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Prince Yan's Mansion, Glazed Pavilion.
Shen Wei slept until almost noon before she opened her eyes with difficulty. After a hangover, Chen Wei had a splitting headache. She looked at the gauze curtains dazedly and tried to recall for a moment. The memories of yesterday came into her mind.
"Picking lotus and apples!" Shen Wei exclaimed.
There were footsteps outside the house, and Cailian walked into the house holding water for washing face, and Caiping walked into the house holding refreshing soup.
Shen Wei lifted the curtain: "Where is the prince?"
Cai Ping smiled and said, "Your Majesty is going to the East Palace this morning."
Shen Wei clutched the bed curtain and asked cautiously, "I was drunk yesterday. Did I talk nonsense after drinking?"
Drinking alcohol can really cause trouble. Shen Wei felt a wave of fear in her heart. If she got drunk and talked nonsense, and spoke out her true thoughts, King Yan might see through her long disguise.
Cai Ping said with a smile: "The master hugged the prince last night and talked about love for a long time. What about loving only the prince, wanting to strip the prince naked, the slaves' ears turned red after hearing this, and the prince was also laughing."
Shen Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, there was no nonsense.
Shen Wei got up, washed, and put on a new summer dress, and solemnly told Cai Lian and Cai Ping: "If I get drunk in the future, find an excuse to send the prince away - forget it, I'll drink less in the future."
Only by drinking less and not getting drunk can we eliminate potential crises at the root.
Chen Wei sobered up, started to have lunch, played with the baby in the cradle, dealt with a few matters in the inner house of the palace, and gave Li Yao two toys... Chen Wei's day passed peacefully.
As she became more and more skilled in managing the household, and with the assistance of capable subordinates like Rong Mama, Shen Wei did not feel that the job of housekeeper was very hard.
As night falls, the sound of frogs croaking can be heard from the summer pond, and lotus flowers hide among the edges of the lotus leaves. Lanterns were lit in the waterside pavilion, Prince Yan was enjoying the cool air in the pavilion, and Chen Wei was practicing calligraphy beside him.
King Yan leaned over to examine Shen Wei's handwriting, a smile flashing across his handsome eyes: "Very good, Wei Wei's calligraphy has improved greatly."
Shen Wei is not good at calligraphy. At first, his handwriting was as scrawl as a dog's crawl. Under the guidance of Prince Yan, his handwriting gradually became the neat and beautiful handwriting it is today. Prince Yan was very satisfied and felt a sense of accomplishment.
Chen Wei clutched the brush and smiled brightly at King Yan: "Your Majesty supervises me every now and then, how dare I be lazy?"
The maid brought a plate of freshly washed cucumbers.
The cucumbers were planted by King Yan himself. A climbing frame is set up in the vegetable garden, and the cucumber vines climb along the frame, blooming with delicate little yellow flowers. The flowers faded a while ago and the cucumbers are slowly ripening.
On a hot summer day, King Yan took a bite of the crispy cucumber that he grew himself, and the taste was wonderful.
Shen Wei finished writing, and King Yan finished eating the crisp cucumber.
Chen Wei pulled King Yan back to the room to rest, and the gorgeous Xiangyunsha bed curtain fell.
The candle burned in the lamp, and the light was dim.
On the bed, King Yan deliberately teased Shen Wei: "When you were drunk, you wanted to take off my clothes, but when you sobered up, you behaved yourself. Where is your courage?"
Shen Wei: “…”
Shen Wei complained wildly in her heart. Heaven and earth could bear witness that she only wanted to take advantage of King Yan, take away his gold, silver and treasures, and really didn't want to take off his clothes.
Men with lots of energy are really hard to deal with.
With nothing to say, Shen Wei took the initiative to hold King Yan's hand. The night was still long...
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The lotus flowers in the yard are blooming brightly, and time is passing quietly. Under the "guidance" of Prince Yan, and with the help of Madam Rong and the wealthy steward, Shen Wei took charge of the inner house of Prince Yan's mansion.
She also applied modern corporate management methods to the Prince of Yan's Mansion. Use bonuses as inducement and establish an attendance system to stimulate people's enthusiasm for work. The capable will get more, the capable will work harder, and there will be healthy competition for jobs.
Under various incentives, the lifeless inner courtyard of Prince Yan's Mansion gradually came to life.
Qixue Pavilion.
Xuemei hummed a cheerful song and worked with two maids to move Liu Ruyan's books out and put them in the sun to dry.
It's hot in summer and there are many mosquitoes. But Xuemei was not afraid at all. She wore a mosquito repellent bag with a light smell around her waist. This was the summer mosquito repellent that Shen Wei gave to all the first-class maids in the mansion.
Wearing this, Xuemei no longer has to worry about being bitten by mosquitoes in summer. Moreover, the smell of the medicine bag was very faint, and Liu Ruyan could not smell it.
A young maid asked curiously, "Sister Xuemei, I heard from Aunt Rong that as long as you work in the palace until you are sixty years old, you can get a sum of money every month after leaving the palace. Is this true?"
Xuemei nodded: "It should be true. Yesterday I went to the manor to find Nanny Wang. She entered the palace when she was ten years old. She is already sixty-five this year and is bedridden. She actually got two hundred taels of silver."
The little maid looked hopeful and said, "That would be great. If I am too old to work in the future, I can still get money."
The maids were all secretly delighted and felt much more at ease.
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In Kunyu Courtyard, the princess waited for several days, but she didn't receive any news that Xiang'er had committed suicide in Liuli Pavilion.
The princess asked Nanny Liu to inquire and learned that Xiang'er seemed to have attained enlightenment and was staying quietly in her own yard, embroidering and weaving every day and never leaving the house.
"Useless idiot." The princess clenched the Buddhist beads in her hand, her teeth itching with hatred.
The princess began to panic.
She originally thought that it was impossible for Shen Wei, a small peasant girl, to manage the palace well. But the facts slapped the princess in the face. Even though she was in Kunyuyuan, the princess could see the changes in the palace.
Disobedient slaves were sold, troublemakers were driven out of the palace, the servants in the palace worked diligently, and the atmosphere gradually changed.
The princess knew clearly that if she continued like this, she would become nothing more than a hollow shell. In the mansion, the servants all followed Shen Wei's lead.
"I am the principal wife, the main wife." The princess clasped the string of Buddhist beads in her hand. She could no longer allow Shen Wei to be so arrogant.
But the prince protected Chen Wei, the queen favored Chen Wei, and even her own daughter Li Yao ran to Chen Wei's yard every now and then. The only loyal servants around the princess were Madam Liu, who were outnumbered and powerless and could not help her at all.
At this time, the only one who can help her is her parents.
The princess thought to herself that her father and mother loved her and that the Tan Tai family was powerful. If her parents knew that she was being constrained in Prince Yan's Mansion, they would definitely plead with the Queen.
The Tantai family supported the emperor's ascension to the throne, invested a lot of financial and human resources, and made great contributions. The Queen had no choice but to give face to the Tan Tai family and return the management power of the Prince of Yan's Mansion to the Princess.
It just so happened that it was my mother’s 60th birthday.
As the biological daughter, the princess used this as an excuse to leave the Prince of Yan's Mansion and return to the Tan Tai family to celebrate her mother's birthday and take the opportunity to complain.
The princess made a plan in her mind, and then she told Aunt Liu: "Aunt Liu, go to the storehouse and pick out two birthday gifts. In three days, I will return to the Tantai family."
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