Yeting Palace is located in the southwest corner of Weiyang, is the palace maids and the criminal courtiers and their dependents have no labor, its middle is the palace maid's residence, the east is the location of the Inner Servant Bureau, the Huangcang is in the north, and the south is the Huanyi Bureau.

Cai Ling was led by a palace maid to the front of the hut in the south, only to see the Maots earth steps, which seemed to be not sheltered from the wind and rain. I never thought that there was such a broken tile kiln in the splendid Weiyang Palace.

"The girl will tidy up a little and follow me to see Aunt Wu." The palace maid raised her head and motioned for her to go in by herself, what was the miserable situation in the house, there was no need to elaborate, even the palace maids of the Huanyi Bureau did not want to set foot in it.

Cai Ling was about to move in, when she suddenly heard hurried footsteps behind her, and said in a cloud: "Sister, slow down." ”

"Why are you here?" Cai Ling frowned slightly.

Manyun glanced at her distressedly, and said to the palace maid with a smile: "The sisters all live in the middle house, why does my sister arrange Miss Jiang here." With that, he took out a silver ingot from his waist and stuffed it into the palace maid's hand.

The palace maid accepted the money, and her face was a little pale, "There are only sinners in the court, how can there be girls?" Besides, this is the residence specially arranged by Supervisor Wu. My aunt said that Jiang Cailing had suffered from the Huanyi Bureau since she was a child, and if she was allowed to live in Ansheng again, wouldn't she come to the court to enjoy happiness? ”

"Sister, what ...... said" Manyun still wanted to argue a few words, Cai Ling hurriedly said, "I'll live here." ”

After saying that, she stepped into the house, and Manyun also went in with her, throwing the small bag she had brought with her on the straw-paved bed. Cai Ling asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"Since then, I have lived here with my sister." Manyun said as he cleaned up the bed.

Cai Ling knew that the maids of the Empress Dowager all lived in a row of wings on the west side of Ziwei Palace, so this girl was stupid again, and scolded: "I invited myself to join the court, right?" ”

"Where my sister is, the clouds are there." She smiled innocently, and the pimple marks on her cheeks shone in the shadows of the trees, like a beating elf.

"Hmm." Cai Ling endured the distress and changed into a coarse cloth dark blue palace dress.

Not far from the house is the large pool of the Huanyi Bureau, where all kinds of cloth and palace clothes are dried, and in the late May weather, mosquitoes buzz and bite the exposed skin of the neck and shoulders.

When I was young, the spacious and bright residence was burning with perilla incense, the maids were slowly fanning, and the nurse sat in front of the window sewing sachets, and whispered softly: "My girl must not be bitten by mosquitoes, and her skin will be loved by her husband in the future." ”

In the Dongxi Building, the brocade boy who returned from the Western Regions stuffed several beautiful sachets in her hands: "You love to drink, and you attract mosquitoes in the summer, remember to hang one on your waist and change it every five days." That's just enough for this summer, I'll buy it for you next year. ”

Syllable! She shot a mosquito to death.

By the pool in the afternoon, the two palace maids looked at the mountains of clothes and sighed. Cai Ling said: "Most of the concubines of the first emperor moved to Taiji Palace, where are there still so many women's clothes?" ”

"My sister doesn't know, it's not all the clothes of the ladies here, and there are also palace people. For example, this set is the clothes of Lord Si Zhen of the Shangyi Bureau. Manyun picked up a well-textured aqua green skirt.

Cai Ling threw away the clothes and pestle in his hand, Manyun smiled and continued to work hard, Cai Ling obediently picked up the mallet, followed the appearance of Manyun to wash the clothes carefully, and then passed the water, wrung it out, shook it, and then carefully dried it on the bamboo pole. Wu Jianzuo's voice is still in his ears: You are pampered and noble, how can you stand the heavy labor of the Huanyi Bureau, it is better to ask the masters for a favor, and maybe you can get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible.

I worked until the sun set in the west, and finally washed and dried the clothes in the pool, and Cai Ling was so tired that she couldn't straighten her waist, but she smiled especially complacently: "I didn't expect that doing these things can give me such a sense of satisfaction, it's enough." ”

Manyun sat on the side, rubbed his arms and said, "Tomorrow it will be another day's work to collect clothes, fold them, and iron them." My sister should go and rest, I'll change the pool water and come. ”

How did she forget that the water in this pool was already turbid, and she needed to take out buckets and then replace buckets with clean water and inject them. With a sad face, a young eunuch hurriedly ran over, "Who is Jiang Cailing?" ”

"Me!" Cai Ling has no good airway.

"Miss Jiang." The eunuch said with a smile, "Someone is looking for someone outside the palace gate." ”

"Nope." Cai Ling replied without thinking about it, after all, there is still a lot of work to be done, who has the heart to gossip with irrelevant people.

"The girl didn't even ask who that person was?" My father-in-law was a little disappointed.

"The king of heaven is here, and he won't see it!" Cai Ling said, rolled up her sleeves and carried the bucket to scoop water.

"Yang Duwei said that if you don't go out today, he will stand outside the Yeting Palace and never return overnight." My father-in-law is confident.

Tao Tao is impatient and upright, and he will definitely be able to do what he says. When she was a child, she used to bully him, such as putting a caterpillar in his boot, and then waiting to see him jump left and right, and she couldn't help herself; Another example is pretending to be a girl from another family to write him a love letter, waiting for him to share the excitement with the letter, she poured a basin of cold water on her head to tell him the truth, and looked at his gradually frozen smile and leaned forward and backwards. He did these stupid and bad things to him, but he never got angry, and still treated her as before. Such a friend, how could she bear to make him really wait all night.

