Cai Wei was originally standing in the last line, and when she saw that the Empress Dowager Sun was going to take her out and look at her, she stood still, and waited for the ladies in front of her to retreat from the hall to their respective seats on both sides, and then she stepped forward slowly, and said: "The people's daughter Zhou Caiwei has seen the Queen Mother, and the mother is healthy!" ”

Empress Dowager Sun squinted her eyes and looked at her a few times, and said to Concubine Yingchuan: "This is the girl you set up for Min'er early, if you want me to see it, it's just ordinary, just in terms of appearance, I'm afraid that most of these ladies are better than her today!" You are too visionless to be a mother, although Min'er is not your biological son, you can't just pick such a rare one and throw it to him. Fortunately, I didn't follow your meaning, this is better to look at it more and choose more, so that you can choose the most desirable princess for Min'er. ”

Concubine Shen hung her head and said nothing, let the Empress Dowager Sun say, but the Duchess of Weiguo and Mrs. Dingxi Hou couldn't listen to it anymore, they knew that this Empress Dowager Sun had always had no good reputation for Concubine Yingchuan, but this can't ignore the facts and talk nonsense here, right?

Although the appearance of the girl in this week cannot be said to be the top of the country, but among so many ladies today, she can also rank in the top three, which is already a rare beauty, how can it become ordinary in the mouth of the Empress Dowager Sun?

This is just the beauty of the skin, it is said that the beauty is in the bones and not in the skin, if you talk about the charm and temperament, this Zhou girl is even more out of the world, and the eyes that are bright like autumn water alone will compare the rest of the ladies.

When the two of them saw that Zhou Caiwei was so embarrassed by Empress Dowager Sun in front of so many people, her complexion did not change at all, but she just stood there with her hands down, looking at the indescribable demure and elegance, just like a landscape. praised her even more in his heart, and felt that this Concubine Yingchuan gave her to her son, which was really good eyesight.

Empress Dowager Sun belittled Zhou Caiwei, and when she saw that she didn't cry her nose, she was a little unhappy and asked her: "Originally, you set up a family affair with the king of Yingchuan, if it weren't for the palace and the courtiers to stop you, you don't need to choose a concubine, you are the princess of Yingchuan, but now you still have to go through the threshold of choosing a concubine to marry into this Yingchuan palace, and you may not be able to be a concubine, you are extremely dissatisfied in your heart, and you have a lot of resentment?" ”

Cai Wei knelt down unhurriedly and said: "The folk girl doesn't dare, the folk girl knows that she has a rough and ugly face, and she is afraid that she is not a good match for His Royal Highness the county king, and the queen mother is also looking forward to selecting a good mate for His Royal Highness the county king. ”

If she said it sincerely, then the three ladies would think that she was praising and mocking the Empress Dowager Sun.

Seeing that she was still good at talking and listening to what she said, Empress Dowager Sun waved her hand and said, "Okay, you go down and sit down first, and then start the first round of the test." If we are women, whether we are a girl at home or a married woman, this woman's virtue is naturally the first priority. Therefore, today's first round of concubine selection is to test your morality. ”

When the women heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, if this is a talent test or something, it will be easy to do, but how to test this virtue?

Even Concubine Yingchuan and the other four ladies don't know the level of virtue, how the Empress Dowager Sun will test the law, because when the five of them discussed, for the sake of fairness and justice, they only agreed that one person would come up with a question, but they did not say the test questions first, but waited until the day of the selection of the concubine to announce it, so as not to let anyone know in advance the test questions and leak the questions, and there was favoritism.

Empress Dowager Sun glanced at Concubine Yingchuan triumphantly, and said with a smile: "In fact, it is difficult to examine a person's moral character, and it is difficult to say that it is simple. All the ladies are people who have read the "Four Books of Women", "The Book of Female Filial Piety", "The Biography of the Martyr", and "The Female Training". Hongu will say three famous sentences from these books, and you just need to write them down on a piece of paper. Those who answer all three sentences correctly are the upper comment, two correct answers are the middle comment, and one sentence is the lower comment. ”

When the women heard this question so tricky, they were worried, and they didn't want the Empress Dowager Sun to say again: "Concubine Yingchuan missed a rule, because this woman's virtue is the foundation of our women's life, and it is the most important. Therefore, if you can't answer a sentence in the first level, and you don't even have a lower evaluation, you will no longer be eligible to participate in the next four levels, and you will be eliminated. ”

The girls were already at a loss, and they were desperately thinking about the few women's books they had read, and there were even those who had never learned to read and write since they were children, and they were all about to cry at this time.

