Su Lan and Su Xin were both maidservants of Pufu, and at the same time they were elected to serve the little emperor in the palace, and there was no one in the family, so they have always been friends. They walked hand in hand along the corridor in the garden, talking as they went. And Fu'er was born in Qiongzhou, and only entered Beijing with the Queen Mother this spring, but it was the first time she saw snow, and as soon as she went out, she ran into the snow to play with the two little yellow doors by herself.

"Congratulations sister!" Walking to the Xin Xin Pavilion by the lake, Su Xin took a step back and said with a smile.

"Sister, what are you doing?" Su Lan didn't know what to mean, and hurriedly helped each other and said in surprise.

"I think my sister has also become a good thing with the official family, right?" Su Xin hugged Su Lan's waist and whispered in her ear.

"Don't talk nonsense, how can there be such a thing!" Su Lan listened and broke away from her hand, Hongxia was shy and gently pushed away Frangipani.

"Let's not hide it from our sisters, seeing my sister's face like a peach blossom and her graceful gait, it must be a good thing, and I can't deceive my sister." Su Xin said with a smile. In fact, when she first entered the palace and saw Su Lan, she felt that the maids in the palace were all combed in a double flat bun on weekdays, but they combed their buns back up, and they did not leave a tail under the bun like a girl, so that it hung down behind the shoulders, so they were already suspicious, and then looked at their gait with seven or eight points of certainty.

"This ...... You're already a mother, why are you still so open-mouthed. Su Lan's face turned even redder when she heard this, and she turned sideways and said coquettishly.

"That's true, and my sister is relieved." Seeing that Su Lan was extremely shy, her eyes dodging, and Su Xin was even more sure of her judgment.

"What do you mean by this, why are you still crying?" Su Lan saw tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, and hurriedly wiped away his tears with a handkerchief.

"We have known each other for many years and are like sisters. I got the queen mother's grace to marry and was able to go out of the palace, but my sister is getting older, but she stays in the palace, and my sister has been worried that my sister will be lonely in the palace. Even if he is released from the palace, Yi Fanghua has passed away, and he doesn't know what to rely on, but now he is fine. Su Xin held Su Landi's hand and said.

"That's fate, what can I do?" Su Lan sighed and said.

"Since we entered the palace, I have seen that the official family and my sister are quite close to each other, and they are extremely dependent, and they have always been with them. And the official family is also a person of great affection, but he is a little younger and does not understand the etiquette of Duke Zhou, otherwise it would not have dragged on for so many years. Frangipani chuckled.

"It's again, be careful to let others hear." Su Lan looked left and right, a little flustered.

"Listen to my sister, the official family has long been a matter of men and women?" Su Xin said with a very surprised look.

"You...... You're getting more and more arrogant, ignoring you! Su Lan flicked her sleeves and said in shame.

"Hehe, did my sister use a trick, or did the official family open the door?" Frangipani still didn't let go, and asked with a smile again.

"If I say it again, I will really ignore you......" Su Lan saw that what he said became more and more explicit, and turned his back and said. As early as when she was in Qiongzhou, the Queen Mother let her take the post of Shang Bed, and gave her some Spring Palace albums. But the little emperor was planning a counterattack on Jiangnan and put it down, and then the queen mother hinted at her in many ways, but His Majesty always avoided it as if she was ignorant, so she was helpless. But after returning to the palace after the funeral, he suddenly opened his mind, and it seemed that he had grown up overnight, but this kind of thing made people ashamed.

"Sister, you must not give up the opportunity, you must seize the heart of the official family, otherwise it will be difficult in the future!" Seeing this, Frangipani also put away the joke, and said in a straight and authentic way.

"I don't have the means of a sister, Ni Dutong has never taken a concubine so far, and there is no singer in the house, only you are spoiled!" Su Lan teased him with a nod on his forehead.

"The official family is about to get married, although the name of the concubine has been decided, but I think I will give my sister a name. If the queen is virtuous, it is fine, but if she is mean, my sister's life will be sad. Su Xin sighed lightly and said, "Now that the official family has just learned about men and women, it is the time to eat the marrow and know the taste, and the palace has always been the mother and the son, and the sister wants to take the opportunity to be able to conceive, and the gentleman will be accompanied by a man and a woman, so he will not worry about not raising the high position." ”

Frangipani has been in the palace for a few years, so she naturally knows the rules of the palace, although the system was still very imperfect at that time, but it was almost the same. The palace people in the inner palace generally belong to the palace maids who have no taste, and they may not all be used by the emperor, the queen mother's harem, and the palace of the concubines all have palace people. All of them are daughters of good families or daughters of ministers and doctors who are at least twelve or thirteen years old, and can only enter the palace on errands after strict selection and medical examination.

