Gu Panfu and others followed the leading eunuch into the Tiyuan Hall and stood side by side. Gu Panfu could only see an eunuch holding a booklet with her peripheral vision. It was probably because the distance was too far, and she could not even see the toe tips of the three people sitting on the throne.
See.
"Mr. Gu of Anyang Marquis Mansion is looking forward to seeing you." The eunuch standing in front of them saw that they were all standing still, so he looked back at the queen. The queen nodded lightly, and the eunuch called the names from the list.
When Gu Panfu heard her name, she took a step forward and performed a proper blessing ceremony: "My maid, Gu Panfu, see the emperor. Long live the emperor. See the Queen Mother. Thousands of years. Thousands of years. See the queen.
My empress, I am a thousand years old, a thousand years old."
"Pingshen." When Emperor Xie Xiao heard that it was the Anyang Marquis Mansion, he raised his eyes. Looking from his angle, he only saw the girl's graceful figure and her jade-like slender white neck. Xie Xiao twisted his fingers.
Sorry, he felt itchy for a moment and wanted to touch it.
Gu Panfu straightened up when she heard a deep male voice, and uncontrollably began to think about the appearance of this pleasant voice. But she did not look around out of curiosity. The person above was sitting very high.
The smallest movement will be clearly seen: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
At this time, another slightly older female voice sounded: "The daughter of Anyang Houfu is always good, but she is just a concubine..." She paused, as if she deliberately mentioned Gu Panfu's status as a concubine, and then said: "Everyday I do it at home.
What?"
Gu Panfu knew that the owner of the voice was probably the Queen Mother, and she also heard that the Queen Mother suggested that she was a concubine and was deliberately making things difficult. Although she did not know the reason, she was not nervous and answered calmly and generously: "This is the Queen Mother, I am the daughter of a minister in my family.
My sisters and I hired a female teacher to teach us, and we spend our days reading some books and learning some things that we like. My grandmother said that we are not required to be talented in literature, but we only need to be able to know the truth."
"Well, it's not bad." There was no emotion or anger in the Queen Mother's voice. She just commented lightly and didn't intend to speak.
Seeing this, the Queen looked at Gu Panfu carefully. The girl was slim and graceful. She was not nervous and curious because it was her first time entering the palace, and she did not have the sense of humility that a daughter of a concubine usually has. Instead, she was dignified and generous, which made people admire her.
I feel good about her. The exposed half of her face can also be seen as a beauty. The queen actually doesn't care who enters the palace, but she knows that the emperor needs a daughter of the Gu family to enter the palace. This Miss Gu has good manners and good looks.
It can be considered that they both have the best of both worlds. She smiled and said: "The Queen Mother thinks it's pretty good, and I also think that Miss Gu is well-behaved and pretty. What does the Emperor think?"
Hearing this, Xie Xiao glanced at the Queen with a half-smile, and received a coquettish look from the Queen: "Well, leave the sign."
The eunuch holding the book immediately said loudly: "Give me the sign." Then he turned around and picked up a white jade sign from the tray held by the young eunuch beside him, and handed it to Gu Panfu.
Gu Panfu took it with both hands, and the sign was carved into the shape of a lotus flower with tender tentacles. Gu Panfu made another big gift: "I thank the Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the Empress."
After Gu Panfu was selected, she was led by a palace maid to sit in a pavilion. She relaxed inside and slowly thought about the scene just now. She somewhat understood why the Queen Mother deliberately made things difficult. The Queen Mother's natal family was the Dingguo Palace, and she
There are three or two young ladies of the same age, but none of them came to the election this time. It was feared that the Queen Mother misunderstood the Emperor's intention, so the Dingguo Palace did not send anyone to the palace. Nowadays, the Queen Mother naturally does not want other aristocratic families to come out on top, but
This is no longer something that the Queen Mother can control.
