Passerby's daily life

Chapter 8
Before dawn, Su Su was woken up by Ning Cui: "Get up, the old lady usually gets up at six o'clock and prepares meals at seven o'clock, and we have to get up at five o'clock. The older sister is in charge of getting up, sleeping, and tidying up in the old lady's room, and it was time for her to rest and go home yesterday. There is also a sister, Onyx, who is in charge of the old lady's clothes and jewelry, and the four older sisters around the old lady are very kind."

At this time, the four of them had also finished their clothes, the same color light yellow jackets, dark green trousers, only the length of the upper body was different from armor and sweat scarves, they all wore double buns, and wore small silk flower hairpins, bracelets, earrings and pendants. It's the dress of everyone's maids.

Outside, there had been maids carrying hot water to distribute from room to room. Everyone washed their faces, brushed their teeth, and applied ointment. Liu Er and the other three also used rouge and gouache. Susu puts some rouge on.

Susu quickly waved her hands: "I'm still young, so I don't need these." Seeing that the gouache seemed to be pretty good, she thought about it and said, "Sisters, use less, I heard that there is lead powder in it, which is not good for the skin."

The other three looked at each other, and then said with a smile: "Silly girl, the incense powder in our house is used in the palace, how dare we add lead powder, such a small box costs three coins outside. The sisters use it more Well, the ones with pearl powder are several taels of silver and a small box. Sometimes the old lady gets excited, and she will play with the maids to make rouge."

For the Song family's rich, Susu once again hehe.

After tidying up, the four of them left the house. Along the way, all the beautiful maids in flowers and flowers went up to the room. Some of them looked at Susu with very unfriendly eyes, but they didn't dare to say anything, so Susu also pretended not to see.

Bisi told Susu carefully about the six second-class maids and the other four third-class maids in the old lady's room, and then said: "Don't pay attention to that picker, they don't dare to be demons."

In the upper room, the third-class maids are not allowed to enter the inner room without being summoned. In the inner room, only the eldest maid, the second-class maid and a few stewards can go in. The third-class maids can only wait in the outer ear room, while the coarse servants What's more, they can only wait outside the house.

Susu didn't look carefully at the old lady's upper room yesterday, but today, she found that it was seventy to eighty square meters in size, and it was covered with various carved hollows, Liuyun Baifu, Suihan Sanyou, or landscape figures. Into the inner room and outer room, east room and west room, hall, warm pavilion, ear room, etc.

The person who saw Mother Zhao yesterday should be the Xijian Flower Hall, I don't know why she couldn't see it elsewhere, but I saw that the antelope where the little maids waited on weekdays was very unusual.

There is a bright red soft curtain hanging on the copper hook outside the door, and a dark green embroidered cotton curtain is hung on the door leading to the inside to keep out the wind. In the middle is a mahogany carved table with eight immortals inlaid with mother-of-pearl, matching with eight four-legged mahogany inlaid mother-of-pearl stools. It is covered with silver and red embroidered cushions.

In the corner, there are two four-legged braziers with copper enamel, burning silver charcoal, and a pair of large half-person-high blue-and-white vases with landscape patterns, with feather dusters and peacock feathers.

Next to the ear room is another small room, which is a tea room, where all kinds of tea are matched with corresponding water, and there are also various tea sets, tea hangers, red clay stoves, etc.

Inside there was a beautiful maid, fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a moon-white satin jacket and a sapphire blue bijia, with a hanging bun and a hairpin carved with white jade, which was rare and elegant.

The third-class maid greeted her, only then did Su Su know that she was one of the second-class maids, named Dongqing, who was in charge of the tea room, and Ning Cui was very close to her.

Almost six o'clock, a maid with a round face lifted the cotton curtain and said, "Ask someone outside to deliver water." Another very thin maid came out with a toilet and handed it to a third-class maid, who then handed it to another maid. The mother-in-law continued.

Susu stood with Liu Er and stood by the bell. There was really nothing to do.

Liu'er whispered in Susu's ear: "The one with the round face is sister Dongmei, and the thin one is called Caiwen, who just filled the second-class vacancy."

It turned out that it was Caiwen who couldn't even part with the old bedding. Listening to Sister Hu Po's voice, it seemed that her elder brother and sister-in-law were inappropriate, and her background was like a mandarin duck in a red building. Unfortunately, she didn't act like a mandarin duck at all.

