Concubine Jing and Concubine Xin have been coming to talk to her recently. Since Yi Xin is unable to go out during her confinement period, they always tell her about the latest happenings in the Old Summer Palace.

Concubine Jing said that Shen Meizhuang's food was poisoned. Now that she holds the power in the palace, she directly built a few small stoves for Shen Meizhuang's place, and let Caiyue and others cook the meals from now on.

As for who poisoned the person, the three of them knew it clearly as if it were a mirror.

Later, Concubine Xin said that there was a new official girl around Yinzhen.

When Yi Xin heard this, she realized that this official lady was an old acquaintance.

It was Huanbi, the maid that came with Zhen Huan.

When Huanbi begged Shen Meizhuang to stay with her, her motive was not pure. She just wanted to use Shen Meizhuang to get to the top.

After Shen Meizhuang got into trouble, she immediately abandoned Shen Meizhuang and wanted to join Concubine Hua.

The reason why she went to Concubine Hua was because of her mother's death anniversary more than three months ago. When she went to the Imperial Garden to burn paper and worship, she was caught by Concubine Cao.

At this point, Concubine Cao had the upper hand over her, but at that time Zhen Huan was about to die, so Concubine Cao didn't let her do anything.

It was only after Zhen Huan died that Concubine Cao asked her to go to Shen Meiyu, thinking that one day she could raise Huanbi to share Shen Meiyu's favor and slap her in the face at the same time.

But later on, the plan of fake pregnancy came up, and for a while there was no place for Huanbi to use her abilities.

But Huanbi is pretty and has ambitions to move up the social ladder. The best thing about her is that she is not smart enough and is easy to manipulate.

So when Huanbi came to Hua Fei for refuge, Concubine Cao persuaded Concubine Hua to accept her as her.

Concubine Hua hated others competing with her for favor the most, but Concubine Cao said, "Your Majesty, Concubine Qiong will soon be out of confinement. When she is out of confinement, she can serve the emperor in the bedchamber. If Concubine Qiong competes for favor at that time, can you still condescend to fight with her? It is better to raise Huanbi and let her compete and snatch favor. If Huanbi succeeds, Concubine Qiong will lose face."

After hearing what she said, Concubine Hua's attitude softened a little, but Concubine Cao continued to persuade her.

"Also, Madam, think about it. Last year, seven people were selected to enter the palace. Concubine Xia was disabled and sent to the cold palace. Concubine Wan died of illness. Concubine An was sentenced to death. Concubine Borjigit was a decoration. Concubine Chun was still young and had not been cuckolded. Concubine Shen was also demoted to a concubine and confined to Xianyue Pavilion. Among the newcomers, the only one who could sleep with him was Concubine Qiong.

Yu Da Ying, who showed up after New Year's Eve, committed suicide because she couldn't stand losing favor.

Among the people in our palace, only your Emperor Yikun Palace frequently comes in and out.

If this continues, if the emperor wants a new one, he can only hold another beauty pageant or select a good one from the palace maids. I think we should make preparations early."

Concubine Hua thought carefully about what Concubine Cao said and felt that it made sense.

Only then did he take Huanbi in and push her to serve tea to Yinzhen. Yinzhen felt that she was a bit like his Queen Chunyuan, so he accepted her. In one night, Huanbi became Queen Bi, and Yinzhen summoned her to sleep with him for four consecutive days.

It was not until Yi Xin officially came out of confinement that she appeared at the Sixth Prince’s full moon banquet, radiant and radiant.

Yinzhen was immediately fascinated by her, and stayed in bed for ten consecutive days.

Yi Xin also became the most favored woman in the harem.

In September, the emperor returned to the palace.

Yi Xin moved directly to Yongshou Palace, but before she was settled in, she was invited over by the Empress Dowager.

The Queen Mother did not mention Honghui or the Queen in a single word, but her words were warnings to her implicitly. She also asked her to copy the Lotus Sutra a hundred times for Honghui to help him attain nirvana.

Yi Xin almost laughed.

The entire text of the Lotus Sutra has more than 80,000 words. The Queen Mother must be dreaming if she has to copy it a hundred times with a brush.

But in front of her, she still said honestly: "Yes, I will obey the Queen Mother's order and sincerely copy scriptures to pray for the eldest prince."

After Yi Xin returned to the palace, she took off her armor and began to write furiously.

Of course, what was written could not be the Lotus Sutra, but a letter to the Fucha family.

In addition to letters, there is another thing, which is the outline of the novel.

Yi Xin wrote a novel outline herself, and the story borrowed elements from Xiao Long Nu in The Return of the Condor Heroes.

The story tells that there was a girl named Linglong who had lived in seclusion with an old nun as a lay disciple since she was a child. After the old nun passed away, Linglong followed her master's last wish and went to find her master's son.

The old nun lost her son, was divorced by her husband's family, and was driven out by her parents' home, so she went to the dilapidated nunnery on the mountain to become a nun.

After the old nun died, she hoped that her disciple Linglong could come down the mountain to help her find her son.

Linglong has been self-sufficient with her master in the mountains since she was young, and has never known what life is like in the countryside.

Everything she saw was new and new. She saw a stall selling beautiful steamed buns, so she walked over, asked the owner for one, then took the bun and turned away.

The shop owner asked her to pay, but she said she had no money and she didn't know what money was.

The store owner thought she was trying to dine and free and refused to let her go.

When Linglong was in trouble, a kind-hearted young man appeared and gave two cents to the store owner on her behalf.

The young master realized that Linglong had probably never seen these things before, so he introduced them to her one by one.

He told her how much an egg cost, how much a pound of cabbage cost, how many coin a bushel of rice cost, how many coin a pound of soybean oil cost, etc. He also treated her to a lot of delicious food. When he knew that she was looking for someone for her master, he helped her look for that person.

At the end of the story, it is very cliché that the young man is the old nun's son. Later, the young man and Linglong got married, had a series of children, and went to the mountain to pay homage to the old nun.

Yi Xin told her father in the letter to ask her fourth brother Baozhu, who had the best literary talent in the family, to polish the contents of the outline and then sell it, so that all major bookstores in the capital could have copies of the book.

Yi Xin had a hobby, which was reading storybooks. Yinzhen knew this and tacitly agreed to the Fucha family sending her new storybooks every month. Yi Xin planned to mix this storybook in with the next batch of storybooks to be sent.

Although she was nominally in charge of palace affairs during this period, she did not usually care about it and mostly left it to Fangcao.

But as for the account books, Fangcao would always take the initiative to show them to Yixin after she finished her calculations.

Yi Xin just glanced at it casually and memorized the prices of many food items. Even though there was no comparison with the prices in the private sector, she could see that the prices in the Imperial Household Department were too high. So she planned that if the empress dowager pissed her off, she would expose the matter.

As a result, the Queen Mother really cooperated and found something for her to do as soon as she returned to the palace.

Well, then the Queen Mother should not blame her for punishing the Baoyi families!

Especially the bannermen family headed by the Empress Dowager's mother's clan, Uya. If this story is presented to them, Uya will be skinned alive if not killed!

Let her copy scriptures for her enemy's son?

What a shame!

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