Zeng Rong saw that Amei turned from sadness to joy in an instant, thinking that she had really figured it out, smiled, and didn't delve into the matter further.

Back at the Shanggong Bureau, Zeng Rong went to have breakfast first, and met Xiaocui at the door of the restaurant, Zeng Rong told Xiaocui about his assessment results, as for anything else, she didn't ask, and Xiaocui didn't say.

Zeng Rong didn't ask, he wanted to pretend to be stupid, he didn't want to bear that, Xiaocui didn't say it, he probably didn't want to put pressure on Zeng Rong.

After the meal, she went directly to the workshop, and she still had two pairs of the queen mother's uppers to embroider, which were also entwined with branch lotus, saying that this flower color was refreshing and suitable for summer wear.

When she was busy, Liu Chunmiao came and called Zeng Rong out for questioning, and learned that Zeng Rong had temporarily won the first place, she nodded approvingly, "But don't be careless, today you meet some poor children who have not studied seriously, the real test is tomorrow, remember, the inner chamberlain only needs two female officers, if you can't get into the top three, there is no hope at all, besides, you are so young, I am afraid that I will not be able to give you any good errands when I go to the inner chamberlain, you have to think about this clearly." ”

"Yes, thank you aunt for reminding me, I remember." Zeng Rong smiled playfully at the other party.

"Virtue, let me ask you, if you can't go to the inner warden, where will you choose?" Seeing Zeng Rong's smile, Liu Chunmiao's heart flickered and asked.

"It's hard to say, I'm afraid that I won't be in charge then." Zeng Rong smiled faintly.

Liu Chunmiao opened her mouth and closed it again.

Yes, these things in the harem should have been uniformly deployed by the queen, which little palace maid can call the shots?

Liu Chunmiao wanted to persuade Zeng Rong a few more words, if she regretted it now, it would still be too late to go to Yaohua Palace, but after thinking about it, Zeng Rong was more transparent than she imagined, so she only touched Zeng Rong's head, explained a few words and turned away.

The next day, at the beginning of Chen, Zeng Rong and Lu He washed up, Zeng Rong took the volume of "Analects", Lu He took the volume of Zeng Rong's reading notes, the two of them read in the courtyard for more than half an hour, and Liu Chunmiao came.

Because the Shanggong Bureau only won Zeng Rong and Lu He this time, today's assessment was directly led by Liu Chunmiao.

This time the assessment changed places again, and it was held in a side hall of Kunning Palace, and when Zeng Rong and the three arrived, there were a few people standing in the courtyard, judging from their clothes, they were the palace maids.

Standing in the courtyard and looking at the side hall, I saw that several rows of cases had been placed in the side hall, and two little eunuchs were distributing pen, ink, paper and inkstones.

When Zeng Rongzheng and Lu He were discussing what the exam questions would be, a bunch of people suddenly came in the courtyard, led by an aunt in charge in her thirties.

Zeng Rong saw that these girls were either gentle and amiable, or delicate or gentle and elegant, and couldn't help but sigh that in the end, it was a small jasper selected from thousands of people, Zeng Rong and Lu He stood among them, and they had no advantage at all.

Suddenly, I thought, this kind of posture will be unsuccessful, I don't know what kind of fairy beauty those selected talented women will be?

With these Zhu Yu in front, the emperor shouldn't look down on her little bean ding, right? and Zhu Hengna, even if he is unwilling, the Queen Mother will definitely choose a woman with good looks for him, and he can't let him grow old alone, right?

From Zhu Heng, Zeng Rong quickly thought of Amei again, Amei is seventeen years old this year, and her literacy and charm have long been stereotyped, not to mention compared with those ladies, there is also a gap between her and these small jasper in front of her, so it is difficult for her to enter Zhu Heng's delicate and sensitive heart.

As the two majestic-looking grandmothers in charge and the two unsmiling old eunuchs came in, Zeng Rong hurriedly collected those messy thoughts and focused on what was in front of him.

Soon, Zeng Rong and his entourage entered the side hall under the guidance of the little eunuch and sat down, this assessment, there is no special gentleman, the examiner is the four who came in before, and the assessment process is also simple, combined with the article "Standing Body" in the "Female Analects" written by Song Ruozi in the Tang Dynasty, explaining how women should behave in the harem.

This time Zeng Rong did not submit the paper in advance, she only read the book "The Analects of Women" in the previous life, and now the times have changed, and she has long forgotten about it, fortunately, the approximate content is still a little impressive, and the age of this book and the background of the times Zeng Rong also remembers that since the title of this book is "The Analects of Women", it obviously follows the inheritance system of Confucianism, Confucianism emphasizes the interests of the group, the individual must be subordinated to the group, and the moral cultivation of the individual is the first lesson in Confucianism, otherwise there will be no such thing as "those who want to unite their families, first cultivate their bodies" and " The foundation of the world is in the country, the foundation of the country is at home, and the foundation of the family is in the body".

Of course, the above-mentioned Confucian inheritance system is inductively deduced from the book "Analects", and the social group aimed at the book "The Analects of Women" is men, and the group targeted by the "Analects of Women" is women.

However, although the book "The Analects of Women" has picked up the wisdom of its predecessors and expanded and refined the "four virtues" of virtue, speech, tolerance and merit in "The Female Commandment", it is different from Ban's weakness and conformity, emphasizing that a woman's self-establishment should be only chaste, pure is upright, and chastity is honorable.

Zeng Rong from the status and division of labor of women, the beginning of the book "The Analects of Women" to clarify his own point of view, to stand upright, stand upright, to be upright, in order to be a person, standing upright, blindly humble and submissive what's the use?

Due to the limited time, Zeng Rong only made a brief comparison and summary based on his experience in the past six months of entering the palace, and also quoted some ideas of Taoism and Buddhism, which coincided with the background of the book "The Analects of Women", which is more tolerant and more humane than Ban's "Female Commandments".

After handing in the papers, the two eunuchs left in a hurry with the forty examination papers, and the remaining two old grandmothers conducted a etiquette assessment on Zeng Rong and others, that is, to assess a person's appearance and demeanor when walking and saluting, among which the salute is divided into curtsy and kowtow.

Although Zeng Rong came from a peasant family, she received training in rules and etiquette in the Xu family in her last life, so although her demeanor and appearance were not as good as those ladies of the family, she was not inferior to these small jasper.

Coincidentally, when it was Zeng Rong's turn to curtsy, the queen came in with two aunts in charge, and when she saw her, Zeng Rong was undoubtedly nervous, nervous, made a mistake, and his body shook a little, and the clever Zeng Rong had to take advantage of the situation to salute the queen as well.

This scene fell in the eyes of the two old grandmothers, twisted their eyebrows slightly, and quietly let Zeng Rong go down and replace him with the next one.

Queen Wang nodded at Zeng Rong with a smile on her face, and then she walked to the main seat and sat down.

After all these people had gone through, the queen asked about the results of the personal assessment, and learned that those articles were sent to the inner chamberlain, and after the selection was over, the rest of the people could be handed over to the queen for unified deployment, and the queen nodded.

Hearing the words "unified deployment", Zeng Rong raised his head and happened to meet the queen's gaze, the queen smiled meaningfully, and was just about to speak, only to see someone outside the door spread that the imperial concubine had arrived.