Chapter 105: The Ladies of the Palace
The royal draft has been extremely deliberate since ancient times.
This is the first draft of the current saint's first ascension to the great treasure, and there is no harem in the emptiness of the palace, so it is even more cautious.
There were hundreds of post-draft girls, and in the end only twelve people were decided, which can be described as the best of the shows, the best of the best, and very few.
However, the saints are not interested at all today.
None of the twelve show girls were chosen by him. When positioning the selected show girl, he also had no opinion, only saying that the first emperor had just gone, and the mourning period had not yet passed, so it was not appropriate to be happy. When the world's parents die, they must keep filial piety for three years, and his wedding should also be set three years later, so the queen's position will be empty first.
The Queen Mother has no objection to this.
Therefore, the twelve show girls who newly entered the palace finally got the following positioning.
There was no big wedding, and the show girls only chose a good day and auspicious time, and entered the palace in order of rank.
According to the meaning of the Queen Mother, twelve show girls. One concubine, two concubines, three concubines, two Jieyu, two beauties, and two colorful girls.
Queen Bingyu, the queen mother's nephew, naturally won the position of the highest concubine. Two concubines, one is Fang Xiwan, the daughter of the Fang family, who is Concubine De, and the other is a woman from a civilian background, named Luo Qingmei, who was named Concubine Li with the most outstanding appearance. There are three concubines, one is Cui Yunting, the niece of the queen mother, who is registered as a concubine; one is Tian Wanqing, the daughter of the Tian family, who is registered as a concubine; and the other is a woman from an official family, called Xiao Yu'er, and registered as a concubine. Two Jieyu, one is Wang Bingyan, a distant daughter of the Wang family, who was named Shu Jieyu, and the other is Li Ruolan, a folk girl who was taken care of by the Tian family, was named Ming Jieyu. Two beauties, one is Fang Xinyi's concubine daughter Liang Min, known as a jade beauty, and the other is a woman from an ordinary official family, who is famous and happy, and directly sealed Xinmei. The last two colorful girls are all from civilian backgrounds, one is called Dong Yao, and the other is called Gu Rumei.
Ruoda's harem, because these concubines and beauties were brought in one by one, it became lively for a while. The new palace people, just like the harem romance of thousands of years, all worked hard to please the emperor and compete for thousands of favors when they first entered the palace. But a month after entering the palace, almost all of them stopped.
Because of the twelve beauties, without exception, except for the routine driving when they first entered the palace, they have not seen the saint since.
Look at the Qianqing Palace, where the palace concubines can't get close, singing and dancing every day, and the handsome servants often accompany the Son of Heaven. and the Hanlin bachelor Li Chaochen, who entered the palace every three or five days and spent the night, known as the world's most beautiful man.
Compared with those men, they are all charming harem women, and they have become decorations.
It turns out that the rumors that the new emperor is a good man, but it is true!!
The hearts of the beauties are all cold, and they are cold.
This result naturally alarmed the Queen Mother again, so under the forced instruction of the Queen Mother, the little emperor had to compromise.
Because they are really idle and bored, and they can't fight at all, the new concubines who have entered the palace have recently formed a gathering in the imperial garden if they have nothing to do, chat for a while, and pass the time together.
Summer is gone, although there is an autumn tiger, but the sky is no longer so hot after all.
In the afternoon, the garden is becoming more and more refreshing.
"Sister is really going to enter the Qianqing Palace tonight?"
The beauties shouted with envy.
The noble concubine Wang Bingyu is only fourteen this year, and she is not the oldest among the women, but because of her highest position, everyone has to call her sister.
"This is what the Queen Mother means, and the emperor also wants to listen to it. Wang Bingyu smiled proudly.
"It's good that my sister has the queen mother. Qing Concubine looked envious.
"My sister is the niece of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother will definitely speak for her sister in the future, and after the sister of the concubine, maybe the next one will be my sister. The most beautiful Concubine Li whispered to the concubine below.
Concubine Li is the most beautiful among all the women, but after knowing that the Son of Heaven is a good man, she was the first to cook cold. She was born in Jiangnan Scholar, and now there is no official in the family, so she is only from a civilian background. can read poetry and books since he was a child, and has the reputation of contemporary Xi Shi. thought that with these capitals, even if he didn't have a noble background and didn't have the queen mother as a barrier, he could still favor the harem.
However, now the capital she is proud of has become a complete joke.
squinted at Li Ruolan, who was wearing a skirt but still looked heroic. I remember that when she walks, she always has one hand behind her back, her waist is straight, and she has a scholarly posture. I heard that she often wore men's clothes in the house and played with the palace ladies.
Hmph, it's really shameless, no matter how much you pretend to be a man, you can't change the fact that your daughter is a woman. Today's saint is not Qi Linggong, what do you want to show when you dress up like this? It is said that it is a squire's family matter, but it is not a family that relies on business, hum, such an unpopular background, and still delusional to climb up, I really don't know how thick the sky is. Look, only a person from such an inferior background would think of such a bad trick that can't be put on the table. After hearing that the Queen Mother heard about this, she was very displeased with this Ming Jieyu in private, and even scolded her for serving demons and being the sister of the cholera dynasty.
Concubine Li snorted when she thought of this, and turned her eyes disdainfully.
