Chapter Fourteen Beauty
The three sisters returned to the west wing, Jinhua chose the outermost room among the three main rooms, Yinhua chose the middle one, and Zhuhua chose the innermost one. Because there were not many girls left in the mansion, the three of them were only two thick servants. The room had been burning and warm. Yinhua happily walked around the room and rolled on the bed. After taking a hot shower, she gradually calmed down and couldn't sleep. The three sisters had always squeezed into the same bed, and suddenly let her live alone in one room. This room was bigger than several rooms in her hometown, and she was still a little uncomfortable. After hesitating, she went to Jinhua's room with the quilt.
It was dark outside, and the howling wind made the plum branches sway. Yinhua held the quilt tightly in her arms, and quickly ran to the door of the Jinhua room and pushed, "Sister, sister..."
Seeing that the door could not be opened, Yinhua could only stand in front of the door and scream a few times.
Jinhua, who was sleeping very peacefully, vaguely heard someone calling her. When she knew it a little, the scream disappeared again. She thought it was a dream, so she turned over and fell asleep again. The quilt was soft and the room was warm. She ate another full meal and slept very sweetly. At this time, Yinhua was too cold outside the house than inside the house, and was forced back to the house by the cold wind. She hesitated in the house for a while, and then put on a quilt and went to Zhuhua's room.
Zhuhua fell asleep after taking a shower because she took a shower. She was only five years old. She walked around with the adults today and was already tired. When her hair was a little dry, she fell asleep on the bed. She didn't hear Yinhua calling the door outside. However, Xiaohua, who was in the same bed with her, heard it. It ran to the door and snatched the door and shouted outside a few times.
"Xiaohua..." Yinhua felt that she had found new hope and whispered to Xiaohua inside: "Xiaohua, open the door and let me in."
Xiaohua shouted a few times and continued to lie on the door, but did not take any other actions.
"How about finding a place to get out and go to my room to sleep?" Yinhua continued.
Unfortunately, Xiaohua couldn't really understand what she meant. She didn't see any action for a while. Yinhua didn't find the hole in the wall that could make Xiaohua drill out, so she had to give up wearing a quilt and go back to her room. After returning to the room, she locked the door and returned to her bed as if she ran away. The howling wind outside was still blowing, and she pulled the quilt and covered her head, thinking in her heart that she would definitely bring Xiaohua into the room tomorrow night.
Not long after, she fell asleep. No one noticed that she had woken up at night, and she said that she was having breakfast in the morning.
"Sister, I went to find you last night, why didn't you open the door?" she complained.
"When? What's the matter?" Jinhua asked.
Yinhua was speechless for a moment and looked at the ground and said, "It's nothing, it's just... I just can't sleep, I want to chat with you."
"You were not tired after leaving yesterday for a day?" Jinhua asked suspiciously. Even she was a little tired. Yinhua actually had the energy to chat. When did her physical strength become so good?
Yinhua responded for a moment, and didn't know what to say. Just as Zhuhua came out with Xiaohua, she stepped forward and smiled and discussed, "Zhuhua, let Xiaohua sleep in my room tonight."
"No." Zhuhua perfectly interprets the temper a five-year-old child should have, and hugged Xiaohua with caution and prevented Yinhua from watching.
"Aren't I afraid that Xiaohua bites you in the middle of the night?" Yinhua asked for a reason.
"Little Flowers Don't Bite." Zhuhua argued.
"If you don't bite, put it on a hemp rope."
Xiaohua tied a hemp rope around her neck, which was a simple collar made by Jinhua to help Zhuhua. When she was in her hometown, Xiaohua sometimes jumped up and threw herself into the house, and sometimes she would go out to play. Zhuhua was afraid that it would cause trouble, so she tied a rope for it to stay at home. When she was tied up and stopped going out randomly, Zhuhua untied the rope and never tied it again.
Zhuhua was trying to use some reason to let Yinhua give up her thoughts, Jinhua said, "Okay, why are you going to have a little flower again? Didn't you think it bites your shoes before, and you said it won't look good when it grows up."
Yinhua stammered for a few times, but couldn't find a reason.
Zhuhua, who was not young in mental age, thought about it and finally found a possible reason, and said, "Today, my mother wants us to choose a maid. Xiaohua won't bite me, but it will bite the maid who sleeps in the same room as you, and it can't sleep in your room."
By the way, she had a maid in the evening. Yinhua laughed dryly when she heard it and said, "I'm having fun with you, don't worry, Xiaohua is yours, I won't snatch it from you."
