After she was next to the morning court, she patrolled the city to make the old lady Qiao return to the house and eagerly came up.

Dressed in a bright purple narrow-sleeved tunic and a lotus-colored blue pattern Xiangjiang long skirt, he got up early and dressed up, and his head was carefully combed. On weekdays, Qiao Yingying combs her "daughter's bun", that is, her double-ring bun, she feels that this is more flattering, which makes people feel innocent and cute, she doesn't love Zhucui, and likes to wear a little velvet brocade. Today is different, she has to look like a daughter who is about to leave the cabinet, and she can't pretend to be those little girls' family anymore, and she can't be on the stage.

I usually keep it, and I don't wear the fine jewelry that I don't wear during the New Year's banquet and happy events. The twelve pieces of Dongzhu that were rewarded above for the mother were worn a lot, and at a glance they looked straight at the jewels, and at a glance they were breathless, for fear that she would accidentally fall, and the value of a body was very expensive.

Qiao Yingying asked the maid to present Mrs. Qiao with the spring new high-grade West Lake Longjing, which had been brewed early, and grabbed the sleeve of Mrs. Qiao's coat by herself, shy and timid, and said coquettishly with a red face: "Dad, I want to enter the palace and be a concubine." ”

Mrs. Qiao drank tea fairly, and her face changed when she heard her words. The wrinkled and somewhat dizzy old eyes were rarely clear, and he looked at Qiao Yingying with his eyebrows twisted: "No, it's impossible, don't think about this." ”

Old lady Qiao is also for the good of his daughter, he is old and has a daughter, and he is nearly sixty years old. The previous ones were all boys, with thirteen brothers, and they inherited the family business, so it was inevitable that they would like to have a girl under their knees, and they would be pleasing to look at. Therefore, Qiao Yingying gave birth to a pampered woman, and she has developed a delicate and pungent temperament for seventeen years.

"Why can't it be? I just want it! I'm going to enter the palace as a concubine! None of the men in this world are as good as the current emperor! After looking at the Son of Heaven, where can I still look at these mortal mortals with flesh. ”

Old Lady Qiao sighed and rescued the torn and crumpled court clothes from her hands: "The emperor has only the queen in his heart, and the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty are known." What did you do when you entered the palace? There are no bones left to be tortured in it? Give up, and find you a good family to be your mother. ”

Mrs. Qiao persuaded her with kind words, and sincerely told her all the plans and arrangements for the old girl in the future.

Qiao Yingying still refused, but Mrs. Qiao didn't agree, so she cried, made trouble, and hanged herself. After three or four days, I didn't want to enter the palace every day, and the chickens and dogs in the whole Qiao Mansion were restless. She is just thirty and five, well-maintained, it is the mother who still has the charm to beg the old lady Qiao together, the mother and daughter wear plain clothes every day, their faces are white, and the staff who came to visit thought that the old lady Qiao was gone.

Finally, ten of Qiao Yingying's thirteen brothers returned to the house to intercede for her, and the old lady Qiao finally relented. But the old lady is just a city patrol envoy, it is impossible to directly stuff Qiao Yingying into the palace, and the most she can do is only take her to the palace for the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet.

Five days later, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the palace.

It is called the Autumn Banquet, which is read as a drinking party, but in fact, it is a blind date for the sons and ladies of various families, and there is also a side concubine for the prince to fill the house.

Qiao Yingying dressed up, she was already born well. It is the appearance of the delicate little daughter's parents, although it is not to the point of being amazing, but after careful carving, it is also pleasing to the eye at a glance, bright and lovely. It's just that her mother's well-dressed appearance was covered by what she did, which was really public.

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Autumn tigers are haunting, more grinding than midsummer, these palace banquets Ji Qiang doesn't like it, warblers and Yanyan compete for beauty and come to grab their own men, Rao is that woman can like such a palace banquet.

She excused herself from being sick and didn't go, which was a joy for a group of concubines, and the daughter of the boudoir who got the news to see the holy face of the Son of Heaven.

At the palace banquet, as usual, the male and female guests are asked to pass the flower sign to each other, but they can't be signed, they are all put on the tray together, look at the one and take that, if you like it, you will ask the palace maid for the name of the owner of the flower sign, and if you don't like it, you will find someone to change. Xia Jingnian didn't need to participate in this bright and red line activity, he just sat and made an offering to Maitreya Buddha

It's just that the queen is not here this year, and the demons and monsters and ghosts of the sect can't move their minds, and under the pinch, the eldest princess has opened her mouth, and Xia Jingnian has also joined in. It's just that he naturally doesn't have to mess around with writing flower sticks, the emperor's own letter is not easy to write, the flower sticks given to him by the nobles are put on a plate alone, and he likes that one and keeps that.

The amazing genius of the Son of Heaven joined, and most of the flower sticks were put into that separate plate. It's just that among the unsigned notes, they are placed in the center, and the top one is marked with the name - Qiao Fu Yingying, the eldest daughter of the city patrol envoy.

Xia Jingnian didn't care, he just joined in the fun. Can the eldest princess, who was sitting on the side, not care, picked up the flower stick and said, "Which one is Yingying of the city patrol envoy?" Stand up and let Hongu see. ”

This eldest princess lit it alone but it has never been seen in the past few years, and the voice in the flower hall that was originally whispering was twice as loud, and both men and women were wondering that this Yingying was that peerless talent. In a voice of suspicion and curiosity, Qiao Yingying stood up.

She raised her lips and smiled, thinking that her smile was overwhelming the country and the city, and she was overwhelming.

But the eldest princess mixed in the small palace for fifteen years and became the only princess of the first emperor; At the age of sixteen, she married and stayed for twelve years, becoming the only princess in history who married out and came back. What kind of cow ghost snake god has never been seen, Qiao Yingying's little family look made her frown at first glance, and then Qiao Yingying opened her mouth, she was a person who couldn't be on the stage.

"The courtier's is the best? The emperor is the flower sign for the selection of courtiers. Her tone was expectant, and she looked like she was quite confident, which caused a burst of voices in the flower hall.

The eldest princess cleared her throat, and the hall fell silent. "The flower lot is not allowed to be signed, this rule has been set since Taizu. You're so bold, signed in the middle. If the poem was written by yourself, this palace can still understand your fame, but you just copied the famous sentences of the sages of the previous dynasty, what kind of face do you have to sign? ”

Xia Jingnian also picked up the flower stick, and knew at a glance that it came from there. He looked at the angry appearance of the eldest princess, and he didn't have to worry about it, just as he shook his hands and watched from the wall, he saw the excitement.

Qiao Yingying was embarrassed and indignant, looking at Xia Jingnian, he was full of interest to watch the play. However, everyone in the flower hall paid attention to her, and Qiao Yingying's tears were already filling her eyes, and she sat back in her seat suddenly.

After a short time, the banquet ended, and Qiao Yingying was disgraced. Just as she was about to go home, a palace maid stood in front of her and said with a smile: "Miss Qiao, Jieyu Niangniang has invited the palace to talk." ”