The soldiers made a risky move, and after Rong Xi passed out in Mu Huai's arms that day, she knew that she had won the bet.
Soaking in cold water this late autumn, she was naturally seriously ill. After returning to her room, Shunfu asked her to recuperate well for a few days.
Rong Xi vaguely remembered that Mu Huai had told her early in the morning that day, asking her to follow him well, she would have a bright future in the future.
For Yu Rongxi, the future doesn't matter, life is the most important thing.
As long as Mu Huai doesn't take her life, she is satisfied.
Her greatest wish at the moment is to live to the age of twenty-five. She has accumulated at least two hundred taels of silver from the salary and rewards accumulated in the Yongxi Palace for more than ten years.
When she has saved enough money, she can go out of the palace to find Huanniang, and she no longer needs to live a cautious life as a slave or handmaid.
Huanniang is the old slave of Rong Xi's mother, she was only twelve or thirteen years old when she came to the Rong family, and this year Huanniang is only thirty.
When Rong Xi thought of the days when she was an official lady, she still felt like a lifetime away.
Rong Xi's father, Rong Bing, was born in a poor family. After years of hard study, he finally got the second place in the new high school class. Emperor Zhuang made him a fourth-rank official in the Ministry of Rites—a minister of Taichang Temple who was in charge of royal rituals such as sacrifices and mausoleums.
And Rong Xi's mother Fang's family background is not high, she is the daughter of a tofu stall vendor on Ma Xing Street.
Rong Bing was really poor at that time, and thanks to the support of the Fang family, he was able to enter the palace and take the palace examination at the Yingying Hall.
After Rong Bing's mid-term exam, in order to thank the Fang family for his kindness, he married the daughter of the Fang family, which is Rong Xi's mother, as his main wife.
Rong Xiyou remembered that when her mother was still alive, she and her father were extremely affectionate, and his father did not take concubines at that time.
When Rong Xi was three years old, the Fang family passed away, and Rong Bing's mother forced Rong Bing to continue on the grounds that "there are three ways to be unfilial, and having no offspring is the greatest."
Even though Rong Bing missed his dead wife even more, he finally took a concubine under his mother's repeated pressure.
Rong Bing was afraid that Rong Xi would feel wronged if a strange woman was added to the family, so the concubine's room made a rule in front of her as soon as she entered the room, so that she could not covet the position of the main room.
Regardless of 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 aunt had a docile personality and never caused trouble. She didn't hate that aunt.
He even felt a little pity for her in his heart, and felt that although his father was worthy of her and her mother, what he did to this aunt was a little too much.
Fortunately, the aunt was lucky, she gave birth to Rong Xi's younger brother within a year of entering the mansion.
Rong Bing named him Rong Hui.
Rong Hui has a cute appearance, and looks very much like Rong Xi. He has liked to cling to her since he was a child, and she gets along very well with this half-brother.
When she was eight years old, her appearance became more and more beautiful. People who met her were all amazed, saying that she was so beautiful at such a young age, how can she be so beautiful when she grows up.
Rong Bing protected Rong Xi very well, and never let her show her face when she went out to visit Wazi, and she had to wear a gauze.
Rong Xi always thought that her life would go on smoothly like this, and just be a lady of the official family in this peaceful and prosperous age. When she reaches the age of Ji, she will marry a gentle and refined son with a similar family background. From then on, she will take care of her husband and teach her children, and spend this life in peace and security.
But who knew that something happened to the Rong family that year.
The mausoleum of the first emperor's wife, Empress Yuzhen, was suddenly eaten by termites, and Rong Xi's father and the minister of the Ministry of Industry were in charge of the supervision of the mausoleum. was stripped of his official position.
Rong Bing was not very depressed because he was dismissed from office. He also had savings over the years, so he dismissed his servants and planned to take Rong Xi Ronghui out of Bianjing City and return to his hometown Hongdu to make a living as a teacher.
Unexpectedly, the people in the Jianyuan felt that the damage to the mausoleum was a loss of royal dignity, saying that Zhuangdi Muzhen's punishment was too light, and Rong Bing should be exiled to the frontier no matter what.
Whenever Rong Xi recalled the events of that year, she felt a faint pain in her heart.
