The Queen Mother's words immediately reminded Concubine Cheng.

"The Queen Mother's words reminded me at once, the eighth princess is 16 years old this year, and it's time to choose a husband for her!" Concubine Cheng looked at the Queen Mother and said.

"To choose a husband for the eighth princess, you must choose the best, if you want to say that the best husband must be from an official family, it is absolutely impossible for ordinary people or businessmen to come from a family!" The Queen Mother said while thinking.

"Of course, you should also have a good character, be self-motivated, have a humble personality and look good. Even if you are born in a high-ranking official's family, you can't do it! The Queen Mother looked at Concubine Cheng and hurriedly finished speaking.

Concubine Cheng was relieved when she heard the Queen Mother's words, she only had such a daughter. Although the daughter is a princess, she must think twice about lifelong events, if she finds an unsatisfactory in-law for her daughter to make her unhappy, she will not feel good about being a mother, you must know that this dynasty is still very harsh on women, even if the princess is unhappy after marriage, it is not easy to want to reconcile, and the woman after the divorce will fall sharply even if she is a princess, and there will be no happiness in the future life. For ordinary women, marriage is a woman's second reincarnation, and it is equally important to women in the royal family, and it must be taken seriously, without a trace of sloppiness.

"Don't worry, the eighth princess is the pearl of the mourning family and the emperor, and the mourning family will definitely choose a wishful husband for her!" The Queen Mother took Concubine Cheng's hand and said.

Two days later, the new queen's intention came out: all the maids and eunuchs who participated in the assassination of the new queen in the Hehuan Hall were beheaded, but the sins of the nine clans were not investigated; The maids who did not participate in the assassination of the new queen were given two options for them to choose from, one was to return some silver taels to her family, and admonished her family to properly settle and not to be abused, and the other was to enter the collection of food and housing organized by the official family to weave clothes and spin to do some work within her ability, and wait until the person died of old age and was supported by the official family to support the elderly. In a word, none of the palace people who are related to the eldest prince and the former queen will be left, and all of them will be sent out of the palace.

The queen mother and the emperor couldn't help but nod their heads and praise after knowing it: "Well, the combination of rigidity and softness, grace and power is the foundation of being a queen, it seems that this concubine has found the feeling of being a queen!" ”

A few days after this decree was issued, the Queen Mother made another decree: "The Queen Mother invites all the official families in the capital who are 16-19 years old and famous, have no marriage and are in good health to enter the palace for a banquet. ”

This intention caused an uproar in all the officials' homes, and everyone saw that this was obviously the selection of the eighth princess, and many people were boiling for a while, how proud it was to be the emperor's son-in-law, who didn't know that the eighth princess was the emperor's pearl, and even if he was not selected, he could see the queen mother and the emperor himself and work hard to perform the following, which might be very beneficial to his future career......

Of course, there are also people who disdain this, such as Zhang Youtao's second brother - Wang Jinchi, the second son of the Ministry of Servants. When the queen mother's will reached the palace, Lord Wang and Mrs. Li were also busy, they knew that their second son was eligible to enter the palace for the banquet, and they also knew that this was a banquet set up by the queen mother for the eighth princess to choose a horse. To be honest, the husband and wife don't want to climb the dragon and the phoenix, looking at the bloody rain experienced by Zhang Youtao and the six princes, the two of them are worried enough, and they really don't want their son to have anything to do with the royal family. But the will of the Divine Faith could not be violated, so they still dared to discuss the matter with their son.

"I don't want to go to the palace for a banquet, I'm not interested in being the emperor's concubine, with my own ability, I can also be the official position I want, display my ambitions, I don't want to be an idle concubine, and I want to be submissive in front of a woman all day long, with her orders, I don't want to live that kind of nest life!" Wang Jinchi, who is usually gentle and modest, shouted loudly as if he had changed at the moment.

In the regulations of the Great Yuan Kingdom on the emperor's relatives, if a man becomes a royal concubine, he will not have the possibility of becoming an official and an official, and can only be an idle concubine, which is also to prevent the powerful concubine from rebelling and establishing himself as the king, and it is a reason that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics.

"The second brother has always been gentle and elegant, why did he lose his temper so much today?" Zhang Youtao walked in with relaxed steps, followed by the six princes with black faces.

Wang Zairen and his wife were worried about persuading their sons, but they didn't expect their daughters and the six princes to return to the house, and the husband and wife took Wang Jinchi to salute the six princes together.

The sixth prince hurriedly helped up Lord Wang: "Your lord and lady don't have to be polite, please get up quickly!" "Just kidding, when I become a relative to Zhang Youtao in the future, this is my father-in-law and mother-in-law, if I don't treat them better, my life will not be easy!

Wang Jinchi looked at the six princes whose faces were dark, and his heart trembled, and he immediately regained his composure, he knelt there without saying a word.

