Wang Ye and Fu Jin took gifts and went to the Forbidden City under the escort of Nalan guards, four personal soldiers, two eunuchs, and two young grandmothers. Before leaving, the prince once again instructed Tian Liang to check the empty houses on the east and west roads and in the garden. Once you've loaded your things, you'll see what's in them and write them down in your notebook so you can get them later. First, we must understand the locks on the door of each yard with goods, and if there is no lock, it must be locked, and the key cannot be handed over to anyone, not even that peak.

As soon as the prince Fujin left, Yun'er sent the goldfish picked by Fujin and asked several guards in the courtyard to send Fujin to the Yiran Building in the front yard.

Shui'er brought Ling Juan, Yue'er, and Lian'er to Peach's house, Shui'er was afraid that Peach would treat Ling Juan as an ordinary grandmother, so she preemptively introduced Peach: "Mama Ning, this is Mr. Ling, who came back with the prince and Master Yun, is a friend of Master Yun and the teacher of the two little masters. Her home is far away, and she is not familiar with the etiquette of our Qing Dynasty and the mansion, Master Yun instructed the slave maid to send Mr. Ling to you to learn the palace rules and government rules with you, and she will stay in the mansion in the future. ”

Peaches hurriedly greeted Ling Juan: "Mr. Ling is auspicious!" Please be seated. It's been a hard work. ”

"You're too polite, just call me Ling Juan. In the future, we will rely on Mama Ning's care. ”

"Mama Zhang said that you are the teacher of the little master, and your status is precious, please sit down quickly, Jing'er pour tea and take refreshments."

"You are too polite, Ling Juan came to learn etiquette from you, and I hope to give you advice."

"Don't worry, it's not very difficult, it's trivial, we are the palace, and the emperor often comes to the palace, so everyone in the palace has to understand the etiquette in the palace and the palace."

"This Ling Juan can understand and is willing to learn, but she has never been in contact with it, so she worries about it. Don't know how to pay the fee? ”

Taozi smiled at Ling Juan and said: "Mr. Ling, the slave and maid are the etiquette teachers in the house, and you don't have to pay any fees with the monthly rules in the house. You are different from the people in the house, they have to study for half a year when they enter the house. ”

"Then thank you Mama Ning, Ling Juan must study seriously."

In this way, Ling Juan returned to Feiyun Tower with Shui'er, Yue'er, and Lian'er, and returned to her room.

Yun'er instructed Yu'er to bring all the girls and grandmothers in the courtyard, including the guards, soldiers, maids, and eunuchs including Tian Liang and Nalan He. All the female servants in Feiyun Tower are twenty, plus six guards, four personal soldiers, two servants, and two eunuchs, a total of thirty-four servants, which is the smallest number of side Fujin of the same level in all palaces.

The maids stood in an orderly manner under the porch at the entrance of the hall, standing with their hands down, waiting for their master's orders. The position of the station is all said. Yu'er Shui'er stood half a step behind Yun'er, and in the middle of the opposite side was the housekeeper Mama Lin, on her right was the second-class maid, Lan'er, Hui'er, Jing'er, and on the left was the third-class maid Yue'er, Cui'er, He'er, Tang'er, and the rough maid and mother-in-law were all standing behind Mama Lin. The cook Mama Jiang and her two helpers stood on the left, and several guards and three eunuchs stood a little farther away.

After these maids stood up, they were signaled by Mama Lin's eyes, and gave Yun'er a blessing salute with brushes: "Master is auspicious!" ”

Even the fish and water behind Yun'er are no exception.

Several guards clasped their fists, and the little eunuch beat Qian'er.

"Excuse me!" Yun'er said kindly: "I will give you a little more errand today, and a few guards and father-in-law will help me go to 'Xingwulu' to get forty pieces of woodworking board and twenty pieces of plywood." The grandmothers and sisters carried the old tables and chairs from the warm pavilion in front of the west building to the courtyard, and turned around to put the carpentry board on the table. ”

As he was talking, Mang Ge and the ** who had just had breakfast also came, and these two people were temporarily transferred to reinforce the work.

"Master, the prince instructed his subordinates to help you toss things." Reckless, ** hugged his fists and saluted.

"There are two of them." They are guards, not subordinates, and they are from the Fujin Courtyard, they are here to help, and Yun'er is quite polite to them.

The master personally commanded, and all the people went into action. Tian Liang, Mang Ge and others went to Xingwulu, and the maids went upstairs on the west side of the hall to carry the tables and chairs to the courtyard, fetched clean water, and wiped the tables and chairs clean with wet rags. These people are all hard hands, and they have to be vigorous and resolute even if they are slow people in the cloud master's courtyard, and whoever dares to rub it will be punished, and those who refuse to change will roll up their luggage and go home. So these old girls quickly wiped the tables and chairs clean and spotless.

There are four sources of maids in the palace, a large part of which is that the queen mother gave the palace maids in the palace to Fujin to the palace as maids. The name is beautiful: reward. Giving people away as objects is domineering enough.

