On June 15, artists and musicians selected from all over the world entered the imperial city. After the investigation of the Ye Ting Division, there were fifty people left in each position for Xue Chuling and Pillow Chun to choose. If you get the blue eyes left, you can be arranged into the teaching workshop and become an artist in the imperial city, which is also a glorious thing. In the previous dynasty, Taichang Temple and Ye Tingsi presided over the recruitment together, and this time it was taken care of by the concubines appointed by the Son of Heaven. Clear-eyed people know that the most favored people in the imperial city now, except for the pregnant imperial concubine, are none other than this Zhen Wanyi and Ming Concubine. From then on, everywhere, there were palace people waiting for the two of them, for fear that there would be something inappropriate. Pillow Spring is rare to be confused, and I also smiled and suffered the days of being a favorite concubine for a few days, which is really comfortable.

I got up early that morning, and I wore the formal dress of the concubine's cyan embroidered crane feathers, two pairs of emerald and bibao ruyi hairpins, combed double knife buns, and decorated with double temples with gold and jade peonies, which was noble and elegant, and had a good demeanor. He also wore a pair of jade lotus head earrings and white jade bracelets. Stepping on a pair of white and yellow embroidered shoes, supporting Su Bai, walking lightly, he sat on the upper seat of the side hall of Yiren Palace.

After a while, an attendant came up and covered it with a veil, and it looked out as if it were in the fog. There was a strong incense rolling out of the copper-colored beast brain incense burner, only to make the pillow drowsy. There are people waiting to sit comfortably and serve tea, and they are busy for a while. When Chen Zheng, all the ministries were in place, and there were internal servants who announced their names outside: "Xuan Zhou Wenqian, Wang Pin, and Zhang Zuxi came to see you." ”

After reading it, three men were listed in the side hall for one, and they lifted their robes and saluted: "The grass people knock to see the little master of the concubine." "And every one of them reported to his house.

"Zhou Wenqian, a grass man, is a Qinhuai person, who has been a painter for generations, and is good at reed sheng and transverse flute."

Pillow Chun vaguely saw that it was a middle-aged man, with a reed sheng on his back and a horizontal flute hanging from his waist, but he couldn't see his appearance clearly, so he motioned to Su Bai to ask.

Su Bai was ordered and said loudly: "Qin Huai is famous for singing and dancing all over the world, do you have handy music, or have you ever written operas?" ”

When the man heard this, he knocked on the ground with his head and smiled: "Yes, yes! The grass folk once wrote a song that was widely circulated in their hometown and was quite popular. Nowadays, young women also sing from time to time, and the ten miles and eight towns are the most eye-catching. ”

Pillow Chun agreed.

The man coughed lightly twice and sang loudly: "Beat the drum tightly and beat the gong slowly, stop the drum and listen to the singing." All kinds of gossip and singing, I have sung eighteen touches ......"

Before his voice fell, Su Bai picked up the rag on the table and came out from behind the tent. She grabbed the end of the man's hair with one hand and shoved a rag into his mouth. The man named Zhou Wenqian struggled for two times and couldn't make a sound, so he asked Su Bai to beckon the chamberlain and drag him down.

Su Bai said coldly: "Next." ”

The second Wang surnamed Le Gong was dumbfounded, trembling with fear, looking at Su Bai and stammering: "Auntie, aunt forgive me...... The grass people don't know how to play musical instruments, and they will be in the army...... Performances and Performances ......"

Pillow Chun saw that he was useless, if such a small courage came to the front of the emperor to provoke Mu Beiyi unpleasantly, it was small if he was beaten and killed, and if it affected the entire teaching workshop, it would be unacceptable. Then he waved his hand and sent him away.

I looked at the last musician surnamed Zhang, who was waiting with bright eyes.

"Zhang Zuxi replied, do you know how to rehearse or write music or manage things?"

