After being struck by lightning and being in the world of women

Since he is my elder, I naturally cannot refuse him.

If you can't refuse, then you can just fight back with your own force.

Zhong Ruhuang placed the gold-embossed invitation in her hand on the low table beside her, picked up the tea and took a few sips.

It's almost time for lunch and she has already read a book. Why hasn't Fan Yu come back yet?

Does it take so long to get some news?

Could it be that someone is making things difficult for Fan Yu?

It shouldn’t be.

She herself is a low-key person, and Fan Yu follows her as a master, so naturally he follows her example and keeps a low profile in public.

Or did Fan Yu find out nothing?

Zhong Ruhuang couldn't sit still anymore.

or?

Go out and take a look?

In order to avoid suspicion, Zhong Ruhuang would try not to leave the Imperial Princess's Residence, for fear of getting into trouble.

Therefore, she particularly hoped to leave the palace and set up her own household so that she could be the master of her own house.

Thinking of this, Zhong Ruhuang left the bedroom and planned to go out for a look.

Just then, Fan Yu, dressed in blue, came in carrying the food box.

"Your Highness, the captive servant has returned."

Fan Yu carried the lunch box into the house, opened it, and placed the food inside.

Her lunch included three meat dishes, three vegetable dishes and a soup, boiled chicken, stewed lamb chops, steamed carp, green vegetables, Chinese cabbage, tofu with green onions, pumpkin soup, and three bowls of rice.

Zhong Ruhuang glanced at Fan Yu's face, which didn't look good.

No matter what happens, eating is the most important thing in the world.

"Don't tell me yet. Wait until we're done with lunch."

Otherwise she was afraid that it would affect her mood for eating.

Therefore, Fan Yu could only watch Zhong Ruhuang with hesitation as she ate three bowls of rice until her belly was full.

Zhong Ruhuang had eaten almost all the dishes, except for the steamed carp and Chinese cabbage, which she took a bite of each with her chopsticks.

"Take this steamed carp and bok choy and share it with your sister."

Zhong Ruhuang took two sips of tea to relieve her greasiness.

Fan Yu quickly cleaned up the dishes and put everything back into the lunch box.

"Your Highness, can the captive servant speak now?"

Zhong Ruhuang nodded: "Go ahead."

At this moment, Zhong Ruhuang had already sat on the couch. Fan Yu walked over, half squatted down, and whispered: "A few days ago, there was news from Chaotian Pass that General Sun, who was guarding Chaotian Pass, passed away."

The reason why Fan Yu came back so late was that he followed the purchasing eunuchs out of the palace and only then heard the news.

There was no way. No useful information could be obtained in the palace. Zhong Ruhuang, the master, was poor, and Fan Yu was not rich either.

It costs money to get information, and both the master and the servant have no money.

"General Sun, who was guarding Chaotian Pass, passed away? That's all. There are no other major events?"

Fan Yu shook his head: "Your Highness, no, there is nothing else happening in the court recently except this incident."

"Got it, you can go downstairs and have your meal."

Fan Yu went downstairs with her lunch box to have dinner with her sister.

thump.

thump.

Zhong Ruhuang tapped the low table with her fingers and began to think.

General Sun, who was guarding Chaotian Pass, died of illness.

Chaotian Pass is an important military checkpoint of the Qinglan Dynasty. General Sun is a veteran of three dynasties. He is upright, loyal and has outstanding abilities.

During the reign of the previous emperor, General Sun was guarding Chaotian Pass. During the reign of Emperor Showa, he was still not feared by Emperor Showa and was still guarding Chaotian Pass.

General Sun’s second grandson is Emperor Showa’s Sun Guifu.

This old lady was also a very clever person. In the same year that Emperor Showa ascended the throne, that is, the first year of Yuanjing, she sent her second grandson, who was only thirteen years old, into the palace. He became Emperor Showa's grandson's wife, expressing her loyalty.

This noble lady Sun was a nobleman of the first rank when he entered the palace, and was favored for a few days. Unfortunately, he was not blessed enough and had three miscarriages. He was unable to give birth to a child and also injured his body. He still has no daughter or son to this day.

