Chapter 099: Wood Garden
After entering the back door of the palace and walking for a while, what came into view was the pavilions and pavilions, the color of birds and flowers. Seeing the fragrant wind back and forth, it is like entering a paradise, less hustle and bustle, and more quiet.
Walking along the road, everyone is busy, and only a few people who have leisure will sit and rest.
Compared to the chaos outside, life here is simply paradise.
Is it only Xuanwangfu, or is the whole Xizhou such a rhythm of life?
The snow on the flowers is unknown.
After Mama Li entered the palace, she handed everyone over to a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, this girl's name was Sandalwood, the identity of the first-class maid in the house, and two fourteen-year-old second-class maids Jinxiu and Jinlan were beside her.
These three are all people around the old princess, who follow the old princess all the year round, and even the daughter of the big family can compare in conversation and behavior.
Sandalwood has a good appearance, her facial features are relatively soft, in terms of appearance, she is not the best, but she is the most gentle one, and her voice is also good, gentle and soft, very comfortable.
Compared with the tranquility of Sandalwood, Jinxiu and Jinlan are more lively, and even in the face of their group of newcomers who have just entered the house, they are smiling and looking closer.
When Mama Li handed over the forty-eight people to her to deal with, the three sandalwood people with the booklet directly led the people to the training place before all the maids arranged their positions - Muyuan!
I walked through the courtyard one by one, and it took me a full hour to reach the place.
This palace is really not ordinary, and this distance has not yet reached half of the range of the palace, if you walk around all places. Isn't it impossible to walk in a day and a night?
- Wood Garden
"Although you are the ones who Mama Li bought, however, the specific arrangement of where you go depends on your next performance. Mama Li just made a rough choice, specifically, rely on yourself. It is up to you to stay in the house and where you are on an errand, depending on your performance. In addition, if you are a person bought by the government, you can no longer use your previous surname, and you can only keep your name. If the master wants to change your name, remember thanksgiving. Of course. If you serve your master well, your benefits will not be less, but if you don't do it well, there will be things like selling. There is a reward and a punishment. Do you understand? ”
"Understood." Everyone responded in unison.
"Good. Now let's start ......" The next thing is to assign the content of each study, and after the initial distribution according to the names registered in the booklet, the next group of people remains. That is, the group of Hua Shangxue who was selected at the beginning had no skills, and were illiterate and could not martial arts.
"Although the ten of you don't know anything, I can give you the opportunity to learn, and you can learn as much as you want, and this month is the time for you to be reborn. If you learn well, you will have a good errand, if you are not good, you can only be a rough maid and do some manual work, unless you are lucky enough to let the masters see the level raised, or find a good family to marry, otherwise, you will have this identity in this life. Do you understand? ”
"Understood."
"Well, do any of you have any other questions to ask?" Sandalwood said and glanced at everyone, but saw someone raise his hand, and that person seemed to be a flower on the snow.
"What's your name? Is there something you don't understand? Sandalwood was not angry when she looked at the snow on the flowers, but looked at her with a faint smile unexpectedly.
"Sister Sandalwood, I want to know if Lu Dao wants to leave the palace, is there a way?"
Sandalwood raised her eyebrows, and the smile on her face stiffened slightly, fading a little.
"You just entered the mansion and thought about leaving, don't you think the palace is a place where you can come and leave when you want?"
"Sister Sandalwood misunderstood, in fact, I didn't come here voluntarily."
"And ask if the others are also voluntary? If it weren't for the difficult conditions at home, who would want to be a slave? The word voluntary does not apply here. Sandalwood's attitude was obviously a little colder
,I think it's a mistake to take the words of the flower on the snow as I don't know what to do.。
"Don't hide it from Sister Sandalwood, I didn't sell it to this place from my family, but let the gangsters forcibly take it away, and then came here with everyone. If it weren't for the fact that I didn't know the place well and didn't have any money on me, even if I escaped from Ludao, I might not be able to find my way home, and I would have to follow my relatives. What kind of place the palace is, I also know the way. It is precisely because I know the Tao that I want to ask, if I want to leave the palace, is there a way? ”
Listening to Hua Shangxue's words, Sandalwood's face was a little better, and then someone who sold here in the same company before spoke out to prove her words for Hua Shangxue.
"I'm wrong about you. In fact, it is not impossible for a maid like you to want to leave the palace, unless you can save fifty taels of silver, you can redeem yourself and leave. However, in the case that you don't know anything, you will generally be sent directly to Yao Yuan on an errand. And Yao Garden is located in the north corner of the entire palace and is the most secluded garden. This garden has no owner, but the place is not small, plus the back mountain, the work of sprinkling and sweeping is heavier, here as an errand, you can only be a little higher than the rough maid of the third-class maid, and the third-class maid's monthly money is eight dollars, rough maid six dollars, even if you don't use a penny of silver, a year is only to save ten taels of silver, which also includes the red envelope of the New Year every year, if you are sick halfway to buy a medicine or something, ten years do not know whether the road can save enough fifty taels of silver. And during this period, if the master wants to give you away, you can only look at the will of the person who sent you if you want to redeem yourself. Sandalwood narrated the matter of redemption, explaining the difficulty of it to Hua Shangxue, so that she could dispel the so-called idea of redemption.
