"Madam, would you like to go to the kang and rest for a while? The kang is always warmer than the chair." Lilac's voice broke Xiao Hua's contemplation.
There are no earth dragons in Xiaohua's house, unlike the earth dragons that burn every day in Jingtai Hall. But there is Ondol, and there is also a charcoal pot burning in the house, which can be considered relatively warm.
Xiaohua nodded, and went to sit on the heated kang under the west window.
Lilac's hands and feet are very neat, she put a pillow behind Xiaohua, took a thin mattress to cover her legs, and put tea cups and snacks on the kang table.
Being served like this for the past two days, Xiaohua felt like she was useless.
But she did not refuse. She was served by others in her previous life. When she was still 'Hua Niang', she also had two little girls by her side.
And Xiaohua also understands that being served is not just for enjoyment, but also a symbol of status. Although it is a bit ridiculous for a concubine of the lowest level to say that her identity is a bit ridiculous, but this is the difference between a master and a slave.
With the same identity, others will be served by slaves. If you don't have them, not only will the other party look down on you, but the slaves below will also say that you are a little arrogant. The end of being unbearable is that no one respects you, and no one will respect you, it will only lead to a vicious circle, so Xiaohua will be a little unaccustomed to it, but she will not raise any objections.
Lilac herself was sitting on the foot of Xiaohua's feet, doing needlework in her hands, and talking to Xiaohua with a few words in her mouth.
Lilac is a strange palace servant, which Xiaohua discovered by herself in the past two days.
Her words are few, but every word she utters has a purpose.
Maybe Xiaohua didn't understand what she meant when she said this at first, but after listening for a while, she knew that she was actually spreading some things about this mansion to her, and sometimes she would give her some rules.
Moreover, Lilac is very capable. In the past two days, she has arranged everything in the yard. The division of labor in the palace below is also excellent, and Xiaohua has almost nothing to worry about.
Like this time, Lilac was talking about some things in the East Third Hospital of Fuli. It seemed to be very loose, but Xiaohua also learned that Princess Jing was not in good health, and half of the year was bedridden. . Those of them who are going to greet him are not the ones who can see Princess Jing every day, but even Concubine Qiao will go every day, after all, this is the rule.
rule? Xiaohua understands.
Leaning on the heated kang, Xiaohua felt sleepy after a while. Lilac saw her yawning, so she got up again and took out a thick blanket and put it on Xiaohua.
Xiaohua leaned against the throw pillow, covered with a blanket, and fell asleep after a while.
When she woke up in the middle of the afternoon, Xiaohua opened her eyes and saw that Lilac was still sitting there doing needlework. She couldn't help but say, "How long have you been doing needlework, Lilac, it hurts your eyes after a long time."
Lilac put down the things in her hand and smiled, "Not long after, the slave wants to bring out a cloak for Madam. In this snowy day, I will go to the princess to greet her, it will be very cold without big clothes."
Xiaohua used to go out of Jingtai Hall, so it's okay to wear some old clothes in the house, but it will be very cold when you go out. Xiaohua saw Lilac making this flannel in her hand the day before yesterday, but she didn't expect to make her a cloak to keep out the cold so early.
"Don't always do it yourself, let them help you do it for a while to see who is good at sewing."
"It's okay, it's easy to do, and it's almost done. Ding Lan and the others are also busy. Madam doesn't have much clothes, and the fabrics sent are to be made in a hurry."
Xiaohua was puzzled for a moment, but immediately understood.
Her clothes were all purchased in the Jingtai Hall. They looked good, but they were actually quite different from other King Jing's wives and concubines in the mansion. It can be seen from the day of the New Year's Eve that Princess Jing and Qiao Fang were not mentioned. Concubine, the two jade ladies alone are a lot better than her. In the past, I was a small palace person, but I didn't stick to these things. Now that I changed my identity, I had to change to dress and dress that matched my 'identity'.
Lilac was quiet for a while, and then cautiously said to Xiaohua: "It's just that the time is too urgent, and it may not be in time for tomorrow. Only this cloak can be worn tomorrow."
Xiaohua smiled and said, "It's okay, I don't pay attention to this."
Lilac didn't speak anymore, but Xiaohua understood what she meant.
