Although he understood the crux of the matter, Xu Xun could only be speechless. After all, there is no misunderstanding here that can be clarified, she just did these things, and she did it more beautifully than the Queen Mother, at least more popular. Even if the intention was not to steal the limelight from the Queen Mother, it is still such a result, no matter how much you argue, it is not the same as slapping the Queen Mother in the face again? Besides, this public opinion was not deliberately spread by her, so what can be distinguished?

However, after the Queen Mother said this, her mentality was also revealed: now that Xu Xun's power is big, her reputation is not good, and if she opposes it in this matter, no one will stand on her side. Even Jing Ci Immortal Master and Ah Huang may secretly have some complaints. After all, the queen mother maintains illusory rules, even if she succeeds, the rules can't give back any benefits to her, if it was in the past, public opinion may still praise her for strict rules and good governance. Now that public opinion has fallen to Xu Xun, the Queen Mother doesn't even have this benefit, so why should she be a bad person?

"The concubine is thinking, Ah Huang has an idea. Although the words of the parents are the matchmakers, since the marriage, there are some girls who have asked their own opinions. With our identity, we don't exchange Ah Huang for something, we choose everything, isn't it to find a suitable lover for her and live a stable life for the rest of her life? Xu Xun explained a few more words, "These four children, for more than a month, how many people have watched openly and secretly, it is indeed a temporary choice." Ah Huang is not aggrieved to pick any of them, so it is better to let her choose them herself, which is better than our blind matching. ”

Generally speaking, when people marry girls, there is not much room for girls to speak by themselves. However, after all, there are still families who spoil their daughters, especially ordinary rich families, and such things are not uncommon. is a wealthy family, and the marriage of children is very involved, many times it is determined through letters, and even the future father-in-law and mother-in-law have never met their sons-in-law, let alone girls. Xu Xun's words, the Queen Mother didn't accept it very much, but nodded, "I'm old, I can't come up with an idea, anyway, let you do it." ”

Xu Xun had nothing to say, and when he saw Aunt Qiao glaring at him, he knew that King Xiang was still waiting in the side house. She is not the queen mother, she can still make King Xiang wait for a long time, and now that the matter is finished, the queen mother's attitude is also very clear, so she has to get up and say goodbye, and the queen mother has nothing to say.

When the emperor was seriously ill before, the three palaces cooperated seamlessly, which could almost give people the illusion of a close relationship. Now that the illness has only been cured, the original problems have come out again, and new troubles are still coming. Xu Xun now just hopes to finish Ah Huang's marriage as soon as possible, so that she can push out the palace affairs, but it is unknown to whom, the queen is now going to recuperate again, Jingci Immortal Master does not care, and the queen mother's energy is difficult to continue. Except for her, there is simply no one in the palace who can take on this duty.

There are few favorite concubines, but it is really a problem, Xu Xun thought with a wry smile, it seems that the emperor spends more energy on Nannei, which turns out to be a disadvantage.

But then again, the emperor rarely went to Nannei for a while, after all, he had just recovered from a serious illness, and his energy was always different from before. And the weather is in autumn, it is the time when the court is eventful, after all, the autumn harvest of a year is a major event, and there are also major events in the court such as autumn decisions and autumn curtains, which need to be asked by the emperor. Xu Xun also waited until Ma Shi sent a message over, knowing that he had been a little empty in the past few days, so he asked Zhang Liujiu to take the message and go to the Qianqing Palace to ask for a meeting with the emperor and discuss with him about Ah Huang's choice of a son-in-law.

As a man, the emperor has never had any ideas about family affairs, and may be more sensitive to the power of the prince and the housekeeper, and his daughter's marriage is just Xu Xun's idea, and he has opened up the queen mother's joint, and the biggest resistance has been solved, he asked a few words and agreed, "It's also a way, listen to Ma Shi and Jin Ying, these four are all good, and they can't tell what is superior." ”

And said excitedly, "How should I choose this?" You can't let Ah Huang show up in front of people, right? ”

How can men and women be offended? Xu Xun had already thought about it, "Foreigners are naturally not allowed to enter the palace gate, so it is better to let them go to the West Garden to play, set up a banquet in front of the court, and Ah Huang watched behind the curtain in the house." What do you think, big brother? If she wants to investigate and learn martial arts, she can also make the inner supervisor pass on the message. ”

