Zhang Zhaohua knew that this kind of controversy over "benevolence" was fruitless, and that the mainstream idea was benevolence and love for all people, and if you said that this kind of benevolence actually did not exist, wouldn't that be a great disapproval of the world? Or is it right in the "Tao Te Ching" -- there is benevolence and righteousness in the abode of the Great Dao, there is great hypocrisy in wisdom, there is filial piety in the discord between the six relatives, and there are loyal ministers in the chaos of the country. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Mama, maybe there are real benevolent people in this world," Zhang Zhaohua remembered that he said very seriously, "but more people must be pretending to be benevolent." ”

"It is normal for people to like to cover up their privacy, and they like to deceive others to cover up themselves," Zhang Zhaohua said, "to cover up hypocrisy and rely on all kinds of external objects to get what she wants." Without careful observation, it is impossible to know what is hidden in it. ”

"Disguise benevolence?" said Mama Gongzheng.

"Yes, disguise benevolence," Zhang Zhaohua said, "hide the truth of your heart under the face of benevolence." Such a person, who gives a small favor to others in order to get a greater reward from this person, is humble in small details, but secretly competes with others in a big place, speaks modestly and respectfully, and is cautious and careful, as if his nature is so simple, and he is very generous in appearance, and seems to have a kind face—such a person, in the name of charity, is actually trying to gain fame. ”

Zhang Zhaohua made it very clear that Ma was one of the kind of people she said.

Zhang Zhaohua said these words, because she saw that Mama Gong Zheng was one of the few people who was not confused by Ma's appearance, although she was very kind to Ma's, but Zhang Zhaohua just knew that she actually saw the essence of Ma's good at disguise, in her seemingly chaotic eyes, in fact, she had already read all the changes in human affairs, and anyone was informed between the talks.

So Zhang Zhaohua dared to say this, of course, she had other considerations.

"You're a very smart man, but you say such things in front of me," Mama Miyamasa was also scrutinizing her, "tell me, do you have any other plans?"

Zhang Zhaohua was waiting for this sentence, she stood up, made another big salute, and said firmly: "Mama Mingjian, I have a request for Mama." ”

"What do you want?" asked Mama Miyamasa.

"I want to be a female officer. Zhang Zhaohua took a deep breath and said.

Mama Gong Zheng actually thought a lot in an instant, even if Zhang Zhaohua said that she would help sit in the position of the princess or even the princess, she thought about it. The only thing I didn't expect was that Zhang didn't want to continue to read the election, but chose to be a female official.

"Why do you want to be a female official?" said Gong Zheng's grandmother: "With your qualifications, you can actually become a princess." Isn't it better to be the concubine of the king of a country, enjoy all the glory and wealth, and the descendants can pass on the country, than to spend time in the palace?"

"Yes," Zhang Zhaohua said stiffly: "If there is a thick smell of ointment, who wants coarse tea and light rice? If you can wear brocade clothes and jade belts, who wants to be coarse and linen? The reason why you become a female official is actually because of the unavoidable hardship." I hope that Mama will be fulfilled. ”

Mama Gong Zheng seemed to be a little abrupt, she thought that Zhang Zhaohua said that the hardship was an emotional matter, and the most likely thing was that this girl had a person who was in love with each other, but under the pressure of her parents, she was drafted by the Beijing Division, in order to live up to her lover, she planned to be a female official, and when the five or six years of service was over, she could return to her hometown smoothly, and maybe she could also achieve a good story of a lover becoming a family member.

Zhang Zhaohua looked at Mama's expression, as if she was making up a bitter drama of majestic mountains and rivers in her brain, and couldn't help twitching the corners of her mouth, forget it, let her think so mistaken that she could win a little sympathy with this.

"If you insist," Mama Gong Zheng finally said: "A total of forty-five show girls have been selected in this round, except for five or six people who will be selected in the end, in fact, the rest are all going to stay in the palace to be female show talents." Your name and the list of the other forty-four show girls have now been sent to the harem, and it is too late to cross it out—but in front of Niangniang, I can say that you have a little fault or two that excludes you from the candidates for the princess. ”

The final round of selection is said to be in the court, and Concubine Guo Ning, who is in charge of the six palaces, and the biological mothers of the marriageable princes, together select the favorite show girls. Zhang Zhaohua deliberately showed a little stupidity at that time, and then Mama Gong Zheng said a word or two on the side, which should have been unexpectedly defeated.

