The Red Chamber: Hang Qin Keqing at the start

Chapter 53 [053] Xue Baochai enters the palace draft, is disaster imminent?
Jia Qiang's tone was three parts joking, three parts sullen, three parts accusing and one part teasing.

He had already seen that Jia Rong wanted to make a move on Qingwen, so without hesitation, he threw the formation-breaking Overlord Spear and stuck it in the mud under his crotch, in order to warn him not to think otherwise.

Otherwise, the consequences will be serious!
When she heard Jia Qiang's voice, before Jia Rong could respond, Qing Wen looked back.

When she saw Jia Rong standing behind her, she was startled and exclaimed:
"Master Rong, why are you standing behind me?"

Jia Rong hurriedly gathered the hem of the sable fur cloak to cover the wet crotch.

He gave Qingwen a sly smile, and instead of responding to Qingwen's question, he turned around and gave Jia Qiang an awkward smile:

"Brother Qiang, I'm here to give you gold."

While talking, Jia Qiang had already walked up to him, and pulled out the long spear that was stuck on the ground. When the side edge of the gun head brushed Jia Rong's crotch, there was only a "呵啦".

The trousers under Jia Rong's crotch were cut.

He hastily clamped his legs, his face turned red and turned pale, he was startled and frightened, ashamed and embarrassed, looking extremely embarrassed.

Jia Qiang leaned on the spear with one hand and said with a narrow smile:

"You came to deliver gold, why didn't you enter the house, but sent it to the lake instead?"

Jia Rong hastily told a lie:

"I saw that Qingwen was still washing clothes by the lake in the cold weather. It was so pitiful. I wanted to help her."

Jia Qiang naturally didn't believe his nonsense, and sneered:

"Where is the gold you said you would give me?"

Jia Rong hurriedly picked up the two yellow cloth bags on the ground, handed them to Jia Qiang, and said with a smile:

"Here are two bags of spring festival gifts from His Majesty. My father specially asked me to give them to you."

The corners of Jia Qiang's lips raised slightly, she stretched out her hand to take it, and said with a smile, "Thank you, Father, for me."

As he said that, he looked at Qingwen, jokingly said with a smile:

"Qingwen, why don't you hurry up and thank Brother Rong."

Qingwen was slightly taken aback, and immediately reacted, saluted Qian'er and said to Jia Rong:

"Thank you, Brother Rong, for making a special trip to bring you the reward for the Spring Festival."

Jia Rong waved her hands repeatedly and said:
"You're welcome, I'm also entrusted by my father, it's just a routine."

Jia Qiang smiled narrowly and said:

"Qingwen, I'm not asking you to thank me for this. I'm asking you to thank Brother Rong for helping you wash your clothes. You can go back to the house and warm yourself by the fire. Leave these bedding and clothes to Brother Rong to wash."

Qingwen was stunned for a moment with a strange expression, and when she saw Jia Qiang winking at her, she nodded and went straight back to the room.

Jia Rong originally wanted to refuse, but when she saw the spear in Jia Qiang's hand, she immediately faltered. In addition, he was plotting something wrong just now, and he was guilty of being a thief, so he reluctantly laughed and said:

"Okay, don't worry, Brother Qiang, I will definitely wash all the bedding and clothes."

"Well, I'll give you a good word in front of the patriarch, and when you're done washing, don't forget to dry these quilts and clothes on the clothesline."

Jia Qiang sneered and said a few words, then picked up the Overlord Spear, and Shi Shiran went back to the house to enjoy the fire.

Jia Rong bowed her head and sighed. Although she was very reluctant, she had to put her hands into the cold lake water to wash her clothes.

He was afraid that Jia Qiang would tell Jia Zhen what happened today, and he also knew that Jia Qiang threw a spear at his crotch just now to warn him.

For a while, Jia Rong was frightened and frightened, and then she was so frightened that she no longer dared to play Qingwen's crooked ideas.

In the early morning of the next day, Xue Baochai got up at Yinshi in the middle of the night. In order to hurry up, she asked her servant girl Yinger and Wen Xing to help her wash and dress up.

Xue Baochai, who seldom puts on makeup, is uncharacteristically today and asks two maids to help her put on heavy makeup.

Ying'er first tied her hairstyle into a snake bun.

Wen Xing put a chicken heart ingot pendant phoenix hairpin on the left side of the snake bun, and a golden phoenix hairpin with a burnt blue phoenix on the right side, a golden flower with burnt blue branches in the middle of the bun, and a pair of pearls on her ears. Jasper earrings.

Ying'er helped Xue Baochai put on a new cotton-padded jacket in a honey-colored color, a rose-purple two-color gold and silver mouse shoulder-to-shoulder jacket on the outside, and a scallion-yellow satin cotton skirt on the bottom.

To keep out the cold, she also wore a satin embroidered cloak embroidered with colorful peonies.

The reason why Xue Baochai got up so early and dressed up carefully is because today is the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, and she is going to enter the palace for draft.

Before leaving, Xue Baochai caged the folding fan with Jia Qiang's poem in his sleeve by a strange coincidence.

She did this completely subconsciously, perhaps because it was difficult to let go of her delicate affection for Jia Qiang, or maybe it was to keep in mind that if she was not selected, there would still be Jia Qiang as a good match to choose from.

Aunt Xue also got up early, and she personally sent Xue Baochai to the carriage, with Yinger and Wen Xing sitting on both sides of her.

When Xue Baochai's carriage stopped outside the Daming Palace, he found that hundreds of carriages had already been parked outside the palace gate.

Everyone held their breath and remained silent, not even daring to cough.

Under the command of an eunuch, Xue Baochai and the beautiful women got out of the carriage and lined up in two columns according to height.

Xue Baochai sneaked a few glances at the front and back of the queue, and found that there were many attractive beauties.

All of them are fat, swallows and thin, with tender faces and moth trimmings, colorful embroidery, and charming, raising hands and feet, driving bursts of fragrance of makeup and powder.

In fact, when Xue Baochai's father was still alive, the Xue family, as one of the four major families in Jinling, was marked on the official protection talisman by the provincial officials with "a good year with great snow, pearls like earth and gold like iron."

If the Xue family was still the richest, then Xue Baochai would never want to enter the palace for draft, because "once entering the palace, the gate is as deep as the sea, and the women in the harem are so miserable."

Xue Baochai can completely guard her wealth and live a carefree life.

Unfortunately, after her father passed away, the Xue family gradually declined.

Xue Baochai's eldest brother, Xue Pan, wants brains, has no brains, needs knowledge, and has no knowledge.

In order to revitalize the Xue family, Xue Baochai had no choice but to enter the palace for draft.

Several nuns in the palace took Xue Baochai and the beautiful women into a secret room, conducted a careful inspection, and eliminated a group of people with poor figure, appearance and skin. 180 people were screened out, led by an eunuch, and walked Wait in line outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Xue Baochai was standing in the queue, feeling restless, she inadvertently swung her left hand down, and actually threw the folding fan in the armhole to the ground.

Coincidentally, this scene was witnessed by the chief eunuch Qiu Shi'an.

He immediately ordered a young eunuch to run over, grabbed the fan before Xue Baochai.

Xue Baochai suddenly turned pale with fright, watching the little eunuch run up to Qiu Shi'an anxiously, and handed the folding fan to him.

Qiu Shi'an opened the folding fan and looked, his face suddenly sank, he raised his finger to Xue Baochai, and shouted sharply:

"Come on! Arrest this beautiful girl, and deal with it after I tell the Holy Majesty!"

(End of this chapter)