Bright Moon and Breeze(6)

People in the palace come and leave quickly.

Lin Yu hurriedly hurried but failed to catch up. He just stood on the roadside and watched the palace guard of honor meandering away.

At the door of the house, there were too many people asking questions with various purposes. Aunt Wen stood at the door and had a hard time dealing with it. He hurried over and bowed to everyone, but before he finished speaking, there was a carriage rushing in the alley.

When he arrived, he looked at Cui Chong sitting on the shaft of the car and knew that his father was back.

After a few words, he dismissed his colleagues' family members, only saying that there were important things at home and that they would hold a banquet for you all another day, and then dismissed the matters at the door.

After helping my father out of the car without saying a word, my father hurried inside.

He followed Aunt Wen in a hurry. In the yard, Sanniang was standing in the middle, and Erniang was leaning on the window anxiously, coughing anxiously.

Lin Yu went to see Aunt Wen first, "Aunt Lao went to see Er Niang first. I have something to say with my father and Sanniang."

yes!

Aunt Wen didn't dare to delay and hurried to Er Niang's house.

Lin Baowen bypassed Tongtong and went directly to the upper room.

Lin Yutong turned around and followed. When she entered, Lin Baowen was already sitting in the study. She stood over and called "Father".

Lin Baowen leaned on the back of the chair and kept rubbing his forehead. After a long while, he asked: "As a father, I just want to ask you, can you voluntarily be selected?"

Lin Yutong was stunned for a moment, "This is Liang Shangyi from the Emperor's side!" So this is the Emperor's reading, are there any doubts? Lin Baowen slapped the table with his palm, "So what about the Emperor's side...?"

Lin Yutong blinked and looked at Lin Baowen.

Lin Baowen snorted coldly, "He is an emperor. If there is any mistake, the ministers will not be able to admonish him? Can't he take care of it?"

Lin Yutong understood instantly that the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty and the courtiers of the Qing Dynasty were completely different! There were too many things between his own understanding of imperial power and the current understanding of imperial power by these scholars.

But suddenly, her nose felt so sore! She liked this damn personality very much.

Yes! Those who stand in the court should be those with strong bones!

She was silent for a moment, then nodded, "Yes! Father, my daughter was chosen voluntarily, no one forced her to do so!"

Lin Baowen frowned, "Why are you here? Prosperity and wealth? Can't you bear the pain of poverty at home?"

Lin Yutong shook his head, "No! My daughter thinks that King Jian is not a fool."

What about non-stupid people?

Lin Yutong whispered: "Liang Shangyi said that King Jian asked to see the emperor this morning and informed the emperor that if he chooses a concubine, he would like to choose a daughter."

What's the reason?

"King Jian said that his daughter is the heir and granddaughter of Li Zhi."

Lin Yu was stunned for a moment. Li Zhi was the guilty minister. Can this person be mentioned?

Lin Baowen stopped talking and asked after a long while: "What did the emperor say?"

"The emperor said that Li Zhi was a madman. King Jian also said that he was also a smart and stubborn madman. Before leaving, Liang Shangyi told her daughter that she came here just to see if the girl from the Lin family was smart, stubborn and stubborn.

People who dare to be crazy."

Lin Baowen stood up suddenly, then turned his back and looked out the window, not wanting his children to see the shock on his face and his loss of composure at this time.

These are not many words, but I dare not think deeply about the meaning of these words.

Lin Yutong whispered, "The emperor hopes that there will be smart people, stubborn people, and people who dare to go crazy once. If this is the case, then King Fu and King Jian are the ones the emperor has placed his hope on. Dad, this dynasty has reached this point and it is difficult to return. Your Majesty

I know it. This requires drastic measures! If we stick to the old ways, even the emperor will never see tomorrow..."

It was only after Liang Shangyi conveyed these words that Lin Yutong got a glimpse of the Wanli Emperor's thoughts.

She took this for granted, of course an emperor would think so. But this shocked the Lin family and his son! In the Ming Dynasty, the palace music of Yongle still seemed to be floating in the sky above the dynasty, but the grand scene of that year had long since disappeared.

.

Either, accompany this dynasty to perdition. Or, go crazy again for this dynasty.

Lin Yutong looked up at Lin Baowen's back, "Father, it's up to you how to choose."

This is a difficult decision and an extremely risky one!

Lin Yutong made it very clear that if you marry, you cannot just be a peaceful and honorable princess. Rather than choosing her, it is better to say that she was chosen because of Li Zhi's background.

Judging from the current situation, trying to save this dynasty is nothing more than a fool's dream. If one thing goes wrong, the whole family will be doomed.

Lin Baowen didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, he turned and looked at his son, "Your great-grandfather died that year and left a verse in prison. What did that verse say?"

Lin Yu raised his hands upward and whispered: "That verse is: A strong man never forgets to be in the ravine, and a martyr never forgets to lose his strength."

This means that even if you know you are going to die in a ravine or lose your head and die, you still have to move forward.

Lin Yutong lowered his eyelids. This was Lin Baowen's decision. Didn't he know that the person sitting on it could not really use Li Zhi's theory? He knew! But he still made this decision.

