Carrying a jar to walk such a long way, needless to say, the hard work, so when the youth version of Mama Rong took me to the destination, it was no surprise that I was so tired that I was panting like a cow and my legs trembled, and I couldn't even stand up.

"Look at your unproductive appearance!" "Although she is a weak woman, Rong'er, who is used to doing heavy work, is much more calm than me, a modern person, hammered her sore waist, pointed to the red wall and green tiles in front of her and said: "There is Jingren Palace, where Shun Guifei Xian now lives, this master is from the surname of Shangsanqi, and he has always had very heavy rules, and now he is pregnant with a dragon breed, and it is not easy to serve, you can be careful not to say the wrong thing for a while!"

I hurriedly nodded: "Listen to Mama Rong's ...... Phew!

The main gate of the palace naturally did not allow us to go, according to the rules after knocking on the corner door, there was a little eunuch Hou led us into the courtyard, there was already a person in the courtyard who was about the same age as Rong'er, but the palace maid who was dressed ten times brighter than us combined looked around with a proud face standing under the dripping eaves and looked around, and immediately shouted impatiently when she saw us coming: "The shelves of the flower room are really getting bigger and bigger, what was the matter ordered to you in the morning, what time did you send the flowers here? ”

I'm hey, this harem is really a place to step on the highs and lows, and they are also slaves, just because they are higher than us in their "positions", they take a look in front of us, and they don't talk about the feelings of compatriots who are also exploited classes, and what people delay is only the mood of enjoying the flowers, but we even delay lunch.

Although I was not angry, I didn't have a seizure on the spot, after all, I came here to carry out a secret mission, and when it was time to lurk, we had to fully integrate into our role like the underground party that presided over the work behind enemy lines, so that we could hit the target at the critical moment, and what was it to be a little wronged now for the sake of the lofty goal? Now we can only comfort ourselves like this......

I didn't speak, Rong'er originally wanted to argue a few words and thought about it and held back, she didn't blindly talk to others, if she didn't swallow her anger in a place like the palace, even the emperor Lao Tzu estimated that she wouldn't live long, so she still had to endure it when she could, but looking at Rong'er's angry gaze and biting gurgling back molars, I was still faintly worried about the powerful palace maid in front of me, if she left the palace early, it would be fine, otherwise when the shape changed and Mama Rong rose, thinking of today's scene, I don't know whether to smile, or turn her head to froth at the mouth now, and then drag the palace maid who has become an old woman to the torture room and become a fool？

After beating us up, the palace maid was satisfied, and pointed to a shovel thrown in the corner and ordered us: "Why don't you dig a pit and move the peony into the flower pond!?

As if I had been pardoned, I wanted to go over and pick up a shovel to dig a pit, but Rong'er grabbed me and stomped on my foot.

"How...... What's wrong?"

Rong'er didn't answer me, raised her head to look at the commanding palace maid, and replied coldly with a stiff neck: "This is not in accordance with the rules. ”

The palace maid was stunned for a moment, and then became furious: "What rules are not in order? This is our master's order! Isn't it just a pot of flowers? It is your honor that the master likes to plant them in his palace! Zhao Fuhai, who is in charge of the flower house, dares to come and go back?"

I also lowered my voice and persuaded me: "We all put up with what I said just now, why bother to conflict with her over this little thing? It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for thirty years, it's not for me to say, after thirty years, you clean her up like a play......

"Shut up!" Rong Er Xing's eyes widened, and she shouted angrily: "Don't make a mess if you don't understand!"

The "life-threatening matter" that Rong'er said is, in the final analysis, the so-called "ritual problem".

In a hierarchical feudal society, the pyramid model of the power structure determines that the higher the status of the class, the fewer the number, and the lower the status of the class, the more people, this social structure is strictly speaking, and it is easy to "go down and go up", and the large number of classes can easily overthrow them, but the number and strength are far inferior to their "superiors".

How, then, has this hidden danger been maintained for thousands of years in human history? It is because our ancestors found the only way to maintain class balance -- to establish authority.

It is the simplest and most effective way to establish authority by showing the superiority of the class in which you are located, so that the lower class obeys and fears you, and the ritual system just stipulates the privileges and interests enjoyed by different classes in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, so it has become a symbol of the division of different classes of the power pyramid, and has also become a benchmark to show the superiority of the class: because I am higher than you, I wear silk and you wear linen, because I have a higher status than you, so I ride in the car and you slip my legs, because I have a higher status than you, so I have a higher status than you, so I have a higher status than you, so I say that you bow down to obey…… For thousands of years, the feudal aristocracy used their 1 percent population base to rule 99 percent of the common people.

It is precisely because the ritual system is so important to maintain the relationship between the upper and lower levels of the feudal society, so the feudal ruling class will spare no effort to maintain the "superiority and inferiority", even to the point that the "own people" who are also the ruling class are harsh.

"Ritual system" is specific to today, the problem lies in the pot of peony, this is a pot of "Yao Huang", since the Song Dynasty handed down the famous peony species, because the color of the flowers is golden yellow, consistent with the favorite color of the royal family, and because the remaining pure planting plants have been extremely rare, so it is designated as only the queen is qualified to plant in the courtyard of the "special offering".

Keep it in a flower pot and carry it to other concubines to enjoy, this is "grace", after reading it, you have to send it back, intercept it privately or even plant it in your own yard, that is, you covet the queen's "phoenix position", although the queen of the Kangxi Dynasty has long gone west, although the ultimate goal of every aspiring harem heroine is the throne of the mother of the country, but the expression you explicitly implied is that it is "disrespectful", and the consequences are ...... It's hard to say.

The reason why it is difficult to say is because the punishment of this crime of "trespassing" is very flexible, you can verbally declare it and then treat it as if nothing happened, or you can raid the family and exterminate the whole family and push it to the mouth of the vegetable market to be beheaded, all depending on the mood of the supreme ruler emperor and the favored Cheng of the concubine who made mistakes, this Shun concubine is estimated to be favored and pregnant with a dragon fetus, so she took the opportunity to be presumptuous and show the harem that she trespassed but was not subject to heavy punishment, which is equivalent to the emperor acquiescing to her enjoying the treatment of the queen.

Looking at it this way, it seems that we shouldn't take care of other people's affairs, if we want to play hypocrisy, let her be hypocritical, why bother to go against the concubine, but it's still the same sentence, life is at stake, if you commit the crime of trespassing, the punishment methods of the masters are light and heavy, but for grassroots palace people like us who have no identity and no background, and do not enjoy the "etiquette", the punishment method is surprisingly the same:

The master is messing around, you dog slaves don't know how to admonish, what do you want? Drag them down and beat them to death!

It's really life-threatening.