The emperor has always been taken care of by eunuchs, and he has never been to the harem, so the hearts of the people in the harem have gradually become filled with bitterness.
Everyone was just living their lives when suddenly a palace maid appeared beside the emperor.
All the informants reported that this palace maid was an unforgettable beauty at first sight.
It was also discovered that this palace maid was the concubine daughter of General Qin and the twin sister of the imperial guard Qin Guangxuan.
It is said that the two look very similar. Although no one can see the emperor, the imperial guards can still see him.
Han Cairen then pulled Wan Baolin and secretly ran to peek at Qin Guangxuan.
After returning, he gathered the other three people in the harem together as if facing a great enemy.
Han Cairen, whose maiden name was Han Se'er, had a father who was a third-rank military officer in the capital.
In her early years, when she was still a little girl, she was shopping with her brother in the downtown of Beijing. A playboy was riding a horse at full speed through the downtown, and she was caught under the horse's hooves. At the critical moment, Shang Xiaoyang who passed by rescued her.
When she grew up, she wanted nothing more than to enter the palace. The emperor never held a beauty contest, and when she turned eighteen he still refused to arrange marriage. So her family approached the empress dowager and asked her to let her enter the palace.
Han Cairen has a cheerful personality, and everything is reflected on his face:
"It's no exaggeration to say that this maidservant is truly our formidable rival. First of all, we both took the initiative to seek admission to the palace from the Empress Dowager. This maidservant was personally brought in by Eunuch Wang De, who serves the Emperor."
Meng Jieyu's face was full of disdain.
"But we are proper concubines, and she is just a palace maid. Is it necessary to be so exaggerated?"
She originally had an oval face and charming looks, but she had been in the palace for four years without receiving the emperor's favor. She would eat when she was unhappy. Now her smooth jawline had disappeared, and her obvious double chin, coupled with her disdainful expression, made Han Cairen tremble.
If Meng Jieyu wasn't the niece of the empress dowager, currently holding the highest position in the harem and often helping the empress dowager manage the harem, who would be willing to bother with her?
Han Cairen controlled his expression and continued:
"Secondly, this palace maid is the only concubine daughter of General Qin, and her brother is the emperor's favorite imperial guard. She is stunningly beautiful and can always accompany the emperor as a palace maid.
It's simply an enhanced version of Wang Meiren and Wan Baolin."
Hearing this, Meng Jieyu was not panicked. Her aunt was the empress dowager. Although they were not biological mother and son, the empress dowager had raised the emperor since he was a child, and their relationship was extraordinary.
The Concubine Wang mentioned above, her father is the most upright Imperial Censor in the court. He has been worrying about the emperor's offspring for the past five years. He has tried to kill himself, but failed every time.
Finally, seeing that the emperor was hard-hearted, he took another approach and sent his daughter, who was known as the most beautiful woman in the capital, into the palace.
Before entering the palace, she gave her daughter many instructions, asking her to persuade the emperor to put his offspring first.
At first, Meng Jieyu regarded her as her number one enemy, but later found out that she was just a wooden beauty who just read books all day long. It seemed that she entered the palace just for the rare books in the library.
Wan Baolin, although she had the lowest status, was the oldest, and had only a pretty appearance, she was a palace maid sent by the late emperor to teach Shang Xiaoyang, who was still a prince, about human affairs.
In the eyes of others, this is the only person who has ever "slept with the emperor" and the only person who has ever been with the emperor.
Therefore, Concubine Meng and Concubine Han often asked her about the emperor's preferences and often gave her some gold and silver jewelry. She is now living a good life in the palace.
After discussing for a long time, everyone couldn't find any good solution, so they decided to find out Danruo's situation first.
So Meng Jieyu and Han Cairen took turns bringing various special cakes and soups to the Yangxin Palace, but of course they could not enter the door of the Yangxin Palace.
Wang De usually just waited outside the door and sent them away. When Wang De was not around, he asked Dan Ruo to send them away.
When Meng Jieyu and Han Cairen met Danruo, they first tried to get close to her and build a closer relationship with her. Then they found that giving her some gold, silver and agate could make Danruo tell them about the emperor's situation. Ten thousand taels could even tell them the emperor's whereabouts.
The Yangxin Palace was under the complete control of Shang Xiaoyang, so Shang Xiaoyang naturally knew about Dan Ruo's series of actions in accepting bribes from concubines.
He was filled with rage, and during the meal he deliberately picked and chose food, ordering Danruo to run from one end to the other to pick up dishes.
Seeing the anger gradually becoming uncontrollable in Dan Ruo's eyes, Shang Xiaoyang stopped, but he still felt uncomfortable.
Danruo smiled secretly as she looked at his face which was as dark as ink. He secretly held her in his arms as she slept every night, and would hide away as soon as she woke up.
A few days ago, Dan Ruo specifically said, "I always feel like someone is clinging to me at night, and it feels heavy on me."
Shang Xiaoyang said calmly that she was being sleep-paralyzed, but he refused to admit it.
He didn't confess when given the chance, so he became unhappy when he contacted the concubines.
Shang Xiaoyang was very angry that Dan Ruo told the concubines about his whereabouts. This was pushing him towards other women.
He didn't expect that someone would actually dare to pay 10,000 taels of silver.
After knowing that Danruo had told Han Cairen about his whereabouts for the next day, he still followed Danruo's itinerary. He wanted to see if this girl had any feelings for him at all.
After staying in the Imperial Garden for a while, Danruo persuaded Shang Xiaoyang to return to the palace. Shang Xiaoyang's gloomy face suddenly brightened up. He knew that Danruo had written a note to Han Cairen, and it was not yet that time, but Danruo persuaded him to go back.
It seems that she also has a good impression of me. The bitterness in my heart quietly faded away, and I felt comfortable all over.
Back in the imperial study, Dan handed over all the money he had recently acquired to him as if he were presenting a treasure, his expression stern:
"Your Majesty, I got this money from the concubines. Could you give it to the Ministry of Revenue so that they can make thicker winter clothes for the soldiers?"
In the past two years, the winter clothes sent by the Ministry of War to the border have become thinner and thinner. Before, the soldiers were frozen blue all over, but they still fought bravely against the enemy.
Two years ago, my father mobilized all the women and children in the city to help make some winter clothes and send them to the army to supplement the income. This year, our family returned to Beijing, and I was a little worried that some soldiers might not be able to survive the winter.
Shang Xiaoyang looked into the girl's bright eyes and felt ashamed of his thoughts over the past few days. As the king of a country, he had been so sentimental and even deliberately made things difficult for her over the past two days.
She thought of the soldiers at the border who had great righteousness in their hearts. Such broad-mindedness made her feel even more ashamed of her behavior over the past two days, and at the same time, she liked such a girl even more. "Don't worry about this. I'll take care of it."
Dan Ruo nodded. She only knew An Qingfeng's life after integrating the original owner's memories and the information provided by the reincarnation bead.
In recent years, military funds have been embezzled by people from the Anguo Mansion, who secretly raised troops in the deep mountains and old forests of the southwestern border. It was with the help of this group of private soldiers that An Qingfeng won a surprise victory in the battle for the throne in his previous life.
Now the only way is to cut off An Qingfeng's arm through Shang Xiaoyang.
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