After the funeral of the talented person was completed, the time was in a blink of an eye to the beginning of June of the twelfth year of Yong'an.

At this time, the women of the general election had rushed to the capital from all over the country and went through the first trial. After checking his posture and looking at his appearance, there were nearly 1,500 people, and only 800 people remained.

These 800 people will live in the royal palace on the outskirts of Beijing for more than 20 days. During this time, the grandmother in the palace will check it, observe its daily life, words and deeds, and select the best 500 people.

These 500 people can be regarded as having passed the second trial.

After the second trial, the female will continue to live in the garden, and the grandmother in the palace will specially test her four piano, chess, calligraphy and painting to see what talent she has. Then a special person will check his family history for the third time and teach him court etiquette.

After such a toss, the best of the best will be selected, and in the end, there will only be 300 women left.

The 300 women who have passed the third trial will stay in the Chuxiu Palace in the harem at the end of July, and the final selection will be made by the emperor or the queen mother in early August.

In the final selection, if the emperor and the queen mother take a fancy at a glance, they can become concubines and concubines, and if they don't like it, they will return to the Chuxiu Palace to live for five years. In the past five years, whether or not they can operate from time to time to enter the palace walls of the East and West Sixth Palaces depends on their luck.

On the sixth day of June in the twelfth year of Yong'an, the wind and the sun were beautiful.

After Lingxi came out of the Zichen Palace, he felt bored, so he thought about going to the imperial garden for a walk. But she had just stepped into the peony garden when she saw Pan'er coming from afar.

Pan'er walked to Lingxi's side, blessed Lingxi and said with a smile, "Imperial Concubine Niangniang, Concubine Yu is waiting for you in the Luoxue Pavilion." ”

Lingxi smiled when she heard this, and said, "I didn't expect her to go to Luoxue Pavilion, let's go back to this palace." ”

When Lingxi returned to Luoxue Pavilion, Concubine Yu had already drunk two herbal teas. Seeing Lingxi coming in, Concubine Yu stood up and blessed Lingxi, and complained after getting up, "I came here early in the morning to wait for you, but I didn't think that I couldn't wait, and it was noon. ”

Lingxi laughed after hearing this, took off the colorful brocade shawl on his arms and gave it to the lotus leaf to take down, and then sat on the bamboo couch and smiled at the concubine, "That's so pitiful, didn't you let me come back earlier and tell the small kitchen to cook what you like to eat?" ”

"You can see this," Concubine Yu raised her sleeve to cover her mouth, and smiled softly, "You can see my heart." ”

"Don't be poor, tell me what's going on." Lingxi's beautiful eyes glanced at Concubine Yu and said with a smile, "If it's okay, I won't keep you." ”

"There's something wrong with it." After Concubine Yu sat down, she put a roster in front of Lingxi and said with a smile, "This is the roster of the women who live in the Chuxiu Palace. ”

Lingxi didn't look at the roster, but drank half a cup of herbal tea in one go. After putting the tea down, she wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief and said with a smile, "It's time for these girls to leave the palace." ”

"Who's to say it's not." Concubine Yu picked up a fan with a jade pendant hanging from the table, and sighed faintly, "In a blink of an eye, it's time for the old to change into a new look." ”

"That's old-fashioned." Lingxi took the red-covered booklet in his hand, looked through it twice, raised the corners of his mouth, and said with a light smile, "When I entered the palace that year, there were a total of three hundred women, except for the thirty-nine who were finally selected, there were two hundred and sixty-one left, but now there are less than two hundred and twenty people who can leave Chuxiu Palace and return home...... It is said that the battle in the six palaces of this thing is fierce, and there is no peace in the Chuxiu Palace, there is no emperor there......"

Concubine Yu smiled at Lingxi, "They are all coming for the flowers, as for whether there is that life or not, it all depends on their own creation." It's good to be able to go out safely now, it's better than ......"

It's better than dying in the palace without knowing it. The last sentence was swallowed by Concubine Yu.

Lingxi put the roster on the small table on the side, looked at Concubine Yu and said with a smile, "In another month, a new girl will enter the palace, and then the emperor will definitely seal the six palaces, I don't know if your position can be promoted again." ”

Concubine Yu burst out laughing when she heard this, and said to Lingxi with her eyes full of eyes, "Now that I am a concubine, in this harem, I am already below you and above the other thousand, and I am extremely noble." Concubine Yu sighed lightly, "I don't want anything more, since I first entered the palace, I have been thinking about how to live a plain and plain life." Lingxi, those who fight and fight are too tired, aren't you tired? ”

"Tired." Lingxi looked at the courtyard of Luoxue Pavilion, and the prince's body flashed under the shade of the tree in the courtyard, "If you don't fight, how can you live?" ”

Concubine Yu looked at Lingxi's eyes and let out a long sigh.

