Entering the palace again is the identity of Dong Esixue, August 16 is a blue sky, rare good weather, I stand with girls from all over the world, lined up, the autumn wind is very comfortable, almost no one in the crowd speaks, just hold the mirror, concentrate on whether their fat powder clothes are comprehensive, maybe curiously observe the show girls around them.

The show girls participating in the election must be the daughters of officials in the Manchu, Meng, and Han Eight Banners, and the official positions of their families must reach the required level, and the Beijing officials need to be above the four civil and military positions of the Manchu, Meng, and Han Zheng before they can participate in the draft, "Sister, it turns out that you are here!" In an instant, Jiao Sheng broke the silence, and when I looked at it, the person who spoke was Dong E Wanyan, the daughter of the first-class Adhaha Panbadu, seeing this, I nodded, pulled my lips and smiled, and did not speak.

Under the leadership of the eunuchs in the palace, we entered the Shunzhen Gate, the first time the show girls entered the palace, so I felt novel everywhere, and the first time I visited the Forbidden City, I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, the Forbidden City that has not been transformed is really beautiful, but how many women's blood and tears are buried in this red palace wall? Maybe no one knows.

I thought that I would have to wait for a while, and a few eunuchs and palace maids came out of the palace, one of them was Aunt Jin, she was a close confidant of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, and she was also the oldest palace maid in the Cining Palace except for Su Moer, Jin Yu, "Little masters, the slave maid is named Jin Yu, you can call the slave maid Aunt Jin, and you will be served by the slave maid in the next few days." Saying that, she seemed to see me, and nodded at me with mixed emotions in her eyes, seeing that I owed a debt, "I've seen Aunt Jin." With everyone's coquettish voices, Aunt Jin bent over and returned a salute.

The draft is divided into three stages, the primary selection, the secondary selection, and the palace selection.

The primary selection is for the aunts in the palace to check the bodies of the show girls, and if they look at the same, they can all pass.

The second election is for the show girls to stay in the palace for three days, and the queen will see if the show girls are proficient in the palace etiquette, if not, they can stay in the palace for a month, and then think about it in the long run.

The palace selection is selected by the queen mother and the emperor and the queen together, and the show girl who leaves the card to fill the harem, or refers to the relatives of the emperor, and the show girl can wait to go home to get married, or stay in the palace as a palace maid, and can leave the palace at the age of twenty-five.

The primary selection was a little embarrassing for our show girls, because we had to lie on the couch and be checked by the grandmothers.

If you are re-elected, I think it should be no problem, because Eniang said that I learned the etiquette in the palace very well, and Eniang also said that with my family background and appearance, the position is either a noble person or a concubine, in fact, I look forward to it, I don't want to be in a high position, I just want to stay by the side of the person I admire.

What worries me is the palace election, the queen mother didn't like me in the first place, and now I know that I am half Han, no matter what, I know that she will embarrass me, no way, so I have to come to block it, and the water will cover it.

After the primary election, Aunt Jin arranged for us to live in Chuxiu Palace, two people in a room, I lived with the daughter of Mongolian first-class Taijibda Shib, Borzigit Nomin, it is said that her identity is a distant relative of the Queen Mother, after knowing her, I secretly sighed, most of the concubines of Fulin are Borzigit, and the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang is going to move the women of the entire Mongolian Horqin here?.

This draft is relatively simple, it is said that in the past, show girls would stay in the palace for a month and learn the rules for a month.

Time flies, in a blink of an eye, it is August 18, and it is a very good weather, because today is the day when I and Borzigit Nomin were called to Kunning Palace for questioning, early in the morning Nomin got up and dressed up, she was wearing a peach color embroidered and Tilian flag suit, this is a unified show women's dress, Nomin's face is painted with gouache, it is very white and tender, coupled with the faint red door of the cheeks, it makes people feel very shy, three thousand green silk is rolled into a small two, the pink chrysanthemum is fixed in the middle of the hair, and the pink pendant is worn in both ears, and she is different. Although I was also dressed in a peach-embroidered and tillian flag dress, I didn't have the same other thoughts as she did, I just put a thin layer of powder on my face, and only added some color.

