"Have you heard the news from the elders?"

The girl who spoke had a slightly chubby baby face, because she was still young, with a cute double screw bun on her head, and was wearing a light gold background embroidered with ivory vase pattern, and a long ivory-colored skirt. Probably because she came out as a guest and wore too plain and bad, this girl's skirt chose a beautiful purple gold, and the skirt was fluttering, fluttering.

This girl is none other than the queen Pei Lan from the Taiyuan Wang family, whose father Wang is the Taicang Shangshu in the court, in charge of the country's grain and grass reserves, which is a very important official position.

Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Taiyuan Wang family has served the Northern Wei Dynasty, and has made extensive connections among the Han people, perhaps not the strongest, but the best interpersonal relationship, and Wang Man, the head of the Wang family, has always done a good job in the granary and the collection of classes in the Wei State, and even Tuoba Tao often praised himself for not being able to do without him.

Wang Peilan is influenced by her father, she is cheerful and open-minded, her voice is crisp, and she often laughs before speaking, and she is extremely conspicuous among a group of girls.

And the girls who came and went with her were all the Gaomen scholars among the Han people of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the second-rate scholars who were idle were impossible, and it was impossible to even see them in person.

She opened her mouth mysteriously and asked if they knew anything recently, and several girls who were guests at her house picked up the melons and fruits in their hands and smashed her, scolding with a smile: "Can you talk well, what do you have to do to make a mysterious appearance!"

Wang Peilan put the fruit they threw into her arms, and pretended to be angry with her face: "I'm not old enough to be nerve-wracking, so I'm anxious for you and ask if you know...... Okay, okay, let me ask directly, do you know that His Majesty is going to accept concubines? Did the family say that they would marry you?"

The Han Gaomen has always internally digested men and women of the right age, and few of them marry Xianbei people, even the emperor's face is not sold, but Tuoba Xianbei nobles can not care if you want to marry your daughter into the palace, during the draft, the Xianbei minister, the beauties of all ethnic groups and the daughters of the Han ministers must participate in the selection.

Fortunately, there are also rules for beauty pageants in the palace, if there is a marriage match for the age of the daughter, you don't need to participate in the draft, so once Tuoba Tao shows the meaning of choosing a concubine, the Han people will have to match the daughters of the family with the right family, if there is no suitable candidate, it is nothing to marry a little low, in short, don't enter the palace.

The last time Tuoba Tao wantonly selected a girl from a good family to enter the palace or ascended the throne, it has been many years, and the women in the palace have always been unable to give birth to sons, and the war has delayed the selection of concubines in the past few years.

When Luo Jie reminded him that it was time to "sow seeds", Tuoba Tao did not avoid Cui Hao and the others, and when Cui Hao left the palace, he told the news to his wife and mother, and asked them to marry off the school-age daughter of the family.

Such a move was originally an insult to the emperor, but Tuoba Tao already had the intention of making a prince, and their group of scholars sent their daughter in, and if the heir was established as a prince, the daughter would be given death; If you don't become the prince, your life in the future may not be easy, no matter how you look at it, it is not a business that will return to the capital, and they are too lazy to touch this light, and they are not afraid of being on the bar with the emperor because of this.

This is already a default rule of the game.

As soon as Wang Peilan finished saying what she wanted to ask, the boudoir was silent. You Qing, the daughter of Dr. You Ya, opened her lips, and finally closed them again.

A room full of girls thinking about their own thoughts, but no one broke the silence in the room.

Wang Peilan twisted her body uncomfortably, and saw that they had all become mute, and she blamed herself for being nosy, but when she thought that this group of sisters was afraid that they would soon marry other women, she continued to speak:

"Don't think I'm troublesome, but you also know that these men are really extraordinary, and there are many failures. If you have seen which families you have seen in your family, tell me, and I will ask some of my brothers, and help you inquire about their character, and don't wait to marry and suffer......

Several elder brothers of the Wang family are not very official, but all of them are really lacking, and there are many times to meet people in diplomacy, and the Wang family is famous for their extensive contacts.

Wang Peilan is only fourteen years old this year, and she is not yet at the age of marriage, but as soon as she heard the news from her father and brother, she really couldn't let go of a few sisters in her heart, so she invited them to be guests and asked how many people were doing.

