food queen

Chapter 108
At first, Han Qian didn't know what her mother was busy with every day, but later she heard that Ping Ping'er accidentally said something wrong.I was stupid at the time - the emperor's brother wanted to choose a concubine?Choosing a concubine means marrying a daughter-in-law, right?

"Little princess, what's the matter?" Apple'er saw that Han Qian who was feeding the clouded leopard was feeding it into the clouded leopard's mouth empty-handed, and hurriedly pulled her hand back.

Han Qian turned to Apple and asked, "You said, the emperor's brother is going to marry a wife, right?"

"No." Apple shook his head quickly, "It's a concubine, not an empress. It is said that His Majesty has no plans to become an empress, but just chooses a few virtuous and virtuous beauties to enter the palace to accompany His Majesty."

"A virtuous and virtuous beauty..." Han Qian bit her lips, silently thinking that she couldn't rely on even one of these four words!
Pingguoer watched Han Qian put the jerky for Yunbao into his mouth, and hurriedly reached out to stop him: "Little Princess, what's wrong? Are you uncomfortable?"

"No." Han Qian suddenly came to his senses, threw away everything in his hand, got up and ran.

"Hey...Princess?!" Seeing this, Pingguo hurriedly handed over two little maids to tidy up, while she chased after her with her skirt in hand.

Han Qian ran all the way to Princess Dachang's room, and when she entered the door, she saw Princess Dachang sitting in front of the long white marble desk, holding a red post in her hand and looking down carefully. The six-foot-long desk There are all kinds of charming eyes in red, purple, pink and green, and some of them have a special idea of ​​smoking a simple and elegant fragrance, which is really elegant and tight.

"Mother!" Han Qian ran to the eldest princess and stretched her head to read the words on the post: Wang Huiyun, the daughter of the Imperial Academy offering wine, aged fifteen, birthday...

"What is this?" Han Qian asked, shaking the princess's shoulder.

"Your Majesty is about to choose a concubine. None of the concubines in the harem can count on them, so they left this matter to me. Come on, and you can help me see."

"The emperor's brother is going to marry a wife? Didn't the emperor's uncle just pass away..."

The eldest princess put down the post in her hand, raised her hand, rubbed the center of her brows, and sighed: "In matters of the heavenly family, the country and the country are the most important. Your majesty has already reached the crown, and now he is the king of a country, and the heirs are naturally The most important thing. Forget it, you don’t understand these things, there are portraits over there, you can help mother to see, and help pick out some good-looking ones.”

"Okay! Let me see those virtuous and virtuous beauties." Han Qian nodded in agreement, turned and walked to the short table next to him, and randomly picked out one of the stacked scrolls and opened it.

The eldest princess couldn't help laughing when she heard this: "It's really rare, you actually know the virtuous and virtuous."

Han Qian didn't respond anymore - because she was already shocked by the beauty of the woman in the painting.

The woman in the painting is wearing a lotus-colored gauze shirt, with her face facing the flower tree, her figure is slender, and her long hair is draped over her vest, tied gently with a silver ribbon.The painter ingeniously painted a layer of haze around her, making the person in the painting look like a fairy facing the wind, not a person in the world.

Han Qian looked at the woman in the painting for a long time, no matter how she thought about it, she felt that there was no such person in the world. The artist must have beautified the real person, so she raised her hand and threw away the scroll and opened another one—this is a beauty under the moon , a clear and white face, with a playful smile on her small mouth, and the moonlight shone in her clear eyes, like two stars...

"Well, it's not good-looking!" Han Qian frowned and threw the scroll away again, and irritatedly pulled a scroll that was lowered to open it.

However, the women in the scrolls at the back are more beautiful and more charming than each other.Each of them is as beautiful as a flower, bright and colorful.The more Han Qian looked at it, the more depressed he became. Finally, fortunately, he pushed a stack of scrolls to the ground, feeling his mouth sulking.

Seeing her daughter lose her temper, the eldest princess smiled, "What? No one can catch your eye?"

"These paintings must be deceiving!" Han Qian angrily picked up one of them and unfolded it to the Eldest Princess: "How can there be such beauties in this world? It must be that they asked the painter to paint people in the beauty in order to enter the palace." of!"

The eldest princess glanced at the portrait, then turned the portrait to look at the label on the back, and said with a smile: "You are not right, this is the daughter of Zhao Shitong's family, the head of the Ministry of Rites, this Miss Zhao I have met before. , looks good. Looking at this painting now, I’m afraid it’s only seven or eight out of ten beautiful.”

"Isn't it?!" Han Qian was dumbfounded. A real person is three points more beautiful than this painting?Is that human being? !If the emperor's brother saw such a beautiful woman, would he still remember who he was? !
"Why? Don't you believe it?" The eldest princess had a clear insight into her daughter's little thoughts, but pretended not to know, and deliberately smiled, "If you don't believe it, mother will invite these girls to come to the house together in a few days, When you see her, you will know that mother is not lying."

Han Qian pouted immediately: "Why did you invite them to your home? I don't like it."

"Why don't you like it?" The eldest princess sat down and took her daughter into her arms.

"Because the emperor's brother won't remember me when he sees them." The little Han Qian hasn't learned to hide her thoughts yet, and the person who asked her is her mother, the person she trusts the most, so she doesn't need to lie talk.

The eldest princess smiled and said: "No, you see that the brothers in the family have married their sisters-in-law, so they will love you as well."

"But the third brother took sister Tiantian out to play, and he hasn't come back yet." Han Qian snorted dissatisfiedly, "The second brother is not as nice to me as before, and the eldest brother is even stricter."

"Third Brother and Sister Tiantian are coming back soon. Third Brother loves you so much, and Sister Tiantian treats you well, so you don't have to worry that the Emperor will ignore you."

Han Qian's thoughts were immediately diverted, and her gloomy little face brightened up instantly. She pulled the eldest princess's sleeve and asked happily, "Really? Are Third Brother and Sister Tiantian really coming back?"

"I just received their letter the day before yesterday. Their ship has almost arrived in Suzhou now, and it will arrive in Beijing in ten and a half months."

"Great!" Han Qian immediately clapped her hands happily.

The eldest princess also smiled happily.

"But, do you have to choose a concubine for the emperor's brother?" Han Qian still didn't forget this matter despite being happy.

The eldest princess pulled her daughter into her arms and asked softly, "Qian'er, do you think you are having a good time?"

"Happy." Han Qian nodded.

"Why are you happy? Is it because you have a father, mother, brothers and sisters-in-law who love you, spoil you, and pile everything you want in front of you to satisfy you?"

"Yes!" Han Qian nodded heavily, "My father, mother, brother and sister-in-law are very kind to me and love me very much, so I am happy."

"But the emperor didn't! You see, your uncle and empress have both passed away, and none of the emperor's brothers and sisters are close to him, so he is always alone."

(End of this chapter)