10. I'd rather die than go home

(Sweating...... I forgot to note the previous chapter...... To add here, the statement of the twin sons is from "Xijing Miscellaneous Records", and the original text is "General Huo's wife." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoOne child and two sons. Suspicious brothers. Or he was a brother in his previous life. The younger is the younger brother. Today, though. It is also advisable to take the husband as a brother or the one who lives above should be a brother. It is advisable to be a younger brother. The underdog has a previous life. It is advisable to be a younger brother in the previous life. Shi Huo Guang heard it. It is said that the ancestor of King Yin gave birth to two sons. Said good. Born on the same day. The day is good. then take Yan as a brother. Take Liang as a brother. If you take the one who is above as your brother. He should also be a younger brother. In the past, Xu Lizhuang gave birth to two daughters. Said demon Mao. Dr. Chu Tang Le gave birth to two sons. One man and one woman. The man is called Sadafu. The woman is called Qionghua. All of them are long in the husband. In modern Zheng Chang, Wen Changqian gave birth to two boys. Teng Gong had two daughters in his life. Li Li gave birth to a boy and a girl. and the elder of the pre-living. Huo was also a brother in the previous life. In fact, the reference to this "General Huo" is not clear, so I will take it as a reference to Huo Quai! οΌ‰

Therefore, every year in August, the Shaofu will send officials to various places to participate in the comparison of households, and select the virgins of good families who are over thirteen and below twenty, beautiful and legal, and bring them back to the harem.

After these women are elected to the palace, they are the lowest-ranking family members in the court, and they are divided into the sons of the upper family, the middle family and the lower family according to the different family rents.

If the family is not a real harem concubine, if they can't get the blue eyes of the Son of Heaven, they are not favored, and when they reach the age of thirty, they will be sent out of the palace, if they are fortunate enough to be favored by the Sacred Heart and get the harem rank number, they can be regarded as the concubines of the Son of Heaven, unless the Son of Heaven has a special edict, otherwise, no matter whether they live or die, they cannot leave the palace.

Of course, after entering the palace, the nobles in the palace will also conduct another reading, so as not to have ministers and workers who are not suitable to enter the harem.

Empress Shangguan is young, last year's reading and selection was handled by the eldest princess of Eyi, this year, the young queen and the officials of the middle palace did not mean to ask, but the eldest princess of Eyi took the initiative to send someone to invite the queen to go, although the queen was not interested, but the middle palace thought that this opportunity should not be missed, so they instigated the queen to go.

Reading is actually not interesting, generally speaking, it is to let the woman go to the nobles for a trip, say a few words, and then it will be over.

Since his accession to the throne, the Shaofu has not selected a large range of good families every year, and only sent people to the counties of Sanfu to pick a few good families who are willing to enter the palace as if they were going through the motions.

In the third year of the first century, because the Son of Heaven was about to turn twelve years old, at the request of the eldest princess of Eyi, Shaofu really selected the good family who was ready to enter the Son of Heaven according to the old practice, a total of more than 30 people, but in addition to Zhou Yang's family, there were only five people who were really lucky. After the establishment of last year, and the southwest rebelled, the subordinate officials sent by the Shaofu only selected less than ten people to enter the palace, this year's southwest was pacified, and it was a rare good year, and the officials sent by the Shaofu seemed to want to show their eyesight, and it was still the counties of Sanfu, and nearly 100 people were actually selected.

The eldest princess of Hubei sent a family order to convey her meaning to the queen: "The first emperor started to build a chapter, and more than 1,000 people from Yan Zhao were selected to enrich it, and the spring and autumn period was rich. ”

The meaning of the officials in the middle palace is that reading the selection is the queen's power, although the queen is young, it is too early to say things like competing for favor, but the right and responsibility is the right and responsibility, since the eldest princess took the initiative to say, the queen is ignorant and ignorant, and must be present.

Raising the reading and election of a family member to the position of power and responsibility, Xijun no matter how boring he feels, he can't disagree. In fact, she also somewhat understood that most of the unanimous encouragement from the top and bottom of the middle palace was to distract her from the pain of losing her brother.

