The Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, and there are no major events in the harem before the end of the year. The Queen Mother once again mentioned the matter of selecting a talent show for the emperor. Previously, the emperor had sent the Ministry of Household Affairs to notify the Eight Banners. The roster of show girls had been submitted before the Mid-Autumn Festival, but Xuan Ye did not take it seriously.
, put it aside and ignored it. As the roster was submitted, girls of suitable age in the banners from various places were sent to the capital from their homes early, or their relatives were in the capital, or they rented inns and post houses, and waited for the emperor's decree to set the date for selection.
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In the past, the selection of Fujin for the prince and the selection of several Han women by the emperor's side were not serious drafts. This time, they are really serious. Wu Yangyang will have beautiful girls from all over the country.
Among the hundreds of people, the last remaining ones after being screened by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and other departments will be personally interviewed by the Emperor and the Queen Mother for selection.
Lan Qi and the others have no control over the matter of keeping and leaving signs. They just wait for the emperor to select those people, and then arrange for them to live in the inner palace based on their family background and status in the palace. It will naturally be easier to handle if there are fewer people. If there are more people,
It is also necessary to find out whether there are any disputes between the couple and whether they are close and familiar with each other. It is not as easy as randomly assigning them a place to live.
At present, the emperor's stay has not yet been decided, and things have not progressed. However, Lan Qi and Concubine Rong have taken inventory of the uninhabited palaces in the palace, sent people to clean and prepare them, and asked the Imperial Household Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to arrange eunuchs for the palace maids in advance.
, set aside a certain amount of manpower to lead each flag, and notify the number of girls under the flag who can be selected, so that the corresponding maids and nuns can be arranged to meet them in the palace on the day of selection, and according to the number of people, they can be arranged where to wait.
This is the first time Lan Qi has dealt with such a matter. She discussed it with Concubine Rong, but she did it in a somewhat decent manner, which greatly comforted the Queen Mother.
On the Double Ninth Festival, in order to show his filial piety, Xuan Ye finally fulfilled the Empress Dowager's wish and planned a draft for September 25th. There was only half a month left to wait for the show girls who had not yet entered the capital to arrive in the capital, and during those fifteen days
, the emperor took his sons and clan members to visit Jidian, hunted in the paddocks in autumn, wandered around without touching the ground, and finally returned to the palace to settle down before the day of the draft, and his whole body was tanned.
When resting in Yonghe Palace that night, Lan Qi compared the skin color on the emperor's face and chest and said: "The sun is so harsh in summer and I don't even get tanned, but in autumn I get tanned like this. If the emperor comes back half a month later,
I won’t be able to see you at night.”
Xuan Ye said, "When the new couple enters the palace, you really won't be able to see me at night. In a few years, when you turn 40, will you and Concubine Rong and the others have to stop the business?"
Lan Qi didn't expect Xuan Ye to say such a thing suddenly. Her face, which was still joking, suddenly froze. She pursed her lips and looked at Xuan Ye without saying a word. However, he chuckled softly: "You are in a hurry to take care of everything."
Well, I am forced to agree to the Queen Mother to hold the talent show immediately. I originally wanted to postpone it for a while. I have been free recently so that I can go shopping with you. But you are in a hurry to summon new people to the palace. Don't you want to go there?
Don’t you want to see me again tonight?”
"I am now a grandmother." After hearing the emperor's words, she became more determined. She bent down to tie the belt of Xuan Ye's pajamas and said, "Your Majesty and my concubine, please just be content with the situation. As an emperor and a concubine.
Everyone has their own responsibilities. As for the newcomers, as long as the emperor doesn't spoil the dignity of the concubines for the sake of those beautiful and young ones, the concubines will not care about them. They are all people as old as Wen Xian. Can the concubines have trouble with them?
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Xuan Ye coughed slightly: "Isn't it necessary to choose someone new, someone as old as us? They are young, so you can't blame me."
Lan Qi smiled and turned around to bring him ginseng tea. She stood aside and thought about Xuan Ye's words. Suddenly she laughed again. The emperor drank the ginseng tea and thrust the tea bowl into her hand angrily, saying bitterly: "
It bothers me that you can laugh so much. After a while, new people will come and cause new troubles, so you should pester me and lose your temper, and I will come to coax you."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, such a thing will never happen." Lan Qi was in a good mood, but when she turned around, Xuan Ye pulled her to her side and asked her why she was laughing.
"I laugh when I'm happy, why do I have to do it?" Lan Qi didn't want to say what she was thinking, but Xuan Ye's hands were already on her waist, as if she would be miserable if he didn't say anything. She trembled and avoided
Without looking away from the man's domineering gaze, he only blushed and said, "I just thought...you will benefit from the arrival of those young and beautiful newcomers, but when you were the youngest and strongest, they would never see you in your lifetime.
I'm afraid we won't be able to see each other very much in the next night, but in the best of times, you are almost all mine."
Lan Qi deliberately matched you and me, and said extremely ambiguous and even rude words, but this is indeed her pride. No sooner or later, we met each other in the best years, lingering for more than ten years between flowers and moonlight. When I think of these, it is
Then there were the younger newcomers, and she didn't care. As soon as she finished speaking, her body was heavily pressed and fell down. The belt she had just tied was torn apart in a few clicks, and Xuan Ye's solid chest was exposed in front of her, and her big hands
Then he walked down to her waist and said angrily: "Am I no better than before?"
