Ordinary clear day

Chapter 192 Checking
The two-flag show girls who were re-elected first accounted for more than half of the original people. After hearing about their outstanding performance, the other show girls tried their best to find out what the test was about.But the show girl whose sign was put down left soon, and those who left the sign had their own thoughts, and they didn't want to disclose it. The show girls in the same palace might be able to find out some clues, but the ones in Zhongcui Palace were a little bit I can't even find out.

Originally, some people wanted to inquire about it from Na Danzhu. She moved here from Chuxiu Palace, and she was also the first batch to participate in the re-election.It's just that although she didn't get a sign, her temper became even worse, and she threw things indiscriminately, almost hurting the beautiful woman who came to ask her.When Aunt Wenjing came to stop her, she cursed: "My great-aunt is the most honorable woman in the Forbidden City! Why should I marry that kind of incompetent man!"

Aunt Wenjing could only try to appease her, but luckily someone picked her up and left the palace soon, and peace returned to Zhongcui's palace.Later, everyone found out that the princess was accused of being given to a son named Yuan Xiao of Shuncheng County King on the same day. It is far from the goal of at least being a prince.

In the end, it was a show girl who used a heavy bribe to find out from the palace lady that female celebrity is the first item to be tested.Everyone was discussing immediately, and Shuning realized at this time that there are still many girls under the banner who are not good at needlework, and a half-baked girl like Lian Wanning is already at the middle level among the beautiful girls.

This was not a regular question in the draft, so it is inevitable that some people will feel nervous.Yuanning was one of them, and she couldn't help but reveal to Shuning that she hadn't done needlework for a long time, and she didn't know what to do.

Shu Ning thought for a while, and asked her if she really wanted to be chosen. Seeing her nodding, she said, "If you have a way to find something like a colorful rope, I'll teach you how to make a net. It only takes a few more practice." Come back, it can be done quickly." Yuanning's father is from the prince's side, and he is also a secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Sure enough, Yuanning found everything after lunch. Shuning asked her what style she wanted to type, and then taught her how to type.After Yuanning learned it, she went to practice without mentioning it.Shu Ning concentrated on practicing the piano beside her.

All kinds of voices came from the entire Zhongcui Palace, but the strange thing was that Wanning and Da Niu's room was always very quiet.The talent that the big girl is preparing seems to be playing the piccolo. For some reason, she ran to practice in the empty room next to the main hall, which made the beautiful girl who was practicing dancing there roll her eyes.

Wanning stayed in the room all the time, closed the door, even if it was hot and sweating profusely, she didn't care.Shuning also asked her in private, but she just smiled mysteriously and refused to reveal a word.

After another day, it was finally the turn of the two red flags.The night before preparing for the re-election, Shu Ning and Yuan Ning took out the clothes and headgear to be worn tomorrow and put them away. Seeing that everyone was asleep, they also turned on the lights and fell asleep.After a while, she heard someone knocking on the door. As soon as Shu Ning got up, she saw the door was pushed back and forth a few times, opened, and a person ran in.

She was startled, and was about to shout, but she heard the man say: "It's me." It turned out to be Wanning.

Shuning frowned and was about to speak, but Wanning came to her bed and whispered that she couldn't sleep.

Yuan Ning on the opposite side snorted coldly and said, "What's none of our business? Don't we just sleep?"

Shuning couldn't see Wanning's expression in the dark, only heard her say to herself: "I want to come and sleep with you..."

Yuanning interrupted her: "You're always talking in your sleep, and you'll disturb us! There's an important matter tomorrow, so go back to your room!"

"I don't talk in my sleep, you will slander me." Wanning ignored her, just shook Shuning's hand, "Well, we are so close, what's the matter? Your bed is big enough."

Shu Ning was not used to sharing the bed with others, and was hesitating, when she suddenly heard a scream from outside, which woke up everyone in the yard.Wanning hesitated and said: "Why does it sound like a big girl's voice?" Yuanning frowned, got up immediately, lit the lamp and went out, Shuning Wanning also followed.

Wan Ning and Da Niu's room gathered a lot of beautiful girls, who were discussing a lot, and suddenly screamed and ran away in a panic.Yuanning illuminated the room with the lamp in her hand, and found that the big girl in a blue robe was hiding in the corner of the bed, shivering. On the ground not far from her, a big black mouse was looking around. The light next to him hurriedly hid under the bed, the big girl was already crying.

Aunt Wenjing brought the maid over, and when she saw this, she immediately ordered Ruixin to get the cicada-catching pole, went out to net the mouse herself, and ordered Ruixin to take it away.

Wanning breathed a sigh of relief, but still couldn't help asking: "What's going on?! Why are there mice in our house?!"

