0395 Wang Xi Xianyuan, the concubine in the palace
In the Shendu Garden, on the grassy hillside, Li Tong waved his cane violently, and the wooden ball flew high, drawing a beautiful arc in mid-air.
However, before the wooden ball reached the highest point, Li Shouli on the other side pushed the hat on his head, shook his head and said, "It's rising, it's rising!" Be careful, it's not me saying you, how can you hit the ball with brute force in vain. Step aside and let Brother teach you how to get a hole-in-one! ”
As he spoke, Li Shouli stepped forward to take Li Tong's place, shook the stick in his hand, kept raising his eyes to aim at the hole with colorful flags more than a dozen feet away, and even took out a brocade and threw it into the air to observe the wind direction and speed, looking very professional.
Li Tong stood on the side, smiling and looking at the second brother pretending, but when the wooden ball was knocked out, it really landed on the grass only a few feet away from the hole, and the surrounding attachés suddenly burst into cheers, looking at Li Shouli with a smug face, Li Tong also gave this guy a thumbs up.
After the Shangsi Festival, the brothers came to the court in the southeast corner of Shendu Garden to hit the ball, which can be regarded as a bittersweet memory. Unlike in the old years, when you had to skip class and sneak in, now you are playing here, with dozens of attachés, and their families are playing with them, and the situation is very different.
It is still Li Tong's original to play such a trick in step batting, but after a few years, his ball skills have been far surpassed by Li Shouli, and after 20 holes, he was far surpassed by Li Shouli by dozens of strokes.
Li Shouli rarely overpowered Li Tong in something, and he was so excited that he wanted to pull him to continue the competition, but Li Tong ruthlessly decided. Let you win once or twice once in a while, stimulate your self-esteem, and compete endlessly, Lao Tzu doesn't want to lose face?
He put away his cane and walked towards the tent outside Wangchun Palace, Li Shouli caught up, raised his hand to put his arm on his shoulder, and asked in a low voice: "San Lang, you really don't go to the forbidden place to feast?" The mother and aunt have already gone first, so don't you wonder which one Your Majesty wants to choose for you? ”
Li Tong shook his head after hearing this: "On that occasion, it's embarrassing to go, just listen to the news." ”
For this time his grandmother openly chose a concubine for him, to be honest, Li Tong was a little resistant in his heart, not that he was hypocritical without feelings, it was purely the feeling that people were swordsmen and I was fish and flesh was a bit strong. Now he seems to be a person of five or six, and he is very majestic, but the basic courtship and mating rights of this person are still not in his hands.
From the beginning, he also knew that it was not up to him to decide who his concubine was, and that the more he grew up, the more his grandmother interfered with it.
When it came to the end, he didn't have much curiosity about this matter, and the best result was nothing more than that his grandmother was satisfied and he was satisfied, and the worst result was that his grandmother was satisfied, and he could only hold back.
Not to mention that he is still married to a daughter-in-law, what can his fourth uncle Li Dan and his daughter-in-law not see anyone alive or dead? Don't you have to be like no one, occasionally let your mother take it out for a walk and make a big show?
When it was revealed, the princes of the beacon fire smiled, and when they were sleepy, they abandoned their wives and children just to survive. No matter how worthless it is in the world, a bone is thrown over, and it has to be licked.
In the tabernacle, the two ladies are also playing a batting game, but it is a more orthodox way of playing, the intensity is not high, and it tests the skills more. Li Tong saw his lady holding a cardboard in her hand and standing on the sidelines to record, so she stepped forward and said with a smile: "Why don't you enter the game?" ”
The little lady's hood was lifted behind her head, her little face was flushed, and she said a little aggrieved: "I'm too powerful, the young lady won't let me appear!" ”
"How can that be true? I'm going to count them and go on the field and beat them to the ground! ”
Li Tong took the cardboard and pushed the lady back into the field.
Tang Lingshu cheered, grabbed his stick and ran to the field, and said complacently as he ran: "Your Highness asked me to come back!" ”
After this little lady appeared on the stage, she had the spirit of a tiger into the flock, and after several competitions, she was ahead by a large score.
Li Shouli took the initiative to act as an off-the-field guide for others, but those people were still behind, so angry that they beat their chests and chattered, and were driven away by the annoyed Li Youniang waving her cane.
There was a sound of relaxed laughter in the tent, Wei Tuan'er walked to Li Tong's side, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, in the Dragon Scale Palace last night, King Liang's family ......"
She was talking about the severe punishment of Wu Sansi's family, because it had just happened, and the matter had not spread yet, but Wei Tuan'er certainly had a way to know.
Li Tong was also happy after listening to it, when the situation was deadlocked, he really had to compete which side of the pig teammates had a higher error rate. He was still calculating how to destroy the marriage of Wu Pei's two families, but he didn't expect Wu Sansi and his daughter to solve it cleanly by themselves first.
"Before leaving the garden, the lady looked for an opportunity to meet Mrs. Huayang and told her that she was a young man and not a match."
Li Tong didn't expect to be able to reach a close alliance with the Yuzheng Di clan, and besides, no matter how close these female officials were, they were only vassals of the empress in the final analysis, and they were almost nothing when it came to independence. However, if you can have a tacit understanding and take a position at a critical moment, it will be of much help.
After hearing this, Wei Tuan'er nodded hurriedly, and said with no lack of worry: "Your Majesty may have to decide whose house the princess is in today......
"Don't worry, no matter which one it is, the story of the door is still the same."
