The Marginal People of Jia's Family in the Red Chamber

"Girl, drink some hot tea to warm up your body." Baoqin brought hot tea, stuffed it into the hands of Jia Yuanchun who was like a puppet, sighed, and said, "You should say something, you are so real." Let the slaves worry."

Jia Yuanchun turned his head to the side, his face expressionless and his eyes distracted. Seeing such a master, Baoqin cried again and couldn't stop.

Jia Yuanchun, who just arrived, sighed in his heart. Sure enough, the most beautiful time in a woman's life is when she is a daughter, so she came when she learned that she was going to the palace to earn a future.

"Go down. I want to be quiet." Jia Yuanchun said.

Baoqin knew that it was useless to persuade her now, so she wiped away her tears and retreated respectfully.

As soon as Baoqin left, Mrs. Wang lifted the curtain and came in. Seeing her baby-like daughter just sitting there in a daze, her heart was cut.

"Yuanchun, come, sit on the kang." Mrs. Wang came to Raja Yuanchun, sat on the kang, and said, "It's cold in winter, and you don't like charcoal pots, and the windows are open, so be careful."

"It would be nice to be sick." Jia Yuanchun sighed.

"The list has been sent up, even if you are sick, the family can't let you..." Mrs. Wang couldn't continue, she hugged Jia Yuanchun and said: "Yuanchun, Yuanchun, if you want to open more, you must want to open some. .”

"Does mother also want me to enter the palace to earn a future?"

"How can I let my daughter go to that shameful place, but what can I do as a mother? The old lady agrees, and your father also agrees. But don't worry, I have discussed it with the old lady. You are a national The granddaughter of the Duke's family, entering the palace is just a formality, and you can even bring a maid in, the family will do their best to keep you from being wronged, don't worry." Mrs. Wang persuaded with tears.

"What about brother?"

"Zhu'er... Zhu'er's health is getting worse and worse, and his wife is taking care of him." Mrs. Wang comforted her.

"My brother doesn't know that I'm going to enter the palace yet."

"Ah."

"Then don't tell him, my brother is not in good health. If you know that I am going to enter the palace, you must know that the man in the family is useless. You can only grab the woman's skirt and climb up. Don't let him worry about it. Plus I'm sick." Jia Yuanchun said harshly, but Mrs. Wang didn't refute her intention.

"I know, I will take good care of him." Mrs. Wang promised.

"Mother, take good care of your brother's body. Don't let your father force him to go to the science exam again, at least he won't be able to go after the next grade. The spring is cold, and my brother's body can't stand it." Jia Yuanchun said sadly.

"Ok, I know."

"Take good care of my sister-in-law and the child in her womb. I heard that my sister-in-law is pregnant with a boy. This is the eldest son and grandson of our second wife."

"Well, I will."

"Also, raise Baoyu well. Baoyu is intelligent and similar to the Duke of the State. The old lady always said that he has great fortune. But jade can't be crafted. Baoyu has been fond of beauty since she was a child. She even caught rouge when she was young... ..."

"I asked him to grab the rouge." Mrs. Wang argued.

"I know, mother, I know. It's such an honor to be born with jade. The royal family doesn't have such an honor, but let the Rongguo Mansion get it. Others can't wait to hide it. The old lady is good. When Baoyu is full moon, she yells all over Everyone in the capital knows, and now the whole world probably knows." Jia Yuanchun provocatively said.

"It's not the old lady's fault. It was true that Baoyu was born with jade, and our family can't keep it secret. It is also a way to pretend to be open and aboveboard. It's just that your father... Forget it, forget it, say Whatever you do, you have to enter the palace." Mrs. Wang shook her head.

"Mother..." Jia Yuanchun cried out with tears in his eyes, "My daughter can't bear you."

"How can Mother be willing to part with you?" Mrs. Wang hugged Jia Yuanchun, rubbed her back, and said in a deep voice: "The Jia family doesn't have many people in the palace. I have already contacted your uncle. The Wang family does not intend to send their daughter into the palace. , the connections in this palace are all yours, you have to handle them yourself."

"The old lady has already discussed with Concubine Zhen. As soon as you enter the palace, you will be assigned to her palace. It will only take a year or two at most. You will definitely be favored by His Majesty and become the imperial concubine. No matter how bad you are, you can also be assigned to the palace." To be a side concubine in the prince's residence, the future will be worry-free."

"Mother, let's take a step and see." Jia Yuanchun didn't want to talk about these things, and he hadn't entered the palace yet, saying that these things were just nonsense.

"Also, you can bring a girl into the palace, who are you going to bring?" Mrs. Wang said with concern: "I think Baoqin is good, parents and brothers are all born in this family, and they are honest and honest. What I want is loyalty. When I first came in, I saw her go out with red eyes, which shows that I have you as the master in my heart."

"Mother, I was just about to tell you about this. I will not bring a maid with me when I enter the palace." Jia Yuanchun said, there is no loyalty in the world, but the price of betrayal is not enough. Are there still fewer people?

"How does this make it so that if you don't bring a maid, wouldn't it be the same as those daughters of minor officials and ordinary women who were elected female history?" Mrs. Wang disagreed.

