Your Majesty, please do not disturb, the empress only wants to engage in business

Chapter 160 Motherly Heart

Concubines who entered the palace were considered married girls.

Since she is married, she naturally has to show her family how she is living a good or bad life. After all, not all girls in this world grow up in a honey pot. At this juncture when all the families of concubines have to enter the palace, some people still have other thoughts.

Of course, we must show the harmonious side of the family on the surface. After all, if there is any mistake in this regard, it will not be good for filial piety. Instead, it will lead to others using this handle to attack us. However, what is said behind closed doors is another matter, and no one will know.

These are not that important.

When Yao Jinse estimated that the time was about right, she sent Bai Tan and Bai Tao to wait outside Kunning Palace. These two girls were from the Yao family, so they naturally knew the mistress of the family. However, it took a while to get there. After almost an hour, the group finally appeared at the gate of Yuxiu Palace.

The mistress of the Yao family, Wang, was not originally from a wealthy family, and her husband's family was not prominent, so naturally she did not have any imperial decree. She was not the only one like this. Among the people who entered the palace this time, the ladies with imperial decrees were extremely rare, which showed that the queen's arrangements were very appropriate.

Wang was born with a kind face. Her appearance was not outstanding when she was young, but she became more and more kind as she got older. She was amiable to everyone who saw her, and people always felt close to her. Yao Jieyushi looked a lot like her mother, but with a bit of her father's gentleness. Naturally, she had the best face among her brothers and sisters, otherwise she would not have appeared in the harem.

Yao Jinse stood at the door of the main hall. Although she really wanted to go to greet them, it was not polite for her to go out in person. Now that Yuxiu Palace was managed very strictly by her, she, as the mistress, naturally had to set an example herself.

Naturally, Wang would not argue with this. She was not the petty person. Not to mention that her daughter was in the harem and had been thinking about the situation at home all the time over the past year. The two of them had just sat down on the warm kang in the hall when Wang's tears fell.

Yao Jinse was stunned for a moment.

She knew early on that the woman who could teach the original owner was definitely not an ordinary person. Although this part was not written in the book, she could still figure it out after careful consideration.

But the scene before her was completely different from what she had expected.

No matter how small the Yao family was, it was still an official family after all. There were concubines and children born to people other than the mistress. Under such circumstances, Wang was able to manage the family like an iron barrel. This showed that this seemingly gentle and kind lady actually had great means.

"After the ladies entered the palace, they first went to Kunning Palace to pay their respects to the Empress."

Bai Tan saw that Yao Jinse was still a little nervous, so he stepped forward and said with a smile, "The Queen was in a good mood today, so she talked to the ladies for a while longer, so she is a little late."

Yao Jinse nodded, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

Wang was also a little nervous today. When her daughter entered the palace, she actually didn't agree with it. However, at that time, the Yao family had no say, and they couldn't afford the money to bribe people to remove their daughter from the list. They could only send their daughter to the palace to participate in the election. Fortunately, the final result was not too bad. At least her daughter entered the palace instead of staying with the old emperor and living alone for the rest of her life.

Now she has become an imperial consort and has given birth to a princess. How can this not be considered a blessing from God?
"The Queen has already said that all the ladies should have their meals in their respective palaces. The young lady has ordered the servants to prepare them since early morning. Madam, please wait a moment. Lunch has been prepared in the small kitchen and will be served soon."

Bai Tan knew what his young lady was thinking. After saying this, he winked at Bai Tao, and the two of them retreated.

After the two men left, only Yao Jinse, Wang's mother and daughter, and the two people Wang brought into the palace were left in the inner hall.

The ladies who entered the palace this time were not the wives of high-ranking officials. Some of them came from higher families, but marriage ultimately depended on the status of the husband's family, so everyone's status was not too different. Wang, like the others, also brought two maids into the palace, but one of them was no longer a maid from the Yao family, but someone arranged by the Duke's Mansion.

——The female doctor who came to the palace to examine the imperial concubine.

In such an occasion, Yao Jinse could only make herself look normal, at least not someone who put all her attention on others, but this behavior made things more obvious. Others didn't say it, but at least the people in the room knew more or less what this grand royal grace was for.

"……Mother."

After a few minutes of silence, Yao Jinse finally mustered up the courage, grabbed her mother's hand, and called out "Mom" in a trembling voice.

It would have been better if she hadn't said anything. As soon as Yao Jinse spoke, Wang's tears, which had just stopped, began to fall again.

