Mengfei Qiqi

Chapter 370 Concubine Selection Ceremony 5
Immediately afterwards, the eunuchs filed in and brought in 23 cattail mats, and placed them behind the girls.

Eunuch Su stood on the main hall, looked at the daughters of important ministers standing in the hall with a smile, and said, "Girls, please sit down."

"Yes." The other girls blessed their bodies politely, and then sat down gracefully.

Ye Qiqi was taken aback for a moment, and quickly imitated Fu's body, and sat down on the cattail mat in an orderly manner.

Mo Hanqing's eyes kept falling on Ye Qiqi.

He silently watched her clumsily salute, and his heart softened uncontrollably.

"Your Majesty, everything is ready, please come up with a question." Seeing that all the young ladies from each family had already sat down, Eunuch Su turned around, bent towards the emperor, and said with a smile.

"En." The emperor nodded, looked around the hall benevolently, then cleared his throat and said, "It's midsummer now, and lotus flowers are in full bloom in the pond in the imperial garden, please invite Let's write a poem with the theme of lotus."

"Yes." The girls sitting on the cattail mats stood up one by one after hearing the emperor's words, saluted the emperor again, and then sat down again.

Ye Qiqi felt a little speechless.

Why did they have to salute every time the emperor said a word, standing up and sitting down again, there was no end to it.

But even though she thought so in her heart, for the debt of 80 taels of silver, she could only resign herself to stand up behind those girls, salute, and then sit down.

"Okay, let's start." Eunuch Su smiled at the girls in the palace.

As soon as Eunuch Su finished speaking, the other girls reached out to pick up the ink sticks on the small desk and began to grind the ink in the inkstone.

In just a short while, several girls picked up brushes and began to write on paper.

Mo Hanqing turned his gaze to Ye Qiqi, but saw her sitting in front of the desk, motionless, just staring at the blank paper in front of her with her head down, not knowing what she was thinking.

Mo Xiuzhu, Ye Chengan, and Murong Hongyu's attention was naturally also on Ye Qiqi.

Just seeing her sitting there without moving for a long time, the few of them felt a little anxious.

Sitting among the princes, Mo Xiuzhu kept glancing at Mo Hanqing, but the latter only looked at Ye Qiqi and didn't care about him at all.

Ye Chengan and Murong Hongyu were sitting together, but they stared at Ye Qiqi for a long time, and didn't see her raising her hand to pick up a pen. Ye Chengan couldn't help but lowered his voice towards Murong Hongyu: "Qiqi...it shouldn't be impossible to write a poem about lotus, right??"

"I don't know." Murong Hongyu was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Actually, I don't know much about lotus poems."

"Hey, you have been practicing martial arts since childhood." Ye Chengan wanted to say a few words to comfort Murong Hongyu, but as soon as he said this, he paused, and then said with a frustrated expression: "Ye Qiqi also She has practiced martial arts since she was a child, so from this point of view, she shouldn't be able to master the capital right? Could it be that she will be wiped out in the first round?"

"..." Murong Hongyu didn't know what to say for a moment.

After an incense stick of time passed, several girls had already written poems.

(End of this chapter)