National Beauty

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when everyone in the Guo family was listening to a play in their back garden, a palace banquet was also held in the palace, and all the relatives and relatives of the imperial family attended.

Emperor Xuande sat on the main seat, slowly tasting the wine with a golden bottle in his hand, his eyes inadvertently swept across the people in the hall.

King Qin is his own younger brother and sits with Princess Qin.

Jun Wang Wu'an is his nephew, and he sits with the princess concubine.

The eldest son, King Chu, got married last year, and now the princess has a bulging belly, and he will give birth in two months. Emperor Xuande hopes to be a young grandson.

The second son Rui Wang has been married for a year. The princess has no good news so far. It is said that the second child is very fond of a concubine in the backyard. He waits. If the second daughter-in-law is not pregnant in the first lunar new year, he will let Concubine Hui take care of this. son. He doesn't care which woman the son likes, but he can't delay the birth of his son.

After turning his gaze, Emperor Xuande looked at his third son, King Shou again. Seeing King Shou sitting alone, Emperor Xuande frowned.

After all, he was a pro-son, and he didn't give his son a marriage. In the final analysis, the third child didn't look down on him. It was not that his father, the emperor, deliberately ignored his son. Now that two years have passed, Emperor Xuande had laughed a little bit earlier. Looking at the lonely king of life, Emperor Xuande felt a little uncomfortable. He left King Chu alone before leaving the table.

"Father, are you okay?" King Chu glanced outside, a little anxious, and wanted to accompany the pregnant Feng Zheng back to the palace as soon as possible.

Emperor Xuande frowned imperceptibly when he saw it. The second child loves the concubine too much. It is wrong. There is a princess next to the lord of the old hall. It is good to do it for three to five years. But now Emperor Xuande doesn’t want to worry about so much, he said concisely: “Next year your fourth brother will also be appointed as a concubine, and I plan to choose your third brother’s concubine together, and you will explore his style again...”

Before he finished speaking, seeing King Chu grinning, Emperor Xuande snorted and said in a deep voice: "You tell him this is the last time. This time he doesn't look down on it anymore, then he will be the single king for a lifetime!"

"Father, don’t worry, the third brother hadn’t gotten acquainted before. Now that he lives in such a big palace alone, he’s longing forward to marry a daughter-in-law." When it comes to the major events of his younger brother’s life, King Chu's patience became better all of a sudden, and he thought about it. Asked: "Father, this selection of concubine, is it the same as last time, choosing good family sons from various places?"

Emperor Xuande shook his head and said lightly: "I will think about it again, it's not early, and go with your daughter-in-law." He gave his son a mocking look.

The main thing that King Chu wanted to ask was the origin of a beautiful girl. Song Jianing would not be able to draft the show if he still required a rank 5 or lower, but since his father's words were unclear, he didn't ask any more questions and saluted and retired. After leaving the palace gate, seeing that the carriage of the Shou Palace had gone, the King of Chu first sent Feng Zheng back to the Palace, and then rode towards the Shou Palace. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is no curfew in the capital tonight, and the king of Chu has unimpeded all the way.

Zhao Heng was about to take a bath, and Father Fu waited on his master to undress, and chatted: "Prince, tonight, the Guogong Mansion has invited an opera troupe. The one who sang is called a good one. Unfortunately, it only took half an hour to sing."

Zhao Heng said nothing.

The voice of the guard Zongze suddenly came from outside: "My lord, your highness is visiting."

Zhao Heng turned his head, and Father Fu had already tightened his belt again.

Zhao Heng went to the hall to meet his elder brother. It was not too early, and the king of Chu didn't sell him. He said straightforwardly: "Father just told me that he will draft for you and his fourth younger brother next year. How about it? What are your conditions this time? If you have to say it quickly, otherwise, you will just wait for the emperor to point you to a princess. This time, the emperor will not indulge you."

