Harem for a living

Chapter 113

"Mother, Concubine Shu's side..." Jin Huan quickly picked up Dui Yue and came back, and the two moved closer to Chen Manrou and asked in a low voice.Chen Manrou waved her hand: "I know this matter well, how many people have been assigned to the Zhongcui Palace by the Handyman Division this time?"

"Six little palace maids." Said to Yue hurriedly, then added after a pause: "Three are from our Chen family, and they are all around the age of fourteen or five. Quite sensible."

"Your Majesty, the slaves don't want to leave the palace." Jin Huan said unhappily on the side: "Look, haven't all the big maids around Concubine Shu and Concubine De have left the palace? The servants have to serve you all the time, those few Although the little maids are good, who knows if they will have any concerns."

"You're not married anymore?" Chen Manrou raised her eyebrows and smiled. The scale of the small elections has always been small, almost silently starting and ending quietly. This is not the same as Bao Xiaoxuan entering the palace in the Qing Dynasty. The minor selection here is a little more lenient.

Of course, those who should be investigated also need to be investigated, and there is no way to fake one's life experience.Most of the people who passed the small election were actually sent by the various families themselves. This can be regarded as an unspoken rule, and the queen will not take the initiative to break this situation even if she has nothing to do.

Anyway, it's more reassuring to use the servants of each family personally, and the queen will never cause public anger if she is fine.What's more, although the first category accounts for a large part, at least one-third of the people are from innocent families who have no masters behind them.Otherwise, the emperor will be worried.

The Chen family sent in a total of six people, three of whom were selected and sent to Zhongcui Palace, and the remaining three were incidental.

According to the management, the eldest maid of Zhongcui Palace teaches the younger maids for half a year or a year, and then the eldest maids leave the palace by themselves.After all, there are rules for the people around every concubine, and no one should be too public.

"I don't want to marry at first." Jin Huan shook his head and nodded to Yueyue: "Yes, I also said before, what's so good about marrying? Every day I see my husband and others...cough, anyway I don’t want to marry, my lord, there are not many people from Zhongcui Palace, you forgot, after you sent Yin and Liuguang Qingxing away, Zhongcui Palace didn’t add any more people? Besides, You are now a noble concubine, and this manpower has not been increased, this time it happened to make up for it, and it did not exceed the regulations."

Chen Manrou waved her hand: "I know that my manpower is just right, but you are not too young, I don't intend to let you go out of the palace now. Otherwise, although those little maids know the rules, But I still don't know much about how to do things. I don't have time to teach you. You must at least lead them out of the palace. In this way, you will have to wait until the next election. Most importantly, you still have to Didn't make it to age."

It's just the next small election, who knows if it will be cancelled.Loyal subordinates, or subordinates who know that they have too many secrets, no one will easily let them out of the palace. Besides, the palace maids enter the palace on the fifteenth or sixteenth day, and only leave the palace on the twenty-fifth sixteenth. The consumption rate is also very slow.At that time, the palaces will be fully manned, and this small election will naturally stop.

"That time is still long, Madam, let's not talk about this matter for now, you tell the servants about Concubine Shu? Will something happen to the Meng family in the end?" Jin Huan knew that he didn't have to be sent out of the palace. , Immediately became happy.She is only in her twenties now, and she is still far away from 25 six.

"By the way, there is one less number of grand ladies here, right?" Chen Manrou didn't answer Jinhuan's words, she just turned her head and asked. After she sent her back to Yongshou Palace, the empress never mentioned the previous concern. After this matter, I probably won't be able to get back my heart.

"Yes, ma'am, who do you want to bring up?" Duiyue brought a cup of tea to Chen Manrou and asked, Chen Manrou pinched the center of her eyebrows: "I will bring up Lehe Jinjiu, so adding a cup of tea and the two of you will also There are only four palace maids, Liuyue Liucai and Hongmei, which one is more suitable?"

In fact, Jinjiu was a first-class court lady from the beginning, but she became a second-class court lady only to make way for Huai Xin, and she should have recovered by now.

"Look, maidservant, among the newly sent maids..." Chen Manrou waved her hand before she could finish talking to Yue Yue. The newcomers' qualifications in the palace were too low, and she was also afraid that they would cause trouble due to their ignorance. , so it's best to hone in on it.

After thinking about it, he ordered Hongmei: "Although Hongmei likes to talk sour words, but if you use it well, it's relatively handy. Let her be the only one. The other four newcomers will all act as second-class maids. The moon streams together."

As for the rest, they are all third-class court ladies.This number is not considered to exceed the regulations.

After naming the new maid, it was almost time for lunch.After Chen Manrou used it, she fell asleep for another hour, then slowly got up, and called Hongmei to come in to comb her hair: "It's fine to be light, and prepare some snacks for me later, and let's go to the imperial court later." Go to the garden to enjoy the view."

The cups served by the side stopped and went to the small kitchen to prepare, and Wei Le took the post and entered the door with a depressed face: "Madam, the concubine Chang sent the post, please go and enjoy the flowers, the emperor just rewarded her with a pot of green peonies, she We also invited Concubine Yang, Concubine Shu, Concubine Hui, Concubine De, and others."

"Concubine Shu has also passed?" Chen Manrou raised her eyebrows slightly and asked in surprise, she thought for a while and shook her head for joy: "When the servant came over, I didn't see Concubine Shu's chariot passing by, but I heard that the little palace maid Said, Concubine Shu is not feeling well."

