Chapter 10 The Little Maid
In early February of the seventh year of Qianlong's reign, Wei Ning'er and others entered the palace after being reviewed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At this time, Wei Ning'er was less than fifteen years old.
Due to the lack of manpower in the palace, Wei Ning'er and others did not undergo very strict training. Only two months later, aunts from various palaces came to the palace to select.
Aunt Huiyue looked at the nearly a hundred new palace maids in front of her and said loudly: "Today, the aunts in each palace are short of people. The aunts will come to pick people. You all should be careful and smart, and the remaining ones will be picked.
It's time to do rough work. If you find a good place to go, you must also remember your aunt's goodness. In the past two months, I have never treated you badly. Even if you do something wrong, I have not punished you. This is to pity you, remember?"
"Yes, I have remembered it!" Everyone bowed slightly and said.
"Yes!" Aunt Huiyue was very satisfied. Although the teaching time of this year's palace maids was much shorter than in previous years, they were all smart girls, and they were all tall and graceful. She was an old man in the palace.
He is an extremely accurate judge of people. If he treats these maids harshly, one day one of these maids will fly up a branch and become his master. Then she will be the one to suffer, so why bother asking for it?
Wei Ning'er stood there quietly. In the past two months, she had carefully studied everything her aunt taught her, just so that she could live a better life in this palace in the future and avoid being found by mistake and losing her life.
The palace maids are no more open and secret than the show ladies. They all serve others, and since they have just entered the palace, they are all cautious. Therefore, they have been getting along well with each other these days. Although Wei Ning'er has not made friends with them, she has not offended anyone.
The rules in the palace are very strict, and there are regulations on behavior and clothing. No eyebrows or temples are allowed to be painted, and no bright red or green colors are allowed. Clothes are awarded by the palace throughout the year. Bottom coat, middle coat, outer coat, vest, etc.
One set, the clothes are made of spring silk, mostly Ning silk, and some are made of spun silk in summer. In addition to wearing red, rouge, and red lips during the Wanshou month, two colors of clothes are worn throughout the year, green and purple-brown.
In spring and summer, you can choose green, light green, dark green, and old green, but you can't go out of style; in autumn and winter, it is purple-brown. The only thing that can compete is the embroidery on the cuffs, collars, trousers, and shoe uppers, but it is also the same.
Mainly be elegant and light, don't go too far.
The palace maids all wear big black braids. The roots of the braids are tied with two-inch long red velvet ropes. The ends of the braids are tied with pink ties. The braids are left with one-inch long braids. They are combed evenly with a comb, fluffy, and worn on the temples.
A velvet flower, white damask socks under her feet, and green shoes embroidered with light floral flowers all over.
These are limited to ordinary palace maids. It would naturally be different if they were the aunts and ladies around the master.
It was already April, and the weather was getting hotter and hotter. Everyone stood in the courtyard for a full hour but no one from the various palaces came. Sweat was gradually dripping from their foreheads, and even Aunt Huiyue had some sweat on her face.
With a hint of impatience, she turned slightly sideways and whispered to the little palace maid next to her: "Go and have a look!".
"Yes!" The little palace maid took the order and walked out. After a while, she hurried over.
"Auntie, someone is coming!"
"Well!" Aunt Huiyue nodded slightly, glanced at everyone, and said softly: "Remember what I just said, what happens next depends on your luck!"
"Yes!" everyone responded in unison.
After a while, eunuchs led the ladies and aunts in charge of each palace to come.
Wei Ning'er and others, at Aunt Huiyue's signal, greeted everyone.
"Aunt Qiu is well!" Aunt Huiyue blessed the old lady in charge with a flattering smile on her face. This Aunt Qiu is the steward of Cining Palace and the old man next to the Queen Mother. She
Of course you have to be careful.
"Yeah!" Aunt Qiu nodded slightly, then glanced at everyone and said to Aunt Huiyue: "You trained me, so it's natural that you are wrong."
After saying that, Aunt Huiyue picked two girls who looked very smart and said, "You two, come with me to Cining Palace!"
The two little palace ladies who were selected were slightly stunned. It was a great blessing to be able to serve in Cining Palace. They never imagined that they would be so lucky. After being surprised, they thanked Aunt Qiu and resigned under the envy of everyone.
I left Aunt Huiyue and followed Aunt Qiu.
After Aunt Qiu left, the aunts from the palace who came with her breathed a sigh of relief. They did not dare to be presumptuous in front of Aunt Qiu, but as soon as Aunt Qiu left, no one had any scruples.
Seeing the ill-intentioned looks of the dozen or so aunts in front of them, the maids stood there cautiously.
"Huiyue, please tell me, among these little palace maids, are there any outstanding ones? We, the imperial concubine, happen to have a few smart girls beside us!" Aunt Fuliu from Chengqian Palace took a step forward and glanced at Wei Ning'er and others.
Then he smiled at Hui Yue beside him.
"Huiyue, our pure concubine is also short of a few people. I think this is good, and this, and this... you all come with me!" Lan Xin from Zhongcui Palace took the lead in choosing someone,
Will be taken away.
"Wait a minute!" Fuliu's face changed slightly, he stopped Lan Xin, and sneered at the few maids she had selected: "From now on, you guys will be the people around our imperial concubine, follow me.
Let's do it." Fuliu said, looking at Lan Xin, whose face was ashen, and said softly: "Thank you, sister, for choosing a few sweet people for my sister. I will definitely tell the imperial concubine to reward my sister!"
"You... Fuliu, don't be presumptuous just because he is the person next to the imperial concubine. I chose this person first. If you want to take him away, then follow me to Zhongcui Palace to report to my imperial concubine." Lan's heart sank.
Come on.
"The harem has always had a clear distinction between superiority and inferiority, Lan Xin, I think you are the one who is presumptuous! Our empress is a noble concubine!" Fuliu looked at her coldly, and was about to have a fit when an idea flashed in his mind, and then he smiled and said: "Since you like them
, then I’ll leave it to you!”
Lan Xin never expected that Fuliu would give someone to her. She thought to herself, maybe there are spies planted by her among these palace maids. Thinking of this, Lan Xin smiled and said: "Sister, you're welcome. I see these slaves."
You are so stupid, you might as well send him to Xinzheku!"
The palace maids who saw that they were actually being fought over by two aunts were slightly happy before, but now their faces turned pale. They immediately knelt down and said with a trembling voice: "Please spare me, my aunt!"
Lan Xin looked at the few people as if looking at a few little ants, and became slightly impatient: "Huiyue, you haven't sent these stupid servants away yet, they are really an eyesore!"
"Yes!" Aunt Huiyue didn't dare to offend her, so she immediately asked the little eunuch behind her to pull them away.
Wei Ning'er stood a little back. She was originally worried that she would not have a chance to be selected and would be sent to do menial work in the end, but now she was a little lucky. Doing menial work was better than being sent to Xinzheku, which was the hardest place in the palace.
Chapter completed!