I have a side job in the harem

Being a palace concubine is the most dangerous profession, bar none. Once you lose your job, you will be in limbo. In order to survive, I started a side job in the harem - doing manicures. I receive countless customers every day and make a lot of money. As a result, he was accidentally targeted by the emperor. "My beloved concubine, I'm investing in you. Isn't it too much to share the key points?" I was about to cry without tears: "Dah!" (1) I traveled through time. It is different from the novel’s heroine’s view on time travel. At this moment, I really wanted to put my hands on my hips and look up to the sky and laugh wildly. One second I was a humble social beast, and the next second I was the empress of the harem. no. Can't laugh. If I wake up laughing, my dream of glory and wealth will be shattered. Qiuyue, the palace maid next to her, stepped forward...

Being a palace concubine is the most dangerous profession, bar none.

Once you lose your job, you will be in limbo.

In order to survive, I started a side job in the harem - doing manicures.

I receive countless customers every day and make a lot of money.

As a result, he was accidentally targeted by the emperor.

"My beloved concubine, I'm investing in you. Isn't it too much to share the key points?"

I wanted to cry but had no tears left: "Dah ah!"

(one)

I've traveled through time.

It is different from the novel’s heroine’s view on time travel.

At this moment, I really wanted to put my hands on my hips and look up to the sky and laugh wildly.

One second I was a humble social beast, and the next second I was the empress of the harem.

no.

Can't laugh.

If I wake up laughing, my dream of glory and wealth will be shattered.

Qiu Yue, the palace maid next to her, stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, our palace has been eating cabbage porridge for three days."

I am fighting for the land with my head. Is there any empress who is worse off than me?

I moved a small bench and sat in the yard, basking in the sun and thinking about my future survival.

He was born in late Qilu, and his father was a censor. As a commoner, he had lacked food and clothing since he was a child, and he had always been a footwasher for his legitimate daughter.

After entering the palace, he was not favored and was not even seen by the emperor once.

Competing for favor, looks okay, but no talent.

When I almost fell asleep, I was woken up by Qiu Yue: "Mother, it's not good, people from Yungui are here."

I suddenly woke up, Yun Guiren, the most popular concubine in the harem, was also the original sister.

"Bold! Why don't you be polite when you see a noble person?"

Before I could react, a maid next to Yungui walked up to me and slapped me in the face.

I bowed half-heartedly.

I cursed in my heart: Rubbish palace rules.

Yungui was dressed in rich clothes and had a calm posture. Some of the maids around her held umbrellas, peeled fruits, squeezed shoulders, and beat their backs.

hateful.

This is what a royal empress should have.

As for me, there is only an autumn moon in the palace.

"Why don't you come over and give me a leg beating?!" Yungui looked at me with a pair of red and phoenix eyes.

I stepped forward and obeyed.

Perhaps he was too dissatisfied with me, so the Yungui man waved his hand and then tried to slap me again.

I hurriedly held it. If I hit it, my face would be swollen tomorrow.

"What are you doing? Let go!"

I absolutely couldn't let go. I stared at the struggling hands in my hands. Suddenly, an idea flashed in my mind, and I said in a hurry: "Sister, the color of your manicure is a bit off. Sister, I have a way to make it look better. I'm sure To be praised by the emperor."

When Yungui heard this, he looked at me suspiciously and said, "Then you come and do it for me. If I can't do it, then you can ask me."

This is my old profession!

I asked for a quarter of an hour to prepare, and took Qiuyun to the kitchen to tinker.

Next, Qiu Yun quickly got the materials while Qiu Yun was stunned.

When the bottles and jars were placed in front of Yungui, she was worried and asked me to get them for the maid next to her first.

Shaping, cleaning, priming, base color, blending, decorating, sealing.

After a series of operations, beautiful manicure instantly attracts everyone's attention.

Yungui people hurriedly asked me to get her a brighter one.

Watching the Yungui man curl his orchid fingers, he admired his newly made manicure with satisfaction.

I stepped forward and said in a pretended embarrassment: "Sister, these materials cost a hundred taels of silver. Look at this..."

"What's the rush? I will order you some gold hairpins later." After saying that, Yungui left happily.

I smiled brightly, thinking that people who are stupid and have a lot of money are easy to cheat.

