Chapter 2: The maid
Xiumei stood at the door like a watcher. She saw Wei Ruo from a distance and trotted forward. When she saw Wei Ruo carrying a bamboo basket of herbs, she felt distressed and slightly sad. She said in a complaining tone:
"Miss, why did you run to the mountain alone again? How dangerous it is!"
As she spoke, Xiumei had skillfully taken Wei Ruo's bamboo basket and carried it on her back.
"Good Meimei, I didn't go to the dangerous cliffs, really! There are many rare medicinal materials on the mountain, which are worth a lot of money. If I don't pick them, I will waste them!" "That won't work! Your body is not as strong as mine
. ! Even if you want to go, you have to take me with you! The master you invited taught me so many skills, I have to put them to use!" "Who will cook for me when I take you to the mountain?
My good plums, my The Five Zang Temple is counting on you!" Wei Ruo said coquettishly.
Today's trip was very tiring for her. She had exhausted all her physical strength by running all the way to collect herbs, and she was almost exhausted from delivering a baby.
"I can cook it for you when I get back! You went to the mountains alone, and I was so worried at home. I couldn't even cook the rice, and I couldn't tell the difference between salt and sugar!" Xiumei stamped her feet
.
"I'm hungry." Wei Ruo raised his head and looked at Xiumei eagerly.
"Miss, you changed the subject again!" Xiumei was helpless.
"Don't starve me. Look, I'm so thin." Wei Ruo touched his belly, indicating that the hint was spot on.
When he was rescuing people, he didn't even blink at the critical moment, but now he was acting cute and cute with his maid just for a meal. They were completely different.
"Okay, okay, it's been cooked a long time ago. It's simmering in the stove. It's hot! I'll bring it out to you right now." Xiumei muttered, turning around and entering the
kitchen.
There's nothing I can do about it, why is their lady's food-hungry eyes so painful? I can’t stand it!
Wei Ruo's yard is filled with various plants, including ornamental flowers, medicinal materials, and crops.
The only space left was a stone table. When the weather was nice, Wei Ruo liked to eat, drink tea and sunbathe in front of the stone table.
This is a villa of the He family, and only two people live there, Wei Ruo and her maid Xiumei.
Wei Ruo traveled through time and became a supporting actress in the book.
In the original work, she was a young lady from the Wei family, a family of officials, and was mistakenly taken away by the He family, a family of merchants.
When he was three years old and raised in the He family, a merchant's home, he was told by a fortune teller that his parents' fortune would be unlucky, so he was sent to this other courtyard.
The only ones who came with him were Wei Ruo's nanny and maid Xiumei.
After that, the He family sent five taels of silver every month and stopped asking.
Even during the holidays, Wei Ruo never saw them again.
Now Wei Ruo is thirteen years old and has lived in this Zhuangzi for ten years.
For Wei Ruo, she enjoys life in Zhuangzi and interacting with the villagers.
She neither wants to go back to the He family nor to the home of her biological parents, because in the original book, she had a very difficult time whether she was in the He family or the family of her biological parents.
Early the next morning, after breakfast, Wei Ruo and Xiumei went out together.
The courtyard where Wei Ruo lives is backed by hills, and there are large tracts of farmland right outside the door.
It is the busy farming season, and the villagers are busy planting rice in the fields.
When Wei Ruo passed by, the villagers greeted her one after another. "Ruoruo, my boss went up the mountain to hunt a rabbit today. I left a rabbit leg for you. Remember to ask Xiumei to take it back later!" "Miss Ruoer,
I picked some water celery today and share it with you. , let Xiumei take it."
"Miss Ruoer, the medicine you gave me last time was really useful. My tiger will be fine after eating it!" "
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Wei Ruo greeted them and then came to his field.
Like everyone else, she took off her shoes, stepped barefoot into the muddy rice fields, and started planting rice.
Xiumei persuaded Wei Ruo several times to rest nearby and let her do it, but Wei Ruo had to do it herself.
Because she had a reason to plant it herself.
Wei Ruo has a space that appears when she travels through time. The entrance to the space is a red dot in the palm of her left hand, like a cinnabar mole.
There is a simple thatched hut in the space. At first, the thatched hut was empty, with nothing in it.
There is also nothingness outside the thatched hut, a vast expanse of white, as if shrouded in a thick fog.
Later, Wei Ruo began to decorate the thatched hut, adding furniture, furnishings, and storing items from the hut over the course of several years.
As Wei Ruo built the inside of the thatched hut, the thick fog outside the house receded a little, and a square piece of land about two meters by two meters appeared. When it appeared, rice was planted on the land.
So Wei Ruo started planting rice. When the rice matured and was harvested, Wei Ruo gained experience points.
After planting several times, the experience points were full and the space was upgraded. The thick fog in front of the house receded again, and a new piece of land of the same size appeared. At this time, sweet potatoes were planted on the land.
At this time, Wei Ruo understood that her space can be upgraded, and the experience required for upgrading is obtained through her planting. After the experience is full, she can upgrade. After the upgrade, new land and new seeds will appear.
This is very similar to "Happy Farm", an online game that has been around for many years. You gain experience by planting, and when you have enough experience, you upgrade to get new land and new seeds that can be planted.
Later, Wei Ruo took out the rice seeds in the space and planted them. After harvesting, she also gained experience, but only if she planted them herself. She could not gain experience from the part planted by the villagers.
Therefore, whether she is in the space or outside the space, she needs to go into battle in person.
The master and servant were busy when suddenly two nuns and a group of people appeared on the field ridge beside Wei Ruo.
Seeing Wei Ruo standing barefoot in the mud with mud on his face, the two nuns showed disgusted expressions on their faces.
What does this look like? All the maids in the house are more decent than her!
"We are the servants of the school captain's house, and we are here to take the young lady back to the house on the orders of the master and his wife." Mammy explained the purpose of our visit.
Xiaowei Mansion? Xiumei looked surprised and asked, "Are you mistaken? My lady's home is in the county town and she doesn't know any school captain." "
It used to be, but from now on, it's not anymore." One of the nuns said, "My family The master has already investigated clearly. When they were in Haining Mansion, the He family and our school captain's wife gave birth at the Guanyin Temple at the same time. They encountered rogue bandits entering the mountain and panicked and took the wrong child." Another nanny added: "You adoptive
parents The He family that does business in the county has agreed that we will take you away."
Hearing this, Xiumei's mouth widened and she was so surprised that she could not speak.
(End of chapter)