Chapter 58: The Problem of Ritual (II)

Entering the palace, I clearly felt how many blood, tears and bones of working people are buried under the red walls and green tiles of this magnificent palace, in a word, the slave is really not good, and the two ends are often not people, the master is messing around, you are naturally easy to be killed and hacked to set an example, and it may not be good to stop it.

The reason why I feel so much emotion is because I think that the life of the "little flute" I play is coming to an end, and he is very likely to be dragged out by two or three big and three thick guards in the next minute under the gaze of a pair of dark and noble eyes, and crackle dozens of boards with a torture stick as thick as his arm, and then go straight to the prison and then click a knife, becoming an insignificant victim in the palace struggle.

Rong'er has already quarreled with Concubine Shun's palace maid!

It is hard to imagine that many years later, Mama Rong, who appeared in the image of Diao Nu who bullied people, still has the side of not being afraid of power and preferring to bend for the so-called "rules" Dare to confront a favored concubine head-on with no benefit and no backstage, it is simply a kind of stupidity and tragedy of a moth fighting a fire and a mantis arm as a car, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, you will find that this is actually completely in line with the character of the character, the old lady worked tirelessly against the non-mainstream of the palace back then, and did not hesitate to offend the emperor for this, isn't it also because she can't get used to seeing the girls spreading wild on the queen's territory, in order to maintain the supreme and extremely sacred "royal rules" in her mind? Otherwise, a slippery force, an old woman in the deep palace who knows how to step on the high and low, why bother to offend the emperor and the celebrities around the emperor for the sake of the queen who is no longer very favored.

It's just that I didn't expect people to be so bold and courageous when they were young, and they had a brutal and domineering attitude when they pinched their waists and stood there, and they were even more justified when they spoke, which was irrefutable: "This royal flower and tree, the slave maid does not dare to deal with it lightly, since the girl said that this is the meaning of the concubine Niangniang, then ask the maid to come up with her will, the slave and maid are timid, and only by doing things according to the rules can they not panic." ”

Note that the "will" mentioned here is not a verbal order, but a written text with an official seal in black and white, and only the emperor, the queen and the queen mother are qualified to give it in the entire palace.

"The decree was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs early in the morning, and you want to see yourself check it! I'm afraid that you lowly servants don't have this qualification!"

"The will received by the flower room is to send Yao Huang Peony to the concubine Niangniang to 'enjoy', but it is not said that it is planted in the Niangniang courtyard, the slave maid is also for the sake of the Niangniang Palace, and the things are planted, in case the long live Lord will give the peony to other Niangniang to enjoy the play, do the slaves and maids still have to come here to dig out the peony?

"Hmph! With the glory of our master, this peony will naturally not move again after it is planted in our palace, you don't need to worry about it, you still have to worry about yourself, delay our mother's errand, you feel good!"

"That's right! The concubine Niangniang is virtuous and virtuous, self-denying and dedicated, and is about to give birth to a dragon son, thanks to Sheji, and it is just around the corner to succeed to the throne of the middle palace and take over the phoenix seal in the future...... It is better for the slave maid to plant the peony in the Changchun Palace where the queen lives, and wait for the concubine to move to the palace, so as not to plant this delicate worldly famous seed and dig it out and damage the foundation......"

Because of the difference between the usage and meaning of zĂ i before ancient Chinese and modern Chinese, I don't seem to understand the part of their "heated conversation", but the general meaning can still be summarized:

"Do you plant or not?"

"Don't plant!"

"Either bury the flowers in the soil, or bury you in the soil, in short, there must be a pit to fill!"

"That's not a plant!"

……

"What's going on, why is it so noisy?" another female voice came from the room, and then the curtain was lifted, and another palace maid in a flag costume walked out, I couldn't help but be stunned when I saw the face of this palace maid, although the hair was no longer orange, but I still recognized it at a glance, this is not Jiang Shasha!

This palace maid was really Jiang Shasha, because she had the same reaction when she saw me, but there was obviously a gloating smile on her face after seeing me dressed in eunuch clothes, which made me secretly angry but helpless.

"Aunt Jiang, you came just in time!" The palace maid was overjoyed when she saw that she had come to support, and hurried up to explain the matter here, and the focus of the narrative was naturally not how to restrain the arrogance and disrespect on her side, but how to trick the cunning and cheap bones on our side.

Jiang Shasha frowned and listened to the palace maid's narration, and before she could say anything, the little palace maid said to herself: "Auntie, look at them, I'll go back to the master!" After speaking, she ran into the house angrily.

Rong'er continued to look directly at Jiang Shasha with fearless eyes that were not afraid of shadows, ready to start the second battle at any time, but Jiang Shasha and I were a little at a loss, should we pretend not to know each other at this time?

The scene fell into an awkward silence for a while, but fortunately, the palace maid quickly went and returned, breaking the delicate balance with arrogance: "The master said, what you said about the maid of the flower house is also a little reasonable, how to deal with this Yao Huang has to think about it, you just wait here, wait for the master to get up and then talk about it." ”

Just listening to this sentence, this concubine is still a more reasonable master, although she has a good face but can basically follow the advice, but unfortunately there is a sentence behind: "The master also commanded, since you two slaves value this imperial gift so much, then reward you for carrying the flower pot until the master wakes up, during which the flower pot is not allowed to fall to the ground, otherwise, you will be punished for the crime of disrespect first!"

This is corporal punishment in disguise, but we can't help it, and we even have to bow our heads and thank you, this is the rule of the palace, and the superior doesn't have to reason with the people below.

After announcing the disposition of us in a relieved manner, the palace maid stood in front of us loudly, ready to supervise our "reward", Rong'er handed me an apologetic look of "I am bothering you again", and I smiled indifferently, and deliberately moved my own end to the middle when I lifted the flower pot, so as to help the little girl share some more weight.

Carrying hundreds of pounds of things to stand still is more tiring than carrying it, and soon the two of us will see sweat on our foreheads, and our straightened legs will involuntarily tremble, and at any time there may be a careless flower pot that will fall to the ground and then be punished more severely.

Jiang Shasha couldn't stand it anymore, and coughed and said to the palace maid: "You go to the house to be busy, I'll just watch here." ”

The maid nodded, glanced at us contemptuously and walked away, and as soon as she disappeared from our sight, I involuntarily fell to the ground with a limp.

This change startled Rong'er, and Jiang Shasha hurriedly whispered before Rong'er exclaimed: "Okay, hurry up and rest, there are no outsiders here." ”

"Do you know?" asked Rong'er, looking at me suspiciously.

"Yes," I quietly rubbed my numb legs and smiled at Jiang Shasha, "Aunt Jiang, it turns out that you are over twenty-five years old......

The little girl immediately snorted at me: "It seems that you haven't lifted enough, right?