The crescent moon is like a hook, the starlight is dotted, there is only a shadow left in the night, there is no flashy appearance during the day, the shadow of the person at night seems pure, the breeze in the night is in the arms with a trace of coolness, Yuehua can't help but close the placket, the mind is also sober, the yard is very quiet, you can hear the sound of gurgling water in the ditch and the frog in the rice field not far away.

Yuehua saw that the little girl's mood had not calmed down and did not urge her to go in again, and the two sat on the steps to talk. After all, Si'er is young, everything is like a wind blowing through the hall, and after it passes, there is nothing left, carefree.

Si'er cried for a while and gradually calmed down, and at this time she was a little girl who didn't know what to do, so she said: "It's better to be a sister...... You don't dislike me...... I'll just call you sister! Yuehua nodded as acquiescence, and she said again: "My sister is beautiful, she doesn't talk on weekdays with a straight face, and her manners and rules are more regular than that of the grandmother who teaches the rules, I am afraid to look at it, and I dare not approach." Now I know that my sister is a good person, I have never heard such a teaching since I was sold from home, my mother used to teach me, my mother is dead, my father is also dead......" After saying this, I became sad again.

In fact, after saying these words, Yuehua herself was a little funny, as if she was teaching people. She didn't pay attention to the way she spoke, and just said it unconsciously.

When did you have this tone yourself!

She suddenly remembered Qiu Yan, when Qiu Yan didn't come to the imperial study before, she was from the Shangyi Bureau, specializing in rules, and when she did things, she had to be meticulous in everything.

It was this tone when Qiu Yan taught Yuehua in the past, and she must have learned it from her.

Qiu Yan is Yuehua's aunt, in the palace maid wants to climb up and close to serve the master is not so easy, you have to worship the aunt to learn the rules, learn how to serve people, only the aunt has passed this level, can you go out of the teacher, can you serve the master.

The so-called hardship can become a master.

If you don't worship your aunt, you have to be sent to the Huanyi Bureau or other places to do rough work like Si'er, so the palace maids in the palace are vying to worship the close palace maid in front of the master to be an aunt. My aunt is very strict in accepting apprentices, and she has to give a great gift of apprenticeship when she enters her eyes.

Of course, my aunt is not so easy to worship, sometimes my aunt is stricter than my master, and if I don't do it well, I have to be punished for kneeling, and my aunt is not allowed to get up if she doesn't scream, and sometimes she kneels for a few hours.

Not only that, but the palace maid also had to meet all kinds of strange requests from her aunts and endure all kinds of strange rules. This palace maid has to withstand her aunt's harsh criticism and even make it difficult to serve the master, often a palace maid worships her aunt to learn the rules to serve the master for a few years, sometimes she has not learned the rules, she has no chance to serve the master, she is old, no matter how long you have been studying, you will be sent to a place like the Huanyi Bureau to do chores.

Yuehua was lucky, not long after entering the palace, she was favored by Qiu Yan, and she was taken directly by Qiu Yan to listen to the rules by Qiu Yan after worshipping her aunt.

Although Qiu Yan was strict, Yuehua was not punished, but Qiu Yan really taught Yuehua a lot of things. The most important thing is to teach her how to live in the palace again, how to behave in the world, tell her what is important and what is irrelevant, what people are worthy of fellowship, who must be far away, and who cannot be offended. It's not like other palace maids who accept apprentices, and then make things difficult for apprentices in every possible way, but they don't teach them anything at all, wasting people's time in vain.

If it weren't for Qiu Yan, I would have been afraid that I would have entered the Huanyi Bureau like Si'er and would be a laundry maid.

At this time, I saw Si'er and suddenly remembered Qiu Yan, if only Qiu Yan was still alive, the two of them could be regarded as having a companion together.

She likes to look forward, and rarely thinks of the past, and she doesn't want to think about it at this time: "Don't go in early, Ming'er I'm going to pick up soil on the dam, where does I get the strength to sleep without sleeping!" As he spoke, he patted Si'er's arm and went in.

Yuehua was used to being cautious, and suddenly remembered something: "I'll tell you, don't tell anyone about this today, just as if it didn't happen." In case Yan Hong escapes and is caught and you and I confess, the two of us will bite to death together and say that we don't know about it, do you understand! I'm glad it's you, you were originally going to go with her, although it wasn't to escape, in case Yan Hong was dying at that time, it didn't mean that you ran away, and you couldn't tell a hundred mouths by then. “

Si'er heard what she said and knew how powerful it was, so he immediately agreed.

Yuehua entered her place and was occupied by the palace maid next to her, the palace maid's body was spread out into a big character, one person occupied the position of two people, and there was no way to sleep at all, so she had no choice but to hold the quilt to the ground and lay on the ground.

