Chapter 269

Half a month of getting up and entering the palace before dawn, even if Erfu and the fourth master are in good health, it is inevitable that they will be a little more tired and impatient until the fifteenth day of the first month.

When she got up early, Yujie called three times as usual, and Erfu got up lazily, and she didn't even open her eyes during the washing process, and a layer of cyan under her eyes made her beautiful face have a flaw in her former beauty.

"Master, eat something before putting on makeup!" Yuhua looked at the somewhat pale slap face in the mercury mirror, and couldn't help but feel distressed.

Hearing the sound, Erfu blinked his misty eyes, nodded slightly, and understood Yuhua's meaning, lazily raised his hand, held Yuhan's wrist, and moved to the kang in the east to eat, and simply ate two small buns, and a cup of red dates and longan simmered all night of hot porridge, and then felt alive again.

"It's not too early, the master has to hurry!" Seeing that Erfu was full and leaned on the cushion, staring at the little maid making the bed, the big grandmother couldn't help but poke her head out in the warm pavilion and reminded softly.

Erfu sighed in her heart, looked up at the still dark sky outside, muttered a few words, and then sat down in front of the dressing table again with Yuhan and the others.

Erfu's face is a little bad, she has always been plain, but she has to put a thin layer of official powder on her face to cover it, but fortunately the things she uses at hand are good, and they are very thin, but they will not fall down as soon as she speaks.

Yuhan combed her hair with one hand, and pulled up her long hair without letting Erfu feel a trace of pain, and a few crystal clear beads dotted it. I also chose a pair of long hairpins inlaid with gold and jade on one side, which complemented each other with the red gold dot emerald step on the other side, and lined with the top hairpin with the east pearl embedded in the center.

It was put on a lake blue embroidered flag outfit. Covered with a satin fox fur cloak, Erfu beckoned Xiao Qi and Hongxuan, who had been waiting next to him for a while, to go out of the west courtyard together.

"Eniang, you don't need to enter the palace tomorrow, you can continue to sleep lazy!" Xiao Qi noticed that Erfu's mood was not high, and walked two steps quickly to get in front of Erfu, blinked his eyes strangely, and said softly.

"You girl. How can you say that, and I'm not afraid that your upbringing grandmother will see you!" Hearing this, Erfu deliberately straightened his face. stretched out his warm little hand in the leather tube, gently tapped Xiao Qi's head, and whispered.

Erfu likes children to be close to her, and there is an iceberg-like fourth master at home as a strict father. She was happy to do her motherly duties with ease.

Except for leading the two little ones to play. That's really everything, looking at Xiao Qi's funny appearance at this time, I couldn't help but glance at the nurturing grandmother who was a few steps behind, and especially scared Xiao Qi who coaxed her to be happy.

Xiao Qi shrunk his neck when he was said, and felt a little embarrassed by his movements, so he hurriedly straightened his back, and looked back at the upbringing grandmother with a tiger face, and saw that the upbringing grandma was wailing again. Busy took two more steps behind and shrank behind a few maids. There is no arrogant temperament of those nurturing grandmothers in the Qianlong Dynasty at all.

Looking at the nurturing grandma dodging, Xiao Qi retracted her eyes with satisfaction, and continued to talk to Erfu with a smile, Erfu noticed the movement behind, but she didn't think so, completely ignored the appearance of the upbringing grandma shrinking her head, pursed her lips and smiled, continued to joke with Xiao Qi and Hongxuan, and came to the second gate in a harmonious atmosphere.

Speaking of Xiao Qi and Hongxuan's upbringing, Erfu doesn't like it very much.

It's not that she looks down on people, it's really that some people use chicken feathers as arrows, they are a slave, but they want to be the masters of their masters.

Originally, I heard that Xiao Qi and Hongxuan's upbringing grandmother were both elderly people who were found by the fourth master from the palace, and Erfu really felt flattered, and even specially asked people to pack out a single room for them to live in, after all, they are all people who want to accompany Xiao Qi and Hongxuan for a lifetime, and she is happy to respect them.

But some people just give you face, and she doesn't take it.

When Erfu found that Xiao Qi was becoming more and more silent, she sent Yuqing, who was still serving in the mansion at that time, to keep an eye on the upbringing grandmother, although the method was a little obscene, but she had to admit that the results were remarkable, otherwise she didn't know what kind of person she was behind the nurturing grandma who was dedicated to hospitality.

Xiao Qi is her first child, although Erfu is spoiled, but not pampered, she has never missed the truth that should be said to Xiao Qi, even if Xiao Qi didn't understand it at that time, she still let Xiao Qi remember it well, there will always be a day when he understands.

When the upbringing grandmother first entered the house, Xiao Qi was indeed much more well-behaved, which made her feel much more intimate, but seeing her children becoming more and more silent, she felt that something was wrong.

