The Jade in the Red Chamber is the Royal Courtyard

In her eyes, only Xue Baochai is the biggest obstacle for her to become the imperial concubine.

"I'm afraid you don't know, but I've heard that the emperor will not only choose a concubine this time, but also choose a side concubine for the heir of the king and the heir of the king of Nan'an County." Several beautiful girls chattered.

"How do you know?" Another show girl asked curiously.

"I have a relative from far away who works as a maid by the queen's side. That's what I heard from that relative in my family." The beautiful girl said triumphantly.

"In this way, we don't have to point to the emperor's fancy. As long as one of the two princes is interested in us, our future wealth will be limitless." Another beautiful girl said.

"Actually speaking of this, my favorite is the eldest son of Nan'an County King, handsome and unrestrained!" Another beautiful girl's eyes seemed to be shining with little stars.

"But, no one has ever seen Prince Ding's heir. Who knows what he looks like? I just heard that he is a sick child." Another beautiful girl said.

Baochai just listened quietly at the side, and didn't say anything to those chattering court ladies. In her heart, no matter the emperor or the two palaces were the same, they were all her tools.

Baochai couldn't help but think of that handsome young man in Hanshan Temple, will she see him again...

The audition process is divided into three parts. The first part is to test the appearance of the show girl, to see if the show girl's mouth, nose and eyes are correct, and whether the appearance is good. No, the last part is to test the body of the show girl, that is, whether the body has any serious diseases, whether there is body odor, whether the skin is smooth and smooth, and whether it is a virgin. This part is the most important part of the three parts of the test, which is commonly known as touch jade.

On the second day, Baochai formed a group with the other five beautiful women, and walked respectfully into the palace under the leadership of a court lady. Those who went in first were inspected. Carefully, I even remember clearly whether there are freckles on the appearance of Xiu Nu. As expected by the eunuch yesterday, only half of Baochai's group was dismissed. One is because of bad teeth. Qi's other reason is that there is a little broken line in her eyebrows, which is usually not visible, but it can be found through a careful inspection like a little eunuch.

The morning time passed like this, and after lunch, the second inspection was followed, and the second inspection was more careful. Among the six people in Baochai's new group, they were put down again. When Baochai returned to his residence at night, he found that there were about twenty people living in the same room, but now there were only four or five people left, even the domineering pink-clothed woman Li Ying from yesterday The sign was also put down. It seems that in the palace, it doesn't matter if you have influence outside.

In the whole room, there is only Xiu Nu, Xue Baochai, who said that her relatives from far away are serving as maids in the Queen's Palace, and Xu Jing, a woman in yellow who encouraged Xue Baochai to oppose her yesterday, and two other Xiu Nu who are also very beautiful. Yes, but those two beautiful girls looked like they were from relatively poor families, and they were not compared with Xue Baochai and Xu Jing. Moreover, those two beautiful girls were very quiet, and they would lie in bed when they returned to their own beds. That quietly holding the needle and thread does not know what to embroider.

"Miss Xue, I didn't expect you to pass two levels in a row." Seeing Xue Baochai's expression changed slightly, Xu Jing stepped in front of Xue Baochai and said coldly.

"Didn't Ms. Xu also break through two levels in a row?" Baochai said calmly.

"That's not necessarily true. I'm the daughter of a serious scholar-bureaucrat. How can I be compared with you, the daughter of an imperial businessman?" Miss Xu said coldly.

"I'm the daughter of an imperial merchant, so of course I can't compare to Miss Xu." Xue Baochai said with a faint smile. "But no one cares about whether she is the daughter of a scholar-bureaucrat in the draft. I only know that I was ordered by the emperor to enter the palace to be selected." Xue Baochai continued, seemingly not paying much attention to Miss Xu's provocation.

"Hmph! I don't know what's good!" Miss Xu said coldly, but Xue Baochai didn't say anything else.

The whole room was silent, but the five beautiful women ignored each other and did not speak, there was a strange tranquility in the room.

"How about it, let's talk about it, as long as you wait a day, you will feel that this room is much empty!" Suddenly a sharp voice broke the silence in the room.

"Hello, father-in-law!" Xue Baochai stood up quickly and said with a smile.

"Well, he's a sensible one!" The father-in-law took a look at Xue Baochai and actually showed a smile on his face.

"This is your meal for dinner, eat it quickly!" The little eunuch brought the food box as soon as the father-in-law waved the whisk. The steamed bun porridge and pickles made those noble ladies have no appetite at all. Lunch consisted of one meat, one vegetable and one soup, which was extremely simple, but those ladies barely ate some, and at night they were so hungry that their stomachs were rumbling called.

