Difficult to be a Concubine - C316 Chalcedony (V)

Not long after, the palace issued an order. The empress dowager had recently felt that the emperor’s imperial harem was too deserted and that his children were too few. For this reason, the gates to the palace were wide open and women were being recruited in the general election …

Mu Fengchai was shocked, she suddenly realised that the choice of picking women depended on who it was. To the empress dowager, she really wanted to pick more girls to help the Emperor fill up the harem, to Su Ruirui, it was just that she wanted to bring her cousin into the harem.

She did not want to see the Mu Clan, which had just displayed the demeanor of an aristocratic clan, disappear just like that, nor did she want her relatives to shed tears from their heartache.

Who should he marry?

To the left or right, marrying into a normal family would result in some sort of trouble. If she could enter the palace and obtain a favor from the king, she would be able to protect the Mu family for twenty to thirty percent of her life.

Therefore, without any discussion with anyone, she stole the household register and registered to participate in the selection.

She knew that doing so would make her family very sad.

She was waiting, waiting for the fury of her family.

Mulberry, her mother doesn’t care about everything. It’s fine if you enter the palace, and it’s fine if you marry into a rich family.

The first person who came to the door in a fit of rage was her beloved cousin.

“What’s going on?”

“I just want to enter the palace. When I’m young, you guys picked out many people for me to look at. Looking left and right, I don’t see anyone more outstanding than the Emperor. I’m too preoccupied with wanting to see him that he can’t eat anymore.”

She had a hunger strike, but she was afraid her family would object too much, and she couldn’t say what she thought.

Mu Fengchai understood in her heart, if she had said it, her family would definitely oppose her entering the palace, and they would even think of ways to remove her name, the household register.

So she straightened her neck against her cousin.

It wasn’t that she didn’t know how sad she would make her cousin feel.

Back then, Mu Fengchai clearly knew how much her cousin loved that person. Even then, her cousin was so proud, so proud that she couldn’t be together with her daughter.

A resounding slap landed hard on her face.

The anger in Mu Rousang’s eyes could no longer be described with words.

“I spent so much effort to teach you, not to be someone’s concubine. You are Mu Rousang’s blood sister, you should be able to get married with proper makeup.”

Mu Fengchai touched the half of her face that was hot and numb, and smiled bitterly in her heart. Her cousin hated her so much, hated her for not living up to her expectations!

This slap was truly amazing!

Mu Fengchai was not a three or two-year-old child, how could she not know what she was thinking?

All these years, it was her cousin who was teaching her by her side. Mu Rousang had poured a lot of effort into teaching her, how could she just watch her little sister that she doted on go into that place and hate Mu Fengchai even more for not realizing it?

Mu Fengchai covered that half of her face and roared at Mu Rousang with tears in her eyes, “Beat him up, it would be best if you could even make the other side red and swollen. Why don’t you continue beating him up? I like people, is that wrong? I just can’t do it without forgetting him. I think he can’t even eat. ”

The reason why she wanted to enter the palace was something she absolutely could not talk about with any of her family members. Even on the day of her death, she would have to keep these thoughts in her stomach.

Mu Rousang scolded her angrily. Seeing that she was too angry, afraid that she would anger her to death, he then thought that she really might enter the palace this time, there was no way out now. From then on, the chances of him wanting to see her mother and brothers again could be counted on one hand.

She knew that her cousin was the most soft-hearted of them all. As long as she cried out with all her might, her cousin would not be so angry.

After hearing Mu Rousang’s angry roar, and seeing that she had voluntarily put down her status and acted like a spoiled child, she did not want to be estranged from her cousin.

Mu Rousang was still that Mu Rousang after all. Even though she knew that Mu Fengchai’s actions were wrong and knew that he should stop her and not let her go into the palace, he still couldn’t bear her tender words in the end.

“Think carefully. Even if you are to kneel, finish walking the path you have chosen.”

When Mu Rousang said this at that time, she was really gnashing her teeth in anger.

“Cousin, I know. Once you enter the house of the Marquis, you will be as deep as the sea, not to mention the harem that has too many people and has too many things to do. But I will not regret this!” Mu Fengchai’s answer was resounding and forceful.

In August, the geese flew to the south, and the young girl dressed in colorful clothes entered the palace.

At the beginning of August, Mu Fengchai’s name was indeed on the list of people to be chosen for the rainbow girls. On the twelfth day of August, she was also scheduled to enter the palace automatically.

The women of Zhou Dynasty were also different from the previous dynasty. The ladies of noble families of Beijing did not need to go through the primary selection, and directly entered the palace for the secondary selection.

Mu Fengchai remembered that day, the sky was extremely clear, and the blue light was extremely beautiful. The golden and autumn sunlight fell on the glazed roof tiles, making the entire palace seem even more holy and inviolable.

The bright red walls of the palace became even redder under the influence of the sunlight.

In front of the Shunzhen door, the carriages of the aristocratic families were neatly lined up in a row. Even the passionate and passionate Golden Autumn Morning Light was unable to break this kind of ice-cold silence that caused one’s heart to palpitate.

It was clearly a festive day, yet the atmosphere was especially gloomy, as the heavy pressure on the chest made it hard to breathe.

Mu Fengchai put down the curtain on the carriage, and held the embroidered handkerchief to her chest.