"Yan Hong stole something when she left, and I don't know who was unlucky. There are four children in the world where I can't find her bad luck, so I have to let her take her things away. Yuehua lay on the bed and thought to herself, her own valuables were sewn into her clothes, but she was not worried about being touched.

It rains day after day in summer, Lishui rises quickly, there is a lot of rain this season, the military camp happens to be next to Lishui, if Lishui bursts the embankment, the barracks will be flooded first, so the above proposes to build another reservoir on the edge of Lishui, there is not enough manpower, and their group of palace maids have to go to the dam every other day to help pick up soil and move bricks.

Of course, they are women, and most of them have never done this before. The barracks are also quite humane, and the palace maids don't really let you pick up soil and move bricks when they go to work on the dam, and they go there to do some chores that don't require a lot of effort, such as taking off the billet and turning the bricks, stacking a pile of messy bricks neatly, sweeping the floor and cleaning the ashes, and boiling water for cooking. Rao is not easy to do, at the end of the day even to stop to drink a glass of water, and now in July (the lunar calendar August is about the middle to late August) weather, has begun to cool, but the sun is still poisonous, under the sun for a whole day is enough to bear, and to do a whole day of work is also very sinful.

The weather is still very hot in July and August, and there are still few clothes to wear, so you have to sweat your clothes when you sweat when you work.

The place where I work is not as good as the weaving room, and it is inevitable that there will be men, and the clothes are sweaty, and it is also very embarrassing to expose the underwear such as the belly pocket and the bandeau inside.

Yuehua loves to sweat in summer, often working on the dam all day as if it was fished out of the water, in order to be afraid of making a fool, when she went out, she specially prepared two dry towels, one dry towel on her back, and the other on her chest to absorb sweat but did not make a fool of herself, but she could see that some palace maids' clothes were sweaty, and the small clothes inside were revealed. Yuehua can sometimes see those soldiers who are working secretly, or blatantly sweep the belly pockets and bandeau of other girls, and then several people talk about the girls' breasts together.

This scene is also very embarrassing.

Today's assignment to Yuehua is cooking.

The dam was far away from the barracks' kitchen, so a new shed was built in the open space above the dam to find a new wave of cooks to cook alone. There are 50 of them cooking, divided into three groups, one group is responsible for chopping wood, one group is responsible for washing rice and vegetables, and one group is responsible for cooking rice and stir-frying.

Yuehua is responsible for stir-frying, ten cauldrons are lined up, and at the same time, one big pot is stir-fried.

The dish is a seasonal vegetable in summer, cucumber and beans, which is said to be stir-fried but there is no oil, that is, scoop a scoop of water and boil it in a pot, no seasoning only salt. There were seven or eight thousand people working on the dam, and there were only 50 people in total, and there were not enough people to cook, so in order to speed up the time, sometimes the salt was not fried evenly, and some places were served out of the place.

The taste speaks for itself.

And compared to going to the weaving room to weave cloth Yuehua still prefers to pick soil on the dam, there is no need to be so nervous about working here, if there is something wrong, no one will see it, and the food is good, even if it is raw rice and vegetables without oil and water, it can only be eaten when working on the dam.

The cooks have to wait for everyone to finish eating, and there are many people who eat, usually after noon and in the afternoon, they can't eat yet. However, cooking in the kitchen is still a bit beneficial, people eat a big pot of rice, their own food in the kitchen is also a little welfare, and they are naturally more attentive to making their own meals, at least the meals are not raw, the salt is fried evenly, and they can give more food by themselves, and they can add one more spoonful of vegetables when it is their turn to cook two spoons of rice and one spoonful of vegetables. Most of the time in the kitchen, there is leftover white rice, which is silently returned to the kitchen to work, and this white rice can be smuggled back to eat the next day.

For these reasons, everyone competed for the kitchen work, and even made trouble because of the competition, and later the palace maids who came to work on the dam took turns to cook, so they didn't make any more noise because of this matter.

Today, I don't know why it took half of the afternoon to finish the meal of those thousands of people, Yuehua was already so hungry that her chest was close to her back, and the meal was served on the table and it was easy to eat a bite, and suddenly a palace maid came, saying that she was looking for her to ask questions, and immediately asked her to go over, Yuehua vaguely remembered that she was the palace maid in the weaving room, and Yuehua glanced at the food on the table and was a little reluctant.

"You wait!" She was so hungry that she didn't care about her face, she picked up the bowl and sandwiched two chopsticks and vegetables, and swallowed the food before she could chew it, and finally finished a bowl of rice, picked up the water cup on the table and poured a sip of water and followed, thinking that she didn't eat enough, didn't eat more than a mouthful of food, didn't bring some rice back, and this opportunity was wasted.

Yuehua used to follow Qiu Yan, Qiu Yan paid attention to manners, Yuehua used to pay attention to the image of people on weekdays, since entering the palace with Aunt Qiu Yan, how many years have not been like this, sure enough, starvation is a big thing!