The eunuch took Hongluan and they walked for a long time before they arrived in a courtyard, and he didn't go in, but said to the two palace slaves at the door: "Tell Aunt Hua, ten palace slaves have been delivered." ”

One of the palace slaves glanced at Hongluan and the others: "It's hard work, just hand these people over to the slaves and maids to bring in; Would you like your father-in-law to come in for a cup of tea and rest? ”

The eunuch shook his head lightly: "It's just a bad day, let's do it another day; I won't go in to greet Aunt Hua, and I'll rush back - my aunt knows about today's errand. ”

The palace slave saluted the eunuch and saw him leave, before putting away his smile and saying lightly: "Come with me." Then he turned around and went into the courtyard.

Hongluan and the others could only follow up, the courtyard was already full of new palace slaves, except for the new palace slaves or new palace slaves, there was no palace maid or eunuch there, except for the palace slave who brought them in, there were no other palace slaves who entered the palace early.

"Stand up, there are rules in the palace, you can't speak without questioning, you remember that there are only benefits and no harms." After the palace slave finished explaining this sentence, he turned around and went out, leaving Hongluan and the others standing in the courtyard basking in the sun.

Today's sun is very good, and the spring sun on people makes people feel warm at the same time, but also feel a little lazy: very comfortable. It's just that the sun won't be comfortable if it stays in the sun for a long time, and after standing for more than half an hour, Hongluan feels that the sun is too hot, and she wants to drink water.

There was still no one in the courtyard except for the new palace slaves who came in one after another, and Hongluan could only endure it even if he was very thirsty; She can endure it, but some people can't.

The new palace slaves were not only tired from standing but also extremely thirsty, especially in the morning, they did not see a single person in charge come out, except for them, the new palace slaves, only saw the two palace slaves who were originally on an errand at the door: in this case, the new palace slaves were nervous and nervous and relaxed a lot, and some began to whisper.

Someone opened their mouths and some people followed, although the voice was not very high, but most of the palace slaves opened their mouths, nothing more than tired, thirsty, why there was no one yet, when to stand, etc. - no one knew the answer, because they were all palace slaves who only entered the palace today.

Hongluan didn't move, didn't look, she was not familiar with the palace at all, not only the environment, especially the people, but also the rules: when she was a beggar, she knew that the most important thing after arriving in a new place was not to eat and drink, let alone sleep, and the first thing she wanted to know if she wanted to live was the local customs, rules and people.

If you don't understand the customs and rules, a simple thing will kill people; If you don't know which people in the local area can't be provoked, and which ones have good hearts, you may be beaten up as soon as you open your mouth while begging: then it will be up to luck to die or not.

Although this is the palace, not a village or a small town or a city where she begs, she thinks that it is almost the same: as long as there are people, there are customs and rules, and people should be divided into three, six, nine and so on, and people's temperaments are the same.

So she was very grateful for the reminder of the palace slave at the door when she came in, and she knew that it was the first step to save her life: don't talk if no one asks, this is the first rule she knows in the palace, and she will never break the rules of the palace, because she doesn't have the ability to save her life after the destruction, so she stands there very honestly, looking at her nose and nose and heart motionless.

The whispers of the palace slaves became noisy as the sun set westward, with the hunger in their stomachs; Hongluan didn't move the whole time, although she brought dry food but didn't take it out to eat.

Sister Mei, Zhao Di and others couldn't bear to be hungry and secretly ate wotou: they were reluctant to eat steamed buns.

Until the sun was setting in the west and the wind was getting colder, two palace slaves came out of the main hall of the courtyard, and they didn't look at Hongluan and other new palace slaves, but just raised the curtain.

All the voices disappeared at once, but many of the Xingong slaves, who had become bolder, quietly looked into the hall.

Hongluan still hung her head, her throat was cracked, her stomach was rumbling with hunger, and her legs were limp; She extended in her heart the rule that no one should speak without asking to do so, and that no one should move without command: tired, thirsty, hungry, a day will not kill people, but the rules can kill people in an instant; And for that she persevered.

Someone in the hall moved out a big chair, and placed a small table, and set up tea on the small table: all this was silent, Hongluan didn't look up and heard nothing—if it weren't for the whispers of the other palace slaves, she wouldn't have known that someone had come out of the main room.

Now that the person has come out, there is no need to rush for a while, Hongluan still lowered his head.

Finally, under the quiet visit of the new palace slaves, a woman about forty years old with a bun walked out of the hall with the hands of the palace slaves, slowly sat down on the big chair that had been arranged, glanced at the palace slaves, took the tea cup and dipped it on her lips and put it down.

She didn't say a word, but the hearts of the Xingong slaves who were swept by the gaze jumped, and everyone lowered their heads and didn't dare to speak again, let alone look at the person again.

Quiet, the courtyard is so quiet that there doesn't even seem to be the sound of the wind, and everyone can only hear their own heartbeat: the gaze is not cold, nor is it full of murderous intent, let alone angry - every palace slave who is swept by the gaze, when they think about it, the gaze seems to be extremely flat, but it just makes their hearts cold, and they dare not make another mistake.

"My surname is Hua, my original name, I haven't called it for a long time;" The woman sitting on the chair spoke, and her voice was very peaceful: "Everyone calls me Aunt Hua, and I have the grace of Niangniang to be in charge of all the palace slaves." ”

Hongluan pricked up her ears, she listened carefully to Aunt Hua's words, and didn't dare to miss a word: when she was begging, she knew that the more people with status and status, the less nonsense they had, but it was the old men and aunts who had nothing to do that would talk about her endlessly.

Aunt Hua didn't speak quickly, and the words were very clear: "There are rules in the palace, and there can be no confusion or mistakes; Do you know what is wrong now? She lifted her eyes, "Who of you was brought in and did not hear her say, and no one asked, and he was not allowed to speak?" ”

Everyone heard it clearly, and the faces of the new palace slaves immediately changed greatly.

"The rules can't be wrong, although you are newcomers and you don't understand anything when you first enter the palace, but you all know at least one rule but you don't know it - for your good, but also for my good, for all of us to live in peace in the palace, so I want you to know what will happen if you violate the rules, lest you don't put the word rules in your eyes in the future and make trouble for me."

Aunt Hua's voice was still calm and clear, but with a slight swing of her sleeves, no one should think that she was a good person: the wolf-like old palace slaves rushed up and pulled all the new palace slaves who had spoken to the opposite side.

Except for Hongluan, only a dozen people were left in place: not a single person was wronged, and no one was spared.

Although Hongluan hasn't glanced at Aunt Hua so far, she has already raised Aunt Hua to a very high position in her heart: the kind of person who will not beg for food from him even if she starves to death, she has been a beggar for so long and has traveled through many places, and there is only one person in her heart who occupies such a high position.

Now there are two, and Aunt Hua was put in the highest position by Hongluan, which is even higher than the bully in my original heart who likes to beat people to death and has to fight people for more than three days to kill them.

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