"Several brothers in my family have been asked by many people recently, if the people you look at are not good, it is better to come to my house to be sisters-in-law!"

As soon as Wang Peilan finished speaking, You Qing sneered, and said with a smile: "It turned out that they were waiting for us here, why, your Wang family still doesn't have enough in-laws, and you want to add a few more high-ranking families who are not in the score?"

At this time, Wang Peilan remembered that many marriages from the family are also famous, and when she said this, she couldn't help but think that their family was taking advantage of the fire to rob, and her face suddenly froze, and she covered her face and didn't know what to say.

She is young, straightforward, and has the protection of her father and brother at home, so she is extremely simple-minded, and only thinks that if her good friends marry a bad family, it is better to come to their house as a sister-in-law, at least her brothers are good.

But now that You Qing is laughing like this, she remembers that the marriage of the Gaomen is really not as simple as she thought, for example, her in-laws Yu family has a very poor relationship with the You family, not to mention anything else, the You family will not want to marry their daughter to see her aunt's cold face.

"Lan Niang is kind, why do you stab her like this." Li Niang, the fourth daughter of the Li family in Longxi, pushed You Qing, deliberately protected Pei Lan, and bluntly said: "You may still marry a Han person, I am afraid that I will be married to a Xianbei family by my family."

"Huh? Has any of the clans begged you?"

As soon as Li Niang's words came out, the room was full. [,！ The girls and the maids were taken aback, and some of them covered their mouths and inhaled quietly.

The Li family is the family with the most children in the army in the Hanchen, so it also has the best relationship with the Xianbei clan and nobles.

Li Niang is now seventeen years old, beautiful and refined, and her figure is half a head taller than other girls, and she is more graceful.

"It's not a clan, it's a Dugu family."

Li Niang shook her head.

"Now I can only comfort and comfort myself, if I marry into a Xianbei family, if I am not satisfied, I can still leave and come back."

Xianbei people have a free marriage relationship, if the woman and the man are not in harmony and want to divorce, as long as both parties agree, they can officially "divorce", and from then on the marriage has nothing to do.

It is very easy for the daughter of Gaomen to remarry, at this time, because of the prevalence of Xianbei women's temperament and divorce, but also many Han people are affected by it, if the husband is really unbearable, and there are many people who go home.

But no matter what you say, you are not very happy when you come to and leave this step.

"Oh, isn't the young master of the Dugu family still in the army? Last year, I already married the daughter of Buliu's lonely family, right? Could it be that you're going to marry that stupid Erlang from his family?"

As soon as Wang Peilan's words came out, Li Niang covered her face and nodded unbearably.

If you want to say that Dugu Nuo, the second son of the Dugu family, is also dignified, burly, and very good-looking. But this person has always made all kinds of jokes since he was a child, and it was rumored to be a joke among the Xianbei people for a while.

When he was a child, he used to pull off a woman's skirt because he was curious about whether there was a little jj under the woman, and he was beaten by his father at home before changing it.

When he was a teenager, he once made a bet with someone else, and the man deliberately deceived him, and deceived him three times with the same trick, and then the eldest brother in his family couldn't look at it, and took the family general to beat the deceitful gentleman before he spit out the gold and silver.

It is said that this person will not lie, and the person who is blocked every time he tells the truth can't get off the stage, if it weren't for the fact that Dugu Valve is extremely strong, and he has such a son, he doesn't know how many people he will offend.

In addition, he is a second at home, so everyone laughs at him behind his back as a "stupid second".

Hearing that Li Liniang, who is talented and good-looking, and knows some martial arts, was promised to this one, whether it is because of the intermarriage between Han and Xianbei people, or because of the reason of "entrusted to non-people", several girls feel sorry for her.

In recent years, the Han people have gradually occupied a high position, and there are many Xianbei people who want to intermarry with the Han people, even if they ask for a concubine. Since the year before last, there have been gradually Gaomen who have married their daughters to the Tuoba Xianbei clan and married them to the eight major clans like the Dugu family, and Li Niang is afraid that she is the first.

"Actually, it's nothing stupid, you see that the Lang Jun of the Zheng family has a group of glamorous maids before they get married, and the Erlang of the Dugu family has always been in the army, and he has never had such a reputation......"

Wang Peilan comforted her sister dryly, "I'll go back and ask my brother to inquire, I don't think it should be so bad......"

