The snow here in the west courtyard is very easy to handle, and it will be finished after about two hours of work.
After cleaning the snow in the west courtyard, the ground in the courtyard was wet, and piles of snow were piled under the trees everywhere, all of which were used to moisten the trees.
Su Yan reported to the palace servants on the west side, and then led the team of small palace servants back to the sweeping place. After returning to the sweeping place, they had lunch first. Since there was nothing to do in the afternoon, Qiaolian returned to the palace room to rest.
There were four people living in a room, all of whom were in the house, but no one spoke to Qiaolian. Qiao Lian was used to it, so she went back to her bed and lay down on her own.
She touched the contents of her sleeve pockets, confused.
After a while, a small palace person who was also from the sweeping department walked into the room, "Qiaolian, someone is looking for you outside."
Qiaolian raised her brows unconsciously, but she endured it and said 'understood', then got up and walked out.
"Why are you here again?" Outside the gate of Sasao, Qiaolian couldn't help frowning when she saw the stranger who had only met twice.
"How did you do that?"
"It's you who asked me to do things, urging me!"
Qiaolian's tone has always been bad. The ordinary-looking palace servant endured and endured, and then suppressed the fire in his heart and whispered: "You don't want to change jobs? You should know how hard it is to sweep the place. Once the work is done, someone will help you change the errand."
Qiaolian sneered, "Is this what you need to say?"
"Then have you done it today?"
Referring to this, Qiaolian showed a hint of hesitation, and then said in a very bad tone: "How can it be so fast, there are all people around, and I didn't find a chance today."
The palace man looked disappointed.
"Who is your master? You hide your head and show your tail! And I don't know who you are, so don't worry about letting me do things?" Qiaolian raised her eyebrows.
"You just need to know that our common enemy is one." The palace man did not answer directly.
enemy
Qiaolian's face was complicated, and she sneered in her heart.
Seeing that Qiaolian didn't speak, the palace man said, "Don't you hate that person? Are you not jealous? They are the same people, why are you being assigned to the shovel, and others have become the masters of the people? …”
Qiaolian's face suddenly twisted, and she said impatiently: "Don't talk about it, don't bother!" She squinted at the man, "You go, I will remember this matter, don't always come to me when you have nothing to do."
After speaking, Qiaolian turned around and left.
The palace servant showed anger behind her, and thought to himself: Wait, when things are done, I will come to clean up your annoying thing.
******
Chuncao has never forgotten what Lilac said.
She also remembered her task, which was to keep an eye on the little palace people in the same room.
The serious Chuncao is very hardworking, and often does not sleep all night long, or Lilac found something wrong, and asked her the reason for her to find a place to sleep for a while when she was working in the house during the day.
That day when the lady smiled and said, "I'm such a hypocritical person, let's go and eat", coupled with the extremely natural and almost unchanged attitude in the Jingtai Hall, the memory of Chuncao often brings tears to her eyes. . She doesn't understand why this is, she only knows that the lady is in a difficult situation, and she must be able to do something.
The night was already deep, and Chuncao, who had become a habit of staying up late, was lying on the bed, seemingly asleep, but in fact, her eyes were not closed.
After a long time, Chuncao estimated that it was time to be ugly according to her habits these days, and she heard a very small voice.
"Chunlan."
Someone was calling Chunlan in a small voice, and Chuncao heard the voice of Chunzhu.
She was shocked and didn't move. After waiting for a while, she heard someone from Chunzhu got out of bed and walked towards the door, only to hear a 'squeak', and the door was closed again.
Chuncao's eyes were frighteningly bright in the darkness, she put on a jacket and lightly got out of bed and followed out.
The moonlight outside is very good, reflecting the snow in the distance, but you can see the situation outside clearly. Chuncao looked for the sound, slowly touched it, and saw Chunzhu squatting on the flower bed under the porch doing something.
"what are you doing?"
Chuncao's voice was not loud, but it sounded like a thunderbolt in Chunzhu's ears. She was already apprehensive, and was directly scared to sit on the ground.
"Spring, spring grass." Under the night that was shone white by the snow, you could faintly see Chun Zhu's face turning pale.
"What are you doing?" Chuncao looked at the small dirt pit that was dug out, "What are you digging to bury?"
