NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 168
Chapter 168: Fancy (Two More)
Chapter 168 Fancy (two more)
Empress Dowager Yuan’s deep gaze passed through the translucent screen in front of her and looked at the curtain on the other side of the screen.
The brocade curtain leading to the outside has already fallen and swayed gently. All the little girls who looked like flowers went out. The warm pavilion was empty and especially quiet.
The corners of Empress Dowager Yuan’s rosy and full lips were raised even higher, a cold light flashed across her eyes, and she nodded slightly:
“With Gu’s family background, she is also fatherless and motherless, so she is suitable to be a concubine for the eldest prince.”
“This eldest prince concubine, you should choose a noble family, lest this outsider always think that the Ai family has treated the eldest prince badly.”
“How could it be!” The old lady complimented with a smile on her face, “The Empress Dowager has always loved the eldest prince very much, and she even went to great lengths to choose a noble daughter from a noble family for him as his concubine.”
“The eldest prince will definitely understand the painstaking efforts of the empress.”
As she said, she took a cup of new tea from the palace maid and respectfully handed it to the Queen Mother Yuan in person.
Empress Dowager Yuan slowly brushed off a few floating leaves floating on the tea soup with the tea cover, the corners of her lips curved up like a smile, and sighed: “Who keeps the emperor from standing up, and the Aijia can only work a little harder. .”
“In the blink of an eye, the eldest prince is already eighteen years old. He’s grown up, and it’s time to start a family.”
These remarks were high-sounding, and the old lady responded again and again.
Empress Dowager Yuan took a sip of tea, put down the steaming tea cup, and said again: “He mama, what did you think of those girls just now? Also take a look at the details for Aijia.”
Mrs. Yuan had a smile behind her, her tone was easy-going, and there was a bit of indifference between her brows.
The queen mother said so, but where does He mama dare to go into the details, she responded vainly: “Old slave sees that these girls are all top-notch, good-looking, and good-natured. The old slave is simply confused already.”
“Old slave, old eyes are dim, how can the empress dowager be as discerning as the empress dowager, the empress must choose the dragon and the phoenix among the people!”
Mother He seized the opportunity and complimented the Queen Mother Yuan again.
The Empress Dowager Yuan didn’t really expect He Ma, and continued: “Aijia thinks that the Yu family girl is good, dignified and quiet, and her speech is decent, whether it is talent, family, bearing or appearance, all are extraordinary.”
“The girl from the Zhang family is not bad either, she is gentle and elegant, and she knows everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.”
“Also, the girl from the Fan family is also a good girl who is knowledgeable, courteous and has a heart…”
Empress Dowager Yuan praised three or four daughters of aristocratic families in succession. Mammy He, who was on the side, nodded again and again, and praised all these girls like a lotus.
The master and the servant sang together and talked freely.
Beside , a slender figure in blue clothes walked silently holding a wooden box to the incense burner in the corner. His steps stopped for a while, and he walked to the incense burner as if nothing had happened.
Tsing Yi’s maid turned her back to Empress Dowager Yuan and frowned tightly.
This Yuzhou Yu family is indeed an aristocratic family that has been passed down for more than two hundred years, and it has some prestige in the local area, but it is not as glamorous as the previous dynasty, and now the entire family relies on the British government to barely maintain some dignity.
What’s more, this Yu Chaoyun wasn’t even the eldest daughter.
In addition, the Zhang family in Qingzhou has been in the sunset these years. The children in the family rely on their own family, but each one is not successful. There is only one Zhang Dun who was reused by the late emperor and served as the governor of Yanzhou. Now Zhang Dun is old, and he died last year. A letter has been written to tell the old man, and there is no successor in the Zhang family…
Not to mention the Fan family, the next generation might not even have the qualifications to stand on the Golden Throne Hall.
The Queen Mother really picked some “good” families for the eldest prince!
Thinking, a shadowy mood flashed in the Tsing Yi waiter’s eyes, his hand shook, and the sandalwood in his hand was cut off and fell to the ground.
In the back, the Empress Dowager Yuan was still commenting sentence by sentence: “…The third lady of the Liu family is also very smart, she likes calligraphy and painting, and she wants to get along with the eldest prince.”
“and also……”
The words behind the Queen Mother Yuan could no longer reach the ears of the inner servant in Tsing Yi, and his thoughts couldn’t help but turn back to the Gu family girl that the Queen Mother mentioned at the beginning, chewing carefully.
Although the Empress Dowager and He Ma didn’t say it directly, they were clearly saying that the eldest prince fell in love with the Gu family girl.
There are two Gu girls present today. Naturally, it will not be the Gu San girl that King Kang likes, so it is another Gu Er girl.
Thinking about it, Tsing Yi’s maid’s heart couldn’t help beating twice.
Recalling the time between Gu Yanfei and the Empress Dowager Yuan just now, he had a different taste at once.
Tsing Yi’s inner servant’s eyes lit up, thinking: He has to hurry up and tell the emperor, the emperor has been waiting for so many years, he must be happy.
The waiter in Tsing Yi laughed until his eyes were narrowed, and he took out another plate of sandalwood neatly and replaced the residual incense in the incense burner.
Another wisp of blue smoke floated up, intertwined with the original sandalwood, and the fragrance in the air became more intense.
After the waiter in Tsing Yi covered the incense burner, he quietly withdrew from the warm pavilion.
