Afterwards, the old housekeeper was always wary of me. But I could always give him a surprise. It was just that he was surprised and I was happy.
I was still singing all the way. The old housekeeper couldn't do anything to me, but he liked me even more. When there was no one else, he really regarded me as his granddaughter. The old housekeeper later introduced himself and said that his surname was Liu, and that he also had a granddaughter who died in infancy.
He should be as old as me in life.
I said, just think of me as your old granddaughter and just call me Xiaosi. After all these days here, he is the only one who treats us well.
One day at noon, I was half-lying on the carriage on the way back with a piece of dogtail grass in my mouth, knocking on my legs. It had been autumn for some time, and there were still a few green grasses by the river. A girl was lying down
In the grass, I said with emotion: Look at how sentimental people are.
In the end, Butler Liu felt that something was wrong. He stopped the carriage with a loud sound, got out of the car and went over to take a look, only to find that she had fainted in the grass from hunger. After feeding her some water, she woke up. I remember that I also fainted in the grass at that time.
I had been there and I was hungry. With the feeling that we were all at the end of the world, I took two of the barbecued pork buns I bought for my mother and gave them to her.
As soon as she saw the food, she grabbed it and stuffed it into her mouth desperately, as if someone would snatch the food away from her in the next second.
"Eat slowly, don't choke," I advised. Seeing her wolfing down her food, I felt very sad. It didn't matter in the peaceful and prosperous times, there were still these miserable people.
"Oh! Xiaosi, it's getting late, let's go." Uncle Liu looked at it, shook his head, sighed, and said.
"Uncle, young master, please accept me. I am willing to do anything to repay you." She knelt down in front of me and begged.
I was stunned, sir? That’s right, I dress up as a boy every time I go out.
"How can this be a good thing? We can't accommodate you either." Butler Liu said with an embarrassed look on his face.
"Please, I have no father or mother, and I am helpless in this world." She gnawed and grabbed the hem of my clothes very hard. It was like grasping a life-saving straw.
"Girl, you can't hold her." Butler Liu said, walking over and trying to pull her away.
"It's not that I don't want to take you in, it's just that it's not necessarily easy for you to follow me." I knelt down and supported her. She was probably about fourteen or fifteen years old. Her face was a little dirty, but her features were pretty, just like a little girl.
"I'm not afraid of hardship. The young master is a good man. I just need to follow him, otherwise I will starve to death here." Her firm eyes echoed in my mind.
"Okay." I helped her up
"Xiaosi. This is..." Butler Liu still felt something was wrong and was about to stop me. I interrupted him and said, "It's okay, Grandpa Liu. She will be with me from now on. Sister, what is your name?"
"I don't know either. I had no father or mother since I was a child, so I was taken in as a girl. Later they wanted to sell me to a brothel, so I ran away. They all called me a girl," she said confused.
"It doesn't sound good." I was just singing Qingqing Riverside Grass, "My sister's name is Qingcao, do you agree?"
She smiled shyly and said, "Young master, whatever you choose is good. From now on, I will call you Qingcao. You, please don't call me sister again. You're going to offend me."
"Then don't call me son, mother or son anymore." I smiled, helped her get into the carriage, and said.
"What should I call it?" She looked at me in confusion, thinking: Could it be called uncle?
"You should call him miss. He is the fourth miss in our prime minister's house." Butler Liu didn't hide it anymore and reminded him with a smile.
"It turns out to be the Fourth Miss." As he said this, Qingcao stood up and started to kneel down again. I sighed, thinking that everyone here would like this.
"Don't kneel down, I'm just a lady in name only. You'll still have to endure hardship if you follow me. Otherwise." I said while stopping her, don't kneel down.
"Qingcao is not afraid of hardship. Miss, please don't drive me away." Qingcao said in a hurry.
"I mean, how about we call ourselves sisters? How old are you, sister?"
"Miss, don't call me sister. I will be fifteen after this winter."
"Just call me Shi'er. I'll be eleven years later and I'm four years younger than you, sister."
"Young lady is just young lady, how can you call her by her first name? Green grass is green grass, don't..."
God! Feudal thoughts are deeply ingrained. I can't resist this green grass girl. There's nothing I can do about it. Green grass is green grass. You can call it whatever you want. Miss Fourth is Miss Fourth. I listen to her as the Four Little Heroes.
"Qingcao, I'll teach you to sing a song. That's your name. Listen:
Green grass by the river, everlasting
Wildfires can’t burn them all, and wind and rain can’t blow them down.
The green grass along the river stretches to the promontory
Cape Road, endless lovesickness
As green and good as spring, summer, autumn and winter
No matter north, south, west or east, I hope to be together till the end of our lives.
La la la la la la la la la la..."
Back at Qiufengyuan, I tiptoed in with Qingcao. I thought it would be better not to let my mother know about it first. I would think of a more reasonable reason later. If my mother knew that I ran out, it would be okay.
"Shi'er!" The little Jiujiu in my heart was spinning with joy. The voice was like a thunderbolt, making me lose my direction. So naturally someone cooperated in a tacit understanding and said "Ah?"
Thumb-thump-thump, among the chirping of birds and the chirping of insects, I could still clearly hear my own heartbeat. I felt really guilty, but what was even worse was that the cry was not made by me.
"Who is outside, Si'er, please bring her in."
I thought, after all, I can't escape my mother's dazzling eyes. Forget it, the soldiers will fight, and the water will be flooded. One step at a time. But when I looked at myself, I still looked like a boy. Who cares?
, just say that it is more convenient for you to do things.
I walked in with Qingcao. I straightened my cotton expression, laughed dryly, and said, "Mom, I brought barbecued pork buns to my mother. Haha~~"
"Who gave you the barbecued pork buns?" Mom looked at the grass and then at me and asked.
"Second brother." He lowered his head. His eyes were the last ones to tell lies. Don't let your mother see it. As for people saying "second brother", it's just because this name is the easiest to use. It works all the time.
"Your second brother never knows what barbecued pork buns are." Mom denied coldly.
I quickly reasoned: The second child is the only son in the family. How could he go to the market to eat barbecued pork buns? That's it.
"Don't tell me that my second brother went out to play today and saw that the barbecued pork buns were very fresh, so he bought them for you."
"Mom, how did you know?" That's what I really thought.
"You! Then who is this girl next to you?" Mother asked sharply, looking at the green grass.
It can be said that my head was spinning very fast, and the prototype of the story was about to come out, and the green grass couldn't stop making a thud. I knelt down and said: "Madam, I am Qingcao. Don't be angry with me. It's Qingcao that's not good.
I fainted from hunger by the river. My lady took pity on me and took me in. Qingcao will take good care of my wife in the future."
I kept screaming in my heart, Oh my god. My green grass, what are you afraid of? What did you say? I just sang along the way. When it was over, I couldn’t do anything without it. I thought about it again, where is the river in the Prime Minister’s Mansion? Where is it?
Will the newly opened artificial canal work? Just as I was thinking about it, a man's voice sounded from behind: "Fourth sister, you are finally back. I didn't see you when I first arrived. I thought you had gone somewhere again. I'm worried about my second brother.
Already."
Second brother?! No, it came out of nowhere. I raised my head and stared at the second brother. I came to the conclusion: I am dead this time.