Don't be a salted fish, the daily life of the concubine in the palace

"What are you doing!"

The Queen Mother's angry rebuke was heard.

Xie Fanglan turned around happily and shouted, "Aunt!"

The Queen Mother looked gloomy, and ignored Xie Fanglan's call. She hurried over to help the fallen Le You up. Li Chengyou, who was running around, had a pale face and ran over in a hurry: "Sister!"

The Queen Mother held Leyou's chubby little hand and checked him up and down. Fortunately, Leyou was not injured, but there was a little dust and dirt on his collar.

"Grandmother, Leyou is fine." Leyou rubbed his arm, feeling dizzy from the fall.

The Queen Mother was worried, so she asked Nanny Qian from the palace to call the imperial physician to come and diagnose Le You again.

Xie Fanglan was very dissatisfied when she saw that the empress dowager's attention was still on a little girl, and she called out again: "Aunt! I am Fanglan, you held me in your arms when I was a child."

The Queen Mother glared at Xie Fanglan deeply, but Xie Fanglan, who was immersed in her own emotions, didn't notice it at all.

The Queen Mother ordered the old nanny: "Take Leyou and Taiyou back to the house first."

The old lady took the two children away.

Xie Fanglan didn't realize the seriousness of the matter. She glanced at Le You's departing back with dissatisfaction and complained to the Queen Mother: "Aunt, the daughter of Concubine Chen is vulgar and uneducated. Why do you have to keep her by your side? If I can have another daughter in the future, I will give her to you to raise. She will definitely be more obedient and sensible than Concubine Chen's child."

The Queen Mother's face turned cold.

But Xie Fanglan didn't notice the Queen Mother's anger at all. She was still trying to get close to her: "Aunt, Fanglan has been in the palace for three years and has suffered so much. The fetus in the attached middle school miscarried for no apparent reason, and I was demoted from a concubine to a concubine. I have been looking forward to you for so long, and finally you are back."

"Aunt, please help Fanglan for the sake of the Xie family. The imperial physician said that if Fanglan takes good care of her body, she may be able to get pregnant again in the future."

Xie Fanglan begged desperately, squeezing out a few tears of grievance.

The Queen Mother sneered: "How can I help you? The four corners of the imperial concubine are complete, and there is no place for you."

The emperor has been implementing new policies and has been secretly suppressing centuries-old families such as the Xie family. He will never allow the Xie family to have another concubine, nor will he allow a woman from the Xie family to give birth to an heir to the throne.

The Queen Mother was disgusted that the Xie family actually sent such a fool into the palace. Xie Fanglan was lucky to be alive until now.

The Queen Mother said coldly: "Go and kneel at the gate of the Cining Palace. Kneel for two hours and think about where you went wrong."

The Queen Mother turned away.

Xie Fanglan was stunned, she never expected to be punished to kneel. She wanted to beg for mercy, but was coldly stopped by the maids in the Cining Palace.

The marble floor at the entrance of the Cining Palace was cold, and Xie Fanglan knelt there in confusion and humiliation.

The Cining Palace was located in a secluded place, but there were many palace maids and eunuchs passing by. Xie Fanglan felt like she was on edge, as she knew that the news that she was punished by the empress dowager to kneel would soon spread throughout the harem.

She couldn't understand why the Queen Mother punished her to kneel.

What did she do wrong?

The maidservant consoled him kindly, "Master, don't be sad. Maybe the Queen Mother punished you for another reason. Think carefully about what she just said to you. You and the Queen Mother are family. She won't punish you for no reason."

Xie Fanglan frowned and fell into deep thought.

The Queen Mother's words suddenly came to her mind: [The four corners of the imperial concubine position are complete, but there is no place for you.]

Could it be that the Queen Mother has something else in her words?

In fact, she was hinting to her that as long as one of the four concubines was removed, the empress dowager would let her fill the vacancy.

The more Xie Fanglan thought about it, the more she felt it made sense. Currently, there were four concubines in the palace: Concubine Chen, Concubine Shu, Concubine Mei, and Concubine Yu.

Concubine Shu is vicious and hard to deal with; Concubine Chen's brother is a general, also hard to deal with; Concubine Yu has a good relationship with the concubines in the harem and has many connections; only Concubine Mei stays in her room all day writing poems and painting, and the emperor becomes increasingly distant from her...

