Queen of the Lin family in the Red Chamber

It was not a lie that Wanyu said that she wanted to inquire about Xue Baochai, but Aunt Xue's words meant more than this, so what's the use of inquiring?The ultimate goal is still to let people help to say a few words, it is best to let Xue Baochai enter the palace.

But Wanyu felt that Aunt Xue didn't say anything, so she could just ask.

You can't ask the queen this kind of question, and the queen doesn't care about such trivial matters, so Wanyu asked Aunt Cuizhu after entering the palace to greet her.

Aunt Cuizhu is the most important one under the empress's staff. From Wanyu's point of view, most of the affairs in the empress's palace are in charge of her, and even when the empress is impatient, she is in charge of them. Anyway, you are right to ask her.

"Auntie." Almost at the Shenwu Gate, she finally spoke.

Cuizhu smiled, and said: "I see that you hesitated all the way, but what's the matter?"

"I have one at home..." Wanyu paused, pretending not to know what to say. "Actually, it can't be said that it belongs to my family. It's just a relative who sent his daughter to the palace for a small election. He didn't pass it. I want to ask what went wrong."

Cuizhu nodded, can the relatives of Mr. Xiang's family participate in the election?Thinking that she was not a serious relative, she nodded and asked, "What's that girl's maiden name? Where is she from? Who is her ancestor?" The girl's family name will not appear on the paper, and the probability of repeating the name is too high. It is too big, so it is all distinguished by birthplace, surname and ranking, plus the official positions of father and grandfather.

"Jinling Xue's family is thirteen this year. Her ancestor is Ziwei Sheren. She seems to be the only girl in the family."

This sentence did not sound so certain, Cuizhu was even more sure that this was a poor relative, she nodded and said: "Don't worry, girl, you will have a letter next time you come to the palace."

Wanyu thanked her and left the palace with a sigh of relief.

Less than a month later, Mother Jia received a letter from Wanyu, and the more she looked at it, the more ugly her face became.

In the letter, Wanyu didn't call Sister Bao any more, and only said that the elder brother of the girl from the Xue family had a name. This girl was rejected in the first pass of the Internal Affairs Office's assessment, and the comment was only four words, "virtuous and dirty".

Wanyu also tried to persuade her, Xue's family is an imperial merchant, there must always be people pouring dirty water on them, and grandmother doesn't have to care too much, and why should she be sent to the palace to serve others with her good-looking daughter.

Before writing the letter, Wanyu actually thought about it for a long time. As for whether Jia's mother knew about Xue Pan's beating to death, she probably concluded that she didn't know.

This matter was handled by Jia Yucun, no matter how rich and powerful the Xue family is, and no matter how much Xue Pan stays there, they will not spread the news of instructing subordinates to beat people to death, but Mrs. Wang probably knows about it. Jia Zheng also knew that as for hiding from Jia's mother, Mrs. Wang's mind was easy to guess, it was Jia Zheng...

However, Jia Yucun didn't work as a teacher in Lin's mansion, and Wang Ziteng didn't rise as high as before, but Xue's family still lived in Jia's mansion.

Wanyu sighed, what she wrote in the past was all the truth, of course she did not deny that there was revenge for Daiyu being framed, and Aunt Xue originally wanted Daiyu to enter Xue's house.What's more, if Xue Pan ordered his subordinates to beat a person to death, shouldn't he be punished?Besides, she has worked so hard, if it is still the same as the original book, she will still be dead when she goes back.

About a month after the letter was sent, Wanyu heard the news that Xue's family had moved out of Jia's mansion, and she finally had another thing on her mind.

Autumn is here, and the number of girls in the palace is gradually increasing. Although the draft will not be until next spring, there is still half a year to go, but things like getting married are basically planned from the moment a daughter is born.

The first wave of petitions was from the royal family. Those who have a girl in the family want to marry out, and those who have a boy in the family should come to say hello tentatively first, to see if the girl they fancy has been settled. Especially if it was decided by the people in the palace, if the girl obviously couldn't belong to them, they would have to talk about the girl who ranked second on their list.

It's always about everyone finding out about each other, sorting out the outstanding ones first, and solving the quarrels and fights first, so as to save time when the time comes.

