Chapter 17 Entering the Museum
The place where the palace of the kings is located is very close to the palace city, the whole pattern of sitting in the north and facing the south, just taking the carriage from the east gate to the south gate took a full three quarters of an hour, it can be imagined that it is vast, because this palace of the kings is built in accordance with the palace, the main hall and the back bed part of the building on the central axis are similar to the outer court and the inner court of the palace. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
When they got out of the carriage, Wang was actually trembling, and she instinctively feared everything that had anything to do with power. Zhang Zhaohua squeezed her hand and walked towards the place where the person came and went.
Walking from afar, there were many people looking at it, and there were many noisy voices, but Zhang Zhaohua seemed to be whispering about her, and what followed the wind was: "This lady is still decent, the two who came yesterday...... What kind of goods ......?"
Before they could get closer, an old woman with a different costume came out first, dressed in a narrow-sleeved shirt with a group collar, embroidered with a circle of gold with small sunflowers, and a red dress with beaded gold ribbon underneath. As she descended the steps, she revealed a bow-like shoe with a small golden flower tattooed on it.
Zhang Zhaohua saw the pearl crown she was wearing on her head, which was somewhat similar to a man's black gauze hat, except decorated with flowers, and the edge of her forehead was decorated with clumps of pearls, which hung down to her sideburns. This is what only the palace officials with status and dignity in the palace can wear, and when she comes out, all the women bow down to salute her.
"Each room is equipped with a lacquer table, four circle chairs, and a screen," this Shang Gong said: "Do it according to the number, and go to get it after the sunrise print, you go as soon as possible." ”
As she spoke, she walked to the door, looked up, and suddenly stopped the palace maid who was about to leave, and said, "I almost forgot that there are ten tents—"
"The reed mat was borrowed by Taixue," she said, "There are one hundred and twenty seats that have been damaged, and then go and bring them all, and the damaged mats will be rented for an extra cent of silver each, and the price will be calculated and then reported to me." ”
After she had finished giving the order, she beckoned one of the people in the tent to come out and said, "Are all the things in the sedan chair complete? ”
The woman she had summoned spoke in a majestic voice, like a man's voice. Zhang Zhaohua looked at it, he looked like a man, five big and three thick, wearing a red cloth robe, with a brocade handkerchief wrapped around his head, and a brocade belt around his waist.
Zhang Zhaohua didn't know what these women were doing, but there happened to be a young palace maid next to her, so she asked softly: "I'm sorry to ask my sister, are they female commissioners with official positions?"
"You're funny!" the woman grinned, "Female tolerance, it's also tolerance, carrying a sedan chair!"
After listening to her explanation, Zhang Zhaohua realized that there was a kind of woman who served in the palace, called "female sedan chair man". Specially responsible for the selection of concubines, princes and princesses, their costumes were specially received by the inner government, wearing floral gauze hats, red silk painted clothes, and brocade sweat scarves around their waists - their salaries were very generous, not only for the month, but also for the rewards, and their husbands were exempt from miscellaneous labor.
These ten tents are sheltered from the wind and rain, and this draft has allocated a total of more than 450 female sedan chair drivers, as well as 12 large sedan chairs and 120 small sedan chairs.
The maid led them into the hall and led her to a room, where she waited in line to register.
Of course, I have to say that the lady of the draft at this time was sent to Beijing by her parents, and the mother accompanied her daughter to live in the Zhuwang Pavilion, but the father was to be arranged to live in the South Pavilion of the Taoist Guild Hall, so the Wang family wanted to stay here with her and wait for the candidate draft procedure.
The female historian in charge of registration put down her pen like flying, carefully checked the household post submitted by Zhang Zhaohua, asked her name, place of origin, date of birth, concubine, and long time, and also asked her parents and neighbors questions, and when she heard why her father didn't come, Zhang Zhaohua's nose was sour and forcibly held back, saying that her father was busy with spring farming, and it was sent by the eldest brother - Wang lowered his head and trembled slightly, but he was not noticed by this female history.
