The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Lin Qiao sneezed without warning.

"What's the matter? Are you having trouble acclimatizing to the climate in the capital?" Old Man Lin became anxious.

They have now returned to the courtyard they rented. This street is basically filled with students who have gone to Beijing in advance to prepare for the next spring examination. The environment is very suitable for studying, and the Jingzhao Prefecture has specially arranged yamen runners to patrol the area, so it is very quiet.

After entering the courtyard, Lin Qiao shook his head and said to his father: "It's okay, I just choked on the wind by accident."

The servants of the Yongjia Marquis' Mansion brought in the gifts that Xie's mother had given to the father and daughter one by one. The leading nanny carefully looked around the not-so-spacious house - a main house, two side rooms, and the bathroom, kitchen and other things should be behind the main house. After the look, the nanny asked herself and others where they should pack up these items and put them.

Lin Qiao thought for a moment and said, "Madam, please put all these boxes and crates in the right wing for the time being."

The main house has two floors. In order to give his daughter a quiet environment to study, Father Lin took the initiative to give up the main house and went to the left wing. Gradually, he got rid of the state of being shocked by the wealth of the mansion. Father Lin became lively again: "Let us help, Guanying, you can't hurt your hands as a scholar, you go in first."

"How can you be so delicate?" This time when Lin Qiao went to the capital, besides his father Lin, he only brought a servant.

Her situation was special, so she did not have anyone to serve her at home. This time when she went to the capital, she did not bring the maid she had hired with her. Her servant, A Lian, had no father or mother. He was picked up by Old Man Lin when he was still a baby and had been raised in Linjiazhuang for more than ten years. Although he was young, he was smart and tight-lipped, so they brought him here. In name, he was Lin Qiao's servant, but in fact, apart from grinding ink and tidying up the study for Lin Qiao, he spent most of his time helping Old Man Lin.

"Master, please allow me to say a few more words." After packing up the things, the nanny reminded him gently, "You only have a few people at home, which is not convenient enough. You should concentrate on studying. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are complicated. You can't just let your uncle and this kid take care of everything... And these things that are close to your body must not go wrong. If there is a careful person at home to take care of it, it will be much safer than hiring someone to do it outside like other scholars do."

Those who could pass the imperial examination in those days usually came from families that were not too poor, but it was not easy to live in the capital. Even if one was a wealthy family in one's hometown, in the capital, one would just be a small fry who could barely make ends meet. Therefore, most of the juren who lived in this area rented houses and brought only two or three family members with them. Bachelors like the "father and son" of the Lin family had to hire a few maids to take care of their daily food and clothing, or they could only go out and order fabrics or money.

The nanny said, "If you have some free time, you can go to the pawnbroker's shop and find a pawnbroker named Sun. She is the most reliable person to introduce people to. Even our queen trusts her."

This midwife Sun was the innocent unlucky girl who was involved in the serial conspiracy between Xie Ruizhen and the Meng family when Xie Ruizhen was giving birth. However, she was not too unlucky. After all, midwife Sun knew nothing about the situation that day. After Xie Ruizhen gave birth to a daughter, she was found to be normal and went home safely with her reward and wages.

Sun Chanpo's family had both young and old people, and her performance that day also caught Xie Ruizhen's eye, so he asked Yongjia Marquis Mansion to contact her several times and successfully recruited her - Sun Chanpo was not only a midwife, but also a human trafficker. Most of the girls taken in by Yongjia Marquis Mansion, except for the abandoned ones, were carefully selected by Sun Chanpo before being sent to the mansion.

"Thank you for your advice, Ma'am. Please take this gift. Please have some tea and snacks." Lin Qiao smiled gently and handed the ma'am a purse.

The maid accepted it without hesitation, and added a few more words: "In the past, the servants in our house did not dare to accept gifts from guests, but before coming here, the lady told us that you, your uncle and our mansion are all family, so I accepted it with audacity."

The entire Yongjia Marquis Mansion, from top to bottom, exudes goodwill towards Lin Qiao, which was also something Xie Ruizhen had specifically instructed.

joke.

This was an eighteen-year-old juren who would become the number one scholar before she was twenty years old. Her political achievements were remarkable and her name would go down in history. Even though her identity as a woman was later revealed, the emperor was reluctant to punish her for deceiving the emperor and abandon her such a capable and virtuous minister!

And she is my non-blood related cousin.

Ever since she learned of Lin Qiao's existence, Xie Yuzhen, who had few outstanding people in her family, would almost wake up laughing in the middle of the night - it's not that there were no other court officials who wanted to rely on her, but could those outsiders be treated the same as her own family members who were related to her?

Not to mention...what Xie Yuzhen values ​​most, besides Lin Qiao's ability, is her identity as a woman.

When Yuanjun ascends the throne in the future, how can the court be filled with only men?

Since we already have an empress, wouldn’t it be more logical to have a few female officials?

In other words, use a few female officials to pave the way first, and when the time comes to discuss the succession, those women who are clear-headed and have strong ambitions will naturally become Yuanjun's helpers.

Being able to stand in the sun openly, Xie Wei really didn't believe that there would be anyone willing to crawl back and continue to lock himself in that low and dark square courtyard!

Of course, being a female official is only one condition for future career prospects. The other one, which Xie Yuzhen values ​​more, is female generals and female soldiers.

The skills she had obtained from the world consciousness did not restrict the practice to men or women.

After Xie Yuzhen handed the skills to Jun Yuexin, he asked her to practice them first. After simplifying them, he passed them on to the girls adopted by the Yongjia Marquis Mansion. He would select trustworthy ones among them in the future and then teach them the complete first half of the skills.

But just the streamlined upper half of the exercises has allowed these originally thin girls to begin to show martial arts skills that far exceed their peers. According to Jun Yuexin, some of her old illnesses left over from practicing martial arts have also been slowly healed as she practices the exercises. In particular, her uterus, which had been injured and could no longer bear children, seems to have undergone some very miraculous changes. Her monthly life is no longer so difficult, and her abdomen is often warm. What surprises her even more is that as long as she doesn't want her period to come, it will stop naturally, and it has no negative impact on her physical health.

Xie Yuzhen had a vague guess in his mind about her description. Xie Yuzhen, who originally did not intend to practice the first half of the exercises too hard, secretly started to pay a little more attention to it.

As for the second half of the cultivation technique that allows one to temporarily transcend this world, Xie Yuzhen currently only plans to let Yuanjun practice it from a young age.