Wanyu also saw her suspected stepmother, the youngest daughter of the Prince of Dongping County.In this day and age, although girls are drafted from the thirteenth year, they still have to pass the sixteenth when they really marry. Firstly, getting married too early is not good for the health. This is the reason why it is said that things that are too easy to get are not worth cherishing.

If you don't look at it from the perspective of the stepmother, this girl is not suitable to be a best friend, she is too boring, of course, the queen's entry into the palace is not to be innocent and lively, most of the girls are like models after entering the palace, tactful Yu also stopped pretending to be a child in front of the queen after giving the prince a lot of ideas this year.Pretending to be false.

This girl can sit upright without moving, her voice is low enough that she can hear clearly, her walk is weak, although the style of painting is not right if the beauty walks too fast, but this one.Wanyu also secretly calculated in her heart, if she really married in, she might not be her match.

But Father Lin is really a good man who doesn't harm the little girl, Wanyu gave her father several compliments in her heart.

Now that she has calmed down about the stepmother incident, Wanyu can calmly agree with Father Lin that this person really cannot marry. If Father Lin marries the daughter of the county king, he will become a consort in disguise. Most of these people are idle, and the emperor is probably reluctant to let him have been trained for a long time, a versatile and outstanding cabinet scholar, to take care of some trivial matters.

Wanyu calmed down completely, and smiled at the little girl through the screen.She was able to sit behind the screen and accompany the queen to watch the little girl because of her good reputation.The queen means, "Help me find out which of them is lucky. There are many people to be selected this year."

Indeed, among other things, the Crown Prince’s family will have several people coming in. The Crown Prince committed a crime in front of him. That year, many concubines died in his backyard due to depression, and most of them were young. Now counting the Prince’s backyard may Not even ten people left.

Then there are two emperors and grandchildren in the prince's family who are going to get married. The second prince's family also has a son who is old. The family members of the third prince and the fourth prince have been demoted to common people and are no longer under the control of the queen. There seems to be one in the fifth prince's family. There is the eighth prince, and there are several county kings' families.Wanyu admired the queen very much when she counted halfway through. Although the mothers of each family have a list in hand, it is not ruled out that they have not taken a fancy to any of them so far, and only mentioned a few restrictions.So the queen has to look at the person first, and then summarize all the information. In short, it is a labor-intensive job that may sometimes be thankless.

Wanyu is performing her duties, she doesn't know much about faces, but she knows what kind of person the elderly queen likes.

Round face, big eyes, rosy skin, not too weak body bones, moderate height, short, fat and thin, but a little more rounded, but not more like a piece of paper, and then full of energy, a little more generous.

Among other things, those who agree with this condition are mostly in good health, and most of them are not too sick, which can be regarded as a kind of blessing.

So I stayed with the queen for a month, and the queen became more and more satisfied. Looking at the people who were selected, they were so pleasing. The queen always felt that she had been with Wanyu for a long time. The people they both look at are pretty much the same.

But this time the queen looks at people, a dignified woman, aged fifteen or sixteen, is the key point.Although the emperor didn't invent the decree, he said in private that he would abdicate at the end of the year, so next year's draft will have to select a few people for the new emperor to enrich the harem.

Ordinarily, the new queen should take care of this matter, but the current queen is not very good with the current crown princess, and the crown princess's taste is far from that of the prince, so the queen is not at ease with her.Remove the titles of empress and concubine, this is a pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. It is normal that the relationship is not good, but the concubine is not very liked by the prince.

Well, the above is all false to the prince. The important thing is that the princess has no interest at all, so after giving birth to a son-in-law, the prince will not touch her very much, so the relationship between the husband and wife is not good, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not good. good.Except for the occasional praise from the old emperor for her dignity and generosity, the Crown Princess doesn't get much praise.

This afternoon, the queen might have been a little dizzy after sitting in the room for a long time, so she said: "The weather is fine today, you can accompany me to the imperial garden."

Today the empress recruited the ministers' daughters, so Wanyu didn't sit behind the screen, and pretended to be the object of acquaintance, and entered the palace with the five girls.

In fact, there is no need to pretend, the queen is also thinking that it is better to promise her to Kang De or Kang Yang.If the prince's son-in-law was not too old, she would be worthy of marrying.

The queen looked at Wanyu who was holding her hand, and was having a good chat with a girl next to her who was also a cabinet scholar's family, thinking that Wanyu could only go to her son's house.

