"That's good." Shu Shu smiled at her grandfather, lowered her head and continued to write, these days, her handwriting has grown a lot, although it is more interesting to catch insects and kick shuttlecocks, but sit down and write, it doesn't seem to be boring.

"Shu Shu, do you know something and hear something?" Sonny asked nervously, after all, the Empress Dowager had repeatedly told her that she couldn't let Shu Shu know her fate in advance before the results were out.

"The people said that the sister of Uncle Suppilon's family is going to be the queen." Shu Shu's eyes and hands were in the pen and ink, and he asked his grandfather without raising his head, "Grandpa, isn't it?" ”

"This rumor has been around for a long time, but they don't want to think about the child's origin." Sonny said, "Being a queen is too conceited. ”

"The emperor and the first emperor are not descendants." Shu Shu took a pen and dipped it in ink, changed a piece of paper and continued to write, disapproving, "Grandpa, I think there is no difference between the concubines." ”

"That's my granddaughter's big heart, but the world doesn't think so." "Well, that's someone else's business, and it has nothing to do with us." ”

Shu Shu raised his eyes and smiled: "It has nothing to do with us." ”

"Shu Shu ......" Sony shouted his granddaughter's name, but he couldn't speak, there was reluctance in his heart, and there were hidden worries, he was afraid that he would not live for many years, but if this business was to prosper, he must hand over the family business to Suo Etu.

can't live alone in the deep palace, if the granddaughter is in the middle palace, if she wants to gain a firm foothold, she must rely on her mother's family, when the time comes, how will Suo Etu control her and threaten her, and Shu Shu, can she screw her uncle?

"Grandpa?" Shu Shu saw that his grandfather was distracted, and asked with a smile, "What do you think?" ”

Sonny stepped forward, admired his granddaughter's words, and said, "Shu Shu, remember grandpa's words, in the future, live under your own world." ”

On Chinese New Year's Eve and the first month of this year, although there were banquets in the palace, young children no longer entered the palace, as if for the fairness of the draft, they should be treated equally.

From the beginning of the first month, the school-age show girls from all over the country have entered Beijing, the position of the middle palace is related to the future of the Qing Dynasty, after the beginning of the fourth year of Kangxi, the topic of the middle palace candidate, has been lively for half a year.

At the beginning of June, the primary election of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, early in the morning, the carriages and donkey carts of various provinces were lined up outside the Forbidden City.

Tong Guogang led people to inspect, and when he saw this scene, he remembered that Eniang had mentioned the scene of Yuan Xi's candidacy that year, and couldn't help but feel sad, clenched his fists, and left in a hurry with the guards.

The order of the draft, according to the Eight Banners, Shu Shu is a positive yellow flag, and after she finished the selection, there was a long queue behind her.

The carriage on the Sony Mansion sped away, and many people stretched out their heads to look, and soon the news came that the granddaughter of Lord Sony was selected.

When the news reached Aobai's house, Aobai's eyes widened angrily: "With such a big scar on her head, are the people in the Internal Affairs Office blind?" ”

The guests in the house persuaded Ao Bai not to make trouble, maybe it was the people of the Internal Affairs Office who received the benefits of Sony, and in case, it was the Queen Mother who ordered it to do so, and Ao Bai ran to make a big noise, wouldn't it be a crime to bully the king.

Ao Bai said angrily: "In this case, what else to choose, just refer to the marriage, why bother to make a big deal to cover up." I said, I want to marry the princess to our family, she just thought about the rest and sent a princess to gag me. What is the princess worth, can the princess have a son and inherit the country in the future? ”

However, this is a royal family matter, the Empress Dowager informed the ministers in the first month, one is to avoid suspicion, and the other is Aixin Jueluo's family affairs, although the queen mother is related to the fate of the country, but this is all a later story, before that, everything is decided by her and the emperor.

Therefore, foreign ministers are not allowed to interfere in this draft, let alone go to the palace to protest.

But no matter what, Ao Bai couldn't swallow this breath, and before the primary election was over, rumors flew all over Beijing.

There are those who say that Hesheri Shushu is ugly, that Sony bought the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and even that Shushu's birthday is unlucky and will bring disaster to the royal family.

For a while, even ordinary people knew how the granddaughter of the first minister's family was.

Shu Shu, who was raised in the deep boudoir, couldn't hear these words, but Lingzhao could hear them, and when they met again, they were already in the Qin'an Palace, waiting for the face saint, and the emperor himself made the last selection.

