Chapter 2 (I)
According to the rules of the hospital, everyone who comes in must have another name and use Chinese medicinal materials as names, so they are called Xiangru, and the two girls are called Yinhua and Lilac, both of which are the names of medicinal materials. Xiangru Xiangru, not an incense burner or a mushroom, if I remember correctly, Xiangru is the whole herb of the Asteraceae family, clearing heat and dampness, treating heat stroke, vomiting and diarrhea and other diseases.
However, I also know that unlike the expectations of parents to give their children a good name, for Tai Hospital, Xiangru is just a code name, a code name that follows the rules of Tai Hospital, and has no other meaning.
Sha Sha stuck her head out of the quilt and looked around meaninglessly, the room was dark and silent, the big kang was under the window, but there was no moonlight outside, only a soothing and calm sleep on the left and right, listening carefully, there was no movement outside, and there was no clock, so I didn't know what time it was.
Sasha opened her eyes and pondered in silence as she recalled her dreams.
Was the dream just now providential? Give her the life memory of the aborigines of the body, so that she has the capital to live, at least she can't call the wrong person and get the wrong job, otherwise the palace will kill every step of the way, and the most inferior girl like her, any superior can make her half dead.
Sasha closed her sour eyes and forced herself to sob, breathing heavily, two tears slipped out of her sockets and into her sideburns, wetting a small piece of pillow under her neck.
The name Sha Sha is in the past, eighty percent has been deleted from the citizen's household registration information, and now she is Xiangru, an inferior girl who works in the kitchen, He Xiangru, is no longer the clinical nutritionist Sha Sha who has to answer headhunter calls two or three times a year with outstanding professionalism.
The psychological construction during the day is not as great as the huge impact on psychology and emotions at this moment, Shasha buried her head in the quilt and bit her lip silently wept, she cried for her parents, cried for relatives and friends, and cried for the beautiful life in her previous life.
Crying until there were no tears to flow, Sasha wiped her eyes with her sleeves and poked her head out again to breathe fresh air.
Okay, I can't cry, the palace doesn't believe in tears, she still has to live well, doesn't she, she has to be worthy of such a young, healthy and fresh body, she is only fourteen years old this year, half younger than herself in her previous life, how can she live past twenty-eight years old to be enough.
Although the country names of this world are very unfamiliar, but the time travel, at least it is to be reborn in a feudal society with the supremacy of imperial power similar to the era of Chinese feudal dynasties, and it is time to thank God for not throwing it into any strange world, right?
But there's a question that I find strange right now.
In the dream, he said that the condition for coaxing her into the palace was to let her be a doctor, and she would be a good door lintel when she returned home in the future, but in fact, she came in after a lot of hard work and found that she was directly a kitchen handyman, and it has been four years now, not to mention the courtyard where the doctors live, and even the door of the pharmacy has not seen anything like it, if you can't enter the pharmacy to be a palace maid, what to talk about being a doctor.
Entering the palace to be a palace maid is simply fooled, but what he said at the beginning sounded good, and it just gave the stepmother a chance to completely abandon her stepdaughter, otherwise the real Xiao Xiangru would still be a little nurse at home, and maybe one day she would be infected with a serious infectious disease from the patient and die.
She didn't believe that her stepmother would be at home, and she really hoped that she would return home as soon as possible. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if she is really lucky, let her return to her hometown as a doctor, it will be an honor for nothing for the family.
Yes is the icing on the cake, no harm is not harmful, it doesn't matter if there is her in the family or not, the most important thing is that she is not an eyesore in front of her stepmother.
Of course, she can also understand that in such a world of underdeveloped productivity, there are many people in the family who are not related to her at all, and the housewife is of course not happy to see her dangling in front of her every day, even if she only has coarse tea and light rice every day, she can't starve to death, but this rice, flour, cloth and oil or something also need money to buy, why not do you have this money, why spend it on your stepdaughter.
