Sending Liu Nei away, Cui Yuanhua confessed that Zeng Rong also left after a few words, and Zeng Rong, who returned to his house, found that Liu Chunmiao was still helping Zeng Rong sort out his luggage, Zeng Rong stepped forward to stop her, saying that he had entered the Pharmacopoeia Bureau, and the other had entered the Catering Bureau.

"Such a coincidence? Green Lotus entered the Pharmaceutical Division, you entered the Pharmacopoeia Bureau, and the two embroidery girls who were red women dealt with medicine? Liu Chunmiao shook her head with a smile.

She thought that Zeng would arrange to go to the Yibao Bureau, after all, Zeng Rong's dexterity was recognized by the four most noble and powerful masters in the palace, the Queen Mother, the Emperor, and the Imperial Concubine, but who knew that she arranged to go to the Pharmacopoeia Bureau.

"It's a coincidence, auntie, I won't deal with her in the future, will I?" Zeng Rong pursed his mouth and asked.

"What, don't like her?" Liu Chunmiao poked her in the head.

"I don't like it, but I'm kind, easy to be soft-hearted, every time she comes to me to ask for advice, I try my best to teach her, last night she officially thanked me, also apologized, wanted to give me five taels of silver, I didn't want it." After speaking, Zeng Rong grinned, "Auntie, do I count this as saying bad things behind my back?" That's it, don't talk about this, my aunt has gone back to work beforehand, right? I'll definitely be visiting you if I'm free. ”

Liu Chunmiao wanted to talk to Zeng Rong again, but when she saw that there were eunuchs and mothers-in-law in the house, she had to give up.

After Liu Chunmiao left, Zeng Rong began to sort out his books, calligraphy and paintings, and when he was busy, Zheng Jiao came, and saw Zeng Rong fiddling with his books, calligraphy and paintings, and also stepped forward to help, "What books does my sister usually like to read?" ”

Just when she was in the upper room, she learned that Zeng Rong was from the countryside, his family was poor, and he had to dig herbs to supplement his family, how could such a person go to school?

"Blindly, there is no fixed one, but because of embroidery before, I read more poetry, and I am afraid that it will be changed to medicine in the future." Zeng Rong teased.

"How many years has my sister been in school?" Zheng Jiao flipped through Zeng Rong's books, in addition to poetry, there are also classics, biographies, chess scores, songs, etc., these books are miscellaneous and deep, and they are by no means at the level of beginners.

"I didn't officially go to school, I lived in the academy for a while, and I was fortunate enough to be enlightened, and then I groped for it blindly." Although Zeng Rong didn't want the other party to touch her own things, she could only endure it when she first arrived.

"Sister, your set of classics is published in the palace, and the palace will send books to the palace maids?" Zheng Jiao didn't seem to realize that she was overstepping, and she couldn't put it down while flipping through the set of books given by the Queen Mother.

"This was given to me by the old man of the Queen Mother, when I embroidered a longevity dress for the old man, the old man was happy to reward me with something, and I dared to ask for a set of books." Zeng Rong smiled faintly and explained a few words.

"The Queen Mother? Then why didn't her old man choose you yesterday? As soon as she finished asking, Zheng Jiao smiled embarrassedly, because she remembered that Liu Neishou and the queen almost quarreled in Kunning Palace yesterday because of Zeng Rong's departure, and the imperial concubine was still building a bridge on the side.

Before leaving home, her mother said that the water in the palace was deep and there were many whirlpools, so she must be cautious in her words and deeds, otherwise, she would not know how she died.

For example, the little girl in front of her, who looks several years younger than herself, is inconspicuous, but she can be recognized by the Queen Mother, and it is too strange for the queen and the imperial concubine to have a quarrel in public.

What's the secret behind this? Also, since the Queen Mother likes her so much, why didn't she stay?

Zeng Rong was just about to answer, there was movement outside the door again, a palace maid brought a tailor to measure Zeng Rong and Zheng Jiao, Zeng Rong knew that the female official's clothing was tailor-made, unlike the palace maid's clothing was issued on demand, and those that did not fit could only be modified by themselves.

After measuring the size and tidying up the work in the house, the two mothers-in-law began to wipe the windowsill, Zeng Rong didn't want to stay in the house and let Zheng Jiao rummage through his own things, so he proposed to go around the yard and get to know his surroundings.

Zheng Jiao was obviously not interested in this, saying that she had already inquired and understood, the courtyard where they lived was called the Inner Three Houses, in addition to the upper room and wing rooms they saw, there were also cross-courtyards, inner courtyards and back cover rooms, etc., the female officials below the seventh rank of the entire inner chamberlain lived here, and the female officials above the seventh rank lived in the courtyard behind the Qianning Palace, and most of them needed to be with them.

Compared with female officials, there are more eunuchs of the inner rank, those who are of high grade live in the courtyard next to the Qianning Palace, and those of lower grade generally live in the courtyard outside the Qianning Gate.

After talking about these briefly, Zheng Jiao asked Zeng Ronglai, she wanted to know how long Zeng Rong had been in the palace, how he entered the palace, what he did before entering the palace, and what he mainly did after entering the palace.

Zeng Rong guessed that what the other party probably really wanted to know was why she also attracted the attention of the Queen Mother, the Empress and the Imperial Concubine, and wanted to ask her what backers she had.

It's a pity that this topic is a bit shallow and deep, Zeng Rong has brought it generally, but fortunately, soon a palace maid sent breakfast to Zeng Rong and Zheng Jiao, Zeng Rong opened it and saw that it was a meat and a vegetable, and the rice was also pure fine grain, full of bowls.

After the meal was over, Zeng Rong and Zheng Jiao followed the palace maid named Ali out of the inner three institutes and entered a large courtyard next to the Qianning Gate, where there were five or six small courtyards, and there was a plaque on each courtyard.

The yard is not big, there are not many houses, the small and small three upper rooms, there are also left and right wings, it is not big, it should also be three huts, there are two eunuchs in the east wing to move things, see Zeng Rong, one of them walked out.

"You're new to Zeng, aren't you?" The other party asked.

Zeng Rong nodded.

"Back to Zeng, the slave is called Xiao Lizi, his name is Xiao Liuzi, the two of us are eunuchs here, Aunt Cui went out, leave a message, if you come, go to the room to sit down, flip through those medical and pharmacopoeia files, she will come back in a while."

After Xiao Lizi finished speaking, Xiao Liuzi also ran out, Zeng Rong saw that these two people were in their early twenties, and they were not embarrassed to call Xiao Lizi or Xiao Liuzi directly, but called each other "Brother Li Liu Ge", from the mouths of these two people, Zeng Rong asked to understand the entire Pharmacopoeia Bureau plus her, a total of five people, one Cui Yuanhua, a palace maid named Du Juan, two eunuchs, plus Zeng Rong.

On weekdays, Xiao Li and Xiao Liu live in the west wing of the Pharmacopoeia Bureau, responsible for chores, errands and other matters.

Du Juan is Cui Yuanhua's palace maid, responsible for Cui Yuanhua's food, clothing, housing and transportation, and there was a twenty-seven or eight-year-old aunt who was Cui's hand, and was sent home by an illness in the first month, so Zeng Rong made up for her lack this time.

It's just that what Zeng Rong doesn't understand is that yesterday Liu Neishi clearly said that she was the best candidate for a female historian, but if the Pharmacopoeia Bureau has been short of people and can't make up for the shortage, and there is no shortage of people on the female historian's side, can she still move the place?