In the evening of that day, Baochai met the two people who used to live in this house: Jasmine, 14 years old, was selected into the palace last year; Fengxian, 15 years old, was selected into the palace the year before last.The two were not friendly to Baochai, but they were not indifferent either. To Baochai who called them sister, they only nodded in response.

Baochai didn't care either, since she was a newcomer and entered the palace later than others, so there was nothing anyone could pay attention to.It's not uncommon to say that the two maids tried their best to look at Baochai's face for a few times, which made her feel a little uneasy: Baochai still knows what she looks like.Such an appearance is not safe to be a low-ranking concubine, let alone a palace maid.

Fortunately, palace maids are not allowed to make too much makeup, and Baochai only puts on a thin layer of powder every day, and even refuses to use lip balm. It's not intentional to hide clumsiness, but it's better to not be strong than to be sharp, which makes people feel more at ease.

In the past few days, Baochai and the other six newcomers have all learned the rules from their aunts, only watching, not doing anything.This is also the practice in the palace. The maids enter the palace to serve the nobles. Naturally, they have to practice their hands before they can go to the nobles. It is not for someone to use the nobles to practice their hands.

Baochai knew this truth. Her family had just picked a little girl into the mansion, and she didn't just follow the master to do delicate work.But among the few people who were assigned with her, there were those who whispered behind their backs, saying that her aunt made things difficult on purpose, that she was afraid that she would be favored in front of the nobles, and so on.

It's just a teenage child's injustice. I'm afraid that before entering the palace, the family has placed a lot of hope. They are full of thinking about getting ahead, striving for glory and boasting, but they have forgotten the rules learned in a month.

Fortunately, because of the matter of where they lived, the five of them had some ties with Baochai, so they seldom talked to her.Even if Baochai listened to such an argument, she would listen to it. She would not pass on the message to her aunts, but she would not remind them to pay attention to the rules in the palace. always good.She doesn't intend to harm others, but she won't be a bad person either - a person who can't control her mouth, if she can be saved once, can she still be saved for the rest of her life?

Sure enough, within two days, the two court ladies who talked the most disappeared in Shangli Palace.This is the first time Baochai discovered that a person can disappear so silently.The three people who lived in the same room with them seemed to never know those two, and never mentioned their affairs again.

It seems that I am not the only one who is cold-hearted.Baochai turned around in her heart, and still followed her aunt.She has a brain, no matter what my aunt is doing, she has to go through it three or four times in her heart, and recall it again before going to bed at night, and she will not go to sleep until she feels that she has remembered it.

The effect of doing so was obvious. Gradually, the aunts found that if they tried the things they had done, Baochai must be the one who did the best.But while she was satisfied, my aunt shook her head in her heart: she looks the best, does things the neatest, and is too outstanding.

But in the past ten days, the situation of Baochai and others has already been sent to Concubine Shu, and the empress smiled when she saw it: "This time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent me a wonderful person."

Bi Tao listened to it, without saying a word: At this time, I said that Eunuch Hai was wrong to pick someone. The fact that the empress already knows will not make the empress think highly of herself, but will feel that she is an afterthought. In order to fight for favor, regardless of the overall harmony of Shangli Palace.And what Empress most valued was the peace and harmony in her own palace.It's not that palace maids and eunuchs can't compete for favor, but they have to be clever and put on eye drops, which will only make the empress tired of herself.

The empress didn't expect Bi Tao to say anything, the person she made herself should have some sense of propriety, she just said in a low voice: "I'll see these girls when I find some free time later."

After Bitao agreed, she went to spread the word.Concubine Shu only gave orders, only looked at the results, and didn't care whether anyone added or subtracted something in the middle: if she couldn't hear the deep meaning from the message, there was no need to appear in front of her.

For Concubine Shu and Bitao, seeing the new maid is just an old practice.But for Baochai and others, it is related to the quality of their life in the palace for at least ten years in the future.How other people dress has nothing to do with Baochai, now she is just hesitating whether to wear the purse that Lin Ruhai gave her.

