Enter the Room

She came here for refuge, not for vacation.

Song Jiuyun was very satisfied.

However, given her character, she will try her best to make it more convenient for herself in a limited environment.

She thought for a while, stuffed a red envelope into the little eunuch who brought her, and said, "I need to add something to this house. I don't know who I can find more conveniently."

Things in the palace have always been kept secret from the superiors.

Many people know how she entered the palace.

The young father-in-law had long heard of her generosity. Seeing the heavy red envelope in her hand, he suddenly smiled and said, "Aunt Hu is the leader here. If you have any questions, just ask Aunt Hu." Then he said enthusiastically, "I I’ll take you to Aunt Hu.”

Song Jiyun thanked him again and again.

Aunt Hu is a female official in the palace. She is about thirty-seven or eighty years old. She has fair skin, a straight face, and a gentle face, but she looks rather haggard. At first glance, she is a relatively easy-to-get-together person.

When Song Jiyun stuffed her a red envelope, she was very cautious and refused to take it. It was Song Jiyun who kept saying it before she accepted it with some uneasiness. He helped her run around embarrassedly, and not only brought her a wash stand. , he also bought her bedding, tea sets and the like from other palace maids. When he helped her tidy up the wing, he even said apologetically: "Originally, I was supposed to get things for you from the minister's bedroom, but Kunning Palace didn't. I didn’t tell you what to do about your matter. I sent someone to ask Shang Gong at Shang Gong’s office. She hesitated and couldn’t explain clearly, so I had to force you to find a solution on your own. Look how much money you spent, etc. There is news from Shang Gong, I will find a way to help you pay the bill."

"No, no need." Song Jiyun knew that he was violating the rules and why bother her again, so he hurriedly said, "I don't know how long I have to disturb you. I just hope you don't dislike me for disturbing you."

"How could it be?" Aunt Hu said sincerely, "We only have a few people coming and going here. If a new face comes over, we just have a lot of company. It's not too late to be happy!"

This is somewhat interesting.

Song Jiyun asked with a careless curiosity: "In front of this place is Cining Palace and next to it is Shoukang Palace. How come there are only those few people coming and going?"

Aunt Hu was shocked to realize that she was speechless and smiled sarcastically.

Song Jiyun took her hand and said, "Good aunt, just tell me! I'm new here. If I go astray and accidentally get into trouble, I'll be in trouble."

Aunt Hu thought for a while and felt that what she said made sense. She looked around to see if there was no one, and lowered her voice and said, "We, we all worked as servants in Anxi Palace in the past."

Anxi Palace is where Concubine Wan Gui lives.

In other words, the people living here are all "little devils" who have suffered.

Song Jiyun showed sympathy and comforted her: "Misfortune comes from blessing, and misfortune comes from blessing. Maybe it's a good thing that you and your aunts can live quietly here!"

"Yes!" Aunt Hu nodded with a smile and said, "Although life is difficult, at least you don't have to worry all the time."

"Yes!" Song Jiyun said, and the two chatted for a long time. Aunt Hu took her around the west palace with all her heart, introduced several people who lived with her, and even gave her dinner. , then each went to rest.

How could Song Jiyun sleep? She was reviewing today's events in her mind, thinking about how to meet the nobles in the palace as soon as possible? What should she say if she meets a noble person in the palace?

But she stayed in the palace for four or five days and no one paid attention to her.

As if he had forgotten that she was there, he allowed her to live in the West Palace, sleeping, eating, sleeping, and asking Aunt Hu and others about the scene outside the West Palace. Stay.

How could Song Jiyun live there?

She had to prove her innocence.

She had to quickly hand in the order from Kunning Palace.

She had to discuss opening a shop with Hong Xi.

She would have to count them all just to think about them, let alone do them.

After another two days of this, Song Jiyun couldn't sit still and was thinking about whether to go to the training center. A young eunuch came to her: "Someone asked me to bring you a letter, saying that if you agree, let me take you." Go see Eunuch Qin, if you don’t agree, you will continue to stay in the West Palace."

Song Jiyun took the letter strangely.

It was written by Yuan Yunzhong's father Yuan Haoran.

The letter was written in a variety of ways, but there was only one central idea: if she was willing to persuade Yuan Yunzhong to take up the role of a scholar, he would settle the case for her to be sued by Prince Ning. If she didn't agree, she would naturally have nothing to do with the Yuan family, and she could just stay in the palace.

He also hinted in the letter.

For someone like her who entered the palace without a name or status, as long as he said a word, her name would appear on the roster of palace maids, and she would stay in the West Palace for the rest of her life and live out her life silently.

The little eunuch must have been ordered by Yuan Haoran. Seeing her reading the letter at a glance, he said: "The person who asked me to deliver the letter to you also asked me to ask you. If you can't understand, just let me read it to you. I'm here After reading books in the inner study hall, I can read and write."

Song Jiyun laughed angrily and said: "My little father-in-law, please wait a moment. I will reply to the letter, and you can help me bring it to the person who asked you to send the letter to me."

The little eunuch agreed.

Song Jiuyun simply changed the poem in "The Peacock Flies Southeast" and replied to him with a few words such as "If you are like a rock, I will be like pampas grass. Pampas reeds are like silk, and the rock will not shift", and asked the little eunuch to hand it back. .

No one came to see her again.

But Aunt Hu and others looked at her with evasive eyes.

Song Jiyun tried to probe their mouths several times but to no avail. She felt that she could not do this anymore.

She thought that a maid living in the same palace was responsible for cleaning the Buddhist hall of Cining Palace, and she began to observe the maid's daily routine.

She found that the palace maid would come back later than usual every other day, and there would be a lot of incense ash on her body when she came back.

She pretended to be casual and asked the palace maid: "What's wrong with you? Is it because you don't have enough manpower? Or is the person who works with you cheating? Why do you look so tired every time you come back?"

The palace maid was a little surprised, but she still said: "It's not that the person who works with me is bad, but every time it's my turn to clean the incense burner, the Queen Mother will come to offer incense with the Queen Mother, so it won't be delayed."

Song Jiyun said: "How about I help you clean the Buddhist hall? I feel that I have been unlucky recently. I go to the Buddhist hall to do my best for the Bodhisattva. Maybe the Bodhisattva will bless me and I will be lucky!"

She also complained: "If I do nothing all day long, people will get sick."

Although there is a fixed number of people who work where in the palace, sometimes when things get busy, everyone will help each other.

"Okay!" said the palace maid, "if you go to the Buddhist hall, you can't run around and bump into the nobles. Even if you are a female member of the Yuan family, you won't be punished. But if the news spreads, you will lose face." ah!"

Song Jiyun was not prepared to implicate others.

She responded repeatedly.