Zhao Yu saw Zheng Huchen smile and did not answer, so he opened all the painting scrolls and spread them on a few, he touched these paintings are painted on the silk cloth of the open ruler, the mounting is also very exquisite, depicted with a fine brush, and the painter's painting skills are also very good, the figure painting is vivid, it can be said that the cilia must be revealed. But on the surface, these paintings look more like 'standard photographs', with the maids all standing in long bodies and tunic skirts, with only a slight change in movement.

"Master Zheng, where did you get these paintings, are they in the palace?" Zhao Yu is not a fool, he immediately thought of something after seeing it, raised his head and asked.

"Your Majesty, exactly!" Zheng Huchen looked at the little emperor with a straight face, and immediately realized that the little emperor had guessed something, and immediately replied honestly.

"But the portrait of the concubine to be chosen?" Zhao Hao asked again.

"Your Majesty, this is the portrait of the show girl to be elected." Zheng Huchen replied.

"You ordered someone to steal it?" Zhao Yu's eyes became stern when he heard this, and he asked in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, where do your subordinates have the courage to do this." When Zheng Huchen heard this, he immediately saluted. He knows that although he is the henchman of the little emperor, he still has to pay attention to the scale of doing things, and knows how to advance and retreat, and there are some things that he cannot ask. Especially when it comes to family affairs, you must not meddle without a clear edict, otherwise you will die yourself.

"Where did that come from? Their family entrusted you with dedication to me! Zhao Yu frowned slightly and asked again.

"Your Majesty, this is the deputy governor of the inner province Dou Xing transferred it to Liu Ling, and he entrusted his subordinates to transfer it to Your Majesty." Zheng Huchen replied.

"Dou Xing, this old ghost doesn't know how much money he has received, but he works so hard!" Zhao Yu relaxed when he heard this, and said with a chuckle. He knew that Zheng Huchen's statement was very easy for him to find out, and he would not make excuses for lying like this.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates thought that Senior Official Dou was not like this this time, but to curry favor with the emperor, otherwise he would not have brought so many portraits of show girls at once." Zheng Huchen said.

"Well, I heard that this is indeed the case when Master Zheng said that he was betting the treasure on me, thinking that the Queen Mother belonged to these people, so she hurriedly sent the letter and bought it." Zhao Yu thought for a while.

"This time, the Queen Mother was heartbroken for Her Majesty's family affairs, not only widely selected, but also summoned the Zaizhi into the palace several times to discuss, but it has not yet been finalized." Zheng Huchen said.

"Director Zheng didn't do anything for my marriage?" Zhao Yu smiled and looked at Zheng Huchen and said.

"Of course, otherwise how dare you come to Your Majesty to ask for vegetarian food!" Zheng Huchen replied with a smile, "After the subordinates learned about the people to be chosen, they ordered the sons and daughters to share their family backgrounds, relatives and ...... Ah, I checked them all clearly, and then compiled them into a book for His Majesty's reference. All of them are original texts, and their subordinates have never made any changes! ”

"You're smart!" Zhao Yu rolled his eyes, and shouted out the door again, "Wang De......"

"What does the official family command?" As soon as the words fell, Wang De came into the house to give a salute.

"Today, Director Zheng will accompany me to dinner, you accompany you to the dining room to have a look, and prepare whatever you like!" Zhao Yu pointed at Zheng Huchen and said.

"Yes, official!" Wang Deshili agreed, then turned to Zheng Huchen and said with a smile, "Director Zheng is really a minister, and if you want your courtiers to order food, I'm afraid it's the first time in the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

"How dare you, there is a big official Lao!" Zheng Huchen arched his hand and said with a smile, he also knew that the little emperor was 'driving people', and then Shi Li retired and went out with Wang De......

Zhao Yu first lined up the five pictures of ladies on a few lines, and he looked at them one by one, but there was no Li Sanniang among them, obviously she had been excluded from the queen's candidates, and her 'barbarian' status decided that she could only be listed among the concubines. And unexpectedly, Chen Renweng's Shu'er was not among them, and he remembered that the Empress Dowager Yang still had a good impression of her, and once joked with himself to include her in the inner palace, and it seems that the Empress Dowager gave up on her in the end.

"Poor thing!" Zhao Hao looked at the painting and sighed, not knowing whether to lament his bad fate or feel sad for several women. Thinking about the arranged marriage in the previous life, it has long been history, and blind dates have become a very embarrassing thing, but now I have even been deprived of the right to go on a blind date, and the happiness of a lifetime depends on the queen mother. Before marriage, you can only see what your future wife looks like through these stolen paintings, which is no different from blind marriage and dumb marriage, and these women don't even know that they are beautiful and ugly, and they don't have to choose.

However, Zhao Yu has become accustomed to always drawing a bad hand, and then try to achieve the best result, at least now it is one of the five, and he can pick and choose and find a relatively satisfactory one. He knows that the wife he chooses for himself will never be ugly, because the conditions for choosing a concubine are very harsh, from the mouth, nose, eyes, and facial features, to the hands, feet, limbs, from hair, skin, teeth, to the neck, chest, waist, a woman's body from top to bottom, all have strict standards, and even the smell of a woman's body is also one of the standards.

