Harem for a living

Chapter 6

Chen Manrou ignored the people standing in the yard, but turned her head and ordered Jinhuan and Xiangyue: "Let them put all the boxes and cages..." After thinking about it, she pointed to the room on the far right of the main hall: "Put the boxes and cages in place..." Go to that room, and in the future, use that room as a living room."

The five rooms in the main hall of Zhongcui Palace are actually connected.Except for the two farthest rooms without doors, the other three rooms in the middle have their own doors.Outside is the eaves, which surround the main hall in the middle alone, with corner doors opened on the side, which can lead to the side halls.

Jin Huan and Dui Yue responded, and led the waiter inside. More than 20 boxes and cages were installed with hundreds of clothes that Chen Manrou had made one after another in the past two years, from spring clothes to winter clothes. problem of size.

Unlike marrying a girl outside, the land of Zhuangzi's shop has to be displayed, so the cage looks a little less.But there is nothing missing at all. The Chen family regards Chen Manrou as a married daughter, so they are also planning to have a Zhuangzi shop.

For the shops alone, she has five, and Zhuangzi has three. These are all taken care of by Chen's mother first, and it is enough to send money into the palace every year.

"Put this box here." Jinhuan's voice came from inside, and everyone in the yard lowered their heads and did not respond.Chen Manrou walked past the people standing in a row, and looked at each of them carefully.

Among the court ladies, there are two who are more outstanding, and the rest are more ordinary.The eunuchs are all about the same, and they all look neat and tidy.

"From now on, the two of you will be serving as second-class maids for the time being." Chen Manrou pointed to the two good-looking court ladies, and then picked two more calm ones: "You two are also , As for the name, for the sake of pleasure, to drink, to drink, to stop the cup, to line up from left to right."

"Slave servants are happy (drinking, drinking, stop the cup) and thank the concubine Chen for giving her name." The four maids who were called took a quick step forward, then stood up in order of names, and saluted Chen Manrou together.

Chen Manrou nodded, pointing to the remaining two maids: "For the time being, you are in charge of the third-class maids, and you will use the original names. What were your original names?"

"My servant Hongmei (Qing Xing) has met Concubine Chen." The two maids hurriedly saluted, Chen Manrou also nodded, then looked at the remaining six eunuchs, picked the one that was most pleasing to the eye and asked, "What's your name? ?”

"Little Xiao Mingzi, I have met Concubine Chen." Xiao Mingzi is not very old, he looks about twenty years old, but he looks quite calm, with no expression on his face, and his eyes are also indifferent. Chen Manrou took a fancy to it, It is also the calmness of this person.

"In the future, you will be the eunuch in charge of Zhongcui Palace. Don't disappoint the palace's expectations of you." After Chen Manrou finished speaking, Xiao Mingzi didn't show any flattered expression, nor did she show her loyalty. Chen Manrou admired her calm demeanor.

"You two, what's your name?" Chen Manrou then pointed to the two smart-looking eunuchs. The two little eunuchs had pleasing smiles on their faces. One had a round face, which looked cute, and the other His face was fair and clean, and he looked a little festive.

"Slave Xiaoxizi (Xiao Lezi) has met Concubine Chen, and greets Concubine Chen." These two are indeed relatively good at talking, others are just greeting, and they have one more to greet.

There was also a smile on Chen Manrou's face, she raised her chin and said, "Whenever I go out in the future, you two should follow."

The remaining three will naturally stay in Zhongcui Palace to do odd jobs.Except for the queen, no one in this palace has a special case of having a small kitchen, so the entire Zhongcui Palace sounds quite big, but there are not many jobs that need to be done, just sweeping the floor in the morning and checking the doors and windows at night.The side hall and the backyard are usually locked as long as no one lives there, but there is no need to clean the inside.

And there are second-class maids in the main hall room for cleaning utensils and so on.

"Concubine Chen, the cage has been set up." The group of servants came over to salute, Chen Manrou smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Jin Huan immediately stuffed a purse to the leader, and said with a smile: "A little money for tea, please don't be disgusted with your father-in-law."

The father-in-laws didn't refuse, thanked the rewards, and went out directly.Then Chen Manrou introduced Jinhuan and Duiyue: "These two are my personal maidservants. What they say in the future is equivalent to what I say. You should listen to it. I don't care who you served before. Which master, I only know that you have entered the gate of Zhongcui Palace, and you will be the people of Zhongcui Palace in the future."

"I won't say much, just tell you three things. First, I, Concubine Chen, has lost power. It's quite easy to want a few servants to be buried with me. Second, even if a slave who betrayed his master finds a new master, Don't let the new master use it with confidence. Third, in this world, the dead are the ones who can keep secrets the most."

Chen Manrou finished speaking slowly, and glanced at the servants who had been divided into several layers with a smile: "Okay, let's break up like this, what should we do, after a stick of incense, I want to see a regular Zhongcui Palace."

