Chapter 1 Deep Courtyard

In the early morning of the twelfth lunar month, the doorposts were wrapped in thin frost. It was not until about the hour that it was bright. The bright white clear sky could see that the weather was good today. Su Qingli put the piano under the wall of the inner court, and her hands were frozen red and still insisted on playing the song.

A gust of cold wind blew away her light clothes. The clothes were very plain, and the material was okay, but it was the simplest fabric woven by the weaver, without any more patterns. The hanging jacket of the coat is not knitted, and the cotton lining is as thin as 200 tons of things, just like paper. Wearing this jacket is equivalent to not wearing it.

added a cloak when she came out, but in the way of touching the piano, she took it off earlier, so now dressed like this, she played the piano in the cold wind and drew a picture of depressed beauty.

There was a musical score on the piano table. Su Qingli picked it up and frowned. Before she fully understood the five-line music score, she was sent to the current body. However, Su Qingli was a master who was not loved by her parents. It was difficult to find a teacher to give advice. What was the purpose of letting her cross this far away?

Su Qingli stroked those hard-won chapters again, and faintly heard the sound of the flute. Those bottlenecks that she was often forced to stop were smoothly brought along the sudden sound of the flute.

After the song, Su Qingli suddenly picked up the music score and flashed the four words "so it is" in her mind.

She got up, held the score and looked at the high wall, with a smile on the corners of her mouth. If you don't come here, how can you hear such a beautiful sound?

It seems that Chen Guo, a place that has never appeared in history, is also quite suitable for her.

Before traveling to Chenguo, her name was Sunan. She was a student of the Royal Conservatory of Music. She participated in various music competitions and was always accompanied by Xiaogan, which was the whole of her life. Even the first love that withered before she could open up was just an unintentional episode. She was so independent and lonely. This is a little similar to Su Qingli, who grew up in loneliness.

There is a sneer at the corners of her mouth. No, Su Qingli's situation seems to be more difficult, but since she has occupied this body, it is up to her to make the decision.

Su Qingli carried the piano first and went to her other courtyard. Later, she will carry the table back and forth.

She is only equipped with a girl in this courtyard, plus a wet nurse and a rough mother, which is really a neglected house.

Su Qingli's mother passed away early. After inundation, she knew that her mother was originally the dowry girl of the main room grandmother. Her father mistakenly went to the girl's bed after drinking and made a mistakenly promoted her mother to a girl.

Originally, she found a beautiful girl to marry in order to keep her husband with her when it was inconvenient. As a result, her mother became pregnant and became a concubine. The wife of the main room began to feel uncomfortable again. No matter how she looked at the bride, she didn't like it. She felt that she was deliberately seduced her husband, so she gradually deliberately arranged. Squeeze.

As a result, she became an aunt and never saw her husband again. Later, Su Qingli's mother died of depression.

Su Qingli returned to the room. Zhu Cai, the only girl in the room, was just about to put breakfast on the table. When she sat at the table, it turned out to be a large bowl of white porridge. On this December, it was warm to drink porridge, but how could this white porridge, which was like rice soup, be full?

Zhu Cai's action was very rude. She pushed the bowl in front of Su Qingli, threw the spoon in, and accidentally overflowed the hot porridge water, all of which fell on her hand and immediately turned red.

Zhu Cai turned around and left without looking at his head.

Su Qingli took out a handkerchief and wiped her hands. There was a pot of tea next to her that had been cold for a long time. She poured it up a little and applied it to the affected area. "Go and get me some medicine." She said.

"There is something in the room. You won't go and get it yourself. It's just that your hands are hot, and it's not that you don't have hands." Zhu Cai has not spoken to her in this tone for a day or two, and there is no respect or inferiority.

"Then don't go. Go and tell the eldest lady that my hand is injured and I can't attend the banquet tonight. Qingli really can't help her mother."

