In May of the 10th year of Yongzhao, the household department requested the draft, and the Yongzhao Emperor Shen Nuosheng approved, and the state capitals began to register and make a register of school-age women between the ages of 14 and 18 for screening.

Jiang Zhaolin reported the names of Jiang Suoyue and Jiang Jiaoyue, but the people of the Jiang family knew very well that Jiang Jiaoyue was just going through the motions, and the Rong'an County Mansion would naturally play a holy oracle to let her marry into the clan as she wished. Jiang Suoyue is the real candidate to fight for the palace.

Jiang Zhaolin had high hopes for Jiang Suoyue, and specially invited someone from the palace to come to the house to train Jiang Suoyue, that person was originally a palace maid who was released from the palace at twenty-five, and she was called Xie Niangzi, she was just waiting on the periphery when she was in the palace, and she could come into contact with very few real palace secrets.

In fact, this is also very normal, those who can get in touch with the secrets, how many of them have a good end?! Either it is a henchman around the master, very favored, such characters generally continue to stay by the master's side to wait, the master's kind-hearted may give a good family affair and then release it out of the palace, how can it be reduced to the point of training the daughter who is going to enter the palace to make a living.

In any case, this Xie Niangzi is a person who came out of the palace, has seen some of the world, and has taught Jiang Suoyue a lot of things, such as some rules of conduct and survival rules in the palace, and some maintenance experience in appearance, in addition to training Jiang Suoyue to behave elegantly and dignified, graceful and graceful, she is also required to hold nectar for an hour every morning and evening, so that the whole person can breathe like an orchid. You must drink a bowl of black sesame paste every day, and after washing your hair, you will comb your hair with a special medicated oil, just to maintain your hair like ink and smooth and shiny......

These maintenance needs cost a lot, if it weren't for Jiang Zhaolin's expectations on Jiang Suoyue, with her status as a concubine, she might not be able to touch it for a lifetime.

The ups and downs of life have to make people sigh.

Jiang Zhaolin also summoned her to the front to investigate, and saw that she was now at a good age, more dazzling than before, her posture was as dazzling as a star, and there was a clear air of a scroll between her eyebrows. After being taught by Xie Niangzi, her behavior became more calm and atmospheric, and she seemed to have developed a little grace and nobility.

He bowed his head again and again, and his heart was very satisfied. It seems that it is right to let the six girls enter the palace alone, although the five girls have a good background, but their temperament is too arrogant, and it is just a matter of being a princess, if you really enter the palace, it is really not good to say whether to win glory or invite trouble. The six girls are the best candidates to enter the palace, not to mention that they are born well, they are quiet and introverted, and their talents are not weak, and more importantly, they are smart and clever, know how to keep their eyes on the low, and wait for the opportunity to move.

Jiang Zhaolin looked at the graceful and graceful back of his sixth daughter when she left, as if he could already see the light in front of his career, and the glory of the lintel of the Jiang family.

In the Jiang family's intensive preparation for the selection of the two daughters, the days slipped quietly, and August came in the blink of an eye.

Because he was going to enter the palace tomorrow to participate in the primary election, and he would not be able to come back until the results of the re-election were out, Jiang Tian sent someone to bring the clothes and jewelry prepared for Jiang Suoyue.

The jewelry is not brilliant, but it is ordinary, and the weight of gold and silver is sufficient. The clothes are all good materials, but the colors are really not flattering, they are all rich and bright colors such as hibiscus gold, rose purple, and garnet red. As a man, Jiang Zhaolin didn't understand how women dressed, and when he looked at them as some valuable things, he thought that Jiang Tian was very dedicated to this matter.

Jiang Suoyue disagreed, the weather was still hot in early August, and wearing such bright warm colors would make the viewers even more enthusiastic. Besides, her background is at the middle level among the show girls, and I am afraid that she will be ranked in the last few days in the morning or the first few in the afternoon, which is the hottest time of the day. If you wear the clothes prepared by the Eda clan, I am afraid that the emperor, who is tired from seeing so many beautiful girls, will lose interest when he sees her.

Her speculation did anticipate Jiang Tian's plan, Jiang Tian didn't want her to be selected, so he deliberately played some tricks on the selection of clothes and jewelry, and prepared some unbrilliant or even vulgar clothes and hairpin rings, hoping that the emperor would not look down on Jiang Suoyue.

