Wangfu Shenyuan

The three people wrapped the steamed buns and water bags with cloth, and each carried a bundle of hills. Under the puzzled eyes of passers-by, they entered the prince's Tingfeng courtyard.From the moment he entered the courtyard, Xia An felt two sharp eyes hitting him directly.

Not daring to look around, Xia An stared at Ah Fu's heels in front of him and walked. Ah Fu stopped, and he also stopped, unloaded the burden, opened it, and sent it to everyone one by one.

Seeing that Rongli frowned, the supervisor was not happy, he whispered something to the director of Duoling beside him who was in charge of this project.Duo Ling strode up to Xia An's three people, stopped them from delivering food, and cursed: "Han Fuchao, are you impatient? Your lord hasn't had breakfast yet, so you start a fire first." gone."

Xia An secretly thought that something was wrong, there was such a rule in rich families that slaves would never be allowed to eat before the master had eaten.Guanshi Han has been in the palace for many years, so why doesn't he understand the rules?Xia An looked at Steward Han, and the latter was also wronged. When he left, he clearly heard the steward prepare breakfast for the prince.

"Put it away, don't eat it." Manager Han hurriedly took away the food from everyone's hands.Xia An received the steamed buns, bent one hand in front of his chest, and stuffed the other into his bosom after receiving the steamed buns. After a while, his bosom was full of steamed buns.

Rong Li looked interesting, so he pointed at Xia An and said: "That black slave, yes, it's just you, show me something in your arms."

What's so good about steamed buns?Xia An only dared to mutter a few words in his heart, but he still wanted to hand it over respectfully.However, under the signal of the manager, the servant next to the prince stepped forward to pick it up, and then passed it to the master.

"Why is it yellow?" Rong Li smelled it, it smelled so strange, he opened his mouth and took a small bite.This action caused the general manager and the others to exclaim "dirty", Rong Li chewed it twice, then spat it out, saying: "It's so hard." He threw the steamed bun in his hand on the ground.

Xia An lowered his head and said: "There are some cornmeal in it, the prince's body is naturally not used to it." After finishing speaking, he saluted, picked up the discarded steamed bun, wiped it on his clothes, and put it back into the cloth that wrapped the steamed bun inside.

The steward felt that his behavior meant to provoke the prince, and he just "hummed" dissatisfiedly from his nostrils, when he heard the majestic voice of the prince saying: "It feels uncomfortable to smell, eat quickly, and work after eating." The words of reprimand were swallowed back in his stomach, no matter what the situation, in the end it was still cheap for them, so it was time to give them a good slap.

Xia An was so overjoyed that he forgot to thank you, and just greeted everyone to eat.Han Guanshi did enough etiquette before helping to distribute the food.However, everyone was eating happily, why did the prince's face become more and more ugly.Steward Han pulled Xia'an's sleeve and whispered in his ear: "Let's do it for everyone, I'm really afraid of the prince's temper."

"It's true, I'm also very scared." Xia An took a peek, and the prince's expression was indeed not good.

Three people put into the work of cleaning up.Xia An dragged a half-burned log about the thickness of a person's arms, and dragged it vigorously towards the place where the waste was piled up.

The manager squinted his eyes halfway, but stared at Xia An intently. At this moment, he leaned down and whispered to the prince: "It's a pity, it's another sum of money."

Rong Li rolled his eyes at him, and also whispered: "It's not all your idea."

About a cup of tea time, everyone wiped their mouths and came to work.Xia An wiped off his sweat, and decided to implement the principle of not interfering with other people's work that Ah Fu said. It was really embarrassing, and moving one thing was like dust.

He discussed with Ah Fu and quietly withdrew from everyone's sight.As soon as the two of them stepped out of the arched door, the prince's eyes followed him. The manager naturally followed his gaze and said, "You two lazy servants, get out of here."

Xia An trembled, and walked back quickly with Ah Fu.

"It's so courageous, did the prince allow you to go, did I allow you to go?"

