168 fancy
Empress Dowager Yuan's deep eyes passed through the translucent screen in front of him and looked at the door curtain on the other side of the screen.
The brocade curtain leading to the outside had already hanged and swayed gently. All the little girls, like flowers, went out, and the warm cabinet was empty and especially quiet.
The corners of Empress Dowager Yuan's rosy lips were raised higher, and a cold light flashed through her eyes, and she nodded slightly:
"With the Gu family's family background, she is also a fatherless person, so she is suitable to be a concubine for the eldest prince."
"This eldest prince's concubine should choose a family from a noble family, so as not to think that the Ai family has treated the eldest prince badly."
"How could it be!" the old lady complimented with a smile, "The Empress Dowager has always loved the eldest prince very much, and she also deliberately tried to choose noble daughters from aristocratic families as the concubines for him."
"The eldest prince will definitely understand the Queen's painstaking efforts."
She said, and took a cup of new tea from the palace maid and respectfully delivered it to Empress Dowager Yuan.
Empress Dowager Yuan slowly brushed off the few floating leaves floating on the tea soup with a cover, and the corners of her lips bent with a smile, sighing: "Who has made the emperor not stand in the queen? The Ai family can only work harder."
"In the blink of an eye, the eldest prince is eighteen years old, and he is grown up and it is time to start a family."
These words were so high-sounding that the old nanny responded repeatedly.
Empress Dowager Yuan took a sip of tea, then put down the steaming teacup and said, "Madam He, what do you think of those girls just now? I will also give you some details for the Ai family."
Empress Dowager Yuan smiled, her tone was easy-going, and her eyebrows were a little casual.
The Empress Dowager said this, but Madam He dared not really understand it. She responded vainly: "I saw that all these girls' families were very good, with good looks and good temperament. I was so confused."
"The old slave is so dazzling. He is so wise as the Empress Dowager. The Empress chooses the most beautiful person!
Madam He seized the opportunity and praised Empress Dowager Yuan again.
Empress Dowager Yuan didn't really expect Madam He and continued, "The Ai family thought that the girl of the Yu family was good, dignified and honest, and had appropriate speech. Whether it was talented, family, demeanor, or appearance, they were all extraordinary."
"The Zhang family girl is not bad either, she is gentle and elegant, and she knows all the music, chess, calligraphy and painting."
"Also, the girl from the Fan family is also a good girl with good knowledge and kindness..."
Empress Dowager Yuan praised three or four daughters of aristocratic families. Madam He, who was beside him, nodded repeatedly and praised all the girls with a lotus mouth.
The master and servant sang and talked happily.
Next to him, a thin eunuch in green clothes walked silently with a wooden box and towards the incense burner in the corner. His steps stopped slightly, and then he walked to the incense burner as if nothing had happened.
The eunuch in Qingyi turned his back to Empress Dowager Yuan and frowned tightly.
This Yu family in Yuzhou is indeed a family that has been passed down for more than 200 years and is quite famous in the local area, but it is not as glorious as in the previous dynasty. Now the entire family has barely maintained some decentness by relying on the Duke of England.
What's more, Yu Chaoyun is not even the eldest daughter of the eldest son.
In addition, the Zhang family in Qingzhou has been moving west over the years. The children in the family relied on their own, but they were not as good as martial arts. Only Zhang Dun was valued by the late emperor and served as the governor of Yanzhou. Now that Zhang Dun was old, he had already written a letter to retire last year, and the Zhang family had no successor...
Not to mention the Fan family, the next generation may not even have the qualifications to stand in the Golden Palace.
The Empress Dowager really chose some "good" people for the eldest prince!
Thinking of this, a gloomy mood flashed in the eyes of the eunuch in Qingyi. His hands shook, and the sandalwood in his hand was cut off and fell on the ground.
In the rear, Empress Dowager Yuan commented without saying a word: "...The third girl from the Liu family is also a beautiful and wise girl. She likes calligraphy and painting, and wants to get along with the eldest prince."
"besides……"
The words from Empress Dowager Yuan could no longer be heard by the eunuch in Qingyi. His thoughts couldn't help but turn back to the Gu family girl who the Empress Dowager mentioned at the beginning and chewed them carefully.
Although the Empress Dowager and Madam He didn't say it directly, their meaning was clearly saying that the eldest prince fell in love with the girl of the Gu family.
There were two Miss Gu present today. Naturally, they would not be Miss Gu San that King Kang liked, then they would be another Miss Gu Er.
Thinking of this, the heart of the eunuch in Qingyi couldn't help but pound twice.
Looking back on the conversation between Gu Yanfei and Empress Dowager Yuan just now, he immediately tasted something else.
The eunuch in green eyes shining brightly, thinking: He has to go and report to the emperor quickly. The emperor has been waiting for it for so many years, so he must be happy.
The eunuch in green smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed into slits. He took another plate of sandalwood with his hands and feet and replaced the remaining incense in the incense burner.
Another wisp of blue smoke rose up, interspersed with the original sandalwood, and the fragrance in the air became even stronger.
After the eunuch in green was covered with the incense burner, he quietly retreated from the warm room.
