Wangfu Shenyuan

"It's a big deal to accept the princess, and a yard like ours can be rewarded."

"Yes, the princess is a regular wife and a serious master, so it's naturally different from the prince taking a concubine or something."

"..."

Xia An didn't care to listen to other people's discussions, and just wandered around the box.Ah Fu made fun of him: "I stared straight at him, what a glutton."

"Let's eat this at noon. I really want to eat very tight. I haven't eaten a meal of white rice since I entered the palace."

Ah Fu thought for a while, and said: "Okay, I will serve meat for everyone at noon." There is a clear rule in the palace that no servants are allowed to go to the back mountain to hunt animals without permission, so the meat what Ah Fu said actually meant a better meal. "But you have to learn to do it."

Xia An nodded like he was pounding garlic. The so-called learning to do it is nothing more than playing the tricks, and it's not like he hasn't done it before.But Ah Fu really wanted to teach him this time, and directed Xia An to wash the rice and make noodles, and beat and scolded him whenever there was a mistake.

In the past, Xia An was exhausted when he came back from work, and he didn't think it was so difficult to eat.Learning to cook now actually made him feel like it was not easy to eat.

Since Xia An was assigned to wash rice, he came back in a better spirit, so Manager Han didn't restrict him to stay in the house.Although Xia An was about to leave the hospital, he made up his mind to walk around the area and never meet that dangerous person.

Si En Yuan is located in a remote place, and there are not many people around.Xia An paced slowly, ever since entering the palace, she has never been so leisurely.Although the surrounding is not prosperous, it is more festive than usual.Red lanterns were hung in front of each courtyard, and the faces of the servants were all beaming.Xia An is also in a good mood, and won't be sadder than before after winning the reward.

Xia An turned a corner, and his vision suddenly opened up. It was the river that had been banned.When Xia An saw it, he immediately prepared to turn around and leave. He didn't like to see it there, it reminded him of the girl who drowned, and he really remembered the fact that he was a slave in this palace.

Yes, Xia An really likes to escape, but he is not weak, and he will face what needs to be faced with strength.If he should flee, he would dodge non-stop.

But the stern eyes of Prince Lei Xian cannot be avoided by anyone.

then--

"Stop." A loud shout.

Xia An's legs trembled, the lord is really leisurely, he didn't stay in the new house to accompany the bride during the big wedding, and ran out to wander around again.The moment Xia An turned around, he swore secretly: If he retreated completely today, he would never come out to find trouble with itchy legs again.

"I've seen the prince." Xia An knelt on the spot.

Of course Rong Li was dissatisfied: "You are my king with clairvoyance, come over to the pavilion to serve you."

Xia An walked right and left into the pavilion, and knelt down beside the pavilion.Rong Li squinted his eyes: "You came in really fast, I wonder if you put this king in your eyes?"

Xia An couldn't help calling Qu: "Go back to the lord, the slave has never been to this pavilion, and the road is detoured, so it is delayed, please forgive me."

"Hmph." Rong Li stopped talking.

Xia An was most afraid that the lord would look for trouble if he had nothing to do. He could not fight against the master even if he was a slave. If the master didn't speak, he could only kneel quietly.

"Did the steward of your courtyard teach you to serve the master like this?"

Si'en Academy does all physical work, and Manager Han really didn't teach Xia An any rules.Xia An respectfully said: "This servant has just entered the mansion and doesn't know the rules, so please ask the prince to order."

"Come here for a drink."

Xia An got up and went over to fill the empty glass with wine.Rong Li squinted at him, and suddenly said: "Your leg is still not healed, has it been a while since you were tortured?"

The prince actually still remembers that he was tortured!That's right, the prince personally ordered the beating.But how did the prince know that he was whipped on his leg?Xia An pondered and replied: "Thank you, my lord, for your concern. The slave's legs are almost healed."

"Who misses you and doesn't care about your identity?" Rong Li was very displeased.

Xia An had no choice but to kneel down again and said: "The slave is wrong, the slave deserves to die." Hearing his master snorted coldly and told him to get up, he was speechless after that, so Xia An had no choice but to add wine to the side.