In fact, Wanyu was not very happy chatting, this girl's surname was Sun, her grandfather had the same position as Father Lin, and was only five years older than Father Lin, and Miss Sun was one year older than her.Thinking about my younger brother who is only nine years old this year, alas, the third generation of her Lin family is nowhere in sight, so it is not a good thing to have a child late.

The autumn is crisp, and the imperial garden is very lively, because there are many people in this afternoon.

The queen took the daughters of six ministers.

The concubine died of dystocia during childbirth with her mother. Kang Wen, the sixth child, is already married. Today is to pay her respects to her daughter Jing Qi.

There is also a son of the crown prince, Kang He, who is 25 this year, with Kant and Kang Yang, as well as the sons of the Xining County King and Nan'an County King's family.

So the imperial garden was a bit crowded, and after the three parties met, it only took a quarter of an hour to salute.In fact, life in the palace is quite hard, and there is a lot of attention to paying respects, especially when several parties are intertwined, one must not hesitate at all, and immediately pay respects in order of priority.

Because following the queen, it can be regarded as borrowing momentum, Wanyu and the others were the last to salute.

The three parties stood still, waiting for the queen to speak.

The queen looked opposite, she knew who the prince was bringing with him, they were all going to enter the palace next year, presumably the purpose of entering the palace now was to discuss with the emperor, the princess probably came in by accident.

"You little ones go for a stroll, Rong De, and Kang He, you two come and sit with me." The queen stopped the princess and the prince's son, and turned to go to the gazebo.

Most of the boys that Kang He took with him were meant to match the girls in her hands, so we might as well let them get in touch with each other first, since they were all in the palace anyway, and a few words would not cause any loss to their reputation.

But in the end, there were a total of five people who sat in the small pavilion, except for the two named by the queen, there were Jing Qi and Kang Wen.

After the crown prince was imprisoned, Kang Wensheng couldn’t move because his biological mother had a body. He made his voice in the palace. The queen’s feelings for him were a bit complicated. I didn’t like him at first, but now I feel that all the hardships have come when I saw him, so I sat down. He brought the person over.

"Jingqi looks thinner." The queen embraced Kang Wen and said, "But she is sick."

Jingqi shook her head, and said: "These two seasons have changed, I'm a little irritable, I can't eat."

The queen nodded and stopped asking.

However, the Crown Princess' eyes were not right, looking at the queen with a bit of resentment, just now Jingqi's crying in her palace was still ringing in her ears.

"Mother..." Jingqi cried: "Why did you choose such a person for your daughter in the first place? First she beat and scolded, and then when her father came out, he just...he just..." Jingqi rolled up her sleeves, and her arms were covered with Blue Banner, "He said it was all boudoir fun. He has strong hands, and my daughter has nowhere to sue her."

Jingqi broke down in tears, "All the maids in my room were killed by him..."

The concubine's heart was full of complaints against the queen. When Jingqi got married, the two of them were still imprisoned in Yuqing Palace, but the queen was still there, and she didn't make decisions for her granddaughter at all.And they didn't pick this reckless man at the beginning. Jingqi's son-in-law was a descendant of Duke Zhen, the second son of the family, a young scholar who likes to read, and his writing is weak. She looks good, see Jingqi I liked it a few times, who knows that people have changed when they are about to get married.

From a scholar to a reckless man, from a descendant of the Duke of Zhen to a guard, although he is a fifth-rank Beijing official, although the original little scholar has no official position at all, it is obvious that the descendants of the Duke of Zhen are more suitable for Jing Qi.

The Crown Princess blamed the queen in her heart, but she couldn't say it out. Apart from crying with her daughter, she could only comfort her, "It's almost over, bear with it."

The few people in the gazebo were not on the same mind, most of the young married men and women outside the gazebo were blushing.Several people formed a team and walked slowly along the road paved with gravel.

Among this group of people, the oldest is the second son of Nan'an County King, Rui Qi, who is sixteen this year, and the youngest is the prince's bastard Kang Yang, who has just passed his 11th birthday.

But it was Kant who broke the silence first, he said: "Miss Lin, I had the honor to listen to Mr. Lin's lectures last time at the Sutra Banquet. I am indeed very talented and educated."

For some reason, Wanyu always felt that this adjective was not very pleasant, she blessed her body slightly, and said: "I thank you for your compliment on behalf of my father."