The emperor was also interested, "I think it's good!" - Speaking of which, it's better for me to cover Ah Huang, I haven't seen those people either, and then I'll check it out. ”

Xu Xun said with a smile, "Then they are decent, even if they are defeated and return to their hometown, they can boast for the rest of their lives." With such a noble son-in-law, he may not be able to hire the daughter of which family. ”

Indeed, if you can pass the royal selection, even if you lose the election, the matchmaker will also break the threshold, and if you add the honor of meeting the emperor above, you can boast of a lifetime, maybe you have to bring a stroke on the tombstone. The emperor said with a smile, "Interesting, you can ask the mother and the queen, if you are interested, you can go together." ”

In fact, because the emperor was going, the Jingci Immortal Master, who should go and wanted to go the most, could not attend now. However, Xu Xun didn't want to mention this, so he had to go to Chang'an Palace to appease the immortal master, considering the queen mother's unhappiness with her, and the emperor's words, he had to go to Qingning Palace to invite the queen mother in person. - She thought that the Queen Mother would not give her this dignity, but she didn't expect her to agree. But the queen should go, it is reasonable, Yuanyuan is also a day like a day, three or five years later, she also wants to choose a son-in-law, the queen naturally pays attention to the quality of today's candidates, maybe she sees that she is really satisfied, and she will also set it for Yuanyuan.

In the twilight of autumn, the weather was cold, in order to find a suitable place for the banquet, Xu Xun also spent a lot of thought, all the arrangements were stopped, it happened to be the first snow season, and a few candidates were arranged to enjoy the snow in front of the court. Then a whole bunch of people hid in the house to watch.

On this occasion, in fact, the candidates also understand that their words and smiles will fall into the eyes of many people, and the four of them have different degrees of restraint. Fortunately, I also learned palace etiquette for a while, and I can be regarded as behaving moderately and talking calmly. Coupled with his beautiful eyebrows and handsome appearance, as well as his extremely rare male identity in the court, the main son Ah Huang has not yet spoken, but the queen, Xu Xun and even the queen mother are all satisfied.

The emperor has seen more men, of course, his vision is also higher, after watching behind the curtain for a while, he went out and asked them a few questions casually, all of which are the simple scriptures in the four books and five classics, and the four of them answered them one by one, and the emperor came up with a poem question to compose a poem. This time it was a little difficult, and the four of them looked at the pen and paper, and they all showed some embarrassment.

Xu Xun looked at these teenagers through the curtain, and suddenly felt a little funny: although she is now the imperial concubine, she can be described as extremely wealthy, but when it comes to the appearance of the men she has seen in her life, she is the most famous of today's four people. When I didn't win the election in the past, I saw the most high-end son of Zhao Juren, who looked ordinary and behaved modestly, and there was nothing to talk about. When he saw the emperor after entering the palace, to be honest, he was not as good-looking as these four people, and as for the eunuchs, they were not particularly beautiful - beauty was a disadvantage rather than an advantage of the eunuchs in the harem.

It is estimated that the queen is the same, so her expression is very pleasant when she looks outside the curtain, and even the queen mother has a relaxed expression. On the contrary, Ah Huang seemed to be a little disappointed on his face, and after looking at it for a while, he moved to Xu Xun's side and said in a low voice, "Niangniang, what's the matter...... Such a simple question, and there is no limit to rhyme, this can't be done? ”

Ah Huang has not delayed in education since childhood, the same is to go to school, although he has never learned Bagu, but after the palace is a girl's school, there are more and more people who are full of learning, and she is also edified. Literary accomplishment is not said to be extremely profound, but it is also very profound, and he can write poetry and paint every day, although the level is not very high, but what he can see are the works of the princes of the Hanlin Academy, and his vision has been practiced. A few horse candidates, although the family is quite solid and the character is also good, but in terms of talent and learning, how can it be compared with the dragon and phoenix among the people in the Hanlin Academy?

