After careful disguise and facial remodeling, Xu Yuxiu and Hua Lingzhu successfully blended into a contingent of palace maidens.
This contingent not only consisted of young, beautiful maidens in the prime of their youth, but also numerous armored soldiers wielding weapons to escort them. Together, they formed a long procession of carriages. This single contingent alone easily numbered nearly a thousand people by a rough estimate.
This detail puzzled Hua Lingzhu, who was sitting inside a carriage. "How strange. Normally, when the mortal imperial family selects maidens, after several rounds of screening, at most a thousand women are finally sent to the palace. Why does this single contingent alone reach such a number? It is truly bizarre!"
Chapter 272