In addition, Zhao Yu knew that the aesthetic concept of the Song Dynasty was different from that of the Tang Dynasty, which advocated plumpness and wealth, and the thin waist of the willow and the petite and thin were the female beauty appreciated by the scribes of the Song Dynasty. On the contrary, the conditions in terms of hardware such as facial features and appearance can be slightly relaxed, but the threshold for charm and mood is relatively high. What the literati pursue is a kind of hazy beauty under the moon under the lamp and the artistic conception beauty between the bow pavilions, of course, it is difficult to experience in these standard photos.

Of course, no one has any objection to the high appearance, and this aspect is still different from the 'awl face' that modern people like. The standard face shape of beauties in this era is slightly round at the top and slightly pointed at the bottom, resembling melon seeds, plump and white, commonly known as goose face. In addition, the "full moon" is also a face shape that meets the aesthetic standards of ancient China. The face is like a full moon, and the face is round and white, like a full moon, and the appearance is fair, plump and radiant. The woman in the painting is nothing more than that.

As the saying goes, "The face is like a flower, and it all depends on the nose". The nose is the most prominent part of the face, and the standard of a beautiful woman's nose is delicate and clear, full of three-dimensionality. There is also the saying of "nose like Qiongyao". Qiong Yao, a kind of beautiful jade, is crystalline, smooth and warm, that is, it is necessary to focus on the delicate and transparent beauty of the nose, while "the nose is like a hanging gall" focuses on the three-dimensional beauty of the nose. However, in this traditional painting method, it is still difficult to express the positive image.

What makes Zhao Yu strange is that the women in several paintings are all low-eyed and pleasing to the eyes, their eyes are indifferent, no sadness or joy, and they all seem to have a pair of small eyes, which makes people feel awkward. But after thinking about it, the maids in the palace have not small eyes, and the queen mother also has a pair of phoenix eyes. And although he is not like a copper bell, he is not squinting, and from a genetic point of view, the eyes of his mother on this body are also not small.

But Zhao Hao figured it out after pondering for a while, and it is estimated that the painter painted this subtle and introverted visual effect in order to meet the functional needs of the current moral education. In addition, in the previous life, I was used to seeing all kinds of girls with big eyes.,Especially the cute girls with big eyes who occupy half of the face in the Japanese comics.,Only then will there be an illusion.,Think that the people in the painting are all small eyes.。

"Whatever, it's not Zhu Bajie and his second aunt after all!" Zhao Yu understood that the emperor's marriage was more of a political marriage, and it was not up to him to make his own decisions. And the moral standard of a queen is the first, but not the appearance, which is also an important criterion for the election of the Great Song Dynasty. But in fact, this is more wishful thinking, which is basically judged from the other party's family background. Does his grandfather, Emperor Lizong, really like Jia Guifei so much, and it is not because he has to rely on Jia Yidao that he has to make a gesture of favor.

"Daughter of the Lei Clan!" Zhao Yu casually took a picture, looked at the footnotes and said softly. He took a closer look, this little lady looked petite and weak, a delicate melon seed face, a small nose, a small mouth, combed with a high bun, a graceful figure, and a small waist seemed to be able to hold it in one hand, just like a rag doll, and that small appearance made people feel pitiful.

"His ancestor Lei Yizhong, the word Uncle Yi, the number factory mountain, Fengcheng County...... "The draft girls in the palace are all to find out the eight generations of their ancestors, and after the beloved, the queen is even more through the sieve and then through Luo, but Zhao Yu trusts the bureau more, and opens the booklet brought by Zheng Huchen.

Lei Yizhong went back to two generations and was an ordinary cultivator, and in his early years, he studied poetry and books hard under the famous teacher Zhang Qia. In the second year of Duanping, he was made up as a student, and he was stuck in school for a long time because of his criticism of Shi Songzhi, the minister of power, until he was the second in the seventh year of Chunyou. Entering the official career, not correcting the straight nature, once served as a secretary under the Jiangling handsome Jia Dao curtain, every time he encounters a disagreement, he must fight according to reason, which offends Jia like Tao and is degraded to Guangdong Economic Strategy.

In Guangdong, he prospered and eliminated the disadvantages, and donated money to buy land for Tongjiang Academy as a fire. In the first year of Deyou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and the pacification envoy of Guangdong. At this time, the Yuan army invaded the south and most of the south of the Yangtze River fell, Lei Yizhong responded to Wen Tianxiang's call and insisted on resisting the Yuan in Lingnan, and recruited soldiers and civilians with Xie Fang of Xinzhou to defend the territory. In the defense of Lingqiao, he was seriously injured and martyred. Ten years later, his grandson Lei Sheng visited the remains and moved to Fengcheng.

