Chapter 27: The Examination of Virginity
The third round of selection was held on July 20, and this round was obviously very prepared, and even the guards at the gate were greatly increased, and the palace sent Wen Po and the old palace maid to live in the hall one night earlier. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
These stable women, in addition to delivering babies and teaching the way of yin and yang harmony for the princes and grandchildren, also play an important role in the palace beauty pageant, not only to participate in the pre-identification of beauty and ugliness, but also to do a nude examination of the show girl, such as skin, *** pubic area, etc., in the Ming Dynasty, where the concept of chastity was very popular, it was necessary to check whether the woman who was selected into the palace was a virgin.
In terms of the chastity of concubines, the Ming Dynasty was definitely stricter than other dynasties. In the Han, Tang and Song dynasties, there were many palace concubines who were not virgins, widows, women of re-Jiao, courtesans, official prostitutes, and even sinners whose husbands committed crimes and were brought to work in the court - in view of this, the emperor "established a program of Chen Ji", and the requirements for the palace beauty pageant were very strict, and it was absolutely not allowed to have a show girl who was not a virgin to be selected.
Zhang Zhaohua was led into the secret room by the palace maid, and his eyes were uncomfortable when he entered, because there was enough light outside, and it was dim inside. When she settled down, she saw that this small secret room was very strangely furnished, with a basic bed and a toilet in front of it.
Before she could figure out what the toilet was for, she heard a cold, stern voice that made her undress and lie on the bed. Zhang Zhaohua took a bath in the public bathhouse, and he didn't feel much shame in his heart, but he still had to show a little shame on his face in a timely manner, and he seemed to be twisted but actually undressed neatly and lay on the bed.
An old woman came out of the shadows, and there was a Shang Gong behind her, looking at her expressionlessly.
This should be Wen Po, her sleeves are tightly tied together, if it weren't for wearing a colorful dress, Zhang Zhaohua thought that he was back in modern times and performed surgery on the operating bed.
What happened next was a little difficult to talk about, and the stable woman kneaded her two lumps of breast meat, after all, they were two small green fruits, which hurt very much when she rubbed them, and they became more and more hard. Then the steady woman's hand went down again, although Zhang Zhaohua had been prepared, but he still clamped his legs impatiently, but this stable woman was much stronger than her, and broke her legs hard, and looked at it carefully.
Now Zhang Zhaohua, a woman who has lived more than 40 times in her two lives, felt embarrassed, but this stable woman did not stop because of this, and touched her hip pelvis up and down. Zhang Zhaohua remembers hearing a saying before, saying that after a woman has a man, the pelvis on both sides will gradually open, and the posture of walking is no longer the same as when she was a virgin. I don't know if this stable woman also knows this truth, so she will touch it on the pelvis too.
finally heard a voice that made her get up, Zhang Zhaohua got up like a big relief, and was about to get dressed and leave, when she heard the stable woman say: "It's not over yet, don't put on clothes first." ”
She asked Zhang Zhaohua to squat on the bucket in front of the bed, Zhang Zhaohua was so frightened that his palms were sweaty, and he didn't know what she was going to do. Seeing that she didn't move, the stable woman scolded again, and Zhang Zhaohua sat down on the gong bucket, and all kinds of strange thoughts came out in her heart, such as whether this is to collect urine for a urine test or something?
However, in the next second, the old woman walked over, holding a cotton note in her hand, and quickly stuffed it into Zhang Zhaohua's nose. Zhang Zhaohua was caught off guard and his nose was poked to the ground, and he suddenly felt painful and sour, and couldn't help opening his mouth wide and sneezing loudly.
This is not the end, it is obvious that this stable woman wants to make her sneeze, and after stabbing more than a dozen times in a row, Zhang Zhaohua sneezed out seven or eight times, and finally splashed out of his snot in embarrassment, making himself nauseous.
When she sneezed, she subconsciously wanted to stand up, but her shoulders were also held down by Wen Po to prevent her from leaving Gong Bucket. After Zhang Zhaohua sneezed, the stable woman told her to leave, and then looked into the gong bucket.
What the hell is this doing-Zhang Zhaohua was about to be driven crazy, but she was told that she had passed the assessment, and asked her to put on her clothes and go to the side hall for the next round of assessment.
Zhang Zhaohua went out in a daze, and saw Lu Shi coming out of another secret room, and his face was almost pale.
She hurried after her and asked, "How are you?"
The Lu clan let out a long sigh and said, "It's too much, let me go to the side hall." As Zhang Zhaohua heard, Zhang Zhaohua asked in a low voice: "Let us sit on the gong bucket and sneeze, what is the reason?"
"Shhhh ”
Zhang Zhaohua was stunned, not knowing what kind of scientific truth this was. According to her, although that membrane does have the effect of a barrier, it is not completely closed, because there will be holes in the membrane, otherwise how can menstrual blood flow out?
However, Zhang Zhaohua didn't have time to mourn for the lady who brushed down, because there were still important links to be completed. After the inspection of the virginity, they have to go to the side hall to take off their clothes again, this time it is a close look of the whole body, the selected ladies must not have a trace of scars on their bodies, and their skin must be fair and delicate and shiny, so that they can be regarded as candidates for concubines through the third round of selection.
Zhang Zhaohua had no natural scars on her body, nor did she have acquired scars or anything, and several palace maids looked at her from head to toe three times, and they all nodded again and again. Then he asked her to spread her arms and probe for the smell of her armpits - of course, Zhang Zhaohua did not smell like a fox, and only a few fine hairs from puberty under her armpits.
But the old lady saw it and pointed to it: "Generally, women have hair under their armpits, and it is normal for them to be sparse." If you see that there is no hair at all, you should look closely, because the woman will be pretentious and shave her hair in advance. ”
Thankfully, Zhang Zhaohua also thought about twisting off a few unsightly hairs under his armpits, but after thinking about it, he still didn't take action.
At the same time, it is also required that the skin is delicate, fair and shiny, if it is rough, yellow and shriveled, you need to take a closer look before deciding whether to eliminate it.
In fact, there is a certain fairness in the official election, so that the show girl lives in the restaurant for two or three months, because some ladies are indeed poor and malnourished since childhood - they don't have to work when they get to the hall to eat good, and they also send the bathing and skin care utensils in the palace, and the skin will actually be greatly improved, which these grandmothers know in their hearts. But if this lady's skin is still very bad for two or three months, then there is no possibility of recuperation, and this is the kind of brush down.
Zhang Zhaohua walked out of the house with his clothes on, and heard a lot of crying and crying along the way, and he was directly told that he was not selected, so he had no choice but to pack up his things and leave.
She went back to her room and took out her sewing kit again.
She still didn't understand what Zheng meant by sending this thing, at first she thought that her father Zhang Qi had a message, and the needle meant torture, because it is said that there is a kind of punishment to deal with prisoners with cow hair needles, pierced into the nails, and the ten fingers even had heartache.
But this is too strange, Zhang Chang and Zheng both know some words, why remind her in this way - she thought about it and gave her a headache, so she lay on the bed and fell asleep in a daze.
When she woke up from her colorful sleep, she was sweating profusely.