"What are you doing in the inner room? Looking for something? ”

When Su Ruhui was inspecting, a voice suddenly came, and when she looked back, it was Zhou Yi'er.

Su Ruhui pondered for a while, although Zhou Yi'er didn't like Xinhe, but she also had a master-servant relationship for several years, and she borrowed her palace maid to be a friend, if she said that Xinhe rashly entered her inner room, it would be a storm, not to mention that Xinhe might be telling the truth, so she said: "Yes, Xiuwan is sick, and I don't know where to put everything for a while." ”

Zhou Yi'er said: "What is it that you want to find out at this time?" Can you use me for help? ”

"It's not an important thing, it's just a passing interest." Su Ruhui then rested his hand, took Zhou Yi'er out and sat down, "But I bother you to suffer with me, your new lotus is being supported by me to boil in the back." ”

"What's the matter?" Zhou Yi'er said nonchalantly, "Let her take today's dinner together." ”

Su Ruhui and Zhou Yi'er said a few words of gossip, and then Xinhe came out, saying that she had boiled the ginseng soup and let Xiuwan drink it, and she was already asleep at the moment. Although Su Ruhui had some doubts in her heart, she still said a few words of hard work in front of Zhou Yi'er, and gave her a jade hairpin.

Xiuwan's illness, the aunt named Fang Niang said that it was not serious, and I don't know if Fang Niang's medical skills were low, but it didn't get better after three or five days, Su Ruhui only Xiuwan was here to serve, although Zhou Yi'er asked Xinhe to come over to help from time to time, it didn't work out after all, and the matter was reported to the Queen Mother.

The Queen Mother passed someone on this day, and as soon as they met, she reproached: "You child is too stupid, only a palace maid is sick, don't tell the grandmothers early, so that you can choose someone to replace you, why has it been delayed for so long, no one around you is waiting and not silent!" ”

Su Ruhui pleaded guilty again and again, and said first: "It's okay for the courtiers, Sister Yi'er sent Xinhe to visit the courtiers often, how dare you disturb the queen mother for such a trivial matter?" What a damn one! ”

Fu explained: "The courtiers have been in the palace for several years, and Xiuwan has been serving until now, but the courtiers have a lot of affection with her, and please don't change the queen mother, she is almost fine." ”

The Queen Mother said angrily: "What are these words! Could it be that there are still a few palace maids missing in my Dayong's palace? Are you worried that you won't say it? As he spoke, he asked Qi Yun to arrange for Su Ruhui to choose a palace maid to serve.

Su Ruhui hurriedly said: "Queen Mother, Sister Yi'er has only Xinhe by her side......"

As soon as she said this, Qi Yun persuaded: "Speaking of which, a few young ladies have been in the palace for many years, and now that they have grown up, the people around them should also be added, and the place can also be changed, but there are many vacant halls in the Detai Palace." ”

The Queen Mother thought for a while, nodded and said: "It's this Li'er, at the beginning, only one palace maid was given to each of them, it was indeed too little!" ”

"The palace maids entered the palace to serve the Queen Mother, Your Majesty, as well as the mothers, princes and princesses, the courtiers were pitied by the Queen Mother, and it was a blessing to be able to raise them under the knees of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother also sent someone to serve us, it is really ashamed to say that the courtiers originally entered the palace to accompany the Queen Mother, so many years it was the Queen Mother who was worried about the courtiers, where do you dare to ask for more people?" Su Ruhui hurriedly said.

"You are all good children with filial piety, but what Mama Qi said also makes sense, a palace maid is too few after all, once you get sick, you are a lady, and there is no one around you who pours tea and water, what kind of system!" The Queen Mother said, "Don't say it, since you like that palace maid, then the mourning family will add someone for you, and Yi'er will be there." ”

Su Ruhui was busy thanking, and listened to Qi Yundao: "Queen Mother, Miss Su's concerns are actually not unreasonable. ”

The Queen Mother didn't expect Qi Yun to say this, and couldn't help but be surprised: "What's going on?" ”

"After all, the palace maids are the queen mother, Your Majesty's people, the young ladies have some scruples about using them, there are many people, the young ladies are young, if there are those treacherous people, a few young ladies are afraid that they are a little ......" Qi Yun is the old man next to the queen mother, and he can naturally speak more straightforwardly, the queen mother frowned, and wanted to refute it, but after thinking about it, he still asked, "Then don't add people?" ”

"Adding people is to be added, but a few young ladies don't dare to use people in the palace, don't they dare to use family members? The ladies are all from everyone's background, so wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to arrange for one or two innocent maids in their family to serve in the palace? Qi Yun said with a smile.

Su Ruhui was secretly surprised, isn't this clearly for everyone to put people into the palace? What is the idea of this Qi Mama's suggestion? Looking at the Queen Mother's appearance, it seems that Qi Yun would say this.

