Jiapingguan Chronicle

"I have been in contact with him for about half a year. He is indeed a very nice person, and his speech and behavior are very decent. Although he is a prince and a prince, he has no airs at all." Liu's daughter swallowed He took a sip of saliva, took a deep breath, and continued, "There are many young masters in Xijing City who are not as good as him, and they are all taller than anyone else. We met them when we went out to play before. We didn't know Ning Before the identity of His Royal Highness, he was arrogant in front of him, but after knowing his identity, he began to bow his knees and flatter him. However, His Royal Highness Ning has always had the same attitude, polite and very polite to everyone. Be polite and don’t put on airs to anyone.”

"This makes you very excited?" Jin Miaomiao leaned on the stone table and looked at Liu's daughter, "But aren't all real gentlemen like this?" She pointed at Patriarch Luan, "Isn't Patriarch Luan the same?" the same?"

"It's different, it's different." Patriarch Luan repeatedly denied, "Compared with His Royal Highness Ning, there is a difference between me and His Royal Highness. My wife likes His Royal Highness Ning. I am not surprised at all. Among the people His Highness has contacted, I'm afraid there are not many who don't like him or worship him, no matter men or women, no matter their age, this is the charm of this person."

After listening to Patriarch Luan's words, Liu's daughter remembered the figure she had been infatuated with when she was young, and remembered what he had said to her, and sighed softly. If it wasn't for luck, maybe...

Thinking of this, she shook her head lightly. There is no medicine for regret in this world, and everything will never happen again.

"Mrs. Luan!" Jin Miaomiao saw that Liu's daughter was lost in thought again, she knocked heavily on the stone table beside her, "Since when did you know that you are the candidate for Princess Ning?"

"It was my 15th birthday. My father was very happy when he came back from duty. He said he wanted to give me a great birthday present. I thought it was a little ornament I always wanted, but in my At the birthday banquet, my father told me that His Royal Highness Prince Ning has reached the age to choose a concubine, and there are ten candidates, and I am one of them."

"You don't seem very happy to know the news, do you?" Jin Miaomiao tilted her head and looked at Liu's daughter with some doubts, "Or you are not happy to be the candidate for Princess Ning, but you are not very obsessed with him ?"

"Admiration and obsession are one thing, but it's another thing for you to really participate in it." Liu's daughter paused for a while, a helpless smile flashed on her face, and said, "I never thought that , I have the qualifications to be one of the candidates. Everyone knows that my family background is not that good, and my appearance is not outstanding. The only advantage is probably my personality. When I was young, I was really shy and unwilling to refute others. Will not reject others, it is indeed more manageable to look at."

"Actually, your shortcomings are the real strengths in the eyes of the royal family. It doesn't matter whether you are outstanding in appearance, let alone your family background. As for your character, you can slowly polish it later. Although I have never seen it What was Mrs. Luan like when she was young, but after such a short contact, Mrs. Luan's character is not weak and bully. There are also some rumors outside that the virtuous couple are also decisive in killing and fighting, and they also say what they say in the mall. It can be seen that the character of youth can also be changed, and this is the least important point.”

"This lord is right, but I still don't think I am the right candidate. In addition, my father said that the reason why I can be one of the candidates is because of the recommendation of the Empress Dowager, who is the empress dowager." If you are optimistic about me, I am even more unwilling. I know something about the relationship between my family and the Empress Dowager, and at that time I felt..."

"Father-in-law sold you to the Empress Dowager in order to maintain the relationship, didn't you?" Seeing his wife nodding, Patriarch Luan twitched his lips, "My father-in-law once said that although he did this to you, he had no choice but to s Choice."

"I know, so, I didn't refuse, although I was not very willing." Liu's daughter raised her neck, "I still remember the scene when I entered the palace as a candidate for the first time to meet the ladies in the harem. There are ten candidates, and the time for each person to enter the palace is different, for the sake of fairness, and in order for us not to know who the others are, we must diverge."

"Is that also your first time entering the palace?"

"Yes!" Liu's daughter nodded, she looked at Jin Miaomiao, saw her frowning slightly, and smiled slightly, "Does this lord think it's strange why the Empress Dowager has never seen her before?" Me, but I must be one of the candidates?"