Lan Qi's heart started beating wildly when she saw Xuan Ye's strong breasts. As soon as she asked him to rub them, her body became weak already. She couldn't help but her eyes were charming and her words were ambiguous. She said in a very low voice: "Then how can you prove it to me?"
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As Xuan Ye chuckled domineeringly, the curtains beside the bed fell down layer by layer, blocking the infinite spring sunshine. The next day was September 25th. After a night of fun, the satisfied man sat up and looked down at the fourteen-year-old flower-like flowers.
A beautiful girl of her age really looks at her like a child.
Those who can enter the final selection will never be too ugly. It will be easy to get dazzled if you see too much. The emperor has seen all kinds of beauties for decades, and he is already past his prime of life. In this way, he chooses to watch two beautiful women in one day, four or five.
In the future, except for the Queen Mother who selected a few people with good family backgrounds and good looks, Xuan Ye himself paid attention to the family background behind them. However, the Gualjia family he had decided on early in the morning also made his eyes light up.
At least with her beauty, she can cultivate a legitimate concubine.
By the time the newcomers officially entered the palace, it was already mid-October. As expected, there would be outstanding figures in each batch. Most of the newcomers were scattered around the palace in the positions promised by Chang Zai. Only the Guarjia family was awarded the title of noble, and even more so.
Granting the title "和", in a blink of an eye there was a beautiful young He nobleman in the palace. The emperor even arranged for her to live with Concubine Tong in Chuxiu Palace. Although she was not the head of the first palace, she was among this group of newcomers.
The only person who lives in the Sixth Palace of East and West.
The green-headed cards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were prepared according to the names of the newlyweds before they entered the palace. Lan Qi and Concubine Rong saw it with their own eyes and saw the rows of new people. Concubine Rong smiled bitterly at the side: "I can hardly let it go.
, it’s time to stop some signs, there’s no point in keeping them.”
Lan Qi just said: "Let's wait until the emperor gives orders."
Duan Concubine was also at the side at that time, but she asked: "Why is Chen Changzai's green card still there? Now that a newcomer has come in, does she have no chance? This year, the emperor did not take her with him when he went to Changchun Garden, leaving her alone.
I was alone in Zhongcui Palace, and when I came back in August and saw her, she looked lifeless. If the emperor no longer favors her, she probably won't get better."
Lan Qi sighed in her heart, still remembering the words of the man who burned paper money for the king's daughter. At this moment, it turned out that the emperor could really say that he didn't like it and not like it. Although Wang was disliked in the past, she was a
The "favorite concubine" who could be accepted by the emperor, Chen Changzai, who could get along well with his concubines, did not know how to please the emperor.
In the final analysis, a king's heart is unpredictable, and Lan Qi's good fortune is that Xuan Ye regards her as his significant other, not just a concubine in the harem.
According to the rules, newlyweds entering the palace must go to various places to greet and salute. After seeing the Queen Mother, they went to each palace according to the status of the concubines. But now there is no noble empress above the concubine in the palace, and there are five concubines. The emperor has never
Officially speaking, who is higher and which is lower? There was Concubine Wen Xi in the past, and it would be the same wherever we go after Xianfu Palace, but now it obviously means different things which place we go to first.
The one who cares about the most important thing is the master of Yikun Palace. The day before the new couple entered the palace, Concubine Yi knew that Lan Qi, Concubine Rong and others said that the sisters would be waiting at Ningshou Palace the next day, so that those
The newlyweds met everything at once and said very steadily: "Now that the elder brothers have grown up, the ninth elder brother and the ten elder brothers are also reaching the age of marriage. Before the children leave the palace, the access control rules in the palace should be more strict.
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The Queen Mother agrees with these words. Not only are the unmarried brothers now grown up, and those who have left the palace and have families, they also come to the harem from time to time to pay their respects. It is better to do more than to do less. It is always better to be more cautious. But always
The elder brothers had to be allowed to enter the palace, and the concubines in the palace could not be allowed to go out. Everyone discussed with the Queen Mother, and finally decided that in the future, whenever an adult elder brother enters the palace, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will send eunuchs to inform the palaces immediately.
, concubines are required to stay in their residences to avoid suspicion, and those who violate this will be responsible for the consequences.
This thing is not difficult to do, and the brothers will not run to the inner palace every day without any problem, but there is one person who is a little embarrassed, that is, the prince of Yuqing Palace. And the prince has to go to Ningshou Palace to pay greetings to the Queen Mother every day, Lan
Qi and the others ignored the prince's presence intentionally or unintentionally, but when they mentioned it in private, they still smiled at each other. They only hoped that the young concubines would respect themselves, and the prince should do the same.
On that day, all the concubines gathered in Ningshou Palace to wait for the newcomers to come and salute. Most of the people who entered the palace during the draft were Mongolian Eight Banners. Lan Qi and the others did not participate in the four or five days of tedious and long draft. Today, they saw the newcomers for the first time.
Needless to say, she was beautiful, but looking at the people who were the same size as the princesses, Concubine Yi couldn't help but said in front of everyone: "At first glance, I thought Wen Xian ran in, but why do I feel more and more like the newcomer?"
Are you young?"
The Queen Mother coughed dryly and blamed Concubine Yi for being disrespectful. Everyone was busy sitting upright and watching the newlyweds make a grand ceremony. According to the order of position, the first one to kneel was Guarjia, the nobleman who had won the favor of the emperor this time and was superior to everyone else.