While Madder was chatting with Doctor Xie, Bai Wei was also talking secretly with Aunt Fang.

"Hehehehe, Madder is really still a child, and she can't hide things in her heart. I think Xie Lingzhi must also be worried, when she leaves the palace, will Madder be bullied by others, right? ”

"Auntie, the doctors are all masters who want to trample others under their feet and stand on the highest place."

"Then as she wishes, you ask Poria to arrange more work for her to do, catch her mistakes, and let her pick up the medicinal herbs again, so that Xie Lingzhi can lead her into the door smoothly." But be careful, don't be like last time, the mixed herbs are still thrown in the corner and no one picks them up. ”

"Yes, Auntie. Just catch her for a small mistake, mix two herbs and let her finish it quickly. ”

Poria got the order, and in the name of cleaning up the year ago, she ordered all the sprinkler girls to clean the entire pharmacy from top to bottom and from the inside to the outside.

The whole pharmacy is divided into pieces, and the girls do it to the people, and Poria asks that even the snow on the roof be cleared to check whether the roof tiles should be replaced.

If it's just cleaning and sprinkling, it's okay, and the matter of climbing the roof has always been handled by the eunuchs, but this year, because of Bai Wei's instructions, there are naturally no reinforcements, so this dangerous work has to be completed by the girls.

After the news of the roof cleaning spread, it caused a discussion among the girls, no one wanted to do such a dangerous work, and Poria seemed to have understood everyone's meaning, and very generously assigned the work in the way of catching eunuchs.

Catch the castration in the small ear room where you usually eat, everyone waits outside under the porch, and after the name is called, you go in to catch the castration, what you catch is what it is, it will be recorded, if you find out that you are derelict in your work in the future, you can be offended.

Xiangru may be a newcomer, her name is at the bottom, and she has been waiting for a long time in the cold wind, so cold that it is useless for her to stomp her feet outside.

Finally hearing his name, Xiangru walked into the room, the inside had been tidied up, the tables were all placed on the wall, only a large round table was placed in the middle of the room, and a cardboard box was placed on it, Poria stood behind the table, signaling Xiangru to reach in and grab the castration.

Xiangru closed her eyes and reached out to touch a piece of paper to castrate, and Poria unfolded it in front of her, reading the words aloud.

Unfortunately, Xiangru was given the task of cleaning the roof, and to make matters worse, the block she was in charge of was the courtyard of the doctor, and she had to climb the roof of the two-story building, which was the building where the doctor Xie lived.

I don't know if there is a lottery or anything like that in this world, if she successfully completes this work, she must use this day as her lucky number to buy a lottery ticket when she leaves the palace in the future.

The next morning, when Xiangru and Erdong were routinely sprinkling and sweeping, Madder came to deliver sugar water, and Xiangru deliberately stopped Madder and asked her about the arrangements of the doctor in the afternoon.

Madder turned around and stared at Xiangru with a bad face, "Why are you asking about this?" ”

"Oh, yes, I'm going to climb up that building in the afternoon to clear the snow, I've never climbed the roof, I'm afraid that if I step on a bad tile it will scare the people in the house, I don't care about anyone else, but the doctor is so kind to me, I don't want to scare her." Xiangru's expression was as calm as saying, "I'm going to clean the charcoal ash in your brazier later."

Madder was startled, her eyes widened, she looked up at the roof, pursed her lips, and hurried away without saying a word.

Several doctors on duty today went out one after another, leaving only Doctor Xie alone in the room, when she heard Madder's report, she almost knocked over the cup in her hand, and the master and apprentice stared at each other, and there was nothing to do.

After lunch, the courtyards come alive, and long ladders are set up on the gables of the houses, and the people who want to climb the roofs take off their skirts and wear only cotton trousers, and their legs are tied with sacks in front of them to increase the friction on the snow.

In her previous life, Xiangru had only climbed a ladder at home to change the light bulb, and had never climbed the roof, not to mention that the net height of this kind of house was much higher than her own cognition, and the ladder used was connected by two long ladders, leaning directly on the gable, not stable at all, the higher she climbed, the more she shook, and she didn't see any other protective measures.

The doctors who lived on the second floor learned that someone was going to climb the roof in the afternoon, and no one dared to stay in the house.

Xiangru gritted her teeth and climbed onto the roof with a hanging heart, holding the ridge of the roof and not daring to let go, she glanced down cautiously, dizzy, this height is at least worthy of a three-story building in her previous life.

The person on the ladder below saw that Xiangru had not moved for a long time, and shouted at her, telling her to move quickly.

Xiangru saw that she couldn't dodge, so she had to move her body slowly, spread her legs apart, kneel on the ridge, and then untie the long rope in her waist, drag one end by herself, and put the other end down.

The people below tied the rope to a long-handled broom for Xiangru to hang on, and all Xiangru had to do was use the broom to push all the snow off the roof.

The slope of the roof exceeded the length of the broom, and Xiangru could not push it to the end, and although a lot of snow fell, the eaves were still white. And the snow has been piled up on the roof for a long time, and it looks like snow on the surface, but it is all ice underneath, and the broom can't be pushed, so you can only roughly sweep the snow, and then replace the broom with a long-handled rake, break the ice, and then push it down.

The tooth rake was a little longer than a broom, but it still couldn't reach the broken ice on the eaves, and could only look at the white circle on the eaves, like a decorative edge.