Gu Panfu sat for a while and saw Gu Panxin's eyes were red. She was led to the corridor opposite the pavilion by another palace maid. She must have lost the election. Sure enough, when the palace maid left, she covered herself
Weeping under the handkerchief, she took off the two small flowers with many hairpins on her head, threw them to the ground, and stepped on them back and forth with her feet.
Gu Panfu had already expected that if only the queen was here today, it wouldn't hurt to bring two more little flowers, and Gu Panxin might still be selected. But the queen mother was also there, and she would be singled out by the queen mother if she made any mistakes in the rules. She took one look and was about to look away.
Unexpectedly, she met Gu Panxin's resentful eyes. Her eyes turned cold, but she smiled: "Are the fourth sisters crying and making noise like this because they are dissatisfied with the emperor's decision?"
When Gu Panxin was told, she looked around in panic and wiped her face with a handkerchief. She said fiercely: "Gu Panfu, don't be proud. I will report this to my grandmother when I get back."
Gu Panfu didn't take it seriously, not to mention that Gu Panxin couldn't do anything to her before, and even more so now. She ignored Gu Panxin and just quietly looked at the scenery outside the pavilion.
Gu Panxin's eyes were fixed on Gu Panfu's figure. What Gu Panfu didn't know was that she was not selected not only because of the two little flowers. It was also because she couldn't help but be curious and raised her eyes to look at the emperor. This move was
Breaking the rules caused the emperor to frown, and Gu Panxin was scolded by the Queen Mother and kicked out. If Gu Panfu hadn't been selected first, it would have affected the reputation of the Anyang Marquis. So although she was tough, she was still flustered. But she remembered again.
The emperor has the most noble status in the world and is as handsome as a god. Gu Panxin's heart began to throb with jealousy.
The palace selection lasted from morning to dusk, and during the process, the palace maids served refreshments to the selected candidates. In the end, of the thirty-five beautiful ladies who entered the palace to see them, only six were selected, and the unsuccessful ones had already been sent away.
Go to the palace. Gu Panfu looked at the other five people, Yu Qianyue, the daughter of Uncle Gongqin, Xue Zhichun, the granddaughter of Taifu Xue, and Qin Shulan, the beautiful daughter of the registrar. The remaining two were all strangers, she had never seen them before.
.However, both of them can only be considered delicate and delicate in appearance. It seems that there is some difference in status.
When the six people were testing each other, a man wearing the uniform of a general eunuch came over with six young eunuchs carrying an imperial edict. This man was Ming Zhong, the eunuch beside the emperor: "Dear ladies and gentlemen,
Accept the order."
The six of them knelt down together and raised their hands above their heads.
"The emperor, who has been blessed by heaven, summoned her to the Anyang Marquis Mansion. She is looking forward to her being graceful, gentle, graceful, beautiful and smart. She was immediately conferred as a servant selected from the seventh rank. She entered the palace on the tenth day of the fourth lunar month and expressed her admiration for her."
Gu Panfu twitched her mouth when she heard the content of the imperial edict. She didn't expect that the emperor's first impression of him was not bad, but how could he see such "wisdom" and "sensitivity". "Concubine, thank you for your kindness, your Majesty."
Long live long live, long live long live." Gu Panfu kowtowed and thanked her. According to the rules in the palace, concubines under the ninth concubine can only call themselves concubines, and those below can only call themselves master. Those who reach the ninth concubine and above can call themselves concubines, and they can also be called other concubines.
People call her "Niang Niang".
The canonization decrees of the other four people are also similar, and they are all full of praise. Only the alluring Qin Shulan has the words "fairy and graceful, graceful and graceful", which shows that her appearance left a deep impression on the emperor.
Impression. Yu Qianyue was consecrated to the seventh rank of Ronghua, which was the highest status among the six of them. The proud look on her face could not be hidden. Xue Zhichun, like Gu Panfu, was also consecrated to the seventh rank of Selected Attendant.
Qin Shulan, because her background was too low, was only granted the title "Yan", a girl with the lowest rank of the ninth rank. However, because of her appearance, she was given the title "Yan".
