The female dependents of the convicts who were escorted to Pingcheng with Feng Luoli were assigned to different places in the palace to do miscellaneous work, and some of the female dependents who had been filial to the silver were arranged to do errands that were easy to reach the emperor.

The young Feng Luoli had no way to honor his father-in-law on errands, so he was naturally assigned to the most bitter and tiring Yongxiang miscellaneous room without any suspense, and washed clothes for the emperor and concubines.

After a day of hard work, Feng Luoli had a full meal for the first time, although it was bran rice and brown rice, it was finally enough to eat and wrap his stomach; Staring at the unfamiliar and simple living room, Feng Luoli actually felt a sense of belonging, and there was no need to be displaced and sleep in the open in the future.

Lying on top of a low slab made of wooden planks, listening to the steady breathing of other girls of the same age in the same room; After ten months of inhuman ordeal, Feng Luoli fell asleep peacefully for the first time; There is no wailing everywhere, there is no sad call of my father and mother, there is no bloodstain in my eyes; Xu is too tired, and he has no dreams all night.

"Get up! Get up! The sky was bright, Feng Luoli and the girls in the same room were woken up by a group of eunuchs, rubbing their sleepy eyes, and innocently looking at the gray figures who suddenly broke in.

"Hurry up, you must be dressed neatly and wait in the yard for a cup of tea, your hands and feet are a little sharp, and you can't wait for the dust of the miscellaneous family when you are late!" The sharp voice pierced Feng Luoli's ears, and in the moment of awakening, all the eunuchs had already walked out of the room with broken steps.

No one had time to look at the others, they all dressed and washed quickly, and ran into the yard as fast as they could; It's dark, it should still be the hour! In the early spring, the morning breeze was still tingling with the biting frost, and more than a dozen little girls of the same age, dressed in thin ragged shirts and ankle-length trousers, stood shivering in the cold wind;

A eunuch wearing a lacquered gauze hood, a reddish-brown cross-collared left dark coat, and black pleated trousers, looked at the little girls shivering in the cold wind one by one with a pair of viper-like eyes, and waited until a little eunuch in brown behind him finished counting the number of people, raised his throat and said sharply:

"From now on, you will be a handyman in our handyman's house, and the specific work is the one you did yesterday; The miscellaneous family is to hold the father-in-law, and he is your manager."

Hug Ling paused, touched his cold cheeks, and looked at the little girls who were staggering in the wind.

"To do things under the hands of miscellaneous people, you must be nimble and clean! You are all guilty, don't dream of those young ladies and daughters, working hard is the first thing! Be cautious when washing the clothes of the emperor and the ladies, and you will be punished for damaging your valuable clothes! Did you hear me clearly? ”

"Hear me clearly!" The slender, trembling voice makes people shudder,

"That's it! Xiao Zhangzi, tell them the rules of our miscellaneous room, and the province will cause trouble for the miscellaneous family in the future" After saying that, he glanced at a little eunuch beside him, and left with the two little fathers-in-law with small steps,

The delicate-looking eunuch, who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed in a dark brown robe, walked a few steps forward with his head slightly raised, glanced at the girls who had been standing for a long time, and raised his voice and spoke......

Feng Luoli, who was standing in the back row and his legs were already frozen and a little numb, looked at the little father-in-law who spoke, his face was fair, his voice was still young, and his voice trembled and said the rules of those complicated miscellaneous rooms; Inexplicably, there is a feeling of sympathy.,Although I don't know anything about the father-in-law who speaks except for the name.。

Half an hour later, Gonggong Zhang finished the rules of the miscellaneous room, and at this time the first light appeared in the sky;

A few eunuchs in grass-green hakama walked in at this time with a large number of brocade clothes, glanced at this group of little girls, and seemed to be accustomed to the fact that the prisoner's wife did not have a palace as a maid, and just explained a few words in the ear of Gonggong Zhang and left;

"These are the clothes of Zuo Zhaoyi Niangniang of the Shiqian Palace, leaving a few people with quick hands and feet, diligence, and eyesight to wash, and the rest of the people continue to do the work that they didn't finish yesterday, and they can only eat at a moment's notice!"

After Zhang Gonggong finished speaking, among Feng Luoli, he selected a few girls who looked clean and neat to leave them to wash the clothes that had just been sent, including Feng Luoli; After some more instructions, the inferior eunuch on duty in the miscellaneous room beckoned the other people to disperse and go to their own side.

