Qin Yunuan protected Qin Baochuan behind him, and his eyes were filled with incomparable firmness and inviolable arrogance.

Dou Qing'e's eyes opened, but Qin Yunxiang was the first to open her mouth, and said to Qin Yunuan: "Who do you think is you?" A concubine dared to speak to her mother like this. ”

Qin Yunuan slowly swept over Qin Yun's makeup, who was dressed particularly brightly today, and Dou Qing'e, who was slightly surprised, with indifferent eyes, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly: "Baochuan still has to go to clan school, so I can't talk to my mother, if Mr. is late to mention it to my father, Yunuan really doesn't know how to answer." As he spoke, he motioned to Liao's mother with his eyes to take Baochuan out.

Liao's mother pulled Qin Baochuan to leave, but Dou Qing'e raised her voice and said: "It's okay to take someone away, but you have to go and tell your father that you don't want to participate in the prince's selection of concubines, and the only one who can participate is Yun Makeup." ”

Speaking of which, it was still for this absurd concubine selection activity, and their mother and daughter were very enthusiastic about it, but Qin Yunuan disdained this activity full of powerful transactions from beginning to end.

"Mother," Qin Yunuan opened her mouth and said, "If I say it, my father will agree, I would have retreated a long time ago, but mother, do you think, father will?" ”

Yes, after so many years of husband and wife, Qin Zhen's temper Dou Qing'e still doesn't understand, if his decision can be changed so easily, she won't think of a way to coerce Qin Yunuan to speak, but for the sake of her daughter's future and future, even if there is only one in ten thousand chance, she has to give it a try.

"However, if the mother intends to send the eldest sister to the palace, Yu Nuan has a way to try." Qin Yunuan said faintly.

Qin Yun's first reaction was: "Why should I believe you." ”

Qin Yunuan smiled: "Big sister doesn't believe me, I should too, Mother Liao, let's take Baochuan back, if my father asks why Baochuan is late to learn from the upper clan, you will say that Baochuan has delayed the time in order to endorse and coax his mother to sleep, filial piety comes first, and my father will not blame." With that, Qin Yunuan turned around and was about to leave with Baochuan.

"Wait," Dou Qing'e suddenly changed her mind, "Baochuan leaves, you stay." "It's still a condescending tone, but the attitude has been compromised.

With his back to Dou Qing'e, the corners of Qin Yunuan's mouth suddenly raised slightly, and he nodded and signaled Liao's mother to take Baochuan to hurry to the clan study, and she slowly turned around: "Mother is willing to listen to what Yunuan said?" ”

"Hmph, I'm just listening."

Qin Yunuan smiled and said: "Although the prince's choice of concubine is a lifelong decision, but before that, the queen will hold a poetry meeting in the palace, invite the daughters of the official family to the banquet together, and all the princes will also attend, but the first to screen the favorite woman, if she can have a brilliant performance at the poetry meeting and leave a deep impression on the prince, in comparison, the father's attitude is not so important, after all, those who are not parents will stop their daughters from embarking on the road to the clouds, mother, don't you say?" ”

"Why are you helping me? Would you be so kind? Qin Yun's makeup had some expectations at first, but immediately, it was replaced by a kind of vigilance, in her eyes, Qin Yunuan was a snake and scorpion-like character, she was poisonous, and her scheming was even more poisonous.

Qin Yunuan smiled again: "Yunuan is just a concubine, whether she can be selected or not, even if she can be selected to serve the prince, but she has no background, no support, how can she fight those official ladies with deep family backgrounds, after all, she is either lonely and old, or she lives in ruins, Yunuan's wish has never been to guard Baochuan and live an ordinary life, the deep palace is heavy, and she can't take care of Baochuan or herself, so why bother?" ”

This is reasonable, but Dou Qing'e's mother and daughter are still skeptical.

Seven days later, there will be a poetry meeting, and it seems that you have to plan early.

Looking at Dou Qing'e and Qin Yunxiang looking at each other but not saying a word, Qin Yunuan knew what the two were worried about, but she blessed her body in the future: "What Yu Nuan said, mother can think about it slowly, there are still some miscellaneous things in Yu Nuan's yard, so I will leave first." ”

Dou Qing'e didn't keep her anymore, just waited for Qin Yunuan to leave, and then withdrew all the maids, and even Xiu Gu told her to retreat, pulled Qin Yunjiao and asked, "Yunxiang, what do you think?" ”

"It's an opportunity." Qin Yun lowered her eyebrows, as long as she thought of the opportunity to meet the third prince Sima Rui, her heart would always be as sweet as drinking honey, such a handsome and outstanding man is the beloved in the hearts of many girls, if it is really as the trend of the wind in the middle of the court, and the third prince is the crown prince, then she will be the crown princess, that is the future queen, the mother of the world, turn her hands into clouds, and cover her hands for rain.

"It's just," Qin Yunxiang hesitated for a moment and said, "Qin Yu is warm and scheming, I'm afraid she will cheat." ”

"You have to know, Jiang is still old and spicy," Dou Qing'e took a sip of warm tea, and put down the jasper's tea cup on the mahogany coffee table, "Your father has now alienated our mother and son, if we don't plan for ourselves, sooner or later we will have to be trampled under the feet of others in the future, either this concubine, or a new fox who enters the door, you have to go to this poetry meeting, and Qin Yunuan is around, hum, I am free to arrange." ”

Although it was a poetry club, the ladies of the eunuchs who had the opportunity to participate in the selection of the prince's concubine attached great importance to it, and they were busy early.

