After becoming a top-notch peasant woman, she continues to be a top-notch

Along the way, Zhen Yue was really having fun. Every time she arrived at a place, she would stay there for a few days, climbing mountains, taking a boat ride, appreciating lotus flowers, and listening to the rain. For example, at this moment she was sitting on a boat by the Jiangnan River, a beautiful maid was making tea for her, and she wanted to recite poetry when looking at the beautiful scenery in front of her.

However, she had no idea how to compose poetry, so she could only look at the beautiful scenery and sigh, "It's really beautiful." Then she ordered the painter beside her to paint the beautiful scenery. After that, she sent the scenery to Kyoto for Qiao Da to see. Since he couldn't see it, she would see it for him.

At this time, in addition to their boat, there was another boat not far away on the river. There seemed to be some young men on the boat. When that boat passed by Zhen Yue's boat, Zhen Yue took a glance and saw several handsome guys on the opposite side.

He is indeed a handsome guy, and looks younger than her son Achu, probably only about ten years old.

They also looked in their direction, and when they saw Zhen Yue, they just glanced at her casually and didn't think anything of it. However, when they saw Zhen Yue's maid, two of them's eyes lit up.

After all, Zhen Yue looked about the same age as their parents, so they thought the young and beautiful maid around Zhen Yue was pretty good.

This beautiful maid was newly taken in by Zhen Yue. She was an orphan with a younger brother. Her family property was robbed by her clansmen and they were going to be sold to a wealthy businessman. Zhen Yue passed by and rescued her. The maid knelt down and begged her to take her in, saying that she could sell herself as long as she could let her take her younger brother with her.

Zhen Yue thought she was indeed beautiful. If she gave the money and left, she would probably not be able to protect herself and her brother in this world. After that, Zhen Yue had someone take her brother back to be trained, and she stayed to be his maid.

Finally, Zhen Yue named it New Sprout because she happened to see the tender buds on the branch.

When Xinya first came, Luzhu was afraid that she would take away her work, but later she saw that she was really well behaved, so she didn't do anything. Besides, Xinya's family used to sell tea and she was very good at making tea, so Zhen Yue asked someone to be responsible for making tea.

One of the young masters in the boat said, "Brother Zhizhi, did you see the maid on the boat over there just now? She's so pretty. What do you think if I ask the lady to give her to me?"

The person who spoke was Zhang Wenran, the son of a Tongzhi in Jiangnan. The Zhizhi he was asking about was the son of a county magistrate. Several people on the boat were students of Dehai Academy in Jiangnan.

"I see that the lady has an extraordinary temperament, so she may not agree." The man named Zhizhi had just seen that the maid was indeed beautiful, but he had also seen that in addition to the lady and the beautiful maid, there were other maids on the boat. Not only that, there seemed to be guards on the boat, and there were quite a few of them. It was obvious that they were from a wealthy family, but the lady looked unfamiliar.

Li Linsen on the other side said, "Brother Wen Ran, let's go ask first, maybe they will agree. She's just a maid, if it doesn't work, just give her more money." His tone was a little contemptuous, after all, she was just a maid, "You are the son of a co-magistrate, except for the son of the governor, who else would not give you this face?"

Zheng Zhizhi on the side frowned. He disagreed with what Li Linsen said, but did not dare to refute him. After all, he was right. It was indeed not a good thing to offend Zhang Wenran.

Zhen Yue was watching the rain while eating snacks and drinking tea. After a while, she felt a little sleepy and lay down on the couch to rest for a while. "Wake me up when we get to the shore."

"Yes, ma'am."

It was really easy to sleep on this rainy day. Zhen Yue fell asleep in a short while. Lu Zhu and several maids stood by the window and began to appreciate the scenery outside. They talked in their ears for fear of disturbing Zhen Yue.

After a while, the two boats met again. Zhang Wenran did it on purpose. He asked the boatman to slow down because he wanted to take another look at the beautiful maid. But he didn't expect that there were actually several beautiful maids.

Of course Luzhu and the others also saw it, but they just glanced at it casually and didn't take it seriously. Xinya was even a little scared, because when she went out before, a wealthy businessman took a fancy to her and wanted to snatch her away, so she was still a little afraid of men.

Lu Zhu had seen too much. There were so many talented people in Kyoto that she had become numb. Besides, she was not interested in getting married now. She would rather serve the empress. No one around the empress would bother her. They even tried to fawn on her. She would not be afraid of getting old in the future. As long as she was the empress's person, there would be countless people rushing to take care of her in her old age.

Several men here have already started to recite poems, such as "The whole boat is full of blooming crabapple flowers, the drizzle and fragrant sleeves are annoying, and the fragrance is like a painting that intoxicates the eyes..."

Luzhu didn't care at first, but after a while, she saw those men looking at her from time to time and even pointing at her. She frowned and closed the window, "Let's go to the other side and see. I don't know what those men are pointing at us for."

Xin Ya had wanted to go to the other side for a long time, but since she was new here it was hard to say. After hearing what Lu Zhu said, she felt relieved and quickly followed.

The men over there looked disappointed.

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"My lady, we have reached the shore."

Zhen Yue was awakened while she was in a daze. She opened her eyes and found that the sound of rain outside seemed to have become much quieter. She got up and looked outside and sure enough, there was only a light drizzle outside.

After washing her face, she was ready to get off the boat. The guards walked in front, followed by a few others. The maids followed her with umbrellas, fearing that she would get wet. Zhen Yue lifted her skirt and walked to the shore, preparing to return to the house where she lived. Whenever she arrived at a place, she would rent a big house.

"Madam, please stay." Zhen Yue was about to leave when suddenly several men came over. Zhen Yue was still a little confused. Lu Zhu said, "Madam, just now in the river, it was their boat that followed our boat closely and was looking at us. I don't know what they were doing."

Zhen Yue nodded, "I see." Then she looked at those people, "What's the matter?"

Zhang Wenran glanced at the new sprout beside the green bamboo. The new sprout immediately felt something was wrong and its face turned pale.

"Madam, my name is Zhang Wenran, and I am the son of the co-magistrate of Luozhou."

Zhen Yue's expression was indifferent, "So?"

Zhang Wenran's face froze. In Luozhou, few people had this expression when they heard his name. Everyone smiled at him in a fawning manner.

Zhang Wenran didn't know why he suddenly felt a little unconfident, but he still mustered up the courage to say, "Madam, I just saw your maid in the rain and she was very smart and lovely. I wonder if you can give her up?"

Xin Ya's face turned even paler, and she knelt on the ground all of a sudden. She didn't want to! She finally escaped from the tiger's claws, and the son of the Tongzhi family fell in love with her. The best result would be a concubine, and the worst result would be that she would be beaten to death and run away to the wilderness. She had heard from her father before that there were many dirty things in the big families, and some maids didn't even know they died.