The Empress Arrives: Rebirth of Concubine Hua

Chapter 4 Seeking Marriage
More than a month passed in a flash, and Nian Shilan on the autumn hunting ground was as dazzling as the summer sun.

The fierce red riding clothes and the white horse under her crotch really overshadowed the other concubines and noble ladies present.

The Fourth Prince saw this beautiful and ostentatious scene in a flash, and couldn't help but be slightly distracted. She had a kind of pride that the women around him did not have.

The concubine Ulanara Yixiu who was following beside him felt a chill in her heart, for she knew what that look meant.

Because he had such a look in his eyes on the day her eldest sister entered the house, but later, the eldest sister died of childbirth complications.

Nian Shilan caught a glimpse of the Fourth Prince's eyes from the corner of her eye. She sneered in her heart but a smile broke out on her face. She quickly looked back in the direction of the Fourth Prince and rode away on her horse.

Su Peisheng, the eunuch who grew up with the Fourth Prince, saw this scene and quietly stepped back to inquire from which family this noble lady came.

When setting up camp at night, Su Peisheng found an opportunity to tell the Fourth Prince that she was the legitimate daughter of Huguang Governor Nian Xialing, sixteen years old, and most importantly, had not yet been engaged.

The Fourth Prince stroked the ring on his hand and thought of the young general Nian Gengyao whom he had met in the army. It turned out that she was his sister.

The emperor has seventeen sons, but there is only one throne.

So those princes began to make moves in private, but the Fourth Prince seemed to have no intention of the throne.

Apart from attending court, he spent his days at home practicing Chinese music, chess, calligraphy and painting. He could do the official duties that the emperor occasionally assigned to him, but he never took credit for them. Only when the emperor asked him what reward he wanted would his eyes light up and he would say that he wanted a painting or calligraphy by a famous artist. He really looked like a leisurely prince who was obsessed with painting and calligraphy.

But after the autumn examination was over, when the Fourth Prince hunted a leopard, three sika deer, and several birds and rabbits and won first prize, the Emperor smiled and asked him what he wanted.

He said he wanted a marriage and wondered if he could have a concubine in his family.

The emperor looked at the Fourth Prince and smiled, then turned to speak to Concubine De.

She is also the biological mother of the Fourth Prince: "I don't know whose child the Fourth Prince has taken a fancy to, but he actually took the initiative to ask for it."

Concubine De was wearing a lake blue palace dress, with only a few fashionable palace flowers and a small number of hairpins and rings on her head. She looked calm and generous.

Her well-maintained face was full of smiles: "It's rare that he asks for something, let's see whose daughter it is. If her status is right, it will be a good marriage."

So the eunuchs around the emperor went to inquire about the birthday of the eldest daughter of Huguang Governor Nian Xialing.

When a royal marriage is arranged, the horoscopes of the two people must be matched first.

(End of this chapter)