The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Concubine Zhu was the mistress of Zhaoyang Palace. She had been a concubine in the emperor's palace before he ascended the throne. She was favored for a while, but she had no children and was unable to reciprocate the emperor's favor. She was also impatient and always acted impulsively regardless of the occasion, and gradually lost the emperor's favor.

This year, during the election of new concubines, Meng Ronghua was assigned to her palace after entering the palace. The two of them couldn't stand each other and had a conflict on the palace road. Meng Ronghua was slapped by Zhu Guipin, and the Queen decided to move her to Concubine Deng's palace, and Zhu Guipin was also punished to copy scriptures.

Her father was a local prefect and not from a noble family. Although she could read, she was not very patient in studying. It took her two full months to finish copying the scriptures. Fortunately, the queen knew her temper very well and seeing that she had been busy copying the scriptures in the past few months and had not caused any trouble, she did not mind her procrastination and let her go.

Concubine Zhu had long lost favor, and she felt that it was because of her age and lack of beauty that she had fallen out of favor, so she counted on the two young new concubines in her palace to lure the emperor... But of the ones who were originally assigned to the Zhaoyang Palace, except for Meng Ronghua who had been favored, the emperor had never summoned the other two.

Both of them were concubines, one was surnamed Xia and the other was surnamed Chen.

Xia Cainü was a commoner girl chosen from the south by the Flower and Bird Envoy. Her family had some savings and land. She had two older sisters and two older brothers, and was a daughter born in old age, so she was doted on by her parents and was not required to work. As a result, she had a pretty face like a beautiful girl emerging from water. However, she was a little timid and was always shy and dared not speak loudly. However, her voice was soft and very seductive.

Another Chen Cainü, whose father was the county magistrate in a small county near the capital. She lost her mother at an early age and her father never remarried. There were three sisters in the family, and she was the oldest. Because she had to raise her younger sisters and take care of the household affairs, she did not get married until she was 19 years old. Although she was born beautiful, she was picked on by several of her former husbands because of her hot-tempered and tough personality. This made her very unhappy and she once thought of becoming a nun.

Later, Chen's father was suddenly dismissed by his superiors for dereliction of duty, and the family lost its largest source of income. When Chen Cainü heard that there were palace servants selecting young women, she thought they were selecting palace maids, so she gritted her teeth and spent some money to have her name listed. But it turned out that she was not going to be a palace maid at all.

She could never have imagined that she would become the queen in the play...

Because her temperament was quite different from Xia Cainü's, Chen Cainü and her could not get along. She was respectful to Zhu Guipin, but not gentle enough. The other party tried to control and scold Chen Cainü several times, but Chen Cainü always endured it. After Zhu Guipin was punished because of Meng Ronghua, Chen Cainü found a way to control the main position.

Whenever Concubine Zhu found an excuse to punish her again, she would yell that she wanted to ask the Empress for help. If Concubine Zhu asked the palace maids to stop her, she would puff out her chest and rush into the crowd, reminding the palace maids as she rushed that if she was left with scars on her body or face, none of these people would be in good shape!

She was like a rolling pin, and after a while, Concubine Zhu was completely helpless against her.

As the queen of Zhaoyang Palace, Concubine Zhu could have locked Chen Cainü in the yard, reported her illness, forbade her to go out, and slowly tamed her; however, after living together in the palace for many years, Concubine Zhu was a little impulsive, but she would never dare to touch the queen's whiskers.

Once a concubine in the palace reported an illness, no matter how serious or serious, the queen would definitely ask the female officials and imperial doctors around her to see the patient in person. Zhu Guipin was not sure, nor did she have the courage to deceive the queen about such a matter, so she could only ignore Chen Cainü and instead put even more pressure on the cowardly Xia Cainü.

Seeing that no one in Zhaoyang Palace was favored, Concubine Zhu was jealous but could not think of any good way to win favor. She could only instruct Xia Cainü to build a good relationship with Lady Wang. In her opinion, although Lady Wang was only a distant relative of the Queen's distant relatives, they all had the surname Wang. As soon as Lady Wang entered the palace, she went to Concubine Deng, who was the kindest to others. She was also one of the first few summoned by the Emperor. It must be the Queen who helped her secretly. It would be beneficial to build a good relationship with her.

