On the day Huo Yunxuan entered the palace as a show girl, the weather was unusually sunny. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Xiu Yuan Hall stood outside the girls of various provinces, a group of people who were pressed by the warbler Yanyan black, with green, fat, red and thin, tender faces and moths, and the fat powder was fragrant. It coincides with the late spring of March, the season of cherry blossoms. A gust of spring breeze blew, and the cherry blossoms in the palace fell one after another, falling on the shoulders, heads, and backs of these Jiao'e, and the flowers fell one after another, which was very beautiful.

Everyone else got together in pairs, or whispered, or touted each other, so it was not lively. Huo Yunxuan either stays in the palace on weekdays, or lives in the palace for a few days, living in a simple house, handkerchiefs are also people in the palace, and these people are just nodding friends, and there are many things that Huo Yunxuan has not seen, Huo Yunxuan doesn't like to join in the fun, so she stands by herself.

But it is inevitable that there are girls who know Huo Yunxuan, or whose mother's family follows Huo Chenyi, who saw Huo Yunxuan and came to talk.

"Ning Xin County Lord?"

Huo Yunxuan heard the sound, turned her head to look over, frowned slightly, and glanced at Zhiyu, who whispered in Huo Yunxuan's ear: "It is the third daughter of the deputy envoy of the General Political Envoy, surnamed Zhou." ”

Huo Yunxuan was surprised, and put on a smile: "It turned out to be Sister Zhou." ”

Zhou Huiyun smiled and bent her knees to greet Huo Yunxuan, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a few days, and the county lord has become more and more marked." The emperor will never forget it when he sees it. ”

Huo Yunxuan lowered her eyes and said lightly: "Sister is cautious in her words and deeds, there are many outstanding girls in this year's show, and I may not be able to win the election." ”

Zhou Huiyun knew that she was speechless, and when she saw Huo Yunxuan's indifferent appearance, her cheeks were even hotter. But his father begged for a living under his brother, and he still had to be careful to accompany him. Biting his lower lip, he changed the subject in embarrassment

"I don't know how good the old lady is?"

"Thank you sister for worrying, my grandmother is in good health."

After that, he said no more. Zhou Huiyun doesn't talk much on weekdays, but when she sees Huo Yunxuan's appearance, she is really a little overwhelmed.

Zhiyu was afraid that Huo Yunxuan would offend people when she first entered the palace, so she touched Huo Yunxuan's arm one by one, and smiled with Zhou Huiyun: "Miss Zhou, don't be surprised, the county lord looks a little colder, but her heart is also hot......

"It's not, it's just that it depends on whether you are worthy of other people's heat."

Before he could finish speaking, a voice interrupted. Huo Yunxuan raised her eyebrows, looked up, and saw that this person was very familiar, with a sneer on the corner of her mouth: "Miss Guo's words are serious, but they are also true. ”

After that, he lightly glanced at Zhou Huiyun, whose face was red because of his words with Guo Xianghui, and said with a faint smile: "A quiet person like Sister Zhou can naturally afford the heat of the county lord, but a person like Miss Guo who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic really can't afford it." ”

"You!"

Guo Xianghui originally wanted to instigate Huo Yunxuan and Zhou Huiyun, but she didn't want Huo Yunxuan to play cards so unconventionally.

Huo Yunxuan hooked the corners of her mouth, took Zhou Huiyun's hand, and said lightly: "Sister Zhou, you and I will go over there first." ”

Huo Yunxuan's impression of Guo Xianghui's sister is quite good, this time she is only a child who doesn't understand right and wrong and treats everyone as an imaginary enemy, and she doesn't want to worry about it.

Guo Xianghui saw Huo Yunxuan pulling Zhou Huiyun away, only as if she was afraid of herself, she looked at the back of Huo Yunxuan and Zhou Huiyun leaving brightly with a victorious smile, but she didn't know that there were already people behind her watching her jokes.

"Who is the one who will speak in plain clothes? Dare to wear plain clothes? ”

It's not Huo Yunxuan's little ancestor.

