Chapter 18: The Inexplicable Punishment of First Acquaintance
The sunset sank slightly, "My aunt went to the side hall with the slaves, and the three aunts were there." Xiao Haizi said as soon as he saw me ready. I nodded, followed him around the Qianqing Palace for most of the time, I suspected that this kid was playing tricks on me, I asked, "Why is it so far?" Xiao Haizi smiled and said: "Yes, the Qianqing Palace is big, and the place where my aunt lives is where we (referring to the place where the palace maids and eunuchs who serve people) live, and this is the front hall, which is far away from our place." I thought to myself: This is really feudal, even the place where I live is so far away, rich people, rich people, I smiled unconsciously. Xiao Haizi said, "Auntie, it's here." I nodded and said, "Thank you, you can do whatever you want." "Yes. Xiao Haizi slipped away and went back to his life. I entered this room, there was no inscription on the room, I think it was just like a modern "logistics room", there were about twenty palace maids in the room, and although the color and style of clothes were the same, but the grades on them were different.
Seeing me coming, a woman dressed in a down-to-earth manner walked towards me, she had a gentle and quiet face like a marble relief, her face was ruddy and fresh, as if she was seventeen or eighteen years old in the early morning of this spring, I sighed: It is really a person who is like a flower, she said: "This is the sister Mo Yi that the emperor brought back in Changyin Pavilion today, right?" I smiled forty-five degrees, bowed my head slightly, and said, "En." "Then salute, who made her higher than me. She took my hand and said, "Since you are here, you don't need to be polite to our Qianqing Palace, I will lead you to know the people who know our Qianqing Palace." I am Cheng Mengyi, everyone calls me Aunt Cheng, we are all female officials, and you will call me Sister Mengyi in the future. I nodded, and she pointed to a slightly fancy woman and said, "This is Fucha-Meishuang." I saluted, looked up at her face, her face was as beautiful as a magnolia flower, the disdain in the corners of her eyes was clearly visible, as if she was fifteen years old, nodded slightly, and said, "Yes." "The one next to me is not as beautiful as these two jade, and he is much smaller, he should be my age, and he should also be the show girl of this year, I said that it looks a little familiar, Cheng Mengyi pointed to this woman and said: "Mo Yi, this is Ilgen Jueluo Luoying, the same grade as you, and the age is also the same, it just so happens that you and her residence are also nearby, the two sisters are new, if you don't understand anything, just come and ask me and Meishuang, don't be polite." I said, "Yes." Cheng Mengyi looked at the other palace maids again, her face immediately became serious, and she said solemnly: "Work hard, long live the lord will come back later, the tea and snacks here are not ready, who do you want me to find!" Then he turned his head and said to me, "My sister will watch here for a while, and after a while, Manager Li will come back and send you another job." "I said "En" again, depressed, I have now become a "promise", I have to say yes to everything!
I stood aside and watched them busy, I just thought that when I arrived at the Qianqing Palace, it was just to serve tea and pour water, but I didn't expect that now I can serve tea and pour water, that is to say, only we four high-grade female officials can show their faces in front of the emperor, these days, it is so difficult to serve tea and pour water. I watched, Cheng Mengyi was in command, and Meishuang was also in command, but she was not as skilled as Mengyi, and she was obviously a newcomer. And Luo Ying helped the two of them with a match, after all, she was a female official, and she had just arrived, so she didn't want to do it too much.
