Three months passed.

What this group of young palace maids were waiting for was not the palace mistresses who sent people to select the palace maids.

The young palace maids stood in neat rows waiting to be selected by the eunuchs in charge of each palace or the palace maids in charge.

After waiting for a long time, no one came. When the teaching nanny was curious about what was going on, bursts of noise came from outside. In the end, only one sentence was heard clearly: His Majesty has passed away.

Zimu silently observed his surroundings, and all the palace maids knelt down silently and cried quietly for themselves.

The ladies who were supposed to select palace maids after the emperor's death could no longer come. After the new emperor ascended the throne, they had to observe mourning and this batch of them were destined to be assigned together.

Compared to other young palace maids who mourned for themselves and lost the only chance to live a comfortable life in the harem, Zimu was secretly happy because this way she would not have to be assigned to work under a certain master.

And his father, Wei Qingtai, is still the head of the Baoyi Department of the Imperial Household Department. He only needs to obey the orders of the Imperial Household Department and do some unhurried work that pays little monthly salary and rarely appears in front of the masters and concubines in the harem. His father and uncles will not let him appear in front of the masters and concubines in the harem at such a young age.

Zimu, who came from a family of bondservants of the Imperial Household Department, knew all too well the complicated connections of the Imperial Household Department. The ancestors of the Wei family had made great contributions during the reign of Emperor Kangxi, and Emperor Kangxi incorporated the entire family into the Plain Yellow Banner bondservants.

And Wei's grandfather rose rapidly to the position of the second-rank minister in charge of the Imperial Household Department. Strictly speaking, Zimu's birth in this life was higher than that of Concubine Gao in the future.

Zimu specially discussed his destination with his cheap father in this life, and finally Zimu happily entered the library with his small bag.

After the new emperor ascended the throne, he issued an edict to dismiss the palace maids who had reached or were about to reach age in advance. Except for a few who had deep feelings for their masters and voluntarily stayed, the majority of them returned home and got married.

Zimu also heard a piece of news from his father Wei Qingtai that after the new emperor ascended the throne, he specially found a few trustworthy people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs to secretly search outside the palace for the woman with whom he had a three-life relationship in his dream.

After knowing this news, the ladies in the harem have nothing to do now, so they gather together to watch the jokes of Concubine Xian, Ulanara Qingying, during their daily greetings.

Fu Cha Langya originally thought that when the emperor was still the fourth prince Hongli, he insisted on giving the Ruyi, which symbolized the legitimate wife, to Ulanara Qingying.

Now that the emperor has ascended the throne, he has made Gao, his concubine when he was in the palace, the noble concubine, and Ulanara, who was also a concubine, the concubine, the imperial concubine. It is really funny.

Moreover, Qingying Ulanara's current position as a concubine was won by the former Queen of Jingren Palace at the cost of her life.

Zimu lived a very leisurely and comfortable life in the library. Although the maids in the library did not try to curry favor with her for the sake of the Wei family's status in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, several older maids were still willing to take better care of her because of Zimu's face.

Two years passed unknowingly. Apart from organizing books and cleaning dust every day, Zimu spent most of his time reading.

A year ago, when Qianlong finally drew the portrait of the woman in his dream and gave it to Wei Qingtai and several officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs who were helping him find the person, Wei Qingtai was shocked when he saw the woman in red in the portrait who looked exactly like his own daughter, but he didn't show any sign on his face.

After returning home and discussing with his mother and wife, he decided to let his daughter stay in the library for a while longer.

After all, the harem is in chaos now, and two of the emperor’s children have died in the womb since he ascended the throne.

Zimu was only thirteen years old at that time, and was not even old enough to enter the harem as a concubine. No one knew better than them the underworld that killed people without bloodshed.

A year is neither long nor short. With the means used by those masters and mistresses, it is too easy to make a person disappear silently.

The Wei family had been entrenched in the Imperial Household Department for four generations, and they had finally gotten rid of a girl who they saw from childhood would be stunningly beautiful when she grew up. They were unwilling and reluctant to let their granddaughter or daughter die silently in the harem.

