Chapter 13: Roommates

The car traveled for more than an hour, stopped, and a majestic female voice sounded:

"Girls, get out of the car!"

Li Qing lifted the curtain of the car, stepped on the couch and got out of the car, turned around and took the makeup box in his arms, and looked around carefully: this is a huge courtyard, the ground is flat and hard, smooth and abnormal, the red wall is at least more than a zhang high, and the yellow glazed tiles look rich and majestic in the sun, this should be a palace courtyard. There were more than a dozen identical two-wheeled vehicles parked in the yard, and after a while, more than a dozen girls dressed in the same clothes came down from the cars one after another, all holding makeup boxes, and stood curiously and timidly in the courtyard.

A grandmother wearing a dark blue dress, her hair combed extremely smooth, her face fair, and a majestic expression stood in front of the car, clapped her hands, and said:

"Alright, girls, stand in line and come with me."

More than a dozen girls stood in a line in a little panic, Li Qing also stood in the middle in a regular manner, and the group followed behind Mama, passed through the moon cave gate, and walked forward.

Li Qing lowered his head slightly, carefully looked around, this is a huge garden, flowers and trees are flourishing, buildings and pavilions are dotted in between, the group walked forward, passed through a flower gallery full of roses, and walked along the lake for a while, turning into a two-entry courtyard.

As soon as the courtyard enters the door, there are verandahs on both sides, connecting the wings on both sides and the three main rooms, and there are moon hole doors on both sides of the main house, leading to the backyard. Two grandmothers, who were also wearing dark cyan dresses, stood in the courtyard with serious expressions, and the grandmothers who brought them in stepped forward to salute, took out a piece of paper from their arms and handed it over:

"Mama Wang, this batch is sixteen."

The grandmother on the left took the paper, majestically glanced at the dozen or so girls standing in the courtyard in confusion, and said in a calm and detached tone:

"As a female official, the most important rules and etiquette, walking, sitting, lying, words and deeds must follow the rules, in the past few months, you must carefully follow the rules and etiquette of all the grandmothers, don't make a mistake!"

The girl in the courtyard agreed in a sporadic voice, and Mama Wang frowned slightly, and continued:

"Every day, at the beginning of the day, freshen up and change clothes, Mao is going to breakfast, Mao is going to class at the second quarter, at the beginning of the afternoon at the second quarter of the afternoon, before the beginning of the class, at the end of the Shen into dinner, at the end of the lights out. Do you hear them all? ā€

The girls agreed, Mama Wang turned around and instructed the Mama next to her to take them in, Mama responded, took them through the moon cave door, into the inner courtyard, the inner courtyard is a house with an eaves corridor on three sides, three rooms on the front, four rooms on each side, there is a wooden sign at the door, with the room number marked with ten days from A to Gui, the east side of the front is A, the west side is B, the east chamber is from C to Already, the west chamber is from Geng to Gui, the door of the room in the middle of the front is open, there is no mark.

Li Qing was looking, and listened to the grandmother in front of him reading her name:

"Yang Yuzhu, the daughter of Yang Xianhao, the head of the Hebei Qing Officials, Si Zheng Wupinlang, Room A."

A tall girl, with a high nose and thin lips, and a proud expression walked out into the main landlord's room.

"Li Qing, the daughter of Li Yunsheng in the Ministry of Etiquette, the Qing Official, the Fifth Rank Lang, Room B."

When Li Qing heard his name called, he lowered his head slightly, and entered the west room of the main room with the makeup box.

In room B, there was already a girl sitting on the innermost bed, seeing her come in, the girl stood up, smiled and took a few steps forward, bent her knees and blessed her, Li Qing also hurriedly returned the salute, squinted her eyes, and looked at her: I saw that she was exquisitely shaped, her face was like a full moon, her eyebrows were trimmed, her eyes were handsome, and the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, as if she was smiling. The girl was also looking her up and down, and Li Qing said slightly shyly:

"I am Li Qing, the daughter of Li Yunsheng in the Ministry of Rites and Ceremonies, fourteen years old this year, may I ask who my sister is?"

