After washing up, two young palace maids went downstairs with the basin and spittoon. Ruyi reported to Ning Yuxi, "Master, Captain Ning came over at breakfast and brought what you wanted."
As she spoke, Ruyi took out a bundle that Ning Chen had sent her.
Ning Yuxi opened it and took a look. All the herbs she wanted were delivered, in just the right quantity.
There was also a small box in the bundle. When Ning Yuxi opened it, she saw that it was filled with silver, 20 pieces in total, each weighing about five taels.
At the bottom of the box were two silver notes with a face value of 200 taels.
The original owner's parents really loved her. Her father was only a fifth-rank military officer with a low salary, and her mother's family background was also average. The total family assets were probably only about three thousand taels.
When she entered the palace, her mother brought her five hundred taels of silver notes and some gold and silver jewelry, and now she gave her another five hundred taels.
Even though she knew that it was love for the original owner, she was the original owner now and she could empathize with him.
Well, it was mainly because she felt it herself, and she did accept the money that was sent to her.
But she will also take care of the original owner's parents and relatives on behalf of the original owner.
Ning Yuxi sorted out the dosage of the pregnancy-maintaining medicine and gave it to Ruyi, asking her to prepare it in a place away from others as much as possible.
Ruyi knew that she was pregnant. Since she wanted to cultivate confidants, she naturally had to trust them. However, Ning Yuxi still had to be on guard against the remaining two young palace maids and several young eunuchs for the time being.
Ruyi went downstairs with the medicinal herbs, and after a while she came back with the breakfast that had been warming on the small stove. She set the table before leaving.
Ning Yuxi gave him a sensible look in return.
After dinner, Ning Yuxi called the little palace maid to come and clean up.
Then she took out the bag of medicinal herbs that Ning Chen had sent her. These herbs were of great use to her, but they had to be ground into powder. Different proportions of powders had different effects.
This matter still needs to be done in secret.
After drinking the prepared pregnancy-maintaining medicine, Ning Yuxi planned to get up and walk around the yard. She was almost stiff after lying down for so long.
House arrest only prohibits leaving Shuqing Palace. If you can't even leave the bedroom, then you're useless.
As soon as I left Luoxuexuan, I could faintly hear the sound of Concubine Qin beating chickens and scolding dogs coming from Baoying Pavilion not far away.
This Concubine Qin and the original owner are really incompatible.
The two had a conflict during the audition. They were both arrogant and domineering and would get angry at any time.
There were six people selected together at the beginning, two nobles, two maids and two maids, but the two of them were assigned to the same place. I don’t know if it was intentional or not.
In the past two months, the emperor has not shown any special favor to the newcomers. They are all the same. Each of them has slept with him about two or three times. It has to be said that the emperor is a good master of keeping things balanced.
Since the number of times they had slept together was almost the same, the two of them had been competing with each other in various ways. Ever since the original owner had snatched away Qin Guiren's opportunity to sleep with him half a month ago, the two of them had completely fallen out.
Even though the original owner was wrong to intercept, Concubine Qin would always destroy people's reputation and put them to death.
The original owner resisted too fiercely and was accidentally strangled to death by the guard, so Ning Yuxi was able to travel through time.
Even if the original owner was not strangled to death, this is still a capital crime.
It was too easy for Concubine Qin to be only under house arrest for three months. She would definitely return the favor when she had the chance in the future.
No longer in the mood to take a walk, Ning Yuxi returned to her bedroom.
Soon it was lunch time, and Ning Yuxi asked Ruyi to go to the imperial kitchen to pick up the food and inquire about the recent events in the palace.
She had to make plans for the future, as once the news of her pregnancy got out, it would definitely attract attention in the harem.
Even if she avoided the schemes of others, she could not avoid the child being taken away to be raised by a high-ranking concubine. She was just a concubine, and even if she gave birth to a child and was promoted, she would only be a noble lady.
They still cannot raise their own children. There are many high-ranking concubines in the palace who do not have sons.
Except for the six people who were selected to enter the palace two months ago, the rest are old people who served as the emperor in the Eastern Palace.
Queen Chu was the former Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace. She gave birth to the eldest prince and the second princess, and her position was stable.
Concubine Liu and Concubine Jing were originally the prince's concubines. Concubine Liu gave birth to the eldest princess and originally had a second prince, but he died a few days after birth.
Concubine Jing Lan was the most favored by the emperor, but she had always been weak and had never been pregnant, otherwise she would have been named a noble concubine.
There were also two princes' concubines. One was the current Concubine Xin, Zhao, who gave birth to the second prince (the second prince of Concubine Liu died early, so he was not included in the order of seniority).
The other one is Qinpin Sun. Sun was not favored and had no sons or daughters. Otherwise, she would have been made a concubine for the sake of her children.
It can be seen that the emperor still attaches great importance to his offspring.
There were also two concubines who were not favored by the emperor and had no children. They were just given the title of noble lady and maiden according to the official rank of their mother's family. One of them, Chen, was given the title of noble lady, and the other, Li, was given the title of maiden.
The old concubines in the harem plus the six new entrants make up only thirteen people.
Among the high-ranking concubines, Concubine Jing and Concubine Qin were childless, so it is very likely that they adopted their children. Concubine Liu had not been pregnant since she gave birth to the second prince who died young, and she only had one princess.
If she gave birth to a prince this time, Concubine Liu would most likely take him away. Her mother's family was powerful, and the emperor would not refuse her request.
The situation was really bad. She had to do something before giving birth so that the emperor could promote her.
It is definitely not enough to rely solely on the emperor's favor. Not to mention that she is not favored by the emperor now and is under house arrest, she is pregnant and cannot sleep with the emperor, so she cannot even persuade him.
You need to think about it carefully.
Ning Yuxi tried hard to recall the plot of the novel she had read before, but it was so long ago and she hadn't read much, so she really couldn't remember it for the time being.
If she wanted to find a backer, she could only turn to the Queen Mother. However, the Queen Mother and the concubines were not very close, and usually, except for the Queen, she would not allow the concubines to pay their respects to her...
Oh, by the way, Princess Yin Cheng!
In addition to the emperor, the current empress dowager has two princesses. Princess Shuluan is two years older than the emperor. She is 28 years old this year and married into the Duke of Yu's Mansion, an old aristocratic family.
Princess Yincheng is the youngest daughter of the Empress Dowager, who is only 16 years old this year. Because she is considered an old female Empress Dowager, she is very favored. The Emperor is also very good to this sister who is 10 years younger than him, and almost always grants her requests.
If she could befriend Princess Yin Cheng and win her favor, she would have hope of raising her own child.
Princess Yincheng, Princess Yincheng, got it!
In the original novel, the heroine from the Central Plains seemed to have accidentally saved Princess Yin Cheng who fell into the water, and only because of her favor did she have the opportunity to get close to the emperor.
It should be more than a month later, but I don’t know the exact date. Let’s wait until her confinement is over and try our luck in going to the Imperial Garden.
Ning Yuxi breathed a sigh of relief after making up her mind. At this moment, Ruyi also came in with the meal.
Because Ning Yuxi gave her some money to prepare the meal, the lunch was quite substantial. She was pregnant now, so she needed to eat well.
After the young palace maids helped set the table, Ruyi waved her hand and let them go.
Ning Yuxi looked up and saw Ruyi seemed to have something to say, so she was no longer in a hurry to eat.
Ruyi reported: "Master, I just heard a piece of news outside..."
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