[Red Mansions] The promotion of the female history of salted fish

In June of the Gengchen year, the weather was fine.

It's early summer, at noon, there is only one round of sun hanging high in the sky, so that the sparrows in the yard hide sleepily in the corner, too lazy to even go to the handful of millet sprinkled in the stone trough in the middle of the yard peck.Presumably because the sun doesn't often shine in that corner, there are a few moss between the stone slabs used to pave the ground and the red wall, which makes this dull courtyard a bit cute.

The palace maid Xiaoyan was sitting on the twig and splitting the thread, but she couldn't stop talking, and said with a smile, "...but I caught my shortcoming and just bribed me with two pieces of newly baked rose cakes." She was a little The palace lady doesn't have much money, and now she doesn't leave Chuxiu Palace, the newly baked dim sum is also a good "bribe".

Yunling looked at the embroidery frame in her hand, and smiled slightly. Up to now, although the flowers and birds she embroidered are still rigid, they are still at an average level. After looking back and forth at the embroidery pattern in her hand a few times, she was about to speak , I heard a knock on the door, "Is Miao Nu Shi there?"

Xiaoyan stood up quickly, and waited for Yunling to put on the embroidery pattern and arrange her clothes, then hurriedly opened the door, she was surprised when she saw someone coming, looking at the maid's clothes, she didn't know which lady was the second-class maid next to her , Why did you come to Chuxiu Palace today?

Xiaoyan's heart skipped a beat, remembering what she had been worrying about for the past half month.Sure enough, she cheered up and raised her smiling face. Before she could say "sister", the person who came over looked straight past her and shot at the girl behind her, "Are you Miao Nushi? Come with me to see your mother."

Yun Ling didn't talk nonsense, just nodded lightly, and said, "Please wait a moment, girl, let me freshen up a bit."

The court lady saw that Yunling was only wearing a light pink cross-neck skirt without any embroidery on it.Also, Yunling never liked those buns that were combed tightly to tie her scalp tightly. Today, she was embroidering in the room, and her hair was only tied in a big braid hanging behind her back.It can be said that it is not rude to receive a court lady or a female historian of the same level in this way, but it is not appropriate to meet a nobleman.So he nodded, "Then hurry up."

Yunling entered the back room, Xiaoyan hurriedly moved the stool over, "Sister, sit down a bit." After the maid sat down, she turned around and poured water, "Sister works by the empress's side on weekdays, so I haven't seen anything good. The ones in our room The tea leaves are so rough that I dare not take them up to show my eyes, this water, my sister should only moisten her throat."

The maid said "Mmm", she held the cup in her hand and took a sip, she didn't drink much, she just moistened her throat and put it down.She also turned a deaf ear to Xiaoyan's "sister has worked hard all this way, and it's not easy to stand in the sun".

Xiaoyan was full of thoughts that it would be useless to meet a saw-mouthed gourd, and was about to make persistent efforts to at least find out which empress summoned the female history, when she heard Yunling from the back room shouting, "Xiaoyan, let me let go of my girdle Where did you go?"

The court lady has been out of the empress's palace many times, and although she doesn't show contempt on the face of Xiaoyan, the rough envoy who rushes to flatter her, she is not very impatient in her heart. Now hearing what Miao Nu Shi said, she hurriedly said, " You go quickly, don't entertain me, don't miss your mother's business is serious."

Xiaoyan apologized a few words to the maid, and entered the back room with an anxious look on her face.Seeing that Yunling was almost dressed up, she didn't dare to delay any longer, and said in a low voice, "I didn't say anything."

Thinking of the bright orange on the maid's head when she came in, Yunling couldn't help but sighed softly, pinned the last bead flower on her bun of hundreds of flowers, and told Xiaoyan, "Don't worry, although I don't know which empress it is, but maybe there is something that can be used for women's history, and maybe it finally reminds me of me."

How could Xiaoyan believe this?Although she is just a poor maid, she has less experience than the grand maid, but she is not stupid.If that empress is really useful for women's history, the second-class maid sitting in the outer room should not have the current attitude.

Thinking for a while, seeing Yunling turned to leave, Xiaoyan quickly reached out to grab her, "If the empress wants to transfer me to another place, the female history must not argue with the nobleman." I am afraid that some empress wants to please the noble concubine. The great eunuch, a poor court lady like her is of course nothing in the eyes of those people.For half a month, female history didn't let her leave Chuxiu Palace, but she went to the big kitchen to pick up meals for half a month, how could she not know what was good or bad?In case female history is implicated, she will feel uneasy.

She lowered her head, her originally bright and moist eyes could not be seen clearly from this angle.Yunling patted her hand, lifted the curtain and went outside, said with a smile, "Please trouble this girl to lead the way."

The second-class maid looked Yunling from head to toe, snorted coldly, "Let's go."

