When Xi Tao came in lightly, Wang Ronghe had already completed her morning yoga on the kang, put on her clothes, and was now holding a comb in front of the mirror and gesturing on her head.

"Why didn't the girl ask me to serve?" Xi Tao hurriedly stepped forward and said.

"I'll do the rest myself, you came just in time, otherwise I really have to wait for you to come and get my hair right." Wang Ronghe said with a smile.

Xi Tao tied her hair under Wang Ronghe's verbal guidance and chose a hairpin. "Girl, wait a minute, I'll bring hot water and breakfast in."

"There's no rush, just take your time." Wang Ronghe was still smiling, and sleeping well was finally a good start.

The morning in the palace was quiet, and the girl who had not been checked yesterday had just finished breakfast and prepared for the program at this time. Wang Ronghe used the hot porridge sent by Xi Tao, and the fried side dishes with fresh color, and his heart was touched, "Is Shang Shan Si far away from Chuxiu Palace?" ”

"It's not that far." Xi Tao said that it was actually far away, but she went to the little eunuch of Shang Shan Si with Wang Rong and the reward money yesterday, and asked him to send the fresh meal in the morning to Chuxiu Palace as soon as it was made.

Wang Ronghe touched another purse and gave it to Xi Tao, Xi Tao was puzzled, Wang Ronghe smiled, "I can't let you take care of my own business." "If you want convenience in the palace, you can't do it.

"It's not worth anything, it's the girl's silver on the left and right." Xi Tao said. "Does the girl think I'm troublesome?"

"Thank you that it's too late." Wang Ronghe smiled, "I only care about two things, eating and sleeping, if these two things don't go well, my mood will be low, and my behavior will bring out a few points." It's because I'm worried that I can't go directly to the people of Shang Shan Division, so you should do me a favor and help me take care of it. ”

"Does the girl have a love of food and any taboos?" Xi Tao hesitated a little, "I can contact the little eunuch now, and the meal that Shang Shan Si gave to Chu Xiu Palace was set early in the morning, I'm afraid I can't change it too much." ”

"Do I still have to pay attention to eating and drinking in the palace now?" Wang Ronghe smiled. "Nothing else, just like hot food, especially in the morning, and like to eat some soup and water."

Xi Tao sighed lightly, "This is easy to do." ”

Wang Ronghe stuffed the purse into Xi Tao's hand. "Don't shirk, the clothes also have to be sent to be washed, these will be tiring for you, you have to take it everywhere, and if you feel that you can't take it on the day I leave the palace, you can return it."

Xi Tao could only put the purse away, but she looked at Wang Ronghe's eyes with some doubts, why didn't the girl want to stay in the palace?

The five girls who stayed in the East Side Hall last night came to Wang Ronghe, and after saying their names and places of origin to each other, they invited Wang Ronghe to go around the Chuxiu Palace together, and there was no one left and right.

Wang Ronghe refused, only saying that he was tired from yesterday's day's work, and his body was still very tired, and he wanted to take a rest. After getting along with each other last night, the five of them naturally got acquainted with each other, and they didn't force Wang Ronghe to go by themselves.

Wang Ronghe leaned on the kang table and looked out the window, as if looking at the trees outside, but as if he didn't look at it. All kinds of thoughts in her heart are pulling back and forth, how to behave next, how to naturally lose the election, is it possible to lose the election? Or take the initiative to find Zhang Cheng, find, Your Majesty, it was he who got her into the palace, if he didn't care about her, wouldn't she be very sad.

But where did she find it? Tell Your Majesty that she doesn't want to be his woman at all, and that he wants to give her a title when he gets her into the palace? It's really a long life.

How many people can be left in this selection, three hundred, two hundred, one hundred, and not less than one hundred, and finally fifty people can become the emperor's concubines. The remaining fifty people, the good ones can go out of the palace to marry freely, and the bad ones can only stay in the palace as a palace maid or female official, and they will waste every year, and if they are lucky, they can leave the palace at the age of thirty, and if they are unlucky, they will not live to be thirty years old.

Wang Rong put his hand on his head, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether it was better to be one of the fifty concubines or the other fifty of them.

One after another, people were led to Chuxiu Palace, but it seems that their first choice is not the main hall, they all choose the east and west with the hall, and when the east and west side halls are full, they will live in the back hall, and Wang Ronghe will be quiet. It wasn't until late afternoon that the first girl was introduced into the main hall, and she saw Wang Ronghe nodding lightly and choosing the west compartment.

Wang Ronghe has divergent thinking, it seems that there are many people who take the cold route, she doesn't want to stand out, as long as she is modest. How to grasp this degree?

Wang Ronghe told Xitao that she also had a younger sister who also participated in the selection, and when she came to Chuxiu Palace, let her come over and tell her that Wang Zhixi was very recognizable, and she should be the most beautiful among the show girls in this year.

