Chapter 157: Inquiry
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After rewarding the subordinates who would serve by her side in the future, the eldest girl entered the main room of Tinglan Water Pavilion, and by the way, she also asked Aunt Qin and others to take her things and go to settle them.
"Gege, the slave and maid look at this Tinglan Water Pavilion, it is very spacious, but I don't know if Gege lives alone? Or ......" Qiulan, the maid beside the eldest girl, after thinking about it, lowered her voice and whispered.
The eldest girl smiled, and then Yun smiled lightly: "If you want to know, isn't it easy?" ”
"Qiulan, you go outside and take a look, the pothos who led us the way before, can be in the yard now, if you are here, let the pothos come in, and say Gege, I have something to ask her......"
deliberately sold a pass, and then the eldest girl said with a smile, while secretly thinking about things in her heart.
When I passed Chu Yuyuan before, Chu Yuyuan was inhabited by the Li family, the Bai family, and the handmaiden Xia family, so how many people lived in this Tinglan Water Pavilion from the beginning?
Or is she living alone for the time being, and then waiting until the draft year, after the newcomer enters the house, another person will come in and live with her.......
Ask herself, she subconsciously resisted from the bottom of her heart, and lived in the same courtyard with the other concubines or maids of the fourth elder brother, but many times, it was people under the eaves who had to bow their heads.
Just like when I was in the palace before......
Qiulan complied, then withdrew with low eyebrows, and after about half a cup of tea, she led the little girl in a green dress named Pothos in.
After the little girl saluted, the eldest girl went straight to the topic and said with a smile: "Luluo, you are Gege, I first entered the Tinglan Water Pavilion, and now I seem to ask you about the things in the house......
"Well, first of all, let's start with today's courtyard placement of the sisters!"
Amiable, the eldest girl did not think that she was superior because she was the concubine of the fourth elder brother, and looked down on a little girl like pothos.
The little girl was stunned for a moment, and then said humbly and respectfully: "Back to Gege, Mama Lu assigns a yard to you Gege according to the instructions of the master, and the slave maid only roughly remembers that some of the yards that are closer to our Tinglan Water Pavilion are all lived in by those Gege girls......"
"Oh, tell me about you so you can let Bengege know that there are those who are neighbors with Bengege." The eldest girl nodded, and then looked at the little girl with a smile.
This little girl is not very old, but the rules are good, and her actions are generous.
About a tea time, the eldest girl learned from the mouth of the pothos that behind the fourth prince's mansion, in several courtyards to the east, she lived separately, the Li family, the Song family, the Yi family and others......
Among them, Chu Yuyuan lived in the Li family and the Bai family, as well as the handmaid Xia family, Shuqin Zhai lived in the two sisters Yue Gege and Xiu Gege, Fangfei Yuan lived in the pregnant Song family, and Tingyuxuan lived in the Yi family and the Lan family!
"Well, in this case, only Sister Shen and Sister Meng and Sister Fan live in the west......" The eldest girl squinted her eyes and said with a smile when she heard this.
The green pothos replied yes respectfully, and then lowered her eyebrows, waiting for the next question of the big girl.
The eldest girl groaned for a while, opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but when the words came to her mouth, she swallowed hard, and at this time, Aunt Qin was followed by two or three little maids, carrying food boxes, and entered the house.
Bowing respectfully to the eldest girl, Aunt Qin said respectfully: "Gege, when we first entered the house today, the big kitchen hurriedly made some dinner, and ordered someone to send it over, and the slave maid saw that the time was not early, and the time for dinner had already passed, so I came in on my own initiative......"
"Well, it's not too early!"
The eldest girl looked up at the sky outside, and saw that it was already dark at this time, although she could not reach out and lose her fingers, but she could not see clearly, and she was in the main room of the Tinglan Water Pavilion, and I don't know when the candles had been lit.
After a slight pause, the eldest girl looked at the pothos with kind eyes, and said with a smile: "Pothos, you can step aside, and come back tomorrow to solve my doubts......
"Yes, slave and maid retire!"
With her eyebrows lowered, the pothos bowed and saluted, then bowed her head and retreated respectfully.
Aunt Qin is arranging a meal, probably because today is the first time the eldest girl has stayed in the Tinglan Water Pavilion, and the fourth prince's mansion is in the big kitchen, and she can't figure out the situation, so the eldest girl's dinner is decent.
Two meat dishes, two vegetarian dishes, and one soup are not particularly hearty, and the portion is not very large, but it is not particularly bad......
Under the service of Qiulan Qiuju, the maidservant girl beside her, the eldest girl had dinner and rewarded a plate of sauced beef and a plate of small fried vegetables that had not been touched much to Qiulan and Qiuju who were serving beside her.
Qiulan Qiuju, after thanking her, she lowered her eyebrows and retreated, leaving only Aunt Qin by her side, as well as a few little maids guarding outside the door.......
"Gege, the slave maid has inquired, in our Tinglan Water Pavilion, in addition to the slave maid, Gege you brought out from the palace to ask for Lan Qiuju, Xiaolinzi Xiaomazi, there are two second-class maids Pothos and hedges, third-class maids Shuang'er and Huan'er, and a rough envoy Liu's family, who are responsible for serving Gege."
"In addition, there are Mama Su and Muxiang Mulan, Mu Fang Mutao, Xiao Zhuozi and Xiao Dengzi, who are called by people in the Tinglan Water Pavilion." After Aunt Qin pondered for a while, she lowered her eyebrows and reported the situation of Tinglan Water Pavilion to the eldest girl in detail.
For Mama Su and the others, it is nominally for the master of Tinglan Water Pavilion to summon, but Aunt Qin knows it in her heart, and now she can be regarded as serving them......
The eldest girl nodded, and then after a moment of silence, she said in a deep voice: "Auntie, what is the origin of these subordinates in the palace of the fourth prince?" Was it the Ministry of Internal Affairs who was elected to the palace and then assigned it? ”
The small election of internal affairs, once a year, the selection of the cloth flag of the appropriate age of the woman into the palace, as the palace maid to serve, at the age of twenty-five can go out of the palace to marry, or stay in the palace as an aunt, in the future, older, become a grandmother......
As for the eunuchs, most of them were selected from poor families and entered the palace after purification.
"Hui Gege, although our fourth elder brother has not been knighted, but the emperor is benevolent, as early as when he issued a holy decree to build our emperor's fourth son's mansion, he allocated a hundred families from the Baoyi Banner for the lord to send, most of the people in the house are from these Baoyi families, a small part is purchased from the hands of Renyazi, and the daughter of the Han family with an innocent family background ......"
After a pause, Aunt Qin continued to smile and said: "Of course, there are also a very small number of individual subordinates, who are from ordinary banner families under the Five Banners, whose families are poor and have never participated in the draft, or who were brushed off after the draft. ”
Aunt Qin explained to the eldest girl in a clear manner, and she did not despise the eldest girl because of this, because she understood in her heart that the old Gege she served had a quiet and indifferent temperament, and had always adhered to the principle that no one would offend me and I would not offend anyone, and she had never taken the initiative to drill into the camp, so she would not deliberately inquire......
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