"The girl doesn't know, that's the fourth lady of the Ningjun Palace, her name is Yunxuan, and she is the county lord of Ningxin who is personally named by the saint."

"How noble is it?"

Bian Er nodded, and said: "The one who will ask for peace with the county lord of Ning Xin is the protégé of the king of Ning County, the third daughter of the deputy envoy of the General Political Envoy, named Huiyun. And the one who will dispute with the county lord of Ningxin is the sister of Concubine Xian in the palace, Miss Yan of Xiangyuan Houfu, named Xianghui. ”

The one who asked was Sun Xueqiao, the concubine of the Sun family of the Suzhou prefect, and it was the maidservant girl she brought over who spoke.

Sun Xueqiao came from Suzhou, although she is a concubine, she grew up under the knees of Mrs. Sun since she was a child, and she is quite loved by Mrs. Sun. Before coming to Beijing, I took a set of roster portraits to show to the side, so that I could remember which girls, which ones could not be offended, and those who should not be careless when meeting.

Sun Xueqiao is a concubine, and her mother's family is only from the official position of Sipin, although it is the same as Mu Qingya's father's official position abroad, but the Mu family is a prestigious family, and her grandmother is a national prince, so her status is naturally much lower. Moreover, it was inconvenient to bring more people from Suzhou, so Sun Xueqiao only brought a maid next to him.

"Then Ning Xin County Lord is easy to get along with?"

Bian Er shook his head and said with a smile: "Some people say that this Ningxin County Lord is arrogant and domineering, and no one in his eyes doesn't want to laugh with others on weekdays." ”

Sun Xueqiao nodded: "In the end, it is common sense that the background is there, and it is common sense to be arrogant." ”

He smiled again: "But some people say that although this county lord of Ning Xin is arrogant, he loves to make friends the most, and he is the most good person to curb evil and promote good." ”

After a pause, he persuaded him: "In the past, only the Xue family covered the sky in the capital, but now the Huo family and the Xue family are fighting against each other, and the emperor is obviously partial to the Huo family, and the girl still needs to get along with that one in the future." ”

Sun Xueqiao glanced at Huo Yunxuan's back with inexplicable eyes, and said with a smile: "This is natural...... I heard that the county lord and the emperor and queen went to watch the ceremony? Zhengbin and Praiser are respectively the Queen Mother of the West and the concubine Niangniang? ”

Nodding his head, Sun Xueqiao's eyes quickly flashed a trace of calculation, and then he returned to his former gentleness, and said with a smile: "In the future, we will follow this county lord well." ”

The side nodded, but said with a frown: "It's just that this county lord is wearing plain clothes today, I'm afraid he doesn't want to be selected, it is possible that the king of Ningjun has already greeted the emperor, and today he is just taking advantage of the emperor's draft day to choose a good husband for the county lord of Ningxin." ”

Sun Xueqiao nodded, a smile of unknown meaning tugged at the corner of her mouth, and her tone was shabby: "With a family background like the county lord of Ning Xin, no one dares to mess with him even if he doesn't enter the palace, let's just accompany him carefully." ”

Although Sun Xueqiao grew up under the knees of Mrs. Sun, she is a concubine in the end, and compared with the Shangjing Wang family, she is only a small family, and she has long had the idea of flying on the branches to be a phoenix, and when she sees these girls from the Wang family in Beijing, she is naturally jealous.

After Huo Yunxuan pulled Zhou Huiyun aside, she just exchanged a few words occasionally, and after Zhou Huiyun was announced into the palace, Huo Yunxuan kept staring at her toes, and she didn't know that someone was worried about herself.

This year's show girl is the first draft since the emperor ascended the throne, and there are a large number of people, and it is already dusk in the willows on the moon when Huo Yunxuan arrives. Some of the show girls had already returned, and only a dozen or so people were still waiting anxiously in the warm pavilion.