As soon as the little father-in-laws opened the food box, each of them had a big bowl filled with white rice, and a pile of meat and vegetable food on top, and a large bowl that should be filled with soup.

"Girls, please use it slowly!" The father-in-law chuckled, picked up a bowl of rice and handed it to Xue Baochai. It turned out that this father-in-law was the one Xue Baochai secretly stuffed the silver ticket yesterday.

"Hey, how do you eat this?" Miss Xu frowned beautifully, "Hey, you and I want to eat roast chicken, you can bring me a whole one." Then Miss Xu shouted loudly at her father-in-law.

"What does this young lady think of the palace?" the father-in-law said with a smile on his face. "There are rules in the palace. I don't care how capable this young lady is outside, but here in the palace, if it's a dragon, you have to coil up, and if it's a tiger, you have to lie down for our family." The father-in-law was ruthless. Said harshly.

"Don't you want to eat? Let's withdraw!" the father-in-law said immediately.

"This father-in-law!" Seeing that the father-in-law got angry, Xue Baochai immediately put the table and chopsticks aside and hurried forward to salute.

"Miss Xue, what's the matter?" The father-in-law said with a smile when he saw Xue Baochai.

"My father-in-law, my sister is ignorant and made my father-in-law angry. I will accompany you like you for her." Xue Baochai said hastily.

"Miss Xue is wrong to say that. What does that girl's affairs have to do with Miss Xue?" The eunuch glanced at Xu Jing in dissatisfaction. Xu Jing really wanted to slap Xue Baochai hard, but She endured it completely again, and she suddenly felt as if she had betrayed her relatives. Because of her pride, the two beautiful girls who were talking to her backed away quietly, for fear that Xu Jing would offend that father-in-law and that father-in-law would blame her They are the same.

"They're all sisters together!" Xue Baochai smiled faintly. "For the convenience of my father-in-law, please help us to get a roast chicken @, but this idea is also difficult to eat." Xue Baochai said, and stuffed two silver bills into the father-in-law's hands.

"Hehehe, Ms. Xue is too polite. Since Ms. Xue said so, let's wait. Xiaohezi will go and have a look, and bring the fattest roast chicken to Ms. Xue." The father-in-law glanced at it. The little eunuch behind said.

"Yes!" The little eunuch quickly agreed.

"Miss Xue, have a good meal, our family will leave first!" The eunuch handed Xue Baochai the bowl and chopsticks that Xue Baochai had put aside, and then retreated.

"Let's eat less for now. There will be roast chicken arriving later, let's share the food together!" Xue Baochai smiled lightly, picked up the bowl and chopsticks, and ate the food in his own bowl first. Xu Jing, who was still making trouble, was so hungry right now, she also picked up the bowl and chopsticks and started to eat, but the four of them frowned at the same time, only Xue Baochai continued to eat without looking at Xue Baochai's bowl On the surface, the rice is the same as everyone else, but in fact there is something different about it. First of all, the rice wine is not ordinary rice, but high-quality green rice. It’s just another layer of rice like everyone’s on the surface. There is only so much meat on the surface, but in fact, when a chopstick is turned down, it is clearly Jinghua ham inside. The food smells fragrant, how can Xue Baochai not eat it.In a blink of an eye, half a bowl of rice was eaten. At this time, a little eunuch brought a roast chicken wrapped in lotus leaves. Xue Baochai gave a reward and sent the little eunuch away. The portion of rice was given to those beautiful women one by one, and those beautiful women were so grateful that they all ate the rice, while Xue Baochai broke open a chicken leg and put it in Xu Jing's bowl.

Xu Jing was slightly taken aback, and looked up at Xue Baochai. She was waiting for Xue Baochai to tease her, but Xue Baochai just smiled at her, and then continued to put Ling a chicken leg on a beautiful girl next to her. Among them, I just picked a chicken wing, put it in a bowl and ate it slowly, as if I didn't see Xu Jing's attitude towards her change at all.

The night passed like this, and the next day, the little eunuch still brought breakfast, but the breakfast was much better than yesterday's breakfast, Xu Jing also learned to be smart this time, and thanked her first, and gave it to him with a piece of silver. The little eunuch gave a reward, and the little eunuch thanked Xu Jing quickly. After a while, another little eunuch brought some snacks to Xu Jing, but there were only a few kinds of breakfast, and everyone ate some and then they were full. Xu Jing I can't eat much, so I cleaned up quickly, and the aunt in the palace invited everyone to gather in the yard. It was still a group of six people. Today's main thing is to touch jade, which is also the most important of the three levels. The girls are required to wash their bodies first and change into clean clothes, and the girls are forbidden to use incense and the like, for fear that people with body odor will use some incense to cover it up.