Because the population of the palace is really simple, the concubine refuses to celebrate the New Year in a cold place, so the children of the palace are treated as family members on this day. On the day of the New Year, according to the distance between relatives and the level of position, one family came to kowtow in front of the concubine.

All the servants and maids of the family must pay tribute, and they all scattered the New Year's money, red envelopes, gold and silver bills, and everyone thanked them, and there were their own small maids below to put on a feast to eat together.

Zhen Ying was the only one at the table, with her and the concubine, and the nine big maids around her standing together.

There was also a large mahogany table with a turntable on the table, which was auspicious and had a full thirty-six dishes.

Six soups, three sweet and three salty. The salty ones are Longjing bamboo sun, thousands of silk around silver needles, and phoenix brains; The sweetest ones are snow soup, stewed bird's nest, and peanut almond syrup.

Six dim sum, also three sweet and three salty. The salty one is to ascend into the twenty-four qi, nine treasures and nine treasures, and crab shell yellow; The sweetest ones are: Tho Hua Qi, Cherry Biluo, Snow Clothes Red Sand.

Six cold meats, namely: sauce-fragrant horse meat, cold beef, Huangmen donkey meat, five-spiced mutton, white-cut Wenchang chicken, and sliced duck.

Six explosives, namely: Awakening Lion Crisp and Jusheng Slave

Six hot dishes, namely: Guanyin in dripping water, carp in arms, shrimp in Longjing, roast goose in Qiankun, braised tenderloin, and chicken pith bamboo shoots in soup.

The six staple dishes are: Eight Treasures Flat Food, Jam Gold Cake, Two-color Horseshoe Cake, Wood Rhino Cake, Jade Gourd, and Crystal Plum Blossom Bun.

Among them, Babao flat food is a dumpling with eight different fillings.

The concubine knew that Zhen Ying didn't like to be watched when she was eating, so she simply waved her hand and asked her to go down and have a table with her father.

Among the nine big girls, eight are born to the family, and only one is nectar, which was sold by the family because of the trouble.

Everyone sat behind them with their parents and brothers, festive and unrestrained, except for a lonely one and two little girls waiting in front of them.

Everyone was with the grandmother, laughing and laughing, although the party was afraid of something ugly and was not allowed to drink, everyone replaced the wine with tea, and ate rare dishes, in the end, sometimes it was uncontrollable, and the laughter floated to the front.

Although Zhen Ying couldn't speak, she couldn't bear that the concubine was a talker, and although the two little girls were serving for dinner for the first time, they were soon unrestrained.

There is only one manna dew, listening to the voices of the people behind him, looking at the harmony of the ancestors and grandchildren in front of him, thinking of the days when he was in the boudoir, his expression is a little strange.

The concubine is careful, looking at her like this, she knows that Ganlu is homesick.

"I remember, your family is from the north, how do you taste this braised tenderloin compared to your family?"

Ganlu thanked her, put it in the porcelain dish with chopsticks, and ate it with another pair of chopsticks, and couldn't help crying: "Back then, my family was poor, and I never ate braised tenderloin." ”

Zhen Ying knew from the concubine that Ganlu's hometown was hit by drought first, and her family was diligent and dug a deep well earlier, so that she would not die of thirst. After that, she was hit by a locust plague again, and there was really no way, so her father and mother exchanged her for a bag of brown rice.

Manna was still a girl like a hemp pole at that time, even if she sold it in the kiln, she couldn't sell it at a price, but fortunately, her family was good at home, and she was a girl who learned a few words.

As mentioned before, the palace lacks a girl to manage the study, and Ganlu was easily selected after being inspected because of her innocence and literacy.

Although the prince's study is said to be an important place, it specifically refers to the time when the master is there.

The concubine was fascinated by the book for a while, everyone liked it, collected a lot, and couldn't put it in her bedroom, so she went to the prince's study, and then there were too many people in and out, Jiang Che slapped her thigh, and simply collected the books in the territory and built a library!

In the spring of the year when Zhen Ying arrived at the palace, the library building was completed.

