Under the Empress Dowager, all members will be King

Chapter 16 Chu Chu's Windfall

Gu Yingxia was bleary-eyed, yawned and helped Ah Qing in. Seeing the table full of food, she went to Chu Chu and asked her.

"Chuchu, have you made a fortune?"

"Sell purses to earn some money." Chu Chu smiled at Gu Yingxia.

Ah Qing said: "Chuchu, how much money did you make selling purses?"

"Not too much, not too much, earn some hard money."

"I'm rich too. You see, I bought a fortune talisman from the second lady, and found gold when I got back. Since you guys didn't make any money, I'll share some with you. I'm willing to share my fortune with my good friends." money."

"Ah Qing, actually I..."

"Chuchu, don't talk about it, you are all working as maids, I know it is not easy for you."

Tong Tao hesitated to speak, "Chu Chu seems to be..."

"Don't talk, I just want to give money to my little sister today, no one can stop me.

Tiantao and Chuchu shared a piece of gold each, and Ah Qing took a sip of the eight-treasure porridge.

After finishing half a bowl of porridge, Ah Qing raised her head and asked, "What were you two trying to talk about just now?"

Chuchu interrupted: "Eat vegetables, eat vegetables."

Tian Tao gave Ah Qing a thoughtful look, and Ah Qing put down his chopsticks, feeling that the pickles and crispy pork in the bowl were not fragrant at all.

"You won't, earn more than me, right?"

Ton Tao said: "Let's eat first, too much curiosity will affect your appetite."

"No, I must know how much money Chuchu made selling purses today, and I won't eat until she tells me."

Chu Chu held the rice porridge and smiled sweetly: "Not many, about thirty purses were sold."

Ah Qing's mood fluctuated greatly, "It's really not many, 20 purses, 600 taels each, [-] taels in total."

Feng Tao reminded: "Miss Ah Qing, you seem to have miscalculated."

"That's right, one is 20 taels, and thirty is 600 taels. My arithmetic was taught by Miss San herself."

Flat peach and Chu Chu obviously didn't want to talk more, so they ate quietly.

Ah Qing picked up a small piece of crispy meat, took a bite and it was crunchy, spicy and delicious, with endless aftertaste. Ah Qing was about to take a second bite when Gu Yingxia spoke.

"I taught you your arithmetic, but do you remember what Second Miss said to you the day we finished shopping for the purse?"

"Second Miss said, next time we come to buy purses, instead of selling them for 20 taels, we will sell them for 200 taels instead."

After talking about it, the smile on Ah Qing's face gradually disappeared, and she took another bite of the small crispy meat caught on the chopsticks. The bite was crispy, bitter, sour and astringent.

Seeing that things were not going well, Chu Chu put away the gold, put down the bowls and chopsticks and ran away.

Ah Qinghuo stood up from the little bench and chased after Chu Chuchu with the little bench, just like a peasant woman chasing a chicken that steals the rice when drying the grain.

"Chuchu, stop for me and pay me back."

"No, you gave it to me yourself."

"One purse sells for 200 taels, and 6000 purses cost [-] taels. You have so much money, how dare you take my gold and pay me back."

"I won't pay it back. Talking about money between good friends is so vulgar."

She runs, she chases, she can't escape.

The almonds chewed slowly, ignoring the two chasing and fighting outside, the gold was shining, and the food was delicious.

"Why bother to let Ah Qing eat well?"

"Her arithmetic, I taught her by hand, and she even got such a simple problem wrong. I helped her recall, but she didn't remember the unit price of the purse at all."

"Eat without talking, sleep without talking, they like to talk, let them talk for a while, check carefully early in the morning, it will affect my eating."

Gu Yinwei likes this kind of atmosphere very much, chasing and fighting, all emotions come from the heart, and the words are sincere. When they enter the palace, they have to wear a mask to live, with insincere words and involuntary feelings.

After breakfast, the two sisters went for a walk in the flower hall. Gu Yingxia sat on the swing to read her book of favorite concubines. As soon as Gu Yinwei approached, she immediately hid the book.

"You don't need to be so vigilant. I didn't come here to read your book, but to collect the seeds of this six-leaf frost orchid."

The three maids also lay down among the flowers to pick and choose, and raised their hands one after another, putting seeds into the pouch in Gu Yinwei's hand.

"Can the seeds you pick up produce flowers?"

Gu Yinwei is also not sure: "You have to try it, maybe these seeds can bloom."

"I heard that there are hundreds of gardeners in the Imperial Garden. The flowers grown by these gardeners not only have a long flowering period, but also bright flowers. When we enter the palace tomorrow, I will look at the flowers with my second sister."

"I'm afraid it won't work."

"Why?"

"You are Shurong when you enter the palace, and I just change clothes."

"The harem pays the most attention to the order of respect and inferiority. The first rank is the queen, the second rank is the imperial concubine, the third rank is the concubine, and there are concubines below the concubine, as well as Shurong, Shuyuan, Shuyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Zhaoyi."

"The status of changing clothes is not much better than that of a court lady, so third sister, you should get me more in the early stage."

Gu Yingxia hugged Gu Yinwei's neck, and said softly, "I just realized now that only my younger sister is good in this world."

"Just wait, I'll catch you as soon as I'm free."

The show girls in Chu Feng Pavilion had already started to pack their luggage, and the carriages lined up to pick up people. After being delivered to the gate of the palace, the show girls started to get off one after another.

Gu Yingxia arrived at the destination before Gu Yinwei, she wanted to wait for Gu Yinwei for a while, but the people behind urged her to leave quickly, she was pushed and shoved by the crowd, and entered the palace in a daze.

The residence that Gu Yingxia assigned was called Hefengtang. There was a large area of ​​lotus flowers planted behind the house. Now that it was autumn, there was nothing to admire in the pond except for the mud and remnants of lotus roots.

The desk was full of draft paper, Gu Yingxia was writing flowers and flowers, Ah Qing asked: "Miss, this picture you drew is so strange."

Gu Yingxia pointed to the ring after ring and explained to Ah Qing.

"The imperial study is here, where the emperor eats and sleeps, so this is the center of the entire harem."

Ah Qing pointed to the circle closest to the imperial study room and asked, "What are these four small boxy boxes?"

"This is a simple picture of the palace I drew. Concubine Zhen lives in Changning Palace, Concubine Yi lives in Chunxi Palace, Concubine Jin lives in Cheng'en Palace, Concubine Rou lives in Jingyang Palace. Empress Qionghua lives in Qiwu Palace. The imperial concubine lives in the palace."

"The bedroom is close, and the emperor comes frequently."

Ah Qing pointed to the palace next to the central axis of the imperial study and asked, "This is the closest to the emperor, why doesn't the empress live here?"

"Stupid, this is where the empress dowager lives."

Ah Qing instantly understood: "Miss, which ring is our Hefeng Hall?"

"Fifth ring, look, here?"

"We actually live so far away, what about the second lady?"

"The dressing men don't have their own yards, they are all crowded into the Cangzhu Hall. I count them, and they must be outside the Seventh Ring Road."

"Isn't it because Second Miss has not been able to see the emperor for half a year?"

"If you sort them one by one in order, it will take about three years."

"It's been so long, doesn't it mean that there are only more than 50 selected girls?" Ah Qing sighed.

"There are more than 50 newcomers, and there are many old people in the palace, and the emperor doesn't need someone to sleep every day. Even if there are 360 ​​five days a year, and every day is not the same, it will take two and a half years to wait for his turn to change clothes." Bedtime."

(End of this chapter)