A beautiful sister like a bright sunshine appeared in front of Xing'er, she picked up her peach branches, smiled, like a spring breeze, full of freshness and walked towards them, Xing'er seemed to smell the faint fragrance on her body.

This sister is very beautiful, wearing a peach-pink dress, walking lightly and elegantly, and Xing'er has a heartfelt liking in her heart. The sunny sister has a goose egg face, willow eyebrows and almond eyes, a straight nose, a cherry-like mouth, a touch of blush on the cheeks, and an indescribable bright sunshine, radiant.

"This is your peach blossom, right? Give it back to you. ”

Xing'er reached out to take it, and the man pulled the peach branch back. He took two more steps forward and crouched in front of Xing'er.

"How did you get so cute?" The girl stretched out two fingers and pinched Xing'er's pink cheeks.

This girl is very beautiful, and Xing'er likes it very much, so she doesn't resist.

"Is this your peach blossom?" The girl asked again.

Xing'er nodded.

"Then I'll give it back to you." The girl stuffed the peach branch into Xing'er's little hand. "Who are you? How can there be a child as young as you in the palace? ”

The girl suddenly let out a breath and covered her mouth with one hand.

"Are you...... Gong ......"

"This is the harem, please pay attention to your words and deeds." Before the girl could finish speaking, Qiaoxin interrupted her and reminded her.

"Oh, thank you for the reminder." The girl hurriedly nodded to Qiaoxin in thanks.

And all this is beautiful in Xing'er's opinion, this sister is really bright and moving, this is the most beautiful girl she has ever seen. So, Xing'er smiled at her obediently.

The girl wanted to touch Xing'er's little cheek again, and a voice came.

"Yiqing, Mama has counted, come on!"

"Here we are!"

The girl called Yiqing touched Xing'er's head, squeezed a grimace at Xing'er, and ran to count. Xing'er and Qiaoxin also set off back to Shuqing Palace again.

"Sister Qiaoxin, what is a noble girl?"

"These girls are nobles. I am a slave maid, so I call them noble girls, in fact, they are show girls who come to the palace for the draft. Qiaoxin said as she walked.

"Draft? What is Draft? Xing'er tilted her little head.

"Hmm...... How to say it...... "Qiao thought about it, "it is to choose a concubine for the emperor." ”

"Huh? The emperor has so many concubines, do you still have to choose? ”

"yes. Our concubine system in Daxia is one queen and two attached concubines, that is, two noble concubines, and four concubines, nine concubines, nine Jieyu, and nine talented people. Now there are two empty among the four concubines, concubines, Jieyu, and talented people, all of whom have vacant seats, and of course the emperor wants to draft. ”

"That beautiful sister just now also came to the draft?" Xing'er was curious.

"Hmm." Qiaoxin nodded.

"Huh?" Xing'er opened her mouth wide, "But, the emperor is so old......"

Before Xing'er finished speaking, Qiaoxin hurriedly covered her mouth, looked around to see if there was anyone, and then let go of her.

"Sister Qiaoxin, this is going to suffocate Xing'er!"

"You little bit, shut up! You can lose your head with this sentence! Qiaoxin made a gesture of cutting off his head.

When Xing'er heard this, she wanted to cut off her head, so she quickly covered her mouth with one hand and protected her neck with the other. Qiaoxin looked at her serious little appearance, poof! Laughed. Fu took her hand and walked forward.

"These girls are not necessarily full of the emperor's harem."

Xing'er looked up and winked at Qiaoxin.

"First of all, I have to finish the election for the emperor. For the rest, those who have a good family background and good looks, and there are men of the right age in the royal family, the emperor will also give them marriage. ”

"What does it mean to be married?"

"It's just that the emperor sees that those two people are good, so he makes a holy decree to let them be together." Qiaoxin picked up the words that Xing'er could understand.

"Can you all get married?"

