Chapter 100:

Wan Lai was quiet, Hong Xiu was sitting next to the bed. She lived in a very small room and shared a big bed with six other court ladies. There was no separate wardrobe or dressing table. This was almost a decade of Hong Xiu’s life. When she was most embarrassed, she enjoyed the best resources of the brothel and became the top card since she picked up the first guest.
For Hong Xiu, her destiny is set. The best future she imagined is waiting to catch a man at the best age. This man may be a rich businessman or a young master, and then he was redeemed from the brothel. From a bigger cage to a smaller one.
She will be favored and then fall out of favor. Her background destined that she could not be the wife that anyone is married to.
Or maybe she will not be redeemed. When she gets old, she will become a sweeping mother-in-law in the brothel, crouching on her body, wiping the steps and the ground. No one will know that she was a graceful beauty when she was flourishing. .
She thought a lot, but never thought that she would sit in such a place, never thought that all her past experiences would become the experience she now relies on.
"An Xiu, don't sit down, come up and go to bed." The maid squinted her eyes while lying on the bed and called to her, "I have to get up early for work tomorrow."
Hongshou climbed onto the bed and covered the quilt, only half of his head was exposed, and the maids whispered about the day.
"I can't sleep. My aunt punished me to kneel in the afternoon. My knee still hurts."
The little palace ladies are the daughters of the little officials. They have not enjoyed the luxurious life of the nobles. The only difference from the daughters of ordinary people is that they don’t have to go hungry, but they still have to do their jobs. The little officials’ salary plus acceptance
bribery also Not enough for a family to enjoy.
"Auntie is so fierce..."
"They are hiding the queen empress!"
The grand ladies are in charge of everything around the queen. They are the eyes of the queen and the ears of the queen. They press the little ladies underneath, just because they are afraid that if they rush up, they will have to come down. After all, the seats beside the queen can be counted. of.
But in the naive fantasy of the little palace ladies, the queen was hidden by the big palace ladies.
Hong Xiu listened quietly, without saying a word.
"The empress has a good temper. I heard that she made a mistake and didn't hit the board."
"The empress doesn't fight, the aunts want to fight, and the thugs hurt."
"I heard that the palm of the hand will be swollen if it hits 20 times, and it will be useless if it hits 50 times.
"We can't make mistakes. The beating is small and shameful. My family is still waiting for me to get out of the palace!"
Although she was older when she went out of the palace, girls who had been in the palace were better off talking after going out.
Being able to enter the palace is a matter of face.
"I heard that Li Niangniang is the most favored, and the emperor goes to her every day."
"Li Niangniang looks beautiful! They all say Li Niangniang is more beautiful than Concubine Yang!"
"Can the emperor love her if it is beautiful?"
"Go to bed, work tomorrow, don't wake up aunt."
The little maidservants stopped talking. Some closed their eyes to sleep, and some kept their eyes open. They looked at each other with the little sister next to them, buried their heads in the quilt and smirked.
The sun was shining on the earth, and this temporary small imperial city awakened from the night. The servants and the maidservants hurriedly walked in the imperial city in the early spring, wearing cotton-padded clothes. The red sleeves followed the maidservants and their eyes were always looking ahead. No one knows what is ahead, who is ahead.
"An Xiu, come with me." The leading palace lady called Hongshou.
Hong Xiu walked to her in front of her, Hong Xiu lowered her head, her eyes blank and uneasy, like every young girl worried in her heart.
The palace lady smiled in the red sleeves: "I think you are honest and well-behaved. It happened that there was an elder sister in the palace leaving the palace and a lady serving tea was missing."
Hong Xiu's eyes burst with radiance, she looked very excited, and said cautiously: "I bought rouge for Sister Zhang."
The palace lady's surname is Zhang, and the dress coughed pretentiously: "I'm not aiming for this benefit, or I'll look at you for being well-behaved and give you a chance."
Hong Xiu nodded repeatedly: "I know I know, it's my sister who is thinking of me."
She gave the palace lady Zhang a lot of benefits, and almost all the gold she brought into the palace was given to her, and she barely got through this joint.
If Palace Lady Zhang did not fulfill her promise, then she would be struggling in the palace. At that time, she could only send a letter to the fourth and them. After thinking about a new method, the original plan would have to fail, and she could only become them in the palace. Of one eye.
Palace Lady Zhang took the small box of rouge that Red Sleeve handed over, pursed her lips and smiled: "If you can make a face in front of your mother in the future, don't forget me."
Hongxiu: "With my sister's auspicious words, if one day develops, I will never forget my sister's great kindness."
"Let's go now." The lady Zhang led the way and told Red Sleeve, "You have to be more cautious when you go to the temple. You are smart. I don't need to mention anything else. Just remember that others don't care, but Aunt Zhao can Be careful, she's the best face next to the empress. If you offend others, it's okay. If you offend her, you don't know how you died."
Hong Xiu asked in a low voice, "Is Aunt Zhao fierce?"
Palace Lady Zhang led her through the small door. No one passed by here was regarded as a blind spot. She looked around, and after making sure that no one was passing by, she pulled her red sleeves and said, "Aunt Zhao is an old man following the empress."
