This late Ming Dynasty is outrageous

Chapter 202 100: Beauty pageant is hard work

"This is Du Shiniang." Wei Zhongxian pulled Cao Kun to the side, pointed to Du Shiniang and said, "I think she is quite strong and elegant. It is still unfortunate to be reduced to prostitution, brother, don't harm such a good girl." .”

"Brother..."

"Listen to me, you are greedy and lustful, what kind of woman can't you find? There are so many beauties around me, there is no shortage of this one. If she knows your true nature, she must be heartbroken. How can you bear it? Instead of this, why not Just explain to her that you're a womanizer, what do you think?"

Cao Kun nodded solemnly when he heard the words: "Brother is right, I really shouldn't harm others. If she knows that I am a lustful person and still does not care about herself, then that's fine. If she refuses, I can't force it. for."

Wei Zhongxian patted Cao Kun's shoulder with relief, "Brother already knows that you are a man of principle, go and explain to her."

Cao Kun nodded and walked over.

Du Shiniang's face was flushed, and she bit her lip shyly and looked at Cao Kun: "Husband, it's not that I sent you to the door without knowing the rules, but I just admire my husband..."

"Come on slowly." Cao Kun straightened his face and waved his hand to interrupt Du Shiniang's words: "You may not know who I am, but let me explain it to you. If you do, you will definitely turn around and leave."

Du Shiniang was taken aback: "It's absolutely impossible, little girl."

Cao Kun sighed: "I'm not a good person, do you understand?"

Du Shiniang pursed her lips, and said affectionately: "Imitating a husband and saying that there are many wives and concubines? The little girl thinks that it should be those female masters..."

"Listen to me." Cao Kun said: "It's not that you can do whatever you want. Things in this world are very complicated."

"What you see and what you think may not be true."

"I want you to know that I practice a magical skill, which doesn't care about aptitude. As long as I study hard, I can achieve something. But the only shortcoming is that it requires the intersection of yin and yang... Do you understand?"

Du Shiniang's eyes widened: "Is there such a magic skill? You didn't lie to me?"

Cao Kun sighed in his heart, thinking why did this woman shrink back?

But he didn't have any regrets: "That's right, it's true, why should I lie to you?"

But Du Shiniang's eyes were straightened: "The little girl has been an artist since she was a child, and she will definitely be able to assist her husband in practicing kung fu. If my husband sees my skills tonight, I will definitely satisfy you."

Cao Kun was startled.

Du Shiniang looked at Cao Kun tenderly, "I just heard my husband's poems, and I know that my husband is definitely not a lustful person. I thought those women were begging hard, but their kindness was hard to turn down. But I didn't think it was because of practicing kung fu. Husband is not lustful at all, but accepting concubines for the sake of practicing martial arts, I have suffered enough. It is too late for slaves to admire, how can there be any opinions?"

"Furthermore, my husband practices martial arts to better protect our family and the country." Du Shiniang took a deep breath, her gaze firm: "From now on, I will teach the maids at home, so that my husband can have more assistants in practicing martial arts."

……

Seeing Du Shiniang and her maid arranging accommodation and tidying up the courtyard, Wei Zhongxian had a complex expression: "Brother, you are immoral."

Cao Kun put his hands behind his back: "Brother, people do it voluntarily. With such a righteous woman, I can't dissuade her from making contributions to the country."

The corners of Wei Zhongxian's mouth twitched: "If there are too many of them who can protect Daming, then anyone will do."

Cao Kun was speechless: "Come on, you really can't do it."

Wei Zhongxian: "..."

The two turned around and left, the man had to be busy with business after all.

"Why did you make that poem?"

"Brother, you don't know something." Cao Kun was full of annoyance: "After I came back that day, my legs were weak and my waist was sore, but Yue... cough, Yue Lingshan and the others didn't know how to feel sorry for them, so they just kept asking for it. It's miserable. For the past seven days, you don't even know how my little brother got here?"

"This is why the little brother came to realize something, but he didn't want to be heard by the big brother. By the way, the big brother came here, why?"

Wei Zhongxian said: "The emperor's grandson is a beauty contestant, I know you have a unique vision, so I want you to help me out. By the way, the emperor's grandson likes those who are quite majestic, um...you will understand if you think about the Ke family."

Cao Kun suddenly realized: "Understood."

Seeing the emperor and grandson, salute.

"I just learned today that the champion Hou Ji has a group of concubines, and the courtyard is beautiful, but I am not good at women."

"Ah... What did the grandson say? Are the women in the family beautiful? I am blind, so I can't see beauty or ugliness."

Wei Zhongxian: "..."

"Champion Marquis is right. Bengong also thinks that women in the palace are not attractive. In Bengong's opinion, they are not as good as a piece of wood."

Wei Zhongxian: "..."

If I had known today, why bother to cut that knife.

He couldn't even speak.

Champion Marquis has a group of wives and concubines, but the story of not looking good at her beauty immediately resounded throughout Daming.

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Beauty pageants are hard work, but not an interesting one.

It stands to reason that the emperor's grandson should not appear in this scene, and Cao Kun, a foreigner, should not appear.But rules are meant to be broken, so both Huangsun and Cao Kun came.

Hiding in the small room, holding the booklet, looking at the abstract paintings on it, Cao Kun only felt that all women looked the same.

"That's how we choose?" Cao Kun looked at the emperor and grandson speechlessly: "This painting is not painted, and it doesn't move. It looks the same."

But Huang Sun said speechlessly: "What the champion said is different. Look at this figure, this one is thick, this one is thin. You are looking at this foot, this one is small, this one is big. Besides, isn't there an annotation on it? The appearance of a woman , all on top of it.”

