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Chapter 5 Honor and Disgrace

And her own experience is far simpler than the struggles of the above-mentioned people.

It is nothing more than losing the shelter of their parents, and then fighting, fleeing, famine, and changing children | and eating.

The youngest son died of hunger and thirst, and her husband Hu Ze cried and said there was no other way, leave a way for the living; he was woken up by a rustling sound in the night, and his daughter disappeared, and Hu Ze was covering her death with a rag and bought it from someone else’s house. toddler.

She rushed over like crazy and grabbed Hu Ze by the collar, and asked him where his daughter was, but Hu Ze could only turn red-eyed and said, "I'm sorry Xiaohe, I'm so hungry."

Zhou Shuhe was also hungry, and her gastric juice seemed to eat all the internal organs. There was meat in the basin at noon the next day, but she didn't eat it, and couldn't spit it out even if she wanted to vomit.When the family fell asleep at night, she got up and randomly collected some luggage, woke up the last remaining eldest son and left the team.

She didn't look back, but she knew that Hu Ze was actually awake.

He lets them go.

Although fleeing for a year has damaged his skin and appearance, and his body has become thinner due to starvation, Zhou Shuhe was born in a wealthy family after all, and compared with the common people who have worked hard all his life, his appearance is much more outstanding.After leaving home, she joined a new team. Someone wanted to play with this body. After a moment of thought, she took the bread from that person's hand.

The biscuit was very dry, so Zhou Shuhe grabbed a ball and put it into his mouth, wet it with saliva before spitting it out, and slowly fed it to Hu Ye.

The child who was less than five years old was weakly nestled in her arms. She remembered that when she was as old as Hu Ye, she also loved nestling in her mother's arms. Her favorite drink was milk, and her favorite food was stuffed bean paste. Shortbread, I don't remember which elder brother was reading next to him, he read the sentences in the historical records.

"The storehouse knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing are sufficient to know the honor and disgrace."

She abandoned etiquette and didn't talk about honor or disgrace, she didn't care about the moral shame educated by officials and officials and just wanted to live, but even so, the child in her arms stopped breathing forever in a night without clothes and food.

At first, some people wanted to humiliate her, but gradually there were fewer people. People are immoral when supplies are scarce, but when the scarcity of supplies exceeds the threshold, people actually lose the strength to feel disgusted.

Zhou Shuhe just followed the refugees forward, walking and walking until they fell down, alive and alive until they died.

Then on a certain evening blurred by the drizzle, a person who only existed in memory suddenly appeared. He stretched out his hand to pull her up, washed off the mud on her body, and soothed her stomach with hot rice porridge. Then give her and her dead child a safe home.

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Before Zhou Ke told the fifth girl to go to the silkworm room today with a sullen face, Mrs. Zhou's wife Li Rulan had already been informed by her servants, knowing that Zhou Shuhe had been found, and was calling for a meal to prepare for her daughter.Now that the husband and wife had finished talking, she returned to the room and just entered the room with the maid who delivered the dinner.

The Zhou family has a rule of not talking when eating or sleeping, but Zhou Shuhe can't always abide by it.

Li Rulan often thinks that girls will be able to relax and relax during the ten years in their natal family.

It's nothing more than a few girls from the concubine, she only cares about a mother's heart, and it is enough for them to be able to stand up according to the upbringing rules. Only the third girl and the fifth girl, these two meats that fell from her stomach, are mothers. There is always a lot of reluctance in my heart.

She doesn't stick to her daughter's rules, but Zhou Shuhe hasn't recovered from the bad memories of her previous life. After calling A Niang, she doesn't want to talk much. She just stares at the kung pao chicken chopsticks in front of her. I opened my mouth first.

"Xiaohe, just now your father told me about you, can you tell me why you don't want to marry into the Hu family?"

The sun was setting in the west, and it was almost dusk. The snow that had barely fallen for a day finally couldn't hold back the cold, and it was already looking like light rain. Zhou Shuhe looked out the window and felt that the thin and dense rain was as weak as fog.

"I had a dream," her voice was foggy, "Mother, can you believe me?"

The past was terrible, Zhou Shuhe no longer wanted to blame anyone else, those who treated her badly were not completely bad enough, everyone would suffer when the sky fell, she just didn't want to fall into that situation.

When it was rotting in the mud, it was surrounded by snakes, insects, rats and ants, but it wasn't always such a good luck to meet a Qi Yu.

She no longer wondered who would miss her old love, let alone begged whether the nobles of Tianhuang would occasionally show mercy. She just hoped that if one day she died by a certain knife, it would be because she made a mistake and lost, not Once again, become an ant that any noble person can trample to death unintentionally.

The Zhou family didn't have a backer, and she couldn't get close to the emperor for grievances, so she had to go to the emperor and be the backer.

"Is it just because of this dream?"

After dinner, Li Rulan didn't let her daughter go back to the boudoir, but pulled her, and the two of them lay side by side on the bed in the main room.

Just now Zhou Shuhe only said that the disputes in the court were extensive and that many high-ranking officials were also affected, but he didn't mention the fate of the dozen or so members of the Zhou family in detail, so as not to make people sad for no reason.

