The He father and daughter live in a quiet courtyard in the northwest corner of Shangguanbao. Xiaoyue remembered that in ancient times, the life and death of slaves were decided by their masters, and the master killed the servants for a trivial matter, so she did not dare to leave the courtyard casually, and did her best every day to sweep the floor diligently, learn to do housework, and spend the rest of her time endorsing and practicing calligraphy.
In her previous life, she practiced calligraphy for a while, and although she gave up halfway like many things she had done, she knew a little bit of traditional characters. She didn't know if the Song characters and the traditional characters were the same time, anyway, it felt like a sense of déjà vu, and she learned it quickly. Thinking that her adoptive father was just an accountant, she didn't dare to practice calligraphy with paper and ink, so she dipped it in water and practiced on the wooden table.
Seeing that the daughter he bought was so sensible, He Chengsheng was full of joy and gave advice when he had time. He has traveled many places, often telling Xiaoyue interesting things about various places, and teaching her various dialects. Xiaoyue knows the importance of language, learns very seriously, and does not dare to put down yoga skills, and has to practice for a while every day after He Chengsheng leaves.
More than two months passed in the blink of an eye, and one day He Chengsheng asked her: "The master wants you to go to the young master's study, are you willing?"
Xiaoyue was secretly shocked, she was only six years old and was going to serve her master?! I didn't dare to say no, so I had to ask what to do.
He Chengsheng explained in detail that Xiaoyue listened for a long time and felt that she had no worries about her life, and her core job was to accompany the young master to study, and someone else would do the cleaning work. This means like a young master reading with you! How to use a girl for young master companion reading?
No need for her to ask, He Chengsheng said a lot about "companion reading", to the effect that there are more women in the Shangguan family than men, and the young master Shangguan Fei is the only seedling, eight years old this year, and is as fun as ordinary children who are not good at reading. She didn't have to accompany the young master to a private school, where her husband was watching, and she had to keep an eye on her outside of class.
Xiaoyue felt sad for this only seedling, secretly saying that the unfortunate childhood of Chinese children has a long history!
She remembered that the attacker in "Dream of Red Mansions" was thankless for persuading Baoyu to study, so she decided to set a foreshadowing for herself in advance, raised her head and asked: "What if the young master says he wants to practice martial arts?"
He Chengsheng said: "When the young master will practice martial arts and when to study, the teacher and the martial artist have arrangements. Good Yue'er, you can just accompany the young master to study, don't practice martial arts. It's not just because you're a girl. God has the virtue of good life, fighting and killing in the rivers and lakes, killing people. Let's not do those things and live a peaceful life, Dad still expects you to retire and die."
Xiaoyue's heart warmed, and after getting along for a while, she felt that He Chengsheng bought her and really treated her as her own daughter. It is estimated that he did not buy his son and daughter, so that his daughter did not have to practice martial arts and did not need to be a soldier. But in this troubled world, how can you do it if you don't have the ability to protect yourself? She didn't want to argue with her adoptive father, so she secretly decided to take advantage of the opportunity to learn secretly.
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Xiaoyue only met Shangguan and his wife once when she entered the fort, and Shangguan Fei was the first official meeting.
Shangguan Fei in the study is very different from the wild child in her impression, he is taller than children of the same age, his facial features are closely similar to Shangguan Tianhua, with obvious characteristics of a Central Plains person, and a slender face of a southerner, his expression is very serious, like a little adult. Comrade Xiaoyue felt sorry for the children who were poisoned by Chinese education.
Finally, Shangguan Tianhua had taught enough lessons, Shangguan Feigong sent him to the door, and watched Shangguan Tianhua's back disappear before he turned around. Then he walked to the desk and sat down without squinting, opened the book with a straight face, as if there was no Xiaoyue in the room.
Xiaoyue was very uncomfortable, but she didn't have the courage to point at the male pig and scold like the female pig in the travel novel - "Dream of Red Mansions" was written by the Qing Dynasty, in which the masters beat the slaves to death, and the slaves died in vain! What's more, this is the Song Dynasty.