Hearing that she would not attend tonight's banquet, Zhu Cai was stunned: "How can this work? Your little injury is not a big deal! Tonight, my wife is holding a banquet for the little marquis. You...you...you want to go whatever you say!" The eldest lady had already ordered this matter and asked her to supervise Su Qingli to practice the piano every day. As a result, Su Qingli actually said she would not go, and the eldest lady had to sell her.

"But my hand is injured, and I can't play the piano for my sister. What's the use of going there?"

"It is said that you are a minor injury..."

"Hmm!" Su Qingli smiled coldly, "I'll smash my fingers later. When I get to my mother, I'll say that you did it. Imagine who in the world will smash his hands?" My hand will recover in three or two months at most, but you will be sold because you ruined your mother's mind, which will be the pain of 20 to 30 years or even longer.

Hearing Su Qingli say this, Zhu Cai got goosebumps, which was the chill brought by fear. After thinking for a while, although he was still unconvinced and threatened, he gritted his teeth and hurriedly turned into the inner room to get medicine.

After taking it, she personally applied the bandage for Su Qingli, and secretly prayed that she would not make any mistakes tonight.

At this time, they were very close. Su Qingli was so close to her maid for the first time, because Zhu Cai never wanted to see her, let alone get close to this unwanted master.

Su Qingli stared into Zhu Cai's eyes and said quietly, "I don't know what you did to me before, but I woke up to this day. For a hundred days, I have kept every account you did to me in my heart. You'd better take care of yourself."

Su Qingli knew that her sentence "self-care" alone was not enough to scare the long-domineering Zhu Cai. When she said this, it was just a wake-up call first. If Zhu Cai knew how to restrain, she would be fine. Anyway, she still had to live here for a period of time. It was meaningless to make more trouble. If Zhu Cai didn't know the current affairs... She was no longer The former Su Qingli.

Let's talk about it later, but at least in the next few hours, until she was safely sent to the dinner venue, Zhu Cai was respectful and dared not be rebellious at all.

After changing into the maid's clothes, Su Qingli entered the performance venue early. This is a temporary pavilion built at the venue to prepare for the performance later. At the dinner, the young lady of this family will play a song for her undetermined future husband to show her superb piano skills, and then promote the marriage of the two families.

The Su family is a commercial family living in the south of the Yangtze River. Even after several generations of rolling, they have become imperial merchants paying tribute to the royal family, but no one in the family has a reputation. They have always been the name of merchants and a lowly identity.

Today, this is an introduction for the little marquis in this area. The Su family seized the opportunity of the marriageable age of the eldest daughter, but how do you, a lowly businessman, get married the marquis with the title? Naturally, you have some talents that others can't compare with.

Su Liuyun, the eldest daughter of the Su family, is indeed a well-made boudoir. There is nothing wrong with her, but she is a little unlucky. Less than two days after inviting the marquis to have a banquet, she hurt her hand. At that time, the eldest lady was very anxious, and how many doctors she found were useless.

That day, Su Qingli accidentally bumped into the eldest lady. The eldest lady hated her and wanted to punish her if she was angry. She said in a hurry that she could play a song for Su Liuyun and played a song on the spot, which was amazing, so she only had a few days to celebrate her birthday.

The pavilion is not big and less than ten square meters. Su Qingli arrived at least an hour early and changed her clothes here, just because she was afraid that more people would know the game of this fish eyes.

Of course, she doesn't think her piano skills are fish, but her status in the house is like grass.

Silly watched several close maids of the inner courtyard add seats and paintings to the cabinet under the command of Feng's mother, and no one intended to pay attention to her at all.

"Mom, what's the use of these two pairs of pianos?" Su Qingli didn't plan to pay attention to this superfluous thing, but she was also idle and gossiped.

Mother Feng continued to direct the hanging of colorful bead curtains in front of the pavilion and answered as if responding by the way: "Tonight, Miss is playing the piano in front of the curtain. You... Miss San is doing what you should do in the dark."