Chapter 167: Gege is not afraid of being poisoned
Many harem concubines who participated in the draft and entered the palace entered the palace with the fate of their families on their backs. They can give birth to a prince, and the family is better. If they can't get the emperor's favor and can't give birth to a prince, they can't complete the mission given by the family, then they will have no value at all, and they may no longer have a foothold, so they can only fight desperately for favor in order to get the family's good face and a little better treatment in the harem.
In order to compete for favor, every word and deed, every smile and smile of the harem concubines are done according to Kangxi's preferences. They also went to great lengths to display their talents and use them to please the emperor. Therefore, the harem deduces the story of competition for favor every day and never stops.
In order to compete for favor, the harem concubines wanted to win over the eunuchs and palace maids of the Qianqing Palace. In order to win over the slaves to help him, he can only ask for money from his mother's family to use it. If your mother's family has no money, she can only save money by herself.
Some harem concubines, in order to save money and materials, attract eunuchs and palace maids to help them, and would rather save money and use fewer people. Therefore, many palaces have few adults, which seems a little lonely and unpopular.
Manhua thought about this beautiful palace, which scared her. She wished she was here, just a passerby. Even if she wasn't a passerby, when the time came, she took her silver, gold and silver jewelry, and walked away! Now, working hard to make money is her goal!
Now Manhua is in the palace, helping Concubine Tong Jia manage those chores. The various forces in the harem are fighting openly and secretly, and they are intricately intertwined, making you live and die. In order to compete for favor and love, there is that kind of clueless battle every day, which makes Manhua so headache that she is in no mood to manage the store under her name.
There are wells in the palace, and although there is water in them, they are not used for drinking. Because I was afraid that someone would poison the well. There are even more terrifying, some palace maids and eunuchs who don't want to live, it is common to commit suicide by jumping into a well. Or murder and shame into the well, there have also been.
Therefore, the drinking water in the palace is taken from Yuquan Mountain. It is a long way from Yuquan Mountain to the palace, but for safety, it is still necessary to take water from Yuquan Mountain as drinking water.
Manhua sometimes had to go at night to check on the situation of the officers and soldiers carrying water into the palace.
At night, the palace is extremely silent. Walking on the palace road, eerie. Manhua walked on the palace road at night, although he was not afraid, but he was a little uneasy in his heart.
Manhua is also very annoyed at night, to check the matter of sending water into the palace, because walking on the palace road at night feels eerie and terrible.
"Manhua Gege, the night in the palace is terrifyingly quiet. No one went to the door, everyone stayed in their own place, only the eunuchs and palace maids who patrolled walked on the palace road. Qiu He and Qiu Feng said so.
Manhua said, "It's so quiet that I don't think I'm at peace when I live here!" ”
After Manhua entered the palace to help, he heard a lot of legends about the palace. And also...... All sorts of haunted things!
In the palace, at night, people in many places dare not go, for fear that they will be unlucky and meet ghosts! ”
Manhua asked, "How can I say that no one has ever seen a ghost, but only when they are sick or drunk do they think they have seen a ghost?" ”
"Manhua Gege, that's it!"
Manhua didn't believe that there were ghosts in the palace, and she felt that the fourth elder brother scared her more than ghosts. She ordered that whoever dared to openly talk about the haunting of the palace should be beaten on the board and beaten until his ass was rotten.
Concubine Tong Jia was very good to other concubines on the surface, either giving them food or jewelry, and from time to time she made some pastries as gifts.
Some concubines with status in the harem did not dare to eat the pastries sent by Concubine Tong Jia, they were afraid that Concubine Tong Jia would put poison in the pastries.
Concubine Yi not only didn't dare to eat the pastries sent to Concubine Tong Jia, but also didn't give them to her fifth and ninth elder brothers, and asked the palace maid to quietly take them to feed the dogs.
Manhua was not afraid, she thought that if she wanted to die, it would be better to be poisoned than to be beaten and ashes. So, which harem concubine eats pastries for herself, she eats them!