In the early morning of the Zhenshi Wang's Mansion, when the sky was just dawning, there was a large group of people who were busy non-stop, and it took a lot of time for such a large mansion to prepare meals, not to mention other miscellaneous things.
Especially after three days, it is the sacrifice day of Ling Yuanshan, the king of the town world, this is Ling Yan's second time to worship in nearly three years, so the palace attaches great importance to this matter, and there are people who gather early in the morning to prepare the things needed.
As for the main master, Ling Yan was still asleep at this time, and he slept too late last night, even at this time, it was useless to get up at all.
However, Ling Ji had already gotten up and woke up early when he slept late, probably because he felt light, or maybe he wanted to get up and do something.
Ling Ji moved his body gently in the courtyard, and after Xiang'er knew about it, she personally brought a breakfast and served Ling Ji to eat, and then accompanied him to wander around the palace of Nuoda.
Ling Ji walked with Xiang'er's support, and the two chatted casually.
"Recently, I heard that you spent 30,000 taels of silver in the account office to specially transport more than a dozen ivy, a leaf orchid, and a turtle back bamboo from Cangzhou.
Although there is no shortage of gold and silver in our house, we can't stand such a big flower as a girl of yours. ” Xiang'er smiled softly, a woman of this age is the most beautiful when she laughs, especially Xiang'er was born in the first place, and her life was not bad when she was with Ling Yan before or now, so the joy on her face was very real, which made people look very comfortable.
I only heard Xiang'er slowly say to Ling Ji: "I heard people say that planting these in a house can make the air in the house much better, especially for the elderly and people who are not in good health.
Childe said earlier that I should take care of you, teacher, and let me not be stingy with the money in the account room, so as soon as I heard that there was such a good thing in Cangzhou, I asked someone to buy it.
It should be in two days, and your body will definitely get better and better. ” What he said made Ling Ji distracted, it was difficult for this little girl to take care of herself so much.
"Actually, it's not that you won't be allowed to buy these things, but I'm afraid that you will be cheated by others.
There are a lot of crooked ways here.
An ivy plant that is old enough sells for only 100 taels in Cangzhou, and when it is sold to the capital, it will multiply several times. ” Xiang'er smiled: "Don't worry, don't worry about being cheated."
Brother Dali is now over there in Cangzhou, and he has personally seen that thing, and besides, he bought it in the name of the house, and they don't use that guts if they have that ability. ” Ling Ji looked at Xiang'er, after staying in the palace for a long time, her temper became more confident.
"What you did in this matter is too right, in front of these businessmen, the reputation of our mansion is more effective than that of many big officials."
"It's just that in the officialdom, the strength of the palace is much smaller than before."
Ling Ji sighed with emotion, remembering that there had always been a crowd of guests outside the palace at the beginning, and later it was a lot of guests outside the door, except for the Xie Guogong Mansion, which had always had a good relationship with the palace, often came to visit during the New Year's holidays.
Even though Ling Ji has lived for this age, there are already a lot of things in the world, but she is still a little embarrassed, hearing the sigh in Ling Ji's words, Xiang'er didn't answer, this topic is too much, even if her own identity is indeed more than just a maid, but after all, she is still a maid.
"Xiang girl, you like Ling Yan, if it weren't for the matter of the Seventh Princess, then the future heroine of the palace would not be you, and I would have broken Ling Yan's legs, but even so, you can rest assured, a side room will definitely not be able to run, and it is not easy to enter the door of the Ling family and want to go out again."
"What do you say?
Xiang'er just wants to be able to serve by her son's side, and the others don't ask for anything else.
Xiang'er was shy, for Ling Yan's admiration, this woman who was only fifteen or sixteen years old was already visible to everyone, sometimes Xiang'er thought that if the son was not the prince, then the two should have been together at this time.
Then she swept away the messy thoughts in her mind, and secretly cursed, "How can you think of something unboundary, not ashamed." ” Ling Ji knocked Xiang'er's head, "What do you think."
By the way, Xiang'er, where is your family from?
I didn't ask before, and you didn't tell me, it's not in order. ” Xiang'er let go of Ling Ji's arm in panic, knelt in front of him, and said, "Xiang'er didn't mean to hide it."
There was a cry in the back.
Ling Ji picked her up and said with a smile: "You girl, what are you doing, I'm just asking casually, if you don't want to talk about it, then don't talk about it, why bother to live so fast."
If you let that kid see it just now, you have to say that I deliberately bullied you, and then you won't have to make a fuss outside every day. ” Xiang'er was amused by Ling Ji, she already had one or two tears rolling in the corners of her eyes, she wiped them with her sleeve, and said to Ling Ji: "I'll go and see if Gongzi is up, in two days it will be the old prince's sacrifice day, this matter is very important, and there are some things that he has to buy."
"Go ahead, that stinky boy should still be sleeping like a pig now, you have to shout twice."
Xiang'er walked away, and Ling Ji thought to herself, "It doesn't seem that the identity of this girl is too simple, but I don't know what is unspeakable." ” After two days of alleys, a corridor Xiang'er walked to the courtyard where Ling Yan lived, she walked on the bluestone slab steps, and met several maids who were about the same age as her on the way, and they saluted her and shouted: "Miss Xiang'er is early."
Xiang'er recognized that this was a few second-class maids serving the son's house, and the people in the palace were divided into several classes, and the rules in everyone's mansion were cumbersome, and it could be seen from the scale and upbringing of the people in the mansion to see how big an official and how powerful the owner of a mansion could be.
For example, the servants of the wealthy gentry in that place, all of them were born with a fierce appearance, and when they met people, they would go to the knots to receive them well, and those who looked at the poor ghosts would not bother to go, and for the really high-ranking families, even the lowest fourth-class porters would not judge people by their appearance.
For example, the second-class maid in the palace in front of her is wearing a blue and purple satin, and the material is also the best material, she doesn't look like a maid, and she is the same as the young lady of many households.
The clothes on his body are all extravagant, plus his walking posture is graceful and delicate, and his appearance is delicate, only the four little girls who serve Ling Yan and Ling Ji in the palace are second-class maids, and Xiang'er is different, and her status is much higher than that of the first-class housekeeper.
Xiang'er said a few words to this maid named Qingqing, "Qingqing, is the son up?"
” Qingqing replied, "Sister Xiang'er, when I went to deliver breakfast just now, my son was still asleep, but I didn't wake up, so I took breakfast back to the back kitchen."
After speaking, he lifted the exquisite food box in his hand and looked at it with Xiang'er.
"Bring me the food box, I'll go and call Childe to get up."
Qingqing handed it over, and then went about her own business, Xiang'er walked with the food box and didn't take many steps, pushed the door and put it on the table, opened the curtain and went to the inner room, and saw that Ling Yan was still sleeping soundly.
However, when Xiang'er took another step forward, Ling Yan opened her eyes suddenly, which scared Xiang'er for a while, and she had to slow down for several hours before she came back.
"Wake up soon, Son, I have to prepare something for the sacrifice after eating."
Ling Yan patted his head and rubbed his eyes, "yes, I almost forgot about this stubble." ” Xiang'er approached to serve Ling Yan and got dressed, and then took out the breakfast in the food box one by one and put it on the table, it was an extremely delicate pumpkin rice porridge, still steaming, the color was golden and attractive, Ling Yan scooped and ate it, it was smooth and sweet, and the original sleepiness was swept away.
After eating breakfast and going to serve tea to Ling Ji, Ling Yan left the mansion, and the carriage of the palace went to Xie Guogong's mansion, and he had just come back to meet these old-timers.