After walking out of Shou'an Palace, the eunuch in Qingyi happened to see the girls in front of him walking out of the Shou'an Palace gate. He couldn't help but search for Gu Yanfei's figure and thought to himself: Miss Gu's second dress is too thin, so he has to let people put two more charcoal basins in Tinglan Water Pavilion.
The vast snow and snow came towards us, and the girls were shivering from the cold. Although the wind was biting, several people felt relieved.
Not everyone is like Wei Jiaoniang and the others are fearless towards the empress dowager. Several girls were so nervous that they didn't even know how to let go.
"Misses, please go here." The palace maid Liushuang walked in front to lead the way for the girls, and walked along the bluestone road towards the imperial garden in the northeast.
These people are still clearly distinguished, and the nobles are the nobles, and the nobles are the nobles, and the nobles are the nobles, and each of them is responsible for their own business.
The snow seemed to gradually become smaller, and the snowflakes floating like willow catkins floated in the air, making the surroundings hazy, as if a thick fog was filled with the air.
Looking up, you can see that the bright yellow glazed tiles on the roof are covered with a thin layer of snow.
Several girls who were afraid of the cold hid their bodies in their thick cloaks, hoping to hide their whole body inside.
Wei Jiaoniang was full of energy, not afraid of the wind and snow, and her cheeks were blushing like rouge.
"Yan Fei," Wei Jiaoni embracedly holding Gu Yanfei's left arm intimately, leaned into her ear and whispered intimately, "Do you know what the Empress Dowager asked us to do?"
Wei Jiaoniang just wanted Gu Yanfei to answer anything just to start a conversation, and then said, "Luckily, you are here, otherwise I have to find a way to call you into the palace."
She pressed her voice very low, and the warm breath almost blew on Gu Yanfei's ears.
"..." Gu Yanfei tilted his little face and blinked in confusion.
Why do you ask her to enter the palace?
Watch the fun?!
Thinking of this, Gu Yanfei's eyes were bright and vivid.
Lu Qin looked at them whispering with their heads against their heads, held Gu Yanfei's right arm with one hand, and came over to prick up his ears to listen.
She was also full of doubts.
The Queen Mother was so strange today. She first summoned them to the palace, but now she sent them to visit the Imperial Garden on a heavy snowy day. It was simply inexplicable!
Wei Jiaoniang looked around, fearing that someone would eavesdrop on her face.
The howling wind and snow around them became the most natural barrier, and there was no one in front of them.
Wei Jiaoniang seemed to be a thief and whispered: "My mother told me that the Empress Dowager is going to choose a prince's concubine for the eldest prince."
"So that's it." Lu Qin gently stroked his palm.
Now, when I think back to the style of Queen Mother Yuan asking questions in the warm cabinet, Lu Qin suddenly realized.
The wife of the Duke of Wei knew that her daughter was a straightforward person, so she analyzed the current situation with her daughter in the carriage and Empress Dowager Yuan’s little thoughts, because she was afraid that her daughter would accidentally be trapped by the Queen Mother.
"My mother said that the eldest prince and King Kang are about the same age, only two or three years apart, and are both at the age of marriageable."
"If the Empress Dowager casually says that she wants to make a marriage for the eldest prince, it will inevitably lead to a quarrel. Now that King Kang's marriage has been decided, the Empress Dowager can make the excuse that he cannot ignore the other side and let the emperor decide the eldest prince's marriage as well."
Empress Dowager Yuan was determined to make King Kang take power, so she naturally would not find a powerful Yue family for the eldest prince. She would definitely dig a hole for the eldest prince, just like she was embarrassed by Gu Yanfei in the warm pavilion!
Thinking about what happened just now, Wei Jiaoniang looked at Gu Yanfei with pity, as if she was watching a beautiful flower that was almost destroyed by someone.
"Ha, Emperor Zhenzhen is not in a hurry to the eunuch."
The emperor is worried about the eldest prince’s marriage, so the empress dowager needs to meddle in other people’s business!
Wei Jiaoniang held an umbrella in one hand and held Gu Yanfei's hand in the other, and promised seriously: "Don't worry, Yanfei, I will help you."
The eldest prince is the most compatible with her Yan Fei, and she will never let others intercept her.
She said that she would help Yan Fei!
"I will help you too." Lu Qin took Gu Yanfei's right arm and patted his chest happily.
Lu Qin and Wei Jiaoniang have been having a handkerchief for more than ten years, and immediately realized it. They exchanged a clever look with her, meaning that they understand it themselves!
Gu Yanfei, who was sandwiched between the two, only understood half of it, that Empress Dowager Yuan wanted to choose the princess for Chu Yi, and she would definitely not choose it well.
But why do they all help her?
The surrounding snow is windy and snowy, and the snowflakes drift under the umbrella with the wind.
Before she could figure it out, Wei Jiaoniang let out a breath of white breath from her lips, blowing away the snowflakes, sneered sarcastically, and said, "My mother also said that the Empress Dowager is afraid that she has taken a fancy to me and wants me to be a concubine for King Kang."
Is that right?! Lu Qin widened her eyes, as if she was struck by lightning, and her chin almost fell off because of shock.
The next thought is: Is the Queen Mother’s brain broken?!
"Hmph." Wei Jiaoniang curled her lips and snorted, and said proudly to the two of them, "I think, be beautiful!"
She said word by word, her cheeks bulging.
Chapter completed!