beauty bible

Chapter 5 Girl, You Lost
Li Ling was lying on the bed, raising his hand to rub the center of his eyebrows, feeling a headache.

Li Ling originally took medicine to pretend to be sick in order to wear a veil and look more like a sister-in-law.But at this time she was really sick, but she was not wearing a veil!
Not only did she not wear a veil, nor did she put on makeup, she had already been seen by her aunt instructing her.

If they saw her alone, no one would notice anything wrong.

But if she stood with Li Jingshu, Aunt Discipline would probably be able to separate them.

Hey……

But if you think about makeup or veil now, it's too late!
When Li Ling was worrying, an old man came in carrying a wooden box.

The old man and Aunt Discipline exchanged salutes, and Aunt Discipline said: "Doctor Yan, this is Miss Li. I think she has a fever today. Please check her pulse again."

"Hey!" With a relaxed smile on his face, the old doctor felt his pulse and rested on the edge of the bed, motioning for Li Ling to put his hand on it.

Li Ling put his right hand on the pulse pillow.

The old doctor found a piece of silk handkerchief from his carry-on box and put it in Li Ling's hand, and put two fingers on Li Ling's wrist.

"Girl, I checked your pulse yesterday. It's a little cold and you'll be fine with some medicine, but today," the old doctor looked at Li Ling's face and said helplessly, "This is another cold." .”

Isn't it cold again? !

Li Ling remembered everything about last night.

While Chi Tiao Tiao was taking a bath, the door of the room was wide open.I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so I drank some herbal tea and sat for another half an hour.

After talking for a long time, most of the reasons are made by myself!

Li Ling pursed her lips, and lied: "The imperial palace is majestic. It was the first time I entered the palace, and I got a cold. I lived here alone, and I thought about it. I didn't sleep well last night, so I drank some herbal tea... "

After listening to Li Ling's words, the old doctor shook his head and said: "The girl's illness was not serious originally, but now that she catches the cold again, I'm afraid it won't be easy to recover."

"I'm seriously ill?" Li Ling felt more and more uncomfortable.She had a headache and felt heavy, and it was getting harder and harder to even open her eyes.

"It's not serious, but it's not serious," said the old doctor, "I'll give you another prescription, and you can take it for a few more days."

By the time the old doctor finished writing the prescription, Li Ling had already passed out.

The old doctor walked out of the room.

Teach my aunt to follow the footsteps of the old doctor and go out of the house: "Doctor Yan, how are you?"

The old doctor shook his head: "It can't be done. It's too late."

Every year when beautiful women enter the palace, for a period of time before that, they are used to train the aunts and teach them the etiquette in the palace.After the show girls have learned the rules, they can meet the nobles and officially start the draft.

Originally, Physician Yan and Aunt Training said that Miss Li's cold is a trivial matter, and it will be cured after a few days of medicine.

Even if she didn't learn the rules a few days ago, when she recovers from illness, she will still be able to participate in the draft normally.

With this Miss Li's appearance, she can be ranked among the top ten girls in this year's show, and she has a very good chance of staying in the palace.

But today, she caught cold again. According to Dr. Yan, it is impossible for Miss Li to recover before the official draft.

A sick beautiful girl, no matter how good her qualifications are, it is impossible for her to meet a nobleman.

Aunt Discipline never thought that Li Xiunv would not want to enter the palace.

In previous drafts, only the daughters of third-rank family members were eligible to enter the palace.

In recent years, the emperor began to prefer Xiaojiabiyu, and only then did the daughter of a small official have the opportunity to enter the palace.

It is already a great blessing for a young daughter of a fifth-rank civil servant to have the opportunity to enter the palace.Aunt Discipline would not think that this Li Xiunv was sick on purpose.

Got it!

Miss Li is ill at the wrong time, she can only be defeated and left the palace!

Aunt Discipline thought, after a while, I will go to Kunning Palace to ask if I can send Li Xiunv back directly!

There were many thoughts in my mind, but it was only for a moment. I taught my aunt and said to the old doctor: "There is no way to do that. Doctor Yan, please leave me a prescription."

The old doctor nodded, greeted Aunt Discipline and left.

On that day, no one paid attention to the sick Li Ling, so they carried Li Ling, who was still sick, back to Li's home.

The beautiful girl entered the palace and was carried back after only two days.

This really slapped Li Xuanming in the face!

Li Xuanming is just a member of the fifth-rank industry department who has no rights. He is very inconspicuous in this capital city where the royal family and high-ranking officials are everywhere.

Li Xuanming has two daughters and one son.His pair of legitimate children are very fond of him.

Only Li Jingjing, the second daughter of a concubine, really made him look down on him.

In this draft, Li Xuanming originally thought, let the second girl Li Jingjing go to the palace obediently, it is best to lose in the end.In this way, his prostitute Jing Shu can talk about marriage in the future.

If unlucky, Li Jingjing won the election, and after Li Jingjing enters the palace, he can still think of a good way out for Jingshu.

but!

It's only been two days, and before the official draft has even started, his daughter was brought back!
What does this mean?
This shows that his daughter Li Jingshu is unlucky!

This shows that his Li family is not blessed!

With such a name, what good marriage will his Jing Shu have in the future? !
Li Xuanming suppressed his anger and sent away the visitor from the palace.

Standing in Li Jingjing's small boudoir, Li Xuanming looked at Li Ling lying drowsily on the bed and snorted: "It's really useless."

