And it just so happened that at this time, Zhao Ji was conducting draft activities across the country.
Although Jiang Shiyun's parents did not want to send their daughter to the palace.
Because of this, it becomes more and more difficult for the two elders to meet their daughter.
But the commotion at home was really too much.
Therefore, the two elders had no choice but to finally let their daughter choose the draft path.
Before leaving, Jiang Shiyun's parents called their neighbor's daughter to accompany Jiang Shiyun to the capital in order to give their daughter a companion.
The neighbor's daughter and Jiang Shiyun have known each other since childhood.
At the same time, the relationship between the two of them is also very good.
After hearing what Jiang Shiyun's parents wanted, the girl didn't hesitate too much and immediately decided to go to the capital with Jiang Shiyun.
If the two of them can be selected into the palace together, then they can take care of each other in the palace and not be too lonely.
If both of them lose the election, they will make a living together in the capital.
At the worst, you can still do a small business in the capital with the money you have.
It won't be as frightening as at home.
In this way, Jiang Shiyun and her neighbor Song Jinzhu embarked on their journey to the capital together.
After months of turbulence, although the two of them were exhausted, their efforts were not in vain.
In the end, he successfully passed the preliminary selection of the draft and entered the re-selection.
If we say that during the primary election, the competition is about the appearance of the show girls.
Then what matters in the selection competition is the unique talents of each show girl.
After all, what today's officials like is the kind of sweet beauties who are extremely artistic.
If the show girl selected this time also has a very high cultural background, or other eye-catching specialties.
Then she will definitely stand out from this group of beautiful girls and attract Zhao Ji's attention.
And these beautiful women, after receiving this reminder from the female officer, used all their talents that they thought could attract others.
As the various talents of these beautiful women were displayed one after another, Zhao Ji didn't know where he heard the news.
After he went to court, he came here first.
The beautiful ladies, who were still showing off their various talents, saw that the current official Zhao Ji had arrived, and they immediately showed off even harder.
For these beautiful ladies, piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting are all necessary talents.
And what Zhao Ji usually appreciates are mostly these.
However, due to the relatively weak cultural background of those beautiful women, none of them could catch Zhao Ji's eyes.
At this point, those beautiful ladies who wanted to impress Zhao Ji by relying on piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting lost the possibility of being promoted to Zhao Ji's concubine.
Next, some show girls began to show off their other talents, such as making up stories, telling jokes, singing songs, doing tricks, etc.
Although these attracted Zhao Ji's attention, it was really difficult for him to remember the names of those beautiful ladies.
It wasn't until Zhao Ji came to Jiang Shiyun and Song Jinzhu that he stopped in his tracks.
Because the unique skills displayed by Jiang Shiyun and Song Jinzhu were truly unprecedented and unheard of by Zhao Ji.
Before that, Zhao Ji had seen painting with a brush, painting with fingers dipped in water, and painting with carbon pens, but the only thing he had never seen was painting with a handful of fine sand.
When Jiang Shiyun and Song Jinzhu painted with fine sand, the characters they painted were truly lifelike.
Even Zhao Ji, who has seen many masterpieces by famous people, couldn't help but be amazed and admired after seeing their works.
At the scene, Zhao Ji even asked Jiang Shiyun and Song Jinzhu to use the fine sand in their hands to make a sand painting for Zhao Ji based on his face.
And the effect displayed by that sand painting immediately moved Zhao Ji's heart.
At that moment, Zhao Ji felt that this technique of painting with fine sand was really interesting.
It would be a great pity in life if he could not learn it himself.
Therefore, he wanted to invite one of Jiang Shiyun and Song Jinzhu into his study to teach him this painting technique.
After all, he felt that the best way to learn this painting technique was through one-to-one teaching. If the three of them were put together, it would look a bit confusing after all.
As for Zhao Ji, when he was choosing who to teach him this sand painting technique, he hardly hesitated and immediately chose Jiang Shiyun.
If not for anything else, it’s because Jiang Shiyun’s round and cute little face is really adorable.
Zhao Ji only took one look and was fascinated by her innocent and lovely appearance.
So he ordered her to go to his study room to teach him how to paint by the evening of today.
However, in the evening, it was not Jiang Shiyun who went to the Shang Study Room to find Zhao Ji, but Song Jinzhu, who came to the draft with Jiang Shiyun.
Although that Song Jinzhu is also a beauty.
But in terms of purity and pleasantness, it is far inferior to Jiang Shiyun.
This was also the biggest reason why Zhao Ji originally chose Jiang Shiyun instead of Song Jinzhu.
However, before Zhao Ji could ask any questions, Song Jinzhu knelt down in front of Zhao Ji.
With tears streaming down her face, she said the following words to him.
"We sisters have deceived the officials, and we hope that the officials will forgive us."
"Initially, civilian girls did not plan to come to the draft."
"However, I can't stand the repeated pleas of my good sister Jiang Shiyun."
"So, out of desperation, I came here with her."
"What my good sister plans to do is to use her sand painting skills to please the officials and change her life's destiny."
"Although this kind of thinking is very common among women all over the world."
"But my good sister concealed her unbearable past from everyone when she entered the palace."
"That is, when she was fourteen or fifteen years old, she was kidnapped by a group of bandits."
"Although he was rescued by the local officials within a short time."
"But she still has all the filth of those Cao Kou strongmen left on her body."
"Even if the body has not been broken yet, its body is already unclean."
"Originally, the folk girl was afraid that her unclean body would stain the dragon body of the official family, so she did not approve of her coming to the draft."
"However, the daughter of the people is absolutely unable to withstand the repeated entreaties of my good sister."