The purse Baochai has seen it many times, but it is just an old purse - the material is not very elegant, and any family with some background can produce high-quality official silk.The pattern is also average, it is the green bamboo commonly used by ordinary men.But there should be other meanings in what can make Lin Ruhai deliver solemnly.Just looking at the color of this purse, it should be quite old, no matter how well preserved it is, it is still old.

Perhaps the most important point is this old word.The so-called clothes are not as good as new, people are not as old.But Lin Ruhai, a foreign official, is no different from a concubine in the deep palace, that's why Baochai doesn't dare to wear a purse on her body!

Don't blame her for thinking too much, who made her think that the bloody plot is already rotten on the street, just think about it, and you can make up ten sets of eight sets of old love, deep hatred in the palace, the king seizes the minister's wife, etc. Come.

But no matter how many big dramas there are, there must be a suitable stage for them to be staged: after seeing Concubine Shu this time, the work of Baochai and others should be settled.Maybe she will be able to see the face of the empress in the future, it is still unknown.If she doesn't get the favor of the empress until she leaves the palace, her mission will be too variable.

Gritting her teeth, Baochai still pinned the pouch to her waist.It should be done carefully, if it is not deep or shallow, it will be inserted into the belt, even if someone finds out, it will just be that she is holding the old things at home to see things and think about others, so she has to hide it in the belt in a moment of urgency.But it can't be too deep, otherwise it would be a waste of effort if the purse can't fall out when bowing down to Concubine Shu.

As for whether Concubine Shu would see through her little tricks, Baochai didn't worry: Concubine Shu, who has been in the deep palace for more than [-] years and can still save her son, was able to become a concubine by herself, I am afraid that such a trick has long been disdainful Just use it again.But Baochai has to be used, she has to let Concubine Shu know that she is a little clever not to mention her intention to get close.

It's just a little cleverness. In front of a high-ranking concubine who is already very wise and foolish, isn't she a teenage girl who is only normal if she is only a little cleverness that can be seen through at a glance?

But Baochai still underestimated the lethality of this pouch to Concubine Shu: "Tell me, where did this pouch come from? What did that person tell you?"

This is already Concubine Shu's inner room, and the concubine Shu, who is usually peaceful, is questioning Baochai sharply in person.It was Bi Tao who was guarding outside. Even though she had never seen her mother lose her composure before, she just thought that she was just a decoration and didn't have long ears.

Baochai knelt on the ground, the pain from her knees couldn't compare to the shock in her heart, but now was not the time for her to be in a daze, Concubine Shu, who was sitting above, had already let out an impatient "Huh?"

Baochai hurriedly said: "Go back to your mother's words. This is an in-law of the maidservant's family. I heard that the maidservant will enter the palace for a small election and give it to the maidservant. The old man said that if there is a chance, let the maidservant show the purse to the maidservant. "

Baochai can only choose to tell the truth, after all, not everyone can get the old things that can shock Concubine Shu so much.How did this purse get into the hands of Lin Ruhai back then, the concubine Shu who sat on it must have known better than Baochai.

"In-laws, oh, you are in-laws. Is your surname Xue?" Concubine Shu asked after pondering for a moment.

Baochai touched her head to the ground: "Yes."

Concubine Shu fell silent again.After a while, he asked: "The person who gave you the purse, is he in good health? With his ability, it's not impossible to get you exempted from the election. Why did you let you enter the palace?"

Baochai touched her head to the ground again, before she raised her head and said, "Go back to your mother, he is still considered healthy. Because the servant's family is an imperial merchant, this is the honor to participate in the small election. It's just that the servant's family is willing to let the servant enter the palace, there is no other way." The girl of his old man has a close relationship with the servant girl, so he originally thought of asking the old man to help the slave girl to be exempted from the election. But the servant girl thought that his parents gave birth to a slave girl, so he shouldn't go against his parents' wish. His old man looked at his girl For the sake of this, I gave this purse to the servant girl."