The people below jumped and told Xiangru not to sit on the ridge of the roof, but to climb to the slope to clean the roof.

Xiangru couldn't help it, and when she looked at the people on the roofs of the other three buildings, they were all risking their lives to climb onto the slope of the roof, so she had to give it a try.

But just as she had reached the front, before she could climb down, the rake in her hand suddenly took off her hand, and she watched as the thing slid down the slope of the roof, turned over on the gutter, and fell straight to the ground.

Seeing the danger, the people below panicked and screamed and fled for their lives.

With a "clang", the rake fell on the ground of the yard.

Xiangru was dumbfounded, and quickly climbed back to the roof and sat down. Someone quickly went to find Poria Cocos, and Poria was furious and told Xiangru to get down immediately and go to tidy up the warehouse tomorrow.

Don't stay in a dangerous place anymore, Xiangru is happy to go down immediately, tomorrow's things will be talked about tomorrow, as for the snow on the roof, love whoever you want.

Later in the afternoon, when Erdong came back from his work, they both heard about Xiangru's trouble, and comforted Xiangru well, but they couldn't do anything about tomorrow's punishment.

However, after Mrs. Xie heard about this, she was relieved.

"This is Aunt Fang's opportunity for us, we can't live up to her kindness."

Madder was confused.

After lunch the next day, Poria personally called Xiangru away, and in the courtyard of the pharmacy, there were six large shelves, each with three floors, full of dustpans, a total of eighteen.

There were already several people sorting out the medicinal herbs, one person was in charge of a large shelf, and Poria told Xiangru on the side that this was all a punishment for doing something wrong yesterday.

Xiangru was assigned to the last shelf, and after taking a closer look, Xiangru breathed a sigh of relief, this time there were not so many medicinal materials, only two kinds were mixed, and they were all very easy to distinguish, the leaves were mixed with stems or roots, and the surface texture of each herb felt different, even if a layman could easily sort out the medicinal materials with his eyes closed.

Xiangru took the sack and sorted it out and put it at her feet, like last day, starting from the dustpan at the bottom, without eyes at all, just by feeling, Xiangru was the last to come, but the sorting progress was faster than the other five.

After picking half of it, Doctor Xie and Madder came from under the porch with the medicine box, and saw Xiangru standing busy in front of the big shelf, her brows furrowed slightly, and she stopped.

Poria, who had been supervising beside her, stepped forward when she saw this scene, "Doctor Xie, Xiangru did something wrong yesterday, you are busy with yours, don't make it difficult for me." ”

Doctor Xie glanced at Poria and then at Xiangru for a while before continuing to walk outside.

Poria returned to its original location to continue supervision.

She also noticed that Xiangru was skillful, as if she often did this kind of work, but she didn't care much when she thought that she came out of the kitchen. She thought that there were so many vegetables and eggs in the kitchen every day, and if the handyman was not quick enough, not only would he be scolded by the cook, but Aunt Rong's whip would not grow eyes.

Xiangru was the first to end her punishment, and when she returned to the house, the slowest of the five poor girls had not even finished picking a dustpan.

Later, when Dr. Xie came back from the clinic, when she entered the courtyard for the second time, she glanced at the middle of the courtyard again, and found that there were only five people, except for Xiangru, when she was missing, she hooked her fingers, called Poria over and gave instructions, and then she went back to the house to rest.

Poria naturally went to report to Aunt Fang as soon as possible, "Auntie, Lady Xie just ordered to take a few more herbs and mix them together, and she asked Xiangru to pick them again in front of her." ”

"What's going on?" Aunt Fang asked as she lay on the side on the warm kang with a pillow and a brocade quilt on her body.

"Well, Xiangru is very good at sorting this kind of thing, I think it's because she's been working in the kitchen for too long."

"Really? Then do as she says, don't make too much, it's going to be dark soon, if Xie Lingzhi doesn't let her finish all the picking, it's our own people who will suffer. ”

"Yes, I see." Poria hurriedly retreated to prepare.

Aunt Fang and Bai Wei glanced at each other, and the corners of their mouths hooked up a meaningful smile.

Let them play with their self-righteousness.

Poria took a tea tray from the pantry, and grabbed a handful of medicinal herbs from each dustpan in the courtyard and put it on the tea tray. Then she sent a little girl to call Xiangru, and she sent the plate of medicinal herbs to Doctor Xie's room.

Xiangru didn't know what was looking for her, so she hurried to answer the call, and Madder opened the door and led her in.

Mrs. Xie sat behind a round table, with the tea tray in the middle of the table, and Poria standing on her left hand side.

Madder led Xiangru to the table and stood opposite Mrs. Xie, and then she came to Mrs. Xie's right hand side and stood still.

"Xiangru, don't be nervous, we're just doing a little test." Lady Xie's smile was gentle.

"Uh, yes, I don't know what to test?"

"I noticed that you seem to be particularly good at sorting herbs, so I wanted to see how fast you can be."

"That's all?"

"That's all."

"Is that all on the plate?"

"Yes, that's all, don't look at it like that, but there are more than ten herbs mixed here, and I want you to divide them into three piles according to the leaves, stems, and roots. We light incense and time. Lady Xie gestured to Madder.

Madder went to the desk and brought a small incense burner that had been inserted and placed it next to the round table.

Xiangru rolled up her sleeves and moved her fingers, "I'm ready, come on." ”

The madder struck the flint and lit the incense, and in the green smoke, Xiangru's hands fluttered.