The prince was in a good mood, and sat in the pavilion for more than two hours with a pot of wine and a few small dishes.No matter how beautiful the scenery is, you will get tired of watching it for a long time, and the prince doesn't say a word, not even the slightest expression, Xia An feels more and more that the master is unreasonable.

It wasn't until the figure of the manager appeared in the field of vision that Rong Li spoke slowly: "Has the reward arrived in your yard?"

Xia An really thinks that the prince can be free, he even knows about the trivial matter of rewarding a box of rice noodles. Fortunately, the palace has welcomed a mistress, otherwise it would be strange for the prince to be a big man who manages the house and manages trivial matters.Xia An's mother passed away early, but the housekeeper's wife was in charge of the internal affairs of the house. He and his father adhered to the principle of "a gentleman stays away from the kitchen" and would not intervene in these things.

"It's here, thank you, my lord, for the reward."

Rong Li responded lightly, waved his hands and said: "Go down." Pointing to the road on the left, he said: "Go down from here, away from the king's river."

Of course Xia An is willing to take this path, but he absolutely wants to stay away from that river.And if you go this way, you can miss the steward.The manager is the second most dangerous person after the prince.

After leaving the rockery pavilion, Xia An immediately walked back to the small courtyard as fast as he could.When Ah Fu saw him, he folded his hips and scolded: "Bastard, the dinner is about to be put into the pot, and the bottom of the tank is still dry. If you continue to linger like this, you can eat dinner tomorrow."

Manager Han couldn't see it, knocked on the ashes, and said unfairly: "Xia An will rest for two more days, there are so many idlers here, you can't just pick anyone."

Ah Fu sneered: "Everyone has their own work, each doing his own work, and no one should interfere with others." As soon as these words came out, the few people who offered to help were embarrassed. It was to protect them from doing unnecessary things, and at worst, it was to warn them not to do Xia An's job.

"I'll go right away." Xia An picked up the pole and left. When he was leaving the hospital, he took a deep breath and prayed to God and Buddha in his heart so that he would not meet the prince.

God doesn't follow people's wishes.Xia An was unlucky enough to meet the prince and his party who had just come down from the rockery.He put down his pole, knelt aside, and lowered his head.

Maybe it was because there were so many servants paying their respects on the road, the prince and the manager didn't notice him.After the footsteps could no longer be heard, he raised his head, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and secretly rejoiced that he had escaped.

After carrying the water, Xia An still had a lot of work to carry the water, even though it was two and a half buckets of water, he still had to slow down.Fortunately, he knew that the prince was going to have dinner, and he would definitely not meet him on the way back.

He poured one bucket into the vat, carried the other bucket into the kitchen, poured it into a big pot, set it on fire, brought some chopped firewood, took a small bench and sat by the fire to watch the fire.Ah Fu had already shaped the steamed buns, covered them with a cloth towel and put them aside.After Xia An boiled the water, he put the washed rice in it.

"Why put so much?" How can a bowl of rice be enough for more than forty people.

Ah Fu scolded: "Do you think there is a lot of rice noodles in a box? If one person eats it, it will naturally be more than three months, but we eat the whole yard, and we can't eat it in half a month. Such a precious thing, do not save What to do."

Xia An smiled mischievously and didn't answer.

After the porridge boiled for a while, Ah Fu put the chopped vegetable leaves in to cook, put the steamed buns on the steamer and put them on the big porridge pot for steaming, which can save a lot of firewood.

Xia An noticed that the steamed buns made by Ah Fu were not only made of white flour, but also a little yellowish, which must have been mixed with a lot of cornmeal.It's a pity for his white rice and white noodles.

After washing my hands, I served everyone a good meal one by one.Seeing the clear rice grains in the bowl, everyone couldn't help complaining, but after Ah Fu knocked the bottom of the pot and scolded them, they were relieved.

Manager Han's status allows him to go to the dining room to get food, but he doesn't like to move around, and he usually eats what everyone eats.After getting along with each other, Xia An felt that Manager Han was a pretty good person, and when scooping up rice, he scooped up some extra rice from the bottom.Afu stared at him, but said nothing.

After a busy afternoon, it was better to just lie on the bed, Xia An was also hungry, so he picked up a bowl and sipped.This is the lesson he taught after he came to the Si'en Academy. Small bites of food will always only be enough for starvation, because Ah Fu will not cook too much, and if he eats too fast, he may get half a bowl more.When Xia An first came, someone even snatched the rice in the bowl.

