Shen Xiaoxiao returned to her residence, sat down on a chair in the living room, and took a stack of papers with the list of noble ladies written on it from Cherry's hand.

From the first page, the first thing that catches your eye is the three words "Xiao Pearl", and then look at its identity: his father is Xiao Shiqing, a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, and Xiao Pearl is his daughter. There is also a note next to it: Raised up pampered, its character is arrogant. This seems to be the highest father among these noble girls.

"Didn't such a person kill herself when she entered the palace? I don't know what her family thinks, she is used to the life of the eldest lady, and her personality is so pampered, where is the material to be a slave?

The cherry next to him looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, but Shen Xiaoxiao didn't notice it because he lowered his head to look at the content of the paper.

Thinking that this Xiao Pearl is a person who has nothing to do with him after all, Shen Xiaoxiao has seen it.

Shen Xiaoxiao continued to look down, "Lai Jiaqi": his father, Lai Yunheng, Shaoqing of Dali Temple. Lai Jiaqi is his concubine. Note: This woman is smart, and because she was suppressed by her mother, she reported to the female official for selection.

It seems that she is afraid that her mother will match her indiscriminately, so she has found a way. Such a ruthless person must not become an enemy with him. Otherwise, don't think about getting better!"

Shen Xiaoxiao turned the page and continued to watch, "Lin Poetry Painting": his father and son supervised the wine Lin Qihua. Lin Shihua is his daughter. Note: Since childhood, he has been proficient in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and he really responds to his name, Lin Shihua.

"This girl is a good match for your prince!" Shen Xiaoxiao's voice just fell.

Hearing this, Cherry on the side hurriedly knelt down to Shen Xiaoxiao and whispered: "The slave maid has heard that Xiao Pearl and Lin Shihua belong to the prince, and they know that the prince will not marry and accept a side concubine next year, so they will participate in this year's female official selection." But the slave maid knew about the prince, and the prince didn't know anything about it. ”

After Cherry finished speaking, she glanced at Shen Xiaoxiao cautiously, wanting to see if Shen Xiaoxiao was angry.

"What are you doing here? Get up quickly, don't kneel down at every turn in the future, just reply directly if you have something." ”

Shen Xiaoxiao waited for Cherry to get up before saying, "So, your prince has invisibly added two opponents to me, right?"

Cherry Nuo Nuo was speechless, and looked at Shen Xiaoxiao and smiled: "You don't have to worry, how can I blame your prince for these irrelevant people." ”

After finishing speaking, Shen Xiaoxiao continued to read, and the rest were the daughters of some civil officials or military attachés of five grades or below, and everyone plus Shen Xiaoxiao had a total of twelve noble girls.

In other words, the twelve noble ladies are vying for the position of one female historian and two secretaries, and it seems that the competition is fierce!

Oh, by the way, I don't know what will happen to these noble girls who have failed in competition. Will the noblewomen continue to compete among themselves for the remaining female official positions, or will they compete with all those who have signed up for the female official selection for the remaining positions?

"Cherry, you go and ask Mama Chen to come over. Shen Xiaoxiao thought about it and felt that it was better to ask clearly.

"Yes, girl. "Cherry was ordered to invite Mama Chen.

After a cup of tea, Cherry led Mama Li in.

"Listen to Cherry, is there something the girl wants to ask me?" asked Mama Li after approaching Shen Xiaoxiao.

Shen Xiaoxiao put down the paper in his hand and said, "Mama, please sit down, cherry tea." ”

Cherry hurriedly went to the pantry and made a pot of good Tieguanyin. After pouring tea for Shen Xiaoxiao and Mama Chen one by one, he consciously retreated.

