Zhang You picked a relatively better bed that could occasionally get sunlight.
Taking advantage of the good afternoon sun, I put the clothes and quilts I received outside to dry for a while, then simply washed the bed and packed up my belongings.
Although she also wanted to delay for a while and not face work life so early, but when you live under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.
well.
Zhang You resigned herself to her fate and went to the small kitchen to find Nanny Chang.
Fortunately, she had just arrived and Nanny Chang didn't assign any work to her.
He just took her and the six girls to familiarize themselves with the rules of the mansion, commonly known as - listening to gossip.
There were eight of them in a group, sitting in the open space next to the small kitchen, practicing their smiling faces while listening to Nanny Chang talk about the Qiao Mansion.
In fact, this house was the Qiao Mansion a long time ago. Later, the previous owner joined the army by chance and became a general. He helped the late emperor stabilize the country. He was promoted from the Dingbei General's Mansion to the Dingbei Prince's Mansion, became the late emperor's sworn brother, and settled in the capital.
The house here became an old house. Over the past forty years, the old prince only sent his collateral relatives to take care of it.
In the past few years, the northern barbarians have been eyeing us covetously.
The emperor sent the current prince to guard the border and fight the enemy.
After the prince came, he won more than ten victories in less than a year.
To prevent repeated invasions by the barbarians, the prince stationed here.
The princess and the prince were deeply in love, and later moved their family back to this old house.
However, due to poor management in the past few decades, there was a shortage of space and manpower in many places, so people were always recruited to move into the mansion and renovate the old house.
Because the current head of the family grew up in the capital and had been stationed at the border for a long time, he inevitably missed the capital, so he specially renovated the house to resemble the one in the capital.
Therefore, some of the trees, flowers and plants here are particularly precious and need to be carefully cared for.
Zhang You and her colleagues’ current work includes planting and maintaining plants in the North Courtyard, but this is something they have to do tomorrow morning.
Because she was afraid that they would contradict their masters, Nanny Chang specifically emphasized the identities of the masters in the mansion.
The prince is not in the palace because there is a war going on on the border recently, so the prince has been on the front line, but the prince will send his followers to deliver messages to the palace.
The current head of the palace is the princess, who lives in the main courtyard in the east. The princess appears gentle and kind, but she is decisive and resolute in her actions.
When they first moved here, the side branch that had been managing the mansion was caught by the princess for pretending to obey her orders but actually disobeying them. She was then beaten with ten sticks and expelled from the palace, leaving only a few loyal side branch members to help manage the affairs of the mansion. For example, the steward Qiao, who had bought the pomelo and brought him into the mansion, was from the side branch of the Qiao family. His original name was Qiao Tong, and he had two older brothers, Qiao Jin and Qiao Yin, who both held positions within the mansion. Because his brothers held higher positions than he did, he particularly disliked hearing about this matter.
This move of killing the chicken to scare the monkey also warned many servants and maids who had ulterior motives.
There are a total of six young masters in the mansion, but there is a third young master who is not here and stayed in the capital.
Although Nanny Chang said it nicely, saying that the Queen loved the Third Prince and could not bear to have him travel around with the Prince because of his young age, she kept him by her side.
However, for Zhang You, who has extensive knowledge of palace fighting, this is clearly a proton.
It's just a means to control King Dingbei and make him serve the royal family wholeheartedly.
However, the third prince was born to the princess and is the most legitimate heir to the throne.
Now that I'm being detained in the capital, I guess this palace isn't a safe place to work.
Sooner or later, I have to leave here, no matter if it's with the manager or the master. Anyway, I have to get along well with them and get a contract to sell myself, then I can leave here.
But looking at the war, the emperor still has to rely on King Dingbei, which means that this place is safe for the time being and will probably be safe for the next few years.
Then just do it first, save some money, and then you can run away.
"Except for the Third Young Master who is not in this mansion, there are still the Eldest Young Master, the Second Young Lady, the Fourth Young Lady, the Fifth Young Lady, and the Sixth Young Lady..."
Among them, the third son and the fourth daughter were the daughters of the princess. It was unknown what kind of personality the third son had, but the fourth daughter had a temperament that was sometimes gentle and sometimes tough, even arrogant, and was very moody.
As for the eldest son and the second daughter, they were born to the same mother as the concubine. However, she was beautiful but had a tragic life and died two years after giving birth to the second daughter.
As for what their biological mother was like, Nanny Chang was not very clear either. She had only heard these things from the old people in the mansion.
I don’t know if it’s because this concubine died early, but the eldest son was sensible and obedient when he was young, but now he has become so romantic and absurd.
In the capital, he often flirted with young girls, but he was much more restrained here - probably because most of these people were hungry and there were not many beautiful women.
There are also many courtyards in the mansion where his concubines who were taken in from the capital are housed. They are all arranged to live in the courtyard on the north side.
Although they are born of the same mother, the second girl has a very different personality from him.
She was an extremely gentle and quiet girl who often visited the princess to show her filial piety. Sometimes she got along with the princess even better than with the fourth girl.
So she lived near the main courtyard where the princess lived, just like the fourth girl.
The fifth and sixth girls were born to two concubines respectively. Both concubines were non-competitive, so these two girls were also quiet, non-competitive, and had a low sense of presence.
There were several concubines and one concubine in the mansion. The concubine had no children and usually loved to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures. They all lived in the northeast corner.
After Nanny Chang introduced (gossiped about) the identities of the masters of the palace, she also introduced a bunch of rules.
The rules cover everything from how to take care of the master to how to maintain flowers and plants, no matter how big or small.
It was not until it was getting dark that Nanny Chang took them to the big kitchen to help prepare food for the masters.
I have to say, the masters ate so deliciously!
A meal, especially in the north, actually has three meat dishes!
And this is just the portion for one person!
It smells so good!
Zhang You handed the cleaned fish to the chef, and looked at the old hen soup stewed in his small casserole, and shed tears of envy.
This milky white soup, this golden chicken, and this fragrant smell!
Although it was just a quick glance, it was deeply engraved in Zhang You's eyes.
Even if we take a step back, can't a maidservant get some meat?
"Uncle, can the masters finish all these dishes? If they can't finish them, can they leave some for us?"
Zhang You stared longingly at the braised fish made by the chef and swallowed secretly.
"Hey, you're new here, right? This kind of food is only for the master. The leftovers are for the maids and servants around them. It's not our turn."
The chef fried the fish skillfully with his hands while talking.
Zhang You wanted to please him, so he kept helping him and praising him all the time. But his craftsmanship was indeed amazing.
Perhaps the chef liked her, so he secretly used the soup from the fried beef and scrambled eggs to stir-fry a small portion of cabbage for her.
Zhang You ate secretly and praised him even more earnestly, "When I have money in the future, I will definitely buy you some wine to honor you."
The chef smiled happily when he heard this.
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