Yaoniang looked at the clothes on the table, her eyes were full of joy.
She was worried that she had no clothes to wear.
In fact, when she came out of the house, she brought some clothes with her, but she used to like pink and delicate colors, but now she wanted to be unobtrusive, so she wanted to wear dark colors. The clothes are all dark in color.
One is stone blue, one is green, and the other two are autumn fragrance and sandalwood. Judging from the color, it may not be suitable for the age, but it is very suitable for the status. The nanny is here to nurse the children, so there is no need to dress too fancy.
In her previous life, Yaoniang had just arrived at Xiaokuayuan, and the higher-ups also issued these clothes, but she thought the colors were too ugly, so she picked up her own to wear. It is obviously the same thing, but because of the different state of mind, the mentality is naturally different, which makes people lament the impermanence of the world.
Yao Niang took the clothes to the interview behind the screen, because they were not tailor-made, they were a little too big, but what she wanted right now was loose clothes.
Yaoniang simply put on her new clothes and went out.
First, I found a little girl to ask where I could do laundry. After learning that the well in front of the back room was available, she went back to the room and took the clothes to be washed to the back to wash.
Go out from the corner door next to the small building, and you will face a yard about the same size as the front yard. On the front is a row of rear-covered houses, and on both sides are utility rooms, kitchens and some residential houses.
There are wooden basins, buckets, and soap locusts for washing in the utility room. These are what Lu Yao told Yaoniang. In fact, these Yaoniangs know it all, but they act rashly without asking, which always seems a bit abrupt.
After getting the things she needed, Yao Niang went to the well, threw the bucket into the well, and fetched water from it. She has little strength, and can only pump half a bucket.
With this half bucket of water, she soaked the clothes she had changed into the tub.
Lu Yao has been watching her silently from the side, seeing that she is really posing for laundry, she left without saying a word.
While Yaoniang was doing laundry, Cuizhu also received the clothes from Lv'e.
It's just that she glanced at it with disdain, and then threw it aside.
The material is good, but the color is a bit dull. Although she was a widow, she didn't want to be a widow for the rest of her life.
Since they are newcomers today, Yaoniang and Cuizhu don't need to be on duty, and this half day is reserved for settling in. But Cuizhu has a restless temperament, so she changed into a new outfit after tidying up, and went out to talk to someone.
She used to be lively, with a sweet mouth, she ate one aunt and one sister, and soon became acquainted with the people in the small courtyard.
When Yuyan reported the incident, Nanny Mu couldn't see any trouble on her old face.
"No matter what they are, we only need to be optimistic about the little princess."
Yuyan nodded.
After Yaoniang finished washing her clothes, she hung them to dry on the rope.
She went to fetch some water and brought it back, and wiped all around her room. The room seems to have been cleaned up in advance, but not carefully, and some dust can be seen in the corners.
Since Yaoniang wanted to stay in this yard, she put on a gesture, and what she is doing now seems to have nothing to do with it, but it is actually showing her attitude to everyone.
These truths are the truths that Yaoniang only understood after staying in the palace for a long time in her previous life. She can only do this, the rest depends on whether others give her a chance.
In the next few days, life in Xiaokua courtyard was dull and uninteresting.
Just like in the previous life, the people in Xiaokua Courtyard seemed to treat them kindly, but in reality there was alienation in the kindness.
Although Yaoniang and Cuizhu also went to serve the little princess, they could only watch from a distance, and they would be done for them, let alone serve the little princess up close.
After a few days, Cuizhu got bored and started to run outside frequently.
The excuse is to go to find my aunt, and most of the time it is to get close to the people in Liuchun Pavilion, but Yaoniang is still as calm as before.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, but it's fickle. Maybe it's a big sun today, and summer shirts can be worn, but it starts to rain in the middle of the night, and I have to change into jackets the next day.
It rained yesterday, and the sky was still overcast in the morning, but when the sun came out in the afternoon, it suddenly became hot, and it was so stuffy that it made people feel panicky.
It was dusk, and the Xiaokua courtyard was usually quiet, but at this time it was even more quiet like no one's land.
Not being reused has the advantage of not being reused, that is, no one cares about what to do, Yaoniang went to the kitchen to bring her own dinner, because it was hot and she didn't have an appetite to eat, so she put it there first, and planned to take a bath before talking.
It took a long time to finish washing, maybe it was going to rain, the room was very stuffy, and Yaoniang was sweating again before her hair dried. She walked out of the house with her wet hair wrapped around her head. It was indeed much cooler outside than in the house, and the breeze was blowing gently, which made people very comfortable.
As soon as Yaoniang stood still outside, she heard a creak from the side, and the green bamboo came out.
Seeing beads of sweat on her pink face, it looked like she was also hot.
Recently, Cuizhu has changed the way she didn't want to see Yaoniang earlier, maybe she was instructed by someone, and treats Yaoniang very warmly.
The two lived next to each other, and from time to time Cuizhu would come to sit in Yaoniang's room and talk to her. Yaoniang is clear in heart, but she is gentle on the surface. Cuizhu only thought of her as a coward, but didn't think much of it, and occasionally asked Yaoniang to help her wash a piece of clothes or something.
But if Yaoniang helped her with the work, she would not be unrewarded, and would bring a plate of pastries and fruits for Yaoniang to eat from time to time.
Cuizhu's aunt, Mrs. Cao, is a small steward in the big kitchen, and Cuizhu begged these things from her. Cuizhu would often bring back some small snacks and feed them to the maids and women in the Xiaokua Courtyard. Some of them were so rough that the little girls and mothers-in-law were greedy for this mouth. Mother is much more popular.
