school days in ancient times

It snowed heavily in the capital all night.

Before dawn, the House of the Right Minister of the Household Department.

Four little maidservants in crow-blue jackets and skirts carried all kinds of toilet utensils, walked through the hanging flower door and walked on the verandah. All four of them had cold hands and faces flushed. They stopped behind the main house door, and the one with the lantern in front Squeezing his throat, he called softly towards the door.

After a while, the door was pushed open from the inside, and the things in the hands of the little maids were taken by two well-dressed maids who came out of the room.

The door was closed again, and the four maids were standing under the porch of the door waiting, rubbing their hands back and forth around their mouths to keep warm, their feet were also very cold, but they dared not move, for fear of disturbing the people inside. little master.

But I was thinking in my heart that I would be able to survive any time, and I could go into that house to serve.

In the room.

Ye Mian, who was sleeping soundly, heard the slight movement outside, turned over, pulled the brocade quilt up again to cover half of his face, grunted in his throat, and went back to sleep.Outside the screen, the maids, who were lightly busy warming their boots and clothes, held their breaths and stopped when they heard the voice inside.

Baoyue stuck out her tongue out of embarrassment when she just put the copper basin on the net rack and accidentally made a noise. Going to the side of the canopy bed, I lifted a corner of the thick bed curtain and took a look inside.

The little master slept well.

He looked at the missing engraving in the corner of the wall, thought for a while, and finally called softly: "Fourth young master, it's time."

"..."

"Fourth young master?"

"Fourth young master, it's time to get up."

Although there was no response, Baoxue still whispered patiently.

"Can't afford it!"

Finally, a clear voice of a young man came out from the bed tent, although it was nasal, it seemed annoyed and coquettish, and the girls outside the screen all covered their mouths and held back their laughter.

Baoxue lowered the corners of her raised lips, and said, "It's time, it's time to get up and go to school."

"No!"

"Fourth young master..."

The servant girl stood by the bed and persevered.

Ye Mian fretfully pulled the quilt over her head.

After a while, a muffled voice came from under the quilt: "Call me after a quarter of an hour."

"Then it's too late to eat the morning meal." Baoxue wondered.

"The meatloaf in the wagon."

After Ye Mian finished speaking, he turned over again in the quilt, and pointed his back and butt out of the bed, which meant that he didn't want to talk nonsense anymore.

Baoxue put down the curtain of the bed helplessly and retreated, there was already a winking girl outside the screen telling someone to go to the kitchen to order.

Ye Mian felt that he was woken up again after only sleeping for a few seconds. Although he was in a daze, he knew he didn't dare to hold back anymore. He suppressed the sleepiness and sat up straight with his eyes closed, his upper body exposed to the quilt. Outside, the coolness woke him up a little.

She fluttered her thick black eyelashes, opened her eyes slightly, and in front of her eyes was the clear tea handed over by Baoxue. She took a sip, the temperature and concentration being moderate, then she tilted her neck and poured the whole cup into it.

The internal organs that had dried up all night were moistened, and the energy of getting up was suppressed by more than half.

Ye Mian touched Mrs. Tang who was still warm under the quilt with her leg, lifted the quilt with great willpower and lifted her legs out of bed, put on the half-worn silk jacket that Bao Nian handed over to wash.

Soybean flour smoked with flower stamens wiped his face with hot water in a copper basin, and sniffed his nose. Ye Mian asked Baohe who was standing beside him holding a face towel for him: "Do you think my nose is Frozen red?"

Baohe looked at his young master's smooth and fair face, pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Where did it turn red from the cold? Fourth young master is talking nonsense."

Bao Nian, who was gargling Ye Miandui's mouthwash, handed a small glaze jar containing green salt to a second-class girl next to him, and gave Ye Mian a look, "I can't add another brazier, or I'll let the master know and I'll get it again." …”

Bao Nian was dragged by Bao Xue before he finished speaking, and shut up angrily.

Ye Mian is afraid of the cold, and all the waiters in Baofengyuan know that there are two braziers in other people's rooms, but there are only four braziers in their young master's room.

Baoxue gave Baonian a white look, then smiled and said to Ye Mian: "Fourth young master, the slaves are sweating on their foreheads, so please take care of us."

The lights inside and outside the house of Baofeng Courtyard have followed Ye Mian to get up and lit the lights. Ye Mian looked at it by the candlelight, and there was a fine layer of sweat on Baoxue's forehead.

"Why are you still sweating in this cold weather?" Ye Mian asked in surprise.

"It's warm in our room, and the servants feel uncomfortably hot when they move."

"Forget it, it's up to you."

Ye Mian picked up the toothbrush and dipped some tooth powder on it and began to brush his teeth. The big maids in the room secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but Ye Mian was a little depressed. suffered crimes.

