boudoir

Chapter 1 From Death to Life
"Say, how did you hook up with Grandpa?"

A rosewood carved magpie climbed onto the plum stool, Second Mistress Qi sat obliquely holding a white lotus cup, her eyes lowered to look at the tea, her black hair was wrapped around a white sable hair leash, her temples were drooping step by step, It is worthy to catch the white and tender ear beads.

Hongyu standing next to him kicked Liuli's back: "Grandma asked you something!"

Liuli was in pain and fell to the ground unsteadily, her small face was raised due to the pain, revealing her painting-like facial features.She really had enough of beating her like this, and she didn't want to bear it anymore!But her waist was so painful that she couldn't even stand up.

Second Grandma Qi glanced at her, her cheeks swelled, her nails stopped picking, and she threw a fine white porcelain cup from an official kiln into her face involuntarily: "You bastard! You bastard! Drag me out and beat you to death!" !"

Liu Li was dragged out as a lowly hoof, a bench had already been set up in the yard, and soon a woman brought a stick and rope, cut her back firmly, and tied her to the bench.

Liuli struggled and shouted at the top of her throat: "I never did that kind of thing! I didn't!"

of course not.Although she is actually the half-sister of Grandma Qi's second mother, how could she have the courage to come to Qi's house as the dowry maid of Grandma Qi He Yuhua?As long as she can give her breath every day, she will be satisfied.

Her biological father, He Cistanna, was the eldest son of the House of Ministers of the Ministry of Household Affairs. When he was young, he was also the son of Pianpian. When his wife Yu was pregnant with her third child, she met Xu Niang who sold calligraphy and painting for her father outside Beijing. Later, Xu Niang led the child to Beijing, only to know that there is still Liuli, a long lost pearl in the sea.Cistanche also missed the old love, and rented a small courtyard to let Xu Niang's mother and daughter settle down. Before she could leave, Xu Niang suddenly vomited blood.

Not long after, Xu Niang really passed away, and after some hesitation, He Yuli wanted Liuli to recognize her ancestors and return to her family.Mrs. Yu, who runs a family with Taoist children, has great prestige in the mansion, and has taken the initiative to take concubines for him. She agreed, but this time she refused.The He family has been a scholar for generations, and the old man He has always been persistent in character, and he was also furious, and he couldn't afford to lose this face.

The matter froze for a while.

However, it didn't take long, and soon the old lady fell ill because of the cold weather, and the soup and medicine were of no help. While everyone was miserable, an eminent monk from the White Horse Temple outside Beijing entered the mansion with alms. Gather together and recite the Diamond Sutra for three days and you will be fine.

It was easy to recite the scriptures, but after three days, there was no improvement at all.The eminent monk made a calculation and asked if all the children and grandchildren had arrived?It was only then that there was a colored glaze outside the mansion.

The old man immediately ordered him to bring it, and the whole house chanted for another three days.On the morning of the fourth day, the old lady went down to the ground and cut peonies in the garden.

In this way, it's not good to drive people out again, and Madam Yu's face has to be taken into account to recognize her.It was the fourth wife, Nie's, who had an idea and asked Liuli to sign a contract of sale and become a servant girl in the house.The left and right didn't have a formal meeting, and the servants didn't know much about it, so they couldn't be regarded as official masters, and they could be regarded as giving her a way to survive, so that she wouldn't violate the virtues of heaven, and wouldn't embarrass the main house.

The old lady said hello, and Mrs. Yu could only nod her head.From then on, Liuli called her father Master and her sister Miss.However, the old lady always felt uncomfortable, so whenever she saw Liuli, she felt headache and chest tightness, and felt tight all over.The third girl, Yuhua, was considerate and filial. In order to relieve her grandmother's worries, she ordered colored glaze as a dowry when she got married. She thought that the mighty and domineering residence of the Great General of the Kingdom would be able to calm down this monster.

Liuli, who exists as a "monster", is still doing what a maid should do in the General's Mansion.Since she drowned once a few years ago, she suffered from liver and lung insufficiency, was weak and cold, and coughed continuously in autumn, Yuhua didn't let her get close.In the afternoon today, I went to Lin Dushi's residence as a guest, so I told her to stay and brush the green jade cup in the study.

It was in the study room that I accidentally met Qi Yunjing taking a nap there, hurriedly withdrew, and had already bumped into Hongyu.