In fact, after Liu Yi had agreed to the incident a few days ago, her mood was much better. Seeing that everyone was so careful about their own plans, she couldn't refuse, so she agreed with the boat.

Since moving to Jianzhang Palace at the beginning of the year, Xijun has returned to Weiyang Palace for the first time, and he feels a little strange when he enters the Jiaofang Palace, not to mention the Changqiu Palace, which he rarely came to before.

The autumn lord slaughtered and was punished. The Changqiu Palace is actually the place where the middle palace disposes of affairs, therefore, Emperor Jing's general is in charge of the general line of the Xuanzhong Palace, and the general is renamed the Great Changqiu. Like Shaofu and Zhan Shi, Dachangqiu's rank of 2,000 stones can be said to be the highest level of officials in the palace.

According to the usual rules, the last reading of the good family to enter the palace should be carried out in the Changqiu Palace, which is not without warning those good family members from private families to abide by the palace rules, however, the queen may not be present, besides, there is also a false post.

In the first two years, the number of good families was not much, and the Son of Heaven lived in Jianzhang Palace, so he did not act according to the rules.

When Xijun arrived at the Changqiu Palace, the eldest princess of Eyi was already waiting. Looking at the eldest princess who was waiting under the palace, Xijun was not unapologetic: "The master has been waiting for a long time." ”

For this eldest princess, who is only the adoptive mother of the Son of Heaven, Xijun is not without fear, and has always been polite, and she is really a little uneasy about this situation.

"It didn't take long." The eldest princess of Hubei chuckled, stepped forward and took the queen's hand, and entered the palace with her.

Seeing the movements of the eldest princess, all the attendants of the middle palace frowned almost at the same time, but seeing that there were no officials in the palace, everyone did not speak after looking at each other, and bowed their heads and followed the queen into the palace gate.

The curtains in the hall are all rolled up, tied with the feather ribbon silk of the beads and hang down quietly, the incense is just right, on the ground screen in front of the hall, the embroidered curtain of the black flower of the red bottom has been opened, the green feather horn ornament, the ring is dazzling.

led the queen to the front of the tent, but the queen suddenly stopped, the eldest princess of Hubei couldn't help frowning, then bowed her head, and asked the queen with a smile: "What's wrong with the middle palace?" Not satisfied with the furnishings? ”

Xijun shook his head silently, withdrew his hand from the eldest princess's hand, raised his head and said to the eldest princess, "I will climb the stairs by myself." ”

It's just a triple order, but Zhang Zhuhu is the queen's main seat.

The eldest princess's face changed immediately, and she was about to open her mouth, but when she saw that the queen had already ascended the stairs, she couldn't help but change her face again.

- Was it naΓ―ve, or did she deliberately remind her...... The queen is the heroine of the middle palace?

The change in the eldest princess's face naturally can't hide the eyes of everyone in the palace, in fact, the young queen's words are not very loud, everyone can hear it very clearly, like the eldest princess, many people are speculating about the queen's thoughts, but seeing the queen sitting calmly looking ahead, with a cold and indifferent look, it seems that she has not noticed anything, and everyone is not sure whether the queen, who has not been out of the dormitory since the loss of her brother, is still in a trance......

Others can still speculate, and their thoughts are flying, but the eldest princess of Hubei can only press all the displeasure, sit down on the seat on the right head of the stairs, and the palace people will put all kinds of soup and snacks on the lacquer table in front of the two.

After a while, the eldest princess of Eyi finally calmed down before saying, "If the middle palace thinks it's okay, let's start!" ”

Xijun glanced at Changyu beside him and nodded lightly: "According to the meaning of the elder lord." ”

"Let's get started!" The eldest princess turned her head and instructed her attendants to the palace people, and the palace people immediately went out to spread the word, but after a while, Ye Tingcheng led a few eunuchs carrying a case slip to the palace, and after saluting, handed over the book to the middle palace confessor and put it next to Zhu Hu, and she reported respectfully: "This time, a total of 93 people of good families of appropriate age were selected, all of whom were subordinate to the people, and they were submitted to the middle palace." ”

Xijun nodded, but did not speak, his own Changyu stepped forward to answer, and then, the family members who entered the palace entered the palace in a group of five, and entered the palace to participate in the ceremony.

