Li Siye smiled as usual and said, "I don't care, the key is that Mei'er is satisfied." Although he said this, he still slandered and hesitantly invited them into the courtyard.
Being too ugly will affect the master's mood. Although these two people bid cheaply, Li Siye is not short of the money now.
He himself was too embarrassed to refute Madam Xu's face, so he had to let Mei'er do the talking.
The two women came to Li Siye and Li Meier, bowed and saluted: "Alang, little lady."
Li Siye looked forward to it, pointed at the two old women and asked Mei'er: "Brother hired two people to take care of your food and daily life. Mei'er, take a look, are you satisfied with them?"
Li Meier just lowered his head to study the slingshot made by his brother, raised his head and shook it, continued to lower his head and pondered, and said: "Okay, not bad."
"You haven't even looked at it. Take a closer look."
Li Meier raised his head and looked at it for three seconds, nodded and said, "Okay."
Li Siye felt a little disappointed and waved his hand and said, "Since Mei'er is very satisfied with you, then you can stay."
A smile appeared on Mrs. Xu's face. She seemed even more nervous than Li Siye just now, for fear that he would not want these two maids.
"You haven't thanked Li Langjun yet."
"Thank you, Li Lang." The posture of the two of them squatting and saluting was quite standard, as if they had experienced it in a wealthy family. Unfortunately, they were old and had lost their appearance, which was a flaw.
Madam Xu couldn't stay at Li's house longer, so she had a brief conversation with Li Siye and reluctantly returned to her home.
Li Siye took Mei'er's slingshot and continued to work on it. Mei'er raised his head again and looked at the two maids standing on the ground and said, "They are so old and ugly."
He seriously criticized Li Mei'er: "Mei'er, you can't speak openly."
He glared and winked at Li Meier, meaning that although you were telling the truth, why didn't you say it just now? Now you suddenly say this, should I drive them away? If you lose your temper, I can drive them away.
The two old maids looked at Li Meier with grievances, and there was a glimmer of light in their eyes, which made Li Siye not only feel pity, but also panic.
Li Meier continued: "I didn't mean that. I mean, I think they are like our grandmothers and aunts in the rural village of Gaoling. They are very nice and kind."
The old maid thanked Alang repeatedly and said that she was very grateful to Alang for taking her in. Her family was poor and if they could have income, their family's life would be somewhat better.
The two older women began to look at Li Siye's mansion and said: "The house is quite big, but there is no one to clean it up. You can see how dilapidated it is. Don't worry, Lang, we will clean it up now."
The two maids quickly fell into their roles and began to carry buckets of water and clean the doors and windows. When Li Siye moved in, he almost didn't tidy up the main hall. Firstly, the place was too big, and secondly, he was lazy by nature. He could have been in the east wing.
There were no guests here, so many houses in the whole yard were covered with dust and no one had cleaned them.
As soon as Li Siye picked up the bucket, the two maids quickly tried to dissuade him: "Alang, stop now. This is not a job for a nobleman like you. I heard that you are going to serve as a guard for the prince. You are an incredible high official."
He fetched a bucket of water and put it on the edge of the well, and told the two maids: "Aside from cleaning the room, you are just serving Mei'er full-time, so don't worry about me."
Not long after, the entire home was cleaned by the maids inside and out. It no longer looked like a shabby house, and it finally looked like living at home.
Li Siye looked at the busy figures of the two old maids and couldn't help but sigh: "Everything you lose must be gained."
Just in case, he went into the east wing and put the money in the water jar on the beam, leaving only a few hundred dollars for Mei'er to buy necessities at home.
After all, the people from the East Palace came to pick him up. Early the next morning, the bell to lift the curfew had just struck three hundred times. Li Siye had just finished practicing boxing on the mulberry tree in the yard when a slight knock on the door rang outside.
