18 Chapter 18 Catching Worms
Anyway, no matter what, Su Yi was dragged to Baoxia again as if he was being held at the end of a gun.
The Hall of Cultivation of the Heart is really a place where rules and regulations are observed. The emperor is doing business inside and people are coming and going outside, but not a single footstep is left behind. The servants in front of the emperor are all the best from a hundred, and even the ones who serve tea and water are of high grade. A long life is on the side.
He said, "Those who can enter the Cultivation Heart Gate are only one step away from being successful. Girl, be well. My father-in-law will take up his post in two days. I beg you to be kind and move you to the front. When you get here, your waist will be strong.
That’s gross. Even if I leave the palace to have a son-in-law in the future, and people ask, ‘What is this girl’s background?’, I will say, ‘I’ve been praised by the Dragon Court, and served by the Long Live Lord’. Look, how open and honorable you are when you go out!”
He always had no choice but to agree, and after a pause he said, "I have dignity, but Lord Long Live doesn't want to see me, and Shuda also knows it. Why should I go to the imperial court? Lord Long Live sees me angry all day long, I'm afraid
Before leaving the palace, he died in the service of Shen Xingsi."
Chang Manshou coughed and said, "Looking at your modesty, I know that you are not a careless person. There are a lot of odd jobs before the emperor, this and that. In addition, there are two more important officials next year.
Go out, there happens to be a vacancy. You come in first and work piecemeal, and when the time comes, you go up to fill the vacancy, and we work together."
I always shook my head, because serving a long-lived master is different from serving a concubine. Between women, some personal tasks are convenient, and although there are many rules, they are not taboo. How can the male master take care of him? He can't get close to her, but he still has to take care of it.
It's a shame that she had to keep her eyes closed and not look around. After staying in Shangyi Bureau for seven or eight years, she had already adapted to the regulations there. When she tried to learn it again, she was really tired and unwilling.
It doesn't make sense to live a long life, and I get angry when I'm anxious, "Girl, I'm really disappointed, I'm so demotivated! Who doesn't work hard to climb high these days? Do you still need me to teach you the truth? As the saying goes, if you have money,
Don't make money, bastard, it means the same thing. Does the girl understand people, so she just missed out on good luck? Next time someone comes to visit you at home, ask them whether they are aiming for a career in the future, or are you just letting your hard work in the past few years faze you?
Piao. If you do as I say, it’s not impossible to have a Beizi Baylor in the future once you’ve done it, just think about it!”
How could he be so sure that she would have a future in the imperial court? Su Yi smiled and didn't ask too much. When he asked, he always came up with something wrong.
While she was talking, a female officer next to her looked at her with good eyes for a long time. After a while, she came over to chat with her, "I think you look very familiar. Are you familiar with it?"
Su Yi said, "I am." He looked at her under the lantern light. The female officer's face was full of moonlight, and her eyebrows were particularly black, like two blue dragon swords that cut the moon. She was searching for memories. If anyone could call her by name, they must have been there long ago.
We knew each other. But she had an old problem and couldn't remember her.
She twisted her handkerchief in embarrassment, "Look at my memory! Are you..."
The female officer covered her mouth and smiled, "I don't blame you for not remembering it. We haven't seen each other for several years. My name is Na Zhen, and I chose the maid to enter the palace with you. On the day when we left the sign, we were in the same group. Later, we entered the palace.
Shangyi Bureau, you are with Grasshopper, and I am with Da Meizi. Our rooms are not far apart, and he is only separated by two rooms."
Su Yi said in a long voice, "It's Na Zhen, I remembered it!" They held hands in a warm and affectionate manner, "You've come to the imperial court? Okay?"
"Everything is fine." Nazhen smiled and patted the back of her hand, "I still have this problem of not forgetting people. We were so good at the beginning, but now I have been forgotten."
I have always met old acquaintances, and now that I am in such a situation, I feel embarrassed and squeamish, "I just follow my grandma, and it has been passed down from generation to generation and I don't recognize anyone. It's quite helpless."
"That's good, we always recognize each other." Nazhen joked and glanced at Chang Manshou, "Isn't Shuda on duty at Yuehua Gate? Why are you here?"
The man who has lived a long life, with his fat head and big ears, sighed, "Some people don't like it when they see me resting!"
Nazhen smiled, and La Suyi came to the side and said, "Are you still working in the bureau?"
Su Yi blushed, "I've been hanging around there for the past few years, and now even my gang has gone astray. Look, I bumped into the Long Live Lord twice and was punished by the bell in front of the Qianqing Palace! Don't laugh at me, I don't have the luck to get promoted."
Na Zhen pushed her and said, "We have been friends in the early years, who is laughing at the other! But I also heard about it vaguely, and it was not very pleasant to hear it behind my back."
The head who always accepts his fate said, "I could have expected that most of them would rush to show their faces and so on. In fact, I really can't do it. I will be out of the palace next year, so why do I do this?" She is not a carefree person, as long as she doesn't act like her. She poked her nose in the face and scolded her, but she could vaguely explain everything. She asked Nazhen again, "Which position do you hold in the imperial court?"
Na Zhen, "On the tea table. There are many eunuchs in front of the Long Live Lord, and the only female official is the accountant. The secretary also has the tea table. I just heard about the vacancy of the second steward and you. What? I want to move you forward." group?"
Su Yi shook his head like a rattle, "This is going to kill me! You sent me this job a few years ago, it was a matter of honoring your ancestors. Now... I am so old, and I have only been serving for one year. Why bother going back and forth! I am the foreman and the second manager, Long live the Lord looks down on me, and every time he cares about my head, I am almost frightened to death, and even poke that gray hole!"
