At this time, it is early spring, and the spring is cold.

As soon as Liu Nianrou put her hand into the water, she felt a biting cold air go straight to the bone marrow.

She raised her eyes to look at Xiaohua beside her, and saw that she looked calm, and kept picking up and putting down the clothes in the sink with both hands, as if she was accustomed to the cold, so she gritted her teeth, endured the biting cold that kept coming from her hands, and began to wash her clothes after learning Xiaohua's movements.

Such a simple action has been repeated tens of millions of times, and the washed clothes at the feet of the two of them are already filled with more than a dozen large basins.

Those washermen had already completed today's task and went to the backyard to eat and rest, leaving only Liu Nianrou and Xiaohua, who kept repeating the action of washing.

At this time, a round of red sun slowly sank in the sky, gradually disappeared outside the palace wall, and was no longer visible.

Xiaohua was tired and had a sore back, so she reached out and wiped the sweat on her forehead, straightened up, stretched her waist, and looked sideways at Liu Nianrou beside her, but saw her delicate jade hands, which were already red and swollen at this time, and the sweat on her forehead was constantly rolling down, wetting a large piece of clothes in front of her.

Seeing this, Xiaohua regretted in her heart, hurriedly took her hand, and whispered: "Sister, I see that you don't seem to have ever done these stupid jobs, you just have a good rest on the side, and let me do the rest of the work!" ”

Liu Nianrou shook her head when she heard this, and said softly with a smile: "Good sister, I am older than you, how can I let you work for me?" You should go and rest! ”

After saying that, she was about to push Xiaohua aside.

How could Xiaohua let her work alone?

The two pushed back and forth for a while, but they didn't notice that Sister-in-law Huang had quietly come behind the two.

She saw that the two of them were in a deep sisterhood. His heart was on fire, and he bent down and stretched out his hand to pull out all the laundry that had been washed in the basin. He fell to the ground and shouted, "I said, why haven't you finished this little work yet?" But it turned out that I was lazy here! ”

When the two of them heard the sound, they realized that they hurriedly turned around and grabbed her hand, and begged for mercy in a low voice.

Sister-in-law Huang looked at the scattered clothes on the ground, which were already unbearable, reached out and poked Xiaohua's forehead a few times with her fingers, gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "I can't finish washing these clothes." Do not rest! ”

With that, she turned and strode away.

Xiaohua stared blankly at the clothes scattered at her feet, tears welling up in her eyes. Turning her face and seeing Liu Nianrou stunned, she felt sorry for her in her heart, and hurriedly whispered: "This sister-in-law Huang is a distant relative of Father-in-law Hai. After taking charge of this laundry room. He is very arrogant and arrogant! Today, it's not surprising that we're being bullied by her. Sister, don't be sad, let's rewash it quickly. ”

Liu Nianrou looked at the person in front of her when she heard this, and saw that there were tears on her face, but there was tenderness in her eyes. Shaking his head, he said, "I'm not feeling sorry for myself, but innocent for you to be implicated." After suffering these sins, my heart is even more sad. ”

Xiao Huan heard her true feelings, and her heart was sad for a moment, she smiled and hugged her shoulder, and whispered: "Xiaohua can have a sister by her side, that is, I want to die for my sister immediately, and I will never frown!" ”

"Nonsense! You will be my Liu Nianrou's sister in the future, I will never let anyone hurt you again, how can I let you die for me? ”

Liu Nianrou sighed and reached out to hug her into her arms, whispering softly like a vow, while countless tears rolled down her eyes.

This night, the two of them worked until the fish white in the east, then they washed all the clothes again, took them to the courtyard outside, and put them on the bamboo poles one by one, which was considered a great success.

Xiaohua took Liu Nianrou's hand, and the two returned to the last courtyard, entered a bunk room lightly, came to a corner, and fell asleep.

But after only squinting for a short while, he was woken up by the person next to him.

The two rubbed their sore eyes, saw that everyone in the room had gotten up, and hurriedly followed everyone out of the room.

At this time, the sky turned white, and there were still stars in the sky.

After Liu Nianrou waited to follow everyone to stand still in the courtyard, she was a little sober, so she straightened her sore waist with great effort, and looked left and right.

The sister-in-law Huang was crossing her waist with her hands, staring at the two dozen people standing neatly in front of her, and said loudly: "Today is a major event in the palace draft, there will be countless clothes to be sent over for pulp washing, everyone must be very careful, don't cause any trouble!" ”

As soon as everyone agreed, they saw that the door of the courtyard was pushed open, and the palace maids in the front yard who were sorting clothes carried a large basket of clothes, and rushed in, piling these dozens of large baskets of clothes in the open space in the courtyard.

A woman in the back of the palace, also in her thirties and forties, holding a page of the list in her hand, came over at this time, and counted the list in her hands carefully with the sister-in-law Huang one by one, and then said loudly: "Sister-in-law Huang, these clothes must be washed all tomorrow morning." Tomorrow at noon, people will come from all over the palace to retrieve them one by one. Don't miss anything! ”

Sister-in-law Huang nodded in agreement.

Only then did this person turn and leave, and the remaining palace maids followed her and retreated one by one.

Everyone looked at the dozens of baskets of clothes in front of them, which were clearly much more than usual, and they immediately felt a lot of pressure in their hearts, and they were all depressed and powerless.

Sister-in-law Huang came over at this time, swept the audience with her eyes, and then shouted: "You have all heard it just now, today is unusual, it is a big day for the Holy Lord to choose draft girls today." There are many more washed clothes sent from all over the natural palace. Even if we don't eat, we don't sleep, and we have to wash these clothes on time, otherwise there will be no good fruit to eat! Go eat and get ready to work! ”

After saying this, Sister-in-law Huang swayed and entered her own exclusive cabin alone and went to enjoy breakfast alone.

Everyone had to cheer up, quickly came to a small room, seized a place, quickly picked up the steamed buns and porridge on the long table in the center of the room, and ate and drank in a big gulp.

Liu Nianrou and Xiaohua were exhausted, so they took a few steps slower, and when the two of them came in, there were no steamed buns and porridge left on the table.

The two looked at each other, but they had no choice but to turn around and go out, endure the hunger in their stomachs, and wait to get ready to work.

It was only a blink of an eye, and these palace maids who had finished eating and drinking came out quickly, came to the courtyard again, and stood in line.

Liu Nianrou raised her eyes to see that a touch of morning glow was breaking through the clouds and projecting out, colorful and very charming.

She took a deep breath and whispered to herself in her heart: "Liu Nianrou, you have to learn to be strong, you have to live a life at the bottom of this palace!" (To be continued......)