"What's there to inquire about, it's just a lack of heart."

Li Niang sighed in a sullen voice: "My mother said, let me raise a son, at least he looks good, and he is not sad."

You Qing was still worried that her family was not as good as her family's family, but when she heard where Li Niang was married, she seemed to be showing off when she wanted to complain, so she had to look out the window sullenly.

Just this look made her straighten up all of a sudden.

"Huh? The seventh mother of the Lu family is here? Didn't you say you won't be here today?"

Wang Peilan heard You Qing's call, and hurriedly asked the maid to go out to greet her, and shouted excitedly: "Sister Lu did say that she didn't want to walk because of her foot injury, and I don't know why she came!"

The seven mothers of the Lu family were helped in by the maids, but it seemed that there was no problem with walking, but she was unsteady when she walked fast. She likes goose yellow, and her clothes are mostly goose yellow, lotus lotus and other colors, light and soft, just like her temperament.

As soon as the Lu family Qiniang entered the door, she first apologized to a few friends and talked about the injury on her foot, and then sat down in the middle of the house.

Because the Lu family and the Cui family are in-laws, they are among the best families in the Gaomen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, compared to the You family and the Wang family, they are nothing.

Wang Peilan had a cheerful temperament, and asked with her round shoulders: "Didn't you say you couldn't come?" How are you doing now?"

Several girls looked at Mrs. Lu's right foot with concern, and heard that she accidentally broke her foot at home.

"I can't walk anymore these days." The young man with a gentle smile suddenly appeared in front of the lady of the Lu family, and quickly changed the topic in disguise: "By the way, I came to sue you that the Empress Dowager Dou is going to hold a plum banquet in the plum garden on the outskirts of Beijing, and I am afraid that the girls to be married and the young men of the right age will be posted......"

"What? Empress Dowager Dou is out of the palace?"

"Why is it that even the Empress Dowager Dou is in charge of being a matchmaker!"

Several girls asked in unison.

"Empress Dowager Dou rarely goes out of the palace, and she is simple and unhappy, she is not a lively person, and she will come out of the palace, it must be because of His Majesty's instructions."

Seeing their frightened expressions, Lu Qiniang said with a smile: "What do you think? Do you think that Your Majesty will be able to force a good family?"

"Isn't it?"

Pei Lan blinked: "Even the Dugu family is going to marry a girl with five surnames......".

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"Huh?" Lu Qiniang was stunned, glanced at the girl in the room, and immediately realized who she was talking about: "Dugu family? I remember that Li Niang, your brother was a general under Dugu Gong, and you were the one who wanted to ......"

Li Niang nodded depressedly.

Lu Qiniang is not good at talking about other people's rights and wrongs, she goes out for a purpose, otherwise she won't come back when she is recuperating from her injuries." The news that my uncle and my father have passed on should be believed by your family soon. It is said that His Majesty wants to take a concubine, and it is not good to forcibly demolish men and women of the right age, so let the Empress Dowager Dou come forward and match first, if it is said that there is a marriage match after a few months, it will not be appropriate."

She looked at the girls whose faces became solemn: "I heard that this time His Majesty is going to take Concubine Han as well, not only Concubine Han, but also the princesses of Xia Kingdom, and the princesses of Rouran are going to be given a name. It seems that Bei Liang is also going to marry a princess, so that the only Han people in the harem will lose balance......"

"It's not about ...... forcible acceptance"

"Be careful!"

Lu Qiniang's eyes widened and interrupted You Qing's words.

"My grandmother asked me to pass the word, so I made such a special trip, don't make trouble for me, if you know, it's rotten in your heart!"

Lu Qiniang continued: "The plum garden is so big, the children of the Xianbei nobles and the children of our Han family are all there to 'enjoy the flowers', but they are not in one place, there are Yulin soldiers as guards, and there is no need to worry about encountering people who are in the waves. What my grandmother means, if you have a family that you like, it is better to generously ask the Empress Dowager Dou to be a matchmaker at the banquet, and you will look good on your face, so as not to fall into any mistakes."

"What if you haven't seen it at home?"

