Jiajing was a little surprised that Xiao Feng came back to see him so soon.

"Eyebrows so soon?"

Xiao Feng paid homage with a Taoist gift, and he couldn't afford it for a long time. Jiajing's heart sank.

"If you have anything to say, I have said it, and this time I will listen to the truth."

"Senior brother, I have a reluctant request, please don't blame me, and keep it secret for me."

Jiajing was a little more relaxed, it turned out that he was here to support him, and he thought there was a result.

"But it doesn't hurt, I promise you."

"I want to check the list of the last time my senior brother recruited the show girl, that is, three years ago, and the list of officials who selected the show girl."

"This ......"

It's not a difficult thing, it's just that Jiajing is really a topic that Jiajing doesn't want to talk about with others. No wonder Xiao Feng wanted to confess first.

Other emperors recruit show girls who are sixteen or seventeen years old, and they are functionally plug-and-play.

But the ones recruited by Jiajing, even in that era, belonged to the level of young girls, not to mention that the usage was not quite the same.

Jiajing knows that her behavior is a bit perverted, so the behavior of this show girl, others have always been bored, and they don't dare to mention it.

Jiajing's calm face flushed slightly, and he looked at Huang Jin next to him. Huang Jinmian did not change his color, with an attitude of "what is this".

"The roster is in Huang Ban, let Huang Ban find it for you. Huang Ban, he said that he wanted to keep it secret, so you can keep it a secret for him. ”

Huang Jin said yes again and again, and said that he just didn't say that he wanted to keep it secret, and I had to keep this matter a secret.

This roster can't be taken out of the palace, so Xiao Feng borrowed Huang Jin's room, read it page by page, and thought about it from time to time.

said that it was to choose the world's show girls, but in fact, most of the dozens of women in this batch were from the south of the Yangtze River, and there were also very few in the north.

This is not discrimination, in fact, in all dynasties, as long as it is not for the purpose of political marriage, the emperor is willing to choose more show girls in Jiangnan.

This group of show girls is mainly concentrated in a few places, such as Ningbo, Jiaxing, Wuxi, Hangzhou and Huainan.

It's not that there are no beauties in other places, just look at the officials who are selected and sent - they are all members of the strict party.

Since Yan Song came to power, the work of selecting and sending show girls has basically been controlled by the Yan Party.

Non-strict party officials are reluctant to wade into such troubled waters.

If you do a good job or not, you will be despised by the readers, and there is no need to take the initiative to find and scold; Second, there is no protection umbrella above, and there is no benefit, and if you don't force out people's lives, you will be responsible.

Xiao Feng's main focus is not on those who have been selected, but on women who have been selected but have been eliminated for some reason.

Draft girls is a very rigorous job, even if it is controlled by the officials below, but the original records must be obtained, which is directly involved by the Ministry of Rites, and it is difficult to falsify.

For example, at the beginning of this work, it is an audition, and all eligible girls must be circled into a large list, which is equivalent to an audition.

Then the elimination is carried out according to various reasons, and the reasons are written, and finally a final list is formed.

Xiao Feng is looking at the girls who were not selected from the audition list.

The female corpse of the dry well looked like she was sixteen or seventeen years old, so three years ago, it should have been thirteen or fourteen years old, and there was a difference in size according to the person's appearance, and it fluctuated up and down by one year.

It just happened to be the requirement for Jiajing to choose a show girl between the ages of eleven and fifteen. So as soon as Xiao Feng finished testing the words, he immediately thought of the identity of this girl.

But if it is Jiajing's show girl, whether it is in Xiyuan or in the palace, it is registered, and no matter who is missing, it must be reported to Jiajing.

So this girl should be the show girl who failed to be drafted at the beginning.

The list has an explanation for each unsuccessful girl, but it certainly does not say that she is not good-looking, because beauty is the first condition for entering the audition.

Some of the most common reasons are as follows.

First: There is only one daughter in the family, and her parents are reluctant.

Don't think this is ridiculous, does the emperor still care about this?

Yes, I care. Even Jiajing's will to recruit show girls clearly stipulated: if there is only one woman in the family, she must voluntarily follow her family.

The emperor can't be unreasonable, he can't let the people of the world poke the backbone, even if he does the most perverted thing, the public will must be able to stand up to reading.

Of course, how the officials below carry it out is their business, and the emperor didn't let them do that anyway.

Second: If you have a hidden disease, you should not enter the palace.

This is very easy to explain, I only looked at my appearance during the audition, and later after an investigation, I found that this woman was sick, so how could she enter the palace?

Many families paid to buy the government, and in the end they used this reason to lose the election.

It is impossible for the emperor to send a doctor to give physical examinations to those undrafted girls one by one, as long as a local doctor is found and a diagnosis is issued.

Third: Suspicious background, not suitable to enter the palace.

Note that the origin is suspicious, not lowly. Being from a low background does not prevent you from being a show girl, as long as you are beautiful, the emperor does not dislike it.