Xiao Qicai was so embarrassed, and the upbringing grandmother asked people to sew shoes and socks for her, saying that women pay attention to three-inch golden lotus.

In this regard, Erfu will not be too angry, but she feels sorry for her daughter.

After all, this Han Epitek woman's foot binding can be regarded as a bad habit that has been passed down for N years.

Most of these upbringing grandmothers have been passed down from generation to generation with the old people in the palace of the Ming Dynasty, and it is inevitable that they will be exposed to more Han people's habits.

So Erfu also politely invited the nurturing grandmother into the room, and told her carefully, lest her daughter wear small shoes since she was a child.

If the matter only ends here, Erfu will definitely not have the same attitude towards parenting as today, but the previous upbringing grandma was a cautious eye, and was told a few words by Erfu, not only did she not feel that she was wrong, but thought that Xiao Qi said something in front of Erfu, and by teaching the rules, let Xiao Qi kneel in front of the hall for a full hour.

Children's bones are already soft, and it is time to take good care of them. Even kneeling on the futon, it is difficult to support, let alone kneeling on the cold and hard bluestone slab in silk pants!

Xiao Qi was raised by Erfu's side, and he would not be willing to be tortured like this, so he took advantage of the time to eat with Erfu and told him about it.

Considering that the raised grandmother was invited from the palace by the fourth master, Erfu was not too beaten. I had to politely send a letter of silver, and said that my daughter was still young, so she didn't need to be too forced. Only then did Yuqing arrange for Xiao Qi to serve and replace a half-big girl beside Xiao Qi.

Thinking that there is a first-class maid beside Fujin to guard, the nurturing grandma will never come out again, but I don't want the upbringing grandma to come up with a new way, standing and walking, each practice is an hour, and Xiao Qi is not allowed to enter the room to eat. Instead, they ate alone in the wing, reenacting the scene when Erf first arrived.

Even if Erfu is worried about raising her grandmother's face, she can't bear it anymore at this time. gave her face again and again, hoping that she would stop in moderation, but this upbringing grandmother kicked her nose more and more excessively, making Erfu feel like a slave bully. I am even more worried that such a person will marry with his daughter. I can't go back and control the affairs of my daughter's house.

The daughter of others was tortured, she didn't know, and she didn't want to care, but her daughter was the meat that fell from her body, and she definitely couldn't let an old slave bully her, so she called Xiao Qi and the nurturing grandmothers to come over, and asked people to send a message to the fourth master in front of her, in front of Xiao Qi. Let her understand once what it means to be a master and servant.

If it weren't for the fear that her daughter would have a bad reputation when she was young, she originally wanted Xiao Qi to send the tiger woman away.

The fourth master knew that his daughter had been wronged. saw the embroidered shoes that were obviously narrow and the little face that Xiao Qi had lost a circle, and he was also very angry, and directly ordered someone to beat twenty boards and send them back to the Internal Affairs Office.

At the same time, the fourth master also took into account the daughter of the Song family who was still alive at the time and Mo Yaqi beside the Li family, and ordered people to investigate carefully, and found that the nurturing grandmother in Jingxin Garden and the East Small Courtyard was also doing the same, and the good daughter trembled when she saw the upbringing grandma who was being struggling.

This discovery made the fourth master secretly hate these minions hatefully, and felt that the two henchmen were unsatisfied, and even careless people like Erfu found out that Xiao Qi was wrong, and neither of them found it, so it can be seen that they don't care about the children, so they are disappointed in them, and they are getting farther and farther away from them.

However, regarding the matter of the child, the fourth master did not ignore it, and directly asked the Internal Affairs Office to choose a proper person, and knocked it a few times unhurriedly, seeing that it became a rule to raise the grandmother, so he sent it to the various hospitals to serve.

With Xiao Qi's experience, Hongxuan didn't suffer any grievances, but Erfu still reminded him several times of the relationship between master and servant, lest he be used by those slaves with bad intentions at a young age.

Thinking about his thoughts, Erfu didn't even notice that Li hadn't arrived, so he led Xiao Qi and Hongxuan into the carriage, hugging Xiao Qi and showing a look of self-blame.

"E-niang, what's wrong with you?" Hongxuan grabbed the jade pendant on his waist and played for a while, looking at E-niang, who always laughed and played with them in the past, he didn't speak for a long time, grabbed a piece of walnut cake on the low table in front of him and sent it to Erfu's mouth.

Erfu looked at the worry flickering in Xiao Qi and Hongxuan's eyes, only to feel that the haze in his heart was swept away, and finally showed a comfortable smile, rubbed the little brains of the two, and saw that both of them showed a trace of dissatisfaction and blame, so he took a small bite of the walnut crisp, and said softly: "Seeing that you are getting bigger and bigger, Eniang is a little reluctant to you!"