After walking out of Shou’an Palace, the maid in Tsing Yi happened to see the girls in front walking out of the gate of Shou’an Palace, and couldn’t help but search for Gu Yanfei’s figure, thinking, “Second girl Gu is also wearing too thin, he has to make her People put two more charcoal basins in Tinglan Water Pavilion.
The vast wind and snow came upon us, and the girls shivered from the cold. Although the wind was piercing to the bone, several of them felt relieved.
Not everyone is like Wei Jiao Niang and they are not afraid of the queen mother. Several girls were so nervous just now that they didn’t even know how to let go.
“Ladies, please come this way.” The palace maid Liushuang walked at the front to lead the way for the girls, walking along the bluestone road towards the northeast Imperial Garden.
These people are still clearly distinguished, honorable to honorable, family to family, and their own camps.
The snow seems to be gradually decreasing. Snowflakes fluttering like catkins float in the air, making the surroundings hazy, as if a dense fog filled the air.
looked up and saw that the bright yellow glazed tiles on the roof had been covered with a thin layer of snow.
Several girls who are afraid of the cold hide their bodies in thick cloaks, wishing to hide their whole bodies inside.
Wei Jiao Niang was full of energy, not afraid of the wind and snow, and her cheeks were flushed like rouge.
“Yan Fei,” Wei Jiao Niang hugged Gu Yanfei’s left arm affectionately, leaned into her ear and whispered to her, “Do you know what the Empress Dowager asked us to do?”
Wei Jiao Niang just wanted to start a conversation, and didn’t really want Gu Yanfei to answer, she continued, “Fortunately you are here, otherwise I would have to find a way to call you into the palace.”
She kept her voice extremely low, and her warm breath almost blew into Gu Yanfei’s ears.
“…” Gu Yanfei tilted his face and blinked suspiciously.
Why did you ask her to enter the palace?
Are you watching the fun? !
Thinking about it, Gu Yanfei’s eyes were piercingly bright.
Lu Qin looked at them whispering with their heads leaning to their heads, put one hand on Gu Yanfei’s right arm, and leaned over to listen.
She also has a belly full of doubts.
The Queen Mother is really weird today. First, she urgently summoned them to the palace, and now she sends them to visit the Imperial Garden on a snowy day.
Wei Jiaoniang looked around, for fear of being eavesdropped.
The whistling wind and snow around them became the most natural barrier, and there was no one around them.
Wei Jiao Niang seemed to be a thief and whispered, “My mother told me that the queen mother is going to choose a concubine for the eldest prince.”
“So it is.” Lu Qin gently stroked her palm.
At this moment, thinking back to the Queen Mother Yuan’s behavior in the Warm Pavilion, Lu Qin suddenly realized.
Mrs. Wei Guogong Shizi knew that her daughter was a rectal person, and deliberately analyzed the current situation with her daughter in the carriage and the little thought of the Queen Mother, just for fear that her daughter would be accidentally trampled by the Queen Mother.
“My mother said that the eldest prince and King Kang are about the same age, only two or three years apart, and they are both at the age of marriage.”
“If the empress dowager casually said that she wanted to marry the eldest prince, it would inevitably fall into disrepute. Now that King Kang’s marriage has been decided, the empress dowager can make excuses not to care about one thing or another, and half push and half force the emperor to decide the marriage of the eldest prince as well. .”
Empress Dowager Yuan wanted to make King Kang ascend to the throne, so naturally she would not find a strong Yue family for the eldest prince, but would definitely dig a hole for the eldest prince, just like she just made it difficult for Gu Yanfei in the warm pavilion!
Thinking about what happened just now, Wei Jiao Niang looked at Gu Yanfei with pity in her eyes, as if she was looking at a beautifully blooming flower that was almost destroyed by someone’s hands.
“Oh, the emperor really is not in a hurry for the eunuch.”
The marriage of the eldest prince has the emperor to worry about, where does the queen mother need to be meddling!
Wei Jiao Niang held an umbrella in one hand and Gu Yanfei’s hand in the other, and promised: “Don’t worry, Yan Fei, I will help you.”
The eldest prince and her family, Yan Fei, are the best match, and she will never let others cut off their beards.
She said, she will help Yanfei!
“I’ll help you too.” Lu Qin took Gu Yanfei’s right arm and patted her chest happily.
Lu Qin and Wei Jiaoniang had been dating for more than ten years, and they realized it immediately, and exchanged a clever look with her, which meant that she understood!
Gu Yanfei, who was sandwiched between the two, only understood half of it, that is, Empress Dowager Yuan wanted to choose a concubine for Chu Yi, and she would definitely not choose carefully.
But why do they have to help her?
The wind and snow around were big and small, and some snowflakes drifted under the umbrella with the wind.
Before Gu Yanfei could understand, Wei Jiao Niang let out a breath of white air from her lips, blew the snowflakes away, sneered sneeringly, and said, “My mother also said that the Queen Mother is afraid that she is interested in me and wants me to give it to King Kang. Be a concubine.”
Yeah? ! Lu Qin’s eyes widened, as if he had been struck by lightning, so shocked that his jaw almost fell.
The next thought is: Is the Queen Mother’s brain broken? !
“Huh.” Wei Jiao Niang pouted and snorted softly, and said arrogantly to the two of them, “Think, get, beautiful!”
She said word by word, her cheeks puffed up.
It is precisely because she knows the thoughts of the Queen Mother that she was so ruthless in the warm pavilion that she did not want to be a concubine!
(end of this chapter)