Chapter 3: Entering the Palace
When the day of entering the palace came, Cui Jinxi put on the clothes prepared for her by the Zhang family early in the morning. The material of the clothes is excellent, and the style is also popular at the moment. Zhang gave her some jewelry and silver, saying that she wanted her to use in the palace, and she didn't know what kind of woman the emperor liked, and she didn't dare to dress up at will.
She just rubbed herself with some powder, applied rouge, and drew her eyebrows. Then the clothes were dressed decently, and there was only one bead hairpin on the head, which was too gorgeous for fear of causing trouble.
After dressing, her aunt Liu came over, and she was relieved to see that her daughter was already dressed neatly. Liu took her hand and stuffed a silver bag into her hand, which was quite heavy in her hand. I don't know how long it took my aunt to save it, Cui Jinxi's eyes were red for a while, she is not a person who will be easily moved, but she knows that this is a mother's love for her daughter.
My aunt said something to her: "Jin'er, you are going to enter the palace today, don't be reckless when you get to the palace." If your sister is difficult for you, you will admit your mistake, and you must not be impulsive when you first enter the palace. ”
She wouldn't have a conflict with someone as soon as she entered the palace, it was done by a brainless person. She knew that her aunt was worried that Cui Jieyu would bully her when she came to the palace, and she knew that she would definitely do it without thinking about it, after all, dogs can't change eating.
Cui Jinxi knelt down with his father, mother, and aunt at the door, kowtowed, and set off with Tingxue in the carriage. All the way to the palace, with the creaking sound of the carriage, she arrived at the palace, the carriage outside was not allowed to enter the palace gate, she and Tingxue got off the carriage and walked to the palace gate.
There were already eunuchs and grandmothers waiting in the palace gate, and Cui Jinxi reported his father's name and was led away by his grandmother. Mama looked serious, and she followed without speaking.
Mama took her to a courtyard and said that the show girl lived here when she entered the palace. Mama arranged a room for her and left, Cui Jin took a look at this courtyard, she found that there were many rooms here, and she didn't know how many show girls entered the palace. She didn't see anyone come out at this time, so she and Tingxue entered the room and closed the door to rest.
If you come, you will be safe, and since Mama let her live here, she will live honestly. At a certain point, someone will always come looking for her.
About Yin, there was a grandmother who brought all the show girls who came to the Kezhongyuan Hall together, saying that she was going to face the saint. Cui Jinxi was excited when he heard this, and he was a saint, and he was still a little happy in his heart.
She glanced at the draft this time, which is not a serious draft, because there are only a few show girls, and I don't know how many the emperor will take a fancy to. She took a look at other people's dresses, some of them were dressed very luxuriously and gorgeously, and some were as simple and elegant as her.
Outside the Zhongyuan Palace, the eunuch at the door read a name, a show girl came to the front to let the emperor choose, and the brand was left behind, if it was not selected, it could only go out of the palace to find another source.
Cui Jinxi watched the show girls go in one by one and didn't know what was going on inside, and she couldn't see the scene inside, so she was afraid that if the emperor said that she didn't choose, then she would die, and his father would probably kill her.
After waiting so anxiously for a while, someone finally read her name: Cui Jinxi, the daughter of Cui Yi, the secretary of Dali Temple, entered the hall. She stroked her dress and followed her mother into the hall, and when she entered, she knelt down to greet the emperor and the queen and the ladies of the palace.
She is really not used to kneeling like this as a modern person, the key is that the ground is hard, and her knees hurt. She knelt for twenty seconds, and the emperor didn't speak, and she didn't know what it meant. Just as he was thinking, a voice came: "Raise your head."
Cui Jinxi looked up smartly, and saw the emperor and queen and several concubines sitting on it. The first time she saw the emperor, it turned out that he was so young, and his appearance was also online, not at all like the TV show, all of them were bad old men. The queen sitting next to him looked dignified and magnificent, and her appearance was not outstanding. Several ladies look like they are in their twenties, and they are all beauties, and it is really comfortable to be the emperor, surrounded by a lot of beauties.
The lady who looked soft and didn't know which palace she was sitting next to the queen said: "This daughter of Lord Cui is dressed so elegantly, it seems that we are too gorgeous."
