After listening to the brainwashing literature as usual, the four children returned to the dormitory one after another after dinner.

Zhao Liu was exhausted early on. She would be almost seven years old after the New Year. She had enough food and sleep in Rong Mansion, and her body grew rapidly.

This growth of the body consumes a lot of energy and energy. After finishing her work every day, she is so tired that she just wants to fall asleep.

Her voice was never heard in a room full of children's night chats.

Seeing Wang Qi start chatting again, she yawned, got up and went out with the bucket. When she came back with a small bucket of hot water from the kitchen, she saw that they were still chatting.

"We used to have a sister in this house, have you ever seen her?" Wang Qi motioned to them to look at the empty bed under the window.

The bedding stacked neatly on top has not been opened for several days, and no one has come back at night. I don't know what the situation is like.

Zhao Liu wanted to say that he should stop prying into other people's private affairs. Wouldn't it be more spacious if there were fewer people in the room?

It would be annoying if all six beds were occupied.

Seeing everyone shaking their heads, Wang Qi asked again: "Today I heard that Miss Lin, the granddaughter of the old lady, came into the house. I heard that she only brought a wet nurse and a little girl. I don't know if we can take care of Miss Lin separately.

I also heard that Miss Lin's family has had hairpins for generations, it would be great if I could serve her, Miss Lin must be a generous mistress."

You seven or eight-year-old child knows nothing about generational hairpins. Who is Daiyu? How can a talented girl like them, who has been trained for more than a month, be able to serve her closely?

Zhao Liu cursed repeatedly in his heart, feeling that Wang Qi was becoming more and more whimsical and regardless of reality.

After washing his face, he poured the water into the basin to make foot wash. Zhao Liu sat on the edge of the bed, soaking his feet and untying his hair.

She combed her hair into a bun every day, and her hair was naturally curled. She was busy with her hands, but she still didn't answer Wang Qi's words.

Everyone knew it by heart. Wang Qi said a few words to herself. Seeing that no one agreed with her, she shut up in disinterest.

After undoing his hair, washing his feet, yawning profusely and saying good night to everyone, Zhao Liu fell asleep minding his own business.

Thinking that the new peach cakes I got today will be shared with the girl who made the fire tomorrow.

The girl who boiled water in the kitchen was already familiar with her. Zhao Liu had brought cloud cakes to that girl twice. The girl reciprocated the favor by leaving half a bucket of hot boiling water for her every day. It was not Zhao Liu who was diligent and soaked it every day.

Feet, it’s just that growing pains are really hard to prevent.

This body probably had insufficient nutrition since it was a baby. From the time he was born, Zhao Liu was tortured by cramps and bone headaches every night.

Only by scalding her feet before going to bed could she have a peaceful sleep.

In a blink of an eye, she had picked up grass leaves for a month in Huifangyuan. The treatment in Huifangyuan was really good. There were five or six small pavilions in the yard. When the owners often came here to enjoy the entertainment, they would put snacks and nuts on them.

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Zhao Liu had never seen nuts before, and he didn't know if the owner had finished eating them or if they were divided by the maid who was waiting nearby.

On the other hand, for pastries and other snacks that cannot withstand being put away, the master often takes the lead and gives the rest to the maids.

Holding back his salivation, Zhao Liu never dared to eat more for fear of damaging his teeth. There was no dentist to see him at this time.

It actually gave her a lot of confidence in her interpersonal relationships. No matter how rough the pastries left by the master were, they were still better than what little maids like them could eat.

Most of the human relations between maids are that you eat one bite of me and I eat two bites of you. The relationship is considered to be getting along.

When I got up this morning, I went to Huifangyuan to meet the steward as usual. I divided the two chestnut cakes left over from yesterday. Zhao Liu carefully wrapped them in oil paper and threw them into the space when he put them in his arms.

The pastries of the ancients did not like to add any glue. Desserts such as chestnut cake and peanut cake had a layer of puff pastry on the outside. If you let yourself carry them in your arms while working together, they would be just a bag of crumbs when you take them out.

Keep a piece of pastry that is in good condition, and when the time comes to give it to someone, when they see it, they will think, oh, that person cares so much about me, and carefully protects a piece of pastry just to give it to me. What a delicate friendship!

It was through this "friendship" that she had enough food left over even if she was late, and even a maid could wash her face in exchange for hot water for washing her feet every day.

Who should I bribe with this piece of cake today? She took her rake and bamboo basket and prepared to go to the garden.

Zhao Liu has never been picky. She will do whatever work the supervisor assigns to her. In daily life, if someone asks her to do other tasks, she will first check whether her own work is completed.

When the time comes, she will go and help.

If she hadn't finished her work, she would politely refuse.

In just a few months, she has already learned eighteen ways to politely reject others.

Before she even walked out of the corner door, she heard the steward calling her from behind,

"Zhao Liu, please wait a moment. I have something to tell you."

She didn't know why, but she stopped and stepped back to the door so as not to block the way. She saw several maids walking out one after another casting envious glances at her. Monk Zhang Er was confused for a moment.

"We have a spoiled guest in our house. The old lady takes pity on her granddaughter. She has placed it in her yard for now, but she will definitely move it out later..."

Zhao Liu blinked.

