A year passed, Zhen Ying gradually took over the housework and began to take care of the inside and outside of the palace.

The palace is busy, and since the lunar month, it has begun to prepare for the New Year.

The concubine had the heart to give it a go, but she was afraid that Zhen Ying would be young and rarely talk, so she kept staring at the New Year's affairs together.

This year, there are many people, and it is even more lively.

As soon as the Lantern Festival passed last year, the palace got the news. didn't wait for Jiang Che to go to the Zongren Mansion to report, but it was the queen and the queen mother who sent Si Yan female officials over first, holding the golden book and carrying the reward, and directly made Zhen Ying a county lord.

The fiefdom is not big, it is said that it is the county lord, but in the end there is only one county town, which is Zhen Ying's hometown Yunxian.

Although Zhen Ying did not have a title on the road, everyone knew that the prince had found the daughter of the county lord of Chengyi back then.

The main shareholder of Chengyi County has made old friends all over the world, Zhen Ying has never been idle whenever she goes, in addition to greeting the official with Jiang Che, some news from Yun County has also been handed over to her.

She was thinking about the three sisters in the family who were good friends, and specially asked Jiang Che, can she give the sisters a green light when choosing a female official and escort them directly?

Jiang Che replied that every step in the palace was terrifying, and it was difficult and dangerous everywhere, if their own ability was not enough, they would be harmed by entering the palace rashly.

Zhen Ying had no choice but to give up.

Although she trusts Mama Shen's ability, she also trusts the strength of her sisters.

But luck is also a kind of strength.

Fortunately, the sisters fought for their own anger and passed the hospital examination one after another, and Zhen Ying was relieved.

Anyway, there is a guarantee from the palace, even if the palace election is lost, the sisters will come to the palace to be female officials when the time comes, and the family will be reunited, wouldn't they be even happier?

If this is really the case, even if the emperor takes the position of princess in exchange, she will not be willing.

Don't say it, the emperor really had this thought.

Jiang Cheng has a younger brother to Jiang Che and a sister to Jiang Yuan, not to mention that the three sisters and brothers are extremely close, and because Zhen Ying has suffered enough outside, Jiang Cheng will never treat his niece badly.

There are few women with a foreign surname who have no merit in this dynasty to give the real seal, but it is mentioned that it is the orphan of the county lord of Chengyi back then, the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, none of them raised objections, and several old ministers still feel that it is not enough, and I hope that His Majesty will accept Zhen Ying as a righteous daughter and give a princess the title, so that it is decent enough.

Among the several old ministers, there are not only the old subordinates of the county lord of Chengyi, but also the lonely ministers who are dedicated to the current majesty.

According to their meaning, the daughter of the county lord of Chengyi is a righteous daughter, which can not only make the power of the county lord of Chengyi return to the heart, but also add a stroke to the list of crown princes, so that many crown princes have a little more pressure.

Jiang Cheng originally had this meaning, so he specially wrote a secret letter and sent his henchmen to ask the little girl's thoughts, knowing that Zhen Ying was extremely favored in the palace, and he himself preferred the days of freedom in the palace, so he gave up.

Although the concubine has the intention to teach Zhen Ying some housekeeping methods, in the end, she has been at ease for a long time, and her skills in the boudoir have fallen a lot, and now she has this textbook, she is simply overjoyed.

Jiang Che went to Baiyujing to worship the Taimiao, and took Jiang Mao on the road in September. Zhen Ying studied the book "Book of Discipline" with Princess Wu at home, and simply practiced in the house.

Originally, in the palace of King Wu, there was a certain distinction between the back house and the front hall, and the front was used to manage the housekeepers, mainly the subordinates of King Wu.

In the back house, because King Wu did not have a room, the highest level was: cherishing the wind, pity the rain, exploring the snow, listening to the frost, the evening fog, the bright sky, the nectar, and the eight first-class maids. Originally, they were all under the control of the concubine, and before the concubine allocated Tanxue and Tingshuang to take care of the food and living on Wuwang Road, now Zhen Ying and Jiang Mao are back, Tanxue and Tingshuang were directly transferred to Zhen Ying because of their acquaintance with Zhen Ying, and Xiwu is the concubine used a comfortable family maid, and they were also transferred.

Among the three, Tanxue is smart and clever, calm and reliable, and the two cooperate with each other to assist Zhen Ying in handling housework - the concubine did not hand over all the grange shops to Zhen Ying at the beginning, but gradually, waiting for some to get started, and then transferring some to the past, giving Zhen Ying a chance to buffer.

