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Chapter 4 Maid Zhang Siya

She saw Si Ya crying and kneeling in front of her, and thought that she would buy a few girls for her daughter anyway. Instead of buying others, it would be better to buy Si Ya, who is quite familiar. She ignored Lu's mother's dissuasion and called Zhang Li to sign Si Ya's contract.

At that time, the two families agreed to sign a death contract. Originally, a nine-year-old girl like Si Ya was just selling a tael of silver and was overwhelmed by the way.

Mrs. Liu was still looking forward to the price of silver for help because the Zhang family was not easy, so she paid two taels of silver for money.

The two families agreed that Si Ya's monthly money would be calculated according to the calculation of the big girl in the village who helped Li Zheng's house. One month would be 100 big money, and three years would be 0600 big money, and the combined silver would be 3 taels and 6 cents. In order to take care of the Zhang family, Mrs. Liu paid Si Ya's three years of wages to treat Xiao Shuan in advance.

A girl who was having idle meals at home sold two taels of silver, and she still had more than one tael of wages every year, which was more profitable than selling her daughter to a maid in a wealthy family in the county town. Zhang Li was so happy that she took the money and pressed her handprint on the contract for sale, and then left with great gratitude, leaving the thin Zhang Siya in the Rong family.

Mrs. Liu bought the girl, and she had the help she invited to do the heavy work at home, but she asked Si Ya and Tian Daniu, who bought it together, to take care of the weak Rong Yunhe with the Yunying sisters.

Yunying grew up with her mother Lu since she was a child. She was originally Rong Yun and the maid who served her close friends. She was not only good at needlework and thread, but also good-looking. She naturally taught Si Ya and Da Niu how to take better care of the lady.

Siya stayed in the Rong family for two years, and her food and clothing were many times better than before in her own home.

Mrs. Liu and Rong Yunhe are both generous and kind-hearted. They treat these servants softly and rarely punish them.

Although Lu's mother, who looks serious, is strict in discipline, she is often taken care of her and Tian Daniu.

Zhang Siya was naturally grateful to the master's family. She lamented more than once that God blessed her and made her meet a good family.

She heard from the sisters in the village who were sold to the wealthy families in the county town as maids when they returned to their hometown to visit relatives that most of the young masters and ladies in the master's family had bad tempers and treated the servants either as they beat or scolded them. Whenever there was any discomfort, they would vent their anger.

There are also some pretty sisters who are quite beautiful. When they were fifteen or sixteen years old, they were attracted by the masters and young men in their master's family. Whether they wanted to or not, they were pulled into bed and became maids in the room.

This maid from the house has a better life. She gave birth to a son and a half daughter, and then met a kinder mistress, and could be promoted to be a concubine and become half a master.

Those who are not lucky in life are either abused by their masters and are half-deathed by their jealous mistresses and sold out; or they are randomly pulled to match a servant and groom, and then become kisses and are beaten and scolded by men all day long.

I am grateful, and Si Ya has always been a smart person. She was also a diligent person at home. She was taught by Lu's mother and Yunying for two years and knew a lot of rules. On weekdays, Rong Yun and the room were rushing to do whatever they had.

And like today, I stood there blankly waiting for Yunying to give instructions before going to work, but there was nothing I had ever seen before.

Although Jiang Lanbi had just woken up in Rong Yunhe's body for less than three days, he could clearly understand the temperaments of the girls around him because of the memories left in his mind.

After she looked at Yunying's instructions, she hurried to Si Ya who opened a boxwood rounded cabinet with a bowl and chopsticks in the corner of the wall. She saw that her bright and energetic eyes were much dimmed a lot. Although the blue and black eyes were covered with a layer of powder, it could still be seen that it was because she was worried about not sleeping well.

Rong Yunhe thought about his idleness yesterday, so she called Yun Xing to talk and pass the time. Yun Xing muttered in her ear about the recent situation in the village, as well as the gossip of the sisters of the Ma family next door when they came to visit her. Combined with the Si Ya family's situation and her mother's nature, she understood in her heart where Si Ya's thoughts came from.

But although she felt quite pitiful in her heart, the Si Ya sisters were in a difficult situation, after all, she was just a newcomer now and was still familiar with everything in the family.

In addition, the original owner was weak and he was in bed for the past two days. He was just able to walk around the house for a few times, and even Mother Lu didn't let her go out of the door.

So even if it is the Siya family’s other people’s business, she is afraid that she is too willing but not enough.

It’s better to first accumulate energy, find out the current situation and then find a way to help Siya.

Thinking of this, Rong Yunhe took back his eyes from Si Ya's face, took the celadon bowls and chopsticks wrapped in a foreign cloth towel from her hand indifferently, and looked at the dishes for today's breakfast.

In addition to the two bowls of rock sugar wolfberry longan bird's nest porridge and meat porridge that they used to nourish themselves, Lu's mother and Aunt Luo also prepared peanuts and beans with pine nuts, winter bamboo shoots, bracken, ferns mixed with sesame oil, quail and salted liver, were all the favorites of this original owner to eat during his daily life. Although the portions are not large, they are more exquisite and delicious.

The staple food is a plate of crystal plum blossom buns with eight fresh mushrooms and cabbage hearts the size of a finger, a plate of small and exquisite red bean stuffing, and a bowl of thick white porridge. It is carefully prepared at first glance, making people look very enjoyable.

Rong Yun and I thought about the conversation between Lu's mother and Yun Xing that she had not woken up that day. They learned that this year there was a famine and in order not to cause trouble, they did not dare to use the gold, silver and soft materials at home. Now the family is still living a difficult life.

In order to save food, my mother Lu and others ate either steamed buns made of sorghum rice mixed with sweet potato noodles or corn flour pancakes. Breakfast and dinner were just ordinary white porridge and cooked with their own pickles.

The fine grains, ingredients and supplements saved naturally all entered the brother who had to study hard and his weak body.

Thinking of this, Rong Yunhe felt moved in his heart, and felt extremely grateful for having such a group of loyal slaves around him.
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