His fingers were soaked in the cold water, carefully and meticulously scrubbing the brocade clothes in the wooden basin; Within a quarter of an hour, his fingers became numb, and he mechanically and laboriously scrubbed those expensive clothes that Father-in-law Zhang had told him to pay attention to.

Feng Luoli suddenly remembered the ballad her mother sang when she was a child, soft and warm, and at that time she always pestered her mother to sing it to herself over and over again; It's only been so long that I can't even remember the name of the ballad!

"What are you doing? If you don't work hard, what a daze! Don't you want to eat anymore! Suddenly, a little eunuch stood beside Feng Luoli and yelled at her,

Feng Luoli hurriedly lowered his head, sped up the movements in his hands, and washed the clothes in the basin wholeheartedly; For Feng Luoli at this time, filling her stomach is the biggest thing, and no longer starving is the goal of every day.

Father-in-law Zhang sent them a few coarse linen clothes to change and wash to protect against the cold, and the weather in Pingcheng was always windy and freezing; If he was still dressed in prisoners' clothes and shorts, I am afraid that it would not be long before there would be fewer handymen who could work in this miscellaneous room.

Every day is spent in heavy laundry, drawing water, drying, these heavy labor, Feng Luoli has long been unable to remember his original appearance; I only know that there are many, many clothes waiting to be washed by myself every day, and then I can make sure that my stomach is not hungry, and when the moon is high, I can occasionally meet my father and mother in my dreams.

Feng Luoli didn't know how long she had been in such days, but she gradually got acquainted with the girls around her, and she no longer avoided it when she saw Grandpa Zhang, who supervised them.

Feng Luoli even felt that she already liked this kind of life, except for the necessary rest, it was endless labor, and she didn't have to worry about being arrested and beaten one day, and she didn't have to worry about not being able to eat if she was in a bad mood; Occasionally, I will be rewarded with a few copper plates for my diligence and clean clothes, and since I have no palace for life, this is also appropriate.

On this day, the sun was warm, and even the hibiscus flowers in the yard were particularly beautiful and bright, Feng Luoli squatted in front of the wooden basin of Huan's laundry, diligently and seriously washing the clothes sent today. Probably because of the warm sunshine! The chilblains on his hands were healed again, and his hands and feet seemed to be much sharper, and within two hours, Feng Luoli had washed hundreds of clothes.

Feng Luoli wrung out the last piece of clothing, put it in the wooden basin containing the clean clothes, stood up, beat the sore waist, and prepared to pour out the sewage, redraw the water and wash the rest of the clothes.

"Is there any one here who is the daughter of Feng Lang, the Duke of Xicheng County?" A young eunuch wearing a soap hat with a drooping hair, a wide-sleeved shirt with a collar, and trousers walked into the courtyard and asked in a shrill voice.

Feng Luoli chuckled in his heart, the sewage in the wooden basin spilled all over the ground, and the eunuch who spoke noticed Feng Luoli's abnormality, raised his feet and walked towards Feng Luoli, who was stunned in place.

"Are you Feng Lang's daughter?" The young eunuch looked Feng Luoli up and down, his eyes as shrewd as a mouse and looked her up and down.

Feng Luoli clenched his hands and nodded with some fear, but his heart began to cool little by little, every time he heard his father's name these days, it was an unavoidable disaster for Feng Luoli, shackles, whipping, starvation, what would it be this time?

"Eh! Isn't this Gonggong Chen? What happened to this little girl? You tell me, I'll teach you a lesson! Custody makes you feel comfortable" Father-in-law Zhang heard this, did not delay at all, and walked over quickly. Seeing this, he said respectfully to the young eunuch very flatteringly.

"I don't know about this, we are slaves who only do things according to orders, but we are not qualified to ask this and that. Let's just do what I have to say! That's the master who knows the reason! The young eunuch glanced at Gonggong Zhang, and his nostrils hummed with disdain.

"Come with me!" The young eunuch glanced at Feng Luoli, said in a strange voice, didn't look at Gonggong Zhang again, turned around and walked in front.

Feng Luoli looked nostalgically at the courtyard that he was already familiar with, tried to speak for his father-in-law, and the basin of clothes that had not had time to be washed, and followed the young eunuch like a puppet to move out of the miscellaneous room step by step.