The reborn prince's little palace maid in the apocalypse

When Eunuch Ping came to the roof of the small warehouse and dug out a frozen man from the snowdrift, he thought he was dead, but he didn't expect to see a pair of small eyes that kept blinking.

Alive, when Xiaoba was left alive, there were some, but not many.

Looking at the direction where this guy was lying, and looking closely, he could see the figure of His Royal Highness, Eunuch Ping knew that what happened today would not be finished easily.

After handing the black snake to the chief manager, Eunuch Ping began to think about what to cook after dawn. You must know that usually after leaving a person alive, the price will increase. Although every time he asked to keep it, the price was increased. There is no requirement for this, but the price is hard to negotiate. Selling and buying are really getting harder and harder. The most important thing is that the girl has almost eaten all the dishes she knows how to cook.

It snowed intermittently for a day and two nights, and finally stopped. The rising sun has not yet appeared in the east.

A group of little palace maids were holding lanterns and walking in line on the corridor of the palace garden. This was a group of little palace ladies who worked in the dining room. They were led by four third-class palace ladies every day to go to work.

Although they are all doing odd jobs, there are many differences. As a little palace maid, whoever is assigned to you will be in charge. If you want to get ahead, you can only work hard in the profession you are assigned to, and let the person in charge see you. As long as the person in charge of you does not speak. , you may never get ahead in your life. Unless you can get into the eyes of the master, then you will have a different destiny.

Therefore, the little palace ladies all call the divided palace after training: "reincarnation". Having a better supervisor is like having a good father and mother.

Take the small East Palace Dining Room as an example. There are four main bureaus here, including the meat bureau and the snack bureau. The four bureaus have different responsibilities and have their own supervisors.

The meat section is mainly responsible for meat, fish, seafood, game, etc., while the vegetarian section is for vegetables, grains, delicacies, dried vegetables, etc.

According to Yunba's classification, among all the food that enters the east palace dining room, those with eyes belong to the meat category, and those without eyes belong to the vegetarian category.

But there are many overlaps between the Dining Food Bureau and the Dim Sum Bureau. The food bureau mainly prepares rice and porridge for each meal. The master does not have to eat it, but it must be included. There is also a food bureau that also makes steamed buns, soups and the like. But the dim sum bureau also often makes pasta and soup.

Let’s put it this way, what’s on the table is prepared by the Food Bureau. The snack bureau is responsible for everything from eating on weekdays, setting the dishes on the table, treating guests, and putting a cushion on the table when the master gets hungry in the middle of the night.

This is why Yunba can sleep in the dining room, because the night watchers in the dining room are always dispatched by the dim sum bureau. And Grandma Fu has the final say in the entire dim sum situation.

On the whole, the dining room is divided into four bureaus, but when broken down, there are still many complicated relationships.

Just like Aunt Dan, who is responsible for making soup. She is not one of the directors of the Four Bureaus, but all the soups in the Four Bureaus are related to her, and she can be considered a horizontal alliance with the Four Bureaus.

In addition to these four bureaus, there are of course many other duties, but the little palace maid is not needed. It’s like formulating a recipe, because there are many things to consider, such as what should be eaten during the four seasons, what should be eaten when the weather changes, whether there are any incompatible dishes in the menu within seven days, and sometimes we even have to consider Whether the prince is in a good mood or not, there are too many things to consider, including the Imperial Palace Supervisor, the Imperial Hospital, the people in the palace around the prince, etc. So this is not something that the little palace maid can help with.

Every day, the dining room is the first place to get busy in the East Palace in the morning. As the people in the little palace get busy, it can be said to be in full swing and noisy.

Of course, these little palace servants are just doing odd jobs or making food for rough workers. Let alone the prince, they are just general stewards of some rank. They are not qualified to use the food. Those are jobs that only worthy apprentices can do.

Every day, in the dining room, the deputies preparing the dishes are first prepared, and then the chefs prepare the prince's meal. After the food is served, the apprentices will take care of the stewards, and finally the little palace servants will take care of the food for the people below.

After a period of busy work, all the stewards were free. Although they could not leave the courtyard where the dining room was, they were all resting in the wing of the courtyard.

Yunba was still sitting in front of his stove, holding a meat sauce bun in his hand, gnawing on it while watching the little palace servants working.

After watching them clean the dining room, they began to prepare lunch dishes.

The Dim Sum Department where Grandma Fu works is only now starting to get really busy.

An'er stood in front of the counter, kneading a piece of dough in her hand. Although she lowered her head, Yun Ba could still clearly see the black and blue under her eyes.

There was one less snack in the snacks offered yesterday. Because Xi Le was the one in charge, I was afraid that Xi Le would be blamed, so I hurriedly took out a snack I tried to make to help.

I don’t want everyone to think that I am scheming, and even think that the missing portion of the snacks I presented was my fault.

It was obvious that he had good intentions, but no one appreciated it, and they mocked him in a weird way, both covertly and covertly.

Although the snack was a recipe prepared by myself and Xi Le, the one I made yesterday had added extra milk and sugar, and it smelled sweet. Not to mention that it was to please His Highness, so he could avoid being punished. That's my luck. If it wasn't for an emergency, I would never have taken it out.