Li Tong smiled at her and comforted her, but in fact, he was a little unsure in his heart.
The choice of which princess to choose was a natural choice for him politically, and he was able to cooperate more deeply within the rules. But when a newcomer enters the mansion, there is still his grandmother's will behind him, which will undoubtedly complicate the situation in the mansion, and it is normal for Wei Tuan'er and others to be worried.
At this moment, although Li Tong needs human help to strengthen himself, he is actually not very willing to obtain it through marriage. But it's not up to him to decide who to choose, and neither is the timing. Although there are some plans in his heart, this topic is still difficult to talk to Wei Tuan'er.
"The clothes are still new, and the people are old and old. When a newcomer first enters, he rarely has a sense of responsibility at the beginning. Since they are destined to live together, they should be harmonious when they get along. There is no shortage of experience in women's personnel, and I am relieved. The history of the widow is simple, if there is negligence, I hope the lady can make up for it. ”
Li Tong's worries mainly come from the pressure of his grandmother.
This woman is too strong when dealing with family relationships, and there may be blood and political considerations for them, but there is zero tolerance for female dependents. Whether it is his fourth uncle's concubines, or Wu Sansi's wife and daughter who have just suffered, they all prove this fact with their own tragic repetitions.
At the same time, in the Great Neiliu Cup Hall, the feast is about to begin.
This time, there are more than a dozen people who hope to marry His Royal Highness the Acting King. This number does not seem to be large, but there are only more than 200 people in Beijing who are above the fifth grade, and the proportion is already extremely high after deducting some people from poor families, or no marriageable women in the selection and various other reasons.
At present, all the families have also been led outside the Liubei Palace, waiting for His Majesty the Holy Emperor to arrive. At this time, in the outer hall, under the care of each family, there was a little shyness, and they all had a kind of unyielding momentum.
Anyone who can be selected is naturally extraordinary, and they may still be related to each other, but they gather together in order to compete for a son-in-law, and their faces are always a little unpleasant.
For example, Zhang Xi, who is also a heavenly official, represents the Qinghe Zhang family at the table, and there is almost no extended contact with his colleague Zheng Gao. And Zheng Gao and Zheng Xin, the right guard of the same clan, had no words to communicate except for nodding their heads in greeting.
Although the scene was very embarrassing, few people regretted such a choice. Since the Holy Emperor came to the dynasty, especially after the vertical arch, there have been many bloody and bloody affairs in the heavenly family, but the happy events of friendship are rare.
His Majesty the Holy Emperor in particular actually took a day out of his time to personally preside over this matter, which really reflected the depth of his care for His Royal Highness the Acting King. And I have to say that whether it is the talent and interest of the acting king, or the ability he has shown since he entered the incident, he is also worthy of everyone's enthusiastic scramble regardless of embarrassment.
As for the ladies who followed the parents to attend, they were all so nervous that they didn't know what the embarrassment was. Although the face of Leadhua Nongshi also looked solemn and elegant, the hands under the case were also tightly clenched, and sweat continued to pour out of the palms.
After the families gathered, two more people entered the palace, it was the prime minister Wei Yuanzhong and the subordinate secretary Wu Chonggui. After the families got up to salute, another female official came, Shangguan Wan'er, who was wearing a solemn palace skirt, and after entering the palace, she said: "Your Majesty summons the ladies and ladies of all families to enter the inner hall to worship. ”
After everyone heard this, they hurriedly got up, and when Mrs. Zheng saw Shangguan Wan'er entering, even the prime minister and the king of the sect in the hall got up to greet her, and she was already shocked in her heart, and couldn't help but lean behind her husband and whispered: "This Shangguan should be in charge, how can he be so honored?" ”
Zheng Gao glanced back at his wife, and whispered quickly: "Shangguan should be in charge of internal information and command, and I don't have time to talk about it in detail now, remember not to be rude!" ”
When Mrs. Zheng heard this, her face couldn't help but become a little ugly, but she didn't dare to say anything more, just led a few of her own ladies, followed by a few high-grade women, lowered her head and walked towards the inner hall.
At this time, in the inner hall, the Holy Emperor Wu Zetian was already sitting on the seat, and the left and right seats were Princess Taiping and Princess Yongwang Fang's family, and there was also an old woman with half-white eyebrows in the seat, which was the eldest princess of Anding.
When the women of each family came to the palace to worship, several people in the palace also lowered their eyes to look, especially the concubine Fang of King Yong, who looked at it carefully, lest she miss a person.
"If you are not in the ceremony today, the ladies do not have to be formal, and they are seated separately."
Wu Zetian looked kind, waved his hand and said, his restrained eyes were also seriously looking at the details of the manners of several of the women.
Probably because she was too nervous, all the women's movements seemed to be a little slow, and so did Zheng Wenyin, who followed behind Mrs. Zheng.
But when she was about to enter the seat, she saw an artifact left on the Yin seat on the side of the seat, which seemed to be the palace person accidentally touched the case to meet, the footsteps under the skirt increased slightly, the skirt was swept, and after sitting down, she hooked her hand into her hand, and took advantage of the unstable sitting posture of the lady with her peers, and handed it to Mrs. Zheng behind the front desk case. Mrs. Zheng was stunned for a moment, and after a while, she was slightly stunned, and when she took the case, she casually put it on the table.
At the same time, suddenly there was an exclamation from the other seat, and the lady of the He family fell to sit on the seat because the seat was tilted. At the same time, after some women sat down, they found that the skirt had been swept with red or yellow stains at some point, and then their faces had changed.