The palace people are divided into several categories, the waiter is the palace maid who serves the concubine and the emperor; The imperial attendant has not yet obtained the palace maid who serves the master, which is equivalent to a candidate attendant, and can be on duty when the attendant is not enough, and is managed by the head of the imperial attendant; In addition, there are also the palace guards who serve as the palace duty, the palace of the ban, the name of the palace, the long line of the palace, etc., they are on duty in the palace, and they are generally the palace maids who have no opportunity to serve the master.

In addition, there are palace people who act as music envoys, music envoys, fairy rhyme envoys, immortal rhyme deputy envoys, Guan Gou Xianyun official affairs, straight pen, loose straight, etc., these people have not been invited to accept the official body, and naturally there is no money, which is no different from hard labor. Of course, all palace maids are promoted and descended, and after the adult palace maids are promoted to a certain status, they can be promoted to Zixia or Hongxia, and they can receive Yulu.

After having the identity of serving the master, she can also serve as a female official in the palace, and be promoted to Sizheng, Tongshi is in charge of the twenty-four divisions, etc., and can still be promoted to the position of the upper palace of the inner service province in the future, and there is also a chance to get close to the emperor. If you are favored by the emperor and are favored, you will generally get low-level titles such as nobles and beauties among the women, and you will be able to enter the emperor's harem, and you will no longer have to take on the ministry if you have a fortune. If there are children left, their status will rise again, and they will enter a higher class, even among the concubines, and they will have a worry-free life for the rest of their lives.

Therefore, in the harem, if you want to become a member of the emperor's harem from a penniless primary palace maid, it is by no means a step to ascend to the sky, but to go through many years of suffering and hard work. However, there are hundreds of women in the palace at every turn, and there are new people constantly adding in, if the power in the family is weak and cannot be used as a backer, it is not easy to stand out from the crowd and make the emperor favored, and it is even more difficult to obtain the status of concubines, which is also the reason for the endless fighting and mutual tilting in the palace.

"Let everything go with fate, there are some things that can't be forced, and now it's a blessing to be able to get the mercy of the officials, how dare you ask for more!" Su Lan also understood that what she said was true, but she could only sigh lightly when she knew her identity.

"My sister's temperament is like this, but now it is not as good as before. The Queen Mother is lenient and benevolent, and never harshly criticizes her subordinates; Although the official family has a strange personality and likes to play tricks on people, his heart is kind and benevolent, and he has always been generous to his subordinates. Now once the official family gets married, the queen will lead the harem, who knows what kind of character it is. If he is a vicious person, and the official family is close to his sister, he will definitely try to suppress it. And there are five concubines who married into the palace at the same time, which is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and what means can't be used in order to compete for favor. "Frangipani listened to the great urgency and taught her a lesson as a 'person who came over'.

"Where is it so terrifying as you say, Sanniang and Shu'er are both virtuous people, how can they harm me. Besides, the queen is also from a famous family, and she must be a virtuous person, how can she worry about me alone. Su Lan smiled.

"Ahh......h Why do you still have such thoughts, Sanniang and Shu'er were friends with us before, one is still young and doesn't understand the things; There is no entanglement between the two, and there is no conflict of interest, so we are naturally at peace. But now that they are opponents, their thoughts are naturally different. Even if it is as you say, even if the queen is a good person, Sanniang and Shu'er are still good friends with you. But there are still hundreds of palace people in the palace, and if any of them don't have the intention of competing for favor, they will change their ways to step on others and climb up, and your position will inevitably be calculated first. Su Xin stomped her feet anxiously, another lesson.

"That'...... As you say, I can't stay in the palace anymore. Su Lan hesitated, and said a little funny.

"The official family is the most nostalgic, and my sister is by his side for the longest time, not to ask for sleep every day, but also to let the official family often think of you, others see that the official family is constantly pampered, so naturally they dare not bully you openly. So don't give up your seat easily, and don't let the official forget the old relationship. Su Xin thought that she had listened to her words, and said again.

"How is this possible?" Su Lan shook her head with a wry smile on her face. She knew that no matter how much the little emperor liked herself, she was just a low-level concubine after all, and she was getting old, how could His Majesty spoil her alone. However, since she was happy, she didn't realize that her heart had quietly changed, after all, her fate was inseparable from this man since then, and she subconsciously hoped to be favored by His Majesty for a long time. And she has been in the palace for a long time, although she has not experienced the battle between concubines, but she has also heard the old palace maids talk about the past.