The man surnamed Zhang was young, and when he heard him, he knocked his head crisply: "The grass people knock on the little master of the Ming concubine, the little master is the goddess of Guanyin in the sky, the fairy on the earth, and the moon flower branches in the treetops." Saying that, he bowed to Su Bai again, "I also knocked on this aunt, this aunt was born with kind eyebrows and good eyes, and the blessings are unparalleled, and all the nobles in the palace are different everywhere!" ”

Su Bai saw that his speech was not polite, and hurriedly scolded: "The little master of the Ming concubine is the concubine of the Son of Heaven, how can you shout at will, and still don't reply honestly?" ”

The man surnamed Zhang shrunk his neck before saying: "The grass people have been practicing tuning the piano since they were children, but all strings can be repaired and fiddled. The little master of Ming Concubine has never seen such a noble grass people, the little master admired his face and listened to the grass people's reply, and the grass people wanted to jump up happily in their hearts. It all shows that the concubine is the only glory of the court, since entering the palace, it is the only grace, so he always advises His Majesty to be wet with rain and dew, Your Majesty does not listen......"

Pillow Chun raised his eyebrows, what kind of bastard words he said. The ability is rare, but it's a pity that there is no door on the lips, and it is all some boundless flattery. Now embattled, where is the ability to choose this errand, the most important thing is honesty. His face turned cold: "Come on, drag it out, cane five." ”

After beating one, the screams could be heard inside and outside the temple, and the ones behind were much more honest. Even so, Pillow Chun looked at forty or fifty people who had not yet chosen the right one, leaving only half a hundred old craftsmen to be in charge of the musical instrument room. The old man is a senior craftsman in the Lejing string music shop, with a clean net worth, and he is also famous for training the piano and zheng. Years ago, I don't know what bad luck I had, I died and my daughter died, and the old craftsman had nothing to rely on and had nothing to worry about, and just wanted to die with his favorite musical instrument for life, so he came to the examination for the teaching workshop. Pillow Chun pitied him for his ingenuity, and valued his simple life experience, so he stayed.

Not long after, after noon, Magnolia and Peach Blossom came over from Qiyunxuan and sent some chilled snacks to Pillow Spring. Pillow Chun looked at the people all morning, dizzy, called off the call, and passed the meal behind the flower screen in the ear room of the side hall.

The peach blossoms are served together, and the brown sugar and ice residue are scooped into a small bowl with mash glutinous rice balls, and the honey-stained seedless cherries and crushed hawthorn are added, which looks beautiful and sweet. Only one wall served Pillow Spring, and the other wall said: "Today, the slave and maid came over with Yulan, and saw the Yufu Palace asking for a royal doctor." ”

Pillow Chun took a bite of the sweet soup and ice slag, which was very pleasant: "I don't have to talk about these things, the imperial concubine is now pregnant with a dragon heir, and it is common to occasionally ask about the peace pulse." ”

Yulan has always been cautious, but now she said: "What came was not the gynecological holy hand Qian Yuan's judgment, but the imperial doctor." ”

"It's a strange last name." Pillow Chun thought for a while, but he didn't have any impression, "I haven't seen it before, how do you know?" ”

Yulan replied in a low voice: "This imperial doctor, the slave maid has heard of it. The little master sent the slave maid and Xinghua to the concubine Qi Shuniang to reply to the little master of Duanmu. At that time, Concubine Qi invited the imperial doctor to cut the pulse of the little master of Duanmu, and I heard that the imperial doctor was good at adjusting the loss of experts, just like the little master of Duanmu at that time. If you want to ask this imperial doctor, it means that the patient's body is not very good. ”

Pillow Chun thought for a while and sighed: "The imperial concubine's baby has become popular in April, and now that I have a pet again, how can she get better." Now it's been June and July, but I can't hurry to protect my body. A woman's birth is a ghost gate, and she can't get through, even if she gives birth to a dragon, it's in vain. Only when people are alive can they have hope, and when they die, they can only chase with whimpering and crying. After thinking about it carefully, this imperial doctor was transferred by Concubine Qi Shu, so she became vigilant, "You tell Xiao Xizi to pay attention to the movements of the Imperial Hospital, and in the future, our routine request for pulse in Qi Yunxuan will only require Imperial Doctor Gao Lego to come." ”

Peach Blossom responded, and then replied: "The slaves and maids came from the side hall on the other side, and saw that the little master Zhen Wanyi had already selected ten prostitutes and were waiting in the backyard." ”

"Ten? What does it look like? Pillow Chun pinched her fingers, it had been half a day, and she Xue Chuling moved quickly.