Yue Tan hurriedly lowered her head and stopped looking at him.

Li Jingming was unconscious, and lightly told the story of a noble son who fell in love with the sister of a classmate's friend.

That noble son is also a scholarly family, since he was a child in a well-known academy to study, because he is the youngest son of the family so he is favored, naïve personality, he has a classmate friend, although he was born in a small family, but quite literary.

By chance, the noble son accidentally bumped into his friend's sister, attracted by his sister's literary talent, and went to his friend's house many times to talk about poetry and lyrics with the girl.

Qinggui Gongzi went home and confessed to his parents that he had to marry the girl as his wife, but his parents absolutely refused to let their son marry such an unruly woman back, but Qinggui Gongzi was forced to die and had to compromise and think of a way.

The family of the noble son agreed to the girl's entry as a flat wife, but the noble son must also agree to marry a concubine with a passable family background as his wife, so that the noble son's family can save face, and the noble son can also be with the person he likes.

So, the noble son readily agreed.

"This noble son is the second girl's fiancé, the son of the Zhang family?" Yue Tan was a little incredulous.

"That's right." Li Jingming sighed: "But the most important thing is not this. ”

The Zhang family did not hide too much in this matter, after all, how could an official who had achieved the position of Hanlin be stupid enough to make a feud with the family because of a marriage.

Therefore, their approach is to let the news out, to find out which concubine of a big family doesn't care about this, or simply find a family that doesn't care about the life or death of the concubine.

Of course, it would be better if you could find a suitable concubine.

"So, the relatives that the eldest lady found me are such a family? Does my father know about this? The second girl, Li Xiang, arrived at Qingcang Courtyard, and after listening to Li Jingming tell all the facts of the incident, she asked calmly.

"Here's the key." Li Jingming sighed, "As far as I know, your marriage with the son of the Zhang family has already been withdrawn by the uncle, and now the Zhang family has made a marriage with the eldest daughter of the Qintian Prison Supervisor Cheng family who lost her mother, and even the six ceremonies have been completed." ”

"What?" Li Yang exclaimed, "Then who am I married?" ”

Li Jingming sighed for the third time: "You are not married to anyone, your name has been recorded in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and you are ready to participate in this year's selection." ”

"What!"

No wonder Li Xiang was so surprised, the doorway here is really complicated, the Great Qin Dynasty continued the concubine selection system of the previous dynasty, which was divided into three types: courtesy, selection, and offering.

Etiquette is the main channel for eunuch women to enter the palace, and the royal family takes the initiative to select these women who have a good reputation in morality, talent and color, and then they are hired into the palace and canonized as soon as they enter the palace;

Once every three years, the people are recruited from 12 to 18 years old to enter the palace, and only a small number of talented women can enter the harem or the East Palace, and most of them will be ordinary palace maids.

Dedication is mostly the behavior of some officials who are obsessed with their careers, and they sacrifice their daughters or women under their rule to the royal family in exchange for high-ranking officials and wealth, and these women are often reduced to playthings, and few can get a position.

Since today's age is getting older and less energetic than before, it is rare to hire women into the palace, and the princes marry their wives and concubines have a tacit understanding with the eunuchs in advance.

This year, news suddenly came that the royal family was going to hold a separate election, the purpose of which was to fill the backyard of the princes, attracting many low-grade eunuchs and women from good families to compete for the election.

Among the several girls of the British grandchildren's generation, except for the eldest daughter Li Huan, the others are either concubines or stepfamilies, and they do not have a particularly outstanding reputation in terms of virtue and talent, and they are not ranked on the royal family's courtesy list at all.

Therefore, the Guogong Mansion has long discussed that all the girls of this generation will marry the eunuchs and not enter the royal backyard.

Who knows, after the eldest lady Zheng learned about this, she thought that instead of letting the second girl Li Yang choose a husband who was born as a eunuch and add help to Aunt Shen's faction, it was better to send her to participate in the selection.

Anyway, with her family talents, the best way out is just a concubine in a certain palace.

So, the eldest lady privately found a way and reported Li Xiang's name, and when the uncle and the old lady knew, it could not be changed.

"The bastard with a heart blinded by lard, that's not your daughter, but your man's daughter, who has been holding it in her hand for more than ten years, just to send it in to serve people?"

In the eyes of the old lady, there is no difference between concubines and slaves, they are both serving people, and they all have to rely on others.

Back then, the eldest girl Li Yu had to be a side concubine for the prince of Duanwang, which was enough to make her dissatisfied, but the side concubine was hired into the house by courtesy, and it was a serious side room recorded on the family tree.

Moreover, for so many years, whether it is Aunt Shen or the Guogong Mansion, Li Xiang has been cultivated in the direction of grace and atmosphere, dignified and virtuous, and the goal is to be a high-ranking sect woman, and at the very least, she must find a big house.

Such a temperament and character to do the side room, graceful and dignified provoked the taboo of the main room, charming and delicate, but not comparable to those who have been specially raised to compete for favor, I am afraid that I can't fight, and I fold my life into it.

The old lady was completely disappointed in her eldest daughter-in-law, who had no sense of family and only cared about her own jealousy, but she still had to take over this mess, and resolutely invited the grandmother who was released from the palace in the early years, ready to pull Li Yan's temperament.

In order to prevent Aunt Shen from making trouble, they simply sealed the news, so that their mother and daughter thought they were discussing marriage with the son of the Zhang family.