"What if it's a second-class maid and a first-class maid? Does fifty taels of silver take that long? Hua Shangxue asked without giving up.
"Not really. The monthly money of the second-class maid is two taels, and the first-class maid is five taels, which does not include the red envelopes for the New Year's holidays and the rewards of the masters. Of course, this is only the money that a maid who follows a good master can get, but it is so, and it will not be less. There are also more opportunities to show up, but there are also many opportunities to lose your head. I can't say that before you have saved enough money, you will put your life on the line. Not to mention, if a third-class maid is promoted to a second-class maid, if there is no master to speak, it will take five years to accumulate according to seniority. Rather than this, it is better to live well. Family members and the like, you can ask someone to find it, and whether you redeem yourself or not, in fact, it doesn't matter much at all. ”
Hearing Sandalwood's words, not only Hua Shangxue, but even some other companions who had such a common expectation in their hearts, couldn't help but show a gloomy color.
As for those who have ambitions and want to take this opportunity to climb up, they should also consider a few points and calm down.
Looking at the changes in the people around her, Sandalwood nodded with satisfaction, although this was not what she originally wanted to say, but it was also an opportunity to knock on this group of new maids, so that they could understand that there are some things that need to be considered before doing it. It's okay to be ambitious, but you also have to know how to advance and retreat, otherwise waiting for their results can only be a dead end.
"How? Still have a question? Sandalwood looked at the snow on the flower and asked again.
"Xie Lu, Sister Xie Tanxiang, I'm fine."
"What about you?" Sandalwood swept over everyone's faces again, only to see that everyone shook their heads.
"If it's okay, I'll introduce you to a few grandmothers. During this month, you can learn whatever you want to learn from them. If you don't want to learn, you go to Yao Yuan on an errand and sit up from the rough maid. Of course, I want you to study hard, and it's about whether your life is good or bad, you know? ”
"Yes."
"First of all, Mama Rong who teaches you etiquette......" Sandalwood introduced four Mama in a row.
Mama Rong who teaches the etiquette of the palace, Mama Jin who teaches female red, Mama Lin who teaches kung fu of fists and feet, and Mama Qi who teaches poetry, calligraphy and painting.
With the appearance of the four grandmothers, Sandalwood also informed everyone that the classrooms of the four grandmothers are located at staggered times every day, which can make excellent people learn more.
This is an eye-opener for Hua Shangxue.
It's not a simple thing to be a maid in the palace, and in terms of etiquette, no matter who it is, it has to be learned, even if it is Hua Shangxue, who has not decided how to choose for the time being, it can't escape the course of learning etiquette.
What kind of place is Yao Yuan, and now the one who knows the Tao is just an overview of Pang Tong.
What kind of stakes are at stake in the palace, but they are still blinded and ignorant.
In addition to the old princess, are there other masters in the palace? What kind of people are those masters, and are they worth following?
In addition, if you want to make more money in the palace, but are there other ways to make money quickly that will not attract attention?
These are all things that Hua Shangxue wants to know now.
However, in the palace, no matter where you are on an errand, at least how many serious masters there are in the palace must be clearly understood, and these things, fortunately, in Mama Rong's etiquette class, these things will be told one by one, after all, different masters do different etiquette, even if it is a guest, because of the status of the noble, there are different levels of requirements for etiquette.
The rules of the palace are so many that they are maddening.
However, these are not difficult tasks for Hua Shangxue.
Whether she is in her past life or in this life, she is still worthy of complacency in terms of memory.
After Mama Rong introduced the four of them to Sandalwood, she set rules for everyone on the spot.
"You little girls who have just entered the mansion, when you see people of higher rank than you in the future, for example, when you see a third-class maid, you have to do a half-curtsy salute, and the same is true for others. Follow my example and say hello to Sister Sandalwood. Mama Rong said and blessed her body with sandalwood, "Sister sandalwood, it's okay." ”
"Sister Sandalwood is fine." Everyone learned to do it again, although there are still some nondescript rustiness, but under the adjustment of Mama Rong, it is quite acceptable to learn, this is the basic etiquette, the reason why I am teaching at this moment, it is for tomorrow when the class starts, so that everyone will not be the same as wood, at least there is a good beginning. (To be continued......)
PS: The first update is complete! The second is to be continued!