Lei Yi has two sons, and the eldest son is Yin to supplement the undertaker, but he failed to enter the office, and the two brothers are still studying in the township. The selected person is Lei Yan, the daughter of the Lei family, born in the fifth year of Xianchun, at the age of 16, and has three brothers. Due to the middle of the family, the ancestral property is shallow, and because of the daughter in his later years, he is very loved by his father and brother. Since childhood, he has studied and learned calligraphy with his brother, and has been able to write poetry. Virtuous and graceful, good at housekeeping, although there is a mother and sister-in-law in the hall, he presided over the family affairs when he was a teenager, and his family gradually improved and entered a well-off. This time, it was recommended by Xie Fangde to be selected.

"The children of the poor are in charge of the house early!" Zhao Yu made a judgment after seeing it. His family is barely an official eunuch, it is appropriate to say that it is a family of cultivation and study, and it is not satisfactory to be an official with Lei Yizhong's temper, and he is an upright person, he must live on salary, and it is good to be able to rule some fields and leave them to his children and grandchildren.

After the death of the head of the family, life must have been in trouble, and from the thin body of the little girl, she knew that she was malnourished since she was a child and could not grow. But he can try to turn around his family situation at a young age, although he doesn't know what method to use, he can see his family style and know that there are no despicable means. This shows that he is a good hand at living. However, Zhao Yu thought that it was difficult to choose Lei Yan as the queen, and her congenitally deficient small body lacked the image of the mother's world, so she was afraid that it would be difficult to pass the final competition.

"Hey, this is a long leg!" Zhao Hao regretted putting Lei Yan's portrait aside, in fact, he was willing to find a wife who was good at financial management, and at least he could eat 'soft rice', and he didn't have to worry about money anymore. He took another one and took a closer look, and found that this little lady had a goose egg face, a slender body, a skirt dragging to the ground, and long sleeves flowing, as long as the painter did not draw the wrong proportions, it was definitely a long leg, and it also came with a vest line, and the clavicle socket could put eggs in the modern beauty image, but I don't know if it was hungry or practiced.

couldn't wait to look at this woman's information, Zhao Yu couldn't help but marvel, her family can be traced back to the famous Langya Wang family in the world, the famous Wang Xizhi, although I don't know how many branches have been divided. However, his ancestor is the famous minister of this dynasty, Wang Yao, who was admitted to the Jinshi in the thirteenth year of Jiading. Subsequently, he successively served as magistrates in Changshu, Taizhou, Chuzhou, Ruizhou and other places; Bao Younian entered the dynasty and edited the history of the country. In the second year of Jingding, Wang Yao moved the Ministry of Rites to the book, and the secretary of the Ministry of Acting was a scholar of the Guanwendian University. In the first year of Xianchun, he was a member of the Privy Council and a governor of the Privy Council.

Xianchun was the left phase for ten years. In the first year of Deyou, the soldiers marched south, regardless of their old age, and asked the imperial court to grant Xuanfu to recruit ambassadors to recruit loyalty, and to rejuvenate together. Soon after Ren Pingzhang was a military matter, he ordered Zhang Shijie and other four-way soldiers and horses to advance at the same time to resist the southward movement of the Yuan soldiers, and his military deployment was not adopted. Soon, Zhang Shijie was defeated, and Wang Yi asked for dismissal on the grounds that he was "not allowed to take his post", but he was dismissed from his post and died after returning to his hometown.

Wang Yao is a man of pure cultivation and strength. Jia Rudao, who was respected as a "master" by Song Duzong, returned to Tiantai to bury his mother in Xinchang, and he was the only one who did not see him. Jia Rudao was defeated, and Wang Yao commented that Jia Rudao was neither loyal nor filial. The Empress Dowager said: "The powerful ministers of this dynasty are in trouble, and there is no one like the martyr of the Tao." The gentleman grass and grass don't know how many things to do, Your Majesty can't do it, not only pay people to be unsympathetic, how can you thank the world!" Jia Rudao was then demoted.

The selected woman is Wang Yao's three sons and two daughters, named Wang Yu, born in Xianchun for four years, his father Wang Huagui Bao Younian Jinshi, after the official successively served as the editor, the provincial director, Langzhong, and the foreign governor. Her uncle or participated in the imperial examination, or Mengyin was once an official, and after the fall of Jiangnan, he was hidden at home, never a scholar, and had no bad deeds. It can be said that he was born in a wealthy family, an official family, and a family of ministers, and the data shows that he is good at poetry, fine music, good literature and virtue, and knowledgeable.

"Alas, I don't know if it's fate!" Zhao Hao sighed and put down the portrait with some reluctance, he knew that it was not his own appearance to judge people, but the world style was like this, and the aesthetics of this world could not accommodate 'long legs'. Legend has it that once, Su Shi went to a rich man's house to drink. The owner has a maiko who is of decent appearance but tall in stature. The master asked Su Shi to compose a poem for the maiko. Su Shi made four sentences: "The dancing sleeves are fluttering, the shadow shakes the thousand-foot dragon and snake, the singing voice is like turning, and the sound shakes the wind and rain for a long time." The maiko blushed and walked away.

"Hey, this little lady is not bad!" Taking another one, Zhao Yu looked at it carefully and clicked his mouth......