While eating, Xia An thought about what the prince would use for dinner.When he was a young master, only he and his father ate meals, usually with four vegetarian dishes and three meat dishes plus a soup. If there was a festival, a few more dishes would be added to celebrate.I heard that the emperor had to serve [-] dishes when he ate. The prince is the son of the emperor. If he had a meal, he would probably serve [-] dishes.

Xia An swallowed, could his favorite Dongpo meat be on the prince's table now?

Rong Li took a sip of Dongpo's secret meat, and said to the master who was standing by, "This meat tastes good."

Concubine Yin waited for two days but did not see the prince entering her yard, so she had to let go of her modesty and came to greet the prince herself, and Rongli kept her for dinner.Seeing that the prince praised Dongpo meat, she took two pieces and put them in the prince's bowl, her lips parted slightly: "This cook was brought by my concubine from her mother's house. If the prince likes it, let him serve in the prince's yard." Right. The dining room is far away, so the food delivered will always be cooler."

"No, the king's small kitchen only cooks some snacks for entertainment on weekdays, and the serious meals are still cooked in the dining room, the princess is interested." Rong Li turned to the manager who was robbed: "Reward this cook with 100 taels of silver. "

100 taels of silver is what a cook earns in a year.Rongli is not very picky about food, and rarely rewards cooks, and the rewards are only ten taels and 20 taels (you can buy Xia'an with ten taels of silver, so it's not a small amount).This time, the big reward is nothing more than to make the princess look good.

The concubine said: "I thank the lord for the reward on behalf of Cook Liu."

"No, let's eat."

After many hints from the princess, the prince went to the princess' yard at night.The two sweetly admired the moon and the stars, hugged and went to bed while half drunk, the princess was stripped of her clothes, and was about to shyly refuse to return the welcome, when there were noises from the steward and the guards of the princess's natal family outside the door.Rong Li lifted the curtain and asked, "What are you doing?"

The steward replied: "My lord, your yard was flooded, and the study and its surroundings were all burnt down."

The concubine's moist eyes dimmed because of emotion, she turned her head sideways, waiting for the prince to speak.Rong Li picked up his coat and put it on, and comforted the princess softly while putting on his shoes: "The burning of the study is a big deal, I have to go back and have a look. Concubine, you should go to sleep first, and come back after the king has taken care of it." After finishing speaking, he bent down and kissed the princess on the forehead, regretfully said: "This king is really reluctant to cherish you, but we have plenty of time."

Xia An secretly washed the stinky clothes that had been worn for many days. This time, he was not stupid enough to run outside to wash naked.Anyway, he picked the water in the tank, so if he used it secretly, it shouldn't be a big problem.He simply wiped his body with cold water, washed his clothes, and while the stove was still warm, he quickly wiped it clean and put it on the floor.

Just when the clothes were half dry, someone knocked on the door of the small courtyard.Manager Han put on his clothes and opened the door. It was a brightly dressed boy.Xia An looked through the kitchen door, he recognized the color and style of the clothes, and he had worn them for half a day.

The young man glanced at Guanshi Han, and said, "Your lord's courtyard is flooded, and you Si'en courtyard is responsible for cleaning and building. Now tidy it up quickly and take someone to clean it up."

Han Guanshi was shocked and said: "Our Si'en Courtyard is going to build the Prince's Tingfeng Courtyard. Are you right?" They are the lowest servants. They absolutely cannot enter the courtyard where the prince lives, even the courtyard of the manager is not allowed to enter at will.

"Of course that's right. What nonsense, hurry up and take someone with me. The smell of smoke is choking everywhere. Be careful when you are late, the prince will chop off your heads and feed them to the dogs."

"Yes, yes." Although Manager Han is a manager, he has always had no status.As soon as the boy yelled, he immediately bowed his head and bowed his head to answer, went back to the room and took the broken gong, and the sound of the beating made everyone get dressed quickly.

When Manager Han went back to the house to look for the gong, Xia An put on his half-wet clothes and came out.Just about to stand in the crowd, Ah Fu came out with his clothes on, but stopped him and said, "You and I are working in the kitchen, so don't interfere with what they are doing."