A mother's heart is rare. Wang had only been in the palace for less than half a day and talked with the queen for a while, but she felt that survival in the harem was not easy. The queen's words were full of meaning, and even a woman like her who had lived in the backyard for many years found it a little difficult to cope with.

It's a pity that my daughter, who is only twenty years old, has to deal with all these in the harem all day long. In the past two days, the family has established contact with the Duke's Mansion and has to obey their arrangements and do so many things. It goes without saying that in the harem, the daughter of the imperial concubine will definitely be reluctant to leave and have to deal with the suppression from the queen.

Fortunately, Yao Jinse had a child after all. Although Wang was crying and talking incoherently, she was a person who had seen the world for many years. As an official's wife, she had to deal with some interpersonal relationships on a daily basis, and she had mastered the necessary skills.

After shedding tears for such a long time, she had said everything she needed to say clearly, and even the makeup on her face didn't smudge, which was evident from it.

"... Today, the Queen kept the ladies here and talked for such a long time. I felt something was wrong."

After Bai Tan and Bai Tao went downstairs, Wang sent the two people she brought with her out to wait. Although the weather was not as cold as in winter, it was not a good place to stay outside after all. Yao Jinse understood them and told them not to wait outside, but asked Bai Lu to take them to the room where the palace maids rested so that they would not be frozen.

Without any outsiders around, the mother and daughter could finally speak frankly to each other.

"Empress, as the mother of a country, you are such a noble person, why do you have to talk so much to us, and you are smiling all the time? Since you are not teaching us, then you are definitely trying to show your goodwill. You are in the harem, following the Imperial Concubine, so you must stand on the opposite side of the Empress. You have to be more careful about many things."

There are some things that a mother always feels are not enough when telling her children. "When I was at home, I talked about these things with your father. Sometimes I also felt that you were working too hard. The family really doesn't need you to take care of it like this. Although your father is a clean official with little salary, your eldest sister can still help the family. It's not necessary for you to take money out of the palace and worry about it."

Wang gave birth to three children in her life. Her eldest daughter married into a merchant family, which was considered as marrying down. With a husband who was an official to take care of her, many of her husband's family's businesses were also easier to do. Therefore, taking some of her husband's family's things to supplement her parents' family was itself a form of profit exchange and was not considered an excessive act.

As for her son, Wang did not intend to push him too much. Her son was taking the imperial examination, so even if he was in his thirties, he was still young. Instead, what worried her the most was her little daughter who had inexplicably become the imperial concubine.

If she hadn't wanted to keep her daughter by his side longer, she wouldn't have run into the late emperor's selection of concubines. But then again, who could have thought at that time that the late emperor, who was so old that he was just a bag of bones, would still have the mind to select concubines?
But fate is still on their side. Ever since Yao Jinse gave birth to a daughter in the harem, even her father Yao Chunsheng's life in officialdom has become easier, not to mention the future marriages of those illegitimate children. It can be seen that the most important thing for the Yao family now is this daughter.

"These are nothing. My life in the harem is relatively good now. I have a child by my side, and the emperor will come to visit from time to time. My life is more comfortable than most people in the harem. Mother, don't worry about me."

It was not easy to meet with the family, so I couldn't just be sad. Yao Jinse said a few words and then turned the conversation to business: "The emperor has just ascended the throne and is ambitious. Although father was a lowly figure in the previous dynasty, he could not guarantee that he would not be involved in trouble when making friends with others. In my opinion, if you can't be a clean person and protect yourself completely, I'm afraid you should stand on the side early."

"You mean..." Wang was a little surprised after hearing what Yao Jinse said, but she quickly reacted: "I will tell your father when I get home. You can't always think about finding out information for the family when you are by the emperor's side. You should protect yourself."

"When you entered the palace, I told you that we don't ask you to soar to the sky and become rich and powerful, but only hope that you can live a peaceful and smooth life. A place like the palace is already a place of tigers and wolves in the eyes of people like us, not to mention the imperial palace, which is so dangerous. One wrong step will bring disaster to the whole family," Wang said, becoming sad again: "When you were still young, you were also a beautiful girl. Now you have been forced to become so old-fashioned..."

Seeing that she was about to cry again, Yao Jinse hurriedly pulled Wang to stand up and said, "Mother! Mother, please don't be sad. Your daughter is in the harem. Everything is fine. Let's go and have dinner."