Expensive marriage: The concubine is begging for peace again today

Chapter 24 Primary Election

The dealer was a little far away from the palace, and when he arrived at the gate of the palace, there were already many beautiful girls waiting to be selected at the gate of the palace.

Because it is a general election, there are quite a lot of women on show, there are more than 500 people, and they are divided into two days for the primary election.

Jiang Changning and the four girls from the Zhuang family, Xie Baoyin and Lu Xiuju were all arranged on the first day.

The three hundred beautiful women were divided into five teams, one from the noble family, one from the civil official's family, one from the military officer's family, one from the folk women, and one from the aristocratic family.

Jiang Changning thought that she should be in the folk women's team.

The chief eunuch found her name, "Jiang's Changning, born in Hangzhou, father Jiang Zhijun, born in Chenglong Dynasty."

Jiang's father took part in the imperial examination, but did not become an official. He returned to Hangzhou and became a squire.

Father has fame, although he has not been an official, he is not considered a commoner.

The Jiang family is well-known in Hangzhou and has been passed down for more than ten generations.

Furthermore, in order to raise Jiang Changning's status, the Empress Dowager was assigned to the family's female team.

Jiang Changning walked over, but there was no one she knew in the team.

She has been in Beijing for six years, she hasn't gone out much, and she doesn't know many people.

Among the people who have contacts with the Zhuang family, the girls who are running for the election are all lined up in the line of civil servants.

Xie Baoyin and Lu Xiuju, one in front and one behind, stood in the military officer's team.

A carriage drove over slowly, and the logo on the carriage was a black eagle with wings spread.

King Jin sat in the car, opened a corner of the curtain and looked out, and saw Jiang Changning standing in the queue at a glance.

He thought of a word, stand out from the crowd.

Most of the show girls wore light pink suits, while Jiang Changning wore light blue ones, with a little green among the thousands of flowers.

Jiang Changning never thought of being a maverick, she wanted to be lost among the crowd.

Just wearing light pink looks too delicate and pretty.

Wearing light cyan, the original intention is to reduce the color a bit, not so outstanding, but who knows the opposite.

Jiang Changning is smiling wryly, there are nine out of ten unsatisfactory things in life!

Forget it, she is a beauty, no matter how she hides it, she is still a beauty and cannot be changed.

"Has it been arranged?" King Jin asked.

Chang Youzhong replied: "It's all arranged, and Miss Jiang won't be wronged."

King Jin smiled with satisfaction and lowered the curtains.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, Jiang Changning felt that his feet were going numb, and everyone finally arrived.

The palace door opened, and the show girls lined up to enter in order.

Soon, they were standing in front of a palace hall.

A tall, thin middle-aged nanny came over. She stood on the steps and said loudly: "Girls are here for the talent show, not for the fair. Please be quiet."

When the girls calmed down, she said sharply: "I don't care how noble or pampered the girls are at home, when they enter the palace, they must abide by the rules in the palace. The slaves will speak the ugly words first, and if anyone breaks the rules, don't worry about it." Blame the servants for their cruelty."

Seeing that the show girls were all honest, the nanny smiled with satisfaction, and her tone slowed down, "The nanny will take you in for a body check later, so don't make any noise, so as not to disturb the nobles in the palace."

After saying that, the five nuns who stood aside in brown dark pattern palace dresses came over and bowed their knees to the middle-aged nuns.

They found the team to lead and stood in front of the team.

The nanny took the booklet and arranged the order of the show girls according to their family background.

Jiang Changning was ranked tenth. There were seven girls from aristocratic families in the capital, and two girls from other big clans in other places.

The waiter sang the list, and the show girls who were named were led in by the palace maid for a physical examination.

"Zhao Xifang!"

Jiang Changning looked up and saw a slender figure.

Zhao Xihe was wearing a light pink palace dress, and she also matched it with a white gauze drape.

Jiang Changning stood behind, unable to see the appearance of this talented woman in Beijing.

Zhao Xifang is the granddaughter of Princess Wenhe. Although she doesn't have a title, it stands to reason that she should be in the noble team.

She is now number one in the family, which shows that her father's family is not simple.

Xiu Nu was called in one by one, but did not come out again, and it is not known how many cards were left and how many were not.

"Jiang Changning." The servant called Jiang Changning's name.

Jiang Changning was ushered into the hall by the palace maid, and there were two old nuns standing in the room, "Hello, two nuns."

"Hello, girl." The two old nuns said with a gentle and authentic attitude.

Jiang Changning took out two purses from his sleeve pockets and stuffed them into the two old mothers respectively, "A small gift is not a respect."

The two old mothers smiled, stuffed their purses into their sleeve pockets, and walked around Jiang Changning a few times, "Miss, please take off your clothes."

Jiang Changning knew that after checking the appearance, it was time to check the body.

She reached out to untie her belt, but an old nun held her hand down.

Under her surprised gaze, the old mother smiled and shook her head.

"No need." Another old nun whispered.

"Thank you, Ma'am." Jiang Changning thought that the two purses had done the work.

Jiang Changning breathed a sigh of relief, it's great that he doesn't have to take off his clothes in front of two strangers.

The old mammy calculated that the time was almost up, walked to the door next to it, knocked lightly, "Come on."

A woman replied: "Hangzhou Jiang's daughter, Jiang Changning, has had a medical examination."

Jiang Changning saluted the two old mothers again. Under the guidance of the old mothers, he walked around the screen, opened the side door, and walked out.

There is a court lady waiting for her. If you have passed the medical examination, go left.

When I arrived at an open hall, there were desks and low stools.

There is a copy of "Women's Commandments" on the table, as well as pens, inks, papers and inkstones, here to test whether Xiunu can read or not.

You don't have to be talented, you don't have to know poetry and songs, but you must be literate.

"Turn the pages at will and copy a hundred words." Said the nun sitting above.

Jiang Changning picked up the ink stick with his right hand, slightly curled his little finger, and raised his orchid finger.

The index finger of the left hand holds the wrist of the right hand, and the ring finger of the middle finger holds the sleeve of the right hand.

Gently turning the wrist, the ink stick grinds out ink in the inkstone.

Elegant posture, correct sitting posture, worthy of being the daughter of a family.

Nanny nodded slightly, and wrote "U" on the letter with Jiang Changning's name on it.

Jiang Changning copied the women's behavior in "The Commandments for Women", "Women have four behaviors, one is women's virtue, the other is women's words, the third is women's appearance, and the fourth is women's merit..."

After copying, sign it, put it in front of the mother, and bow to the knees.

Mammy looked at it, and found that the font was in small script with hairpin flowers, which was beautiful and elegant.

She is really a beautiful and intelligent girl, and the mother put the paper in the brocade box on the left.

"Girl, please go this way." The maid took her to the apse, where there were all beautiful girls who had passed two levels.

Sweeping her eyes, she saw Zhao Xifang who was sitting reservedly among the girls.

Zhao Xifang's palm-sized melon-seeded face, although not fair in complexion, has a beautiful appearance, giving people a feeling of poetry and bookishness.

Surrounded by all the girls was not only Zhao Xifang, but also four other girls.

Jiang Changning guessed that they should be the first ones in each team.

In the draft, the selection is not only for appearance and talent, but also for family background.

The four daughters came from good backgrounds, and their looks were not bad.

But the tallest girl had an arrogant look on her face, which made people feel a little displeased.

(End of this chapter)