Chapter 2: Life in the Palace
Fan Xixi spent eight years in the palace before, but in fact, it is considered the head of the queen's personal maid to be in the palace.
After all, in the palace, the power in the harem is nothing more than the queen and the queen mother. The Queen Mother is surrounded by old people who were brought into the palace when she was young, and her ability to stand next to the Queen Mother can be regarded as the result of careful service in everything over the years.
It's just that she has seen too many dead and crippled palace maids in this position.
When she was in the palace, she was called Luyun, the queen would call her Yun'er, and the other little palace maids would call her Sister Yun'er.
She is the queen's personal maid and the aunt of the housekeeper of Yikun Palace.
But in fact, she and the queen mother are not much close, there are many green clouds in front of her, and the queen mother likes to call her personal palace maid as green clouds, because the queen mother is called Shunkou. "Green Cloud" in the palace represents the position of the queen's personal maid. The queen mother just values Fan Xixi's cleverness, and she is not too greedy.
There were a lot of other green clouds before Fan Xixi, but they wanted too much, and they unknowingly wrapped their lives around in the process of chasing.
She didn't, she always felt that the palace was not home, she couldn't reveal her true feelings in the palace, and she couldn't want too much in the palace, as long as she kept to herself, she thought she could survive until she was 22 years old and was released from the palace. It's just that no one expected that there were still 4 years left, and her backer queen mother fell, and she was just a piece of fish meat that could be slaughtered.
She originally had a brother Li in the palace, and everyone in the palace called him Wang Bingli, but Fan Xixi knew that this was not his name, but everyone in the palace called him that.
There seems to be a disparity in his name, and he never took the initiative to tell anyone what his real name was. But Fan Xixi doesn't care, it's enough to call him a brother behind his ass.
Brother Li was met when she entered the palace at the age of ten, 3 years older than her, and also entered the palace three years earlier than her.
When he met Brother Li, he practiced in the Praetorian Guard, and Fan Xixi only went at that time, but he was just a lowly third-class maid in the palace.
Because the Caimai Palace was next to the palace gate, Fan Xixi met Brother Li, who was guarding the palace gate at that time. Brother Li taught her a lot of rules about what to do in the palace. Because of her brother, she escaped a lot of beatings, probably from that time, the girl's spring heart sprouted, she felt that in this huge palace, although she was alone, it was as if she had something to rely on.
Brother Li taught her how to better gain a foothold in the palace, and in two years she went from buying to embroidery, and later because of the good embroidery process, she was appreciated by the queen. She will also help her brother at the right time and speak appropriately in front of the right person. Soon, Brother Li soon became the official forbidden army, and later even became the commander of the forbidden army.
However, gradually, Brother Li changed.
He wants more and more, and Brother Li will let Fan Xixi do things that are not in line with her affairs, things that are beyond her authority, things that endanger her safety.
He would also tell her, "Xixi, you are too simple, the people in front of you are all obstacles, you have to use means to eradicate them."
At that moment, Fan Xixi glanced sideways at her brother Li, and suddenly felt different, she lowered her head and said "uh-huh" twice, but her heart was shocked, it turned out that her brother Li was different from her, she would only do things well, people don't offend me, I won't offend people, she won't take the initiative to harm people, and she doesn't have so many desires as strong as Brother Li, as if desire is more important than life.
Later, Brother Li's courage became bigger and bigger, and in order to gain the emperor's trust, he also contributed to Rong Yuanqin's affairs. But Rong Yuanqin was a bole to Wang Bingli, a teacher, and the one who was kind to him who chose him to be a guard among hundreds of soldiers.
But Brother Li would tell her, "Under the whole world, it is not the imperial land, and Your Majesty is the person who should be respected the most." He said so, but the fire of desire in his eyes burned brightly, as if it was a little stronger, and the entire Forbidden City would be burned down.
That day, when she accompanied the queen to deliver a meal, she saw her brother Li reporting something to the emperor, and His Majesty's eyes immediately fell sharply on the queen, and in the evening, the queen was demoted.
Her brother Li led a team carrying torture sticks to smash open the gate of the queen's mother's land with a fierce attitude, smashing everything in Yikun Palace, including their worthless palace maids and eunuchs.
