The little maids she had seen on TV before were all wearing buns and long bras. The most classic ones were the ones in Dream of Red Mansions.
I don’t know if they are all imitating it, as they are pretty much the same in other movies and TV series.
Another thing they have in common is that many of them look prettier than the ladies, and they have tender skin and tender flesh anyway.
But unlike the one in front of me, she looks no different from Orchid Daya. Her face is also dark and rough. At most, she has more flesh than the two of them. It can be seen that her life is better. Her facial features are not as refined and beautiful as Orchid's.
When she was watching TV before, she asked her mother why some maids were prettier than Miss Qianjin. Wasn't that the role she was looking for on TV?
How did her mother respond?
My mother said: This is how it is closer to the true history of ancient times. These rich ladies are all from good backgrounds, which does not mean they must be beautiful. Even if rich and powerful people can marry beautiful wives, they may not necessarily be good-looking. Moreover, the daughter born takes after her father, so it is normal for her not to grow well.
But the maids are different. They are all bought outside. You can choose carefully before buying. How can you pick something beautiful among so many people? Besides, you still spend money, so of course you pick something beautiful.
Combining these, thinking about Xiaojuan's arrogant attitude just now, it seems that she is not a maid from a small family, otherwise she would not be able to develop such a temperament of looking down on others.
But if a wealthy family chooses a maid with this kind of appearance, or the young lady she serves is even worse-looking, in order to avoid being compared, she chooses a maid with small eyes, a flat nose, and dark and rough skin to set off herself.
Either the lady in charge of this family is very jealous and is afraid that the beautiful maid will be noticed by her own men, so she specially buys this kind of unattractive looking girl.
In fact, this kind of situation should be rare. Qingyan heard her father say that when rich people hire servants or nannies, they usually look for good-looking ones, because their children spend time with good-looking people. As it grows, it will become more beautiful.
It is said that people's facial features are imitated, and children will look more and more like the people who brought them up.
Therefore, many couples will look more and more alike as they stay together for a long time. This is the origin of the legendary couple's faces.
Qingyan walked back with Lanhua and Daya, thinking wildly, but this time she paid more attention to the road to avoid being hit by others again.
Fortunately, Lanhua and Da Ya were following her just now, otherwise if the reckless girl bumped into them, their small bodies would not be able to hold them up, and they might have to fall to the ground and injure their arms and legs.
The location of the garrison mansion is on the west side of Hancheng, on a street away from the Yamen where they settled before. It's just that one is on the street and the other is at the end of the street.
The courtyards here are very large, and they are all high-ranking families. They should be city officials or those rich and powerful people living here. It is definitely safer to be next to the garrison mansion.
The small courtyard that Li Hao bought for Qingyan is located near the center of the city and belongs to the east of the city. There are businessmen living there and the streets are full of shops.
In the south of the city is a large market selling grain, vegetables and other agricultural products, as well as a mule and horse market.
The civilian area where they bought a house was in the north of the city.
The divisions of Handcheng are also quite interesting. They lived in her small courtyard these two days, so they visited the east side of the city, where there were restaurants, teahouses, cloth shops, jewelry shops, and makeup shops.
They have also been to the south of the city and bought food and vegetables there.
Let's put it this way, the east part of the city is like a commercial street in later generations, the kind of place where rich people or people with some wealth often go shopping.
To the south of the city is the farmer's market, where only some commoners or servants from wealthy families go to buy their daily necessities.
To the west are government departments and administrative centers, as well as some wealthy people's estates.
There were no people on the street over there, and it was very serious. Just like what Xiaojuan said, if someone was wandering around there, it would be easy to be arrested as a trickster.
This city of Handan may not sound small, but in Qingyan's opinion, it's really not that big. At least it's incomparable to the cities of later generations.
It was about the same size as their hometown town, and it only took a few miles to walk from one end to the other. It only took ten minutes for them to walk from the east to the west.
This is understandable. After all, in ancient times, cities had to be surrounded by walls. If the enclosed area was too large, how many years would it take to build the walls?
Now it relies entirely on manpower, but there is no mechanical help from later generations.
Of course, this only refers to the area within the city. In fact, the area outside the city is also not small. Those villages and farmland also belong to the scope of Handan City, but they are not enclosed in the center of the city.
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Because of Li Hao's sudden departure, Qingyan was no longer interested in shopping outside. Anyway, they had already walked around yesterday and the day before yesterday.
The day before yesterday, I went to the south of the city with some old ladies from my family to buy some grain and vegetables. Yesterday, I also bought some cloth to make clothes in the east of the city.
Today I said I was out for a walk, but actually I came to the garrison mansion to find Li Hao.
As for how everyone can rest assured that the three of them are wandering around outside? If there were only Lanhua and Daya, they would definitely not be worried. With Qingyan, a little girl who dared to travel alone and had a lot of skills, they were not worried at all.
As for Chou Chou and the little leopards, they definitely cannot be taken out. This city is not like being on the road. Even on the road, Chou Chou and the little leopards are mostly carried in satchels or nestled in the donkey cart with Hei Dan. , and will not show up blatantly.
That wouldn't work in the city. It would be a bit too eye-catching if they were carried around outside.
Qingyan was also afraid that like what was shown on TV, she would meet some playboy and fall in love with the little leopard. She just wanted to take a good tour of the ancient city, but she didn't want to get into conflicts with others and endanger Yang Jiaping and everyone else. Bring away future troubles.
But now I have to reconsider what to do next.
In a few days, it will be the day for them to leave. Li Hao should have no chance to meet again. There is no chance to give him the money to buy a house. It seems that they can only leave the money to Yang Dashan and the others.
Yang Dashan's family and Lanhua's grandson and grandson will live in the same yard in the future. The two families have a good relationship and they have children, so they can take care of each other and the children can play together.
The small courtyard they bought themselves has been tidied up and will be moved there soon. At that time, they can entrust the courtyard to their care. Qingyan is very optimistic about the character of the Yang Dashan family and Lan Hua's grandparents. .
(End of chapter)
