Qin Jinchun has always stayed in the Chengenhou Mansion, and she didn't send anyone to say anything in the second room, so she naturally didn't know what was going on at home, and she didn't know that the eldest sister once wanted to take away her qualification to be the emperor's granddaughter.

With the help of the elders of the Chengenhou Mansion, she successfully entered the East Palace in a few days and passed the first round of selection.

The crown princess Tang attaches great importance to the selection of her daughter's companions. The four companions selected this time, if there is no accident, will be with the county lord of Minshun for at least four or five years, if the character and talent are not up to the mark, it will inevitably have a bad impact on the county lord in the future.

The county lord of Minshun has been weak since he was a child, and the child of the prince of the East Palace, except for this one daughter, there is no other child who can raise it so big, which is naturally precious. The crown princess Tang is the only one daughter, who is afraid of melting in her mouth on weekdays, afraid of falling when she holds it in her hand, and is reluctant to say a word of weight. If the county lord made any mistakes, the crown princess Tang also taught slowly, and never spoke harshly. Fortunately, the county lord understands things at a young age, and he is very well-behaved and sensible, otherwise he would have been spoiled by his mother as a rude and willful character. But it is precisely because she is so sensible that the prince and his wife are more merciful to her, and there will be no time for strict discipline when they are idle.

In this way, the character of the playmates around the county lord is very important. If some of them misbehave, deceive the county lord when he is young, and coax and instigate the county lord to follow crooked ways, won't the prince and his wife have to repent of their death? Therefore, the people around the county lord are not important in appearance and family background, but character and temperament are the most important thing. Even the palace people who waited beside the county lord specially selected people with a gentle temperament, generosity and stability, and there was no one who dared to think crookedly.

This time, the county mainly chose to read with them, and because of the large number of people who signed up, the crown princess selected for the first time, and eliminated those who felt inappropriate at first glance. In addition, there are those who are more brutal and willful, competitive, and obviously flattering - the crown princess wants to find a companion for her daughter, not to find a sycophant for her daughter, even if she really wants to listen to people's studs, don't be too explicit; finally, she will eliminate the older ones and their appearances are outstanding, because the princess suspects that these girls may not be here to be elected to be the county lord's companion, but may be coming for the prince.

But if the companion of the emperor's granddaughter really becomes the concubine of the East Palace, the face of the East Palace will be lost, and the good reputation of the prince will also be greatly hit. Because there is no man in the world who is so unscrupulous and takes the maid close to his daughter as a concubine. And the county lord's companion, in the eyes of the crown princess, is no different from her daughter's attendant, at best, her status is higher. As the head mother of the East Palace, she can never see such an unseemly thing happen under her nose, and she can't tolerate careerists using their daughters to climb up.

A total of twenty people passed this round of selection, and Qin Jinchun was one of them, and he was not particularly conspicuous. And there are also fathers and brothers who have low official positions, but because they are royal relatives or noble side branches, they also perform well, so they stayed. When the news came out, these 20 girls were very excited, felt that they had a good future, and they all made up their minds to make persistent efforts and pass the second round of selection. The second round of selection is at the end of November, and this is the final round, and the four ladies who pass will officially become the companions of Lord Minshun. After the spring of next year, the county lord will enroll, and these four ladies will also start their careers of entering the palace every day.

In this regard, Qin Jinchun was both excited and a little discouraged. After actually meeting other candidates in the East Palace, she saw her own shortcomings more clearly. If it weren't for her cousins and cousins, she would have been eliminated in the first round. She had a faint hunch that she felt that it was unlikely that she would pass the second round of selection, so she was naturally a little discouraged.

Qin Jinhua was a little disappreciative of this: "My brother has already sent a message to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, what's so difficult about you being selected? As long as the county lord likes you, even the crown princess will look at you differently." What are you afraid of? Think about it, when you are in the East Palace, the county lord can be close to you?"

Qin Jinchun's heart calmed down a little: "The county lord still remembers me and asks me if I still like to eat now, why do I seem to have lost weight." She also rewarded me with a box of dim sum, all of which were made in the palace, and there was nowhere else to buy them. Of course, she was in the Chengenhou Mansion, and she had actually eaten this kind of dim sum several times.

Qin Jinhua smiled and said, "That's it." Don't worry about it here, hurry up and memorize the book a little more, and then practice the calligraphy, in case you have to work harder in case you have to take the homework test in the second round. Even if you can be selected in the end, if your homework is too poor, you will make people laugh at the fact that the girls of our Qin family are not as good as others, right?"

Qin Jinchun obediently obeyed and went to practice calligraphy.

On the second day, Qin Hanzhen came to see her, and when she talked about her worries, it was another way of saying: "Do your best to work hard, even if you can't succeed in the end, you won't have any regrets." This time, the scale of the companion reading was larger than I originally expected, and the impact was greater. Instead of trying to figure out how to be selected for the final place, the fourth sister should take the opportunity to show her strengths. If you can earn a good popularity among other candidate girls, so that the ladies in the palace can also see your advantages, and once your good reputation spreads, are you afraid that no good people will take a fancy to you in the future? If you do the opposite, even if others know that your family is not successful, you will still be praised for being out of the mud and not stained. ”

Qin Jinchun was in a complicated mood when he heard this, and he didn't know how to respond. However, Qin Hanzhen's words were really good for her, and she also listened to it, and slightly modified her own policy, and really planned to brush up on her popularity.

