Concubine Chen looked at Xiao Lu, who had thin cheeks, and looked at the Yuehua brocade held by the palace maid with heavy eyes, and she only wished that the Yuehua brocade could be wiped out immediately.

"Lu'er, don't worry." Concubine Chen saw that the four grandmothers were playfully embellished at the end, and whispered to comfort Xiao Lu. "This month, Huajin, my mother is not rare, but Xiao Xuan and Xiao Jun sent this material to me, if I insist on not accepting it, I am afraid it will be a handle. Don't worry, as soon as Huajin waits for us to return to the palace this month, I will immediately order someone to hang and burn it. ”

Xiao Lu glanced at the cautious Concubine Chen, stopped and beckoned to the palace maid to send Yuehuajin to her. She looked at the crimson moon brocade and put her hand on it and stroked it slowly.

Yuehua brocade lives up to its reputation, the tentacles are as silky as the moonlight, and the touch is warm and cool, as if you put your hand on the best jade.

"Mother, wouldn't it be a pity if such a good material was really wrenched and burned." Xiao Lu stared at it for a long time, looked up at Concubine Chen, and said with a slight provocation at the corner of her mouth. "Besides, didn't Xiao Xuan send it today? I took it. ”

"Lu'er?" Concubine Chen asked in surprise after hearing Xiao Lu say this with a smile. But when the four grandmothers came over, Concubine Chen hurriedly put away the surprise on her face.

"It's nothing, I said I took it, in the end it was a piece of her heart." Xiao Lu said. "I'm counting the days in Qingjing Xuan, the general election should be held in a few days, and the show girls should all enter the palace to be selected, right?"

"Yes, in ten days, the show girls will enter the palace." Concubine Chen herself has no favor, and she has no son under her knees, and her mother's Ding'an Hou Mansion does not have girls of appropriate age to participate in this election, so she doesn't care about this election.

Anyway, with her status, even if a newcomer enters the palace, she is not favored. Even if a relative or a girl from her old family wants to enter the palace to run for election, she can't do anything.

"I'm supposed to see some people then." Xiao Lu has indeed sold very well in the past six months, and her age and size have grown a lot, and the clothes on her body no longer fit. "The color of this material is also good, it can line the popularity and complexion is better, and when I return to the palace, the concubine will let me tailor it, and I will use this month Huajin to make two dresses for me."

"Okay, okay." Concubine Chen finally had a smile on Xiao Lu's face when she saw it, and agreed with her mouth. "As soon as I return to the palace, I will arrange this matter immediately."

Because the general election is imminent, the queen knows that Concubine Chen's unfavored life has always been reduced, and Xiao Lu is also going to be out of Qingjingxuan. Their mother and daughter were really plain or dressed too plainly, but they fell on her face. So she sent someone to send a lot of clothes and styles of new jewelry early in the morning, and told Concubine Chen to pay attention to it.

Both the internal and external women know that Concubine Chen is attached to the queen, and Concubine Chen naturally knows each other.

Besides, Xiao Lu is now thirteen years old, even if she is not Emperor Chu's favorite daughter, she still inherits the royal blood and is very beautiful. The incident that happened to her daughter on the queen's birthday half a year ago was discussed for a long time by the internal and external wives who participated in the palace banquet that day.

Fortunately, after half a year, there are other things in the imperial capital that attract attention, and Xiao Lu's temperament seems to have changed a lot.

This time, Xiao Jun, the youngest of the princes, also has to decide the candidates for the main concubine and the side concubine, and Xiao Lu, who is only one year younger than Xiao Jun, should also start to look at the future candidates.

And indeed, as Xiao Xuan once said to Emperor Liu, Concubine Chen's mother's Ding'an Hou Mansion saw that perhaps the next generation could only be demoted to the throne, so she slapped the idea on the body of Concubine Chen's only daughter Xiao Lu. Even if Concubine Chen is not favored and Xiao Lu is not valued very much by Emperor Chu, but in the end, Xiao Lu is the first daughter of Emperor Chu, as long as the Ding'an Hou Mansion can successfully seek Xiao Lu to marry into the Ding'an Hou Mansion, the Ding'an Hou Mansion can at least retain the glory of two generations.

However, not only Xiao Lu is unwilling to do this, but even Concubine Chen is not very willing to marry her daughter back to her declining mother's family. The first is that the Ding'an Hou Mansion is now a declining family in the imperial capital, and the second is that although there are many children in the Ding'an Hou Mansion, they are not successful, where is Concubine Chen willing to let her daughter who is a low-married woman suffer a little more grievances.

Concubine Chen politely refused her mother's daughter's family to come to the door many times to marry Xiao Lu, but frequently took advantage of the opportunity to receive domestic and foreign wives for the queen before this election, and began to look at suitable people for Xiao Lu.

The queen didn't know what Concubine Chen was thinking about, but she didn't have any children under her knees, since Concubine Chen was attached to her, she also wanted to use Xiao Lu's marriage once, so as to accumulate more power for Xiao Zhen, so she also acquiesced to Concubine Chen's contact with some people who had been selected by her in advance.

Within two days of the eldest princess of Yongshou leaving the palace, she brought the cousin girl named Sister Ying from the fifth room of the Liu family into the palace to ask for peace from Emperor Liu.

Concubine Liu Huang looked at Sister Ying's salute and saluted her thoughtfully, and hurriedly called people to come to her.

The Liu family has often produced beauties for generations, and Sister Ying is naturally a little beauty with a delicate face. She was born delicate and slender, but she spoke without the slightest pretentiousness, but was generous and behaved in a very well-behaved manner.