An'er only squinted briefly last night because Xi Le didn't eat the evening meal last night and cried a lot, so she couldn't worry and could only watch.

Xi Le did not blame himself for bringing out snacks, but instead explained his good intentions to everyone. She was just sad because she didn't know who had touched the snacks she was on duty that day. She said she didn't know when she had offended someone, and she was a little scared. Although I stopped crying at night, I would cry and cough for a while from time to time.

I was afraid that she would be worried and nightmare at night, but I didn't dare to sleep too much, so I forced myself to stay up all night.

When I woke up in the morning, the corners of Xi Le's eyes were a little red and swollen, so I was advised by my roommate to take a rest for the day. Xi Le wanted to pull him along, but looking at the white eyes of the people in the room, he rejected Xi Le out of anger. Now I only feel two eyes, my eyelids are tight, I can only grit my teeth secretly and prevent myself from falling asleep.

At this time, in the main room of the lower palace maid, Xi Le was sitting at the table. Looking at myself in the bronze mirror, I see a face with delicate features and delicate features. Although it has not grown into a striking beauty, it has the gentleness of Xiaojiabiyu. There is a kind of natural cowardice in her appearance. At first glance, she looks like someone who is easy to bully. Of course, it will also arouse some people's pity.

Xi Le has known how to make use of his face and the gentleness and cowardice in his face since he was a child.

Her family can barely be considered a scholarly family. Including her father, there were three generations of scholars in her family, but they all stopped at being scholars. Passing the Jinshi examination became the dream of three generations of her family.

Her father was admitted as a scholar when he was young. People in the village said that his father was a Wenquxing who descended to earth and would definitely win the exam and be the number one scholar.

The entire family, and everyone in particular, was dedicated to supporting him in his studies and would not let him do anything except study. He also married a well-known local embroiderer, with the idea of ​​letting her earn money for him to study.

It is said that ten years are a hard life, but her father was still a scholar after taking the exam for twenty years, but her mother was tortured to death. In the end, he married a local girl who was married and divorced, and used the money from her family to open a private school. From then on, he never mentioned the subject of scientific examinations again.

From the time Xi Le can remember, the elders in her family and everyone around her have been constantly telling her that her father is someone who wants to test people to become high officials, and she wants to be a young lady from an official family. Her mother worked day and night on embroidery to make money, just to allow her father to study in peace. And always teach joy and don't disturb dad's reading. Reading is the most important thing for dad.

The same goes for her father, who is either studying in the study or going out to meet friends and participate in cultural gatherings all day long. Not to mention making money to go home, there are often teahouses and restaurants coming to my home to pay for the money I owe. Every time when days like this come, Xi Le would look at the lights in his mother's room that never went out while she was doing embroidery at night for several days in a row.

In this way, a mother who was always thinking about her father was exhausted to death. Before she died, she still kept thinking about asking her father to study hard.

But within a year, her father married a wealthy local girl who was married to a divorced woman. The woman asked her father to teach in a school. The father was not willing to do it, but he didn't expect that the woman would slap her twice. Her father never dared to mention the subject again. Not only do I go to the hotel every day, but I also talk about being hidden in the city and enjoying the joy of the countryside.

That woman was very kind to Xihe. She didn't beat or scold her, and even bought her a little maid. But Xi Le felt dissatisfied when he saw his father and that woman. Who was his exhausted mother? Why do you say you won’t take the exam if you don’t want to?

With a little joy, I instantly understood a truth at that time. It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on others. If you place your hopes on others, how can you know that others will not give up easily.

Xi Le, who thought she had figured it out, decided to enter the palace when she was in charge. She used her face that looked easy to bully and some specious words to spread the news about being abused by her stepmother. . He even used this rumor to get a place in the palace.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, entering the palace to be a maid is giving up your daughter in exchange for money. Because after entering the palace, you have to cancel your household registration and cut off any relatives. From now on, you will have no relationship with your original family members, either legally or emotionally. Everyone says that these people have no family and no roots, and they will be alone after death. A ghost with a wandering soul, one whose soul has no place to return. Any family that has some means or is particular about it will never send their children to the palace to serve as palace attendants. At that time, the eunuchs and maids in the palace were regarded as palace servants by everyone outside.

It was only because during the previous dynasty, many eunuchs and maids' family members were kidnapped and threatened to cause trouble in the inner palace, spread rumors, poisoned everywhere in the palace, and even opened the palace door to allow rebels to enter the palace, that led to chaos in the court. Eventually the country was destroyed.

Therefore, when the Jingtian Dynasty learned from the lessons of the previous dynasty, it had extremely strict and even inhumane selection standards for eunuchs and maids entering the palace.

Buying boys and girls of appropriate age among the people is not a matter of choosing or recruiting, but buying. Of course, not everyone will buy it. It requires that all three generations should be good citizens, no slaves, no lowly citizens, and no criminals. Only in this way can other people's children be bought into the palace.

Although the person who enters the palace has no household registration, his or her identity before entering the palace will definitely be clearly investigated. Not only to guard against criminals, but also to prevent people from kidnapping and selling children for profit.

But in Xi Le's view, entering the palace is a smooth road. If her father could pass the imperial examination, she would naturally be a lady from an official family and might be drafted into the palace. But now that she could no longer count on her father in her life, she would have to find a new path on her own.