The soldiers made a dangerous move, and after Rong Xi fainted in Mu Huai's arms that day, he knew that he had won the bet.

After soaking in the cold water in late autumn, she fell seriously ill. After returning to her room, Shunfu asked her to take good care of her health in the past few days.

Rong Xi vaguely remembered that Mu Huai told her that morning, asking her to follow him well and she would have a good future in the future.

For Rong Xi, the future doesn't matter, life is the most important thing.

As long as Mu Huai doesn't take her life, she will be satisfied.

Her biggest wish at present is to live well until the age of twenty-five. After more than ten years of salary and rewards in Yongxi Palace, she has accumulated at least two hundred taels of silver.

After saving enough money, she can leave the palace to find Huan Niang, and she no longer has to live a cautious life as a slave.

Huan Niang was an old slave of Rong Xi's mother. She was only twelve or thirteen years old when she came to Rong's family. As of this year, Huan Niang is only thirty years old.

Rong Xi thought of the days when she was an official lady and felt as if she was a lifetime ago.

Rong Xi's father, Rong Bing, was born in poverty. He studied hard for many years and finally got the second place in the new subject of high school. Emperor Zhuang made him a fourth-rank official in the Ministry of Etiquette - the Minister of Taichang Temple who was in charge of sacrifices, mausoleums and other royal ceremonies.

Rong Xi's mother, Fang, was not from a high background. She was the daughter of a tofu stall vendor on Mahang Street.

At that time, Rong Bing was really poor. Fortunately, with the help of the Fang family, he was able to successfully enter the palace and participate in the palace examination for the Hall of Heroes.

After Rong Bing passed the examination, in order to express his gratitude to the Fang family, he married Rong Xi's mother, the eldest daughter of the Fang family, as his first wife.

Rong Xiyou remembers that when her mother was still alive, she and her father were very loving, and his father did not take any concubines at that time.

When Rong Xi was three years old, Fang passed away, and Rong Bing's mother forced Rong Bing to renew her marriage on the grounds that "there are three ways to be unfilial, and the worst is to have no heirs."

Even though Rong Bing missed his late wife, he finally took a concubine under repeated pressure from his mother.

Rong Bing was afraid that Rong Xi would be aggrieved by the addition of a strange woman to his family, so as soon as the concubine entered the house, he set rules in front of her, so that she could not covet the position of the main wife.

No matter whether the child born in the future is a boy or a girl, Rong Xi will always be the eldest daughter of the Rong family, and no one can surpass her in status.

Rong Xi remembered that her aunt had a docile personality and never caused trouble. She did not dislike her.

I even felt a little pity for her in my heart, feeling that although her father was worthy of her and her mother, his behavior towards my aunt was a bit excessive.

Fortunately, the aunt was lucky and gave birth to Rong Xi's younger brother within a year of entering the palace.

Rong Bing named him Rong Hui.

Rong Hui looks cute and looks exactly like Rong Xi. He has liked to cling to her since he was a child. She gets along very well with her half-brother.

When she was eight years old, her appearance became more and more beautiful. Everyone who saw her was amazed and said that she was so beautiful at such a young age. How could she be so beautiful when she grew up?

Rong Bing protected Rong Xi very well and never let her show her face when she went out to visit Wazi. She had to wear a veil.

Rong Xi always thought that her life would go on smoothly like this, and she would just be an official lady in this peaceful and prosperous age. When she reached the age of hairpin, she would marry a gentle and elegant young master with a good family. From then on, she would raise her husband and raise her children in a stable way

Live this life without any worries.

But who knew that something happened to the Rong family that year.

The mausoleum of the late Emperor's wife, Empress Wu Zhen, was suddenly gnawed by termites. Rong Xi's father, together with the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was responsible for the supervision of the construction of the mausoleum. He could not escape responsibility for this incident. After moving the mausoleum for Empress Wu Zhen,

Was deprived of his official position.

Rong Bing was not very depressed about being dismissed from office. He had accumulated savings over the years, so he dismissed his servants and planned to take Rong Xi and Rong Hui out of Bianjing and return to his hometown of Hongdu to make a living as a teacher.

Unexpectedly, the people in Jianyuan felt that the destruction of the mausoleum was a loss of royal dignity, and said that Emperor Zhuang Mu Zhen's punishment was too light, so why should Rong Bing be exiled to the border.

Every time Rong Xi recalled what happened that year, he felt a faint pain in his heart.

