Su Lan and Su Xin were both maids of Pu’s mansion, and were also selected to serve the little emperor in the palace, and there was no one in the family, so they always had a good relationship. They walked hand in hand in the garden along the corridor, talking while walking. Fu'er was born in Qiongzhou and only entered Beijing with the Queen Mother this spring. This was the first time he saw snow. As soon as he went out, he ran to the snow and played with the two small yellow gates on his own.

"Congratulations to sister!" When she arrived at Xin Xinting by the lake, Su Xin took a step back and said with a smile.

"What are you doing with sister?" Su Lan said in surprise without knowing what she meant.

"I think my sister has also become a good thing with the official family?" Su Xin put her waist on Su Lan and whispered in her ear.

"Don't talk nonsense, there is no such thing!" After hearing this, Su Lan broke away from her hand, Hongxia shyly pushed Su Xindao away.

"Don't hide it from us sisters. Seeing that my sister's face is like a peach blossom and her graceful walking posture must have become a good thing and she can't deceive her." Su Xin said with a smile. In fact, when she first entered the palace gate, she felt something. On weekdays, the maids in the palace all had double flat buns, but they were combed with buns on their backs, and there was no end of the hair under the buns like a girl, so that they drooped behind their shoulders. They became suspicious. If you look at her walking posture, you will be sure of seven or eight points.

"This... you are already a mother, why are you still so unrestrained?" Su Lan's face turned redder and turned her body to her side and shouted in a coquettish manner.

"If this is true, my sister will feel relieved." Seeing Su Lan extremely shy and her eyes dodging, Su Xin made even more judgments.

"What do you mean? Why are you crying?" Su Lan saw tears hanging on the corner of his eyes, and hurriedly wiped the tears from his serpent with a handkerchief.

"We have been together for many years and are like sisters. I was given the grace of the Queen Mother to marry and left the palace. My sister is getting older and stayed in the palace. My sister has always been worried that her sister will be lonely in the palace. Even if she is released from the palace, Yi Fanghua has passed away and she is still unaware of her support. Now she is getting better." Su Xin held Su Lan's hand and said.

"This is fate, so what can I do?" Su Lan sighed.

"Since we entered the palace, I saw that the official family and my sister were quite close and dependent, and had always been with me. The official family was also a person who valued love, but he was a little younger and did not understand the etiquette of Duke Zhou, otherwise it would not have been delayed for so many years." Su Xin said with a chuckling.

"I'm talking nonsense again, be careful to let others hear it." Su Lan looked around and said in a panic.

"From my sister's opinion, has the official family already been familiar with men and women?" Su Xin said with a very surprised look.

"You...you are becoming more and more presumptuous and ignore you!" Su Lan said with a shook her sleeve and said incredibly embarrassedly.

"Haha, is it because my sister used the means or the official family got the clue?" Su Xin still refused to let it go and asked with a smile again.

"I will really ignore you..." Seeing that his words became more and more explicit, Su Lan turned her back and said. As early as Qiongzhou, the Empress Dowager asked her to take charge of the position of Shangdian, so she wanted to serve him, and gave him some erotic albums. However, the little emperor was planning to counterattack Jiangnan, so she gave up. The Empress Dowager also hinted to her from many sources, but His Majesty always avoided it as if he was ignorant, which made her helpless. But after returning to the palace, he suddenly became enlightened, and seemed to have grown up overnight, but this kind of thing made people shy.

"Sister, the beauty is easy to grow old. Don't give up the opportunity. You must seize the heart of the official family, otherwise it will be difficult in the future!" Su Xin also joked when she saw this and said seriously.

"I don't have the means of my sister. Tong Ni has never taken a concubine yet, and there is no singer in the mansion to accompany you. I only like you!" Su Lan nodded his forehead and teased.

"The official family is about to get married. Although the name of the concubine has been decided, I think I will give my sister a title. If the queen is virtuous, it will be fine, but if she is mean, her life will be difficult." Su Xin sighed softly, "Now the official family just knows the affairs of men and women, and it is the time when she is eating the marrow and knows the taste. In the palace, the mother is always the most precious child. The sister wants to take the opportunity to conceive, and the next man and half of the woman will accompany her, so she will not worry about not raising her position."