Li Ruolan, or Chu Ningshuang to be precise, is right, because she has practiced martial arts since she was a child, her five views are more sensitive than ordinary people. Concubine Li squinted at her, and she felt it with disdain. She was very angry in her heart, but now that she is in the palace, she is a lot inferior to Concubine Li in her position, and if she wants to pay back, she is not qualified. There was nowhere to vent this anger, and the air flow around him was chaotic for a while, and it was about to affect the Xinmei people on the side.
The palace maid Shuang Lan, who was standing behind her, suddenly reached out to Chu Ningshuang's arm without a trace, instantly suppressing the chaotic air flow.
"Jieyu is thirsty, how about a cup of pear blossom spring?"
Chu Ningshuang was forcibly suppressed by this internal force, her face suddenly turned pale, she coughed lightly twice, secretly adjusted her breath, and said, "Okay, let's have a drink." ”
Shuanglan agreed, took a step back quietly, beckoned a little palace maid, and gave an order. The little palace maid bowed her head and retreated, and after a while, she sent a pear blossom spring with both hands.
Shuanglan took it, took another carved orchid glass cup, and poured half a cup before saluting Chu Ningshuang with both hands.
The sweet and mellow aroma of pear blossom wine, wafting past the pavilion for a while, and the Xinmei people sitting under Chu Ningshuang couldn't help laughing: "It is said that my sister is as cool as a man, and even this thirst-quenching thing is different from the ordinary, as long as the wine is fragrant, there is no flower tea." ”
Chu Ningshuang's heart sank, and before she could answer, she smiled again: "This is the palace, the most disciplined place in the world, if Sister Ming is really cool and likes the fragrance of wine, don't be stupid to participate in the draft and come to this palace, so as not to suffocate yourself and bring all our sisters to death." ”
looked up, but it was Concubine De who was sitting in the second seat.
Although she is separated from the queen mother by two layers of relatives, she is not as good as the queen mother and the queen mother, but she is the niece of Aunt Fang, the first female official in the palace, and she is more loved by Pang than Aunt Fang's nominal daughter Yumeiren, and no one in the palace and outside the palace dares to underestimate her.
Therefore, Concubine De made a sound, and the rest of the people immediately shut up, and Concubine Li raised her eyebrows, for the first time, she felt that Concubine De, who had always been annoying, sometimes said things that were quite good.
For a while, the flower pavilion seemed to be covered with a layer of coldness, as if late autumn had arrived early.
Chu Ningshuang felt that he was about to burst out, he thought that he had finally entered the palace and could find an opportunity to get close to the emperor, even if he was not favored, he would have to take a share, and when he found convenience, he quietly planted Gu worms for the Son of Heaven, and he was afraid that he would not be able to control this little Son of Heaven, and he would not be able to take it down today?
When the time comes, who will dare to underestimate her?
But after only one month in the palace, she found that there were many women in this palace, but their mouths were better than anyone else's, and the words they said were like sharp knives, which not only stabbed people's blood, but also made you unable to reply.
She was of noble birth and had good bones, she was very loved by her father, and she was pampered since she was a child. For so many years, even if the Chu family was beheaded by the whole door later, and the Yuntianmen was destroyed, she was forced to live in the end of the world. But every time something happens, she is the only one who scolds others, and others rarely reply to her with a sentence or a half. Therefore, after living for seventeen years, she has always been proud, thinking that she is blessed and extraordinary, and there is no one in this world who can compare with her.
But since she entered this palace, she suddenly found that none of these contemporaneous show girls who called her sisters and sisters looked at her seriously, and even a few beautiful women with lower status than her were only polite to her on the surface, but whenever she spoke loudly or scolded a few words, people could still turn around and leave, and they didn't give her a salute, but she didn't have anything to do with others. This piece of light and irony, her keen facial features are all felt in her body, if it weren't for the fact that Shuanglan, who is several times higher than her in martial arts, is always pressing her, I am afraid that she would have already risen up by force and killed these smug people.
At this time, the people of Yiting were speechless, and the true qi in Chu Ningshuang's body seemed to be about to burst out, and when the atmosphere was unbearable and unclear, he suddenly heard a soft sigh, and a delicate and soft voice broke the dullness: "The aroma of wine is actually excellent, and I like it very much." The ancients did not have clouds: glazed clocks, thick amber, small grooves dripping wine pearl red. Let's see why you don't like this beautiful wine. ”
As soon as he said this, Tingzhong fell into a different silence.
It seems that this soft-spoken and weak person turned out to be a concubine who even Concubine Li had to please.
Chu Ningshuang was stunned for a while, and the air flow that burst out in an instant did not use Shuanglan to force it again, so it reined in by itself. She couldn't understand the meaning of Concubine Shu's words, and when she saw that everyone looked at Concubine Shu in a daze for a while, she didn't mock her openly and secretly, so she thought that Concubine Shu, who had always behaved indisputably with the world, helped her speak for the first time. So I was happy for a while, and my face was full of ridiculous joy when I looked at the concubine.
The semi-literate Chu Ningshuang couldn't understand, so she was overjoyed. But the women sitting are different, these really carefully selected show girls, even if they are not full of poetry books, they have spent a lot of days in poetry books, where this poem came from and who wrote it, everyone knows it.
The poet ghost Li He's poem is bent on death, and the concubine suddenly sings like this, what is she going to do?
Is it to mock this unpopular Ming Jieyu that there is only one way to die, or is she ironic that she entered this deep palace as a woman, but she has to face a man who is only a man, and even competing for favor has become a joke, and there is only one way to go?
Just like Li He's untimely death, these women in the deep palace are just famous?