Gu Panfu thought that the emperor had been damaged enough. He never left Qin Shulan's appearance. Isn't this causing hatred? Let's not talk about their attitude. If the other concubines in the palace knew about it, they would feel like they were facing a powerful enemy.
She regarded this Yancainv as a thorn in her side. No, when Yu Qianyue heard that only Yancainu had a title, the proud look on her face disappeared and she glared at Yancainu gloomily.
The remaining two beautiful ladies whom Gu Panfu didn't know also knew their identities from the canonization. One was Yao Miaohan, the daughter of the Yangzhou Salt Transport Envoy who had just taken office a few months ago, and was granted the title of eighth-grade lady. The other was also a new lady.
Feng Zhihe, the sister of General Mingwei, was also granted the title of eighth-grade lady. The father and brother of these two people were both the emperor's own people, quite trusted, and they were new nobles in the court.
Gu Panfu looked at it, and saw that the factions were clearly divided, including aristocratic families, veterans and upstarts in the court. They had all obtained similar positions. The emperor's trade-off technique was very good. Wasn't this waiting for them to fight?
The sedan that sent them home at the gate of the palace was changed. It was no longer the narrow sedan. It was a yellow sedan with red trim for four people. There was also a nun assigned by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to follow.
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The Anyang Marquis Mansion occupies a whole street. When it is still some way away from the gate of the Anyang Marquis Mansion, red silk has been hung on both sides of the road. Gu Panfu got off the sedan chair and saw the old Marquis and his wife. She was not selected for the second bedroom of the big house.
Everyone, including Gu Panxin, gathered at the gate of the Hou Mansion. When they saw her getting off the sedan, they bowed down and said, "See Gu Xuanshi."
Gu Panfu looked at the people in the Houfu with a complicated expression. She was only selected by the emperor as a small servant, and her rank was not as high as that of Gu Mingyuan, the prince. Because she was the emperor, the status of a woman was already so different. Not only the old prince and old lady
People and her father, who had never spoken to her even a few words, wanted to pay homage to her. Even the prince's wife, Mrs. Li, who had always been on top of her head, bowed to her in a polite manner. All the difficulties that had made it difficult for her to move forward were solved.
Gu Panfu sighed in her heart, no wonder most women in this world yearn for the palace, want to be favored, be promoted, and have power. She stepped forward to help the old marquis and his wife: "Grandpa and grandma don't have to be polite, this is
It’s a shame for my granddaughter.”
The old Marquis took advantage of the situation and got up, his usually resolute and serious face now full of smiles. The old lady rewarded the eunuch who carried the sedan, and gave a thick red envelope to the attendant, Auntie Ma, who came with her.
.The family gathered around Gu Panfu and went to the front hall to attend the banquet.
From the corner of her eye, Gu Panfu saw Li's forced smile. She thought it was a little funny. Didn't Li expect that she would be selected? Li probably preferred Gu Panxin more. The one she liked was not selected, but the one she disliked got to be sealed. Then
I can only blame Gu Panxin for not living up to expectations.
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About grade:
I probably listed too many things, but I have already written them. If there are any changes, they will have to be changed, so I will stick to this for this one. I will pay attention to it next time. Thank you for your support.
A super empress, a first-grade imperial concubine, a concubine of the first grade, a concubine of the second grade, a concubine, a concubine, a concubine of virtue, a concubine of good virtue, a concubine of the second grade, a ninth concubine of the third grade, Zhao Yuan Zhao Rong, Xiu Yuan Xiu Rong, Xiu Yuan Xiu Rong,
A concubine of the third rank, a concubine of the fourth rank, a concubine of the fourth rank, a beauty of the fifth rank, a talented man of the fifth rank, a noble man of the sixth rank, a good man of the sixth rank, a glorious man of the seventh rank, a beauty of the seventh rank
Choose an attendant, a lady of the eighth rank, a royal girl from the eighth rank, a pick-up girl from the ninth rank, a dressing girl from the ninth rank, a beautiful girl of no rank.