Aunt Zhong tried to persuade him in a low voice, “Lady, don’t be nervous. The palace doesn’t eat people like others say. As long as you are careful, you can spend the rest of your life peacefully.”

Aunt Zhong was a female official in the palace and had served Baolin before in her life. She was a noble, a beauty, a beauty and a concubine.

She was sent to Mu Fengchai’s side by Aunt Zhong because Mu Rousang had dragged her own sister-in-law out of the palace to request for Princess Huaiqing’s help.

“Auntie, you’re worrying too much.” Auntie Zhong was alone. She felt at ease to be able to enter the palace once more and stay there for a longer period of time.

After staying in the palace for so long, she was very afraid of leaving. She did not know what she could do after leaving the palace.

Apart from serving people!

Therefore, Aunt Zhong readily accepted such an arrangement.

“This is my duty.” Aunt Zhong was not dissatisfied because Mu Fengchai’s family background was too weak.

After staying in the palace for so many years, she naturally knew that some things could not be seen on the surface. For example, taking her out of the palace for a walk, and finally accompanying this little girl in front of her into the palace.

“Lady need not worry too much. Even if you come, you will have to take care of yourself. Aren’t there many living people in the palace?”

Aunt Zhong’s words comforted the anxious Mu Fengchai.

She sat in the carriage and turned her head to the back. She raised the curtain of the carriage behind her and saw a carriage of a lower grade than her own. It was all a blue carriage.

Be it to enrich the harem or to be washed off as a palace maid, in short, she was very different from a girl from an aristocratic family like Mu Fengchai.

Women from aristocratic families like Mu Fengchai would naturally go home and choose a good son-in-law.

Under this abnormally heavy atmosphere, the heavy palace doors finally let out a muffled sound and were slowly pushed open by a few young eunuchs.

“The auspicious hour has arrived!”

A row of eunuchs were waiting at the entrance of the palace. As the doors of the palace opened, they shouted one after another. Everyone in the plaza could hear them.

The auspicious hour has arrived?

Mu Fengchai’s small hands nervously twisted the handkerchief, forcing herself to breathe deeply. This was something her cousin had taught her, allowing her to quickly calm down.

“A phoenix hairpin!”

Mu Yiyang’s voice sounded from outside the carriage. Today, after entering the palace, she was escorted by his own brother to the entrance by the palace gates.

“Brother!”

Mu Yiyang’s voice was gloomy, it was obvious that he did not think that Mu Fengchai entering the palace was a good thing, it was just that everyone could not force her.

“It’s not too late for you to regret. Sister Sang said that as long as you regret it, she will personally come to take you away.”

Mu Fengchai knew that if she really regretted it, her elder cousin would tear off all decorum with that man who was so high up in the palace and would also forcefully take her away.

Only, she was no longer that naive and carefree Mu Fengchai.

Her elder brothers and sisters were still working hard for the Mu Clan, so how could she be so selfish?

“Brother, I don’t regret it, I must be selected!”

In the end, Mu Yiyang sighed deeply, and said: “Since the palace doors are already open, it’s not convenient for me to stay here any longer. This time, when I enter the palace, I’ll have to depend on Aunt Zhong to take care of my sister.”

Aunt Zhong was a kind person, and she could hear the eunuchs urging the court ladies to leave.

Even if Mu Yiyang had thousands of words to say, at the very moment he did so, he condensed into two words, “Take care!”

Yes, take care.

With this parting, it was unknown when the two siblings would meet again.

Mu Fengchai’s tears rolled in her eyes, forcefully forcing them back.

Auntie Zhong had taught her that tears were not allowed to flow in the palace. If anyone saw her, they would think she was unlucky and wear small shoes.

So, Mu Fengchai raised her head, and took deep breaths to calm herself. Only then did she answer: “Big brother, I promise, and tell my older cousin and older cousin not to worry, if I really get elected, my older cousin will let her take a look at me if he finds the time to walk around the palace. Also, my mother is not a person that can control her emotions. In the end, he’s still our blood brother. Big brother and big brother are a little thinner, it’s better to have more brothers to help them out. ”

Mu Yiyang felt his heart clogging up when he heard it. Previously, the little sister who was pampered by them in their hands, when did she grow up?

“En!” He answered very depressingly, very sorrowfully, very sorrowfully, and also somewhat dejectedly and sorrowfully.

Under the insistent urging of the young eunuch, Mu Yiyang turned his head back three times and left.

“Miss, the Young Master has already walked far away.” As for Xia Lu and the other two, they had already entered the palace first and walked Yang Zixuan’s path. Of course, this matter had already been cleared up for the current Emperor, and it was only to hide it from the others.

Mu Fengchai had not combed her bangs when she woke up this morning. She remembered that her cousin had said that the rafters that stuck out their heads would rot first.

Thus, she had to add a layer of foil to the outside …

Actually, the emperors of the Great Zhou didn’t force the ladies of aristocratic families to enter the palace. However, there would always be many people who hoped to rely on their daughters to bring glory to their families once again.

Mu Fengchai’s clothes today were not particularly fancy, it was just that she had grown silver threads from the bottom of the Purple Vine, and also made a beautiful bun. She only had put a pearl golden butterfly hairpin on top of it, stacked the hibiscus silk flowers together, and used a few single powder pearls to decorate her black hair.