The girl replied with a smile:

"My name is Meng Shuipei, the daughter of Meng Junde, a member of the Ministry of Labor. He is eighteen years old. Sister's voice is really good! These four beds, my sister will choose first. ā€

Li Qing saw that her makeup box had been placed on the innermost dressing table, so she chose the place closest to the door and put down the makeup box. Looking back, the room is very large, there are four elm beds in a row on the east side, all of which are hung with the same summer cloth tents, there is a thin quilt of fine cloth on the bed, a small round porcelain pillow, a small dresser is placed at the head of the bed, there are four small wardrobes on the west wall by the north side, and there is a Banyuan table against the wall by the door on the south side, and there are teapots and teacups on the table, Meng Shuipei is standing in front of the table, poured a cup of tea and brought it to Li Qingdao:

"My sister has worked hard all the way, let's have a cup of tea and take a break."

Li Qing hurriedly bent his knees to thank him, took the cup, and drank it slowly. Meng Shuipei looked at her and asked with concern:

"I see that my sister's face is not very good, is she tired on the road?"

Li Qing put down the cup and said slightly shyly:

"I've been weak since I was a child, and my face has always been like this."

Meng Shuipei hurriedly pulled her to sit on the bed, took her hand, and said with concern:

"My sister is like this, why did she choose a female officer?!"

Li Qing lowered her eyes and didn't speak, Meng Shuipei saw that she lowered her head and didn't speak, smiled and changed the topic and said:

"Every two rooms here have a rough mother-in-law and a combing mother-in-law, and we share one with room A, and I don't know who lives in room A."

While he was talking, there was another chaotic sound of footsteps outside, and Li Qing and Meng Shuipei stood up, but they didn't dare to get close to the door, they only watched from a distance. In a moment, a girl with a plump body fit to increase a point and lose a point to lose a point too thin, with a gorgeous and charming face that was close to bewitching, twisted her waist and entered the house, and when she arrived at the door, she didn't come in, holding the door frame with one hand, and holding the makeup box with one hand.

These female officials were selected from the official family, how could there be such people in the dust! This is clearly a vixen without a long tail! The fox spirit seemed to have long been accustomed to the shock of others, calmly and disdainfully passed by Li Qing and Meng Shuipei, put the makeup box on the empty dresser next to Li Qing, sat on the stool, looked at the bronze mirror, and carefully looked at the bun on his head.

Li Qing looked down at her skirt, there really should be a tail there!

A soft, timid voice sounded at the door:

"Hello sister, my name is Gu Ruyan, I am thirteen years old this year, and I am the daughter of Gu Mohai, the editor of the Hanlin Academy."

Li Qing turned around, and a girl stood timidly at the door, with a thin body, slender bones, a fair and delicate face, eyebrows like smoke, watery eyes, and a pointed chin, which made people feel pity. Gu Ruyan bent his knees again, Fang cautiously walked to the rest of the bed, put the makeup box he was holding on the dresser, turned around timidly and looked at Li Qing and Meng Shuipei, and quickly lowered his head in fright. Li Qing felt pity in her heart, poured a cup of tea and brought it over, and handed it to her with a smile:

"Sister Ruyan, drink some tea to moisten your throat."

Gu Ruyan took it gratefully, and the vixen stood up suddenly, twisted in front of Gu Ruyan and Li Qing, and said in a slightly sandy, lazy and magnetic voice:

"My sister's tongue-twisting voice is the most rare, and it fascinates people to death!"

Li Qing only felt that his head was full of black lines, and couldn't help but touch his forehead with his hand, Gu Ruyan quietly pulled the vixen's sleeve beside him, and shouted in a low voice:

"Sister Ling'er......"

