3. The first challenge of the follower (catching insects)
The food box is divided into two layers, the first layer is a small pastel lid cup.
Zheng Wei put the small lid cup aside and opened the second layer. As she expected, there was a neat layer of small gold ingots inside.
Zheng Wei almost laughed happily: each of these small gold ingots weighs one or two, and if this layer is covered, there will be at least twenty taels!
If it weren't for the fact that Zheng Shao was quite generous, even if her widowed mother lived in the Hou Mansion, Zheng Wei would not have been able to do her best to solve her problems.
Living in this deep palace, with no money in hand, it is difficult to move an inch.
Although Zheng Wei was dressed as a side branch of Weiyuan Hou, her father went early, and her mother did not give birth, and she also gave birth to a disaster-like appearance, so that the family was repeatedly harassed by the disciples, not to mention raising her daughter to become an adult, and she couldn't even live her life.
Fortunately, Zheng Wei has more memories of a lifetime, seeing that the situation is not right, when she gave the old lady of the Hou Mansion a New Year's greeting, she got her blue eyes, she cried, aroused the sympathy of the old lady, and wanted to take her to the mansion to raise.
She took the opportunity to get her down-and-out lady to live in the Hou Mansion, and the life of the mother and son was born in earnest.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, last year when Zheng Wei was almost fifteen and Ji, the old emperor in the palace collapsed, the new emperor ascended the throne, amnesty the world, and at the same time selected good women from various families as concubines.
As the most powerful supporter of the emperor's accession to the throne, the Marquis of Weiyuan took the opportunity to send his eldest daughter to the palace, which is Zheng Shao, the wife of the second grade.
Mrs. Weiyuanhou was afraid that her daughter would not be able to cope with it, and seeing that Zheng Wei acted cleverly on weekdays, she sent her in together, which could be regarded as a helper.
The old emperor was almost eighty years old when he died, and he thought about the courtiers, and since twenty years ago, he has never chosen the queen of high-ranking officials and families in the triennial selection.
Zheng Wei, who came through the time, thought that it was the practice of the Dayong Dynasty for a small family girl to enter the palace, how could she have thought that there could be such a divine turn? She can't blame herself for being too good at things usually, so that she is remembered by Mrs. Hou, right?
But the kinship between the Hou Mansion and Zheng Wei is so indifferent that it will be clean as soon as you take the water, and then you are not smart, that is, you live there, and the subordinates of the people call "Miss and Mrs.", but no one cares about you, it is difficult for you to want a bowl of hot rice and hot dishes.
Of course, Zheng Weiniang's temperament will not please people, and she will only hold back when she is wronged. In order to eat better and grow a good body, Zheng Wei had to go out in person.
Zheng Wei originally thought that the big deal was to be married off by them as the object of political marriage.
She had paid attention to the actions of the Marquis of Weiyuan, and knew that these nobles in Beijing were self-conscious, and would never take their nieces like adopted daughters as concubines. When he gets older, he will marry a husband who doesn't look bad.
People use you as a commodity, and they have to tell you what you want. Otherwise, if you really marry a girl who has grown up with thousands of treasures to a widower in her seventies and eighties, not only will outsiders laugh at her, but will she also become an enmity with her niece?
In order to prevent the Hou Mansion from sending her to marry casually, she has always gotten along well with the masters in the Hou Mansion.
Zheng Wei thought about it, but she forgot that in such a world, whoever is a concubine will be laughed at, only the emperor's concubine will not.
Zheng Shao received the education of a wife since she was a child, although the emperor is good-looking and the most powerful man in the world, she can slightly make up for her regret that she can't be a wife, but this does not mean that her skills as a concubine will pass.
Today, she dared to stand up with the queen in the main hall, which also shows that she has not yet been conscious of being a concubine.