So in the following year, every time Qianlong asked whether the woman in the painting had been found outside the palace, Wei Qingtai always seemed to be hesitant to say something, neither saying yes nor no.

Qianlong was eager to find the person, so he naturally didn't take Wei Qingtai's hesitation to heart. He just urged them to find the person quickly.

That day, Zimu was walking between the bookshelves, thinking about which book to read today, when he suddenly heard a slight noise.

She stopped and looked around, and found that it was the eunuch with whom Old Man Wei had been communicating, so she felt relieved.

"My Ama, does she have anything to tell me?"

"Sister, this is a letter from Lord Wei. He specifically instructed you to burn it after reading it so that no trace remains."

"Okay, I understand." Zi Mu took out a piece of silver and stuffed it into the young eunuch's pocket. The young eunuch did not refuse. It has been two years and the young eunuch has gotten used to it.

Zimu is fourteen years old now. Her family told her about the portrait and said that it is time for her to appear in public but she must be careful about the method and must not be careless and attract too much attention.

In the past two years, Zimu had created dreams for Qianlong from time to time. Without exception, except for a few very rare dreams, the ending of Zimu in most of his dreams was almost always premature death.

Qingying, who had originally been able to think of the friendship between childhood sweethearts and try to get close to Qianlong, became less patient with Ruyi, who was not really a childhood sweetheart, after Qianlong truly understood what childhood sweethearts were from his dream.

The Hall of Mental Cultivation and the Palace of Heavenly Purity were no longer places that Qingying could enter at will, so Zimu accepted Li Yu's loyalty without hesitation.

When Rongtuan was still sighing that this little world didn't have that dog man who would stick to his cubs in every life, he thought of the scumbag dragon and was glad that the dog man was not a scumbag dragon, otherwise he would have been so disgusted that he would have vomited.

———————Qianqing Palace———————

Before going to bed, Qianlong took out the portrait and stroked it over and over again until he felt sleepy. Then he carefully rolled up the scroll and put it in the secret compartment under the bed.

In his dream, Qianlong approached a strange but familiar place and saw the face of the woman he had dreamed of for two years.

Ever since he ascended the throne, what he saw in his dreams every time was the heartbroken profile or back of a woman. How could he not be excited when he finally saw the person he had been thinking about again?

In the dream, Qianlong seemed to have returned to the time when he and the woman played the zither and harp in harmony. At the end, the woman looked at him with tears in her eyes and asked with her red lips: "Why didn't you come to find me in this life? Have you really forgotten me?"

"I didn't. I've been looking for you, but I can't find you..."

The misty eyes of the beauty in the dream, which were between peach blossom eyes and fox eyes, drooped down: "I have been waiting for you."

"I will definitely find you soon, wait for me."

"I am here……"

Qianlong was listening carefully and preparing to take note of the beauty's current location, when he heard someone calling him and had to wake up.

Qianlong looked at Li Yu, who had woken him up, with eyes full of anger. He changed his clothes without saying a word and had a bad face the whole day. He also disliked the usually introverted Li Yu.

Ever since Wang Qin married the queen's maid,惢心, a few days ago, he had felt that the emperor was distant towards him.

In the past, all the tasks assigned to him were given to his apprentice Li Yu. Even if Li Yu was not there, they would be given to Li Yu's apprentices Jinzhong and Jinbao.

He finally got the chance, and Wang Qin, who was the chief eunuch of the imperial palace, naturally would not miss the opportunity to deal with Li Yu.

In the afternoon, Li Yu was so fed up with Qianlong that he deliberately found fault with him, so Wang Qin justifiedly punished him by making him kneel on tiles.

Qingying, who was originally trying to win him over, did not show up. Qianlong now hated Wang Qin more than Li Yu, so after Li Yu knelt for two incense sticks, as soon as it got dark, Li Yu was sent to the Imperial Hospital to bandage his wounds.

Zimu found a suitable opportunity to visit Chunchan and Lancui from Sizhiku. On the way back to the library, he happened to pass by Qianqing Palace, the closest route to the Imperial Medical Bureau.

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