Happiness Consist in Contentment

After Liu Rui washed her hair, she dried her hair in a disheveled manner. She didn't know how to comb those complicated hairstyles, so she just wanted to tie it up casually.

However, in ancient times, there were only hair ties, hairpins, and no rubber bands. She really couldn't handle it.

After combing for a long time, her hands were sore, and she really couldn't handle her hair, so she simply ignored it and ate breakfast first.

However, as soon as she ate breakfast, she was dissatisfied again.

This porridge is not soft enough, it's too throaty, and the side dishes that come with it are not delicious enough, the steamed buns are just so-so, just like that, it doesn't have the small and delicious taste of the palace...

In short, she doesn't feel right about what she eats.

This is also normal.

The cooks in the palace were only left after being criticized by King Ningyang and others, how exquisite they made, how delicious they were, and how they came.

But in a family inn, where can every cook be as good as the cook in the palace?

It's not bad for an ordinary banquet to be comparable to an ordinary duke's mansion, but do you still want to compare with the chef of the palace?

If it can be compared with the palace, this is not something ordinary people can afford, it is definitely a world-famous rhythm.

Fuxing Inn, to be honest, really doesn't have such a big face.

The reason why such an inn can be opened in the inner city is also because the owner of Fuxing Inn is lucky. His ancestors had such a piece of land. Later, when the capital was expanded, it became a prosperous area of ​​the inner city commercial street, so the ancestors of the inn owner were They simply built an inn to spend their days.

It was passed on to him, all relying on the reputation of the inn for many years - the price is fair, the food is okay, the room is clean, and the service is good.

As for other things, it is really not something that Fuxing Inn can do.

Compared with the palace, it is even more impossible.

After all, most of the daily guests of his inn are merchants who come to Beijing to do business, or officials from other places who come to Beijing to report their jobs, etc.

It is not a place to entertain Jingzhong Xungui, so naturally there are many shortcomings.

Therefore, Liu Rui thinks that it is normal that there is nothing here except the service is not bad and the room is okay.

After breakfast, she asked Xiao Er to come and clean up, and told him to find someone who could brush her hair. She woke up to brush her hair later.

Xiao Er responded respectfully, as long as you have money, you can talk about anything.

In this way, when Liu Rui woke up after a sleep, someone came to comb her hair, which was still not as good-looking as the maids in the palace.

However, she was reluctantly satisfied, and then left the inn,

Waves outside.

First go to the cloth village to look at the clothes, but there are ready-to-wear clothes in ancient times, but there are very few that can really satisfy her.

This is also normal. These precious fabrics are sent to each mansion, and the stewards of each mansion have selected them, presented them to the masters to choose from, and then left them in the mansion to make them.

It is seldom made for outside cloth houses, and even if it is made, it is handed over to embroidery houses.

Then we must understand that the difference between the ancient cloth shop and the embroidery shop is that one is mainly for selling fabrics, the other is for making finished products. The business types of the two are different, so Liu Rui was confused. .

Isn't the cloth village all inclusive?

Of course, the cloth village can also do it, but in real comparison, it is still not as professional as the embroidery village.

Therefore, after Liu Rui went to the cloth village, the shopkeeper listened to her many requests and said sincerely, "Girl, why don't you give the fabric you bought to Xinlan Pavilion? This is the best in Beijing. The embroidery village is now, and you can definitely make the style you want, girl..."

Liu Rui didn't understand either, so she could only nod her head and said, "Okay, that's it, then you can bring your clothes to the Fuxing Inn."

The shopkeeper of Buzhuang smiled and responded respectfully, "Yes, don't worry, girl."

Now that the explanation has been made, Liu Rui also left.

She wandered around the shopping streets of the inner city, but felt that this kind of life was what she wanted.

Since she can live so well by herself, why does she have to go back to the palace and continue to suffer from the anger of her first-mother?

She decided to be alone and wander around freely.

She didn't believe it anymore, she couldn't live without the palace!

Thanks to the fact that she received a silver note in her purse before, a few thousand taels of silver was definitely enough for her to be at ease for a long time.

For three days in a row, Liu Rui lived in the Fuxing Inn. When the clothes made by Xiu Zhuang arrived, she packed up and prepared to leave the capital and go out to see.

However, before she could leave the capital, she just left the inner city, and when she was about to leave the outer city, she was dazed.

Afterwards, the clothes, the jewelry on his head, and the banknotes in his purse were all stripped away.

The traffickers only threw her a set of sackcloth to wear, and beat her so hard that she could no longer run away, so she was locked up.

Liu Rui kept saying that she was a girl from the Ningyang palace, and asked these traffickers to let her go.

However, the trafficker sneered, "Girl, are you stupid? If I send you back, and you suffer such a crime, will the palace still let me go? Oh, I sold you far away, then

is the best for me. As long as you can't go back for the rest of your life, I'll be fine. On the contrary, if you go back alive, will I still be alive? Oh, I really think I'm a fool! "

After all, the trafficker left, ignoring Liu Rui's shouting, and instructing people not to give her anything to eat, and to starve her a few times before she knew she was good.

Only at this time did Liu Rui realize that her so-called origin was actually worthless in the eyes of those who really wanted her life.

Since these human traffickers dare to abduct and sell children in the capital, they naturally know what to do to save their lives.

As long as the children are sent away and sold far away, they can really enjoy themselves, otherwise, they will never be able to escape.

Liu Rui cried, she was wrong, she really knew it was wrong.