Xu Xun felt helpless, because the immortal master was not there, so he had to say clearly, "If you write poems well, you might as well live a good life." This is the selection of a son-in-law, not the imperial examination, or the character first. ”

Ah Huang's eyebrows and eyes darkened slightly, and he stopped talking, Xu Xun had tried his best, and when he saw this, he was only slightly emotional, so he no longer cared. However, the queen praised her, "These four people are really good, it seems that they will go to Gyeonggi in the future to elect, and the ones selected can be better than those in Beijing." ”

"It's still up to reliable people to choose, and if you choose it, bring it in, let's see it ourselves." Xu Xundao, "You can't entrust the child without seeing it at a glance." ”

At these words, even the Queen Mother nodded slightly, she looked at Ah Huang with a hint of love in her eyes, "The imperial concubine is right, since ancient times, articles have been hated for life, and they have done good poetry at a young age, which ones are rich and noble?" Do you marry such a person to suffer with him? ”

The words pointed out the truth, although Ah Huang may still be unconvinced, but he also got up and honestly admitted his mistake, "It's the granddaughter who thinks shallowly." ”

But in the end, he was a little unhappy, hesitated for a while, and then said in a low voice, "Niangniang, can you ...... Can the four of them be allowed to perform martial arts? Show me? ”

Xu Xun couldn't help laughing, "Good, good." ”

He ordered Zhao Lun to go out, and sent a message to the emperor with his ear, and the emperor was also dumbfounded, and after a while, when the poem was finished, he found an excuse to let the four of them dance the sword for the play. - At this time, I saw the difference, one of the Shi Lang, dancing the sword, really came like a thunderbolt to collect anger, like the river and the sea condensed clear light, he was young, the sword was full of spirit, and the pride flew away, even the emperor could see it, let alone the female dependents?

"Who is this person—" The Queen Mother couldn't help but ask.

"My ancestral home is Xingping Changli, my grandfather is the deputy of Dezhou Wei, and my father was transferred to the vanguard of the government army, so I think it is a good martial art passed down from the family." Xu Xun flipped through the information and said with a casual smile, "Is it possible, our family wants more than one martial artist?" ”

When the three married women saw Ah Huang's expression, they all laughed meaningfully, and the queen clasped her hands together and said, "Well, that's okay, the martial arts are strong, but it's better than the body that has broken down by studying and studying." The family is also famous, so it is even more polite, with his character, with a princess, it is not a loss to our daughter. ”

Ah Huang finally couldn't stand it, and retreated to the Queen Mother with his head down, and the Queen Mother laughed and said, "Don't you open your eyes and take a look?" I've seen it this time, and the next time I'm zaijian, it's going to be a year and a half later. ”

In the laughter of the room, Ah Huang wanted to see more, and he was embarrassed, but he made a rare red face, and he also had a touch of childishness. The gloom of the past has long faded a lot, Xu Xun looked at her with a smile, and his heart was full of relief: no matter how sad the days in the palace were, Ah Huang was going to marry after all, and after going out, it would be a new world. Sooner or later, she will understand that all this in her mother's family is just a passing cloud for her.

In the end, he is a daughter-in-law, and he has to be picky about his son-in-law, and the emperor has nothing good to say about these four people, but he still likes Shi Langjun's swordsmanship, and knows that Ah Huang's heart belongs to him, so he reluctantly agrees, "That is, this person, there is still some merit." ”

sighed again, "Your women's family has never seen the world, if I hadn't seen it myself, I would have been fooled." Whatever you say is a momentary choice, but that's it! It's strange that you all praise each one. ”

Xu Xun said with a smile, "Ah Huang likes it, if the eldest brother is not satisfied, the next time Yuanyuan chooses a son-in-law, you will personally handle it, and see what kind of person with three heads and six arms can be selected." ”

The emperor couldn't help but be dumbfounded - this is the case with this kind of thing, what about the selection of draft girls, and the ones that don't please the emperor, if you want to choose one that he and his daughter like, isn't it difficult to think about it?

"Well, that's not bad either. In all fairness, Ah Huang is not very talented and beautiful, with such a colt, the two of them can live together. It's better than choosing a big talent. The emperor immediately changed his caliber, laughed dryly, and sighed again, "It's really a blink of an eye, and it's time for my daughter to leave the cabinet, and in another ten years, I'm afraid I'll have to be a grandfather, right?" ”

Xu Xun said with a smile, "What's more, if Ah Huang fights for energy, twenty years later, you can be your great-grandfather." ”

"It seems that this is not good to accept the old." The Emperor sighed, "Maternal great-grandfather...... Hehe, this is still a late birth, if you give birth a little early, you may be able to see the six generations in the same house. ”

Although Diandian is now getting bigger, Xu Xun still feels very far away when he thinks of the six generations in the same hall. She can't even accept the fact that Diandian will marry as an adult in ten years, and it feels like it's just a moment, Diandian has changed from a crying baby to a dark and chubby little girl now, how many things have happened during the period, it was a love and hatred at the time, and now when I look back, it's all blurred.

