A Crossover of Film and Television: Miao Miao's Life Transmigration

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Five years passed in the blink of an eye, and it was already the sixty-first year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign.

Three years ago, another princess entered the household, Lü Yingfeng, also known as Princess Lü. She became pregnant just three months after entering the household. During childbirth, she fell, but fortunately a maid cushioned her fall. Thanks to her good health, she safely gave birth to a princess, the third princess. A few months ago, Princess Lü became pregnant again, and is now three months pregnant.

A year ago, Consort De bestowed another daughter, Cao Qinmo, also known as Consort Cao, who is now seven months pregnant and lives in Lanyou Courtyard.

Nian Shilan's second daughter was still frail and sickly, and often needed to see the family doctor. She might not live to be ten years old. Knowing that she could no longer have children, they wanted to adopt a little prince.

They are very concerned about Cao Gege's pregnancy now, and it is said that she wants a little prince so that the second princess can rely on him.

Su Yunyi's life in the manor was relatively peaceful, after all, she was surrounded by loyal people, and she had her own small kitchen, where Banlan was a very good cook.

She spent her days thinking about what to eat, planting flowers and herbs, educating Hongxi, and giving him medicine to improve his intelligence, health, and detoxify. Now Hongxi is quite well-mannered, and Yongzheng has high expectations for him. He moved to the front yard when he was five years old.

For Hongxi's safety, Su Yunyi gave him several loyal people, but she didn't let him live in a sheltered environment. She would tell Hongxi some of the conspiracies and schemes.

The Su family prospered. After Hongxi was born, his father presented him with improved rice varieties, which greatly increased the yield. The Su family's Su Ze lineage was promoted to the Manchu Plain White Banner and given the surname Sujia. Although it was not the most powerful Plain Yellow Banner, it was still one of the top three banners.

Father was promoted to a second-rank official, serving as the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works; elder brother Su Ke was transferred to a post outside the capital, serving as a fourth-rank prefect; younger brother Su Yu also participated in the imperial examinations and the military examinations, achieving the rank of Jinshi in the imperial examinations and becoming the top military scholar in the military examinations, and was appointed by Emperor Kangxi as a third-rank military officer.

Su Yunyi was bestowed the title of Consort by Emperor Kangxi.

This caused the women in the mansion to be jealous of her every time she paid her respects. In addition, Yixiu's habit of engaging in disgusting little tricks also brought Su Yunyi some minor troubles.

In the years following the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the power struggle between the Fourteenth Prince and the Fourth Prince in the previous dynasty was intense. The Eighth Prince took advantage of the situation to his advantage, which resulted in Emperor Yongzheng spending less and less time in the inner palace. When paying his respects, Yixiu warned the people in the mansion to behave themselves.

This made Su Yunyi even more leisurely, living a carefree life like a salted fish every day, occasionally giving her father some pointers on farming and directing her mother to open a beauty and skincare shop.

Time passed quickly, and in mid-November, the death knell tolled. The era of Kangxi had ended, and Yongzheng ascended the throne.

Su Yunyi looked up at the sky; the story was finally about to begin.

The people in the mansion were all happy, but they only showed it in their hearts. On the surface, they were very sad. After changing into mourning clothes, they went to the palace to mourn under the leadership of Yixiu.

After the mourning period ended, and after Yongzheng ascended the throne.

When the first imperial edict from Emperor Yongzheng arrived, he decreed that his birth mother, Consort De, be honored as Empress Dowager. The second imperial edict posthumously honored his first wife, Rouze, as Empress Chun Yuan. Only the third imperial edict honored Ulanara Yixiu as Empress and ordered her to move into Jingren Palace.

Leaving aside Yixiu's barely suppressed smile and the hatred in her eyes when she received the imperial edict at the manor, Su Yunyi watched all of this and found it amusing; after all, the living can never compare to the dead.

On the day she entered the palace, Yixiu went to see Yongzheng to assign positions and ranks to the people in her household.

Yongzheng looked at the contents of the paper.

Yixiu tentatively said, "Logically speaking, Consort Su should be promoted to the rank of Imperial Concubine. However, Consort Nian has been in the household longer than Consort Su, and both of them are pregnant. It would be inappropriate to promote Consort Nian to the rank of Imperial Concubine over her."

After pondering for a while, and considering Nian Gengyao's attitude, Yongzheng said calmly, "Let's arrange it this way. I plan to give Nian a title, let's call her 'Hua'; Su has been well-behaved all these years and has given birth to the Sixth Prince. Su Jia from the previous dynasty was also very capable, so let's also give her a title, let's call her 'Yi'."