"It's nothing, it's my own, I'll bury it when I don't want it..."
"You lie to the ghost, don't sleep at midnight, run out to dig a hole and bury things. Come, follow me to see Sister Lilac."
Chunzhu cried in fright, "Chuncao, please forgive me, I'm just confused for a while... If Lilac knew about it, she would definitely not let me go..."
The stern lilac has always been the 'ghost to see sorrow' in the eyes of the following small palace people.
"You dare to do it knowing the consequences are serious."
There is a commotion here, and Lilac Dinglan has heard the movement over there.
Ding Lan and Chuncao dragged the paralyzed Chunzhu to the next ear room. The other three small palace servants also heard the sound and stood there looking at Chunzhu who was paralyzed on the ground.
Chuncao told the general situation, and then threw a purse that he had picked up on the table.
"That's it, I don't know what it is."
Lilac took it over and looked at it, and his face suddenly turned black.
"Tell me, who asked you to bury these scourges in the yard." Lilac was so dark.
Chunzhu still wanted to quibble, but Ding Lan stepped forward and slapped it with a big ear scraper.
"Honestly speaking, don't let us use the means when you say it again, it's not good."
Chunzhu's face was full of snot and tears. After all, he was young, and it was the first time to do such a thing. I was already short-tempered by three points, and I was already overwhelmed by this successive fright, so I said it one by one.
In fact, Chunzhu didn't know who asked her to bury this thing, but someone asked her to do things with money, and she gave a lot of money, so she agreed for a while.
As for the person who gave her the money, she didn't know either, he was just a person from the palace. He first gave her twenty taels of silver to do things, and then told her that she knew where her family was and who was in the family.
It was difficult for Chunzhu to ride a tiger. After hesitating for several days, he chose to get up in the middle of the night. According to the man's instructions, he dug a hole in the flower bed under the porch and buried it. Who knew that Chuncao, who was watching the mouse, would catch him.
In fact, this method is not very clever. It is first a bait and then a threat. It is not enough to deal with a shrewd person like Lilac, but it is enough to deal with Chunzhu, who is only fifteen years old.
"When Mrs. tomorrow gets up, it's up to Mrs. to deal with it."
Lilac asked several other palace servants to tie up the spring bamboo, and left it in the ear room where the spring grass and the others lived. It was cold outside, and if I left it outside, I would freeze to death overnight.
Lilac is not so cruel, but she has no plans to let Chunzhu go, especially thinking that the purse is not a good thing, she hates it even more.
In the back room, the people who shared the room with Chunzhu didn't sleep all night. They couldn't believe that Chunzhu was so courageous. Lilac, who also didn't sleep, was thinking about how to deal with this little palace person who backed her master in such a sensitive period.
The next day, Xiaohua asked An to come back, and Lilac reported what happened last night.
As for what was in the purse, Lilac pondered it later, it was like a kind of yin medicine in the palace, but she was not sure, so she didn't show it to Xiaohua just in case.
Chunzhu was tied up with her mouth gagged all night, her face was pale and messed up, and she looked extremely pitiful.
"What the hell is that thing? Do you know Lilac?"
Lilac hesitated for a moment and said, "The slaves don't know either. Anyway, it's not a good thing. It's like a kind of harmful medicine."
Xiaohua's face darkened suddenly.
OK, so good!
The means are not clever enough, but the things used are all of a high standard. What kind of medicine can be buried in the soil to harm people? ! If Qiao's family had these things in her previous life, Xiaohua might not know how she died in her previous life.
She suddenly became irritable, and she was unspeakably annoyed.
"Madam, what do you think of this Chunzhu?"
When Chunzhu heard this, he cried and begged for mercy, "Madam, please forgive the slave, the slave is just a ghost for a while, the slave really doesn't know that this thing is harmful, if I knew, I would never do such a thing. She took my family as a threat... My parents are old, my brother is only a few years old... "
Xiaohua ignored Chunzhu's cry, and asked Lilac, "How does the general government deal with this?"
"Ma'am, there are two ways to deal with slaves who back their masters like this. One is to drag them out and beat them to death, and the other is to hand them over to the Director of Instructions."
