Before the holy decree in the palace arrived, someone would be sent to pass the message first, but when Shunxi arrived at the gate of the Tong Mansion, the Tong family looked like they had just woken up.

Zhou and Wen are co-directors, and the matter of purchasing fields and shops outside the house has been handed over to Zhou, but because the official position of Master Tong has not been decided, the sale and lease of this field and shop have not been negotiated.

The old man guarding the door sneezed, rubbed his nose and looked at the person standing on the steps, and stepped forward to say hello.

"Who are you looking for?"

"The little one has been ordered to be summoned for interrogation."

Lao Zhangtou was stunned, the weather in the capital was too cold, and the people were getting old again, so their brains didn't turn around for a while.

"I don't know whose order you have been given, and to whom are you going to be arraigned?"

"Hey, you old man is interesting, of course it's on the orders of the master of the palace, and you can ask who to send the message to?!"

Lao Zhangtou reacted this time, and when he heard that it was from the palace, he immediately pulled out his legs and ran towards Su Lanyuan, where the two ladies were directors.

Shunxi glanced at the back of the old Zhang Tou, whose leg speed and age were not equal, and then looked at himself who was still standing on the steps, and shook his head helplessly.

"Well, I'll go in by myself."

Although the name of Su Lanyuan sounds big, it is actually just a small flower hall, the cotton tents on both sides are put down to block the deep cold, and then two braziers can barely be used for the office, and the charcoal is not the best silver frost charcoal used.

"Big lady, big lady!"

Lao Zhangtou stumbled into Su Lan Yuan, and Wen had just raised his head from the account book before he could speak, and Zhou had already opened his mouth to reprimand.

"What kind of body is in a panic, what is the noise in the morning?!"

"Back to the words of the second lady, the palace... Someone is in the palace! ”

"What?!"

"What are you still doing in a daze, go to the incense case and open the door, and what about the person who arraigned you? Can you go to the main hall? ”

"Oh, the old slave was in a hurry and forgot about the person at the door......"

"Then don't go yet!"

"Yes, yes, yes."

Su Lanyuan was overturned for a while, and after the three Tong Qingyan sisters got the news, they hurriedly took care of their makeup, hair and dress, and rushed to the main hall from their respective courtyards at the same time.

Shunxi looked at the three people who walked into the main hall at the same time, and was immediately attracted by the temperamental Tong Manjiao, remembering the words of the godfather before leaving the palace, Shunxi immediately raised a friendly smile to greet him.

"Oh, it's worthy of being a well-bred girl in the Tongda's house, this gesture, the little one seems to have seen the noble lady in the palace, it's really unusual."

Tong Manjiao was shocked by Shunxi's feminine appearance, but when she heard Shunxi's words, she was overjoyed, isn't this recognizing her efforts over the past few days, and immediately smiled softly and blessed her body.

"Thank you father-in-law for your praise, I don't know my father-in-law's name."

"The little one is humble and light-hearted, where should the girl ask, if the girl doesn't dislike it, just let the little one be happy."

"I don't know if Father-in-law Shunxi came here today, but what are the instructions in the palace?"

Zhou smiled and pulled Tong Manjiao Tong Manji behind him, and respectfully welcomed Shunxi back to the main seat, but Shunxi just arched his hand, like Zhou's half-salute.

"Today, the queen issued an order to summon the young ladies of all the mansions in Beijing to enter the palace to enjoy the plum blossoms, and the little one came to inform her first."

Tong Qingyan touched her nose and felt strange, if there is this news in the palace, it makes no sense that Song Zhan has no news at all, this person's intelligence network is not so weak, right?!

"I'm tired of my father-in-law."

Zhou stuffed a small bag into Shunxi's hand, Shunxi stretched out two fingers and pinched it, the weight in it was not light, he immediately squinted his eyes with satisfaction, and thanked his godfather for his arrangement in his heart, so that he could come to this Tongfu to summon the news, it was indeed not wrong, but it was no worse than those high-ranking officials and Houfu.

When the queen's decree in the palace came, the Tongfu was ready, and after the Wen family took the lead to greet the edict, he pulled Shunxi and talked twice, hoping to get some guidance.

"Don't worry, the eldest lady is just an ordinary plum banquet, the queen's mother is not in good health, and she will not attend today, most of them are presided over by the concubine Niangniang, everyone in the palace knows that the concubine is the most kind."

"Thank you father-in-law for your advice."

As he spoke, he stuffed another bag into Shun Xi's hand, and Shun Xile's eyes were only slit.

The three sisters of the Tong family got into the carriage neatly, and each of the three of them could only bring one maid into the palace, Tong Qingyan was entangled for a while and decided not to bring a national treasure-level maid like Feicui Feiyan into the palace.

Tong Qingyan's carriage only has pearls, which is quite spacious, and the two Tong Manjiao sisters have two maidservants, and the carriage of the same size is a little crowded.

"Miss, why didn't the second lady let the eldest lady and the second lady take the carriage separately, it's too uncomfortable for four people to squeeze into a carriage."

"Auntie's arrangement naturally has her deep meaning."

What can be the deep meaning, the low-key appearance is also because the Tong family has no capital to get the capital now, after all, Father Tong has not yet determined the official position, if he has to be a high-ranking official in the future, he can raise his eyebrows, and now he can only be low-key.

"Miss, you brought a slave maid with you when you entered the palace for the first time today, is it because the slave maid is the most intimate of the four?"