Concubine Shen and the other three ladies didn't expect that Empress Dowager Sun would add such a clause temporarily, which was a high-sounding statement, but this question was made by her, if she had told the question to the girls in their family earlier, wouldn't it be in this first round that more than half of the girls from other families would be able to get rid of more than half of the girls from other families?

Duchess Wei Guo saw the girl in her family sitting there so sad that tears were about to fall, and she couldn't help but say: "Queen Mother, although what you said is reasonable, but this, this is about to start the general election, so I am afraid that it is not good to add this rule!" Otherwise, it's—"

Empress Dowager Sun glared at her and said angrily, "Is Duchess Guo questioning the decision of this palace?" As the queen mother of a country, can't this palace even want to add such a rule temporarily? ”

Duchess Wei Guo didn't dare to say anything, and hurriedly looked at Concubine Yingchuan and several other ladies, hoping that they would all come out and say something.

There was no girl in Mrs. Dingxi's family to run for election, so it didn't matter, she hung up and kept silent.

Mrs. Zuo Xiang has something else to prepare, but she is not afraid, she is happy to let this first level kill some of the ladies of other families, so she will not speak.

Duchess Wei Guo saw that none of them came out to help speak, so she had to put her last hope on Concubine Yingchuan, but she didn't know that this concubine didn't say a word.

Seeing that no one was on the side of the Duchess of Weiguo, Empress Dowager Sun said proudly: "Of our five main candidates, except for the Duchess of Guo, the other four have no objection to the decision of the palace, so let's do it!" ”

She beckoned, "Hong Nushi, you read those three questions out to all the ladies!" ”

I saw a woman dressed as a female official step forward, unfolded a scroll in her hand, and read aloud: "The first sentence: 'There is right and wrong in words', the second sentence: 'The misfortune of the concubine', and the third sentence: 'The depth of the book'." Please also ask the ladies to write on the paper which women's book these three sentences are from, what are the titles, and what are the upper and lower sentences. The answer is limited to one stick of incense. Ladies should remember to indicate their first and last names in the lower left corner of the note! ”

As soon as these three sentences are read, not to mention those who have never read a book, even those who have studied "The Four Books of Women" and "The Book of Female Filial Piety" were also dumbfounded, these three sentences are so obscure, who can remember which book this is, and also say the title, the upper and lower sentences, who can do this!

This question is so obscure, it's clear that you deliberately don't want people to answer correctly?

But since the Empress Dowager Sun dared to come up with such a remote topic, it was naturally possible for someone to do it, so she saw that there were two young ladies in scarlet dresses among the women, and she picked up the pen and wrote without thinking.

Then these two young ladies took the time to admire the embarrassment of the rest of the women, who were thinking hard and couldn't think of it, anxious and worried, and they were really happy in their hearts, and even thought beautifully, should they be able to wipe out all these ladies next to them only this level, only their sisters and sons are left.

They were proud, but they saw a woman in purple who also wrote the flower note and handed it over, and then took a closer look, this woman was not the girl of the Zhou family who had been degraded by Empress Dowager Sun and had married King Yingchuan. Suddenly became suspicious, why did this girl finish writing the answer so quickly, could it be that she also knew the question in advance?

In a short time, the incense stick had already burned out, and whether it was finished or not, he had to fold the flower note in front of him and hand it to the palace maids waiting on the side, and then they presented it to the five main candidates.

Seeing that it would take a while for those palace maids to sort out the flower notes they had received, Empress Dowager Sun instructed Hong Nushi to read the answer to the first question to everyone first.

Na Hong Nushi cleared her throat and read aloud: "The first sentence 'there is right and wrong in words' comes from the third chapter of "The Female Girl", the upper sentence is 'The husband has a straight and straight matter', and the next sentence is 'The straight cannot not fight, and the crooked cannot not sue.' ’”

"The second sentence 'the misfortune of the concubine' comes from the fifth chapter of the "Female Fan Jielu", the first sentence is 'the misfortune of the husband', and the next sentence is 'The Song woman mourns with words.' ”

"The third sentence 'the depth of the book' comes from the fourth chapter of the "Internal Training", the upper sentence is 'the wood of the husband and the night', and the next sentence is 'the platform of Lingyun, the thickness of the foundation.'" ”

When the women at the bottom heard the answers to these three sentences, many of them suddenly looked like they were dead, but they couldn't write at all, and they couldn't answer a word.