"Mei Fei." Xie Fanglan's eyes were filled with malice, "Then get rid of Mei Fei, and I will fill the vacancy of the concubine position."

...

Inside Cining Palace.

Two experienced doctors were ordered to check Le You's pulse. After the examination, they both said that Le You was strong and healthy.

The Queen Mother felt slightly relieved.

The Queen Mother told Madam Qian: "From now on, Concubine Lan is forbidden to set foot in the Cining Palace."

The Xie family was becoming increasingly corrupt and gradually became a parasite of the Daqing Kingdom. The Queen Mother repeatedly admonished the elders of the Xie family that they must reform and eliminate the malpractices, but the Xie family was greedy for profit and continued to do stupid things that cost the people money and time.

The late emperor could tolerate it, but the current emperor cannot.

Sooner or later, the Xie family will collapse.

The Queen Mother has drawn a clear line between herself and the Xie family, and she is no longer willing to be their protective umbrella.

The Queen Mother said again: "All the palace servants who took care of Leyou will receive ten strokes of the cane."

Le You was only four years old when he was pushed to the ground by Xie Fanglan and almost got hurt. There was no palace servant to look after him, which was a serious dereliction of duty.

Le You hurriedly grabbed the Empress Dowager's sleeve and said softly, "Grandmother, don't blame them. It was Le You who ran too fast and didn't look at the road, so he bumped into that lady."

Le You couldn't bear to see the palace maid who took care of her being punished.

The Queen Mother smiled and touched Leyou's chubby face lovingly: "My dear grandson, you are the princess of Daqing. You can be kind, but not too kind."

Leyou blinked his big eyes, with a look of confusion in his eyes.

In the study of the Cining Palace, Li Chengyou chattered about Lanpin's affairs to his brother.

Li Chengyou drank a sip of the tea that refreshed his mind and eyes, and said with a smile: "The Royal Grandmother punished that bad woman to kneel at the door, and also punished the palace maid who took care of my sister. Hehe, the Royal Grandmother is mighty!"

Li Chengtai, who was listening nearby, silently put down the book in his hand. Looking at his brother who was still laughing foolishly, Li Chengtai felt helpless.

Sister Leyou had just returned to the palace for less than two days when she was bullied by a concubine.

The harem is full of dangers.

Li Chengyou said naively: "Hehe, with the Royal Grandmother and the Royal Father here, no one dares to bully us."

Li Chengtai's face fell: "The Royal Grandmother can protect us for a while, can she protect us for a lifetime?"

Li Chengyou choked and didn't know how to answer.

Li Chengtai was worried, and he picked up the book on the table and continued reading. He couldn't always rely on the protection of the Queen Mother, he had to work hard to grow up and become a towering tree to protect his mother, sister and brother.

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...

In the afternoon, Deshun and Eunuch Zhou brought a group of palace servants to Yongning Palace. Following the emperor's order, they gave Shen Wei a lot of rewards.

Gold, silver, jade, jewelry, silks and satins, as well as real gold and silver, filled two large boxes.

Shen Wei couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips. She really loved the emperor's reward.

After delivering the reward, Deshun whispered to Shen Wei: "Master, General Shen and the Yue Kingdom delegation will arrive in Yanjing in half a month. In addition to signing a ceasefire agreement, the delegation also intends to marry a Qing Kingdom princess for the Emperor of Yue."

Shen Wei's eyebrows moved: "Which princess can you choose?"

Deshun replied: "We only have one princess of Daqing who has reached adulthood."

Princess Zhaoyang Li Ruoling.

However, the news of the Emperor of Yue marrying a wife has not been announced yet, and Zhaoyang probably doesn't know about it yet.

Deshun continued, "Yue Kingdom also plans to send a princess to Qing Kingdom as a consort. However, Yue Kingdom's legitimate princess is still young, so she will be sent to Qing Kingdom in three years."

Shen Wei silently took note of this.

The two countries exchanged princesses for marriage. In the future, the princess of Yue will marry into the royal family of Qing, at least she will be a concubine, and maybe a potential ruthless character.