A few people responded, and then you looked at me and I looked at you. I didn't quite understand what Chen Manrou meant by a well-organized bell palace.On the other hand, Xiao Mingzi quickly came to his senses, and immediately pointed to Xiao Xizi and Xiao Lezi and said, "You two, go and count the items in Zhongcui Palace, and see which ones need to be put in the warehouse and which ones need to be displayed. , must not use illegal things."

Then she turned her head and said to Chen Manrou: "Your Majesty, Xiao Xizi and Xiao Lezi are rough-handed, do you think you should assign a maid to follow?"

Chen Manrou stared at Xiao Mingzi for a while, then nodded and said, "Jinhuan, you follow."

Then Xiao Mingzi continued to order the remaining three little eunuchs: "You three, one goes to boil water, one goes to guard the gate of Zhongcui Palace, and the other goes to the imperial dining room to order dinner." After finishing speaking, he turned his head again Looking at Chen Manrou, Chen Manrou thought for a while before saying: "Three meat and three vegetables, something lighter, a duck blood vermicelli soup."

As for the emperor's dinner, if he wants to come, then the people around him will order the imperial dining room to deliver the meal in the evening.There is no need to worry that the emperor has no food to eat, unless he is out of his mind and originally planned to go to the empress's place, but suddenly turned to Zhongcui Palace on the way.

The three young eunuchs took the order to leave. There is a separate well and a pot for boiling hot water in the Zhongcui Palace.The yard was also cleaned just this morning, so there was no need to spend any other effort.

"Hongmei Qingxing, you two go and clean the main hall." Xiao Mingzi's cleaning here means sweeping the house and wiping away the dust.Even if someone cleaned it in the morning, if you just moved here, if you didn't download and clean it under Chen Manrou's nose, Chen Manrou would probably feel very uncomfortable.

"For the pleasure of having a drink, you two go and tidy up the clothes of the empress, put what should be put away, and put what should be laid out." Xiao Mingzi saw that Chen Manrou did not object to his decision, so he continued to order: "Go in Stop drinking, the two of you follow your mother, see what orders your mother has, and serve them wholeheartedly."

"That's right, I really saw the right person." Chen Manrou nodded, and asked Duiyue to give Xiao Mingzi a purse with a smile: "In the future, I will hand over my Zhongcui Palace to you, and you have to take care of it for me." Well, if there are those who shouldn’t come in, they must never come in. If there are people who shouldn’t go out, they must never go out, understand?”

"Thank you for your reward, I understand." Xiao Mingzi saluted and said, his face was a little excited at the moment.It is not a big deal for the master to let him be the eunuch in charge, but the most important thing is that the master is willing to trust him and reuse him.

Chen Manrou had been standing outside for a long time, looking at the sky, it was almost time.He led Duiyue and the others into the door, this is her future home, what if I don't take a closer look first?
In the middle is the main hall, in the middle there is a flat-headed table made of huanghuali wood, with landscape paintings hanging on the wall above, several fruit plates on the bottom, and Taishi chairs on both sides, with large peonies carved on it, Bingdi lotus and lotus flowers on both sides. The armrest hangs down and is hung with beaded tassels, looking regal and elegant.

In the lower position, four armchairs are placed on the left and right sides, and there are a few desks in the middle of the chairs, but there are no teacups on top of these.

Not far behind the chair, there are screens on both sides.Chen Manrou didn't look at the screen carefully, but walked around to the west end room. The round wooden frame door was hung with bead curtains, which could divide the main hall and the west end room into two rooms.

The furnishings in this room are much richer.Next to the window, there is a desk with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on it.In the middle of the room is a round table surrounded by four round stools, which are very matching.On the opposite side, there is a picture of flowers blooming and wealth hanging on the wall, below is a beauty couch, on the couch there is a kang table, under the kang table are chessboards and other things.

This time it was a square door with a beautiful curtain hanging on it, and when you opened it, you could see the layout of the innermost bedroom.Facing the door is a bed, and facing the window is a dresser.Below the window is a basin rack, and by the door is a wardrobe, where some clothes that are often worn are placed.These ancient beds are all equivalent to a small house, and the one in Zhongcui Palace is no exception.

The big canopy bed is a round door, and the two sides of the door are also carved frames.After stepping through the door, there is an open space of about half a meter, then the footrest, and the footrest goes up to the real bed.The bed was covered with pink brocade, and the bright red quilt was folded into long strips and placed inside.The pillow is a hard porcelain pillow, and there are several boxes behind it.

"Ma'am, Mr. Liu Cheng is here." Just as Chen Manrou wanted to go over to see what was in the box, Xiao Mingzi outside suddenly announced.Chen Manrou hurried out, there was only one Eunuch Liu Cheng in the palace, and that was the chief steward next to the emperor, she dared not treat this Eunuch Liu Cheng slowly.

(End of this chapter)