Chapter 585: An Open Secret
Chapter 585
On the fine blue and white porcelain round table, on Erfu's right, there is a small porcelain jar about three inches high that Imperial Doctor Hu has found from the small kitchen. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In the jar, there is still most of the fine salt.
"This is the bad thing that I can't sleep on?" Erph asked, tilting her head as she pinched the small porcelain jar with a layer of oil stains hanging from her fingers.
"Back to the master's words, it is exactly this thing, but most of the jar is salt, only a small amount is the kind of medicine that makes you unable to sleep well, this medicine is tasteless, powdery, milky white, although there are some differences with the salt, but if you don't look carefully, you can't find it, thanks to the nose of Dr. Hu. "Found the root of the bane, Xiao Wenti's heart in his throat can be regarded as falling to the ground, and even speaking is more casual.
It's just Xiaowen's smiling appearance, which makes Erfu really heartbroken.
She almost burned herself in the clean room yesterday, although she found the root of this bane, but she still had to drink a lot of bitter medicine soup in order to remove the residual poison from her body, this child is not brainless, why can't she understand her feelings!
"Imperial Physician Hu is a dignified court official, how can you describe him like that. Erfu, who was extremely heartbroken, glanced at Xiaowen with a smile on his face, and said lightly.
Xiaowen was also excited for a while, this would say such stupid words, by Erfu so little, I couldn't help but feel a little empty, I hurriedly looked back at the direction under the corridor, and saw Doctor Hu frowning with his beard, and he became nervous, for fear that Doctor Hu would be angry with his master when he heard her words, and hurriedly leaned over and said: "The slave and maid lost their words for a while, and I ask the master to forgive." ”
Erfu nodded in the direction of Imperial Doctor Hu, and instructed Xiaowen: "Okay, you must be more cautious in your words and deeds in the future, and you are not allowed to learn from me to talk nonsense like this."
You go back to Imperial Doctor Hu to take a look, if the things in the small kitchen and the upper room have been checked, let him check the cross-courtyard and the side room, don't let people do anything around Xiaoqi and their children, these dirty things are really pervasive. After saying that, Erfu pushed the small jar in front of her to the side with unhappiness, and continued to talk to Lily of the Valley.
If you want to say that this lily of the valley is also a hard life.
When he was over twenty-five years old, he combed himself and broke off the idea of leaving the palace, but he was mixed into his thirties, and then he was mixed with the position of the palace maid, compared to the little sisters who entered the palace with her, the upgrade speed was not a little slower, I thought that I had finally come out, although there was no serious master to do the backing, but in the end, Aunt Yuxiu, who relied on Concubine De's side, was also a palace maid with a bit of face in the palace.
In the end, if Yuxiu hadn't begged Concubine De Niangniang to come forward and ask for a favor from a favored nobleman, she would have been doing drudgery in the Criminal Division to pestle rice at this time.
However, she can't stay in the palace anymore.
Spending half of her life in the palace, Lily of the Valley is familiar with the Forbidden City with red walls and yellow tiles, this leaving the palace gate, it seems to be free, but for her, a person who has lost the ability to live outside the palace, she is extremely frightened, everything she sees is unfamiliar, she can only rely on her cheeks to beg Yuxiu, and Concubine De will come forward to let her come to the Fourth Master's Mansion to ask for an errand, or to be a housekeeper in the house, even if she can't be a housekeeper, she will be sent directly to Zhuangzi to be honored, it is better than her wandering in the market alone, not to mention the private money she has saved over the years, which is not much, and it is not enough to live in Beijing, but if she leaves this familiar land, she is afraid that she will not be able to live for a day.
It was precisely because of this that although she knew that Erfu, the side Fujin, would not trust her, she still came happily when the Ulanala clan arranged her to the West Courtyard.
Erfu silently listened to Lily of the Valley's self-description, pushed an unused glass cup to the opposite position, smiled and pointed to the porcelain embroidered pier supporting the round table, nodded slightly, and said: "Since Mama came to my west courtyard, it is my person, so you don't have to be so restrained, just be like them." As he spoke, Erfu stretched out his finger and pointed to the guzheng and Xiaowen walking back and forth under the corridor.
"The slave understands. Lily of the valley's ass put a side on the embroidery pier and nodded.
Erf is not a very good person to deal with people, especially strangers, and in a foreign way, she is a little autistic.
