Because of Lingxi's applause, the crazy Tang sisters on the viewing platform were spared death.

In the words of Emperor Yong'an, Lingxi was by his side for ten years, and he had never seen Lingxi laugh like this for ten years.

The daughter smiled, the Tang sisters' merits were greater than their faults.

However, with earth-shattering ghosts and gods like them, it is impossible to enter the East and West Six Palaces as concubines.

On August 16 of the twelfth year of Yong'an, Lingxi, as the only appreciator of the Tang sisters' dance, summoned them in the Changle Palace.

In the east side hall of the Changle Palace, Lingxi sat on the bamboo couch in the inner hall and drank tea, and the smile on the corner of his mouth had not subsided since the night before.

When the Tang sisters were taken into the courtyard of Changle Hall by Zhou An, Lotus Ye pushed the spirit rhino with her hand and said, "Niangniang, people are here, don't laugh." ”

Lingxi sighed, picked up the brocade handkerchief and covered the corners of his mouth raised high, but his eyes were still full of smiles.

Lotus Ye sighed, stood up straight on one side and stopped talking.

She really didn't understand what was funny, the Tang sisters' dance had been spurned by the concubines in the harem, but her own mother laughed at this virtue.

Zhou An also had a straight face when he came in, but the Tang sisters who followed him were smiling and grinning, without the slightest fear.

The Tang sisters wore a light blue embroidered apricot blossom waist-cinching bandeau skirt today, with a lily bun on their heads, and a few hairpins like willow leaves and jade swaying.

The same appearance, the same dress, the only difference is that one of the two sisters has a hairpin on the left side, and a hairpin on the right side.

Coming to Lingxi, the Tang sisters knelt down in front of Lingxi, and said with a smile on the left, "Concubine Tang Ruoxi see the imperial concubine Niangniang." ”

The one on the right is also smiling, "Concubine Tang Ruoyi see the imperial concubine Niangniang." ”

Seeing this, Zhou An coughed lightly, and said with a slightly reluctant face, "You must not lose your honor in front of the imperial concubine." ”

Tang Ruoxi sighed after hearing this, raised his hand and rubbed his face, and rubbed his smile down.

Tang Ruoyi was steady, and as soon as Zhou An said that she changed her look, like a normal concubine.

Lingxi also coughed lightly, took a sip of the teacup, suppressed his smile and asked a question that the Tang sisters had heard countless times, "You, which one is the elder sister and which one is the younger sister?" ”

After the Tang sisters glanced at each other, Tang Ruoxi replied, "If you return to the imperial concubine, the concubine is the elder sister. ”

Tang Ruoyi nodded, "The concubine is a younger sister." ”

Lingxi raised his eyebrows and said lightly, "It seems that my sister is more stable than my sister." ”

Tang Ruoxi muttered in a low voice, "She's just pretending to be good......"

Seeing that Lotus Ye and Hanyu's faces were already gloomy to the extreme, Tang Ruoxi hurriedly covered his mouth and stopped talking.

Lingxi thought the two sisters were very interesting, and raised his hand to the two of them with a smile, "You guys get up and sit down." ”

Hanyu took two small tables from the side and put them two feet away from the bamboo couch, and said in a slightly cold tone, "Tang Cainu, please." ”

After the Tang sisters sat down, the little palace maid behind Hanyu put two herbal teas on the low table among the Tang sisters.

Tang Ruoxi is an unstable character, taking advantage of the empty cup of tea to eat, a pair of watery eyes can't help but look at the clothes in the Changle Palace, until he bumps into Lingxi's smiling gaze, he lowered his head.

Tang Ruoyi's beautiful eyes glanced at Tang Ruoxi.

Lotus Ye coughed lightly again, and her face became even more gloomy.

Lingxi's eyes turned, and he smiled at the lotus leaf and Hanyu beside him, "Lotus leaf, it's hot today, you go and order the small kitchen to make a bowl of fruit ice to eat." Hanyu, go and see the Ten Princes and the Ten Princesses, are they naughty again? ”

Lotus Ye and Hanyu knew that Lingxi was spending on them, so they both glanced at the Tang sisters and retreated.

Seeing this, Zhou An said to Lingxi, "Niangniang, when did Xiao Dezi say that it was okay to find a slave, and the slave went down first." ”

After the spirit rhino jaw was headed, Zhou An took all the eight little palace maids in the hall out.