As for why Concubine Zhu didn't go to build a relationship with Concubine Wang herself...it was simply because she was a Concubine of the second rank, and it was too humiliating to make friends with a Concubine of the seventh rank.

She wanted to please the queen, but the queen was always serious, fair and impartial. Except for Concubine Xian and Concubine Ning, there was no other concubine she was particularly close to.

Oh, now maybe we have to add Xie Cairen to the list.

Concubine Zhu knows what it feels like to be favored, so she becomes increasingly disgusted with the current concubines.

Seeing that Xie Yuzhen was pregnant and couldn't sleep with him, she was secretly happy for a few days. But then she saw Xie Yuzhen easily lifted the insignificant Xu Ronghua to the top. Even though the latter was already favored, she was still affectionate and respectful to Shouning Palace, which made Zhu Guipin, who was hoping that the two concubines would fall out, feel like she had been slapped in the face.

It just so happened that a new person was going to enter the palace, and she happened to meet Xie Yuzhen, so Concubine Zhu couldn't help but say something sarcastic: "I don't know how beautiful this Shun Meiren is. Not only is she as beautiful as you, she was given the status of a beauty when she first entered the palace, and she was also given a title."

She actually looked very pretty when she smiled, but perhaps because she was worried too much, there were some fine lines at the corners of her eyes, making Concubine Zhu look a little old: "It is said in the "Explanation of Texts" that the phoenix has five colors, the heart character is called virtue, and the wing character is called Shun. It can be seen that the character Your Majesty gave to Lady Shun is consistent with her status as a princess of a country, and also shows the high hopes placed on her. She is also worthy of the position of the fourth lady who assists the Empress."

Concubine Zhu was gloating over her misfortune. Xie Yuzhen held her belly and did not show any resentment as she wished. Instead, she smiled and said, "Although I dare not presume to guess your majesty's intentions, but this word can explain the meaning. Your majesty has taught me a lot on weekdays."

She brought Xie Yi with her when she visited the garden today. Although there was no explicit order, both the emperor and the empress tacitly agreed to keep Xie Yi in the palace. When she saw Zhu Guipin and her entourage from afar earlier, Xie Yuzhen thought of the way this person would act on impulse, so she didn't want to ask Xie Yi to meet her. She asked Xia Zhi to play with the child nearby, not too far away, so Xie Yuzhen could see them as long as he turned his head. However, Zhu Guipin's view was blocked by the bushes and the pavilion. She was so focused on laughing and teasing Xie Yuzhen that she didn't notice that there was a young child present.

"To be obedient means not to rebel and to retreat. It is also said that those who are submissive are the ones who obey. Danzhu has rebelled against the superior country this time and raised an army to cause chaos on the border of our Dasheng. He really does not know his own weight. We have to send troops to kill them and leave their heads rolling and corpses scattered all over the ground before they can understand what obedience is and what submission is!" Xie Yuzhen saw that Concubine Zhu opposite her covered her mouth with a handkerchief, as if she was not used to two words in her words.

Indeed, Concubine Zhu felt that the falling heads and corpses were all aimed at her. She felt a little regretful at the moment. It had been such a short time since she last met the crazy woman face to face, but she lost her caution and started talking to her!

I really shouldn't have done that.

Xie Yu really didn't intend to let her go, and his words were even more murderous: "My Lady, don't you think this is the truth? Since the Danzhu Kingdom knows how to obey and offered its daughter to seek peace, Your Majesty also magnanimously forgave its disrespectful behavior, so he bestowed the title of Shun, so that she can be called Danzhu, and ask Lady Shun to always remember this etiquette of obedience. Otherwise, there will be no Danzhu Kingdom in this world."

[Damn - even if it's malicious, my sister is super cute when she's being cute!] The dream-making system doesn't miss any opportunity to be a lackey.