Chapter 160: The Laundry Palace Maid
King Jing has been romantic all his life, what kind of beauty has he never seen? But at this time, the beauty in front of him was so beautiful that it made people tremble, and it was so beautiful that his soul flew away.
Gonggong Li was originally waiting for him to have a thunderous attack, but after waiting for a long time, he was silent, and he felt strange in his heart, so he raised his eyes and secretly looked, only to find that this high-ranking Jing Wang Ye was already stunned at this time, staring at one person with his eyes straight into one person, motionless.
"It's not good, isn't it that Lord Jing also fell in love with this Liu Nianrou girl?"
Thinking of this, Gonggong Li secretly screamed that his voice was not good, and he hurriedly coughed and said loudly: "Lord Jing, these women are the women who will be selected by the emperor himself tomorrow." You look at ...... Still satisfied, right? ”
Prince Jing was awakened by his voice, hurriedly regained his serious expression, straightened his posture, and said majestically: "Reluctantly, but ...... She can't do it, she is too delicate, and when she enters the palace, how can she survive the loneliness in the palace? This is not good, it is too ordinary! This can't work, the figure is too tall, how can you raise your eyebrows with the saint? This ......"
He was merciless, and eliminated several women one after another, but when he got this Liu Nianrou, he had no reason for a while.
"She's so beautiful! If being too beautiful is a sin, then her sin is too great! ”
King Jing was inexplicably troubled in his heart, so he gritted his teeth and said loudly: "This is too enchanting, and if you have a harem, I am afraid that it will cause trouble to the court!" ”
"Lord Jing, this ...... In this case, there will only be these four or five people who can choose tomorrow's saints! ”
Gonggong Li said softly with a sad face. I hope that King Jing can be merciful and keep a few more, especially to leave this stunning woman who is rare to see in a hundred years.
"Less nonsense. I know that you have received a lot of bribes from local government officials, and you want to ask the Holy Lord to ask for them. The remaining five people will be sent to the saint tomorrow to see! The rest of these people are all scattered throughout the palace for distribution, just don't send them back. ”
After Lord Jing said this, he didn't look at the angry and blue face of Gonggong Li, with his hands behind his back. Walk quickly out of the temple.
Liu Nianrou lowered her eyes, disappointed in her heart, but there was no expression on her face. Just followed everyone, followed Gonggong Li and turned around and walked out of the hall.
In the afternoon of the same day, Gonggong Li gathered Liu Nianrou and other eliminated girls and called Mama Wang, who was in charge of palace maid affairs in the palace. Let's talk about it. See where there is a shortage of men in the palace, so that these maidens can be assigned.
Mama Wang flipped through the personnel book in her hand, rolled her eyes and glanced at the more than a dozen girls standing below, but she saw Liu Nianrou at a glance, and was immediately angry with her coquettishness.
She stared at Liu Nianrou and asked sharply, "Are you the Liu Nianrou who made King Jing cry out for trouble?" It's really charming! It's still King Jing's fiery eyes, and only then can he see your charming nature! Father-in-law Li, this person will be assigned to the laundry room! There is a shortage of manpower there! ”
Even if Gonggong Li sighed and pity in his heart, he was helpless, there were many rules in this palace since ancient times. He can only manage those eunuchs, and the palace maid has always been managed by this Wang Mama.
At this time. He really can't help it!
Liu Nianrou was taken by a delicate-looking, thirteen or fourteen-year-old little palace maid assigned by Mama Wang, bypassing countless palaces and pavilions, and passing through endless gardens and Langfang, and I don't know how long she walked, and finally came to a remote corner.
She looked up and saw the three big words "laundry room" hanging on the courtyard door, and knew that she had finally arrived at the place.
The little palace maid turned around, looked at her depressed, looked around, and then took her hand and whispered to her, "Sister, what's your name?" My name is Hua Ruoxuan, you can call me Xiaohua! I'm in my third year here! Don't be discouraged and disappointed, although this is the hardest place in the palace, it is also a pure place away from those concubines and all kinds of right and wrong. We don't eat and wear as much as other places, but we are also happy and content! ”
Liu Nianrou raised her eyes in shock when she heard this, seeing that her eyes were full of encouragement, and she was grateful in her heart, so she nodded and said, "Thank you Xiaohua, I won't be discouraged and disappointed!" ”
The two of them followed back and forth, pushed the door and entered the courtyard.
Liu Nianrou looked around and saw that this yard was really not small, there were houses built on three sides, an open field in the middle, and the east side was neat, with a few bamboo poles set up, and various clothes and sheets were hung on it, which were constantly swinging in the wind.
She paid attention to it carefully, and saw that there were more than a dozen houses of different sizes built side by side on the south side, and above the door, there were hanging signs such as "Miscellaneous Slave Spinning", "Maid Fang", "Longteng Fang", "Fengqi Fang", etc., and she knew that this place must be in accordance with the strict level of the palace, classify and collect the items that need to be washed, and the washed items will be sorted out.
She listened quietly, and all she could hear was the noise of people inside, and she thought that there were many people and she was busy.
Xiaohua didn't stop, and continued to walk inside with her, passing through this courtyard, but seeing another courtyard exposed, she pushed open the courtyard door and entered, but it was more spacious and empty than the courtyard in front.
Liu Nianrou raised her eyes and looked around, and saw that in this courtyard, the layout was different from the front, leaning against the north wall, there was a rectangular sink about seven or eight meters long and about one meter wide, a bamboo pipe was placed obliquely on the end of the sink from the small hole in the wall, and clear water flowed out from it, and the water in the tank was overflowing, and the other end of the sink had a small hole chiseled at the bottom, so that the water in the tank kept overflowing.
Immediately next to this sink was only three or five paces away, and there was another one, but it was much lower and wider than the one in front of it.
At this moment, a dozen women, of all ages, dressed in rough gray clothes with a coarse turban covering their heads, were bent over the sink and washed their clothes in the large basin under their feet with their arms half-exposed.
On the side of the low, wide sink, more than a dozen other women were pulling up their trouser legs and stepping barefoot on the clothes in the large basin.
Hearing the sound of the courtyard door, these women heard the sound and looked, but they didn't realize that they stopped the movements in their hands.
One of them, a middle-aged woman of five years and three thicknesses, stopped what she was doing and walked over with a frown while wiping her watery hands on the apron around her waist.
Xiaohua took Liu Nianrou's hand, walked over quickly, bent down to salute, and said in a low voice: "Sister-in-law Huang, this is the palace maid assigned to our laundry room by Mama Wang." (To be continued......)