Chapter 8: The Maiden (2)
Before dawn, Su Su was woken up by Ning Cui: "Get up, the old lady gets up at six o'clock on weekdays, and sets up dinner at seven o'clock, we have to get up at five o'clock, and after cleaning up, we have to go to the room to listen to Sister Jade's instructions, Sister Jade is in charge of getting up and cleaning up in the old lady's room, and it was time for her to rest and go home yesterday." There is also an onyx sister, who is in charge of the old lady's clothes and jewelry, and the four sisters around the old lady are very kind. ”
At this time, the four of them also put on their clothes, a goose yellow jacket, dark green pants, only the upper body of the long armor and sweat scarf are different, all comb double buns, wearing silk flower hairpins and earrings, at a glance it is the dress of everyone's maids.
Outside, there was already a rough maid who carried hot water and distributed it from house to house, everyone washed their faces, brushed their teeth and smeared balm, and the three of them also used rouge gouache, seeing Su Su looking at them, they thought that Su Su also liked it, and Liu Er was busy giving Su Su some rouge.
Su Su hurriedly waved his hand: "I'm still young, but I don't need these." Seeing that the gouache seemed to be good, he thought about it and said, "My sisters also use less, I heard that there is lead powder in it, which is not good for the skin." ”
The other three looked at each other, and then said with a smile: "Silly girl, the incense powder in our house is all used in the palace, where do you dare to add lead powder, such a small box will cost three dollars of silver outside." The sisters used it better, and put pearl powder, a small box of several taels of silver. The old lady sometimes rises, and she will play with the maids to make rouge. ”
For the Song family's wealth, Su Su once again hehe.
After cleaning up, the four of them went out of the house, and the beautiful maids with red and willow green flowers all walked up to the room along the way, and a few of them looked at Su Su with very unkind eyes, but they didn't dare to say anything, and Su Su couldn't see it.
Bi Si carefully told Su Su about the six second-class maids in the old lady's room and the other four third-class maids, and then said: "Don't pay attention to that person, they don't dare to be demons." ”
When they arrived at the upper room, the third-class maid could not enter the inner room without being summoned, and only the eldest maid, the second-class maid and a few stewards could enter the inner room, and the third-class maid could only wait in the outer ear room, and the rough one could only wait outside the house.
Yesterday Su Su did not carefully look at the old lady's upper room, today look closely, there are seventy or eighty square meters of size, with a variety of carved hollow or Liuyun Baifu or Suihan Sanyou or landscape figures of the Huanghuali floor cover partitioned into the inside and outside, the east and west, the hall and the warm pavilion and the ear room.
Yesterday, I saw Zhao's mother in the West Flower Hall, and I don't know how to see it elsewhere, but I saw that the ear room where the little maids were waiting on weekdays was very unusual.
There is a big red sprinkled soft curtain hanging on the copper hook outside the door, and the door that communicates with the inside is hung with a dark green embroidered cotton curtain to block the wind, and there is a mahogany carved luodian eight-immortal table in the middle, supporting eight mahogany inlaid luodian four-legged stools, with silver and red embroidery cushions.
In the corner of the wall there are two bronze enamel four-legged braziers, burning silver silk carbon, and a pair of half-human tall blue and white landscape water pattern vases, inserted with feather dusters and peacock feathers.
There is another small room next to the ear room, which is a tea room, and all kinds of tea leaves with corresponding water are slowly on a shelf, and there are various tea sets, tea hangers, red clay stoves, etc.
There is a beautiful maid inside, fourteen or fifteen years old, with a moon-white silk jacket on her upper body, a royal blue armor, combing a hanging bun, and a white jade carved hairpin, which is rare and elegant.
The third-class maid gave her a gift, Su Su only then knew, she was one of the second-class maids, called Holly, who was in charge of the pantry, and Ning Cui was very good with her.
It was almost six o'clock, and a round-faced maid lifted the cotton curtain and said, "Call the outside to deliver water." Another very thin maid came out with the toilet and handed it to a third-class maid, and when it was handed outside, there was a rough maid who followed.
Su Su stood with Liu Er and stood on the clock, there was really nothing to do.
Liu Er whispered in Su Su's ear: "The round face is Sister Dongmei, and the thin one is called Caiwen, who has just made up for the second-class shortage." ”
It turned out that it was a collection of articles that I couldn't even bear to cover the old bed, listening to Sister Amber's voice, it seemed that my brother and sister-in-law were inappropriate, and her life experience was like a mandarin duck in the Red Mansion, but unfortunately she didn't have a trace of mandarin duck style at all.
