Rebirth of the forest sister of the Red Chamber

Baochai Xiaoxuan entered the palace. When entering the palace, she was not allowed to wear gold and silver jewelry casually, only a small ball of gouache palace flowers on her head, and the homely and half-worn clothes she wore on weekdays were not allowed to be close to her. Wearing a jade green palace jacket and a light blue palace skirt, she is holding a small bundle.

She had to enter the palace first, kowtow to the chief eunuchs and nuns in the palace, and then stand with the maids who were selected together to listen to the chief eunuch's lecture. The tallest nanny in charge of the village had to stand for an hour after going back and forth like this, unable to move.

Most of the women who entered the palace with her were handsome and handsome sons from extremely poor families to earn some money for the family, and some women who entered the palace with the same purpose as Baochai. After the training, they are still unable to move around at will, and will be assigned to the hands of the old mothers one by one, first for a month, and then they will be assigned one by one according to the needs of each palace. , Nine concubines, and then they will be dispatched to the rest of the palaces and the young lords. Those who stay will be employed in various departments. In the end, those who are really not qualified will be sent to the cold palace to be sweeping maids or assigned to wash clothes. Bureau.

Baochai was plump, and the mother who was leading the two hundred of them had a smile on her face and looked at them, but the words that came out of her mouth were unbearable: "Walk quietly, don't be left or right." Look around, sway your waist, don't turn your head back; smile is okay, don't make a sound, show your teeth, no matter how happy things are, you can only smile. The face must be smiling, with joy; it means how big the heart is. Suffering, you have to bear it for me, don't show half of it! You are not allowed to cry; you are not allowed to make a sound when you are beaten. Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, and don't say what you shouldn't say. This is the rule of the palace! From Ming Dynasty From now on, I am your nanny in charge for this month, you call me Nanny Mei!"

"Slaves pay homage to Nanny Mei!" The two hundred people all bowed down and saluted, and Nanny Mei nodded, "Not bad, we must gather in this hall at [-] o'clock from now on, if anyone sleeps late, the roommates don't shout Wake up, two people play ten boards together! Use morning in the palace, and after breakfast, start to read the palace training with the mother and me. You must finish the palace training within five days, and the afternoon is posture etiquette, hand sewing! And this yard, don't run around, disturb the master, drag it out to beat fifty boards, and then send it to the clean room, and you will never leave the palace! Can you hear clearly?"

A group of maids replied: "Your servant heard clearly!"

Finally separated, Baochai went back to the house with Li Xiang, who was in the same room. Li Xiang was from a good family. His family was poor and not very attractive, so he had to go to the palace to earn some money for the family. Li Xiang's first good clothes were Ning silk palace jackets and skirts were issued in the palace, and clothes were issued in the palace all year round. Baochai looked down on Li Xiang's rosy and slightly rough hands.

Early the next morning, Baochai and others came to the hall early, and the table and stools had been set up. On the table, there was already a bowl of thick porridge, a steamed bun, a plate of scrambled eggs, and a plate of kohlrabi.

Mei Momo stood at the top, and the maid saluted Mei Momo first, Mei Momo nodded and said: "You watch how I eat, you eat as you like, don't make a sound, everyone can only eat for a quarter of an hour! If you If you can’t eat enough within a quarter of an hour, then you can’t eat it! You have to take small bites to drink porridge, and you can’t make a sound. It’s the same when eating steamed buns. Pick up vegetables, don’t pick them up, don’t pick them up, pick up a piece, and don’t touch the plate. !"

After Mammy Mei demonstrated, the maids below began to move. Nanny Mei came down and inspected one by one. When she saw Baochai, she paused for a while, and passed Baochai to look at the next one without speaking.

It took a quarter of an hour for a meal, and many people left most of it unfinished, and Baochai was the same, but she was not used to it.

After breakfast, I began to read the palace rules slowly with Madam Mei. The palace rules were very simple, only fifty, and they were all the biggest sins. The small ones were not written down. Most of the people in it were illiterate, so they only had one sentence: Read it one sentence at a time.

Baochai has been silently following along, she can only hope that she will be assigned to the emperor's favorite concubine, so that she will have the greatest chance.

That night, Baochai and the others slept until midnight when they were woken up. All the new maids were called into the courtyard. The new maid, Baochai recognized her, she was very good-looking, and she was half dazed by now.

Three purple-clothed eunuchs came from the side, and the head of the execution prison was a middle-aged man in his thirties, with a white face and no beard. He held a jade-colored handkerchief in his hand, and his voice was so soft that people would have nightmares for three days: "Our family has been in the palace for more than [-] years, and we have never seen such a bold person who just entered the palace. If you want to get out of this courtyard, what do you want to do sneaking around in the middle of the night?"

"I don't dare, my lord, this servant has gone to the wrong door!!" The new palace lady kowtowed to the father-in-law, and Mei Momo beside her had already served tea: "Master Xue, drink some water to moisten your throat first!" Then Looking at the new palace lady with extremely cold eyes, the little eunuch next to him quickly trotted out a grand master's chair from the hall, that Eunuch Xue sat down, took a sip of tea, and the little eunuch beside him knelt down to take it. With a blink of an eye and a wave of hand, several young eunuchs in Tsing Yi came up with sticks, and beat the palace lady with a crackling sound. It was heard that there were more than 20 blows, and the delicate body had already started to bleed. The ladies of the court stood still and did not dare to show their air.

As soon as Eunuch Xue raised his hand, the little eunuchs in Tsing Yi stood aside, and Eunuch Xue said coldly: "You walked through the wrong door in the middle of the night and you can still touch the palace gate. You're still pretty compared to that little master, but you're blind when you're a miscellaneous! Come, drag me away!"

Two young eunuchs in green clothes grabbed the new palace lady and dragged them to another place. Eunuch Xue snorted impatiently, flicked his sleeves, and left with the two eunuchs in purple clothes. Nanny Mei and the eunuch in charge of the palace He accompanied Eunuch Xue and his party out of the yard with a smile, and after a while, Mammy Mei and the others came back, and first gave him a hard reprimand: "Don't think, Mammy, I don't know what some of you are thinking when you come in, you Just thinking, you have to behave yourself now, don’t say nanny, I’m merciless when I say cruel words, even if you are capable in the palace and Gao Zhi’er stands in the future, you have to be honest with me now wait!"

All the maids agreed, and Nanny Mei watched them enter the small room one by one, told the eunuch who guarded the door a few words, and then left.

Baochai couldn't sleep on the bed, and as soon as she closed her eyes, she saw the bloody tender body. She wondered if she had entered the wrong palace, and then recalled the scene at home. She pressed her chest, trying to make herself think about the future. The scenery, tossing until midnight before falling asleep.

The author has something to say: The description of the court ladies is based on an article called "The Clothing, Food, Housing and Transportation of the Palace Ladies in the Forbidden City". Nine concubines!The latter is probably calculated in multiples of nine!Before the Qing Dynasty, there were no imperial concubines, nor queens!Here we need to revise the original statement of quadruples, three thousand beauties in the harem!