[Qing Chuan + Red Mansion] Midas touch

The steps to enter the palace in a small election are not easier than those in a general election, and the verification of identity is even more indispensable.But after entering the palace, the dormitory they were assigned to and the rules they had to learn were obviously different.

One went to the decent palace assigned by him, and he also learned the rules of how to be a master.One was assigned to a small hut, which was worse than the inverted room in her yard, and learned how to serve her master.

Comb your long hair into a big braid and tie it with a section of red string.Zuo Xi looked down at the dark green cheongsam that reached to his feet again.

so ugly.

The material can only be regarded as so-so, anyway Ying'er around her doesn't wear this kind of material.

Fortunately, she was wearing underwear and shirts brought from home.Even if the material and workmanship are a bit poor, it will not rub the skin.

Zuo Xi didn't bring anything in. There were only three sets of luggage, shirts, insoles, socks, a piece of material just enough to make two menstrual belts, and a small sewing box.Other than that, there was only a strange-looking sterling silver bamboo cup and a palm-sized box, which contained two boxes of facial grease, a few small-denomination banknotes and some silver.

The sterling silver water cup was made by the goldsmith couple that Zuo Xi asked her to raise in Xue's residence.

Tubular, the outside is a bamboo tube, the inner cup wall is sterling silver, and the cup lid is also made of the same material.The cup body and the cup lid are closed by the kind of screw rotation.

Although the appearance is a bit strange, it is only for people of this era.If the style of this kind of water cup is replaced by glass, it will be similar to the kind of sterling silver liner thermos that can be sold everywhere in later generations.

Uh. It's Zuo Xi's lack of heat preservation.

The reason why sterling silver is used inside is because Zuo Xi read fan novels and read Mizhang, thinking that sterling silver can be tested for drugs.

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However, no matter whether drug testing is possible or not, what Zuo Xi thinks is that going to the palace as an errand should be the same as going to work, whether it is a group life or not, water glasses are always indispensable.

Zuo Xi was afraid of losing the water cups, so he made several more and put them in the small apartment.

When these things entered the palace gate, they were all required to open their bags for registration.You will be asked to take it into the palace only after you are sure that there are no contraband.

After entering the palace, they were led to a dressing room.Some need to bathe here, while others only need to change their clothes outside the palace and put on the clothes of rough envoys and maids here.

Several girls who participated in the small election looked like Zuo Xi, who came from a wealthy family, with fair skin, delicate fingers, and a delicate air all over their bodies.They were taken to a room alone to change their clothes. Like Zuo Xi, many of them did not change their underwear and shirts.

After changing his clothes, he was led to give lectures in a spacious courtyard.The Forbidden City in February was still so cold that people shivered, a gust of cold wind blew past, and Zuo Xi couldn't help shivering a few times due to the cold wind.

Miss her big fur cape, nice hand warmer with incense cakes and silver frost charcoal.

The nanny who gave the lecture was surnamed Shi. In addition to this Nanny Shi, there is also Aunt Liu who is also in charge of this year's selection of maids of honor.

Zuo Xi had inquired about it before, and the maids had to learn the rules for a month before entering the palace.After that, they will be assigned to various places according to their strengths.Or maybe the people in the main womb above came to pick people in person.

Those who have strengths and can take out silver for management, the errands they get are naturally decent and easy.Those who don't have a skill and don't have money to manage the eunuchs and mothers in charge can only wait for others to pick the rest.

But it's generally rough work.

The kind that can't see the master, is not decent, dirty and tired.

If it really falls into that kind of situation, then the days to come can only be described as boiled.After all, if you want to stand up, besides the big opportunity, you have to find a way to save more money and bribe the eunuch in charge.But often such a job, money is also the most difficult to save.

Zuo Xi saw that he was a rich master, so those mothers and aunts put Zuo Xi together with several other girls with the same characteristics.Interested in earning some pocket money.

Although that house is similar to the back cover house, but there are few people, only a dozen or so girls live there.Zuo Xi entered the room, and while others were looking at the room, he quickly took the position of the Kang head against the wall.

With a wall on one side and people on the other, such a bunk offers a sense of privacy and security compared to people on both sides.

Putting his little baggage on the side of the pillow, Zuo Xi picked up the dirty pillow with a look of disgust.

"It's so dirty, how can I use it?" A petite and cute girl on the side glanced at the pillow with more disgust than Zuo Xi, then looked at the other bedding, and found that none of the bedding on the kang was clean , and immediately pulled his face down.

"My name is Zheli Jiahui, and I am 14 years old."

"My name is Wang Yuzhu, and I am 13 years old."

"Fan Wei, 16 years old."

"..."

Hearing Zheli Jiahui's self-introduction, others also mentioned their names and ages.

But I don't know if it's inconvenient to say or can't say about the family background. No one mentioned what the father and brother in the family do, and which banner they belong to.

Like everyone else, Zuo Xi picked a middle position and said his name, "I'm Xue Zuoxi, I'm 16 years old this year."

The name Zuo Xi was a word she had told Eleven in the early years.When signing up before, Zuo Xi asked Xue Pan to sign up with the name Zuo Xi.Therefore, it is very natural to say this name at this moment.