"Yo, Grandpa Li is here, come in. Hearing Cheng Mengyi calling Li Dequan outside the door with a loud voice, I quickly got up and went out, Li Dequan glanced at me, and said with a smile: "The girl just came here today, the emperor said, I will follow Miss Cheng and Miss Fucha here in the future, what about the position, or the same as Concubine De's Niangniang, come on, Miss Cheng, she will be handed over to you." Then he said to me: "Girl, I have sent two other palace daughters to your room, everything is the same as before, the girl doesn't have to worry about anything, just tell Aunt Cheng if there is anything." He smiled at everyone and said, "Let's disperse, let's disperse, and in a while, the Lord will review the chapter and prepare the tea." We all dispersed, Li Dequan pulled Cheng Mengyi out, and Fucha Meishuang pulled me and said, "Come with me." I nodded, and followed her to a small room with no decorative furniture, but the air of wealth that could not be concealed in any way. There are several large cabinets inside, although I don't know about wood, but I know that the wood of this cabinet is very valuable. She walked to the first big cabinet and said, "This is all kinds of herbs, which can also be used to make tea." He walked to the second side and said, "These are all kinds of dried fruits, which can be used to make tea." He walked to the third side and said, "This is all kinds of tea." Then she turned to look at me and said, "Got it?" I nodded, and she looked at my headdress, clasped her hands around her chest, and said, "I really don't know how a woman from a small family like you became a female official." "I despise this kind of woman who is proud of her family background, isn't it just more reincarnated than me, and suddenly thought of her "sister", she is just a small constant, and her family background is not good, I don't know how much I have to suffer here, I must go to see her in a few days, how to recruit myself and occupy her sister's body, but also to fulfill my sister's obligations. (Mo Yi herself is also a very soft-hearted child), when she raised her eyes and saw Fucha-Meishuang's appearance, she couldn't help but roll her eyes, and said indifferently: "Heh, what do you have to be proud of? It's just that I can be reincarnated more than me, I believe that God is fair to everyone, your family background is good, not necessarily everything is good." Looking at her, he said angrily: "You! Do you know that the palace maids of the Qianqing Palace dare not fight with me, why do you rely on the emperor's appreciation of you? The emperor is just trying to be fresh for a while, just like your sister, she can't do anything." "Ya, just scold me, scold my sister, I wipe it, although I haven't even seen my sister, but it doesn't insult the family. Forget it, she is one level higher than me, I have to endure it, if I can't develop history smoothly, I will never be able to return home. I lowered my head and adjusted my coral hand at random, and then walked past her disdainfully, and said with an extremely fake smile: "Yes, my sister taught me, but I still have to learn how to serve the emperor, if my sister is tired of teaching, I can leave it until Ming'er to teach again." She glared as if she was going to eat me, and I returned to my normal expression and continued to look at the sorting of the tea leaves. I looked at her with disdain, she suddenly grabbed my wrist and wanted to run out, I was surprised, there was Ilgen Jueluo Luoying standing at the door, she looked panicked, and quickly said: "Sister Meishuang, I'm just passing by, just passing by." Fucha-Meishuang snorted, pulled me straight away, I shouted: "Hey, hey, what are you doing!" She pulled me to Cheng Mengyi, Li Dequan was also discussing something, Cheng Mengyi smiled and responded, "Yes, I remember." Then he turned his head to see us, frowned, and said, "What's the matter? What are you crying about?" Mei Shuang saluted, and there were endless tears in the corners of her eyes, and she sobbed: "Woo, Sister Mengyi, I taught her new rules, and she actually spoke disrespectfully to me, I haven't been in our Qianqing Palace for two years, and I haven't suffered such grievances." Cheng Mengyi glanced at me and said, "Is it true?" I was amazed that she could lie so much without blushing and without a heartbeat, what is a cow, this is it! "For such a person, I don't want to say anything, I suddenly found myself like a female partner, haha, the heroine is infinitely wronged, and I am infinitely evil, haha. Thinking like this, I actually laughed out loud on my face. Cheng Mengyi's expression was a little flat, and said, "You!" Then he immediately calmed down that trace of anger, and said to Li Dequan with a smile: "What should Gonggong Li do when he sees this matter?" Li De looked embarrassed and said: "Aunt Cheng has been in the Qianqing Palace for three or four years, and you should look at this little thing." Then he said softly to her, "I remember what the miscellaneous family told you just now." Cheng Mengyi nodded, Li Dequan looked at me deeply, turned around and left.
Cheng Meng said sternly: "You two, as the leading female official, you don't understand our rules so much, you are punished to kneel for an hour! Don't eat dinner!" Mei Shuang and I said "ah" together, I thought to myself, one hour, two hours, why am I so unlucky. Cheng Mengyi said leisurely: "Mo Yi, for the sake of you being a newcomer, let's take care of dinner." Then he turned around and went to work on the affairs of the palace.
Meishuang and I knelt in front of the courtyard where we lived, four or five meters apart.
PS: As soon as I came to the Qianqing Palace, I was framed and punished to kneel, it turns out that this Forbidden City is not only for the concubines to compete for favor, but also for the palace maids to compete for status! In the future, be careful! In the next chapter, will the heroine's tofu heart come out? What did Li Dequan say to Cheng Mengyi?