Quick travel: one profession in each life

Chapter 54 The Fourth Longevity Palace Lady 4
When Nanny Qin said that, she agreed, and the two left in a sensible manner.

Xiaoyue walked in front, and Yu Xiaoxiao followed slowly behind. After the two left Nanny Qin's room for a certain distance, Xiaoyue stopped, and after Yu Xiaoxiao followed, she stuffed her with a purse and said: "This It's for you."

After all, she turned around and left quickly. Anyway, it is absolutely impossible for her to say thank you to this idiot Liu Ya.

Yu Xiaoxiao twitched her purse, although it wasn't as heavy as she gave Nanny Qin, but she was still very satisfied, who made this a surprise.

Back at Datongpu, Yu Xiaoxiao happily packed her things, ready to wait for someone to come and take her to the Imperial Dining Room to report in the afternoon.

It was also at this time that she realized that not all the maids would be sent out, some of the maids stayed here voluntarily, they wanted to wait for good positions, and they were not willing to be rough envoys.

Of course, if you want to stay in Gong'e Palace voluntarily, there are conditions, that is, you must have money, otherwise they will not let them eat and drink here for free.

One of the reasons why Xiaoyue didn't stay here like the old elders in the previous generation was that her family background was not particularly strong. If her family was particularly rich, she would not enter the palace by selecting palace maids, but by drafting maids. .

Her family is just a little rich family, if she wants to fly on a branch and become a phoenix, she can only choose this road and fight hard.

In the afternoon, people from various palaces came, and Yu Xiaoxiao and the others left with them.

After Yu Xiaoxiao came to the imperial dining room to meet the manager's father-in-law, she was assigned to a place dedicated to providing cakes and tea for the emperor.

It was also at this time that she realized that the imperial dining room was divided into two places, one was a tea room dedicated to providing cakes and tea for the emperor, and the other was a dining room dedicated to providing meals for the emperor.

Yu Xiaoxiao was assigned the job of boiling water, because there was a court lady who was old enough to leave the palace, so she took over this job and officially became a water boiling girl.

And the other two maids who were also assigned here were all assigned to the dining room.

As soon as Yu Xiaoxiao followed her to the sleeping place, someone came and asked her to help.

So, Yu Xiaoxiao could only put her things on the bedside, and hurried over. She had just walked to the door of the tea room, when she was spotted by a sharp-eyed person, who ran over and grabbed Yu Xiaoxiao's wrist, dragging her to the stove next to the stage.

"Hurry up and light the fire, the water here can't stop."

Yu Xiaoxiao ignited the fire without saying a word, so she had time to look at all the busy people in the tea room.

There were only four girls who boiled water, including Yu Xiaoxiao, but each of them had to look at five stoves, and everyone was sweating profusely.

The pastry makers are also constantly busy, some of the dozen or so people are kneading dough, some are kneading shapes, and no one is idle.

There are also six or seven little eunuchs, they are constantly coming in and out to carry the materials for making pastries.

In short, the whole tea room seemed to be busy and very lively.

After Yu Xiaoxiao finished observing, she fixedly stared at her own stove.

She thought this was her day's work, but when the sky was getting dark, a palace lady came, and she should be a first-class palace lady by her attire.

She was assigned another job. She was in charge of five stoves and still had to look after them. In addition, she had to add firewood to the three large pots and stoves that had been useless.

Because at night, the emperor and the ladies in the palaces had to bathe and change their clothes, not only could the water not be stopped, but they had to be heated up, and it was time for the emperor and the ladies in the palaces to eat.

Although the meals are not taken care of by their pantry, the pastries are needed here.

Originally, Yu Xiaoxiao thought it was quite easy to take care of the fire for boiling water, but now that she has to take care of the fire for making cakes, she is overwhelmed.

The heat needed to make pastries cannot be constant, so she can only listen to the pastry chef, and the fire will be high for a while, and the fire will be low for a while, and the whole person will fly up in a hurry.

After all the cakes were out of the pot, Yu Xiaoxiao could finally rest. She guarded the five stoves for boiling water, and turned her eyes to the other three. They were no better than herself.

I sighed silently in my heart, as expected, every position is not easy to do.

Everyone in this tea room hardly has any time to rest, at most it is the difference between not busy and very busy.

At the time of You, a lot of pastries were brought back, and many fresh pastries were also sent from the tea room to various parts of the palace.

Yu Xiaoxiao was assigned some pastries that had been withdrawn. Some of these pastries were hardened, and although they didn't look very good, they were still edible. She didn't dislike them, and ate every bite.

She is already hungry, but she doesn't know when she will be able to eat.

At the end of Youshi, the boiled water was sent to the various palaces in batches. When Yu Xiaoxiao thought that the day was finally coming to an end, she was told to go eat.

She happily ate with them, and then she was brought back again. She and the fire maid who brought her back replaced the two people who stayed on duty.

She heard her say: "Don't look at me, we are on duty tonight, even if you are new here, you can't escape."

Yu Xiaoxiao understood, after thinking for a while she asked: "Then how long are we going to stay here, when can we go back to rest?"

The burning lady said blankly, "All night."

Yu Xiaoxiao's eyes widened, and she asked in disbelief: "Can't go back to rest all night? Then shall we come during the day?"

The maid who burned the fire rolled her eyes at Yu Xiaoxiao and said, "Stop dreaming, not only can't we sleep at night, but we have to work as usual during the day."

"What should I do if I'm sleepy?"

The burning lady yawned, and said lazily: "Let's just wait until tomorrow they take turns. Just watch me and squint for a while, and I'll replace you later."

After finishing speaking, it didn't matter whether Yu Xiaoxiao agreed or not, she hugged her knees and buried her head in rest.

For a while, Yu Xiaoxiao didn't know how to describe her feelings. She knew that women in ancient times, especially slaves, had a difficult life, but she never thought that just a job of lighting a fire would be so difficult.

She sighed again, silently lamenting the difficult life.

There was no other expression, just staring at the stove diligently, and practicing internal strength by the way.

The hot water was boiling pot after pot, and time was slowly passing by.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, someone came to the tea room, Yu Xiaoxiao hurriedly woke up her companion, and whispered: "Wake up, someone is here."

The companion raised his head and rubbed his face to wake himself up, then stood up and took Yu Xiaoxiao to bow to others, and asked aloud: "Eunuch Zhao is here, but the concubine Hui has an order?"

Eunuch Zhao smiled decently and said: "Ms. Concubine Hui had a nightmare and was a little sweaty. Let our family fetch some water to take a bath."

The maid who boiled the water said with a smile on her face: "Eunuch has worked hard, hot water is always ready, and Eunuch is in charge of taking it."

(End of this chapter)