His father died of malaria on the way to exile, and his grandmother died after learning that Rong Bing was dismissed from office. The aunt Rong Bing had previously despised was pregnant at the time and wanted to take Rong Xi and Rong Hui to live with her mother's family.

But was turned away.

Later, my aunt died in childbirth.

My younger brother Rong Hui disappeared when he went out to play and never came back.

In order to survive, Rong Xi found a way to hide her appearance and went to a dental clinic.

The general manager of Yahang sold her and Huan Niang to the family of a member of the household department, and Rong Xi became the maid of a concubine of the member's family. Then he entered the palace for a maid of the member's family and became Yu.

The palace maid beside Zhao Rong.

Rong Xi had more or less longed for the Yongxi Forbidden City before and wanted to do things in this supreme realm.

But after entering the palace, he wanted to leave the palace.

For half a year, she worked for Yu Zhaorong and was able to leave the palace for half a day from Changning Gate. She also met Huan Niang.

Huan Niang is now a married woman and no longer works in the Yuanwai family. She has opened a sweet shop in Wa Market east of Zhuque Gate on Yu Street, and her life is quite happy.

Huan Niang made an agreement with Rong Xi that when she leaves the palace at the age of twenty-five, she will let Rong Xi live with her. In recent years, she has also paid attention to looking for students from poor families with high moral character for Rong Xi. In this way, she left the palace

You can marry a good son.

From then on, Rong Xi had hope in life.

She had been thinking of saving money to leave the palace, and then set up a stall in the Wa Market to sell some cakes and other food.

Qi's business was prosperous and its people's customs were open. Especially in the past few years when Emperor Zhuang Muzhen was in power, it was as prosperous as Huaxu.

As long as you work hard, you can find a way to survive in Bianjing.

Such a life is not considered rich, but it is also considered satisfying.

After being a maid by Mu Huai's side for nine years, she should be able to be released from the palace.

Thinking of this, Rong Xi felt that the headache he had caused by soaking in cold water was much better.

"——Tuk, Tuk, Tuk."

Rong Xi heard someone knocking on the door and called for him to come in, but his brows furrowed a bit.

"Aunt Rong, I'm here to bring you food."

The person who came was a young eunuch who brought two food boxes to deliver meals to Rong Xi.

After she fell ill that day, Mu Huai asked the imperial doctor to take a look at her body. The imperial doctor prescribed a prescription, saying that she was still in good health and could recover by eating more tonic food.

So, Mu Huai ordered the eunuch to bring all kinds of precious and nutritious food every day, and also asked the eunuch to keep an eye on Rong Xi, asking her to use all those things and not leave any behind.

Be it braised abalone in sauce or braised chicken with old ginseng, all the ingredients that are great tonic are given to you.

The dishes brought by the little eunuch today include pine mushrooms and three bamboo shoots soup, swallow's wings and fresh water chestnut soup, and braised red mushrooms and sea cucumbers.

She should have been happy to have such good things in front of her, but Mu Huai asked her not to leave any food left, which was really difficult to handle.

Mu Huai was generous with the food. The abalone and sea cucumber were as big as her hand, and there were seven or eight of them on one plate.

The chicken was a whole one, and the soup was a big bowl. Even though she had four stomachs like a cow, she couldn't eat such an old thing.

Seeing that Rong Xi was in trouble, the young eunuch said: "Aunt Rong... you should work harder today and eat all these dishes... otherwise I won't be able to do my job..."

Rong Xi saw that the young eunuch was not old, and remembered that his brother would be about this age if he was still alive, so he looked around, and then whispered in his ear: "I really can't eat so many good things.

, the food that the master rewarded cannot be wasted, how about you help me use some?"

The little eunuch's eyes lit up, but when he thought of Mu Huai's gloomy eyes, he shook his head again and again.

Rong Xi advised again: "There are no other people around here. If you use it secretly, His Highness will not find out."

After finishing speaking, Rong Xi immediately handed the braised abalone to the little eunuch.

The little eunuch was hesitating when he saw Rong Xi's expression suddenly change.

She was obviously shocked, as if she had met Yama.

He turned around and saw Mu Huai's wheelchair parked not far from Rong Xi.

The little eunuch forgot to close the door when he came in. Unexpectedly, when Mu Huai came here, he was so silent that no one noticed at all.

His scalp was numb with fear, and he sighed to himself that it was a good thing he didn't follow his rhetoric and ate the plate of abalone, otherwise Mu Huai would definitely beat him up.
Chapter completed!