There were more than 20 palace maids sleeping in Yuehua's room. There were a dozen on the beds, and seven or eight were laid on the ground. She came back early today and could sleep in the bed, and she was unlucky enough to grab a place on the bed, but there was a snoring sleeping next to her. This girl snores and grinds her teeth, she doesn't stop all night, Yuehua hasn't slept well all night, she wakes up before she arrives in the morning, and she can't sleep after waking up.

She couldn't sleep anyway, so she got up, took out her clothes from under the pillow, and changed them lightly. The clothes were pillowed under the head overnight, and the obvious creases and a little wrinkles could be seen at the corners of the folds, if you wore such clothes in the palace and went out, you would definitely be scolded by Aunt Qiuyan, and I couldn't care about it at this time. She had to put her clothes under the pillow, there was no way, there were more than 20 people living in the small house, and there was no place to put the clothes, so she could only pull a rope next to the windowsill to hang the clothes of the palace maids. However, the palace maid's clothes are all uniform green dresses, and it is impossible to see who is whose clothes when put together, and after experiencing several times when others wear her clothes wrongly, and she wears the wrong clothes of others, she folds up her clothes and puts them under the pillow.

Hundreds of palace maids can only wash in one place, it is crowded, it is easy to get up the next morning, hurry to wash, and catch up with the large army and have to line up when it is late.

The washing place is in the yard, saying that the yard is actually a fence fenced off a wide open space, very narrow, the yard does not even have a water tank, fortunately their house is on the side of the mountain, there is mountain spring water on the mountain, dig a ditch from the mountain to draw water down, they usually use this ditch to scoop water in this ditch.

There is a row of wooden basins next to the ditch, the basin is public, whoever wants to use it, some people take it to wash their faces, some people take it to wash their feet, put it here during the day, put it here at night, put it here when it is clean, and only put it here if it is not clean, although Yuehua does not love to be clean too much and does not like to use things that people have used, he never uses a basin, he took a hand towel, scooped a scoop of water to wet the towel and wash his face.

Emperor Daxing reigned for 11 years to have fun, love beauty, the palace women in the palace expanded to 30,000 or 40,000 people, the first emperor was very happy, the east and west caused the people's livelihood to wither, the treasury was empty, the border was tight, especially the Dali country in the southwest border pass.

The first emperor had no children, the ministers went to the north to meet the first emperor's brother Heng Wang inherited the throne, when Heng Wang ascended the throne, the country was in turmoil, Dali took the opportunity to send 20,000 troops to kill 50,000 of my soldiers and also seized Sizhou. The new emperor had no choice but to make Prince An's four county lords the princess of Deyang and marry the emperor of the southwest Dali Kingdom, and the border pass was temporarily stable.

Under the advice of the ministers, the new emperor adopted the strategy of cultivating life and recuperation, and the first thing was to garrison troops in the southwest, and the general of the country conscripted 50,000 troops to quietly reclaim the land in the southwest and build fortifications in the south; The second thing is to reduce the expenses of the harem and eliminate the redundant palace maids, and nearly 20,000 palace maids were laid off in the palace at once, and some families sent back to their hometowns with two taels of silver.

There are also some palace maids who are abducted and trafficked to the palace by human traffickers, and they can't find their place of origin, and now the southwest is reclaimed by the army, and it is the time to use people, and the military households at the border pass can't marry their daughters-in-law, and there is no way to settle down, so they are all sent to the southwest border to settle down for the military households. It is said that it is for military households to settle down, but settling down is actually matching people. In the eyes of the officials of the imperial court, most of the palace ladies are from humble backgrounds anyway, and they are also compatible with the third-rate military households.

As the saying goes, once the son of heaven is a courtier, this truth is a group of masters and a group of slaves in the harem.

Yuehua used to be the palace maid of the imperial study, although she was a small palace maid who worked as an errand in the imperial study, she was also decent back then, and the people in other palaces had to say hello to them when they saw them, and now they ...... How beautiful the people in front of the emperor were back then, how unlucky they are now, only some palace maids have been laid off in other palaces, and none of the people who used to serve by the emperor's side have been sent out, and most of them have been sent to the border.

Yuehua was abducted at the age of five, and was sold into the palace at the age of eleven, and he didn't know where his hometown was, so he naturally followed him to the border.

