Glory all the way

Chapter 56
"Yingluo, I'm going to take care of my mother, and I will have a day off from school tomorrow, but you want to come to the palace to accompany me, okay?"

After finishing the etiquette class on the seventeenth, and returning to Yunrou Hall, the sixth princess looked at Bai Yingluo eagerly and said.

"Isn't tomorrow the day when the emperor and the empress will meet those famous ladies in the capital and select candidates for the crown princess? You don't have any ghosts in your mind, do you?"

Looking suspiciously at the sixth princess, Bai Yingluo pursed her lips and smiled.

The sixth princess pouted and shrugged her shoulders, "What the hell idea can I have? The Crown Princess has already decided on that Miss Dou. This selection is just a formality. The most important thing is to choose Come out with two concubines."

"Prince concubine?"

Unexpectedly, the Crown Prince's East Palace would be the crown prince's concubine and the prince's side concubine at the same time. Bai Yingluo looked surprised, but immediately lowered her voice and asked, "Then, will Miss Lin from Beiningbo's mansion be selected?"

The sixth princess shook her head, "The queen mother has no objection, but I don't know what the emperor's grandmother and father will think. The emperor's grandmother seems to dislike the Beining uncle's mansion very much. Every time Mrs. Beining uncle comes to the palace to greet her, The imperial grandmother's face is indifferent, seeing Beining uncle and sister Mei, she is not as kind as meeting other juniors. I asked the queen mother in private, but the mother didn't say anything about it."

The sixth princess said that she was mysterious, which implied that Lin Zhimei was not very optimistic that Lin Zhimei could be selected as the crown prince's side concubine. Immediately, Bai Yingluo's sympathy for the crown prince deepened a bit.

Early the next morning, according to the time agreed with the sixth princess, Bai Yingluo didn't go out until [-]:[-] a.m., and sure enough, the palace carriage was already waiting at the gate.

After getting into the carriage, there were no Dou Xiuqiao and Sun Yantong who made Bai Yingluo feel awkward.

Went to the gate of the inner palace to change the soft sedan chair, but the sedan chair did not go in the direction of Yunrou Hall. Bai Yingluo was startled, and before she could ask her, a little servant explained: "Miss Bai, the princess wakes up early. You were taken to Ninghua Palace by the empress, and the princess ordered you to be sent directly to Ninghua Palace, don't worry."

Feeling at ease, Bai Yingluo secretly told herself to be cautious in her words and deeds today, if she is not in Yunrou Palace, then she should be careful in everything to avoid accidents.

Before Bai Yingluo could calm down, a carriage whizzed by, and the girl's soft voice and deliberately suppressed laughter came out from the curtain blown by the wind.

Even so, Bai Yingluo could hear with sharp ears that one of them was Dou Xiuqiao, whom she had never dealt with on weekdays, and the identity of the other was ready to be revealed.

At the gate of the inner palace, except for the empress dowager and all the queens/concubines who can take the palace car, everyone else has to change the soft sedan chair. The lady in the Dou Mansion has not yet agreed to be the crown princess, and there is already a crown prince. Such an honor, it can be seen that the rumors these days are not groundless.

However, that Ms. Dou is not the crown princess made by the decree, and she is so reckless now, which shows that she is not a very gentle person.

Thinking like this, even though she has not seen Dou Xiuzhu's face, Bai Yingluo has already made some assumptions about her.

When they arrived at Ninghua Palace, the peach blossoms beside the Sixth Princess had already been waiting. Seeing Bai Yingluo get off the carriage, she greeted her and said, "Miss Bai and the servants are here."

In the Ninghua Palace, the Sixth Princess and the Ninth Princess were sitting next to the Empress, one on the left and the other on the right, whispering something infatuatedly. The Empress, who was dressed in formal attire, also had a soft smile on her face, not as solemn as in the past.

Seeing Bai Yingluo come in, and after she bowed to the queen, the sixth princess came over and held her hand affectionately, while looking at the queen, she said, "Queen mother, don't worry, I take care of Xiao Jiu, we will play with Yingluo, Absolutely not to cause trouble for you, okay?"

"You're already a big girl, and you only want to watch the excitement all day long, and when you get married, let's see if you still change your temper."

Said resentfully, the queen waved her hands, the sixth princess turned her head and winked at Bai Yingluo, and led the ninth princess, and the three of them walked into the inner hall.

After a while, there was a news from the palace servants outside the hall, all of them were ladies from some mansion in the capital who came to pay their respects to the empress, it seemed that they came in in a line, and there were more than ten noble ladies standing in the hall in just one cup of tea. , Yingying bowed down to the queen.

Before Bai Yingluo thought about it, her hands tightened, and she was dragged behind the screen by the sixth princess.

Through the gap, you can just see the beautiful faces of the ten or so young ladies in the hall, but the people outside are determined not to see anyone behind the screen. Bai Yingluo sighs secretly that the screen is so beautifully placed. Whispered triumphantly, "This screen, but I came here early in the morning and told them to move it. How about it? Is it a plan?"

Looking back, the Sixth Princess looked complacent, and Bai Yingluo nodded with a smile.

The two leaned their heads together and whispered. Behind them, the Ninth Princess also looked around curiously. From time to time, she pointed to the person in front of her in a low voice to identify them. Listening to her words, Bai Yingluo's eyes flicked across the faces of the ladies. After a while, they locked on Dou Xiuzhu and Lin Zhimei.

Dou Xiuzhu is the pre-appointed concubine. Today she is wearing a goose yellow dress, and the hairpin on her head is also quite standard. She has the dignified and upright look of a scholarly family, but, in Bai Yingluo's eyes, there are a few more Very old-fashioned, without the unique femininity and beauty of girls.

