It is perfectly normal for two little maids to have such thoughts.
Although the two of them were palace maids, they have now left the palace and become Shen Yi's maids.
There are only two ways for a maid to go.
One is to follow the master's side for the rest of her life and serve as a maidservant. If she is lucky and gives birth to a child for the master's family, she can be "promoted" to a concubine, or if the master likes her, she can be taken directly into the house as a concubine.
The second way is to marry the servant next to you.
Those who were lucky would marry the housekeeper of the family, while those who were unlucky would marry grooms or even tenants.
As for the two maids Qing'er and Ping'er, they have been following Shen Yi, a promising and similar age peer, for more than half a year. During these six months, Shen Yi has treated both of them very well. In their opinion, it is natural for them to You can trust your best friend for life.
However, half a year has passed, and Shen Yi not only has not touched them, but has not even thought about it.
Therefore, the two young maids, who were in puberty, figured out a way to secretly sneak into Shen Yi's bed, hoping to "cook the rice from raw to cooked" and promote themselves to the maid of the first wife.
Shen Yi stood beside his bed, looking at the two little girls who were fifteen or fourteen, and shook his head slightly: "Our family doesn't have to be like this. In the future..."
Shen Yi lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "It won't be too late to consider these issues in the future when you are older."
After Master Shen said this, he lit the oil lamp in the room with a fire stick, and the dark room suddenly lit up. Shen Yi sat next to the table, looked at the two maids on the bed, coughed, and said : "Okay, it's getting very late, you two go to bed now."
The two little maids got out of the bed with red faces.
Ping'er was still a little unconvinced. She stood in front of Shen Yi, straightened out her already slightly sizable breasts, and said to Shen Yi: "Young master, we are not young anymore. Years ago, my family sent us a letter saying that our neighbor's house The little girl who is a few months younger than me gave birth to her second son this year..."
This is another characteristic of this era.
Marry early and have children early.
This characteristic is not caused by humans or cultural influence, but by the times or social needs.
When the average life expectancy is not high, the childbearing age must be shortened in order to extend the health of a nation. Moreover, in this era of small-scale peasant economy, giving birth to a son is a productive force and does not require much raising costs. , everyone is naturally keen on having children.
As for the aristocratic families that occupy social resources, in order to have more family members to continue to control social resources, they will also be able to have more children, and have more children and more happiness.
In Shen Yi's view, girls before the age of twenty are mentally immature, so even if these two little maids plan to follow him for the rest of their lives, Shen Yi hopes that they can make decisions after they turn twenty.
However, due to the background of this era, she is already an "old girl" at the age of twenty. These two little maids may not have the patience to stay with Shen Yi until they are twenty.
After hearing Ping'er's words, Shen Yi glanced at her angrily and said, "Others are others, you are you, why should you argue with others?"
Seeing that Shen Yi seemed unhappy, the two little maids stuck out their tongues, left Shen Yi's room in a gray manner, and went to bed together.
After the two little maids left, Shen Yi hesitated and got into his bed to sleep.
At this moment, the girl's body temperature under the quilt has not yet dissipated. In this cold first month, it actually gave Master Shen some warmth.
This sleep was particularly sweet.
The sixteenth day of the first lunar month of the seventh year of Chen Hongde's reign came quietly in Shen Yi's sleep.
On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the court's half-month vacation officially ended. Early in the morning, the bell rang at the door of Deqing Hall.
Today is the first day of work in the new year, so it is also the day of the first court meeting of the new year.
Early in the morning, the civil and military officials of the fifth rank of Jiankang and above were waiting at the entrance of Deqing Hall. When the first ray of sun shone in front of Deqing Hall, the great eunuch Gao Ming walked out. He stood At the entrance of Deqing Hall, he glanced around at the civil and military officials outside the hall, especially took a deep look at the already elderly Yang Jingzong. After clearing his throat with a cough, the high eunuch sang loudly.
"One yuan begins again, and everything is renewed..."
"In the new year Yin Shi, hundreds of officials enter the court..."
After singing twice, Eunuch Gao entered the Deqing Hall first, and then everyone's eyes were on Yang Jingzong and Yang Xiang.
Yang Xiang was now using a cane and his steps were already staggering.
However, he is still the leader of the civil service, so this Yang Xianggong was the first to limp into the Deqing Hall.
Other civil and military officials followed Old Man Yang and entered the Deqing Hall according to their shifts.
Soon, everyone stood in their respective positions in Deqing Hall.
As the officials stood still, the eunuch Gao Ming sang loudly again.
"Your Majesty is here!"
The little emperor silently walked up to His Majesty Dan and sat on his dragon chair. He first glanced at his ministers. After taking a look, His Majesty the Emperor slowly spoke: "At the beginning of the new year, all the ministers will take a break from bathing. It’s been half a month, and now I’m back in the court, are you still used to it?”
The ministers quickly bowed their heads and expressed that they loved their work and there was no problem of not being used to it.
The little emperor nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Liu Jizhang, the Minister of Revenue, with a calm expression: "Shang Shu, Liu, the new year has begun. Didn't the Ministry of Revenue have no bad debts last year?"
Liu Jizhang looked embarrassed and turned to look at Zhao Changping.
Minister Zhao also understood his old boss's thoughts very well, so he immediately left work and came forward to give the emperor a general overview of the situation in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Last year, the overall situation of the Account Department was still good. Although it is inevitable that some yamen reported some bad debts and bad debts that were constantly being cut and sorted out, the revenue of the Account Department was pretty good last year. Throughout the year, the state treasury still had a balance of nearly one million taels of silver, as well as a large amount of grain and rice.
This is the benefit of being a master. Since Zhao Changping took charge of the treasury, the imperial court's finances have generally been improving in the past few years, especially in the treasury, which now has a lot of accumulated gold, silver and copper coins.
The little emperor nodded slightly and ordered all ministries to clarify and ask questions to the Ministry of Household Affairs if they have any doubts about last year's expenditure.
After solving the problem of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the little emperor said a few words about the Spring Palace. Then Eunuch Gao announced that this year's Spring Palace, Wu Kan, the current minister of the Ministry of Rites, would be the chief examiner of the Spring Palace.
I don't know if everyone gave the little emperor face, but they didn't say much about the emperor's appointment as the chief examiner.
When the candidates for Chunwei's examination were proposed, the young emperor sat on the dragon throne and kept watching the attitude of his ministers towards this matter.
But no one stepped forward to jump in.
The little emperor cleared his throat and looked at the ministers below, especially Yang Jingzong and Prime Minister Yang.
The court hall fell into an inexplicable silence for a moment.
After silence, the little emperor yawned and pretended to be careless. He looked at these people and then said slowly: "Do you have anything else to do, sir? If not, today's meeting will end here."
Finally, Yang Xiangguo, who had been pretending to be mute and deaf while standing in the front row, stood up silently.
Because it was a court meeting, Yang Xiangguo held the imperial wat in his hand, then took out a thick memorial from his sleeve, held it in both hands, and handed it to the emperor.
"Your Majesty, I have this memorial..."
