The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather became colder day by day. In Shouning Palace, Chunfen led the palace servants to check everywhere. They pasted thicker screens on the windows again, and reorganized Xie Yuzhen's storehouse and made new booklets. She always strived for perfection in everything she did, with a stern baby face that was still childish, and cute in her seriousness.

"Madam, I have sorted out all the things you said you would sort out and give to the lady. Please have a look."

Thanks to her daughter, Xie's mother was conferred the title of a fifth-rank lady, but Xie's father got almost no benefits and was already the person with the lowest status in the entire family.

Xie Yuzhen took the booklet handed to him by Chunfeng and flipped through it casually: "Tell them to pack it and send it today. I also have two letters, which I will send out together."

One letter was to Jun Yuexin, which was just some ordinary gossip between the sisters. The other was to her mother. In addition to family matters, Xie Yuzhen mentioned in the letter that she should find a few young boys with good looks to raise. It would be best if they were orphans with no relatives. If they still had relatives alive, she would also have to carefully investigate the character of his blood relatives and the cause of his parents' death.

It was difficult for him to interfere in family affairs while he was in the palace, but Xie Yuzhen believed that his mother could take care of everything. He just couldn't help but worry that she was overworked.

My eldest brother is still in the academy, waiting to take the exam next year... Xie Ruizhen's brother is named Xie Jingrong. As far as she is concerned, her brother doesn't have much talent in studying. The only good thing is that he is a down-to-earth and hardworking person. He is willing to work hard to study. After taking the exams several times, he was awarded the title of scholar.

But in Dasheng, especially in Kyoto where there were so many talented people, he was just a poor scholar and didn't carry much weight.

Xie Jingrong is six years older than Xie Yuzhen. He is already 28 years old this year, but has not yet married. He had talked about marriage twice before, but both failed due to various accidents, which made Xie's mother very anxious.

Xie Jingrong, on the other hand, lost enthusiasm for his marriage after experiencing several things like his fiancée already having a lover and abandoning her family to elope with her cousin, and after they even got to the stage of matching their horoscopes, it was suddenly revealed that the other party was a boy who had been raised as a girl. He even advised Xie's mother not to worry about him and to let everything take its course.

Xie's mother thought that her eldest son was still thinking about his "ex-fiancée" who had regained his manhood. She couldn't sleep in the middle of the night and cried while holding the tablet of his late wife. She thought that this was because she was busy with housework and external affairs and had not been able to take good care of Xie Jingrong... Later, Xie Jingrong persuaded his mother to believe that he was not a homosexual, but just had some... sudden enlightenment.

However, as soon as he said this, Xie's mother felt that it would be better for him to be a homosexual. He should never give up the world and become a monk!

Xie Jingrong did not know whether to laugh or cry, and could only tell his mother that he was now focused on the imperial examination, and that the status of a scholar was really too low, so it would be better for him to wait until he passed the imperial examination and then reconsider the matter of marriage. Xie's mother reluctantly agreed, and from then on, he never went to the Buddhist temple to worship gods during festivals.

Xie Jingrong took the imperial examination for several years but never passed. Getting married seemed to be a distant prospect. Xie's mother gradually became more open-minded. Although she was a bit aggressive outside, she could almost be described as doting on her two children.

However, although Xie Jingrong failed repeatedly in the imperial examinations, he was extremely good at writing landscape notes, novels and stories, and he was also a good painter. Although these stories and novels were considered by the mainstream to be nothing more than minor pursuits, they gradually made him famous among scholars and enabled him to earn more income besides the property left by his biological mother.

As a result, Xie's father, the only one in the family who was determined to have his son carry on the family line as soon as possible, could no longer control Xie Jingrong. Xie Jingrong slowly dragged on and became the rarest super-old bachelor in the entire Dasheng.

Xie Yu really knew his brother's temper, and he didn't expect him to be smart enough to marry a sister-in-law - besides, she was the emperor's new favorite and was pregnant with the emperor's heir. There were many people who came up to her for marriage at this time, but no one knew how many intentions they had behind the scenes.

Apart from the baby in her belly, the only things she cares about now are her family and friends.

For the sake of family peace, my eldest brother should live alone for now. He has been a bachelor for so many years and is used to it anyway.

Xie Yuzhen held the reward book in his hand and thought for a while, then picked up the pen and added a few more things: "Send a few pieces of the white wallpaper that Your Majesty gave me to practice calligraphy to my brother, and also this inkstone from Chengzhou..."

She had a poor foundation in poetry and literature, but she was eager to learn. The emperor was pleased to see her success and gave her a lot of pens, inkstones, and paper. They were all valuable and rare, and could be used in the imperial court. Xie Yu was really not polite to him, but he couldn't use them all by himself, so he might as well give some to his brother. As for Xie's father...

"As for my father, ask mother to buy a few more people to accompany him, so that he won't be fooled by outsiders and do something to implicate us." Xie Yu was not worried about his mother or his brother, but only about his stupid father.

Although they despised it, the father-daughter relationship was inseparable, and they could not expect Xie's father to die immediately. If he died, Xie Jingrong would have to observe mourning and would not be able to take the imperial examination. Although his brother was relatively slow in the imperial examination, he had accumulated experience over the years and was very likely to pass this exam. When he became a juren, he would have the confidence to ask the emperor for an official position so that he could become his helper...

If Xie's father died at this moment, it would be a loss.

Moreover, Xie Yuzhen secretly wanted his daughter to have everything perfect from the moment she was born. Although this grandfather was unreasonable and annoying, he was still an elder after all. In this day and age, if the elders lived longer, the younger generation would seem blessed.

Of course, her daughter must be the most blessed one.

Xie Yuzhen has dug out a lot of information about future generations from the dream-making system in the past two days. She is very interested in the myths and legends of future generations and anecdotes about immortals. On the one hand, she urged the dream-making system to fabricate dreams, and on the other hand, she racked her brains to find a great origin for her precious daughter.

In response to this, the dream-making system, which had evolved into the initial stage of a lackey, combined with the mythology of this time and space, very enthusiastically and sincerely recommended the identity of the Queen Mother of the West to Xie Yuzhen.

In the legend of Dasheng, Lady of the West is the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven, the leader of all immortals, and the teacher of the ancient human emperor. She is capable of governing a country with her literary skills and defeating an army with her military skills. She herself is the symbol of national prosperity.

Even though people today place more emphasis on worshipping gods such as the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother who were born later, the incense and faith in the Queen Mother of the West have always been very strong and have never been discontinued.

After Xie Yuzhen picked and chose, he was very satisfied with this identity, so he asked the system to create a dream that was real enough to gain the emperor's trust.

Qian Xianhui also wanted to create a dream directly for the emperor at the beginning, but unfortunately the system at that time did not have much energy and could not meet her requirements. Now that the dream-making system is bound to Xie Yuzhen and has sufficient energy, it has no worries and is eager to start weaving dreams with all its heart, making sure that the master can see its role!