Chapter 23: Temptation
Zhang Zhaohua knew in an instant that Ma was testing her, if she showed her weakness, it would be easy to be grasped by Ma, after all, a person's resourcefulness and experience can be quickly improved, but the change of mentality is not overnight, so many extremely smart people have set up a foolproof game, but in the end they are defeated in their own unbalanced psychology. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhang Zhaohua hates this kind of temptation. You play a card, I play a card, you test it, I test it -- it seems that if anyone plays fast, brighter and brighter, the risk of losing is greater.
Around you, there are always a few people who seem to have a higher than ordinary observation power and can perceive the temperament of everyone around you. By revealing their hearts and saying offensive words against third parties, they can often give the impression that "I can see your thoughts", and this method is based on the premise that the unknowable other party has a potential and unpredictable threat to me.
Ma felt like a threat.
It's strange, how could a woman like herself, who wants a family background and has no family background, and who is not qualified for her appearance, be recognized by Ma as a threat to her?
"I really hate her," Zhang Zhaohua made no secret of his dislike for Niu: "She has repeatedly harmed me, and she will be provoked by her even if she is a clay person." In the same room with her, everyone was in a bad mood. I think my sister is so tolerant and generous, and I can't stand her. ”
Ma Shi was stunned when he saw Zhang Zhaohua's expression, and he didn't seem to expect Zhang Zhaohua to admit his dislike of Ma Shi bluntly, so that many of the words she had prepared before were useless.
Seeing Zhang Zhaohua walking away, Shang Gong behind Ma said: "Lady, you are too sensitive, my eyes will not be wrong, if it is really related to her, even if she cries, or looks dazed and ignorant, it will not be such a straightforward hatred now." ”
"I used to just doubt that she had a heart, but now, I began to wonder if she had a city. Ma Shi said in a low voice, Shang Gong behind him didn't hear clearly, and asked again.
When it is said that a person has scheming, in fact, he has already seen through her, and when he says that a person has a city, in fact, he can't see through her.
In fact, Zhang Zhaohua, who had gone away, was also thinking about it in his heart, and today's words could dispel his suspicions - after all, when the Niu family was beaten to death, he was still saying how wronged he was, and those old and mature grandmothers, did they really not find a trace of this?
If you think about it carefully, there are also unclean places in this scene she did.
The old grandmother, who has been immersed in the palace for many years, may have seen too much through people, but this happened to be caught by Zhang Zhaohua, because it involved an interesting psychological problem.
In "Dream of Red Mansions", although Jia Mu admits that Baochai's ability and appearance are not bad, she always doesn't love her. Some people also say that it is because of Bao Dai's partiality towards her own flesh and blood, but Zhang Zhaohua feels that in the eyes of Jia Mu, a person who has experienced the world, she has seen through all the scheming calculations and hypocrisy, and people at this height prefer Daiyu's true temperament.
People are like this when they are old, whoever tells a lie, whose heart is true or not, they can see it clearly, and the more they can distinguish what an undisguised person looks like, Zhang Zhaohua took advantage of this, and simply did not have any pretentiousness, and bluntly expressed his disgust for Niu.
This disgust is real, because she just hates Niu, and she also hates Ma, who thinks she can test other people's handles.
In the eyes of others, this is something that a weak-hearted person has to hide, so those who can intuitively express their disgust and anger must be innocent.
Zhang Zhaohua's suspicion has been completely cleared.
Soon the second round of selection also began, this time it was obviously much more formal than the first time, using the first round of procession, bringing people to the house, carefully inspecting each person's facial features, checking the ears, eyes, mouth, nose, hair, skin, collar, shoulders, back, etc. Therefore, the ladies were asked to state their place of origin, name, age, etc., and if their voices were muffled or muffled, or if they were panicked, they were eliminated.
When Zhang Zhaohua was checked, all items were passed, but when she was checking her speech, the palace maid who opened her mouth to see her teeth said "Huh" in surprise.
Zhang Zhaohua was also taken aback, thinking that he had forgotten to brush his teeth with tooth powder in the morning, and there was residual breath or dregs between his teeth, but he didn't expect the palace maid to turn her head to the grandmother sitting upright and say, "This lady has forty teeth." ”
Zhang Zhaohua didn't even know that he had forty teeth. There is not so much attention at home, for example, when changing teeth, I lost my upper and lower teeth, and I didn't wrap them in a red cloth and throw them away.
"Let me take a look. The grandmother beckoned her to come over, counted them carefully into the sun, and nodded, "Sure enough, it's forty." ”
The number of normal people's teeth is between twenty-seven and thirty-four, although Zhang Zhaohua knows that his teeth are fine, but he still didn't expect that he has seven or eight more teeth than others.
"That's a good thing," the grandmother looked at her and said with a smile, "the more teeth you have, the sharper you are, the richer you are." ”
As long as you don't think it's a disability, don't brush her down!
Zhang Zhaohua came out of the room and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. I should have passed the audit, because the people who didn't do it would say it on the spot, and there were those with oblique shoulders, short necks, and hunchbacks, and they were immediately brushed down in this round.
Tian's round did not pass, because she was really a little unclear when she spoke, very shy, the grandmother asked three or four times, and Tian's answer was not clear, so it was brushed down, but Tian was not unhappy, because each lady who was brushed down could be compensated by ten treasure money, which was a lot of income for poor people.
The next day, they had another criterion for evaluation, and were dragged into the house, where they were first measured with a ruler, and then made to walk dozens of steps, and the ladies with short wrists and huge toes were eliminated.
Zhang Zhaohua's feet are about 36 in later generations, which is very standard. When Zhang Zhaohua first wore it, he was very glad that there was a queen Ma at this time, which affected the atmosphere of foot-binding in the world - but later I learned that foot-binding was not a general trend at all at this time, and the dynasty that had just recovered from the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, women had to go to the land to cultivate, and it was also labor productivity, what could they do with their feet tied?
There are almost no small families who bind their feet, and large families rarely hear that all the concubines of the emperor in the palace, and the women who follow him to fight the world, none of them have two feet tied.
And this draft looks at the feet, is to eliminate the kind of ladies with thick toes, flat feet or deformed feet, of course, it is said that there is also a smell of feet, so it must be brushed down. After three days, there were almost less than 800 left.
If you want to say that there is no cheating here, Zhang Zhaohua also met the two daughters of Wudinghou, with thick finger joints, it is said that the boys and girls of his family taught archery and horses together, such thick knuckles, falling on other show girls, are designated to pass, but the two daughters of Wudinghou naturally passed the election smoothly.
Who called someone's father a marquis, and who called someone's aunt Concubine Guo Ning, who is now in charge of the Six Palaces!
There is still half a month before the third selection, and at this time, an edict was also issued from Miyagi, and the places sent were Xi'an, Taiyuan, Beiping and Kaifeng.