The Virtuous Concubine

When Malu woke up the next day, she was no longer in the West Warm Pavilion where she had slept the day before. Seeing the unfamiliar surroundings, she was a little nervous. She looked at the surrounding furnishings and environment and thought that she should still be near the sleeping place. She quickly asked the system: "Where am I? Do you know? Where did Kangxi go again?"

The system was actually watching her, and quickly answered her: "You are still in the Qianqing Palace. Because it is against the rules to stay overnight, you were carried here by several maids. After they cleaned you, they left and did not do anything else to you. Kangxi's location requires one probe time. Do you want to use today's quota?"

After Ma Lu answered yes, he saw that Kangxi was holding court at the imperial gate at this time. He was in a very low mood because of the high pressure. Seeing the expression that represented Kangxi's unhappiness, Ma Lu was happy. He deserved it!

Thinking of this, she decided to quit while she was ahead, at least not to try to have any chance encounters in the next two days and avoid this bad luck.

As for “finding ways to make him happy”, does he deserve it!

Malu stood up, feeling a little sore, and decided to give herself a break. She had worked so hard yesterday. She asked the system again: "How long will it take to confirm the pregnancy?"

The system replied: "Implantation will take about 7 days, but monitoring the body's condition requires upgrading the probe and opening the system authorization. The probe upgrade requires 500 points."

Malu knew that this system would not work in vain, but she was quite interested in the function of the upgraded system that could detect the body. So, with the mentality of saving as much as possible, she bargained with the system: "Can it only check the pregnancy status? Then I'm losing money. Modern test strips are only a few dollars. With 500 points, I need to embroider several large pieces!"

The system immediately regretted finding such a stingy tasker. 500 points was already a good deal, it had been this price for so many years!

Besides, she had already accumulated 6,420 points through serving the emperor in the emperor's bedchamber, competing for his favor, and selling embroidery. Was she going to not use any of them? The system then browsed through some traditional (crossed out) sales (crossed out) methods, and then advised Malu: "This is very useful. It is like a machine that can help you with physical examinations at any time. It can check any headaches or fevers you have. It can check not only pregnancy, but also injuries and diseases."

Malu was very excited. Medicine in the Qing Dynasty was not very advanced. If she had a machine like this, she would be able to live longer easily. But she was even more curious and asked the system: "Can this detector see other people's physical conditions? Can it be upgraded?"

Seeing her interest, the system stepped up its game: "Upgrading one level will only let you see your own physical condition, but upgrading two levels will allow you to see other people's physical conditions, emotions, and locations. It can even be integrated with your favorability detector and marking function, packaged together, and upgraded to a multifunctional detector that can see the status and location of items and characters!"

Malu's heart was moved. If this function was used well, it would be a powerful weapon for palace fighting! She waved her hand and said, "Upgrade! Upgrade to the highest level!"

System: "You don't have enough points to upgrade to the highest level. The highest level of the profiler can even display images in real time, and requires 20,000 points. Your current points are only enough to upgrade to check your physical condition and encapsulation."

Malu was almost choked to death by the cake the system had painted for him. He knew he couldn't afford it, but he still talked about it so enthusiastically!

However, she still let the system deduct 800 points from her, and upgraded and packaged all the functions. She might not remember to use these things, but she felt relieved to have them.

Seeing that the system still needed some time to do this, she wanted to open the door and go back to her own nest to let Bai Xia and Bai Fu give her a good massage.

Unexpectedly, a maid outside the door heard her getting up and hurried in with a new set of clothes and bowed to her: "Aunt Wuya, you are awake! If you want to get up, I will help you wash up."

When Malu heard this, her fragile heart was hurt. She was only 17 years old, so how could she become an aunt?

The system interrupted, "Your rank is higher than hers, and you haven't entered the harem yet, so it seems that she can only call you this."

Not wanting to bother with this black-hearted system that was arbitrarily bidding prices, Malu nodded and asked the little girl to get her a basin of water. After the little girl left, Malu didn't act pretentiously. She changed her clothes and combed her hair. She checked herself and the house, and only washed up after she found nothing wrong.

The little girl next to her even asked her if she wanted to eat, but Malu shook her head and said, "I can eat by myself. You can go and do your own thing!"

The little maid spoke and acted very swiftly, and said crisply: "My job today is to take good care of you."

The 16-year-old aunt couldn't stand the baby-faced girl treating her like her grandmother, so she washed her face, took out a silver ring from the sachet and gave it to her, smiling at the little girl.

Seeing her so happy, Ma Lu was also happy and asked her, "What's your name, how old are you, and where do you work?"

The little girl was very well behaved and replied respectfully: "My name is Henghui, I am 18 years old this year, and I am a maid in charge of guarding and cleaning the palace. Auntie, are you really not going to eat something? Eunuch Weizhu told me to take good care of you."

Malu was so embarrassed when she heard this. She was older than me? A baby face can really hide age! She quickly waved her hand and said, "No, I have to go back to work."

Henghui said that there was no need to rush. When she was assigned by Eunuch Wei Zhu to look after her, she had asked Wei Zhu, and she had already told Aunt Shu Yu that she didn't have to be on duty for the next three days and could just have a good rest.

Malu felt a little embarrassed and blushed - it seemed that Kangxi and herself were too noisy, so they made such arrangements.

Since he had already asked for leave, Malu just let it go and had a good meal before going back. Henghui was very careful and thoughtful, and in the end, the two of them even felt reluctant to leave each other.

However, Malu still liked her own small suite and felt more secure there, so Henghui accompanied her back.

When she arrived, she saw Bai Fu alone, knitting lace on the corridor at the door. Bai Fu was a little overjoyed to see Malu.

It turned out that Bai Xia wanted to wait for Malu to come back yesterday, and ended up waiting all night. This morning, Bai Fu woke up, and Bai Xia told her to wait for Malu to come back. If she didn't come back after the shift, she should wake her up and go out to look for him.

Seeing Bai Fu's concerned look, Malu was moved: "Has her impression of me changed?"

The system then prompted that the profiler had been upgraded and that it could be tried on Bai Fu. Malu took a look and was pleasantly surprised!

It shows some basic personal information of Bai Fu, including her address, status and favorability, and is more detailed and complete.

Bai Fu (Ilarie Minmin)

Now 16 years old

Yu was born and raised in Shengjing. At the age of 13, she entered the palace through a small selection and was assigned to the Jingren Palace as a maid. Later, she was transferred to the Qianqing Palace because of her good performance.

Favorability: 48 points.

The place with the name was emitting blue light. When she clicked on it, she saw a map that showed her current location, which was the tea room in the Qianqing Palace.

Malu was ecstatic after trying it out. This upgrade was really worth it! She couldn't wait to use it to see how her body was doing now.