"Don't you believe it?" She looked up at the orchid carved on the beam of the bed, and smiled wryly, "It's really strange, a girl suddenly said that she dreamed of the general trend of the world in the next ten years, like a dream It’s like reading too many different stories and making them up.”

Li Rulan turned over when she heard the words, and said seriously to her, "No, Xiaohe, Aniang doesn't believe it or not."

"Emperors, princesses, princes and lords are all big figures. A Niang doesn't know the current situation, and I don't know where you got so much knowledge. I only know that you want to have a better future, not for the sake of being rich and powerful." Expensive, just because I’m afraid we won’t be able to keep our current life.”

"Xiaohe." She paused, struggling to hold back her sobs, and said in a calm and gentle tone, "Didn't Aunt protect you well? You didn't even think about being afraid of these things."

The sun sank completely, and the rose-colored sunset hung at the end of the sky, exhausting the last touch of brightness.Zhou Shuhe lay in the middle of the collapsed bed, the window lattice behind her cut through the afterglow that sprinkled on her body, and cut out shadows.

The tip of her heart seemed to be pulled by a heavy object, bursting with soreness, she just shook her head and was speechless.

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about these things." Li Rulan wiped her tears with her hand, quickly adjusted herself, and said with a smile: "Actually, when you just said that you wanted to enter the palace, I thought it was because of Xiaoyu. .”

"...?!!"

"Despite that incident, Xiaoyu has always been a promising child. If he is good enough, he can go to the emperor and supervise all the officials. You are married and trapped in the back house. It is really a farewell. In the harem, you can see each other often if you are a court lady or official. You like him so much, A Niang knows, if you get reckless..."

"Auntie!"

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about it." Li Rulan reached out and put her daughter's sideburns behind her ears, and smiled to comfort her, "Tomorrow I will talk to your father first, and then I will settle the matter of the Hu family. You want to participate in the general election Let's go, if you are selected, A Niang will bring you a lot of money, if you are not selected, come back and tell you a better marriage."

"Aniang will help you whatever you decide to do, Xiaohe, don't be afraid."

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At night, the rain suddenly became heavier, and the rainwater fell along the eaves and fell into the water tank below, making a tinkling sound, with some kind of wonderful rhythm.

Zhou Shuhe listened and fell asleep at some point.

When I woke up, it was already dawn, and my mother was not around, and the place where she slept on the bed was still slightly sunken.Zhou Shuhe regained his senses from the daze he had just woken up, and thought that he was still sleeping with his mother at such an age, he was a little embarrassed, but also a little happy.

At the end of February, Lingnan Mansion sent the governor to various prefectures and counties to select beautiful girls. Girls aged thirteen to 16 walked over like a stream of water. Three days later, the selected ones went to Lingnan Mansion with the governor, and then handed over to the officials sent by the palace. People tune|teach.

After the county election, she became a "female scholar" in folk jokes.

These years, the selection process imitated the imperial examination, from county elections to prefectural elections, and finally went to Chuxiu Academy in Beijing to study, learn literacy, read women's training on women's precepts, learn female red, and know how to spin, knit, embroider, cut and dye.

De Jong's rhetoric and palace rules and etiquette are poured into the girls' heads in turn, and then they are restrained—and intimidated—with legal regulations and severe punishments.

In such a unified study, at the end of the registration period at the end of the second year, this group of girls aged 17 to [-] went to the capital together under the leadership of officials to participate in the selection hosted by the supervisor of ceremonies.

Those who don't know their names will go home and marry themselves, and those who don't know their names will enter the Shunzhen Gate seven days later to be selected by the emperor.The first class is favored by the emperor and is a concubine; the second class is favored by the empress and is a female official; the rest are included in the third class and are court maids.

Zhou Shuhe passed the county election without any suspense, and Li Rulan brought her a lot of money as promised. The cash and jewelry were too heavy to carry, so she added a stack of banknotes from the capital bank and a few boxes of gold and silver for rewards. melon seeds.

Li Rulan originally wanted to put some snacks and pickles made by herself, but Zhou Shuhe took a closer look at the large pile of luggage, and then called Jiyue, the personal servant girl who was going to take him with her, guessing the small car for the beautiful girls After installing these, they couldn't hold the two of them anymore, so I took the food out very resolutely.

Early in the morning on the first day of February, the carriage from Lingnan Mansion stopped in front of the Zhou Mansion.

Zhou Shuhe, as the county magistrate's daughter, was naturally the most prestigious among the three beautiful girls in the same batch. The governor picked the best car. Although it was the same size according to the standard, it was padded with soft cushions.

Twenty members of the Zhou family came to see her off, except for the seriously ill grandmother and the third sister who was too far away to come, and even the pregnant second sister-in-law Fang Jing stood in front of the door with a big belly.

It seemed to be the same situation when sending off relatives in the previous life.

Zhou Shuhe didn't think about it any more, he bowed to bid farewell to his family, turned around and got into the carriage, pulled up the curtain again, and took a last look at them.

I don't know when we will see each other again, although she feels sad in her heart, she doesn't suffer from parting.

Gathering, parting, parting, and reunion are all fate. If you can have peace in this life without disasters and sufferings, you don't need to seek reunion anymore.

The author says:

I stream the draft, the court ladies and concubines are selected together, the ladies of the government and the common people are also selected together