Where there are more women, there are more right and wrong, and most of the women in the backyard are also vain. If you dress more gorgeously, others will look at you highly; if you dress too crudely, you will be ridiculed and despised. Xiaohua has seen too many such things in her last life, and a piece of jewelry and a piece of clothing will cause a lot of topics.
After returning to life, Xiaohua once analyzed this situation, but most of the women in the backyard are very idle, and they are the same man. Everyone is nitpicking, and if they catch something bad, they want to trample people to death.
You are not angry, others are happy, but when you are angry, others just get their wish. Most of the disputes in the backyard come from this way. There is only so much love and jealousy. If you have more points, others will lose one point. Isn’t it a fight to the death when you get the chance? !
Unexpectedly, in two lifetimes, the environment is different, and the situation is similar, and tomorrow will be her official entry into the backyard of King Jing's mansion.
Will I continue to fight in the future, I don't know if I can say no.
Xiaohua knows that this kind of thinking of hers is a bit nonsense. Just based on the attitude of Princess Jing that she has analyzed in the past few days, she is a little bit on the edge. As for the other three, she doesn't understand, but she can know that there will be one tomorrow. A tough battle is to be fought.
Hope you can handle it well tomorrow.
Thinking of this, Xiaohua sighed again.
Lilac sitting below heard this sigh, her eyes flashed, but she did not speak.
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King Jing has been very busy these days, and he did not take time off because it was a big New Year's Eve.
Daheishan reported it and arrested two spies. King Jing attached great importance to that place, so the news was not delayed because it was Chinese New Year.
Only then did King Jing realize that his fief still had people inserted from elsewhere. It had been calm before, but this time, just because of a trace of strangeness, the fish on the bottom of the water would be blown up.
Those two were dead men, and they committed suicide after being caught.
The situation was a bit grim, and King Jing began to investigate it below.
He was not annoyed by this situation. It was better to leak it out earlier than to hide it all the time, so that he could be prepared to take precautions.
Huang Tan was King Jing's staff and worked as a professor in King Jing's mansion. The professor is the last official of the ninth grade under the Changshi Division. There is no fixed number of staff. He is responsible for teaching the education of the feudal prince and his children. That said, it's actually a human aspect. Generally, the professors in the vassal king's mansion are the personal staff of the vassal king, assisting the vassal king to make suggestions.
Huang Tan is more than fifty years old, and he has never met his talents in the first half of his life. He is said to be a scholar, but he has never been a scholar. After many years of mediocrity, I finally realized that I am not good at formal articles. I am extremely smart, but I am good at trickery, so I found a way to be a master and a counselor.
It's a pity that a master also needs to be qualified. How could someone who is not even a scholar find someone like this to be his master. Reluctantly to find the main family, they are all low-ranking petty officials.
Huang Tan has ambitions, and is naturally unwilling to be so mediocre. By a chance, he was recruited by King Jing to come to King Jing's mansion.
At that time, not long after King Jing arrived in Jingzhou, although he was enlightened, he did not know where to start because he had never touched these things in his previous life. I got Huang Tan by chance. At first, I didn't pay much attention to him. I just reported the idea of learning some common things with him.
I have to say that King Jing and Huang Tan have learned a lot. Although King Jing did not understand these things, he still had some confidence in seeing people. At the beginning of Jingzhou, many political changes were carried out under the advice and guidance of Huang Tan.
After getting along for a few years, King Jing also understood that Huang Tan was a man of great wisdom, and naturally sighed that others had no discerning eyes.
From the first teaching together, to many things later, King Jing himself has mastered and even surpassed the blue. In just a few years, until now, many times King Jing no longer needs Huang Tan to advise him.
And Huang Tan sighed that King Jing's talent and intelligence were easy to pass, and he also changed his position, that is, to help King Jing share some hidden affairs that he had no time to take care of.
If a counselor wants to live long, he must have self-knowledge. When the master needs it, he can give advice in a timely manner, and when the master does not need it, he must be an invisible person.
These are all Huang Tan's experience in the early days of wandering around as a master and counselor, but it is not common to King Jing.
Having been with King Jing for several years, being both a teacher and a friend, Huang Tan still understands King Jing's character somewhat.
King Jing is a very complicated person, simple yet complicated.
Said he was simple, because King Jing was a simple-minded person, and he would not be suspicious like some people, and he never hid some points in employing people. It is said that he is complicated, but after some of his guidance, King Jing came up with many things at his fingertips. Although the route of his moves is strange, the effect is the same. People are stunned every time, but they have to sigh that King Jing is a wise man.
