What favor are you fighting for?The empress's harem has won a lot of business

When everyone in the harem heard that the imperial concubine was going to send them out of the palace, they couldn't accept it for a while.

Then I heard that the empress gave them a large sum of money to let them go out of the palace and wear their hair to practice freely. Everyone thought about it, and their eyes gradually became meaningful.

If you have money, you have freedom. They have been trapped in the deep palace for so many years. They have trapped their footsteps but not their minds. All fools know that this is a good deal.

What's more, the emperor hasn't touched them at all these years.

Waiting to leave the palace to practice for a year or two, and then hide my name and find a man who is pleasing to the eye to marry. I don't know how prosperous the life of having children is.

When she first entered the palace, she was a woman with weak feet like chickens, and her dependence on the future was still ignorant of life. After a few years of experience in the palace, she wanted to understand all these things.

This is much easier.

Lin Ximeng gave money with one hand and others, and before the end of the year, all these people were sent out of the palace.

Only Liu Jieyu, she refused to leave for a long time, every time Lin Ximeng persuaded her, she would always smile and refuse, saying that she would serve in the palace for the rest of her life.

In the severe cold of the twelfth lunar month, Liu Jieyu came to the door again, saying that she would never leave the palace by herself, and that she would have nowhere to go, and begged her to forgive her.

Lin Ximeng smiled wryly.

"What is there to forgive or not to forgive"

She pulled her to the footstove, warmed her cold little hands, and told her gently again.

"If you are willing to live like this for the rest of your life, there is nothing wrong with you in the palace, but you are still young, in your teens, and your future is still very long, so don't do stupid things at this time."

"Isn't it just being let down by a scumbag? There are so many good men in the world, and some of them are well-married sons-in-law. Just leave the palace and wait. Don't waste your life for someone who is not worth it."

Liu Jieyu suddenly shed tears, and her hands were tangled and torn to cling to the veil, as if she had encountered something extremely entangled, but she was unwilling to speak out.

Lin Ximeng had no choice but to pretend that she didn't know, and asked someone to entertain her with tea and snacks as usual.

Perhaps because she really couldn't pay attention, Liu Jieyu suddenly raised her head and asked Lin Ximeng.

"Your Majesty, if someone failed you at the beginning, and now wants to turn back, how would you choose?"

Lin Ximeng raised her eyebrows, and finally felt that Liu Jieyu was abnormal because of something, but she still hasn't forgotten her second brother Li in the past few years.

Lin Ximeng smiled.

"That depends on the situation, but there is a high probability that I will not agree. The so-called nature is hard to change. Some people can fail you once, and they can fail you a second time."

Liu Jieyu didn't seem to get the answer she wanted, and her eyes dimmed a bit.

She walked away listlessly.

-

Back at the residence, Liu Jieyu took out a thin envelope from the small box next to the pillow, and poured out three pages of letter paper from it.

She held the letter paper in her hand like a treasure, and read the words on it over and over again.

Tears fell on the letter paper in strings.

"You only think of me at this time, how do you let me choose?"

"You were so decisive when you left, what should I think?"

"Second Brother Li, the relationship we grew up with has been abandoned by you a long time ago, what do you want me to do at this time?"

"I can't help you with anything, let alone trust you. As my mother said, if you betray me once, you can betray me a second time. I can't joke about my happiness."

After crying, she took the letter paper and lit the candles, watching them burn into a mass of black ashes.

-

After figuring this out, Liu Jieyu went to Lin Ximeng the next day and said that she would like to practice wearing hair with others.

Lin Ximeng gave her more money than anyone else, and also gave her the little private house she had left.

"Have a good time, wait a year or two and I will personally choose a family for you, as long as you trust me"

Liu Jieyu bowed her knees with tears in her eyes: "Then I would like to thank you for your trouble."

When Liu Jieyu left, Lin Ximeng's expression turned cold, and she ordered Gu Yu and Li Xia to inquire about that second brother Li who was from the same town as Liu Jieyu, and find out what happened.

Gu Yu and Li Xia should leave.

In less than half a month, and it happened to be New Year's Eve, the two of them had an answer.

It turned out that the second elder brother Li that Liu Jieyu was talking about was named Li Yuanchong.

Over the years, with the emperor's strict administration of officials, the corrupt officials of the Dasheng Dynasty counted one by one, and none of them came to a good end.

In the past few years, there were a wave of officials in the court every day. Later, Xie Chenyu began to judge based on his political performance. Whoever had poor political performance would be followed and watched by the emperor, and spread directly from the capital to the local areas.

And this Li Yuanchong's father-in-law, Qingzhou Zhizhou, was found out by the court and reported to the government because he had corrupted several farms and several thousand taels of silver, and lost his official position within two months.

From then on, when the tree fell and the monkeys scattered, they went their separate ways, and it was already a good time if they didn't hit a well.

And this son-in-law Li Yuanchong, who relied on waiting for his father-in-law to ask for promotion and hoped for promotion, was made a big joke by fate.

In the past, when I saw my wife, I tried my best to smile and be gentle, but now when I see my wife, I can't wait to divorce her immediately.

Later, when the case broke out, the entire family of the magistrate of Qingzhou was executed and exiled, and Li Yuanchong was also implicated.

The wife couldn't stand the blow and shed tears all day long, and soon died of depression, leaving behind not even a son and a half daughter.

Only Li Yuanchong was left alone, as if he had returned to the original point.

No, it's not the original point. Now he is not only poor, but also has a criminal record in the court. He can't be an official in this life, and can only do some business and fishing to make ends meet.

But his stomach full of sage books, isn't it a waste of reading?
He finally thought of Liu Jieyu in the palace, his former sweetheart, his childhood sweetheart who grew up together, the girl named 'Fengshou'.

I heard that she entered the palace and became a concubine, and was also highly valued by the imperial concubine. If she could help to say a few words, wouldn't she have everything?

So, there was the letter in Liu Jieyu's hand.

Lin Ximeng sneered.

"This man is really whimsical. If he and his wife live well, will he think of his ex?"

"Writing a letter at this time clearly means asking for help. This person is really shameless."

Gu Yu and Li Xia couldn't help laughing.

Lin Ximeng asked them: "Do you think my words are too common?"

"That's the way it is, the reality of this world has always been so stark"

"You guys go and tell Liu Jieyu that if you take my money, you have to listen to me, and you are not allowed to contact a villain like Li Yuanchong again. Whatever she wants, I will arrange for her."

After Gu Yu Lixia left, Lin Ximeng looked at the bare tree branches outside the window, she knew that they didn't look good on the outside, but in fact they were all brewing new life.

And yourself.

She looked at her no longer young face in the mirror.

"After worrying about this last thing, I will worry about my future."

"I have to think about how I should live so that I can live up to Yu Sheng's life of money, leisure and elegance"