But fortunately, Jiang Suoyue had already expected that the Jiang Tian clan had bad intentions and made other preparations. She took out a package from the cabinet and opened it, touching the satin that was like spring water, this piece of Tianshui Bi material was given by Aunt Ning's father when she gave birth to her younger brother, she was reluctant to use it, pressed it at the bottom of the box, and gave it to her when Jiang Suoyue grew up. Jiang Suoyue made it into this dress, and now she is going to wear this dress to participate in the second election and earn a better life for Aunt Ning and her younger brother!

Jiang Suoyue quietly wrapped up her clothes and put them in the luggage she had prepared for entering the palace for the election.

On the second day, she wore the clothes prepared by the Jiang Tian clan and went out, and when the Jiang Tian clan saw that she was well-behaved, he didn't say much, but only told Jiang Jiaoyue to be careful and leave with the carriage that everyone in the family watched them see.

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In the majestic palace scene, a group of beautiful women with graceful and graceful waists walked in slowly, they did not look around, only lowered their heads and moved the lotus steps lightly, occasionally glancing at this gorgeous palace that they had never seen in their lives from the corner of their eyes.

The leading eunuch and the palace maid took them to a courtyard and distributed Nanmu name tags one by one according to the roster.

"Please line up in five teams, enter one by one, the front ones come out, and the back ones go in again."

There are five rooms in front of them, and there must be a grandmother in the room who examines their bodies, and this is the case in the primary election, but those with physical defects will be brushed off.

Jiang Suoyue casually picked one of the teams and waited quietly.

After waiting for a moment it was her turn, she went into the room in front of her, but saw that the lamp was lit in the room, the windows were tightly covered, and the two grandmothers were looking at her with serious eyes.

The two saluted, and one of them said, "Please ask this show girl to take out your name tag." ”

Jiang Suoyue took out the Nanmu sign distributed when she entered the palace and handed it to her, which read, "Jiang's Suoyue, sixteen years old." ”

The grandmother who got the sign recorded it on the case in front of her, and another grandmother stepped forward and said, "Offended." As he spoke, he cupped her cheeks and palms with his hands and examined them carefully.

After the inspection, Jiang Suoyue took off all her clothes, stood on the soft cushion in the center of the room, and looked back and forth, not even letting go of the secret place.

Jiang Suoyue endured the shyness and embarrassment in her heart and let her check for a long time, before she put on her clothes as if she had been amnesty, took back her name brand and went out.

After a selection of family background and physical condition, only more than 100 selected show girls remained. These people were arranged to live in Chuxiu Palace, sent palace maids to wait, and eunuchs guarded them, and were not allowed to enter and leave at will, only waiting for the re-election three days later.

Chuxiu Palace seems to be set up for the draft, the layout seems to be different from other palaces, in addition to the main hall of the body Yuan Palace, the palace is divided into ten courtyards, each courtyard has a big palace maid in charge and a dozen or so small palace maids who are waiting.

Jiang Suoyue was assigned to Fangjiu Courtyard, and the woman in charge of the palace was called Aunt Jiayun. But seeing that she was wearing a stone blue scattered flower brocade palace dress, holding a meticulous bun, inserting a water-patterned green hosta, and wearing jade diamond flower earrings, she looked capable and refreshing.

She saluted the more than a dozen show girls who were classified, and said without humility or arrogance: "In the past three days, all the show girls have lived in the Fangjiu Courtyard of Chuxiu Palace, and the dozen or so palace maids behind are waiting for you this time. It's just that this palace has palace rules, so please don't go out of this Chuxiu Palace on weekdays, so as not to collide. ”

The show girls, including Jiang Suoyue, naturally agreed, and took out their purses one after another to reward Jiayun, and the palace maid of Fangjiu Courtyard also accepted it, but there was no courteous and flattering look on her face, and Jiang Suoyue was also secretly impressed by this bearing.

The little palace maid who was serving Jiang Suoyue was called Liu Ye, and she didn't say much, she made the bed obediently and neatly, stood beside the bed and said, "What else does the young lady have to say?" At this time, she has not yet been selected, so naturally she is not worthy of the title of master.

"Go fetch some water and let me freshen up."

"Yes." Liu Ye retreated, and after a short time, he called hot water and waited for Jiang Suoyue to freshen up.

Jiang Suoyue was lying on the bed, her body that had been tense for a day finally relaxed, she looked at the tent that was much more delicate than her own, and thought silently in her heart, she came, came to this deep court, this woman's battlefield!

But I don't know how many people haven't slept tonight.