I couldn't move out for a while.

After all, she has been working for so long and knows that the construction of the Grand View Garden has not yet started.

This was probably requested by the family members, who asked each person in charge to order a few heads to clean up the new yard for Miss Lin and prepare it first.

The steward's eyes passed over them, finally stopping on Zhao Liu's face, and spoke after a moment.

"Although you are young, you are very reliable in your work. Now I will send you out to work in my honor. You don't have to do the menial work. You can just go over and help those adults with tea and water. You need to continue.

Be careful and don't embarrass me."

The steward had also heard about Zhao Liu's deeds. Whenever he got a pastry, he never ate it all to himself. He always shared it with the little girls he knew well.

For such a clever child, even if they know that she is planning for herself, everyone is happy to give her a little more face.

We are all servants, so we can only stay in the inner courtyard by "giving face" to each other.

Zhao Liufu, who was called "Zhao Liufu", calmly put down the tools in his hands and followed the steward who came to collect people from Huifangyuan.

Staring at the exquisite yard in front of her, she didn't understand what she was trying to clean up. What was there to clean up?

Isn't it just cleaning the courtyard every day, incense and ventilating it, is this because the maids want to gain some popularity first?

Since she was not required to do any work, Zhao Liu was happy to have half a day free, so her daily work became to go to another yard to sweep dust in the morning, and then return to Huifang Courtyard to pick grass in the afternoon.

Winter came early in the north, and in the third month after Zhao Liu entered Rongfu, it started to snow.

The little maids who sweep only need to clear the snow in the yard every day, and there is no other work. The old lady obviously has no intention of letting Daiyu go out and live on her own. The maids who go to warm the house

, and was recalled to the servants’ room.

Taking care of the flowers and plants in winter is no longer time-consuming. They don't need to work, and they have more time to learn the rules.

It is common for the elderly to get together in small groups and play leaf cards in their free time. Zhao Liu was young, had little monthly money, and had to learn skills, so the leaf card team rarely took her with them.

Zhao Liu didn't make any fuss. She always smiled when she met everyone. The plump girl's face looked pretty and sweet when she smiled. She learned a lot through this close proximity.

"Go, the masters have all gone to enjoy the plum blossoms today. Don't run around outside. You can't bear the risk of a collision!"

Make tea, write, write ink...

These skills are learned over and over again. Once you are 70 or 80% proficient, you can move on to the next skill training and wait for the day when you are assigned to a position to practice it.

"There are two cats on the porch over there. Children, let's go see the cats!"

The Rong Mansion was at its peak now. She had never seen Red Mansions, and she didn’t know the time and setting of the story line in the book.

She just feels that she can stay in such a nice and wealthy home as long as she can!

Degenerate, really depraved.

The chaotic world outside and the hunger she felt when she first came through made her, an adult in her twenties, afraid to step out of the safe zone.

Zhao Liu was squatting on the porch watching the cats fight, when she saw someone waving to her in front of her.

"You all come here." Zhao Liu recognized that it was Miss Xiufeng next to Second Grandma Lian.

Only now did she know that the second grandma was the Wang Xifeng who wrote a lot.

"Sister Xiufeng is well." Zhao Liufu stood up, but she was just a rough maid. She didn't even have a name from her master. She had to bow and bow to everyone she saw in the yard.

The Xiu Feng in front of her is the proud maid next to Second Grandma Lian. She is dressed in aqua-green brocade gown, with a twisted gold bracelet on her hand, pink face and peach cheeks, and an auspicious cloud pattern pinned to her neat bun.

A gold hairpin and a few light-colored velvet flowers.

She is dressed in the style of a big maid and has a perfect sense of style.

Is this about officially assigning positions?

Zhao Liu's heart was shocked, as if he was looking at the clattering monthly money waving to her. The three little maids were all in good shape, but Wang Qi was missing.

"Which one of you is Zhao Liu?"

Xiufeng looked at them and asked after a moment.

"Replying to Sister Xiufeng, slave Zhao Liu." She pinched her throat and forcibly gave herself the prefix of slave.

This damn feudal ethics.

"Well, it looks okay. Have you learned all the rules?"

Sure enough, positions were assigned.

"In the hands of us, madam, you can rest assured. I have seen these young people, and they have learned all the rules. Why didn't Miss Xiu Feng come and say hello in advance? It would be disrespectful to these young people.

"Before Zhao Liu could answer, a woman came over from the corridor and started to greet Xiu Feng from a distance.

Zhao Liu had a headache for these women whose clothes were all very similar, and she was severely face blind.

If we hadn't worked under the same roof every day and become familiar with it, I would have made a lot of ridiculous jokes.

"Mrs. Zhao, you're welcome. I'm just here to pick up a few maids on my wife's orders. I'm not being rude to you. You're too polite."

After the greetings, Xiu Feng directly asked her by name. This is the clean and neat style of the maid.

"A girl was released from the old lady's small kitchen. She was ranked according to her seniority. Now there is a missing girl to cook the fire. Can Madam Zhao recommend her?"

They are all slaves. With just a recommendation, the little maids could not help but be treated as favors from their superiors.

Zhao Liu felt a little uncomfortable, but could not speak. He could only stand aside with a low eyebrow.
Chapter completed!