Xitao directly led Wang Zhixi to Wang Ronghe, the sisters didn't hug their heads and cry when they saw each other, Wang Zhixi said with some embarrassment, "Sister, I said to Miss Liu yesterday that if she also stays, I will live with her." She came out a little earlier than me, and had already chosen the location of the main hall of the apse. ”

"I'm not asking you to live with me." Wang Rong was stunned, "I'm relieved to see that everything is fine with you." Since you have made an appointment with someone, go and don't worry about me. ”

Liu Mulan secretly asked Wang Zhixi, "Why don't you want to live with your sister?" ”

"My sister's temperament." Wang Zhixi said half-sentenced, "When I was young, I was stupid and always made my sister angry. ”

"You were born so beautiful, and you are a half-brother, I think she is narrow-minded and deliberately embarrassed you." Liu Mulan said, "It's okay for you to live with me." She is the daughter of a peasant family near Gyeonggi, and she followed her into Beijing a few years ago, and has been living outside the palace, bathing every day, and brushing her hair over and over again, so that she has the appearance of a young lady now. is reckless and upright, and has a sense of righteousness. Last night, she was assigned to sleep next door to Wang Zhixi, and when she couldn't sleep and talk to each other, she knew what the other party was, and Liu Mulan wanted to protect this delicate and beautiful girl.

"My sister is a very good person, but she is more serious, which always makes people misunderstand." Wang Zhixi said, "When I saw that you were amiable, I had selfish intentions to be close to you. ”

"I see you very amiable." Liu Mulan said. "Fortunately, you told me yesterday what the situation would be for today's inspection, otherwise I would have screamed when that eunuch put his hand on me and beat him out again."

"You, now that you're in the palace, don't say that you have a lot of strength or anything like that." Wang Zhixi said, "Even if you can't be a concubine, you can also rely on being a palace maid." What should I do when I see that you have great strength and let you do hard labor? ”

"It's okay, I'm used to doing things at home." Liu Mulan didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this, but said it with a big heart.

In the evening, the aunt of the Shanggong Bureau came to Chuxiu Palace, and all the show girls stood on the front lawn to hear the hearing.

"So far, this selection, a total of 200 girls stay in the palace."

"But this is just the beginning, and it will be screened again and again in the next month, and the people who remain may become His Majesty's concubines. And in this month, the girls should be cautious in their words and deeds, abide by their duties, and the girls must know that the ground under their feet is the palace, which is the most noble place in the world, and if they are about to step on the wrong side, they will find that being kicked out of the palace is already the best punishment, otherwise it will harm their lives and their parents and relatives at worst. ”

"The show girls live in various parts of Chuxiu Palace, starting from Mao, eating at dawn, eating at night, returning to the room at the time of unitary, not going out, sleeping at the same time, and not leaving Chuxiu Palace unless summoned. Each hall is equipped with five palace maids and two eunuchs for the call. Morning and evening classes are held daily. There will be an aunt from the Shanggong Bureau to guide the girl's etiquette and deal with the taboos in the palace before the emperor. ”

"Girls, you have to pay attention, so far, the future is in the hands of the girls." Aunt said.

Wang Ronghe heard that someone asked his aunt if she could provide paper, ink, pen, inkstone, books, etc., and when she entered the palace, she could only bring clothes and jewelry, and she could not bring a piece of paper into the palace, and some people could not bring a pastime. Some people also asked if there could be a needlework cloth, and if you could see the holy face of the queen mother, you could also pay homage to one or two.

Wang Ronghe didn't have any idea about these, she just regarded it as a month of closed training, and she didn't want to practice calligraphy and didn't like embroidery. She only looked at the aunt who was talking in front of her and frowned, will a female official of this level participate in the audition? She looked around, and there were no other women who had the same doubts as her? Could it be that she only participated in her audition?

"My aunt said that if you need anything, you can ask the palace maid directly, and the palace maid will give back to your aunt, do you want to order a needle?" Su Ru, who lived in the same compartment with Wang Ronghe, said.

"What is the use of needlework?" Wang Ronghe said. "I have morning and evening classes every day, and I can rest in the evening, and I do needlework on the lamp oil, which burns my eyes out more than I lose."

Su Ru obviously didn't expect this, "It's just that everyone else does it, and if we don't do it, it will be a coincidence." ”

"You just came to the palace and didn't prepare one or two filial piety needlework?" Wang Ronghe asked. "Let's wait, maybe it's worth it for us to embroider on the spot, and it's also the standard of the test."

Five palace maids have to serve more than 30 show girls in a hall, which is also quite heavy, and Wang Ronghe no longer deliberately calls Xi Tao. But Xi Tao still followed what Wang Ronghe said, two meals, and hot water was prepared. There are too few palace maids, and grooming every morning has become a big problem, Wang Ronghe originally thought that it would be good to find someone to help each other pull their hair, but they didn't expect that the other three people in a compartment would hold their heads and let Wang Ronghe help pull their hair up, so they didn't know what to do next, otherwise they would tear Wang Ronghe's hair to pieces and make his scalp hurt.

Wang Ronghe still found Yang Jingru in the next compartment, and the two tried for two days and became the last hair-pulling partner. No one is stupid, how can they serve you in vain. After that, the girl in the cubicle didn't have time to beg Wang Ronghe to pull her hair in the morning, and Wang Ronghe only said that she was also busy.

Wang Ronghe went to bed early, once he fell asleep, it was difficult to be woken up, and when he slept right this night, he suddenly screamed in the night sky, "There are ghosts!" ”

The sound is so poignant that it can really make children cry at night. The show girls were awakened, and some of them were timid and hugged the quilt and cried.