Zhao Heng cast his eyes down, the draft... the girl's background was too low, he never thought of giving a marriage through the draft.

"If someone chooses, I will enter the palace." Zhao Heng said slowly towards the courtyard illuminated by moonlight.

The king of Chu was surprised, and said unexpectedly: "Are you going to ask the emperor to marry him?"

Zhao Heng nodded.

King Chu understood, and said with a smile: "That should be the case. Then, since you know what you know, elder brother won't bother. However, if you need elder brother's help, don't be polite to elder brother, just come to me."

"Okay." Zhao Heng answered, got up to send his brother out of the house, and watched his brother go on horseback. Zhao Heng turned around, and when he walked to the house, his gaze swept across the next door of the Weiguo Palace.

Song Jianing hasn't slept yet. Liu'er is vigil tonight, the master and servant are whispering.

"Girl, didn't you keep telling me to pay attention to the news of the two cousins? You are listening to the drama in front tonight, and I stared at the back secretly, and found that the cousin and the third girl had looked at each other three times." Liu'er was sitting by the bed. On the embroidered stool, she whispered a report, fearing that Song Jianing would not understand, she explained thoughtfully: "Everyone is watching the show, no one is talking. The cousin looked at the third girl three times for no reason, and the third girl watched him even more. Many, it's only three matches."

Song Jianing hugged the pillow and felt thoughtful when she heard this.

Liang Shao went to Beijing for a month, and she met him three times at Mrs. Tai's side. She knew that Liang Shao had seen her secretly. However, Yunfang was the one who saw Liang Shao the most. His actions were vague and Mrs. Tai did not pay attention. She saw it. Clearly. In this way, Liang Shao should have seduce Yunfang first, right? Liang Shao's skin bag, if it hadn't been in his hands, it would have been easy for the young lady who was in love with him to follow his way.

Why does Liang Shao want to go to the third sister, not her fourth girl who was once favored by Xian'e?

Thinking of Liang Shao's past life, Song Jianing didn't understand anything. Liang Shao clearly wanted to climb the big tree of Guogong Mansion through his third sister.

Song Jianing remembered that the wife Liang Shao later married was someone else, who was given to him by his mother in Jizhou’s hometown. However, Song Jianing didn’t know how much sister Yunfang had used Liang Shao and whether she had been bullied by Liang Shao. So she still has to find a way to remind Sister Yunfang.

After a few days, Yunfang led Brother Shang to come to her, and Song Jianing led Brother Mao and the four siblings to play in the garden. In the golden autumn season, the sweet-scented osmanthus fragrant, Brother Shang taught Brother Mao to poke the ant's nest with a wooden stick. The two little guys squatted on the ground, seriously guessing which is the ant king and the general, not to mention how stupid.

"Hey..." Yun Fang sighed heavily.

Song Jianing glanced at her, curiously said: "Three sisters have something on their minds?"

Yun Fang leaned on her shoulder and took Song Jianing's soft little hand and said, "I'm thinking, next year the second sister will be married, and we will be left in the government office."

Speaking of marriage, Song Jianing's heart moved and said softly, "I should sigh. The third sister must have a wedding next year, right?"

Yun Fang blushed and patted her hand lightly.

Song Jianing took her arm and teased in a low voice: "Sister Sister blushes, do you have someone you like? Which prince, have I met?"

Yunfang has secretly liked Liang Shao for a long time, and she likes it very depressed. First, Liang Shao can't see it when she spends her time studying hard, and secondly, she is not used to hiding secrets, and it is especially uncomfortable to hold things in her heart. The second elder sister Lan Fang is the most conservative, always keeping the rules on her lips, she dare not look for it, the fourth sister Song Jianing...

Yun Fang turned her head and looked at the beautiful and overly beautiful face of a little child, Yunfang bit her lip and stared at Song Jianing and said, "I told you, you are not allowed to tell others, if so Let others know, I, I will break with you, and never recognize your sister again!"

