Chapter 119 Posting Spring Festival Couplets
Ji Yunqing didn’t remember much about what happened after that day, but afterwards, King Zhao often sent people to pick her vegetables to eat.
In response, Ji Yunqing said, it doesn’t matter, he has already exchanged his body and worked so hard.
Then give it to him!
Anyway, although the vegetables she grows nowadays are not too many, they are more than enough.
At the same time, she is not without reward.
Seven or eight silver notes, two pieces of top-quality leather specially sent over, six pieces of cloth that looked very expensive, and a large number of rewards.
All of this was exchanged for those vegetables.
As the year was coming to an end, King Zhao even specially sent two portraits of door gods and a pair of spring couplets.
It can be pasted on the gate of the yard.
It's really thoughtful.
In the entire Prince Zhao’s Mansion, only the princess received the Spring Festival couplets, and Concubine Wen personally went to ask for one. The other person was Ji Yunqing.
However, the Spring Festival couplets here for Ji Yunqing were sent secretly by King Zhao, and not many people knew about it.
Ji Yunqing accepted it happily.
Several maids in the yard asked in unison: "Master, are these Spring Festival couplets going to be posted outside in the yard?"
The maid Ruyi was always eloquent. She quickly replied, "Do you even need to ask? Of course!"
That was written by the prince himself. Maybe as soon as it was posted, the prince would enter the Osmanthus Courtyard tonight.
Although the little maid is young, she understands that it would be great if the master could be favored for a long time!
She would feel proud if she said it to others.
Thinking of this, the little maid raised her pretty face and volunteered: "Master, can I help you to paste it?"
She wanted to paste the Spring Festival couplets firmly, preferably without even a wrinkle. This way, the prince would surely be happy to see them, and maybe even come to Osmanthus Courtyard more frequently!
Ji Yunqing had no idea what the little maid was thinking, otherwise she would definitely say that she had never seen any prince dote on the people in the courtyard just because of the beautiful Spring Festival couplets posted at the gate of the courtyard.
However, she didn't know what the little maid was thinking, so she just shook her head and came up with a better idea.
"I have already written the Spring Festival couplets and painted the door gods. The ones I wrote will be posted outside, and the ones the prince gave me will be posted on my door!"
Everyone: "..."
Master, are you serious?
Ji Yunqing was of course serious. She looked solemn, picked up the broom, dipped it in the sticky paste from the kitchen, and started to paste the Spring Festival couplets herself.
"Paji"
Her masterpiece completely took up the entire gate. It was bright red and very eye-catching and festive at first glance.
And make sure that there is no other place to post the Spring Festival couplets written by King Zhao.
The maids in the yard were all stunned.
Master, do you really want to post what you wrote?
However, seeing that their master had already taken action, they did not dare to delay any longer and quickly went up to help.
One person was pulling a corner, and two little maids were helping to check whether the sticker was crooked. In short, there was a busy atmosphere and it was very festive.
After pasting, Ji Yunqing took the maids to paste other places in the yard.
Little did she know that her Spring Festival couplets also attracted several waves of people's inquiries.
Concubine Liu lived nearby and was always paying attention to what was going on here. After the Spring Festival couplets were posted, she naturally came over to check it out first.
I even thought of an excuse to take a walk.
When Liu Shiqie saw that the handwriting on the Spring Festival couplets was not the familiar font she remembered, the big stone in her heart finally fell to the ground.
She brought a little maid and wandered here three times before she finally felt relieved.
With her lips slightly covered, Concubine Liu no longer had the gentle image of a sister: "She was so powerful, I thought she was really that capable."
I don’t know where these couplets came from, but the handwriting is so ugly, it definitely didn’t come from the prince.
I guess it was bought from outside.
Thinking of this, the smile on Concubine Liu's face became more obvious, "But the prince doesn't favor Ji that much, it seems I have a chance this time."
As for what kind of opportunity it was, the little maid who followed her didn't know, and she didn't dare to ask more.
After Concubine Liu left, another unfamiliar little maid came out from an inconspicuous place and looked at Concubine Liu and her servant who had disappeared.
"Pooh" sounded.
"You've walked over and over again, and you've put aside the time to sweep the floor?"
After saying that, she also looked up at the words on the gate of Osmanthus Courtyard and memorized them carefully.
Then he looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he left quickly.
There were also people like Liu Shiqi who came over in person to take a walk around.
Concubine Lou returned to the courtyard in disbelief, "No? How could there be no?"
She glanced downwards and grabbed the teacup on the table and was about to smash it, but she put it back and replaced it with a defective tea bowl that was selling for five cents three on the street, and then she threw it down hard!
The ground was littered with debris, of course they were all bought from clearance sales at stalls.
Her father on her mother's side was just a Hanlin, which sounded very noble, but he lived a very poor life.
Concubine Lou had to send gifts to her parents' home from time to time, so of course she couldn't smash things wantonly.
After all, what was smashed was not things, but her money.
The little maid kneeling on the ground did not dare to hide, and could only shrink her body helplessly, with a faint cry in her voice: "Master, the eunuch in the front yard did say so.
He said he saw with his own eyes that Eunuch Shi had his servants deliver Spring Festival couplets to the Osmanthus Courtyard, and not only that, but he had also delivered many other things during this period of time.
"I saw it with my own eyes, how could it be that you didn't see it? Are you lying?"
Concubine Lou narrowed her eyes and asked viciously.
"No, really not. I dare not."
"What about the eunuch in the front yard that you bribed? Is there any problem with him?"
When the maid heard her master talking about the young eunuch, she shuddered again. Even though her master was a concubine, she was very stingy with money and property.
Asking her to bribe the eunuch but not paying her, instead asking her to...
The humiliation and hardships involved are too humiliating to be told to outsiders.
After Concubine Lou vented her anger, she felt much better.
She pondered for a moment and realized that the previous plan was no longer feasible and she had to make new plans.
Afterwards, Concubine Lou personally helped the poor little maid up, her face full of concern: "Look at you, I was angry and lost control of my emotions just now, and you are stupid, why didn't you hide? Are you scared?"
The little maid shook her head timidly, stammering and not daring to say anything.
But she also understood that since her master was like this now, she had passed this stage and would not have to be beaten anymore.
Ji Yunqing had no idea of the "spiritual shock" her work had brought to the people in the mansion. At this moment, she was being talked to by Nanny An.
After pasting all the Spring Festival couplets, Ji Yunqing was just about to take a break when she saw Nanny An looking at her hesitantly as if she wanted to say something.
Ji Yunqing felt strange and said with a smile: "Mammy, why don't you go to see Ruirui?"
Nanny An particularly likes the little Ruirui and always takes care of Ruirui when she has nothing to do.
What surprised Ji Yunqing the most was that Nanny An had no aversion to cleaning the baby's poop and pee and wiping his butt!
What a coincidence, she is not interested in this at all.
Whoever wants to change can do so!