Chapter 101101 Aunt, I held you in my arms when you were a child. ...
According to the rules of the Eight Banners selection, the beauties who passed the preliminary selection had to live in the palace, participate in training on etiquette and rules, and undergo further selection.
Regardless of whether they were betrothed to princes and royal family members, or kept in the harem by the emperor for his own use, they all had to enter the palace for the re-examination.
But the specific process is a little different.
If a concubine is betrothed to a prince or a member of the royal family, she only needs to stay in the palace for three days and receive some basic etiquette training, as well as the rules and taboos of the prince's or royal family's mansion.
After all, they are going to be the prince's consort or members of the royal family in the future, so they have to familiarize themselves with the basic etiquette and rules to ensure that they do not make mistakes on important occasions, which would be very embarrassing.
In order to further observe their manners, conversation, character, and even physical health, and whether they have any bad living habits, it is also necessary to live in the palace. It is necessary to ensure that the concubines are innocent and healthy, so that they can marry into the royal family.
For these concubines, it would only take two or three days to complete these procedures, and then they would leave the palace and return to their own homes to get married.
But it is different for those beautiful ladies who want to enter the palace to become concubines or palace maids.
For them, the re-selection was the beginning of the real war - their re-selection process and standards were all more stringent, and they would stay in the palace for training and inspection for a longer time. Usually, it would take at least a month.
During this month, a special maid taught them etiquette and various rules of the palace. Not only were they more complicated, more numerous, and more strict than those for Xianyu and other concubines who were betrothed to princes and royal family members, they also had to learn various talents...
Yes, because they entered the palace to be concubines, they had to learn some extra talents so that they could entertain the king, gain the king’s favor as soon as possible, and expand the royal family.
In short, the selection process for the beauties who want to enter the palace is extremely complicated and the elimination rate is extremely high. It is more like a final interview to compete for jobs. Only those who are left at the end are masters and are qualified to stay in the palace and engage in the next war among women - that is the level of palace fighting, and people will die.
It's so scary!
However, this is not the case for Xianyu and other beautiful ladies who were betrothed to princes and royal family members. It is more like they have already been accepted and just need to receive new employee induction training and then they can go home and wait to get married.
Yes, the beauties who were betrothed to the princes and royal family members had to go through the process of getting married. Therefore, once they had learned the etiquette and rules and passed the re-examination, they had to leave the palace as soon as possible - after all, this harem belonged to the emperor, and it would not be good for you to stay in someone else's territory as the wife of your brother, son, or nephew.
One should always avoid suspicion when living under melon fields and plum trees.
I heard that there were some great people who, because they didn’t want to marry the prince, took advantage of this opportunity to meet the emperor by chance, and then successfully became the stepmother of their former fiancé...
It's a very outrageous and speechless operation.
So, you don’t like the young prince, but you like the old emperor?
Okay, if it’s Master Kong, it seems understandable.
After all, he is only in his forties.
As the saying goes, men are in their prime at 41, especially a great man like Master Kang who has been awarded the title of "The Greatest Emperor of All Time". He has a unique charm like a mature and domineering president. It is easy for him to charm young girls.
Otherwise, why do the two girls who were in the same group with Xianyu in this audition not look sad, but only look shy?
Moreover, these two began to be favored not long after entering the palace, and gave birth to children one after another. It can be seen that Master Kang still has a lot of weight in the hearts of the little girls.
So, Xianyu was a little confused. At this time, who in the palace would want to see her?
Judging from the tone of the little eunuch who came to deliver the message, she seemed to be a concubine in the palace, otherwise she would not have called her "our master".
So, since the concubines in the palace wanted to meet this year's new beauties, why didn't they look for Miss Chen and Miss Gao, the two who were destined to become concubines in the palace in the future, but instead looked for her, who only needed to receive pre-job training as a new employee in the palace and would be leaving in three days?
I simply don't know why.
However, Xianyu has never been one to embarrass herself. Since she can't guess it, she won't guess it.
Anyway, you'll know when you meet.
The other party actually dared to invite her to meet in such public, so he certainly wouldn't do anything to her, so she might as well just meet him first and talk about it.
Xianyu turned around and said goodbye to the new girls she had met, then happily followed the young eunuch out of Shunzhen Gate.
Originally, these contestants had finished their preliminary selection today, and whether they passed or not, they had to leave the palace before evening.
However, Xianyu and her group were at the front of the line and finished earlier, so there was still some time before they had to leave the palace, which was a good opportunity for them to meet and chat.
Since the other party came here to invite Xianyu so blatantly, he must have done so in a clear way. So, Master Kang also knew about it?
Okay, now I am more curious and safety is more guaranteed, so I don’t have to worry about anything. I just need to go there boldly and you can even take a look at the scenery along the way.
