Chapter 764

On her head, there are two small hair combs, paired with two plum blossom hairpins of poor quality and very common.

But her clothes were very neat, and her hair was neatly combed.

She didn't want to be eye-catching, and she didn't want to enter the palace to be the woman of Long Live Lord.

But she can't be too sloppy, otherwise she will not only lose face of the Nian family, but also offend the nobleman, and be regarded as disrespectful to the nobleman.

At least...you have to leave a good impression on the elders who are concubines.

After a while, the old man at the front screamed, "Fucha Xiyujin, a manchurian from Xianghuangbanner, Qin Bingshuang, a Han soldier from Xianghuangbanner, Ma Jiachunrou, a manchurian from Zhenghuangbanner..."

Nian Zhilan counted, and her father-in-law called eight names each time.

After those people have been selected, eight more are selected.

She also discovered that what she was reading just now was either from the inlaid yellow flag or the true yellow flag.

But she is in the inlaid white flag, so it is estimated that she will have to wait for a while.

Sure enough, after half an hour, there were still only people from the yellow flag.

Some people in the front were about to lose their footing, so they anxiously asked the old man who was singing the newspaper in front.

"Elder-in-law, we have been waiting for so long, why is the person who is still reading the yellow flag, when will it come to me?" A girl asked loudly.

Immediately, the old man's face dropped, and he said displeasedly: "The girls in there are not in a hurry, what is there to worry about?"

As he said that, the old eunuch glanced at the beautiful girls, with a very serious expression, "I don't care whose family you are, and how you are pampered at home, but as long as you enter the Forbidden City and choose a beautiful girl, you will be serving Long Live Lord and all of you, if you don’t even have this bit of patience, I don’t think you should choose, just go home with your bags!”

After speaking, he walked up to the show girls and inspected them sternly.

As soon as the words came out, the girl who asked the question gritted her teeth and had to shut up. Those ladies are sitting, but they are stepping on the bottom of the flower pot, can it be the same.

At this time, Nian Zhilan took a small purse from her sleeve pocket, which contained silver.

When the old eunuch passed by, she conveniently put the purse into the eunuch's hand, and asked with a smile: "Eunuch, can you find a chance to ask the women inside to see how many people can be interrogated today?" If we really can't wait today, we should find a place to rest and cheer up to run for election tomorrow."

If she remembers correctly, her brother once said that the nobles in the palace only choose two flags a day.

If that's the case, it's enough to have people with the yellow flag and the bordered yellow flag.

Then she would be standing in vain this day, and waiting in vain.

But even the nobles in Qi Qi did not explain, what if there are special circumstances, different from previous years?

When the old eunuch received the purse, he weighed it in his sleeve, and it was quite a lot.

Those who are servants in the palace will think that money is too little.

When the old eunuch saw that Nian Zhilan was on the road, he immediately changed his face and asked with a smile, "Girl, which banner are you from?"

"Back to father-in-law, the little girl has a white flag inlaid with the Nian clan." Nian Zhilan said.

"Okay, you just wait, and when the miscellaneous family finds an opportunity, I will help you with this matter." The old eunuch said flatteringly.

"Then there is Mr. Lao."

"I wish Miss all wishes come true." The old eunuch has been working in the palace for a long time, and he is also a fine person.

Even the words of this kind of blessing are ambiguous, and they will not be too rigid.

You should directly say "I wish you to enter the harem", in case people want to enter the backyard of the elder brothers.

After a while, two more groups of people with yellow flags were called in.

When the old eunuch came out from the Shunzhen gate, he announced with a smile: "Listen carefully, girls. In previous years, only two flags were selected a day, but this year, the Long Live God will be handled by the imperial concubine. The imperial concubine and all the empresses After discussing it, I am sympathetic to everyone's eagerness to wait, and today I will choose the four flags of Zhenghuang Banner, Bordered Yellow Banner, Zhengbai Banner, Bordered White Banner."

In fact, those concubines in the harem are really sympathetic.

It's nothing more than wanting to end the show girl election as soon as possible, to see what kind of flirtatious things are there this year, and forget it, but it's just a matter of concern.

Anyway, they are idle in the harem.

"Then what about us with the red-flag?"

"That's right, we still have the blue flag!"

Some of the unlisted ones inevitably raised questions.

"What are you making so much noise about? Girls are already tired enough to choose four flags. If anyone is still making noise here, let me go where they came from!" Those with red flags will choose again tomorrow.”

Having said all of this, no one dared to be presumptuous anymore, so they had to queue up and leave the palace, and come back tomorrow.

Nian Zhilan breathed a sigh of relief, but fortunately she was inlaid with a white flag.

She was already nervous enough, if she waited another day, it would be another day of suffering.

Waiting until noon, the yellow flag's people hadn't been selected yet.

Fortunately, meals are prepared in the palace, so that everyone has time to rest.

However, Nian Zhilan was more cautious when she was with Nian Gengyao, she didn't eat the meals in the palace.

Instead, he spent money to manage the relationship and asked the personal maid to bring in the meals.

"Miss, there are so many people in Huangqi." The servant girl felt sorry for Nian Zhilan and complained a little.

"This is in the palace, watch your tongue carefully." After Nian Zhilan finished speaking, she hurried to eat.

But in her heart, she was also muttering.

Who let the Eight Banners be divided into three, six, and nine grades, the Zhenghuang Banner, the Xianghuang Banner, and the Zhengbai Banner have always been called the upper three banners, because these three banners are controlled by the emperor.

The Xiangbai Banner, Zhenghong Banner, Xianghong Banner, Zhenglan Banner, and Xianglan Banner are the lower five banners, which are governed by the kings and Baylor.

There are naturally more people under the emperor than others.

Moreover, in addition to the primary and secondary divisions, there are also Eight Banners of Manchuria, Eight Banners of Mongolia, Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the Three Banners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Among them, the Three Banners of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are slaves of the royal family and belong to the lowest status. There is no need to wait until every three years for elections, and they have to be selected once a year.

Because there is a lack of servants in the palace.

Although there are some people, because of their clever means, they also got into the concubine position.

But in the end, it was mostly women in coats who became handymen.

The main force in the harem of the Qing Dynasty was the Eight Banners show girls.

Han soldiers with white banners like Nian Zhilan are a bit inferior to the Manchurian Eight Banners and Mongolian Eight Banners, but they are also true Eight Banners women who need to be selected every three years.

Moreover, it can be prepared for the choice of the queen and concubines, or it can be tied to the prince or grandson for marriage.

After lunch, Nian Zhilan didn't dare to let the maid stay longer, so she sent the maid to wait outside the palace.

And she herself, waited until the afternoon before being read.

"Nian Zhilan, a Han soldier with a white flag, come in!"

Nian Zhilan was both excited and nervous when she heard her name.

What is exciting is that she finally waited for the day that will decide the fate of her life.

Nervous... Naturally, she was worried about being selected into the harem and becoming the emperor's woman.

Anyway, with her identity and beauty, she never thought about losing the election at all.