Mrs. Weiyuan Hou has a motherly heart, thinking that Zheng Wei has been under the fence since she was a child, but she can coax everyone in the Hou Mansion to like her, her relationship with her daughter has always been good, if she can enter the palace together as an arm, her daughter can also have more protection in the deep palace.
She thought well, but didn't ask her daughter if she wanted to. The "sisterly love" between the concubine and the concubine is too different from the "sisterly love" that accompanied her in childhood.
If it weren't for the fact that the enemy Rou Concubine was too strong this time, Zheng Wei would have thought that Zheng Shaode had been cold to her all the time and would be angry with her for the rest of her life.
Her cousin is a little arrogant, but her heart is not bad, even if she hasn't paid much attention to her in the past half a year, she hasn't forgotten her, at least she hasn't been favored by the emperor for half a year, and no one in Jingchen Palace dares to bully her. It is certainly impossible to say that there is no cousin's care here.
Just because Zheng Shao is willing to take care of her, she also has to work hard to perform. What's more, the Marquis of Weiyuan's Mansion is well-run, and Zheng Shao is a rich woman with a lot of money.
When Zheng Wei entered the palace, Mrs. Weiyuan Marquis also gave her some silver tickets, but who would think that there was so much silver that she burned her hands? Here is the deep palace where you need money to eat, money to boil water, and you have to pay for it if you are not a favorite concubine to live a comfortable life.
Even Qiao Mu, who had a lot of opinions about Zheng Shao, rarely said a good word about her after seeing these gold: "It seems that the eldest lady still thinks about you." β
The big palace maid next to Mrs. Ying walked in front of Zheng Wei's palace room, which made her confinement very brisk.
Zheng Wei retreated leisurely for a month, and when the palace mother sent by the queen to guard the door came in to inform her that the ban was lifted, she was strangling her waist in frustration: "No, Xiao Qiao, you must have made my skirt small, how could I be fat?!" β
The corner of Gong Ma's eyes twitched: You are locked up in this house, either eating or sleeping, there is no worry and panic at all, the life is so leisurely, who is fat if you are not fat?
After the palace mother said goodbye to Zheng Wei, the master and servant made up their own and walked towards Zheng Shao's main hall.
Far away from the gate of the palace, Zheng Wei first saw Chengxin guarding outside the palace gate, standing outside the hall with Chengxin, and Chunsheng, the personal eunuch next to Emperor Zhou Xian.
This is broad daylight, and the emperor has slipped to Jingchen Palace again?
Zheng Wei didn't go forward, turned around and slowly paced back with the arbor.
Behind her, Chunsheng and Chengxin looked at each other speechlessly: This lord is really conscious, which concubine in the palace didn't know that the emperor was coming, so she was going to sharpen her head and drill at the place where the emperor was? Where is like her, so consciously avoided.
Later that day, Chengxin told Zheng Shao about it.
Zheng Shao was speechless for a long time, put her slender fingers on the back of the chair with cloisonnΓ© enamel finger covers, and asked in a daze: "You say, can I still trust her?" β
Chengxin remembered what the lady said to her before entering the palace, and said softly: "Miss Wei grew up with you since childhood, who is she, don't you know yet?" β
Zheng Shao smiled to herself: "However, when you enter the palace, you are not the original person." β
Chengxin looked at the girl who had begun to suffer from gains and losses in her family during this time, and thought so, but persuaded her: "Slave maid, Miss Wei is not such a person. You also know what it was like when she first entered the palace, and what it was like before she entered the palace. With her means, if she really wants to compete with you for favor, she won't be unable to wait for half a year without a single thread from the emperor. The slave maid saw it in her eyes and felt that every time she saw the emperor, she deliberately didn't want the emperor to pay attention. β
Zheng Shao remembered that a month ago, Zheng Wei had a runny nose in the imperial garden, and specially raised her voice in front of the emperor to speak, which caused the emperor to be disgusted, and finally fell silent.
