The lady in charge was not too surprised by Zeng Rong's appearance, obviously someone had informed her in advance, and after muttering a few words with the other two examiners, she asked Zeng Rong's name, type of work and time to enter the palace.

"Back to the three examiners, the younger one is named Zeng Rong, who entered the palace in October of the old year, and worked as an embroidery girl in the Women's Red Division of the Shanggong Bureau." Zeng Rong replied respectfully.

After listening to Zeng Rong's words, the lady in charge took out Zeng Rong's from a pile of resumes, saw that Zeng Rong was from the south thousands of miles away, and asked: "Who else is in the family, have you ever studied, why did you enter the palace?" ”

Zeng Rong replied one by one.

Subsequently, the lady in charge nodded slightly to the gentleman, and the other party asked Zeng Rong to extract an article, which was Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower", Zeng Rong had just finished reading the previous preface, and this gentleman asked her to stop.

"You've read this before?" Sir asked.

"Mr. Hui, I have read it."

"In that case, tell me about your favorite words or phrases that you remember the most." Sir asked.

"My favorite is 'don't like things and don't grieve for yourself', and the most impressive is the sentence 'worry and worry about the world first, and joy and happiness after the world'." Zeng Rong replied.

The other party nodded, and asked Zeng Rong what books he had read, and after Zeng Rong answered, he took the general test of some of the general content in the book, and saw that Zeng Rong answered fluently, he nodded with satisfaction, and ordered Zeng Rong to find a place to sit down.

After this level, there were exactly twenty people left in the room, and the next level was to test writing, each of whom wrote down Li Bai's "Silent Night Thoughts" silently, after this level, Zeng Rong's group only left eight people, Zeng Rong and Green Lotus both left.

Soon, the opposite classroom was also over, and there were twelve people left there, and Amei was among them.

Next, these twenty people mixed together, and this time the exam question was to write a commentary on "Women's Behavior", "Women's Behavior" from Ban Zhao's "Women's Commandment", which talks about the four codes of conduct of women, that is, the daily so-called "virtue and words".

The so-called virtue, that is, women's virtue, is chastity, quietness, and leisure, and shame in one's own actions; Don't talk nonsense and be domineering, in terms of choice of words, stop at the right time, it is for women's words; Dressed neatly, the body is not insulted, it is for the appearance of women; Concentrate on weaving, not smiling, cooking food, entertaining guests, and is for women's workers.

Zeng Rong received the instruction of the four female books such as "The Female Commandment" and "The Analects of the Woman" in the Xu family, so this commentary naturally did not make it difficult for her, and she was the first to hand in the papers among the candidates present, and it only took a stick of incense.

Mr. took Zeng Rong's test paper, not to mention the content, just this handmade beautiful little Kai is pleasing enough to the eye, not to mention, the article is also substantial, relaxed, therefore, as soon as Zeng Rong left, Mr. gave her a A without hesitation.

Coming out of the classroom, Zeng Rong did not go back to the workshop, but stood in the courtyard, she was waiting for Amei to come out, and at the same time waiting for a result.

After touching the incense for about a while, Amei walked out dejectedly, and the green lotus was not much better than her, because neither of them had read the "Female Commandment", and at that time they were running into the palace to be an embroiderer, and they just wanted to learn some poetry to be used in embroidery, how could they have thought that there would be today?

"How?" Zeng Rong greeted him and asked.

"It's over, I'm sure I can't get by, I don't even know what "Women's Walk" is, what annotations are you talking about?" Ame wailed first.

"I don't know very well, I just remember that it seems to be related to some woman's morality and appearance, and I can't remember the specifics, so I made it up randomly." Green Lotus also said with a slumped face.

If you miss this opportunity, the next time you will be elected as a female officer, it will be three years later, and who knows what will happen in three years.

"Okay, it's me who asked Ah Rong, what's the matter with you caught between us?" Amei, who realized it later, gave Green Lotus a white eye, she had a private conversation and wanted to tell Zeng Rong, so she naturally saw that she was in the way.

"Me?" Lu He was about to argue a few words, but when he saw Zeng Rong's eyes, he automatically shut up and retreated to the porch of the upper room, where many people also gathered, and those who probed their brains were waiting for the final verdict.

"Tell me, what are you writing about?" Zeng Rong first cared about Amei's answer.

"I wrote a few sentences indiscriminately, that is, you must be honest and trustworthy, and you can't cheat or cheat or anything, forget it, there will be a next time if you don't pass the exam this time, I don't believe that I won't be able to learn "Women's Walk" in the past three years?"

Zeng Rong couldn't cry or laugh when he heard this, "Sister Amei, I definitely won't take this exam again in three years." ”

After speaking, Zeng Rong pulled Ah Mei to walk a little off, "How are you during this period, have you been punished?" Did the Queen Mother choose a talented woman for Her Royal Highness? ”

Zeng Rong also just remembered that this Zhu Heng is seventeen years old, it's time to talk about marriage, this time to catch up with the three-year election, the Queen Mother still didn't give him a talented woman or something, even if he is not a big family, how can he be the daughter of an official eunuch, right? No matter how bad it is, it's also a small jasper from a squire's family, right?

As soon as Ah Mei heard this, she immediately pouted, "What else do you say, you obviously promised to enter Cining Palace with me, why did the Queen Mother refuse the opportunity you were given?" Do you dislike that our Second Highness is a disabled person? ”

"Sister Amei, I haven't seen him at that time, how do you know who he is? You just have to tell me if the Queen Mother has set someone for him? Zeng Rong asked anxiously.

She was afraid that the assessment results would come out in a while, and she and Amei would have to be separated again, and they might not know when they would meet again.

"No, the Queen Mother has this meaning, but Her Royal Highness refused, saying that she didn't want to delay others. By the way, how did I hear that His Royal Highness fell in love with you, and made a special trip to the back garden for you to relieve the siege, and the Queen Mother was happy to reward you with two gifts, but is there such a thing? Amei leaned over and asked in a low voice.

"No, I happened to meet the Queen Mother that day, by the way, what were you busy with that day, why didn't you follow the Second Highness? Also, did anyone come to him before he went to the back garden? Zeng Rong asked anxiously.

"You don't want to? It was he who refused. Ame muttered.

According to Amei's recollection, early that morning, there was an endless stream of people who came to pay homage to the birthday, first the emperor and queen and the lords of the palace, then the grandchildren, the royal family, and the people of the clan, and Zhu Heng didn't wait for the royal family to enter the door and went out, he only led a dozen younger brothers and sisters of the grandson generation to kowtow to the queen mother and left.

At that time, the queen mother couldn't take care of him, and when she found out that he was gone, she also sent people to look for him everywhere, which alarmed the emperor and made another unpleasant scene.

Fortunately, Zhu Heng came back by himself later, Rao was like this, and the emperor also reprimanded him, and later, Zhu Heng locked himself in the house and didn't let anyone in.

"By the way, it was Aunt Wang who came, Aunt Wang went in to enlighten him, and after Aunt Wang left, he quickly came out of the house, and didn't let me accompany him, but only called two guards to follow, and I only later learned that he went to the back garden to see those sons of the family."

Knowing that Aunt Wang in Amei's mouth was the aunt in charge of Zhu Heng's side, and had followed Zhu Heng for many years, Zeng Rong remembered the mysterious aunt that Lu He had mentioned.