At this age, the boy's height advantage has not yet been fully revealed, so when Wanyu raised her head to reply, she saw Kant's red ears, from the red earlobe to the tip of the ear, almost dripping blood.

Well, I can understand why he couldn't find a good word, he was nervous.

As long as someone speaks first, the rest of the people are not too nervous.The second person to speak was Ruiqi, he said: "There is a maple tree in the imperial garden, not far in front, how about we go and have a look?"

Miss Sun who was closest to him gave a small hum, and her face turned as red as Kant's ears.

A few people walked to the big tree and walked around the tree for a week. If there were only two people, it would be quite ambiguous, but now there are a lot of people, and the ratio of male to female is not coordinated. There are six girls and only four boys.

Kang Yang looked up for a long time, and suddenly said: "Sister Lin, there is a bird's nest in the tree."

This topic has never been seen before or since. If it was just the two of them, maybe Wanyu would go on to talk about digging out bird nests, but now there are too many people, Wanyu can only smile and say vaguely You said something like your eyesight is fine.

But this interruption made the atmosphere much better, Rui Qi also walked up to her, and said with a smile: "My mother and concubine have been offering incense in the Avalokitesvara Nunnery all these years, and I don't want to let me see the real person."

Feelings are still a gold master. Wanyu thinks about her land of less than one mu, which can bring her an income of 1000 taels a year, and the land around her has also been auctioned at a high price. Then he smiled at this man and said, "I'll save some more next time."

Richie smiled, and the moment she turned her head, she said again, in a small voice, "You were quite small when you were young."

ah?This is the son of the King of Nan'an. I think the Concubine Nan'an asked for the clothes she wore back then, saying that she was asking for a son, but this one is three years older than her, so she must not have asked for this one.

But these words can be regarded as teasing, Wanyu looked at his height, the corners of her mouth slightly raised, she didn't say anything, you are not tall now.

The chatterbox opened up, and the atmosphere in the back was much more enthusiastic. Wanyu talked to all four boys, except for Kang Yang who obviously didn't have much idea of ​​gender, the remaining three... It's not that Wanyu is being passionate, It seems that they all came to her to express themselves.

Since discussing their marriage with Father Lin last time, the two of them have also spoken.In short, Wanyu is considered a hot commodity. With Lin Ruhai's official title, the favor of the old emperor and prince, the respect of the empress, and the relationship with Master Lianyin, Wanyu can probably be ranked at the top of the list of people who want to marry home in the capital. The three, especially the bonus of Master Lianyin, made her very popular among middle-aged and elderly women, that is, the class of mother-in-laws.

But also because of all kinds of positive bonuses, her marriage will probably involve a lot of well-matched couples, or she will be hooked up with the court.

Wanyu doesn't really care about this, she has a high emotional intelligence, and she can read well, as long as she doesn't have brain twitches, her life will not be bad in the future.

But in the end, Father Lin also said proudly, with your father's ability, you can marry whoever you like, which is giving up half of your autonomy to her.

Turning back to the subject, the queen reckoned that the time was almost up, and we could have a little contact before marriage, but it was just a matter of three or five sentences, and if we talked too much, we would go to the other extreme.The queen stood up and said, "It's almost time, you should go your separate ways."

The concubine took Kang Wen over, looked at her son and daughter, and said, "Kang He, take my sister back." By the way, she also gave her a long face, so as to save her from being bullied at her husband's house.

Kang He looked distressed, and said: "There are also two younger brothers from the county king's family, I have to send them out of the palace." After thinking for a while, he said: "There is no need to take many detours, but my sister has to wait a little bit .”

At this time, the mother sent by the queen to pick up the girls and the grandchildren of the emperor came back with people.

The Crown Princess looked at these young girls who were as young as water onions, her face was rosy, thinking about the purpose of the queen's move, and then looking at her pale and thin daughter, she couldn't help saying, "It's the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker. Or You have to take care of the famous festival."

Except for Wanyu, the faces of the rest of the girls turned pale, and the empress also lost face.But I still have to get over it first, and said softly: "It's getting late, you should go back. Cuizhu, each person will give a face, you send them out."

Xie En's voice was barely audible, and when the others left, he squinted his eyes and looked up and down the princess several times. He also thought of his granddaughter who was not so good. After all, he just snorted and said: "You should cultivate yourself these days. .”