Na Zhen laughed, "Why! It's a good thing for me to be able to fill it up. It's like a lion at the door. It doesn't matter whether it's copper or iron. If it's gilded with a layer of gold, the value will naturally be different. Is there any marriage in the family? ?”
Su Yi said, "I, Eni, came to see me last time and mentioned it in passing. People came to inquire about making a decision, but our family didn't agree. I'm still in the palace, so what does it mean to make a decision now? It's my Amma's. It means that if the other party is willing to wait, then move it back a year. If you can't wait, no one will be owed anything without delay."
Na Zhen, the experienced leader, said, "You have a lot of foresight. Maybe Long live the Lord will take a fancy to you before leaving the palace, and the marriage in your family will be ruined. It's not kind to make people wait for a year in vain, isn't it?" "
Su Yiyi grinned, "Think of it like this. If you are hanging around under my nose every day, Long Live the Lord will probably look at you differently!"
"It's not a big deal. Long live the Lord, I haven't even looked at you since I've been here for two years." Na Zhen held her chest and pretended, "My heart..."
The two girls laughed together. At this time, Rong Shou stood at the other end of the rolling shed and said, "What are you talking about? It's so successful! Don't forget the business, let's go get some tea!"
Nazhen snorted and hurriedly turned into the tea room to get tea and mix it with water. Rongshou staggered away again. Nazhen came out with a lacquer tray. Chang Manshou took it and put it in Su Yi's hand. Nuzui said, "You go."
He was always dumbfounded and said, "Shuida, this is Na Zhen's errand."
Chang Manshou smacked his lips and said, "Don't be nagging, just go if I ask you to go. Na Zhen's errand will not be short. If you send her tea, can you still support her job?"
Always in a dilemma, she really didn't want to enter the Yangxin Palace again. Changmanshou's doing so was too conspicuous, what would the Long Live Lord think? She hesitated, "Shuida, I'm afraid."
"What are you afraid of? Lord Long Live the Lord can eat you? Don't worry, our master is a gentleman, and he won't do that dirty deed of touching hands and pinching the buttocks." He chuckled and changed the topic, "I really want to be called Lord Long Live
If you treat us like this, it will be like wormwood growing on your ancestral graves, and it will be a good thing that you cannot ask for in eight lifetimes! Why are you still dawdling? Go quickly!"
"What should I do if Master Long Live asks about Na Zhenlai? I...don't make it difficult for me, can you?" She has been walking for so many years, and everyone in the palace knows that when the real master is here, she steals people's errands, which makes others feel bad.
What does it feel like?
Na Zhen was quite generous, "I'm sick, even if I have a stomachache, the second manager asked you to take care of me."
Chang Manshou glanced at Na Zhen, and it turned out that no one in front of him was a bad boy. He was not satisfied that he had been replaced, and it was not obvious, so he could just kick him in secret. He just pretended not to notice, "Then then
Do what she does, and if Long live the Lord asks, you will be in trouble with Nazhen. Hurry, the master is waiting for tea!"
I had no choice but to stroke the velvet flowers on my hair, sweep my robes, and head towards the main hall with my head held high.
It was already midnight, and when she stepped out into the open air, the fog was so heavy that she couldn't see anyone face to face. She went up to Danbi, protecting the tea basket in her hand. A row of palace lanterns hung under the corridor of Yangxin Hall, illuminating the eaves and seal paintings brilliantly.
Confused. She didn't have time to appreciate it, so she stretched out her hand to push the Linghua door. The door mortar opened slightly, she turned slightly sideways and squeezed in.
The emperor was still sitting behind the imperial desk. He looked in good spirits and did not look sluggish. He took a breath and went over, put the cold tea on the desk back into the tray, replaced it with a cup and refilled the water. These waiters
Everyone in the Shangyi Bureau has mastered the rules, so it's not difficult to use them now.
From the corner of his eye, the emperor caught a glimpse of a pair of unfamiliar hands. The fingertips were slender and nimble. They were lined with red-glazed porcelain with golden dragons, and there was a clear and startling beauty. The fingernails were full and round, with a faint luster under the lamp. What a pity.
There is a blood stasis on the ring finger, which spreads upward from the crescent mark and occupies most of the nail surface.
"What happened to your finger?" he asked. "Did it get hurt today?"
Su Yi was stunned, but she didn't expect that the emperor would talk to her, so she hurriedly replied, "I'm not talking about today, Long Live the Lord. I went to the father-in-law's house for funeral the day before. At night, I was anxious to move a stool to perform rituals. The person underneath looked like a headless person."
Like a fly, it hit my hand in the confusion."
Her voice was light and she was very disapproving. Anyone who had felt pain knew it. Even the concubines in the palace would come to him to complain. For the same woman, she was very resistant to being beaten.
"Have you punished those people?" She was from outside the house, and when she came to give orders to other people's houses, those unruly slaves were naturally unconvinced, or it was not necessarily that they meant to intimidate her.
Su Yi pursed his lips and smiled, "How to punish me? I didn't mean to do it on purpose. Besides, I was sent there by Ouchi, so I would show my teeth and claws for such a thing. I am so angry behind my back that I even lose face in the palace."
I don’t know if these words were intentional or not, but they always gave people a vague sense of irony. The emperor remained silent and raised his eyes to look at her. Was she planning to use her poverty and generosity to set off his carelessness?
Chapter completed!