The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 40
Wang Wanzhi made up his mind and couldn't give the ten people Chen Jijiang arranged to come in a chance to call the shots in the imperial dining room.

He wanted to suppress the three young ones, while the other seven slowly squeezed in. If the smarter ones took the initiative to say that they wanted to go back to Shangshi Bureau, he would let them go.If he had to stay in the imperial dining room, he couldn't be blamed for not giving him a way to survive.

He thinks he can think clearly, he has been in the imperial dining room for more than 30 years, and has been in charge of this area for more than 20 years, so Chen Jijiang's grandson can't steal his prestige!

The apprentice served him a cup of tea, and respectfully called "Master" beside him.This made Wang Wanzhi feel a little better. He was afraid that if he killed one last time, the people under him would not want to follow him anymore.

"Master, let the three little girls wash the dishes?" The apprentice asked with a smile on the side, and then pressed his voice and said, "I can't see it like this. You see we are so close to the front. Baobuqi, one day the surname Chen will have to come and visit, if you see this, why don’t you want to make your teeth itch?”

"What's so annoying about him? Those are his opponents?"

Wang Wanzhi said so painlessly, but he also thought about it in his heart.Looking down at the tea smell slowly drifting away, she thought for a while, then said again: "Shigui, turn around and stare with Shicai, the sky is getting warmer, their house needs to be cleaned and repaired." Fix."

"Cleaning and repairing?" Xia Shigui didn't understand what Master meant for a while.Just now I was thinking about how to suppress these people, why did I suddenly have to repair the house for others?
Wang Wanzhi put the teacup away with a smile: "Let them move to another place first, and don't move the things in the room for now."

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Xia Shigui was stunned for a moment before he realized it. He quickly called his brother and started to do it.

With the master watching from above, the two brothers naturally had to be extra "in place" in their errands.They first carefully read what the master meant, and counted out all the important points. They knew that the master first wanted them to stay away from the people in the imperial dining room, and second, he wanted to get their savings for the past three years.Both of them thought that the master was brilliant, so they gave each other a thumbs up, and it was done!

It was already late at night, Xue Li and Ting Xian lay down early, but couldn't sleep, they were all waiting for Zi Xian.

The difficulty in the imperial dining room became more and more obvious.In the beginning, the three of them were asked to wash the dishes, but within two days, only one person was on duty each time. How could a girl's house wash so many dishes?But it's not up to them to say anything.

It was Ting Xian who was unlucky the first day. When she came back at night, she heard her crying before she entered Sydney.After careful questioning, I found out that what should have been washed at noon was not finished. The eunuch in charge pulled him over without saying a word and beat his palms. His hands were so swollen that he couldn't hold them. Naturally, he would take them when he washed them again in the afternoon. Can't stop breaking.

If you break something, you will continue to beat it. In Ting Xian's crying words at the time: "It takes [-] points of strength to beat a bowl and ten boards."

She is like this, and so is Sydney and Zixian, who will take turns going later, every day.Every day I come home with swollen hands. If I haven’t finished playing, the first thing I do when I go back two days later is to make up what I didn’t finish.

No wonder they were asked to go one by one, to rest for two days!

For this reason, Sydney took out the small bottle of medicine that the emperor gave her after being punished by the queen mother, and only told them that it was given by her elder brother Wei Chen.That medicine is indeed a good medicine, and the bruise quickly disappeared after one layer was applied, and at most there were still a few blue marks left after two days.

But it's just too little, the three of them save more and more, and now there is nothing left.

Another half a quarter later, Zixian came back.

The two girls immediately got up from the couch, Ting Xian went to fetch warm water for her to wash her face and hands, and Xue Li applied her medicine.

"Those bastards!" Su Zixian threw the handkerchief far away with red eyes, and cried on the table before she finished speaking.

Sydney was also very uncomfortable.

At the beginning, I thought about finding an opportunity to meet Wei Chen and ask Mr. Wei to help her.But after so long, the only place they can go is their residence and the dining room, and they have no chance to go out at all.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and the three of them trembled like frightened birds, and looked out the door: "Who is it?"

Looking at the outlines, there are two eunuchs, and then one of them said: "Girl, Mrs. Wang sent us to do something."

How dare they offend Wang Wanzhi now, Zi Xian wiped away her tears and was about to open the door when she heard this, but was dragged away by Yue Tingxian.

Yue Tingxian made a silent gesture, and then said "Come here!", grabbed the medicine bottle still on the case and put the stopper on it to signal Sydney to hide it, and then went to open the door.

The two eunuchs outside the door smiled: "Three girls, Master Wang said that the weather is getting warmer, and this house needs to be repaired. You guys, move to another place for a few days."

"Repair the house?" Ting Xian raised his head in surprise to see that it needed to be repaired, when someone pushed his shoulder and was pushed out of the house.

Xueli and Zixian were basically pushed out in this way.The two eunuchs took locks, locked the door, turned their heads and said "Let's go", and took them to their new residence.

Going around east and west, they came to the end of the palace residence in the west. The three of them stepped into the door and knew where it was.

——It is the place where the maids who work as handymen outside the Zichen Palace live.The maids who worked as handymen in the palace were either confiscated into the palace as slaves because of family crimes, or they were sent down for mistakes after entering the palace. The place where they live is almost the same. In winter, there is almost no charcoal fire available, and quilts and so on Very good.

There were already four people in the room, all of whom were palace maids in their 30s.Hearing the movement, someone came over with a lamp to take a look, chuckled and said "Oh, here are three little girls" and went back to sleep, ignoring them.

