conceit, this is the most taboo as a generation of emperors. But Su Ling is such a person.

From the past to the present, the news obtained from Mu Ziheng's intelligence network everywhere shows that Su Ling is an extremely conceited emperor. Therefore, when Su Qingyu ended up like this, Mu Ziheng accepted it as a matter of course. Of course, he is also happy for the current Luo Ge. Because, at this moment, she has completed the first task assigned by her master - to help Brother Wang clear the enemies of the first layer.

When Luo Ge woke up, it was already a different day.

Lu Zhi helped her to sit on the head of the bed, and she drank the nourishing soup that Lu Zhi prepared for her while listening to the changes in the harem.

"Niangniang, after you fainted that day and were sent back, the entire harem underwent earth-shaking changes, the queen was locked up in the end of the palace, and there were more than 180 people in the entire harem to the front of the palace who were imprisoned, and the queen's personal palace maid was directly imprisoned in the prison. The attendants in the queen's palace were all dragged out and beheaded. Then he heard the king's decree that the queen was sick, and that the servants and maidservants who served her were not well managed, so they were all imprisoned.

These are certainly the king's excuses. The palace attendants and palace maids are all rumoring, it must be because the queen privately pressed you to the end of the palace, causing the dragon fetus in your womb to be unsafe. Otherwise, how could the king be angry? Let so many people go to jail. After that, there was news that your baby was originally a prince, but I didn't expect it to ......"

Before Lu Zhi could finish speaking, Luo Ge interrupted.

"Needless to say."

Luo Ge's simple four words did not carry any emotion. She knew in her heart that all this was the result of her previous promise to help Mu Ziqin prove his innocence. She caused Su Qingyu's jealousy and hatred with a fake pregnancy, and made Su Qingyu expose herself at the last moment, so that all the people who the secret guards worked hard to investigate were arrested. After this time, she could only prove that she had not stolen the cloth army map of the East and West Battalion, to be precise, the past cloth map of the East and West Camp was not in her hands, but she could not prove that she was not the killer of the Thousand Machine Pavilion.

Seeing Luo Ge not saying a word, Lu Zhi thought that she was sad because she had lost the dragon fetus in her womb, so she comforted her: "Niangniang, don't be sad. The little prince is gone, and there is still a chance. What's more, didn't the king make you a concubine? You'll definitely have a chance in the future. Besides, now that the queen is no longer in charge of you, don't you have a better chance? ”

Luo Ge's train of thought was interrupted by Lu Zhi, she looked at Lu Zhi with a confused expression and said, "What's the use of what you say about this?" Do I know if I have a baby in my womb? ”

As soon as Luo Ge finished speaking, Lu Zhi understood. She looked at her with her mouth open in surprise. She nodded and continued, "Do you think my position as a concubine can continue?" In two days, I will be changed by the king for a reason. ”

However, Luo Ge's guess was wrong. She didn't expect that Mu Ziqin had already made up her mind to make her a concubine in order to test her identity.

When Luo Ge was living in fear, a new round of selection of palace maids in the palace began.

According to the selection system in the palace, the daughters of officials below the third rank can run for election, and the daughters of officials above the third rank can participate in the selection of female officials in the summer. The chamberlain, on the other hand, were selected from among the domestic slaves of various officials. Therefore, in this selection, the officials below the third grade are all riveting.

Luo Ge, as the most powerful concubine in the harem except for the queen mother, was ordered by Mu Ziqin to participate in this palace maid selection. Speaking of which, this may be one of the most complicated memories of Luo Ge's life.

As a northern country, even after the Spring Festival, Mu Jin is still covered with snow. Therefore, every morning, Luo Ge had to go to the Queen Mother's Qingxia Palace with the steps carried by the chamberlain, and check the information on the palace maid's candidates with her. And every piece of information records the situation of the last three generations of these palace maids, if any of the three generations have a lack of virtue, they will be immediately excluded, and if there is a criminal in the family, then immediately put into the list of those who will never enter the palace.

After the first time I checked the information, the second time was to look at the portrait and personal situation of the palace maid. The first round of portraits is to see if there are people with a vulgar face, or missing teeth and eyebrows, and once there are any, they will be eliminated immediately. In the second round, the individual will be based on the records submitted by the individual to see if he or she has a serious illness or a transient infectious disease, and if there is one, it will be eliminated immediately.

After two and three rounds of this way, there are only fifty palace maids left, and these fifty palace maids can enter the palace. But entering the palace in this way does not mean that they can be stayed, because after entering the palace, they also have to pass the assessment of female celebrity, tea art, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and language to be determined whether they can become high-class palace maids and serve the nobles in the palace, otherwise they can only become low-class palace maids and do rough work in various departments of the harem.

In this way, Luo Ge spent most of the month following the Queen Mother to deal with the selection of palace maids, and did not have much time to seriously consider why Mu Ziqin asked her to maintain the status of a concubine.