On the other hand, Lin Zhimei who was standing beside her, compared the two of them, it happened to be two extremes.

Lin Zhimei is wearing a light pink long dress, with long hair like black eyebrows and curved eyes. When she smiles, there are two small dimples on her cheeks. I feel an indescribable good feeling when I go there.

Bai Yingluo looked at Dou Xiuzhu, then looked back at Lin Zhimei, her heart suddenly felt better.

If Dou Xiuzhu is the dignified dahlia in the garden, Lin Zhimei is the graceful white lotus in the pond. One of the two is bright and generous, the other is elegant and refined, but Lin Zhimei has a delicate and pitiful delicacy on her body. It was a daughter like Bai Yingluo who looked at her, and felt a sense of pity in her heart, let alone a prince with a body of three feet.

What's more, the sixth princess said that the prince and Lin Zhimei were childhood sweethearts.

The queen asked a few words in a gentle tone, and the girls at the first place answered one by one. After a while, when they heard that the queen mother was coming, the queen's face changed slightly, and then she returned to normal, and stood up to greet her.

As soon as the queen mother came, the girls in the hall became more and more cautious. Only Dou Xiuzhu looked graceful and looked at the queen mother with cute eyes. In comparison, Lin Zhimei paled a lot.

Near noon, the morning court at the Hall of Supreme Harmony was over. Emperor Jiayuan came slowly, asked a few words, and then asked the girls to leave.

"Let's go, let's find Sister Mei..."

Taking advantage of the time when Emperor Jiayuan and the Empress sent the Empress Dowager out of Ninghua Palace, the Sixth Princess took Bai Yingluo out and went in the direction of the girls. After a while, they found Lin Zhimei smoothly.

"Sister Mei, didn't Brother Prince say you won't come?"

Sitting around the brocade table, the sixth princess took Lin Zhimei's hand and asked.

Lin Zhimei turned her head to look at Bai Yingluo, and remained silent. The sixth princess stuck out her tongue playfully and said, "Sister Mei, Yingluo also knows about the matter between you and the prince brother, I told her. Sister Mei, Don't worry, Yingluo won't tell others, she is my best friend and best sister."

Lin Zhimei naturally no longer doubted the sixth princess's swearing guarantee, with a trace of shame on her face, Lin Zhimei said in a low voice: "My father, mother, and brother don't want me to run for the election, I'm afraid... ...I'm afraid that I will be wronged. But I think, he also has a dilemma. Come to fight, even if he can't be the crown princess, it is good to be a side concubine by his side. Otherwise, the high place will be too cold. In the future, he But he was really alone.”

Xu felt that what he said was a bit disrespectful, Lin Zhimei's eyes were a little frightened, seeing the sixth princess and Bai Yingluo looking at her with regret, she didn't think there was anything wrong with those words, Lin Zhimei With a smile, he lowered his head.

"Sister Mei, having you by my side is the greatest happiness for Brother Prince."

Speaking with emotion, the sixth princess was a little disappointed in her words, as if she was a little bit aggrieved by Lin Zhimei, but the crown princess was appointed by her father, and her parents' orders cannot be violated. The sixth princess can't do anything except sigh.

The three girls sat around one place, and the hall was suddenly covered with a layer of helplessness and regretful desolation.

There was also a talent show in the afternoon, aimed at testing the ingenuity of the school girls, but the sixth princess was a little disconcerted, and Bai Yingluo couldn't arouse her interest, so she talked with her for a while, and then left the palace on her own.

Back at the Hou's Mansion and entered the Lanxin Pavilion, she saw Liu Ying's impatient look on her face, while Chen Xiang and Liu Su obviously knew about it already, and they both had expressions of excitement that couldn't be concealed, Bai Yingluo asked suspiciously: " I was only absent for a whole afternoon, so what happened in the mansion again?"

Chen Xiang smiled and said nothing, Liu Su looked back at Liu Ying, Liu Ying came up and bit Bai Yingluo's ear.

I don't know what Liuying said, but Bai Yingluo's eyes widened in surprise, and after a while, she called out in disbelief: "Are you serious?"

"If you don't believe me, miss, just wait and see. The second master is determined not to dare to say it in front of the old master and the old lady. When the time comes, he will designate and ask to go in front of the marquis and his wife. It won't be long before Qing'an hall will be able to do it." I heard the wind."

Liu Ying said with a determined face.

"You know it all, doesn't the whole Hou Mansion know it?"

Thinking of Bai Yingyun's embarrassment after becoming angry, Bai Yingluo said in disbelief.

"The servant girl went to the small kitchen to get Miss's medicine, and saw Mai Sui'er and her mother biting their ears, and after listening to it, I knew, Miss, put your heart in your stomach."

Liuying replied with a proud face.

Mai Sui'er is the servant girl next to Mrs. Qiu Ranxuan, and her mother is helping in the kitchen. Perhaps Liu Ying would listen to what the two of them said when they were free to grind their teeth.

"However, my uncle probably won't agree. Unless Beiningbo's mansion comes to propose marriage, how can a woman go to propose marriage? If she is rejected later, won't Fifth Sister lose the face of Jing'an Hou's mansion? "

Bai Yingluo said with some anxiety.

She curled her lips noncommittally, Liuying said: "But Miss Wu is sure that Uncle Beining likes her, that's why the second master and second wife have thought about it."

With a dazed expression, Bai Yingluo smiled and said, "What are Second Uncle and Second Aunt thinking, aren't they clear and clear?"

(End of this chapter)