She knew that even if the emperor favored one person, this person could not be exclusive even if he was the queen, but had to abide by the 'system of entering the palace', which was to take turns to live in each palace in turn, so that the concubines would be evenly wetted with rain and dew. But the amount depends on the status and their respective means, and in principle, the women in the harem, from the queen to the lowest primary palace maid, are all His Majesty's women, and he can be pampered at any time. Even if there are no 3,000 beauties in the current palace, there will be people who die of old age and will not be able to see the emperor in the palace.

In fact, it is difficult for the emperor to let the concubines and palace maids sleep in the courtesy, and the emperor has absolute autonomy, the most important of which are to summon luck and Xingxing. Xingxing's approach is like being at peace with the situation, and letting the concubines there accompany him wherever he goes, and the emperor calls the concubines in the harem to his own palace to serve.

So there is the "butterfly luck" method of Li Longji, the merry son of heaven, which makes the concubines fill their heads with flowers, and then releases the butterflies they caught in person. In addition, there is also the "gambling money" method that makes concubines throw money to gamble on concubines; Make the concubines compete to catch the fireflies, and the "fireflies" method that the first to get the fireflies is lucky; There is a "fragrant luck" method of sending incense sachets to concubines and getting lucky to those who are in the middle.

Therefore, most concubines can only have a resigned and helpless attitude towards the bed. However, there are also many palace ladies who take a proactive attitude towards the attendants, and strive for the attendants in various ways in order to gain the favor of the emperor. During the Zhenzong period, Concubine Li Chen was just an ordinary palace maid at the beginning, and one day she was able to serve Emperor Zhenzong to wash her hands, so she took the opportunity to say to Zhenzong that last night she suddenly dreamed of a man in a feather coat, who fell from the sky barefoot, and said to me Let me give you a son. And Zhenzong was worried because he didn't have a son, so he fulfilled her, so that she was fortunate to have a prince the next year.

In addition, sometimes concubines will also introduce each other. During the Huizong period, Concubine Qiao and Concubine Wei waited for Empress Zheng together after entering the palace, and the two were like brothers and sisters, and they once agreed: "The first noble does not forget each other." In other words, whoever gets the emperor's favor first, don't forget to mention the sisters. Later, Concubine Qiao was fortunate to Huizong first, so she recommended Concubine Wei to Huizong. Concubine Wei was fortunate because of this, and gave birth to Gaozong Zhao Gou......

"How can my sister forget that such a smart person is not only nostalgic for the old, but also very lazy. When he lived in Tambo Pavilion in Qiongzhou for nearly ten years, although the palace was small at that time, there were hundreds of houses, and the most comfortable place than Tampo Pavilion was not one, but he lived for so long, in fact, he was too lazy to move around. Su Xin said with some hatred that iron is not made of steel.

"Listen to my sister, the official family is indeed like this, sometimes it is very lazy, if there is nothing to do, you can stay in one place for half a day. Those who are used to it will always stay by their side, otherwise your father-in-law will not have followed His Majesty for so many years, and he has not been released as an official. But it's very different from mine! Su Lan thought about the little emperor but was like this, and understood that this was the so-called bystander Qing, the authorities were confused, and Su Xin saw more clearly than herself from the outside, but she still didn't understand what it meant, after all, this place was no better than Qiongzhou, the emperor was still young at that time, and there was no concubine, of course, it didn't matter where she lived.

"Why doesn't my sister understand?" Su Xin was a little anxious and said with a white face, "Sister looks at the Zhiyuan Hall, although the place and name have been changed, the furnishings are almost the same as the Tranquility Pavilion, and the things used all year round have also been moved here." With the temperament of an official, he will still use this place as his permanent residence in the future, where he will deal with official documents and tinker with his strange things. And the official family has always relied on her sister, even if it is confidential, she has never shied away from it, but she may not be able to trust others! ”

"Hehe, my sister is really impressive today!" Su Lan is not a stupid person, and under the prompting of Su Xin, she understands her intentions. After the little emperor gets married, there will inevitably be an independent dormitory, so with his current identity, he will also have her residence, so he can take the opportunity to ask to stay in Zhiyuan Hall, and he should not refuse. And there are many 'treasures' of His Majesty stored here, and they are used to living near the water, and it won't take long to move back, so of course they are close to the water......