The Biography of Concubine Wen Xi in Qing Palace

Chapter 187 Lin Lan ([-])

When it came to April, it was the occasion of the annual national government's "Three Banners Show Women's Draft".

This Coated Three Banners Show Girls Show is completely different from the Manchurian Eight Banners Show Girls Show.

The Eight Banners Show Girls are drafted every three years.It is presided over by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and is personally selected by the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, the Emperor, or the Empress. The selected one will leave a plaque to serve the palace, and will be given a position, so he can be regarded as a half serious master.

The Coated Three Flags Show Girls draft is selected once a year.The Ministry of Internal Affairs presides over and undertakes the chores of the harem, all of whom are the women of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who are dressed in clothes.

The rough envoys selected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, if they are lucky enough to be honored by the emperor, can also enter the promotion road of promise, constant presence, nobleman, concubine, concubine, noble concubine, and imperial concubine, and if they are lucky enough to be promoted to the position of concubine and Above, the emperor is very likely to raise the flag for them.

And raising the flag refers to the Three Banners of the coated slaves, officially entering the Manchu Eight Banners, and even the emperor will give their family a Manchu surname.

This is a great honor for his family, but since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, only a very small number of people can have this honor.

On the day of the draft, the queen invited three concubines with higher status in the palace, Yifei, Wanyu, and Rongyue, to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to select some maids to allocate to the sixth palace.

The maids who went to the East and West Sixth Houses were naturally more respectable than those who were not transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to do rough work.Also because of this, these girls to be drafted did not dare to be negligent, and each of them was dressed coquettishly, and stood in the Ministry of Internal Affairs early in the morning, waiting for the queen and her party to choose.

At that time, all the empresses left from Kunning Palace, and the House of Internal Affairs was already full of excitement.

Hundreds of beautiful women stood side by side, some were whispering, and some were so nervous that their palms were sweating.

Among these beautiful girls, Du Linlan has an outstanding face, dignified and decent, and seems a bit out of place with the others.

She is more arrogant and doesn't talk to the maids next to her. Even if someone strikes up a conversation, she just gets tired of responding and replying a few words before staying silent.

A beautiful girl standing next to her had a slightly mean face. Seeing her arrogance, she couldn't see her so naturally, so she yelled at the crowd and said, "Look, big guy, she is from the same background as us, and she made such a move. Who do you want to show the cute look?"

"That's right, she still thinks that she is a serious master. She was like this when she entered the palace yesterday, with a cold face, as if someone owed her a few silver coins."

In the face of everyone's chatter, Lin Lan remained calm, just walked in front of the leader Xiu Nu, and glared at her angrily: "At the foot of the emperor, the important place in the imperial city, you think this is still in your own mansion, you can say whatever you want to say." Say something?"

The leading show girl spat on the ground and said disdainfully, "What do I want to say to you? What can you do to me?"

While arguing, a eunuch's shrill voice suddenly came from outside the door, reporting: "The queen empress is here, the concubine Yi is here, and all the beautiful girls kneel to welcome them."

The two stopped arguing immediately, and all the beautiful girls turned around to face the main entrance, bowed down and worshiped: "Long live the empress, long live the concubine Yi, and live well in Jinan."

The queen came in wearing a bright yellow Jiangxi silk embroidered three-blue bamboo pattern cloak. The cloak was made of bright yellow plain Jiangxi silk, embroidered with folded bamboo leaves, and embroidered with moonlight silk thread for bamboo products. It was slender and graceful, with soft and euphemistic lines, elegant and elegant Thin, elegant and refined colors, especially the gorgeous and dignified royal costumes.

From the corner of their eyes, everyone saw the appearance of the Queen of Fengyi Tianxia, ​​and they all admired her.

And the concubine Yi, Wannai and Rongyue who followed closely behind were all peerless and extravagant.

The queen glanced at the crowd who were kneeling and restrained in ceremony, and did not order her to die, but said to the chief of the House of Internal Affairs: "This year, why are there so many beautiful women who are wrapped in three banners?"

The head of the House of Internal Affairs respectfully and blessedly replied: "Responding to the empress's words, because the emperor's servant, the empress dowager, went to Chicheng last year, and there were many troubles in the palace. The matter has been slowed down. They will join the palace to run for election this year."

The queen nodded, and with the support of Qingyue, she took a few steps towards the beautiful girls, but before she could take a closer look at everyone, the bottom of the hollowed-out flower pot under her feet seemed to have stepped on something sticky, and it almost slipped fall.

Qingyue respectfully protected the empress, and when the empress stabilized, she asked with a look of hesitation: "How did you become the head of the House of Internal Affairs? What are these all over the ground?"

Following the queen's angry reprimand, Qingyue poked her head in and saw that the queen was stepping on it like saliva, so she said angrily: "Bold! Who dares to defile every brick and tile in the imperial city?"

The beautiful girl who spat on the ground just now was trembling, and she was very conspicuous among the other beautiful girls. The queen glanced at her and said calmly: "You, raise your head."

Xiu Nu didn't know it, she still lowered her head firmly, but Lin Lan, who was standing beside her, raised her head and looked at the Queen.The queen looked at her with slits in her eyes, and asked, "Did the filth on the ground come from your mouth?"

"No."

The queen pondered for a moment, seeing that she wasn't afraid of her at all, instead she became interested and asked, "What's your name?"

Linlan bowed, and said respectfully: "My daughter Wuya Linlan, my father is a mighty bodyguard for the coated army, and she is coated with the Yellow Banner of Manchuria."

"The family background is not too low, no wonder there is a sense of arrogance in my bones." The queen boasted a few words, and then looked at the shivering beautiful girl: "The filth on the ground came from the name next to you." From Xiu Nu's mouth?"

Lin Lan didn't seem to think about it, and immediately responded: "If you go back to the empress, it is this person."

Hearing what Lin Lan said, the show girl couldn't help but turn pale with shock, she didn't even have the courage to refute a few sentences, so she had to kowtow and plead guilty, and said in a trembling voice: "I have no intentions, I hope the empress will forgive me! The courtier's daughter has recently suffered from typhoid fever, that's why."

"You don't have typhoid fever. I look at your sneering words just now, and your body looks very healthy." Lin Lan interrupted the beautiful girl, then bent down even lower, and said to the queen: "Queen Empress, this woman has no rules or laws at all, she formed cliques with others and made insulting remarks when she first entered the palace, and she even spat out and polluted the land of the imperial city at will.

The show girl was furious, she got up and rushed towards Lin Lan, the queen was furious and ordered someone to take her down: "It seems that Lin Lan is right, you have really forgotten your identity completely. It doesn’t matter if you forget, once you enter the Forbidden City, there will always be a way to remind you.” The empress said to the head of the House of Internal Affairs, “Take him down and prick his face with red-hot silver needles. The word 'coated' is a good time to remind her to remember her identity."

As soon as the queen said this, Lin Lan and the other beautiful women were too frightened to make a sound.

The beautiful woman was dragged out of the House of Internal Affairs amidst a burst of begging for mercy, Rong Yue and Wan Yu looked at each other, but shook their heads helplessly.

The queen was silent for a moment, and said to Linlan: "You can clearly distinguish your identity, and you are also a bold person. I like your temperament. So, in the future, I will follow me and serve in Kunning Palace."

(End of this chapter)