Cixi looked up at the memory of long ago, her eyes were empty and filled with tears. She did not try to persuade her daughter-in-law, but just whispered to herself!
"This Forbidden City is a place where people eat people...empress, imperial concubine, concubine, concubine, concubine, noble person, permanent presence, promise, official daughter..."
"Haha... Oh my god! You are so good. You are still a concubine when you enter the palace. You are carried in a small sedan chair. As long as you don't make mistakes and be careful with the emperor, it will be easy to be promoted to a noble lady in a few years..."
"If I can give birth to an elder brother, the imperial concubine will not be able to escape... But what about me back then? I was just a nobleman who walked in from the Shenwu Sect with a package!"
"They are just small nobles. The emperor can recruit as many as he wants. A group of women with no foundation. If the family is small, it can be ignored...it can only be relied on selection!"
"Choose a noble person... Haha, what a nice name. I am a pure and pure girl, and let a group of old dog-like eunuchs and old aunts and palace ladies pick and choose?"
"Even... I even had to take off all my clothes to be humiliated! I am a human being too! A good person... Have you ever experienced that kind of suffering?"
Concubine Hui was shocked by her mother-in-law's words. She stopped crying and kept imagining the crimes her mother-in-law had suffered back then!
"Concubine Hui! You are much more blessed than I was back then. After all, you have a father who is an official in the Ministry of Revenue. You can also get some noble people in the circle of the Eight Banners in the capital. You were elected as a concubine and entered the palace. Check you out. Those who are wearing them are all old maids from the palace, they are just going through the motions!"
"And what about us? Let a group of eunuchs be picked like cattle, then they are not human beings, and they are shameless..."
"After passing the eunuch's physical examination, it's not over yet. After entering the palace from Shenwu Gate, we have to wait in front of Shunzhen Gate. We enter the palace in groups of five and wait for the selection by the Queen Mother and the Emperor!"
"Only the chosen ones are eligible to enter the Imperial Garden. Once you enter the palace gate, you will never see your parents again!"
"And those who were not selected were assigned to the palaces of various princes... When you thought I entered the palace, the late emperor was very close to me?"
"Stop dreaming. The late emperor was very picky about the girls that day. Can you remember it just by looking at me? I have forgotten all about it a long time ago. It's just that if you look at it and you nod, I will be lucky enough to stay in the palace!"
"Concubine Hui! Do you think I would have fantasized about the Aijia at that time? Would I be like you, crying endlessly because the emperor didn't sleep with me tonight?"
"Haha... I was a seventeen-year-old nobleman the year I entered the palace. What do I know? Some people say that I was already secretly fighting for power and profit at that time. It's pure nonsense!"
Cixi picked up Concubine Hui's chin with her long nails and sneered, "How lovely! Your beautiful face looks just like me when I was young!"
"You have a good father who knows how to join me and how to find ways to do it, so you can make concubines into the palace, but I can only climb up from being a slave!"
"My child, don't cry anymore, because crying is useless... Do you know what happened when I first entered the palace?"
Concubine Hui shook her head stupidly, Cixi pinched her pretty young face and said, "Shortly after I entered the palace, my father was transferred by the court to be a Taoist priest on Taiguang Road in Ningchi, Anhui. Unfortunately, he died shortly after he arrived. When the long-haired army comes down the river..."
"Changmao was unstoppable all the way. Jiang Wenqing, the governor of Anhui, was killed. My father had just taken office and was a civil servant who was unfamiliar with the place. How could he know how to fight?"
"He made a prompt decision and fled to Dantu, Zhenjiang, with more than 10,000 taels of military pay that had just been collected by Daotai Mansion. In Dantu, my father used the money and food to recruit troops and horses to await reinforcements... What's wrong with this? Is this possible? Is it still a sin?”
"But in the imperial court, my father was accused of escaping from battle! The late emperor dismissed my father in anger and investigated the matter! My father became frightened and fell ill, and eventually passed away!"
"Haha... I am such a little noble person! I can't even protect my own Ama, and I don't even have a chance to say a word. I can only let the emperor and the court deal with my Ama at will!"
"My son...have you ever experienced that kind of suffering?"
Concubine Hui's face turned pale with fright, and she shook her head desperately. At this time, she didn't even dare to cry anymore!
Ci Xi loosened her chin, "At that time, I could only swallow my tears and blood into my stomach. From that time on, I swore... I had to protect my family. Without Amma, I still have brothers and sisters. They only You can rely on me!"
"I bribed Ande Hai, the young eunuch next to the late emperor, and deliberately created an opportunity to meet the late emperor. I waited for the opportunity in the Old Summer Palace with the Ai family, and that's how I became what I am today!"
"My child! You have never suffered what I have endured. You have never been humiliated by others like an animal. You have never been punished by the nuns and eunuchs in charge!"
"You have never been beaten, you have never been hungry, you have never experienced any of this...but just because the emperor didn't sleep with you today, you cried for an hour?"
"If you continue to be so worthless, I won't bother to care about your life and death..."
With a pop, Concubine Hui knelt in front of Cixi and said, "Queen Mother! I don't dare to do that anymore! Thank you to the Empress Dowager for your advice. I understand, I really understand!"
In the dead of night, there was no sound at all in Jingren Palace. There was only the whimpering of the night wind blowing through the roofs of the palaces in the Forbidden City, like a ghost laughing!
Cixi stroked the head of Concubine Hui who was kneeling on the ground, "We women, in the end, we have to fight for our success... You have to think of a way to have a brother! This is your only way out, smile and say that the best is in the end!"
Li Lianying walked in with a look, followed by Cixi's daughter Lan Yaosheng!
Li Lianying whispered, "Greetings to Concubine Hui. This is a book sent to you by the Queen Mother. You must study it carefully... Lan promised to serve Concubine Hui personally in the future and teach her some real skills..."
Concubine Hui didn't know what the book was. When she opened it, her face turned red. It turned out that it was a erotic book. The pictures and words in it made her blood boil!
Lan agreed and said expressionlessly, "Your Majesty, these are all real techniques of controlling women. They don't exist except for the secrets in the palace! Those books that your Majesty read before her wedding are all those of her grandchildren compared to this!"
"From today onwards, I will personally teach you these tricks. Once you learn them, you will naturally be able to win over the Lord Long Live..."
This book is simply a door to a new world. Concubine Hui never imagined that there are so many tricks in the world, and many of them even subvert the cognition that humans should have!
Their faces were so red that they were bleeding, but Cixi and others looked indifferent. These things were not mysterious at all to them!
"I...I thank the Queen Mother for her kindness...Please rest assured, Queen Mother, I will live up to my expectations!"
"Okay... Since you are so sensible, the Ai family won't be able to treat you badly in the future..."
Just when Cixi was making a wish for her daughter-in-law, suddenly there was a burst of hasty footsteps outside, breaking the silence of the night. Li Lianying walked out with an unkind expression, and saw that it was one of his young eunuchs.
"You little monkey, do you want to die? I told you not to come in no matter what happens..."
Before Li Lianying could finish his lesson, the confidant eunuch knelt on the ground with a thud and hugged Li Lianying's legs, shaking like chaff all over!
"Grandpa...grandpa...something big happened, something big happened..."