The southwest frontier has just experienced a big war, and all kinds of waste are waiting to be rebuilt, especially the lack of manpower, their group of people came, and they didn't have time to care about their marriage, so they were sent to work in the quartermaster department, and Yuehua was arranged to weave cloth in the weaving room. The house leak coincided with rain, because the heavy rain caused the water to rise, and the reservoir had to be built and the river embankment had to be built, and they had to go to the dam every other day to pick up soil.

She was the first to go to Mrs. Chen, who was in charge, and Mrs. Yan, who was in charge, had not yet arrived.

There are hundreds of people in a large weaving room, and there are only two people in charge, but no one dares to be lazy, because their rules here are that they give as much food as they do, and if they don't finish their work, they have no food and can only starve, and they have to be diligent in order to eat.

The weaving room stipulates that one piece of cloth is woven every day, and the work starts in the morning, and the work starts at night, and when the work is finished at night, Chen Po and Yan Po, who are in charge, will come to count. One piece of cloth for two catties of buckwheat noodles, not enough for one horse is not counted. The rice and white noodles in the army are eaten by a trained sergeant, and the woman can only eat coarse grains, one piece of cloth for two catties of buckwheat noodles, black noodles with the same color as the soil, take these two catties of buckwheat noodles and hand them over to the kitchen, and the kitchen will cook your meal, and the kitchen will not cook your meal if you don't hand over the grain.

The cloth was measured with a ruler, and three zhang was counted as one horse, which was enough, and the next morning he went to the steward's place early in the morning to receive the cotton thread and rations for weaving. Chen Po is a short and thin old man, high cheekbones nasolabial folds look a little fierce, she usually has a straight face, not smiling, very strict, she can't do a little leave, three zhang is enough to count a horse is not half a foot, the palace maid is most afraid of meeting her. The two people in charge, Yan Po is better than Chen Po, with a disc face, a shrewd face, and a gentle voice, sometimes a foot and a half short to say two good words, and she will turn a blind eye to the past when she stuffs a few coppers.

The big guys all hate Chen Po to death and like Yan Po, I don't know why Yuehua doesn't like Yan Po, I think this person looks kind but is actually shrewd.

Yuehua handed over the grain and received two buckwheat baba and a bowl of rice soup, and sat in the canteen to eat.

She still has some savings in her hand, and it's not that she hasn't thought about buying rice, white noodles, meat and vegetables and other things for tooth sacrifices, but the army is tightly controlled, she can't go out, she can't go back and forth, and she can't buy money if she has money. Only this thing can be eaten.

Yuehua ate half of Yan Hong before she came, Yan Hong was also a person in front of the palace, but the two were in charge of different things, and the two of them were sent out of the palace together.

There are thousands of palace maids who left the palace and came to the border pass, and there were too many people in the palace to escort them to the border pass in batches, Yuehua left the palace a day late because something happened temporarily, and did not follow the people in his palace.

From the capital city to the border pass thousands of miles, several miles, on the road, for the sake of safety, the aunts suggested that it is best for two or three palace maids to accompany the children, and go anywhere together, so as not to be lost and abducted alone. Yuehua didn't go with the people in her palace, and she was not familiar with the people in other palaces, at this time, Yanhong took the initiative to show goodwill to Yuehua, Yanhong was beautiful and sweet-mouthed, and spoke softly, Yuehua felt that this person was okay and agreed to be with her, and the two of them set up a companion in this way, and took care of each other on the road.

After getting along for a few days, I found out that Yan Hong had a problem, and it was not that she had a bad character, but she liked to take advantage of it, she loved to call people, and she called Yuehua if she had nothing to do: "Oops! This water bladder is full of water, it's so heavy, you can help me get it! Then Yuehua helped her get the water bladder.

On the way to eat, Yuehua was a cake and an egg soup as usual, but this Yanhong said that she was not thirsty and reluctant to order the soup: "Oops! I didn't expect this cake to be so hard and dry, give me your egg soup, and I'll go back and buy you a cake. So she took the bowl and drank half a bowl of soup, and ate the eggs in it, and of course did not buy her bread.

"The bed is made hard, spread your clothes underneath and mine on top." So Yuehua's clothes were pressed underneath, crumpled, and her clothes were very neat.

"Yuehua, I'm not feeling well, my clothes are all dust, you can wash it for me, the number of people here is the best, the beauty is good, I am blessed to make such a good person." When Yuehua was washing clothes, she ran over with a sweet smile, threw the clothes into the Yuehua basin and left.

