Chapter 3 (B)

Xiangru opened the wardrobe and took out a light purple brown blouse, the palace rules, the palace maids' clothes have only two colors a year, green in spring and summer, purple brown in autumn and winter, although the clothes of each season are rewarded by the palace, but because of the relationship between the fabric, the color of the clothes is not the same every time, there are deep and light, but they are all in the prescribed color system, by the palace maids casually, today want to wear light wear light, want to wear deep wear deep.

The style is fixed, and the place where the palace ladies can compete is on the embroidery on the clothes, the cuffs, neckline, trousers and the upper, as long as the embroidery can be done, it is the place where the palace ladies compete in craftsmanship. As the eldest aunt in charge, every day when she is full and has nothing to do, she competes with other aunts in charge of the embroidery on her clothes, if she feels that she has been compared, she will let Xiangru change when she comes back, Xiangru in addition to the chores in the kitchen and serving Aunt Rong's diet and daily life, she is also responsible for dismantling, changing, and doing her clothes, from getting up to going to bed all day without rest.

Under this treatment that I don't know if it's a hone or abuse, the previous Xiangru has just trained a good female celebrity.

Xiangru found a furoshiki to wrap up her clothes, then cleaned up the dishes on the table, hung the bag on her shoulders, and went straight to the kitchen with a food box in one hand and a kettle in the other.

Cleaning the kitchen is the work of the handyman, and when Xiangru returned to the kitchen, everyone had already eaten breakfast and started to prepare for lunch, and the honeysuckle and cloves were sorting out the used kitchen utensils, and there was a large pot of pots and pans to be washed out in a while.

Yinhua took the food box and kettle in Xiangru's hand, glanced at the burden on her shoulders, and knew that Aunt Rong had given her life again, so she took a warm flower roll from the steamer and stuffed it into Xiangru's mouth, telling her to go back quickly.

Xiangru ran back to her bedroom while swallowing the flower roll, threw down the burden and ran back to the kitchen.

This is the scene that Xiangru experiences every day after getting up in the morning, others can have a peaceful breakfast, but she can't.

Fortunately, this body does not have stomach problems.

While pouring porridge, Xiangru thought so.

After gobbling up breakfast, Xiangru walked to the well, and while she was eating, Lilac and Yinhua were already carrying a large pot full of used cutlery to wash at the well.

Xiangru joined in, the three of them washed together a lot faster, washing, today's kitchen ingredients were also delivered, in addition to vegetables and non-staple food and meat live poultry, there are a large number of various fruits, in Xiangru's view, as long as you are not picky eaters, the daily nutrition needs can be guaranteed.

The dozens of people in the women's hospital hall are all women, not to mention men, there is not even a eunuch, and the daily ingredients are sent by the little eunuchs of the Tai Hospital, and they leave as soon as they send them, and they don't stay much.

The little eunuch brought the vegetables, Aunt Rong didn't know where to follow them, commanded the others to count the quantity, and then put the vegetables to be washed in a pot and put them on the well, habitually scolded a few words, and urged Xiangru and the three of them to be numb with their hands and feet, and then turned around and went into the kitchen, pointing at the noses of everyone in the kitchen and scolding them one by one, and then shook the waist that was not slender for a long time and went to other places.

The dishes have been washed for the first time, and the rest of the rinsing work is continued by Lilac and Honeysuckle, Xiangru got out and went to the side to pick vegetables.

None of the people in the kitchen came out to help share it, after Aunt Rong left, they boiled a pot of water in it and waited to make tea, the four cooks discussed what to cook today, and the other eight cooks slowly began to prepare all kinds of onions, ginger and garlic, Aunt Rong scolded like this every morning, and everyone was used to it.

Besides, the palace is like this, you should do your own things, and you should not do your own things.

Yinhua and Lilac washed the dishes step by step, carried them back to the kitchen and dried them with a dry rag and put them in the cabinet for later use, and when they came out again, they brought a bowl of hot tea to Xiangru, changed Xiangru to drink water and rested, and the two of them sat down and continued to pick vegetables and peel them.

Most of the morning passed by the well, and the washed vegetables and meats were drained and put in a bamboo dustpan, and one by one they were carried back to the kitchen and placed on the long table in the middle of the kitchen.

At this time, the kitchen workers also prepared the oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, onion, ginger, garlic and other seasonings for cooking, packed them in small utensils, and placed them on the cook's convenient seat by the stove. After Xiangru brought in the clean dishes, they continued to shred, dice, and slice the raw dishes according to the cook's recipe today, and then distributed them according to the required amount of each dish, so that the cook could cook later.

The kitchen began to get busy, which means that the three of Xiangru have finished their work this morning, and they can go back to the house to rest for a while.

