Ye Ningxiang followed the leader's inner supervisor all the way to Zhongxiu Palace, where the new entrants lived temporarily. The Zhongxiu Palace is dressed very plainly, but the rooms in the palace are the most in the entire palace, because when it comes to the year of the palace selection, the Zhongxiu Palace is always full.

Ye Ningxiang and his party widened their eyes, and finally stopped in the courtyard of Zhongxiu Palace with curiosity, and stood in a square according to the instructions of the inner supervisor. Ye Ningxiang felt that there should be a big man who would come out to lecture them in a while.

As expected, it was only a moment of effort to walk out of the main hall with a middle-aged woman in her forties wearing a female official uniform. Ye Ningxiang looked at the costume and guessed that this person should be a lady in charge.

The woman cleared her throat and said very formally: "My surname is Cui, and I am the emperor's own mother-in-charge, who is responsible for managing the palace maids in the palace. Cui Mama put her hands behind her back again, looking very imposing, and continued: "From today on, you are the palace maids who have left the palace for me, I don't care what your previous identity was, when you get here, you have to put away the previous shelves for me, work more, talk less, do you understand?"

"Understood. The palace people replied in unison.

When allocating accommodation rooms, Ye Ningxiang found out that there was already a team of palace people who had stayed in Zhongxiu Palace before her, and these palace people were first-class palace people, all of them were official ladies, and they were going to become the queen's concubines or the wives of royal children in the future, and their identities were not much more noble than Ye Ningxiang's team of palace people from civilian background.

Because this year, the emperor will not choose the concubines from the palace people on the grounds of old age, and these first-class palace people will wait until the normal selection day to be selected by those royal children. Only those who are left will become palace maids, and in general will also be made female officials.

Ye Ningxiang couldn't help but sigh secretly, it is really very difficult to stand out among a bunch of birds in this world, but they have no power and status, and it is even more difficult for birds to come out without being shot by bows and arrows. Thinking that her future road would be very dangerous and difficult, Ye Ningxiang couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, Ye Ningxiang suddenly heard a clang, followed by bursts of crying, and then a young woman raised her voice and scolded: "Su Qingqing, don't you have long ears, I want you to give me a basin of hot foot washing water, what are you doing!"

Su Qingqing cried very aggrieved and said, "It was hot when I picked it up, but you didn't use it in time when you played pai gow with people in other rooms." ”

"What, you're still wronged, I didn't use it in time, or you didn't prepare it for me!" As she spoke, the woman had already shown a ruthless complexion, making Su Qingqing so flustered that she didn't know what to do.

Ye Ningxiang thought that if she dared to be so presumptuous in Zhongxiu Palace, she must be the daughter of an official family who belonged to the first-class palace people, and she was also the kind with a special background, but Ye Ningxiang hated this kind of bully and bully the weak the most in her life, and she didn't care if she was powerful or not, so she decided to rectify this unruly little shrew.

Ye Ningxiang smiled and entered the room where the shrew was, very humble, even very humble and said: "Qingqing can't do things, let me help her, I'll help you make another pot to make sure you are satisfied!"

The woman just wanted to ask Ye Ningxiang what she was doing, but after thinking about it, the girl had a stammering expression on her face, and suddenly felt that she was superior to others, and she happily accepted it.

"Here, here, hot foot-washing water!" Ye Ningxiang held a large basin of foot-washing water, rushed over, and then said almost flatteringly: "You golden branches and jade leaves, let me serve you for such rough work as washing your feet!"

When I was a child, my father worked on the farm every day, and his feet were very tired, so I helped him wash them, and over time he developed the skill of washing his feet. Ye Ningxiang said with a smile while massaging the shrew's feet.

When the shrew heard that Ye Ningxiang's father was a farmer, she was very contemptuous, raised her head disdainfully, and rolled her eyes. Then, the shrew asked in a tone of not saying anything, "You are also the palace person selected this year, and what is your name?"

"Yes, my name is Ye Ningxiang, and I am from Yejia Village, Linzhou. What about you, what's your name?" Ye Ningxiang asked rhetorically.

"My name is Wang Liyue, and I am the niece of Wang Guifei. Speaking of this, the corners of Wang Liyue's eyes showed excitement, and then she turned back to a look of disdain and continued: "Is the brain of the ceremonial officer of the palace elector this year broken, and he will go to the land of the rural village to elect the palace man!"