"When Xiao Qi gets married in the future, he will often come back to accompany his mother. Xiao Qi smiled and nestled into Erfu's arms and said in a coquettish voice.

"I'm not ashamed, and I'm not afraid that people will hear you laugh at you, it seems that you still have to let your grandmother keep an eye on you, lest the bigger you get, the more nonsense you will be!" Erfu pinched Xiao Qi's fleshy little nose and unconsciously curled the corners of her lips.

Xiao Qi shrugged his shoulders disappreciatively, "I'm coquettish next to Eniang, who dares to say anything is not, and I have all the rules of raising grandma in my heart, and they are almost fine!"

"You can!" Erfu nodded at Xiao Qi's brain, thinking helplessly, I don't know if there is a deviation in her education, Xiao Qi's temperament is really hearty and strong like a female man, and she is black with the sesame stuffing of the fourth master, but Erfu is not worried that she will suffer a loss outside, even if she marries on the grassland.

However, with Xiao Qi's interruption, even if Erfu wanted to get back the depressed mood just now, he couldn't find it back at this time, and the car once again talked and laughed as usual, which made Yuhan and Yujie, who were waiting outside, relieved.

The carriage slowly stopped outside the Shenwu Gate again, and Erfu had a feeling of the final exam, no matter how good the exam was, at least she could breathe a sigh of relief soon.

With such a strange feeling, Erfu's heavy footsteps became brisk, and he followed the palace people to Yonghe Palace with great strides, just happened to meet Yuxiu, nodded with a smile, and without waiting for Yuxiu to speak, he led the child into the main hall with the Li family.

In the main hall, Concubine De, who is also not easy these days, is crooked on the couch, with a forehead on her head, and she didn't bother to get up when she saw Erfu and Li come in, but she just raised her hand and stopped the action of the two of them asking for peace, so she let people move the embroidery pier and call for a seat, and turned her eyes to greet Xiao Qi, Hongxuan, and Hongyun to come and talk.

Erfu looked at the furnishings in the hall idly, and accidentally noticed a beautiful figure, and was a little distracted for a while.

The woman was dressed as a palace maid, with two small handfuls of hair combed on her head, and a long black and shiny braid hanging behind her, and she looked like she was twenty-one or twelve years old.

Seeing a palace maid of this age for the first time in the palace, it is no wonder that Erfu feels strange.

The palace maid was born with three flags and coated slaves, and entered the palace after being selected every year, and she could return to her own family to marry after serving in the palace at the age of twenty-five.

Like the palace maid who served the master in the main hall just now, there are generally several options:

One is the service of An'an, not seeking merit, but seeking no mistakes, and leaving when he is old enough.

This kind of master is also willing to give dignity, and before they reach the age of twenty-five, they will give them a few pieces of cloth and a few taels of silver to marry.

One is that there is no hope in the family, and they want to stay in the palace to serve, so they basically comb their hair and become a grandmother at the age of eighteen or nineteen.

This kind of is mostly the palace maids who have a good face next to the master, or some who really can't get along outside.

There is another kind, that is the palace maid that all the masters hate, and she is bent on climbing on the emperor's dragon bed.

However, the fate of this kind of palace maid is very miserable, and there are really few successes, even if they succeed in climbing the bed, they are all capable of being in the Internal Affairs Office, otherwise a small palace maid wants to swing in front of the emperor, that is the rhythm of death.

Even if she is an official woman, Concubine Wu Ya's family, it is because her family Wu has a face in the Internal Affairs Office, which can make a name for herself in front of the emperor, otherwise even if she is really beautiful like a flower, it will be the feeling of being wiped out in minutes.

Even the good concubine from Xinzhiku, who is also a person from the entire family, otherwise how can she be qualified to become the emperor's woman, and she can give birth to a son smoothly, and raise her son safely.

Now that Concubine De is old, she has long been unable to serve the emperor, could it be that someone wants to take advantage of the emperor's gossip to take advantage of the loopholes, thinking of this, Erfu can't help but be annoyed by her increasingly dark thoughts.

"What's wrong with Sister Guerjia, but what's uncomfortable?" Li Shi saw that Erfu was distracted, and hurriedly made a small report, with an anxious look, I don't know if I thought something happened to her mother!

Erfu came back to her senses, smiled a little shyly at the look of Concubine Shangde, and said softly: "I just saw the good eyes of the maid of the first palace, and then I was distracted!"

"Jiaotai Hall needs manpower there, Concubine Yi passed the word again, and the palace sent a few around him honestly.

I thought that it was only half a day, and I didn't care if I left a few of them, but I didn't want them to be sent over, and the palace was a little uncomfortable, so I grabbed a few temporarily, no wonder you looked at it!" Concubine De looked at Erfu's eyes and said with a smile, but she also felt that the palace maid who had just walked under the corridor was a little strange, and glanced at Yuxiu and motioned her to keep an eye on it. (To be continued......)