Don't be a salted fish, the daily life of the concubine in the palace

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Prince Yan's Mansion, Glazed Pavilion.

Shen Wei slept until almost noon, then she opened her eyes with difficulty. After a hangover, she had a splitting headache. Shen Wei looked at the gauze curtains in a daze, trying to recall for a moment, and the memory of yesterday came into her mind.

"Picking lotus and apples!" Shen Wei exclaimed.

There were footsteps outside the house, and Cailian walked into the house holding water for washing face, and Caiping walked into the house holding refreshing soup.

Shen Wei lifted the curtain: "Where is the prince?"

Cai Ping smiled and said, "Your Majesty is going to the East Palace this morning."

Shen Wei clutched the bed curtain tightly and asked cautiously, "I was drunk yesterday. Did I talk nonsense after drinking?"

Drinking can really make things go wrong. Shen Wei was afraid that if she got drunk and talked nonsense, and spoke her true thoughts, the King of Yan might see through her long disguise.

Cai Ping said with a smile: "The master hugged the prince last night and talked about love for a long time. What about loving only the prince, wanting to strip the prince naked, the slaves' ears turned red after hearing this, and the prince was also laughing."

Shen Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, there was no nonsense.

Shen Wei got up, washed, and put on a new summer dress. She solemnly told Cai Lian and Cai Ping: "If I get drunk in the future, find an excuse to send the prince away - forget it, I'll drink less in the future."

Only by drinking less and not getting drunk can we eliminate potential crises at the root.

Shen Wei sobered up, started to have lunch, played with the baby in the cradle, dealt with a few matters in the palace, and delivered two toys to Li Yao... Shen Wei's day passed peacefully.

As she became more and more skilled in managing the household, and with the assistance of capable subordinates like Madam Rong, Shen Wei did not feel that the job of being a housekeeper was very hard.

As night fell, frogs croaked in the summer pond, and lotus flowers hid on the edge of the leaves. Lanterns were lit in the waterside pavilion, and the King of Yan was enjoying the cool air in the pavilion, while Shen Wei was practicing calligraphy beside him.

Prince Yan leaned over to examine Shen Wei's handwriting, a smile flashing across his handsome eyes: "Very good, Weiwei's calligraphy has improved greatly."

Shen Wei was not good at calligraphy. Her initial handwriting was comparable to dog crawling. Under the guidance of King Yan, she gradually became a neat and beautiful writer. King Yan was very satisfied and felt a sense of accomplishment.

Shen Wei held the brush tightly and smiled brightly at Prince Yan: "Your Majesty supervises me every now and then, how dare I be lazy?"

The maid brought a plate of freshly washed cucumbers.

The cucumbers were planted by King Yan himself. A climbing frame was set up in the vegetable field, and the cucumber vines climbed along the frame, blooming delicate little yellow flowers. The flowers withered a while ago, and the cucumbers gradually matured.

On a hot summer day, King Yan took a bite of the crispy cucumber that he grew himself, and the taste was wonderful.

Shen Wei finished writing, and Prince Yan finished eating the crispy cucumber.

Shen Wei pulled King Yan back to the room to rest, and the gorgeous Xiangyun gauze bed curtains fell.

A candle burned in the lamp, the light was dim.

On the bed, Prince Yan deliberately teased Shen Wei: "When you were drunk, you wanted to take off my clothes, but when you sobered up, you behaved yourself. Where is your courage?"

Shen Wei: "..."

Shen Wei complained wildly in her heart. Heaven and earth could bear witness to the fact that she only wanted to take advantage of Prince Yan, taking away his gold, silver and treasures, but really didn't want to take off his clothes.

Men with lots of energy are really hard to deal with.

With nothing to say, Shen Wei took the initiative to hold King Yan's hand. The night was still long...

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The lotus flowers in the yard are blooming brightly, and time is passing quietly. Under the "guidance" of Prince Yan, with the help of Rong Mama and Fugui General Manager, Shen Wei is in charge of the inner house of Prince Yan's Mansion.

She also applied modern enterprise management to the Prince of Yan's Mansion. She used bonuses as an inducement, added an attendance system, and stimulated the enthusiasm of the subordinates to work. The more capable, the more they get, the more they work, and there is healthy competition for jobs.

Under various incentives, the lifeless inner courtyard of Prince Yan's Mansion gradually came to life.

Qixue Pavilion.

Xuemei hummed a cheerful song and worked with two maids to move Liu Ruyan's books out and put them in the sun to dry.

The summer was hot and there were many mosquitoes. But Xuemei was not afraid at all. She wore a mosquito repellent bag with a light smell around her waist. This was the summer mosquito repellent that Shen Wei gave to all the first-class maids in the mansion.

Wearing this, Xuemei no longer has to worry about mosquito bites in the summer. And the smell of the medicine bag is very light, and Liu Ruyan can't smell it.

A young maid asked curiously, "Sister Xuemei, I heard from Aunt Rong that as long as you work in the palace until you are sixty years old, you can get a sum of money every month after leaving the palace. Is this true?"

Xuemei nodded: "It should be true. Yesterday I went to the manor to find Nanny Wang. She entered the palace when she was ten years old. This year she is already sixty-five and bedridden. She actually got two hundred taels of silver."

The little maid looked hopeful and said, "That would be great. If I am too old to work in the future, I can still get money."

The maids were all secretly delighted and felt much more at ease.

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In Kunyu Courtyard, the princess waited for several days, but she didn't receive any news that Xiang'er had committed suicide in Liuli Pavilion.

The princess asked Nanny Liu to inquire and learned that Xiang'er seemed to have attained enlightenment and was staying quietly in her own yard, embroidering and weaving every day and never leaving the house.

"Useless idiot." The princess clenched the Buddhist beads in her hand, her teeth itching with hatred.

The princess began to panic.

She originally thought that Shen Wei, a small farm girl, could not manage the palace well. But the facts slapped the princess in the face. Even in Kunyu Courtyard, the princess could see the changes in the palace.

Disobedient slaves were sold, troublemakers were driven out of the palace, the servants in the palace worked diligently, and the atmosphere gradually changed.

The princess knew clearly that if she continued like this, she would become nothing more than a hollow shell. In the mansion, the servants all followed Shen Wei's lead.

"I am the principal wife." The princess clasped the Buddhist beads in her hand. She could no longer allow Shen Wei to be so arrogant.

But the prince protected Shen Wei, the queen favored Shen Wei, and even her own daughter Li Yao would run to Shen Wei's yard every now and then. The only loyal servants around the princess were Madam Liu, who was weak and could not help her at all.

At this time, the only one who can help her is her parents.

The princess thought to herself that her parents loved her and the Tantai family was powerful. If her parents knew that she was being constrained in the Prince of Yan's mansion, they would definitely ask the queen for mercy.

The Tan Tai family supported the emperor to ascend the throne, spent a lot of money and manpower, and made great contributions. The queen had to give the Tan Tai family this face and return the housekeeping power of the Prince of Yan's Mansion to the princess.

It just so happened that it was my mother’s 60th birthday.

As the biological daughter, the princess used this as an excuse to leave the Prince of Yan's Mansion and return to the Tan Tai family to celebrate her mother's birthday and take the opportunity to complain.

The princess made a plan in her mind, and then she told Aunt Liu: "Aunt Liu, go to the storehouse and pick out two birthday gifts. In three days, I will return to the Tantai family."