The Way of Favors

Today is the last day for the King An and King Su brothers to choose their concubines. Not surprisingly, in the morning after the emperor and a few empresses have personally seen people, the marriage will be announced in the afternoon. The family members of the various prefectures are curious about whose daughter will fly to the branch, and the ministers of the Central Government also value which family of the princes and wives fall into. It is inevitable to say a few words when traveling together in the next dynasty.

Fu Pinyan walked calmly, seemingly indifferent to the whispering jokes nearby, but now there was a faint blue color.

Fu Pinchuan patted him on the shoulder, "Don't think too much until the result is out."

He didn't know how to persuade him. A niece and a niece, both of whom are not high-born, are all beautiful and beautiful. This time they entered the palace, most of them... and the wife was taken home as a concubine so sour, until now he is like this Father can't let go.

Fu Pinyan nodded, Yu Guangli caught a few figures heading towards the Chongzheng Hall, and he stared sideways.

It was Prince Su and others, and Wang An also came.

Those are the real pride of heaven. The daughters he has loved for more than ten years will let them choose, not necessarily...

Fu Pinyan quickened his pace.

The prince and others entered the Chongzheng Hall.

Emperor Jiahe raised his head from the desk, glanced at the three bridegrooms in turn, smiled and put down the royal pen, went to sit on the couch over there, and looked at Wang An and said: "Look, you Qishu, you want to follow A few nephews beg for a daughter-in-law together, not to mention that the eldest and second child are about to become fathers."

King Kang laughed, his phoenix eyes were almost squeezed out by the fat on his face.

Emperor Jiahe glared at him, and King Kang shut up immediately and stroked his nose in a slanderous manner.

Xu Ping reluctantly handed over to Jiahe Emperor: "In front of a few of them, Brother Huang should stop teasing me."

"Well, I will spare you once." Emperor Jiahe nodded and asked how the Five Sons Palace was repaired.

The fifth prince had been made king at the beginning of the year. The house selected by Emperor Jiahe himself was repaired and expanded by the Ministry of Engineering. Of course, the king knew the progress well. At this time, he stepped forward and replied: "Everything is basically repaired. ."

The prince smiled upon hearing the words: "Father, did you hear that, fifth brother, this is implying that you set his wedding day earlier."

Cheng Wang was embarrassed, and his face became pale and flushed with urgency. He hesitated and said, "I didn't mean that..."

Several people joked with each other and enjoyed themselves in the hall.

Only Xu Jin has no expression on his face.

Emperor Jiahe wondered who his son fell in love with, and after a few more conversations, he dismissed everyone else, leaving Xu Jin alone to ask: "Jingxing, I will go to the Royal Garden in half an hour, so don't tell me anymore. , I chose the wrong person for you, don't blame the father."

Xu Jin was silent, and looked down after a while and said: "In the first month, the General Mansion hosted a banquet. I saw a girl."

Emperor Jiahe couldn't help leaning forward.

She was standing on the ice with her white face in her mind. Xu Jin smiled and looked directly at the man in front of her and said: "Father, the son is after the girl in the second room of Jingyang Houfu, Fu Pinyan's second daughter, her appearance Outstanding, my son thinks that only she is worthy of me."

Emperor Jiahe was taken aback, and followed Xu Jin to curse: "The cheeky is thick enough! But my son, Long Zi and Feng Zhang, really few girls can match you, it seems that the Fu family girl is very beautiful."

Xu Jin defaulted.

After the doubts were cleared, Emperor Jiahe did not immediately agree, and he muttered: "But is her status a bit low? If you like it, I will point her to you as a concubine, and the concubine will choose a real famous lady. "The fifth princess came from the official residence of the Kingdom of Qing, and the fourth one was just a daughter of a concubine. What would the courtiers think?

Xu Jin declined: "The father is kind to the son. It's just that the son's vision is high, and ordinary women can't see it. It's rare to meet one who is too lazy to care about her identity. It is her who controls me to marry, regardless of her natal family. "

This was impulsive and irrational, he said it for granted, but Emperor Jiahe could not speak for a long time after hearing it.

I don't care about the influence of the wife's clan, maybe only the fourth son would think so? The remaining princes, not to mention themselves, their mothers, stepmothers, and concubines, who doesn't want their son to marry a master wife? Even the queen, who has a prince, also gave the second child a maiden niece to increase the bargaining chip.

The fourth child also has a cousin, but Concubine Shu didn't take the initiative to mention it, and it was all up to him.

