Houmen's step-wife

Chapter 481 Love and Dislike (1)
And none of the girls from the official family was eliminated, because the family can send them into the palace to compete for favor, and they are already very good. She passes.

The remaining nearly 300 women can enter the palace. After living for a month, 50 people will be selected as the heads of the palace ladies, and [-] people will be selected as candidates for concubines.

Before that, the second batch of maids who applied to leave the palace had already been approved, and they would leave the palace in a while. Now almost every concubine is short of court ladies, and with the desire to win favor, they can't wait to come out. It is necessary to select some capable maids from among them for their own use.

Su Wan didn't participate in the whole process of picking girls, she was only in charge of choosing them at the end.

A month later, seats were set up on the platform in front of the Compassionate Ning Palace.The Empress Dowager and the Emperor sat in the middle, Su Wan sat next to Emperor Xiande, Empress Ning sat next to the Empress Dowager, and other concubines lined up on both sides like wild goose wings, today the selection of maids will be made here.

Because the Empress Dowager Yu became interested and said that she would personally select a few maids, all the people gathered in the Palace of Compassion and Ning, and let the pickers come forward one by one for everyone to choose.

The quality of the pickers this time is very high, and they are strictly selected. They all look like flower bones. Of course, there are also very young court ladies, many of whom are under ten years old.

But Empress Dowager Yu and the others paid attention to most of the maids over the age of 13. Seeing that many of them were beauties, Empress Dowager Yu nodded in satisfaction and said to Emperor Xiande: "Emperor, this is your second draft since you took the throne, my concubine." There are still many vacancies left in the concubine, you should pick a few people to enrich the harem."

The others also looked at him with anticipation in their eyes, only Su Wan's expression was flat, with a faint smile on her lips.

Emperor Xian De laughed and said: "Zhen's harem will be sufficient in the future, and it is not needed for now."

After saying this, everyone except Su Wan showed disappointment.

Even the maid standing below was equally disappointed.Being the emperor's concubine is better than being a court lady, not to mention, the emperor is still so young and handsome.

However, after hearing the emperor's words, some people completely put down their thoughts of becoming concubines, while some people were unwilling to be reconciled, and instead became somewhat competitive, especially the daughters of officials and eunuchs. .

There are quite a few officials sending women into the palace this time, and there are both civil and military officials.

Down to the county magistrates and hundreds of households, up to the generals, magistrates, and command envoys, the daughters of these people all entered the palace.

There are no daughters of noble officials in Beijing.Because Emperor Xiande did not choose in the capital at all, even if he did, it was in other prefectures and counties in Northern Zhili.Moreover, they are in the capital, and they can see the situation in the palace better than anyone else——

Even if you send your daughter into the palace, you will be a widow, and you may even annoy the emperor, be jealous by the emperor, and be hated by the imperial concubine.They lived under the eyes of the imperial concubine, if she held her grudges, blowing the pillow wind in front of His Majesty, twice or three times, no one could stand it.

In particular, Emperor Xiande has always been attacking and guarding against his relatives, and it is not easy to be a relative now.

If you don't get any benefits, and you still make a fuss, why bother?

It's a pity that those local officials only think that there are people in the harem who can be officials, and they don't see this at all.

Hearing that Emperor Xiande had no intention of choosing someone at all, the concubines were also a little discouraged.But soon, they cheered up very quickly. It doesn't matter if the emperor doesn't accept his concubine now. Prepare the next candidate first, and there will always be a chance in the future.

"Even if you don't need it, you should choose some to be made ladies as backups. This is a common practice." The Empress Dowager Yu frowned and said, without waiting for Emperor Xiande to answer, she continued: "Well, since you don't want to choose, then Let Aijia choose a few for you."

Emperor Xian De said with a nonchalant smile: "Since the Empress Dowager wants to choose, then choose!" As long as he refuses, who can force him to fail?Moreover, he has his own plans.

As expected, the Empress Dowager pointed out a few girls with the most beautiful appearance and excellent temperament. As candidate concubines, those selected maids, although they tried their best to suppress them, could still see their joy and excitement.

Seeing this, Su Wan couldn't help but glance at Emperor Xian De, Emperor Xian De blinked at her, and Su Wan gave him a blank stare.

"Why, sister, don't you choose a few?" Just as the two were flirting with each other, Empress Ning suddenly asked Su Wan.

Seeing that Empress Ning had also selected several beautiful maids, Su Wan sneered in her heart, but said on the face: "Of course I have to choose, but I haven't met any good-looking ones yet."

"Since that's the case, then sister, let's choose slowly!" Empress Ning said with a smile, she didn't believe that the imperial concubine would not feel uncomfortable or afraid.

Su Wan nodded. Of course, the people who serve her must be carefully selected, and she must not be sloppy.

Because there is no shortage of people around Su Wan, most of the people she chose were younger, some were eleven or twelve years old, the oldest was only 13 years old, and there were a few five or six-year-olds.

Seeing that there were such young Cai girls, and there were quite a few of them, Su Wan was startled at first, but then she thought that the Concubine Wan Gui of the Ming Dynasty entered the palace at the age of four, so she was relieved.

Su Wan planned to train these young court ladies and leave them to Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan.

Others also selected some young court ladies, and it seems that they intend to train them.

There were a lot of women to pick, and Su Wan felt a little tired after watching half of them.What's more, she has almost made the choice now, and she is worried about the two children, so she wants to leave first.

At this time, the Empress Dowager Yu had already selected more than 20 beautiful court ladies as candidate concubines.

Emperor Xiande is also a bit boring. In the past, he might have been very interested in it, but after having Su Wan, he is a little bit lacking in interest. Even if there are many people who fit his taste, he would have to be granted a position in the past. He loved it for a few days, but now, there is no fluctuation in his heart, and he will be like that after watching too much, aesthetic fatigue.

He was very familiar with Su Wan's expression, and knew that she couldn't sit still, so he said to the Queen Mother and the others: "I still have something to do, let's take a step with the imperial concubine, and I will leave this place to the queen mother and the queen."

Seeing that Emperor Xiande left the picker halfway, and took the imperial concubine away before finishing the Cainu, the Empress Dowager Yu's complexion instantly became ugly.

She took advantage of the opportunity of King Jin to enter the capital to "recover from illness", so that Emperor Xiande could no longer use the excuse of her recuperation to put her under house arrest. However, her influence on Emperor Xiande was not as good as before. No, perhaps, her The influence is simply negligible.

Looking at the beautiful court ladies she had selected, the Empress Dowager Yu suddenly felt a little discouraged. If even these people could not attract the emperor's attention, who else could do it?Is it really up to the imperial concubine's family to dominate?
This is something she doesn't want to see anyway.

(End of this chapter)