There is only one big bunk in the room, the four people sleep in a spacious place, the rest of the place is too crowded for two people to sleep in, the three of them looked at each other, went to climb into the couch one by one in the dark and squeezed together, but they didn't feel cold even though the quilt was thin up.

Four more days passed like this.

The work during the day is definitely endless, and I am determined to be beaten. When I come back at night, I listen to those four people teasing.

Xue Li couldn't bear to listen to it, but then she got into trouble even more. She finally knew what it meant to bully others.

On the fifth day, I had a chance to go out.

The dishes here have been washed, and Shangshi Bureau will take them back.One day, an eunuch who came to pick up things happened to have a stomachache. Halfway through the process, he settled the matter. The rest of the eunuchs glanced at the pile of washed things next to them and frowned: "I really can't take it without a few people."

The number of people who come is the same every day, and today there is one less person. Sydney also noticed that she gritted her teeth and said, "I'll deliver it for you!"

The leading eunuch looked at her, and Xia Shicai, who was ordered by Wang Wanzhi to watch her work, glared at her immediately.

Xueli pretended not to see it, lowered her head and muttered: "I also came from the Shangshi Bureau, and I was going back to see Zou Shangshi."

One sentence really drew the relationship in. The eunuchs smiled, and some said, "I said you look familiar!", and then asked her to help.There are so many of them, how can Xia Shicai stop them?

By the time Xia Shicai and Xia Shigui finished their calculations and they went to report to Wang Wanzhi, Sydney had already packed up their things and left with them.The eunuchs took good care of her along the way, she stopped to rest when she was carrying her things, and they waited for her. After walking like this for two quarters, it was considered that she reached Shangshi Bureau.

Once the things have been delivered, Xueli Yifu is about to resign.They also guessed that she wanted to see Shang Shi was just an excuse, so they didn't ask much, seeing that the little girl was cute, they gave her a few pieces of snacks, and said goodbye.

Sydney ran to the small courtyard after leaving Shangshi Bureau!

It's not easy to come out, and she is willing to go all out.Originally, I wanted to go to the Tai Hospital to get some trauma medicine and then went back, but after thinking about it hard, I had to give it a go and go to Wei Chen!

Holding the skirt, she ran as if her legs were no longer in control, and she was running forward involuntarily.On a half-cold day, a layer of sweat still oozes from my body, and I can vaguely feel the beads of sweat trickling down my legs, being absorbed by a certain fold of my trousers, and then dripping down again.

His body was sweating hot, and there was a cold wind blowing beside him. It seemed that everything had been left behind. The imperial dining room was thrown far away, and there was no need to go back.

The remote palace road that once made her feel a bit gloomy looked very peaceful at this moment, she stopped in front of the courtyard gate, knocked on the door without caring to catch her breath: "Master Wei! Lord Wei! Lord Wei! "

Even after shouting several times, no one responded, and the gate of the courtyard was still tightly closed, as desolate as this quiet palace road.

"Master Wei." Xueli's voice weakened, as if a thin needle had cruelly pierced the last support in her heart, and the grievances accumulated in her heart for several days overflowed together, and tears welled up in her eyes, "Master Wei..."

A sense of desperation that can swallow everything is full.

She turned around slowly, rubbed her feet back step by step, and tried her best to draw out a little bit of clear thought from the helplessness - if you can't find Wei Chen, go to the Tai Hospital to get some medicine first... Her A bottle of wound medicine is not enough for tonight.

The sunset is gradually setting in the sky, and it is a round of red.She happened to step through a palace gate, and a flash came to her mind...

That day when she was reprimanded by the Queen Mother in the Zhengzheng Palace, it was also when the sun was setting.But the emperor saved her that day, and today, no one can help her anymore.

Xue Li stared blankly at the sunset for a long time, then burst into tears with a "wow".

The grievances were too much in my heart, and the tears seemed to flow endlessly.

She still doesn't know why Wang Wanzhi suddenly disliked them... She really wished that she could understand more about these twists and turns in the palace, and felt that if she knew the true identity of the "commander" later, she would let him Just mention it a few more times.

After thinking about it, I immediately felt that it would be better not to know him at all!In this way, she is still in the Shangshi Bureau, and she will never go to the ghost place of the imperial dining room...

Relying on the remoteness of this palace road, she cried until she was exhausted, her wailing turned into sobs, she still didn't feel relieved, but she snorted coldly: "Where is the maid!"

Sydney shivered, choking on crying.

Turning around, she choked up and bowed down: "Ma'am."

"You..." The man swallowed back the scolding words, and swept her up and down, "Sydney?"

Xueli raised her head and wiped away her tears before she could see who the other party was: "Sister Dingxiang..."

Ding Xiang hurriedly stepped forward to help her up: "Why did you come here? Your Highness said you went to the imperial court...why are you crying? Come and tell my sister, she will help you."

Originally, she and Ding Xiang were nodding acquaintances.During the few days when she went to the Zhengzheng Palace to accompany the Seven Kings for dinner, Ding Xiang would lead her in and send her out, with a few greetings.

But now she feels very kind when she sees Ding Xiang.

So she sobbed and narrated the recent experience upside down, Ding Xiang was also patient, and frowned after listening to "generally understand".

Xue Li looked at her expression, tugged at her sleeve, and asked hesitantly: "Can my sister help me..."

It's not easy.The intrigue in front of the imperial court should be kept as far away as possible, even if it is not untouchable, it is mostly untouchable.

Who knows if it means the emperor.

Ding Xiang pondered for a long time, met her tearful eyes full of anticipation, and sighed: "I'm not lying to you, I can't help you with this, I can only, I can only ask His Highness the Seventh Highness for you..."

(End of this chapter)