In the blink of an eye, the noisy New Year has passed, and the beginning of spring this year is exceptionally early, so just after the New Year, the early cherry blossoms by the window quietly spit out a few milky white buds.

The spring color is getting thicker, and the warmth in the wind blows the wicker Fusu, and the people seem to be much more energetic than in winter.

Su Er gently curled a strand of hair in her hand upwards from the oblique side, and then separated a thin strand of hair, and braided a lily knot and hung it on her sleeve chest.

opened the makeup box, took out a dripping green golden hairpin and was just about to insert it into the sideburns, but was stopped by the sleeve and said: "The spring is verdant and transparent, and it is vulgar with gold." "

After that, he twisted a pear hairpin carved white jade from the box and handed it to Su'er.

Su'er took the hairpin and carefully inserted it into the bun, the shiny hair and the white and transparent white jade set off each other, adding a bit more elegant and dusty temperament.

"Sure enough, Xiao Gege's vision is good, so it is not only appropriate to wear it, but also elegant and chic." Su'er smiled.

"'The pear blossom courtyard dissolves the moon, and the catkins pond has a faint breeze.' When the pear blossoms bloom, spring will be a little deeper. He chanted slowly in his cuffs, and his eyes wandered to the hibiscus pear tree by the railing outside the window.

Su Er silently put away the hairpin rings on the dresser, and he didn't care much about these jewelry, but now that the day of the selection of show girls is approaching, he is dressed more and more plainly, as if he deliberately avoids the noise, thinking that parting is imminent, Su Er's heart is also sullen.

"It's such a good day, why are you stuffy in the house?" While speaking, Zhu Hetana took Hongqing's hand and walked in, Su'er hurriedly bowed down and saluted: "Say hello to Ergege." "

Zhu Hetana waved her hand: "Excuse me, you go down first, I have something to say to Huai'er." "

Hongqing and Su'er quietly retreated.

Huai Sleeve personally stepped forward to hold the second sister's hand, sat on the soft couch, and asked softly: "The second sister came to my side early in the morning, what is the matter?" "

"This is a name exchange post sent by the household. I've asked your brother-in-law to hand you back the name post. As she spoke, she placed a delicately framed vermilion plaque in her hand on her sleeve.

Huai Sleeve was a little stunned with the vermilion name card in her hand, she didn't expect it to be so soon, time flies, and the day of selection is just around the corner.

Zhu Hetana was stunned when she saw Huai Sleeve, and smiled helplessly, then turned around and asked: "The things you need to enter the palace have already been prepared, what else do you need, just tell me."

I took a look the day before yesterday, and I felt that I had added some more, and I had to go everywhere to enter the palace, no better than at home, and we were still prepared to be more secure. "

Huai Sleeve nodded, suddenly remembered something, stood up and took out a letter from the drawer of the small cupboard in the bed, and handed it to Jukhtana.

"What is this?" Jukhtana took the letter and asked.

"This is the last time my brother came to see me, he brought it from northern Xinjiang and gave it to me, so that I could keep it carefully, and said that I would give it to you when the name of the household department came down, so that you could find a way to hand over the letter to the palace and give it to a father-in-law named Li Dequan." Huai Sleeve relayed Qi Buchen's words to Zhu Hetana as they were.

Djokhtana pondered for a moment, then carefully tucked the letter into her sleeve.

"Who is this Grandpa Li?" Huai Sleeve asked curiously.

Zhu Hetana said with a smile: "You don't care about this, since it is a letter from northern Xinjiang, it must be beneficial for you to enter the palace, my sister is doing her best, and she is bound to hand over the letter to Gonggong Li." As she spoke, Djokhtana patted the back of her sleeve comfortingly.

Huai Sleeve's eyes showed emotion, and he held the second sister's hand tightly with his backhand.

"Did Chen'er say anything else, did you have anything else to say when you met this Gonggong Li?" Djukhtana then asked.

Huai Sleeve shook his head and said: "Brother didn't say anything else, only said that when he saw this Gonggong Li, he said that the letter was brought from northern Xinjiang, and he naturally understood." "

Zhu Hetana sat and drank tea for a while, and after some gossip, she was surrounded by the maids and went away.

Sending the second sister away, she sat back on the couch with her sleeves in her arms, picked up the big red name card sent by the household, opened it, and saw that it read: Holy Message, the draft date is set for the fifteenth day of the lunar month.

With his sleeves and starry eyes, he counted the days in his heart, and it was less than half a moon before the draft.

"Little Gege, what's wrong?" Su Er returned to the house and saw that Huai Sleeve's face was gloomy and silent.

"No, it's nothing...... Huai Sleeve hurriedly came back to his senses, got up and walked to the desk, and tucked the name card in his hand into a book on the desk.

"What about the snow geese? Why haven't you seen her in the morning? Huai Sleeve asked casually.

Su'er shook her head and said, "I didn't see it either." "

Huai Sleeve heard this, frowned and thought for a while: "These days, I see that she is always in a trance, sometimes I talk to her, it seems that she is always distracted, not as bright as before, is it scared by the incident a year ago?" Why don't you find a doctor and take a look at her? "

Su'er also nodded and said: "Well, I also found out about this, I live in a room with Yanzi, she usually falls asleep at night with her head on the pillow, but this time, when the lights go out at night, I always hear her sigh quietly, and I asked her quietly, she said it was okay, and I didn't ask much." "

Huai Sleeve heard the instructions and said: "We have lived in the house these days, Xue Yan has made a lot of efforts, if she has anything bad now, you can take care of her more." "

Su'er nodded lightly and said, "Well, I know." "

The Qing Palace draft is a grand and strict thing for both inside and outside the palace.

It is necessary to send people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to conduct preliminary screening in various places in advance, and then report to the capital.

After the selected show girls from all over the country arrived in the capital, on the day before entering the palace to be elected, they all sat on mule carts, and arranged the order by the participation and leading of the banner, which was called "row of cars", which was carried out according to the order of Manchu, Mongolian and Han arrangement.

At the top of the list are the relatives of the concubines in the palace, as well as the royal family relatives.

The second is the woman who was selected to leave the brand before, this time the re-election, and finally the new selection of the show girls, arranged according to their age, and the fish runs through the tail.

Not only are there rules for the order, but there are also strict restrictions on the vehicles you can ride.

The show girls selected in Beijing are not qualified to sit in a sedan chair, and they cannot sit in a horse-drawn carriage or an ox cart.

This is because, when Emperor Taizu Nurhachi won the Central Plains, horses were an important war resource, and their status in the army was higher than that of people, so ordinary show girls were not qualified to ride in carriages, and cattle were not good, and cattle were important farming tools and could not be ridden, so only mule carts were left in the vehicles carrying show girls.

Huai Sleeve participated, is the draft of the Eight Banners of nobles, and the ordinary draft is different, it belongs to the amnesty of the summoned to Beijing once every three years, so the "row of cars" was omitted, directly sent to the palace, by the household department to arrange to meet the emperor for selection.

The household department in the palace and the interior office have also been quite busy for the draft for a while.

Therefore, this is the selection of the lord of Gege County of the nobles in the Eight Banners, and once selected, they will directly enter the emperor's harem and fill the main position of each palace.

It is precisely because of this that the etiquette regulations that need to be prepared are extremely cautious and exquisite, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs has to play and ask for the holy will from time to time.