Throughout June, after layers of screening, there were only twelve girls left who finally went to the Qin'an Temple to face the saints, all of whom were from prominent families and from noble backgrounds.

Compared with the women of the common people in the former Ming Dynasty, they also have the opportunity to be queens, and the queens of the Qing Dynasty value their family background the most.

Girls of the same age stood together, all with childish faces, but they had to carry a calm and steady attitude that did not match their age.

The scene of the first draft for Fulin is still vivid, but poor Yuan Xi couldn't see her daughter-in-law enter the palace with her own eyes.

And the emperor is still so young, he has to rush to get married to a daughter-in-law, Fu Lin was only engaged first, and the emperor is now only twelve years old.

"Mama." When the girls saw Su Mala, they bowed one after another.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager have arrived, but the emperor still has homework to finish, and he has to wait for another half an hour, please take a break." Su Mala said kindly, "When the time comes, someone will naturally come to pick you up and enter the hall." ”

"Yes." Everyone agreed, and when Su Mala left, the children were all deflated.

The palace maids moved stools, invited the show ladies to sit down and rest, and served tea and water, and the atmosphere in the hall suddenly eased a lot.

But among the girls, only Ling Zhao was sitting motionless, and the girls on the side were holding tea bowls and drinking water, and couldn't help whispering to each other.

"Tea?" Shu Shu sat next to Ling Zhao and handed her the tea, "It's been three hours since I entered the palace in the morning, and I'm thirsty." ”

But after Shu Shu finished speaking, some show girls couldn't help it, and asked the palace maid to take them to relieve them, and the family stopped Lingzhao in front of the palace today, and since last night, they have restricted her from drinking water, and since the day before yesterday, she has not eaten a mouthful of food seriously.

Now Lingzhao is dizzy with hunger and a dry mouth.

"No, I'm not thirsty." Ling Zhao said, "Thank you. ”

"Then I'll drink it." Shu Shu said, and drank most of the bowl happily.

Ling Zhao watched Shu Shu's throat roll with a grunt, couldn't help licking his lips, lowered his head, and grabbed the handkerchief in his hand.

"Take a sip and moisturize your lips." Shu Shu leaned over again, "Your lips are all peeled, not good-looking." ”

Ling Zhao panicked, and immediately asked the palace maid to bring a mirror, her complexion was extremely poor, she didn't drink water for a long time, and her lips had a layer of dry skin.

I saw Shu Shu hand over the tea and said with a smile: "Drink it." ”

Ling Zhao stretched out his hand, retracted it halfway, and said vigilantly: "I always thought that you wouldn't take the initiative to talk to people, and I used to play with you, and you didn't care about people." ”

"That's different now." Shu Shu smiled slightly, "Our identities are different. ”

Ling Zhao frowned, not at all like a thirteen-year-old child, human affection appeared between her eyebrows prematurely, and she asked suspiciously, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Shu Shu smiled and was generous: "Among us, if someone wants to become a queen, if it is me, I should treat everyone with courtesy, if it is you, sister, then I should be respected, right?" ”

Ling Zhao's heart trembled, but she was not a weak person, and Zhengse said: "Speaking of which, not only me, but many people are curious about how you passed the layers of screening. ”

Shu Shu put the tea bowl in Ling Zhao's hand and calmly responded: "We will all have our own destiny, and now, everything has begun." ”

She is a very smart child, she has followed her grandfather since she was a child, and she has seen a lot of power entanglements in the court, because of the scar on her head, which makes her more aware of the things and people around her.

On such an important day as the draft, my grandfather told her to have fun and do whatever she wanted, which clearly showed that my grandfather already knew the final result.

If you can't choose, it's nothing, but if you are chosen, you will definitely be the future queen of the Qing Dynasty.

And when she was able to go to the Qin'an Hall and participate in the last selection, she knew in her heart that she was no longer Miss Jiao of Hesheri Mansion.

"Do you, already know something?" Ling Zhao suddenly became less confident, she always thought that she would become the queen, in the past six months, everyone has asked her for the future queen, she has paid so much hard work, but ......

"I don't know anything." Shu Shu said, "But your current appearance is really not good-looking, we are only twelve or thirteen years old, we are still children, children with fine clothes and fine food, pale and dry, how to make it." Drink saliva, it will be more comfortable, and people will be refreshed. ”