taels of silver. If she wants to redeem her body, it depends on whether the master will let her go. The value of the money has increased by one or two times, and the redemption is only allowed after paying enough money, it all depends on the will of the master.

Gentle estimated that the Zhao family would not let her go directly, and it was impossible to redeem her body at the original price. In this way, she had to save at least a dozen taels of silver before she could have any hope of freedom.Of course, there is no need to be afraid that the Zhao Mansion will not let her go. She has not been "favored" to this point. In this age when life is worthless, a few taels of silver can buy out a poor person's life. The Zhao Mansion took her ransom money Well, you can still buy two or three younger girls from outside, so why hold her tight?But having said that, a dozen taels of silver is an astronomical figure for her now, and she doesn't know where to earn it!

Xiaohuan hesitated for a long time before pointing out three fingers and saying: "My original net worth was three taels of silver, because I was too young to do much work, and I had to raise it for nothing."

Genuine let out a breath, and said with a wry smile: "It's worth less than mine, but you're still young, and you can still manage it for a few years. It's hard to redeem yourself!"

"And my mother, eighty-two!" Xiaohuan lowered her head and said softly: "She is old and married again, and her worth is not worth much, but she has cooking skills, and the master just happens to be looking for a cook. She's a pretty good cook, so she's given more money, but now it's hard to redeem her body...Maybe you have to pay dozens of taels of silver before the mansion is willing to release her."

"11 taels! Both of you are worth 11 taels of silver!" The silver here is far more valuable than copper coins. Two, there are still people rushing to ask for it. Some ordinary people have never seen silver a few times in their lives. Xiaohuan and Mrs. Liu's silver, if they are exchanged for copper coins, they can probably be exchanged for [-] or [-] coins. Gentle and curious: "You guys, why did you sell yourself in the first place?"

This question involves privacy. If it weren't for the extraordinary relationship with Xiaohuan, Ruanrou really wouldn't be able to ask her. Fortunately, Xiaohuan didn't treat her as an outsider, but she lowered her head and sobbed: "Back then My father was sick, so he asked the doctor to take medicine and filled all the money in the family. There is no reason to watch him die. What else can my mother and I do except sell ourselves as slaves... I just didn't expect that it took a lot of money. With so much money, my father's illness is not cured, and the last few taels of silver are... only enough to buy him a pair of thin-skinned coffins..."

As Xiaohuan spoke, her voice became more choked up, she sighed softly, and silently took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears.If she can, she really wants to go back to the modern times she once lived in. There, as long as she works honestly and diligently to earn money, she can always support herself. disease, the only way for the poor is to sell themselves, just to fill their stomachs, to have a shelter, to take care of those who want to sell themselves, but because of injury or old age, no one wants to buy. loved ones...

(End of this chapter)