The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

[Ahem... Master, bad luck does not just make people unlucky for no reason and have everything go wrong, but it will push a person towards the worst situation in all aspects, just like a person suddenly loses his mind and gets stuck in a dead end, making one wrong step after another, and finally hurting others and himself. This is also one of the manifestations of bad luck at work.]

[Well, actually according to the data, after most people are entangled by bad luck, the most common manifestation is that everything they do is not smooth and they are prone to making mistakes. Very few people are reduced in intelligence. Maybe it is because the master is influenced by the destiny, so it is so powerful in Meng Rong. Or maybe Meng Ronghua is originally such a person. Even if you, the master, do not impose bad luck on her, she will eventually have this idea and embark on this path. ]

[......] Xie Yuzhen was silent again, [Forget it, the dream has already been dreamed, you can use it on her tomorrow night, it's better to be safe.]

From the fact that she had not seen Beigong Concubine for more than half a year since she entered the palace, Xie Yuzhen deduced that the old Beigong Concubine mostly learned the news from the outside world through the spies she deployed in the palace. Not only did it take time to pass the news back and forth, but there were also too many ways to manipulate it.

Although Xie Yuzhen didn't know which of the palace maids and female officials in the palace were members of the Meng family, Meng Ronghua had seen that she had already thought of changing the arrangement. As long as he waited for her to take action and kept a close eye on Dr. Zhou and others, he would not be afraid of not being able to find out the truth.

After entering the palace for so long, Xie Yuzhen relied on the money she had made from squandering the emperor's land and her own great favor to secretly bribe and win over many people in the Shanggong Bureau and low-level palace maids who worked everywhere. She also got in touch with her aunt in the imperial kitchen through Xiaoxi. Both Xiaoxi and her aunt had the surname Yang.

Originally, Aunt Yang was just a maidservant of the female official in charge of food. Normally, she would not have been given the position of the new female official in charge of food. However, the previous female official was old and secretly accepted Aunt Yang as his apprentice. Xie Yuzhen was a favorite concubine. After contacting the old female official and negotiating the terms, she only needed to say a few good words to Aunt Yang when the emperor was having a meal with her, and she was promoted from an ordinary palace maid to a female official in the imperial kitchen.

Not long ago, the old chef retired, and Xie Yuzhen helped Aunt Yang to get the position of chef.

in exchange.

The old chef introduced to Xie Yuzhen everything he had learned in the palace over the years: that the older palace ladies who had no backing but had ambitions to climb up the social ladder had no background, and therefore had not left the palace. Xue from the Shanggong Bureau was one of them.

After provoking Meng Ronghua's idea of ​​changing his son, Xie Yuzhen also changed his arrangements for Xue Zhuo.

She asked her brother outside the palace to report to the Kyoto Prefecture that Xue Zhuo had died of his injuries and destroyed his household registration. She also ordered Xue Zhuo to dress up as a woman and pretend to be a distant relative of the Xie family, and stay in the mansion, awaiting further arrangements.

Mother Xie was a little worried about her daughter's arrangement: "If these high-ranking officials are willing to investigate, they may find out that Xue Gongren has nothing to do with Xue Zhuo, and they may also find out that Xue Zhuo was related to our family. Isn't it a bit too hasty to act like this?"

The mother and daughter sat in the house talking, Chunfen was guarding the door and doing needlework with Xiaoxi.

Xie Yuzhen nodded to his mother after hearing this: "I know that there are many loopholes in the Xue palace people, and it is easy for others to catch them... But, mother, I need loopholes now."

As she spoke, she revealed a slightly bitter smile: "This is the first time I've done something like this. If everything is perfect without any mistakes, then...what will he think? Even if he thinks my method is perfect and effective now, what about the future? When he thinks of it again in the future, how can he not be on guard? How can he still feel at ease using me?"

The hand holding the handkerchief suddenly trembled. Her face darkened and she cursed for no reason: "...What a miserable life you are living. You are such a nobody."

"We can wait until the child grows up a bit." Xie Ruizhen said, "It's okay to leave some mistakes and loopholes. He will help us clean up the mess - this is what he should do! The more we are tied together, the more he cannot abandon me at will!"

"I will not just be a knife in his hand. I will become a part of his body that he cannot give up. If he wants to abandon me in the future, I will drag him to die with me. I am accumulating power to share his life. If that time really comes... our death will become the nourishment of this child. For this reason, I must make plans early."

Xie Yuzhen held his mother's hand and said, "Mother, for a better future, the grievances and hardships now are undoubtedly worth it to me."

"But how can I not feel heartbroken?" Mother Xie's trembling hands gradually calmed down as her daughter comforted her. "Forget it, I'm old and can't help you much. I just hope that Tan Nu can be more successful in the future, grow up well, and become a helper to you and the child."

She wasn't sure if she would live to see her daughter achieve her goal.

The hard work and suffering in the first half of her life made Xie's mother look older than other ladies of the same rank. But although her body was old, her heart was still fresh: "This child's identity and situation are unusual. You have too many things to worry about. Why don't you let me teach Tan Nu and take care of him? Don't let him grow up to be a cunning person, and don't let his cunning mind go astray and harm other people's families."

"He took my daughter's surname, Xie, so of course he can only think about the Xie family... As soon as the child is born, I will use the excuse that I cannot devote my attention to raising Tan Nu and ask Your Majesty to release him from the palace. I will trouble my mother from now on." If possible, Xie Yu really didn't want to be so cold and hard to his own child.

But precisely because Xie Yi is her own child, she cannot make random arrangements like she would with a stranger. Instead of waiting for disagreements to arise between mother and child in the future, it is better to start now to establish the child's ideas and teach him well. Although Xie Yuzhen does not regard children as a resource that can be used at will like some parents today, she prefers an obedient and well-behaved child to a rebellious child.

I don't ask for his gratitude to be as pure and filial in the future as it is now, but I hope he can at least not cause trouble to his mother and sister.

Xie Yuzhen had the most pessimistic thoughts, anticipating that in the future Xie Yi would eventually become like most men and turn against him...If it really came to that, he should give him a reasonable death that matched his status as an opponent.

As if sensing its mother's melancholy mood, the baby in Xie Ruizhen's belly moved, which was extremely rare, outside of her regular exercise times.

It was as if she stretched out her little hand and patted her mother gently in comfort.

Suddenly, Xie Yuzhen felt a burst of fresh air that dispersed the pessimism and bitterness that came from nowhere. She shook her sleeves and accidentally knocked over the celadon vase on the table.

The broken porcelain flew everywhere, and the crisp sound of the cracking made Xie Yuzhen break out in uncontrollable cold sweat on his back.

Xie's mother anxiously asked her daughter what had happened.

Xie Yuzhen felt the chill emanating from her back and slowly spreading to her forehead. She had indeed spent a lot of energy in the past few days to take care of the Meng family's affairs, but... when did she start to feel that extreme pessimism?