Chapter 8: My aunt is poisonous
I don't know if I am a guest in my dream, and I am greedy for joy! Until there was a tingling pain on his body, Yan Yuefang opened his eyes. The scene in front of her made Yan Yue immediately scream, a woman in her thirties and forties was standing beside her bed, the whip in her hand was facing her, and the situation could fall at any time. And the hot pain in her leg told Yan Yue that it was obviously because the woman had just whipped herself.
"Who are you, you dare to hit someone!" Yan Yue jumped up as soon as she rubbed the ground, and this jump made her legs hurt even more.
"Teach Aunt Liu Meizhu, come to teach etiquette and palace rules by the order of the saint, now at this hour, the doctor is still lazy to sleep, and she doesn't know how to salute when she sees her aunt, do you think she should be beaten or not." The woman looked Yan Yue up and down and said something slowly, and Yan Yue noticed that the sun outside had risen high and high. But even if I slept in, I had never heard of waking up with a whip.
"Now ask the doctor to have breakfast first, according to the rules, my aunt will teach you all the rules in the palace today." Aunt Liu's half-squinted eyes, like a dog looking at fresh meat and bones, stared straight at Yan Yue's heart and slowly haired. Mama Rong must be a woman who is as interested as Mama Rong in the TV series, Yan Yue's mind is full of shots from a certain TV series.
When Aunt Liu went out, Yan Yue noticed that the room she lived in was divided into two rooms, and there were four beds in the inner room, two by two, and Yan Yue was lying on the outermost bed last night, and the three roommates had long since disappeared. On the head of each bed hangs a name tag with the name of each medicine woman. Taking a closer look, Yan Yue couldn't help but laugh. It turned out that the names of the three women were peony, jade bamboo, and cloves, which were all names of traditional Chinese medicine. I think it must have been the name given when she was chosen as a medical woman.
In the outer room, there are four half-person-high cabinets, one of which appear to be reserved for clothing. Yan Yue swallowed the dates and finished breakfast, and hurriedly reported to Aunt Jiaoxi. The formal teaching began, and Yan Yue's mind began to be filled with countless palace rules and precepts.
As a medical woman, you must first understand your identity. The highest rank among the imperial physicians of the Darong Dynasty was a medical officer, enjoying the benefits of a five-rank official; secondly, there are healers, who enjoy the benefits of the six officials; The most important is the doctor, who enjoys the benefits of the seven-grade official; And the medical woman served by Yan Yue did not have any grade, and she was generally inferior to the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace. In the palace of the Darong Dynasty, there was a position of teaching etiquette aunts, and most of them were held by palace maids who had served in the palace for many years. Because they are old people in the palace, and they are slaves who have served their masters for many years, they are far from the ordinary little palace maids and eunuchs in this palace.
As a medical woman, if you don't smile, you have to be happy and angry about big things. Always have a serious and respectful expression, which makes people feel that they can be relied on. This is different from the requirements of the palace maid, who requires that her face always be smiling and joyful every day.
As a medical woman, you must be cautious in your words and deeds, don't look at what you shouldn't see, don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't say what you shouldn't say, and some things can only be left in your heart and rotten and can't be said.
As a medical woman, from head to toe, not a single hair should be messy, clean, tidy, and neat. It is not allowed to carry evil smells and dirty smells on the body, of course, medicinal smells can be carried.
As a medical woman, there are strict regulations in the palace in terms of dressing, all clothes are uniformly distributed by the palace, six sets per season, and one set of bottoms, shirts, outerwear, vests, shoes and socks are counted. Most of the clothing is spun. But there's only one color of all, and that's green. The shoes are a one-yard shade of black.
The doctor girl is a slave, all the rules that the slave must abide by, the doctor must obey it completely, and all the masters in the palace must kowtow, and the master will do whatever the slave says, and the master will let you die without complaint. There must be certain rules for eating, saluting, walking, and even sleeping...... And most importantly, always remember that you are just a slave in this palace, and you must call yourself a slave!
This Aunt Liu didn't use a whip, she just used her mouth to talk about Yan Yue to the point where she couldn't stand up. For each palace rule, this aunt only said it once, and after one time, she asked Yan Yue to repeat it. Its requirements are even better than Yan Yue's high school Chinese teacher back then. Fortunately, Yan Yue's memory has always been amazing, and the morning has passed without danger.
But at noon, Yan Yue's bad luck began! After all, it was a tiring morning, although the doctor's food was a bowl of rice, two dishes and a soup. But when you are hungry, everything you eat is fragrant, but it's a pity that Yan Yue's chopsticks are raised, and a whip is waved on Yan Yue's arm, it is summer, and the clothes on her body are thin, and this whip makes Yan Yue's hand almost unable to lift.
"Pay attention to your eyes, you actually show slander when you look at the food, as if you are hungry in this palace!" Aunt Liu scolded, Yan Yue wanted to get angry, but after thinking about it, she endured it.
It's just that Aunt Liu whipped her right arm, and when Yan Yue raised her arm to carry the vegetables, the vegetables fell to the ground, only to hear a whistling, and another whip fell on Yan Yue's arm! This time, Yan Yue couldn't bear it, grandma's, from morning to noon, the three whips have hit her body, can you still live this day!
"Aunt Liu, you're too much! Even if I broke the rules, after all, I am a newcomer to the palace, and there must be a period of adaptation, is your behavior too vicious! Yan Yue put down the chopsticks in her hand with a snap and walked over to Aunt Liu.
