majestic tiger

Chapter 752 Questioning
Received Yun Hui's unfriendly stare, Pei Xiu curled her lips, feeling even more displeased with Yun Hui in her heart, and even felt disgusted.

After hearing the conversation between the queen mother and Yun Hui, and knowing that she is Yun Xia's cousin and General Li's niece, she sighed for Yun Xia even more, why did she have such a younger sister?But after thinking about it, this is not something that Yunxia can decide, so she sympathizes with Yunxia even more.

She has her own eyes. Through the observation just now, she found that Yunxia and this younger sister are not at all intimate. The two seem to be at odds with each other. They didn't even speak, and they talked to each other.

It seems that Yunxia doesn't like this sister either.Well, I will find a chance to chat with her later.

When she was thinking about it, the queen mother finished asking Yun Hui what she had said. Pei Xiu saw her strutted to the side and stood beside her, looking at her provocatively, so she lowered her brows and stopped looking at the annoying face.

Then the mother briefly asked about the situation of the last two girls, but every time the mother finished asking a person, according to the usual practice, the mother would also ask the mother to say a sentence or two.

The atmosphere in the hall is peaceful and warm, full of festive joy.

The ten girls were all seen, and soon the nuns took the girls out of the hall to rest in other places.

As soon as the girls left, the queen mother said with a smile that she was going to meet the gifted scholars now.After speaking, she looked at Pei Xiu, who quickly shrank behind her concubine mother, blushing, watching her nose with her eyes, her nose watching her heart, and fell silent.

At this time, Ju Lian and Shen Weibai were already waiting outside the palace garden, and they followed the eunuch to go inside when they heard the call.

After entering the main hall and bowing down, they lined up at the bottom of the steps and waited for the empress to ask questions one by one.

The empress didn't ask many questions, she just asked about her family's situation, where she is going to study now, whether she has passed the exam, etc. Ju Lian and Shen Weibai both came here last year, and the situation is very clear, so they stood The waiting time by the side was all relaxed.

But soon they discovered that this year the empress had added another question to the question, that is, did they have a relationship?

This sudden increase of questions made the teenagers a little at a loss. They didn't expect the empress to be so concerned about their marriage. As the mother of a country, the empress must be too hands-on, right?But the empress asked, this question must be answered truthfully.

There are also young men with active brains who secretly speculate that the purpose of the empress's question is to bestow marriages on the right ones among them?
It is a very honorable thing to be granted a marriage by the emperor or empress, so all the teenagers who had this idea couldn't help but get excited, but Shen Weibai was not included.

Shen Weibai was not excited at all, and even felt worried: If the Empress Dowager wants to be a matchmaker, can he say that he has a marriage contract?But Fifth Brother was right next to him, obviously he couldn't say that, besides, the lie was exposed, it's a big deal!So he prayed in his heart, don't marry him, unless you give Yunxia to himself, that's a different matter, and he can't ask for it.

But he also knows that the hope of this possibility is very slim. If it comes true, besides kneeling to thank the empress, he is also willing to kneel on the ground to thank God for his grace.

At this time, the Empress had already finished questioning a young man, she looked towards Concubine De, obviously asking Concubine De if she had anything else to say, but actually to see Peixiu's reaction.

This young man is handsome, tall and straight, and his family background is not bad. The queen feels quite satisfied, it depends on how Xiu'er feels.

As a result, she said a few words to Concubine De, Pei Xiu didn't even raise her head, it seemed that she didn't like it anymore.The queen had no choice but to hastily end the gossip with Concubine De, nodded to the attendant eunuch, and asked him to call the next one.

When it was Ju Lian's turn, he responded well and answered decently, the empress was very satisfied, because she knew about Ju Lian's marriage, so she didn't ask about Ju Lian's marriage, but just smiled and said he was People who are engaged in marriage.

Of course, he also praised Ju Lian for his outstanding literary talents. He won the first prize last year, and Concubine De followed suit with a few words of appreciation.

Apart from looking up first, Pei Xiu looked down at her own toes.

The queen also knew that it was inappropriate to raise a low profile, and soon began to question the next boy.