"Because she only has you as a candidate, right?"

"Almost! I only found out later that the Empress Dowager had selected many girls before, but none of them were very suitable for her. It was not until she met me that she was satisfied that she joined the candidate."

"That is to say, when you entered the palace for the first time, it wasn't really finalized, did it?"

"Yeah!" Liu's daughter nodded, seeing the dazed looks on the faces of several people, she said, "Ordinary families choose a daughter-in-law, they have to see each other several times before they can confirm whether they really want to propose marriage or not." , not to mention the royal marriage, it is a very important matter, we must be cautious, cautious, and more cautious, our whole process lasted for almost a year."

"So long?" Jin Miaomiao looked surprised, "Do you have to enter the palace every once in a while?"

"More than that." Liu's daughter recalled what happened back then, she couldn't help shaking her head, and felt extremely painful, "From the moment the candidate is determined, the palace will send older female officials and teaching nuns to the mansion. , to teach the rules and etiquette in the palace. They don’t live in the mansion all the time. Basically, they live in the mansion for a few days every three months. You will be eliminated. I heard that there is a girl who was eliminated in the first assessment. I stayed with the other two girls until the end. The final assessment is to go to the palace. It is a whole process. What I have learned in half a year We passed the exams and we were lucky to pass them all.”

"And then?" Jin Miaomiao blinked and blinked, "This is the end? Isn't it going to choose a concubine?"

"It's not over yet, and then it's what I said before, let His Highness Prince Ning come and see in person to see which one he likes more or which one he has more eyes for."

"He picked you?"

"It didn't progress that fast. The empress dowager strongly recommended me, but the other two girls also had other concubines recommending me. The harem was full of quarrels because of this, and the late emperor was very annoying. In the end, the late emperor came up with a way, saying that he could go ahead. Get in touch and see which one His Highness King Ning likes and which one he accepts more."

"That is to say, His Royal Highness Prince Ning not only went out to play with you, but also went out with the other two?" Seeing Liu's daughter nodding reluctantly, Jin Miaomiao raised her eyebrows and asked Shen Cha Said, "I will draw cards with him later, he chooses, we are determined not to choose, luck is not very good, one of the three choices can choose the worst card."

"That's wrong, I'm going to look for him to play cards in the future, anyway, luck is not very good, we can definitely take advantage of playing cards with him, can't we?" Xue Ruitian looked at Liu's daughter who had an unattractive face, and snorted softly With a voice, "I will definitely win a lot of money!"

Shen Haolin and Shen Cha looked at Xue Ruitian, then shook their heads helplessly, Shen Cha raised his chin towards Jin Miaomiao, asking her to continue.

"Although we don't agree with His Royal Highness Ning Wang's choice, he chose you. You have affection for him and get along well with each other. Marriage is just around the corner. Why did you suddenly want to divorce?" Jin Miaomiao paused, " If I remember correctly, it was you who personally entered the palace to meet the late Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the other two princes to mention this matter, and your attitude was very firm, right?"

"Yes, I mentioned it myself, but it was not out of my heart. Since the two of us got engaged, my life has not been as good as I imagined. Every time I go out with His Royal Highness King Ning or meet him, After he came back, his father would interrogate him, what did His Highness King Ning say, and did he ask him what he wanted to know. Not only that, if he went out with His Highness Ning the first day, he would be called into the palace the next day. The Empress Dowager would also ask the same questions as my father."

"That is, they use you to inquire about some news with His Royal Highness Ning Wang, or to inquire about His Highness Ning Wang's attitude, isn't it?"

"Yes, it made me very nervous. Every meeting is very stressful for me. Because I know that His Highness can't answer my questions. If I ask too many times, His Highness will be unhappy. .”

"Is he really upset?"

Liu's daughter didn't answer immediately, and the scene of their last meeting appeared in front of her eyes. At that time, she had already felt the change of His Royal Highness Prince Ning's attitude towards her. In just three or two months, after the next two or three meetings, they didn't even speak, they just sat there for a few hours, and went back when it was time to go back.Even if she took the initiative to chat with His Highness King Ning and asked him some usual questions, His Highness Ning's expression was still calm, and his eyes were still ancient, and he was not moved by her words in the slightest.