Nowadays, the queen mother often rewards the palace maids who are not looked down upon by the concubines in the palace to the families of the palaces as maids, in order to ensure the safety of the emperor's women. The phenomenon of concubines abusing palace maids occurs from time to time, and the phenomenon of palace maids being abused too much and taking revenge and killing concubines also occasionally occurs. These palace maids are selected to enter the palace once a year, and the palace maids are divided into three, six, nine and so on, with rough envoys, close-fitting, and large and small female officials. The purpose of entering the palace is to serve those who are selected as "little masters", of course, there are also those who are assigned to the imperial dining room, the Shangyi Bureau, the Embroidery Bureau, etc., and those who make mistakes will go to the Xinzhiku to do heavy work.

Some palace maids were sent to the palaces as soon as they entered the palace, so the Rui Palace's palace often had small palace maids to enter the palace. The palace maids who stay in the palace belong to the emperor's women, and their origins are not as high as those who enter the palace and are called "little masters" by the general election.

No matter what the background is, it is possible to become the emperor's woman when she enters the palace, and many palace maids have a beautiful vision of flying on the branches and becoming phoenixes, and there are many successful ones. For example, Emperor Yongzheng's mother, Concubine De, was a palace maid when she entered the palace, and she was born in Baoyi, and finally became the queen mother. However, this kind of climbing to the highest position is only rare, and most of the palace maids have been serving the little master since they entered the palace, and after ten years of vicissitudes, they left the palace and went home. During this period, there were those who became scapegoats for the little masters, those who committed some mistakes and were killed with a rod, and those who did not see anyone alive or dead.

The fate of the palace maid who entered the Rui Wang's Mansion was very different from that in the palace, although she was descended from a palace maid to a maid, but the marriage event was not delayed at all. Their rosters are all named, aged, and ranked. After entering the mansion, they still take monthly rules according to their rank, but they can't do her errands in the palace, and they have to be reassigned to work by the prince and Fujin. No matter how old they are, the first thing they do when they enter the palace is that the prince and Fujin want to ask them if they want to go home, and those who want to go home will immediately give twenty taels of silver to settle in, and bring their luggage to the house by the carriage of the palace. The prince and Fu Jin knew that the fathers and brothers of these palace maids were all low-level officials, and the life at home was not easy, and perhaps there were still elderly and sick people in the family who needed to be taken care of, and they were in a hurry to go home. Some people know that they will definitely leave the palace, and they are given relatives at home, and in this case, they will go home faster. There are also those who don't want to go home for various reasons, so they stay at home and work as errands. Because there is no more monthly case when she goes home, she stays in the palace, and the amount of the monthly case is synchronized with her rank in the palace. The fate of such a palace maid will be controlled by the prince Fujin, and she will be appointed to marry in time. The palace maid was also a woman, and the most important thing in the life of a woman in that era was marriage. Leaving the Forbidden City will have no chance with the emperor, everyone hopes that they can have a more satisfactory home, and not all palace maids hope to become the emperor's woman. Especially those older palace maids, they know that they can't stay in the palace, and they have to stay up until they have served for ten years before they can leave the palace and go home to marry themselves. At that time, he was already twenty-three or fourteen years old, and the marriage problem was difficult to solve, so there was basically no satisfactory one, because normal folk women married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and at the age of twenty-three or four, they were either continuations or concubines.

The prince Fujin first tried his best to find suitable husbands for them among the guards and soldiers in the palace according to their age. The guards and soldiers are very interested in the palace maids who enter the palace, and their strengths are that they understand the rules and can calculate, and they are even more suitable for being housewives than the ladies.

There are guards and personal soldiers who take a fancy to which palace maid girl, and report to the personal guards around the prince, and they report to the prince. Then the prince Fujin will let the palace maid secretly look at the guard or personal soldier who takes a fancy to her. After taking a fancy to the parties, tell the parties about the family situation of both parties without concealment, and let the parents of both parties meet if they have no opinions, and they will be married if they are all satisfied.

The pro-soldiers of the Rui Wangfu are different from other palaces, the pro-soldiers of other palaces are the family members who specialize in taking care of the family for the prince, and the pro-soldiers of the Rui Wangfu are the Shaolin kung fu soldiers who were handed over by the emperor to the prince to cultivate, and they studied Shaolin kung fu in the house for three years and then the emperor personally assigned errands, or directly stayed in the Forbidden City as a soldier of the Imperial Forest Army, or a royal guard, and more was assigned to the barracks as a petty officer. Don't look at the low level, but the step of promotion, when you come, you are an officer, at least a seven-rank martial arts, which is more justified than those who come in from other channels. Those who have been a personal soldier in the Rui Wangfu are equivalent to being plated with a layer of gold, and they belong to the prince's protégé. Therefore, many official eunuch families have to dig the door and plane the window to send their son to the Rui Wang's Mansion, laying a solid foundation for the future future, of course, those who take this road will be military attaches in the future, and those who want to seek fame in the scientific examination are not in this case. The scope of the official family is very wide, it can be the children of officials at all levels, the children of the Houmen and the family, and the children of the royal family. Therefore, some of the pro-soldiers of the Rui Wangfu were from higher backgrounds than the guards. Every year, there are a group of people who enter the house, and every year there are also a group of people who leave the house, so that the palace maids and girls provide a good opportunity to choose. It is also because they have a future in the future, at least they are also people who eat the emperor's grain, and they are young, and they have become the favored husband and wife of the palace maid.