"Father is only a minor official of the fifth rank. In the eyes of the royal family, what is the difference between me and the daughter of a commoner? Shh... let alone the granddaughter of the Duke, the title in this mansion is inherited by the uncle, isn't it? Father." Jia Yuanchun mocked. "My daughter didn't say that out of anger. The palace is a hundred times more prosperous and majestic than the Rongguo Mansion. How do you know that the maids who bring you in won't be dazzled by wealth?"

"My parents and brothers are all in my hands." Mrs. Wang said.

"Throughout the ages, women in the harem have never spared their own children in order to climb up, not to mention family members, mothers who don't see Wu Zhao, who kill their sons and daughters, and become a generation of female emperors."

"Shut up." Mrs. Wang covered Jia Yuanchun's mouth and said, "Shut up! People who are about to enter the palace are still so open-mouthed, do you want to die?"

Jia Yuanchun pulled Mrs. Wang's hand down and said: "Don't worry, mother, I'm just talking in front of you, do you think that the girl bought from outside in our house wants to be a high-ranking girl by the master's side?" , I have become the third class and want to be the second class. Those slightly attractive girls sometimes don’t just want to get close to the men, they all say that the uncle is greedy and lustful, but if those slaves don’t catch up, the uncle is not such a person... ..."

"You are a girl in a boudoir, why don't you even say these words without blushing."

"I'm about to go to the wolf's den, if I don't break up the words and tell my mother, how can my daughter feel relieved?"

Mrs. Wang was surprised and pitiful when she heard this, and said, "I'm sorry for you."

"I haven't finished my words yet, my mother thought, the maids bought outside would rather die than go out of the mansion, which shows the temptation of prosperity and wealth. The maids brought in at home are different from those bought outside the mansion. What's the difference, my daughter doesn't want to have a person who can stab a knife by her side at any time." Jia Yuanchun analyzed.

"But..." Mrs. Wang hesitated.

"Mother, don't people who want to follow me into the palace know that the entrance to the palace is as deep as the sea, and they may spend their whole lives in the palace, but there are still people who keep coming to me. You said, this is just Because of loyalty?"

"Let me think about it... think about it again..." Mrs. Wang supported her head and said, after hearing Jia Yuanchun's analysis, she was also shaken, "But if you enter the palace without help..."

"What can a maid of no rank or grade help me? Didn't mother say that my uncle gave me all the contacts in the palace of the Wang family? Why don't my daughters have no manpower?" Jia Yuanchun hit the railway while it was hot.

"Someone has to serve you. You were raised by a gold slave and a jade maidservant from a young age. You were raised by a maidservant, and you were served by a few maids. How can you do it alone?" Mrs. Wang said distressedly.

"If I can't do it, won't my father and the old lady let me in?" Jia Yuanchun asked back: "From today on, I will wash and wash my hair by myself, read and write by myself, and don't need to be waited on by others. It should be practiced in advance." .”

"Yuanchun..."

"I've made up my mind, mother will fulfill me. Mother, elder brother and Baoyu need you to take care of them, so you can go to work first. Tired all day, my daughter wants to lie down." Jiayuanchuan issued an order to evict guests rudely.

Mrs. Wang also knew that Jia Yuanchun was too shocked today, so she didn't care about her impoliteness. She watched Jia Yuanchun leaning on the kang, covered her with a fine wool blanket, and then went out.

Jia Yuanchun pulled the blanket over his head, thinking alone in the dark: When he came, the list of recruits for female officers had already come down, did he really want to fight in the harem as the Jia family wished?

But it's too late to pretend to be sick now, even if the girl who really escaped by chance and was not selected, who disobeyed the elders, what good results can there be.Jia Yuanchun dismissed the idea of ​​losing the election, but she would never be a concubine of the emperor!

My recruitment of female officials is not as low as many people imagine. Among the people, the selection of the emperor's concubines can be called a general election, the selection of female officials can be called the election, and the selection of palace ladies can be called a small election. According to Jia Yuanchun's father's official position, the selection of female officials is not self-deprecation.

"Decree to Jing Ji and Zhili Yousi, officials and civilian women, aged over 13 and under 17 years old, women over 30 years old and under 40 years old, and those who have no husband, are willing to enter the palace for envoys...to cover women for the harem , and the women are the six sages."

"To recruit girls and wives from good families, there is a secretary who uses Hu Tong to write Shi Yingzhao, and go to the palace to enter the palace... all orders and six affairs."

"The imperial edict selects good families who can read and write, appoints the inner mansion, confers the inner ranks of the women's mansion, selects the female scholars, and accompany the princesses and princesses..."

The recruitment of female officials has been customized for a long time. They serve the royal family in the Six Shang Palace Bureau in the palace, confer ranks, and assist the queen in managing internal and external wives.When the emperor allowed the queen to be strong, she was naturally majestic.When the queen is weak and the concubine is overbearing, how can the female officer prevent all this from happening.What's more, there are eunuchs in the palace. When almost every dynasty has eunuchs monopolizing power, who has heard of female officials monopolizing power?

Female officials have to compete with eunuchs, to please the emperor and empress, and to have a clear name so that courtiers don't hate them.You must know that there is a kind of person in the imperial court who listens to the wind and rains, and hears the rumors and is innocent. Yushi, when he is in a latrine, it is better not to provoke him or not to provoke him.