"It seems that you have been wronged by letting you be the emperor's son-in-law?" The sixth prince looked at Wang Jinchi and said coldly.

When I was young, because of the suppression of the original queen, the concubines in the harem did not dare to interact with the mother and son of the concubine, only Concubine Cheng would take the eighth princess and the sixth prince to play for a while from time to time, because Concubine Cheng was the cousin and niece of the queen mother, and the original queen also had to give a few faces, so she pretended not to see the things between Concubine Cheng and Concubine Ru, so the eighth princess was one of the few playmates around the six princes except for the little eunuch, and the relationship between the brothers and sisters was also very deep. Today, I was still very unhappy to hear Wang Jinchi say this about my sister, although Wang Jinchi didn't say anything bad about the eighth princess, he just told the truth.

"What's the matter, I haven't married you yet, you are starting to play prestige in front of my mother's family now, if this continues, I will consider whether to marry you or not!" Zhang Youtao glanced at the six princes and helped his younger brother up.

"Second brother, hurry up, don't be afraid, there is a sister here, if you have anything to say, speak out boldly!" Zhang Youtao threw an encouraging look at Wang Jincheng.

"The six princes of Qiyu, it's not that the minister belittles the eighth princess, the minister just doesn't want to be an idle concubine, the minister reads poetry and books every day and is planning to participate in science and education, and the minister wants to rely on his ability to be an official for the welfare of the people, and display his own principles and ambitions, so the minister doesn't want to go to the palace to participate in the banquet I choose." Wang Jinchi stabilized his emotions and tried to calm his voice as much as possible.

"Well, you have a point, but that's not all the reason, right?" The Sixth Prince asked with slanted eyes.

Wang Jinchi listened to the body, he closed his eyes and let out a sigh: "There is also the fact that the concubine must always be the head of the princess and the horse, and he does not have his own dignity as a man, and the minister does not want to live like that!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Lord Wang and Mrs. Li were shocked, and Lord Wang was even more crooked and almost didn't fall.

"Bastard, you actually said such a thing in front of the Six Princes, see that I don't break your legs!" Lord Wang was furious, raised his hand and hit Wang Jinchi.

Although these words are true, behind closed doors, their family members say that there is no problem, but in front of the six princes, it is a loss of the duty of a courtier, you must know that the emperor wants to marry the princess to the courtier's family It is a great honor, as a courtier, no matter what he thinks in his heart, he can only make a grateful and flattered expression, and it is difficult to repay the emperor's grace with death. Today, his son has refused again and again, if the first reason is reluctant to rely on his own ability for the royal filial piety does not want to touch the princess's light to make people listen to the psychology is quite comfortable, then the second reason can be regarded as a big disrespect, just kidding, the emperor's favorite princess in addition to the emperor, the queen mother and the princess's biological mother, even as a queen, you have to give a little thin face, as a courtier, you don't want to crawl at the feet of the princess, and you want to fight with the princess to maintain the dignity of a man, it's just a lifeless rhythm!

The sixth prince saw that Lord Wang was about to beat Wang Jinchi and hurriedly stepped forward and stopped: "Don't be angry, what the second prince said, I will never say it to the Queen Mother and the emperor, Tao'er and I are a family, I will not harm my family!" ”

Seeing this, Mrs. Li hurriedly saluted the six princes and said, "Courtiers, thank you for forgiving my son for the sin of disrespect!" ”

"Madame, hurry up, the family doesn't have so many rules and etiquette when talking. The temper of the second son of your family is still quite similar to mine, and he doesn't bend his waist for climbing the dragon and the phoenix, well, I like it, as a man, you have to have such dignity and integrity! The sixth prince changed his dark face and said to Mrs. Li kindly.

At this moment, Wang Jinchi was still stubbornly kneeling on the ground and did not move.

"Get up quickly, if you don't want to go to the palace for a banquet, I have my sister here, I'll find a way for you," Zhang Youtao said with some distress as she watched her second brother kneel on the ground.

"What my sister said is true?" Wang Jinchi's eyes lit up and he quickly stood up.

"Of course it's true, my sister assures you that as long as you don't want to, neither the prince nor the common people can force you to marry her." Zhang Youtao said firmly.

"The second brother is here, thank you sister and His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince!" Wang Jincheng bowed to Zhang Youtao.

"Alright, alright, let's not thank you here, mother, I'm a little hungry now, can we have lunch?" Zhang Youtao held her mother's arm and said coquettishly.

"Oh, the ministers are all confused, lunch should be prepared at this time, please wait for a while, Mrs. and I will go to give you lunch!" Lord Wang said respectfully to the six princes.

"My lord, don't be extravagant just because I'm here, I'll eat whatever you eat, I just like the atmosphere of eating with you!" The sixth prince looked at Lord Wang and said.