When the sky turns white, the most light on the horizon breaks through, and last night's clouds indicate the arrival of a new day.

In Liufu, some people have woken up, and some are still dreaming last night.

I was half-asleep when I heard someone say, "Erya, it's time to get up." ”

Then I subconsciously said, Sister Hua let me sleep for a while, just for a while.

Sister Hua and I entered the house almost the same year, she was a year older than me, and she entered the house a few months earlier than me, her nickname was Hua Niang, so I called her Sister Hua.

I used to sleep in the same room with Sister Hua, and there were several other maids in the same room, but I had the best relationship with Sister Hua, and Sister Hua usually took the most care of me.

I thought that this time Sister Hua was also urging me to get up, wanting to stay in bed for a while.

However, I suddenly remembered that I slept in the west wing of Qingzhuyuan, how could Sister Hua come over and urge me to get up.

Therefore, the owner of the voice can only be, Wang Po.

Thinking of this, I immediately woke up, as if a cool breeze was blowing in my head, and the sleepiness disappeared in an instant, and disappeared without a trace.

got up immediately, quickly dressed and changed shoes, and then said with some trepidation: "I'm sorry, mother-in-law, Qing'er, I got up late, please punish my mother-in-law." ”

Wang Po said unhurriedly: "Go and prepare hot water for the young master, you don't have breakfast today, clean the yard in the morning, and go down to do things." ”

"Yes, mother-in-law."

Fortunately, there was no breakfast, which was a relatively light punishment, and it was just a hungry meal.

When I came to the hot water room, I saw that there were many people in front of me receiving water, most of them were maids from various hospitals, and there were also grandmothers.

There was no one queuing up, they were all standing in twos and threes, waiting for the people of Chu Wenyuan to pick up the water, Chu Wenyuan was the courtyard where the old man lived.

The second is the lady, the maids of the young masters and ladies go to fetch the water, and finally the aunts.

In the crowd waiting for water, one man beckoned to me, and the other held an empty basin of water.

That's Sister Heart, so I'm walking over quickly.

"Sister Xin, you got up so early."

"Yes, as maids, we must prepare everything before the master wakes up.

But it's okay, we're better than those handymen, it's easier. ”

I used to be a miscellaneous maid, and I knew that it was indeed more bitter, and the master's personal maid was well-dressed and well-fed.

"That's right, Sister Xin, I'll go to the back and wait in line for water."

Because I came past several people, and their faces were not very good-looking, and I was after them, and if I stayed, I was afraid of offending people.

"It's okay, you are the maid of Qingzhuyuan, they don't dare to mess with you, it's too late to slap you, but they don't dare to offend you, at most they hate you in their hearts.

Because Young Master Ming is the one that the master admires the most, in addition to the old lady and the eldest young master in Liufu, Young Master Ming is the biggest. ”

"Sister Kexin, why are there so few people in Qingzhu Courtyard, doesn't it mean that the master admires the young master very much?"

"It is said that at that time, Young Master Ming's mother arranged it, you can ask Mrs. Wang for the specific reason, I am just a little maid."

Because the eldest young master was studying abroad, when Madame's maid picked up the hot water, it came to me and my new sister.

The reason why there is a special hot water room is for fire prevention considerations, and there is a well next to the hot water room.

Each courtyard can also boil some water for its own use, for example, the tea that the young master usually drinks is boiled in the courtyard by himself.

If you need a lot of water and need it urgently, it is better to have a hot water room.

In the hot water room, the water that the owners use is a copper kettle to boil the water, which boils quickly, and each yard has its own special kettle.

The servant's is a large iron pot, which is slowly boiled to ensure that the water is not cold.

After that, I asked Sister Xin to go first, and then Sister Xin said to me with a basin of hot water with most of the hot water: "Xiao Qing'er, I'll go first." ”

"Well, Sister Heart, you go slowly."

Then I walked into the hot water room, and the majestic heat rushed to my face, as if I had been turned into a bun and then carried into a steamer.

I was greeted by an old man with gray hair, but he was very energetic, and if it weren't for his gray hair, he would have looked like he was only thirty or forty.

I later learned that the old man was an old servant of Liufu and had been in Liufu for many years.

He had never married in his life, and naturally he had no children around him, and when he was old, he begged the lord to let him continue to work in Liufu, and the lord thought that he was loyal and had hard work, so he let him take charge of the hot water room.

The first time he saw me, he felt a little embarrassed, and said, "Which yard?" ”

"Back to the steward, I'm a Qing'er who just entered Qingzhu Courtyard."

"Oh, go back and ask the princess to get some fabrics and make you a good set of clothes, and when I saw this set of clothes on you, I thought it was some new little maid who went to the wrong place and dared to come to the lord's water."

The water used by the master is boiled in the hot water house, and a large pot is set up outside the house, and the water used by the servants is boiled, and the servants need to carry a wooden bucket and a gourd scoop when using it.

Regarding the clothes, I still wear the kind of clothes of ordinary maids, it's not that I don't want to change them, it should be that I came in a hurry, Wang Po is not ready, and it is not easy to make a dress, or a fine dress is more difficult, it can't be completed without ten days and half a month.

"Thank you, Qing'er will definitely convey it to her mother-in-law."

"It's quite sensible, let's leave when you get water, don't let Young Master Ming wait for a long time."

"Okay, steward, then I'll go."

"Go, little girl."

Finally, when I came back with water, the young master had already woken up, because I happened to meet the young master at the gate of the courtyard.

It's just that the young master is jogging around the yard, and I don't understand why he did it.

But I still said, "Good morning, young master." ”

"Erya, you're back from fetching water, how is it, is someone bullying you on the road?"

"Yes, young master, no one bullied me."

"By the way, after the water is put away, go to the back room to find Wang Po, Wang Po She has something to explain to you, I have to run for a while."

"Got it, young master."

Then, put the basin on the basin rack in the young master's study, put a face towel on it, and tested the heat of the water with his fingers, then closed the door and left gently.

When she came to the back room, Wang Po was busy in the small kitchen, probably preparing the young master's breakfast.

Wang Po saw me standing stupidly next to me, and said with some displeasure: "What are you doing in a daze, hand me the fine salt, and then see if the soup is boiling." ”

I panicked and said, "Okay, mother-in-law." ”

Hand the bamboo tube with fine salt to my mother-in-law, and watch her carefully shake out the salt.

Wang Po is not reluctant to give up this fine salt, but more or less, which affects the taste.

And I gently opened the pot of soup stewed on the stove to see if the soup was boiling.

It's bone broth, and it smells good, and the white soup is constantly tumbling, like white clouds in the sky.

"Is the soup boiling, Erya."

"Mother-in-law, the soup is already boiling."

"Take it down, and then put it in a soup bowl, the pavilion outside the terminal is cold, and by the way, see if the young master finishes running and washes, just let the young master stop in the pavilion for a while."

In the cabinet, I searched around to find a suitable white porcelain soup bowl, and carefully held the bone white jade soup with a pot and spoon.

Then I was sent to the stone table in the pavilion outside, and the morning breeze and the strong smell of bone broth constantly stirred up everything for me.

This was my first morning in Qingchikuin, with the strong aroma of bone broth.