Xu Lingyi wants to enter the palace, but it is not easy to do so now.
First, the emperor no longer held beauty contests.
A few years ago, the emperor still chose concubines, and he still hoped to have a prince of his own.
But hopes were always dashed. After all these years, there was only one child in the harem, Princess Minghua. Six years ago, a beauty became pregnant, but she miscarried at five months.
The emperor was furious, thinking that someone had murdered her, but it turned out not to be the case, and it was just a natural miscarriage.
Until now, Your Majesty has only one princess.
Without the selection, it would be much more difficult for Xu Lingyi to enter the palace.
No, Xu Lingyi remembered that there had actually been a beauty pageant in her previous life, which was organized by the empress dowager.
The emperor did select a few concubines and favored them for a period of time. Unfortunately, a year later, there was still no news about these concubines. From then on, the emperor stopped selecting concubines.
The reason why she was not impressed by this selection was that all the beauties were selected from the common people, and there were no daughters of officials.
It is said that the women the empress dowager found were not good-looking, and some were even unsightly.
The reason we found these people is that the mothers in their families are extremely fertile. They usually give birth to more than six or seven children, and most of them are boys.
The figures of these women also met the folk standards for childbearing. The empress dowager liked them very much and had high hopes for them.
It was more like a last gamble, hoping to get what she wanted, but unfortunately there was still no movement, and the empress dowager died of depression not long after that.
Although there was a talent show, she was not eligible.
The Queen Mother did not choose a daughter from an official family at all.
Moreover, she did not meet the empress dowager's selection criteria. Her mother gave birth to four children, and her father felt that having too many children was not good for women, so she was all born by accident.
She probably won't be able to take the path of the selection, and even if she is qualified, the emperor will definitely not choose her.
She is fifteen years old and the emperor is thirty-six.
Although it is normal for a man and a woman to have such a big age difference nowadays, some men remarry after their wives die, and most of them are girls who are fifteen or sixteen years old.
Because she is the daughter of the Xu family, Xu's father is a trusted brother in the emperor's heart.
The emperor knew that the Xu family must be planning to choose a man of humble origin for her to marry as his legal wife.
So even if there was a beauty pageant, even if she could go, the emperor would not choose her because of Xu's father.
What should she do? Xu Lingyi recalled her past life, hoping to see if there was another chance for her to enter the palace.
She thought about it in her mind, and it really reminded her of someone.
This person was not favored and had no sense of existence. The only time she had a sense of existence was probably when she entered the palace.
Because she was a peasant girl brought in from outside the palace by His Majesty, some people initially speculated that she was His Majesty's sweetheart and had been kept outside the palace. Others said that she seduced His Majesty.
But Xu Lingyi later found out that this person had accidentally had physical contact with the emperor in the temple.
As for what kind of accident it was, she wasn't quite sure. Maybe the emperor took Chinese medicine, or maybe he drank too much?
Xu Lingyi was just guessing.
Afterwards, the woman was brought back to the palace by the emperor, but was only given the lowest rank. The emperor never saw her again.
Not long after, this person died in the deep palace.
A powerless peasant girl is naturally easy to be bullied.
Xu Lingyi happened to know about this temple, and she wanted to take a gamble and enter the palace in place of the peasant girl.
She knew that Xu's father and mother would definitely not agree to her entering the palace.
Although the emperor is the supreme ruler, he cannot have children. In this world, women without children have no one to rely on.
In addition, the emperor was old and she had just reached the age of marriage.
But Xu Lingyi also knew what path she wanted to take. Since her parents would not agree, she could only hide it from them for the time being.
She remembered that the peasant girl entered the palace, which seemed to be five or six months later.
She knew which temple it was.
Xu Lingyi made a decision. Originally, she and her mother were going to go to another temple.
"Mother, I heard that the Lingguang Temple in the suburbs is more effective. Although it's far away, many dignitaries like to go there. The Queen Mother seems to have been there before. Why don't we try another one? We're not in a hurry anyway."
Xu Lingyi suggested that she planned to stay in the temple and practice for a while in the name of praying.
"That's fine." It's not a big deal, so Mrs. Xu would certainly agree.
She is a very gentle mother who allows Xu Lingyi to do whatever she wants in many cases.
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It took them an hour to reach Lingguang Temple.
Because this place is far away from the capital, not only is the journey long, but the temple is built on a mountain and one has to climb more than a thousand stone steps to get up, so there are not many people here.
"It's so high, it will take quite a while to climb up."
The third sister-in-law looked at the stone stairs and was deterred.
Xu Lingyi smiled and went over to hold her arm. "I'm climbing with my sister-in-law, what are you afraid of?"
The woman the third brother married was her childhood friend. They had compatible personalities and had a very good relationship over the years. They called themselves sisters-in-law, but in fact they were just close friends. Mrs. Xu had an open-minded personality, and the two of them never had too many reservations when talking to each other.
Her sister-in-law is like another mother to her. Because she is older than her, she has always taken care of her like a daughter.
There is a deep bond between them.
Because the second sister-in-law came from a humble family, she was always cautious in her character and behavior, and she was always trying to please him.
Xu Lingyi once told her that she didn't like her being like this because they were family.
But the second sister-in-law just hugged her and said that she knew the Xu family was a good family, but the more so, the more she didn't want to lose them.
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