The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

Recap:

Grace went into the palace with His Majesty, and picked up the farmer's daughter Eva and the backyard maid Anna along the way.The elder brother received a dispatch order to the capital, and the younger brother was going back to the military academy to take the graduation exam.Grace's new father, the Marquis, was granted a room in the palace by His Majesty, and the Earl hooked up with the Marquis, and would follow him.So everyone will meet again in the capital~~

The following is the body:

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"In the king's palace,

The dining table is silver,

Knives and forks are gold. "

This is a nursery rhyme, Grace heard it sung by a shepherd boy near the mountain village.

But the truth is actually the other way around: the king's knife and fork are silver, and the table is gold.

In addition to the dining table, the king's desk, wardrobe, bedside, bed foot, bedside table, chair, washbasin, toilet, candlestick, doorknob, etc. are all gold, and even the stair railings are plated with gold.

All these were verified by Grace to His Majesty.His Majesty said that if gold were harder, the banisters would be gold instead of gilt.He also told Grace that gold is not the most valuable, and those gems set in gold are more valuable than gold.

The king's palace has a total of 320 rooms; the room in the main building where His Majesty lives is twice as high as the largest banquet hall in Ston Hill; the tapestry in the corridor is larger than the carpet in Ston Hill; The characters in the painting are taller than real people; the giant crystal chandelier is like water sloping down, as if the fountain built by the Earl of Arundel in front of Ston Hill was reversed and placed on the roof.

Grace believes that in some respects, royal palaces and churches are very similar. They are deliberately built very large, far beyond the size of normal human beings, so as to pretend that the people who live in them are much larger than ordinary people.

The architectural size of the royal palace is usually twice that of Stoneton House. If this is used as a standard, the ladies' dresses will be even better: their skirts are at least three times as wide as Mrs. Stonen's; The gemstones are also several times larger than those worn by Mrs. Stone; what surprised Grace most was the wigs of the ladies, which can reach up to half a meter, while Mrs. Stone has no wigs at all, and is far behind by the real ladies. later.In order to protect such a high wig, the carriage carriages of the ladies are also extraordinarily tall.But if they still want to put a peacock tail feather on their wigs and make themselves half a meter taller, they can only kneel in the carriage-it is a strange sight, and people can only see a part of it through the window of the carriage. A peacock's tail feathers stand on a tall wig, but no human head can be seen.

Grace said that the wives of the court like everything bigger and longer, the bigger and longer the better.Eva told him he couldn't talk like that, it would be mistaken for vulgarity.

This is really a worry, and the little mouths hidden behind the fans of the ladies are much more vulgar than Grace when they talk about such things.It's a pity that Eva was not eligible to attend the palace banquet, and couldn't hear those funny metaphors with her own ears, and Grace was too embarrassed to tell her.After all, Eva is a real girl, and a decent person.

There are so many good things in the palace, but not enough latrines.

This is something Grace never thought of.

He used to think he was the only one having trouble with the toilet.His mother, Mary, warned him many times when he was just sensible, try to use the potty in his own house to reduce the number of times he raised his skirt outside, because even the hut is not safe.

At Ston's Hill the servants' cottages were in the courtyard.In order to ensure ventilation, there are many gaps between the wooden boards on the four walls. If someone peeks from the outside, all the secrets can be seen.This sort of thing does happen, and Orisa was nearly spied on by a bricklayer in the backyard, but she caught it just in time and attracted a lot of people with her screams.

Alan Stone happened to be at home at the time, gave the bricklayer a good beating, and then kicked him out.Maybe, Grace thought later, that was when Orisa began to like Alan Stone.After all, the appearance of Alan Stone giving the bricklayer a whip is very majestic in the eyes of others, and love usually comes very hastily.

After His Majesty brought Grace into the palace, he did not allocate a room to him.He let Grace live in her own suite and allowed him to use the "little wardrobe" in the king's suite.

His Majesty's toilet is British, with a flushing function, and it is said that the Queen of England also uses it.His majesty's toilet is a beautiful chair after the lid is closed. Open the lid and you can see the thick velvet circular upholstery. The color will change according to the different days of the week.There is a shelf next to the toilet, which stores small pieces of soft cloth, much softer than the old newspapers Grace used to use, and has a scent.King Louis praised his habit of wiping up after every pee.