"Manyun, you take a rest first, and then work when I come back." After finishing the instructions, he was already trotting towards the palace gate.

"Lord Yang Duwei!" Seeing the graceful son standing on the palace road, the palace maids looked sideways, eager to look at him more.

"Jiang Shao!" Tao Tao rushed over, grabbed her arm and said, "I just heard about this today." You said that since you don't want to enter the palace as a beauty, and you want to go to Yunnan, can't you beg Your Majesty obediently? You have to be pushy! Now I invite myself to be a slave in the court, what should I do in the future! Ben Shao has always respected you for taking care of the overall situation, but I didn't expect you to be a fool too! ”

"I'm fine. You don't have to worry either. No one can say what will happen in the future, maybe I can find what I like to do in the court. "Who would like the boring washing work, but she wants to comfort Tao Tao.

"Of course, there's no rush for Ben Shao to meet with you. Your guy in Dongxi Building is in a hurry to become an ant on a hot pot. Tao Tao frowned and said, "Yuan Jiezhi has gathered a thousand gold at the moment, and I heard that he is going to go to the Zhongshu Ling Mansion in Menxia Province tonight." Let's not say that you were punished because you annoyed Shengyan, and no one can save you except the emperor's pardon. The most unsightly thing in the saint today is the bribery, because he was afraid that he would rush to the hospital because he was sick, but he would put himself in trouble. I really can't do it, I'll go for him tonight, that old man is afraid that it will be easier to talk for my father's sake. ”

Cai Ling only felt the thunder exploding above her head, and for several days, she only thought about staying by Shen Muchi's side, but she ignored the intimate people around her, and they didn't understand the affairs of the palace, so she should be at a loss this time.

Cai Ling only hated that she couldn't find pen, ink, paper, and inkstone at the moment, glanced at her dress and fingers, and used blood as a book? If you are injured, how to get dressed, and then it will be bitter again. She sighed slightly, took off the only ebony peach blossom hairpin on her head, and put it in Tao Tao's hand: "Be sure to tell Brother Yuan that I have my own plans in the palace, and the news in the market is not credible." At this time next year, I will see him again outside the palace. But if you act recklessly and break off each other's kindness, you will not see each other in this life! ”

This time next year? Sheng Zhao sent it to the family in Shu County yesterday, saying that Jiang's sin of picking Ling was irreparable, and he was assigned to the court and would not be released for life.

Tao Tao shook his head. Dad said that boys don't shed tears when they bleed, why are their eyes moist, and a few tears fall for no reason.

"What are you crying about!" Cai Ling sneered, "I cry at every turn, can I still afford to be a captain?" Don't think that you are so close to me, it was just that you were his companion at the beginning, and he wanted to get some news from you, and you thought that I was really willing to make friends with a cowardly person like you? ”

Tao Tao looked at her eyes in disbelief, his expression was painful, Cai Ling turned his heart sideways, and asked, "Don't leave yet?" ”

"Jiang Shao, when you say this, Ben Shao is very sad." He suddenly grabbed Cai Ling's arm. Cai Ling shook it off in disgust, "It's okay if you don't go." Stand slowly. ”

Quickly stepped into the palace gate, hidden behind the big tree, only to dare to let the tears fall two lines, after a while, raised his sleeves to dry, and had to walk by herself on the way back, how could she bear to let these people who felt sorry for her suffer, but she still regretted that she didn't have a good sense of proportion, and hurt Tao Tao so far. After all the years, I hope he is well.

Walk quickly to the side of the pool, and see that the clothes poles around are poured, and the shadows of the trees are waving in the windless evening. Cai Ling's heart tightened, and she had already guessed half of it.

When she got closer, she saw that Manyun was arguing with two women of the same age, so she hurriedly went to pull her aside, "Say a few words." ”

"My sister doesn't know, these two people overturned the clothes pole for no reason, so that the clothes we just dried were dirty, and now we have to wash them again." The clouds are in a hurry.

Cai Ling glanced at it, and one of them was white-skinned Heng'er, the maid of the former East Palace, and the other, although he didn't know his name, had seen him next to Princess Jinghe. These two people used to serve your lord, and they were both relegated to the court because of her words, and the resentment in their hearts was finally vented.

"It's fine. Bear with me. Cai Ling persuaded and squatted down to pick up the fallen clothes.

I just picked up two pieces, and then reached out but was stepped on, the plain cloth shoes were repeatedly rubbed on the back of her hand, and the owner of the cloth shoes asked coldly: "Do you know who I am?" ”

Cai Ling withdrew her hand, it was already red and swollen, and then went to another place to pick it up, and it was the pair of cloth shoes again, stepping on her other hand, "Let me ask you!" ”

"Sister Luoxue used to be a celebrity next to Princess Jinghe!" Heng'er sneered disdainfully, "Because of your words, you are worthy of being in the court to do such inhuman work." I can't imagine the evil retribution of the wicked, but in a few days, you are here! In the future, this Huanyi Bureau will be really lively! ”

The two smiled when they met, but the smile didn't last long before it was replaced by an exclamation, and gradually they couldn't even make a sound. It turned out that he was choked by Manyun fiercely.

"Clouds!" Cai Ling exclaimed, but Manyun was unmoved. Cai Ling's heart was like a drum, and she hurriedly hugged Manyun's waist and wanted to drag her away, but she was like a big tree coiled on the ground, motionless.

Cai Ling broke out in a cold sweat, her brain spun fast, but she couldn't think of any other way.

"Stop!" Aunt Wu came with everyone and hurriedly stopped.