Because the positions of the concubines in the palace are vacant, only fifteen palace maids selected by Luo Ge and the Queen Mother this time are reserved as high-class palace maids. Among them, three were used for the Queen Mother, two were used for Mu Ziqin's imperial study, and the remaining ten were given to Luo Ge, in order to fill the vacant positions around her, the concubine.

Looking at the ten twelve or thirteen-year-old girls in front of him, Luo Ge rubbed his temples. Before the ten girls arrived, she had memorized their information. One of them had the highest official rank - Shaoqing of Dali Temple. The lowest is the Salt Tea Ambassador.

Although Mu Jinguo's title system is not very perfect, the hierarchy between officials is extremely clear, and even officials have different ways of saluting. Therefore, outside the palace, there is also an extremely strict hierarchy when the various official ladies meet.

It can be seen from the position at this moment that the daughter of Shaoqing of Dali Temple is headed by the fourth grade, and they are arranged in a triangle in turn. At the end is the daughter of the salt tea ambassador.

Such a hierarchy gives Luo Ge a headache. Because among these ten people, there is a little girl who is the most satisfied with her from the rounds of testing. But her identity is very embarrassing, she is the daughter of Dr. Yu Liuyuan of Guozijian - Yu Yunwei. Dr. Guozijian is from the seventh grade, just in the middle of the highest grade and the lowest grade. If Luo Ge asked this Yu Yunwei to be a first-class palace maid, all the palace maids below the seventh rank would naturally have nothing to say, but the palace maids from the seventh rank and above would definitely complain about this, and they would also target Yu Yunwei everywhere.

If you don't use Yu Yunwei, and directly use An Wanqiu, the daughter of Shaoqing An Xiu of Zhengsipin Dali Temple, then she will wait to help this little girl who only has skin but no real talent to clean up the mess.

Seeing that she hadn't spoken, Lu Zhi, who was standing beside her, whispered: "Niangniang, these ten people have been standing in the palace for almost half an hour. Haven't you decided where they came from? ”

was reminded by her like this, Luo Ge could only say the plan he had just thought of: "There are ten of you, one first-class palace maid, three second-class palace maids, and six third-class palace maids. The first-class palace maid is responsible for the living of the main palace, the second-class palace maid is responsible for the food, housing and transportation of the palace and the cleaning of the inner hall, and the third-class palace maid is responsible for the cleaning of the outer hall and courtyard of the entire Xiao Han Palace. If you have any questions, please ask Angelica directly. ”

"Thank you."

It took ten people here to finish writing their grace, and they heard An Wanqiu ask, "Did that lady assign our names?" ”

Looking at her anxious appearance, Luo Ge smiled and said, "The palace will personally draw up the list in a while, and then let Lu Zhi read it out to you." ”

"Mother, can't you tell the slaves now?"

Looking at An Wanqiu's impatient appearance, Luo Ge smiled sarcastically: "Is this list important to you?" Or is it that the palace can't even decide the way of the palace maid by itself, and how to decide how to announce it according to its own preferences? ”

Luo Ge's words were undoubtedly serious, so frightened that An Wanqiu immediately knelt down to apologize. Luo Ge watched her keep kowtowing on the ground, but she shook her head and left.

After Luo Ge left, the people behind An Wanqiu subdued her and said, "Sister, you are too reckless." Although Concubine De is much worse than the rumors, if she blames such an attitude, then my sister will suffer. ”

Listening to her words, An Wanqiu sneered and said, "What are you afraid of?" I didn't come to this palace to be a palace maid for the rest of my life, if I could, I would climb onto the dragon bed! ”

As soon as An Wanqiu said this, the person behind her immediately covered her mistake, and the man said: "Sister, you are going to be killed when you are heard like this, how can you say it casually?" ”

An Wanqiu knocked her hand off unhappily and said, "What's wrong with what I said?" Are you the ones who came to this palace to be palace maids with peace of mind? Didn't any of you be told when you came out of the house that if you want to get ahead in this harem, the best way is to climb the dragon collapse on the king, so that you don't have to compete with the daughters of those officials above the third grade, that is, get rid of the complicated and trivial things in the palace, and don't have to compete with those famous families, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone? ”

Listening to her words, several of the ten palace maids nodded in agreement. And Yu Yunwei, who was listening on the side, suddenly spoke: "Do you really think it is useful to climb the dragon collapse on the king like this?" If the king is a person who can make a woman easily climb the dragon collapse, then his harem will not be the only concubine, and it is impossible to remember you. ”

Listening to her words, An Wanqiu was angry and said, "You are envious." ”

"What am I going to envy you?"

"According to the rules of the palace, you, the daughter of the doctor from the seventh rank country, can only be a second-class palace maid at most, if the concubine is not satisfied, you may only be a third-class palace maid, cleaning the courtyard. How will you have the opportunity to serve before the king? Unlike me, my father is in the fourth grade, and I must be a first-class palace maid. I will soon have the opportunity to serve before the king, as long as the mother ...... Then I can't climb the dragon collapse? ”