Ah Fu handed over a look of "seeking good fortune".The two turned around and kowtowed in front of the manager to plead guilty.According to the tone of the general manager who usually speaks in a warm voice who is always critical, I am afraid that this matter will not be good.Xia An lowered his head and sighed, how did he offend the Chief Manager?

But the matter was unexpectedly resolved peacefully, and the two were ordered to join the cleaning team without being harsh.

Rong Li glanced at Xu Qingrui (manager) and saw him hanging his head with his arms folded, looking sullen, so he said to him: "This king doesn't eat, and you can't even eat if you are tired. Seeing how listless you are, you are hungry." ? Let’s go to Zhuyi Pavilion for dinner.”

"No, if the lord is sympathetic to the slave, he should give the slave a whip to play with." The manager's tone seemed to be angry.

Rong Li laughed out loud: "Okay, when I'm full, I'll ask someone to tie up Ah Fu and hang him up for you to smoke."

The manager stomped his feet: "Okay, okay, the prince is so nostalgic for the past, so naturally he should have a smoke, and take him to the back mountain to feed the dogs."

"It was you who troubled him first, and it wasn't me who refused to let him go."

Xu Qingrui bit his lips and stopped talking. At that time, he didn't realize that the person walking with Xia An was Ah Fu, and he just wanted to trouble Xia An. He didn't expect to be ridiculed by the prince in the end.

As soon as the prince left, most of the idlers in the yard, who just saw that they were not working, dispersed, Xia An whispered to Ah Fu quietly: "I thought I was going to die just now, you know, the manager is usually It's just a lazy tone to criticize, today's voice is full of air, but it made me startled and startled."

Ah Fu glared at him: "What do you mean?"

Xia An secretly laughed: "Actually, I always thought that the manager was brought here from the palace by the prince, not a guard."

That's the eunuch!Ah Fu kicked Xia An in a funny way, urging him to work quickly and not be lazy.

After Rongli even finished his lunch, he went back to the small courtyard from the outside, and said that he would supervise the work outside the house.Immediately, a servant brought a wicker chair and put it in a shady place. A few juicy maids surrounded the prince and gently beat his legs with a fan. A man dressed as a concubine with long jade fingers held a glass of iced sour plum soup for the prince. From time to time, I would feed the prince a drink, and then flirt for a while.

The sun is unusually full today, and Xia An is drenched all over. He is holding hands with another person to push a burned out wooden frame outside. For some reason, when he turns around, he sees the prince lying on the rattan chair after eating and drinking. When he closed his eyes and rested, his stomach protested a few times. He was greedy for white rice porridge in the morning and didn't eat a few mouthfuls of dry food. Now he is starving to death, but the work has not been done yet, so there is no need to think about going back to cook and eat. If the prince is so stingy, he will definitely not agree.

On the way of moving, a piece of paper fell from the big wooden frame.He had been told a long time ago that no matter what kind of material the fragments were made of, they had to be presented to the supervisors for review.He picked it up and wiped off the dust, and it turned out to be a small piece of ink painting.Xia An carefully identified that it was Tang Yin's calligraphy.He walked up to a supervisor, handed it over respectfully, and after several supervisors and many diners studied it for a while, he pursed his lips and went back to work.

Tidying up until the sun went down, everything that should be cleaned up was finally finished.Rong Li lost his study room, so he just lay on the wicker chair, napped and read for a while, drank several cups of sour plum soup, the concubine was replaced by a beautiful boy, and finally replaced by the princess.Yin warmly invited the prince to have dinner and stay overnight at her place. She wrinkled her nose and said that the prince's place is too dirty now, and it is extremely inappropriate for him to stay here.

Rong Li was still reading, and when he heard Yin's chattering, he became a little annoyed, took Yin's hand and said softly: "There are many things in my study room that are bestowed by my father." Seeing Yin's His eyes lit up, he sighed and said: "It's a pity that it was all burnt down. If this matter is not handled well, and someone with a heart provokes a few words in front of the father, I'm afraid we will have a bad life in the leisure palace."