Zhuhua nodded and led Xiaohua and the others to the front hall for dinner. Uncle Li and Aunt Li had already arrived. The three of them asked, and they didn't start eating when Cheng Dashan and Sun arrived. After dinner, Cheng Dashan knew that she was going to handle common affairs. He was the most annoying to hear these, so he found a reason to go out. Aunt Li and Uncle Li returned to their yard. Seeing that the front hall was too cold, Sun went back to the main yard and asked the senior manager to go there to talk. The senior manager guessed that the four beauties would go to pay their respects soon, so he told the story of someone sneaking into Cheng Dashan's yard before. After hearing this, Sun gritted his teeth. Isn't this forcing her to get angry?
Afraid that she would get angry and deal with it too much, the senior manager briefly talked about the four beauties. After all, these four beauties were recorded as official slaves, and their identities were pierced with ink, and their identities could no longer be changed. Moreover, the establishment of the new dynasty did not go through the old cases of the previous dynasty, so the emperor picked some of the family members of the prisoners who had not been sold and gave them to military generals. As official slaves, even if they were favored, they were only able to be concubines and could not be promoted to good concubines.
Nowadays, the people are open, but there is an insurmountable bottom line. Take wives and concubines for example. Common people are not allowed to take concubines. Ordinary officials can have one wife and two concubines, and royal relatives can have one wife and four concubines. Concubines here refer to good concubines, and cannot be from slaves. Even if the children they give birth to are different from the legitimate concubines of the wife, they can still be recorded in the genealogy, and can also be recorded in the name of the wife, and even the family property can be divided. The children born by concubines are not good, and many families will set family rules that prevent concubines from giving birth.
These four beauties were better in the mansion because of the emperor's gift. If they had not been bought by other families, they would not know what would end up. The senior manager had also experienced the fact that the master would search the house and felt somewhat sympathetic to them. Several of them had been visiting his former master's house. Who would have thought that he would end up now?
After hearing the senior manager talk about their origins, Sun heard the servants say that the four beauties wanted to come to pay their respects. Sun agreed immediately. The three sisters who wanted to go back to the room immediately stood next to Sun with anger on their faces, wanting to meet these beauties, especially the one who climbed the bed. They only regretted that there were no weapons to match around, so they could only stare at people with their eyes. After waiting for a while, they saw four graceful women coming gently with lotus steps, and their figure was just like a weak willow Fufeng. Even though they had never seen their appearance, Sun smelled a scent of suitable thickness.
"I have seen my wife." The woman in blue shirt on the far left bowed her knees.
"I have met my wife." The woman in yellow shirt beside Qinglan bowed her knees.
"I have seen my wife." The woman in white shirt beside Yingge bowed her knees.
"I have met my wife." The woman in pink shirt on the far right bowed her knees.
After seeing Li, Shixiang raised her eyelids slightly, but in the end she didn't dare to move. The others lowered their eyebrows and kept their salute postures, with no unnecessary expression on their faces.
"Get up and lift your head up." Sun said lightly.
When the four of them looked up, their eyes were as beautiful as picturesque. Sun couldn't help but think that people were really more beautiful than flowers. She had never seen such a beautiful girl in her hometown. Even when she was young, she was not as beautiful as them, let alone now she was the mother of three children. Despite this, Sun didn't envy her. She only envied her eyes that were bigger than her. Their figures that fell when the wind blew, looked weak, and they were afraid they couldn't even wash clothes. The people in the city liked this style. It wasn't her that she was boasting, but Cheng Dashan's past few days was not as sticky as if she had eaten it. And her own man knew that even if she became an official, the delicate beauty would rush over.
This is true. When he first entered the mansion, Shi Xiang was not the only one who thought about it. However, Cheng Dashan's mud-legged deeds scared the others away. He was too sloppy. Without Sun's care, he didn't even like to take a bath. Even if the servant prepared hot water, he was too lazy to soak it. He scooped the hot water and took a bath. The servant who was waiting for him to wash his clothes would hold tooth powder every day and reminded him several times. After Cheng Dashan used it once, he felt that it smelled so he was too lazy to use it again. Today, under Sun's gaze, he barely brushed his teeth for the second time in his life. It also took courage for the delicate lady to climb such a rough man's bed.
It’s not done enough after climbing, which is why Sun is not so angry.
Zhuhua also stared at them strangely. Soon she thought of an important question. These people were beauties given by the emperor and were beauties that were consistent with her previous life. In other words, the standards for beauties were the same as those in her previous life. So, she was not a beauty. She was not a beauty. Zhuhua felt that the unprecedented blow she had suffered was in a bad mood.
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She finally got the truth ~
Chapter completed!