The fourth child is also a fool himself, regardless of his wife's status, do you really like that girl?

When he was young, he admitted that he was deeply affectionate and could not marry that person.

"Okay, I know everything, don't worry, it will make you wish." Emperor Jiahe waved his hand to signal Xu Jin to go down.

Fengyi Palace.

The queen stood in front of a luxuriant plant and asked casually: "Why are you here now? I'm going to the Royal Garden in a while."

The prince waved his hand to the maids who were waiting on the side, and approached the queen and said: "Mother, the son has only one side concubine in the palace. Why not choose the concubine today and point her son to another?"

The queen paused with her hand touching the petals of the peony, her expression unchanged: "Let's talk about it, which girl is she looking at again."

The prince whispered.

The queen sneered, turned and walked to another Erqiao, "You are a flower admirer, and you know the beauty of Erqiao, but don’t forget, the Fu family is also a family of honor, they will let two daughters give you When the side concubine is going? It’s not ashamed to say that they are not ashamed, I don’t think the face is light, you die early!"

I caught a glimpse of the scissors in the tray next to him, and cut out the Er Qiao.

She really hates iron but steel. Two sons, the eldest became the prince, but they couldn’t do anything except a good pair of skins. Wen was not as good as Duan Fei’s becoming king. Wu was not as good as Shu Fei’s Su Wang. That’s all, this person is not just thinking. Enterprising, but also thinking about the game flowers all day. As for the second child, he didn't even have a skin, and the emperor would be blind to him.

The more I thought about it, the more angry, the queen threw the scissors in time, fearing that she could not help but poke her son.

After being scolded, the prince consciously failed, and hurriedly followed up to pinch the shoulders of the queen, while pressing the person on the chair, said: "The queen has calmed down, because the son wants to be left, but the son really likes her and cannot marry her as a concubine. It’s okay for the queen to let her lose the election and go home. The son promises that as long as he wins her, he will never be disturbed in the future and study in peace."

The beauty returned home, and he would look for another chance another day, and brought him back to the house to be a concubine.

The queen didn't bother to care about him.

The prince kept begging to be grinded, and the queen was impatient, so she asked who he was after, and then went to the Royal Garden.

The candidate for the lady was also ready, and one by one came out of the house in a splendid manner, and when he went out, his eyes were first on the opponents in the courtyard.

Haughty like Li Huarong, wearing a big red dress, at first glance, it looks like a gorgeous purple phoenix in a peony.

As beautiful as Cui Wan, with pink make-up floral tress with plain white dress, delicate and soft like Zhao powder.

People with low status, such as Shen Qing, chose simple and elegant light green skirts. On the contrary, there is a kind of refined and refined charm in the red skirt and pink dress.

After standing, everyone waited quietly for the other companions. When Fu Rong's door opened, the courtyard suddenly became quiet for a moment.

But unlike what they expected, Fu Rong did not make a sudden appearance after a few days of low-key. He is still in that unremarkable outfit. The precious hairpin on the bun is simple and simple, and the dress on the body is also rare. The material will never make people laugh when worn out, but the color is too common, and it is also pink, which is not much lighter than Cui Wan's...

This kind of dressing clearly just doesn't want to get ahead.

Some people breathed a sigh of relief quietly, while others were puzzled.

Suddenly, Fu Rong smiled and stood beside Shen Qing.

"Sister San..." Shen Qing asked in a low voice, not finished, but she believed Fu Rong could understand.

Fu Rong smiled as she looked at her dress that looked like fresh spring grass, and said softly, "Because I'm the same as my sister, I don't want to."

Shen Qing reluctantly pulled out a small smile.

Everyone is there, let's go to the Royal Garden together.

After waiting for a while beside the peony bushes, I finally caught a glimpse of Shengjia coming. Emperor Jiahe was walking side by side with the queen in gorgeous formal wear. In the back, Concubine Shu and other empresses whispered softly and moved to the pavilion before declaring to wait. Choose the little girls to meet in the pavilion.

Fu Rong didn't worry much about facing the saint at close range. Before going out, she put a thick powder on her face, and deliberately drew a picture down from the end of her eyes, so that she would not stand out among the beauties. Fu Rong didn't even use Huatian, and deliberately let the bangs down so that Huatian would not attract attention.

After the salute, Fu Rong and Shen Qing stood side by side behind the other two girls, lowering his eyebrows and closing his eyes.

Emperor Jiahe turned to talk to Concubine Shu, as if not paying attention to her.

