Dressed as a beauty to be selected, the game starts in hell mode!

Something?!

what is it? !

Hua Wu took the moon-white soft-soled brocade embroidered shoes in her hand and looked inside them. She saw a few flashes of cold light at the toes.

Hua Wu did not rashly reach out to take it. Her hands were extremely delicate now. If a sharp object scratched them, she would probably break her skin and bleed. Therefore, she chose to lift her shoes and knocked against the soles. Some fragments of the teacup fell out...

These broken pieces of porcelain are as thin as cicada wings, but their edges are as sharp as knives.

If someone accidentally stepped on it, the result would be that the broken porcelain would pierce the soles of their feet, causing their skin to be torn and blood to flow.

Seeing this, Hua Wu's face changed slightly, and even the soles of his feet began to hurt unconsciously.

hiss~

How cruel!

If Hongyaer hadn't been there, she would have probably shed blood by now.

It's only the second day and someone couldn't wait to take action against her. Obviously, she has become the target of public criticism. I'm afraid there are countless people who don't want her to be elected.

I just don't know whose handwriting this is?!

Is she Liu Yuqi, the daughter of Minister of War Liu Tongxun?

It should not be.

She is a straightforward person. When she does bad things, she always does it openly and never does it secretly.

This work is more like the work of Yao Shuyi, the daughter of Yao Jin, the admiral of Zhejiang Navy.

But she is a person who plans before taking action. Even if I wasn't getting in her way, she probably wouldn't have taken action so quickly the next day.

Regarding this incident, Hua Wu was more inclined to believe that it was done by other concubines...

Hua Wu was just thinking about this when the voice of the palace maid Zhiqiu suddenly came from the door, "My young lady, are you awake? We have brought you some water to wash your face..."

Zhiqiu stood at the door, bowing and speaking softly.

Behind her, Nian Xia was holding a copper basin and toiletries.

There was no movement in the room, and Zhiqiu thought Hua Wu had not woken up yet. He was thinking of calling her softly again, but suddenly he heard a cry of pain from inside the room, "Ah!" Hearing the voice was Hua Wu, Zhiqiu immediately knew that something had happened. He quickly opened the door and rushed in with Nian Xia.

"My dear, what's wrong with you?!"

Hua Wu's beautiful eyes were misty, and her snow-white face was full of fear. "There is something in my shoe, and my foot is injured..."

what? !

Your foot is injured?!

Zhiqiu felt her head buzzing. This beautiful lady was someone that even the empress dowager paid attention to. She was afraid that she might be harmed, so she specially arranged for her to live in the main hall and assigned the two of them to take care of her.

The head nanny said that if anything happened to this young lady, she would be sent to the laundry department to work as a maid, washing clothes for the rest of her life and never be allowed to go out.

Now Hua Wu is under their care, and something has happened...

Not only Zhiqiu, but even Nianxia looked frightened.

Zhiqiu quickly took off the socks on Hua Wu's feet, only to see a tiny cut on the heel of her delicate white jade foot, with blood oozing out...

fine……

Just a minor injury.

Zhiqiu breathed a sigh of relief.

No need to go to the laundry.

"Zhi Qiu, someone put broken porcelain pieces in this shoe. Judging from the material, it should be the tea cups supplied to the concubines..." Nian Xia took an embroidered shoe and observed it. She saw a few cold spots and a trace of blood inside.

It should be that one of the concubines broke the teacup, picked out the sharp fragments, and scattered them into Hua Xiunu's embroidered shoes, and... there was quite a lot of them.

How much do you hate Hua Xiu Nu?!

I wish I could break her foot!

Fortunately, Hua Xiunu realized something was wrong as soon as she put it on and immediately pulled her foot back. However, even so, the broken porcelain only scratched her skin a little. It was a blessing in disguise.

They didn't dare to think that if Hua Xiunv stepped on him firmly... he would be covered in blood, right? !

Both of them felt a chill in their hearts.

The person behind the scenes who is harming others must be found out. Otherwise, even if she failed today, there is no guarantee that she will not succeed again.

They don't want to work as laundry maids in the laundry department for the rest of their lives!

But who is behind this? !

"Zhi Qiu, Nian Xia, I found an embroidered handkerchief under the bed. This handkerchief is not mine. I wonder whose it is? How did it end up in my room?" Hua Wu said, handing a handkerchief at the bedside to Zhi Qiu.

It was a Suzhou embroidery handkerchief with butterflies playing with peonies embroidered on it.

The two butterflies are vivid, and the peonies are also lifelike, as if you can smell their fragrance.

The most amazing thing is that this handkerchief is embroidered on both sides, with a pattern of magpies climbing branches on the back.

"This is Suzhou embroidery, and it's double-sided."

"I remember that Meng Jinyun, the daughter of Suzhou Tongpan, brought a double-sided embroidered handkerchief."

Nian Xia said from the side.

No wonder Nian Xia remembered.

This was a general election, with thousands of candidates. Although nearly half of them had been eliminated on the first day, there were still hundreds left. Among these hundreds of candidates, there were all kinds of personalities, but Meng Jinyun, the daughter of the Suzhou Tongpan, was still memorable.

All because she had this double-sided embroidered handkerchief.

Double-sided embroidery is extremely precious. Even this small handkerchief can be sold for one thousand taels just because of the double-sided embroidery on it.

Having nearly a thousand taels of luxury goods in her hands made Meng Jinyun extremely proud. She would take it out to show off whenever she had the chance. Later, someone revealed that the person who embroidered the handkerchief was her half-sister. After that, whenever Meng Jinyun showed off her handkerchief, people would ridicule her, saying, "You didn't embroider it yourself, so what's there to be proud of?" After being ridiculed so many times, Meng Jinyun no longer showed off her handkerchief at every turn, but she still carried it with her from time to time.

And now, the handkerchief that she cherished so much appeared in Hua Xiunu's room, and Hua Xiunu's embroidered shoes were damaged by broken porcelain...

After Zhiqiu and Nianxia exchanged glances, Nianxia treated the wound on Hua Wu's foot and helped her wash up, while Zhiqiu took the handkerchief and left.

Hua Wu naturally knew what Zhiqiu was going to do with the handkerchief, but she still deliberately turned pale and said with a weak look: "Nianxia, I wonder who is so cruel to hurt me like this? I'm so scared..."

"Don't worry, young master!"

"She won't come to harm anyone again..."

Nian Xia comforted Hua Wu in a soft voice.

Since the Queen Mother wants to protect this young lady, that short-sighted concubine will naturally not stay any longer. Not only that, she will probably cause a big fuss to make an example of her.

Sure enough, after the head nanny found out everything and confirmed that it was Meng Jinyun and another concubine in the same room who did it, she reported the matter to the empress dowager. The empress dowager didn't even raise an eyelid and directly revoked the two people's qualifications for the selection.

When the two were dragged away, they cried and blamed each other, and it was a dog-eat-dog drama.

The group of concubines were terrified. The Queen Mother's blatant favoritism made them jealous and afraid.

Hua Wu stood there watching the two men being dragged away without even frowning. She was ready to go back to the house only after their cries faded away. However, she saw Yao Shuyi standing not far behind her, looking at her with deep, cold and smooth eyes.

When their eyes met, Yao Shuyi immediately smiled faintly, as gentle as the spring breeze in March, and slowly walked forward to hold Hua Wu's hand: "Sister, you are so beautiful, I was stunned for a moment."

"Sister, you won't blame me, right?"

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