Others always smiled when they saw her, but Yaoniang looked much duller, with almost no sense of presence.
Seeing Yaoniang standing outside the door, Cuizhu came to stand beside her.
"It's too hot today," she said, fanning herself with a round fan.
Yaoniang said: "Yeah, I just took a shower and I'm sweating again."
Cuizhu wiped off the sweat, and seeing a white mark on her hand, she immediately curled up her palm, took out a sweat towel from her sleeve, and pressed it on her face in a concealed manner. At the same time, he glanced at Yao Niang's face like an egg that had been peeled off its shell, and shouted: "No, no, I have to wash it too, it's too hot today."
She wanted to ask Yaoniang to help her carry water, but at this moment Yaoniang had already sat down on the stone platform in the veranda, with the other hand stroking her long hair, she could only shut her mouth angrily, and turned into the room inside.
Yaoniang glanced at her back, then turned her gaze back again.
The sky darkened unknowingly, and there were some mosquitoes at this time. Yaoniang's long hair was almost dry, so she planned to go back to the house for dinner.
As soon as she came to the table and sat down, she heard a baby crying, the voice was very sharp, and she subconsciously tensed up.
It's not because she was scared, but as a mother, she was born very sensitive to the cries of children.
Yaoniang realized that it was the little princess who was crying, since she came to this small courtyard, the little princess would make such a fuss every night. She picked up her rice bowl, intending to finish her dinner, fetch some water to wipe herself, and rest.
The food is a bit greasy, and the food of the nannies is richer than that of ordinary servants. Most of them are meat and meat, because eating more meat can produce milk. But Yaoniang was already in a panic, and the food was a bit cold, and she always felt uncomfortable after eating.
She put down her chopsticks, cleared the table, and went to the small kitchen with the dishes. When I came back, I brought another half bucket of warm water. The hot water in the small kitchen is constant, because the little princess can use it all the time, and it burns a lot, so the servants can also use some.
Yaoniang wiped her body, took out the water and poured it out.
During this period, the crying of the little princess has not stopped, and even became more and more sharp. Especially at this moment when the wind suddenly blew up, the whistling sound of the wind against the crying of the child, in this quiet night, seemed particularly permeating.
Yaoniang couldn't sit still, so she couldn't help but went to the door and looked towards the small building.
At this time, candles were already lit in the small building, and people came in and out from time to time, and people also came from the Liuchun Pavilion, and they left after asking what happened.
Cui Zhu came out of the house, leaned against the door and said to Yao Niang: "Aren't those two very capable, why can't even coax a child." She smiled, with obvious gloating on her face:
The two she mentioned refer to Nanny Wang and Nanny Qian who are now serving the little Princess. The reason why Cui Zhu and Yao Niang were excluded, because they couldn't intervene beside the little princess, was due to the great contribution of these two nurses who came first. The two teamed up to run against Cuizhu and Yaoniang, Yaoniang was fine, but Cuizhu hated them to death.
It's a pity that Cuizhu has nothing to do with the other party. First, the other party is more senior than her, and second, the two of them treat the little princess very wholeheartedly, and it is almost impossible to find fault. The most important thing is that these two people belong to Concubine Hu, she can't afford to provoke her at all, so she can only hold back her anger, and only have a few sarcastic words with Yaoniang in private.
Seeing this kind of movement, Cui Zhu knew without thinking that the two nurses of Qian Wang would definitely be reprimanded by Concubine Hu tomorrow, and their smiles were extraordinarily bright.
On the other hand, Yaoniang was very silent, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
Suddenly Yaoniang reached out to close the door and went out.
Seeing this, Cui Zhu asked, "Where are you going?"
"I gonna go see."
"Come on, you, don't be an eyesore, it's not like you haven't been there before, how did you get squeezed out last time?"
What Cui Zhu said was not to sympathize with Yaoniang, but to vent her dissatisfaction, because she went there last time, but was squeezed out.
For the time being, she and Yaoniang are still on the united front, which is one of the reasons why she treats Yaoniang with kindness now.
Yaoniang ignored her and walked towards the small building.
"It's not enough to be fooled, you!" Behind him, Cui Zhu raised his voice.
Yaoniang is thinking about her previous life.
In her previous life, Cuizhu was so ignorant, she could still stay in the small courtyard proudly as the nanny of the little princess, not because of anything else, but because of her great achievements.
At that time, the little princess was crying like this, but Yaoniang didn't take it to heart. She had just left her son Xiaobao, and when she heard this cry, she couldn't help but think about Xiaobao crying like this when she left her mother.
So she became more and more sad. The little princess cried, and she cried too, crying day and night.
Someone said she was unlucky, and she felt very wronged and even more sad. Originally, there were many nurses around the little princess, so she was excluded from the outside. But it's not normal for the little princess to cry like this, so she couldn't help but be careful.
After observing for a few days, she almost knew what was going on.
She volunteered to solve this problem, but was blocked outside. Not only could she not see the little princess, she couldn't even enter the small building. She was anxious in her heart, and she really felt sorry for the little princess, how could she bear it if she kept crying like this. So he found Cui Zhu, the only one who could talk, and wanted to use her to tell the person who took care of the little princess this method.
Cuizhu took her method and cured the little princess' night crying syndrome.
But he didn't tell others that this method was his own. Instead, when she was completely caught off guard, he designed and instigated it, so that Mother Mu, who was already very dissatisfied with her, sent her back.
On the contrary, Cuizhu has gained a firm foothold in the small courtyard. The little princess couldn't do without her, her position became more and more stable, and even Concubine Hu looked at her quite differently.