Sha Sha understands this truth, but He Dani didn't understand it before, she worked hard every day just to get the approval of her parents, hoping to be loved by adults, but unfortunately in the end she was still a poor little transparent.
Now that Sha Sha occupies this body, the previous things have nothing to do with her, so she does not resent the He family, but the memory left by He Dani tells Sha Sha that Dani changed her name to Xiangru and entered the women's medical hall to meet the distant relative and found that the other party did not keep his promise to send himself to the pharmacy, but left himself in the kitchen to do chores.
Xiangru's memory tells her that the doctor can leave the palace and return to her hometown to marry when she reaches the age of 20, which is the grace of the first generation of the doctor to Emperor Taizu when the dynasty was founded. The other palace ladies must be in the palace until they are fifty years old before they are released to their original places, and how bleak and cruel it is to throw back into society the women who have spent most of their lives in the palace and have no livelihood skills.
According to this only clue, Sha Sha felt that the doctor was simply the most promising profession among the palace maids, not only could she leave the palace early, but as long as she was still practicing medicine for one day after leaving the palace, she could eat a day's imperial food. Of course, she is not the treatment of rare imperial food, but the right to leave the palace, she is a girl from modern society, who is willing to waste all her good years in the palace without a bright future.
But the conundrum is, how do she jump from the kitchen to the pharmacy? Aunt Fang, the pharmacy manager, and Aunt Rong, the kitchen manager, are two people who are incompatible, one of them is not good, but they are not human inside and out, and it will be worth the loss if they cause trouble.
This body is already fourteen years old, and if he hasn't been able to enter the pharmacy at the age of fifteen and be accepted as a disciple by the current doctors, there will be no chance of turning over.
She needs a turning point to change her fate, she is not willing to be a palace maid in the palace for a lifetime, she must change jobs.
Sha Sha in the past, and now He Xiangru is no longer restless and afraid, with clear eyes, quietly waiting for the dawn to break.
It is also called sunrise or dawn, which refers to the time when the sun is rising, and it is also the time when palace people usually get up.
Xiangru didn't fall asleep after waking up from her dream in the middle of the night, only relying on the guidance of the biological clock that her body had cultivated for a long time, she crawled out of the bed before the end of the day, and while everyone else was sleeping and no one grabbed the toilet with her, she hurried to clean herself, and took the dirty clothes she changed into a wooden basin and took them to the well outside to clean.
She knew that the dream was to tell her that the soul that belonged to Sha Sha had perfectly integrated with He Xiangru's body, she was Sha Sha, Sha Sha was Dani, Dani was Xiangru, and Xiangru was her now.
It is natural for me to wash my clothes by hand in such a humble environment, and Shasha and Xiangru are indistinguishable from each other.
The well water is very cold, the outdoor temperature is also cool, now it is early past the Mid-Autumn Festival, almost late autumn, and winter is not far away.
She washed all the clothes in a basin and dried them in a corner of the yard, which made her know again that the original memory of this body has been precipitated in the depths of the brain's memory cortex and every cell of the muscles of the body, naturally leading Xiangru to do what she wants, commonly known as "inertia", and as long as the newborn self follows the inertia, she can start a new life seamlessly, which can be regarded as the first good thing to be reborn.
The courtyard is a typical courtyard pattern, with three rooms each in the north room and the east and west wings, a room without ears, and three stoves under the south wall, with a well on one side of the stove and a gateway to the courtyard on the other.
Xiangru slept in the left hand room of the east wing, and five people lived in one room.
When she was drying her clothes, all the girls in the house also got up one after another, and the yard gradually became lively, and the girls in the same room as Xiangru saw that Xiangru was busy, and they all said good morning to her in a friendly way, and some people asked her if her body had recovered, Lilac and Yinhua came to probe her forehead, and the fever had completely subsided, and they were finally relieved.
