Rebirth: Ruyi goes crazy in the harem

Jinzhong fell to the ground, shaking like a sieve.

He naturally knew why Ah Ruo was looking for him.

A Ruo just wanted a chance to get close to the emperor and climb onto the dragon bed.

Unfortunately, Li Yu and惢心 are from the same hometown. Because A Ruo often bullies惢心, Li Yu is unwilling to pay attention to A Ruo.

Jinbao, who was also a third-class eunuch, was honest and upright and did not want to get involved in the struggle among concubines, so A Ruo found him.

But Jin Zhong knew that the emperor hated traitors the most. If he didn't keep his mouth shut, he would not only lose the chance to serve the emperor, but even worse, he might lose his life.

Now Jinzhong was just glad that he hadn't told A Ruo about what was happening around the emperor.

Jinzhong wanted to tell the truth and put all the blame on Aruo, but he wanted to stay alive more.

"Sister A Ruo and I just met by chance. We have similar personalities, so we exchanged a few words. There is nothing else.

Please Your Majesty, Empress Xian, understand this!" Jinzhong finally stuck to this sentence and refused to say anything else.

"It's still understandable if it happened once or twice. But I just asked the palace maids serving in the Imperial Garden, and they all said that as early as two or three months ago, they often saw you and A Ruo having a secret meeting in the rockery of the Imperial Garden.

Jinzhong, you and I are colleagues, and I advise you to tell the truth as soon as possible, so that you can suffer less."

Li Yu's words completely broke Jinzhong's psychological defenses. He fell to the ground, unable to say a word in defense.

Ruyi was shocked, and stood there for a long while as if she had been shocked, and then she said, "Your Majesty, A Ruo is still an unmarried girl, so it's not surprising that she would be attracted to a handsome eunuch.

But Ah Ruo was brought by me from the Qiandi Palace as a dowry. Ah Ruo, I know that I have failed to discipline her properly. Can I ask the Emperor for respect on her behalf?"

The emperor didn't want to make Ruyi sad during her pregnancy, so he nodded although he didn't say anything.

Ruyi thanked the emperor and said to A Ruo with a face full of sorrow and heartache, "A Ruo, you and I have been in a relationship for many years, and I am not unsympathetic to you. Now I will give you another chance and let you marry Jin Zhong.

I will prepare a decent dowry for you, and today's matter will be settled, are you willing?"

Marry a eunuch? Of course A Ruo didn't want to.

She took the initiative to approach Jinzhong, intending to find an opportunity to get close to the emperor through Jinzhong. She didn't like Jinzhong at all, and it was impossible for her to accept a eunuch.

A Ruo has always been looking forward to the day when she can become a concubine like Concubine Yi and Concubine Mei.

She could even become a royal concubine like the maid in the laundry department in the storybook.

How could she marry a eunuch?

A Ruo knocked her head so hard that it made loud noises. Soon her forehead turned red and she looked pitiful.

But Ah Ruo couldn't tell the truth, she could only cry out, "Master, Master, I won't marry.

I want to stay with you and serve you well. Please don't chase me away."

Upon hearing this, the Emperor snorted coldly, "You serve Concubine Xian? Is this how you serve Concubine Xian in a lazy and idle way?

Empress Xian is kind-hearted and doesn't want to argue, but I am not a tyrant and will not be easily deceived by you!

"Since you are the concubine of Empress Xian, I will spare your life for the time being. Come, drag A Ruo away and lock her up with Jin Zhong in the Ministry of Punishment to be dealt with later!"

Ah Ruo was dragged away wailing. Jinzhong gritted his teeth and was dragged away with Ah Ruo.

Ruyi looked weak and frightened, and tears welled up in her eyes.

The emperor thought Ruyi was going to plead for A Ruo, and felt helpless.

Unexpectedly, Ruyi threw herself into Hongli's arms and said sadly, "Your Majesty, I have always known that A Ruo is in her prime and her ambitions are high as the sky.

I had asked my family to look for several scholar guards for her, but she didn't like any of them. I thought that we still had a lot of time, so I could slowly look for better ones for her in the future.

I didn't expect... I didn't expect that she already had someone in her heart and kept it a secret from me. I was negligent and I beg Your Majesty to punish me."

Ruyi said these soft and gentle words with sincerity and heart.

The emperor couldn't bear to blame her after hearing this, and said, "Forget it, it's not your fault. Ruyi, take good care of yourself. I'll ask Li Yu to pick some more good people to serve you."

Ruyi nodded and continued, "Your Majesty, please assign more experienced and reliable maids. This is my first child, and I am really uneasy."

The emperor naturally agreed.

"According to the ancestral system, a concubine should be accompanied by two first-class maids, four second-class maids, and a number of third-class and below maids. The empress was very frugal, and the number of maids in each palace was insufficient. This was especially true in the Yanxi Palace.

Ah Ruo can't come back to serve you, so your palace is still short of a first-class maid and four second-class maids. You are pregnant with a child, and the times are different now. I will make the decision and fill them all up for you at once."

Ruyi offers a gift of thanks.

After the emperor left, Ruyi handed Sanbao a letter home, "Ask a reliable person to take it out of the palace. Be sure to hand it over to Father and Mother in person."

A few days later, Qin Li from the Imperial Household Department came to pay his respects to Ruyi.

Ruyi was wearing a lilac-colored gauze gown with a ruyi pattern and an eggplant-purple glass jade hairpin. She looked extremely luxurious, showing how much she was favored.

Ruyi played with the silver-carved armor inlaid with purple agate in her hand while leaning back in the soft chair, looking down at the rows of palace maids standing below.

Qin Li's old face blossomed with smiles, and he introduced everything to Ruyi attentively.

"Empress Xian, the six people in the front row are older. They all have no one at home and voluntarily stayed in the palace after they turned 25. They are used to doing palace affairs and are experienced and reliable."

Ruyi gave Sanbao a look, and Sanbao understood. He took a step forward and asked the youngest-looking maid, "How old are you? Where did you work before?"

"I am twenty-five years old this year. I used to work in Shoukang Palace, serving the imperial concubine."

Ruyi shook her head. This palace maid seemed to be quite good at dressing up, and she managed to make her appearance look seven points beautiful.

It's just that such a person, more or less, had the desire to climb up the social ladder, which was why he gave up such an easy job in Shoukang Palace and went to work in the palace of the favorite concubine.

Sanbao pointed at another palace maid who looked a little old.

"I am twenty-nine this year. I used to work in the Tea Warehouse in the Six Warehouses."

Ruyi still shook her head. The tea warehouse was responsible for selecting, picking, making and boiling tea.

To put it nicely, it is self-cultivation, to put it bluntly, it is unchanging. This person is cowardly and conservative, and cannot take on great responsibilities.

Sanbao looked at the next palace maid.

"I am twenty-seven years old this year. I used to work in the Old Summer Palace."

Ruyi was delighted, but remained calm. "Yuanmingyuan is a good job, why are you thinking of returning to the Forbidden City?"

"I have a straightforward personality and I contradicted the manager. I was originally assigned to the laundry department, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs happened to be selecting people, so I was brought here."

Ruyi nodded. Sanbao immediately understood.

"What's your name? Our master likes you. Please stay in Yanxi Palace for the time being."

"Your servant Rong Pei kowtows to thank Her Majesty Empress Xian."