By the way, Xiaoyu Qilin squinted his eyes and said with a bad smile: "There are three, six, and nine, etc., but if you perform particularly well, you may be appreciated by the emperor and be named a nobleman or concubine.

. If you are lucky, you can eventually climb up to the position of queen."

Liang Xiaole gave it a sharp look and said, "I'm here to tell you something serious! If you don't act serious, I'll ignore you!" He pouted, turned his body to the side, and never looked at the little jade unicorn again.

"You asked me about matters in the palace, and they told you the truth, and you still find fault." Xiaoyu Qilin still said in a teasing tone: "Ignore it, ignore it. Anyway, I am here to say goodbye to you."

Liang Xiaole heard that there was something wrong in Xiao Yu Qilin's words. He turned around quickly, stared at Xiao Yu Qilin and asked: "Farewell? Who are you saying goodbye to?"

"Give it to you?!" Xiaoyu Qilin still said with a bad smile: "You have become a member of the palace, what's the point of me being here?!" [

"No! I don't agree!" Liang Xiaole almost shouted: "You are the mount and guide sent to me by the Great God Qidian. The twenty-two and a half year agreement between me and the Great God Qidian has not expired yet, so you cannot leave without authorization.

If you want to resign, you must obtain the consent of the Great God of Qidian!"

Although Liang Xiaole often deliberately "quarrels" with Xiaoyu Qilin, most of them are just for fun. She knows in her heart that Xiaoyu Qilin has played a decisive role in the development of her career to the scale it is today. Every time she takes a step forward,

They all asked Xiaoyu Qilin to take the step forward. It can be said that without Xiaoyu Qilin, she would be like a blind person who has lost his crutch.

Even when I made up my mind to go to the palace, it was because I had the strong backing of Xiaoyu Qilin: I entrusted all my land, both purchased and leased, to Xiaoyu Qilin’s care.

If Xiaoyu Qilin really resigns, and he no longer has time to manage in the palace, wouldn't it be an empty promise to produce more than two thousand kilograms of grain per mu?! Then the six hundred miles of farmland construction plan would also be in vain.

If I don't go to the palace, let Hongyuan's father spend thousands or even tens of thousands of taels of silver to settle the matter, but I really can't bear to lose this opportunity to enter the palace. The girls selected must be between thirteen and sixteen years old. This year, I

Exactly fourteen, missing this time means missing out on a lifetime.

I have been a human being for two lifetimes and have experienced all kinds of life, so I am not treating myself badly. What's more, the purpose of entering the palace is to get acquainted with some official figures in this way and develop my own career with the help of power.

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Unexpectedly, Xiaoyu Qilin offered to resign before he even thought about it. If Xiaoyu Qilin left, he would become a real loner - caring about one end but not the other, and in the end both ends would become a bamboo basket.

The water is empty.

Xiaoyu Qilin posed a huge problem for Liang Xiaole.

Liang Xiaole was in a dilemma. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was too lonely and too helpless. The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became. His nose became sore and tears flowed down like broken beads.

"Look, look. Before I finished speaking, you started crying."

When Xiaoyu Qilin saw Liang Xiaole's true feelings, she couldn't help but feel happy: It seems that she still holds a lot of weight in this little girl's heart.

"Can you please stop crying? Let's think about it and see how we can solve it?!" Xiaoyu Qilin begged.

"What else can we solve? You go back to your Qilin Mountain, and I'll go back to my Liangjiatun." Liang Xiaole cried and said: "We don't want the construction of 600 miles of farmland. The palace won't go. I don't want this super power and space either. Here we go.

I lived in Liangjiatun where I lived as a farmer with my face facing the loess and my back facing the sky."

"The matter hasn't reached that point yet, what are you doing?" Xiaoyu Qilin hurriedly went back to pick it up: "Wipe your tears, and let's discuss it from the beginning and find a practical solution."

"Then are you still leaving?" Liang Xiaole asked choked with sobs when he saw Xiaoyu Qilin turning around.

Xiaoyu Qilin: "Is this it? Listen to me..."

Liang Xiaole: "I won't listen to anything else, just tell me - should you leave or not?"

Xiaoyu Qilin showed a helpless expression: "Here's the thing: as long as you go to the palace, I have to leave. This is arranged by the great god Qidian."

When Liang Xiaole heard that Xiaoyu Qilin had brought out the Great God of Qidian. Although it was difficult to tell whether it was true or not, because he admired the Great God of Qidian so much, he stopped being stubborn. He wiped away his tears and asked in a nasal voice: "What on earth is going on here?"

thing?"[

Xiaoyu Qilin: "God Qidian said that the palace is a place where dragons and crouching tigers are hidden. It is not something that a little god like me can enter casually. Even in space, there is a possibility of being discovered. For your safety, for the safety of your powers and the space,

I have to leave."

Seeing that he had misunderstood Xiaoyu Qilin, Liang Xiaole nodded sheepishly. Hearing Xiaoyu Qilin talk about his own powers and space, he hurriedly asked: "Then, can my powers and space be brought to the palace?"

