It took a few days for Xiaohua to know where she was now.
This is Jingzhou. They are in Jingwang's mansion at this time, and they are a new batch of servants from Jingwang's mansion.
Jingzhou is the fief of King Jing, King Jing is the fifth son of today's sage, King Feng Jing. The palace servants used by the palace could have been recruited from the people, but King Jing was sympathetic to the people under his rule, so he abolished this edict and bought them from the people instead.
For Jingzhou, Xiaohua's mind has almost no influence, and it is not clear in which direction. It's just that when I was a little girl before, I vaguely heard others say that it seems that it is far away from the capital, and it is a place of bitter cold.
As soon as it comes, it is safe, and the current Xiaohua can only think so.
The rules here in King Jing's Mansion are very strict, and the group of little girls who just came in have not yet been able to step out of the Disciplinary Division.
The Disciplinary Division is also the big yard where Xiaohua and the others are currently active. It is said that this place is specially used to train little girls who have just entered the mansion.
It was very hard when the Disciplinary Division was trained, but the houses and meals for the people here are quite good. Even the changed clothes were distributed twice, from the inside to the outside, and the bedding was new.
There were four little girls in one room, and the room was very small, so there were four plank beds and one cabinet for each person. But compared to sleeping in Datongpu, I don't know where it is better.
It is worth mentioning that Xiaohua happened to be in the same room with Xier, and there were two little girls of the same age as them. One of them is called Xiuyun, and the other is that little girl with a face that always loves to scoff at others, called Qiaolian.
There were four people in the room, except Xiuyun fifteen, the other three were fourteen years old.
There are four people and four personalities. Xiaohua and Xiuyun are the kind of people who don't like to talk very much. Xiaohua is too lazy to talk, and Xiuyun is quiet by nature, but she is usually able to endure hardships, unlike Xier and Qiaolian, who come back from training every night. They will all cry.
Qiao Lian is still the arrogant old man who loves to laugh at others. Xi'er has a lot of words and does not hold grudges. She is always blocked by Qiao Lian and her eyes are red, but when she turns her head, she continues to talk to Qiao Lian as if nothing happened. .
After being chatted around for a long time, Xiaohua felt that she still liked the little girl Xi'er. Without him, I just feel that this person is very simple, and he can't hide his expression or words in his stomach.
Learning the rules is a very hard thing, even if Xiaohua has been a servant girl in her entire life, she has never been trained so strictly.
Lifting the basin is the first step, that is, an empty wooden basin is half raised with both hands.
It's easy to say, but it's actually hard. Because you can't put it down if you lift it, but you have to lift it for a full half an hour.
This is just the beginning. After two days of practice, the empty basin is filled with water. At first, it is only a small half basin of water, and then half a basin of water. Many people couldn't hold it any longer when they held it, and then splashed water all over their bodies.
Clothes are not allowed to be changed if they are wet. If you continue to lift them, you must wait until the specified time before you can put them down.
After a few days, everyone started screaming and screaming. Especially after training, the arm was already sore the first day, and the next day, if you couldn't rest, you had to lift the basin. It was torture.
The oldest of this group of little girls is no more than sixteen, and the youngest is only thirteen. How can they endure such strict training, many people will cry secretly when they go back to the house at night.
But I couldn't stop training even if I cried, and so many little girls who didn't listen were taken away.
It is said that they were sent back to Renyazi, and they were all taken out of Renyazi's hands. It was difficult to spread out such a good place. The food and accommodation were good, but the training was harder, and everyone gritted their teeth and insisted.
Every morning, I will train the rules, and I will be responsible for the school rules in the afternoon. After learning, you can move freely. At this time, everyone is usually tired and paralyzed, and they will go back to their rooms to rest.
Xiaohua rubbed her arms and walked into the room, along with three other people in the same room.
The four of them were lying on their own beds, and they didn't even have the strength to speak.
Xiaohua gently pressed her forearm with her hand, and found that the muscles inside were extremely stiff, and it hurt a lot when she pinched it, but Xiaohua still kneaded gently with her hands. Her past experience told her that if she doesn't care about it at this time, it will be tomorrow. It hurts more when you train.
After biting her teeth and kneading her stiff arms, Xiao Hua sighed in relief and lay down on her bed.
After resting for almost half an hour, everyone in the room got up one after another. Being trained so regularly every day, now they don't have to look at the sky outside to know it's time for dinner.
After a few people came back from dinner, they washed up and fell asleep, because they have to get up early for training tomorrow.
Aunt Qi, who was in charge of training them, seemed to feel that the training was too strict in the past few days, and the mood of the new group of little girls was a little low. After the day's training, they didn't let them go, but stayed and said something.