Looking at the Tang sisters who were holding their chests together and breathing a sigh of relief, Lingxi smiled, "Do you have something to say to this palace?" ”

Tang Ruoxi nodded immediately, and the steps on his head trembled, "Yes, yes, I have a lot to say...... Ouch ......"

Tang Ruoyi pinched Tang Ruoxi fiercely, then raised the corners of her mouth at Lingxi, showed an appropriate smile, and said, "Imperial Concubine Niangniang, the concubines have something to say to the Imperial Concubine Niangniang." ”

Lingxi nodded and smiled, "You say." ”

Tang Ruoyi straightened her expression and asked Lingxi seriously, "Niangniang, do you remember the dream on the shore of Daming Lake?" ”

Lingxi burst out laughing, her eyes bent into a crescent moon on the horizon. She nodded to Tang Ruoyi again and again, and said with a smile, "Bengong remembers, remembers......"

As soon as she heard Lingxi say that she remembered, Tang Ruoyi relieved her expression and showed a mischievous smile like Tang Ruoxi, "I can't be wrong this time, I can't be wrong." ”

Tang Ruoxi glanced at Tang Ruoyi complainingly, and said, "This is obviously the person the girl is looking for, and you still pinch me." ”

"The girl has said, no one can tell what is going on in the palace, what if it is not? As far as the girl's painting skills are concerned, can you recognize the girl in front of you? Tang Ruoyi pushed back.

"But isn't there just such a girl in this palace?" Tang Ruoxi stood up and pushed back, and said, "How can it be wrong if the position is so noble?" ”

"What if it's wrong?"

"Isn't that right?"

"I'm talking about what if, what if, you know?"

"If you don't, it's 10,000 now! That's right, you're still pinching me, I'm going to tell the girl that you're unreasonable, you're bullying me! ”

Looking at the two twins in front of him who turned their faces in a blink of an eye, Lingxi interrupted their quarrel with a smile and asked, "Tell me first, where is your girl?" ”

"Snow Country!" Tang Ruoxi and Tang Ruoyi looked back at Lingxi at the same time, and said in unison.

Lingxi raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, "Snow Country? ”

Tang Ruoyi nodded and said to Lingxi, "The girl said, the thing in this is the old lady's footcloth, and she only asked us to bring a message to the mother, saying that she is doing well." ”

"And this." Tang Ruoxi took off a purse with exquisite work from herself, stood up and handed it to Lingxi and said, "The girl said that Niangniang must like this." ”

Lingxi took the purse embroidered with a few bamboo leaves on the lotus root, looked at the uneven needle horns on it, and said with a smile, "You girls are letting the palace see things and think about people?" ”

Tang Ruoxi sat back on the small table and said with a smile, "Niangniang, the girl said that you want to take it apart." ”

Lingxi raised his eyebrows, raised his hand and gently pulled the tender green ribbon on the purse, allowing the contents to pour out. There were no petals or spices in the purse, only a packet of bulging rice paper.

"Letter?" Lingxi raised her eyes and asked the two sisters.

Tang Ruoyi shook her head and said, "We don't know what it is, but the girl said that she won't bring you a letter, for fear that something will go wrong." ”

Lingxi nodded slightly, thick and thin, it was the character of Youmeng.

I picked up the paper bag and shook it beside my ear, and there was a rustling sound inside. On the vermilion table, Lingxi opened the paper bag in his hand.

Some granular objects as white as fresh snow poured out of the paper bags with the movements of the spirit rhino and landed on the table in direct sunlight, glittering. The white granular thing was crystal clear, like broken jade, and it was very beautiful.

Lingxi blinked, took a small silver hairpin from the table and played with it, and pressed it gently, it was extremely hard.

After fiddling with it for a while, Lingxi looked up and asked, "This, what is this?" ”

Tang Ruoxi leaned forward to take a closer look, and then said with a smile, "Niangniang, this is sand." There's a lot of this sand in the girl's room, and I don't know where it came from, but it looks good in the water and in the sun. ”

"It's cold, it's cold." Tang Ruoyi said, "Niangniang, touch it with your hands, this one is very cold, and it won't get hot for a long time in the sun." ”

Lingxi raised his hand and stroked the sand on the table, and the touch from his hand was cold. It felt like touching the snow-capped jade.

Snow Mountain Jade is produced in Yixue Mountain, which is a natural barrier between the Snow Country and the border of Dashun.

