The selected teams arrived in Chang'an, and the girls were placed in Yongxiang after entering the palace, waiting for the next selection. The eunuch in charge took the recorded list and went to Changle Palace to present it to Empress Dowager Dou, reporting the family background and appearance of the selected girls in person.
Because Empress Dowager Dou was blind, the information recorded by the secretary was very detailed. The bamboo slips brought back by the eunuchs filled several large carts. Girls with good looks were recorded in particular in case the tutor went out to the frontier personally.
The girls of Yangshou Wei family could have been included in this list, but unfortunately the eunuchs did not want to take risks, nor did they want to leave any hidden dangers, so they let the seven girls die of illness one after another on the way to Chang'an. They did it so perfectly that no one could find any omissions.
Not to mention that, because he had a bad feeling towards the Wei clan, when recording the girl's death, he slightly changed the cause of the illness, adding words such as "homesickness, unwillingness to travel south, and loss of appetite", which directly confirmed the matter.
When the eunuch brought the bamboo slips to report to Empress Dowager Dou, he mentioned the Wei girl briefly. After all, all seven of them were on the list, so he couldn't say nothing. But he was very skillful in speaking, focusing on the cause of the girl's illness, which made Empress Dowager Dou frown in displeasure. The merit of Yangshou Wei's offering a good girl was thus erased, and the girl's name was directly crossed out from the list, as if she had never appeared.
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