"When you're young, it's hard to imagine what it's like to be old." She couldn't help but sigh, "Only now do I understand that getting old is not getting old day by day, I have to look back at it after all these years, and I realize that compared with myself back then, I am much older now." ”

The emperor said, "How old are you, and you say you're old?" Thinking like this now, maybe ten or twenty years from now, I will look at the present, and I feel that my current self is 'a teenager who doesn't know the taste of sorrow, and he is worried about giving new words'. ”

Xu Xun thought that ten or twenty years later, he would still have to live in this Yong'an Palace of the same color, and he would still have to deal with the same group of people, so he couldn't help but tremble, and said, "I will talk about it later, and it's useless to think about it now." Who knows where I will be in 10 or 20 years' time? Maybe by then, they'll have already gone. ”

The Emperor glared at her and shouted, "What are you doing with such unlucky words?" Don't you want to talk to yourself? ”

He was really angry, Xu Xun was taken aback by him, and hurriedly knocked on the table three times, and said with a smile, "I'll just talk about it...... Big brother, why are you so fierce. ”

"After all, you have never been sick, and you don't know the suffering of patients." The Emperor also slowed his tone. "It's fun to curse yourself like this when you're idle? Besides, if you're gone twenty years later, what do you want me to do? ”

Xu Xun hadn't thought about it from this perspective, and when he heard this, his heart couldn't help but warm, and he hurriedly reviewed a few more words before he opened the topic and said, "I heard that the Tai Gong has begun to be renovated?" ”

In the past ten years, the uterus has been basically vacant, and now it is renovated, what it means is self-evident.

"Well, Zhu'er has become a lot more sensible this year, and now she is studying hard." The emperor said, "I want to let him go out of the cabinet to study next spring." ”

When I went out of the pavilion to study, the place of lecture must be the palace according to convention, which is nothing to say. However, Xuan'er is only seven years old, so it seems a little too early to move out, Xu Xundao, "Is this going to live out?" Can the queen rest assured? ”

"We'll see when the time comes." The Emperor said casually, "If you can't stand it, it's just a matter of words—why are you so sullen?" ”

As a younger brother, Zhuang'er looks at everything as an example of the elder brother, Zhuang'er lived out at the age of seven, shouldn't Zhuang'er go out to live next year? Xu Xundao, "No, I just think the child is still a little younger." Alas, but I don't think it's anything when I say it, I just went out to live, and I also set the province in the morning and dusk, and we met as usual. ”

"Are you reluctant to be strong?" The emperor still doesn't know Xu Xun? In a word, he smiled, "What you are talking about is a reason, and there is another, Zhuang'er is a younger brother after all, you can also relax." If you want to stay for a few more years, then it's okay to keep it, just let him go to school at the age of ten. ”

The education of the vassal kings in the palace has always been so neglectful, and it is not surprising to stay for a few more years. When Xu Xun heard this, he couldn't help but smile, "Let's take a look again." ”

Parents are short, there are these trivial things every day, and when you are young, you may still think that these things are 'the work of the case', but now, you can find some fun in them. The story of this generation gradually came to an end, and the story of the next generation began again, the son went out to study, and the daughter's marriage and dowry ...... How many scars of the past, in these small and gravelly trivialities, will gradually be buried.

Now that it is Shi Langjun, Ah Huang's marriage has also been put on the agenda. Although there was the prince's birthday and age in winter, Xu Xun did not delay this matter. Mama Zhao had already opened the treasury, counted all the property entrusted to her by the immortal master back then, and matched it with the booklet of the year, and then added or subtracted one by one, some outdated and depreciated, Xu Xun made up for it himself, anyway, over the years, she has received a lot of rewards, and some expenses are more than enough.