But Qin Yunuan seemed so unfazed and unbusy, as usual, designing new tricks, checking Baochuan's homework, by the way, because this time the nobles made a small profit from the collective purchase, not only added a few new clothes and the four treasures of the study to Baochuan, but also brought a few good materials to Man'er Tong'er Liao's mother and Tingxue by the way, and even Huang Dashi got a pair of new cloth shoes.

The night before the poetry meeting, Qin Yunuan was still reading with his head under the oil lamp, and there would occasionally be some sounds of learning about the search on the wall, Qin Yunuan only thought it was a cat scratch, and didn't care.

The door was pushed open, and Man'er came in with the clothes that the poetry club was going to wear.

Alizarin's cyan snow spun thousand water skirt, embroidered with a short placket of flowers, and the pale green belt are neatly folded neatly, and there is also a golden begonia bead flower on the top of it, and the silver pendant is very cute and cute.

Man'er spread out the clothes to Qin Yunuan and introduced: "The clothes are from Yuman Embroidery Village, and the shopkeeper heard that it is the clothes of Qin San's girl, and he refused to accept even the silver, and in the end Tong'er and I could only drop the silver and run," Man'er smiled narrowly, Yuman Embroidery Village is an industry under the name of Ning Wangfu, and the master and servant both know it, Man'er continued, "Bu Shao is from the East Street Jewelry Pavilion, I heard that it is the latest style this year, I look good, and Tong'er also said that the third girl will like it." ”

Man'er and Tong'er have always been in line with Qin Yunuan's mind, Qin Yunuan picked up the beautifully made golden begonia and shook it, just glanced at it, and muttered: "The latest style of the East Street Jewelry Pavilion this year?" Isn't the begonia-style East Street Jewelry Pavilion out of sale for a long time? Since cooperating with Shen Xun to do business, Qin Yunuan also has some understanding of the large and small shops in Beijing.

Man'er was stunned for a moment, and then lowered his voice and said, "Could it be that there is something wrong with the East Street Jewelry Pavilion?" ”

Qin Yunuan smiled lightly: "It's not the Jewelry Pavilion that is greasy, hmph, I'm afraid it's the two people in Cuixuan Courtyard and Caizhi Courtyard, think about it, you know, they have never been fuel-efficient lamps." ”

On the second day, Qin Yunuan got up very early, and waited in the flower hall at the hour, when the sunlight crawled all over the third window lattice at the west end of the verandah, Qin Yun's makeup finally appeared in full costume.

Under the cherry-red placket is a rose-red pile of flower skirts, with a faint amount of fat powder on the face, lining the already delicate and lovely face more like a spring breeze, cutting water eyes, face like Fu powder, eyebrows, red lips and teeth, she Qin Yun makeup, will always be the most dazzling one, at this moment, she holds her head high, full of confidence, and completely regards herself as a rich peony that has been destroyed by wind and rain but still blooms.

Qin Yunuan greeted him with a smile: "Big sister is here." ”

Qin Yunxiang let out a faint "um", and in a blink of an eye, he saw the golden begonia beads on Qin Yunuan's head swaying, smiled, and even pretended to be affectionate and took Qin Yunuan's hand and said, "Now it's a coincidence that our two sisters are entering the palace to participate in the banquet together." ”

Qin Yunuan nodded: "Yes, it's just a pity that things are different from people, and the situation is different." With that, he went straight to the outer door and got into the carriage first.

Qin Yun gritted her teeth, but she could only stomp her feet in her heart, not in a hurry, she comforted herself in her heart, sooner or later, she would return all the ridicule and shame that Qin Yunuan gave her a hundred times and a thousand times.

The carriage still stopped at the Suzaku Gate, this time, the grandmother guarding the door was very polite to Qin Yunuan, and now the reputation of Qin San Girl in Beijing has gradually spread, especially the people of Qingshui County said that although they did not see the true face of Qin San Girl that day, she looked like a wonderful person like a fairy, with a good heart and a good person, and she was a good person.

The poetry meeting was held in a garden with mountains and rivers, the queen mother has not yet come, and a few ladies who came early have already been two or three together to laugh, today's poetry meeting Fang Ziying failed to come, the Fang family originally said goodbye to the Shangguan family, but Shangguan let him die, Fang Ziying rarely went out in order to avoid suspicion, let alone come to participate in the princess election.

Although Qin Yun's appearance was unexpected by many people, everyone did a great job of saving face, especially Li Weijun, who was still counting on Qin Yun's makeup to help her.

Qin Yunuan didn't want to be so lively, she chose a place with few people to sit and enjoy the coolness, and occasionally a palace maid passing by with tea, Qin Yunuan asked for a cup of sour plum soup and drank it to herself.

Suddenly, the originally sparse shade seemed to have another layer of shadow, and a warm and modest voice sounded above Qin Yunuan's head: "Third Miss Qin, long time no see." ”