"What a good boy." Concubine Liu Huang originally wanted Sister Ying to be the best candidate for Concubine Xiao Jun's side, but at this time, she was even more satisfied when she saw the real person, she held Sister Ying'er's hand and turned her head to the eldest princess of Yongshou and said. "Mother, why did you say that the fifth aunt was willing to hide such an outstanding child in the boudoir all the time."

"I don't deserve such praise from the imperial concubine." Sister Ying'er said with a chuckle on her face and red lips. "Before, I didn't have the opportunity to enter the palace to say goodbye to my mother, and then my mother left, and I had filial piety, so I couldn't go to my mother as soon as possible to say hello to my mother. My grandmother also felt sorry for me, so she took me back to my grandfather's house to raise me, and as a cousin who lived in the house, I naturally couldn't go out of the house often to cause trouble for my grandfather and grandmother. ”

Concubine Liu really likes Sister Ying, and she is busy with Suihong to choose the best jewelry and clothes to prepare for Sister Ying.

"Mother, you have already rewarded me with a pair of Yingluo and forbidden steps as soon as we met." Sister Ying hurriedly got up and refused. "I have no merit and no luck, where can I afford such a generous reward from my mother, if my grandmother knows, she will definitely say that I broke the rules."

"Sister Ying, you are a girl from the Liu family, the imperial concubine was a girl from the Liu family on the eve of entering the palace, she is your aunt, and it is the rule to reward you with a generous gift when you meet for the first time." The eldest princess of Yongshou said to Sister Ying with a smile. "Be obedient, take it on, your grandmother will definitely not say anything about you."

"Yes, I see that you are plainly dressed and have simple jewelry, and I don't like luxury. Those clothes and jewelry are all new when they were styled in the imperial capital, and they are not very valuable, so you can take them yourself. Concubine Liu smiled and persuaded. Besides, in this year's general election, there are no girls of appropriate age in our Liu family to participate in the election, and you also represent the Liu family, and you can't be left behind in dressing and dressing. ”

"I know, thank you for the reward." Sister Ying looked at the eldest princess of Yongshou and spoke, knowing that it was not beautiful to refuse repeatedly, so she could only order Zhilan, the maid who followed her into the palace, to accept the reward of Emperor Liu's concubine.

"I really like you when I see you, if only you could come to the palace in the future and talk to me often." Concubine Liu Huang patted Sister Ying'er's hand and said very kindly. "By the way, Suihong, send someone to invite the second princess, she doesn't always make a fuss that there is no sister of her age in the palace, and her sister talks to her, let her come to meet Sister Ying."

As a confidant of Emperor Liu's concubine, Sui Hong knew that Emperor Liu's concubine had a plan in her heart, so she immediately sent someone to find Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Xuan watched the palace maids in her hall kick the shuttlecock idly, and when she was feeling very bored, the person sent by Suihong arrived.

"Say hello to the second princess, Niangniang sent me to invite the second princess to the main hall."

"I'm not going." That day, because Xiao Xuan was disobedient and ran to Qingjingxuan, in front of the eldest princess of Yongshou, Emperor Liu's concubine didn't count Xiao Xuan again, but when the eldest princess of Yongshou left the palace, she immediately grabbed Xiao Xuan and said. Xiao Xuan was really scared, and he had been hiding from Emperor Liu's concubine for a few days. She thought that it was Emperor Liu's concubine who wanted to call her to go over for training, but she refused.

"Second princess, it's the eldest princess of Yongshou who brought a cousin of the Liu family into the palace." The palace maid hurriedly said.

"Which cousin of the Liu family is it?" Xiao Xuan asked suspiciously, the Liu family has a large population in the imperial capital, coupled with several generations of marriages, the cousins of the Liu family are not one hundred but eighty, and many of them Xiao Xuan has never seen them.

"It is said that it is a cousin girl in the fifth room of the Liu family, and the mother likes it very much when she sees it, so she specially sent a slave maid to invite the princess to meet her."

"Okay." Xiao Xuan is indeed curious, because the Yihua Palace has been really lively during this period of time, and the concubine Liuhuang, who is not very important, rarely asks Xiao Xuan to go to meet people. "You go and talk back first, I'll change my clothes and then go."

Xiao Xuan, who was dressed again, came to the main hall of Yihua Palace, and saw a beautiful girl sitting beside Emperor Liu's concubine and talking.

"Grandmother." Xiao Xuan called out and walked neatly into the main hall. "Mother."

"Xuan'er is here, come to my grandmother's side." When the eldest princess of Yongshou saw her beloved granddaughter coming, she smiled and beckoned her to come over.

"Grandmother." Xiao Xuan looked at the beautiful girl very much. "Who is this?"

"Oh, she is the cousin of the fifth room of the Liu family, and her mother is the cousin of your mother." The eldest princess of Yongshou took Xiao Xuan's hand, and beckoned Sister Ying to come to her. "Her name is Sister Ying, she is fourteen years old this year, and she is your cousin. Sister Ying, this is the youngest daughter of the imperial concubine, the second princess. ”

"Well, Cousin Ying is good." Xiao Xuan knew the temper of the eldest princess of Yongshou, this cousin of the Liu family could be introduced to her by the eldest princess of Yongshou personally, and the mother concubine could specially invite her to meet this cousin, so Xiao Xuan called her cousin crisply.

"I have seen Her Royal Highness the Second Princess, and the courtiers have asked Her Highness for peace." Sister Ying didn't expect that this second princess, who is favored by His Majesty today, would be such a good person, but as a courtier, she couldn't be discarded, and immediately gave Xiao Xuan a salute.