Concubine Shu lowered her head and thought for a while before asking: "He is not a nosy person, and he will not give this purse to you just to make friends with his girl. Are you actually in favor with him?"

Baochai touched her head to the ground again, and said slowly: "I don't feel that I have been kind to the old man. It's just that my father was seriously ill once, and I went to the temple to kneel down and ask for a peace talisman. If my father recovered from his illness, I would pay homage to all the famous temples in the south of the Yangtze River. Blessed by the Buddha, my father’s illness has been cured since then. Because of this, the father of my slave brought my slave to fulfill his wish. When I passed Yangzhou, I thought that the two families were relatives by marriage. to visit."

Concubine Shu seemed to be very patient, and did not interrupt Baochai's words, letting her continue sentence by sentence: "When I left Jinling, my father once said that I would visit my in-law's house, so this servant asked three more for safety. The talisman is also a wish of the servant. I don’t think this talisman is also for choosing people. After wearing the talisman, the old man and the girl are much stronger. It’s just that the wife wears it, but it has no effect.”

"Hmph, the things that are prayed in front of the gods and Buddhas are naturally the most spiritual. How can everyone be imitated! Bijue snorted coldly. Baochai didn't know if he wanted to say anything, so he knelt down Put mud tires there.

Xu Shi saw that she was silent, Concubine Shu asked: "His girl will befriend you with just a peace talisman? It can be seen that it is not a deal." There was no way to distinguish between joy and anger in her tone.

Baochai hurriedly said: "It's also the fate between the slave and the girl. After the wife left, the father of the slave took the slave to the funeral. At that time, the girl was sad, and the slave accompanied the girl every day, and she got the girl's favor."

Concubine Shu snorted again: "Such a temperament that can't bear a little favor from others, I have learned a lot!"

How dare Baochai answer?I had no choice but to continue to kneel there and wait for the next question.Suddenly there was a voice of greetings from outside, and Bi Tao said loudly, "Please be safe, Your Majesty."

Concubine Shu stood up suddenly, and whispered to Baochai: "I'll say something later, you just kowtow." She hastily left the inner room.Baochai also hurriedly stood up, ignoring the pain in her knee, and followed to the main hall.

There was only a bright yellow robe in front of her eyes, and Baochai knelt down behind Bitao again.The person who came smiled and asked, "What's so important that you ask someone in person?" Obviously he has a good grasp of Concubine Shu's movements.

Concubine Shu also laughed and said, "I got a surprise today. If it wasn't for my good memory, I almost missed it."

Listening to it now, I couldn't help but "Oh?"

Concubine Shu said with a smile: "The sage will take a look at this thing first, do you still remember?" She said and handed the thing over.Even if Baochai didn't look up, she knew that it must be the old purse that she "accidentally" dropped out when she visited Concubine Shu just now, and she asked Concubine Shu to interrogate her again and again.

Just listen to today's surprise and say: "Isn't this the year when you just finished doing it for me, and you let me reward Lin Hai's purse? Why is it in your hands now? But what about him makes you unable to do it? Why didn't you post it? ?”

Sentence after sentence, until the end, there was a hint of anger in the voice.But Concubine Shu seemed unaffected, she still smiled and said: "This cousin of my concubine has not changed a bit in more than 20 years."

cousin?Baochai just felt that the sky was thundering. This concubine who never appeared in the original novel was actually Comrade Lin Ruhai's cousin?If she was still working on a website, Baochai really wanted to send her a short message: Such an obviously unreasonable golden finger appeared too suddenly, bad review!

Today also asked: "Isn't he very noble, and has never interacted with us except for business for more than 20 years? Even since I became the throne, it was just a matter of asking for peace. Others have become relatives of the emperor, and I wish everyone in the world knew about it. He is good, because he is afraid that people will think that he is using his in-laws to ascend to the throne! Why is he walking around with the palace now?"

