Zhaofeng Inn is the most famous inn in Daxing City, because it is located at the mouth of the north-south passage, there is an endless stream of people coming and going to stay, the guy who ran the hall was about to turn around to greet the guests who had just entered the door, but was stopped by a hand in time, he looked up, and saw a smiling man standing by the door, and asked: "Store, is there a private room upstairs?" ”

"Here, there are no more seats, and there are still empty seats in the lobby."

Before the man could say anything, a burst of laughter from the street attracted them all.

Shen Tingnian held a bamboo windmill with a complicated structure, laughing while spinning the windmill, bright and beautiful, and both of them were stunned.

"That's it, right? Let's go in for a break, I'm tired of laughing......" Shen Tingnian stood at the door of the inn, first turned his head to talk to Pu Yangxu who was following behind, and frowned when he turned back, and finally noticed that some of the eyes around him were not so kind.

Because Shen Tingnian took off his hat and attracted a lot of attention, Pu Yangxu, who was even more unhappy than her, walked over with his hands behind his back, glanced at the two people who were blocking the way at the door of the inn, and raised his eyebrows and looked at the signboard of the Zhaofeng Inn.

The innkeeper suddenly woke up, took a step back to make way out, and bowed his waist and invited them in, "Your guests, please, there is a seat upstairs." ”

Shen Tingnian waited for Pu Yangxu to walk in front, and then walked next to him, and the two were led by the inn guy to the lobby aisle, and it was also an instant, the lobby was quiet, this man who came first, handsome and beautiful, exuded the temperament of a noble son, and when everyone shook their heads, the woman next to him appeared, with a graceful posture and a charming appearance.

The Zhaofeng Inn has never been as quiet as it is today, and the appearance of Pu Yangxu has already caused some undercurrents, and Shen Tingnian went to that station again, and the two of them instantly attracted everyone's attention, breeding a bigger surge.

The innkeeper was a serious abacus, and when he noticed the movement, he was stunned when he raised his head slightly, and hurriedly came out from behind the counter to greet customers.

"Are the two guests going to eat or stay at the hotel?" The shopkeeper smiled with his face up, and there was a little flattery in his voice.

Shen Tingnian took advantage of Pu Yangxu's preoccupation to show greater emotion, and took the initiative to hold his hand, "Eat, please take us to the private room first." ”

"Okay, please here, here-" The shopkeeper, who was also a human elf, immediately realized that they didn't like the careless gaze in the lobby, and he personally led the way in front and sent the men who ran away from the hall.

Prosperous places can naturally attract people, and the four main official roads outside the city are almost full of people every day. The business of the Zhaofeng Inn is very good, since the morning opened to do business, the guy who ran the hall has not stopped at all, he is a little excited, and when he walks back to the door of the inn, he finds that the man who asked him before has not left.

"This guest officer, you ......"

"Take it, I want the private room next door to them." The man took out a silver ingot from his sleeve and threw it to the man without looking at it.

"This—please go this way, too." The man weighed the amount of money in his hand, and then he turned a corner and accepted it.

As soon as Shen Tingnian entered the door of the private room, she let go of Pu Yangxu, and before she could open her mouth to ask, the shopkeeper explained with a smile: "The two of you should be the first time to come to Daxing City, our people here value beauty, not intentionally offended, it is really a lady with a pure appearance, which is very rare." ”

There is also such a custom, seeing beauty and plundering strangeness, and taking beauty as precious...... I didn't notice it when I walked all the way before, maybe there were many guards and maids around me, but now, sending them back to the inn to put things, the two of them were suddenly highlighted.

Shen Tingnian smiled, "Give us a light meal." ”

"Can you still eat?"

Waiting for the shopkeeper to go out, Pu Yangxu sat by the window, and returned to his previous posture, like a handsome boy traveling with beauty.

"I'll order it for them." Shen Tingnian is mainly looking for a place to rest, while speaking, she reached out and took the tea poured in front of Pu Yangxu, she took a sip, the taste was much worse than what she usually drank in the palace, "You better don't drink it, this outside ...... thing"

While waiting for the food to come up, there was a knock on the person in the private room, and the man who was asking outside the door was a little polite: "Excuse me, I have something to inquire about, can I come in?" ”

Hearing this, Shen Tingnian and Pu Yangxu were a little confused, and after glancing at each other, Pu Yangxu lazily leaned against the window frame and answered, "Come in." ”

"For the rest of my life, I'll eat in the private room next door," the tall and thin man, with a friendly smile, was pretentious and compensatory, "took the liberty of interrupting." ”

Shen Tingnian's eyes rolled brightly, and the face he saw turned slightly red, Pu Yangxu hooked his lips slightly, they had a face-to-face with this person at the door of the inn before, and they actually caught up with the door.

Neither of them opened their mouths to talk to him, but the rest of their lives took the initiative to sit down without any embarrassment, "Acquaintance is fate, today's meal is invited, don't treat me as a bad person, it's really a good thing." ”

What kind of good thing will catch up like this?

