[Red Mansion] This world is a bit chaotic

Although female officials in the palace are recruited every year, there is no limit on the number of them, but it depends on how many people are needed in the palace, and the number of recruits varies each year. Due to the fierce competition, the selection criteria are also very strict.

However, usually a few more people are recruited to share the work, and they will not be too hard and busy. It is really just a gold plating in the palace.

Shi Xiangni was recruited two years ago. Now that she has completed two years of training, she has officially served in the palace for only a few months, and she is only 15 years old.

The queen saw this group of girls who were about the same age as her children, and treated them very kindly. Seeing that they were brightly colored, youthful and lively, and occasionally she would invite them to talk and amuse her when she was free.

This day was half a day's leisure, so the queen called a few girls to talk to her to relieve her boredom, and Shi Xiangni was one of them.

Female officials can go home regularly, so the queen asked them to talk about what happened outside.

The girls each picked interesting and new things they had heard, or jokes made by their younger brothers and sisters at home, and they had a good time.

It's just that when it was Shi Xiangni's turn, she showed a little sad face, and said a little shyly: "Reporting to the Empress, I came home this time, because my cousin offended Lin Shangshu's girl, everyone in the family was worried, and the atmosphere It's boring, my cousin was reprimanded by my aunt and she was very pitiful, I patronized to accompany her, but I cried with her and didn't go anywhere else, so I didn't hear anything interesting, please forgive me."

After listening to Shi Xiangni's words, the queen frowned slightly, looked at the little girl with her head slightly lowered and showing her pretty side face with interest, and said: "It's okay, I just asked you to talk, and I don't want you to talk about it." The one who made the joke to Bengong, can you still blame you for this?"

Shi Xiangni froze for a moment, and then said: "Thank you, Madam." But he was in a dilemma, the queen didn't ask her what happened, how should she answer her?She was not reconciled to giving up halfway, and it would be extremely rare to have the opportunity to talk to the queen face to face next time. It would take too much time to spread the word among the ladies and gentlemen in private to the queen.

Pursing her lips, Shi Xiangni finally went on to say: "Speaking of which, the Lin family is also related to ours. Miss Lin, I can also call my cousin, but her situation is very different from my cousin. My cousin is a poor girl. Yes, she lost her father since she was a child and was brought up by a widowed mother, but the younger sister of the Lin family has always been the apple of her eye and loved by her parents, so it is inevitable that she will be more tempered. But my cousin has always been outspoken and has no intention of speaking, this time it is just to go Watching a performance in the theater, I saw an actor on the stage who was similar to the sister of the Lin family, so I joked that it was like that, but it actually offended the sister of the Lin family. I was reprimanded on the spot, and I was also worried when I went home. When my aunt found out I was even more ill, and the next day I hurriedly dragged my sick body to the Lin Mansion to make amends, but I never even saw the face of the Lin family sister. I don’t know if this matter can be exposed. Have they been troubled?"

A female officer surnamed Yun sitting on Shi Xiangni's left hand heard her say so many words, frowned, pulled Shi Xiangni's sleeve, and signaled her to stop talking.

The queen asked everyone to laugh and amuse them, it was to make them face, and everyone also picked up new and interesting things to say, even if the family really had difficulties, they did not come to the queen to complain, what is going on with Shi Xiangni , I want to be a maverick, and the matter about my cousin is not over yet?When girls get along, it's normal to have a quarrel. Is it worth talking to the queen?

However, Shi Xiangni didn't seem to notice her small gestures, but the girl on Shi Xiangni's right took up the conversation: "Wow, this Miss Lin even avoids the other party's elders to come to apologize, isn't she too airy? Besides, It’s just a joke, don’t care so much.”

At this moment, Lady Yun could see that she had come prepared, even the people who agreed with her were prepared, so she should not worry about it.Thinking about it, he looked up at the queen's face quietly. Although the queen was still smiling, the smile obviously faded a lot.

Yun Shuangrong hurriedly lowered her head and remained silent.

Sure enough, Shi Xiangni continued: "Although our family is closely related to the Lin family, my eldest aunt is the one who doesn't like to cause trouble for others. She is afraid of the high family status of the Lin family, so the two families seldom communicate. I didn't expect that after many years I came to the door for a rare visit because of a quarrel between the sisters. I met the sister of the Lin family when I was a child. She is very cute and cute. I don’t know how her heart has become so high now. I just sympathize My eldest aunt and cousin, orphans and widows, life is not easy, I only hope that the younger sister of the Lin family can grow up a lot, don't care about my cousin, so that their mother and daughter will have less hardship."

After finishing speaking, her eyes were red, and she hurriedly covered the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, stood up and apologized to the queen: "Your Majesty, atonement, I was just too worried about the sisters in my family, and I accidentally said so much, which really annoyed your Majesty."

The queen looked at Shi Xiangni's pretentious singing and singing, and suddenly felt a little tired, and she didn't have the mood to joke with them, so she flicked her sleeves and said calmly: "I can see that you are a kind girl. It is rare to know how to worry about what others are anxious about, and to suffer what others are suffering.”

Shi Xiangni was overjoyed when he heard it, and hurriedly lowered his head to try to restrain the corners of his lips that were about to turn up, but then the queen continued: "Since you are so worried about your aunt and cousin, I can't bear to embarrass you, how about it, you I didn't have much work in hand, so I handed it over to Ms. Yun, then went back to the room to clean up, asked Aunt Lin to help you arrange it, and went home tomorrow, so I can take care of your aunt and cousin, and persuade your parents , don’t be like strangers in the past many years.”