After that, it was time to set the meal, this time the third-class maids carried food boxes and a second-class maid named Donglan into the East Flower Hall, which served as a dining room, and the tables, chairs and furniture were all made of Huanghuali inlaid with marble.
The maids quietly set up breakfast, three kinds of porridge with three kinds of side dishes, a bowl of chicken wontons, a basket of small steamed buns, a plate of siu mai, a few pastries and a bowl of almond and goat milk, with a complete set of rich white agate tableware, full of color, flavor and flavor.
The old lady is kind-hearted, and the little maids can go down to eat after they have set up their meals, just wait for the old lady to come in and clean up the dishes.
The regular dish of the third-class maid is two dishes and one meal, with meat and vegetarian dishes, and the rice is taken from the kitchen. The rough girls have to go to the big kitchen to eat, the white flour steamed buns and rice are full, the dishes are really what to eat, and they have a big meal of meat every five days, it can be said that the life of the Song family maids is really good.
Su Su's breakfast was a bowl of porridge, a meat bun and a plate of side dishes and a plate of meat sauce, and the leftovers from the previous day of the Song family had never been in the habit of staying overnight, and they were all scattered to the next person and could be taken home.
After eating, tidying up the dining room, Liu Er and Sister Pearl took leave and went home in a hurry.
The remaining third-class maids were called into the inner room by a second-class maid named Dongzhu to scrub the furniture vase, and the six second-class maids Su Su also saw all of them now, and saw the other two big maids Jade and Agate, the four big maids have their own strengths, and they all look extraordinary, which shows the old lady's means of training people.
Su Su did not scrub the furniture, but was called by Amber to go with Dong Song into a small cubicle inside, which contained a bookcase, pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and a cabinet full of various account books.
"It's about to come to the end of the year, the old lady sorts out the private treasury once a year, and the expenses of the hospital for a year must also be summarized and reported to the account books of the public middle school."
Amber said as she flipped through the account book, "You can read, so you should be able to write, right?" Seeing Su Su nodded, he breathed a sigh of relief, "Dong Song's handwriting is really unsightly, what you have to do is to transcribe the account books of Sui'an Tang this year, so that you can hand them over to the account room." ”
Dong Song also breathed a sigh of relief, "It's okay to let me read, it's too torturous to write, with you, Sister Amber can't scold me." ”
After that, Amber said: "The treasury and this room are not accessible to everyone, remember, you are not allowed to learn from those who talk too much." Su Su nodded vigorously: "Sister, don't worry!" ”
Later, Su Su learned that it was really luck that she could follow Amber, the old lady's private treasury has never been handed over to the family, the amber was bought from outside, and Dong Song's grandmother was in charge of the small kitchen of Sui'an Tang.
Amber is old, and he will be released to marry in a year or two, and then he must be on top of Dong Song, but he must also find a successor to continue to cultivate, Su Su, who is not a child and literate and hyphenated, appeared in front of him like this, and the old lady's eyes, so he chose to come in and see.
If it's really good, everyone will be happy, even if it's not good, it's so big that you can't see what is going on here, and it's okay to send it out. Fortunately, Susu is not a real child and knows that he is still in the internship period.
Su Su had never learned calligraphy in her previous life, but Ruan Shisanniang had learned it, and she began to practice calligraphy at the age of five, and she learned Mrs. Wei's hairpin.
After two years of study, I can't talk about any style and bones, and I tried it in Susu, the Guogong Mansion, and I can write a book myself, like embroidery, it seems to be a physical instinct.
Looking at Su Su sitting upright, laying paper and grinding ink like a painting, and seeing Su Su's writing, he was happy with amber and something, but he felt that it was the young lady of the Taijia family in Yangzhou Mansion who was like this.
There was a sound of talking outside, it was the three ladies who brought the children to ask for peace, and Amber said hatefully: "I will ask for things to do face work, and I don't know who knows their thoughts." Then he warned Su Su: "Except for the old lady's words, you are not allowed to listen to anyone else who talks about her, if you let me know that you are talking nonsense outside, be careful of your skin." ”
Dong Song hurriedly said: "Good sister, don't scare Su Su, Su Su is a person who never forgets to repay his kindness." ”
The two of them remembered Su Su's serious appearance yesterday and laughed again, and Du Su Su looked at her with eyes like a psychopath.