Wen Jing said indifferently: "This is my negligence, and it won't happen again in the future." Wanning refused to give up, and was about to ask again, but heard the big girl suddenly burst into tears. Looking back, she saw Holding an autumn-colored satin cheongsam, she wept bitterly, saying, "That mouse... ate my best clothes..."

Wanning was startled, and hurriedly ran to the clothes hanger next to her to take a closer look, to make sure that the clothes she was going to wear tomorrow were all right, so she was relieved.But I couldn't bear to hear the big girl crying so badly.

The onlookers heard Qi Qiran, and they all walked away.Wen Jing coughed lightly, and said: "It's late at night, young masters, please go back to the room as soon as possible to resettle." Then she also left.

The Shuning sisters all knew that the big girl's family was not well-off, and it was her mother who bought the only good dress because she was a dowry.Shuning felt a little regretful, she was taller and the size of her clothes was wrong, so she looked up at Wanning.At this time Wanning also spoke: "Okay, okay, don't cry, all my clothes, except the one I want to wear, you can choose whichever you like."

The eldest girl looked up at Wanning, and then slowly stopped crying.Seeing that she was all right, Shu Ning said, "Sisters, go to bed earlier, we're going back." Then she pulled Yuan Ning back to her room.

After breakfast the next day, Shuning changed into a light pink flag dress, combed her hair, wore a velvet lotus flower, and hung a small colored tassel kit on the skirt.Fearing that it would be inconvenient to play the qin while doing work, he didn't wear any jewelry except a pair of pearl pendants.Then she put on a light makeup carefully, looked in the mirror, and felt a little proud of herself, she was also a delicate and beautiful woman.

Yuan Ning was wearing jade-colored clothes. Although she was also a young couple, she had two unique jewel hairpins inserted.While hanging the bouquet on her lapel, she asked: "Isn't Third Sister too plain? Wear more jewelry?" Shuning said: "This is enough, otherwise it will be very inconvenient when playing the piano. I advise you to wear less. There will be a disaster this year, so the palace must not like luxury." Yuanning was stunned, then took down the gemstone hairpin and replaced it with two jade hairpins.

When they went out, there were beautiful women coming out from the two opposite rooms. When they saw each other, they were a little awkward, and one of the beautiful women went back to the room immediately.Shuning and Yuanning looked at each other, both a little speechless.Presumably, everyone is dressed according to the latest fashion in Beijing. They all wear pink cheongsams, both wear lotus flowers, and hang sachets on their fronts. It is probably embarrassing to see each other.

Shu Ning originally intended to change, but after thinking about it, she just wanted to be selected, not to stand out, why bother to dress so conspicuously, just forget it.Yuanning felt deeply that her taste was different, and she was secretly glad.

The two came to Wanning's room to look for her, but their eyes lit up.

The flag dress Wanning is wearing now is of the same style as the regular clothes of that day, but the colors have been changed to pink blue, light pink and lavender. The front, sleeves and hem are all embroidered with simple patterns of butterflies. Wanning looks more and more like a fairy descending to earth.Although her head is combed like everyone else's, the pink silk gauze flowers she wears are dotted with crystal beads, the crystal pendants on her ears, and the multicolored silk knotted crystal pendants hanging on her front are all matching.The bottom of the flower pot under the feet, the upper of the shoe is embroidered with butterflies, and on the two short tentacles, small crystal beads are trembling with each step.

She turned around with a smile and asked, "Is it good?" Shu Ning nodded blankly, Yuan Ning wanted to turn her head away in disdain, but she still couldn't help but sneak a look out of the corner of her eyes.Wanning smiled smugly, went back to the mirror and looked at it before starting to put on makeup for herself.

The big girl turned out from behind the screen, only then did Shuning realize that she was wearing the light green and yellow regular dress with pink sleeves, and even the beaded flowers on her head were also worn by Wanning the day before yesterday.The big girl looked at them shyly, and said in a low voice, "I'll go first." Then she left the room.

Shu Ning urged Wan Ning, but the latter said: "Understood, don't rush me, it will be over soon." But he hummed a song.Yuanning was impatient and decided to take a step first, but Shuning was held back by Wanning's voice, so she had to stay with her.

The other show girls left one after another, and the remaining two blue flags also started to practice.Shuning went to the main hall to look at the clock, knowing that there was still half an hour left, so she was relieved.Back in the room, Wanning had already started singing.Shu Ning wanted to remind her again, but suddenly she wondered if Wan Ning was opening her voice, planning to sing during the re-election?
Wanning was finally done, she smiled and took Shuning's hand and walked out. When she walked out of Zhong Cui's door, she suddenly fell forward for some reason. Shuning was wondering, but she felt that she seemed to have stepped on something, and the sole of her shoe was crooked. Then there was a piercing pain, and the whole person fell to the side.

