After hurriedly finishing the New Year's breakfast, before the time came, Mrs. Wei and Mrs. Cao had already gotten up and got into the sedan chair. Mrs. Wei is the wife of the Marquis of the first grade, and she was awarded the order of the first grade, and the regulations of the chariot she took were much larger than that of Mrs. Cao, Pei Zhenwan and Wan Xiuyun changed into maid clothes and accompanied them left and right.

The Marquis of Mao's Mansion is not far from the palace city, but the foreign women enter the palace to congratulate, and they have to go to the Anle Gate on the west side, which goes around for half an hour. When I stopped outside the Anle Gate, it was exactly the hour, and the eastern sky was slightly white, and it was already dawn.

Pei Zhenwan was born in the door, and it is nothing to take these roads. Wan Xiuyun is a rich businesswoman, she has never suffered these hardships on weekdays, and she already feels that her feet are sore, so she just looks forward to stopping and resting for a while.

Anle Gate hung the bright red palace lamp that means good color, at this moment has stopped many sedan chairs, more than a dozen noble ladies reflect the red light of the palace lamp to greet each other, so lively.

At three o'clock in the morning, the sky was already dawning, a small eunuch bowed out, extinguished the palace lamp, and a high-ranking female official in the palace came out to welcome all the foreign women into the palace to congratulate.

There is no queen mother in the palace, and the queen is visited by the internal and external women in the Hanyang Hall of Zhengde Palace. There are more than 30 concubines in Beichen, and they have knelt down to congratulate them one by one according to their grades, and an hour has passed. When the foreign woman entered the temple according to her rank, the hall was already full of people.

Empress Xu wore a phoenix robe in the middle palace, wearing a twelve-tree golden phoenix hairpin, wearing a robe with a dragon and phoenix pattern embroidered with gold threads, and sat on the palace. Empress Xu is slightly younger than Emperor Chen, and she is more than 30 years old, and she has been courteous for a long time at this time, and she is a little tired between her eyebrows, and she is still holding on to her spirit.

Most of the concubines in the palace are young and beautiful, and the women who sit near the top are beautiful, luxuriously dressed, and have nine golden hairpins in their hair, which is naturally the noble concubine Wei Manzhi. Sure enough, they are sisters of the same mother, and their eyebrows and eyes are exactly the same as Wei Miaozhi, but they are a lot more charming and noble.

Pei Zhenwan knelt at the door of the palace, hurriedly looked around the hall, secretly recorded the appearance and behavior of the high-ranking concubines, and then knelt quietly with her head down. Wan Xiuyun on the side, since it was the first time to enter the inner circle of the palace, he couldn't help but look around secretly, happy on his face, Pei Zhenwan couldn't help but sigh secretly, Mao Guohou found such a merchant girl to compete for favor, sure enough, he just used her beauty, and she was a woman without a city inside.

After the ceremony, the mother of the high-ranking concubine can be allowed to go to the palace of the concubines to ask for peace and have lunch together, and the rest of the foreign women will leave the palace and return home. After lunch, everyone followed the queen to burn incense to the Buddha in the Panyun Hall in the palace, and Qi Anshun together.

Penglai Palace, the residence of Concubine Wei, is the palace room of Chen Palace second only to the Middle Palace Zhengde Palace. Although Beichen has fought many foreign wars in recent years, the national strength is at its peak, and the inner palace is extremely luxurious, especially the Penglai Palace.

When she entered the palace and performed the courtesy of the monarch and ministers, Concubine Wei stepped forward to help her mother, with a hint of coquettishness: "I can see my mother." ”

Mrs. Wei was full of pity, held the concubine's hand, sat down with the two of them, and said distressedly: "Why did you lose weight better, let your father know, but I will feel distressed." ”

"My daughter has had a hard time in the palace," Wei Guifei's beautiful face flashed a trace of gloom, and her voice was also aggrieved, it was I who saw pity: "In the past two months, on the one hand, I have to serve the emperor carefully, and on the other hand, the queen's old woman has taken the opportunity to make things difficult for her daughter, how can I not lose weight." ”

Mrs. Wei sighed lightly, looked sideways and saw the two maidservants standing at the door of the palace, and said in a low voice: "There are outsiders here today, don't talk about this anymore." After speaking, he gave a glance over.