Concubine Shu didn't seem to care about the current anger, she just smiled and said: "Back then, the concubine was just a side concubine, and it was nothing more than a concubine's room. The Lin family has always had an ancestor's precept that women are not allowed to be concubines. Even if it is me My mother joined the Tang family, but my cousin is still worried about it. Besides, how can a cousin who is a concubine be considered your serious relative."

Now he choked, and changed the subject: "I haven't talked about the purse yet."

Concubine Shu smiled again: "I'm afraid it's because I'm getting old, and I'm thinking about the family relationship. His family has always been single, and there is only me in the world who made him despise my cousin, so I can be regarded as his relative. Maybe it is The death of his wife made him feel that the world is impermanent, so he even thought of sending a girl into the palace to serve me. It was really difficult for him. But he didn't think about it. I am just a concubine in a deep palace. If you have a prince, let him think about it."

After listening to Concubine Shu's complaints and complaints today, she only thought that she still had grievances against Lin Ruhai, and persuaded her: "His temper has always been like this. I don't blame him for what happened back then. I was too impatient." If the second brother and the others at that time knew what happened that day, it would be a big deal. It's a good thing that he took the purse and persuaded me, otherwise..."

The rest of the words are not said now, Concubine Shu obviously knows the unfinished meaning, and she is still reluctant: "Even if it was unintentional back then, but what about three years ago? The old sage is in meditation, but he..."

Now he said again: "He is the one hand-held by the old sage. If he came to please me in a blink of an eye like those people, I would be worthless for the old sage. However, Jiangnan is also indebted to him for his work over the past few years. It’s much better than being restrained by other things. It’s just that he has always been aloof, and he is not a person who shows his merit. Besides, he is also thoughtful, and he actually knows that you made the purse I casually rewarded that day.” These words are a little uncomfortable. Debate joy and anger.

Concubine Shu is speechless.Today I asked: "Who is he sending? Let me see you too."

Baochai has been stunned by the large amount of people's information just now, just like the few days when he was going crazy every month, it made him ask today: "Why is there such a person?"

Concubine Shu sneered and said, "I think it's the first time I saw Longyan, and I scared myself. When I talked to me just now, I was quite clever." Then she went back and forth and told all about Baochai's relationship with the Lin family. I read it again, but I didn't want to hide anything.Baochai secretly sighed that Concubine Shu was careful.While wondering why she let herself just listen and not talk when she came out of the inner room just now, her face became more and more dumbfounded.

After listening to it today, he also sighed: "That's why. It seems that he didn't want to order someone to you, but asked you to repay her benefactor for her. It's just that this is the first time he asked for help in more than 20 years, and he is a capable person." , It’s not easy to refute his face. This girl looked a little dumbfounded, why not give her the rank of a female official, so as not to be bullied, and he will not look good when he enters Beijing in the future.”

Not to mention Baochai, even Concubine Shu was confused by today's god: "Sage, this girl was only selected to enter the palace."

Today said: "Just think about it, how can a girl from the Lin family not know poetry and books? Since this girl said that she is on good terms with the girls from the Lin family, she should know poetry and books if she thinks about it. Isn't it?"

The last sentence was obviously a question to Baochai, so she had no choice but to answer with her head on the ground: "This servant can read a few words."

Now he said to Concubine Shu: "Listen, can you say this with only a few words?"

Concubine Shu said angrily, "Could it be that the sage is going to pay back the favor for him?"

Now he smiled and said: "It's always your relatives, and they are capable. Besides, you are also ordered by others, right? Besides, your father and brother can go, and those who are outside are outside. Yu'er is not young anymore, and she should be serious. Relatives move."

Whether Concubine Shu is sincere or false, at this time she has to thank the present for thinking of their mother and child, and she must thank her in her mouth: "Thank you saint for thinking of Yu'er. I'm afraid that she is so noble that she will look down on Yu'er."