Afterwards, the meal was set. This time, the third-class maids carried food boxes and a second-class maid named Dong Lan into the East Flower Hall, which served as a dining room. The tables, chairs and furniture were all made of huanghuali inlaid with marble.

The maids quietly set up breakfast, three kinds of porridge with three side dishes, a bowl of minced chicken wontons, a cage of small steamed buns, a plate of siu mai, some pastries and a bowl of almond goat milk, served with a set of rich and noble lotus The white agate tableware is full of color, fragrance and taste.

The old lady is kind-hearted, and the little maids can go down to eat after setting up the meal, and just wait for the old lady to go into the house to clean up the dishes after eating.

The third-class maid's routine is two dishes and one meal, with meat and vegetables, and meals are taken from the small kitchen.The rough envoy girls have to go to the big kitchen to eat. They are full of white noodles, steamed buns and rice.

Susu and the others' breakfast consisted of a bowl of porridge, a meat bun, and a dish of meat sauce. The leftovers of the Song family from the day before had never been in the habit of staying overnight.

After eating, the dining room was tidied up, Liu'er and Sister Pearl returned home in a hurry after taking leave.

The remaining third-class maids were called into the inner room by a second-class maid named Dongzhu to clean the furniture and vases. Susu, the six second-class maids, saw all of them now, and saw the other two big maids, Jade and Agate. , the four big maids have their own strengths, and they all look extraordinary, which shows the old lady's way of training people.

Susu didn't clean the furniture, but was called by Amber to go into a small compartment with Dongsong, where there were desks, pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and a cabinet full of various account books.

"It's almost the end of the year. The old lady sorts out the private treasury once a year, and the hospital's annual expenses have to be summarized and reported to the public account book."

Amber said while flipping through the account book, "You can read, so you should be able to write, right?" Seeing Susu nodding, she breathed a sigh of relief, "Dong Song's handwriting is really shameful, what you have to do is to write this year's Suan Hall The account book is being transcribed so that it can be handed over to the accountant."

Dong Song also heaved a sigh of relief, "It's okay for me to learn how to read, but writing is too tortured. With you, Sister Amber can't scold me anymore."

Afterwards, Amber said: "Not everyone can enter the warehouse and this room. Remember, you are not allowed to imitate those shallow-eyed and talkative people." Susu nodded vigorously: "Sister, don't worry!"

It was only later that Susu found out that she was really lucky to be able to follow Hu Po. The old lady's private treasury has never been handed over to her family to have children.

Amber is getting old, and she will be released to marry in a year or two. After that, she will definitely be on the top of Dongsong, but she also needs to find a successor to continue her training. Susu, who is not a family child and can read and write, just appears in In front of me, I met the old lady again, so I chose to come in to have a look.

If it's really a good one, everyone will be happy. Even if it's not good, it's not a big deal if you can't see what's going on here if it's so big.Fortunately, Susu is not a real child and knows that she is still in the internship period.

Su Su never learned brush calligraphy in her previous life, but Ruan Shisanniang did. She started practicing calligraphy at the age of five and learned Mrs. Wei's hairpin lowercase.

After studying it for two years, it doesn't matter what kind of character it is, but it still catches the eye. I tried it in Susu, the Duke's Mansion, and I can write books by myself. Like embroidery, it seems to be a physical instinct.

Looking at Susu sitting upright, spreading paper and rubbing ink like a painting, and seeing Susu's writing, I am so happy that amber is like something, I feel that the young lady of the Futai family in Yangzhou is just like this look like.

Voices came from outside, it was the three wives who brought their children to pay their respects, Amber said bitterly: "They will ask for things to save face, and if you look at them, you don't know what they are thinking." Then she warned Susu: "Except for the old lady's words, the other side You are not allowed to listen to what she says about anyone, if you let me know that you are talking nonsense outside, be careful of your skin."

Dong Song hurriedly said: "Good sister, don't scare Susu, Susu is a kind person who never forgets to repay her kindness."

The two of them laughed again when they thought of Susu's serious appearance yesterday, and only Susu looked at her with mentally ill eyes.

　I am happy today, and I will add a new chapter. If you have a manuscript, you can be so willful.For those who have passed by, please leave your traces in the comments, Sister Fat will be more happy, and then, you understand!?
　　
　
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