In fact, seriously, up to now, Huang Tan does not dare to say that he really understands King Jing.
Huang Tan did not know about the Daheishan silver mine this time. It was not until King Jing received the news that two dead scouts had been arrested, and he needed to start the investigation. King Jing informed Huang Tan about the matter and agreed Let him be responsible for assisting the actions of the people below.
People with complicated minds will definitely think that King Jing hid a few hands and guarded himself. Huang Tan is also a complicated person, but through his own cognitive analysis in recent years, he has come to a very speechless conclusion, that is, King Jing didn't think this matter needs to be told to him at first. A silver mine, although it will be of great help to him in the future, is not something that he takes too seriously, as long as it is hidden in secret and not leaked. And the reason why I tell him now is that the idea is very simple, that is, King Jing himself has no time to devote too much attention to dealing with it and let him do it.
Huang Tan, who came to this conclusion, was not surprised, because after dealing with him for several years, Huang Tan already understood that King Jing was a person who did not play cards according to the rules of cards and was a little different from ordinary people.
Huang Tan moved quickly, and after being dispatched by King Jing and his subordinates, he investigated and confirmed it in various places, and analyzed and obtained a result that is closest to the truth, that is, the spy is neither from the capital, nor from Jinzhou Qi. The people on the other side of the state, but the people who live adjacent to Yunzhou King Yun.
King Yun Luo Huaiyuan is the fourth prince today, ranking higher than King Jing, but he was born in the same year as King Jing. The matriarch is not prominent, even lowly. King Jing's mother-in-law was first a talented person and then a concubine, while King Yun's mother-in-law was born in a palace, and she was also given a concubine first, but because King Yun had been obese and stupid since the age of five Extremely, making the current Emperor Xi very disgusted.
When King Yun grew up, this situation was even worse. Even after he became an adult, he got married and married a wife, and he had a bad reputation for being afraid of women, so his mother-in-law was angered and downgraded to a talented person. King's situation is similar to King Jing's, they are all distributed.
King Yun has always been rumored to be stupid and cowardly like a pig, but he never thought that he would do such a thing.
But thinking of his own situation, King Jing had some realization.
Huang Tan informed King Jing of the result he had come to, and felt a little uneasy in his heart, because this move really didn't look like what King Yun would do, but he didn't expect King Jing to question it.
King Jing picked up the tea cup, scratched the tea soup noodles with the tea lid, and took two sips.
His face was always indifferent, his eyes dark and inexplicable.
"You don't need to investigate at this time. The rest is up to you." King Jing said word by word, probably because he didn't often say so many sentences at a time, his speech rate was very slow.
King Jing, who has always been taciturn, will only speak more when it comes to official business, or in the face of so few people.
Huang Tan nodded and didn't ask why he didn't check.
King Jing put down the tea cup and walked out. Huang Tan was sitting in the room. After thinking hard for a while, a light flashed in his eyes.
It seems that there is more than one person who pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger!
After leaving the courtyard in the remote area of King Jing's Mansion, Fu Shun was waiting outside the courtyard gate.
Fushun always waited by King Jing's side all the year round, and only when he encountered some secret things would King Jing not take him with him. Fushun naturally understood the reasoning of this, but he did not feel discord.
All the way back to Jingtai Hall, it was getting late, King Jing was having dinner in the front yard today, so he went to bathe and change his clothes as soon as he came back.
Coming out of the bathroom wearing salacious underwear, King Jing thought for a while, and then asked the eunuch serving him to put on a coat for him.
King Jing didn't speak, and Fu Shun didn't ask, watching King Jing leave the back bedroom and go to the room where Xiaohua used to be.
Fu Shun's face was dry, and he didn't dare to look at the face of King Jing who was standing outside the door and looking inside.
"His Royal Highness, Madam Hua has moved to the West Courtyard." Fushun's voice was low.
After a pause, he said again, "How about we go to the West Court?"
King Jing did not speak, but turned around and went back to the study.
Standing in front of the bookshelf, seemingly at random, he picked up a book and flipped through it. In the blind spot of Fushun's sight, there was a small note in the book.
King Jing touched the note, then closed the book and put it back, then turned around and went back to the back bedroom, seeing that he was about to rest.
Fushun sighed silently in his heart and didn't speak any more.