And Lily of the Valley is a restrained person, she hasn't spoken since the moment she sat down, and the two of them sat together silently and drank orange water, which made Erfu even more awkward, forcing her to drink all the orange water in the glass pot, and her little belly was uncomfortable, so she had to stand up from the embroidery pier, beckoned Lily of the Valley to follow, and said softly while walking to the upper room: "Okay, since you have been assigned an errand, you should get familiar with it first." ”
As they spoke, the two of them had already returned to the upper room.
The things in the upper room, with the examination of Imperial Doctor Hu, the guzheng has been returned to its original position, but there is no mess, even the dim sum box on the small tea table of the Luohan bed outside has been put back to its original position, Erfu smiled and asked Lily of the Valley to sit on the embroidered pier under the Luohan bed, etc., walked to the wardrobe with a relaxed step, and removed a box about the size of a shoe box from the top of the wardrobe.
In this box is the monthly account book of her newly opened Taosha House.
Because Taoshaju is newly opened, it is not on the right track, and even the shopkeeper is temporarily replaced by the big guys under Yu Yao of Rongde Pavilion, so naturally he did not invite Mr. Accounts, fortunately, there is a special accounting department under Erfu, but these account books were sent, and Erfu didn't have time to let people send them out, but they happened to be handed over to Lily of the Valley to be responsible.
It's not that Erfu doesn't trust Lily of the Valley and refuses to hand over all the private property under her hands to her to take care of, but it's that the heart of defense is indispensable, after all, Lily of the Valley has just arrived in her yard for the second day, and she doesn't even know the temperament attributes, so she hastily handed over a lot of things, and Erf is not so naïve and easy.
But even if Erfu handed over these few ledgers to Lily of the Valley, Lily of the Valley had a feeling of flattery, looking at the box with a copper lock in front of her, and touching the hard key in her hand, she actually had a feeling of bitterness.
"This is a shop specializing in imported products, the location is not the best, just near Dashilar, and there is a foreign store opened by the ninth master next to it, so the business is not a daily profit, but it is also passable. Erfu took out the jade plaque symbolizing the identity of the owner from the small cabinet next to Luohan's bed, and chattered about some basic information in the shop.
"This is my identity jade card, the other half is in the hands of the shopkeeper, you can just give him the jade card when you pass another day." As he spoke, Erfu handed over a jade plaque with irregular fractures on the edge to Lily of the Valley.
The jade plaque is exquisitely carved, one side of the edge is a hollow grapevine pattern, one side is the three words of the seal book of Taoshaju, but the other half of the word does not exist, obviously on the other half of the jade plaque, in addition to this jade plaque symbolizing the identity of the owner of Taoshaju, Erfu also has a hollow carved phoenix pattern jade wrench in her hand, that is the certificate of all the properties under her name, as long as the jade wrench finger is presented, you can appoint and dismiss the stewards of various industries at will, this is also Erf's last insurance, never handed over to anyone.
The treasurers who distributed it to all the shopkeepers and the stewards who took care of the property for her were holding the same certificates as the jade plate held by Lily of the Valley.
Because the jade carving master of the Xuancai Workshop prepared the jade plates are all on a piece of jade, in order to facilitate her identification, so as not to take the wrong hand, so although it seems to be the same pattern in the middle of the seal, but they are all the font size of various industries.
Lily of the valley touched the warm jade card with warm tentacles, and actually got up and bowed to the ground: "The master values the slave so much, the slave will definitely not live up to the master's trust." ”
Erfu, who was taken aback, hurriedly stretched out his hand to help Lily of the Valley, and said with a smile: "Get up and talk, don't kneel around without moving, you just need to do your errand." ”
"The slave obeys. "It's rare for Erf to trust her so much, Lily of the Valley has a feeling of meeting Bole, but she also feels that the burden on her shoulders is not light, because she has never been in charge of the accounts, although she knows some words, but she really has no clue about things like account books, but it is rare that Erf values her so much, and she can only work hard.
Fortunately, this time Erfu handed her all the running accounts, which are considered entry-level, and do not classify other account books, just a journal of expenses and income in the shop, so as long as she is not stupid, she can take care of the account books clearly, and she will have a general understanding of the income in the shop.
This is also Erph's compassion for her.
After all, the account book that is easy in Erfu's eyes, in the eyes of the natives of this era, is like a book from heaven, which makes Erfu, who has always been on the verge of IQ arrears, a little secretly proud.