The queen glanced at Fu Rong. Just as the four of them were going down, Emperor Jiahe suddenly turned her head and asked Fu Rong, "Are you Fu Pinyan's second daughter?"

When Fu Rong's women came over, there was a female officer holding a sign next to him, and she would take out the sign alone when she caught the eyes of the emperor and the queen. Just now, when Fu Rong saw that the queen seemed to be ready to push people, his heartbeat almost stopped nervously. I don’t know if Wang An didn’t take care of it well, or because he accidentally dressed up too ugly. Answered.

Emperor Jiahe nodded: "It looks good."

Concubine Shu looked at him questioningly, then at Fu Rong. So far, the emperor has personally praised only three people. Concubine Shu guessed that the son had already confessed to his father. Could it be that this girl Fu might also be the one his son liked?

She looked strange, and if the queen felt it, her eyes darkly swept back and forth between Emperor Jiahe and Fu Rong.

The female officer next to her took out Fu Rong's sign wittily and put it on another tray.

After that, seeing Emperor Jiahe no longer interested, the queen signaled Fu Rong's four daughters to go down.

Fu Rong's face was calm, and he was ecstatic.

Wang An must beg the emperor, right?

After continuing to admire the peony for a while, Fu Rong was finally able to leave the palace and go home after Jiahe and the others moved.

Near noon, Xu Ping once again entered the Chongzheng Hall.

Emperor Jiahe ordered Wanquan to pass a few portraits to him, and smiled: "These are the most outstanding of this group of noble ladies. Two of them were unreasonably ordered by the four and five concubines, so I won’t give them. You see, you choose from here, the concubines and concubines together, and after the selection, I will select the concubines for a few small concubines."

Xu Ping smiled and sat down.

After flipping one after another, there was no one who was expecting it.

At the last one, Xu Pingliang smiled bitterly, put down the portrait, and knelt in front of Emperor Jiahe: "Please forgive me, Brother Emperor."

"What are you doing?" Emperor Jiahe got up to help him.

Xu Ping can’t afford it, and calmly said: “Please forgive me for the crime of being above the top. Brother Huang chooses girls to be good, but unfortunately there is no one who can see me. Brother Huang, there is a problem with Buyang. No matter how good it is, it must be pleasing to the eye. The wife is even more so. If there is no suitable one, it is better to follow the example of the ancient wife Hezi."

"You, take a closer look, there is really no one in your eyes?" Emperor Jiahe didn't believe in evil, went to look at the portrait and mentioned a few. Xu Ping remained silent, even Emperor Jiahe offered to lead the real person to the front. He chooses, he shouldn't.

He was stubborn, and Emperor Jiahe was furious and blasted people out.

Xu Ping knelt outside the Chongzheng Hall for another half an hour before returning to the mansion with perfect persuasion.

Fu Rong had no knowledge of the situation in the palace.

She held her brother who hadn't seen her for a few days to speak with her family. Fu Wanke had come here long before her father and brother returned on duty.

While chatting, someone from the main courtyard was sent over to urge them to change their clothes and take orders.

What will there be at this time?

Fu Rong suppressed joy in his heart, and hurried over with his family in a hurry.

When we arrived at the main courtyard, the old lady and others had arrived.

Shen Qing stood next to the old lady, and Fu Rong looked over and found that Shen Qing had changed into the usual relaxed and sweet look, unlike the pale girl when she walked out of the pavilion because she was unsuccessful.

Fu Rong really admired such a city.

The family simply greeted him, declaring that the father-in-law coughed softly when they saw everyone there.

The old lady immediately led a young man to kneel down.

The father-in-law of Xuanzhi walked into the courtyard with the imperial decree, and slowly unfolded: "The emperor has a decree, and the second daughter Fu Rong, who has the right to the political and the right to the political, has both talents and virtues and outstanding appearance..."

The series of four-character words are all praises of Fu Rong.

Shen Qing felt sour in her heart. Looking at Fu Rong’s performance in the palace, she really didn’t want to be a side concubine, but Shen Qing thought, thinking very much. As long as the prince’s side concubine is not King Kang, everything is better than marrying Fu You. What you want is got, but what you want is nothing.

Fu Rong floated above the clouds, listening to the heavens, until...

"...Special gift to marry the emperor's fourth son Su Wang as the princess..."

The father-in-law of the decree continued to recite, and his melody was frustrated, but Fu Rong couldn't hear anything. Only the word "Su Wang" remained in his mind.