Until Shen Weibai stood in the middle, Pei Xiu raised her head and looked at him with bright eyes.

Naturally, this did not escape the queen who had been paying attention to her all the time. The queen thought happily, it seems that Xiu'er has a good impression of this child, so I have to ask this child carefully.

Judging from the outside, this child is plump and handsome, well-mannered, standing tall and tall under the steps, really dazzling.

Xiu'er's vision is still good!

"What's your name? Which family are you from?" the queen began to ask.

"My empress, Xiaomin's surname is Shen, and his first name is Weibai. His grandfather is Shen Shiping, and his father is Shen Xiantao."

"Yuan Zhongshu ordered Shen Shiping?" The queen asked immediately.

"Report to the empress, it is true."

The queen hummed, indicating that she understood.

There was a short silence, the queen did not continue to ask, Shen Weibai bowed and waited quietly.

Pei Xiu, who was standing behind Concubine De, was still staring at this side, to be precise, she was staring at Shen Weibai.

The queen blinked, and then asked Shen Weibai, is Shen Weiqing, who won No.2 in the poetry competition last year, your younger brother?
"Returning to the empress, Shen Weiqing is Xiaomin's youngest brother."

"Why didn't your younger brother come this year?"

In fact, the poems written by Shen Weiqing last year were written by Shen Weibai.

He went to the poetry competition because the seventh brother was just trying to get him to go.

At that time, he still regarded fame and fortune as floating clouds and indifferent as water.So last year at the poetry competition, when the Queen had a topic, he told his younger brother all the poems he chanted by ear, and encouraged him to stand up and read it aloud. The favorite of the scribes won the second place in one fell swoop.

The seventh brother was so happy that he went home with the empress's gift in his arms, and laughed so hard that his mouth almost reached his ears.The family members saw the reward from the Empress, and all of them liked the high-quality ancient inkstone, which can be called the best among the inkstones.The inkstone was passed on in everyone's hands, and everyone couldn't put it down and didn't want to let it go.

Shen Weiqing stared at everyone and passed it on, and immediately held the inkstone in his hand, and handed it to him respectfully.

"Grandfather, father, mother and brothers, the poem I wrote today was actually done by brother six, and this award should also be won by brother six. Brother six gave me his name, and whatever Yantai said, he should give it to brother six."

After finishing speaking, Shen Weibai had to accept the inkstone.

Shen Weibai naturally made some excuses, but the seventh younger brother insisted on giving it to him, so he accepted the inkstone and ordered someone to put it in his study.

The grandfather twirled his long beard with a happy face, and said happily that the Shen family had produced a large number of talents, which was gratifying.

Parents were also very happy, the elder brother patted him on the shoulder and laughed at him, why not write two poems, one to make Weiqing famous and the other to show himself?I remember that he couldn't agree with his elder brother's opinion at that time, thinking that his elder brother was too utilitarian and valued those vanities very much.But now, he really has the same thoughts as his elder brother.

Time has shifted people, I didn't expect to do things I didn't want to do before, but I didn't expect to do them willingly one day.

He voluntarily asked to participate in this year's poetry competition, and vowed to his grandfather that he would write two poems, one for his elder brother and one for himself, so that both brothers would win the prize and honor his grandfather.

After hearing what he said, my grandfather laughed loudly, and every wrinkle on his face was full of smiles.

"Good boy, this is grandfather's good grandson. Among you brothers, in terms of poetry writing, Wei Bai, you are the second. No one dares to say that you are the first. Grandfather is very confident that you will win the prize at the poetry competition. Let's just make a deal like this, you and Weixuan will make a name for our Shen family! Don't go if Weiqing shows her face, it's still necessary to keep a low profile."

Shen Weixuan was also very happy, with his sixth younger brother helping to compose poems, it was easy for him to win the prize.

So this matter was decided by the grandfather under the unanimous approval of everyone.

The empress asked Shen Weiqing why he didn't come, and he had to answer according to the prearranged speech: "Returning to the empress, Xiaomin's younger brother Shen Weiqing has caught a cold and is not feeling well, so he can't participate."

(End of this chapter)