"You know what, every year at this time of year, we have a great thing in this place." Yu Sheng is very good at mobilizing the atmosphere of the conversation, from a series of words to demeanor, it is very infectious, "I am in Daxingcheng, which is specifically responsible for recommending candidates for the government, and several nobles took the road from me last year." ”

Shen Tingnian shook her hand around the windmill, and she clearly saw Pu Yangxu's body on the opposite side from sitting against the window to straightening her back, and she seemed to be attracted by the other party's topic and became very interested.

For the rest of his life, he is probably a fisherman, very good at throwing hooks, and very good at pulling bait fish along a long line.

He rendered the matter of picking draft girls in the palace into a great good thing, and talked about the collection of beauties in the jurisdiction of local governments every year.

"This year's situation is special, the whole country is filial piety, it shouldn't have been accepted, but I have the exact news," he said, and the rest of his life pretended to lower his voice mysteriously, "I can't wait until the end of the year, the secret order for the selection has come out, and all over the country are vying to recruit beauties, and if it's too late, I won't be able to catch up with the first batch." ”

How good and beautiful the new emperor is, it can be seen that this is not the most prosperous and populous main city of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and everyone knows how to vote for the emperor's favor, not only the government dispatched manpower to select, but also mobilized the locals to recommend, according to the head of the money, like Shen Tingnian, calculate another price.

"When did you get the news?" Pu Yangxu tried his best to restrain his breath and maintain his state, but his natural noble temperament was difficult to hide.

Shen Tingnian, who listened with relish, came back to his senses and took the initiative to help him cover up, "We came from the south, and we haven't heard that the selection has begun, besides, we also have some assets in our family, if it's for money, we can't look down on this good thing." ”

As soon as Yu Sheng heard it, he hurriedly said: "I'll get the news at the beginning of spring." ”

It's rare to see Shen Tingnian talk, and the rest of his life directly turned the finger at her, "How can you use yellow and white things to fall into a nobleman, that is, such a layman will camp for money, if you go to the election, then the custody is to be selected, and in the future, when you enter the palace and serve the emperor, you must be a master." ”

Shen Tingnian subconsciously glanced at Pu Yangxu, only to feel that these words were really a little difficult to hear, and sure enough, the latter's face had begun to sink.

She hurriedly raised her voice and pretended to be excited: "But, I'm already married, he, he is my husband." ”

Pu Yangxu was instantly attracted by her exaggerated performance, and a pair of eyes were locked on her face, only thinking that her smile was particularly vivid.

The atmosphere that had been frozen gradually seemed to be restored.

"It's okay to marry someone, we have our own way to ......" The rest of his life chased after the wind, just trying to impress Shen Tingnian, but he didn't see Pu Yangxu on the side tapping on the table, counting the beats one by one.

"Can this be done too?" Shen Tingnian was shocked.

"Naturally, if you go my way, you will give your noble person a new identity." The rest of his life was dry, and he saw that the teacup on the side was full of water, and no one used it, so he took it and drank it all in one gulp, he sighed and was very satisfied, "Sure enough, the tea in the elegant room is not the same." ”

"That's how it was in previous years?" Pu Yangxu spoke again, and his voice was obviously much lower.

Shen Tingnian probably guessed what he was going to do, and cast a last sympathetic glance at the man in front of him who came to the door to send him to death, and after taking it back, he looked out the window indifferently.

Not surprisingly, Chen Luo was already downstairs, and the guards were also guarding both sides of the street.

After the rest of his life, he touched his neck consciously, where did the cool breeze blow his feverish head a little cold, "This, it was not much different in previous years, if you really want to say special, it is still the original grandson, and now His Royal Highness the Crown Prince chose the concubine that year......

As soon as I talked about this past, I was strong again for the rest of my life, from the beginning of receiving the news to the whole country falling into an unprecedented state of frenzy, all the innocent family girls should not be chosen, and they tried their best to go out if they did not meet the selection conditions.

"There are eighteen carriages pulled out of Daxing City, and each one is crowded with people, all of them are young girls."

But that year, they were the least selected show girls, and there were only twenty or thirty people who finally entered Zhen Xiusi and walked to Pu Yangxu, except for themselves, who knows what they have experienced?

It is not an exaggeration to say that they are one in a million.

Shen Tingnian walked slightly, she actually didn't take a shortcut, others walked for a year, but she walked for eight years.

She had no intention of chasing the bright moon, but the bright moon was sultry.

For the rest of his life, where did he expect that he would be able to do most of his life and bump into the hands of the main owner, he pulled up the vine and found a bunch of melons, and he single-handedly overturned the whole boat, not only from Daxingcheng to the capital, but all the channels for seeking personal interests under the guise of the draft were all suffered.

This is far from enough, Pu Yangxu from the rest of his life said that the large-scale draft in the first year of Jingyou, the number of girls who should be drafted is huge, and the number of women to be drafted in the capital is far from matching the number of women to be drafted in the capital that he remembers.

It turned out that some people used the name of selection to abduct and buy and sell those beautiful women who were eager to choose.