Although it is said that you have to serve others in the palace, when you get married, you also have to serve your husband’s family! But it's not good to just serve Linlang.
And she still didn’t know what the character of her husband’s family was, whether her stepson, stepdaughter, sister-in-law, parents-in-law, and sisters-in-law were difficult to deal with. She estimated that even if they were not difficult to deal with, they would not be better than Linlang. After all, Linlang was the one she had seen. , the mistress with the best personality. In this case, why would she leave the palace and serve someone worse than Linlang?
In addition, if you serve people in the palace, you still have monthly money, and you can also manage the maids in the palace. And when you reach the level of female official or above, you will have good food, clothing, and supplies.
What if she does not leave the palace as a female official? When she leaves the palace as a low-level palace maid and returns to her hometown in the countryside, what kind of family can she marry? Can she marry a slightly better-off widower in the town or county? That's right, this is the end. It's impossible to find someone with better conditions. Will there be such treatment as a female official in the palace? It's probably impossible. After all, how many servants can a relatively well-off widower afford to take care of? How much money can she give her every month? How can she have better food and clothing than the female officials in the palace? What are you thinking? What a good thing.
Most of the time, you won’t be able to hire any servants. At most, you can hire a menial servant to do some rough work, which is good. For other housework, the daughter-in-law will probably be used by the current person, and she will take care of the housework of the whole family. , much harder than waiting on people in the palace.
Not to mention it is much harder than a female official, but it is much harder than an ordinary palace maid like her now.
If nothing else, washing the whole family's clothes, cooking for the whole family, and cleaning the house and outside is a terrible labor.
The hardest time for her in the palace was when she was alone with Linlang. She had to clean the place where Linlang lived. It was just a room. It was not hard to clean at all, and she didn’t need any clothes. Washing, because it is handed over to the Clothing Bureau, you only need to go and pick it up. You don’t have to cook the food, you just have to go to the imperial kitchen to pick it up. Compared with the future, you have to wash the whole family’s clothes, cook for the whole family, and clean the house. Cleaning such a large area inside and outside the house is much easier.
What's more, it's not just these common housework, but there are other tasks such as raising chickens, raising pigs, and taking care of the fields, which would be even more terrifying.
In addition, when you marry, you will have children, and you may not know which time you give birth to a child.
Thinking of these terrible situations, many maids in the palace do not want to go back. They just want to climb up in the palace. As long as they can become female officials, they will have someone to rely on for the rest of their lives.
Palace Lady Zhang naturally thought the same way. She did not want to leave the palace, she just wanted to become a female official in the palace and live a good life without worries about food and clothing.
It’s just that she didn’t have any connections before, and she didn’t know how to work in the camp, so she was only assigned to the lowest-level concubines and served the lowest-level concubines.
When she was assigned here, she was in despair, because it was difficult to have concubines who could climb from Cheng'en to Cairen and above, giving her the opportunity to become a female official.
But seeing Linlang rising step by step and almost becoming a talented person, she suddenly felt that this dream could be realized, so she prayed that Linlang would rise all the way.
In fact, after Linlang attracted attention, no one came to win her over and let her harm Linlang. The benefits were that if she wanted to leave the palace, she would be given a satisfactory amount of money; if she did not want to leave the palace, they would help her get the position of female historian. .
But she ignored it because she saw Linlang's potential. She felt that by following Linlang, she might not only be in the female history position in the future, but could also be in a higher position, so how could she be attracted by others? , harming Linlang.
Of course, the main reason is that she is not the kind of person who would harm others.
After Lady Zhang prayed, she went over to arrange things for the new couple.
As Linlang’s level increases, the number of manpower must indeed increase, because more people will come to Linlang, which means more communication. In this way, the number of manpower will not be increased, and some communication matters will not matter. It was not enough for one person to be in charge, so Palace Maid Zhang immediately assigned the palace maids who had been transferred before to be responsible for the social aspect, while the new arrivals would do the simplest running errands and other chores. Linlang had no objection to her arrangement and naturally agreed.
It is true that the status becomes higher and the communication increases.
When Linlang was a low-ranking concubine, she basically only had a few words with the people around Zilan Palace and had little social interaction.
But when Linlang reaches the sixth rank of selecting an attendant, it is far from just a matter of saying a few words to the people around Zilan Palace.
In addition to a bunch of people from the Purple Orchid Palace who came to have a relationship with Linlang, there were also many people from other palaces who came to visit, not to mention too many. On average, there was at least one person every day.
Either they come to visit, or they invite Linlang to their place to play.
When going to play with other people, Linlang usually refuses because she doesn’t like to go out, but she can’t refuse others to come to her. After all, if someone comes to her, she can’t ignore them, so now her daily communication There were a lot of people who came to her, including those who hugged her, those who had ulterior motives, and those who had ulterior motives. There were more people who came to see her than the last time she was promoted.
Cai Guibi even sent a congratulatory gift for seeing Linlang advance, which had never happened before.
Of course, the other party continued to talk about Concubine Li's favor in front of Linlang. Apparently, he had not given up yet and wanted to provoke Linlang and Concubine Li into a fight.
Not only Cai Guibi sent congratulatory gifts, but others also sent congratulatory gifts.
Among the three people, Zhang Gongren is literate, so naturally the congratulations and gifts must be registered by Zhang Gongren.
Originally, Zhang Gongren was an illiterate country girl. After coming to Linlang, Linlang felt that she was not bad and planned to let her be a personal female officer when she rose to a high position in the future. Then she would naturally have to train her. , so he taught her how to read. Anyway, Linlang had nothing to worry about. It was also good to teach the people around her how to read. Not only her, but also newcomers who came in the future. As long as Linlang planned to retain them, they would teach them. In modern times, this is equivalent to vocational training.
Don’t worry about the original person being illiterate. Linlang is literate and will feel strange if someone sees him. Linlang has already been making plans - when he first entered the palace as an intern, Linlang had asked someone to teach him how to read. , so it is normal for her to be literate now.
After the congratulatory gifts are registered, firstly, it will be easier to know what things you have, and secondly, it will be easier to return gifts in the future.
On the surface, Linlang treats these people who hug, win over, or have ulterior motives all the same, but she will treat them differently in private - at least those who harm others, she will deal with them secretly.
These people didn't know that Linlang had known their true identities for a long time, and they just thought that Linlang didn't know.
Mainly also Linlang, there is nothing strange in reality, but what they don’t know is that Linlang has made a file for everyone on the optical brain, but the optical brain is placed in Linlang’s space. These people I just don’t know.
Although Linlang does not visit other people's homes, when others come to her place, Linlang still treats them well. (End of this chapter)