Life in the House of the Four Baylors was much happier than I had imagined. My current master, Niu Hulu Hanlian, has given me special preferential treatment because her eldest lady has specially told me to take good care of me in her letter, and she has not even sent me an envoy under the guise of it. I had basically nothing to do every day, and I watched the other people go about their lives like a ghost, which made me a little embarrassed. So, after I volunteered and swore with a gambling curse, Han Langege finally agreed to give me an errand to receive powdered jewelry and all kinds of rewards, so that I could wander around; Second, I also found a fig leaf for me to be idle all day long, so as not to let the house chew the root of the tongue up and down, saying that Han Lingge raised a big-name maid who can only eat.

After a few days of covert observation and chatting with the subordinates of the various courtyards, I have a general understanding of the main situation of the four Baylor houses. My master, Han Lian, was in the forty-third year of Kangxi (1704) and entered the palace of King Yong, with the name Gege. But I don't know why, maybe because he was too young when he entered the mansion (Han Lian was born in Kangxi thirty-one, and was less than twelve years old when he entered the mansion), he has not been favored by the fourth elder brother, so that he is still only limited to the identity of Gege at the beginning, and he has not even fished a side Fujin. Not counting my knowledge of future history from the modern era, she is up to the standard of a frustrated woman in the Four Baylor Mansion.

The Four Blessings Jin Wulanala Clan, the Minister of the Interior, Fei Yang Ancient Daughter, and the Fu Jin of the Fourth Elder Brother who was canonized by the Holy Ancestor Kangxi himself. In terms of birth and family background, they are among the best in the Four Baylor Mansions, and the fourth elder brother respects her very much, and her status in the mansion is transcendent, which can be described as a masterpiece. Since she married Yinzhen when she was 19 years old, she has always been virtuous and kind, and she has taken care of the house in an orderly manner, and has won the respect of the whole house. At this time, the famous Yongzheng favorite concubine Nian had not yet entered the mansion, and the Wulanala clan could be said to be the most powerful woman in the Sibeile Mansion at this time.

Fang Fujin Li, the daughter of the prefect Li Wenye, the son of Emperor Yongzheng Hongpan and Hongyun, Hongshi's biological mother (Hongshi was not born at that time, and Hongpan and Hongyun did not live to adulthood). Whether it is from the number of princes she gave birth to, or from her position (she entered the mansion much later than Han Lian, but she was already named the side blessing), she is undoubtedly the most favored woman in the Sibeile Mansion now. In addition, she is now pregnant with Hongshi again, and even Sifujin wants to give her three points, and the limelight can be said to be unique for a while. It seems that until Hongshi grows up and turns against Emperor Yongzheng's father and son, Hanlian may have to live in her shadow for a long, long time.

Even if the other masters of the courtyard are favored for a while, as far as I know the history, they are either because they are not strong enough, or because they died early, anyway, they will not cause obstacles in history, so it is not worth my bothering to remember.

Besides, my current master, Han Lian, in fact, she was born with a beautiful appearance and a slender figure, and because of the long-term depression in the Sibeile Mansion, she has a kind of resentful and sad temperament, and even I, a modern woman who has seen the world, have to be tempted to see it, I don't understand, why can't she be favored? However, she is not only my future sister, but also a key person who can help the Niu Hulu family in the future, whether it is for her own life or for the entire Niu Hulu family, I am bound to help her get the favor of the fourth elder brother, or she will conjure up Emperor Qianlong from there!

After making up my mind, I began to wonder where to start, the Ulanala clan was the future queen, and I couldn't move. Li is pregnant, which seems to be a good opportunity to start, but once she gives birth to Hongshi, she will be more favored, and she will have endless troubles if she moves. My head is big, and there is still no way, I can't rush to the fourth elder brother and ask loudly: "Why don't you like Hanlian, it can't be because of your aesthetics, right?" "Fortunately, there are still several years before Qianlong's birth date, and I can only hope that time can change everything.

In this way, I went to the housekeeper every day to get some flower arrangement powder that day—with the status of Hanlian, she basically didn't have her share, so I could easily go back to my room to take a nap and eat snacks. If there is any other work, it is to chat with Hanlian - we are both bored anyway, and I don't know if I am with her or if she is with me, but most of the time I am alone, and she sits and listens quietly, as if petrified.

Time passed day by day, and in a blink of an eye, it was the end of September, and it was time for Comrade Lao Kang to abolish the crown prince and return to the court. I was still in this quiet garden that seemed to be cut off from the world, repeating the nonsense I didn't know how many times I had said—in fact, Hanlian had never known what I was talking about, and her thoughts had flown far, far away where I couldn't even touch them. Fortunately, I didn't really want her to listen, I just wanted to find someone to talk to, this ancient time that should kill a thousand knives, I would really be crazy if I didn't talk to someone else.

"Who is your mother?" She took a rare break from her meditation to take care of my tirade, but the problem was that the donkey's head was not in the horse's mouth.

I was foaming at the mouth about my favorite TV series, "mygirg", and about the wonderful thing about the heroine pretending to be his cousin to make his grandfather laugh (because I was sure that Han Lian had never listened carefully to my tirade before she dared to tell such a completely unreliable story, in fact, it was purely self-reminiscing and self-satisfied), and I was so frightened that I almost held my breath when I was scared by her sentence. It took me a long time to think about it, and my mother who crossed over seemed to call, "Liu Xueyan, my mother's name is Liu Xueyan." ”

"Liu Xueyan, I know her, I saw her portrait in Amma's study when I was very young, she is a big beauty!" Han Lian closed her eyes slightly, and said as if she was whispering, but I was shocked at every word—it turned out that she knew everything, but she had been quietly observing me. The strange woman who has been Qianlong's mother for more than 40 years is really not as simple as she appears on the surface. At least in one aspect, she is better than me, I don't know how many times.

I was so frightened that I immediately knelt down: "The slave and maid are not deliberately deceiving the master, but—it's just that the slave and maid are just worried about ruining the master's reputation." I said with a pitiful look.

"You look very similar to your mother, I began to suspect it the first day I received E-Niang's letter," she paused, stood up and helped me up, "Amma is not a lustful person, and he has a deep affection for your mother, not to mention that you are still a little girl!" She sneered, "I don't know what Erniang thinks, I heard that she has become more and more arrogant in recent years, but it's a pity that I-" There was a barely audible sigh underneath.

"Master!" She was adorable and I was busy trying to comfort her.

"Still calling the master, shouldn't you call me sister? I-of-sister-sister-" She looked up at me with unfeigned sincerity.

"Sister, I-"

"Do you know that since I arrived at the Four Baylor Mansion, you were the first relative who came to see me." She kept staring at me, and tears flashed in her eyes: "I thought everyone had forgotten about me, but you came, and you let me know that I am not alone, you know?" ”

I was shocked to see how much I meant to her. If I had approached her and curried favor with her for my own future, now I really wanted to know and approach her—this sensitive soul as lonely as I was, my nominal sister, would be the first friend I had made in ancient times.