In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

In the 61st year of Kangxi's reign, Kangxi passed away. Yinzhen ascended the throne as the new emperor and changed the reign title to Yongzheng.

Enduring boredom and being trapped in the backyard, Yixiu finally took a step towards her dream of becoming a trader. This time, there was no second imperial edict that made Yixiu feel extremely humiliated - to posthumously confer the title of Queen Chunyuan on Rouze.

Yixiu was directly welcomed into the palace as the Empress Yuan's legitimate wife. The emperor, who did not want to trouble Yixiu, chose Jingren Palace as his own palace. After the identity of the women in the backyard was determined according to the rank in the plot, Yixiu impatiently took the rank table to the Yangxin Palace to ask to see Yinzhen.

"Su Peisheng, I have something important to discuss with the emperor. Please inform him."

"Your Majesty, you can go in directly. The Emperor has given an order, so Your Majesty, you don't need to report it." Su Peisheng had long understood over the years that Yinzhen's feelings for Yixiu were not simply based on lust, but a true love at first sight.

Unfortunately, Yixiu never had any romantic feelings for Yinzhen, and this often tormented Yinzhen. On the one hand, he didn't want to look for Yixiu for the sake of his self-esteem, but on the other hand, he couldn't control his heart and was reluctant to see Yixiu.

For this reason, Yinzhen's behavior in the mansion over the years was very twisted. It seemed that he rarely stayed in the main courtyard and spent most of his time in the courtyard of the concubine. But in fact, he did not allow the women in the backyard to be disrespectful to Yixiu, and he also loved the eldest prince Honghui very much.

Except Qi Yuebin, none of the princesses in the backyard could see this clearly. They just thought that Yinzhen respected his wife and did not allow his concubine to provoke him, and that the only woman he loved deeply was Rouze. As for his love for Honghui, it was because he had few children, only two sons so far, and one of them was still being raised in the Old Summer Palace.

Yes, Nian Shilan did something even more ruthless than Yixiu. Even the pregnancies of Wen Yi, born to Concubine Cao at the beginning of the story, Shuhe, born to Concubine Xin, and Concubine Fang, who is currently pregnant, were all solved by Nian Shilan. She did not perform abortions, but directly invited the princesses in the mansion to her courtyard every day to smell the Huanyi incense, which directly eliminated their chances of getting pregnant.

Yixiu's methods are subtle and obscure. Compared with Nian Shilan's simple and crude methods, they are not easy to be discovered, but they take much longer to take effect.

Although Defei was satisfied that Yixiu gave birth to her eldest son Honghui, she also hated Huafei's arbitrary power and arrogance.

In order to check and balance Hua Fei, De Fei still proposed a beauty contest as in the plot, and Yinzhen also agreed. Hua Fei was still in charge. Yixiu was in Jingren Palace looking through the letter that Nian Gengyao sent to her from the frontier. Since Nian Gengyao had never married and had children in this life, the threat to Yinzhen was not too great. For this reason, Hua Fei became more arrogant, and Nian Gengyao was more trusted by Yinzhen than in the plot.

In the letter, Nian Gengyao not only expressed his longing for Yixiu, but also asked Yixiu if she could tell her about Hua Fei Honghui's identity.

Nian Gengyao said that since he learned that the emperor did not allow Nian Shilan to have a child, he also realized that he was likely to be killed. So he wanted to prepare in advance to avoid being liquidated. To this end, he planned to contact Hua Fei in the palace and let Hua Fei deal with Honghui's other competitors openly, while Yixiu hid in the dark and waited for the opportunity.

Yixiu agreed. Seeing this, 007 couldn't stand it anymore, "Yixiu, you are too lazy!" Whether it was performing an abortion to maintain Honghui's status or punishing the princesses in the backyard, especially Qi Yuebin and others, or even torturing Yinzhen mentally, all these tasks were contracted by Concubine Hua.

Yixiu just needs to lie down comfortably and educate Honghui. After all, Concubine Hua truly trusts and respects Yixiu.

Soon after, the audition ended and the characters in the plot were selected one by one. Nian Shilan was surprised to receive a secret letter from her brother.

Over the years, she had long seen through the fact that Yixiu did not love Yinzhen. At first, Hua Fei thought that Yixiu was forced to separate from her beloved just like herself, so she sealed her heart and locked away her love, and just wanted to be a qualified legitimate wife.