In the inner city, she went out every day without encountering anything, and she thought that the world was so peaceful and stable. Unexpectedly, as soon as she stepped out of the inner city, she would encounter an unprecedented crisis. If she couldn't escape this time, then her life would be really miserable, even worse than being angry with her mother in the palace!

It wasn't until then that she really understood that the ancient society was not so easy to mess with. No matter how noble your background was, if you didn't have the protection of your family, you would be nothing, and you would not be as good as ordinary people.

In fact, Liu Rui himself took it too much for granted.

The inner city is patrolled by officers and soldiers of the five city soldiers and horse divisions every day. Naturally, the security is better than the outer city. In addition, she is a little girl, she is young, she looks rich, and there are no servants around her, isn't she the big fat sheep in the eyes of these people?

It is normal to be confused and abducted.

Two days later, Liu Rui couldn't wait for anyone to come to her rescue. She had nothing to eat every day, and she was so hungry that she was dizzy.

Fortunately, the traffickers were also afraid that she was really dead, so they started to feed her some white porridge with addictive/medicine, and she stayed in such a drowsy state that she could not wake up every day.

At the same time, the traffickers also abducted more children, and when the number is almost there, they are ready to take them out of Kyoto.

Fortunately, Liu Zong, the eldest son, still has such a father-daughter affection for Liu Rui. As soon as he got the news, he sent someone to guard him, and waited for the last moment to wipe out this group of traffickers.

First, you can save your child, and second, you can make another contribution.

As for King Ningyang, he handed over the matter to the princess, and didn't overdo it. When the princess saw that Liu Zong wanted to save Liu Rui, she didn't say much, and only told her people to leave it alone.

There is Wen's again, she also

When she came back, it was Liu Zong who went to Wen Guogong's mansion for a few days in a row, and made her nod to come back.

However, she really didn't care about Wang's mother and son, and she didn't even see them again after Qiong An.

Wang's heart is bitter, she is now living in Jinyuan, but the attitude of the servants in the house is completely different.

To tell the truth, in the backyard, even Liu Zong is not the first person to be respected by the people. First is the King of Ningyang, then the princess, then the first concubine Wen, and finally Liu Zong.

So, even with Liu Zong's care, Wang's life would not be as comfortable as it used to be, and she could only accept being slighted from time to time by the servants.

Otherwise what can we do? Who let her have a pitiful daughter? Destroyed her business for many years, and can no longer turn over.

Speaking of which, whether it's the princess or the Wen family, I really don't mean to care about the Wang family.

But even if they ignore her, Wang's life will not be easy - the servants are all watching the dishes, holding the highs and stepping on the lows, and they didn't punish her to death.

She doesn't want to suffer from daily neglect, she has to suffer.

...

Liu Fang knew that Liu Rui returned to the house ten days later. It was much worse than she thought. Her leg was broken, her body was starved, and she needed to rest temporarily.

It is said that because he was abducted and sold by human traffickers, he was almost sold out as a slave.

Liu Fang raised her eyebrows, not surprisingly, having had the experience of Liu Zhi, she had long been mentally prepared for such a wonderful work.

She only asked that Liu Rui understand her identity after this incident, stop tossing, and don't implicate her, otherwise, she will not let her do anything wrong.

After this incident, Liu Rui really understands that after truly crossing the ancient times, even if you have modern thinking, it is not omnipotent, and not everything will develop as she thinks.

So, she settled down.

She was really frightened, and no longer dared to run around alone.

It's just that, whether it's the Wen family or the Wang family, they are indifferent to her, and they just take a look at her as usual.

Wang even said to her, "I know you have an idea. In the future, I won't take care of the second girl's affairs. The relationship between you and my mother and daughter is weak. Involving me and your two brothers."

Fortunately, Mrs Wen is not someone who likes to take anger out. Otherwise, the second son and the fifth son would not have a better time in the mansion.

Wang is very grateful

, even if she was temporarily embarrassed, she felt that as long as time passed, Wen shi would see her sincerity.

As for Liu Rui, she thought, whatever, as long as she doesn't regret it in the future.

Speaking of which, the Wang family is also a direct daughter of the Wang family. If it wasn't for the family, she would not be willing to be Liu Zong's concubine.

But now that she has made a choice, she has to understand her identity, and she can't keep thinking about how it was in the past and how it is now. Otherwise, her days would not be over, and it would be more straightforward to die directly.

Just like what her mother said to her at the beginning, you choose the way, whether it's good or not, it's up to you.

Wang thinks that this is true.

She chose to enter the palace as a concubine, even though her daily life was a little aggrieved, she was still the first compared to her parents' sisters.

This is what she asked for.

That being the case, being controlled, beaten, and treated harshly by the wife of the prince is what she should endure.

Otherwise, she could marry someone else and be the first lady, why should she come to the palace to be a concubine? There is no shortage of a concubine like her in the palace.

It was her royal family that demanded the power of the royal family to gain a foothold, so she came here.

Therefore, if there is gain, there must be pay, which is fair.

Although, it is her whole life to pay.

But she met a good mistress, and the days were not really difficult.

If it wasn't for Liu Rui's tossing like this, Wang's life would have been better.

Whether she is being neglected because of her now, or being treated harshly otherwise, she deserves it—who let her not take care of the child she gave birth to.

It's just that after this incident, Wang's mother-daughter relationship to Liu Rui is no longer there.

She knew that if Liu Rui acted as a demon again, her biological mother would surely die.

For her daughter who took her life like this, Wang Shi was really afraid.

She only asked Liu Rui to really settle down after this time, otherwise, she would strangle her first, so that she would not be affected by her two sons.