Shangshi female official

"You still laugh, I'm going to die of worry."

"We just know that you are worried, so Shen Ci specially made your favorite sweet-scented osmanthus cake, you should try it."

"Really? Give me a taste."

Shen Ci handed her the food box, and persuaded: "Take it for all the sisters in the house to taste, today is Qixi Festival, at least eat some cakes for the festival."

Xu Xinyan carried the food box as if he had seen a ghost, and asked, "Today is Qixi Festival?"

Wang Yifu teased her on purpose, and said with a smile, "What's wrong with you? You've lived your life, and you can forget such a big festival as Qixi Festival?"

"Oh." Xu Xinyan hurriedly carried the food box into the house, and shouted: "Sisters, today is Qixi Festival, why are we so busy that we forgot about this day, quickly take out the water and worship the Seven Fairies .”

With Xu Xinyan's order, the twelve girls in the room immediately put down their work and came out in a file. They took out a plate of water from the corners of the eaves of the yard, put it down in front of the moonlight, and knelt on the ground. before the water.

Wang Yifu only felt that the scene was very spectacular, Xu Xinyan opened the osmanthus cake on purpose, put it in front of the water dish as an offering, and turned around and shouted: "Shen Ci, Yifu, come and kneel down."

The two bystanders were dumbfounded. They thought they had escaped this year's ceremony, but they didn't expect that the one who should come would still come.

They really underestimated Xu Xinyan. Xu Xinyan might have forgotten when Qixi Festival was, but he would never forget what to do on Qixi Festival.

"Hurry up!"

An angry word made Wang Yifu and Shen Ci tremble with fear. Although Xu Xinyan was round and cute, she couldn't disobey her in this matter.

The two of them had no choice but to kneel down with her, pretending to beg the fairy for a pair of skillful hands, so that they could meet a good husband.

When placing the needle, Xu Xinyan passed the test, Wang Yifu and Shen Ci were also cautious, not asking for anything, just to avoid Xu Xinyan having to drag them to Zhaohe Hall to confess their mistakes to the fairy.

If he was not sincere, he would still have to be lectured by her and ramble on for a long time, which was really unbearable.

After the ceremony was over, Xu Xinyan smiled with satisfaction, and distributed the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in the food box to the sisters in the embroidery room. The sisters in the embroidery room also reciprocated gifts, giving Wang Yifu and Shen Ci the bracelets they made by themselves in return.

After the tribulation on July [-]th was over, both Wang Yifu and Shen Ci breathed a sigh of relief, and Xu Xinyan could still drag them to worship the gods, so there probably would not be any difficult days to speak of.

On July [-]th, Wang Yifu went to Shengji Hall to meet her aunt as agreed, and her aunt handed her a three-layer food box. The food box was very heavy, and when she opened it, it seemed that there were maroon jars inside .

"There are fifteen kinds of salt here. I bought all I could buy. There are eleven kinds of official salt and four kinds of private salt. There are several kinds of tribute salt that I can't buy. I think you are in the palace. Instead, it’s easy to get.”

"This amount of salt should be enough, Auntie, if you ask more about Mr. Zheng from Guanglu Temple, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. There must be something tricky about his big house."

"When you asked me to buy salt, I guessed that you were going to work on it. His family does have a salt shop, but it's a small shop with a small business. What is it worth?"

"Then go and find out where he bought the salt with the official bank. In addition to the imperial dining room in the palace, the Shang Shanjian needs a lot of salt. There are also four dining rooms in the imperial city and the dining room in the inner Jiaofang. , this business is not small."

"I understand, I'll go find out more. Today is also the day to worship the ancestors, you..."

"I burned paper money for my mother and Yan's mother."

"……I see."

Wang Yifu was carrying the food box and walking towards the imperial dining room, when she suddenly heard the low roar of an oxhorn in the distance, which came from Fengxian Hall in that direction, she stopped and looked in that direction for a long time.

What rituals are being done in Fengxian Palace, who are there, and whether the princes and princesses must be present. She has been indifferent for many years, but she suddenly became curious about these things after entering the palace.

"Sister? Sister Yifu?" Someone patted her on the shoulder, and she came to her senses, and turned to see that it was Feng Xiaobao.

"Little Bao, why are you here?"

"Master asked me to go to the inner study to pick up things. I'm going back to Tongji library. Sister Efu, what's wrong with you?"

"I was fascinated by the sound of the trumpet over there."

Feng Xiaobao couldn't help laughing, Wang Yifu was indeed a maid who had just entered the palace, she had no experience, and said: "What's so nice about the sound of the trumpet, the silk and bamboo arranged by Shangyi Bureau, that's what it sounds like."

"Then you have to have a chance to listen." Wang Yifu suddenly had a flash of inspiration, grabbed Feng Xiaobao's wrist, and asked, "Xiaobao, can you do me another favor."

Feng Xiaobao was startled at first, terrified, then calmed down and said: "...What do you want me to do?"

"Salt from several dining rooms inside and outside the palace, can you get me some?"

"Salt? Are you still short of salt in the imperial dining room?"

"I have my own uses, and I don't need much. The Shangshan Room, the four dining rooms outside the palace, and the four dining rooms outside the palace, and some salt from the inner teaching workshop. A small jar is enough, but it has to be sorted. Don't mix it up."

Feng Xiaobao frowned and scratched his head, looking very embarrassed, but he did not refuse Wang Yifu, "Okay, but you have to give me some money, people who don't have money will definitely not want to take it."

"At night, you come to the gate of the Sixth Bureau and First Division to find me, and I will bring it to you."

Wang Yifu gave Feng Xiaobao all the money she had, and it was less than ten taels of silver. Seeing that she was struggling, Feng Xiaobao didn't say anything, and took the money to do things.

The next night, when the meal was over, she asked Mo Xi, Juanzi and Shen Ci to stay, opened the food box that her aunt gave her, and took out fifteen maroon jars from inside.

Mo Xi held the tobacco stick in his hand, and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Salt."

"Salt? What are you doing with so much salt?"

"These salts are all bought in Beijing, and some are private salts. I want to taste them all, and see what the difference is."

Without waiting for her to speak, Shen Ci had already taken out a white porcelain plate and a small silver spoon, opened all the jars, and used the small spoon to scoop a small spoon in each jar and put it on the white plate.

She held the plate and looked carefully at the lamp, then poked out the salt with a spoon, and said, "Don't tell me, the size and color of the salt grains are different from each other."

Wang Yifu also filled a plate for Moxi and Juanzi, put them in small piles, poured four bowls of water, and said, "Let's try it, how about the taste?"

A few people tapped some salt with their fingers and tasted it. The overall taste is salty, and the difference is not big. Only the other tastes that seem to be absent in the salt can be used as a distinction.

When he tasted the last two piles of salt, Mo Xi put down the plate, rinsed his mouth, opened the salt jar in the dining room, put a small amount on the plate, and tasted the salt in the dining room.