My parents are omnipotent

Chapter 458
Princess Zhaoqing's flower viewing banquet was held as scheduled, and nine of the 46 girls who met Xie Yuan's requirements were screened out by the emperor and empress, and found various reasons to not attend the banquet.

Among the nine people, there were those who were unwilling to marry someone with a sensitive status like An Lehou, and there were also family members who were unwilling to have anything to do with the last emperor of the previous dynasty.

However, although they themselves did not attend, their family members rushed to the banquet according to the time.

After all, it was the first flower viewing banquet hosted by Xie Yuan's only sister. While these people didn't want to get involved with An Lehou, they also really wanted to be in the eyes of Princess Zhaoqing.

Princess Zhaoqing was well aware of their carelessness, but she did not show any dislike for it.She still remembered what her imperial brother said, this marriage needs to be based on your love and my wish.

For those wives who refused the marriage by not bringing their own daughters to attend, Princess Zhaoqing directly asked the servant in charge of leading the way to take them to the lake pavilion where the banquet was held.

The same treatment as them are other official wives who have received lotus posts. These official wives have no suitable girls to marry An Lehou, so they just came here for the banquet.

The same treatment as theirs, those officials' wives who tactfully rejected this marriage naturally don't have to suspect that Princess Zhaoqing is deliberately ignoring them.

As for the remaining 37 officials and wives who brought their daughters or nieces, Princess Zhaoqing took the trouble to meet all of them in person in order to confirm for the last time whether the girls from these families were really voluntary.

By observing the speech and behavior of these girls and their female elders, Princess Zhaoqing easily picked out those girls who were forced by the family to come to this banquet from the 37 people.

She saw it through and gave each girl a greeting with a smile first, and then let the maid who accompanied them lead them to the table.

26 girls who showed no signs of coercion, she rewarded each of them with a gold bracelet made of hollow twisted silk. Eleven girls who did not dare to resist or resisted were invalid, and were forced to come by the elders at home. She rewarded each of them with a gold bracelet. An exquisite hollow gold hairpin carved with wishful cloud patterns.

Both the gold hairpin and the bracelet are not heavy, the only advantage is that the workmanship is exquisite and the style is unique, which is just suitable for daily wear by unmarried cardamom girls like them.

Since each of their families was individually invited by the maidservants to meet Princess Zhaoqing, neither the girl who received the gift nor the official wife who brought them over noticed that Princess Zhaoqing was announcing the selection results in this way.

They were led by the maid who had already received orders, and took different paths to the Huxin Pavilion to attend the banquet.

The 26 girls who showed no sign of reluctance walked the bluestone road that could be seen from a distance by An Lehou who was sitting by the window on the second floor of the library building of the Princess Mansion. , Walking through the nine-curved corridor of the carved beams and painted buildings of the Princess Mansion.

By the time all the guests were present, Princess Zhaoqing had already received the candidate list given by An Lehou.

To Princess Zhaoqing's surprise, An Lehou, who was still only a young boy, didn't pick any of the outstanding girls to be selected.

He chose a total of three people, one of whom could only be considered handsome, and the other two had dignified eyebrows and eyes, so beautiful that they were neither conspicuous nor aggressive at all.

She showed the list and portraits to her husband, Pei Huaiyu, "Your Majesty Anle, is this the one who picks out the looks?"

Of the 26 official ladies who walked the road next to the library under the instruction of Princess Zhaoqing, 23 of them were beautiful and fresh, very outstanding, but Anlehou accurately picked out the three that were the least conspicuous. What kind of strange vision is it?
She couldn't figure it out, but Pei Huaiyu only glanced at it and had a guess about An Lehou's selection criteria.

He sighed, "Think about that empress dowager in Dazhou."

"Uh," as soon as he reminded her, Princess Zhaoqing immediately recalled the glamorous face of the former Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and she also sighed along with Pei Huaiyu, "It's really a crime."

After so many years, An Lehou is still instinctively afraid of people who are only slightly similar to that empress dowager. I really don't know how many painful memories that empress dowager left for this child that will never be forgotten.

Pei Huaiyu patted his wife's hand, "She has already received her retribution."

Although Xie Yuan didn't kill her, for a woman like the Queen Mother, the pain of losing power and status was far more unacceptable to her than death.

And An Lehou is still very young, he still has a lot of time to spend the rest of his life in a happy life and heal the many misfortunes that the empress dowager brought to him.

The couple briefly said a few words, Princess Zhaoqing took her maidservant to Huxin Pavilion to entertain the guests, Pei Huaiyu went to the library, and made an appointment with An Lehou to arrange a close distance for him and the three girls look at each other.

An Lehou trusted Pei Huaiyu very much, he carefully read the information provided by Pei Huaiyu, and finally decided to meet one of the girls whose parents had both died.

The girl was one of the two girls with dignified features and dignified eyes, and she was not aggressive at all. Her name was Yang Xintong.

An Lehou planned to meet her first, firstly because the only official in this girl's family - her uncle was just a fourth-rank Taipusi Shaoqing, who didn't have much authority in his hands, and secondly because both of her parents died Since childhood, he lived in the home of his uncle and aunt who monopolized all the property of the Yang family.

Although theoretically speaking, Yang Xintong's father is the eldest son of the Yang family, and he should have the majority of the Yang family's ancestral property, but the problem is, who made him unlucky and died in the chaos of war.

The second uncle Yang Xintong, who picked up a leak because of the brother-in-law's death, did not deliberately treat his niece Yang Xintong harshly, but the niece is different from his own children after all, because Yang Xintong has always been separated by a layer of belly. Not very well received by uncle and aunt.

She was in an embarrassing situation in the Yang family, and she couldn't hide this from those who belonged to the Yang family.

These families don't want to marry a daughter-in-law who can't help them, so naturally they won't invite a matchmaker.

And those families who are one or even two levels lower than the Yang family want to marry the Yang family, but at the same time they are not qualified to marry Uncle Yang Xintong's biological daughter. Many of these families are willing to make do with Yang Xintong Yes, but Yang Xintong's aunt and uncle didn't want others to poke their backs, saying that they treated the dead brother's only daughter poorly.

In addition, they were also reluctant to part with the property that Yang Xintong's grandmother gave to Yang Xintong as a dowry before her death. In order to keep these properties in the Yang family as long as possible, Yang Xintong's aunt simply rejected several households who came to inquire. people.

(End of this chapter)