Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 16

"You must not deceive the master; you must not speak falsely; you must not be promiscuous; you must not steal; you must not..." Aunt Gu's voice paused, she raised her hand and whipped a broom on Caiyi's leg, "I'm teaching you how to behave! Where are you looking?" ?!"

Caiyi was also annoyed by being whipped, "Ms. Gu, why do you keep beating me? I didn't do well yesterday, why don't I just follow you all the time!"

"Why did you hit you? With your attitude, can you not hit you?" Aunt Gu snorted coldly, "If you don't study the rules seriously, you still want to serve the master. It's a dream!"

Caiyi gritted her teeth, suppressed her anger and said with a smile, "Ma'am, I know I was wrong, I will learn from it..."

"Why are you flirting? There's no man here! I've seen a girl like you a lot. I really thought that with a good face, she could fly up a branch and become a phoenix. It's beautiful..."

Caiyi bit her lip and wanted to refute, but when she turned the corner of her eyes, she saw that none of the few who came together seemed to help her out, either with her head down, or with a look of watching the excitement, she could only suppress it. Furious, she pretended to be pitiful and begged: "Good aunt, I don't have that kind of thought. As slaves, we are just thinking about how to serve our master well. Why would we think about other things!"

"Bah, pretending to be pitiful depends on who you are, just like you, I will be a ghost if I believe you!" Aunt Gu yelled loudly, making several little girls laugh.

Gu Sixiao turned her head and looked at the door again, the shadow that flashed just now had disappeared, thinking that the peeping person had already left.

Although he didn't know who it was, but Gu Sixiao thought about it again and again, and he could more or less guess what that person wanted to do.

For a girl like Caiyi who climbed into the mansion with her master, not to mention the head of the house Mrs. Zhang, even other people would hate and hate her.Not to mention killing her as soon as she enters the mansion, but it is necessary to disown her. Aunt Gu has been targeting her all the time, but it seems that these girls have escaped a catastrophe.

It is said that the first point for a newcomer to enter the door is to teach the rules. A row of six girls stood in the yard, chanting the rules aloud under the sun.It's just that, five or six times out of ten, the broom fell on Caiyi's body, no matter if she was right or not!

Seeing that it was almost noon, Mrs. Gu didn't intend to let people rest, she just fell down on the recliner and closed her eyes, as if she had fallen asleep.

I only drank some porridge for breakfast, and I was panicked and tired all morning. By this time, the girls were all beating drums in their stomachs, and they couldn't even stand on their feet.That's all right, but people have three urgencies, and if they don't go, it's really a miss.

With her legs side by side, Luluo stared at Caiyi, lowered her voice and asked her to come out and call Aunt Gu, "It's all you, if it wasn't for you, why would Aunt Gu be so harsh on us..."

"It's her wickedness, what does it have to do with me?" Caiyi was also very angry, but she also knew in her heart that Mrs. Gu was targeting her. Although she stared at Luluo, she still didn't make too much noise.

The two were staring at each other when they heard someone's voice outside the courtyard.

From far to near, it sounds like there are quite a few people, but after a while, they approached, someone pushed open the door, looked up and saw a few people standing in the middle of the courtyard, and laughed.

"Hey, these are the little girls who entered the mansion today..."

Those who came into the yard, some were middle-aged servants, and some girls were not more than ten years old. They were of different ages, but most of them were born with rough hands and feet, and they were also wearing blue coarse cloth clothes, which were similar to those of them. The difference is not too much.

After a cursory look, several people can guess that these older people are the servants of the Gu family.

Caiyi murmured, and muttered, "You actually let me live in the same courtyard as these rough people..."

"What are you talking about?" A tall and thick woman raised her eyebrows and stared at her. Seeing that Caiyi just shrank her head and didn't dare to respond, she spat out thick phlegm with a "bah".

"Have a good time, tidy up, lotus and peach blossoms to pick up food - there will be work to do later!" After the woman finished speaking, she turned around and saw Aunt Gu who was squinting, and lowered her voice, "Remember to put Auntie's food box is also brought back..."

Someone at the other end responded happily, pushed the door to go into the bathroom, and just opened the door and got angry, "Whoever broke his hand, he didn't clean up after running out of water!"

Turning her head, the group of people stared at the girls, and the woman was even more furious, "What's the matter, I think I want to serve the master, so I want us to serve you, right? Bah, don't say you haven't Going to serve the master, even if you are in front of the master, you are still a third-class girl, look at all of them, they are ugly and thin..."

"Who do you think is ugly?!" Caiyi was the first to disagree, she and those ugly girls are not the same!

"Yo, you're not ugly, you're just cheap!" The woman covered her mouth and smiled, took a step forward, pulled the colorful clothes and pushed her hard, directly pushing her down on the bluestone slab in the bathroom.

Just now when I was taking a shower, I splashed water all over the floor, my colorful clothes fell on the floor, and my buttocks were soaked in water, even in the scorching summer, I felt cold on my buttocks.

"And you all, come and clean up—if you can't clean up after a while, don't blame me for being rude..."

Shocked by the woman, none of the girls dared to say anything, they lowered their heads and obediently went into the bathroom to clean the house.