Zuo Xi entered the palace stepping on the line.

Like Zuo Xi, there were several other people who stepped into the palace, because they didn't mention their birthdays or their ages, so they just called each other's names mixedly.

After all the introductions, the little girl named Jiahui mentioned that she should ask Aunt Liu to change the bedding.

Zuo Xi nodded, she really should find someone to change the bedding, but it wasn't Aunt Liu.

They have already decided to enter the palace, so how could they not inquire about the rules of survival in the palace.The two nuns in her family came at the right time, so how could they not ask.And those two nuns are also extremely kind, and they often talk about things in the palace with Zuo Xi and Aunt Xue.

Just like today's quilt, it is actually a stepping stone.

Not to mention, there must be a little eunuch waiting not far from their door at this moment.Call the little eunuch over, stuff some money and it's done.

Not only Zuo Xi thought of this, but others also thought of it.So you said what I said, and everyone started to discuss the market price.

Pay money when it's time to pay, but don't drive up the market.

Zuo Xi was already ready to go with the crowd. She doesn't have much property on the surface, but it doesn't mean she has less in private.

Especially when Xue Pan was about to enter the palace, he told Zuo Xi not to be afraid, he had already arranged everything.

Although he was skeptical and didn't dare to believe Xue Pan's words, Zuo Xi knew that there were only a few people Xue Pan could think of and the people he could mobilize.

Jiuye and Eleven.

And standing behind these two is the empress Yifei, the lord of Yikun Palace, the evergreen tree of the harem.

Empress Yifei is in charge of some of the palace affairs, so it's not a big deal for a little maid like her to help her.

Combined with Xue Pan's words, Zuo Xi is [-]% sure that as long as she survives this month, her future life should be that kind of 'decent and easy'.

But the days of this month are really not so easy to endure.

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Everyone paid out money, and collectively changed into a clean set of bedding, and then each chose a place to spread the bedding, and then either sat on the bedding, or sat on the kang, some were in a daze, some bowed their heads and wept softly, and some were with them. Whispered left and right.Zuo Xi rolled up the bedding to the bottom of the kang, and leaned on the bedding to think about his thoughts.

It's a pity not to walk around and have a look.When you are in the palace, you can visit the whole Forbidden City.

You don’t need to spend tickets, you don’t have to wait in line, and you can see a lot of areas and scenery that the Forbidden City doesn’t allow you to see. Thinking about it, I feel like I’m making a lot of money.

Although the palace lady is not allowed to act alone, as long as she is careful, she can still quietly put the phone in her sleeve and secretly record the whole family of Lao Kangtou.

Hehe ~

A little later, two eunuchs knocked on the door and entered.

Said that their dinner was not prepared in the palace, Madam Shi and Aunt Liu asked each of them to send a few pieces of snacks from the Imperial Dining Room.

Later, someone rewarded the little eunuchs with silver and asked them to help bring two pots of hot tea.

After eating snacks, the people in this room had to wash with hot water if they had that young lady's temper.But this trip was not satisfactory, the little eunuch didn't earn the money, so in the end he could only retract his bedding in dissatisfaction.

When going to bed that night, no one came to Zuo Xi's dormitory to check their sleeping posture.However, when they heard the screams of the young maids who entered the palace in the same batch next door being beaten and cried, and the yells of terrified Aunt Liu who was checking the bed, everyone in Zuo Xi's room all posed in unison after waking up. The standard sleeping position of a court lady.

Lie on your side.

Get up early, take your own washbasin to the well to wash, after all, the well water is not as warm as the usual warm water prepared by the girl, and being stimulated by the well water, how much sleepiness disappears.

Afterwards, go back to the house to tidy up your grooming, comb your braids and gently rub some non-scented facial fat, and then you can wait for breakfast.

Breakfast is porridge, cornmeal buns and a piece of pickled vegetables per person.

Seeing such a breakfast, Zuo Xi was obviously a little surprised, it didn't match what she had heard earlier.

It does not match.

The maids who have just entered the palace for training will naturally eat differently from those who have already served in the palace.

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. After eating a breakfast that was not smooth and not full, everyone gathered in the yard to learn how to kneel.

Oh, learning to kneel?

I was speechless.

Most of the people in Zuo Xi's house have learned the rules at home, but it is obvious that a few of them have learned two sets of rules.

One set is for the court lady, and the other is for the master.

Zuo Xi could see it all, how could the sharp-eyed mothers and aunts in the palace not see it.It's just that in line with the principle that one thing more is worse than one thing less, you just turn a blind eye and close one eye.

Who knows who can fly on the branches, why offend people now.

Both lunch and dinner were not satisfactory, which made Zuo Xi wonder if he should find a chance to go back to the small apartment and cook a small stove for himself.

But right now it's a collective life, going in and out is a group activity, and even going out is not very free, Zuo Xi just thought about it and dismissed the idea.

Learn to kneel, learn to stand, learn how to salute the master, learn how to reply, how to greet, how to advance and retreat, etc...

After teaching all this, Zuo Xi realized that the money she brought into the palace had already been spent.

It seems that this further study costs a lot of tuition and miscellaneous fees.