Seeing Xiaohua's puzzled expression, Lilac said: "The Department of Discipline is not only training the palace servants who have just entered the palace, but also dealing with the palace servants who have violated the rules. You can rest assured that handing it over to the Counselor will definitely not kill you directly. Well, if you are beaten to death, it is one hundred and one hundred, and when you enter the Department of Discipline, it is difficult to die."
Lilac's expression and tone were very flat, but the words she said made people shudder. Not to mention that Chunzhu, who was paralyzed on the ground, was shivering with fright, and even the other little palace people on the side were so frightened that their faces turned pale.
"Madam, please forgive the slave, the slave will never dare again..."
She spared her, who will let her go
Xiaohua glanced at the extremely pitiful Chunzhu on the ground, and then looked away.
"Do you really dare?"
Chunzhu seemed to see some hope in Xiaohua's attitude, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously.
"Madam, this slave girl really doesn't dare anymore. The slave girl just lost her mind for a while. Please forgive me, please forgive me."
After kowtowing a few times, Chunzhu's head was already bruised and bruised, so it was obvious that he was ruthless.
"Lilac, can you write?"
Lilac was taken aback, "Yes, ma'am."
"Write down what she did and let her draw it. Watch it and talk about it later."
Lilac immediately understood what the lady meant. Now they are too busy to deal with Chunzhu. According to the government system, if one person is missing, another will be added. When the time comes, they will have to keep an eye on it. It is better to let this Chunzhu stay.
Looking at her performance is to supervise and give some thoughts, and if I talk about it later, it will not necessarily spare her.
Seeing Chunzhu who was kneeling with gratitude, Lilac sighed, thinking that this is the best and most appropriate way.
Of course, this kind of person can't stay for a long time, and then they have to wait for them to free up their hands to deal with it.
…
It was late at night, but Xiaohua had difficulty falling asleep.
Lilac was on duty on the small couch outside the bunk bed, and the room was quiet.
"Lilac, do you know something about this manor?"
Xiaohua never took the initiative to ask Lilac about this, but recently her heart has been a little messed up, and there is always a sense of crisis forcing her, making her irritable for no reason.
"Which one is Madam talking about?" Lilac's voice sounded outside the tulle tent.
"For example, His Highness and Princess, and some His Highness's attitude towards the backyard here." King Jing's mind was too difficult to figure out, so Xiaohua's heart was very uncertain.
After a while of silence, Lilac's voice sounded faintly outside.
"The slaves don't know much about it." She paused, and then added: "Although I followed Aunt Qi after coming to King Jing's Mansion, I have never been to the Jingtai Palace. Your Highness is happy and will go back directly after returning from the front yard. Jingtai Hall is gone, and I rarely go to him, so other than those old people who have been with him for a long time, others can hardly understand the character of His Highness."
When Xiao Hua heard this, she sighed silently in her heart.
Yes, her time in Jingtai Palace was not too short, but she knew very little about His Highness. What I know is a little bit of life habits or some superficial ones.
"As for His Highness to the princess, or to the backyard. How should I put it, that kind of ignorant attitude, don't ask. At the beginning of the mansion, His Highness set the rules, and the internal affairs were in charge of Eunuch Fu and Aunt Qi, and the others Don't wait to intervene. Most of the internal affairs on weekdays are in charge of Aunt Qi. Aunt Qi has formulated very perfect government regulations and so on. They all follow the rules and regulations, and there is hardly any trouble. Aunt Qi is a—"
Lilac paused for a while before finding a suitable adjective, "a very smart person. She only takes care of internal affairs, and she will not touch anything else that should not be in her charge. On the bright side, the princess is the mistress of the house, Everything that should be and should be decent... Nothing happened to Concubine Qiao and the two jade ladies... "
That is to say, many people were submerged in the water before, and they didn't surface until she came.
Is this her luck or misfortune
Don't ask, I'm not stable in my heart, I'm even more unstable when I ask.
Xiaohua sighed, "Go to sleep, it's getting late."
ps:
Just like what Fushun said when he first described Xiaohua, this Xiaogong person is good everywhere, but he is too cautious in his words and deeds. To put it bluntly, it is too cautious and too self-aware.
Mianmian really wants to say something later, Huahua, the boring scene is actually not as bad as you think.