I was a concubine in Legend of Zhen Huan

Chapter 252 Fat Orange (9)

Zhen Yuandao was only a fourth-rank official. Even if his daughter had the hope of becoming a favorite concubine after being selected, he had hoped that his family could give her more money. However, Zhen Yuandao was a civil servant and not from an aristocratic family, so his family assets were really limited.

The money that Zhen Huan brought into the palace was not much to begin with, and the imperial kitchen had the backing of the emperor, the empress, and Concubine Hua, and they were ruthless in extorting money from Sui Yuxuan.

They would charge twenty taels of silver for a plate of vegetables. Vegetables were already priced high, and meat dishes were even more expensive.

Therefore, during these months when Zhen Huan was fined and had her green badge taken off, she finally realized what it meant that a penny can make a hero fall.

The silver she brought from home was basically all gone, and her face turned pale from hunger, and the servants who followed her also looked pale.

Zhen Huan was treated like this since her green card was taken away and she couldn't compete for favors for a while. Not to mention Shen Meizhuang, who could still sleep with him for a few days every month.

Shen Meizhuang's life was miserable. Not only was her allowance deducted, but she also had to endure the tortures of the Queen and Concubine Hua every day, each one more creative than the other!

Only then did she realize the benefits of being the most favored and also learning how to be the master of the palace.

It must be because I didn't perform well before that the emperor took away my power, and as a result, he was not very willing to show up for me in the past few months.

Shen Meizhuang reflected and thought that it must be because of this.

She thought about it and decided to express her determination to the emperor. After all, the emperor had recently turned over her card again, which meant that the emperor had forgiven her, didn't it?

Shen Meizhuang felt that her idea was correct.

But what she didn't expect was that she would be met with a merciless scolding from the emperor: "Who the hell are you? You are just a noble lady, and a noble lady without even a title. How dare you ask for palace power?

Don't say that I gave you the power of the palace before. I did have high hopes for you before, but look at what foolish things you have done? Which affairs in the palace do not require expenses? Just a bowl of mung bean soup for those palace maids and eunuchs? Your behavior really disappoints me terribly.

I gave you chances, and even thought of promoting you to the rank of concubine at the end of last year. But you are not as capable as the Queen in terms of personnel management, not as efficient as Concubine Hua in terms of housekeeping, and you are not even a bit inferior to Huanhuan in terms of appearance and character. Even though I gave you chances, you were useless!

I don't expect you to achieve anything great, just stay in Xianfu Palace and be a good Shen Guiren, and stop daydreaming."

After saying that, Fat Ju turned away. Well, on the way, he was still thinking that there were still too few women in the palace who suited his taste. Now it was the third year of Yongzheng's reign, and it was time to bring Gualiu in.

That’s right, Pangju has always liked Gualiu’s looks. Among all the women Pangju married in his later years, he liked Gualiu the most.

Although he would have to pay an extra salary to have one more concubine enter the palace, this undoubtedly made Pangju feel distressed.

He has now calculated carefully. Not only does he not give Jingpin, who he dislikes and is not willing to go to the palace, a warm salary, but he also lets Lan Shizi get a lot of piecework for them, under the pretext of letting them kill time.

For example, Concubine Jing's embroidery work was quite good, so Pang Ju stipulated that she should hand in a certain amount of embroidery work every month. Pang Ju would get one-tenth of the money from the sales, which would save her the trouble of counting bricks. The bricks in Xianfu Palace were all cracked due to her counting.

There are 326 bricks and stones in Xianfu Palace, and 31 of them have cracks. This is all caused by Jingpin's idleness. Pangju is so sad, because he spent money to build every brick and wood of this palace!

Fat Ju decided that the cost of repairing these thirty-one bricks and stones would be deducted from Jingpin's share of the embroidery.

Of course, there were also those who couldn't embroider, such as Yu Ying'er, who was originally a maid who swept the palace and couldn't do this kind of delicate work at all. Fat Orange asked Lan Shizi to pull dozens of carriages of matchboxes for her to paste. If she couldn't do delicate work, could she not do rough work either?

Fat Ju felt that he had put a lot of effort into the livelihood of these women. Look, he had made the matchboxes come out many years in advance. If Yu Ying'er didn't paste the matchboxes seriously and didn't paste more matchboxes, it would be a shame for the effort that Fat Ju had put in for her.