Upon hearing Yongzheng's words, Yixiu clenched her right hand, using immense willpower to make her smile less stiff.

"Since Consort Cao and Consort Lü are pregnant, how about we first confer upon them the rank of Changzai, and then confer upon them the rank of Guiren after the child is born?" Yixiu did not want Nian Shilan's power to become stronger, so she wanted to suppress Consort Cao's rank first, but she also did not want Consort Lü to be conferred the rank of Pin.

"Let's do as you say," Yongzheng said after thinking for a moment.

Yixiu had already lowered the rank of two people, so it was difficult for others to speak up.

But she has basically achieved her goal.

The next day, an imperial edict arrived from the palace.

The first to be conferred titles was Su Yunyi, who was made Consort Yi and moved into Chengqian Palace; then Nian Shilan was made Consort Hua and moved into Yikun Palace; Li Jingyan was made Consort Qi and moved into Changchun Palace; Feng Ruozhao was made Consort Jing and moved into Xianfu Palace; and Geng Gege, who lived in Yuanmingyuan, was made Consort Yu.

Consort Fei was granted the title of Consort Li and moved into Qixiang Palace; Consort Qi Yuebin was granted the title of Noble Lady Duan and moved into Yanqing Palace; Consort Guo was granted the title of Noble Lady Fang and moved into Suiyu Pavilion; Consort Lü was granted the title of Consort Xin and moved into Chuxiu Palace; and finally, Consort Cao was granted the title of Consort Cao and moved into Yikun Palace.

As expected, this imperial edict was exactly what Su Yunyi had thought. After all, she was now a member of the Manchu Plain White Banner Sujia clan, not a member of the Han Banner, so her investiture should have come before Nian Shilan's.

Except for Qi Yuebin, whose situation differs from the original story, the ranks of the other characters are largely the same.

On an auspicious day, all the women in the mansion moved to the palace.

Su Yunyi stood in Qijing Courtyard, looking at the little things in the courtyard. This place where she had lived for six years, she might never return to. She would live in Chengqian Palace for thirteen years, and her future battlefield would be in the palace until Hongxi ascended the throne.

The Empress Dowager, Yixiu's powerful backer in the palace, is about to make her appearance. Having risen from a palace maid to her current position, the Empress Dowager must have a vast network of connections, so Yixiu will need to be even more careful in the future.

"Mother, what are you looking at?" Hongxi asked in confusion.

"Mother is thinking about what to have for lunch today?" Su Yunyi told a lie.

"Really? Then I want to eat hot pot!" Hongxi noticed Su Yunyi's mood and didn't bring up the matter from earlier.

"My dear Guoguo has such a good appetite. Hot pot is the perfect accompaniment in winter." With that, she took Hongxi's little hand and walked outside.

"Mother, don't call me Guoguo, I'm all grown up now!" Hongxi's little face turned red with embarrassment.

Since entering the palace, Su Yunyi has been busy with matters concerning Chengqian Palace these past few days. She has administered loyalty drugs to everyone in the palace and uncovered many spies, but now they are all her people. The current head maid of Chengqian Palace is Aunt Fanghe, who was a palace maid at the same time as Fangruo, who taught etiquette, and was also a person in the Emperor's presence before.

Hongxi is six years old (by Chinese reckoning) and needs to live in the Prince's Residence. Su Yunyi sent her maid Yinbao to take care of Hongxi, selected the people in the Prince's Residence, and used loyalty potions.

After finishing her work, Su Yunyi was able to relax and resume her normal life, tending to her flowers, researching food, and so on.

"What? Consort Xin miscarried?" Su Yunyi said in surprise.

She hadn't expected that Yixiu would make her move so soon after she entered the palace. Wasn't she busy with palace affairs? No wonder she was the abortion captain.

"Yes, a few days ago, Consort Xin was not feeling well, so we called the imperial physician, who said it was a miscarriage and prescribed medicine to prevent miscarriage. Today, she suddenly started bleeding and then lost the pregnancy," Banlan continued.

Hearing this, Su Yunyi thought that Yixiu was simply insane. With the Empress Dowager helping her clean up the mess, Yixiu wouldn't fall either if the Empress Dowager didn't fall. Should she ask the system to just administer the medicine? After all, the Empress Dowager is getting old, so it's normal for her to get a little sick...

After much thought, Su Yunyi still felt that she should deal with the situation carefully first, make the Empress Dowager fall ill, and then wait until she was pregnant with her second child before making any further moves.