Zhang Zhaohua was overjoyed, and immediately bowed to the ground: "Thank you, Mama!"

"Don't be in a hurry to thank me first," Mama Gong Zheng said meaningfully: "Although I am willing to do this, you must know the truth of endless goodness, and what your future will be may not be in this plan." You'll understand this later. ”

After the fourth round of selection, the Wang family will move out of the Zhuwang Pavilion with the other show girls' mothers. Zhang Zhaohua really didn't want to cry, but he couldn't help crying. Her heart seemed to be crushed, but looking at Wang's expression, she knew that Wang was even more sad than her.

She hadn't even told Wang about her arbitrary decision, so she could only squeeze her hand and promise her over and over again that the family would be reunited soon. Whatever she said, Wang nodded in disbelief, and even she seemed to be persuaded by herself.

After Wang left, Zhang Zhaohua was listless for a while, and the other show girls were the same, Zhang Zhaohua also heard Lu secretly crying at night, and when the housekeeper's aunt was away, Zhang Zhaohua ran to sleep with Lu in the same bed, Lu was embarrassed to cry, and the two of them talked secretly, and the next day they were both blue and black eyes.

"Am I getting bigger?" Lu suddenly asked her one day, the reason is that the few jackets and skirts she brought to the restaurant are actually tight and tight, you know, these clothes were too big to wear before, but I didn't expect them to be very inappropriate now. Lu Shi also thought about going to the weaving and dyeing bureau to let people put the thread and wear it again, but immediately sent two new clothes, which were good material for yarn, so she stuffed the two jackets and skirts back to the bottom of the box.

In September, they were sent clothes, and in October, they were sent yarn clothes down, saying that they should wear what clothes they should wear when the season comes. The palace pays great attention to the solar terms, everything has to follow the season, for example, in the meal in September, there are a lot of flower cakes, Zhang Zhaohua still likes to eat them, but the Lu family is not good, she eats sweets and revolts.

The first day of October is the day of the calendar, and it is said that next year's day will be one day shorter, which is not enough, so it will be postponed by one day during the New Year, indicating that this day has passed.

In fact, there is another fun part, and that is learning to drink. Because wine is an indispensable thing in court banquets. The harem likes soft and intoxicating wine the most, such as plum wine, cherry wine, chrysanthemum wine, and there are also clam wine, Bazhen wine and calamus brewed in the treasury of the medicine department.

Therefore, the show girls also have to learn to drink, and they have also followed the grandmothers to the cellar of the restaurant to move the wine jars, and several wine jars are ceremoniously sealed, and the grandmothers pointed to the wine and said that they must not rub it on a little, it is the prince's favorite wine.

Because five or six princes are going to get married this year, the old wine buried in the wine cellar of the Zhuwangguan can be taken out and feasted at the wedding banquet.

I used to know that burying my daughter red was a practice in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Because as early as the Song Dynasty, Shaoxing is a famous wine production area, Shaoxing people gave birth to a child at home, and when the child is full moon, they will choose several altars of wine, seal the mouth of the altar with mud, bury it in the ground or hide it in the cellar, if it is a daughter, when the daughter gets married, it will be taken out to entertain relatives and friends, and the wine drunk is called "daughter red"; if it is a boy, wait until the day of the title of the gold list to take it out, the name is "champion red".

Why did the emperor of the ancestral land in Anhui learn the customs of Shaoxing, in fact, it is also interesting, because when the emperor led the troops to fight outside, Queen Ma gave birth to his eldest son Zhu Biao, and the emperor was very happy, and engraved the words on a local mountain, "Those who come to this mountain will not suffer and have no heirs." Later, there was a celebration in the barracks, and one of the ancestors from Zhejiang told them about their local customs, and the emperor thought it was very good, and after he went back, he buried a barrel of wine and sealed it after each son was born.

Of course, it was not to wait for them to drink it, but to take it out for them to drink at the wedding.