Meng Shuipei also reacted, poured a cup of tea and handed it to Huang Ling'er, the four of them said each other's names and surnames, and just as they were about to speak, they heard the majestic voice of Mama from the courtyard:

"Girls, it's time for dinner."

The four of them hurriedly walked out of the house, followed the others, and walked to the front yard.

In the east wing of the front yard, there was a mother-in-law standing on both sides of the door, Li Qing followed everyone into the house, only to see that there were two rows of ten small Eight Immortal Tables in the house, and there were wooden signs on the table, which were written in order to say that the ten heavenly stems from A to Gui, Meng Shuipei said in a low voice:

"It's following the room number, let's go to table B."

Gu Ruyan followed Li Qing timidly, Li Qing gently took her hand and walked towards table B.

After the meal was silent for a while, everyone went back to the house under the eyes of the mother-in-law, and the mother-in-law went to each room to change the kettle in the warm room, Gu Ruyan gently pulled Li Qing, and said in a low voice with a red face:

"Sister Qing, I—I want to go to the toilet."

Li Qing hurriedly looked at Meng Shuipei, Meng Shuipei pointed to the west and said:

"Go through the corner door next to it, and you will find the clean room."

Li Qing took Gu Ruyan's hand and walked out. Passing through the corner gate, there is a very small clean courtyard, and on the left hand is a small cubicle with a toilet, and on the right is supposed to be a bathing room.

The two went back to the house, only to see Huang Ling'er glaring angrily at Meng Shuipei, Meng Shuipei saw the two coming in, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him:

"Mama sent clothes and rinses just now, and I received them in the cabinet for you, you can take a look."

Li Qing smiled, but her eyes looked at Huang Ling'er, Huang Ling'er pursed her lips, snorted disdainfully, turned around to take her clothes, and went out to take a bath.

The next day, just after the beginning of the day, a hurried bell rang in the courtyard, and the shouting of the mother-in-law was sandwiched:

"Girls, get up."

The lights in each room were lit up one after another, and a mess sounded, and the combing women entered each room in turn, Li Qing finished combing and washing, sat in front of the dresser, took the blue and white porcelain bottle from the makeup box, and dipped some and applied it to his face, neck and hands.

After breakfast, a mother-in-law took them out of the courtyard, through a blooming moon flower, to a spacious pavilion, hanging a horizontal plaque above the main entrance, on which were written "Diancui Pavilion" three large gold characters.

Everyone entered the Diancui Pavilion, and stood in turn after the autumn-colored round mats placed on the floor, and in the middle of the hall stood Mama Wang, and next to them stood two Mama who were also dressed and had the same tense faces. The three of them stared coldly at Huang Ling'er who was flying around with flattering eyes, Huang Ling'er gradually became a little uneasy, twisted her body slightly, closed her flattering eyes, lowered her head, Mama Wang retracted her eyes, looked around at everyone, and said:

"I am a female official, I know books and etiquette, and I am a model of the four virtues of women! All the girls who will be sent to the various domains in the future must always remember the rules and etiquette, and must not lose the dignity of my Daqing Dynasty! From today onwards, Mama Zhou will teach the female precepts, female training and the royal rules and etiquette of my Daqing Dynasty. ā€

Everyone knelt straight on the cushion, and several grandmothers checked and corrected one by one. After sitting for almost three quarters of an hour, Li Qing felt that his back stiffened, the sweat on his face flowed down his sideburns into his clothes, he only gritted his teeth and endured it, Mama Zhou stood upright and said:

"The seven articles of women's precepts are the foundation of women's behavior in the world, and you of today's teaching: the ancients gave birth to a girl for three days, lay under the bed, made bricks, and fasted."

Everyone sat upright, followed the recitation, just read a few words, and heard a "coo" next to them, followed by an exclamation, Li Qing hurriedly looked back, but heard Mama Wang's stern voice:

"Silence!"

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