Su Xin stayed in the palace for a few years and naturally knew the rules in the palace. Although the system was very imperfect at that time, it was almost the same. The palace ladies in the inner palace were generally unqualified palace maids, and they might not be used by the emperor. There were palace ladies in the palace of the Empress Dowager and the concubines. They were all good families or daughters of ministers and officials who were over twelve and under the age of three. Only after strict selection and medical examination could they enter the palace to serve as a job.

The palace servants are divided into several categories. The servants are palace maids who serve the concubines and the emperor; the imperial servants have not yet obtained the palace maids who serve the master, which is equivalent to the candidate servants. However, when there are not enough servants, they are managed by the imperial servants. In addition, there are also the Duzhi Dianzhi who serve as the palace guards, the guards of the palace guards, the famous palace guards, the Changxing Palace guards, etc. The people who are on duty in each palace are generally palace maids who have no chance to serve the master.

In addition, there are also palace servants who serve as music envoys, music envoys, fairy rhyme envoys, fairy rhyme envoys, and fairy rhymes, who are in charge of official affairs, straight pens, and scattered straight lines. These people have not yet come out to ask for official positions, so they naturally have no salary, which is no different from labor. Of course, any palace maids who are promoted will be demoted. After the adult palace maids are promoted to a certain position, they can be promoted to Zixia Cape or Hongxia Cape and receive their salary.

After being a servant, he can also serve as a female official in the palace and be promoted to Si Zheng. Tong Shi is in charge of the Twenty-Four Sessions, and he can still be promoted to the position of the Supreme Court of the Escort, and he will have the opportunity to approach the emperor. If he is favored by the emperor and is favored, he will generally be given a low-level title of nobles, beauties, etc. among the inner wife, and he will be able to enter the emperor's harem. With a salary, he will no longer have to take on the duty. If there are children left, his status will rise again, and he will enter a higher class, or even a concubine, and he will have no worries for the rest of his life.

Therefore, in the harem, if you want to choose a palace maid from a penniless primary election and become a member of the emperor's harem, it is not just a step to reach the sky, but it takes years of hardship and hard work. However, there are hundreds or thousands of women in the palace, and newcomers are constantly replenished. If the family is weak and cannot be used as a backer, it is not easy to stand out from it, and it is even more difficult to gain the status of a concubine. This is also the reason why the palace fights and fights each other.

"Everything goes with the flow. Some things cannot be forced. It is a blessing to be able to get mercy from the official family now. How dare you ask for more extravagance!" Su Lan also understood that what she said was true, but she knew her identity and could only sigh.

"This is the personality of my sister, but now it is no longer as good as before. The empress dowager is kind and never criticizes her subordinates. Although the official family has a weird personality and likes to tease others, she is kind and kind, and has always been generous to her subordinates. Now, once the official family gets married, the queen will lead the harem. Who knows what kind of personality she has? If she is a tricky and vicious person, and knows that the official family is close to her sister, she will definitely try to suppress her. And there are five concubines who marry into the palace at the same time, and none of them are good-for-no ones, so what are the means to fight for favor?" Su Xin was anxious and taught her a lesson as a "experienced person".

"It's not as terrifying as you said. Sanniang and Shu'er are both virtuous people, so how could they harm me? Besides, the queen is also from a famous family and must be a virtuous person. How could she care about me as a servant?" Su Lan said with a smile.

"Oh... why do you still have such thoughts? Sanniang and Shu'er had a good relationship with us before. One was young and didn't understand the matter. The other was that we had no entanglements and no disputes in the interests, so we naturally had peace. But now we are opponents, and our ideas are naturally different. Even as you said, even if the queen is a good person, Sanniang and Shu'er still had a good relationship with you. But there are still hundreds of palace people in the palace. None of them would step on others and climb upwards in different ways. You must have planned to plot against you first," Su Xin stomped her feet in a hurry, which was another lesson.

"Then...then, as you said, I can no longer stay in the palace." Su Lan hesitated and said with some amusement.

"The official family is the most unrestrained, and his sister is by his side for the longest time. She doesn't ask for a day to serve him, but she also wants the official family to think of you all the time. When others see that the official family is always favored, they naturally dare not bully you openly. So don't give up your position easily, and you can't let the official family forget his old love." Su Xin thought that she had listened to her words and said with an idea.