Weiyang Palace has never lacked legends, after Queen Xiaohui, the Queen of the Han Dynasty is almost all women from ordinary backgrounds, and she can be a mother in the world just because of the grace of chance.

Although the middle palace has now been decided, looking at the childish queen in the embroidered hoove, who knows what those family members who seem to be humble and cautious think in their hearts?

Zhonggong looked at the beautiful girl up and down, and his heart was a little heavy, especially the chief and the confessor who were in charge of the inquiry, and the solemn color between the eyebrows became more and more obvious.

It seemed that there were less than a hundred people, but this reading still lasted until dusk, and when the last three girls stepped into the Changqiu Palace, everyone couldn't help but let out a long breath.

The posture of sitting upright was not comfortable, Xijun rubbed his eyebrows, and motioned for Changyu to finish quickly, but suddenly heard the eldest princess, who had not made a sound, ask sharply: "Who chose these three people?" ”

Suddenly, Xijun couldn't help but be stunned, turned his head to look at the eldest princess, but saw that her face was frosty, her eyes were full of anger, and she couldn't help frowning, and turned his eyes to the three family members who had walked to the palace.

The new members of the family are all wearing the same clothes when they enter the palace, and they can't see their original background, upbringing, plus the same makeup and accessories, and even the difference in appearance is not obvious, but even so, Xi Jun still feels that these three are indeed much worse than the previous family members.

Seeing that the queen also frowned slightly, and there was a puzzled look in her eyes, the insider immediately found the case books of the three and presented them to the queen, and at the same time reported in a low voice: "These three people are all selected by the court, and it is said that these three women have the appearance of suitable men." ”

After speaking, the envoy glanced at the queen, and was a little worried about whether the young queen could understand her words, but the queen didn't look at herself at all, and looked at the queen's line of sight, just in time to see Ye Tingcheng bowing her head in front of the eldest princess's table to explain, obviously, listening to his explanation, the eldest princess's face was much better.

The inner advisor Ling turned his head and was about to speak to the queen, but he happened to meet the queen's gaze, he couldn't help but bow his head weakly, and then heard the queen say very seriously: "Since the eldest princess is not satisfied, I will send these three family members out of the palace!" ”

Da Changqiu, who was standing next to the tent, immediately agreed, and everyone in the middle palace couldn't help but look at each other and smile.

- The queen couldn't have done a better job.

"Not really!" The eldest princess of Eyi, who was frightened by the queen's statement, came back to her senses and immediately objected, "I'm not dissatisfied!" ”

The young queen looked at the eldest princess with a puzzled expression: "Didn't the eldest lord question?" Isn't it dissatisfied? ”

The eldest princess of Eyi was speechless, and then replied categorically: "I'm not dissatisfied, I want to reward the people who chose these three people to enter the palace!" - These three couldn't have been better chosen. ”

Xijun nodded, looked at the three women, and after a moment, frowned: "But I think these three people are not the same as the previous family......

"People are not the same!" The eldest princess of Eyi categorically interrupted the queen's words.

"Really?" Xijun still looked at the three good sons with a hesitant expression, and after a while, everyone saw the young queen clapping her hands together, and suddenly said: "Yes!" They look ...... It's very different from the harem princesses! ”

Several palace people bowed their heads and snickered - the queen used vague words to describe the too ordinary appearance of the three people...... Ordinary is secondary, the problem is that the three of them have dark complexions, and they are not as good as the old palace maids!

"Will Your Majesty take a fancy to them?" The young queen innocently asked the eldest princess, although in the silence of the eldest princess spoke again: "Let them go home!" ”

Without waiting for the eldest princess of Hubei to speak, the tallest of the three family members knelt down and kowtowed: "If you let the maid go home, the maid would rather die here!" ”

"So is the!"

"So is the!"

The other two also knelt down, kowtowed, and spoke loudly.