These girls were only between thirteen and sixteen years old, but among them, Ye Qiqi was the shortest one.
Therefore, in the team of twenty-three people, her sedan chair was at the front.
After walking all the way to Ganquan Palace, all the girls got off the sedan chair and entered the gate of Ganquan Palace in an orderly manner with the help of their nuns.
In the Ganquan Palace, the emperor and the queen mother sat first, followed by the queen and concubines, and then the princes.
Ye Qiqi lowered her head and followed her mother into the hall. She quietly raised her head and looked around, and saw several wives who had been running away these days.
Those ladies, are they here to be judges...
The corner of Ye Qiqi's mouth twitched. They ran away as soon as they saw her. Will they look down on her performance during the talent competition later
Just when she was thinking wildly, the nanny who was walking in front of her knelt down respectfully towards the emperor and the queen mother and said: "See you, the emperor, the queen mother."
The girls who were following her knelt down and shouted in unison: "See your Majesty, the Empress Dowager."
Ye Qiqi quickly followed behind and pretended to shout a few words.
"Long live the Emperor, thousands live the Emperor, thousands live the Queen Mother, thousands live the Queen Mother." The old woman shouted again with great energy.
"Long live the Emperor, thousands live the Emperor, thousands live the Queen Mother, thousands live the Queen Mother." The girls shouted again.
"Get up." The emperor, who was sitting in the main hall, waved his hands towards them with a smile and said, "You don't have to be restrained. Today is to choose a concubine for my brother, Prince Jing'an. You must behave well."
"Yes." The girls below responded softly.
"Eunuch Su, why hasn't Prince Jingan come yet??" The Queen Mother, who was sitting next to the emperor, asked the eunuch next to her with a worried expression.
"Returning to the Queen Mother, the guards just came to report that the Third Prince's carriage has entered the palace. Prince Jing'an should have come with His Highness the Third Prince." Eunuch Su quickly bent down and said to the Queen Mother.
"Oh, that's good." The Queen Mother nodded. What she was most worried about today was whether her youngest son would show up at the concubine selection ceremony.
The emperor turned to look at the Queen Mother, smiled at her and said, "Don't worry, Queen Mother, Prince Jing'an will definitely come."
"Yes." The Queen Mother responded in a low voice, but her eyes kept looking towards the door of the hall.
Sure enough, after a while, an announcement came from the door: "His Royal Highness the Third Prince has arrived—His Royal Highness King Jing'an has arrived—"
Ye Qiqi looked back following the voice and saw four people, Mo Hanqing, Mo Xiuzhu, Ye Chengan, and Murong Hongyu, walking slowly.
After entering the main hall, the four of them saluted the emperor and the empress dowager one by one, and then returned to their seats and sat down.
Mo Hanqing's position is next to the Queen Mother.
The emperor watched them return to their respective places with a smile, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, now that everyone is here, let's start the concubine selection ceremony."
"Yes." Eunuch Su bent down and responded, then turned around and loudly said to the girls in the palace: "The concubine selection ceremony begins now. The first talent show is a poetry performance."
As soon as he finished speaking, the inmates brought in small desks and placed them in front of the girls one by one.