food queen

Chapter 415 The Queen's Edict (4)
During this day, the two of them didn't see each other, and when it was dinner time, Yun Shuo was pestered by two cabinet ministers to say that he hadn't come back this year about Chun Wei.

Han Qian had dinner alone and felt bored, so she called Sun Defu to ask, "What does Your Majesty do today?"

Wu Miao had already babbled to Sun Defu about the emperor's busy day. After waiting for a long time, Sun Defu finally waited for the empress to ask, so he rushed forward to Balabala and told Han Qian exactly what the emperor said and did. After reading it again, it naturally included how he refuted the matter of Lu Haoran's joint request to the emperor to accept concubines.

It was rare for Han Qian to listen patiently. Looking at the dry-mouthed Sun Defu, he said lightly, "I will issue a decree from the palace: I will be a beauty pageant for the emperor from now on. However, no matter which prince or minister's girl, as long as she enters This harem must obey the arrangement of this palace, and there must be no objection. Let them think clearly when they send their daughters to the palace."

"Ah?" Sun Defu was dumbfounded.

"Didn't you hear clearly? Do you want me to repeat it again?" Han Qian looked at Sun Defu coldly.

"No, no, no... Slave, I remember!" Sun Defu nodded vigorously.

"Let's do it." Han Qian said lightly.

"Yes." Sun Defu bowed and agreed. Before leaving, he glanced at Han Qian uncertainly, wondering whether he was stupid or the empress was crazy?She actually wants to take the initiative to pageant for the emperor?

Judging by the empress's expression, there must be a big conspiracy!
Um!Sun Defu nodded vigorously again. He couldn't believe that the Empress would really give Her Majesty to another woman.

Naturally, Han Qian's queen's decree could not be hidden from the emperor.At that time, the emperor came out of the Zichen Palace and heard Wu Miao muttering to himself. After finishing the story, he almost stepped on a step and fell down.

"What's going on?" Yun Shuo looked at Wu Miao coldly, "Why would the queen say such things suddenly?"

"Well... don't worry, Your Majesty, Sun Defu said, the empress must have her own plans. This matter... It can't be done just by confronting those ministers. Maybe, the empress has her own way. Are you right?"

After hearing this, Yun Shuo pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Well, the queen seems to have her own way. Anyway, she is the master of the harem."

Therefore, this beauty pageant with the queen in charge started vigorously together with this year's Chunwei.

Since Emperor Qingping ascended the throne, the imperial capital has never been so lively as this year.

The restaurant outside is full of students sitting together every day and chatting loudly are students from all over the country who come to the Gongyuan to rush for the exam, but in the jewelry, silk, satin and clothes shops, girls from various families are scrambling to buy things, dressing themselves vigorously, striving for a chance to enter the university. The palace is to be the emperor's concubine—because the empress has said that the daughters of officials of the sixth rank and above are eligible to participate in the beauty pageant, there is only one condition, and everything is at the disposal of the empress after entering the palace.

Speaking of which, this condition is really too loose.In this harem, the empress is the main seat, which is equivalent to the mistress of an official family. Doesn't the mistress have the final say on everything in the backyard?It is a matter of course that aunts, concubines, concubines, maids, etc. are under the control of the mistress, so no one thinks there is anything wrong with this condition, and one by one scrambled to send their portraits of Gengtie to the Ministry of Rites.

However, things in this world are happy for some and worry for others.

The empress's decree made more than [-]% of the girls in the imperial capital happy, but there were also a few unhappy ones.

For example, Su Lan, the princess of the Dingbeihou Mansion, Gu Ningshuang, the niece of the Gu family, and Han Jin, the princess of the Zhongyihou Mansion.

"Tell me, what is the meaning of the empress's edict? Are we going to participate in the screening with those commoner girls?" Su Lan leaned against the green shade of spring, looking at the gorgeous Rhododendron in front of her. Hua, frowning and nagging at Que'er, her personal maid.

Que'er said nonchalantly: "You don't have to worry about the Princess, it's just a show. The servants don't believe it, so what good can a girl raised by a poor family and a poor official's family do? Eye?"

"That's true." Su Lan nodded, and sighed after a while: "However, I don't like the empress too much. With Gu Ningshuang and Han Jin around, it's always troublesome."

"However, since it's an audition, there's no way for the two of them to split. Besides, Han Jin is now the princess, and this Zhongyihou's mansion is the empress's natal family." Que'er sighed.

"That makes sense." Su Lan sighed deeply.

"So, Princess, we can't wait any longer. There are still ten days to go. We need to prepare more."

"Didn't mother prepare all the things that need to be prepared? I have learned those court etiquettes since I was a child, and I have already remembered them by heart. Even the rules and regulations said that I should rest for a few days." Su Lan said lightly.

Que'er persuaded in a low voice: "Your servant didn't mean to prepare jewelry or something, but your servant said that we have to go out for a walk, see what's going on outside, and find out what they have prepared. This is called knowing yourself and your enemy, right?"

Su Lan nodded, stood up and said, "What you're saying is that those people on the street outside are nothing to see. Let's go to Zhongyihou's Mansion and see what Han Jin and Gu Ningshuang are doing."

"The Princess is right." Que'er clapped her hands, "Let's go, let's change clothes."

In Zhongyihou's Mansion, Han Jin and Gu Ningshuang sat under the newly budded wisteria and drank tea, each thinking about their own thoughts, a maid approached and said back and forth: "Princess, Miss Gu, Princess Su of Dingbeihou's Mansion is here. "

"Su Lan?" Han Jin looked up at Gu Ningshuang in surprise.

Gu Ningshuang smiled lightly: "Look, there are actually more anxious people than us."

Han Jin shook his head and said, "Please come and drink tea with Princess Su."

The maid went down and brought Su Lan in after a short while. The little sisters greeted each other and sat down. Gu Ningshuang took a glass teapot and gave Su Lan a cup of fruit tea, and said with a smile: "This is fruit tea. Drink it for beauty. Especially a beauty like Princess He Su."

Su Lan took a sip of the sweet and sour fruit tea, and said with a smile, "No wonder sister Gu's complexion is getting better every day, so there is such a secret recipe."

Gu Ningshuang smiled gracefully, and said, "What kind of secret recipe is this? If Princess Su wants it, I'll ask Liu Ying to write it for you."

"Then I would like to thank Sister Gu!" Su Lan said, then looked back at Liuying, and said with a light smile: "Miss Liuying is getting more and more handsome, she is really the most capable person beside Sister Gu. In the future Sister Gu is the concubine, Miss Liuying must be the first-class female official next to Sister Gu?"

(End of this chapter)