Yin's counseled: "My lord, don't be angry, it's right to take care of your body. Last night, which slave who didn't open his eyes was on duty in the study, how did he get out of trouble?"

Rong Li gritted his teeth and said, "It was a little servant girl who was watching the night, Xun Pazi, who fell asleep by herself halfway. Because I wasn't in the main courtyard, my sons were lazy and dozed off, and they didn't wake up until their clothes were burned."

Hooves!Yin scolded the servant girl in her heart, but she was sensible: "This kind of slave who has no rules should be disciplined, otherwise, what face will our palace have?" The mistress of a mansion failed to manage the servants well, which caused the loss of the prince, and I was very panicked. I also ask the prince to hand over a group of criminal slaves to the concubine, so that the concubine can take the blame and perform meritorious service."

Xia An listened to Wang Hao's orderly speech with her ears pricked up, feeling amused in her heart.How do you say it as if you are already in charge of the family, our palace is the prince in charge of the house, who told you to marry a husband who has nothing to do.But this princess is not only handsome, but also quick-witted. Asking the prince to dispose of the power, isn't it to show prestige in front of the slaves?

Why can Xia An hear the turbulent conversation between the two masters of the palace?After the cleaning work was done, Manager Han and the builder went to listen to the task assigned by the supervisor in charge of the construction. Ah Fu went back to cook, and the others followed suit. He was the only one called by the supervisor to clean up the fruit peels that the prince had wiped out in the afternoon.

Xia An couldn't help thinking, how would the prince answer?

After listening to Yin Shi finished speaking, Rong Li smiled and said: "Those slaves should be punished, since the princess wants to teach these slaves a lesson, let's sit down together." Turning to the boy, he said: "Bring a stool for the princess. "

The servant moved a round stool, Yin Shi thanked him, sat on only half of the stool, and wiped the sweat off his face dignifiedly with a handkerchief.

"Bring those damn servants up here." Rong Li ordered, and soon many people came forward and knelt down.Rongli respected Wangfei very much, and asked Yin in a warm voice: "According to Concubine Ai, how should we punish these servants?"

Yin smiled and said: "Walk is a major event, especially to burn down the prince's study, it is really a great crime. But everything is about the main culprit and the accomplice. The girl who smoked the handkerchief was beaten to death and thrown to the back mountain. Others The young lady was assigned to work as a coolie in Wutong Courtyard and Si'en Courtyard. My lord, is it inappropriate to treat my concubine like this?"

The maid who was leading the kneeling let go of howling, begging the prince and concubine for mercy.A woman stepped forward and slapped her mouth hard a few times, bleeding came from the corner of her mouth, and the sobbing sound subsided.The others were all grateful for the kindness of the princess, so they were only sent to do coolies.

Rong Li took a sip of the rose dew, the sweetness spread out in his mouth, but the words he said were extremely vicious: "The princess is kind, don't let these slaves climb on top of her head to do evil. Anyway, teach the princess to open her eyes today, and manage the slaves in the future It's good to have something to rely on." Rong Li ordered: "Go and bring the 'young master' here, and call Cheng Dafang."

When Xia An heard that these two were called, she hurriedly put away her thoughts of watching a good show, and her movements accelerated by three points.As a result, the dust raised made the princess displeased, and she glared in this direction.Xia An didn't dare to offend this master, and he probably wouldn't be easy to offend. Those who were easy to offend wouldn't dare to marry in this leisurely palace.

He licked his dry lips, slowed down and finished cleaning, and was about to back down.I saw the prince sprinkled grape skins on the ground again, which happened to be thrown on the piece he cleaned first, and he quickly swept it away.The prince spat out another mouthful of skin, Xia An swept it, the prince spat it out, Xia An swept it.In this way, the prince can't stop talking, and Xia An can't leave.

Finally, when Xia An was on the verge of collapse, the prince suddenly picked up an apple, and said in disgust, "How dare you put it on my king's desk if you look so ugly, and throw it away." After finishing speaking, he threw the apple on the In Xia An's arms, Xia An hugged her tightly and caught it firmly.