Although Zheng Wei has a beautiful mother, she looks like her father who died early.
can make a stunning beauty willing to guard and never marry again, naturally not so ugly people. But the facial features on Zheng Dad's face are called attractive, and the man's strength is explosive, and when he puts it on Zheng Wei, it is a little insufficient.
This is relatively speaking, although Zheng Wei is not the most beautiful in the harem full of beauties, she is beautiful, slender, and white as jade.
Zheng Shao was a little curious, I don't know what Zheng Wei did when the emperor flipped over her brand for the first time, so that the emperor had a little stomach discomfort reaction when he mentioned her.
Zheng Wei has been expressing her sincerity to Zheng Shao with her actions, otherwise, Zheng Shao would not have given her such a task after being cold to her for half a year.
In fact, Zheng Shao knows very well that the status of her mother's family is here, that is, if Rou Concubine fascinates the emperor again, the emperor will not really forget her.
She's just ...... I just breathed a sigh of relief in my heart.
She sighed: "You go and pass a message to Qiao Mu, and ask her to walk around more with me in the future." β
Cheng Xin happily blessed his body: "Yes, girl, I'll go." β
Chengxin, Jade Edition, and Qiao Mu are all slaves and maids of Weiyuan Hou, and since they were children, because the two masters have been close, the relationship is also very good. Unexpectedly, now that she has entered the palace, Zheng Shao has become awkward, making it very uncomfortable for them to be caught in the middle.
Now that Zheng Shao can figure it out, Chengxin is so happy that she is about to cry: the girls in the palace are alone, they are just slaves, and they can't interfere in many things at the master level. The girl is arrogant, her heart is too straight, and she doesn't know how much she has suffered. If it weren't for her mother's identity, she would have died a few times.
Zheng Wei is different, first, she and Zheng Shao are both the emperor's concubines, and they are inconvenient for slaves and maids to do, but she doesn't have to worry so much, she comes to help the girl, and she gets twice the result with half the effort. Second, her mother still has to rely on the Hou Mansion to take care of her, and just because her mother is held by the Hou Mansion, she will not turn her face with the girl.
After receiving Zheng Shao's reconciliation letter, Zheng Wei was still a little happy.
She knows her own family affairs, she was just a code farmer with a simple working environment in her previous life, although she was forced by the environment in this life, she had to give birth to a few more eyes, but this little caution was not enough for her to survive in the harem.
She wants money or not, she wants to be unattractive, she wants to be powerful, what is she going to do to fight with these women in the harem who are full of hearts? On top of that, she had no interest in the emperor's public cucumber at all.
Xiao Transparent lives in the palace, and it is very important to choose the right thighs. She has been friends with Zheng Shao for nearly ten years, and she still knows the nature of this girl very well, don't look at Zheng Shao is very arrogant, but she is a soft-hearted person.
As long as she doesn't commit her rebellion, she is very talkative, and she will not treat people who are good to her.
As soon as Zheng Wei entered the palace, she set a guiding ideology for herself: always hold Zheng Shao's little thick legs, help her lay a foundation in the harem, and stabilize her status as the first good follower. When Zheng Shao gave birth to a son, survived the current emperor, and opened the palace after his son left the palace, their good days came.
But as a coder who likes to plan, I often feel that the plan can't keep up with the changes.
Zheng Wei often thinks back to the confrontation between Zheng Shao and the queen this month, and feels very worried: if she continues to be arrogant like this, let alone survive the current emperor, it is a big problem whether she can give birth to a son smoothly.
Although the queen is not favored, she has a smart and clever sister-in-law in hand, Zheng Shao, a new concubine whose belly has not yet bulged, what do you use to fight with others?
Even if Zheng Shao has that unspeakable mind, he has to talk about other things.
It seems that the emperor's love for Zheng Shao in the past half a year has made her a little frivolous.
Zheng Wei felt that her first challenge as a follower came: how to make the boss understand that the queen is not easy to mess with.