Quick wear: cannon fodder is a bit strong

"Of course it's nothing right now, but what about a few years from now, or even a dozen years from now? I'm afraid even the emperor will be suspicious."

After hearing this, Nan Xi naturally understood.

It wasn’t that she couldn’t figure out the truth before, but she came from the end of the world, so her thoughts were somewhat not very down-to-earth.

After the Queen's hint, she realized that the Queen's words were quite subtle.

You have to know that in ancient times, let alone the royal family, even ordinary princes and nobles rarely had only legitimate children and no illegitimate children.

People generally said that the mistress was mean and ungrateful and did not even allow her concubine to have children.

Not to mention that the emperor's body was affected by the drugs, making it difficult for him to have children. This was now in the hands of the Imperial Hospital, and the emperor should have known this in his mind.

Therefore, in addition to the queen, there should indeed be another baby in the palace.

After all, Zhou Xinyuan is the eldest daughter who was raised by the Grand Tutor. She has extraordinary thinking skills, and I should learn from her.

So the next time she entered the palace, Nan Xi brought a porcelain vase for the queen:

"This contains a pill for giving birth to a daughter. As for who will give birth, it's up to you, Your Majesty. I won't get involved."

She and the Queen now get along like best friends. When no one is around, they chat with each other without much formality.

Sure enough, not long after, good news came from the palace: Concubine Ru was pregnant.

Rupin had little influence in the palace, and it was the Empress who helped to preserve the pregnancy. After ten months of pregnancy, the baby was born, and the palace had a second princess.

In fact, Rupin, also known as Miss Azhu at the time, was Nanxi's person from the beginning, and the emperor should have guessed this in his mind.

But he didn't care. After all, which imperial concubine didn't have someone standing behind her? It didn't matter that Nan Xi was behind Ah Zhu. Besides, when he brought Ah Zhu into the palace, he had the intention of befriending Nan Xi.

It was just that even after Ah Zhu had been in the palace for so long, Xuanyuan Yao had discovered that this girl had absolutely no connection to the Nan family. She kept to herself, saying nothing unnecessary and doing nothing unnecessary, truly achieving the ultimate in quietude.

For a moment, I couldn't figure out whether he was overthinking it.

After all, Nan Xi hadn't mentioned it at all at the time; it was indeed he who had taken the initiative to bring the person into the palace. As time went by, the subject was forgotten.

In reality, Nan Xi had arranged this move for Ah Zhu just as a precaution. After all, at that time, they didn't know Xuanyuan Yao or Zhou Xinyuan well, so they naturally had to be prepared.

After having a deeper understanding of the emperor and empress, she no longer expected Ah Zhu to do anything for her. As long as she was content and lived her own life, that would be enough.

Now that the Queen has taken the initiative to let Ah Zhu give birth to a daughter, it has invisibly helped Nan Xi breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, the Empress knew that the Emperor was infertile. If she didn't ask, it would be difficult for her to take the initiative to get Ah Zhu pregnant. Now that Rupin had her own daughter, her life wouldn't be too bad.

After the second princess was one month old, she was promoted to the rank of Concubine Ru.

On the same day, another old woman who had served Xuanyuan Yao since his time in the Eastern Palace was also given the title of Consort. By then, the quota for the four concubines in the harem had been filled, and Xuanyuan Yao did not consider making any more moves for a while.

Time passed peacefully. On New Year's Eve of the year the twins turned three, Liu Rugu sent someone to deliver a message to Nan Xi.

Dongmei died of syphilis, a not very glorious death.

Although the madam felt it was bad luck, she still had a conscience and ordered someone to dig a hole in a deserted place and bury the body.

Eight years passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period, Nan Xi gave birth to twins, both boys, named Nan Xirui and Nan Xixing.

Nan Xi asked Zhou Sui if he wanted a son with his last name. Zhou Sui said it was unnecessary, as he wasn't even on the Zhou family tree anyway.

If Nan Xi is willing, he can change his surname to Nandu.

Nan Xi:

"..."

On this day, Zhao Wan'er was sweeping the ground in front of the Zhang family's courtyard with a broom made of bamboo sticks in her hand.

Her movements were slow and her heart was heavy.

"Hua, hua!" The dust kicked up by the broom flew high. A fat middle-aged woman rushed out of the house and slapped her hard on the back several times.

"Little bastard, a bastard born of a bastard!"

"Don't you even know to sprinkle some water before sweeping? If you can't even do such a simple task, then my Zhang family's food is going to go to waste!"

While cursing, his fat hand twisted Zhao Wan'er's ear again:

"Tell me, are you doing this on purpose to bring bad luck to our Zhang family?"

"Mother, I didn't, I didn't..." Zhao Wan'er concealed the resentment in her eyes and made excuses obediently.

"What's not? I wonder what you're thinking when you look at me like that?"

The fat woman sneered:

"You really think that just because your bitch mother is dead, my Zhang family can no longer control you, right?" She spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground:

"You're dreaming!"

"I'm telling you, if you don't finish all the work I assign you today, you won't get to eat!"

"If you make me angry, I'll learn from that vicious bitch of yours and sell you to that brothel!"

"Damn little whore..."

After cursing enough, he nodded at Zhao Wan'er's forehead:

"I'm telling you, be quiet!" Then he twisted his fat body and went back into the house.

It was not until the people walked away that Zhao Wan'er's suppressed tears fell to the ground with a "plop", splashing a little dust.

Today, today is her coming-of-age day.

She couldn't help but recall that on this day in her past life, she was the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's family, a noble and honorable lady. Her mother held a grand coming-of-age ceremony for her.

On this day, she dressed in gorgeous clothes and received countless gifts and praises.

It was on the night of that day that Brother Ye climbed over the wall into her bedroom and confessed his feelings to her... Compared to her current life, her life was extremely miserable.

My mother passed away three years ago. Everyone thought she would be extremely sad, after all, my mother was her only relative and support. But no one knew that she had also contributed to my mother's death.

Min Rouer's life was pretty good at first after she entered the Zhang family, and Zhao Wan'er also had a decent few days.

After all, she looked delicate and frail, and could speak in a sweet and flattering manner. Shopkeeper Zhang naturally fell for her tricks, and that was why he ignored her status as a newly widow and allowed her to enter the mansion with her child.

But shopkeeper Zhang is just an ordinary man after all. He let Min Rouer into his house not only for her body, but also in the hope that she could give birth to a son for him and have more children.

Because Zhang, the shopkeeper, already had three daughters and had always wanted a son, but unfortunately he married a girl who was good-looking but useless. After several years in the mansion, she still hadn't conceived a son, let alone a daughter.

Shopkeeper Zhang's expression gradually turned grim.

The man's wife also began to criticize her indirectly, bullying her and putting pressure on her.

Min Rouer was not willing to suffer any loss, so she naturally retorted.

At first, Zhang was quite happy with it, helping to settle lawsuits, but soon he started to get impatient. Furthermore, his three daughters were trying to persuade him.

Gradually, Manager Zhang became a little tired of Min Rouer and thought of sending her away and marrying someone who could give birth to a son.