"Not necessarily, there are still some emperors who have not been selected or married, and they have to serve in the palace for three years, well......" Qiao thought about it, "Most of them will be the writers of the Qiangang Palace, copying the emperor's daily words and deeds, recording the conversations between the emperor and the ministers, and sorting out and copying the recitals that the emperor has approved." In fact, it is also to give them a chance to get close to the emperor, in case they are favored by the emperor. I heard that Concubine Shu used to be the emperor's penman......"

Qiaoxin suddenly lowered her voice, looked around to see if there was no one and continued.

"I heard that Shu Guifei used to be the pen next to the emperor, writing a beautiful hand, one year, when the emperor went to leave the palace to escape the summer, an assassin mixed into the palace to assassinate the emperor, at that time Shu Guifei was still holding the pen for the emperor to block an arrow, only to seal Jieyu, although it was sealed, but the arrow was fed with poison, and Shu Guifei's body was also damaged. For most of the year, I coughed and couldn't even get out of bed. Qiaoxin let out a long breath.

"And then?" Xing'er really didn't want to ask this.

Later, Jieyu became pregnant, and the imperial doctor said that Jieyu was weak and the fetus might not be protected. However, I didn't expect the prince to be very weak......"

Qiaoxin suddenly stopped, pulled Xing'er to the wall, and saw a team of Yu Linwei walking neatly.

"The six princes are in weak health, and the queen mother is sympathetic to their mother and son, and she mentioned it to the emperor a few times, so that her mother is expensive and has become the current concubine."

"No wonder Xing'er has never seen Concubine Shugui." Xing'er muttered quietly, "What about after three years of service?" ”

"Do a pen, after the three-year period, you can go home and get married."

"That's fine, at least I wasn't forced to do anything."

"It's good, but it's not necessarily. According to the regulations of our imperial court, all the women of the official eunuch family, regardless of the concubine and the concubine, can choose to show, and the age of the draft is thirteen to twenty years old, and the eldest daughter of an official above the third rank in Beijing and the eldest daughter of an official above the second rank in the local government cannot marry privately when she is fourteen to nineteen years old, and she must go through the draft. ”

"Huh? So what if you have an older brother you like? ”

"Well, it's not necessarily a good thing. These women who have a favorite family, if they are eliminated in the local primary election, it is okay, and if they lose the election, they can get married. But if you go through the primary and secondary selections, and come to the step of entering the palace to be elected, it is not necessarily a good thing. If you enter the palace to be elected, it is okay to be selected by the emperor or to be married. If you write in the palace for three years, then the people outside the palace will not wait? Qiaoxin looked at Xing'er and continued.

"Some show girls are already eighteen or nineteen years old when they are drafted, and they are waiting in the palace to see through the autumn water, and finally survived for three years, and when they go out of the palace, there are a large number of men and children, which man can stay until more than thirty years and still wait for you, he is not in a hurry, and the family will arrange it for him. After all, passing on the family is the right thing to do. It's not as good as us, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stipulates that you can leave the palace and marry at the age of twenty-four to twenty-eight. Qiaoxin said softly.

"Did you choose better? Sister Qiaoxin? Xing'er was inexplicably worried about the beautiful sister named "Yiqing".

"Of course, it's good to be favored, like the virtuous concubine, who doesn't know the whole palace, except for the first queen, the virtuous concubine is the most favored, and even the queen ......" Qiaoxin stopped, watching a team of palace maids coming from a distance.

"You can't tell outsiders what I'm telling you! We are not allowed to discuss the affairs of our masters in the palace. Skillfully instructed, Xing'er nodded.

A group of people who came across the opposite side are the fixed palace maids who specialize in serving the halls of the previous dynasty, in addition to their fixed dresses, each person's collar is embroidered with orchids, the so-called gentleman is like an orchid, the former dynasty is the exclusive territory of the emperor and officials, and the man is a gentleman, so he is decorated with orchids. Also, they all have "front court" waist cards hanging around their waists. At this time, when I went to the harem, I should have just changed the guard.

"Sister Qiaoxin, what do you mean to be favored?"

Qiaoxin stopped, crouched down, smiled at her, and tapped her forehead.