She was tortured, because she was a personal maid, and at the front of the whole courtyard, the courtyard door was wide open, and the palace concubines and palace maids and eunuchs kept coming and going in front of her.
She was so embarrassed that her hair was scattered and she was drenched in sweat. His brother stood in front of her, as if he didn't know her Fan Xixi, with a cold look in his eyes and an indifferent expression. Eight years of acquaintance and acquaintance are like bubbles, the bubble bursts, and the acquaintance and acquaintance are like jokes.
Suddenly, Fan Xixi didn't seem to know whether the 8 years she knew was fake, or the brother in front of her was fake.
After all, in this palace, everyone is a chess piece, and in the end, they are too weak emotionally.
It's really annoying, as soon as those people in the harem are involved, these nasty memories pop up. Fan Xixi shook his head, getting rid of these miscellaneous thoughts.
She had met Wuyunzhu a few times, all of them in the palace, by the queen's side. Speaking of the queen's mother, you can't help but think of the queen's stinky temper, how bad is her temper, the kind that will fight with the emperor. Once he even picked up an inkstone and smashed the emperor's forehead with blood, and once he picked up a broom and chased the emperor out of Yikun Palace.
But the queen mother is also a very contradictory person, she is very kind, and she is also very protective, for example, the dark cloud bead once accidentally broke a prince's head, and the queen mother took the palace full of honor guards to the prince's mother to fight in a group, and the queen mother at that moment really gave people a strong sense of security, like a fairy descending to earth, safe and warm.
Wuyunzhu was a bit like a queen mother when she was young, probably because she was raised by Rong Yuanqin. The queen mother and Wuyunzhu are both girls raised on the grassland, spicy and brave.
But later, Wuyunzhu followed the queen for a few years, and the little girl had a sense of security because she had the queen's mother, but her personality gradually became delicate, and she also learned some poetry and etiquette in the palace, and she became more and more gentle and feminine in the south.
The two years that Fan Xixi served the queen mother were the most difficult two years, because Rong Yuanqin died, and Rong Yuanqin's death meant that the queen mother's life began to become difficult. The queen mother was recommended by Rong Yuanqin to enter the palace, and the emperor hated Rong Yuanqin, because he controlled the government and always thought that His Majesty the emperor was too young to be able to govern himself, and the contradiction between the two became more and more intense with the gradual increase in Rong Yuanqin's power and the arrival of the emperor's adolescence.
If the emperor used to come to the queen's palace from time to time because he was afraid of Rong Yuanqin, then after Rong Yuanqin's death, except for some necessary ceremonies, the emperor would not meet the queen at all, let alone care.
The emperor's ignorance led to the indifference of the entire harem to Yikun Palace, Fan Xixi originally thought that the queen's temper would become more and more serious, and she often served cautiously, but after a long time, she found that the queen didn't care about whether the emperor cared about her at all, and not seeing the emperor made her feel better, and the only time she saw her lose her temper was just after meeting the emperor.
At that time, I didn't understand the queen's thoughts, but just looked at the queen's eyes. During the six months she stayed at home, she often thought back to her time in the palace. On the contrary, she understands the queen a little, probably because she doesn't like it. It's because I don't like it that I hate it even when I see him, and I lose my temper no matter what the emperor does.
In the last two years she served the queen, she saw the emperor only a handful of times, and the queen would lock herself in the house for a day before every meeting, and then she would definitely ask the emperor when she met, for example, let Wuyunzhu be the daughter of the Hu family, for example, persuade the emperor to honor the queen, she seemed to know that she couldn't see the emperor a few times, and every time she asked the emperor to do some of the people she cared about the most in her heart.
At other times, the queen mother did not go out or see people in her own palace, and if the emperor agreed to her request, she would be happy to go out for horseback riding, such as the day when Wuyunzhu entered the E's house.
Then secretly asked Fan Xixi to dig a pit and bury the prey she hunted, because she knew that the queen should not do hunting, and she should not have the mood of happiness, so she had to hide her happiness to be safe.
If she was not happy, she would sit alone in the courtyard for a whole day, without speaking, and the expression on her face did not change, as if she were a dead thing.