[Red Mansions] The Road to Empress Dowager

The next day, the top three paraded through the streets on horseback, attracting many ladies to secretly book a private room near the window of the restaurant to peep.The number one scholar is 39 years old, but the second place in the list is handsome, while Tanhualang is a peerless handsome young man.

Thinking about the family of the court officials, if Xiao Jingyun hadn't been the son of Dingzhonghou, he would have been listed as a son-in-law long ago, but his identity is not something everyone can catch and leave.

In the evening, Xinke Scholars went to the Palace for the Qionglin Banquet. Although this dynasty was not as good as the Qionglin Garden in the Song Dynasty, Tu Yuanyi held the banquet in a garden in Beiyuan.

In Beiyuan Garden, flags are fluttering, dragons are dancing in the tent, gold and silver are shining, and jewelry is shining.

260 The six Jinshi feasted here, admired the flowers and wrote poems, chatted and drank with the same subjects, the most proud of a scholar's life is the present.Once a person enters the officialdom, it is another journey.

Whether it is Jia Huan, or the Shi family brothers, or the No. [-] Scholar, No. [-], or Tan Hua in this division.

At the Qionglin Banquet, Tu Yuanyi also appeared for a while, drinking with Xinke Scholars, but he didn't stay long, and won't go into details.

However, a few days later, Xing Xiuyan finally obtained a list of unmarried Jinshi from Tu Yuanyi at that time. In fact, there are not many, including Jia Huan and Shi Cong, there are no more than nine in total.Don't even think about Xing Xiuyan, Xiao Jingyun and Xing Xiuyan, the eldest son of Dingzhong Hou's son Tan Hualang. With his family background, he even dislikes the Lord Shang.

But based on such a list, there is no other information, how to ask Xing Xiuyan to choose a husband and son-in-law for sister righteousness, so he had to stick to Tu Yuanyi again, but the emperor just took Qiao's reluctance to fulfill his concubine's wishes and gave the matter to him neatly. After finishing it, I prefer to hang her.

Xing Xiuyan had no choice but to send food and a purse, but he took the things and didn't tell her which one to choose.Xing Xiuyan knew that the married man's character was very important, but some of the scholars looked dignified and polite, but they were actually Jia Yucun and his like.Where is the opinion of Tu Yuanyi, who can see everything clearly after going through "history"?

Xing Xiuyan had no choice but to make clothes for him. She personally selected good materials such as brocade and Luo, and designed and cut them.

She hurried for seven days, and finally finished a blouse this afternoon.Even if she now knows how to absorb some spiritual energy from this world and how to breathe it out, she is still exhausted in rushing to finish these things.

When Tu Yuanyi entered her room, he saw her leaning on the couch and falling asleep with the clothes he made in her hand.

He went to caress her cheek, Xing Xiuyan woke up startled, saw him and smiled slightly and said: "The sage is here, er, it just so happens that the sage tries on the casual clothes made by my concubine for you."

Then she called Zi Yue and Xue Jue to come in, and took out everything she had made, from inner garments to robes, from wiping foreheads to belts and purses.

Tu Yuanyi allowed her to dress and dress, seeing the style and stitching of this dress, it was beyond the reach of ordinary embroiderers, and he was secretly proud of it.

Xing Xiuyan smiled and praised "the majesty of the emperor", "handsome and unrestrained", "this man should only be in the sky", "once he sees a saint, he will be wrong forever".Ziyue and Xueyue were too embarrassed to listen outside, but couldn't help but want to laugh, Zhao Gui gave them a glare, and they stopped laughing.

Tu Yuanyi stood in front of the big silver mirror, looking at this straight white dress, the front of the clothes was embroidered with gold thread, and the outer was covered with a luxurious moonlight robe, and there was a layer of "moonlight and light smoke". Purple burqa.The belt is even more luxurious and embroidered with gold thread, inlaid with seven large and small gold inlaid gemstones.Xing Xiuyan also gave him her new fan painted with the fan of the roc spreading its wings.

"Sage, do you think there is anything you are not satisfied with?" Xing Xiuyan smiled flatteringly.

Tu Yuanyi tapped her forehead with a fan and said, "I am very satisfied with the clothes, but I am not satisfied with you."

Xing Xiuyan smacked his lips, drooped his brows and eyes, and said, "How can I not satisfy you?"

Tu Yuanyi swung his sleeves and robe, sat down on the couch, and said: "For your righteous sister's marriage, you have something to ask, so you try to please me in different ways, why don't you usually see you so attentive?"

Xing Xiuyan poured tea for him from the side, and said, "Qilang, I'm usually...women are reserved, right?"

"Reserved? When have you ever been reserved?" He raised his handsome eyebrows.

Xing Xiuyan felt this person's temperament, and sometimes she liked her to take the initiative, so she pounced on him and hugged his neck and kissed him several times on the cheek.

"It's just... presumptuous..." Tu Yuanyi really said no, but he really wanted it in his heart.His lips were blocked again by a pair of delicate lips, and his heart couldn't help but flutter.

Xing Xiuyan sat in his arms, looked at him with a smile from his lips, Tu Yuanyi's eyes flickered, and said, ""Nvjie" probably went to the dog's stomach..."

Xing Xiuyan begged: "Sage, don't play tricks on me. Which of the few candidates is better? If you don't act, you will be robbed by others. My sister is 20 years old this year, Qilang, please help me!"

Xing Xiuyan knew that Mr. Ruyi must be among them, he did not introduce the original ministers and members of the Xungui family, but chose among the new Jinshi, fearing that some people would have a bright future.