"You little ghost, you will know what it means to be favored when you grow up."

"What do you mean by being favored?"

"To put it simply, one person is good to another."

"Like you always take care of me?"

"Say you're a little ghost. Pretty much. Qiaoxin got up and led Xing'er to continue walking.

"Sister Qiaoxin, will you also go out of the palace to get married?"

"Maybe." Qiaoxin paused, "But there is no one in my family outside the palace." ”

"Does Sister Qiaoxin also have someone she likes?" Xing'er asked in a word, but Qiaoxin blushed.

"Sister Qiaoxin, why are you blushing?"

"No, I don't. Let's go, let's go. ”

Qiaoxin pulled Xing'er and walked straight towards Shuqing Palace.

When Qiaoxin led Xing'er back to Shuqing Palace, Mama Gui Chun had already ordered someone to prepare the vase and clay for practicing flower arrangement today, just waiting for the two of them to come back.

When Mama Gui Chun saw it, she carried the big basket and led Xing'er back, and hurriedly invited the Queen Mother.

"Why have you been there for so long, you are really getting bolder, let the Queen Mother wait for you." Gui Chun's grandmother lesson.

"Back to Mama, I was going to come back just now, but I met this year's noble girls, and I was delayed for a while."

"Gui Chunna, it's okay, this spring is blooming, the royal garden is beautiful, they are also playful, it's okay. After a few days, it will be warmer, the wind will not be cold, and the mourning family will also go for a walk. ”

Gui Chun supported the Queen Mother with both hands and walked out of the dormitory.

"You, you're still walking around in good health, it's because I'm used to you, and you ate two persimmons, so I coughed this winter." Gui Chun's mother said angrily.

"You, it's enough to take care of the small ones, and now, the old ones are also in charge?" Saying that, the Queen Mother laughed, and Mama Gui Chun also laughed, and a kind of little maid covered her face and smiled.

"The minion said you, and you took the lead in laughing." Mama Gui Chun was angry and funny and helped the Queen Mother forward.

Xing'er put down the broken flower that had been stepped on, and also rushed to the Queen Mother, following Gui Chun's example, holding the Queen Mother's other arm with both hands, but the person was too small, and the arm holding the Queen Mother was over the top of her head, looking cute and funny.

"Take a look, it's still our Xing'er who is the most sensible, and we all know that we are walking with the mourning family." The Queen Mother took away the hand she was holding and changed it to hold her little hand.

Walking to the table, the Queen Mother began to teach Xing'er how to insert bottles.

"In winter, we have inserted the plum bottle, when the branches are broken, you can fold the big branches, the branches of the plum blossoms are more vivid, the flowers are sparse, there are bean-shaped buds that have not been put in the gap, the flowers, buds, and branches are naturally combined, and the plum bottle also depends on its natural shape, the plum bottle can not be too dense, the dry branches and plums are good enough, the natural blank, the artistic conception of the proud cold wind and the beauty of tenacity. Do you remember? The Queen Mother explained this plum blossom branch.

Xing'er nodded.

"But the peach blossom branch is different, do you see the difference?" The Queen Mother asked.

Xing'er thought for a while and replied: "It seems that the peach blossom branch can't be broken into a big branch, and there are more flowers." ”

"Yes, that's the difference in morphology. Peach branches are small, with dense flowers that open around the branches, right? Xing'er nodded.

"The peach branch is inserted, you can't use too high bottles, square-mouth short bottles or short and fat piers are better, the best, is to use flower clay flower arrangements to fill pots and urns, which can fully present the advantages of straight peach blossom branches. The peach blossoms are mostly bright pink, occasionally white, and they look vulgar when inserted alone, and it is best to drag him with a sheet of slightly pointed leaves, and it will look vibrant. While speaking, the Queen Mother had already inserted a bunch.

Xing'er looked at the queen mother's flower arrangement, and she liked it. Much more beautiful than the bare peach branch. So he also arranged flowers in the shape of the Queen Mother.