Thinking of this, Su Ruhui was silent, secretly waiting for the Queen Mother's decision.

Empress Dowager Jiayi pondered for a moment, and actually nodded: "That's right, you children are a little younger after all, although the palace maids arranged for you by the mourning family are not necessarily treacherous, I'm afraid that you don't dare to call, you read that today's palace maids would rather not be served than replaced, I'm afraid it's also because it's a tame person, and I'm embarrassed to say it if you don't agree with you?" ”

Su Ruhui hurriedly said: "Thank you for the Queen Mother's mercy, in fact, where will the person selected by the Queen Mother be bad?" Xiuwan didn't know the courtiers at the beginning, but she had always taken care of the courtiers wholeheartedly, and she was thinking - how could the people in the Queen Mother's palace disagree with the courtiers? ”

The Queen Mother bowed her head and said: "What Mama Qi said is also reasonable, so be it, the mourning family allows you to choose two maids from your respective families to serve in the palace!" ”

"Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother!" Su Ruhui would not refuse, she was thinking about who her mother would arrange to enter the palace to accompany her? Is it his young handmaid Qingque and Qingye, or the little maid newly trained by Mrs. Zheng Yejun over the years?

Zhou Yi'er was also overjoyed when she received the news, but she was a little happier than Su Ruhui, this is because Xiuying, who was enveloped by the Zhou family for her at the beginning, was involved because of Huo Qinglian and Zhang Ying's two daughters chasing the lake, and later Xinhe, who was assigned to serve her, was not only more people than Xiuyingmu, but also a little lazy in doing things, if she hadn't made a big mistake all the time, Zhou Yi'er would have wanted to change people a long time ago.

Now that the Queen Mother has opened her mouth, she can invite a competent and reliable maid arranged by her family to enter the palace, and this new lotus can be thrown aside in the future.

As for why Qi Yun made this suggestion and why the Queen Mother agreed, the two of them couldn't think of anything for a while, and they waited for someone to come to the family happily.

Because Su Ruhui Xiuwan fell ill, Qi Yun deliberately sent a small yellow door to Wudehou's mansion to pass on the queen mother's message, Su Wanhai and An were naturally surprised and happy, and on the second day, Mrs. Zheng Yejun took two carefully selected maids to the palace and thanked the queen mother.

Su Ruhui stood beside the Queen Mother, after An's salute, the Queen Mother smiled and gave a seat, and An's said a thank you that had been prepared a long time ago, and the Queen Mother smiled lightly and said: "Ruhua has been raised under the knees of the mourning family for six years, and has always been gentle and courteous, she is a good child, how can the mourning family wronged her?" At the beginning, I didn't arrange many people to serve, one was that there were rules in the palace, and the other was that the emperor had mercy on Li Shu, and Changtai released several batches of palace maids who were over twenty-five years old around the twentieth year, which made the palace maids a little insufficient in those years. ”

When Changtai was twenty years old, a group of palace maids were indeed released in the palace, but Su Ruhui, Zhou Yi'er, including Zhang Xian, had only one palace maid to serve, but the real reason was that they all came from good backgrounds.

After that, after the eldest princess Guangyi descended, the palace drove away a Song Caisu, and Su Ruhui and these people also made everyone look at them, and they deliberately mentioned their treatment. But under the matter of Xin Cairen, when Changtai was twenty-six years old, even the palace maids of Weiyang Palace were a little insufficient, where was there any excess to give to them?

Then the Northern Expedition of Dayong, the Queen Mother took the lead, and the application in the palace was reduced, so naturally she didn't mention this matter.

It wasn't until the end of the Northern Expedition, that is, in the past two years, that the palace selected two palace maids, and the manpower was barely replenished. However, there are too many palace people who have been killed by the witch curse caused by Xin Cairen, especially those palace people who have skills in the Six Shang Bureau, in the past two years, the Six Bureaus have been busy training newcomers, busy with the serious masters of all sizes in the palace, as for Su Ruhui and others, they are not particularly liked by the Queen Mother, so naturally no one cares.

For example, Huo Qinglian and Danzhu naturally have more than one person around to serve, and Zhang Huan's health has been poor after chasing the lake, and Queen Zhou has also taken extra care. This time, letting the family send people into the palace to serve, it seems to be a special grace for Su Ruhui and Zhou Yi'er.

But either way, it's a good thing.

Zheng Yejun's wife An said solemnly: "The concubines are stupid, they are all taught by the queen mother, in fact, if you enter the palace to serve the queen mother, how dare you let the queen mother bother again?" The word grievance is even more impossible to mention, the concubine to tell the truth, such as painting these years under the queen mother's knees, it is a lot more generous, this is all the queen mother's favor, the husband and the concubine are in mind! ”

said with a pursed lips and smiled: "The Queen Mother doesn't want to laugh at the concubines who praise their daughters in front of the Queen Mother, Ruhua has been raised under the Queen Mother's knees all these years!" ”