Today, he only laughs and criticizes nonsense, and Gao Fu has been sent to Kunning Palace to report the matter to the Queen.Baochai didn't think she had won such a prize, until she left the main hall, her mind was still digesting the information she just heard:

Wasn't Lin Ruhai a single heir to the fifth generation? Why did he have a cousin who was a concubine?And she is also a concubine with a prince!It can be heard that Lin Ruhai is fairly well known today, and the word "competent" was mentioned twice in the words, but in the original book, Lin Ruhai's death was ignored!It seems that even if there is dissatisfaction with Lin Ruhai, it will be after that.

Baochai didn't want to know the reason why. When someone asked Jia Huan in his previous life, he heard that many belongings of the Lin family were copied from the Jia family.It may be that after Lin Ruhai's death, Daiyu was the only widow. According to the law, part of the family property should be handed over to the state treasury, but when the person in charge became Jia Lian, the things that should be turned over to the state treasury disappeared. Resentment and hatred are combined, so you ignore Lin Ruhai's death, right?

However, in the original book, after Lin Ruhai died, Daiyu was able to enter Beijing safely. It is not Baochai who can guess whether it is a lenient and caring about Concubine Shu's feelings.

And now is not the time for her to think about these things.Not long after, a decree came from the Queen's Kunning Palace: Baochai, a daughter of Xue's family, is of good character, a female official of the sixth rank, and in charge of the clothes and decorations of the palace.Baochai had no choice but to receive an order to thank her, and before the people from the palace came to congratulate her, Concubine Shu had asked Hongmei to take her to Kunning Palace to kowtow to the queen.

At this time, Shang was in Shangli Palace, and after hearing the queen's edict, he only said one sentence: "The queen is careful." That's all.

How the empress thinks is not something that Baochai can listen to. Now she only knows that she can be regarded as a female official, but she doesn't know what level Yuanchun is now, and whether she can be regarded as overpowering her now.Hongmei, however, led Baochai on a walk while sizing up the former court lady who had just been selected into the palace.

That is, the appearance of thirteen or fourteen years old, except for the smooth face, there is nothing outstanding.These few days in the palace is also a non-competitive temperament, how can I be promoted from a palace maid to a female official after talking with the empress for a while?The reason behind this is not something Hongmei should think about, she just needs to know that Xue Baochai, who is already a sixth-rank female official, is someone she cannot mess with in the future.

There was no one moving around in Kunning Palace, and Baochai and the others weren't any of the famous characters, so they finally saw a little palace lady, so naturally they begged and begged before they were willing to let them in.

After waiting for another quarter of an hour, the second-class court lady came out dressed up, and when she saw Hongmei, she bowed to her, and only heard Hongmei calling aunt, begging someone to go in and inform the master and lady.The palace lady shook her head: "Master, the lady is busy, such a trivial matter will not alarm her old man. Just let this lady kowtow at the gate of the palace."

Hongmei wanted to say more, but Baochai had already knelt down, and the maid hurriedly moved away sideways: even if she is from the Kunning Palace, it is better to guard against superiority and inferiority.If people think that the people in the queen's palace don't obey the rules, no need for others to say anything, the master and empress will not be able to forgive herself.

Baochai knelt three times and kowtowed nine times, not at all confused by the absence of the queen.In this deep palace, the walls can speak, and there are eyes everywhere. Only by being thorough and thorough can people not find fault—she, a female official, came too easily, and after passing through today's mouth, she has a heart. Only more and no less.

When she stood up, the second-class maid in Kunning Palace had already changed her face: "Ms. Xue is a polite person after all. This servant will definitely explain to the empress about her sincerity."

Baochai said in a hurry, but did not dare, and took the maid's hand, the small ring had already reached the other's palm: "Thank you for your trouble, aunt. This way I won't disturb aunt's errands, and in the future, aunt will have to go to Shangli Palace to talk. "

It was at the gate of the palace, and the lady-in-waiting couldn't give in to Baochai, so she had to hide the ring quietly and wait until she returned to her room to look at it.

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like