"After these days, I believe you already know where this place is. As an errand in our King Jing's Mansion, although the rules are strict and there are many taboos, there are also many benefits. Being eligible to enter the mansion, not only is there a monthly payment of money, Four seasons clothes are also indispensable. In addition, when you are working in the palace, you don’t need to worry about redeeming yourself in the future. The rule of our palace is that the palace people will release the palace when they are 25 years old. The most important thing is to eliminate the slave registration for the palace servants who do not have household registration to settle in Jingzhou."
Aunt Qi paused and said, "Maybe you don't understand what I'm talking about now, but I believe you will understand in the future. Now, everyone can go to rest."
The people below dispersed, Aunt Qi said too deep, these little girls didn't take it to heart, but Xiao Hua was shocked.
What Aunt Qi said, forget about the previous ones. After all, wealthier families have similar benefits. What impresses her the most is the last two, one is arranging settlement, and the other is eliminating slave status.
There are two types of slaves in the Daxi Dynasty, one is official slave and the other is private slave, like Xiaohua is a private slave. Private slaves follow the masters and belong to the family. They have no household registration and are classified as one of the cheap registrations.
According to the imperial law of Daxi, if the slaves and servants flee, according to the law, they will be punished with sixty sticks for one day for fleeing, and one grade for the crime of fleeing for three days. The slaves and servants beat their masters, whether they are injured or not, and they will be beheaded. Master, hang. If the low-ranking member beats the good-looking member, he will be sentenced to hanging, and if the victim is beaten to death, he will be beheaded. And the good ones beat the low ones, and the crime is reduced first. And cheap membership belongs to the hereditary system. Once you enter the cheap membership, unless the powerful family helps to get rid of the membership, or the descendants will be the low membership...
It was enough to see how inhumane it was for those who belonged to the lowly family in the Daxi Dynasty, and the slaves were still the lowest among the lowly families.
The good and the cheap are not allowed to intermarry, and this alone will kill the 'future' of the slaves. Even if he was a messenger in the government and was released when he was old, he could only find a man who was also a cheap man to marry, and if he had descendants in the future, he would also be a cheap man.
Even if Xiaohua became a concubine in her last life, she was still ignorant and didn't understand this at all, until Mrs. Qiao once spit at her and said that she could not get rid of the low-ranking servant in her life. She just started to pay attention to these kinds of things, and she was shocked when she found out. Her father was just for a few taels of silver, and she never thought or imagined that this sale pushed her daughter into a bottomless abyss.
After learning the details, Xiaohua thought about it, and repeatedly pleaded with the fourth young master to ask him to help him eliminate her membership. She didn't know why she failed until she was killed by a cane in her previous life.
The biggest reason why Xiaohua has been at a loss when she came back to life is because of her low status.
This is also the reason why she never thought of running away. If a slave does not have a household registration or a low registration, let's not talk about the fate of a fugitive slave who is caught and how to make a living outside. Without a household registration, it is impossible to walk outside.
Under the Daxi Dynasty, the people were very strict. Those who were far away from the place where they lived must need Lu Yin as proof of identity. A person who does not even have a household registration, where to find directions. If there is no way to guide him, he will be caught, and if he is found to be a fugitive slave, he will die.
However, the kindness of King Jing's mansion to the servants in the mansion gave Xiaohua hope. Maybe in the near future, she can be released from the mansion when she is old, and she can even leave her slave status and find someone to marry...
Of course, this is all in the future. What Xiaohua has to do now is to be qualified and stay.
In the past few days when she came to the Disciplinary Division, Xiaohua also secretly observed the situation here.
The little girls in the same batch all wear the same clothes and eat the same meal, but one or two will always be taken away for various reasons. Up to now, there are only forty little girls in the same batch, and now there are only one or two left. Twenty or so.
Xiaohua didn't know what it was to be considered qualified, she could only persevere until the end.
So since then, she has always studied the rules with heart, never complained or complained, and honestly rarely told the truth, for fear of being kicked out if she failed. As for the other three people in the same room, Xiuyun, like her, seldom speaks and does nothing, but Qiaolian and Xi'er seem to be a little more detached. However, although they jumped out of the way, the two of them learned the rules very carefully.
After the pot lift is training to walk.
Maybe others will say that who can't walk when they are born, they can do it when they are one or two years old. Including Xiaohua's two lifetimes combined, Jinyang Houfu, the most wealthy family in the main family, has never been so strict with the servants. But Aunt Qi, the steward, said to learn, so everyone must learn.
Not only is she graceful in appearance, not in a hurry, but also in order to train everyone to walk, Aunt Qi also ordered people to prepare a special iron plate. The size is larger than the head, the body is very shallow, and it is filled with water. Let everyone practice on the head every day until the body is not tilted and the water does not splash.
So following the unbearable pain in the arms after lifting the basin, everyone's neck and waist were also tortured.
It wasn't until a long time later that Xiaohua knew that several aunts in charge of King Jing's mansion came out of the palace. Usually, the palace servants who are under the training are also trained in the same way as the palace maids, which is why they are so strict.