Force a good concubine

Thanks to Xuan Yunzi, Taoist priest of Chongyun Temple, Gu Yan followed a group of candidate palace ladies selected by the House of Internal Affairs and entered the palace gate smoothly.The selection of court ladies is very particular, and there are many people who have been eliminated in the past, and only two or three out of ten can pass the test. Therefore, although there are less than twenty vacancies, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has recruited more than a hundred people for the primary election.

The stewards of the House of Internal Affairs are all used to doing things, so they roughly arranged the order according to the description on the book in advance. There are five people in a team on the roster. Gu Yan is older and taller. It happens to be the first name of the "Summer" team.

Although it's August, Qiuhu is still extremely powerful, hot and direct on the top of the head and shoulders, and Shangyi's out-of-duty room is unobstructed in the blue flagstone yard, and standing with hands down for a stick of incense makes people feel a little dizzy.However, all students who want to take the exam have to learn the etiquette in the academy in advance, so as not to lose their dignity in the palace exam or later as an official. Gu Yan doesn't think it is hard to stand like this, but the girl in green on her right can't take it anymore, she quietly raised her eyes and glanced at it. He glanced at Gu Yan, then lowered his eyes to the ground, and shook after a while.

Every year, when learning acting in the palace, there are always a few rookies who fall to the ground.Seeing the girl falling headfirst, Gu Yuan rushed forward to support her, and then unbuttoned her collar with his hands. Seeing that her mouth and nose were clean and not drooling, Fang breathed a sigh of relief.The girl in pink on the right side of the girl also reacted at this moment. Seeing Gu Yan supporting the girl in green, she also stepped forward to support the girl on the other side, and raised her voice to the window: "Aunts, someone here is suffering from heatstroke!"

Several middle-aged female officials watching everyone under the window exchanged glances, and one of them raised her voice and said: "Both of you, help her over here!"

After laying the person flat under the window sill, Gu Yan followed the orders of the female officers, fetched water for the girl in green and put a towel on her forehead. The girl in pink had already brought the decoction. Opening his eyes, he brought the medicine bowl to her mouth, and complained in a low voice: "Drink it soon. I want you to take more when you get up early, but you won't listen!"

Her voice was very low, only Gu Yan could hear it clearly, Gu Yuan didn't make a sound, seeing a few female officers looking over again, she didn't delay any longer, and when the girl in green finished drinking the medicine, she returned to the team.

Standing for an hour, those who were frail, unstable, tall, short, thin, and fat were all removed, and half of them were eliminated in a blink of an eye.

The people selected were still in a team of five. Gu Yuan was assigned to the Huangzi team this time, and the girl in green was with her again. After settling in the dormitory in the evening, she saluted Gu Yuan generously and thanked her : "My cousin is not very strong. Fortunately, I have my sister to help me today."

Gu Yan smiled: "It's nothing to do with a little effort."

The girl was stunned: "Just now I thought you were really good-looking, and you look even better when you smile like this! You are also from Beijing? Seeing that you are not young, why didn't you go to the palace last year? My father said, that is to pick out attendants for the nobles in the palace, and they will rise to prominence when they go there! It's a pity that I am young and only caught up with this round."

Although she was about the same size as Gu Yuan, her round face was still full of childishness. She was obviously very young, and she spoke an authentic official dialect, chatting like a cannonball. She asked Gu Yuan's name and birthplace, and reported her own family background: "My surname is Wei, and everyone in my family calls me An Niang. My family's ancestral home is in the capital, and the old Wei family store in Anlefang is my family name. My mother also worked in the palace in the past. Seeing that I was 13 years old, she said yes. You can't be so stupid, let me enter the palace for a few years to see and see, and see if I can save a dowry for myself, so send me in!"

It is a rule in the palace that there is a palace inspection every five years, and incompetent maids are demoted or dismissed according to the rules. Those who have been in the palace for five years or over fifty can write a letter and ask for release, although there are some important positions. It is not allowed as a rule, and there is nothing wrong with ordinary servants.Hearing Wei Anniang's words with certainty, Gu Yuan was relieved a lot when she saw that the business was not an urgent job.

As the palace was busy preparing for the August 29th feast, the re-election was scheduled for August 50th.During the Mid-Autumn Festival, all the staff in the palace were busy, and the Shangyi Bureau had all entered the inner palace, leaving only two female officials in the outer duty room to take care of the alternate palace ladies.These two aunts are both around [-] years old, and have a very kind temper. Seeing a few young palace ladies performing ceremonies, they all quietly looked outside the door, so they simply gave a holiday to a group of people and let them watch, only delineating the scope , are not allowed to step out of the value room.

Wei Anniang and Gu Yuan stood side by side in a fan, looking out through the brocade panes, and got a clear overview of the situation outside.Seeing the bright lights and the car cover like clouds, Wei Anniang was fascinated and praised, but Gu Yuan was anxious: she took the risk to enter the palace for this day, but she never thought that she would only see the car like The horses in the flowing water are like dragons, but the people in the car can't be seen!