Under the leadership of Mama, we arrived at Kunning Palace, Kunning Palace is the largest and most luxurious palace in the harem, high hall, deep palace wall, vermilion gate, it is the dormitory where Concubine Jing lived when Shunzhi was not abolished, and later Concubine Jing moved into Yikun Palace, one of the six palaces in the west, and now Queen Borzigit Ronghui entered the palace here became her dormitory.

During the Kangxi period, it became the residence of the Kangxi Emperor's wife, Empress Xiaochengren, and after her death, the emperor missed her, and after the Kangxi Dynasty, this was the place where the emperor got married or held sacrifices.

We blessed our bodies in a proper manner, and I motioned for Nuo Min, who was beside me, to speak first, and when she saw this, she moved forward, pulled the veil, knelt down and said: "The courtier Borzigit Nomin asks the queen mother to say goodbye, and the queen mother is blessed with gold." ”

"The courtier Dong Esixue sees the queen's mother, and the queen's mother is blessed with Jin'an." I saluted and whispered.

"No need to be polite." Sitting on the phoenix chair, the queen Borzigit Ronghui, with big eyes on her white little face, a nose bridge that is not high or low, and a cherry lip, golden earrings are worn on both ears, her small figure supports the flag dress made of red cloud brocade, embroidered with a lifelike golden phoenix with wings ready to fly, the skirt is very complicated, but she is lined with dignified and noble, the peony hairpin is obliquely inserted on the head of the tin, and the red tassel is swaying, swaying with her every move,

"Xie Niangniang." Nomin and I looked at each other tacitly as if we had discussed it.

Rong Hui dispersed the minions, let us sit down, looked at Nuo Min next to me again, smiled faintly, and said softly: "I haven't seen you in this palace for a long time, how is Sister Nuo Min?" ”

"Everything is fine, how is Sister Hui'er?" As soon as she said this, she seemed to be startled, and suddenly got up from her chair, which seemed to be less than a meter away from Ronghui, and knelt down and said, "The courtier has offended the queen mother, please ask the queen mother to surrender." I knelt down at the same time as her, and at the moment of kneeling, I secretly glanced at Rong Hui, and there was not a trace of anger in her eyes, but nostalgia.

After a moment, she took a sip of tea from the teacup and said, "Get up." I glanced up at her again and noticed a slight smile on her face.

"The courtiers don't dare." Nuo Min's forehead slammed to the ground, and her tone seemed to be very frightened, Rong Hui, who was sitting on the phoenix chair, slowly stood up, walked lightly, helped me and Nuo Min up, and followed her hand, and the two of us slowly got up.

"There are no outsiders here, if you don't dislike it, you can call me Hui'er like before."

"Hui'er." Hearing this, I whispered, she smiled at me and nodded, and Nuo Min followed my words before she said timidly: "Sister Hui'er." Rong Hui listened, still smiling on his face and nodded.

Since there are many show girls in the back, we took the time to show Ronghui the rules we learned, and we quit!

Coming out of Kunning Palace, the two of us walked on the way back to Chuxiu Palace under the care of Mama, the autumn breeze blows, making people feel very cool, almost every road has palace maids and eunuchs passing by, they will bow their heads to us, and finally arrive at Chuxiu Palace after walking for a while, but when I want to go in, I was stopped by Nuo Min's sentence "Sister Sixue", I looked at her suspiciously, carefully observed the slightly changing expression on her face, looked at her like that I knew what she was going to ask, but I didn't want to reveal half of it.

"Are you condemned by the emperor?" Hearing this, there was a feeling that the teacher was slowly approaching me, I shook my head silently, and replied bluntly "no", I didn't mean to lie to her, but apart from this sentence, I really can't think of anything else, after all, more is better than less.

"The queen ...... to you"

When she was about to say something, I interrupted her first, and I explained to her: "You know, I grew up in Horqin since I was a child, and I am the nominal niece of the Queen Mother, and Ronghui is the daughter of my brother Qiuerji, and the two of us are very close in age, so we often play together when we are young. At this point, I lowered my eyes and sighed, just like Rong Hui's expression, with a little nostalgia in my eyes, a little sadness, I don't know what the reason is, I can't help but feel sad,

"Sister, it's my sister who spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain! From this day forward, I will not hesitate to believe my sister. Nomin pulled his lips and smiled, but there was still a little worry on his face, and he stretched out his tender hand to lay on my hand, as if to reassure me.