Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has reached the early winter season, and the palace has also ushered in the day of choosing a pet.

The Ministry of Rites, as the yamen in charge of this matter, swept the world and carefully selected hundreds of men with outstanding looks for the empress, and sent them all to the palace.

These people need to first pass the selection of the Inner Court Division to select the best one, and then they will face the empress's personal choice.

They all have different backgrounds, there are ordinary people, and there are also sons of families, although they know that accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, but for the glory and prosperity of the family, at this time, there will still be many people who squeeze their heads to participate in the election.

For the sake of so-called vanity, they even put life and death aside, which can't help but make people sigh.

Cloud Palace.

In the main hall, a total of twenty men wearing only simple nightgowns stood in four rows in the center of the main hall, although their faces were full of nervousness, they did not forget to scratch their heads and gestures, trying their best to attract the attention of the empress.

The empress stood at the front, her eyes were like torches, carefully looking at everyone present, with a hint of excitement on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes revealing irrepressible greed.

In the face of twenty carefully selected men, no matter their figure and appearance, all of them are different, after they are admitted to the harem, won't they sing songs every night? I can't imagine it.

Chunsheng stood in the last row, nervously bowing his head, his heart beating fast.

After training hard for so long, success or failure is here, and if he loses, he will lose the only chance to avenge his people.

I don't know why, since he passed through Li Wuji's bones and changed his appearance, there is always a trace of a temperament similar to Li Wuji between his eyebrows, and it is easy to make people trance-like after watching it for a long time, thinking that they are seeing Li Wuji, but the appearance of the two is not like that at all.

After a while, the empress finally finished admiring the tools of pleasure in front of her and began to pick people herself.

Among the more than 100 people sent to the palace every year, only ten people can finally be included in the harem by the empress.

These ten must be the most all-powerful.

Although the empress had a smile on her face, her eyes were carefully examined, and she occasionally asked a few questions.

Soon, the first lucky winner was born, and everyone watched with jealousy as the chosen companion walked out of the queue, puffing out their chests with pride.

Then came the second, the third...

As more and more people were picked, seeing that there were about to be ten people, Chunsheng's nervous palms standing in the fourth row were sweating, and he couldn't wait to rush directly to the empress to attract the empress's attention.

When the empress walked to the fourth row, she had already selected enough nine people, and according to the conventions and rules of previous years, there was only one person missing!

Chunsheng straightened his waist and showed his heroic posture as much as possible, clenching his fists tightly.

"Him!"

Immediately afterward, the empress glanced at it and spoke again.

Chunsheng looked excitedly, but he was instantly disappointed, because the tenth person selected by the empress was not him, but another beautiful man next to him who was taller than him and fairer than him.

When the man saw that the empress had chosen herself, he almost jumped up in excitement, and after bowing in thanks, he was picked out of the queue.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Chunsheng felt a little desperate in his heart, and hated that he had to rush to the empress regardless of everything, and directly slashed this enemy who did not share the sky.

But he was powerless, how could he be an opponent in the face of the iron-faced and ruthless Red Fish Guards around him?

may have been killed by a random knife before rushing to the empress!

After selecting enough ten people, the empress turned her head and nodded at Cui Yunqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and signaled that the selection of favors was over.

"Alright, the rest of the people, you can leave."

Cui Yunqi bowed, turned to look at the rest of the people, waved his hand and said.

The remaining ten saluted, lined up neatly, and turned to walk out of the hall.

The empress watched these people leave slowly, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, and nodded thoughtfully.

According to the custom, although these people are not elected, they will still receive the empress's gifts and receive some rewards.

"Wait!"

But at this moment, the empress inadvertently saw Chunsheng in the crowd, because Chunsheng glanced deeply at the empress when she turned to leave.

Hearing the empress's words, Cui Yunqi hurriedly stepped forward to stop everyone, looking at the empress in confusion, not understanding what was happening.

The empress frowned, stepped forward with a somewhat solemn face, and walked straight towards Chunsheng.

Looking at the empress's face, Cui Yunqi swallowed his saliva, revealing a trace of nervousness.

The reason why Chunsheng was among the favorites was only because Li Wuji bought Cui Yunqi under coercion and temptation.

Originally, Cui Yunqi was still glad that Chunsheng was not selected, but at this time, he was about to faint with fright, thinking that the empress had discovered something.

"What's your name?"