There is a lamp in the hall of Xiuyuan Palace, from the throne to the door of the main hall, there are two rows of Heyang flower candles, there are hundreds of Yangyang, the branches are as thick as that arm, the candles are filled with agarwood crumbs, the flame is bright, the fragrance is clear, Gu Shaoyuan sat in the upper hall, his originally tired face, when he saw Huo Yunxuan, his eyes flashed with sparks.

Huo Yunxuan and the other five show girls dressed solemnly and walked into the hall with each step. The eunuchs who could only hear the guidance on the side, gave an order, and knelt down together and bowed down.

After that, they got up together, stood aside with their hands down, and waited for the roll call of the celebrant and the inner supervisor, and then came out one by one.

"Jiangsu Salt Transport Envoy Si Yun is the daughter of Ye Shan, Ye Yunqian, seventeen years old."

Ye Yunqian came out of the ranks, stepped forward to give a blessing to Gu Shaoyuan, and said with a smile: "Yun Qian, the daughter of the courtier Ye, has seen the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live, I respectfully invite the queen mother Jin An, and wish the queen a thousand years of good luck." ”

Gu Shaoyuan nodded, hummed in a low voice, and asked, "What books have you read?" ”

"Your Majesty, the courtiers are stupid, they rarely read, they only read the "Four Books of Women", and they only know a few words."

Gu Shaoyuan nodded lightly, and the queen smiled: "A woman's lack of talent is virtue, and her daughter's family mostly uses needlework and female redness, and Xiao only knows a few words to be very good, I don't know how your embroidery is?" ”

Ye Yunqian smiled and said: "Qi Yu Niangniang, Yun Qian likes to play with needlework when he has nothing to do. ”

As he spoke, he lowered his head and gathered his hands above his head to offer a handkerchief with both hands: "This handkerchief is sewn by the courtiers with a needle and thread." ”

Xue Ruran let out an "oh", and her tone was quite interested. Gu Shaoyuan glanced at the little palace maid on the side, and the palace maid signaled, stepped forward to take the handkerchief, and handed it to the emperor, the emperor smiled and said: "How do I understand the things of my daughter's family, or the queen, you can take a look." ”

When Xue Ruran heard this, he took the handkerchief, looked at it carefully, and said with a smile: "Not bad." ”

Gu Shaoyuan said "hmm": "Quite virtuous, not bad." ”

The queen looked at the inner supervisor with a smile and said with a smile: "It's better to write down the name and keep it for later." ”

Ye Yunqian retreated into the queue, and the inner supervisor of the celebrant sang again

"The daughter of Sun Yuanshan, the prefect of Suzhou, Sun Xueqiao, is eighteen years old."

That Sun Xueqiao also came out of the ranks, stepped forward to give a blessing under Gu Shaoyuan, and said with a smile: "Xue Qiao, the daughter of the courtier Sun, has seen the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live, I respectfully invite the queen mother Jin An, I wish the queen a thousand years of good luck." ”

Gu Shaoyuan let out a faint "um" and asked, "Can you know poetry and books?" ”

Then Sun Xueqiao kowtowed and replied: "Your Majesty, you know a little bit, it's not enough." ”

Gu Shaoyuan nodded: "It's modest, I'll test you." ”

Sun Xueqiao lowered her head and said softly, Gu Shaoyuan said: "Let's just use the two words in your name to make a poem." ”

It's a bit difficult. Gu Shaoyuan was deliberately embarrassing her.

Huo Yunxuan raised her eyes slightly, didn't dare to raise her head, so she looked at Gu Shaoyuan with her spare eyes, but saw that Gu Shaoyuan's face was serious, and he no longer looked like when he talked to him, he felt quite bored, and he thought of a poem in his heart, but he couldn't help, so he lowered his head and stared at his toes again.

But I don't want to, although Sun Xueqiao is a concubine, she is quite talented in poetry, but it was just a while of kung fu, so I heard her reply: "Leaning on Qiao Song in the middle of the night, I don't feel that my clothes are full of snow." ”

It turned out to be Meng Jiao's "Bitter Cold Groan".

