The Inner Chamberlain reported to Empress Cao that according to the old practice of the previous dynasty, the palace maid should be released when she is over 26 years old, and then a new person should be selected to summon her.

This is not the first time.

In the first few times, Empress Cao only promised to release the older palace people, but she did not say that she would be re-elected.

Speaking of choosing a palace maid, Queen Cao also encountered it when she was a child. At that time, the emperor at the end of the previous dynasty was only four or five years old, and he couldn't manage things at all, but there were many miscellaneous donations for a stubble, and the palace room was to be donated, and the mausoleum was to be donated, and a four or five-year-old child said that he would choose three thousand women to enter the palace to enrich the court. At that time, the world was already in chaos, half of the country was not the Zhao family, those people only cared about drunk life and dreams, and they deserved the Zhao family's end.

The Inner Servant's Mansion is a place where the old and the new are staggered, and there are old people who are left over from the previous dynasty, and they want to bring out the old rules everywhere to talk about it. There are also those who have just been in for a long time and are in a hurry to come out, and they are bright and dark arrows all day long.

No matter how Empress Cao makes trouble, she can't miss the right thing.

The matter of choosing a palace maid, the old practice of the previous dynasty also had an election every five years, and there were also elections every ten years, and every time they tossed people upside down, working the people and losing money, Queen Cao really didn't want to come like this. But seeing that there are indeed a lot of palace maids to be released, the palace manpower is enough in her opinion. But the old ones are gone, and the new ones are not coming, so if another batch is released in five years, there will indeed be a shortage of people in the palace.

The choice is to be chosen, but where to choose and how to choose is not something that can be clearly explained in one sentence.

Others may think that the queen mother is so blessed, there is no woman in the world more honorable than her, she eats well and dresses well all day long, and she doesn't worry about it.

Try it for him, and you will know how tiring it is to be a queen. In the past, Princess Fuyu helped her take care of it, but now that Princess Fuyu is married, it is not appropriate to meddle in palace affairs again. As for Zhao Yuxi...... Skip her and don't mention it, Liu Fang is not this material, as for her daughter......

Empress Cao glanced at her and shook her head.

is still a little girl who only knows how to eat and play. Count on her to help—or grit your teeth and do a little more work yourself.

Liu Yan heard in a trance that she wanted to choose someone, and there was no shortage of people in her palace. First, they are all capable, and any one of them can be regarded as being able to stand alone. Second, Anhe Palace is also nominally a palace, but Liu Yan's daily life is only in the apse, and the extra places have not been repaired, and she can't use them, so naturally she doesn't have to spend more manpower.

"Is it the palace maid?"

Yingluo smiled and said, "Exactly." Put a batch, choose a batch, is there anything to be released around the princess? ”

Liu Yan frowned: "Guiyuan, do they also want to be released from the palace?" ”

Yingluo and several people laughed: "Where did the princess say, Guiyuan and they are early, and it will be another ten years before they can take their turn." ”

The palace people who can serve the princess and the prince are different from the ordinary palace people. The prince opens the palace when he gets married, or the princess marries out, and they all go out of the palace with him, and the future encounters all depend on the master's mind, and they may not necessarily follow the palace rules. If the master chooses a mate for the slave and maid, and continues to serve after marriage, this is considered lucky, not that the henchman does not have this treatment. If the master doesn't like you, he may give you some silver to let you go home when you are old, or send you to the grange, which is different from the other palace people who have survived in the palace.

"Oh, that's fine. If I let them go now, I can't bear it. Liu Yan asked, "What about the eunuch?" Do you choose it this time? ”

Yingluo paused, he didn't know how to tell the princess.

Eunuchs and palace people are even more different.

As for how it is different, the princess is this age, and she can't explain it clearly in a sentence or two, and she can't explain it clearly.

Yingluo took the opportunity to divert the conversation: "I remember that there are two shortages in the eunuchs of Anhe Palace, and they have not made up for it because of the delay of the New Year's Festival, so why don't you make up for it together this time?" ”

"It's not ......" Liu Yan was about to say that he didn't need to make up for it, but suddenly changed his words: "If you make it up, just make up one." ”

Hey?

Yingluo was a little surprised: "Does the princess have a suitable candidate?" ”

"Yes, yes," Liu Yan sat up: "Last time I went to Jinxiu Pavilion to look for books, there was a little eunuch, named Xiao Jin, who was very clever and could read and write, if you want to make it up, it's good to make it up." ”

Empress Cao glanced at Yingluo, and the latter understood: "The slave maid will go and ask in the past two days, and then come and ask the mother to show it." ”

If you want to release people to Anhe Palace, Queen Cao just asked, it must be impossible. Now there are one errand people in Anhe Palace, and Queen Cao knows all of them, and there are no people with unknown origins or bad intentions. Liu Yan had never said which slave he wanted before, but today he suddenly mentioned a little eunuch, which made Empress Cao unable to pay attention.

"That little eunuch, what is it like?"

Liu Yan's Q&A was not as expected by Queen Cao: "It's very good-looking." ”

This answer is so straightforward that people are speechless.

It's not enough to just look good.

Yingluo glanced at Min Hong, the chief eunuch of the Yilan Hall who was standing on the side, and Min Hong nodded slightly.

In this palace, there are big and small things, people come in and people go out, and there is nothing that Manager Min doesn't know. The shabby place of Jinxiu Pavilion is a cold yamen, but anyone who is a little self-motivated is unwilling to go there, and even if he goes, he will try his best to move it out. A literate, handsome, and clever little eunuch should not be assigned to that place—or rather, if there is such a person, Min Hong should have some impression of this person.

He couldn't tell his mother that he had no impression at all, so he could only hurry up and find out the details of this person.

Before dinner, Min Hong talked back and forth.

"Niangniang, the eunuch Guo of Jinxiu Pavilion is not done."

Empress Cao was a little surprised: "Is it a disease?" ”

"Eunuch Guo is sixty-seven years old this year, he was injured in the early years of firefighting, and his health has not been good, and he has been bedridden for more than a year, but he is dragging his feet. The slave maid asked, and it was probably these two days. ”

Empress Cao nodded: "You have a snack, he has been in the palace all his life, and he can be regarded as doing his best, go back and receive some silver, buy him a little bit, don't let him leave things behind." ”

Min Hong hurriedly kowtowed: "The slave and maid are the eunuchs of Guo Xie Niangniang's grace." In addition, the slave and maid also asked about the little eunuch. This little eunuch is the distant nephew of the eunuch Hu Si of Jinxiu Pavilion, there is no one at home, and Hu Si has entrusted someone to bring him into the palace to seek a bowl of rice, and he has only been in the palace for more than half a year. ”

Empress Cao didn't ask the others, but only asked: "How do you look at your character?" ”

This Min Hong had already finished his draft when he came, and Eunuch Hu had just dotted his gold beads and jade buckles and stuffed them in his boots.

"It looks quite honest, but at first glance it looks like a little showman who knows how to read and hyphenation. Eunuch Hu said that his nephew was timid and did not dare to ask him to go to other places on an errand, for fear of serving his master badly. ”

"Since Yan'er has opened her mouth, let's assign people to Anhe Palace."