Back in the courtyard where they lived, the three of them washed their hands with buckets of water, then returned to the house to medicate the fresh bruises on Xiangru's body, and then Yinhua and Lilac went to wash their clothes, while Xiangru sat in the sunniest place under the porch with the sewing basket and Aunt Rong's clothes and began to unwrap the embroidery on the sleeves.

After a busy morning, sitting down, Xiangru finally has time to rethink the current way of life.

Rebirth is not easy to come by, since she occupies this shell, she also understands that she inherits the responsibilities and obligations of this shell by the way, but after all, it is now an assembly of goods, and it is absolutely unacceptable for her to live a daily insensitive life like the original goods.

The days of being beaten every day must not be passed anymore, and we must find a way to coax Aunt Rong, just like touching a kitten, and follow the hair to touch her to have a good life, otherwise my skin and bones will be cheap, and I will be disabled one day, and I will not be able to keep it one day.

Therefore, the top priority at the moment is to be a competent dog, everything is based on Aunt Rong's requirements, she said that the east will never say the west, she said that one plus one equals five, and she must not correct that she is actually equal to two.

Is it cheap? Somewhat. But who cares?

Xiangru made up her mind in her heart, and her mind slowly calmed down, concentrating on the work at hand.

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Don't look at the circle of decorative patterns on the sleeves, the area is not large, but the pattern is very finely embroidered, it is a good needlework, so it takes a lot of effort to dismantle, and when it is almost time to eat, Xiangru has not finished removing a sleeve, and can only put things back in the house, and hurriedly ran to the kitchen to serve food and send it to Aunt Rong's room.

After serving Aunt Rong's lunch, and serving her to wash her face and rest, Xiangru packed up the dishes and went back to the kitchen. Of course, at this time, the entire female medical hall was almost finished, and she was the only one who didn't eat, fortunately there were cloves and honeysuckle, and they left some food for Xiangru, but in addition to the fact that the rice was warm, the dishes were already cold.

Xiangru didn't have to choose, she poured all the dishes on a large plate, poured the rice into it, mixed it, and ate it like this.

Just like in the morning, when Xiangru was eating, Lilac and Yinhua had already begun to clean the dishes by the well, and the kitchen had not yet been cleaned up, while the four cooks and eight cooks had gone back to the house to rest after the meal.

To put it simply, all the remaining aftermath matters are the business of the three of Xiangru.

The body's memory makes Xiangru eat quickly, but the soul in the body is snatching control of the body, so it is necessary to slow down Xiangru's eating speed, because if you don't chew enough, it will bring a burden to your gastrointestinal digestion, which is not good for your health, and there will be a risk of stomach problems in the long run.

Muscle memory and soul consciousness each led the allies to start a tug-of-war between the autonomic nerves and the central nervous system, which was directly manifested in Xiangru's gulping and swallowing for a while, choking and rolling her eyes, and then chewing carefully and chewing even the root vegetable leaves before swallowing.

After half a bowl of rice, the soul consciousness and the allies won the war and seized control of the body, Xiangru's swallowing speed slowed down, and she resumed the eating speed of her previous life in the second half of the bowl of rice.

Touching your stomach and feeling full is good. Xiangru put the dishes and chopsticks into the basin, she didn't stay to wash them together, but took a bucket of water back to the kitchen to clean up, changed two buckets of water to wash the oil stains in the kitchen before coming back to wash the remaining pots and pans with clove honeysuckle.

The work of returning the kitchen utensils to Lilac and Yinhua was still handed over, Xiangru quickly ran back to the house, and seized all the time to remove the unfinished embroidery on the clothes, in the afternoon she had to serve Aunt Rong to eat snacks and dinner, and in the evening to make a single supper for Aunt Rong, if it was not dismantled today, it would be too late to embroider in the next two days.

Lilac and Yinhua finished the rest of the work and came back to Xiangru to finish removing one sleeve, and the cooks felt that when they went to the kitchen to make snacks, the second sleeve was half removed, and seeing that the first process was about to be completed, Yinhua came to call her, saying that the snack was good and that it was time to send it to Aunt Rong.

Xiangru had to put down what she was holding and ran to the kitchen.

The kitchen made four kinds of flower cakes, Xiangru picked three pieces and put them on a plate, and then took a pot of freshly brewed tea, and brought them to Aunt Rong while they were hot.

Aunt Rong sat at the table under the window, the shelves were fully arranged, pinching the orchid fingers, the stubby little finger was raised high, and she took a piece of the same four pastries, but she only ate two or three bites of each piece and put it down, just drinking tea.

