Chapter 1390 The Foolish Empress 13
I just ordered it yesterday and it's done today. Is that right? It's so efficient?
Xining was stunned: "Is it ready so soon? Have you carefully selected it?"
The chief steward smiled and said: "It's done, your Majesty, don't worry, it's done well."
After all, he is the chief manager, and he can make it clear in a few words.
They are all palace maids from various chambers. These palace maids are all skilled in craftsmanship and will not be released during the amnesty. Unless the embroiderer's eyes are myopic or his hands are shaking, and he is really unable to do these delicate tasks, then he has a chance to leave the palace.
When the time comes, I will be old and dazzled, and it will be good to have someone to help me when I return to my hometown. Otherwise, I will have to go to the temple and Taoist temple, and that will be like this for the rest of my life.
The general manager went over and said that anyone who is suitable for age, has good appearance, does not need music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and can have children as quickly as possible can be promoted.
He also deliberately said that King Duan currently only has a main concubine and a side concubine, and neither of them has children.
Although it is not stated explicitly, it is obviously said that whoever can give birth to the prince will be the future concubine.
I originally thought that I would die of old age in the palace, but now I actually have a chance to become the concubine. These palace maids, it's not hard to get selected.
"Your Majesty, you don't know that in a short period of time, all these people lined up outside the door." The chief steward described vividly: "The slave's eyes were almost blurred, so he simply called the stewards of each department to come over and let him know. They say which of the maids under their command are the most beautiful, otherwise they won’t be able to see them all from yesterday to today.”
Xining was happy and pointed at the chief manager: "Smart!"
"Where is it~" The chief steward still smiled and pretended to be modest: "Your Majesty is extremely smart, and the servants have heard and heard it, and only learned a little bit. These little tricks are nothing in His Majesty's eyes."
It felt comfortable to hear it. It seemed that the chubby chief steward, with all the fat on his face, could continue to sit down.
"Where is the person?" Xining asked.
"They've all been sent to one place, and we've asked specialized people to teach them first. We've also sent guards to guard the gate and surrounding areas." The chief steward indeed acted in a safe manner. Nowadays, everyone knows that when maids are selected to send to King Duan, these beauties are likely to be selected, which will arouse jealousy.
There are also some people who may want to bribe and become secret spies for King Duan.
So the best way is to place it somewhere else whenever possible, out of reach of those with bad intentions.
No longer pretending to be sick, Xining lifted up the quilt and said, "I'll go take a look!"
"Oh, Your Majesty, your illness is not cured yet! Why did you get up?" The chief steward hurried forward, apparently frightened him.
"Oh, it's such a good thing. Once you hear the doctor, you'll be mostly healed. Let's go now!" Xining happily put on shoes and clothes. The maid next to her was busy making a pot of porridge.
As he was leaving, he chased and shouted: "Your Majesty, the jade pendant on your waist is not fastened yet... Your Majesty, there is still a phoenix hairpin that is not fastened..."
The chief steward followed quickly, panting as he trotted: "Your Majesty, slow down, the chariot will be here soon. Oh, Your Majesty, don't run away, take the dragon chariot..."
Even the chief manager didn't understand. He said that beauty is delicious. He didn't expect that beauty can be used as medicine, and it is more effective than medicine. But Your Majesty is a woman, and those are not handsome men, but beauties.
The chief steward specially found a small courtyard for these palace ladies to live. Xining waited for a while, waited for the dragon chariot to arrive, and then sat down. After arriving, she realized why the chief steward insisted on her waiting for the sedan to arrive. You can understand it just by looking at the maids in front of you who are all dressed up and arranged neatly.
The chief steward secretly asked someone to come here first and let the palace maid prepare to pick him up. Otherwise, if she ran here, she might know some of them were sleeping and some of them were playing around. Seeing things you shouldn't see!
"This slave has chosen fifty people for you to take a look at first and see which one is better." The chief steward bent down on his knees, with a smile on his face, and pointed at each one with a whisk as if to display a work of art: "This face is round. Pan, with a complexion like jade, you can tell he is blessed at first glance... This waist is like a willow, slender, and the King of Chu will definitely like it when he sees it..."
Xining raised his hand, and the chief manager immediately stopped talking.
Fifty people, so many, you must know that the ancestral system has regulations for the concubines of kings and county kings. There are 81 kings and a maximum of 42 county kings. Fifty people gave it together, which must have exceeded the prescribed number. You must know that there are many kings in history who were said to be excessive and demoted to common people because of their excessive numbers.
But these beauties are so fat and thin, how do you choose them?
Xi Ning ordered: "Please come over to King Duan!" Let King Duan pick it out himself.
When King Duan was announced, he was stunned for a moment when he saw so many beauties. As we walked along, the beauties were watching.
Seeing that King Duan was so tall, handsome and talented, many palace ladies lowered their heads and blushed. Not to mention being a concubine, as long as you can follow such a handsome king, you can be a concubine.
King Duan probably didn't know what he was here for. When he asked people to announce it just now, he just said that something was going on, but he couldn't say what it was.
When King Duan came over, he must have been a little nervous. He was afraid that when he came in, there would be dozens of swordsmen or archers, but when he came in, there was a row of beauties.
Xining, who was sitting on a chair, drinking tea and waiting, raised his hand holding the tea bowl, and the palace maid next to him immediately stepped forward to take it.
She stood up and approached her with a smile on her face: "Brother, what do you think of these women?"
King Duan looked around curtly: "Everyone has a beautiful face, I don't know this..."
Pretend, pretend as much as you can, don't believe that King Duan can't hear a bit of news. There are probably more than seventy or eighty spy agents in the entire palace. Even if there is no eyeliner, yesterday's beauty pageant caused quite a stir, and probably not many people know about it now.
Xining pretended to accompany him: "Brother Huang is almost 10 years old, but he still doesn't have an heir. I heard that Brother Huang only has one concubine and one concubine. How is this possible?"
King Duan hurriedly explained: "Because I have been a filial piety for three years, I missed the good time to get married. Thank you for your concern, your Majesty, my wife is the matchmaker of the Taifu, and I have only been married for more than a year..."
"It's been more than a year!" Xining immediately retorted: "Look at the other kings, which one has less than ten? The emperor is afraid that these beauties are not beautiful enough, so I will immediately put up a list and select the beauties for the emperor."
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King Duan knelt down and said: "This is impossible. Only the king and the crown prince can be beautiful. I am just a prince. How can I let your Majesty go to war and make a name for himself in the world?"
"Oh, don't just kneel down. Don't be polite when there are no old ministers." Xining quickly helped Prince Duan up, then pointed at the pile of beauties: "Then are they beautiful enough?"
This made King Duan dumbfounded: "These are the women in the palace, I cannot criticize them." Even the king cannot talk about the women in the palace.
"Are you afraid that others will say that you are a promiscuous palace?" Xining didn't care: "But I am a woman, and I can't favor these women. I asked you to talk about it, comment on it, why can't you say it? To be honest, they are good-looking. It looks good, but it doesn’t look good.”
(End of chapter)