While Consort Niohuru was discussing how "benevolent" the Empress was, things weren't going so well for the Empress herself in her palace!
She knew a thing or two about Consort Niohuru's actions, but she couldn't find any obvious evidence against her, so she had someone do some tampering herself. She thought those methods wouldn't harm her son, but they only made him weaker and weaker!
There's been a constant stream of soup and broth every day!
Prince Chenghu's face grew thinner and thinner every day. The Empress was truly afraid this time. Chenghu was her only support. If anything happened to Chenghu, her position as Empress would be in jeopardy!
The Emperor hadn't touched her in a long time, and it was incredibly difficult for her to conceive again. The Empress started to get anxious, and in her anxiety, she became somewhat neurotic. She felt that the imperial physicians were not clean, so she sent a letter to her family, asking them to carefully search for a skilled healer!
Yinzhen was somewhat angry about Hesheli's actions; she looked down on the imperial physicians and was insulting them! However, he didn't stop her, letting her cause trouble for a few days to avoid bothering him!
Soon, the Hesheli family learned that Prince Chenghu in the palace was not doing well. The Hesheli family naturally gave their full support in the matter given by the Hesheli clan. However, the family also made two preparations, asking the Empress's younger sister to prepare seriously for this selection of concubines!
To some extent, the Hesheli family's plan to send another daughter into the palace was in order to have another child!
Two children are the only way to ensure safety and to be in the best interests of the family!
On the other hand, Consort Niohuru, knowing that she could not have children, also sent a message to her family, asking them to raise her younger sister well!
She didn't plan to have her family send someone over this time, because there weren't any suitable candidates at first! Secondly, she only wanted to bring down the Empress right now, and then send her younger sister over so that the two sisters could look after each other and support one another!
Everyone has their own plans!
With the imperial concubine selection imminent, the masters in the palace have become preoccupied with their own thoughts. Yinzhen is also exhausted from dealing with them, so he simply decided to stay at the Qianqing Palace permanently and is no longer willing to do any pretense!
July arrived quickly, and the Forbidden City was shrouded in heat, making people restless. Fucha Yunrong was not a person who could tolerate the heat. In previous years, she would go to her estate to escape the heat. She was more comfortable at her own estate and did not have to be too restrained. She could also wear lighter clothes!
But there are rules to follow in talent shows, so she had to wear exactly what she was supposed to wear, not a single piece more or less!
Yunrong felt like she was being steamed in a sauna, finding it hard to breathe. If she were a native of the Qing Dynasty, she probably wouldn't feel this way. But she had once enjoyed air conditioning. It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality!
Yunrong thought she should just bear with it! The talent show only lasts for a little over a month!
Bah! More than a month, that's not short at all! How did she survive for more than a month?! She also heard from the nanny that the palace doesn't give the imperial concubines much ice in the first place!
There's only so much ice in the palace, so naturally it's reserved for the masters! The masters don't even have enough ice to go around spending money on; they should be grateful the Imperial Household Department doesn't deduct from their supplies! Don't even think about getting more!
So, even if you have money, there's nowhere to spend it!
This time, Missham personally escorted his daughter to the election. Watching his daughter ride in a mule cart, he felt as if he were marrying off his daughter, and Missham's heart was filled with complicated emotions!
I almost burst into tears! My daughter is wonderful in every way, but I can't keep her by my side forever. What will I do when she gets married?
Just thinking about it makes Mishan feel so heartbroken he can't breathe!
Mi Sihan felt angry just thinking about the man who would take his daughter home in the future. He decided that when his daughter got married, he would definitely make things difficult for his son-in-law, otherwise he would be unable to accept it!
The tender cabbages are almost ripe, but there are pigs all around trying to plunder them. It's so annoying!
He really wanted to eat pork!
The preliminary selection wasn't difficult, and because she had money to bribe officials, Yunrong didn't suffer any injustice! What Yunrong didn't know was that the reason she didn't suffer any injustice was because Yinzhen had made arrangements beforehand!
Yinzhen didn't fall in love with Yunrong at first sight; he just wanted to curry favor with her so that it would be easier to get her help in the future.
By the way, after some consideration, Yinzhen decided to bring Fucha Yunrong into the palace, hoping she would contribute more to the Qing Dynasty! As far as he knew, Fucha Yunrong's laboratory was extremely useful!
Yinzhen knew the importance of treating scholars with respect; he was winning people's hearts in advance! Although the person he won over was unaware of his actions!
Yunrong was picked up and taken back to the mansion in the afternoon. Mi Sihan took leave specifically to send Yunrong to the preliminary selection!
When Yunrong returned from the preliminary selection, everyone in her family looked at her as if she had suffered a great injustice, which made Yunrong both amused and touched!
Yunrong is the only daughter of the Fucha family. Needless to say, her father only has one daughter, and her brothers are all capable men who only want to have sons. As the only one in the family, she is naturally the apple of everyone's eye!
Yunrong was pulled back to her room by her mother and questioned carefully. Yunrong answered truthfully. When Wuya heard her daughter say that the nanny who examined her only let her turn around in the room and didn't even take off her clothes, she felt something was strange!
She had been through the selection process herself; how could she not know what that nanny would do? Every girl who came out of the room blushed with embarrassment! But her daughter was the exception! She couldn't help but overthink things!
Could it be that those old women were tempted by the large sum of money Yunrong gave them? That's impossible! Those old women aren't the type to be lenient!
Uya didn't voice her doubts to avoid making her daughter overthink things. She sent her daughter to rest and then had someone invite Changchun over.
Uya said with a smile, "It's so late, and I'm sorry to have disturbed your rest! I called you over today because there's something I'd like to ask you!"
Chang Chun: "Please speak, Madam!"
Uya said, "Today I heard from Rong'er that the nanny who examined her only asked her to turn around and that was it. Could it be that the rules in the palace have changed over the years?!"
Changchun hadn't expected Wuya to be so sensitive. Although she didn't know the specifics of the matter, she could roughly guess what was going on!
Changchun said, "It's my fault for forgetting to tell the Princess Consort about this. Before, Changyin and I worked for the Dowager Consort. After the Dowager Consort left, new people moved into the palace, so Changyin and I returned to the Imperial Household Department. There, we got along well with several sisters and secretly became sworn sisters. Some of my sisters happened to be the supervising matrons for the imperial concubine selection. They knew that Changyin and I were with the Princess, so that's why..."
After listening to Changchun's words, Uya said she understood!
Uya said with a smile, "I'm actually benefiting from Granny's kindness!"
Chang Chun thought to himself: That's not true at all! It's clearly because of the Emperor's favor!
After learning the whole story, Uya was finally able to relax! She only had one precious child; why was she so worried about him?
Yunrong's clothes and jewelry had been prepared in advance, and they checked them again before she left the next day before letting her get on the mule cart!
Yunrong had visited the Forbidden City in modern times, but after the ravages of war and the changes brought about by modernization, and after several renovations, although it was still imposing, it no longer had the same majesty as it does today!
Yes, majesty!
The imperial palace has the most complex rules and etiquette in the world; even a single step must be measured, and its imposing presence is awe-inspiring!
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