Yuehua thought at first that she was just not used to being in a hurry and was a little squeamish, but after many times, she found that this person likes to take advantage of others and likes to be obedient. Yuehua has a gentle temper and is not so calculating, and she is not in a hurry than in the palace, and she feels that it is better to have more things than one less, and she doesn't want to quarrel with people on the road because of a little thing. In addition, it is troublesome to change people, leaving Yanhong to partner with other people, so that she is alone in case something really happens, she is also uneasy. If you help make some of it, you won't lose a piece of meat on your body, so you can endure it. She is not blindly good-tempered, sometimes she thinks that Yan Hong is a little too much to call her, so she ignores Yan Hong, and says two words of warning to her not to overdo it, the two are a little contradictory but they are still peaceful.

Yuehua endured it all the way, and when she arrived at the border, she didn't pay much attention to her.

When she arrived at the border, she found that Yan Hong still had a problem, that is, she was cheeky, Yuehua didn't care about her, she could still post it, Yuehua was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl's house, she was embarrassed to tear it up, so she simply ignored it with a cold face, and if she was happy, she would take care of it, and if she was unhappy, she would ignore it.

Yuehua didn't sleep well last night, this time she was not in good spirits and didn't bother to talk to Yanhong Zhou Xuan, Yanhong greeted her, she ignored it, she was quite impatient, Yanhong didn't think it was a pestle, and sat down with a big thorn: "Yuehua, look at my cake, it's black!" She lifted the buckwheat poop and took a bite hard: "This thing has been a head when you have eaten it, and now I just want to eat puff pastry meat." Who used to eat this greasy puff pastry meat in the palace, but now it has become a good one, and I can't eat it if I want to. "They are all palace maids released from the palace, even if they don't eat well when they are in the palace, they eat 100 meters of white noodles for three meals a day, where have they ever eaten this kind of black thing. Besides, Yan Hong is still the palace maid in front of the palace, and she is used to living a good life in the palace, and she looks down on this even more.

"You don't eat it for me." An unknown palace maid next to her snorted coldly: "This is embarrassing and hypocritical, it seems that the emperor was too comfortable in the previous days." ”

"Who said I won't eat, I won't eat and I won't give it to you, what are you?" Yan Hong stared at the two buckwheat poops in her hand and sighed: "It's better to go home, it's better to go home and be sold than to suffer here." "Yan Hong is the palace maid of the first emperor and the former accountant, she served the first emperor but did not record the concubine of the first emperor, she can only be regarded as a palace maid.

The people in front of the palace have to be sent out, and Yan Hong's parents are dead, and now she only has her brother and sister-in-law. The sister-in-law is an open-eyed person who sees money, and her brother is ruthless and unrighteous, how did he sell it into the palace in the first place, and how did he sell her when he went back. Now it's different from the past, it used to be a young girl's family, and now she is not a yellow flower girl, and serious people don't want it, maybe she will be sold to the green building. So she would rather follow Yuehua and them to the border than go back. Yan Hong came to the border pass to know the bitterness of the border pass, and then complained again.

Yan Hong grumbled, and pulled Yuehua aside as if she remembered something, and tinkered in Yuehua's ear: "You said no!" If you don't have a family, it's better to sell yourself than here, I have no choice, you are better than me! If you want to look good, you have to have a figure, how many people can't look at it when you are outside. Don't think my words are not good, what I said is right, marrying a military family has become a third-rate, and your children and grandchildren are also third-rate, and you can't turn over for many lifetimes...... It's better to be outside, it's better to marry any one than here. Don't you want to go out!? As she spoke, her two earrings dangled back and forth, and she did not look like a serious girl, but she was frivolous like a prostitute in the garden. The first emperor was lustful and prodigal, and liked to linger in the flowers, and both the concubines and palace ladies in the palace were dressed up as enchanting as prostitutes. The first emperor was not taboo in speaking, and sometimes he could tell meat jokes in the court, but everyone who was on an errand in front of the emperor was a hanger's tone, and this Yanhong learned the appearance of this hangerlang ten out of ten.

Yuehua looked at Yan Hong's appearance probably because she felt that this day was too bitter, and she wanted to run away with her, the army was so strict, did you want to leave if you wanted to! But she knows what Yanhong's temper is, this person likes to find trouble when he has nothing to do, Quan Dang didn't hear it: "Eat quickly, it's time to go to work in a while, if you don't finish your work today, you won't have anything to eat tomorrow, I'm afraid of starving." With that, he left.