Tu Yuanyi smiled and said, "That's why you want her to get married. Didn't you say that women don't need to marry if they have money and a backer? I heard that your righteous sister is rich, and she has you as a backer."

Xing Xiuyan tapped his chest lightly, and said with a soft smile: "I was not sensible at the time, and I didn't know the goodness of the sage, how could the sage use the words that the little girl said at home to tease me! Aren't I stupid? If I were smarter, As early as in the south of the Yangtze River, the saint... and then the saint was lazy."

Tu Yuanyi laughed loudly, held her troublesome hand, subconsciously rubbed/squeezed it two points, and said: "If my concubine gives birth to a daughter for me, I will have to worry about it. If my princess is as beautiful as my concubine De Xisong, how can I find a son-in-law for her?"

Xing Xiuyan smiled and said: "If the concubine gives birth to a princess, the sage will choose a few candidates for child husbands for her, take care of them carefully, instill in them the thought of being loyal to the princess, being considerate and gentle, and choose the best one when the princess grows up. That's it. The princess doesn't need any prominent in-laws, because no matter how prominent she is, she is nothing but a citizen of the sage, so even if she is chosen from Jinyiwei, she will be defenseless."

Tu Yuanyi hooked her chin, teasingly said: "It turns out that this foster husband is Aifei's dream? Is Aifei still regretting not being a princess?"

Xing Xiuyan said: "No, how can there be a saint for a son-in-law? The saint is so handsome, Wen Bi Zijian, Wu Sheng Han Xin, and loving. He is the real wishful man. I am the happiest when I can be with the saint. thing."

Even if this milk is poisonous, he drank it.

"Aifei's mouth looks like it has been smeared with honey today."

Xing Xiuyan blinked and said, "Then why don't you try it, will it be sweet?"

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On the first day of April, Imperial Concubine Chen Fengjia went to Muni Court to offer incense, because Imperial Concubine Chen had been there last year, the people along the way were not surprised.

Mrs. Xing and Li are too heavy to go out, but Mrs. Sun of Lin Ruhai brought Daiyu and Su Fuer to Muni Courtyard to meet Xing Xiuyan.

Xing Xiuyan was resting in Miaoyu's quiet and elegant meditation room in the past. Although Mrs. Sun was Lin Ruhai's wife, she could not be regarded as Xing Xiuyan's adoptive mother.When Mrs. Sun visited, Xing Xiuyan also called her "Mrs. Lin". (Note: The World of Red Mansions does not refer to married women by their husband's surname, such as Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing are both wives with their maiden surnames.)

Xing Xiuyan also ordered them to retreat to the left and right, leaving only the three of them to talk. After a few words, Xing Xiuyan smiled and said: "This matter still requires the stepfather to come forward... I heard from the sage that there is now a senior official in the court, and there is a daughter at home. Marriage, the eyes are fixed on Dingzhong Hou Shizi, even the young master from the Jia family is also concerned by people... I begged the sage to send someone to investigate the other unmarried young talents in the new division Jinshi."

Tu Yuanyi picked her all the people who would go well in the officialdom in the future.

Chen Tingmin, second place in the list, was originally unmarried, talented, and at the right age. The Chen family is considered a rich poet and book family in the south of the Yangtze River.However, Chen Tingmin lost his father at the age of 16. After that, the widow became the eyeball. There was also a cousin who was raised by the widowed mother since childhood. The cousin is just 16 years old.Chen Tingmin is old and unmarried, so his widowed mother naturally wants him to be of a high family, so that with the help of his in-laws, she also feels that everyone is not good enough for her son.In the future, he also intends to let his cousin be the second wife, and his heart of not teaching his son has been won over by the future daughter-in-law of a noble family.

There is another Jinshi No. 20, three Fang Jing, 24 years old, from the Fang family of Tongcheng, he is a rich scholar family with a lot of people. sister-in-law.Fang Jing is the youngest son, and he has always been loved by his mother and grandmother. Seeing how the Fang family behaves, even if he doesn't take concubines, he will inevitably be given a housemaid by a double mother-in-law to hold his grandson and son's heart.

The last Jinshi 52 Tan Qian, 26 years old, from Hubei.His father died young, he became famous as a young man, and he won the [-]th Huguang Provincial Juren in his last subject. However, when his mother died and kept his filial piety by chance, he missed his first subject, Chunwei, and his own marriage.Originally, the Tan family was also a family of farming and studying, but after the successful Juren, the relatives of one brother and one sister attached, and the land that Juren could exempt from tax was relatively large. Although he was not rich in the past three years, he had no worries about food and clothing.

Xing Xiuyan introduced, and also showed a portrait of the man. The work of the East Factory scout was really meticulous, and he was worthy of Xing Xiuyan's flattery from Tu Yuanyi.She can dispatch Dongchang, but without Tu Yuanyi's approval, it is not easy for them to do this.

Judging from the portraits, the three of them are all gentle and handsome. Although they are not as glamorous as Tu Yuanyi, they are definitely candidates for the first-class husband-in-law of thousands of young girls.

Unmarried people like Su Fuer and Lin Daiyu blushed.Daiyu is old enough to listen to her daughter's private affairs, so she should understand some things, as long as they don't spread it to outsiders, there will be no hindrance.

Xing Xiuyan put away the portraits again, took them to the brazier and burned them all, and sat down again, and Daiyu helped her sit down again.

Xing Xiuyan looked at Su Fu'er and said with a smile: "It's hard to find a perfect marriage. These three people have talents and learning, and they also know how to behave in the world. I think they will not be lost in official careers in the future. Each has its strengths and weaknesses. Just look at it." How did my sister choose her future?"