146: save2 Liu Lili's Account
Lu Lele, having just finished telling her own story, naturally proceeded to ask Liu Lili about her past.
Of course, she didn't dare guarantee that Liu Lili would definitely tell her the truth. However, this actually wasn't very important.
Firstly, Lu Lele had many thods to verify the story Liu Lili told. Secondly, she only wanted to take this opportunity to understand a bit more about Liu Lili's background and didn't expect Liu Lili to actively reveal the secrets on her person.
Even if Liu Lili concealed so information, it wasn't critical.
For Lu Lele, knowing roughly the story and experiences of Liu Lili's childhood was sufficient. After all, this was just one of the simplest ans to collect information on the person she loved.
Compared to the price paid, no matter what kind of harvest, it was a gain.
She just wanted a rough understanding of Liu Lili's past.
Unsurprisingly, Liu Lili organized her words for a while before opening her mouth to recount it to Lu Lele.
Lu Lele imdiately concentrated her mind and listened.
Liu Lili ca from a small town on the border of the Eternal Empire. It wasn't actually too far from the Earl's territory where Lu Lele lived, just in the northeast direction, a journey of about four or five hundred li.
Liu Lili was the daughter of a rchant. Since she was little, her father was rarely by her side, always running business outside. Liu Lili squeezed into a small house in the center of the small town with her mother, grandmother, and a few collateral relatives.
Liu Lili didn't have many friends when she was little. Her only playmate was a little kitten.
Unlike other children, Liu Lili rarely went out to play. Instead, she liked to nestle at ho, play gas with the little kitten, and learn needlework from her mother. Liu Lili felt she had quite a bit of talent, because the clothes and hats she knitted were very much loved by people and could be sold at a good price in the market.
"That little round hat on the bald head of our town's mayor was knitted by !" Liu Lili said quite proudly.
Usually, Liu Lili also went to study at the small town's public school, learning characters and simple arithtic. This was also an obvious change in legal policy in these years. Originally, girls were not allowed to attend school.
It was said that it was a won's liberation movent led by so Reforrs and Innovators. They established won's organizations, published won's newspapers, organized assemblies, signed petitions, and convened congresses, calling for gender equality and winning certain rights for won.
The King finally promulgated corresponding decrees, allowing commoner girls to go to specialized schools to study.
And the King's move wasn't actually hard to understand.
After all, with the progress of the Steam Revolution, large and small factories were springing up like bamboo shoots after rain. Factories needed workers who possessed a certain amount of knowledge to operate machines and were cheap. And these girls were the cheapest labor force.
Even for exactly the sa work, a woman's inco was much lower than a man's. Moreover, they were also very durable. Therefore, female workers were in very high demand.
Where there was demand, supply would be stimulated.
The school Liu Lili attended erged under these circumstances. Liu Lili could be considered to be following the trend of the tis.
Of course, Lu Lele actually couldn't really feel the changes within this. The noble circles seed isolated from the world, completely disconnected from the outside.
No matter how the outside world changed, these old-school nobles still maintained their original lifestyle.
Just like how Lu Lele still couldn't eat with the Earl at formal banquets even now.
These scattered little sparks simply couldn't burn their way into Lu Lele's ho.
The first two years after Liu Lili started studying were quite calm, without anything special happening.
But good tis don't last long. On a stormy day, Liu Lili lost her mother due to dystocia. This incident dealt a huge blow to Liu Lili.
However, blessings do not co in pairs, but misfortunes never walk alone. Not much later, Liu Lili's little kitten ran out to play one day and never ca back. On the little kitten's body, it was still wearing the small clothes Liu Lili had just knitted for it.
From then on, Liu Lili rarely knitted clothes anymore, because it always made her think of her mother and the little kitten.
Liu Lili was depressed for a while. In her own words, she didn't enjoy eating anything, couldn't sleep well, and had nightmares every day. This situation continued until Liu Lili turned ten, three years ago, before it improved.
Liu Lili's father achieved great success in business and got to know a few big shots. He even gained the opportunity to have an audience with His Majesty the King and successfully received a title of nobility, becoming the lowest rank, Baron. Liu Lili also basked in the glory, becoming the daughter of a genuine noble.
From then on, the attitude of the people in the small town toward Liu Lili's family completely changed. Even the original mayor with the bad temper would affectionately greet her when he t Liu Lili, as if the one who used to call Liu Lili a dead little ghost and a baldy wasn't him.
Of course, becoming a noble didn't an everything was auspicious. Because nobles and commoners were completely two different classes; they simply weren't the sa kind of people.
If one wanted to integrate into that new class, one had to study ceaselessly. Everything had to be learned from the beginning.
Liu Lili was thus sent to a noble school to study for two years, and then was taught etiquette for a year by a privately hired tutor.
According to Liu Lili, that old woman who taught her etiquette was especially fierce. If a movent wasn't done right, she would directly take a wooden stick and whip her, and she used her full strength to beat her to death.
Over the year, more than ten wooden sticks were whipped until they broke. To this day, there were still scars on Liu Lili's legs from the whipping of the wooden sticks. Liu Lili even pulled up her trouser leg to let Lu Lele have a look. One by one, they looked genuinely quite shocking.
Of course, the results were also obvious. Having undergone a year of cruel training, Liu Lili's etiquette in all aspects now showed no flaws.
Although she was not as naturally effortless as Lu Lele, she could also achieve ease and freedom, fully capable of handling her job.
Then, Liu Lili was sent to the Earl's manor to beco Lu Lele's study companion and personal maid.
Liu Lili said very sincerely that actually, at the very beginning, she was still sowhat resistant. After all, she had to leave her family and go alone to a strange place to live a completely different life.
But now, she no longer felt that way.
"Because, I t you. The mont I saw Lele, I changed my mind. After all, the Earl's daughter is so cute. Becoming her study companion and maid is, to , a very lucky and worth-anticipating matter."
Even at a ti like this, Liu Lili didn't forget her original intention. She smiled and said to Lu Lele words that made her blush. This was also the end of Liu Lili's self-account.
Of course, Lu Lele did indeed blush. After all, she simply hadn't thought about hiding her emotions in this aspect.
"Don't just say strange words like that."
Lu Lele acted spoiled for a sentence, pretending to be shy and turned her head away.
However, at this mont, Lu Lele's brain was carefully savoring the story Liu Lili had just told. Although Liu Lili didn't tell it in particularly great detail, one could still see so clues from it.
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