The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

As he was thinking, Xie Yuzhen's usually eccentric thoughts jumped to Concubine Deng.

During the full moon banquet that day, Xie Yuzhen took the opportunity to hold Concubine Deng Xian and asked the system to scan her from the outside to the inside. The system was indeed not found, but it was not beyond Xie Yuzhen's expectation. He found traces of the remaining system energy on Concubine Deng Xian.

In other words.

Perhaps a long time ago, there was a system that bound Concubine Deng, but now that system no longer exists. I don’t know whether it took the initiative to unbind her and moved somewhere else, or whether it ran out of energy and disappeared.

As his train of thought gradually went astray, Xie Yuzhen saw Chunfen suddenly walk in and said, "My queen, Eunuch Li Zong is here."

"Oh?" Xie Yuzhen sat up straighter, "But does Your Majesty have anything to say?"

Chunfen glanced at Tongyu, and Tongyu stood up from the small embroidered cushion nervously.

Chunfen said in a condensed voice, "After the fourth princess had lunch today, she suddenly had diarrhea. Liu Shuyi urgently summoned the imperial physician to treat her and found out that she had consumed milk. The palace maid who served the princess said that the milk came from Miss Tongyu. Eunuch Li is here to take her for questioning."

"Ah?!" Xie Yuzhen was slightly startled, and then immediately made a surprised expression and looked at Tongyu, "The fourth princess has been in poor health since she was a child. Not only did she stop breastfeeding early, but she can't even touch food made from cow's milk. How could she be so careless..."

Tongyu was already shocked. Her body knelt down because of the instinct of survival: "My queen, I really didn't know that the fourth princess couldn't drink cow's milk. The little palace maid who came to get lunch didn't tell me. I..."

Lactose intolerance.

The fourth princess is lactose intolerant? !

Why is it that other time-traveling women who make money from milk tea are able to make their businesses flourish, but I meet a lactose-intolerant princess right from the start?

Tongyu is now in a state of complete confusion.

As a stay-at-home college student who has studied history and read countless novels, she naturally knows how strict the hierarchy was in ancient times. She is just a little palace maid, and is at the bottom of the food chain in the palace. If the princess has any problems with the milk tea she makes, she will either lose her life or be punished. Either way, Tongyu is unwilling to face either.

But at the same time, as a young person who was born and raised in a world where the powerful class that could legally and legitimately take the lives of civilians at will has long disappeared, she did not have much sense of the unreasonableness of imperial power. Countless years in her heart were pulling at her, making her appear afraid but also strangely fearless.

Xie Wei was really becoming more and more curious about what kind of world this little girl lived in.

So she stood up and said, "Well, I will take this girl to Yanzhang Palace to help sort out the whole story."

Done.

Several palace servants immediately went to prepare for the trip, but Tongyu stood there somewhat out of place, looking extremely uneasy.

Xie Yuzhen walked over and said, "Perhaps the root cause of today's incident is not your fault, but if you had remembered to ask the little palace maid about the food taboos of the Fourth Princess when she came to get lunch, wouldn't you have avoided the disaster today?"

"I...I am stupid." Tongyu was about to cry.

She was just an ordinary stay-at-home college student who hadn't even graduated yet and had never experienced the harshness of society. How could she automatically learn all these complicated things after traveling through time?

Seeing Xie Yuzhen's gentle attitude towards her, and the intention of giving her some advice, Tongyu couldn't help but feel touched. At the same time, it seemed that some memories were about to emerge from her brain that had been corroded by games and happy water...

Shouning Palace?

Shouning Palace?

Where on earth have you seen this name?

After a period of deep thought, Tongyu finally remembered on the way to Yanzhang Palace. Isn’t Shouning Palace the palace that has been passed down for hundreds of years and has been renovated several times throughout the dynasties?

Many ladies have lived in this palace, but I don't know which one this beautiful, kind and good-hearted lady is...

Tongyu couldn't remember how many concubines had lived in Shouning Palace. The reason why she had some impression of this palace was because she had traveled to the old capital with her sisters during the holiday last year. At that time... it seemed that one of the sisters was particularly obsessed with the history of the Great Sheng Dynasty, so she dragged the others to go together.

Tongyu tried hard to recall what her younger sisters had learned - the most famous woman who had ever lived in Shouning Palace was the one who came later, the Empress Dowager Yuming Renxuan, who gave birth to the first female emperor of the Great Sheng Dynasty, Chengtian Shenghuang, Xie Yuzhen!

The mother and daughter set a precedent for women to hold power in later generations. Since Emperor Chengtian Sheng, every generation of the Sheng Dynasty had female emperors. Until the fall of the Great Sheng Dynasty, the tradition of women holding power that it left behind was not abandoned or suppressed in the new dynasty. Instead, there were still countless women with outstanding achievements standing on the political stage and shining...

Thinking of this, Tongyu's heart suddenly started pounding.

She has not yet fully studied the memories of her original body. As a little palace maid who was obsessed with cooking, she actually didn't know much about the outside world, but... Tongyu desperately collected bits and pieces about Shouning Palace from the corners of her memory, and finally found out the current owner of this palace - Concubine Zhao Gui, Xie.

It took almost a lifetime of restraint, and Tongyu tried hard to recall the stern old face of the dean of high school, to stop herself from screaming.

She looked at the tall and beautiful figure of the woman walking in front of her with excitement, and suddenly felt that the fear in her heart disappeared at that moment.

She is indeed a textbook queen mother. Not only is she so beautiful, but she also has such a good temper and a kind heart. She is willing to protect a little palace maid she just met today...

After realizing Xie Yu's true identity, Tong Yu's mind instantly linked together "The Legend of Concubine X", "XX Palace" and "The Great Sheng XX" produced by certain companies. She began to involuntarily despise those screenwriters who described the beautiful and kind-hearted Empress Dowager Xie as a cruel and ruthless villain.

Cursing all the crudely made ancient idols derived from unofficial history in her heart, Tongyu straightened her chest - today's incident was indeed due to her lack of care and caution. She, Tongyu, admitted the mistake!

Tong Yu, the soul from the future, solemnly apologized in her heart to her original body Tong Yu whom she traveled through, saying that she was sorry that it was because of her stupidity that caused her body to suffer punishment.

But it won’t happen anymore in the future.

Empress Dowager Xie and Emperor Chengtian were able to carve out a completely new path in this era still completely dominated by patriarchy, and Tong Yu had at least completed compulsory education and was admitted to university. Even if her emotional intelligence was a little low, as long as she was willing to learn and as long as she could still learn, she would use the same energy she had used in the college entrance examination to adapt to the life of a little palace maid in the ancient imperial palace.

It's impossible that after receiving the protection of Empress Dowager Xie this time, I would continue to implicate others, right?