The queen also spoke: "No, what do you think, Your Majesty?"
Shen Xuanxin saw Cui Jinxi staring at his face for a long time, he frowned and said to the eunuch beside him, "Stay."
The gap between Cui Yi's concubine and concubine is so big, Cui Jieyu has also served him several times, but every time she is polite and cautious, and she never dares to look at his face. This concubine was in a daze with his face for the first time, and she didn't know where her daughter's reserve and face had gone.
It was a phrase that changed her fate.
Cui Jin went back with Mama after finishing the saint, and listened to Xue waiting for her in the house for a long time, and when she saw her return, she immediately stepped forward and took her hand: "Miss, you're back."
"Pack up your things, we're going to change places."
"Miss has been chosen, congratulations, Miss."
In short, she was still stained with her father's light, if it weren't for his father's position, the emperor would not necessarily keep her brand.
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In the palace of nourishing hearts, Shen Xuanxin sat on the royal desk and practiced calligraphy on rice paper with a brush, the queen stood on one side, and the queen looked at the emperor's angular and cold face: "How do the three show girls who entered the palace arrange the residence of the emperor?"
Shen Xuanxin held the pen in his hand at the moment: "I am relieved that the queen manages the harem, you can watch and do this kind of small thing."
"Yes, it's just that the emperor wants to give Cui Yi Cui's daughter?"
Shen Xuanxin hesitated for a moment: "Let's choose a waiter."
"Wouldn't it be too low to choose a waiter?"
Shen Xuanxin frowned when he heard the queen's words: "It's not easy for a show girl to enter the palace too high."
Shen Xuanxin doesn't like to laugh, and often uses a cold and handsome face to others. He looks like the male protagonist in modern novels who is cold and ascetic, but he only knows it when he seems to be abstinence.
The queen thought that the three show girls were all daughters of important ministers with high status, and thought that the emperor would arrange it himself, but she didn't expect the emperor to let her arrange it.
Su Yun, the aunt in charge beside her, asked, "Where does Niangniang want to arrange the three show girls?"
Although the emperor said that he did not arrange it personally, after all, she was the daughter of an important minister, and she couldn't wait for her, and besides, the previous dynasty and the harem were always implicated: "The daughter of Lord Cheng Li of the Zongren Mansion lives in Changyin Pavilion, the daughter of Lord Cui of Dali Temple lives in Xuexuan, and the daughter of Lord Xu of Guanglu Temple lives in Yuhua Pavilion, let the Internal Affairs Office start to arrange it."
At ten o'clock in the evening, the father-in-law of the Internal Affairs Office came to pass the word, saying that the queen mother asked her to live in the Snow Pavilion, and they had already packed their luggage when they heard the snow, and they lived in the Snow Pavilion that night.
The inside of the Xue Xuan is not very big, so she lives as a show girl, and there are all the things that should be in it, and the things in the palace are stronger than the outside.
When she first entered the palace, she was just a candidate for the eighth grade, and the Internal Affairs Office was divided into two rough palace maids and two eunuchs who kept vigil.
In the past few days since Cui Jinxi entered the palace, she has not been out of Xuexuan, she should eat and drink every day, and there is a grandmother who specially explains some specific matters in the palace to her, so as not to understand the rules when she first arrives. That grandmother seemed to be very kind and soft-spoken, and she told Cui Jinxi about some high-ranking concubines in the palace.
Mama said that there are not many concubines in the harem, there are only a dozen, and the emperor does not often go to the harem, she said that the emperor is a bright monarch. There are really not many more than a dozen women compared to other emperors, and the emperor looked at the beauties in the harem at a young age and didn't have that convenient mind, and Cui Jinxi was really drunk.
Cui Jinxi didn't dare to run out, if someone wanted to fix her, it would be easier than pinching an ant to death. She stayed in the snow pavilion and didn't go anywhere until she went to bed.
Although she was only a small servant, the Internal Affairs Office did not dare to withhold her things. Xu is the queen sent something to the Internal Affairs Office, otherwise how could the villain of the Internal Affairs Office who tends to be inflammatory, personally send someone to send something to her Xue Xuan.