The prince didn't intend to eat any more fruit, so Xia An quietly withdrew after waiting for a while.Throwing away the peel, Xia An took out the apple that was disliked by the prince from his bosom. The red one was so pretty, but it was ugly. There was just a brown pit on it, only a tiny bit big, why couldn't it be eaten? .Xia An really wanted to take a bite now, he hadn't drank water all day, and his lips were split.But such a good fruit, I haven't eaten it since I fell down, so it's a waste at this time.Putting it away in his arms, he was about to leave when he heard the manager's haunted voice saying: "That slave came to help."

Xia An turned around, almost paralyzed on the ground in fright, and asked him to take the "little young master".The manager received the order from the prince to carry the rice-shaped wooden frame, so he knew that today was going to be a good show for the princess, so how could such a good show be missed by this bold servant.

The manager and his team set up the wooden frame that the prince asked for and fixed it on the ground. Cheng Dafang had already met the prince over there, and stood aside to wait for orders. "Little Master" was very enthusiastic when he saw the prince, and kept barking at his master.

Rong Li raised his eyes and saw that the legs of the man leading the dog were shaking like a sieve, so he couldn't help pursing the corners of his mouth, trying to cover it up well.He was still indifferent, but there was a ruthlessness in his indifference.He said in a reproachful tone: "Which slave who can't do anything, don't spoil the 'young master', get out of the way, and don't hang around under my king's eyelids."

Xia An couldn't wait for this, and just as he was about to follow the prince's wishes, the lord manager interrupted again: "That's right, it just so happens that the window in the west side room was broken by some careless servant last night, and the servants of Si'en Courtyard didn't do this What's the matter, tell him to do it before leaving, so as not to ask the boys from Yilan Courtyard to make a special trip."

Rong Li took another look at Xu Qingrui, nodded and said nothing.

Xia An was led by the boy to repair the windows.He has been in the mansion for a long time, and he has not learned how to carry stones and water, but he is proficient in laying floor tiles.He really didn't know how to fix the windows.

When I got to the front, I studied it carefully, and there was nothing serious about it. It was just a small hole in the paper on the window. I just needed to change the paper on the window. Why did he have to stay and change it? Even a maid can change it.He asked the boy where the window paper was, and he was going to get it.

The boy was signaled by the manager, so Xia An was naturally not allowed to go away at this time: "My lord's window papers are all specially customized. In the lord's small warehouse, you can't get in with your status. You wait at the same place." Come on, I'll go get it, but don't walk away, and mess up what the manager told you, so that you can't afford to walk around."

"Yes, the servant won't go away." Xia An didn't dare to provoke the manager.

As soon as the boy left, Xia An suddenly heard a scream, so shrill, it reminded him of the legendary mid-night cry of a wronged female ghost in Zhongshan.He was standing right behind the prince, and right in front of the direction where the scream came from.So, thanks to the manager, he can see everything clearly.

The main culprit's servant girl was tied to the wooden frame, her clothes were taken off cleanly, her limbs were tightly bound, and several thin ropes were tied around her waist and neck.Cheng Dafang held a two-inch long and extremely thin blade in his hand, and knives of different sizes and needles of different thicknesses were neatly placed on the table beside him.Cheng Dafang leisurely cut off a thin piece of meat from the maidservant's upper arm, and put it on a plate painted with big bright red rhododendron flowers.

Gathered enough thin slices of meat and arranged them in a circle. A servant stepped forward to change the plate, and put the original meat plate in front of "Young Master". .

Cheng Dafang yelled "Wake up", the maid who had passed out of coma was awakened, and experienced the pain of being cut by a knife again.

Xia An stood there dumbfounded, forgetting what he was going to do here. It should be said that everything around him no longer existed, only the maid's screams and the corners of Cheng Dafang's mouth were already " "Little Young Master" happily wagging his tail, still in his moist eyes.