When the immortal master was abolished, almost most of his collection was sent to Xu Xun for storage, and the dowry when she entered the door was handled by the palace, so could the pomp be smaller? This is still Ah Huang's own private room, which is considered to be a makeup nature, and the official naturally has to prepare a dowry for her. The dowry list summarized by Zuihou is a thick stack, Xu Xun feels too dazzling when he looks at it, but the emperor probably feels sorry for Ah Huang, and has a little bit of compensation for it, and demarcates a few Zhuangzi for her - his emperor has been doing it for a long time, and his pen is getting bigger and bigger, when he first ascended the throne, the land he gave to the Xu family was two hundred hectares, and this time he gave it to his daughter, and the shot was a thousand hectares, without ambiguity at all.

Xu Xun already felt that Ah Huang's dowry was too luxurious, and he added a thousand acres of land, and he had a bad feeling, but it was not easy to say, as a result, during the banquet for a while, the queen was happy, and the faces of several eldest princesses were not very good-looking, and they had just entered Layue, and the emperor was not happy: the two eldest princesses had made a fuss in the mansion to forcibly occupy the land.

Of course, this matter was not stabbed by the Imperial Historical Observatory - it was not so big, and it was not uncommon for the imperial relatives and even high-ranking officials and nobles to forcibly occupy civilian land, as long as there were no human lives or civil unrest, most of the time, the Imperial Historical Observatory would turn a blind eye and would not exert any effort in this direction. This is the news sent by Dongchang, when the emperor brought it to Xu Xun, Xu Xun was secretly shocked for a while: inside and outside the capital, there are really not many things that can be hidden from the emperor, but I am afraid that even the Hu family, the Sun family, and the He family are doing things behind their backs, and he also knows what to do.

"When has the human heart ever had an end?" The emperor was mainly angry that the eldest princesses were moving too quickly, "I really know the situation in their mansion. How can you ever be a little less decent? It's short, come and ask for it, won't I reward it? It's really boring to do things like this. It's just that I have a mother, I don't want to say anything. ”

The head of the family is embarrassed, and most of the emperors that his younger sisters have come into contact with are gentle and tolerant, and they will inevitably have some tempers. Besides, Ah Huang's dowry is indeed too unbalanced compared to theirs. Xu Xun thought of the queen's recent festive energy, and it seemed that after five years, the round dowry would be more beautiful. She was also embarrassed for a while - if the queen got her wish, what would happen to the little dowry? Do you really want to form a culture of comparison with your sisters? When it comes to the next generation, there will be more daughters in the palace, but I am afraid that I really can't afford to marry.

"Otherwise, the ones given by Sister Hu won't be in the book." She gave the emperor an idea, "Quietly send it over to finish the matter, so that you also have the confidence to teach the eldest princesses ...... eldest brother"

"Joke, Ah Huang has a rough life, what's wrong with making up for her more?" The emperor lost his temper, "I will give her more, so that she will not be unconfident to speak among her relatives in the future." Could it be that if I give her more, I won't have the face to train my sisters? I'm the first to scold Jiaxing. ”

The eldest princess of Jiaxing is the emperor's only half-sister, and she has always been treated higher than other sisters, this time the emperor was so unhappy, but also because the eldest princess of Jiaxing did not give him a long face.

"In the month of Layue, the ...... of the New Year" Xu Xun said well, and only then did he persuade the emperor a little, "Why don't you talk about it until the beginning of spring——"

The emperor snorted angrily, and for the time being, after a few days, it was estimated that he had calmed down, and said to Xu Xun again, "That's it, I won't be this bad guy either, naturally someone will come to rectify them." These relatives should also be beaten well. ”

Xu Xun, as a member of his relatives, was able to talk to Emperor Wen's Jihua, although it was only a few words, but it can also be seen that the Xu family's actions were enough to satisfy the emperor. It's just that she has nothing to defend other families, although she sees that the emperor is gearing up, it seems that some jihua is brewing, but she can only secretly hope that the He family and the Hu family will not act too much. Although these two people probably don't care about their mother's family now, if their mother's family is unlucky, after all, the situation in the palace will be a little down.

Because there are so many things ahead, this year, Xu Xun's preparations are a little careless, and he is not interested in preparing some new tricks - who knows that after entering the twentieth month of the lunar month, the emperor is sick again, and this time, everyone is naturally not in the mood for the New Year.

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