Shi Xiangni looked up at the queen in shock, not understanding why she got such a result.

"Okay, I'm a little tired in this palace. You should leave. If you have something to do, go to your room and rest for a while. Lin Lang, I will leave this place to you." The queen said and got up and left.

"Your Majesty..." Shi Xiangni became anxious, fell to her knees and screamed.

"Shut up!" Aunt Lin shouted, seeing that Shi Xiangni was really crying now, but she didn't have any sympathy in her heart.This is also a big-hearted person, but with such a clumsy method, he dared to show off in front of the queen, he really didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth.Do you really think that the queen just doesn't know anything about the outside of the palace, so she can't make it up?

"Empress Benevolence, I can't bear you worrying about your sister in the palace. I give you the grace to leave the palace and go home. The girl should go down obediently along the steps given by the empress. Your little means are really clumsy. Do you think What do you want, I understand, the empress understands better, but seeing that you are young, I don’t care about you. Otherwise, it will be spread that you are soliciting right and wrong in front of the queen, do you think that would be better?"

Shi Xiangni looked at Aunt Lin in surprise, and fell limp to the ground after a while, tears streaming down her face, but no one sympathized with her, and the female officers who were with her all avoided and dispersed, and the girl who sang with her went away. It was faster than anyone else, and I regretted being involved in this matter when I thought about it.It's a pity that although she was not sent out of the palace, she was also transferred to an extremely peripheral and unimportant job. Since then, she rarely saw the queen's face, and within two years she asked to leave the palace to get married.

Although the queen gave Shi Xiangni a step down and said that she couldn't bear to worry about her, everyone close to her knew that she and her cousin Shi Xiangyun were not that close. Because of Shi Xiangyun's father's title back then, the two uncles' families did not regard them as enemies all these years , but also never indifferent.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is just superficial rhetoric. Shi Xiangni must have done something wrong to be "sent" out of the palace.

Shi Xiangni just accidentally heard that the queen was going to tell the second prince that Lin Daiyu was his wife, so she took the opportunity to smear Lin Daiyu in front of the queen for being "narrow-minded, domineering, and disrespectful to her elders" and to show her "kindness and consideration" , Let the queen see how good she is, maybe she will be transferred to work with the queen?In this way, there will be more opportunities to meet the second prince, so who can conclude that she has no chance to fight for the position of the honorable prince and concubine?

But now, not only has she not been able to double her social status because of her status as a "female official", her future marriage may be affected, and the secret desire in her heart will never be realized.

Although Shi Xiangni regrets what she did today, she has no medicine for regret.

Shi Xiangni packed up and saluted, not unlike Aunt Lin who watched in person, but sent someone to guard, and ordered the people who would deliver the news to the historian and send Shi Xiangni out of the palace tomorrow, and then went back to the queen to answer.

But seeing that the queen had just accepted the post from Mrs. Lin Jia Min, she swept away the gloom just now, and happily said to Aunt Lin: "Mrs. Lin's post, it seems that the second son's marriage is expected. That's good, make it soon Come down, so that everyone can stop worrying about it, so that all monsters and monsters will not come to this palace to play tricks."

Aunt Lin joked, "How can their little tricks escape the eyes of the empress?"

"You have a calculating face at a young age, and you feel tired just looking at it." The queen shook her head and said, "Don't worry about those female officials when you were still Princess Deqin."

Aunt Lin said: "Your Majesty forgot, there were no married princes and lords in the palace at that time, and the female officials selected into the palace were all the most stable and generous from each family, and they acted with restraint. Now these batches are more lively. Things are still jerky, but they all have extraordinary appearances."

The queen suddenly laughed, and said: "I was negligent, but I didn't expect that our black boy would become a favorite one day."

Aunt Lin also said with a smile: "The second prince's dragon and phoenix appearance has aroused the hearts of the girls, and it is justified."

The queen laughed, and said again: "You reminded me, in this way, the older and experienced female officers around me are not short of manpower. Don't arrange for those who are young and new to the palace to have the opportunity to get close to the mistress. Work, do some peripheral work first, hone and hone, check your character, and make other arrangements later."

"Yes." Aunt Lin agreed.

The next day, the palace sent a message to the Shifu to pick them up, and sent someone to take Shi Xiangni out of the palace. That's how Jia Min saw Shi Xiangni at the gate of the palace.

After entering the palace, Jia Min put aside what she saw at the gate of the palace, after all, she could not be allowed to intervene in the affairs of the palace.

But the queen finally got a definite letter from Jia Min, she is expected to marry a daughter-in-law, she is still the talented daughter-in-law she has always liked, she was very happy, she took Jia Min to discuss the engagement for a while, and finally said: " That girl Shi Xiangni presumably heard that Bengong valued Yuer, so she came to me to tease her. Don’t Bengong not know about Yuer’s character? Go back and tell Yuer, what kind of cousin is she? Besides, Bengong likes her the most, as Bengong's daughter-in-law, put your heart in your heart, and will never be made things difficult for you."

The queen must have inquired about Daiyu in private, Lin Ruhai and his wife knew this well, just like they also inquired about Wei Beicui.

The queen is so open and honest, Jia Min is more satisfied with this marriage.Although getting married is the life of a young couple, it is also very important to have a loving mother-in-law, not to mention that this is the most honorable mother-in-law in the world.

It's just that Jia Min was dissatisfied with the historian in his heart, and guessed that what Shi Xiangyun did was also calculated by Shi Xiangni.

But Jia Min couldn't say anything more, she just smiled and said yes, and then she went out of the palace.