In his view, academic disputes can occur at any time, but the country must be protected.

It takes courage to break the boat.

Lin Yutong didn't know what the father and son said after that. She stayed with Lin Erniang, and in her free time, she read all about Ming Dynasty Laws.

Lin Erniang's health has improved in the past few days, but she still can't read a book! She leaned on the kang and coughed from time to time, "You have to know that once you enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea. If you go there, it will be difficult to see you again.

"

I can always meet anyone I want, and I didn’t say not to meet my mother-in-law’s family.

Lin Erniang coughed and said, "If we had known this earlier, there would be no need to go through this illness." As she spoke, she told Aunt Wen, "The clothes have to be prepared again. The things my mother left behind are good, but they are

It's no longer fashionable. Since I have chosen a concubine, she is not the only one. She is going to live in the palace for a while, so it is better not to be too shabby. Use the ones prepared for me first, and hurry up and get people to drive them out...

"

The most valuable thing in the family is the dowry for Lin Erniang. She is fifteen and can get married as soon as she agrees to marry him. The dowry was prepared two years ago and was saved bit by bit.

There are several bodies.

But no matter how prepared I was, going to the palace would still be shabby.

Some signed up to choose, and some came from the palace like Lin Yutong to 'search' for them, and many more were recommended by the palace empress or some officials.

Those who come from this kind of search do not need to go to the audition. They don't even participate in the re-screening, they just need to enter the palace.

Entering and living in the palace requires one to closely observe one's character and temperament.

This wait lasted for half a month, and only the Beizhili area was alarmed. I heard that there were more than a thousand people at the beginning, and there were only 200 left after the second round. They had to have their bodies checked again when they were taken into the palace. This time, the number of people was strictly controlled.

A total of twenty-three people entered the palace, including Lin Yutong.

In the chilly spring season, I once again stepped into the Forbidden City.

She should feel friendly, but everything she saw was strange! She had only one thought in her heart, and that was: Oh! This is the Ming Dynasty.

Daming was a little different from what she thought. If you don't get involved personally, you can't understand this difference.

If nothing else, let’s talk about foot binding! A woman’s feet are precious, and she thought that bound feet should be deformed, but in fact, the feet of Ming women were not like that. In the memory of the original owner, only her own feet were

, her sister’s feet have never been seen even by her own mother and Aunt Wen. But after checking her body, she found that the bound feet of most women in the Ming Dynasty were not that deformed. The women’s feet were covered with layers of foot-binding cloths.

It's entangled. It's been like this since childhood. It's like wearing those small shoes since childhood. It can wrap the feet very slenderly, but there is absolutely no deformity. And the Lin sisters' feet are even like this.

There is no knot. It’s just that the original person is only twelve or thirteen years old now. She is young and her feet are naturally not big. Among the show girls this time, there are girls of fifteen or sixteen. They are basically grown-up, but

Compared with Lin Yutong's, those feet are about the same. Of course, they are smaller than those that grow naturally, but the bones are not broken. Maybe some groups are like this, but the feet of women who enter the palace draft do not seem to be

That kind of thing.

As for wearing, the soles of these shoes today are relatively small, but the shoe length is enough. Moreover, because the fabric used to make the shoes is easy to loosen, so if you have big feet and fat feet, it is not easy to wear such easy-to-loosen shoes.

nice.

While others were observing who was the competitor, she was observing the Ming Dynasty, which was completely different from what she imagined.

The so-called competitors do not exist. She has no worries about this at all. Many things are just a process.

She settled in with peace of mind, sharing a room with one person, and the clothes, jewelry, rouge, and gouache inside were all delivered by a dedicated person. The female officials came in and out, and this was in charge.

I washed up and changed my clothes. The Queen wants to read it at noon.

She doesn't have the time to talk to any of her sisters, and there is no need to talk too much to the female officials and eunuchs around her. She knows without asking that they are eyes, silently observing her every move. Talking more will be wrong, and not saying anything will be wrong.

Not bad, don’t bother with that.

When the time came, someone came to call and had to go from this palace to that palace. Even though he claimed to be familiar with the palace, Lin Yutong still felt that the palace today was really spacious. Did many destroyed palaces shrink in size when they were rebuilt?

Yeah? Otherwise, why do you always feel like this is in the large Forbidden City?

At that time, the Forbidden City was tightly covered by palace walls. But today, the Forbidden City has so many corridors that it looks very transparent. The banquet was held in Kunning Palace, which is a bit surprising.

Unexpected.

Mixed in among the beautiful ladies, they were invited to sit down. There was a table in front of each person, and behind them was a screen. On the screen were hung the information about the beautiful ladies. I am afraid that there are people hiding behind the screen made of fine gauze, observing carefully.

What to observe? Lin Yutong didn’t know. When it was auspicious, the female officer led a woman in her fifties to walk in, followed by several ladies. When the female officer called her name and greeted her, Lin Yutong knew that this was the queen.

Concubine Zheng, and Wang Cairen of the East Palace.
To be continued...