"Okay, these account books, you take them back and look at them slowly, when you want to go to the shop to inspect, when you go to Fujin to get the right cards, but when you go, you must say hello to Yaoqin and them, and let me know where you are." Erf, who was already a little tired, sat in the warm sun for a while, and couldn't help but feel a little sleepy, so she didn't leave Lily of the Valley to speak, smiled and waved her hand, and gave a soft command, and let her go back.
At the same time, Yaoqin, who had been busy all morning, also slipped back through the back door.
"Master, the slave is back. Erfu, who had just pulled the brocade quilt to lie down, raised her head when she heard the footsteps, and before she could ask, Yaoqin ran to her side with a roar and said softly.
"Where have you been?" asked Erph curiously.
Because she doesn't remember where she told Yaoqin to go and what to do, this Yaoqin said something really strange.
Sure enough, as soon as Erfu took over like this, Yaoqin opened the conversation.
It turned out that this Nizi saw that Erfu was now suffering from the enemy on her back and was very hard, so she had the idea of helping Erfu, in her opinion, the most important thing to find out about her identity and background at the moment was the latecomer of Lily of the Valley.
And she was originally from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so it would be quite easy to check someone.
Although there are few people in her family who are in important positions, and the family is not big, but in the end, it is the Baoyi family that has been inherited for a hundred years by the Internal Affairs Bureau, and the in-laws care about the Shangsanqi Baoyi family like a spider web, don't look at her family and treat her like a chess piece, and she is not kind to her, but she wants to use these relationships, she can still do it, so she left the house early in the morning to go to the Internal Affairs Office.
In just two hours, she found out all the experiences of Lily of the Valley before and after entering the palace.
As Lily of the Valley said, the only difference is that Lily of the Valley and Yuxiu are actually relatives, but this relationship can't be put on the table, so both of them are called cousins to the outside world.
"And what about her family?" Erfu remembered that the palace maids in the internal affairs house were all on the three banners for generations, and it was not for nothing that they were married, but this relationship was all used by each other to inquire about each other's news, especially among the eunuchs, but among the palace maids, the more reliable ones were their own families, she remembered that the fourth master said that Yuxiu's family, because the opponent family had a force, so most of them had been lost, and only a few people were still on errands in the palace, which was basically equivalent to a helpless palace maid who was holding Concubine De Niangniang, but this lily of the valley would never be so bad that the family would fail in the power struggle。
Seeing Erfu ask this question, Yaoqin scratched her head in embarrassment, and glanced at Erfu's face with small eyes, until Erfu was a little hairy, and then said intermittently as if squeezing toothpaste: "This ...... This one...... Like a slave...... These coatings ...... family, although ...... It's not obvious on the surface, but it's a lot of ...... The foundation of the family is ...... It's quite thick, so I feel a little sorry for my own ...... The girl's house will be ...... from the outside Bought the right age girl in ...... Raised at home, only in the palace...... A small choice, will be bought...... The little girl was sent to the palace, and this kind of thing was in the palace...... It was completely cut off from home...... If you contact it, your family won't ...... exert force, arrange it to what...... On the important errands, at most, ...... Do some rough work, even if it's them...... If you make a mistake, you won't be implicated...... family, and Lily of the Valley is such a poor person, so she ...... It will not be until he is in his thirties that he will become a Chuxiu Palace...... There are other palace maids in charge of the head...... Tube. ”
"So that's the case, then you can say it, what are you stumbling on, I can hear that I am in a hurry. Erfu, who was rejuvenated, shook his head slightly, took a sip of the tea in his hand, and said lightly.
"Please forgive your sins, Master. As soon as Erfu's voice fell, Yaoqin turned pale and knelt on the ground, bowing her head with a posture of pleading, "The ancestors have long established a rule, Manchu and Han do not intermarry, in order to ensure the royal bloodline, so the show girls in the palace are all clothed slaves of the three banners, and when the old and old are still outside the customs, they are the slaves of the Aixinjue Luo clan, but this kind of little maid bought back, there are few Manchurian blood, most of them are Han, so if this matter is broken, it is the capital crime of exterminating the nine clans, and the master is also invited to be a slave and maid. Keeping secrets for the Coating family of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. ”
"You girl is stupider than me, you think that the one today is a fool, you don't understand what your family is doing in private, it's just that you don't want to investigate, you haven't seen how many palace maids are pregnant, and they can really be taken to the dragon bed by the old man, which one doesn't have the efforts of the family behind it!" For this kind of secret that everyone pretends not to know, Erfu said that she was not interested, so without waiting for Yaoqin to finish speaking, she smiled and waved her hand, interrupted Yaoqin's words, and said with a smile.
(To be continued.) )