An ugly girl starts off, then becomes a beauty

Sang Ling was unable to attend the autumn banquet at night.

After returning from the lake, I sneezed one after another, and snot and tears came out. I felt like I fell into an ice cellar and was cold all over.

Fortunately, the palace had a doctor, and someone came to see the patient at 3 p.m., and in the evening, Ya Nu was already boiling medicine in the next room. After Sang Wu came back, he asked a few questions, told the servants to take good care of Sang Ling, and without saying anything else, he took Sang Mei to the banquet.

After drinking the medicine, Sang Ling felt dizzy, so he went back to the tent and fell asleep.

The most lively place in the entire Huanlin Mountain Palace that night was of course the Yongshan Hall.

The eunuch placed sweet and delicious fruits and fine wine on each person's table. In this dynasty, both men and women had the habit of drinking and eating meat. After waiting for a while, several hard dishes were served in the hall. They were all beef and mutton from the north, freshly roasted, and the smell would make one drool. There were also rich sauces, and each dish was served in a lacquered dish with sorrel, pepper, ginger and garlic.

The banquet was not too formal. The ministers and their wives were laughing and joking, and the royal nobles were toasting each other. When they were in high spirits, there was even a scene of the emperor and his ministers dancing together. Empress Wu had just returned from toasting the Empress Dowager, and she had someone call up Madam Zhaoyu, the mistress of the Nie family.

The singer in the hall was singing "Something to Think About", the actors were plucking the strings of their zithers, and the hall was bustling with people chatting. Empress Wu had to raise her voice when talking to her sister.

"I saw a pretty girl today and wanted to tell her about Xuanwen."

"What do you think?"

Madam Zhaoyu put down the jade cup in her hand and hesitated slightly, "Whose?"

"From the Sang Wu family." Empress Wu smiled with some pride. "I went to the Liangfeng Pond today and saw a little girl who looked very happy. Later, I found out that she was the second daughter of the Sang family. Although she is only eleven years old this year, she has grown up to be very pretty. She is really a beauty. Rather than letting someone else lose her in the future, why don't you let your boy marry her early?"

"But..." Madam Zhaoyu was embarrassed. "Madam, you are not unfamiliar with Xuanwen. He has been invited to many girls by other families, but he doesn't like any of them. Even his grandfather can't do anything about this matter. This girl is only eleven years old. I'm afraid he doesn't like her. If he doesn't decide after meeting her properly, it will be embarrassing for his daughter."

"That's easy." Empress Wu patted her sister and said, "Let's not make it public yet. I'll call the Sang family's little daughter to talk to her later. You pretend you don't know anything and bring Xuanwen to greet me. When he sees the little daughter's appearance, he will definitely be satisfied."

No matter how beautiful she is, how beautiful can she be? When she came back from the northwest two years ago, she had already found a good-looking one for him - after all, the general had only one son, and even Master Nie wanted to arrange his marriage early. But he just didn't like any of them. There were maids of good appearance in the mansion. Who wouldn't have a few maids in the room of a young master of a noble family in Beijing at this age? But this boy didn't have such a preference. Although as an elder, you can't expect your children to be too obsessed with sex, but if you don't see any movement, and he doesn't want to be happy if you take the initiative to arrange a marriage for him, it's inevitable that people will think wrongly. Madam Zhaoyu is afraid that her son doesn't like women.

Moreover, the national atmosphere is like this, and male homosexuality is prevalent everywhere, even the former crown prince is not...

"Yes." But facing Queen Wu, even though she was his sister, he couldn't say anything else.

Let's just take a look. It would be best if he agrees this time.

So the next day, Sang Mei was called over by Queen Wu's people.

At that time, Sang Wu was about to go to the tent to meet up with several colleagues. When he heard this, he couldn't hide his joy at first, and immediately thought of the banquet yesterday. Could it be that Empress Wu had chosen A-Mei? If he could get the favor of the Queen Mother, he would naturally be happy.

But then he shook his head again. After all, A-mei was only eleven years old this year. If she was chosen, the prince would have been married long ago, and there were many concubines and children in the palace. There were also several other princes, but they were all too old.

The father sighed deeply, and finally nodded helplessly, "Go."