Chapter 1: Crossing
April of the 22nd year of the Kangxi reign, Forbidden City.
The triennial election has come to an end, several marriages arranged by clan members have been completed, and several newly appointed noble ladies in the palace have also been settled.
What followed was the annual Imperial Household Department's selection of maids for each palace. In the past few years, the emperor would select a few outstanding ones in the selection to fill the harem. The four concubines Hui, Rong, Yi and De were all from the Imperial Household Department.
But now, the harem is gradually filling up, the emperor has not selected anyone from the small selection for many years, and the palaces have almost forgotten about it.
But the emperor suddenly picked another one from the small selection without saying a word.
She was canonized as a concubine and granted the residence in the western side hall of the rear hall of Changchun Palace.
This person is Yuying.
For a moment, the palaces were full of discussions, secretly wondering if there was another rival for favor in the harem? Yuying's popularity even overshadowed the new ladies who entered the palace after the election.
Before the emperor summoned her to sleep with him, news came from the Jingshifang that the newly appointed Wei Yingda of Changchun Palace had reported illness and her green card had been removed.
This made the concubines in the harem who were waiting for Yuying to go to bed with them so that they could pay their respects to the Imperial Noble Concubine breathe a sigh of relief.
"This person is unlucky." Concubine An, the head of Changchun Palace, was carelessly trimming the plum blossoms that the palace maids had brought early in the morning. She suddenly said, "The flowers in the harem are one after another. When she recovers from her illness, how can the emperor still think of her? Nianxue, have you gone to see her? Is she really sick or faking it?"
"Your Majesty, I took the imperial physician to see him, and he reported that Wei Da Ying was weak and the high fever was caused by the cold entering his body." The senior palace maid standing by replied respectfully.
"Okay, just serve her well first. Just do whatever she wants. I am still waiting for her to recover, hoping that she can win honor for our Changchun Palace."
With a "click".
Anpin neatly cut off the extra branches of the flower branch in her hand. Then she looked at it for a while and put down the scissors with a dull look.
"Okay, Nianxue, put the flowers on the windowsill."
"yes."
There was no queen in the palace, so the other concubines did not need to go to the central palace to pay their respects in the morning. They only went to Chengqian Palace to pay their respects to the imperial concubine on the first and fifteenth day of each month. On the rest of the days, each palace lived their own life behind closed doors, waiting for the emperor to summon them.
In the harem, if you want to live a comfortable life, you must compete for favor. Without the emperor's favor, the servants in the Ministry of Internal Affairs will follow suit and flatter the powerful and bully the weak, and life will be difficult.
But days like this will continue for a long time.
Yuying woke up feeling thirsty.
It was still dark outside when she woke up. In the dim moonlight, Yuying quickly took a look around.
Yuying thought she would wake up in the hospital.
But now, something seems to be wrong.
This was an antique room, and everything around it couldn't possibly be of the style of a hospital. Moreover, Yuying even saw a woman in ancient costume lying in the corner of the bed where she was lying.
But before Yuying could take a closer look, a bunch of memories exploded in her mind along with a splitting headache.
"Ah." Yuying couldn't bear it and exclaimed.
The next second, Yuying fell into darkness uncontrollably.
A second before she lost consciousness, Yuying heard a panicked voice shouting, "My dear, my dear, are you okay..."
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