The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

outside the palace.

In the small courtyard where flowers grow evergreen.

There were already a dozen women who were not too old standing crowded together. They were all wearing the most ordinary cloth clothes, which looked gray at first glance, but at another glance you could see that these women were all tall, with obviously strong limbs, full of a different kind of beauty that was different from the current customs.

"Sister Hua, why did His Highness ask you to gather everyone together?" asked the oldest woman.

Hua Changchun glanced at her and said, "Don't worry, it's a good thing."

"Two months ago, when General Jun was recruiting people, he didn't let us go, and we have been kept until now..." Another woman held a piece of grass in her mouth, looking listless, "I think it's to serve His Highness."

Most of those who practice martial arts yearn for Jun Yuexin.

Although the Great Sheng is now at peace, there are still foreign bandits roaming the borders. Many orphans in the charity home who choose to pursue a career in the military have earned military merits and slowly risen up this path.

Most of the women in this courtyard were the best martial artists in the past two or three years. They were full of enthusiasm to make achievements on the battlefield, but they were rejected during the conscription. In the past, those who were not as good as them could go with them, but they could not...

When Wang Linghui was alive, she emphasized several times that she set up the orphanage only to provide homeless orphans with a guarantee and a way out for growth, and not to train and select slaves loyal to the Wang family. Therefore, the mothers in charge of the orphanage treated these orphans normally when raising them, and only occasionally reminded the orphans to remember the grace of the empress in the palace who saved their lives, and not to become bad people when they grow up.

However, children raised in this way are more grateful, have bottom lines in their hearts, get along well with their companions, and naturally get close to those who help them. They are not like domestic servants who have been instilled with the need to be loyal to their masters since childhood, with the tendons of loyalty and discipline in their heads twisted, while their own human instincts are pulling in the opposite direction. So while they are loyal to their masters, they also keep fighting and trampling on each other, trying their best to get money into their own arms, and don't care even if it damages the reputation of their master's family.

Moreover, many of the cases in the families of countless officials and dignitaries throughout history originated from their loyal servants for generations. After all, they were raising a living person in the same way as raising a tool. Since the living person became a tool, no matter who it was, as long as they knew how to use the tool, they could easily turn around and stab the "master".

Xie Yuzhen was certainly tempted to raise a group of loyal and super-powerful troops and servants from the orphanage, but she gave up in the end. It was not because of her thin and pitiful love for the orphans, but because she instinctively hated the practice of training people into tools. The palace maids in her own palace were all literate, and when they were old enough, they were sent out to take the examination for female officials...

What she wanted was a living person, a descendant who could carry on her ideals even without her, rather than a tool that only knew how to follow the master's orders and, when the master's orders were gone, would begin to release its repressed nature and become twisted and cruel.

After taking over the Salesian Home, Xie Ruizhen decided to continue Wang Linghui's approach. He also used his own money to add a martial arts training ground and expand the school. He hired reliable people to teach the orphans poetry and literature, and then let the first batch of children who practiced martial arts return to the Salesian Home to continue teaching their younger sisters.

After understanding her mother's approach, Lu Weiyuan immediately expressed her full approval. As for the orphans who were brought up in this way, would they not agree with her as their successor in the future, or simply abandon their ideals and be assimilated by the secular world, or completely betray her and stand against her and others...

Lu Weiyuan said that only the weak would worry about this and that.

Not convinced by yourself?

I am so outstanding that I can defeat her wholeheartedly by just picking out one aspect of myself.

Abandon your ideals and accept the constraints imposed on women by the world?

Anyway, it was her own choice. If we have to dictate what a woman should and shouldn't do, then what's the difference between her and those men who always talk about their dad. Learning so many things and working hard to hone their martial arts, just to become another "New South" that is selling dog meat under the guise of sheep meat?

That would be so boring.

As for those who choose to betray - as long as they dare, isn't that a kind of courage?

"After praising their courage, I will take their lives with my own hands," said Lu Weiyuan.

The little princess, who had been bearing the heavy expectations of her parents since she was born, never felt how heavy the burden was on her shoulders, nor did she ever think that she had no choice because she was born in the royal family. She just felt that both the responsibilities and the honors were what she deserved.

And I have the absolute strength to take on both of them.

The orphans in the Salesian Institution who were carefully raised were all different and blossomed, but those gathered in the small courtyard today were the best in recent years. Those who were ahead were naturally unruly. Although they were grateful for the kindness of Queen Xie and her grace of survival and education, and were willing to be loyal to her, they did not have the idea of ​​bowing down and respecting Queen Xie's daughters as soon as they met them and treating them as their masters.

And the orphans who could be called the direct descendants of Empress Xie, even if they had not had much contact with Lu Weiyuan, knew that Princess Yuyi had been favored by the emperor and empress since childhood, had a spoiled personality, and even showed some signs of being naughty at times. She was not an easy person to get along with. What's more, she especially loved to pretend to be innocent and simple to play tricks on others, which was really too eccentric - if such a person wanted their loyalty, the means would surely be bizarre and extremely troublesome.

Just when everyone was on high alert.

Lu Weiyuan, who was wearing gray cloth clothes similar to theirs, climbed down from the wall of Hua Changchun's house.

Hu Ziyi: “…?”

When Lu Weiyuan looked up, she saw several pairs of eyes staring at her. She dusted herself off and said, "My mother asked me to pick some people and take them to the princess's mansion to serve as guards for a while to train. I want the best, so I asked Huahua to recommend you."

"So, come and show me how good you 'best' can be."

Although she was dressed in plain clothes, her smile was sweet and bright like starlight; and although her tone was childish and innocent, she did not show any courtesy at all and the moment she finished speaking, she punched out like the wind and swung at the people in the yard who had suddenly become alert.

The first to be affected was Lu Weiyuan's best friend Hu Ziyi.