Wang's performance was already very good, and Zhang Zhaohua instructed him one by one before he came, and Wang held back his sadness.
After that, the female history sent her a waist card, and the palace maid who brought her just now took her to the residence, Zhang Zhaohua looked at the words "four shoes" written on the sign, please ask the meaning. The palace maid said: "This is where you live, that is, the fourth person in the room with the number of the track, there are too many ladies in the hall, every four people live in a house, and the room number is a thousand words." ”
Zhang Zhaohua quickly calculated, the word "shoes" is the 259th character of the thousand-character text, that is to say, there are more than 1,000 ladies living in this place, and it is said that there are still ladies from the north who have not arrived, this kind of grand occasion really scared her, and also made her realize how difficult it is to be selected from the three or four thousand or even more people in the current thousand or the future.
It's a little funny when she thinks about it, I'm afraid the super girl in her previous life can't compare to this, I didn't expect that I used to be around TV reviews, but I would really participate in it one day, and even make up my mind to compete for the top ten.
"There are a lot of people," the palace maid sighed slightly, "but in fact, people are eliminated every day, and some are sent away after only one night." She also kindly told Zhang Zhaohua many rules, such as what time to get up every day, what time to eat, where to eat, there is a bell in the restaurant, what it means to ring a few times, and where to get rouge gouache or something.
Zhang Zhaohua firmly remembered, she knew that the people who entered here seemed to be in a free-range state at first, but in fact, there were people staring at it all the time, if you did the wrong thing and said the wrong thing, and showed your stupid appearance, you would be eliminated immediately - she saw that on the booklet that registered her name, in fact, it was not only the basic information asked by the female historian, but also the horizontal and vertical forms behind, she glanced at it slightly, in addition to "voice, appearance, whether there are scars" and so on, there are also assessment standards such as "sitting and lying, behaving and virtue".
Standing outside the door is actually just a glimpse of the appearance of the museum, really enter the inside to know how big the place is, the whole hall occupies about 120,000 square meters, the first half is the magnificent mansion, the main entrance of five rooms wide, the main hall of five rooms, there are six rooms in depth, the east and west wings of each side are five rooms wide, the apse of three rooms is wide, the back bedroom of three rooms is fourteen rooms wide, and there are about twenty or thirty rooms of the back cover row of rooms, and there are countless rooms in two rows. There are even east and west cross-courtyards of three courtyards on both sides of the main hall, and there are two wings on both sides of the main house.
These houses are solemn and solemn, still simple and go to China - under the overall appearance of the Ming Corridor and the spine, the atmosphere is magnificent, and it also incorporates some soft and elegant temperament in the south of the Yangtze River, especially the garden built in the back half of the mansion is the most admired by Zhang Zhaohua, if the front residence is completely a palace building, then the back is the masterpiece of classical garden art in the south of the Yangtze River. Stacked stones are mountains, surrounded by curved water, there are all kinds of trees and flowers planted for ornamentation, vines and grasses are planted under the pine, the soft willows are lined with cinnamon, the plantain is lined with vines, there are bamboo forests and artificial lotus ponds, supplemented by the pavilions and pavilions of the curved corridor, it is really beautiful.
Zhang Zhaohua's dwelling is in the third room on the left in the right row of the fourth entrance, and this room is also quite spacious, mainly because there are four ladies who live here with their mothers - but according to the rules, the ladies sleep on the bed on the east side, and their mother sleeps on the couch on the west side.
Her roommate also just arrived yesterday and was a little at a loss. The Lu family and the Tian family are from Zhenjiang, and the Niu family is a native of Jinling, among the three people, the Lu family is ordinary, but he speaks very gently, which makes people happy. Tian was a little cringe, he looked like he had never been out of the house, he didn't like to talk, and he only answered after asking two or three questions, but he was not a difficult person to get along with.
Only this Niu clan, relying on the fact that she is a local woman in Jinling, is delicate and delicate, and her temper seems to be very big, so she gave Zhang Zhaohua a dismount as soon as she came up.