Later, Concubine Hua discovered that Yixiu didn't even care much about her status as the legitimate wife. When she took action against Yinzhen's harem, Nian Shilan also thought about drugging Honghui. In the end, she gave up because Honghui was Yixiu's child.

Now that she knew that Honghui was her own nephew, Nian Shilan was so happy that she could not express it in words: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you took great pains to marry us for power and status, but you also did not allow my Nian family to have a son for power and status. Now, one of our only two sons is a sickly child, and the other is also an heir of my Nian family."

"The old witch, the Empress Dowager, does she think that I don't know the purpose of her persuading the Emperor to select a concubine?" Nian Shilan didn't care about Yinzhen's favor, but she cared about her rights. Now there was one more thing: she cared about Honghui's status.

"I want the new concubine to check and balance me, and I also want the emperor to have more children!"

"Haha, don't even think about it!"

Yixiu did not ask about the ranks of the new concubines in the palace, and left it entirely to Huafei to arrange. This time, it was Huafei instead of Yixiu who went to the Yangxin Palace to find the emperor with the rank table.

"Your Majesty, this is the list of names and ranks of the selected concubines. Please have a look."

"This time, those selected for the Manchu military flag..." The list is the same as in the plot, the difference is that this time, Zhen Huan was not singled out by the emperor to be conferred the title of noble lady, nor was she given any title.

After all, although Zhen Huan was chosen because she looked similar to Rouze, Rouze was no longer Yinzhen's white moonlight. The emperor chose Zhen Huan to enter the palace simply because he didn't want a woman who looked similar to his former wife to marry someone else.

Even out of her inexplicable guilt and desire to escape from Rouze's death, Zhen Huan was still arranged to live in the remote Sui Yuxuan. In the plot, the original owner of Sui Yuxuan, Concubine Fang, had already lived in the same palace with Concubine Xin.

But Concubine Cao was not yet a Concubine, and had not given birth to a daughter, Wen Yi, for Yinzhen. Cao Qinmo's family was not prominent and she was not favored, so she only got the position of a Changzai.

Similarly, Concubine Xin, Concubine Li, Concubine Duan and others were also demoted to Concubine Xin. Concubine Li and Concubine Duan were gone, but Concubine Qi was replaced by Concubine Qi.

From this perspective, Yinzhen's harem was indeed declining, with only one high-ranking concubine, Concubine Hua. No wonder the empress dowager was in a hurry to select new people to enter the palace to check and balance Concubine Hua. Among them, the rather dignified Concubine Shen Meizhuang was probably the one chosen by the empress dowager.

Unfortunately, the Empress Dowager underestimated Hua Fei's boldness. After the palace was confirmed, Hua Fei did not use covert means such as burying musk or sending crabapple flowers to provide contraception like Yixiu in the plot. Instead, she directly assigned personnel to each palace, and on the first day these new concubines entered the palace, she put sterilization drugs in the drinking water sent to the new concubines by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

I have to say that this move is very bold and effective. After walking a long way to the palace, don’t you need to drink water?

It is hard not to be tricked once you drink water. None of the new concubines who had just sat down in the palace could think of this. Even the most vigilant ones would only think of checking the items in the palace rooms.

After Yixiu was sitting around waiting for Yinzhen to die, 007 turned on the cameras and began to monitor the palace. It must be said that Nian Shilan's trick was really effective. "Host, why do I feel that your golden finger is useless? You are not as good as Concubine Hua, who can solve all problems with just one pot of water."

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Yixiu was speechless, she really didn't expect it to work this way, "But can Hua Fei's sterilization medicine completely sterilize people?" Yixiu expressed her doubts about this, but thinking of Zhen Huan and Wen Shichu, who had a golden finger with superb medical skills, she thought about it and decided to help Hua Fei.

Yixiu opened the medicine system that he hadn't checked for a long time. The prices on it changed with the change of Yixiu's identity. Yixiu could only curse him as a "swindler" and then gritted his teeth and bought a sterilization pill.

Calling Jianqiu, Yixiu did not explain much, but handed the medicine to him: "Today is the fifteenth day, when the emperor comes tonight, put it in the emperor's old duck soup."

Jianqiu nodded, took the medicine and went out to prepare the old duck soup.