His father died of malaria on the way to exile, and his grandmother died after learning that Rong Bing had been dismissed from office. The aunt Rong Bing despised before was pregnant at the time, and wanted to take Rong Xi and Rong Hui to his mother's house. But was turned away.
Later, my aunt died of dystocia.
Younger brother Rong Hui disappeared when he went out to play and never came back.
In order to survive, Rong Xi managed to hide her appearance and went to the dental clinic.
The general manager of the tooth shop sold her and Huanniang to the household member's family, and Rong Xi became the maid of a concubine of this member's family, and then entered the palace for a maid of this member's family, becoming Yu The maid beside Zhaorong.
Rong Xi had more or less yearned for the Forbidden City of Yongxi before, and wanted to work in this supreme land.
But after entering the palace, he wanted to leave the palace again.
During half a year, she worked for Yu Zhaorong, and was able to leave the palace for half a day from Changning Gate, and met Huanniang.
Huanniang is now a married woman, and now she no longer works at Yuanwai's house. She has set up a sugar water shop in Washi, east of Zhuquemen on Yujie Street, and is living a fairly happy life.
Huanniang made an agreement with Rong Xi that after she left the palace at the age of twenty-five, she would let Rong Xi live with her. In the past few years, she has also paid attention to looking for students from poor families with high moral character for Rong Xi. In this way, she can marry a good son when she leaves the palace.
Since then, Rong Xi has had hope in life.
She has always thought of saving money to leave the palace, and then set up a stall in Washi to sell some pastries and other food.
The business of Qi State is prosperous, and the folk customs are open, especially in the past few years when Emperor Zhuang Muzhen has been in power, it can be said to be prosperous.
As long as you work hard, you will be able to survive in Bianjing.
This kind of life is not considered rich, but it is also considered pleasant.
After being a palace servant by Mu Huai's side for nine years, she should be released from the palace.
Thinking of this, Rong Xi felt that the headache he suffered from soaking in cold water was much better.
"—duk, duk, duk."
When Rong Xi heard someone knocking on the door, she called someone in, but her brows were slightly frowned.
"Aunt Rong, the little one is here to bring you food."
The person who came was a young eunuch, and he brought two food boxes to deliver food to Rong Xi.
After she fell ill that day, Mu Huai asked the imperial physician to look at her body. The imperial physician prescribed a prescription, saying that she was still in good health and could recover by eating more nourishing food.
So, Mu Huai ordered the eunuch to bring all kinds of precious and nutritious food every day, and asked the eunuch to keep an eye on Rong Xi, telling her to use up all those things and not leave anything behind.
Abalone in braised sauce, stewed chicken with old ginseng, but all the ingredients that are great tonic are all given over and over again.
Today, the little eunuch brought three bamboo shoots soup with pine mushrooms, fresh water chestnut soup with swallow wings, and sea cucumber with red stewed mushrooms.
With so many good things in front of her, she should be happy, but Mu Huai told her not to leave any food, it was really difficult.
Mu Huai gave the dishes generously, the abalones and sea cucumbers were as big as her hand, and there were seven or eight of them in one plate.
The chicken was a whole, and the soup was a big bowl. Even if she had four stomachs like a cow, she couldn't eat such old things.
Seeing that Rong Xi was in trouble, the little eunuch said: "Aunt Rong...you should work harder today and eat all these dishes...otherwise you won't be able to do business..."
Seeing that the little eunuch was not very old, Rong Xi remembered that if his younger brother was still alive, he should be at this age, so he looked around, and then whispered in his ear: "I really can't eat so many good things. , the food rewarded by the master should not 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 persuaded again: "There is no one else around here, if you use some 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, but saw Rong Xi's expression suddenly changed.
She was obviously shocked, as if she had seen Yan Luo.
He turned around and saw Mu Huai's wheelchair parked not far in front of 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.
He was so frightened that his scalp went numb, and he sighed inwardly that luckily he didn't want to talk and ate the plate of abalone, otherwise Mu Huai would definitely beat him up.
Mu Huai's eyes turned cold, he obviously heard the conversation between the two, his voice was faintly angry, and he said to Rong Xi: "Why, the master rewarded you with food, but you want to share it with others?"