I didn't think anything about it at first, but after dozens of palace maids got married, the information was fed back to the Forbidden City, and the Ruiwang Mansion became a place of yearning for many palace maids. The days of walking on thin ice in the palace are the nightmare of every palace maid, and it is lucky to have a kind-hearted master, but it is not a good life to have a poisonous one. Although the palace maids also belong to the emperor's women, due to their low background and being confined in a small range, the chances of being favored by the emperor and flying on the branches to become a phoenix are very small. Even if you see the emperor, you may not be favored by the emperor. Therefore, more and more palace maids are optimistic about Rui Wangfu, and they can't wait to leave the Forbidden City, which makes people tremble, go to Rui Wangfu.

Not to mention that the marriage event in the Rui Wangfu is not delayed, even if you are usually on an errand, there is no danger and worry of being beaten at any time, as long as you are good on an errand and loyal to your master, you will continue to do it smoothly.

There are not many palace maids who can be lucky enough to enter the Rui Wang's Mansion to serve beside the two hostesses, most of them are cleaning up dead branches and leaves in the garden, cleaning dust in various courtyards, sprinkling and sweeping courtyards, and they are not tired of work, and they can eat and sleep. Fujin didn't dare to put the girl who had been against the master by his side, so when the palace maids entered the palace, they first had to work in the garden for a year or two after learning the rules of the palace for half a year. The maid Lian'er who served Ling Juan was the little palace maid from the palace, and fortunately she had just been decided to stay as a palace maid, so the queen mother sent her and nine other palace maids to the Rui Palace. Lian'er is relatively young, only fourteen years old.

The other maid is the child of the clothed slave family in the Zhuangzi of the house, and such a girl is still very loyal to the prince Fujin. Because most of their parents, brothers and sisters are on errands in the house, and they have been slaves of the prince for generations. They have no chance to redeem themselves, and such maids and servants belong to the "family children". The maid Yue'er who came to serve by Ling Juan's side was the son of the family.

There are also relatives and friends recommended by the senior management of the house, or those who are recruited by special circumstances because they have difficulties in family life and have a skill. Such a person is also very loyal to the prince, because if he doesn't do well, he will even be involved with the person who recommended him, and he is even more cautious.

The number of maids bought from outside or given as gifts from other houses is very small. They are all from humble backgrounds, so they are more cautious than others.

But no matter who it is, when you enter the palace, you must first receive half a year of rules and etiquette training, first learn the rules and etiquette, pass the assessment, and then assign another errand.

Yun'er said to Shui'er: "Girls, grandma are going to work in the building, you take Sister Ling around our courtyard and let her get familiar with the environment in case she gets lost." ”

"The slave obeys." Shui Er took the order and said to Ling Juan: "Mr. Ling, Master Yun instructed the slave maid to take you to familiarize yourself with the environment in the courtyard, for fear that you will get lost." ”

"Thank you, thank you."

"You don't need to look at the front door to the master's residence, the slave will take you to the backyard to have a look. Let's go out through the north gate of the east cloister, the backyard is so big. ”

"Okay, I'm really afraid that I won't be able to find it if I get lost." Ling Juan didn't dare to say that she was a road idiot, so she didn't remember it. Last time, Yun'er had already taken her on this road, but because the mama guarding the door was not there, the door was locked, so she didn't go in.

The north gate of the corridor on the east side was guarded by a mother-in-law during the day, and Yun'er did not let these subordinates stand all day. Who is not flesh and blood? Therefore, the maids and women who do such errands can sit down and do needlework, and there are seats in the corridors.

Seeing Shui'er bringing Ling Juan over, the mama guarding the door quickly put down the needle and thread and stood up, and gave Shui'er a blessing: "Mama Zhang is good." This is ......"

"This is Mr. Ling, the daughter-in-law of the two little masters. The master instructed me to take Mr. Ling around, her new arrival in an unfamiliar environment. ”

"Yes, yes, old sister will open the door." The janitor is very respectful and attentive to Shui'er, who is Shui'er? It is a first-class maid and a marrying girl who serves the cloud master closely, and her status is high. The hierarchical concept of this era is quite heavy, especially the master of Yun, who gave birth to three children to the prince, will be on an equal footing with Fujin in the future, the mother factor is expensive, and the identities of Mama Zhou Yu'er and Mama Zhang, who serve the master of the cloud closely, have risen.