Xia An couldn't wish more, going to the prince's yard was more terrifying than having a nightmare of being fed to a dog.Ever since he knew that the palace had fed corpses to dogs, and later saw the majestic figure of the prince who loves dogs, he often dreamed that he was being fed to dogs when he came back. laughing out loud.

He is very afraid of dogs. When he was seven years old, he secretly ran away from home to play, but was surrounded by wild dogs in a small alley, robbed the roast goose from his favorite restaurant, and even jumped on him and bit him. There is also a shallow scar on the leg.

Everyone followed Guanshi Han to the door, and someone said: "Weird things happen every year, especially this year." Someone answered with a smile: "Yeah, first there was an accident in the project, and none of us died. For the first time, it has been rewarded to our courtyard, and now it is miraculous that lowly people like us are allowed to build the prince's courtyard."

Manager Han snorted in a low voice: "Shut up." The speaker rubbed his nose and smiled and stopped talking.

Ah Fu stretched himself, turned around and went back to sleep.Xia An began to understand why everyone was jealous of his position, and why Zheng Da took out all the money he had accumulated in his life to bribe Manager Han, asking him to agree to let him take over the job.He yawned, hung his clothes to dry on the long tree trunk, and ran back to the house naked to sleep.

Xia An, who was used to getting up early, put on clean clothes, and felt a lot refreshed. She ran out diligently to fetch two loads of water, and chopped some firewood.Ah Fu was woken up, and went to the kitchen to instruct Xia An to knead the noodles and cook the porridge.

While washing the rice, Xia An intentionally shook his hands and poured half a bowl of rice into the water. Ah Fu, who was leaning on the door frame to supervise, scolded him bloody.He cleaned it up with a smile and put the rice into the pot.The steamed buns are also kneaded well. Although the crooked shape is strange, it has made great progress. Ah Fu did not pick any faults in the dry food today.

When the meal was ready, Ah Fu knew that Xia An was hungry, so he picked up the bowl and ate it first.Xia An immediately followed suit, and took a bowl to scoop up a lot of rice from the bottom of the pot. It can be said that half of the extra bowl of rice was eaten by Xia An secretly.

I waited and waited, but I didn't see everyone coming back.Ah Fu sent Xia An to take a look, and Xia An reluctantly agreed.Just as he was about to go out, Guanshi Han came back all in black and gray.

Manager Han washed his face, and said: "My lord's study was burned, and he lost his temper. When everyone tidied up, many things didn't dare to be thrown away without permission. I have to ask the stewards and supervisors for instructions, and I have to be careful." Picking precious things in the burnt house, you have to be slow. After working all night, I haven't cleaned half of them. The prince loves his treasures and urges everyone to finish them quickly."

A Fu said: "Why do we let Si En Yuan do such a delicate job? Our courtyard is full of rough people. The prince's study is just a piece of paper, and it is probably an important item that cannot be thrown away."

"I don't know either, but it was an order from the prince himself to choose us to go to the Si'en Academy. If it was still handled by the manager, he would definitely not look for us."

Xia An interjected: "Then how do you guys eat? It's only half done. Don't you want everyone to starve for a whole day?"

A Fu said: "Boss Han, go and talk to Supervisor Xing, let everyone come back to eat in batches."

"No, the lord is in charge in person." Steward Han shook the ashes from his clothes, and said, "We can only give it to you. Whether the lord is allowed to eat it or not is another matter."

Xia An's heart shuddered, and he delivered food, and the prince personally sat in the town!

Ah Fu complained: "I knew I had to send it over, but I didn't make these soups. Forget it, save it for lunch."

Guanshi Han said: "Everyone is thirsty, and the servants in the prince's yard won't even lend us a bowl. Remember to bring a few bowls and fill them with water for everyone to drink."

Xia An frowned, even if the prince is a nobleman of the royal family, but those servants are slaves, why are they so arrogant, so what if they borrow a bowl.After staying in Si'en Yuan for a long time, he felt sympathetic, and felt that when others insulted Si'en Yuan or the people of Si'en Yuan, it was trampling on his dignity.This idea became clear after Zheng Da's death.

Xia An came up with an idea: "Why don't we put the soup in the water bag and deliver the soup like water to the venue. Everyone is very thirsty, and it would be best if they could drink porridge."