Song Jianing quickly assured that he would never leak the secrets.

Yun Fang leaned into her ear and said the name of the person.

Song Jianing's eyes widened in shock, and there was a trace of incomprehension in his eyes, as if Yun Fang had done something wrong. Liang Shao was so handsome, Yun Fang thought that Song Jianing would envy her and would pick people. Seeing Song Jianing’s disapproval, Yun Fang was immediately unhappy and frowned, "What do you mean?"

Song Jianing knew that even if she said bad things about Liang Shao’s character, Yun Fang would probably not believe it, so she talked about other reasons and whispered: "Cousin Liang is a talented person. It’s no surprise that sister likes him, but sister, you have to think about it. Clearly, he is just a nomination. Even if the top high school champion next year, he has to start from a small official of the eighth rank. If you are a Jinshi, the official rank is lower. I don't know how many years to get ahead... The salary of the low-level officials is not high. It costs money. When we were in Jiangnan, we heard that many local officials who just took office liked to take the daughters of local wealthy businessmen as concubines. The picture was the money from the women’s family..."

Yunfang's blushing face slowly turned white. She was the third girl in the Guogong Mansion. She had been waiting for her since she was young. She usually only eats, drinks and has fun. She has never heard of official affairs. The fourth sister was born in a small county in the south of the Yangtze River and knew more about the magistrate than she did. Looking at Song Jianing's serious face, Yun Fang never doubted the truth of this statement.

So, if she really marries Liang Shao, she can only go up slowly from the wife of an eighth-grade petty official? If Liang Shao goes to become a local official, the Liang family's family background seems to be very ordinary, then Liang Shao has no money, shouldn't he use her dowry to run it? That kind of life is just a thought, Yunfang couldn’t accept it. The eldest sister married into Zhenbei General’s Mansion and will be the general’s wife in the future, and the second sister is married to a famous family and also a noble daughter of the National Palace. How could she? Too much worse than the two sisters?

Compared with these, Liang Shao's handsome face suddenly lost its appeal.

But Yunfang liked Liang Shao for a while, and even dreamed of living after marrying Liang Shao. The dream was suddenly broken. Yunfang was a little uncomfortable. He sat blankly for a while, and finally led Brother Shang away listlessly.

Song Jianing was very happy. Sister Yunfang was arrogant, and she was definitely reluctant to spend the "wasteful" life with Liang Shao.

After successfully solving a worry, Song Jianing was in a good mood, and it became more fragrant to eat.

Guo Boyan came back in the evening and looked at the step-daughter whose eyes were bright to eat and pickled vegetables, and she was still a child in a simple and contented manner. Guo Boyan shook his head and showed a helpless smile. Song Jianing didn't see it, but Lin caught it. She didn't say anything at the dinner table. After resting at night, she asked out curiously.

Guo Boyan was also about to tell her, holding his sweet wife's soft body, he looked down at her eyes: "I accompanied the emperor to patrol the imperial army the day before, and found a young talent with a natural and supernatural power. He is twenty this year. He is simple and honest, and looks very good. Zhou Zheng. In the past few days, I sent someone to check his details. He is the second son of Master Lu, Shaoqing of Taichang Temple. He has not yet been married."

Lin immediately sat up and said excitedly: "Are you trying to match him with An An?"

Guo Boyan nodded and was silent for a while before continuing: "I'm just helping you choose people, but in the end I still want you to be the master for An'an." Not his daughter, but because of this trouble, he really planned for the child, but he was afraid that his wife would think too much. Speak clearly in advance, lest the wife is afraid of his majesty, and she is not satisfied and dare not refuse.

Lin and Guo Boyan have been married for three years. They trust Guo Boyan’s vision, especially the four words Guo Boyan just said, "Simple and honest". No, you should cooperate with an honest man, who is too smart. His daughter is sold and counts the money for others.

"Master Guo, I want to see this person first."

"Well, I will arrange."