BXBX NOVEL Chapter 169 - [Concubine Selection]
THIS IS AN INTERMEZZO STORY IN MY BRAIN THAT NEED TO BE LET OUT.
Jin Yu is finishing his long court order from the morning. He manages to lead a prosperous life while he still can get to live with his beloved woman. The empress has been appointed but he really did not care about her life and another woman who just entered his harem. As a leader of his ministry, he got a headache to think about the annual events to choose women as members of his harem.
Ni Qing is walking outside the emperor palace to get a breath of air. she did not use any expensive robe or clothes and she is using makeup which is quite plain today. She just wants to move her body due to the emperor beast power on the bed.
Her body is feeling stiff from their love activity last night. There is a mark bite on the whole neck from the emperor which she can\'t hide. Anyway, she is only going to have some fresh air and walk around. Eunuch Li is following the noble consort from far away as instructed by Eunuch Wang.
Apparently, today is the day of the recruitment of the Palace maid and the new concubine. They are entering the palace with their own maid in one group while the other is a small girl who will be ready to train as the palace maid.
"Nie, do you think we can get one of them to help you?" Ni Qing is stopping and asking her maid.
"Why do you need to get the maid? You do not want me anymore…" Xiao Nie is looking surprised to her master.
"What are you talking about? I said to help you…" Ni Qing is getting amused with her way of thinking.
"En… ouww…" Xiao Nie feel relieves on her expression after she told and convince her. they are sneaking into the place for the health inspection when they got pick by the senior Palace maid.
"What are you doing? You supposedly in another building not in this young girl section…" The old palace maid is reprimand them for one of the concubine selections. Xiao Nie is going to refute her word when Ni Qing is curtsying and turn around.
She is following her to the building where all the girl from the higher society with their best appearance. they are sitting and still doing some touch up on their face.
"Madame, are you sure to be in here? The emperor will come back for his lunch break. He is asking to have meal together with you," Xiao Nie is whispering while sitting together with Ni Qing.
"He will be fine… I never get to experience to be in something like this…" Ni Qing is whispering to her maid.
"Hey, you…" One of the girls is pointing a finger toward Ni Qing. However, Ni Qing did not react or look at her back.
"You have to bow and greet the royal highness of daughter from the emperor aunty," The maid from Liu Su Ruo.
"Oh…" Ni Qing still did not want to wake up and keep sitting down.
"You… impudent…" Liu Su Ruo is telling Ni Qing. It is really annoying to meet with someone who did not pay respect to her. she is having more advantages compare to another girl in this room. She always thinks herself to be in higher place compared to other people because if her mother position in the royal family. Her father is only normal ministry in the government due to her mother position.
"Wait a second… you are the daughter of the emperor aunty, and it means that you are the emperor cousin. Do you think it will be not an incest? I do not think you are not allowed to enter the harem…" Ni Qing is telling her the reality.
"You…." Liu Su Ruo is holding her anger which make her become the centre of whisper in the room.
"What? Are you using back door to get here? Why do you not make yourself become the concubine straight away?" Ni Qing is throwing the whole scenario and making everyone look and whisper toward Su Ruo.
She does not want to attract any more attention which make her to retreat from her original place under the help of her group. But the anger still brews inside her body. She is going to make her pay tenfold.
Everyone else in the room is going closer to Ni Qing and want to make friend with her. they are really admiring her bravery to stand up toward Su Ruo.
The old palace maid is announcing the first test will be a book citing into the law in the palace. they are going into the room to recite the law within the timeframe. Ni Qing sit down on her place while Xiao Nie is grinding her ink. She is writing the answer with a quick time frame. This is a piece of cake compared to all the strategies book that need to be revised.
Ni Qing is handing in her work to the palace maid and walk outside the room to wait for her turn to the next level. She is patiently waiting outside the room until her name announces to be the next round.
Jin Yu is going back to check into his wife to find his resident empty. He turns around and look at his eunuch.
"Where are my wife?" Jin Yu is looking sharply toward Eunuch Wang to find the answer. The maid in the palace who got report from Eunuch Li whispers to Eunuch Wang.
"She is the concubine selection, your highness..." Eunuch Wang is answering his emperor.
In his mind, Ni Qing is going to the selection because of her jealousy. She always underlines the loyalty of her husband and will not tolerate to share the emperor with another women. He can\'t afford to handle his wife anger.
"Let\'s go to the concubine selection…." Jin Yu is instructing them to escort him. He is walking and striding toward the building. This time, Eunuch Wang is getting a headache as it was not allowed for an emperor to be present into the selection.
The second round of selection is to check their body. This time, SU Ruo wants to humiliate Ni Qing. She got whisper from one of her followers that Ni Qing necks got a lot of bruises. It means that her body is not pure anymore.
They are trying to bribe one of the maids to take the selection for Ni Qing to another level by asking her to strip her clothes. She wants her to be humiliated worse than Su Ruo.
Ni Qing got called as the first candidate by the corrupted palace maid. She is going inside the room with full of another candidate. They are looking at her while the palace maid asks her to strip her clothes to check.
"I think this test will be conducted in private… why are you doing it in here?" Ni Qing is complaining to the palace maid.
"You are here for the selection, and you are more than happy to walk out from this room…" The Palace maid is telling her without any restraint. However, Ni Qing can see the glimpse of her husband on the window.
Ni Qing is opening her first layer of robe in front of everyone and showing all the love bite from the emperor.
"Look… she is not pure anymore and she dares to enter the emperor harem. She supposedly enters the brothel at this stage…" Su Ruo is mocking her in front of everyone. She did not spare her at any cost after Ni Qing confrontation.
Ni Qing hold her clothes tightly when Su Ruo maid\'s hold her hand and their boss is tearing her clothes until showing only her underwear when someone is kicking their maid from behind. Jin Yu is taking his imperial robe and wrapping his naked wife with his yellow dragon robe.
Everyone is kneeling in front of the almighty emperor. Su Ruo is also kneeling in front of the emperor in hurry.
Jin Yu is pulling his wife to sit on his laps while he is imposing his killing aura inside the room.
"Who told you to strip in the open room?" Jin Yu is asking his wife on his laps. Ni Qing is pointing toward the palace maid.
"I am sorry, your highness. But your cousin is telling me to do this… I am not dare to do like this if she is not related to the royal family…" The Palace maid is telling him.
"My cousin? I do not recall my uncle or aunty has any daughter or son in the capital dares to stir my harem problem," Jin Yu is asking her. when Ni Qing is whispering to his ear.
"I am your cousin, your highness. My mother is your aunty…. can I ask your highness some insight...? the woman is dirty and yet; you are choosing her. do you think the people agree to your selection?" SU Ruo is refuting his choice of the woman.
"Who are you? This woman is my noble consort Qing. She is dirty when all the marks on her body are made by me… yet you dare to tell her dirty because of me!" Jin Yu is raising his voice. Everyone is bowing deep to the floor.
"Cancel all the concubine selection this year. Give everyone a ten-time stroke for seeing the noble consort body. The head and brain for this problem got fifty strokes and banish the Liu family out from capital…" Jin Yu is standing up while carrying her bridal style back to his palace.