She was unhappy in her heart, and she didn't show it on the surface, it was Lu Qifang who personally led people to stop her from standing up, and others couldn't intervene if they wanted to. So he said directly: "Uncle and aunt Hugh should feel guilty, and you can't blame you for this matter, it's all Wen Ying's fault, and Wen Ying is responsible for you." After speaking, he actually shed two tears.

As soon as she cried like this, Guo Yiqian and his wife felt even more at a loss, and the two of them hurriedly knelt down, "Niangniang, don't you say that, aren't you tormenting us?"

Guo Wenying saw them kneeling, but she didn't want to help them, she only cleaned her hands and noodles under the service of Hongxiang, and then took a bowl of tea and took two sips before saying: "Uncle and aunt, why do you have to do this, this edict has not been issued yet." ”

"It's a sure thing that you don't have it. Guo Yiqian sighed lightly, he was really afraid that Guo Wenying would be jealous of him because of this, and the future of the Guo family would be tied to her in the future, and he really didn't dare to offend her.

He smiled shyly and said: "Wen Ying, don't be angry, let's come today, one is to make amends to you, and the other is to discuss the wedding, this is no better than an ordinary married girl, this is the ceremony, what should be married, but it can't be wrong." ”

Guo Wenying yawned, "Then Uncle Lao and Aunt Lao will have to worry a lot, and I will discuss it with the Lu family when I go back, and ask my uncle and aunt to give me an idea." She said, and took Mrs. Lu's hand affectionately, "Uncle, what do you think?"

Mrs. Lu pursed her lips and smiled, "Yo, I don't know this, our family has never had a queen." But since you have to prepare, some relatives should also be brought into Beijing, and your grandmother will be shocked when she knows about it. ”

Guo Wenying said with a smile: "I should be like this, send a letter to my grandmother, and the second uncle should also be informed, it is best to be able to come to the wedding." ”

"That's right. ”

The two sang and discussed in harmony, but Guo Yiqian and his wife were put aside. They didn't dare to get angry, they only laughed on the side, and after a while, Guo Wenying asked someone to help them up.

Since the punishment has been punished, how to get along with each other and how to get along next, in the final analysis, this is also her maiden home, and the place she will rely on to enter the palace in the future is also indispensable.

Seeing off the Duke of Dingguo and the Duchess of Guo, Guo Wenying couldn't say what she felt in her heart, she wasn't very happy, but it wasn't very uncomfortable, or this was originally a transaction, and she didn't know how much family affection was in it.

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The day of the emperor's draft is set for the twentieth of this month, and Feng Jingting originally wanted to take Guo Wenying into the palace first, but the Ministry of Rites said that the etiquette was cumbersome after the establishment, and it was too late to prepare, so it was set for next month, and after the palace concubine was selected, he would enter the palace with the queen.

The left and right are like this, Guo Wenying is not too demanding, just waiting for news from the palace.

I heard that thirty-two people participated in the draft this time, and Lin Yunyun's little sister was also selected.

When Mrs. Lu heard that the second miss of the Lin family was selected, she seemed to be unhappy, and she also picked her nose and eyes at Lin Yunyun, no matter how she looked at it, she scolded loudly if she made a mistake, and did not save face at all.

Lin Yunyun felt aggrieved, but she couldn't say anything, so she could only serve Guo Wenying carefully, hoping that she could say a few good words from time to time.

Guo Wenying is already five months pregnant at this time, and she is beginning to show her pregnancy, and it is very uncomfortable to hold her stomach every day, and she feels a headache when she thinks of the set of etiquette when she enters the palace. But this is not what bothers her the most, what bothers her the most is that those selected show girls, and I don't know what happened to Feng Jingting.

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Whenever it is time to select a show girl, the household department will first report to the emperor, and after the order is approved, the government will immediately write the yamen, and the grassroots officials at all levels will report the roster of women of appropriate age layer by layer, and summarize it to the yamen, and finally report to the emperor by the household department, and the emperor will decide the date of selection.

However, due to the narrowing of the scope of the election this year, only the daughters of the officials' families in Beijing were selected, and only about 100 people were reported, Rao is like this, and in the end, there are 32 people who passed the primary election, and even the officials of the Ministry of Officials are sighing, why are there so many women of school age this year?

Chrysanthemums in September, only in this harem, people are often more delicate than flowers.

September 20 is a good day, and everything is good.

The selected show girls, on the day before entering the palace to be elected, sit on the mule cart, and the officials of the ministry arrange the order, called the "row car", according to the rank of the men in the family. The first is the relatives of the concubine in the palace, followed by the woman who was selected to leave a sign and this re-election, and finally the new show girl who was selected this time.

At sunset, the car is distributed, and at night it enters the Di'an Gate, and after waiting for the palace gate to open outside the Shenwu Gate, it gets off the car, and under the guidance of the eunuchs in the palace, it enters the Shunzhen Gate in order.

The Imperial Garden, Tiyuan Palace, Jingyixuan and other places in the palace were once places for reading draft girls. Generally, only a dozen people are read every day, and they are matched according to the number of women participating in the draft. Usually five or six people in a row, for the emperor or the queen mother to choose, but sometimes there are three or four people in a row, or even one person in a row. If there is a person who is favored, she will leave her name tag, which is called leaving a sign, and if she is not selected, she will leave a sign. Then, the show girl who left the sign was re-selected, and the re-election and did not stay was also called the sign.

The show girls who are re-selected after the re-election have two fates: one is to give them to the royal family or the family of the clan, and the other is to stay in the palace and serve the emperor and become a candidate for the concubine. If you become a candidate for the concubine, the procedures will be more complicated, after the first "introduction", repeatedly "re-see", there are "named", which is selected to keep the brand, and there is "name", which is selected by the emperor himself to keep the brand. Finally, it is necessary to go through the "stay in the palace" to investigate, and select a few people among the show girls who stay in the palace, and the rest are all signs.

As soon as the emperor died, the concubines in their prime had to move out of the east and west palaces where they originally lived and live in the "widow's house" specially arranged for the emperor's widow.

When the word "show girl" comes into people's eyes, people's intuition is that the show girl should have the appearance of a sinking fish and a goose, however, there are not many beautiful women in the show girl. The two draft criteria made public by the royal family are character and family. In the canonization of queens, concubines, and concubines, it is common to see words such as "generosity", "filial piety", "gentleness", "gentleness", "discretion", as well as "birth of famous families", "auspicious bell valve" and so on. Among them, the door has a more important role.

In fact, judging from the selected show girls, Guo Wenying's family is not the highest, and there are several women from the princess and princess families, who clearly want to occupy a place in the harem. In particular, the Lord of Yuanyue County was also selected.