Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

There were only two thousand people left at the selection level. After the selection, only one thousand people were allowed to advance to the palace level - it was already twelve o'clock noon by then.

The selection is no longer based on external factors, but on the temperament and mental state of the women participating in the competition.

All the women participating in the competition have to walk dozens of steps to test their gait and grace.

In this level, those who are clumsy and behave improperly will be eliminated.

In the end, one thousand people were left to advance.

Because the gait and charm of the beauties needed to be examined, it was obviously necessary to check them one by one, so this stage was scheduled in the afternoon. The palace arranged lunch for the two thousand people who passed the three stages in the morning.

After a short rest, we will start testing the selected levels at around 1:00 p.m.

Because there is no rigid standard at this stage, it is sometimes a matter of subjective judgment by the female officials. Except for a few particularly bad ones, most of the time, it is mostly the same. It often depends on each person's aesthetic taste. Some female officials think that the woman walks beautifully, while some female officials think that this woman walks beautifully. They are all inconsistent.

Because there were ten groups of female officials, each group was divided into two hundred people. Each group of female officials had one room, and people were called in to walk a few dozen steps.

At this stage, Linlang took into consideration that the other party had subjective judgment and was afraid of being eliminated, so she planned to give those female officials some money.

Anyway, the female official called everyone in to walk in, and the door was closed, to avoid leaving it open so that the people behind could learn from the excellent people in front, which would be unfair to the people in front.

Of course, it is unfair to say that it is to prevent those behind from learning from the excellent ones in front, but in fact it just gives people an opportunity to give money to the female officials.

Linlang observed through the little bee that there were three female officials in her group, one female official and two assistants. The one in the front had indeed given money. She took a look and thought that as long as she gave five taels to the assistant and ten taels to the female official, she would pass.

If the amount is lower than this, if the person's conditions are indeed good, they will accept it and let it go, but if the conditions are average, the other party will not accept it and the person will be eliminated.

After all, this time, they have to eliminate half of the people and collect money from everyone. What if they don’t have enough money? After all, they have to let those with particularly good conditions go. Otherwise, let all those who bribed money through. Then those with particularly good conditions will make trouble, and it will be reported to the higher authorities. If what they did is discovered, it will be difficult for them to explain.

In order to ensure passing, Linlang decided to give the deputy ten taels and the female official twenty taels.

Sure enough, after Linlang went in, she walked a few steps and came to the front of the female officials. Like the people in front, she gave three purses to the three people, saying that it was for their hard work. The three female officials felt it and found that the amount was not low, so they immediately passed Linlang.

This is a level from two thousand to one thousand. Not many people are willing to spend money. Most people want to go home, so if they can spend so much money, they will naturally let her pass.

After passing the fourth level, you will reach the fifth level, the palace entrance level. What is the palace entrance level? It means that after passing this level, you can enter the palace. This level will eliminate 700 people, and 300 people will enter the palace. Entering the sixth level, you will be on the job for internship. The internship period is one month. After one month, 50 people will be retained, and the others will still be sent home.

After Linlang passed the fourth level, she was soon led to the fifth level.

The fifth stage is entering the palace. This stage is mainly to check the physical condition of the beauties, mainly observing their skin texture and whether they have body odor, etc. It is equivalent to a physical examination before employment. In this stage, seven hundred people will be eliminated and only three hundred will remain.

This level was also the hardest hit area for receiving gifts. Linlang gave a gift that was even more expensive than the previous level and passed it successfully.

Those who pass the customs will be arranged to wait in a side hall, with tea and cakes to fill their stomachs. After all, these three hundred people are the reserve of concubines, so they will naturally receive corresponding treatment.

After all three hundred people were selected, the palace ladies took them to the temporary residence of the concubines in the palace to rest. At the same time, someone was sent to tell the carriage waiting outside the palace that the concubines had been selected for the reserve. They would know in a month whether they were officially selected.

At this time, Sun Linlang's family was waiting anxiously.

When they were driven out by the second branch of the Sun family, they got nothing except a few acres of land in their hometown, so they didn't have much money. They only had a little private money that Sun's mother had saved for many years from her hometown. Although it was called private money, it was actually not much. After all, all the money earned by the first branch was given to Sun's grandparents, who then gave it to the people in the second branch.

In addition to this little pocket money, there was also some travel expenses given by the second wife.

If they drove the eldest wife away without even giving them the travel expenses and forced them to beg for food to go back, they would be afraid of going too far. The people from the eldest wife would then say along the way that their family didn't even give them the travel expenses, and they would be talked about. After all, they knew that they had taken the eldest wife's money for thirty years. No matter what, let alone how to repay her, they would at least have to pay for the travel expenses to go home. Even if they made up an excuse, saying that their family had just passed the imperial examination and had no money, not even this little money, others would not believe it. After all, a poor scholar is more valuable than a rich juren, not to mention a jinshi. I don't know how many people would give money to Master Sun Er after he passed the imperial examinations and became a juren and jinshi. If their family still said that they had no money, it might be okay to fool the country people, but it wouldn't work to fool people who have seen the world.

By then, those people who have seen the world would hear that they had used the eldest wife's money for thirty years and finally drove her away, without even giving her the money for her trip home. Who knows what they would think of their family. A negative reputation would not be good for Master Sun Er, so they paid for the eldest wife's trip home.

However, it was very little. The second house was given the lowest amount according to the first house's family, which was just enough to ensure that they could ride in a carriage to get home and not starve to death on the way.

With so much money added up, if their daughter didn't get selected, they would have to leave immediately, otherwise they wouldn't have enough money for the trip home.

But if they were selected, with so much money, they could rent a shabby house and find some hard labor in the capital, which should allow them to survive for a month - after successfully registering, they learned that even if they were selected, they would still have to stay in the palace for a month to confirm whether they could be officially chosen.

When they are officially selected, they don't have to worry about not being able to survive in the capital, because it is said that once they are officially selected, the palace will give the family of the concubine a sum of money similar to a betrothal gift according to the rank of the concubine, and then they will be able to stay in the capital.

Just as they were praying that Linlang would be selected, a carriage sent by the government arrived at the inn where the Sun family was staying temporarily and congratulated them, saying, "Mrs. Sun has been successfully selected. Next, we have to wait for a month to see if we can stay successfully."

Upon hearing this, Sun's father and mother were overjoyed and gave the driver a gift of money. Then, as they had discussed before, they found a cheap, run-down house and temporarily lived there, preparing to wait for a month to see if Linlang could successfully become a concubine. (End of this chapter)