Because of this high-end toilet, Grace never thought that in such a luxurious palace, it would be difficult for many people to defecate.

A few days after they moved in, Anna said to him and Eva in a panic: "There are guards peeing in the corridor!"

Certainly not in the main building where the king lives.His Majesty loves cleanliness so much, so the places he sees must also be clean.

It was Anna who was looking for a place to dry clothes in the palace. After walking a little far, she saw a palace guard urinating against the corner of the wall.Eva went to see it again later, confirmed that Anna was right, and told Grace: "Don't go to the palace wing, where the end of the corridor and the bottom of the stairs are full of urine smell."

The three of them figured it out after a while, those people were trying to save money.Of course, not all rooms have a small wardrobe like His Majesty's suite, and most people can only go to the public toilet.There are special guards at the entrance of these public toilets, and each person who enters is charged one or two pounds, depending on the sanitary condition of the public toilets.

To save money for Grace, Anna and Eva would rather walk the extra mile and go to the cheaper one.But one pound is not a small amount, even half a month for an adult male worker cannot earn such money.Grace's annuity hadn't been approved yet, and he only had the reward money His Majesty gave him at the beginning, half of which was used to pay Anna and Eva's rent and daily necessities, and the other half was kept to pay for their public toilets.

In Grace's view, this is money that must be spent.

But others in the palace clearly don't think so.

The consternation over open defecation is far from over.Not long after that, Eva and Anna discovered that not only the guards and servants, but also the gentlemen and wives can pee everywhere!Grace once saw a lady squatting down as if no one else was there, blocking her view with her skirt. After she got up and left, there was a puddle of urine on the ground.

This discovery brought quite a shock to Grace.He imagined the process carefully, and felt that the lady's petticoat and the bottom flounce of the skirt would definitely be stained with urine!

Based on his experience in the laundry room, such a large skirt made of expensive fabric must be extremely difficult to wash, and the best water must be used.But the ladies are so stingy that spring-water sinks are more expensive, so their washermaids choose well-water sinks.

Absolutely not clean, Grace thought for sure, the well water could not maximize the effectiveness of the soap, and could hardly produce any suds.He finally understood why the wives used so much perfume, it must be to cover up the smell of urine on their bodies.

But after all, ladies who urinate everywhere are much more reserved than gentlemen who urinate everywhere.Men can pee anywhere, as long as there is a wall.This caused a lot of trouble for Anna and Eva, who always had to move around the palace, and they couldn't be as calm as the court maids.

And the ladies don't pee indoors that often anyway, they usually go to the garden.

Your Majesty has a vast and magnificent garden filled with rare plants that do not belong to this country, or even to Europe.In this garden, a random small corner is far better than the one carefully built by the Earl of Arundel in front of the villa.

Every day, countless garden workers hold huge garden shears, like a manservant trimming the sideburns of his master, and carefully cut off the newly emerging leaves from the spherical or cube-shaped crown.Each tree is trimmed into a very regular geometric shape, and the trees and flowers are connected together to form various line segments or arcs.If one stands on the second floor of the main building and looks down, one can see a huge and complex geometric figure, as well as a lady who urinates at the junction of the straight line and the arc.

The ladies wore high wigs, their upper bodies were motionless, but they were able to keep moving forward at an even and slow speed.This tempts people to imagine that under their skirts, under the huge semicircle, there must be two bare legs hidden, just like the two webs of a swan hidden under the water, paddling deftly, leading Mrs. Their unbending upper bodies gracefully shuttle between the green trees.

When she came to the corner of the hedge, she would suddenly drop her body, and the skirt touched the ground, and the bright ruffles spread around, like mushrooms unfolding their caps, except that the stipe grew to the top.The brightly colored mushrooms are usually poisonous, Sophie said.

These are the initial impressions of Grace from the court.

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It seems that many readers did not see the previous notice, so I will update a chapter first to prove that I am not running away, please rest assured, and save everyone from always coming here for nothing.The official recovery update is 5.31. Originally, it was supposed to be completed, but it is not likely to work, so I will write as much as I want, and I don’t want to delay it for too long.

In this chapter, the introduction of new maps is secondary, mainly to show that Grace’s personal hygiene is far better than the average level of the same period... Because this article is based on the French Revolution, this palace was built in imitation of Versailles, and then Versailles And it’s particularly smelly... I think it must be written clearly, otherwise I always feel that the screen smells when I type...