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When he went out and opened the door, he saw a palace servant wearing a dark yellow robe standing outside the door. There was still eye droppings in the corners of his eyes. He asked sleepily: "You are Li Siye. Zhan Shifu asked me to call you to be a guard in the East Palace."
Li Siye quickly clasped his hands and invited the eunuch to sit in the room.
Unexpectedly, the eunuch didn't appreciate it. He clasped his hands and said outside, "Hurry up and get ready. We'll wait for you here."
Li Siye had nothing to prepare, but he still went back to give his sister a few words. The two maids in the west wing were snoring loudly. He didn't want to disturb them, so he turned around and went out, following the eunuch on the road.
The eunuch was taciturn and didn't say anything along the way. Li Siye was as curious as every job seeker who is about to take a new position. He could only see with his own eyes what it was like to serve as a bodyguard for the prince.
Before entering the imperial city, the eunuch gave him a waist tag and said with eyes: "It will be more convenient to wear this thing in and out of the imperial city in the future."
Entering the imperial city from the Zhuque Gate, the palaces on both sides of the straight road are filled with political institutions of the Tang Dynasty. Going further forward is the Chengtian Gate of the Taiji Palace. They did not enter through the Chengtian Gate. Instead, they walked eastward and came to the Jiafu Palace in front.
Door, here is the entire Prince's team.
The gatekeepers are the prince's left and right gatekeepers among the prince's ten guards. The eunuch shows his waist card, and the guard guarding the gate lets the two people in. There are three gates along the way, Jiafu Gate, Chongming Gate, Jiade Gate, and then the prince's office.
Jiade Palace, but the prince is not in the palace at the moment, he has already gone to the morning court.
The person staying in the Jiade Palace was Zhan Shi from the Prince Zhan Shifu. He was sitting in the side hall copying something. He looked up and saw the eunuch leading Li Siye in and said, "Take him directly to the Right Nei Commandery."
From the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the layout of palaces and palaces were all designed symmetrically along the central axis. Whatever building was on the left side of the straight line of the central axis, there must be the same building on the right, just like a pair of wings possessed by a butterfly.
The Prince's Younei Palace is on the right side of the Jiade Hall, very close to Fenghua Gate. Next to it is the Prince's Youchunfang.
The eunuch led him to the door of the Nei Commander's Mansion and waved his sleeves to leave. Li Siye quickly caught him: "Hey, don't leave yet, you have to take me in."
The eunuch glanced at him again: "Why should I take you in? Are you an unweaned child? Come in quickly, your boss is waiting for you inside."
The eunuch left in a hurry, as if he was going to play some important game.
Li Siye stood outside the palace and looked around, sighing that the prince's East Palace was really big, with criss-crossed walls and numerous palaces. And the team surrounding the prince was also very large. Before entering the East Palace, Li Siye specially asked someone to visit the prince.
There are not only the Taishi, Taifu, Taibao, but also four guests. The institutions that serve the Prince include Zhan Shifu, Zuoyou Chunfang, Chongwen Hall, Economic Affairs Bureau, Food Order Bureau, Medicine Storehouse, and the Prince's Family Temple.
, Neifang, etc., there are more than a dozen large and small institutions.
This does not include the prince's armed guards - the prince's ten commanders, the prince's left and right guards, the left and right chief ministers, the left and right Qingdao commanders, the left and right prison guards, and the left and right inner commanders. Only four of these ten commanders lead troops, that is, the prince
The left and right gate supervisors and the prince's internal commanders were responsible for leading the Zhechong Mansion soldiers outside the capital.
The government's military system has collapsed, and there are no soldiers left in Zichong Prefecture across the country. The troops currently stationed on the left and right sides of the capital are the troops recruited by Zhang Shuo and the emperor himself from among the government soldiers and people, forming the left and right imperial guards and the left and right dragons.
Martial army. So the rest of the prince's bodyguards are just in name only.
But the team behind the prince is also quite terrifying. Together with officials at all levels, palace family members, palace maids, guards, and prison guards, there are more than three to four thousand people in total.