Then Aunt Liu was stunned for a while and then became furious: "Bold, how dare you talk to Aunt Jiaoxi like this?" Well deserved! When Aunt Liu shouted, she saw that Yan Yue's figure had approached, only to hear a snapping sound, and a slap had slapped Aunt Liu's face.
"It's the other way around, it's the other way around, come on, get this ugly girl up for me!" Aunt Liu shouted frantically. After a while, dozens of little eunuchs rushed in, the so-called enemy is outnumbered, this time Yan Yue didn't take advantage of half a penny, and was quickly tied up by that group of little eunuchs.
That Liu Meizhu was even more unceremoniously fanned Yan Yue's face, until the corners of Yan Yue's mouth oozed bloodshot before stopping.
"Tie this girl here, don't give her anything to eat, and then teach her a good lesson when my aunt has eaten!" Aunt Liu dropped a sentence and walked out.
"I'm the emperor's full-time medical woman, and the emperor ordered you to teach me etiquette, and he didn't let you beat me! Knock me down, and see how you explain to the emperor in three days! Yan Yue yelled at the back, maybe at this time, Yan Yue could only suppress people by punching out the emperor's name. But Aunt Liu didn't seem to hear it, and the footsteps quickly disappeared.
For half an hour, Yan Yue had been crying silently, thinking that she had lived for twenty-four years, but her grandfather, father, and mother had never moved a finger of her. Even when they make mistakes, they only teach them cordially. Once I went a little too far, a little friend in the class offended Yan Yue, Yan Yue brought some leaking medicine and put it in his water cup, so that the little friend barely came out of the toilet in the afternoon . Because of this, my grandfather was furious and reprimanded Yan Yue a few words, but he only punished Yan Yue for thinking about it behind closed doors in the house for a long time. Unexpectedly, two days after coming to this Darong Dynasty, he was whipped and slapped by the old woman!
But in the next half an hour, Yan Yue began to think about countermeasures. When Aunt Liu comes here again, what will she do! If you continue to collide, there is only one result, be beaten! The pain in her body told Yan Yue all the time how ruthless this aunt was. But if she was wronged by someone like Aunt Liu, Yan Yue really couldn't swallow this breath. Yan Yue thought about it, but finally used Ah Q's spirit to warn herself. The so-called heaven will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds. A gentleman's revenge, ten years is not too late!
Just when Yan Yue was still pondering, Aunt Liu had already returned to Yan Yue's side. In order to be able to teach Yan Yue well, this aunt even omitted the nap time! And the first thing Yan Yue noticed was that the long whip in Aunt Liu's hand was gone, replaced by a thin rattan, Yan Yue couldn't help but shiver when she looked at it, this rattan was pumped on her body, it definitely hurt more than the long whip!
"The doctor girl is right, the emperor ordered the old slave to teach you the palace rules and etiquette, but the rules in the palace are that the doctor girl violates the palace rules and beats!" That Aunt Liu inadvertently waved the rattan as she spoke, and Yan Yue felt frightened every time the rattan moved!
"Practice kneeling first, knees together, bow your head after kneeling, your chin should be magnetic to your neck when you bow your head, and you should not look up at your master without the permission of your master, so as not to frighten your master. Even if the master asked to raise his head, his eyes should be 45 degrees in front of him......" Aunt Liu said quickly, Yan Yue understood why Murong Yan was so sure that he was not Yan Yue, it turned out that his first performance in the main hall was not the performance of the Darong Dynasty at all. Not only did he look up at Murong Yan, but he also kept staring at the men and women.
Yan Yue spent the next hour practicing kneeling, and once she was unqualified, she would do it again. Although Yan Yue is extremely smart, after all, she has never knelt down, once her knees are not together, once her chin is not lowered to the required position, and once she still looks forward even though she kneels...... Every time she made a mistake, Aunt Liu's rattan was pumped on her calf, and every time she was in pain, Yan Yue trembled.
Then I practiced walking, and when I walked, I had to be not in a hurry, not looking around, and I had the charm of a woman. Yan Yue didn't walk like that little step, but after her leg was beaten by the rattan today, she felt extremely painful with every step, so this walk was completely in line with Aunt Liu's requirements.
By the time Aunt Liu left, Yan Yue was already drenched in sweat, and she even had to go to the bedside. Sleeping on a hard wooden bed, Yan Yue, who was so hungry that she couldn't even stand to find food. At this moment, Yan Yue was already soberly aware that she was just a small medicine girl in this Darong Dynasty, and in this palace, except for the palace maids and eunuchs, the slightest mistake could kill her. Yan Yue even felt that maybe the three-day etiquette class was not over, and she would be tortured to death by those rules.
When Yan Yue was about to fall asleep, a sound of footsteps broke the silence, and then a thin voice reached Yan Yue's ears: "This Yan medicine girl seems to have really suffered, she fell asleep when she came last night, and she slept so deeply today." ”
"I heard Xiao Guizi outside say that today's Dr. Yan learned the palace rules and etiquette, presumably he was tortured, and I was beaten by my aunt so much that I couldn't get up for a few days, if it wasn't for my life, how could I survive today." Another girl said.
"You are all stupid, I didn't suffer at all when I learned the palace rules. And guess why? A girl was pretending.
"What's wrong?" The other two girls asked in unison, and Yan Yue listened desperately.
"I gave something to my aunt, otherwise how could I not be punished, those aunts have long hands." The girl's voice was authentic. This time, Yan Yue's heart was relieved and she fell asleep!