Carefully put away the jade on the table, the smile on Lingxi's face was warm, the dream was still there, there was nothing more happy for her.

On August 20 of the twelfth year of Yong'an, Lingxi went to the Zichen Palace and proposed to repatriate the three hundred women who had passed the three trials in the Chuxiu Palace but finally failed to return home.

For Lingxi's bold proposal, although Emperor Yong'an was not angry, he also put a handsome face.

Although those women have never slept in bed, they are the women who were selected to be his concubines from below. Except for the man's self-esteem, it is impossible for him to agree to Lingxi's proposal if he only talks about the face of the heavenly family.

Lingxi didn't think that she would succeed once, she took Emperor Yong'an's hand and sat on the bamboo couch, carefully analyzing the pros and cons of letting the girl return home as soon as possible.

Lingxi asked Gonggong Feng to prepare pen and ink, and calculated a detailed account of Emperor Yong'an Yingying with a wolf in his hand, "Your Majesty, the concubine will calculate an account for you." Chuxiu Palace** 300 women, the annual food and clothing add up to about 200 taels, which is not counting the rewards of every festival. In this way, it is 60,000 taels of silver per year. This is only the three hundred women, if you add the palace maids and grandmothers who are waiting in the Chuxiu Palace, the silver taels used up in the Chuxiu Palace every year are hundreds of thousands. Your Majesty," Lingxi stretched out his white left hand and said with a solemn expression, "In five years, it will be 500,000 taels of silver." The concubines and concubines Yu carefully calculated that the three hundred women who entered the palace in the sixth year of Yong'an spent a total of 627,000 taels of silver in the past few years......"

Emperor Yong'an's eyes moved, and although he didn't speak, his face softened.

Lingxi smiled again, "In the past, after the final election, a few virtuous and good-looking sisters from the Chuxiu Palace could come into the palace to wait for the emperor. But since the ancestor Xiayi planned to add a small election in the five-year general election, the girls in the Chuxiu Palace have never found any clever and pretty people. ”

In other words, it means that the frequency of choosing a concubine almost every three years, the concubines in the Dashun harem are already in a saturated state, and there is no need for those reserve girls in the Chuxiu Palace.

Seeing that Emperor Yong'an still didn't say anything, Lingxi smiled again, "Among the three hundred girls, there are daughters from poor families, and there are also young ladies from official families. They spent five years in the Chuxiu Palace, except for increasing the expenses in the palace, they did not do anything beneficial to the royal family. But if they were released from the palace, it would be different. They are both of the age to be married, and it is unknown whether they will give birth to two children in five years after marrying their husbands......"

Emperor Yong'an raised the corner of his mouth with a faint smile and said, "It can add six hundred people to Dashun......

Population has always been the most direct manifestation of whether a country is strong or not, but the 600-person population of Emperor Yong'an has not yet been put in his eyes. What's more, these 600 people were exchanged for the face of the Heavenly Family, and they were not worth it in the eyes of Emperor Yong'an.

"What if these 600 people are added to the official family and added to the family of the pillars?" Lingxi smiled at Yong'an, "These three hundred girls can be said to be excellent women in the whole world." If the emperor gives them a marriage to a loyal minister......"

Emperor Yong'an's eyes moved, this time he was really tempted.

Not only can you give marriage to loyal ministers, but you can also give marriage to the champion who is elected by the imperial examination every three years, which is a very good way to win people's hearts.

If he is more careful and makes good use of these picking girls, then wouldn't the loyalty of each courtier be in his hands?

"Your Majesty ......" Lingxi saw that Emperor Yong'an was moved, and he raised the three slender fingers of his right hand and said with a smile, "500,000 taels of silver, the hearts of all the people in the world, and the loyalty of hundreds of officials in the court, this is a good thing that kills three birds with one stone." Of course," Lingxi put away his fingers, pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "It's just to damage the face of the Heavenly Family, and ask the emperor to wronged himself......"

Emperor Yong'an smiled heartily, reached out and pinched Lingxi's white and tender cheeks, and said with a smile, "It's nothing to sacrifice some for the monarch, for the country, for the people, and for the ministers, Lingxi, let me think about it." Although choosing a concubine is my family matter, such a big decision is not something I can say alone. I want to go to court and discuss with the ministers. ”

Lingxi stood up, bowed down to Emperor Yong'an, and smiled softly, "Concubine, the three hundred sisters in the palace of the Emperor Xiu, thank the emperor for his grace." ”