Traveling to the ancient harem

The Hall of Nourishing Heart.

Tomorrow is the day when the five selected beauties will enter the palace. The Queen holds a booklet in her hand, which lists the staffing and accommodation arrangements for each person.

"Only five people were selected this time. The palace is large, so everyone is assigned a separate place. However, the talented person has a lower rank, so she is assigned a pavilion." The queen said to the emperor. This was also her selfish desire. Normally, talented people cannot have their own residence and can only live with those of higher rank, and of course, in a side hall.

The queen wanted to win over those of lower status and give them some small favors, which would also be a help to her in the future.

"Do as you say." The emperor never cared about this: "Why does Concubine Huang live in such a remote place?" It's in the side palace where the retired emperor lived.

"Well... what I'm thinking is that she is not worthy of that position in the first place. If she lives in a better place, I'm afraid the concubines who entered the palace a few years earlier and do not have as high a position as her will have objections. I'm afraid they will take advantage of their status to bully the newcomers." In fact, this was just the Queen's statement. Huang Ye's appearance made her feel a sense of crisis. She didn't want Huang Ye to live close to the Emperor's Palace of Tranquil Longevity.

"That Ningyuxuan, I remember that no one has lived here for many years, and it seems that someone died there back then." The emperor was very dissatisfied. He thought that the queen was too targeted in her actions. He would not believe that she did not know about this.

The queen's face suddenly turned red, and she said that Huang Ye was chosen by the emperor out of spite. It seemed that he took it to heart. Although the emperor did not say it explicitly, the implication of accusation was obvious. She was the queen, so didn't she even have the right to arrange the accommodation for any concubine?

"Everything has been arranged, and it's too late to make any temporary changes now. It would be better to wait for her to live there for a while, then clean up a palace and move there again." The Queen discussed with the Emperor.

The emperor glanced at her, and the queen's heart skipped a beat. She snorted after a long time. He didn't want to make things too embarrassing. This queen seemed okay before, but now that a new person has come in, she seems not so generous. However, her match, Aunt Fanghua, is not bad. She is capable and can protect that yellow leaf.

In fact, the Queen Mother originally wanted to marry Fang Hua to Xu Rou. She sent people to the Imperial Household Department to find Huang Lide, the general manager of the Imperial Household Department, and asked him to marry her directly to Xu Rou from the Imperial Household Department. She had been competing with Yi Baoer for many years, and she knew Fang Hua's abilities better than anyone else.

Huang Lide was promoted by the Empress Dowager after she stepped down, but no one knew that his family and the Huang family were ancestors of the same clan, but now they were five generations apart. The old man had rescued their family when they were in trouble, and he had secretly looked for him not long ago. Fanghua had long been arranged by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to be among Huang Ye's people.

The Queen Mother asked Nanny Yingchun to find the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but Huang Lide did not listen to her and went directly to the Queen to tell her the Queen Mother's plan. He also reminded the Queen not to let the Queen Mother succeed, because Fanghua had some tricks, and if she was married to the Queen Mother's niece, she might turn around and deal with the Queen.

Of course the Queen would not let this happen. Based on the principle that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, she listened to Huang Lide's suggestion and paired Fanghua with Ning Yuxuan. This way, Concubine Huang would have the capital to compete with Xu Rou. In order to balance the harem, the Queen also took great pains. As for what Huang Lide said about Fanghua having some tricks, the Queen sneered. She thought that Fanghua was just a servant who was just being clever. If he really didn't behave himself, she would find a reason to kill him.

When the empress dowager found out that Fanghua had given Huang Ye, she was furious. She called the empress over and scolded her. The empress did not argue and just said that it was the Ministry of Internal Affairs that decided it and the emperor had personally reviewed it, and she had no right to interfere. The empress dowager lost her temper when she heard that the emperor was also involved. Now the emperor particularly disliked her, and since it was Xu Rou's matter, she did not dare to argue with the emperor. Besides, she was afraid that the emperor would embarrass her like he did last time.

Ningyuxuan.

Although Ningyuxuan is called Xuan, it is much larger than the palaces where ordinary concubines live. During the time of the previous emperor, a favorite concubine lived here. It is said that when the favorite concubine was favored, her family was also promoted and enjoyed a glorious life for many years. Later, she offended the previous emperor for some reason and was hanged with a three-foot white silk. It is said that she was hanged in this Ningyuxuan. After her death, no one has lived in Ningyuxuan anymore, and the yard has gradually become deserted. The once exquisite garden is now overgrown with weeds, and no flowers can be seen anymore.

However, the house is well preserved. This is due to the fact that when Ningyuxuan was built, real materials were used and the house was built solidly. In addition, the palace conducts annual routine inspections, so the people who came with Aunt Fanghua could just clean up and move in.

"The corridor has been almost cleaned up. Now the main thing is to clean up this large courtyard. The well also needs to be cleaned out again. The small kitchen also needs to be cleaned up as soon as possible. All of you, go and chop down those trees." As the head nanny of Ning Yuxuan, Aunt Fanghua felt that the work in this courtyard would take at least ten days or half a month to finish. The master would enter the palace tomorrow, so now they could only clean up the bedroom and arrange the next things after the master moved in.