Wei Guifei was so clever in the palace, she immediately understood, put away the grievances, and took up the prestige of the concubine's position. smiled: "Is my father still healthy?" How about my sister? ”

"It's all good, it's all good." Mrs. Wei smiled and took a silk handkerchief from the wide sleeve, "This is a brocade handkerchief embroidered by Miaozhi for Niangniang." ”

Wei Guifei took it, and chatted with Mrs. Wei for a long time, smiling, completely ignoring Pei Wan and the others who were in the cold wind outside the hall. It wasn't until two teas were drunk that the two girls entered the palace to ask for peace, and Mrs. Wei pointed to the two of them: "These two girls are okay to do things in the house, thinking that Niangniang is always short of a few clever servants in the palace, so they will bring them into the palace. ”

Wei Guifei nodded, glanced at the palace maid beside her, and the palace maid immediately said, "Raise your head and let the lady take a look." ”

As soon as she raised her head, Wei Guifei's expression turned grim, and her body, which was originally leaning against the cloud pillow, also straightened up. Sure enough, the two girls had good looks, especially the slightly older one, although they were dressed plainly, they could not hide their stunning appearance, and the soft and gentle look seemed to be carved into the bones. couldn't help but grab the handkerchief in his hand, snorted coldly, stepped forward a few steps, hooked a woman's chin with red gold armor, and sneered sideways: "Look really smart, where are they all from, what do you do in the original family, talk to the palace." ”

Wan Xiuyun, who was hooked in the chin, replied happily: "Wan Xiuyun, a folk girl, is sixteen years old, a native of Luodu, and her father Pei Wanzhi runs a silk weaving house in Beijing, and has a little savings. I will do my best for my mother. ”

Wei Guifei had a mockery on her face, "It's just a businessman, and this palace doesn't look down on that bit of money." Wan Xiuyun couldn't help blushing and hurriedly lowered his head. Seeing this scene, Wei Guifei chuckled lightly and turned her head to look at the other side.

Pei Zhenwan bowed to the ground, and replied: "The slave Jiangling Pei Zhenwan is eighteen years old, and her father is only a talent in Jiangling. ”

After finishing speaking, there was a long silence, Pei Zhenwan slowly raised her eyes, and met the sharp sword gaze shot from the top, as if piercing her heart. However, Pei Zhenwan did not have the slightest fear, as if a pool of lake water was quiet, Wei Guifei looked at it for a while, turned around and sat down gracefully, and said: "Why do you call yourself a people's daughter, and the other calls yourself a slave, it seems that Miss Pei herself does not lift herself up." ”

"Thanks to Mrs. Ao's appreciation, the slave can see the mother, and I dare not forget the identity, whether to lift or not, only the mother says it."

"It's interesting, being a slave of Penglai Hall is the best errand in this harem, what are you good at, so that this palace belongs to you?"

"Slaves and maids are not talented, they know some dancing skills."

"Hmm." Wei Guifei lazily responded, turned her head to look at Wan Xiuyun, Wan Xiuyun was born in a businessman, and she still has the ability to observe words and colors, so she immediately changed her words, and replied shyly: "Slaves and maids are not talented, some chess skills, and I have learned some embroidery work with the embroidery girl in the house since I was a child." ”

"Oh, that's not it," Wei Guifei's eyes flew slantedly, and she laughed at the palace maid beside her and said, "Amber, this palace looks at the two of them combined, and even half of you is not as good." ”

The amber covered her mouth and smiled: "Niangniang's eyes, slaves and maids are only worthy of doing some rough work for Niangniang, if Niangniang wants to say this, these two girls who are like shallots will have to go to the garden to chop wood and carry water." ”

Mrs. Wei also smiled and said: "Niangniang is more and more able to laugh, Niangniang just said, if these two girls are stupid, I will train others to come." ”

"No need, just them." Wei Guifei's heart suddenly turned over a trace of annoyance, and waved her hand.

A palace maid entered and whispered to Amber, and Amber smiled: "Niangniang, Liushang came out of Zhengde Palace, and now come to congratulate Niangniang." ”

Wei Guifei nodded in response, and when she saw the two people who were still kneeling, she frowned slightly: "Let them wait at the palace gate, they are in the way here." ”

Amber took a few steps forward and said loudly: "You go to Anle Gate and wait, in a few days Niangniang will send the court bureau to arrange for you to enter the palace. ”

The two of them bowed down to thank him, and Fang got up and walked out. Before they reached the palace gate, the female officials of the Sixth Bureau had already arrived.

There were six Shang and twenty-four divisions entering to celebrate the New Year, Pei Zhenwan and Wan Xiuyun hurriedly stood quietly on the inside of the palace gate, and they could not follow behind to exit until the ceremony was over. All the people in Penglai Hall did not notice that when one of the twenty-four divisions left, they glanced at the two people on the side of the door in shock.