You Qing said unwillingly: "If that person is really for our good and really wants to be a matchmaker, it is better to let us see each other for ourselves, if both sides are interested, and then tell the parents in the house. How can there be such a hurry, as if they were in a hurry! "

"How do you know it won't? The one who doesn't know what we're up to? It's for girls who are already married and Lang Jun to look at each other. There are still some hesitations, people are in front of you, it's time to decide, right?"

Lu Qiniang's family is on Tuobatao's side, and they don't dare to say that they are not, but they want to lean on the good side.

"You guys, don't suddenly make yourself ugly that day, or think about it, the queen mother is not unclear-minded, don't make several families ugly."

"Or I'm ......"

Wang Peilan patted her chest with palpitations.

"It's good that I'm not married yet......"

When Lu Qiniang heard Wang Peilan's words, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

This Xianbei people's harem is afraid that it is the most terrible harem in the world, don't say it's a Han person, even if it's a Xianbei noblewoman, you don't necessarily want to go in.

But this majesty is now a dead heart to cold the harem, I heard that it is because of the lack of heirs.

She was talking here, and she seemed to be very calm, and who knew how scared she was? There are only a few families that the daughter of the Lu family can marry, but no matter which one she is, it is not a good match.

You can't marry into the palace, can you?

If it was according to her father and uncle's position, it was really possible to do this first ......

I heard that His Majesty was brave and fierce, and killed people on the battlefield like chopping melons and vegetables, and he must have been as terrible as the general of that day.

If you enter the harem and marry such a fierce god who kills people at every turn, it is better to find someone to marry at random, and it is better than dying for no reason one day......

Lu Qiniang thought about the scene that day, and she was stunned.

Palace.

Empress Dowager Dou went out of the palace to hold this kind of blind date conference, but it was not really to match young men and women, but to whitewash the identity of a woman of unknown origin.

Everyone knows that Helian Mingzhu, the fourth princess of Xia Kingdom, has been given to Di Ziyu, so Helian Ding wants to restore his sister's free body and her innocent reputation, so he can only give Helian Mingzhu a reasonable explanation of her identity, so that she can come out again in a dignified manner.

Fortunately, she has been trapped by Tuoba Tao's side, many people have not seen her women's dress, Tuoba Tao's side is difficult for people to spy on, and the fact that Helian Mingzhu once worked as a eunuch will not spread for a while.

In order for Helian Ding to feel the sincerity of the Wei State, and then to serve the Northern Wei Dynasty, it is necessary to let the world see how Helian Zhishui and Helian Mingzhu are favored.

Tuoba Tao wanted to include Helian Mingzhu in the harem, Empress Dowager Dou had seen that "Zhao Ming" a few times in private, thinking that she was a tolerant child, and even Mrs. He had said in private that she was kind-hearted, so there was no objection. As soon as Tuoba Tao asked her to help clear Helian Mingzhu's identity, she agreed, and by the way, she helped Tuoba Tao deal with the matter of choosing a concubine in a few months.

Now Helian Mingzhu was sent to the side of the Empress Dowager Dou and restored her status as a woman, because she lived under the same roof with Mrs. He, and she also had some friendship with this gentle woman.

There is one less eunuch in the palace, but suddenly there is an extra "princess of Xia Kingdom", others don't know, but the people close to Tuoba Tao are bright, even if they don't understand what happened, they can speculate that there is a woman who is probably dressed as a man, and now she is about to soar into the sky.

For a while, countless palace people regretted that they didn't stutter much when "Zhao Ming" was there, and no one thought that this feminine-looking eunuch could still win the favor of the emperor and send her to the Empress Dowager Dou to take care of her. How much I like her!

Who are the people around the Empress Dowager Dou? Even if it was Mrs. He, it was only because she gave birth to the eldest prince that she was able to take care of her when Her Majesty went on the expedition.

And this one, even if she is not a concubine, has already been sent over!

Palace. [,！ The palace people were secretly discussing this matter, and only one person had a monstrous wave in his heart, and he was about to go crazy.

"I actually molested a woman who was about to become a harem concubine......" Zheng Zong couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the things he had done in front of Zhao Ming.

"When she is favored one day, will I still be able to live? No, you can't let her be favored, you can't let her be proud. I said why Zhao Ming didn't look down on me, it turned out that he had climbed the high branches......"

Zheng Zong's expression was terrifying.

"She dared to seduce/seduce His Majesty!"