"He probably knew something, and he was very indifferent to me from the back. We..." Liu's daughter shook her head lightly, "Even if I didn't propose to divorce, we wouldn't get married, and the final outcome would still be the same."

"Because he knows you're up to something, doesn't he?"

"Maybe. He's not a fool. Every time I come out to meet him, I have to go to the palace to meet the Empress Dowager. I probably know it!"

"You just said that the divorce was not from your heart, but from your father or the Empress Dowager?"

"Yes, that day my father came back and said that he wanted to take me into the palace, and asked me to tell the first emperor to resign. I don't understand why, but my father said it was the empress dowager's intention, so I had to do it." Liu Shi The woman looked at Patriarch Luan next to her, "I divorced His Royal Highness King Ning that day, and my father proposed marriage to the Luan family the next day. In less than half a month, I married into the Luan family and became a member of the Luan family. The Luan family. After I got married, in just one month, His Highness Prince Ning was sent to guard the imperial mausoleum by the late Emperor because of his mistakes."

Patriarch Luan looked at his wife, smiled at her, and said, "Although you failed to marry the person you love the most in your heart, we are pretty good, right?"

"It's just the person I used to like the most." Liu's daughter also looked at Patriarch Luan, "Although I was in a bad mood just now, it was because many things have been kept in my heart for too long, it doesn't mean that I still miss him."

"I know, I believe in you!"

Seeing the couple's eyes facing each other affectionately, Hongye couldn't help shivering.

"What? It's cold?"

"No, I feel disgusting, very disgusting, I'm about to vomit!" Hongye put her arms around Shen Cha's arm, and whispered, "Don't you think that the two of them, especially the one surnamed Luan, are really disgusted by the way they are now? Tired, is it disgusting?"

"Doesn't this mean that the relationship between husband and wife is good?" Shen Cha looked at Hongye's disgusted expression, and thought it was funny, "Before, my parents, Uncle Xue, and Aunt Xue were more...well, loving, and I have never been so disgusted before. Ah? What happened today?"

"Look at what you said, can true love be the same as this kind of hypocrisy?" Hong Ye snorted, leaned on Shen Cha's body, and lowered her voice, "These two people are really better at acting than the other. Isn't it?"

"En!" Shen Cha nodded, "One is pretending to be weak and innocent, and the other is pretending to be a sad husband." She raised her eyebrows lightly, "It doesn't matter, we just need to know what they have in mind for His Highness Prince Ning, Judging from their current statement, it is similar to our estimate."

"Yes!" Shen Haolin nodded lightly after listening to the conversation between the two, "Mrs. Luan's narration was interrupted several times by us, but she can still go on smoothly, which means that they have rehearsed many times in advance. prepared for us."

"Since we have worked so hard to prepare, let them continue the performance. It is not in vain that they have spent so much thought." Shen Cha chuckled, "However, just now I watched with cold eyes, Mrs. Luan's use of Uncle Ning The love is very deep!"

"Really? Isn't it?" Hong Ye looked up at Patriarch Luan and daughter Liu, seeing that they were still looking at each other affectionately, she quickly buried her head on Shen Cha's shoulder, "Hey, my eyes are going to be blind Lost!"

Seeing her like this, Shen Cha shook his head harmlessly, exchanged glances with Xue Ruitian and Shen Haolin, and the three of them sighed at the same time.

Patriarch Luan and daughter Liu didn't know exactly what the four behind them were muttering about. Although they had rehearsed before, at this moment, they thought of their respective experiences, and thought of the decades they had walked together. , It is inevitable to be emotional, and we saw crystal tears in each other's eye sockets.

"Don't cry, don't cry, it's not time to cry yet." Patriarch Luan looked at the tears falling from the corners of Miss Liu's eyes, and said with some distress, "It's been so hard for you these decades!"

"Okay, okay!" Jin Miaomiao interrupted the couple's affectionate gaze, "When the two of you are together, you can express your affection whatever you want, just don't show it to us, so as not to leave us behind Some unnecessary shadows."