The maids around the concubine are all born in the family, and it is okay to serve people, but managing the collection of books is not within the work skills, even if you are a calm and careful person like Tingshuang, you can only look at the general affairs of the account books, and if you really manage the collection, your head will be big.

At this time, the palace election has not started, and the palace can't find a female official to use, Ganlu is just a third-class maid on the stove at this time, and it is easy to have a chance, so Mao recommended himself and received this errand.

She classified the collection of books according to the "subset of scriptures and histories", and carefully transcribed the titles of the books into lists, and the experience of being a girl gave her experience.

It's gold, and it always shines.

When Zhen Ying came to the library to borrow books, she found this gold.

After the expansion of the palace, Ganlu successfully rubbed the establishment of the big girl by virtue of her contribution to sorting out the library.

You must know that the first-class maid in the palace has two taels of monthly money, although it is not much, but the usual food and clothing are all in the public middle school, and the monthly case is in hand, and the right to save dowry.

And because of serving by the side of the concubine, not only did he gain face, but he also received many rewards during the New Year's holidays, which can be called the best errand in the palace in addition to management and procurement, and he has always been broken up.

Ganlu is not a child of the family, and the establishment of a first-class maid, it stands to reason that it will not be her turn. But it is indeed merit to organize the library building, Zhen Ying has the heart to promote her, and the people next to her dare not object.

It's just that manna is an "outsider" in the end, and many actions are still restricted, and the concubine knows that she is only allowed to serve in front of her on weekdays, and she is not allowed to do some work to deal with people, so as not to hear any unpleasant words and feel uncomfortable.

When she was promoted to manna as a first-class maid, Zhen Ying sent someone to her hometown to look for relatives, but there was no result.

Manna was buried in the book mountain day by day, and Zhen Ying watched her silent day by day, always feeling that it was not a matter after a long time.

This year, she has been promoted to become a big girl with more than one nectar, but Chaowen, but although Chaowen is a child, she is too young, and Lao Tzuniang is not a faceless background.

Although Chao Wen's father began to learn to be a director in the accounting room, Chao Wenniang helped in the kitchen, and they were all fat poor, and in the end, it was because of her daughter's superiority, which was favored by many people.

Zhen Ying thought about it and had a good idea to get the best of both worlds.

She tugged at the concubine's sleeve and whispered a few words.

The concubine nodded, and asked the two little girls to come to the back and invite Chaowen's family over.

Chaowen's family is honest, otherwise they would not be willing to hand over important matters such as the accounting room and kitchen.

Seeing that the four people below were stunned, the concubine smiled and said: "Today's New Year's Day, this girl's side is really lonely, and your husband and wife have a girl under their knees, if you don't dislike it, I will be the master, how about letting you two recognize a goddaughter?" ”

Chao Wen's father listened to it and was stunned for a long time, he had heard that there was a maid from a scholarly family next to the concubine, who was very trusted by the concubine, and he also picked up Chaowen and others to learn skills on weekdays.

Now it's good, a big pie fell from the sky, and it turned out to be their goddaughter.

Chaowen originally gathered the strengths of exploring the snow, listening to the frost, and the evening fog, but she was a little short of literacy and hyphenation, and she also admired the reader in her heart, and when she heard this, she hurriedly shook her father: "Quickly agree!" On weekdays, I refuse to let you have a younger brother, only saying that my daughter is good. Now a girl who is a hundred times better than me is a daughter, and if it is too late, it will be someone else's! ”

When the two elders heard this, they were a little shy, and pinched her towards Wenniang: "Xiao Nizi is not sensible, she will say anything." ”

Chao Wen's father laughed with him: "Miss Ganlu is a Wenqu star, everyone outside knows that the little old man is blind when he opens his eyes, and he is afraid that he will say goodbye in the future, and his son-in-law's family will dislike it." ”

The concubine stroked her palms and laughed: "Listen, before anyone agrees, let's think about my daughter first." What do you mean by nectar? ”

Ganlu knew that her expression had been seen, her face flushed, and she nodded.