Xiangru didn't dare to breathe, stood respectfully with her hands hanging in front of her, bowed her head slightly, her eyes looked at the tips of her shoes, but the rest of her eyes were on Aunt Rong. Seeing that there was not much tea in her cup, Xiangru hurriedly stepped forward to refill the tea, and then retreated to stand quietly, praying in her heart that Aunt Rong would let her go earlier, and she still had half a sleeve of flowers unremoved.

Xiangru's wish seemed to have been answered by God, and after Aunt Rong drank two cups of tea, she waved her hand to let Xiangru pack her things and go down.

Of the twelve pastries, only four of them had a corner each, plus only two cups of tea and half a pot of tea. Xiangru took the almost identical dim sum back to the kitchen and poured it all directly into the bucket.

After washing her hands outside and coming back, Xiangru took two pastries and stuffed them into her mouth while running to the yard where she lived, rushed back to the house, picked up the sewing basket and sat down under the porch, and stuffed all the remaining pastries in her hands into her mouth.

In a hurry, she finally removed all the embroidery on her sleeves before it got dark, put down her things, and Xiangru ran back to the kitchen to make the final preparations before dinner while designing the new embroidery pattern in her mind.

The emperor and queen and other high-ranking people only have two meals a day, they are hungry at any time to make up for it, and two meals are not enough for the people who do things underneath, so another emperor is magnificent, sympathetic to the hard work of the palace people, and specially approved an extra meal in the evening.

At the beginning of the unitary, dinner was served, and the six dishes of meat and vegetarian cooked by the chef, one soup, one wine and one rice were served in the food box and sent to Aunt Rong's house by Xiangru.

After eating, rinsing her mouth with tea, and drinking a few sips of tea, Aunt Rong finally paid attention to Xiangru and asked her if she had started embroidering the dress.

Embroidery replied honestly, I just finished dismantling all the patterns, and I haven't started embroidering yet.

As soon as she heard this, Aunt Rong was suddenly furious, and she turned her face faster than she had ever seen, so she got up and took a rattan whip from the bedside and whipped Xiangru a few times.

Xiangru didn't dare to dodge or dodge, she honestly stood in place and let the whip whit on her body, which hurt hotly.

"The wings are stiff, huh? Dare to be lazy in front of my Aunt Rong? Dismantling a trick for a day, moving so slowly, what's the use of raising you? What are you doing with all that time? Isn't it okay to sneak out of the museum? ”

Xiangru couldn't cry or laugh, she was so busy all day long, she didn't dare to delay working hard at all, but this menopausal old witch didn't know how to write the word "Li", and she had to take medicine.

Forget it, what kind of reason do you tell her, this old witch has never been reasonable, she can fight if she wants, punish if she wants to, and deduct the palace maid's silver to be more ruthless than Zhou Peel, it's better to save some effort.

Aunt Rong slammed Xiangru's whip before she finished her after-dinner exercise out of breath and scolded "Get out", Xiangru dragged her injured body and cleaned up the table and rolled neatly.

Back in the kitchen, don't think about it, there is only a plate of warm rice mixed with a few cold dishes with a big soup bowl upside down in the stir-fry pot, the cook and others have gone back to the house to rest, there is no human hair in the kitchen, cloves and honeysuckle are washing dishes by the well.

Xiangru poured all the scraps from the food box into the bucket, then took the things to the well, returned to the kitchen and took out her dinner, and circled around the long table as she ate.

Combined with her memories and the performance of Aunt Rong that she saw with her own eyes today, Xiangru could be sure that the old witch's menopausal syndrome was so serious that she had to take medicine to control it, but she didn't see her go to the doctor or the medical officer to get the medicine, maybe she didn't realize that it was a disease at all.

Saying that she is sick to a patient who has no self-awareness, Xiangru will not do this kind of self-inflicted bad luck, and she has been beaten twice today to let her know that it is terrible.

Aunt Rong is just over forty, the rules of the palace, the old palace maid and the old eunuch have left the palace and returned to their hometown at the age of fifty, and now there are still several years before the day when Aunt Rong returns to her hometown, and the day of eating whips every day must be changed.

Menopause, well, well, let's talk about this menopause, she was a nutritionist in her previous life, and eating tonic medicinal food is her forte. Since Aunt Rong didn't go to the doctor to prescribe medicine and conditioning, she could only rely on herself to get her some delicious food, even if she repaid Aunt Rong for her cooking training in the past four years.

The woman trained her cooking skills and said that she would be promoted to be a cook in the future, but in fact, it was not to make her supper every day, people eat three meals a day and an afternoon snack, this woman has three meals a day and an afternoon snack is not enough to have a meal at night, no wonder she has such a figure.