Mama Chen had already taken the list of noble girls during the cherry tea, and after the cherry left the room, Mama Chen put down the list and said: "After reading the list of girls, I found that the status of this year's noble girls is the highest in the previous sessions, and the number is also the largest. ”

"Then Mama Chen knows the situation after the noble girl loses the competition. ”

"After the noble lady fails in the competition, she has no privilege, and she has to compete with all the women who enter the palace for the remaining few female official positions. This will be the fiercest and most cruel competition, and if you succeed in the position, you will become a female official, and if you fail, you will become the lowest palace maid. At this time, no one will easily give up the possibility of becoming a female official, even if there is only the slightest opportunity, they will do everything to fight for it. ”

Shen Xiaoxiao listened to Mama Chen's explanation, and only felt that her hairs stood up, you can imagine the cruelty of this, and no one can be allowed to relax at all, otherwise the end will be very miserable.

"The girl must stand out when the noble girl competes, otherwise in the first few cases, it seems that the noble girl has never been able to fight out of the encirclement in the subsequent competition, you can't imagine those who climb up from the bottom, they really have to use any means. ”

Shen Xiaoxiao nodded, she could already imagine the madness of those people.

Next, Shen Xiaoxiao chatted with Mama Chen about some specific situations of the female officer exam, and tried to let herself know more about the exam of female officers to prevent accidents. It was also at this moment that Shen Xiaoxiao really paid attention to the selection of female officials, and was no longer the careless attitude he had before.

In the following days, because of the approaching time for Shen Xiaoxiao to enter the palace, Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang were exempted from Shen Xiaoxiao's daily greetings. Shen Xiaoxiao practiced her talents in her room every day, refining talismans and pills, and then chatting with Mama Chen about the previous female officer exams, and sometimes talking about the one in the palace, the more she knew about Shen Xiaoxiao, the more she admired her for being able to fight a bloody path among countless people, and she went forward and finally stood at the top of the female official.

In the meantime, Shen Xiaoxiao still took the time to go to Jia's mother's place, explicitly and implicitly, pointed out the danger of Jia Min's birth, and asked Jia's mother to select competent people to send them to the Lin Mansion from the gatekeepers, and also mentioned that Jia Min's mother could sit on the scene on the day Jia Min gave birth to ensure Jia Min's safety.

Mother Jia felt Shen Xiaoxiao's intentions for Jia Min, and saw that Shen Xiaoxiao was about to enter the palace. So he asked the maid to take some gold and silver jewelry and a lot of silver tickets and stuff them to Shen Xiaoxiao, so that Shen Xiaoxiao could bring them into the palace to do some good work!

Shen Xiaoxiao finally accepted it all, although I don't know if Mrs. Wang will help her prepare, but there is too much money, the palace is the most snobbish place in the world, and it is really difficult to move an inch without money!

On the eighth day of the first month of October, the Ministry of Rites sent someone to send a set of clothes that Shen Xiaoxiao would wear when he entered the palace and Shen Xiaoxiao's identity token when he entered the palace. And inform that at the tenth hour of the first month of October (seven o'clock in the morning) wait at the palace gate to enter the palace.

In the remaining two days, the whole mansion focused on Shen Xiaoxiao, and everyone circled around Shen Xiaoxiao, even Shen Xiaoxiao's private clothes were made more than a dozen sets, and they were brought into the palace by cherries when the time came.

On the night of the ninth day of the new year, Mrs. Wang personally came to Shen Xiaoxiao's residence and drove everyone out. Only she and Shen Xiaoxiao were left in the room, and at this time, Mrs. Wang finally showed a little bit of what a mother should be, looking at Shen Xiaoxiao's eyes showing some worry and guilt.

"Chun'er, don't blame your mother, but if there is a little way, I will not send you to the palace to suffer from that inferiority. As he spoke, he took out a bag of things from his arms, stuffed it into Shen Xiaoxiao, and then turned around and walked away with a little messy footsteps.

Shen Xiaoxiao opened the bag and saw a whole bag of gold and silver ingots and a large stack of small silver tickets.

Shen Xiaoxiao silently retied it and put it into the bracelet, for Mrs. Wang, Shen Xiaoxiao suddenly felt that she didn't hate her so much, of course, it was absolutely impossible to say that she liked it!