"Boy, there's still a long road ahead. You've got a lifetime to live, just take your time!"
Xiao Fenzi raised her eyebrows.
Anyone who is a eunuch and can become a fourth-grade eunuch like Eunuch Su is definitely a rare person.
You know, there are still a lot of old eunuchs in the palace, who spend their entire lives in the low-level service rooms in the Forbidden City, like cattle and horses, doing the heaviest and dirtiest chores day after day.
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Those old eunuchs... Xiao Fenzi has seen a lot of them.
Some faces are as old as tree bark, and their eyes are like cloudy fish eyes. Only when they turn, do they reveal a little bit of vitality besides numbness.
The corners of their scorched lips curled into a smile, and the words that often came out were - Nine times out of ten things in the world are unsatisfactory, but if people are content, they will always be happy...
Xiao Fenzi never believed this rhetoric.
He felt that these words were all nonsense and made no sense.
For example, what does dissatisfaction mean?
Things in the world are ever-changing—things are alive, and so are people.
Since the immediate situation is unsatisfactory, we must work harder - how do we know that after a lot of hard work, there will be a day when "unsatisfactory" will become "satisfactory"?
In this life, a person must have a goal.
Xiao Fenzi raised her head silently.
There were dark clouds in the night sky. He looked into the infinite depths of the sky - the world was lonely and vast.
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Since the concubine's father was promoted in the previous dynasty, in the entire Old Summer Palace, no matter whether they were close to the concubine in the past or not, the concubines in various courtyards began to dress up in flowers and look at the natural paintings to see the concubine.
In particular, a few nobles and regular guests wished to come here three times a day. Even when they paid greetings to the Queen, they were only so diligent.
Suddenly, the threshold of natural paintings was almost crossed.
Qixi looked at those rosy and graceful concubines - drunkards are not interested in drinking. Who can say that these women don't have a heart, hoping to meet the emperor by chance in this natural painting?
Meeting the emperor here is called an encounter - how natural!
But it is much better than them going all out to invite favors, stuffing money into the hands of the royal family, and giving them a smile.
In addition, the master is pregnant and cannot serve the emperor...
Qixi is almost dying of sadness.
Fortunately, this situation only lasted a few days, and the master got tired of it.
The master told the emperor, and the emperor simply said: "The concubine needs to rest and wait for others, and no one is allowed to disturb her."
Only then did all the concubines stop talking.
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In the open.
Since the incident with Haishi, the servants in the palace have not seen the emperor for a long time.
Uranala regretted it endlessly.
For a while, Ulanara was almost depressed. He prayed to Buddha and copied scriptures every three days. In the dead of night, he would lie in bed and sigh.
Huarong was in the outer room, with a curtain between the two floors. She was used to serving the Queen, so how could she not be clear about what happened to the Queen?
It's just for the sake of my mistress's face, I just pretend that I haven't heard anything, I don't know, and I don't tell anyone.
Sometimes, Hua Rong waited on Ulanala to wash her hair. When taking a bath, Ulanala would ask Hua Rong - "Does she have a lot of white hair on her head?"
Hua Rong said no every time.
Then when Ulanala wasn't paying attention, she secretly used her nails to pinch off the newly grown white hair on the queen's head - the queen's blood was low and her hair was dry and brittle, so it was easy to pinch it easily, as long as it was behind her head, with both hands.
With a little skill and a hard pull, only the tip of the root of a white hair was left.
This method was taught to her by her senior aunt in the palace.
Using this technique, the mistress will not feel any pain and the white hair will be removed.
When the bun was done, the ends of the hair were extremely short and were hidden under the upper layer of black hair. Even if the ladies looked carefully in the mirror, they could not see any flaw.
Which woman is not afraid of aging?
The ladies asked thousands of times, but the slaves only said no.
A single gray hair will bring displeasure to the master, or even unknown anger, and the slaves will be frightened and afraid of suffering, so why bother?
Hua Rong hid the white hair in his sleeve.
I also thought that when taking a bath in the past few days, Ulanara would even ask Hua Rong in a subtle way: Is the skin on her back loose?
While Hua Rong was gently scrubbing his master, he sighed deeply in his heart - thinking about the Queen's promotion of Haishi, he thought about it again and again...
It's really not pretty.
There are no generals under your command, so you would rather not take action than trouble the emperor.
The emperor's temperament likes people who live in peace and contentment - no one can make things difficult for him.
Whoever can make the emperor calm down will be the one the emperor likes to stay with.
These principles were all said by the Empress in the Kunning Palace when she was teaching Concubine Nian. Hua Rong listened and felt that they made sense and remembered them clearly.
With Concubine Chen, isn't the emperor just waiting, waiting, and unknowingly developing feelings for her?
There is this road to success ahead of her - in comparison, why does the queen seem to be a different person compared to before?
The older people get, the clearer their minds are and the more they can see clearly.
The Queen is the opposite.
Are you really in a hurry?
But there is no need to be in such a hurry - you have to work hard and give the emperor a Hai family in order to gain the concubine's favor.
A cow refuses to drink water but presses its head - can the emperor be a cow?
Besides, what could the concubine do to her?
No matter whether the concubine is not favored, whether she can give birth to a child or not, whether the child is a boy or a girl... the queen is the queen, she is in the middle palace, her mother is in the world, no one dares to despise this phoenix throne.
You must know that once the Feng position changes, it will be a major event that shakes the front dynasty, the harem, and even the world.
Looking ahead, we can see that Emperor Shunzhi was so doting on the Concubine Xian Huang. He wanted to oust the Borzigit family from the Queen's throne, but he was blocked by all the officials in the court and spent a lot of effort.
This was based on the fact that Queen Borzigit was "arrogant and domineering" and constantly challenged the emperor's patience.
In other words, as long as Ulanara can live a peaceful life and don't mess around too much, no matter whose son ascends the throne in the future, she will be the unshakable mother-in-law and queen mother.
In terms of dignity, she is still above the Queen Mother!
Moreover, compared with the Nian Concubine who was at the height of her popularity in the past, the Chen Concubine is much easier to deal with.
At least she can do this: If you respect me a foot, I will respect you a foot.
He is a quiet master.
The days went by so fast, and in a blink of an eye, it was already mid-October.
In the past two days, something has made everyone up and down the natural landscape worried.
Concubine Chen no longer likes to eat.
It wasn't caused by morning sickness - the empress suddenly lost her appetite for some reason.
The first person to discover this was Xiao Dazi - he spent all day in the dining room around the large stove. He knew exactly how much the master would eat in one meal and how long it would take before he would be hungry.
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As a result, in the past two days, Xiao Dazi has realized that basically the food looks exactly the same when it is taken out.