The suspicious background means that the woman's ancestors may have rebelled, or the woman may have martial arts, or the woman's family relationship is complicated, such as an aunt who received rice from the White Lotus Sect......

In short, this woman may pose a certain potential threat to the emperor, so not only can she not enter the palace, but she must continue to investigate and deal with it separately.

Of the three reasons, Xiao Feng only stared at the part of the second reason.

The reason is very simple, the first reason, the need to modify the household registration, although it is not impossible, but it is too troublesome, how can there be a second reason to achieve easily?

The third reason is that the matter is too big, and it is not possible for the Criminal Department or Jinyiwei to ask for follow-up investigation results, and the possibility of falsification is also very small.

Therefore, if this girl is a show girl who was eliminated, but was taken to the capital to be kept in captivity or even imprisoned, then the biggest possibility can only be the second reason used.

The show girls who were eliminated for the second reason involved a total of about 50 people in four places. Xiao Feng wrote them down one by one on a piece of paper, and then returned the file to Huang Jin.

Huang Jin is always kind and humble, if you don't talk to him, he won't talk to you, just look at Xiao Feng with a smile.

"Huang Neixiang, thank you for helping me personally rummage through Yi Luanwei's clothes and waist tag overnight, this matter is really troublesome to you."

"Xiao Zhenren is polite, Yiluanwei has been restructured for a long time, and the clothes and waist tags are sealed in the inner curry.

Those little cubs don't even know each other, where can they find it? This is a long live kindness, how dare the old slave slacken. ”

"Huang Neixiang, you call me Xiao Zhenren, I always feel awkward, I feel like you're ridiculing me, can you call me Xiao Feng, or Xiao Sheren."

Huang Jin smiled slightly, he knew Xiao Feng's thoughts, and he was also willing to show closeness to Xiao Feng, Jiajing's trust and preference for Xiao Feng, he knew best.

"Xiao Gongzi, you have a Huang internal appearance, can you still blame me for a Xiao Zhenren?

It doesn't really matter what you call it, it's your loyalty to Banzai that matters. ”

Xiao Feng also smiled and nodded, he understood what Huang Jin meant.

"Father-in-law Huang, I have been taught, and I will leave."

Xiao Feng returned to Shuntian Mansion and took another look at the female corpse. The woman's corpse was buried in ice, the weather was cold, and there was no sign of decay.

Xiao Feng took out the notice drawn by Shuntianfu before, compared it, it seems that the painter of Shuntianfu has two brushes, and the painting is quite similar.

The notice was posted outside the city gate for several days, and there was no movement at all, indicating that the woman was not a local and did not know her.

Xiao Feng asked the official to call a painter, and because there was no case in the past two days, the painter ran out to paint a portrait of the mother of a wealthy businessman.

This is the habit of the rich people in those days, every year to draw a picture for their parents, and when the parents die, choose the most solemn and benevolent one from them, so that it can be pasted in the ancestral hall for offerings, which is equivalent to the current posthumous photo.

When the painter heard that it was Xiao Feng's summons, he didn't dare to slack off, and after finishing the three strokes and two strokes, he didn't even have time to collect the money, so he ran back with the servant.

As soon as I entered the lobby, I saw Xiao Feng admiring the portrait he had drawn, and couldn't help but feel apprehensive.

"Adult, but the villain doesn't draw like it? This dead corpse is no better than a living person, and it can only be painted realistically, and it is difficult to show its charm.

If an adult has a family member who needs to let the villain draw, the villain must do his best to ensure that the adult is satisfied. ”

Xiao Feng raised the painting in his hand, and his tone was very gentle.

"You're drawing a good one, but as you said, it's a corpse. Although it is not rotten, his face is scarred, and his eyebrows are lifeless.

Can you draw what she would have been like when she was alive? ”

The painter hesitated, this request had not been mentioned before.

"My lord, it should be okay, but people's demeanor has nothing to do with their appearance, some people are coquettish, some people are cold, some people are sad, but it is not easy to imagine out of thin air.

The appearance is just the skin of a person, but the expression of the expression is the flesh of a person.

Many people can't draw real people well, because they can't grasp the physical appearance of their expressions, so although they try their best to describe, they still look like two people. ”

A picture flashed in Xiao Feng's mind.

A couple from a poor family and grief-stricken held their daughter's little hand, crying and shouting, asking the official to take their children away.

They thought that their daughter was going to be brought into the palace, and they were already so sad. didn't know that their daughter had actually been quietly eliminated.

Not because it is unqualified, but because it is too good and too beautiful.

The people at the bottom thought that the best treasures and the most beautiful women would be enjoyed by the emperor first, and even the emperor himself thought so.

But in fact, the best treasure, the most beautiful woman, never appeared in the palace, and the emperor probably didn't see the top three.

The girl was pulled away by the official, her hands still stretched out in the direction of her parents, and her face was ......

"Draw a sad expression, the saddest and most heartbroken kind when a young girl is forced to leave home."