Shocking Harem Road: The Legend of Concubine Yi

Chapter 25
Xinyi's promotion surprised Eunuch Nian and almost disrupted his plan.

Hearing that the emperor ordered Xinyi, Eunuch Nian hurriedly sent someone to contact Xinyi and asked her to meet and talk with her when she went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to go through formalities.

When Xinyi came out of Dongnuan Pavilion, she ran into Zhang De, the chief eunuch of Qianqing Palace, and Zhang De told her to go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to complete the formalities.

After she saluted and thanked her, just as she was about to leave, Zhang De came close to her and said with a low laugh: "Girl, do your best and move to the back palace as soon as possible!"

She wasn't sure what he meant, so she asked what he meant.

"When the emperor was still in the East Palace, our family accompanied him. For so many years, the emperor has never taken the initiative to ask for any palace servants except you." Zhang De said meaningfully, "Do it well!"

She pretended not to understand, and said, "Xinyi will serve Shengjia wholeheartedly, thank you for reminding me, Eunuch!"

Zhang De shook his sleeves resentfully, turned and left, Xinyi glanced at him, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and walked quickly towards the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"Is this the Zhuang Daizhao handpicked by the Holy Majesty?" Just as Xinyi stepped into the gate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, she heard a woman's voice, and several people laughed.

Xinyi saluted with a smile: "My lords, you are polite, Mrs. Zhuang is here to apply for a new waist badge, please give me some pointers!"

A female officer in a green official uniform raised her eyebrows, walked up to Xinyi, looked her over from head to toe, and said, "I can't stand Mr. Zhuang's courtesy, so don't kill us!"

Xinyi didn't know who these people were, and she didn't know how to call them. She could only judge their identities from their clothes.

"The Zhuang family is new here and doesn't know the rules. If there is any impoliteness, please forgive me! I came here in a hurry today, and I didn't prepare anything. I will make up for it next time!"

She heard that most of the upper officials in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are greedy for money, and the lower palace servants are often delayed by excuses if they can't give them benefits.Some down-and-out concubines will also be bullied by them.

Although Xinyi knew this fact, she had no money to pay, so she had to say so.

"Master Zhuang is now the emperor's side. No one in the palace knows how much the emperor attaches importance to Lord Zhuang. How dare we speak to him!" said another female official in a scarlet official uniform.

"The people we sent over here, in terms of qualifications and character, are better than a rough envoy like you, but they were all driven back by the emperor and chose you!" said an older Shang Gong.
"I don't know how you approached Shengjia behind Lan Zhen's back!" The green-clothed female official who spoke first said, "But having said that, Lan Zhen really wasted her reputation as a talented woman, and she was replaced by someone like you! "

Everyone surrounded her talking, and some people turned her face and body to watch carefully, and smiled embarrassingly from time to time.

(End of this chapter)