After all, Xianyu had never taken this route when she entered the palace. She usually went directly to the Empress Dowager's Ningshou Palace or Master Kang's upper study. This route, which led directly to the six east and west palaces where the concubines lived, was her first time.
To be honest, it’s actually quite fresh.
It would be better if she knew who the other party was and what his purpose was.
Xianyu was thinking about all these things while following the eunuch through the Forbidden City. Soon, they arrived at the Yonghe Palace. It turned out that the person who wanted to see her was Concubine De, or more accurately, Concubine Wang...
Yes, the legendary distant relative of their Wang family, Queen Wang, who would become Shunyi's secret concubine in the future, actually found such an opportunity to meet Xianyu.
Well, it’s hard to comment.
Seeing Xianyu coming over, Concubine De smiled brightly, and was visibly very happy. Before Xianyu finished her greetings, Concubine De directly invited her to sit down, took her hand and started chatting.
"Oh, our Xianyu looks so good in a Manchu dress. It's true that birds of a feather flock together. The fourth brother is so lucky to marry you."
Xianyu quickly stood up and said a few humble words. The main reason was that she was still a concubine in name only. Although she was betrothed to the Fourth Prince, she had not passed the re-selection yet. She couldn't be so high-profile.
Defei didn't care about it, but she still admired Xianyu's caution, and couldn't help but say a few polite words, saying that Xianyu's personality was indeed more suitable for the Fourth Prince.
After the pleasantries, Xianyu felt a little tired, but fortunately, Defei was also considerate and stopped at the line between being polite and annoying. She changed the subject and pushed Wang who was standing next to her out.
"Come and take a look. This is the niece from your mother's family whom you have been longing to see."
Defei teased Wang with a smile, but Wang said in fear: "You are joking, Madam Defei. It is all thanks to you that I can meet my family at this time..."
Concubine De smiled and said, "Come on, I said Xianyu was so cautious and well-behaved at such a young age. How come you are still like this after entering the palace for so many years... It seems that your family has always been like this. You are indeed a noble family in Jinling. You are different from other families."
Now even Xianyu had to stand up and follow Wang in saying a few polite words with fear and trepidation. It was not that her list had suddenly become smaller, but the status of Concubine De was much higher than that of everyone present. It would be disrespectful to want to have an equal dialogue with her - yes, although the training on etiquette and rules had not yet officially started, Xianyu had already felt the terrible atmosphere in the palace.
Really, not everyone can persist.
Fortunately, she informed the Fourth Master in advance and told him to remember to find a way to divorce her before he ascended the throne. Oh, even being divorced would be fine. In short, it would be better not to attack or enter the palace if possible.
Otherwise, she was really afraid that she would be driven to death by such terrible rules.
Fortunately, Defei was really considerate. When she saw that neither Wang nor Xianyu had the heart to talk when she was present, she made the excuse that she wanted to take a short rest, left the side hall, and went to the warm room in the back wing.
Xianyu and Wang stood up again to see her off respectfully. Only after Defei's figure had completely disappeared and even the sound of her footsteps could no longer be heard did the two of them breathe a sigh of relief.
Xianyu wanted to greet Wang again, and Wang smiled and stepped forward to hold her hand, saying, "Xianjie, there is no need to be so polite. When no one is around, just call me aunt... When you were a child, I held you in my arms."
Ah, this...
Xian Yu thought, you might be holding the original owner, but now the original owner is not here, I can only help her temporarily.
Fortunately, Wang was not the type who liked to put on airs. When she said she wanted to reminisce about the past, she actually meant it.
And she also knew that it had been a long time. After all, she had been in the palace for six or seven years. Xianyu was just a little girl of five or six years old at that time. Even if she had met her, or even talked to her, or even hugged her, she definitely would not have any memory of it.
Therefore, Wang was the only one who could do such a thing as reminiscing about the past.
As she spoke, Xianyu listened politely, but at the same time she couldn't help but look at this distant aunt.
But this Wang was only in her twenties, which was the best time for a woman. Although she had given birth to two princes, her figure and appearance had not changed at all. Instead, she was like a ripe peach, full of the charm of a mature woman.
Her skin was as smooth as cream, so delicate that it seemed to be broken by a touch of a flower, and she had a sweet fragrance on her body, emitting a charming aura. Not to mention a middle-aged man in his forties like Master Kang, even Xianyu thought that this Queen Wang was incredibly beautiful.
Xianyu thought about this in her heart and couldn't help but say it out loud, which made Wang Shi laugh out loud on the spot:
"Oh my! Our sister Xian's mouth is as sweet as honey. No wonder all the ladies in the palace want you to be their daughter-in-law!"
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