"

Xiaoyu Qilin: "Of course you can. However, the mages there are very good at magic, so you must be more careful. They can seal your powers with a small trick. Without your powers, the space will be even smaller.

It’s out of the question.”

Liang Xiaole nodded again to express his understanding. He quickly asked: "Then tell me now, what should I think about when I get to the palace?"

Xiaoyu Qilin: "Didn't we just mention that the maids in the palace are divided into three, six and nine grades? If you want to stand out, you must express yourself and attract the attention of others, especially the master, especially the emperor. Otherwise, like you before

In that case, it’s no longer enough to just work in silence.”

Liang Xiaole: "You mentioned luck earlier. From what you just said, you relied on ability. Which one is more important?!"

Xiaoyu Qilin: "These two so-called weights are very important. Think about it, if your performance is not outstanding, you will not be discovered; but then again, there are only three thousand pink ladies in the palace, and there is only one emperor.

, no matter how outstanding you are, even if the emperor can’t see it, he can’t find it either?! So, luck is also very important!”

Liang Xiaole nodded again and asked: "If I can't escape there, can you help me take care of those farmlands in other ways? I don't want those farmlands to be affected by my departure."

Xiaoyu Qilin: "I think you may have this time. There is nothing happening in the farmland every day. Aren't you just in charge of watering, weeding, and weeding? You shouldn't do it once every ten and a half months, and you all operate in space.

I guarantee that time will not be a problem.”

Liang Xiaole: "I'm afraid of something unexpected happening."

Xiaoyu Qilin: "You can also arrange a shikigami. Once something unexpected happens, just teach it the methods and steps and let it temporarily replace you. That'll be fine."

Liang Xiaole smiled awkwardly.

She wanted to use this method to hold up the little jade unicorn, but she didn't expect it to kill her completely.

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Amid people's jealousy and envy, and the uneasiness of his family, Liang Xiaole was sent to the capital in his own carriage, accompanied by his mother Hong Yuan and his third aunt Liang Yanqiu.

It turns out that this time it is a large-scale beauty pageant across the country. And it is different from previous years.

Two months ago, the old emperor Chen Yuanming passed away and the crown prince Chen Xu succeeded to the throne. Because the queen-to-be had been ill and passed away not long after the new emperor came to the throne. The new emperor was unwilling to straighten the concubine assigned to him by the queen mothers, so the ceremony has not been held yet.

Marriage celebration.

This year coincides with the year of the royal draft every three years, and the new emperor intends to select a dignified, beautiful, gentle and virtuous woman from the newly selected maids to become the royal queen.

For this reason, the Manchu court attached great importance to this female talent show.

The work of talent show girls is sponsored by the Ministry of Household Affairs.

First, many groups of people were sent to various parts of the country to identify five or six thousand beautiful girls between the ages of thirteen and sixteen. After paying some silver coins as betrothal gifts, their parents were ordered to give birth to beautiful women on a certain day in a certain month.

They were sent to the capital.

After all the show girls had gathered in the capital, the royal family sent eunuchs to conduct a second selection. The show girls were arranged in a line of one hundred people according to their age. The eunuchs stood in front of the line and selected each show girl one by one.

Observe and find women who are slightly taller, slightly shorter, slightly fatter, or slightly thinner, and pull them out of the queue to show that they have not been selected.[

About a thousand were eliminated in the first batch.

The next day, the remaining beautiful ladies lined up as before. The eunuchs looked at their eyes, ears, mouths, noses, hair, skin, necks, shoulders, backs, etc. with a very critical eye and selected them one by one.

Then they were asked to report their names, ages, and places of origin to observe their voices and demeanor. If they had unclear speech, rough voices, or were in a panic, they were asked to come out of the queue. In this way, another two thousand people were eliminated.

The remaining people.

On the third day, the eunuchs used rulers to measure the hands and feet of the beautiful women, and then asked each of them to walk dozens of steps to observe their gait. This time, about a thousand unqualified ones were eliminated.

The last thousand or so people were arranged in order and introduced to Shunzhen Gate by the eunuchs for the emperors and queens to choose. If the emperors and queens did not like them, they would still be excluded.

Those who were not picked out were brought into the secret room by some stable women to "explore their breasts, smell their armpits, and feel their texture." After another embarrassing toss, only about 300 people were left.

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These more than 300 women need to be imprisoned in the palace for a month, and their temperament and speech will be carefully observed by special personnel to determine their character, style, wisdom, stupidity and virtuousness.

Through this process, one hundred beauties are selected who are considered to be "beautiful and charming, and clever and intelligent", and then they are accepted as palace maids or concubines, and the best one is likely to be recognized as the winner.

The queen's entire beauty pageant process comes to an end.

Liang Xiaole was among these three hundred people.

Liang Xiaole and 300 maidens (they were not considered palace maids at this time) were arranged in a row of small and short rooms beside the corridor outside Shunzhen Gate. It is said that this is the place where the palace ladies meet their families.

It was temporarily borrowed for them to live in.

It was very leisurely after that. Except for one etiquette class and one walking session every day, the rest of the time was spent freely in the small room. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!