A hint of surprise flashed in Huo Yunxuan's eyes, and the difference in her heart was that she had met a fellow countryman?

Gu Shaoyuan's eyes flashed with a hint of amazement, and he clapped his hands and said, "Good poetry, good poetry." ”

Xue Ruran hurriedly smiled at the inner supervisor of the celebrant on the side: "Make a note of it." ”

Sun Xue Qiao retreated back to the queue as she said, and the inner supervisor of the priest sang again

"The daughter of Chen Daoming, the governor of Xuancheng, Chen Fang, is fifteen years old."

Huo Yunxuan lowered her head, and the corner of her eyes suffocated to the side, and she saw that the beautiful girl's hands were already shaking, and her voice was also trembling, Huo Yunxuan couldn't help but laugh in her heart.

Such a show girl must have been left behind.

"The daughter of Yoon Xiangheng in Jeju Suncheonfu, Xiang Yu, fifteen years old."

"Courtier...... Courtiers see the emperor's ...... Your Majesty, My Emperor is ...... Long live the year....... Ten thousand...... Hooray......"

They were all nervous. Before he finished speaking, he was put off the sign.

Could it be that Gu Shaoyuan looks so scary? Huo Yunxuan couldn't help but laugh in her heart, and glanced at Gu Shaoyuan, who was sitting on the top with a serious and cold face, and said in her heart, "No wonder I scared other girls like this." ”

"The sister of Huo Chenyi, the king of Jingning County, Huo Yunxuan, is fifteen years old."

As he was walking, he heard that the celebrant had already read his name. When Huo Yunxuan heard this, she hurriedly took two steps forward and walked to Gu Shaoyuan's head, Ying Ying bowed down, and bowed her head

"Yun Xuan, the daughter of the courtier Huo, has seen the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live, long live, I respectfully invite the queen mother Jin An, and wish the queen mother a thousand years of good luck."

Gu Shaoyuan only dissipated a little coldness at this point, but he only nodded lightly and asked, "What books have you read?" ”

Huo Yunxuan kowtowed and replied: "Your Majesty, the courtiers have followed their brother to fight in the family school since they were young, although they are not successful, but they have also read a few good books in addition to "Women's Rings" and "Women's Rules". ”

Gu Shaoyuan had a look of satisfaction in his eyes, and said: "It's good to know some poems and books, and it will be very good to add fragrance to my red sleeves at that time." ”

In fact, it was decided to keep it in this way.

Xue Ruran originally wanted to pick a thorn in Huo Yunxuan to make her unhappy, but she didn't want Gu Shaoyuan to leave the sign but leave it so happily, and a trace of displeasure flashed on her face.

But in the end, it was Gu Shaoyuan's decision, Xue Ruran didn't want to say much.

I could only watch the person in front of me pass the test easily, and I almost gritted my teeth with hatred.

When Huo Yunxuan came out of the Xiuyuan Palace, Sun Xueqiao followed, smiled in front of Huo Yunxuan, and said with a smile: "I have seen the county lord of Ning Xin." ”

Because it was a wave of the draft together, Huo Yunxuan looked familiar, but just now Huo Yunxuan was distracted from time to time, and she forgot the name of this person, and looked at Zhiyu one by one, and Zhiyu smiled and said in Huo Yunxuan's ear: "She is the daughter of the prefect of Suzhou, and her name is Xue Qiao." ”

Huo Yunxuan nodded and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Sister Sun." ”

Sun Xueqiao saw her smiling and smiling, but the smile didn't reach the bottom of her eyes, and she couldn't figure out Huo Yunxuan's routine for a while, so she had to be careful to speak flatteringly: "The county lord's appearance, even if he is dressed plainly, stands out among us." ”

Huo Yunxuan smiled: "It's not as good as my sister's prime." ”

After that, he was about to retire, but he saw Mama Fu in the Empress Dowager's palace coming over with Holly, and said with a smile: "County Lord, wait a while." ”