Wuya Yushan curiously looked around the scenery in Zhongcui Palace. In her previous life, she had also visited the Forbidden City, but the times were different, and the same place gave people a completely different feeling.
At the same time, she also felt a little strange.
According to the original story, she and her sister should have been assigned to Consort Tong's Chengqian Palace, so why are they now in Consort Rong's Zhongcui Palace?
Moreover, according to her inquiries over the past month, the situation is completely different from that in the novel. Ma Jia's previous children are all alive and well, and she is now pregnant and about to give birth.
As a modern person who had just transmigrated, Wuya Yushan was extremely sensitive to this matter. She had some doubts. Could it be that this Ma Jia was from the same hometown as her and had also transmigrated?
She made up her mind to find an opportunity to test Ma Jia Shi and see what was really going on.
Ruozhu stood on top and looked down at the group of palace maids and eunuchs below. In addition to the newly selected palace maids, the Empress also sent some older palace maids and eunuchs over.
Ruozhu looked around at everyone before raising her voice to reprimand them: "Once you've entered our Zhongcui Palace, you're all the mistress's people. Be more careful when you're doing your work. The mistress isn't that kind of strict person. If you do well, you'll naturally be rewarded. If you do poorly, don't blame the mistress for punishing you harshly."
After Ruozhu finished speaking, she paused for a moment, staring at the people below as if trying to see through their hearts and try to find out if they had other masters behind them.
"Anyone who has any wicked thoughts or wants to do anything should give up those ideas as soon as possible, otherwise if they are found out, they can expect to go to the Department of Punishment!"
After giving these newcomers a warning, Ruozhu went inside to report to Yunyi on how to allocate their places.
Yunyi had just met these people and saw that the two Wuya sisters were among them. Now Ruozhu was asking how to arrange things, but she didn't care about the others and told Ruozhu to make the arrangements herself.
But she would only feel at ease if the two Uya sisters were placed in front of her.
Wuya Yuyao doesn't need to worry, but Wuya Yushan is an unstable factor. I'm afraid something might happen if she takes care of the children, so I feel more at ease having her by my side.
And so, the two Uya sisters became third-class palace maids serving Consort Ma Jia in Zhongcui Palace.
Wuya Yushan agreed with this result. First, she didn't want to serve those two little brats. Second, by following Ma Jia, she could see Kangxi more often. Third, serving Ma Jia would make it easier for her to test her.
With the preliminary selection concluded and all the necessary personnel assigned to Chengqian Palace, Emperor Kangxi issued an edict to welcome his cousin from the Tong family into the palace and treat her as a concubine.
Lady Tong was the emperor's cousin. She entered the palace as a concubine, which made all the other concubines in the harem extremely envious and jealous.
They've been with the Emperor for six or seven years and are still just concubines, while others can become imperial consorts. It's truly infuriating to compare oneself to others.
Empress Hesheli was also on high alert, as her only son, the second prince Chenghu, had died the previous year.
Now the Emperor has welcomed his cousin into the palace. If Lady Tong gives birth to a child, will he still be able to hold onto his position as Empress?
In order to secure her position, Empress Hesheli secretly drugged Consort Tong through nails in Chengqian Palace, preventing her from conceiving.
On the other hand, she was frantically taking fertility drugs, hoping to get pregnant soon and have another son.
On the sixth day of the fifth lunar month, Yunyi had just returned from a walk when she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen. After two hours of labor, she safely gave birth to her fourth child.
This child was also the sixth son of Emperor Kangxi, and the sixth prince was given the name Chenghua.
Yunyi's childbirth was not smooth sailing. There were four midwives in the delivery room, one of whom was from the Hesheli clan. Fortunately, Ruozhu was alert and accompanied Yunyi through multiple deliveries before she noticed the midwife's unusual behavior.
Outside the delivery room, the two sisters, Wuya Yushan and Wuya Yuyao, were promoted to second-class palace maids by Yunyi because they discovered that a third-class palace maid was secretly tampering with the things used by their master.
Third-class palace maids were not qualified to serve their masters and could only do some lowly and tedious chores. However, after becoming second-class palace maids, they could enter the inner palace to serve.
Because Wuya Yushan is a modern person, she has a lot of clever ideas and can always come up with some novel makeup and hairstyles. Yunyi asked her to serve her in dressing up and to be a maid who combs her hair.
Wuya Yuyao was a refined and elegant person with excellent tea-making skills, so Yunyi made her a tea-serving maid.
Wuya Yushan also wanted this job, as serving tea would allow her to see Emperor Kangxi and realize her plans, but unfortunately, this job was not hers.
After becoming a second-class palace maid, Wuya Yushan had more opportunities to interact with Ma Jia Shi. Despite her occasional unintentional probing, Ma Jia Shi showed no interest whatsoever.
She had no choice but to give up, thinking that this person probably wasn't from her hometown.
After giving up on testing Lady Majia, Wuya Yushan devoted herself wholeheartedly to Emperor Kangxi, hoping to develop a relationship with him and become a concubine.
Yun Yi watched coldly, neither stopping nor pushing, pretending not to see.
But if Wuya Yushan were to do something bad, she wouldn't hold back; this was a chance given to her by her fellow villager.
After a year of effort, Empress Hesheli finally brought good news: she was pregnant.
Last year, when Yunyi was giving birth, Hesheli secretly plotted to kill Yunyi and her unborn child. Yunyi discovered this, but Hesheli was indeed capable, and Kangxi investigated for a while but found nothing.
But this time, Hesheli was pregnant, and Yunyi was afraid of getting her hands dirty, so she did nothing and just waited for her to die in childbirth like in history.
The thirteenth year of the Kangxi Emperor's reign was a year of both joy and sorrow. The Empress was pregnant, and Lady Zhang and Lady Zhaojia were also pregnant.
With three more pregnant women appearing at once, it meant that at least three children would be born. Emperor Kangxi was overjoyed and bestowed many fine gifts upon these three pregnant concubines.
Even the Empress Dowager in Cining Palace was alarmed. There are currently four princes in the palace, three of whom are from the Ma Jia clan and one from the Nara clan.
Although the Empress Dowager was pleased with Lady Magiya's ability to bear children, she was also somewhat wary of her, fearing that Lady Magiya might develop some ill intentions because of the three princes.
If she hadn't secretly investigated and found that Ma Jia hadn't done anything wrong, and was simply lucky to be able to give birth without harming other children, she probably would have taken action to suppress Ma Jia.
Now, three more concubines in the palace are pregnant. Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang hopes that all three of them can give birth to princes. Otherwise, if all the children are born to Lady Magiya, it will be detrimental to both the inner palace and the court.
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