Chapter 32: Walking on the Ice

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Ma's gaze hadn't left her yet, and when he saw her caressing the wooden hairpin on her head, his eyes really condensed slightly.

Zhang Zhaohua is almost certain.

Sure enough, after this round of searching, I don't know what happened, each show girl was called into the house one by one, opened their purses, sachets or something, as well as cuffs, and even took off their shoes to see.

Zhang Zhaohua secretly asked the lady who had been searched, and when she went in, she didn't just search for those, but a female official pointed to the hairpin on her head and unceremoniously asked her to take it off.

Zhang Zhaohua took it down and showed it to her, and she could almost see the sarcastic smile in the corner of the woman's eyes. However, the result is a reversal, because when the hairpin is unscrewed, there is nothing in it.

As early as when Zhang Zhaohua put away the official suitcase, he found a gap in the house that no one noticed, unscrewed the pen head, poured out all the cow hair needles, stuffed them all into the box, and then locked the box, walked out and stood up casually, and put a cover for Ma's.

She was very sure of the action of stroking the hairpin, and only one Ma could see it most clearly, and the other show girls all stretched out their heads to look at Lu's box, because Lu's box didn't know what was going on, and there was actually a worm, and the palace maid crawled directly to her hand when she checked it, so frightened that the palace maid screamed.

Ma wasn't looking at the box, she was looking at herself.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhaohua was resentful and puzzled, the mystery that had been haunting her heart once again emerged, why did Ma look at her differently, and look at her differently to hurt her so much - there are so many show girls in the garden, why did Ma only stare at herself, shouldn't it be the two girls of the Wuding Hou family, and even the girls of the Sanpin command family, who are her biggest competitors?

There must be something inside that Zhang Zhaohua doesn't know.

What made Zhang Zhaohua feel horrified was that Ma actually had such a big deal against her, and he almost succeeded. Not only is there a group of show girls who are willing to be driven by her, but they are even connected with the female officials of the Shanggong Palace. It's unscientific.

It's just the show girls, Ma's hypocritical face is too deceptive, and she won't tell the show girls the core secrets, there are many reasons to instruct the show girls to help her keep an eye or something - but Shang Gong is really a little strange to be involved in the team to help her. Zhang Zhaohua recalled all the things in the past three and a half months, and suddenly found that it seemed to be the case, except for some old grandmothers and princesses, most of the younger female officials and female historians were very polite to the Ma family.

Why is this - isn't the Ma family the daughter of a civil official from the fourth grade, and the female officials should please the daughter of the Xungui family, like Guo's father Guo Ying, but she is a marquis, and the aunt of the family is Concubine Guo Ning, who is in charge of the sixth palace, why don't you see these people being so polite to the Guo family?

There is only one possibility when you think about it, and Ma is a person who is determined.

What does it mean, that is, Ma has already had a designated position, and this draft is just a formality. But the key is who set her position, and what position did she set for her?

The only people in the palace who can call the shots are a few concubines who give birth to princes and are more qualified, and the rest of the concubines and beauties are almost unqualified to speak. In fact, Zhang Zhaohua is not very clear about this point, but she has not been able to inquire, after all, she still talks about the royal family.

I heard that the last round of the draft is to go to the harem and wait for the final decision of a few concubines, so is it possible that among the concubines who read them, there are those who have taken a fancy to the Ma family and want to become their daughters-in-law, so they greeted these female officials early and asked them to take care of them more-

This is possible, because according to Zhang Zhaohua's inference, it is unlikely that the emperor will find the daughter of the noble family to be the princess for his son, so even if it is the daughter of the prince, it is actually possible to brush it back. These concubines in the harem should also understand the emperor's thoughts, so they directly gave up the idea of marrying the nobles, and chose from the daughters of low-level civil officials and even ordinary people.

Zhang Zhaohua knew that the palace was actually very concerned about this draft, after all, there was such a major event as the marriage of five or six vassal kings, and the mothers of these vassal kings naturally had to pay attention to the qualifications of their show girls at all times. And these Shang palaces who are responsible for supervising them will also go back to the palace to report to those concubines, for example, which show girl they think is particularly virtuous, which show girl is particularly chaste, which lady is clever, which lady has a beautiful complexion, etc., if everyone praises which one, these concubines will definitely pay attention to the name, and she is more likely to be selected.

Ma is undoubtedly the best - why do you say that, because Zhang Zhaohua looked at it coldly for so many days, and found that Ma was exactly the same as Xue Baochai in the book, on the surface, he was obedient to the times, pretending to be stupid and clumsy, and his every move seemed dignified and virtuous, and he was generous, and he was especially able to show kindness to everyone, for example, everyone had not rested well after too long in the evening class, so Ma asked the female officials to change the time. Whoever is sick, Ma remembers in his heart, he always has to comfort him, there are many such things, not only that, but she is also very careful not to publicize these things, and deliberately leaves enough dignity for the parties. Therefore, almost everyone mentions Ma's and calls her generous, generous, steady, and considerate, which makes her praised by everyone, all of which in Zhang Zhaohua's opinion is to win a good reputation, but in fact, her gentle and generous demeanor hides great ambition.

If she was really as generous and loving as she showed, she would not have made such a dead hand to harm Zhang Zhaohua. It's no wonder that such a person with a bright future who will soon rise to the top treats Zhang Zhaohua as if he was treating her lifelong enemy.

The search came to an end, and a total of seven ladies with sewing kits were found, but none of them had cow hair needles, they were all ordinary needles and threads, and no one admitted to using cow hair needles to harm people, and finally they were all expelled from the house.

Zhang Zhaohua passed the test without danger this time, and every day after that was like stepping on ice to cross the river, but it seems that after this time the plan was unsuccessful, Ma quietly did not move, as if he was re-examining Zhang Zhaohua's ability, and seemed to be brewing a new round of conspiracy. However, Zhang Zhaohua never dared to slack off, his heart rose to his throat, and he had seven or eight dreams in more than ten days, all of which were dreams that he was killed, pushed into the river, strangled his throat with a bowstring, and broke his lumbar vertebrae with a board.

Wang was very distressed to see her like this, but in fact, Zhang Zhaohua was more worried about her. Calculated on Zhang Zhaohua's head, Zhang Zhaohua can still see the move, but if it is calculated on the Wang family, Zhang Zhaohua thinks of this possibility, and he can't even eat.

But fortunately, the grandmothers said that after the fourth round of reading, all the ladies' mothers would be let out. The fourth round of reading was set at the beginning of October, because the content of the examination was the history of books that these show girls had learned in the past two months.

The ladies who studied in the hall examined the four books of women, and they wanted to choose a sentence from it, and let the ladies write down the explanation and extension of this sentence, they did this exercise several times, Zhang Zhaohua's results were excellent every time, and this was the result of her deliberately concealing her strength, and she only dared to use three or four points of strength every time. In Zhang Zhaohua's view, in fact, this thing is the same as the argumentative essay that she was about to write in the third year of high school in her last life. And Zhang Zhaohua also has a hundred tried and tested methods, must mention on the volume that the Holy Son of Heaven set up female officials to supervise the Shengming decision-making of the concubine, write about the chastity and filial piety that appeared in various places in the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, and then pull out some ancient virtuous women from the history books to make a testimony or something, she can write this volume in less than two quarters of an hour, which is more than twice as fast as others, and it is read out as a model text every time.