It is wrong to explain some things, and it is also wrong not to explain them.You should not exist, even breathing is wrong.

Liuli clenched her teeth, not wanting to cry a word.I don't know how many sticks there are, and my back is numb, I just feel that my body is swinging involuntarily with the attack of the stick.There was also fishy-sweet blood in her mouth, gushing out from her throat, and she was already unable to swallow.

A concubine has no status, and she has even less status than a concubine.But it's not her fault.If given a choice, who would choose to be an illegitimate daughter?Could it be that because of the existence of being unable to choose, does she not even have the right to live?

Second Mistress Qi was leaning against the window, looking at this side with disgust, half of her face was covered by a silver satin veil embroidered with daffodils, she looked so noble and glamorous.

If there is an afterlife, if she, Xu Liuli, can still open her eyes, she will live a nobler life than her!She wants to watch them roll down from the high couch with disdainful eyes, watch them kill each other, and prostrate at her feet one by one!

...But she knew that all of this was just a luxurious dream, because she was just a lowly slave who signed a bond, and she was about to die, or rather, she was already dead.

She saw herself floating up, the bloody body on the bench was motionless, Second Mistress Qi sent Hongyu over to check, Hongyu pinched her nose to sniff her, paused slightly, and said into the room: "Dead!"

Second Grandma Qi's eyes flickered, she stood in the window for a moment, raised the silk, and lowered the curtain: "If you die, you die, drag it away and bury it!"

A gust of wind blows away the colored glaze, blows it away, and blows out the vast and magnificent Grand General's Mansion, all the way to the sky, the mountains, rivers, clouds and mountains beside her pass by like a shuttle, like countless fallen leaves, forcing her to close her eyes.

When the wind stopped, she opened her eyes again, she thought she was not dead, she came alive again under the noble feet of Second Grandma Qi, she was about to search for Second Grandma Qi around, intending to follow up She tried her best, but when she saw the scene in front of her clearly, she found herself in a hooded cart!
It was early in the morning, mist drifted into the car through the window, a hand wearing a silver ring suddenly opened the car curtain, and hugged her down with forked hands.She yelled and stood firmly on the ground, she had to look up to see the person in front of her clearly.This is a woman in her fifties, with a willow and chrysanthemum pattern, I don't know her.There is another person beside him wearing a soap-colored management towel, a double-breasted robe of the same color, and two mustaches on his mouth.

Seeing this man clearly, she couldn't help but gasped, and then looked at herself, her stature was only two or three feet long, she was wearing a pair of buns on her hair, and she was wearing the last apricot yellow satin dress her mother sewed for her. The trousers, with dark water chestnut flowers on the satin, are exactly the ones sent by He Yuli after arriving in Beijing.The shoes are also of the same satin, with a beige velvet flower on the toe.

She swallowed, trying to calm her heart that was beating into her throat.This car, this person, this street, this tall mansion, this vermilion lacquered corner door, isn't it exactly what I saw when I got off the car at He Mansion five years ago?Isn't Chen Wu, who is wearing a management scarf in front of him, exactly the parent of He who was ordered to pick her up?How did she come back again, and became as small as eight years ago!

"Girl, this is He's Mansion." Chen Wu stayed beside the old man for a long time, his words were cautious.

Even the dialogue is word for word.Liuli stood still, pinched her arm secretly, it hurt!Not dreaming.In order to hide his expression, he raised his head and squinted, pretending to look at the glazed tiles above the gate: "What year is this year? What day is it today?"

Chen Wu paused, "This year is the year of Geng Shu, and today is the seventh day of October." After answering, he urged: "Girl, go in quickly, the master is waiting anxiously." Chen Wu used to call Mrs. He Master, except for the previous sentence, this scene is almost the same as that day.

Liuli felt that her heart not only jumped out of her throat, but also kept jumping between her throat and chest.So real!Judging from all visual, tactile and auditory senses, she was sure that this was definitely not a dream.Her memory will not lie to her, she was nine years old in Gengshu year, on the seventh day of October, that was the day when she officially entered He Mansion, and began her life of misery.God did not send her to the underworld, but let her go back to eight years ago. This is to show her compassion for the torture she has suffered in these years, and let her send her retribution!

(End of this chapter)