Now that Sun Guifu is old, he is no longer favored by Emperor Showa. He spends his days in the Buddhist temple eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddhist scriptures, and rarely appears in public.

Zhong Ruhuang recalled what happened to General Sun and frowned slightly.

It has to be said that General Sun is quite a character. It is no small feat for him to have guarded Chaotian Pass for nearly fifty years.

It’s a pity that General Sun has no successor.

General Sun had only one daughter, who died of illness many years ago, leaving behind two grandsons but not even a granddaughter to carry on the family line.

It can be said that the Sun family’s bloodline has been cut off.

As for the civil and military officials in the court, Zhong Ruhuang had no idea which military officials they were.

The reason why she knew General Sun was that Chaotian Pass was very important. When the Grand Tutor was teaching these imperial princesses, he focused on the matters of Chaotian Pass, so Zhong Ruhuang knew it so clearly.

In addition, Zhong Ruhuang also knew a general named Zhao, who had the power of one hundred thousand soldiers.

This General Zhao was called Zhao Yun. He was the aunt of the second princess Zhong Tonghuang and the biological sister of Zhao Guifu. They were siblings who crawled out of the same father's belly.

The Zhao family chose to support Emperor Showa when she was still in the palace, and they were her die-hard fans.

Otherwise, given Zhao's ordinary looks, if he didn't have an elder sister with outstanding abilities, it would have been impossible for him to become a noble husband of the first rank.

You should know that the division of the female-dominated harem is very strict, as follows.

The Emperor’s Husband (superb), one.

Imperial Noble Husband (First Rank), one.

Two noble husbands (first rank).

Wise husband, good husband, virtuous husband, virtuous husband (second grade), the four positions.

Noble Lord (second rank), fourth.

Shangjun (third rank), fourth position.

Cejun (third rank), fourth position.

Shijun (fourth rank), six positions.

The second emperor (from the fourth rank) has six positions.

Zijun (fifth rank), eighth position.

The last emperor (fifth rank), the number is uncertain.

Xiao Shi (sixth rank), the number is not fixed.

The number of maids in the same room (rank six, half a level higher than palace men) is not fixed, and they can only be considered half of the master.

Palace man (not of rank, no grade).

A palace boy is of the lowest status in the palace. If he follows a master of high status, his status may rise. But if he has no master, he is the lowest of all.

Zhong Ruhuang's biological father, Li, was a palace boy who cleaned the imperial garden. He was favored by Emperor Showa after he got drunk and luckily became pregnant.

Unfortunately, Emperor Zhaohe did not give Li a title afterwards. It was only when Li suffered a hemorrhage and gave birth to Zhong Ruhuang that Emperor Zhaohe posthumously conferred him the title of Zijun, a fifth rank, and buried him in Junling for the sake of his daughter.

Li was not eligible to be buried in the imperial mausoleum, but only in the imperial mausoleum. (The imperial mausoleum is equivalent to the mausoleum of concubines.)

As mentioned before, in order to avoid being framed, Zhong Ruhuang kept a comprehensive record of all the men in Emperor Showa's harem, including their family situations.

In Zhong Ruhuang's opinion, the Zhao family is already prominent enough. Her mother, who likes to play the balancing act, would not increase the power of the Zhao family, nor would she send the second princess to guard Chaotian Pass.

So General Zhao and the Second Princess can be ruled out.

But apart from General Zhao, Zhong Ruhuang didn't know any other generals.

As for her sisters, anyone of them could go to guard Chaotian Pass, but the eldest and the fourth one would definitely not be able to.

Who says these two are the daughters of Emperor Showa Bai Yueguang and Emperor Zhaoxian?

and many more!

guard?!

in case……

She meant, what if, what if her mother, the queen, did not have suitable generals under her command?

Her other sisters were more or less unsuitable, either because their father's family was too prominent or because their age was not suitable.

The most suitable one is her sixth sister Zhong Qihuang.

There was a click.

Zhong Ruhuang felt as if the fog in her mind was instantly split open by a bolt of thunder, and all the things she couldn't understand became clear at this moment.