Before the day of the second selection came, the Xue family in the second room sent a car to pick up Qin Jinchun, saying that he "missed his granddaughter", and wanted to take his little granddaughter back to live for a few more days. The person sent changed from the lukewarm in the past, with a smile on his face, and spoke very warmly and cordially, which made the porter of Chengenhou Mansion a little unbearable.

The people of the Chengenhou Mansion naturally had no way to refuse the reunion of their ancestors and grandchildren, but they just thought that if Qin Jinchun wanted to stay at home until the day of selection, the clothes and accessories prepared for her, as well as the study items for the books she read on weekdays, would have to be sent to the second room in advance. There was no way, they had to let Qin Jinchun go home with the study, and wait until the day before the selection, if she couldn't go back to Chengenhou's Mansion, she would have to send her clothes and accessories over.

After Qin Jinchun returned home, after listening to what his mother said, he realized that the eldest sister had thought about taking away her qualifications, and she was very angry in her heart, but she was a little funny: "Where is the matter so simple? That is the heavenly family! Our second room has never had a holy family, how dare the eldest sister think that she can run rampant as a queen's niece and nephew? Fortunately, my mother persuaded my grandmother, otherwise our family would have become a joke in Beijing!"

Xiao Xue has actually been sick for two days, and this winter seems to be colder than in previous years, so she is also weak now, and her face is not very good. She said to her daughter: "I don't have hope for your eldest sister now, I just hope that she can marry a family in peace and live a peaceful life in the future, that is." As early as when they openly refused to marry the youngest son of the King of Shu, your eldest sister had already broken the hope of marrying into a wealthy family, and I really don't know when my wife will come to her senses. Now let them go, you don't pay attention to it, stay in the long room, and follow your second sister. Your future future is afraid that you will have to rely on the long house. All I want is for you to live a life of peace and joy, and that's enough, and I don't want to climb any high branches. That's not something people like us can imagine. ”

Qin Jinchun saw the sick look on his mother's face, his eyes turned red, and he was about to shed tears: "Mother is sick, why don't you tell me?" I should come back earlier to wait for you." ”

Xiao Xue smiled lightly: "I just don't have much appetite, I'm just lazy, and it's not a serious illness." The weather is so cold this winter, some of the women in the family feel uncomfortable, and there is no fuss. You don't have to worry about me, go back to the long room as soon as possible. I've been here for a long time, and I don't know what ugly things your eldest sister will say. She's not sensible, you don't have to be angry with her. ”

However, this matter is not something that Xiao Xue can do. The Xue family strongly advocated that the little granddaughter should stay at home for a few more days, and then set off directly from home to the East Palace to participate in the selection, so that their daughter could be regarded as being favored by the East Palace, otherwise all the benefits would be called the long house, wouldn't the daughter of their second room become the long house? Now the Xue family has changed their indifference to the little granddaughter in the past, and whispers in her ear every day that life is the most important, so that she should not forget her roots, and how to benefit her family when she enters the palace in the future, such as begging the prince to promote her father, asking the princess to say a decent and good family thing for the eldest sister, and so on.

Qin Jinchun endured his anger, first pretended to express his filial piety, and then asked worriedly: "Grandmother really wants to do this, not to mention whether I can see the prince, if the princess really opens the golden mouth and acts as a matchmaker for the eldest sister, our family will not be able to refuse." What if what the crown princess said is not in line with the eldest sister's wishes?" Xue was dumbfounded, silent for a long time, his face became more and more ugly, and it didn't take long for Qin Jinchun to be sent out.

Qin Bofu also attaches great importance to this opportunity for his youngest daughter, and he has to mention his face every day, and teach his youngest daughter how to abide by etiquette and serve nobles with her heart in the East Palace. Qin Jinchun's ears were calloused when she heard this, and she only complained in her heart about why her father was at home every day? Could it be that there was nothing to do in the yamen? In order to listen to her father's teachings, her daily homework was delayed, and she even had to squeeze out of her sleep time to recite books.

It was only Xiao Xue's who felt sorry for his daughter, and privately asked the kitchen to make more supplements to make up for Qin Jinchun's body.

Qin Jinyi watched coldly as the whole family revolved around her little sister, and her heart felt like she had been burned by fire, with indescribable jealousy and resentment. This scenery should have belonged to her. The little sister is not as good as her in everything, so why should she be compared? If the little sister really became the companion of the lord of the East Palace, she would definitely not have to worry about the marriage in the future, and maybe she would still be favored by the nobles, but what about her? She is now eighteen years old, and the marriage has not yet been settled! How unfair is God? The little sister has been disrespectful to her as the eldest sister since she was a child, and if she hadn't relied on the knotting to please the long house and the third room, how could she have such a blessing? If the little sister is really called out of this head, will her eldest sister still have a place at home in the future?

So, on the day when Qin Jinchun set off for the East Palace to participate in the second round of reading auditions, she put on a new dress, put on a thick cloak, said goodbye to her family, walked out of the house, and was about to step into the carriage, when suddenly someone ran out from the other side of the alley, poured a bucket of cold water on her, and ran quickly.

Qin Jinchun was soaked, standing in the cold wind, and his whole person was stunned.