What to do? Go find a book to read by yourself? Can the master move around without orders? was hesitating when he caught a glimpse of a pretty little girl outside the door hooking her fingers.
Xiaoyue recognized it as Shangguan Fei's cousin Ye Qiushui. He Chengsheng once introduced to her, saying that his wife was Ye Qiushui's cousin, the Ye family was the richest man in Shaozhou, and had a business in Yangshan, so Qiushui would come to Shangguanbao from time to time. Xiaoyue understood that her adoptive father meant to greet this cousin carefully, so she quickly walked out of the study lightly.
Qiu Shui pursed her lips and smiled, grabbed her hand and ran away. Don't look at this girl looking delicate and strong, Xiaoyue panicked and didn't dare to scream, so she dragged her to the rockery under the south wall before stopping.
"Sister Xiaoyue, did you suffocate while studying with my cousin?" Qiu Shui covered his mouth and laughed.
The master spoke casually, but the slave didn't dare. Xiaoyue lowered her head: "Miss cousin, Xiaoyue should go back to the study."
"You are honest and never go out to play!" Qiushui patted the back of her hand and looked like an old friend: "Stupid! Cousin treats you as a wood, let's treat him as a stone! Believe me, let's come back from the castle for a walk, and he doesn't even know you're not there."
Xiaoyue was startled: "Miss Cousin, Xiaoyue doesn't dare, the master will know."
Qiu Shui shrugged his pretty nose, "No one will know!" He dragged Xiaoyue and ran up the rockery, like a score and climbed over the wall.
Xiaoyue's face turned pale, didn't she say that ancient women did not go out of the door? It is also said that the Song Dynasty advocated science and was particularly conservative. How can this cousin be wilder than a girl in the 21st century? Crossed? No, how high is the wall of Shangguanbao, if rational modern people don't climb it, they will definitely fall into ruins!
"Cousin Qiushui—" Shangguan Fei's voice dragging a long tune suddenly appeared.
Xiaoyue was shocked and almost fell off the stone mountain. Qiushui hurriedly stabilized her and said with a soft smile: "Hello cousin! Why aren't you in the study? My cousin is at home today."
Shangguan Fei was not threatened, and his bright black eyes bulged round: "Good cousin, why don't you embroider in the house? My girl is stupid, don't abduct her to steal chickens and dogs!"
Qiu Shui's small face collapsed: "When did I steal chickens and dogs? Where is the stolen goods?" Look at that grieved appearance and tears are about to fall.
Xiaoyue secretly quarreled with the cousins, and she must be the one who suffered. With an idea, he pretended to be afraid of heights, and his body swayed as if he was about to faint.
After a gust of wind, when he opened his eyes again, his feet had already landed on the ground, and Qiu Shui's fussy whispering came from his ears: "Cousin, men and women are not close, why are you hugging Sister Xiaoyue?"
Shangguan Fei grabbed Xiaoyue tighter and said hatefully: "Don't bother her! Aren't you just going out to play? I'll accompany you!"
Xiaoyue hurriedly said: "Master, it's time to study."
Shangguan Fei hesitated when he heard this, and put on a smile: "Good cousin, when I finish writing and accompany you to play, sir will check tomorrow."
Qiu Shui rolled his eyes: "Isn't Miss Xiaoyue able to write? Otherwise, I will write for you too."
What is this? Before Xiaoyue could think of persuasion, Shangguan Fei had already happily scratched Qiu Shui's nose: "Smart!" After saying that, he dragged one in one hand and went straight to the study.
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The days passed quietly. Xiaoyue found that although the servants of Shangguanbao lowered their eyebrows and were pleasing to the eye, they would also be beaten and scolded, but they were not as miserable as those recorded in the history books.
