Holding the Piano in the Red Chamber

According to their comprehensive rankings, Xiu Nu came in groups of five in groups.

This comprehensive ranking mainly refers to factors such as Xiunu's family, appearance, and the results of the last round of medical examinations, although family factors account for at least [-]%.

In addition to the emperor's concubine, Shulan also called Concubine Yu to sit in the township. Her son is due to get married this year, so she probably chose the wrong person. If there are complaints in the future, it's better to start from scratch.

However, when Shulan went to invite her the day before, Concubine Yu declined a bit, "It's not appropriate to choose a concubine for His Majesty. Just look at it, and I'm satisfied." But she seemed to feel that it was not a good choice if there was no request. , Said: "The family is similar, the appearance is similar, just look gentler."

Dear, with this requirement, as long as the show girls who have passed the first round can meet it.

Baoqin looked at Shulan first, then smiled and said: "Your Majesty, you still have to go in person. The prince will be canonized soon, and the one chosen is the princess, so you have to watch carefully. In the future, the prince will be the prince , I am busy with affairs every day, and those who serve you have to point to this princess. Besides, this time I will only come in to say a few words, and then look at the face. What if we can't grasp it? You are an elder, The draft has also been hosted several times, and we feel at ease sitting there."

Concubine Yu was elated when she said this, and she nodded, "In this case, I will go and have a look tomorrow. Let me talk about it first. I will stay for two days. I will not go when you are familiar with me. This is for Your Majesty to choose." Concubine, the good ones must be kept for His Majesty."

The draft also started from a good start, and it took only two days to finish watching all the top girls.The slander belongs to the slander, and Shulan also answered, "Can your majesty still rob my younger brother?"

Coming out of Concubine Yu's palace, Shulan walked without turning her head, and said nonchalantly: "I like you like this, you said everything I didn't want to say for me, and I don't want to pay attention to it." You can block it for me."

After all, when Shulan entered the palace in the early years, she was ridiculed by Concubine Yu. At that time, one was the favored concubine, the other was the concubine of the unfavored prince; I know by now.

The empress doesn't want to pay attention to Concubine Yu?That's a holiday.Baoqin thought about it, and decided to stand by Shulan no matter what.After all, Shulan treats her well. She comforts others when she is sick, stays outside when she has a baby, and marrying her maid to her brother, which solves the lifelong affairs of an older man and young man.

So the next morning at dawn, Shulan sat in the middle, holding the piano on the left, Concubine Yu on the right, and the two remaining concubines on both sides. Following the eunuch's announcement, the draft officially began .

The first wave came in five, Baoqin looked at the list of flowers in his hand, there were those from the former prime minister's family, and the current second-rank senior officials, the information was introduced in detail.

Under the eunuch's instruction, An was invited to kowtow, and Shulan said, "Everyone raise your head and let me have a look."

The age of show girls ranges from 13 to 13, but there are not many [-]-year-olds. First, no one is willing to let a [-]-year-old daughter marry. Second, it is too late to wait until eighteen, so many secret operations Under the circumstances, most of the show girls who came were fifteen or sixteen years old.Fresh and young, with a face as tender as a peach, and after another round of preliminary screening, those who are unqualified in appearance have already been screened out, so these five girls really have nothing to choose.

But Baoqin took a look at the total of more than 700 people on the list, and sighed, according to the ratio of the third round of selection, it is 5000 to [-]. If it is based on the ratio of the final selection, it may be [-] to [-], even if you don’t consider the previous There are [-] people in the first round of show girls, and the competition is fierce enough.

"What kind of books do you usually read at home?" Baoqin remembered the questions Lin Daiyu was asked when she entered Jia's mansion, and asked them as they were, "Start with the one on the left."

The left side holding the piano is the show girl on the far right.

"Four Books for Women."

"Biography of women."

"Xianyuan Collection."

When the following people finished speaking, Baoqin nodded, tilted his head, and said to Concubine Yu: "It sounds good, what do you think?"

Concubine Yu felt very happy that Baoqin was the first to ask her opinion, so she whispered, "The one in the middle looks better."

"Then keep it for now." After speaking, she moved closer to Shulan's ear and said, "Why don't you let them write a few words?"

Shulan nodded, and the little eunuch brought the things up immediately.

In just one stick of incense, each of the beautiful girls silently wrote a poem.After handing it in for a look, Baoqin whispered again: "Look at this, the writing of this character is very euphemistic, and the temperament must be very gentle. Why don't you leave this as well, what do you think?" Then there was another person's name The back was crossed, and a small character horoscope was marked on it, proving that it was chosen by Concubine Yu for the Eighth Brother.

After finishing this round, another batch of five came. Baoqin recommended one or two to Concubine Yu, such as: this age is suitable, this person is good-looking, there are many elders in this family, so he must be able to serve others, even He also recommended a girl who was almost overage with the reason that the female junior was holding a golden brick.

So it's time to take a break after reading it in an hour, and there are seven beautiful girls with characters written on the back of the flower list.Concubine Yu's face changed when she flipped through the pages, because she chose four for the emperor.But she looked at Baoqin and smiled, and recommended Xiunu to her with great enthusiasm, but she couldn't say: Don't recommend it to me.No no no, it hurts too much.But according to this posture, let alone two days, she can pick twenty or thirty in one day. The key is that there are more than the emperor.Your son is just a prince, why is he higher than the emperor.

So after reading it at two hours in the morning, Concubine Yu excused herself to leave, took the eleven-character list of beautiful girls and left, holding the piano and leaning next to Shulan's ear, saying: "Eleven , I think either one is good, and I don’t know how the empress dowager will be so cruel as to wipe out ten of them in the end.”

Shulan smiled at Baoqin, "You're the only one who is busy." But until she lowered her head to look at the roster again, the smile on her face still didn't fade away.

The next thing will be much easier. Baoqin and Shulan have discussed many times about the criteria for the selection of beautiful women. For example, those who disagree with Shulan's family cannot enter the palace. Can not enter the palace and so on.

As for the remaining Concubines Chang and Concubine Dong, Shulan had told them the day before yesterday, "You just go and sit down, you don't need to say anything." So the two of them really didn't even open their mouths except for drinking tea.

Not too many people were selected on the first day, and Ruicheng also secretly reminded that some of the better families had already asked him, and hinted that he did not want his daughter to enter the palace. Generally speaking, Ruicheng basically agreed, after all This kind of thing still needs the consent of both parents.Moreover, Shulan subconsciously didn't want to choose these people, because they had too much background and would destroy the stability and unity of the harem.

So in the end, I watched the class for four days. Including the two selected by Concubine Yu hesitantly, a total of 37 show girls entered the third round of screening.

Fortunately, Zhongcui Palace was also cleaned up, otherwise it would be really not enough to live in.

Both Baoqin and Shulan have participated in the draft, and the palace also has old rules, so everything is going smoothly.