Although Daddy Cheap is not a small official, and his material life is really high-class in this big literary dynasty that has never appeared in history books, he still wants to jump up and scold the street from time to time.

It's not that he was hypocritical or how rich he was before he came here, but that the material conditions in ancient times were good, but they couldn't compare with the living facilities created by modern technology for human beings.First of all, it is extremely difficult for him to adapt to the days without air-conditioning. Summer is fine. When he came here last year, he was just catching up with the end of summer. Feel hard.

But Dawen, which has no greenhouse effect, is really cold in winter. Except for some bricks and tiles on the roof and foundation, the rest of the house they live in is mostly wooden structure. temperature.

There is no air conditioning or heating, and the legendary earth dragon is said to only be found in the main halls of the palace. His mother also told me that the fire pit is only used by the barbarians in the north.

Ye Mian’s room uses charcoal pots to smoke cages, people get too close to the oven, and it’s cold when they’re far away, and the temperature distribution is uneven, so people can only place a few more in every corner of the room, but they are rejected. His father scolded him a lot, scolding him for being so delicate and picky all day long.

Before coming here, he was indeed just a child from an ordinary well-off family, but no matter how ordinary he was, he slept on a spring bed for more than ten years. This ancient plank bed really made him unbearable. When he first came, he had a thin mattress and a mattress Xi, it made his bones ache.

The next night, Ye Mian ordered the servant girl to add a few quilts to his bed, but his mother removed the quilts after two days of sleep, and taught him, "It's time to grow your body, how can you sleep on the bed?" Can you be greedy?"

Ye Mian had just arrived, and after the protest was ineffective, he didn't dare to play tricks, and forced himself to sleep for a long time, until two big green marks appeared on Baibai's buttocks.

Mrs. Ye was so frightened that she hurriedly invited the doctor into the mansion to have a look. The doctor said: "Young master's skin is so tender, you really need to sleep on a soft mattress."

His father heard about it when he came back from the government office at night, and he was so angry that he scolded him a few "useless things". Anyway, his mother sent some soft cotton mattresses to Baofeng courtyard so that he could sleep get a good night's sleep.

Ye Mianzai brushed his teeth carefully, rinsed his mouth with blue salt water several times, and then took the cloth towel from the maid to wipe his mouth. He had to protect his teeth. There was no anesthesia needle at this time. , I can't even think about it.

After washing, Ye Mian put on his jacket and went to the small anteroom in the inner room. The maids knew that the fourth young master was going to show respect, so they didn't follow.

There is a brazier next to the Gong barrel, so it is not cold. The wood honey incense is burning in the Ruishou incense burner in the corner, and a thick layer of fragrant wood sawdust is also spread in the Gong barrel. The whole Gong room is full of fragrance, very comfortable.

Ye Mian sat on the pail, squinted his eyes in enjoyment after his stomach became loose, but vaguely remembered how he resisted going to the toilet when he first came here.

The toilet paper was rough and hard. After Ye Mian used it a few times, he felt that his chrysanthemum was about to ascend to heaven. At that time, if someone could give him a roll of "Heart to Heart", he would kneel down directly .

Expressing his dissatisfaction tactfully with the servant girl in the room, Baohe thought for a while and asked, "The fourth young master wants to use smoother toilet chips?"

"Toilet chips?" Ye Mian didn't know.

Baohe took a bamboo tube for him, in which were inserted a few pieces of bamboo one foot long and two fingers wide, the top was oval and polished very smooth.

Ye Mian took out one and looked at it carefully. There were some flowers and birds carved on the bamboo handle.

At this time, Baoyue next to him tilted his head and asked in doubt: "Isn't the fourth young master not fond of using toilet chips? Why did you think about it again today?"

"Use?" Ye Mian was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, he jumped up three feet from the couch with an "Aww", and the bamboo piece was thrown out forcefully by him.

The maids were taken aback by his appearance. Ye Mian wanted to chop off his hand at that time. He picked up the teapot on the table and poured it on his right finger. Fortunately, the tea was already cold, otherwise it would have been scalded. .

Later, Baoyue, who was scared to cry by him, told him that the toilet chips in their house were "disposable", and they were not washed and used repeatedly like those in ordinary people's homes, so he felt better.

Later, the maid in his room had another daily job, which was to help the fourth young master iron straw paper.Spray water, rub until soft, and then iron until the paper is smooth and fine. Ye Mian is not willing to use it. He has to ask the boy to pack his special butt wipes for him wherever he goes, and school is no exception.

Ye Mian, who is playing tricks like a monster, naturally had to be scolded by Ye Shilang, his mother Qiu Shi also felt strange, most of the elder brothers of other families set up their own yards at the age of twelve or thirteen, and they were not pampered by their parents Why, since his brother Mian lived in his own Baofeng courtyard, he has been suffering from a delicate disease, and the sisters in the family are not as much as he said...