"But...... Niangniang is going to live in the palace for the rest of her life......"

Tao Zhiyuan sighed lightly: "You are sixteen this year, and in another nine years, you will be able to leave the palace, and you will be able to leave this iron cage." ”

"I was sent to the palace at the age of ten, and I originally wanted to be a female historian in the Shangshi Bureau or the Shanggong Bureau, but I was illiterate and had no money to dredge, so I have been a palace maid." Yingmeng was a little sad at this time, "There are few palace maids, and after leaving the palace, if you don't have any skills, life will become a problem." ”

Dajing's harem not only has the internal affairs office, but also has six Shang similar to the Tang Dynasty, namely the Shang Palace Bureau, the Shang Yi Bureau, the Dian Service Bureau, the Shang Food Bureau, the Shang Sleep Bureau and the Shang Gong Bureau, each of which has four divisions, each performing its own duties.

"Then I'll teach you embroidery, don't you just have a skill?"

"Really?!" Yingmeng was overjoyed, you must know that Tao Zhiyuan once made a money bag for her, and the design and stitching on it have caused many palace maids to want to buy the money bag, although she can also embroider, but compared with Tao Zhiyuan's, it is simply a heaven and a place!

Tao Zhiyuan nodded with a smile, looking at this happy elf, and suddenly felt that she was so good, carefree, and didn't have to worry about the struggle of the court, so spotless, how beautiful.

"Let's be honest, if Niangniang is in the department room of the Shanggong Bureau, she will definitely be able to do it." Yingmeng said straight to Tao Zhiyuan without any scruples.

"Really?" Tao Zhikite caters to her.

Yingmeng nodded vigorously: "Of course!" Our palace maids dream of entering the sixth bureau, because she is a female official, she is high, and she has a lot of oil and water, if Niangniang is a female official in the sixth bureau, then she can leave the palace, but Niangniang enters the palace as a show girl, and she can only be a concubine......"

Tao Zhiyuan's heart moved, but she quickly dispelled this idea, the concubine became a female official, how could there be such a thing. She sighed softly, did she really want to die in the palace?

This iron cage, can't she get out for the rest of her life?

"Niangniang, what are you thinking?" I don't know when, Aunt Zhang was already standing next to her.

"Aunt Zhang, when did you come?!" Tao Zhiyuan was taken aback, could she really be so deeply engrossed?

There was a smile on the corner of Aunt Zhang's mouth: "Niangniang, you are obviously only fifteen years old, how can you look like an old lady?" ”

How could Tao Zhiyuan say that her actual age was twenty-five years old. She changed the subject: "Aunt Zhang, why are you free to come over?" I thought you'd be here in two days. ”

"It's good to say, your embroidery was sold out yesterday when it was taken out of the palace, and the slave maid has to send you money today." Aunt Zhang took out a piece of gold, "The slave maid still came over during the master's lunch break, and the mother wanted to make a money bag for the slave maid that was the same as Yingmeng." ”

"Why are there so many, my embroidery isn't worth so much money." Tao Zhiyuan didn't take the gold, but Aunt Zhang stuffed the gold into her hand and said: "That's it, your embroidery style is novel, and the embroidery skill is a must, many noble ladies are vying to buy it, the last handkerchief, two noble ladies are still bidding." ”

Yingmeng clapped her palms happily on the side: "That's great, Niangniang embroiders a few more, then you can make a lot of money!" ”

"No, if everyone had my handkerchief, it wouldn't be worth much." Tao Zhiyuan pondered, "I have to design some other styles to raise the price." ”

"What the mother said is very true." Aunt Zhang admired her very much, but she had some questions, "Niangniang, you don't lack anything in the palace, why do you still try to make money?" ”

"Well, will you believe me when I say it?" Tao Zhiyuan played with the ingot of gold in her hand.

Aunt Zhang was stunned for a moment, then laughed again, and said, "Then the slave won't ask." ”

After Tao Zhiyuan sent Aunt Zhang away, she put the gold in the jewelry box in her room, which already contained the jewelry given to her by the Queen Mother and her money for this month, which was still far from her goal, and she needed a sum of money to buy off the powerful eunuchs and female officials in the palace and try to get out of the palace.

She sighed, it seemed like an unattainable method, but it was better than sitting still.

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The days are naturally calm, the tossing and turning has reached the end of autumn, a little cool, winter is coming, the division room sent thick clothes such as cotton jackets and cloaks, Tao Zhiyuan took a look, and found that the embroidery was mediocre, and the embroidered birds were even more spiritual.

When Yingmeng saw it, he sighed: "The concubine who is not favored is like this." ”

Tao Zhiyuan smiled slightly, it's better not to be favored than to die, right?

Tao Zhiyuan still remembered that day, she was embroidering a picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water, after Yun Qingyuan took a sip of tea, probably because the tea was inferior, she frowned slightly, she brewed for a while before saying: "Qin Peihan." ”

Tao Zhiyuan stopped the needle, then came back to her senses, continued to embroider the lingering posture of the mandarin duck, and asked, "How did you die?" ”

Yun Qingyuan was surprised by Tao Zhiyuan's calmness, and said: "She saw that the emperor had not turned over her brand for a long time, so she deliberately stroked the qin in the imperial garden. ”

"What did Concubine Xian say?"

"Lost his footing and fell into the lake, and was buried with a thick seal." Yun Qingyuan coldly spit out these eight words.

Tao Zhiyuan stopped the needle, left the embroidery frame, and walked to the table and sat down. Concubine Xian seems to be the master of this harem, but the queen has no place. She had long expected Qin Peihan's fate, how could Concubine Xian allow the existence of people competing for favor.

Qin Peihan, a competitive person, has such an end, which is already excellent.

"Sister, you don't seem to feel anything, it makes my sister feel very cold, is something wrong?" Yun Qingyuan gently held her hand, and there was a trace of worry between her eyebrows.

"Sister, do you know why I had a fever on election day?" Tao Zhiyuan did not answer the rhetorical question.

Yun Qingyuan was stunned, and then thought of what she had just said about Qin Peihan, she suddenly realized, and asked tentatively, "Is it Qin Peihan?" ”

Tao Zhiyuan nodded: "The night before the election, she brought me a bowl of mung bean syrup, I already knew that she did her tricks, just pushing the boat." ”

"She deserves it." Yun Qingyuan sneered.