After taking a closer look, I found a wooden stick somehow placed in front of the threshold, which seemed to be the wooden handle of a broom.Without knowing it, they stepped on the bottom of the flower pot, and the stick rolled, and they turned their feet.Wanning fell harder, her palms were torn and blood oozes out, and her feet were so painful that she couldn't move.Shuning is better, but her ankle is also very painful.

When Aunt Wenjing heard the voice, she quickly called for someone to help the two of them back to Wanning's room, and then asked for the imperial physician.She suggested that it is important for them to recover from their injuries first, and not to choose today.Although Wanning was unwilling, there was nothing she could do.Shuning disagreed.

She is different from Wanning, she is not a person with a certain future, if she misses this re-election, God knows when will she have another chance?Tongying is still waiting, how could she give up first? !

She rubbed her ankle for a while and felt better, so she asked Ruifu for two white cloth strips, wrapped her ankle tightly, then put on socks, stepped on the ground, although it still hurt, but it was barely bearable.So he quickly went back to the house and changed his dusty clothes into light green ones, and walked to the meeting place accompanied by Aunt Wen Jing.

Fortunately, the place where they re-elected was Jiangxuexuan, which was very close to Zhongcui Palace. Not long after she arrived, the imperial concubine Rong arrived.The female celebrity who took the exam first in the morning was presided over by this empress.

After saluting, everyone dispersed and sat down at twenty small tables.Yuanning, who was sitting on Shuning's right, looked at her worriedly. She smiled and said she was fine, but she saw that the big girl sitting on the left had a lot of wet clothes for some reason, and she was a little embarrassed.

A nanny announced the exam questions, asking the girls to do a piece of needlework with the materials on the small table, with a time limit of one and a half hours.After listening to Wen Jing's report, Concubine Rong knew that Wanning could not come, so she smiled and said: "Since she is the one on the fifth elder brother's heart, Nanny Hu, you can bring her something and watch her do it by the way, don't worry about it." It would be better if it was delayed." Mother Hu agreed and went down.All the beautiful girls made a noise, but soon began to work.

Shu Ning took a look, there was a small piece of white cloth, a small piece of brocade, a small piece of red silk, some colored silk thread, and a strand of black and white thread. After thinking about it, she had an idea.Inadvertently looking to the right, seeing Yuanning in a daze, he guessed her embarrassment, rolled his eyes, coughed lightly, and took three red threads to weave a rope.Yuanning looked over, her eyes lit up, and she immediately started knitting rope.

Shuning divided the brocade into several pieces according to the patterns, and then assembled them into a butterfly shape. She also twisted the red silk into the same shape, and embroidered patterns on them with silk threads. Then she sewed the two pieces together, turned them over, and only the top Leave a hole.Then she made a tassel with silk thread, tied a plum blossom knot, twisted the remaining fabric into small pieces, and stuffed them into the "butterfly". The red string is tied with a knot at the top to cover the thread opening, and it is used as a lifting rope by the way.One embroidery pouch is ready, and all the materials have just been used up.

She breathed a sigh of relief, only to realize that half of the people had already submitted their works.Concubine Rong was full of praise for everyone's needlework, and specially took out a piece of peony embroidery, Shuning's embroidered pouch, and Yuanning's goldfish netting, saying that they were the best of them, and laughed and said that Yuanning made a goldfish, saying You can't really jump over the Dragon Gate.

Wanning's work was also handed in, and it was passable. Concubine Rong praised a few words and let everyone have lunch first.

This meal is not enough to eat at all, because there are noble people watching, and every beautiful girl is extraordinarily gentle.After dinner, Concubine Rong chatted and laughed with the crowd for a while before welcoming Concubine Tong, Concubine Yi, Concubine De, Concubine Hui and other low-level concubines.

Shu Ning knew that the show was coming, so she saluted with everyone, suddenly her feet hurt, her secret thought was not good, so she had to grit her teeth and endure it.

The talent show started, and the first one was the big girl.She played the flute tremblingly, but all the concubines frowned, and Concubine Yi asked: "What clothes are you wearing? Don't you know what clean clothes are? Hurry up and get back!"

The eldest girl held back her tears, saluted and withdrew, and when the eunuch announced that "the red flag is up for Ta La's family, put down the sign", tears flowed out immediately.Shuning was startled.

The next one was Wanning. I heard that she was absent due to her foot injury. The concubines had different expressions, but Concubine Tong still smiled and said, "Then next."

Soon it was Shuning's turn.She went forward to salute, and a court lady had already set up the piano. After sitting down in front of the piano, she took a deep breath, told herself to forget the pain in her feet, and then moved her fingers and started playing.

She felt that this time it was better than the usual practice, she almost forgot everything around her, and when she was playing at a critical point, she suddenly heard a loud noise from above.It turned out that Concubine Yi suddenly put the tea bowl heavily on the table.

This was a trivial matter, but Shu Ning was already affected, and her subordinates were half a beat behind.

(End of this chapter)