The empress soon came to Chunsheng's side and asked in a deep voice.

"Chunxi."

Chunsheng bowed, lowered his head, and replied respectfully, his heart almost beating out of his throat.

"Where?"

The Empress continued.

"Qingping County."

Chunsheng replied softly, trying to calm his voice.

After hearing Chunsheng's answer, the empress turned her head and glanced at Cui Yunqi.

Cui Yunqi nodded hurriedly, confirming that what Chunsheng said was true.

Chunsheng's identity origin, Li Wuji has already forged a copy for him, and no one will find out.

"Look up."

After the empress confirmed, she hesitated and said again.

Chunsheng took a breath, plucked up the courage to slowly raise his head, and looked at the empress affectionately.

As Chunsheng raised her head, the empress's eyes widened in surprise, and she couldn't help but see the figure of Li Wuji in her mind.

Immediately afterwards, the empress couldn't help but show a knowing smile, and there seemed to be a hint of excitement in her eyes.

"You can stay too."

The Empress stared at her for a long time, then spoke slowly, and then turned to leave.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Chunsheng was overjoyed and hurriedly knelt on the ground to thank him.

Cui Yunqi on the side was already stunned, because this was the first time in history that the empress had chosen eleven people!

And it's time to leave!

Soon, Cui Yunqi, who had come back to his senses, couldn't care so much, and hurriedly left the hall with the remaining nine people.

As for. He didn't know what Chunsheng would usher in next, and he didn't want to know, he just wanted to have nothing to do with the whole thing.

From now on, he will forget about Chunsheng and completely rot the matter of his bribery.

That night, the empress was fortunate to have Chunsheng, and one night of spring supper, Chunsheng immediately became the most favored one among all the selected eleven people.

Not only because he knows everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but also because of his work, he has not gone through the training of Wuji Louzhong to the old bustard and down to the maiko, he cannot reach the top of his skills.

At this point, Chunsheng finally got his wish and gained a firm foothold in the palace.

However, he always remembered what Li Wuji had told him, even if he entered the palace, he must be careful everywhere, not careless, once he takes a wrong step, he will only be greeted by death.

…

Away from Anhou Mansion.

Li Wuji sat in the study, drawing on a drawing, which was a delicate and small porcelain vase with novel patterns printed on it.

Next to the bottle, there are some materials and minutes for making cosmetics.

Ten days later, it was the empress's birthday, and Li Wuji was also invited, and he had to prepare a congratulatory gift, and he had to be ingenious.

He knew that yesterday was the day to choose a favor, although there was no news from the palace yet, but he was already very sure in his heart that Chunsheng would definitely be chosen.

He understands women, and he understands empresses even more.

And there is no news from Cui Yunqi's side, which means that the matter is half successful, he knows that the reason why Cui Yunqi did not disclose the process of choosing a pet yesterday is to draw a line with him in this way.

After all, secretly manipulating the matter of choosing favors, if it is exposed, it will be a great crime to destroy the nine clans!

At this moment, the sound of footsteps came, and Cao Zi'an hurriedly walked in from the outside, and respectfully saluted Li Wuji, with a smile on his face.

"Childe, good news, Chunsheng has been selected, and he went to bed last night! Almost tossed until dawn! ”

Cao Zi'an looked at Li Wuji happily and said excitedly.

Tian Yuan's eyeliner is pervasive, including the Imperial Palace, and more and more dormant people have made contact with Cao Zi'an these days.

Although it's just a small role, it's still okay to find out the news.

"Be quiet, for fear that others won't know?"

Li Wuji pursed his lips and said dissatisfiedly.

Seeing such a cold reaction from Li Wuji, Cao Zi'an couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

"Childe had already guessed that he would be selected?"

Cao Zi'an asked hesitantly.

"Everything is in Ben Gongzi's plan."

Li Wuji glanced up at Cao Zi'an and said meaningfully.

"Why?"

Cao Zi'an couldn't help but ask in a daze.

"Because he's like me."

Li Wuji smiled and said casually, and then continued to draw.

After listening to Li Wuji's answer, the doubts on Cao Zi'an's face became more and more obvious, and he was confused.

Maybe it's because Cao Zi'an is too familiar with Li Wuji, although he has been to Wuji Building to see Chunsheng a few times, but he didn't find the trace of déjà vu between Chunsheng's eyebrows and Li Wuji...