She was in a hurry, but there was a person outside the door looking in: "Is Aunt Xu there? The master sent me to give a gift!"

The taller of the two middle-aged female officers sitting under the window and gossiping stood up, and said in a familiar voice, "Your master is still so polite? Are you okay?"

"All good, all good." The eunuch who came was in his thirties, beckoned two servants outside the door to carry a small basket full of them into the door, walked up the steps a few more steps, and greeted the female officer with his arms crossed.

The maids in the palace were puzzled and didn't know what the reason was, but Wei Anniang curled her lips lightly. Gu Yan had no expression on her face, but her heart was churning, she took a step back quietly, and pulled Wei Anniang.Wei Anniang followed her to the back, and said in a low voice: "That's a pair of food, also known as a dish. My mother said that as long as you live in the palace for the rest of your life, you will almost—"

"It's not this." Gu Yan interrupted in a low voice, his face turned pale, "The voice of the internal officer—is the voice of the internal officer like this?"

"The voices of internal officials are naturally like this." Wei Anniang answered briskly and fluently, "Eunuchs at this age basically have male duck voices. I heard that it will sound even worse when they get older!"

"Are there also internal officials in ordinary clan families?"

"Isn't that the same as the imperial palace?" Wei Anniang blinked, "My mother said that, apart from the palace maids, only the royal palace can have maids in the palace!"

Is it really King Sui?Gu Yan kept guessing in her heart, and when she thought of the closed door at the gate of King Sui's mansion, she smiled bitterly again—she was becoming more and more afraid to think about the identity of Lin Shiniang.

The rules of the Luanyi Department and the Liberal Arts Department are the same. Examiners from various parties select ten best test papers, and present them to the emperor for imperial examination.On August [-]th, the female officer sent the list and test papers as usual. The emperor held the pen in one hand, soaked in cinnabar thickly, and held the list in the other hand, but felt a little panicked in his heart.

Seeing her in a daze, Wei Fengchun thought the emperor was tired, so he said in a low voice, "Young Master, let's go and take care of these government affairs later?"

The emperor nodded, got up and paced the hall with his hands behind his back, still holding the list in his hand, and walked around the hall expressionlessly dozens of times, she suddenly put the list in the memorial box: "I can trust you!" Master Xu and Mr. Zheng. Just fill in the list according to this ranking! Just make a copy of the list and keep it on file.”

The emperor has always been diligent in his administration, and it is very rare to act like this.Seeing that the emperor's complexion was not very good, Wei Fengchun waited for the female officer to leave, and persuaded him: "Young master has not slept well recently, why don't you go to the back and rest first?"

The emperor frowned, remained silent, and looked preoccupied. He paused for a while, and then suddenly asked, "Is the imperial examination scheduled for August 29?"

"Yes. The date chosen by Qin Tianjian is said to be auspicious." Wei Fengchun saw the emperor glanced at the case, and hurriedly handed the small white glazed teacup on the case to the emperor. The emperor took it with his hand and took two sips of tea , there seemed to be some emotion in the voice: "This time, I'm going to go and see in person——Is the court dress ready?"

In the first year of Tianshou Enke and in the second year of Tianshou, because the emperor was still young, the cabinet ministers and Luan Yisi presided over it. Although the emperor was not in charge this time, he was old enough to be in charge. Although he still did not try it himself, But he wanted to come in person, and it was the first time that the emperor presided over such a big event except for the enthronement and the great court. Hearing that the emperor asked about the court clothes for the first time, Wei Fengchun hurriedly smiled and joked: "Of course it has been prepared early! Four The person in charge of the storehouse did an inventory yesterday, and the new ones from the weaving bureau are brightly colored! That style can only be suppressed by my young master Tianwei!"

The emperor was still a little absent-minded: "It's too serious."

The emperor could talk about it freely, but Wei Fengchun didn't dare to talk about the style of dragon clothes, so he had to keep his mouth shut.Fortunately, the emperor was out of his mind for a while, and then returned to normal, critiquing papers and doing things without a trace of abnormality.

Wei Fengchun heaved a sigh of relief, unexpectedly in the afternoon the cabinet and Luan Yisi sent the women's tribute list, the emperor stared at it for a long time, but suddenly paled, and sent someone to the Ministry of Rites to check the test papers.

Wei Fengchun accompanied the emperor, and waited in the hall until midnight before several female historians checked the original manuscripts and manuscripts of the women's examination papers. Sure enough, several of them had some clerical errors. As for the holy candlelight, the young master can know that there is a mistake in the file just by looking at the list!

He saw the emperor sitting cross-legged behind the table, his face as straight as a mountain, and he admired him more and more in his heart, but he didn't know that at this moment, the song was slipping by the emperor's ear, but she didn't listen to a word, and he just Anxious over and over again—the names of Li Qing and Xu Xi are not on the list, but they are in the final file; Gu Yan's name is not on the list, and it is not in the file.

Her Gu Yuan is gone.