The concubine looked at Zhen Ying: "Are you happy now?" ”

Ganlu was originally a first-class girl, but now that she has the concubine in charge, and there are two godfathers and godmothers on the fat difference of the palace, she can be regarded as gaining a firm foothold. Chaowen rose too fast, which inevitably aroused jealousy, and now that there is a sister to help, the people next to her dare not provoke.

The four of them kowtowed and thanked them, and the nectar brought the money they received today, and they had to accept it from Chaowen's father.

"It's not going to be done." Ganlu took out the reward she had just gotten, and said that she would ask her godfather and godmother to help keep it, which scared Chao Wen's father enough.

Manna has a generous character, and she is eye-catching by the side of the concubine, Chaowen's father and mother are born in the family, and they are a hundred happy to have this godfather.

But she behaved like this, three points were temptation, three points were sincere, Manna Dad had been a porter for a long time, and he was clever, and he knew that the newly recognized Gan'er was not very relieved of himself.

Even the brothers have to settle accounts, not to mention the eldest goddaughter?

Not to mention anything else, she is an orphan girl with no one to support her, she has two or two months of money every month, and she is not a child, so she has long been looked down upon.

Now let yourself keep it on your behalf is a "letter of nomination".

The old man slapped his thigh, but took out his red envelope: "For the New Year, it should be our elders who give money to the children, how can we?" ”

Not long after he began to learn to be a steward, the monthly money was not necessarily very rich, and the red envelope dividends of the steward were by no means comparable to a porter, and he was distressed before the red treasure was handed over.

But Miss Ganlu has no relatives and no reason, and really accepted her money, in front of them, where is her old face gone?

The father and daughter went back and forth, and they both asked each other to accept their red envelopes, Zhen Ying looked funny, and quickly shook the concubine's arm, and then stopped.

The concubine opened her mouth, this godfather is her master, if there is friction in the future, please take care of her face on both sides. Ganlu has no relatives and no reason, I hope that Chaowen's family can take care of one or two, there is no need to worry about the money, Ganlu will marry in the future, she will buy a dowry over there, and now the father and mother have not done anything, and the child is not in a hurry to fulfill his filial piety, and he will get along for a long time in the future, and he really has feelings, at that time, he gave more and less, and it was a filial piety of the child, and he was not allowed to shirk.

After a busy round, the Lantern Festival is almost in the blink of an eye, and it is finally the turn of the palace to treat you.

Zhen Ying called someone to open the treasury a few days ago, and counted out the rhino horn ivory, glass and enamel lanterns last year, and refused to add more, only saying that although the palace has gold and silver, it has to save some money.

I put two years' bills in pairs, and asked the steward in the handicraft workshop to send out the work of tying silk lanterns, so that every family could come to receive them, especially the families of the soldiers, and take extra care of them.

If someone in the family is a soldier, each household can receive eight feet of cloth, make three lanterns and hand them in, and the remaining materials can be used to buy clothes, which can be regarded as indirect help. If there are veterans who have returned to their hometowns due to the remnants of the soldiers, they all go to learn the craft of tying lanterns, and the palace will accept all the orders, no matter how many.

As for the craftsmen in the original handicraft workshop, although the errand is divided, don't worry about the main family not wanting to be yourself, everyone will work together to make a conspicuous Aoshan, and when the time comes, it will be placed in the market and enjoy with the people.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, Zhen Ying set up more than a dozen tables in the big flower hall, invited a few poor families with few people in the city, and asked the family opera troupe to list all the plays that had been rehearsed before, and hung up the lanterns according to the ones purchased last year.

At the back of the flower hall of the palace are several trap doors, which can be opened to reveal a man-made lake outside.

When Zhen Ying came over last year, because the family had never been reunited, the concubine only watched the play and listened to the music alone. This year, I got a long-awaited granddaughter, so I simply let everyone see Zhen Ying's ability.

Zhen Ying asked people to set up a pavilion in the lake in advance, and the troupe performed in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, and a few canopy boats were parked next to it to serve as the backstage of the troupe.

At night, a hand-copying verandah is illuminated by lanterns, and the costumed actors stand on the canoe and slowly enter with the current.