Cao Kun was dumbfounded. He picked up a booklet and opened it. Sure enough, the size and the like were written in detail on it. Even the birthmarks and shapes on his body were clearly written.No wonder eunuchs and maids of honor were needed in ancient times, they were really indispensable.

Cao Kun saw that the pamphlet was very detailed, from the family of birth to the neighbors, the three generations of the ancestors and so on.Even the long fingers all over the body are so detailed that I almost want to write down the number of hairs.

"Our Great Ming's beauty pageants are all selected from the folks. My Palace doesn't have too many requirements, but the rules are the rules, and the companions have to check carefully, lest there are rich families and women from official families mixed in."

"The big family must be very beautiful."

"Where is the champion Hou talking, no matter how beautiful a woman is, can there be wood for fun?"

The emperor's grandson put it on the brochure bored, stretched his waist and complained: "There is no stalwart, it is really boring. Champion, you are not a person who is greedy for beauty, why don't you play with me with wood."

"Your Highness, since I was invited by His Highness, I must take a good look at it, otherwise I will be entrusted with it."

The emperor had no choice but to play by himself.Cao Kun hid in the small house, opened the booklets one by one, and suddenly his eyes brightened: "Call this."

He called out to the door.

After a while, a woman in Tsing Yi came in tremblingly, she knelt on the ground with her head down: "Little girl Zhang..."

"Raise your head." Cao Kun said, tilting his head to look at the same time, but saw the woman raised her head, her eyes were agile and fearful, her tense shoulders were trembling, her fingers were entangled with one corner, but she was trying to stay calm, with a straight face Looking directly at Cao Kun, but no matter how you look at it, it looks as stiff as wood.

"Your name is Zhang Yan?"

"Little girl Zhang Yan, ten this year..."

"Come on slowly." Cao Kun raised his hand and said calmly, "You lost the election."

Zhang Yan was stunned when she heard the words, and immediately burst into tears, her delicate body was relaxed as if the sky had fallen, and her buttocks were also sitting on her heels.

After crying a few times, she reacted immediately, quickly wiped her tears and said in a panic: "Minister lost her composure, please forgive me, Your Highness, and Minnen will leave now."

Cao Kun looked at her amusedly: "If you go back like this, you can still choose a good husband and wife. Why are you so sad?"

Zhang Yan pursed her lips, and said with a lonely face: "My father wants a father who is worthy of a daughter. The little girl grew up, and there was an endless stream of people who proposed marriage, but my father rejected them all. I just waited for today's beauty pageant. Over the years, the little girl learned Playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and poetry, usually only drinking morning dew and eating flower petals in the early morning, and even choosing the softest fabrics for daily wear. If I go back like this, although my father is gentle and unwilling to scold, he will definitely be depressed and unhappy. "

Cao Kun sighed, Zhang Yan's father was much more sensible than Chongzhen's old father-in-law.In history, Chongzhen had no money, but Zhang Yan's father donated a lot of money, and because of this, he was excluded by the court.Chongzhen's old father-in-law was lucky. Not only did he not give money, but he embezzled half of the money given by the queen.

Seeing Zhang Yan crying now, Cao Kun also felt a little emotional.Although this national battle also wants the father to rely on the daughter, it is just a normal person's mind after all, which is understandable.

Thinking of this, Cao Kun said with a smile: "Another benefit for you, do you want it?"

"Ah?" Zhang Yan raised her head ignorantly, her big eyes were full of innocence.

Cao Kun smiled and said: "The champion Hou Shang is a concubine, if you are willing, I can recommend one or two for you."

Zhang Yan smashed her eyes, and blushed immediately: "Your Highness, daughter of the people..."

"If you don't like it, then that's all."

"No, little girl...willing to."

"Then go knock on the door yourself, and when you knock on the door, tell me I let you go."

Zhang Yan raised her head, didn't she agree to help introduce her?Why do you want someone to deliver it to your door?She was suddenly at a loss, and shrank her neck like a retreat.

Cao Kun knew at a glance that the woman was scared, or shy.He rolled his eyes helplessly and said with a smile: "You just wait aside, I will take you there in person later. By the way, there is a house next door, you can go and rest."

Zhang Yan breathed a sigh of relief, quickly got up to leave, and then went to the next room to wait quietly.

Cao Kun shook his head, this Yan must not be given to outsiders.He stuffed Zhang Yan's roster into the ring space, and picked it up for a long time. After all, because of history idiots, he didn't find anything familiar.

Cao Kun secretly complained that the level of education is not enough, even if it is inconvenient to go back to ancient times to accept girls.

But what surprised Cao Kun was that there were a few stalwarts among them, so he selected them and gave them to the emperor to study by himself.However, he took Zhang Yan all the way home and met Ren Yingying. Cao Kun said, "Holy lady, the villain wants to take a concubine."

Ren Yingying raised her eyebrows in disdain: "You can't even handle me, and you still want to take a concubine?"

Cao Kun said with a smile: "Da Yuer has sent news that Wu Keshan has taken people to Shenyang. However, Da Yuer said that Wu Keshan had brought [-] cavalry, which seems to be dissatisfied. I will discuss with His Majesty, and we will set off in the next day. From now on, you and I I don't know how long we can't see each other. I just have such a request, and you still have to refute it."

Ren Yingying held her chest angrily: "Come in now, and let me, the saint, verify your strength. I won't be caught on the battlefield when my legs become weak and my back hurts."

"I'm afraid of you."

Cao Kun pulled himself, and walked over with a wicked smile on his face.

Zhang Yan next to her rubbed her big eyes, opened her arms and ran over to stop Ren Yingying: "Your Highness, please don't let me offend the champion."

Cao Kun was taken aback for a moment, then laughed loudly, grabbed Zhang Yan and threw him over: "Then don't run away either."

(End of this chapter)