After entering the west room, Wang Chenghai did not dare to look up, but knelt on the ground and kowtowed to greet him.
"Get up, was it Li Mancang who arranged for you to bring people to build a small kitchen?"
"Yes, I will bring someone here today to take measurements. We will go back and prepare the materials according to Jing'an Garden's instructions, and we can start construction tomorrow."
"It's so cold today, I'm afraid the mud and sand won't solidify well, right?"
Wang Chenghai didn't expect the princess to ask such questions. He couldn't figure out what Meng Qi meant by this, so he said carefully, "Yes, I have thought of this problem, but it's really nothing. First, keep the room warm. Use plenty of hot water when building it, and then bake it over a fire after it's built. This way it will not only dry faster, but also be stronger."
"It seems that I have caused you much trouble."
Upon hearing this, Wang Chenghai quickly knelt down again and said, "Princess, please forgive me. It is my honor to be able to help you."
Meng Qi chuckled, "What a pity, Li Mancang doesn't want this honor."
Wang Chenghai turned these words over in his mind and kowtowed. "Eunuch Li is honored by Huamu Garden and Yinyan Pavilion. Perhaps he is afraid that he can't bear it. But I thank the princess for giving me this honor. I will do my best. I hope the princess will give me more honors like this in the future."
Meng Qi smiled slightly. She was indeed a smart person. "Think carefully. If you ask for this honor from me, you are not allowed to ask for it from others. If I find out that you have extended several hands, don't blame me for being rude."
Wang Chenghai seemed to have made the decision at that moment. Thinking about the humiliation he had suffered from Li Mancang in the past few years and the things he had forced him to do, Wang Chenghai suddenly felt that his spring had come.
"I thank the princess for her common sense. I will serve you wholeheartedly and forever. From now on, the princess is my only master."
Meng Qi stood up with satisfaction. "Okay, that's all I need to say. But you have to be careful. Don't assume that everyone in my yard is in my house. Do you understand?"
Wang Chenghai looked at Shi Liuxiangqun walking towards him, knelt there and moved back, "I understand, I understand."
"Okay, if you have any problems in the future, just look for Lixia who is by my side."
After saying that, Meng Qi walked past Wang Chenghai and walked out of the west room.
After hearing what Meng Qi said, Lixia smiled and said to Wang Chenghai, "Eunuch Wang, please get up. My name is Lixia. I will take you to the back room."
Wang Chenghai stood up and dared to raise his head to look at the girl who called herself Lixia. She was not very pretty, but her eyes were bright and clever.
Wang Chenghai was in high spirits, as if dry land had encountered water. "Thank you, Sister Lixia, for leading the way. This is my first time in Jing'an Garden. I hope Sister Lixia can give me some advice on how to build it."
Lixia Yile thought, this Wang Chenghai is really interesting. He looks older than herself, but it is very easy for her to call him sister.
"Sister Suxin is in charge of the small kitchen. I'll take you there and you can just ask her. If you need anything or have any difficulties, just come to me."
As they talked, they left the main room and went around to the back room through the side hanging flower door.
Seeing Yuan Dong hesitate to speak, Meng Qi smiled slightly, "Are you trying to ask me why I trust this guy named Wang so much?"
Yuan Dong nodded. "Princess, have you inquired about this beforehand?"
Meng Qi smiled slightly. This was a good excuse. "Yes, we can't just marry into the palace blindly, right? We can't use Li Mancang, nor can we afford him, and we dare not use him. This Wang Chenghai is very good. He has been suppressed by Li Mancang for many years and is usually not taken seriously by those women. But he was one of the first batch of people who came with the prince to open the palace. He is very clear about the affairs of the palace. He is exactly the kind of person we need."
Yuan Dong nodded in admiration. "Princess, you are truly foresighted. But to be able to find out such information, it must be Master Zhou Er, right?"
Meng Qi thought of Zhou Yu's smirking face and wondered if not marrying him was the best thing she had done for him.
"That's right, who else could it be besides him?" Meng Qi said, "Please ask Lixia to come over later, and I'll give her some more instructions."
Although he wanted to make Wang Chenghai his own, now was not the right time to do so. Moreover, it was not enough to just rely on the fact that he was used by Song Chengze in his previous life. He had to observe him more carefully.
In this life, she still doesn't want to care too much about the affairs of the inner house. Those women can do whatever they want, as long as they don't get under her nose.
She just wanted to help Song Chengze achieve his wish. In fact, even without her help, Song Chengze would still succeed, but she had to let him know that he needed her help so that they could discuss the final conditions.
In addition, she had to find that person, the one who coldly watched her die in her previous life.
Apart from that, everything had nothing to do with her. She just had to tighten the fence of Jing'an Garden.
As the two were talking, they suddenly heard crying outside. There was more than one person crying, and the woman's sharp cry was particularly obvious in the quiet afternoon.
Meng Qi walked to the window and saw four or five women coming into the yard, including wives and little maids, crying all the way to the upper room. The old woman guarding the gate looked at them, pointing and talking, without any sense of dereliction of duty by letting them in.
On such a happy day, the servants started crying. What kind of etiquette was this? Yuan Dong walked out without waiting for Meng Qi to ask more questions.
Xiaoman had already lifted the cotton curtain and walked out, blocking the leading woman's way as she tried to go up. "Who are you and what do you want to do?"
The kitchen steward covered her face with a handkerchief and said, "Miss Fan, please be kind and let us go in and kowtow to the princess to apologize. We all have families to support. Princess, please be kind and spare us."
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