The one who went to get the food box came back, and they haven't cleaned it up yet.The woman who had been staring at them stopped staring, and turned to call Aunt Gu in a soft voice.

It's also strange, just now when the woman yelled so loudly, Aunt Gu slept soundly, but now when the woman yelled softly, Aunt Gu immediately opened her eyes.

Everyone carried the food boxes and set up a table in the main room. The tempting fragrance wafted over, and the girls unconsciously licked their mouths.

Throwing down the rag, Caiyi scolded fiercely: "Every shrew, you deserve to be a rough girl for the rest of your life! Let's see how I deal with you in the future..."

Ah Zhu hummed, "Why don't you speak louder?"

She gave Azhu a hard look, Caiyi was still talking, but Wanrou had already thrown the rag into the bucket, and the splash of water just hit Caiyi's eyes.

"You're going to die!" Caiyi cursed angrily, and wiped her eyes with her backhand.

Wan Rou ignored her, and only said in a muffled voice: "If you don't want to eat, you'll just grind here..."

After she said this, even Ah Zhu didn't speak, but just immersed herself in wiping the water.

Gu Sixiao raised her head, looked at Wanrou, then lowered her head again.

Of the six maids who entered the mansion together, Xiaohua looked the youngest, a little shorter than her by two points, and looked like she was only seven or eight years old.And she, according to Sun Tiancang, is about ten years old.Luluo is about 11 years old, only two years younger than Azhu, but Caiyi and Wanrou are already 15 years old.

Generally speaking, at such an age, it is time to discuss marriage.Caiyi was originally a girl, that's another matter, but Wanrou didn't know what happened, she hadn't married at this time, but was sold to be a girl instead.

Although she felt strange, but Gu Sixiao didn't ask any more questions, she wiped the water and twisted the rag quickly, she just did things silently.After drying the area I was responsible for, I straightened up, washed my hands and walked out.

"Hello..." Luluo yelled, seeing that Gu Sixiao didn't look back, she couldn't help spitting.

Turning her head to look at Wanrou who was helping Xiaohua, she complained dissatisfiedly, "They all came in together, why are some people so heartless!"

Wanrou rolled her eyes, looked up at Gu Sixiao's back, and said in a low voice: "Hurry up, we can eat when we're done."

Hearing the voice behind him, Gu Sixiao rubbed his stomach, but remained silent.

Didn't they see it?There was only so much food that was brought up just now, how could they have a share?Even if it is finished, I am afraid that there will be no food.

Fortunately, when I was a beggar, I learned to endure hunger.

Because of Wanrou's words, the movements of several people also accelerated, and they finally wiped the bathroom floor clean before everyone in the main room finished eating.

Wiping the sweat from her forehead, Wanrou took the lead and walked towards the main room.

Gu Sixiao lowered her eyes, she didn't want to go, but after thinking about it, she decided to keep up.

Even if they guessed that they were not part of it, it was still too conspicuous to be out of the mainstream at this time.

"Finished? Want to eat?" Mrs. Gu was picking her teeth with a toothpick, she looked up at Wanrou who was standing in front of her, smiled, and stopped talking.

It was the woman just now who said, "You newcomers, don't you know the rules in the mansion? The kitchen in the mansion cooks and eats at regular intervals. In the morning, no one will tell you what to do in the kitchen." There are a few more rough envoys here, how can you have your share at this moment? You are also working too slowly. If you hurry up, maybe we have a good heart and have a bite left for you to eat. Now—— ha ha ..."

"Then, we're going to be hungry..."

How can you not be hungry?No one paid any attention to them at all.

Caiyi bit her lip, her pretty face flushed, but it's a pity that no one would look at her if she flirted with her now.

"Have you learned all the rules?" Aunt Gu rolled her eyelids and looked over.

Gu Sixiao lowered her eyes, turned around and walked directly into the courtyard without saying a word.

Turning her head to stare at her, Wanrou pulled Xiaohua down and followed her.

Then came Azhu and Luluo, Caiyi wanted to argue a few more words, but there was no ally around her, so she stomped her feet heavily and followed them out.

Her stomach was growling with hunger, Xiao Hua stroked her stomach and whispered, "I thought I wouldn't be hungry anymore..."

"I'll have something to eat tonight..." Wanrou comforted her in a low voice, and immediately stood up straight when Aunt Gu's scolding came from behind her.

With no food to eat, one afternoon, except for letting them drink water once and go to the latrine, they have been standing under the sun to learn the rules.

The family rules of the mansion, and how to walk in the mansion, how to talk to the master, how to bow your head and call yourself a slave, how to let the master beat and scold you, how to listen to the elder sisters...

It's just an upper-middle-class family with extremely strict rules.

It was Gu Sixiao who was surprised to hear it.Why didn't she feel that her family had such big rules before?The servants of their Gu family were also trained in this way?
A group of poor servants went out to work under the sun after lunch. They heard that they had just moved in and the vegetation in the garden had to be trimmed. It had not been done for several days.

"That old man is the most annoying person. I don't know how he looks at the garden. He makes the garden look like a ghost town..." While watching the fun, several people murmured and complained, but Gu Sixiao couldn't help but look sideways.

This, does it mean the old family who used to look after the house in the Gu family's old house?Is he still in the house, too?
(End of this chapter)