"I'll just say it." Chen Manrou smiled, reached out to take the post, and wrote a few lines of words in hairpin lowercase on it. The words were very good, the sentences were very elegant, and the words were very elegant. It was just that Chen Manrou was not interested, so she just wrote the post. The post was thrown aside: "Let's just say that Bengong has invited Qi Meiren to drink tea, and I don't have time to appreciate the chrysanthemums."

"The imperial garden..." Wei Le asked again, and Chen Manrou yawned: "Go ahead, it's boring to be idle anyway."

Wei Le nodded and went out to reject the post. Hongmei took a mirror and showed Chen Manrou the hair on the back of her hair: "Your Majesty, how about it? If you don't like it, I will change it for you."

"No, it's good like this." Chen Manrou touched the bun on the back, smiled and took a hairpin and stuck it in, then got up and walked outside: "Where is Nanny Chen? Are you still in the back now? Little Si is Are you still asleep?"

Jin Huan came out from one side mysteriously: "The fourth prince has woken up and is breastfeeding at the moment. Let the maidservant Chen Mama come over?"

"No need, the child has just had milk, and it's easy to blow the wind when you hold it out now." Chen Manrou shook her head and said, she turned to go to the back hall to see the fourth prince, Xiaosi just woke up and had a full meal, and saw her mother again, He was in a great mood, and kept waving his small hands at Chen Manrou.

"Xiaosi misses mother?" Chen Manrou went over to kiss Xiaosi's little face, touched his clothes, made sure it wasn't too thin, then turned around and looked around the room, and saw a charcoal basin in the corner, windows It's still closed, so I'm a little unhappy: "Didn't Ben Gong say that this window can't be closed too tightly? Also, who put the charcoal basin in?"

It was almost time to put the charcoal basin in her room, but she didn't like the smell, so she didn't let it go.It's just that Xiao Si is young and can't stand the cold, so she explained that she only puts it on during the day for a while, and not the rest of the time.

Nanny Chen hurried forward to salute: "Your Majesty, it's windy outside today, that's why I closed the doors and windows on my own. The charcoal basin was not put in by the servant, and the servant had already seen it before, and there was no spark in the charcoal basin. No one was moved out."

"Presumptuous!" Chen Manrou was in a hurry, and took Xiaosi's cotton mattress and threw it on Nanny Chen: "How did I tell you all? You don't care if it has sparks, as long as it's a charcoal basin, you can't go into the house like this Li Fang, have your ears grown white?"

Nanny Chen hurriedly kowtowed to apologize, but Chen Manrou ignored it, got up and went to the front of the charcoal basin, removed the lid on it, poked it twice with a fire stick, and sure enough, sparks were found underneath, and now, Chen Manrou's face turned greener: "Didn't you say that there is no spark in it? What is it? Could it be that there is something wrong with Ben Gong's eyes?"

Chen Momo came over to take a look, and immediately got down on the ground again: "Your Majesty, servant girl... I also know what's going on, I have indeed seen it before, and there is indeed no spark in it. I let the servant warm the bed, Then the one who put the Fourth Prince on the bed did not use a charcoal basin."

At this moment, Chen Manrou couldn't remember what she said to go to the Royal Garden. She was full of one thought, that there might be rats in her Zhongcui Palace.Someone is going to lay hands on her precious son!Do you really think that she has been a good-tempered Maitreya Buddha for several years without fighting?

No matter who it is, she will never let go of anyone who dares to attack her son!

After being annoyed for a while, Chen Manrou glanced at Nanny Chen with cold eyes: "Go and recruit all the people in the apse, I want to ask one by one, who has entered this room when the fourth prince is sleeping at noon! "

Nanny Chen is not an idiot either, as soon as she saw the sparks, she knew that things were going to go bad today, so she hurried out of the house in a hurry, and not long after, she and Nanny Zhao and others led four The big maid came over.

Originally, Xiao Si was a prince, surrounded by four nuns, four big court ladies, four second-class court ladies, four small court ladies, and several small eunuchs and guards, but Xiao Si was young, and Chen Manrou thought of people There are too many, and it is easier to get nails in, so I rejected it, and only four first-class ladies and four second-class ladies were left.

At this moment, there was a crowd of people standing in the room. In front were Mother Chen and Mother Zhao, Mother Tang and Mother Song, in the middle were four holding books, ink, painting and inkstone, and at the end were the little palace maid and There are ten eunuchs in total.

"Daiyue, go and ask Manager Ming to come over." Chen Manrou glanced at the group of people, turned her head and gave orders, and quickly left the door.

"I heard that there is a punishment in the Ministry of Punishments called Tiejiaguan. You may not know what it means, but you must know the other name of this punishment." Chen Manrou asked Jin Huan to carry Xiaosi to the front hall.Sitting on it, looking at the group of people, he continued: "It's also called Bombing. It is to fix people's limbs and tie them upside down, and then stick them on their faces with kraft paper soaked in water, one layer after another. Layer, after a few stickers, people will be out of breath, and a few more stickers, and they will be suffocated to death, and the cause of death will never be found out."

Looking at the pale faces of the group of people, Chen Manrou smiled: "I believe that you are all smart people. Or, there are some of you who want to try this thing, and I will give you this opportunity."

(End of this chapter)