"Yes, yes, you are so innocent, there is no pressure to take you into the palace to play."

Tong Qingyan pinched the flesh raised on the face of the pearl, looked at the little girl's heartless smile, and secretly envied it, it is difficult to open up the mood when there are more things to do, it is still as good as the pearl, and it is much easier to be happy if you don't think about it.

When the carriage of Tong's mansion arrived at the gate of the palace, it met the carriages of several other young ladies, as for which ones, Tong Qingyan couldn't say anyway, although the carriage had the logos of each prefecture, but Tong Qingyan had not studied it before, and couldn't tell who was who.

Tong Manjiao lifted the curtain and glanced at it, looked at it roughly, slowly lowered the curtain, stroked the heart that was beating too fast, and comforted Tong Manjiao and the others and said a few words to comfort themselves.

"After entering the palace, you must be cautious in your words and deeds, don't walk around alone, and answer your questions carefully, especially you, don't forget what your mother has explained."

Tong Manji, who was named, pouted, but he didn't dare to talk back, the rules in the palace were big, and if he was not careful, he would have to worry about his life, and he didn't dare to make a mistake.

"The third sister is also with us, right?"

"The third sister has her own aunt to remind me, where do you need to worry about it, have you forgotten what your mother said?"

"I know, I know how many times my mother has nagged. Although she is the daughter of Tongfu, she is her, we are us, we have to distinguish the stakes, right, I know, sister, stop talking. ”

Tong Manjiao glanced at her sister deeply, closed her eyes and waited to enter the most magnificent place under the sky.

Song Zhan was already on duty today, and he didn't know whether the emperor had it intentionally or unintentionally, so he was sent to the plum garden in the southwest corner of the palace to be on duty at this moment.

The plum garden here is more than a little bigger than the plum garden of the Chen family in Hecheng, and now the plum blossoms are in full bloom after the snow, and the plum blossoms of different varieties are intertwined, and the residual snow is beautiful.

Today's first-class guards were allocated ten people, and Jin Wuwei was assigned twenty people, a total of thirty people to guard the plum garden.

"Song Zhan." Yang Ruihai, the fourth son of Prince Cheng's family, rubbed his hands and walked to Song Zhan's side, "Why did you say that the emperor drafted in advance?" I can hear my mother say that this draft is not for the emperor himself, and most of the princes and us will be accused of marriage. ”

"I said Brother Rui, you want your daughter-in-law to go crazy, right?"

Before Song Zhan could speak, several other sons and brothers who heard Yang Ruihai's words had already come over.

is also a child of the royal clan, as a first-class guard in front of the emperor, the sons of several other princes' families ridiculed Yang Ruihai much more directly, Song Zhan, as the only child of the royal family with a different surname in the Great Qi Dynasty, has a very delicate relationship with these people, but there is still a friendship of small talk.

"I wonder what's wrong with my daughter-in-law, is there a problem?"

"No problem, of course. Song Zhan is two years older than you, and no one is in a hurry to marry a daughter-in-law, you see that you are in a hurry, don't you envy the prince of Qingguo who has a daughter. ”

Jiang Zheng, the prince of Qingguo, who was named, was slightly stunned, and then raised his chin proudly.

Today's saint prefers the concubine, and now it is well known, and the eighth princess who was very fond of the concubine back then, although Princess Anyang died of an unfortunate illness three years ago, but the concubine has been favored in the past three years, and even the concubine's mother has been honored as the Duke of Qingguo, Jiang Zheng got a daughter not long ago, although it is a concubine, but it is also the supreme glory of the emperor's name.

"Yes, I'm envious, Song Zhan, what about you, do you want to marry a daughter-in-law and have a child of your own." Yang Ruihai stabbed Song Zhan with his arm, and without waiting for Song Zhan to answer, he continued to talk to himself, "I don't think my son or daughter matters, as long as it's my child, I like it." My mother always talked in my ear about marrying a wife and having children, and she said that she must ask the concubine to choose a good one for me in this draft. ”

Song Zhan looked at the rays of sunlight pouring out of the clouds leisurely, today is not the best time to enjoy the plum blossoms, listening to Yang Ruihai's babbling words, Song Zhan thought about it seriously.

The figure of Tong Qingyan's little girl appeared in his mind, but Song Zhan still couldn't imagine the picture of the little girl who had just reached his chest combing his wife's hair and taking the child.

Obviously she is only a child, if she marries herself and has children for herself this time, it seems a little too early, and this girl seems to be two or three years away from Jilu.

Thinking about it like this, Song Zhan suddenly felt that he was a little old, he was eighteen years old in the next year, and Tong Qingyan was not yet in time......

Song Zhan's silence turned into a nostalgia for the past in the eyes of others, after all, everyone present knew about the marriage contract back then.

Jiang Zheng walked over, stretched out his hand and patted Song Zhan's shoulder, and said comfortingly.

"Don't think about it too much, the emperor values you so much, your princess candidate, the emperor and Niangniang will definitely choose a particularly good girl for you."

The lady in Jiang Zheng's mouth is naturally not the queen, but his aunt Jiang Ronghua, the current concubine, Song Zhan glanced at the hand on his shoulder, and then looked at Jiang Zheng's sincere appearance, nodded slightly, and echoed with deep meaning.

"Yes, I think the emperor will definitely choose a good wife for me."