There are red walls and green tiles everywhere in the palace. The buildings outside are not like the Chuxiu Palace, which has been in disrepair for a long time.Turning left and right along the way, she didn't even pass the main entrance of a palace. Yunling leaned against the wall, breathing the increasingly scorching air, and couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

The maid in front just kept her head on her way and didn't speak, but Yunling couldn't help thinking of when she just woke up in this body.At that time, when she opened her eyes, she was in an antique room, and there was only a thirteen-year-old girl crying beside the bed. If she hadn't clearly remembered the pain of the bones being crushed all over her body, and the room was so cold. It was not conducive to her self-cultivation as a patient, she almost thought it was some hospital's prank project.

However, it didn't bring her much comfort to be sure that everything here was real. Without him, the living conditions here were terrible.

The original body is a female history who passed the final stage of the small election, but fell ill before the work was assigned.When she woke up, she said it was early spring, but the coldness of the winter had not dissipated, and the food was already almost cold after being brought from the big kitchen, so she could barely warm it up on the charcoal basin.And the amount of charcoal is only one pot a day. The only advantage is that it is a little choking when it burns. It needs to be ventilated frequently, so that it will not die again due to carbon monoxide poisoning unconsciously.

Xiaoyan was the first person she came into contact with after coming here.At first she was very sick and groggy, and because she didn't understand the situation here, although she was touched by Xiaoyan's busyness inside and out, she couldn't help thinking that her status was more than enough than her own.until later...

The footsteps of the maid in front stopped, Yunling noticed that this was a corner gate, but still couldn't see the name of the palace.The palace maid said a few words to the gatekeeper, and the gatekeeper glanced at her, his attitude didn't change for the worse, but he was a little curious instead.But this curiosity was not enough to make the woman who had been in the deep palace for more than 20 years open her mouth to ask something, so she quickly let her go.

Yunling followed the maid to go in, and after turning a corner, the maid in front saluted and said in a low voice, "Miao Shi brought you here."

Then someone came in and reported, Yunling stood in the courtyard, feeling something was wrong: Why did you see that person was going to the main hall just now?The one who can live in the main hall in this palace is at least a concubine, right?If it is said that the concubines in the harem want to curry favor with the great eunuch who is closely served by the emperor, she will believe it, but the high-ranking concubine flatters the great eunuch next to the noble concubine to such an extent, it is tearing off her own face, and she has to go up and stomp a few times .

She originally thought that some shameless beauty called her here because Xiaoyan was attracted by the noble concubine and the former eunuch's apprentice, but now it doesn't look like it?

Just as she was thinking about it, someone had already come out from inside, Yunling saw that she was dressed differently from other court ladies, and she was about 40 years old, probably a nun.Fortunately, the words displayed on Nanny's head are lighter in color than the palace maids, and are orange.She glanced at Yunling with a cold face, turned around and walked in, "Come in."

Yunling followed behind the maid and mother, and walked in with light steps.Although the steps are light, they dare not slow down.As soon as he entered the side hall of the main hall, he saw a red sandalwood screen inlaid with silver and brocade in front of the door, which was so close to the door that the people kneeling at the door could hardly see anything except this screen.

Yes, there was a man kneeling at the door, wearing a duck-egg blue dress, his head lowered so that he could almost bury it in the ground.Most importantly, judging from her figure, this is not a woman.

Yunling wondered secretly, followed the mother around the screen, and hurriedly saluted, "Your Majesty, Jin'an."

The girl in front of her was tall and tall, with a slender figure, and she looked a bit charming standing there.This is not surprising, most of the female historians in the palace are selected by officials and eunuchs, and these girls have the air of being admired by the stars since they were young.No matter what the nuns who entered the palace said, they should remain humble when meeting nobles. The daily temperament of these female historians is still different from that of palace maids and eunuchs.

But thinking of the person outside the screen, the beautiful concubine frowned again, "Raise your head."

Yunling raised her head cautiously, lowering her eyelids, but her peripheral vision fell on the head of the empress sitting above her. Compared with the maids and nuns she had seen before, this golden color looked lovely: at least she was in the neutral camp tail, not to the hostile camp.Thinking of this, Yunling's heart relaxed slightly, only to realize that this lady is not too young, and the thin lines at the end of her eyes do not affect her beauty.She frowned slightly, but she didn't look weak.There is no deliberate intimidating movement, but the demeanor is awe-inspiring, as if to see through her.

The concubine glanced at the side, and there was a maid coming up from the side with a tray, and an embroidered handkerchief was laid flat on the tray, "Does Miao Nushi look familiar?"

The process of reviewing the original owner's embroidery skills in the past six months has simply broken Yunling's self-cognition in her previous life. She never imagined that she would learn embroidery from the "video" one day.Seeing the embroidered handkerchief now, I just feel that my fingertips have started to ache.It's so cruel to have to answer a question about embroidery at this moment.

Yunling carefully looked at the exquisitely embroidered handkerchief in front of her, "I seem to have embroidered a similar pattern before."

The beautiful concubine sitting at the top didn't speak, she just held a teacup, the lid of the cup gently scraped across the water, and the tea leaves in the water flew up and down.The beautiful concubine seemed to be fascinated by this scene and had no time to speak, so the one who continued to question was the court lady who brought Yun Ling in, "Oh? What a coincidence. Where is the veil of Nushi?"