Xiwu is a careful and careful person, mainly helping Zhen Ying manage the objects in the house such as the hairpin ring on her head, face, face, and hairpin, and even Zhen Ying's diet and daily life, she is taking care of it. Zhen Ying thought that Tanxue Tingshuang had used dim sum to test her preferences carefully, but unexpectedly, after figuring out the master's thoughts, Xiwu was the most powerful one among the eight girls.

Under the first-class maids, there are twelve second-class maids, seven are left by the concubine's side, and five are dialed by Zhen Ying's side, which are the ones who held the basin and cleaned the handkerchief that day, and they all served the warehouse, served tea and water, folded quilts and made beds, dried books and polished ink, and sometimes Zhen Ying was greedy in the middle of the night, and the small kitchen in the house was also taken care of by a few second-class maids.

As for the third-class maids, there are too many, and the rough work in the inner courtyard such as carrying a sedan chair, planting flowers, boiling water, and watching the stove belongs to them.

Zhen Ying saw that one of the little girls named Ziyu was articulate, so she simply chose to be her mouth replacement and increased her monthly money.

In addition to the three big maids, this one named Ziyu also took it with him wherever he went, and prepared a few big maids when they were old enough to see which steward saw each other, so they went up to fill the radish pit.

Ziyu is the maid of the palace, and her father and mother are all old people in the palace, but the grade is not enough, and she has not been given a name by the master, but she is just a vassal and elegant, and she has a good name.

It's just that the possible cultural level of Lao Tzu Niang is not high, although "Zi" has the meaning of "mulberry", but it is also a kind of deciduous tree commonly used to create coffins.

Although the people of the time are not taboo, they can use jade for burials, and they are called "Ziyu", which means that it is not good. Zhen Ying asked her for her opinion, and asked her to discuss it with her father, so she simply followed the ranking of several big girls and changed her name to "Chaowen", which means morning, patterned clouds.

The new name is upright and atmospheric, and the second elder is so happy that he wipes his tears, saying that this is the name of some young ladies, and they have never had such a good name.

Although Chaowen is small, her mind is lively and she is also clever. knew that in addition to increasing his monthly money, the county lord also transferred his mother, who used to carry the sedan chair, to the small kitchen, and asked his father, who was the porter outside, to follow the housekeeper to learn to manage the accounts - the palace is full of people, and Zhen Ying is a man of few words, everyone knows that the county lord is now powerful, and even the people she likes are taken care of properly. is becoming more and more loyal in his heart, and he takes care of Zhen Ying one hundred and twenty.

Although Chao Wen is still young, she has taken into account the sharp teeth of Tanxue, the thoughtfulness of listening to the frost, and the caution of the evening fog.

As the saying goes, after Laba is the year, before the Laba Festival, the house was divided into porridge, and someone in front of him spread the word, saying that the steward of the gold shop brought the gold and silver bills that came to reward people before.

The steward had already prepared his things, and together with the account books, he did it neatly.

The gold and silver bills are melted with broken gold and silver, take a good color head, more than 500 gold bills, with a variety of patterns, engraved with auspicious words such as "health and well-being", "step by step", "academic success", "auspicious celebration".

Let the two little guys hold out a plate of gold ingots, the size of each fist, full of ten taels, no wonder it takes two little guys to lift it. Zhen Ying took a rough look, and saw that there were also patterns on the ingots, which were carved out of the dragon and phoenix Chengxiang, the eight immortals crossing the sea, and Magu offering longevity and other patterns in the middle of the convex place.

Before Zhen Ying noticed, Chao Wen opened her mouth: "How many patterns are there in 'Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang'?" Seeing that Zhen Ying was confused, he had to helplessly explain: "Three days ago, the county shou married a continuation string, and it is not as suitable as 'Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang' to use 'Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea', if not, it is okay to replace it with 'Five Sons Dengke', General Shen's bride had a happy pulse a few days ago, and he used 'Five Sons Dengke' for 'Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang', which is also cheap." ”

The shopkeeper patted his head: "Oh, my brain, I don't think about it carefully as the county lord's mother." His hand rubbed in his sleeve for a long time, and he suddenly had an idea: "In the shop, thanks to the care of the prince, I make some other friends for the prince every year, if the county lord can get the right idea, it doesn't hurt to transfer it, but the prince is ......."

The steward in the palace, which one is not a person-like character, he is also a gold shop, and the news of the rich and noble family in Wu County is not easier than Zhen Ying, a lady in a deep house?

In previous years, when the concubine was in charge, she would deliberately cast more auspicious spindles, and the rest of the palace would naturally be placed in the store, and some people bought them as gifts.

This year's pretense is nothing more than to see Zhen Ying's reality and reality.