"I'm so angry! I'm so angry! Did the second girl do it on purpose?!" Li Xuanming's first wife, An Shi, was full of anger. Her originally beautiful and dignified face was slightly distorted. She said bitterly: "She just entered the palace. The next day, I was taken back because I was sick! What will others say about us Jingshu in the future?"

Li Jingshu stood aside, holding a long sword in one hand. She touched the cold scabbard of the long sword, with a pretty face and cold eyes.Li Jingshu glanced coldly at her second half-sister, without saying a word.

Li Jingjing's biological mother, Aunt Qian, knelt softly on the ground, lowered her head, and said softly: "Master, please calm down. The second girl is timid. This is the first time she enters the palace. The palace is majestic. She may have been frightened, and that's why she got sick." ..."

An cast a glance at Aunt Qian who was kneeling on the ground: "It's all your well-educated daughter! Give her a chance to enter the palace and become a noble person. She will not be blessed by herself, and she will hurt our Jingshu's reputation! What a mother! There must be a daughter! They all have a soft and weak face, pretending to be innocent, but they are useless at all!"

Li Jingshu didn't want to enter the palace, so Li Xuanming and An's forced Li Ling to take medicine and pretend to be sick, and entered the palace for a draft.

Everyone knows that taking medicine to pretend to be sick, this medicine—after all, hinders the health of the body.

If this medicine can be taken casually, why can't Li Jingshu take medicine to pretend to be sick and avoid the draft?
Li Jingshu refused to enter the palace, and refused to take those medicines that hurt her body. That's why Li Ling came up with the trick of impersonating her.

Now, Anshi wants to confuse right and wrong, saying that she gave Li Ling a chance to enter the palace and become a noble...

Aunt Qian didn't argue, she lowered her head and said nothing.

It's not that she's not angry, it's not that she doesn't feel sorry for her quietness, but if she speaks again, whatever she says will be wrong.No matter what she said, it would only arouse An Shi's anger even more.

Seeing that Aunt Qian didn't speak, An sneered: "Don't talk back! Don't talk back! You know how to pretend to be weak!"

Li Xuanming shook his head: "It's useless!"

With that said, Li Xuanming walked away in a huff.

Seeing Li Xuanming leaving, An quickly followed, and said: "Master! Master, think of a way! Think of a way. We Jingshu..."

The sound faded away.

Li Jingshu stood by the bed, took a few steps closer, and looked at the second younger sister who was lying on the bed with a somewhat similar face to her.Li Jingshu looked at Li Ling for a while, then said to Aunt Qian who was kneeling on the ground: "Li Jingjing is really useless."

Aunt Qian looked up blankly.

Aunt Qian's looks were the best in the Li family, but it was more than that.

Li Xuanming has lived for nearly 40 years. In these 40 years, he has never seen any woman who is more beautiful than Aunt Qian when she was young.

Therefore, the women around Li Xuanming came and went, and were dismissed several times by his wife, An Shi. Only Aunt Qian stayed in Li's house and raised a daughter safely.

Aunt Qian has no property, no family background, and has been repeatedly made things difficult by Anshi. She can sit firmly in the position of this aunt, not because of her daughter Li Jingjing——

She relied on her face.

Li Xuanming likes Aunt Qian's unparalleled beauty.

In the past, the eldest daughter Li Jingshu, who was good at martial arts, didn't pay much attention to Aunt Qian, and basically didn't talk to her.

Naturally, this eldest daughter who practiced martial arts diligently didn't think much of her aunt who relied on her appearance for a living.

There was a trace of indifference in Li Jingshu's voice, and she said: "Take care of her. She has a prescription from the palace on her body, go get the medicine immediately."

After finishing speaking, Li Jingshu turned and left.

Aunt Qian was startled, she was too surprised by Li Jingshu's attitude, she helped the maid's hand and stood up: "Xiao Chao, hurry up! Go grab the medicine!"

"Hey!" Xiao Chao, the maid next to Aunt Qian, hurriedly took the prescription and ran out of the room.

Aunt Qian sat down beside Li Ling, looked at Li Ling's reddened face, her eyes were sad, and she wanted to cry: "Quiet, it's mother's fault. It's all mother's fault. If it wasn't for mother, you wouldn't have to suffer like this." .”

Aunt Qian's tender little hand caressed the center of Li Ling's frowning brows, and withdrew her hand. Aunt Qian clenched her hands into fists, and a flash of determination flashed in her eyes: "Quiet, we can't go on like this... the suffering of our mother and daughter these years, I can endure it, I can bear it. It's just that you are an adult now... you can't go on like this in the future!"

……

royal palace.East Palace.

"Oh?" Prince Sima really seemed to be surprised, but also seemed to have expected it, said: "You mean, there is no Li Jingjing among the beautiful girls, only Li Jingshu, the daughter of a worker from the Ministry of Industry?"

"Yes!" A Xia knelt in front of Sima Zhen's seat, his face turned slightly pale.

A-Xia was tortured with [-] sticks yesterday, afterward he took the best wound medicine internally and externally, and rested for half a day, relying on internal strength to protect his body, at this time, he was already able to answer in front of the crown prince.It's just that his complexion doesn't look very good.

Axia confirmed: "According to His Highness's itinerary that day, the person he met was the sick show girl Li Jingshu. Today, the show girl Li Jingshu has been rejected due to illness and was sent back!"

"Ha... there is indeed something fishy. Let me continue the investigation! Check that Li Jingshu carefully!" Sima Zhen spoke solemnly, but his tone was a little brisk.He had to admit that the unexpected encounter that day really impressed him.

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)