"How is this possible?" Su Lan shook her head with a wry smile. She knew that no matter how much the little emperor liked her, she was just a low-level concubine after all, and she was getting older, how could Your Majesty be favored by her? However, since she was happy, she did not realize that her heart had changed quietly. After all, her fate was no longer separated from this man, and she subconsciously hoped to gain His Majesty's long-term favor. She was in the palace for a long time, and although she had not experienced the struggles between concubines, she had also heard the old palace maids talk about the past and anecdotes.

She knew that even if the emperor favored one person, even the queen could not monopolize him. Instead, he had to abide by the "rule system". He had to take turns to live in each palace so that the concubines could enjoy the rain and dew. However, the amount depends on status and their own means. In principle, the women in the harem, from the queen to the lowest-level primary election palace maid, are all her majesty's women, and he can be favored at any time. Even if there are no three thousand beauties in the palace at present, there will be no one who will die of old age and cannot meet the emperor in the palace.

In fact, it is difficult for the palace maid to serve the concubines, and the emperor has absolute autonomy. The most important thing is to summon the concubines and to sleep. The method of walking is to follow the situation and let the concubines there accompany you wherever you go. The emperor calls the concubines in the harem to sleep in his own bedroom.

So there was the "butterfly happiness" method of the romantic emperor Li Longji. He asked the concubines to put flowers on their heads and then let the butterfly caught by themselves fly. Whoever parked the butterfly would get the happiness of the Ming Emperor overnight. In addition, there was also the "fly happiness" method of asking the concubines to throw money to bet on the concubines; the "fly happiness" method of causing the concubines to compete for the sumo to catch fireflies, and the "fly happiness" method of those who get the fireflies first; the "fly happiness" method of launching sachets at the concubines, and the "fly happiness" method of those who get the best of the time.

Therefore, most concubines can only leave their sleeping orders to fate and have no choice but to be helpless. However, many women in the palace took an active and proactive attitude towards sleeping, and fought for sleeping in various ways to gain the favor of the emperor. For example, during the Zhenzong reign, Concubine Li Chen was just an ordinary palace maid at the beginning. One day, he was able to serve Emperor Zhenzong to wash his hands. He took the opportunity to tell Zhenzong that he suddenly dreamed of a man in feather clothes, who fell from the sky barefoot and told me that I would give you a son. Zhenzong was worried about not having a son, so he made her happy, and gave birth to a prince the next year.

In addition, sometimes concubines would recommend each other. During the Huizong period, Concubine Qiao and Concubine Wei lived together after entering the palace. The two of them were brothers and sisters. They once agreed: "Be noble first and never forget each other." In other words, whoever gets favor from the emperor first, don't forget to pick up the sisters. Later, Concubine Qiao was first lucky to Huizong, so she recommended Concubine Wei to Huizong. Concubine Wei was lucky and gave birth to Emperor Gaozong Zhao Gou...

"How could my sister forget that she is so smart? The official family is not only nostalgic, but also very lazy. When he was in Qiongzhou, he lived in the Tanbo Pavilion for nearly ten years. Although the palace was small at that time, there were hundreds of houses. It was not the same place that was comfortable than Tanbo Pavilion. But he lived there for so long, but he was actually too lazy to move around." Su Xin said with a hint of a bad temper.

"I heard from my sister that the government is indeed like this. Sometimes he is very lazy. If he has nothing to do, he can stay in one place without moving for a long time. People who are used to it will stay by his side, otherwise your husband would not have been with His Majesty for so many years and had no outsider to be an official. But the situation is very different from mine!" Su Lan thought about the little emperor, and understood that this was the so-called bystanders, and the authorities were confused. Su Xin could see more clearly outside the room than herself, but she still didn't understand what it meant. After all, this place was not as small as Qiongzhou. At that time, the emperor was still young and had no concubines, so of course it didn't matter where he lived.

"Why don't my sister understand?" Su Xin said with a hurried and white face. "Sister, although the place and name have been changed, the furnishings are almost the same as those of the Tanbo Pavilion. All the things he used for many years have been moved here. With the temperament of the official family, he will still regard this place as a permanent place to live, deal with official documents and trick him into making trouble with his strange things. Moreover, the official family has always relied on his sister, and even if he has never avoided secret matters, he may not trust others!"
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