In the morning, time was tight, there was no time to boil hot water, and all the forty-five inferior girls who lived in this courtyard could only freshen up and dress up with the well water, and the cold water threw on their faces, and all the sleepiness was cold.
Helping each other comb their hair and put on makeup, Xiangru had never combed a cloth bun in her previous life, but with the help of "inertia", she did not show any jerkiness, and at this time she also remembered that only people in the kitchen combed cloth buns, that is, wrapped the combed buns with silk cloth. This is a rule for the sake of hygiene, after all, no one wants to eat other people's hair in their meals.
After finishing the dressing, eleven people, including Xiangru, Lilac and Yinhua, who were working in the kitchen, rushed to work, lit a fire and boiled water, and after a while, the four cooks who lived in another courtyard also arrived one after another and began to make breakfast.
There are many kitchen stoves, both large stoves for cooking vegetables and small stoves for soup, although the kitchen area of the women's medical hall is not large, the large and small stoves can boil eight pots of water at the same time.
When one of the pots was completely boiled, Xiangru picked it up and quickly left the kitchen, turning back to the direction of the residence in the depths of the women's doctor's house, but instead of going back to her own courtyard, she stepped through the small door and took another path, and after walking for a while, she turned back onto the middle road.
The mezzanine is a narrow walkway formed by two high walls, but the path that Xiangru walks on is only a row of towering courtyard walls on the left hand side, and there are courtyard gates on the high wall on the right hand side.
These small courtyards have only three rooms, don't look at the small area, but the status is the highest, all the aunts in charge of the women's medical hall live here, one person and one courtyard, and they are neighbors to each other but never visit the door.
The courtyard where Aunt Rong, the head of the kitchen, lives in the middle, is the menopausal woman who coaxed He Dani into the palace with only one letter in a dream.
This is the content that automatically came to Xiangru's mind when she walked to the door of Aunt Rong's room, and it was the original memory of this body.
With moderate force, he knocked on the door frame a few times, and said respectfully outside the door in a slightly louder voice, "Aunt Rong, Xiangru has sent hot water." ”
Then, regardless of whether there was anyone inside, he pushed the door in, went through the hall to the bedroom on his left, put the kettle on the ground next to the basin rack, and then brought the bucket next to the shelf to the outside and fetched half a bucket of cold water, mixed the hot and cold water into a basin of warm water, threw the face towel on the shelf into the basin, and then walked to the bed and put it on the stool at the head of the bed.
I put up the bed tent first, and I saw a middle-aged woman with a dull face lying in the bed, and at a glance it was a symptom of liver and blood deficiency and disorders of the five organs, and the hair scattered on the pillow had a feeling of yellowness, mixed with a trace of white hair.
The woman glanced at Xiangru, lazily stretched out her arm from the quilt, Xiangru held her arms and shoulders, and used all her strength to help this delicate and boneless woman sit up, put a coat on her, twisted the hot hand towel in the basin into a half-dry, handed it to her with both hands, and waited for her to cover her face.
Aunt Rong applied three handfuls in a row, and then took the gargle salt water handed by Xiangru to moisten her mouth, and only after finishing was she sat on the bed with the last cup of boiled water and drank it one by one, while Xiangru hurried to get Aunt Rong the clothes she was wearing today from the closet.
Aunt Rong drank the first glass of water in the morning, put down the cup, lifted the quilt and got out of bed, finished it in the toilet, came out and washed her hands again, Xiangru waited for the change, and then sat down in front of the dresser under the window to comb her hair and put on makeup.
Looking left and right, all dressed up, Aunt Rong sat in front of the mirror and tilted her head slightly, slanted at Xiangru behind her, and said lightly: "Kneel." ”
Xiangru landed on her knees without saying a word, lowered her head, and her back muscles tightened unconsciously.
Aunt Rong touched the bun that had just been combed into a messy bun, got up slowly, took out a three-foot-long rattan whip from behind the pillow, turned around slowly, and whipped Xiangru without saying a word, beating and scolding.