"Before Niang Niang enters the palace, she is the most capable person next to Niang Niang." Gong Mai said, "She doesn't love money, so don't go to her to give gifts. Aunt Zhao likes honest people."
Hong Xiu understood, and said with a sweet smile: "Thank you sister."
Palace Lady Zhang smiled and said, "Okay, I can be better too, right?"
It’s good to be able to hang out in the palace. If you have a familiar face in front of the master, you will be out of the palace and give birth to a child. Maybe you can go back to the palace and continue to be a nanny. If you are lucky, the master has a child. To be a nanny, when the time comes, you will reach the sky in one step.
As long as it can be remembered by the master, everything else is imaginary.
There is not much that the maid serving tea can do, that is, making tea for the queen. If the maid next to the queen is holding her, then she won't even have the chance to bring tea to the queen and make her face familiar.
But even so, those who fight for this position can still break the head.
"Aunt Zhao, this is An Xiu." The palace lady Zhang brought the red sleeves to Aunt Zhao, and all the palace ladies in the palace had to pass in front of her.
Aunt Zhao is in her thirties. She has a stern face and a stereotype that is older than her age. Her lips are thin and look a little bit mean. Her back is slightly rickety. This is the result of years of bending over. No matter she What a face in front of the queen and how much power she held in her hand, she was just a slave who couldn't straighten up facing her master.
Aunt Zhao just took a look at Hongxiu, and said calmly: "Be honest, do what you should do, and don't think about what you shouldn't have."
Hongxiu lowered her head, she could only see her skirt: "Yes, Aunt Xie mentioned it."
Aunt Zhao: "It's not worth mentioning something, let's follow it."
Hong Xiu has learned some tea. Her tea art is very good. An oiran from a brothel must be proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and calligraphy, and be able to reciting poems against literati, and she must also serve people.
Being a senior prostitute in ancient times was also a technical job.
"Not bad." Aunt Zhao drank a lipstick of red-sleeved tea, and finally made such a comment, "The craftsmanship is OK."
Red sleeves showed an expression of excitement appropriately.
Aunt Zhao glanced at her sideways, her red sleeves tightening her neck.
Aunt Zhao: "What does it look like so free? This is the queen's palace, a model for women in the world!"
Hongxiu lowered his head: "Yes."
Aunt Zhao looked away: "You are a slave to the empress, and you must be loyal to the empress. If I know if you communicate with the outside world, I will tell you to come in vertically and go out horizontally."
After Aunt Zhao finished beating, Hong Xiu was led away by other court ladies.
Although it is the palace of the queen, it is actually not big. After all, Anfeng is only a county. It cannot be compared with most cities or the real imperial city. It’s just that everyone pretends that this is the imperial city. The palace has also become more magnificent.
Hongsiu looked at all this calmly, but his heart was full of contempt.
The women here take the pride of being the queen's maids, and they tie their honor and disgrace to one person.
This person tells them to live and to die.
How similar to her once?
She once also pinned everything about herself on men.
But then she discovered that her life must be in her hands to live happily.
It's like she is standing here now, not because she wants to be honored by the family, nor because she is forced to be helpless, she has chosen all this by herself.
So she can face all the advantages and disadvantages of this choice.
These women can't.
If the queen falls, they will be over, and they don't even know what they did wrong.
Hongshou stood in the tea room with countless tea leaves behind her. The room was filled with a strong tea fragrance. Her wrists were very thin and white. She was wearing palace clothes and the most ordinary bun, with no expression on her face. The surrounding maids did their own things, no one made a sound, as if they were in a tomb quietly.
The queen's palace is decent, but what is the only thing about the queen's palace?
Whoever is the emperor is decent.
People outside say that the queen is charitable, but no one has thought about it. If the queen is really charitable, why Li Niangniang is so petted but has not given birth? The emperor is young and strong, the dragon is fierce and fierce. There are no princes and princes in the palace. Li Niangniang is also in the prime of life. Every day, the emperor asks for peace. He is the most favored.
The corners of Hongsiu's mouth are smiling.
She is not afraid of the queen's ferocity and greed, but she is afraid of the queen's desirelessness.
A person who has no desires and desires is the most terrifying person.
This person wants nothing by himself.
How can others seek what they want from her?
The more fierce she is, the more likely Red Sleeve will climb up.
Red sleeve took a deep breath.
Frozen three feet is not a day's cold, she has to continue to hibernate, slowly.
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QAQ is late, sorry everyone!
100 chapters, this chapter gives 100 red envelopes.
And yesterday, I went to watch "Wandering Earth" during the day. It was a movie, and I went to the second brush tomorrow.
Let’s just say a rainbow fart. "The wandering earth is not perfect, but it has been perfect within the range it can do. Give the domestic science fiction movies a little confidence. I hope that one day, when you mention science fiction movies, the mind will no longer come up. It’s the previous blockbuster."
By the way, Qiqi’s sci-fi enlightenment work is the American drama "Edge of Crisis". Before "Wandering Earth", my favorite was "Martian Rescue" (Beloved Farm 2333). Those who are more interested in science fiction movies can check it out. If you are not interested, it is not recommended, because as long as you are not interested in sci-fi movies, you will feel boring no matter how good it is.
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