Kangxi Harem Ⅰ: Green Years

Chapter 19 (Sixteen) The first day with the king, the heart is like honey
[Finally looking forward to the day of serving the king, be careful and difficult to touch the king;]

[Your heart is hard to calm in front of your eyes, but a daughter's heart is as sweet as honey. 】

When Aunt Cheng came back in the evening, she gave Gai Ronger a detailed introduction to the arrangement of the attendants. The arrangement of the attendants is generally: every night when the emperor is resting, there will be two maids guarding the door of the East Nuan Pavilion in the palace, so as not to prevent the emperor from having anything to do. In addition, there must be two maids guarding the gate of the palace, and two father-in-laws guarding the gate of the emperor's palace. The next morning, the emperor's errands of getting up, changing clothes and washing will be handled by the four maids who keep watch at night. Plus four other maids who were on duty that day to serve.

When the emperor goes to court in the morning, the four maids who watched the night last night can go to rest, and the other four maids are basically the emperor's all-day attendants. When the emperor is not in the palace, they are basically fine and wait in the palace.In the morning, there will be maids doing chores to clean the palace. After the emperor pays homage to the empress dowager, after returning to the palace, usually if it is already early, he will be reading in the study in the west hall and waiting for lunch. At this time, there will be two palace ladies. Waiting on the side, and the other two maids waiting at the gate of the hall.

In addition, there are lunches and dinners served by four court ladies and Aunt Cheng. Generally, the emperor is not in the palace in the afternoon. If he does not go to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to study or read booklets, or he will go to the Jianting Pavilion to practice riding and archery. Those who do not need to be accompanied by the maids are all accompanied by the father-in-law, and the accompanying maids are all waiting in the palace, waiting for the emperor to come back.

At night, the emperor usually read books and books in the warm pavilion of the West Palace, so these four court ladies waited on him. At night, the four court ladies who changed and washed at night were jointly served by the four maids during the day and the four maids who kept watch at night.After that, the daytime maid errands are over.

Therefore, there are 12 maids serving in three groups in three shifts, and the maids who are not on duty must be prepared at any time, in case there is any sudden need, they can be there on hand.

In fact, the daily work is also very simple, just pouring tea and water for the emperor, and the errands of passing on the news are also done by the father-in-law. Gai Ronger was assigned by Aunt Xiao to the group that accompanied him during the day the next day, and Lingqiao Er is also in this group, besides Ling Qiaoer, there are also Xia He and Gui Ting who have been in the palace for four years; the maids in the emperor's bedroom are really carefully selected, most people can't get in even if they want to Yes, if it wasn't for the empress dowager's intentions, people like Gai Rong'er, Ling Qiao'er and Yin Ruolan might not be able to come in after staying in the palace for the rest of their lives.

The next day was just past Yinshi, and Gai Ronger and the four people on duty during the day got up to fetch water and waited outside the palace gate. After waiting for a while, the maids inside came out and said that the emperor was up, and they went in to serve, Gai Rong Gai Ronger was in charge of carrying the water basin, but Gai Ronger was actually a little afraid of this job, so he was very careful, for fear of falling again.

When Xuanye got up and saw that the maid who brought in the basin was Gai Ronger, he couldn't help but smile, seeing her nervously staring at the basin, walking cautiously, felt very interesting, and suddenly wanted to tease her, so he He coughed heavily on purpose, Gai Ronger was already nervous and was really startled when he heard the cough from the emperor, he stopped in his tracks, at this moment Ling Qiaoer took the basin from her hand, and walked away Going to the Emperor's side, he said: "Your Majesty, I will wait for you to wash your face." This tone was not as cold as usual, and it was full of hospitality. Now Gai Rong'er finally understood what Yin Ruolan and Xiaoqing meant by being courteous in front of the Emperor. Gai Rong'er thought to herself, to be honest, I really can't see that Ling Qiao'er is such a person, I always thought that she was just cold-tempered, so she couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Seeing Ling Qiao'er took over the washbasin, Xuan Ye felt a little disappointed, but didn't say anything. After washing his face and changing his clothes, the eunuch Eunuch Zhang who was in front of the emperor waited on him and went to court.

In fact, Gai Rong'er didn't help much in the morning, because she was a newcomer and it was not easy to intervene, so she just watched the other maids help the emperor change his clothes and comb his hair, and she had to watch from the side.The emperor came to court and they had no errands. Last night, the maids who accompanied the night went to rest. A few maids and father-in-law came to clean up, while Gai Rong'er and the others waited in the palace.

At noon, Kangxi came back to have lunch, took a rest for a while, and then went out again. When he left, Eunuch Zhang shouted: "The emperor drives to the Hall of Mental Cultivation", and when the emperor left, they were all idle again. The maid is really free and has nothing to do. She carefully looked at the Hall of Preserving Harmony. Since she was sent to the Hall of Preserving Harmony, she has been doing chores outside. She hasn't entered this hall yet. She once I think the Queen's Kunning Palace is very grand, but the Baohe Palace is much more magnificent than the Kunning Palace. Although the structure inside is similar to the Kunning Palace, it is much larger and taller than the Kunning Palace. Well, the place where the emperor lives should be the most magnificent place in the palace, Gai Ronger thought.

In the evening, after the emperor came back to have dinner, he read a book in the study in the west hall. Ling Qiaoer and Xia He were waiting beside the emperor, while Gai Ronger and Gui Ting were waiting outside the gate of the Nuan Pavilion. Gai Ronger thought of her It was a burst of joy to finally be able to look at the emperor so closely.Now she and the emperor are staying in the same palace, breathing the same air, she feels very happy in her heart, all she thinks about is the shadow of the emperor she saw one day, and countless small flames in her heart are burning wantonly. with.

When the emperor was reading in the study at night and saw Zi, even Gui Ting, who was standing opposite her, looked like she was about to doze off. Gai Ronger remembered what Yin Ruolan said before, "The emperor reads very late every night, my slave We all felt distressed when we saw it.” I didn’t expect it to be so, the emperor was only 13 years old, and the children of ordinary people are the age who loves to play and make trouble, but the emperor can have such determination, the emperor is worthy of being the emperor, I can’t help but Don't let people regenerate admiration, Gai Rong'er actually felt the slightest bit of reluctance in his heart.

After waiting for a while, the emperor was finally going to bed. At night when the emperor was going to bed, the four guard ladies came to serve with Rong'er and the others. Unfortunately, Gai Rong'er still couldn't intervene, so he could only watch from the sidelines. My son is already very happy, this is just the beginning, there will always be opportunities in the future.

At night, lying on the warm pit, Gai Rong'er was so excited that she couldn't sleep, pinched her own face, it was true, and then cursed herself secretly: "Gai Rong'er, look at you, how can you look like Ama education?" It must be that Xiaoqing has been spoiled by staying with Xiaoqing for a long time. Be calm, dignified, and look like a girl. Don't always think about the emperor in your heart, but put your heart at ease. It's calm." This night, everything is sweet.

(End of this chapter)