Fat Ju held his fat face in his hands and boasted to Lan Shizi with an intoxicated look on his face about how good he was to these concubines.

Blue Persimmon: ...

To be honest, if he wasn't afraid of being beaten, he would have wanted to spit on the host. Since coming to this world and becoming a fat orange, his host really didn't do anything human.

I have never heard of an emperor who went to his wives to eat and drink every day, and now he even treated them like assembly line workers! Not only did he shamelessly let the concubines earn money to support him, but he also looked affectionate to the concubines, saying that he wanted them to stop being bored all day and found some small things for them to pass the time.

As an emperor, he was very generous to some of his concubines, occasionally rewarding them with jewelry and clothes, and promoting them without any ambiguity; but as for other concubines, he wanted to treat them as free perpetual motion machines.

Lan Shizi has finally opened his eyes.

As soon as Fat Orange saw Lan Shizi's squinting eyes and crooked mouth, he knew that Lan Shizi was cursing himself in his heart again.

He rolled up his sleeves and was ready to give Blue Persimmon a touch of love.

If there is one good thing about her world, it is that Blue Persimmon has a physical body, and she can finally beat him up whenever she doesn't like it.

Hey, I spent so many points. In those small worlds before, those times when Blue Persimmon deliberately made me angry, every time I think of those moments, I really want to squeeze Blue Persimmon into a rotten persimmon.

It takes a lot of points to buy a physical tomato, so I have to make the best use of them in this life and educate him more.

He gave the rotten persimmon a good beating and made it whimper like a bullied little wife. Fat Orange was satisfied.

The day after being driven away by Shen Meizhuang, Pangju acted like a scumbag and said to Yixiu, who was about to give birth, that there were not many women in the palace that suited his taste. Yixiu was pregnant and could not take care of him. He was a little tired of her going to Concubine Hua and An Lingrong. Shen Meizhuang was a fool and would make people angry, so he wanted to choose someone new to enter the palace.

At this time, Yixiu had been successfully PUA'd by Pangju. Not only did she not think that she worked so hard to bear a child for Pangju, and there was nothing wrong with Pangju bringing in a new woman when there were not enough women in the palace, she also felt that it was indeed Shen Meizhuang, that wooden man, who had wronged her husband, and hated herself for being pregnant now, and not even being able to make the emperor happy.

Yixiu was afraid of letting her son Pangju down, so when Pangju said he wanted to hire a new person, she agreed without hesitation.

This time the talent show was held on a grand scale, not only because Pangju himself wanted to bring Gualiu into the palace to play with him, but more for his brothers and nephews who were already working diligently in the court.

There were so many men of marriageable age in the royal family. Although Fat Ju was a jerk to women, he was nice to his brothers and nephews who worked 996 for him without regrets. Not only did he personally ask them about their requirements for a spouse, he also carefully selected their favorite wives or concubines for them.

After the election, there was a new Concubine Zhao in the palace.

That’s right, Pangju really likes Gualiu’s face, and she was initially promoted to the position of concubine and was also given a title.

Fat Orange thinks Gualiu has a beautiful face, and of course, an interesting personality.

Zhen Huan hasn't been released yet, and Shen Meizhuang seems to have become depressed after being scolded by him that day. She has been acting dull recently and not fun at all.

As for Concubine Hua, how should I put it, the food at her place is too exquisite, and Pangju is a little tired of it recently. Well, but he had finally managed to calm Nian Shilan's temper, and Pangju didn't want her to make trouble again, so he simply gave her a fertility pill in advance.

Ahem, at this time Fat Orange seemed to have completely forgotten what he had said before about letting Concubine Hua have another baby after a few years.

Fat Ju touched his head without any burden. Oh, we scumbags are all like this. We said we were doing it for considerations at the beginning, but later when we saw a new beauty, we threw away all our plans for Wei Yixiu and Nian Shilan.

Let them fight, neither of them is a good person anyway, just think of it as revenge for their original selves.

Well, at this time, Fat Orange thought of his Schrodinger's revenge again. It was obvious that he was the one who even exploited An Lingrong in this life. This reason was totally untenable!

But Fat Orange didn't care. Since Blue Persimmon asked, he just gave such a perfunctory reason, and then happily went to play love games with his new favorite concubine Gualiu~