Ye Ningxiang just smiled stupidly and didn't speak.

After that, Ye Ningxiang came out of the house with Su Qingqing, and Su Qingqing's mood was still very low.

"Thank you for helping me. Su Qingqing's eyes were filled with tears, and she thanked Ye Ningxiang.

"I am the daughter of the county commander of Luan County, Shuozhou, because I was born quite well, I was recommended by the Shuozhou Thorn History, and I was fortunate to become a first-class palace person. Su Qingqing said with a slight cry. "I was thinking about being a first-class palace person, and with my appearance, it should be possible to marry a royal clansman, so it would be possible to help my father be promoted. ”

"But, but ......" Su Qingqing cried again, unable to speak.

Ye Ningxiang understood what Su Qingqing meant, although she was a first-class palace person, her status was much lower than that of other first-class palace people, thinking that she had suffered a lot of anger before Ye Ningxiang came, and at this moment, her mind poured out. Ye Ningxiang didn't speak anymore, just hugged Su Qingqing in her arms and let Su Qingqing cry.

On the second day, Cui Mama gathered all the palace people together, saying that because it was the emperor's 50th birthday five days later, the new palace people could not make any mistakes in etiquette, and asked all the palace people to concentrate on practicing court etiquette.

The most basic thing is to stand, as a qualified palace person, the first thing is to stand dignified. Especially those inferior palace people, in addition to sleeping, most of the time in the day is standing, so the first thing Cui Mama asked everyone to do was to stand in the courtyard for an hour.

At this moment, Ye Ningxiang was holding back the joy in her heart, because Wang Liyue, who was arrogant and domineering yesterday, was about to come out of her appearance in a while.

Mama Cui seemed to see that something was wrong with Wang Liyue, and asked, "Wang Liyue, what's wrong with you?

Wang Liyue said a little embarrassedly, "Mama Cui, my feet are itchy, they're itching to death!" and moved her feet slightly as she spoke, trying to alleviate the itching.

"How can a good person have itchy feet?"

"It's Ye Ningxiang, it's Ye Ningxiang who harms me. Last night, Ye Ningxiang took the initiative to wash my feet, and she also took the initiative to help me wash my feet, she must have moved her hands and feet in the footwashing water. Wang Liyue looked at Mama Cui very aggrievedly and said.

Ye Ningxiang originally thought that Grandma Cui would be furious or a little angry when she heard that Wang Liyue was accepting Ye Ningxiang's service. However, Mama Cui was angry, but not because of Wang Liyue, but because of Ye Ningxiang.

Mama Cui turned her head to look at Ye Ningxiang, her eyes were full of anger, and she said, "Ye Ningxiang, what did you do?"

Yesterday, Ning Xiang washed Sister Wang's feet out of kindness, and because she thought that Sister Wang was from a famous family, she helped Sister Wang wash her feet. Ye Ningxiang turned her head to look at Wang Liyue, and said with tears in the corners of her eyes: "Sister Wang, Ning Xiang is kind to you, how can you slander Ning Xiang so much!"

Wang Liyue became even more annoyed and angry, and said, "Ye Ningxiang, who else but you can approach my feet!" and then said to Cui Mama, "Cui Ningxiang, Ye Ningxiang plotted to kill the palace people, and asked Cui Ningxiang to call the shots for Liyue!"

Ye Ningxiang didn't back down, and argued: "Sister Wang, my hand was also in the footbasin yesterday, but there is nothing unusual about my hand today, it must be your own foot problem, but now it is blamed on my head." ”

"Alright!" Mama Cui interrupted the argument between the two, but her next words were obviously biased in favor of Wang Liyue, "Ye Ningxiang, I didn't expect that the virtue of the second-class palace maid you chose from this rural place would be so bad, Liyue is a relative of Wang Guifei, and she has been very well-behaved and sensible since she was a child, she is like this, you dare to say that you didn't secretly do it?"

Ye Ningxiang was about to argue, but she heard that Mama Cui had already made a decision, "Ye Ningxiang, a second-class palace person, has a bad character and ignores the palace rules, and orders him to kneel outside Zhongxiu Palace for three days to set an example!"