"Little slut, thick skin? What kind of thing are you? How dare you get sick? If it weren't for the old lady to find a way to let you enter the palace, you would still be farming in the countryside. You don't know what to do. ”
The slender rattan whip hit Xiangru's body at once, and Xiangru gritted her teeth and suffered silently. From the moment she knelt down, she knew that she was going to be beaten, of course, this is also the result of "inertia", I know from memory that this is a common thing, Aunt Rong is a little unhappy and makes her angry, and she beats her harder than her stepmother.
It's really black humor that makes people laugh.
In the past, He Xiangru was extremely afraid of Aunt Rong, and if she was afraid, she was easy to make mistakes, and if she made a mistake, she would be beaten, and she was even more afraid after the beating, so it was a vicious circle.
The current Xiangru naturally doesn't want to go back to the old path, and finally reborn back, how can there be a reason to be whipped obediently every day, sooner or later she will have to find a way to stay away from this old witch's side.
MD, she must change jobs! What a TND pain!
Xiangru lowered her head and opened her mouth wide, and spat out a silent moan fiercely, while her body remained in a kneeling position until Aunt Rong's "morning class" was finished.
"Get out of here, get breakfast, slow down and be careful with my whip." Aunt Rong put the whip on the dresser, sat down again, and slowly arranged her hair in the mirror to see if it was messed up.
Xiangru got up from the ground with some difficulty, left the room on tiptoe, and after closing the door, she finally had time to soothe her hot and sore back muscles, and bared her teeth and trotted all the way to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, the cooks are already making breakfast, and a few others are arranging pickles and taking utensils, and there are two different pots of porridge boiling on the big stove, and the heat overflows from the edge of the lid, and the lid of the pot makes a "poof" sound, bringing out the aroma of porridge.
Xiangru stood at the door of the kitchen and took a deep breath, what a fragrant millet and red date porridge, although Aunt Rong scolded harshly, she would not punish people for starvation, and she could always eat enough food every day, which was a rare advantage in her human nature. Obviously, the family background is acceptable, but since her biological mother died of illness and her stepmother entered the door, Xiao Xiangru still entered the palace before she knew what it meant to be well fed and clothed, which was really a great irony.
The busy people in the kitchen saw Xiangru leaning against the door with weak steps, shook their heads in surprise, and continued to do their work. Aunt Rong is the head of the kitchen, in charge of people and things, and no one will put herself on the opposite side of Aunt Rong for that little bit of sympathy.
However, they are still somewhat grateful to Xiangru, since she entered the palace, no one else has been whipped by Aunt Rong frequently.
Lilac and Yinhua set up the tableware, and the four pickle dishes were distributed in the food box, just waiting for the cook over there to say that the porridge was ready, and immediately put two different cups of porridge into the food box, and finally covered the lid, and proposed to hand it to Xiangru, who was worried to see that Xiangru who had just recovered from illness carried the food box and blinked down the corridor and disappeared.
Always in a hurry in the morning, Xiangru didn't dare to delay for a moment and rushed back to Aunt Rong's house, quietly looked at her face, and saw that there was no abnormality before she hurried to the table to make a meal. First, put the porridge and pickles on the table, mix the remaining hot water in the kettle with another basin of clean warm water, and ask Aunt Rong to clean her hands and eat.
Then while Aunt Rong was eating breakfast, Xiangru hurried to clean up the bed, clean the basin and cloth towel and put them back in their original places.
Aunt Rong ate half of the two cups of porridge with different tastes, threw the chopsticks, wiped her mouth, and called Xiangru.
"The clothes that were washed last time, the flowers on the sleeves are not good-looking, and other flowers have been re-embroidered within three days of dismantling, otherwise be careful of the whip."
With that, Aunt Rong took her hands and left the house proudly to inspect her territory.