The master spoke to his adoptive father in honorifics, and the lady called her "Miss He", while the other girls were called by their first names. She thought that most of the adoptive father had a high status among the servants, but he couldn't forget himself, Shangguanbao would not be simpler than the Grand View Garden in "Dream of Red Mansions".
Xiaoyue is cautious in her words and deeds, and has become the role of the attacker's number one, the old lady trusts her, and she is popular among the servants.
From people's chatter, she gradually figured out the overall situation: the imperial city is in Bianliang, and the Song Dynasty is uniting with Jin to resist Liao. This reminded her of "borrowing gold to destroy Liao and losing the Central Plains, borrowing Yuan to destroy Jin and lose Jiangzuo", it seems that it is now the Northern Song Dynasty, so there is no need to worry about the Mongolian iron hooves going south.
Without the shadow of death and living a comfortable life, Xiaoyue will inevitably be cheap, feel bored, and miss computers and televisions. She is telling herself to face up to reality, adapt to ancient life and be prepared for danger in times of peace: once Liao is destroyed, the Song Dynasty will lose the Central Plains, and may experience the chaos of the Song Dynasty's southward migration, and will encounter the kind of killing that I saw when I first crossed over.
She began to want to get out of Shangguanbao and familiarize herself with the surrounding environment, but she couldn't find an opportunity. Shangguan Fei is not Jia Baoyu, he never jokes with the girl and sisters, and he is always skeptical when he talks. She couldn't open her mouth to make a "non-distinct" request to the young master.
Ye Qiushui is interesting enough and always provides her with opportunities. The only thing the young master couldn't handle was this cousin, as soon as this woman came, he didn't have a good life, because he was very responsible, and he didn't allow his "good cousin" to disturb others, so he had to sacrifice himself to accompany him. But my cousin loves to be funny, she used to disturb everyone, but now she is staring at the honest girl in his study. The young master was annoyed and gritted his teeth in hatred.
After more than a year, Xiaoyue learned that the young lady liked to visit the market, and this was the thing the young master hated the most, thinking that Xiaoyue hated it too. Xiaoyue couldn't laugh or cry, and frankly told her that girls love to go shopping.
Shangguan Fei was suspicious, and after following him, he breathed a sigh of relief and handed over this important task to her with confidence.
Since then, Qiushui and Xiaoyue have become the best companions, and every time Shangguan Fei accompanies him out of the castle, he will drop his head and roar in the mountains and forests with a group of wild boys. When the second daughter returned and sent a message with a bamboo whistle, the boys came out one after another, and their spirits came alive and returned home together.
The little guys fill their elders to death, and their friendship is getting better and better. Qiushui looks like a lady, she has been playing wild in private, her skills are extraordinary, she thinks that Xiaoyue is not fast, so she privately teaches light skills, and points to the sky and says that this is not martial arts, and it does not violate Uncle He's regulations. Xiaoyue was happy to have her skills by her side and didn't confess a word to her adoptive father.
In order to avoid worrying about her adoptive father, she did not practice in the castle after practicing light skills, and every day Shangguan flew to practice martial arts, she carried a bamboo bag out of the castle, practiced in the dense forest, and then came back with some medicinal materials.
In her previous life, she memorized the structure of the human body when she learned yoga, and later became interested in traditional Chinese medicine meridians and acupuncture points. Coming to ancient times, she found that these things were very good for practicing martial arts. She felt that there were too many fancy things when the servants practiced martial arts, and the most important thing was to protect themselves and practicality: take out the sword and go straight to the main artery, wave your hand to hit the key acupuncture points, as long as the speed is fast, the opponent has no chance to fight back. She didn't know that this kind of practice was to train killers, and if the martial arts family did this, they would definitely be accused of being evil and difficult to gain a foothold.
A few years later, she didn't know how far Xiaoyue's martial arts had reached, she only knew that ferocious animals would retreat when they smelled her breath, and could only find gadgets to practice.
After Xiaoyue entered the mountains and forests that day, she held a twig and picked up a nest of wasps. The wasp was attacked and rushed towards her.