After retreating from the little palace maids on her side, Concubine Yu pointed slightly in the direction of the prince's departure with a fan, and said to Lingxi, "What does the emperor mean?" Could it really be him? ”

Lingxi looked at the prince and shook his head slightly, and said with a smile, "How can you and I guess the holy will?" But it's better than nothing, at least the ministers in the former court no longer spend all day asking the emperor to make the crown prince. ”

"It's just hard for you." Concubine Yu said thoughtfully, "Although the fifth princess was small when she came to your side, she was sensible. This prince ......"

Concubine Yu leaned closer to Lingxi's side and whispered, "Although the prince is young, his temper is not small. When I met him in the Imperial Garden a few days ago, he actually asked the third prince to kneel for him......"

The crown prince is now five years old, and although he is still a child, he already knows that his status is unusually noble. The relationship with the five princesses and the five princes is not very good on weekdays.

However, the prince likes the ten princes and ten princesses, perhaps because he has lived in the same palace for a long time, and the prince will only slightly put down his lofty posture when he is in front of the ten princes and the ten princesses.

After listening to Concubine Yu's words, Lingxi only felt that her head was buzzing all of a sudden, she reached out and rubbed her temples, and said to the concubine, "He is the crown prince, what can I do with him?" I didn't say these words once or twice, but every time he heard it in his left ear, and in an instant, he came out of his right ear. ”

Concubine Yu raised her eyebrows and sighed, "That is, the third prince, he is already more than eight years old, and he is still like a three or four-year-old child." ”

"Very good." Lingxi took the mint paste handed by the lotus leaf, rubbed it on his forehead and said, "I don't know anything, I don't understand anything, but I'm happy." Every time I saw him, he would call his mother from afar, and smile brightly......"

"Well, the third prince is also well-looking, and he has the appearance of his biological mother. Although he doesn't know much, he knows who is good for him and who is bad for him......" Concubine Yu paused, looked at Lingxi and smiled, "Speaking of his biological mother, I have to say that Concubine Xian is a capable ......"

Lingxi waved his hand, raised his eyes and smiled, "I've talked about her many times, don't talk about it anymore." ”

Concubine Yu saw that Lingxi didn't want to listen, so she changed the topic, looked at the layout of Luoxue Pavilion, and said, "Speaking of the prince, your residence will also be changed." Seeing that the ten princes and ten princesses are about to grow up, they must no longer be crowded in one hall. The fifth princess is a big ghost, she can live in a palace, she also likes the five princes, and she can let the five princes live in the same courtyard with her. But this prince can't do it, do you still want to make everything perfect move out and live there......"

Lingxi shook his head, "How can I give it, how old are they, even if I agree, the emperor can't agree." ”

"Speaking of the emperor, I'm going to start chattering again." Concubine Yu fanned the fan in her hand and said, "After sealing it or not, you can't do anything if you don't rush others." Anyway, you're sitting in the position of deputy queen now, and you're about the same as the queen. But how long will the ceremony of canonizing the imperial concubine drag on? The cultivation of the Spirit Study Hall took nearly three years......"

Lingxi took a small piece of apple from the table and stuffed it into Concubine Yu's mouth, and said with a smile, "You are talking more and more, and you can't finish reading it, just like the old Grandma Jiaoxi." ”

Concubine Yu ate the apple into her stomach, patted Lingxi with a fan, and said angrily, "Haven't I planned it all for you?" You are now the honor of the imperial concubine, and you have to deign to live in the side hall of the Yongshou Palace......"

"I have already spoken to the emperor today." Lingxi himself took a piece of apple to eat, and said with a smile, "After the Lingyan Hall is repaired, it will be given a new name and distributed to other concubines to live in." After a few days, I moved to the east side of the Changle Hall to live. The Changle Hall was repaired once as early as when the ancestors lived in, not only there are four halls before and after, but also two attics, three rooms, and two water pavilions, which are enough for our mother and son to live. I live in the side hall of the Changle Palace, not only am I not wronged, but I am exalted......"

In fact, Lingxi not only told Emperor Yong'an about the palace, but she also talked about the prince and her own children.

The crown prince has a cold and arrogant temperament, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not have scruples about Lingxi's biological prince when he ascends the throne as the emperor in the future. Lingxi did not have the right to change the crown prince, so he could only retreat to the second best place and plan for his children as early as possible.

It would be great to be able to fief.

Although Emperor Yong'an did not immediately agree to Lingxi's fiefdom for the five princes, he also moved his mind.

If Lingxi's prediction is correct, as long as his grace is not weakened, when the fifth prince is eleven or twelve years old and can leave the palace to build a mansion, the holy decree of this fiefdom will also come down.

Concubine Yu nodded slightly after hearing this, and smiled approvingly, "This is the best, after I go back for a while, I will order to go down and repair the side hall of Changle Palace, after all, it may be empty for a long time." ”

After talking about business, the two chatted about some trivial things that were not important. Just when he said with a grin that Concubine Yu's Nine Emperor Princes were now young, they could already stare at the beautiful palace maid, Zhou An walked in from outside.

Zhou An looked a little anxious, walked to Lingxi's side and bowed down and said, "Niangniang, the prince is bored in the Snow Pavilion, and he just went to the imperial garden to play, but somehow, he actually pushed the seventh princess into the lotus pond......"