In Kunning Palace, Queen Xu woke up slowly.

"Mother," Zhang Zhaohua leaned over with tears in his eyes: "You can be considered awake!"

Empress Xu didn't know that she had fainted with a choking cough just now, she was groggy in her mind, and she didn't remember anything, but the palace people who had experienced everything just now, Zhang Zhaohua, Wei's, and Xu's, were all so frightened that their legs were weak and their faces were pale.

Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help but say: "Mother, let's not stay in Jinling anymore, this place is not good, let's go back to Beiping, as soon as the wind blows in the north, my mother's illness will definitely be cured!"

Empress Xu's cough became more and more serious one after another, even Liu Guan was helpless, Zhang Zhaohua firmly believed that it was still the reason of water and soil, she kept saying that she wanted to go back to Beiping, Queen Xu kept laughing and did not answer, but this time she suddenly said: "Beiping, I'm afraid I can't go back." ”

Zhang Zhaohua's tears flowed down suddenly: "Mother, we still have to live to be a hundred years old, and we want to watch Brother Chun'er and Brother Ping marry their daughter-in-law, isn't this what you said?"

"Alas," Empress Xu smiled: "What I said, what I said, I still have one more thing to do, otherwise I won't be at ease." ”

Zhang Zhaohua was so unlucky to hear it, she couldn't stand it in her heart, and her mouth was blocked, but it was Wei Shidao, who was not very good at talking on weekdays: "Queen Mother, what you don't worry about, we as children must do it for you;

Xu also said: "Queen Mother, let's recuperate in peace, King Zhao also told his son, he built a garden in Niushou Mountain, and when the weather is warm, he will take the queen mother over to escape the summer and relax!"

Empress Xu looked at them gently and kindly, and grabbed the hands of the three of them together: "Good boy, really good boy!"

Zhang Zhaohua saw the bald spot on the top of her head again, and she couldn't say a word when she choked in her heart.

"I," Empress Xu said slowly, "I have something, I've been thinking about it for a long time, I want to have a general election." ”

So in February of the fourth year of Yongle, the edict was issued to the world, and the beautiful women of Henan, Zhili, and Susong were selected to enter the Zhuwang Pavilion as an alternative.

Wei and Xu have all gone to see these show girls, probably because they thought that these people were chosen for King Han and King Zhao, only Zhang Zhaohua had not been there, she seemed to understand what Queen Xu meant, but she didn't want to think about it at all.

"These twenty-seven people have been selected and have lived in the palace for more than half a month," Xu carefully pinched his handkerchief and asked: "There are discussions in the palace up and down, and they are all speculating who will be selected-sister-in-law, did you go to the Chunxi Palace and see them?"

"I didn't go, but they did. Zhang Zhaohua pointed at Han Dong and said: "It is said that it has indeed been adjusted/taught to have rules and regulations." ”

"If the mother really wants to listen, the slave will say it," Xiang Guan said quickly: "Among these thirty people, the vast majority of them are people with soft personalities. The slaves and maids stood in front of them, but they all listened to their mother's teachings, and when they ate, they only looked at the food in front of them, and did not dare to look up at me. The dish is afraid that the clip will be unstable, and it will make people laugh if it falls or leaks, and the soup is only in the mouth, and I don't even dare to make a sound, and I don't hear the sound of the chopsticks clinking. ”

"The vast majority—" Xu and Webster asked at the same time, "who is not the vast majority?"

"Among them, there is a show girl, one is called Kang Huan, her posture is beautiful, her attitude is relaxed, and the grandmothers and female officials of the palace are very praised by her," Xiang Guan said: "I also watched it specially, and sure enough, when she was eating, her lips did not show her teeth; ”

"Have you heard, this Kang Xiunu is just Xiucai's daughter," Zhang Zhaohua said casually: "But the way she sits and lies down seems to be rich and noble." Etiquette, female commandments, female workers, playing chess, playing double-backs, throwing pots, and even appreciating jewelry, matching clothes, etc., ordinary people have to learn for a long time, she seems to be thorough at one point, and she is self-taught, so that the grandmothers and female officials who teach these are not surprised. ”

Zhang Zhaohua remembered that he had been in the Pavilion of the Kings for a long time to learn these things - but this Kang Huan was able to get everything in a month's time, and he couldn't find out his origin and background, so in this era, it could only be attributed to a "strange thing" - after all, the palace believed in these things more than other places.

"If there is such a strange thing, she must be the focus of observation in the next two rounds of screening," Zhang Zhaohua picked up the scissors, pruned the tung tree in front of him, and said: "The posture is good, and the potential is enough, if she is not selected, who will be selected?"

Wei and Xu left worriedly, and Zhang Zhaohua slowly pondered things in his heart. She knew that her words just now were enough to make them uneasy - this was Zhang Zhaohua's purpose, she wanted Wei and Xu to strike first and brush down this too outstanding show girl.

Sure enough, a few days later, it was said that this Kang Huan seemed to have a bad relationship with the other two show girls, and there were some verbal disputes, and finally Gong Zheng's ruling was to brush the two show girls down, and Kang Huan was still unharmed - this made Zhang Zhaohua shake his head and sigh, Wei's and Xu's methods are really not eye-catching.

"Let's go," Zhang Zhaohua changed his clothes and got up: "Go to the Spring Palace to have a look." ”

If Zhang Zhaohua wants to go to the Chunxi Palace, he has to pass through the Qianqing Palace. At this time, she saw the emperor coming out of the palace, but standing on the steps, and did not come down for a long time.

He didn't see Zhang Zhaohua, and after he left on his shoulder, Zhang Zhaohua slowly walked up to the Danqi of the Qianqing Palace and stood on the position where the emperor had stood just now.

She looked into the distance, and sure enough, she saw some of the scenery - but it made her look indifferent. Because from here she can see the Chunxi Palace, she can clearly see everything about the flowers, red willows, green warblers, warblers, and swallows, these show girls are really as lovely as the willow silk silk in February.

The Xian'an Palace and the Chunxi Palace, which are a collection of show girls, are more west of the West Sixth Palace, far away from the Kunning Palace where the queen lives, and the Chunxi Palace and the Qianqing Palace are on a central axis, standing on the jade steps of the Qianqing Palace, you can see the process of the draft - the ancestral system stipulates that the emperor can only appoint concubines in the final reading, and avoid seeing them at other times.

"Who is the eunuch on duty in the palace?" Zhang Zhaohua asked.

"It's Gonggong Huang next to His Royal Highness King Zhao," Han Dong said: "The old man of Qiandi is now the palm print eunuch on duty in the palace." ”

Zhang Zhaohua was stunned, and she suddenly understood what Gao Chi had been warning her, but she refused to listen to it at that time, and now she can't reach it.

"Call Yisha," Zhang Zhaohua said, "I have something to tell him." ”