"It's a fraud. The cost of this thing is only one tael of silver." With a clear voice filled with leisure and indifference, a man walked out from behind the tree in the yard.

I was stunned, expert.

The man who arrived was wearing a crow-green gown with a tight skirt and looked like a guard.

So I quietly made some calculations, slowly approached him, and said with a sincere look in my eyes: "As you just saw, I can make a lot of money with my craft. Do you want to join? This is better than being a bodyguard." make money."

The man in front of me looked at me in disbelief, and then a look of understanding appeared on his face.

Just when I was waiting for further inducement, I heard him say knowingly: "Okay, I'll join."

I rubbed my hands together. This was my second official employee. "What's your name?"

"Chestnut."

(two)

The next day, there was news in the Yungui palace that the emperor specially praised her beautiful manicure when he went to bed last night.

So one morning, my originally deserted palace was crowded with people.

There are palace concubines and palace maids.

Looking at the walking bills one by one, I just laughed from ear to ear.

Chestnut and Qiuyue were making materials in the kitchen, while I was making manicures according to customer requests in the front yard.

The new store opened and provided free manicures to ten customers.

After the publicity was in place, reservation orders piled up on the table.

At night.

I walked towards the row of trees in the backyard with the light in my hand, and without noticing, I bumped into the person on the opposite side.

The small wooden box he held in his arms rolled to the ground with a bang.

I got up and didn't expect to meet chestnuts.

Banli also asked in surprise: "Why are you here?"

I laughed, and the contents of the small wooden box spilled out, all of them real gold and silver.

As luck would have it, a piece of silver rolled right next to Chestnut's feet.

I was about to reach out, but a pair of slender hands picked up the silver coin before me.

"Give it back to me!" I stood on tiptoe and grabbed it.

Chestnut raised his hand. He already had one more head than me, but now I couldn't even reach him.

I saw that his dark pupils were particularly shining at this time, and he was teasing me with a smile.

Just as he raised his eyes, his smile suddenly stopped.

Using the palace lantern on the eaves, I curiously took a closer look. The silver was very ordinary, but there was something wrong with it.

"This is official silver sent to the Yellow River for disaster relief. It is no different from ordinary official silver. It's just that in order to investigate corruption, the emperor specially marked the disaster relief silver with an inconspicuous notch."

Chestnut's clear voice sounded in my ears.

I was secretly surprised that the money appeared in the palace. It could only be that the concubine's mother's family embezzled money and sent it to the palace.

But who is this?

How did Chestnut know about this?

These are not the point.

The point is, the way Banli looks at the money is a bit dangerous, and the money I just earned is also a bit dangerous.

Sure enough, "As evidence of corruption, I collected the money first."

Banli said that he was a guard beside the emperor, and it was his responsibility to serve the emperor, and it was also an honor for the money.

Me: "There are bagpipes coming from the distance..."

(three)

In the next few days, all the marked silver was taken away by Banli.

After enduring my resentful looks for several days, Banli finally realized his conscience and said, "If you can find out who brought the silver with these marks, I will take you out of the palace tonight."

"good!"

My eyes lit up, I could finally leave the palace!

There is no queen in the harem. The highest-ranking concubine is Concubine Yun Guifei, followed by Concubine Xian Shude, and the next three concubines are Zhao Mei and me.

The first person to visit today is Concubine Xian, who has a father who is the prime minister. She looks gentle and gentle, and has a graceful and dignified temperament.

After she sat down in front of me, the palace maid next to her opened the wooden box she had been holding, revealing three rows of silver ingots. I suppressed the excitement in my heart and agreed to all her manicures from now on.

After they left, I took a look and found that there were marks underneath all the ingots!

Banli stood behind me at some point, looking at these things with a gloomy face: "It's very good, the imperial court raises these things to feed the common people."

A blast of cold air hit me from behind.

"Oh, as a guard, how can you control the master's heart?" I rolled my eyes at Banli.

Successfully harvested Chestnut's eyes like looking at an idiot.

The other concubines are not very greedy, and those with marks and those without marks are also mixed.

Seeing that there were no more guests, I packed up my things and began to look forward to tonight's trip out of the palace.

"It's not good, it's not good! Madam, Concubine Xian has had a miscarriage." Qiuyue ran over in a hurry, out of breath.