Chapter 261 Concubine Ling
"Brother Yun Che, please don't give me such expensive things next time."
Xu Zhujin, who had transformed into Wei Yanwan, finally cheered up after three days of depression.
There was no way around it. In just three days, Wei Yanwan had already deeply understood the madness of her previous life. Everyone in this palace seemed to have gone mad, whether they were masters or servants, and it made her shudder.
Originally, she was not familiar with the drama, so Xu Zhujin hurriedly received the memory on the first day. As a result, it almost made such an experienced person like her fail.
To put it bluntly, there are only four kinds of people in this palace:
The vicious villain who kills people without restraint and has no bottom line but cannot see the situation clearly (representative characters are herself and Concubine Jia); the pure love-brained person who would spit at zombies passing by (representative characters are Qingying, Yihuan and a large number of love-only warriors who would rather die without love); the reckless person who returns with a brand new mind after half a lifetime of wandering (representative characters are Gao Xiyue and Su Lujun)
The above three types can also cause cross-infection, and sometimes the disease will be further aggravated due to infection.
Oh, you ask what other kind?
I would like to open a separate category for this elder sister, Koriyete Hailan. She can do it and she deserves it!
Of course, these ladies had nothing to do with the low-class girls like them. Moreover, their tragic endings made Wei Yanwan feel sick, and she chose to remain silent to accumulate merit for herself.
So even though she was amazed at the diversity of the beauties in her memory whose values were difficult to understand, she gently shut up because it had nothing to do with her present self.
However, when she returned to reality and looked around the Sizhiku where she was now, she found that the situation was just as dangerous.
For servants, life was the least valuable thing. Even though their work in the Four Storehouses, responsible for storing the emperor's various garments, was relatively safe and peaceful, the rivalries, backstabbing, and bullying among the servants were still too numerous to handle.
In the three days since she came here, she'd already encountered a maid of the same rank who wanted to disfigure her out of jealousy, a eunuch who had appeared out of nowhere and wanted to take advantage of her and force her into a relationship. Not to mention the greedy maids.
If you want to avoid being bullied, either you have to have someone backing you up, or you bribe your colleagues and superiors, or you get out of here.
Wei Yanwan's family was born into the Manchu Plain Yellow Banner, and their status was relatively high compared to the other concubines in the palace. When her father was alive, their family lived a comfortable life. However, with her father's misdeeds and downfall, and until she entered the palace, the family had long since fallen into poverty.
The remaining old mother is patriarchal and despises the poor, treating her daughter as a money-making machine. The younger brother is even more hopeless and has even become addicted to gambling. The family is now a bottomless pit.
So during these many years in the palace, she relied entirely on her own indomitable will and ambition, as well as Ling Yunche's occasional care, to persevere until now, and even saved up twenty taels of silver.
Sister Wei, you are truly a role model of a contemporary feudal strong woman!
Wei Yanwan, I praise myself. Inspired by the memories, she finally decided to learn from Sister Wei's experience in her previous life, improve her shortcomings, and strive to live as an imperial concubine in this life until the death of old Bidden Qianlong.
The queen didn't want to think about it. This was simply a hell of a task. She would wait until she became the queen mother and let her son confer the title.
"Do you think it's too cheap?"
Just as Wei Yanwan was getting carried away, a nervous male voice interrupted her immersive thoughts. The beautiful girl raised her head, her smile like pure white jasmine:
"How could that be? No matter how precious these jewels are, they always have a price, but your friendship for me is priceless. I just don't want you to waste the money you saved with great difficulty to buy these things for me."
"How can it be considered a waste to buy something for you?" Ling Yunche said anxiously, forcing the ring into her palm.
Seeing that she couldn't refuse, Wei Yanwan had no choice but to accept it, and then turned around and handed over the small package next to it.
Ling Yunche reached out to take it blankly, looked down at the plain package, and asked cautiously, "What are these?"
"I made you a pair of knee and arm guards, along with some rheumatism medicine. You've been assigned to the cold palace as a guard for quite some time now. They say it's extremely cold and damp here, and you're bound to get these illnesses if you stay there for a while."
Ling Yunche opened the package with joy instantly, and sure enough, these things were inside.
The knee and arm guards were made of coarse cloth, without any patterns, but with fine stitching and filled with cotton. They seemed warm to the touch, having probably been exposed to the sun for a few days.
The medicinal ingredients for treating rheumatism were all cheap goods that ordinary palace maids like them could access. However, after being prepared and mixed by Wei Yanwan, the medicine was much better than what Jiang Yubin had prepared for Ruyi and the others that day.
Although the things were not valuable, Ling Yunche was deeply moved by the thought and hugged her.
"Yanwan, you have been so good to me, I will never let you down." Wei Yanwan had no doubt about Ling Yunche's expression at this moment. Even if she asked him to die now, Ling Yunche would not refuse.
"Why are you saying all this? Anyway, you'll just be doing your job well in the cold palace, and I'll just be a quiet maid in the treasury." Wei Yanwan held his hand and said affectionately, "Brother Yun Che, you're the only one in this world who's treating me well right now. When I saw my mother a while ago, she told me that my brother had developed a gambling addiction and was in debt."
"My mother forced me to think of a solution. She also said that if all else failed, I should find a rich eunuch, go..."
Wei Yanwan seemed unable to bear the blow any longer, and tears as big as beans rolled down her cheeks, pounding into Ling Yunche's heart. He quickly comforted her, "It's okay, it's okay. I'll think of a way to pay off your brother's gambling debts."
"No, I won't return it, not ever again!" Wei Yanwan looked at him with a serious look in her eyes. "I've already made things clear with my mother. I've given her all the silver and jewelry I've earned over the years. From now on, we're even. Brother Yun Che, you're all I have."
Ling Yunche naturally swore and swore again, feeling both happy and distressed. Looking at Wei Yanwan leaning in his arms, he felt that their hearts were extremely close at this moment.
"Your cheap mother brought your brother here to ask for money this time. Wasn't the excuse she used to ask for money for his schooling? I remember you clearly didn't say you were going to break off relations, you just poisoned her money with volatile gas."
[Yeah, so I can make up whatever I want when it comes to two dead people?]
Wei Yanwan smiled and sent Ling Yunche away, who kept looking back every few steps, and turned back to the Sizhiku. She walked gracefully and elegantly, with a natural and elegant demeanor.
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