Ding Rou lowered her eyebrows and followed Mrs. Tai's footsteps, and quietly glanced at it when she got off the carriage, the style of the carriage around her was regulated, she knew it in her heart, the highest specification was the second-grade lady's wife, and there were many nobles in the palace of Lord Zhou, who came to the Ministry today, and the second-grade lady had arrived, in the Great Qin Dynasty, it was not easy to promote the official position, although the pavilion was seven people, but only the top three were the first product, and the rest of the ministers were all from the first product.

I don't know what the couple thinks, Emperor Taizu is extremely harsh on official positions or lords, far from being the casual first-class officials played on TV in later generations. In addition to the three cabinet ministers, the governor of Jiangnan of Daqin, the governor of Liangguang, the governor of Zhili, and the three governors are also first-rank officials, that is to say, among the hundreds of thousands of officials in Daqin from top to bottom, there are only six first-grade officials, and only their wives can be awarded the title of first-grade edict.

The ladies of the noble family, such as Ding Yi, the wife of the Marquis of Lanling, are just three-grade orders, the princesses of Xinyang and the princesses of Chuling are barely considered to be first-class orders, the princes of the palace are not in power, and the princesses of the palace can't stand the courtesy of the first-grade lady, of course, these first-class ladies will not be presumptuous in front of the princess, and will generally be polite. As for the concubines in the palace, there is another set of rules for promotion.

Emperor Taizu formulated the policy, in order to restrain the founding of the country, but also to make the noble wife dare not be arrogant, the emperor's officials will not grovel in front of the nobles, although the official has no title, but the official position is much higher than the noble princes, the only exception is the old concubine of Xinyang Mansion, before marrying the king of Xinyang, Empress Taizu named her Mrs. Anguo, she is the only super-grade lady of the command.

As for the princess of the current emperor, there are a few canonized kings, and a few are county kings, because the queen of the middle palace has no children and no daughters, most of the princess's titles are second-grade, and the princess's concubine will get a second-grade concubine Duwei idle position, and it is not a good thing to marry a princess in Daqin, many aspiring scholars are not sensitive, Ding Rou has heard jokes, before Dabi, all those who are aspiring to high school will mostly set up family affairs, that is, to prevent the emperor from giving marriage. There is a saying among scholars that they would rather marry a young lady from the master's family than a princess.

Due to the rebellion of the Hidden King, Empress Taizu made an iron decree that the royal family of Daqin married different nobles, and the prince was easy to do, marrying most of the daughters of courtiers, there is an old saying that the princess of Daqin is most suitable, and the emperor's daughter is also worried about marrying. Ding Rou's unkind guess, is it because Empress Taizu has no daughter, so she gave this order? His Majesty now has several princesses, and it is said that when he chose a horse, he put a lot of thought into it.

Ding Rou raised her eyes, I heard Mrs. Tai say, there is a legend in private that the old concubine of King Xinyang is the illegitimate daughter of Empress Taizu, if this is the case, Empress Taizu is the daughter born with a foreigner? Ding Rou didn't believe that Empress Taizu would take revenge on her husband like this, she was such a strong and fresh woman, maybe she wasn't revenge, Emperor Taizu could be lucky and let her down, why couldn't she fall in love with others? Ding Rou regretted that there was no record of this paragraph in the codex, not only for simplified Chinese, but also for those written in pinyin.

The old concubine of Xinyang Wang, the former Mrs. Anguo, became a mystery, and it is said that she followed Queen Taizu at a very young age and was commensurate with her master and apprentice. Ding Rou chuckled, why did she think of Xinyang Wangfu again? She is curious about the old concubine, whether she is the illegitimate daughter of Queen Taizu or not, but the old lady was taught by a traverser, and like Queen Taizu, she is a heroine, in some ways, she is more ruthless and decisive than Queen Taizu, and she will definitely be called the Iron Lady in modern times.

It's a pity that she stood too tall and was too far away from Ding Rou to see her. Hearing the girl's greetings, Ding Rou found that they had passed through the hall and entered the main mansion, and the Zhou Mansion of the Ministry of Servants was more luxurious than the Ding Mansion, but it was far from being as rich as the Lanling Marquis Mansion.

Entering the cross-courtyard, the main house with five bright and two dark, next to it is equipped with a wing room, an ear room, a small kitchen, the yard is paved with a stone road, because it is snowing in winter, in order not to wet the shoes of the ladies and ladies, clean the road, it is difficult for the girl to sweep the snow, and one person has to sweep the road once. Ding Rou saw a little girl in a pink thick jacket standing under the corridor, with ear protection on her head, but her face was also frozen red, and she was dressed thickly, even if she was sheltered from the wind and snow under the corridor, but standing outside on duty in winter, it would be cold, Ding Rou was a little glad that God didn't let her dress as a girl, Ding Min was frozen in front of Nian Ci'an?

Ding Rou admitted that she was not kind, the curtain jumped open, and the boiling heat came with a light fragrance, and when she entered the door, a girl stepped forward to offer ginseng tea and a warm silk handkerchief. Ding Rou went out with Mrs. Tai for the first time, and it was also the first time to enjoy this kind of treatment, peeking at Mrs. Tai's approach, she followed the cat and painted the tiger, retreated and handed it to the little girl with double braids standing next to her, first warmed her hands with a hot handkerchief, and then sipped ginseng tea to warm her stomach, although Ding Rou was unexpected, but a series of actions were not jerky and restrained, as if she had enjoyed this kind of treatment.

Mrs. Tai hooked the corners of her lips, she deliberately didn't tell Ding Rou, nor did she intend to test her, she could test Ding Rou in the house, but once Ding Rou made a fool of herself outside, it would be the face of the entire Ding family, although Mrs. Tai didn't show it on her face, but along the way, she kept thinking about the incident between King Xinyang and the fourth son of the Yin family, and speculated who Ding Min was waiting for when he went to Miss Ci'an? After getting along with Ding Rou for a long time in the past, Mrs. Tai trusted Ding Rou and believed that she would be in danger, so she forgot to tell her the rules of the Zhou Mansion.

Mrs. Tai said softly: "Liuya'er, remember that Mrs. Tai's surname in the Zhou Mansion is Meng. ”

"Hmm." Ding Rou nodded, relieved that there were luxurious furnishings in the house that were different from the outside, the Meng family, a wealthy family in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, one of the four families in Jiangnan, is said to have contributed military expenses for Taizu, the Meng family is not the richest, but the daughter of the Meng family is famous for her knowledge, and the concubine of the four princes is the daughter of the Meng family.

"You're late."

Kind, familiar, slightly joking tone, the owner of this voice is Mrs. Meng, Mrs. Tai stroked her body, "The carriage on the road is broken, delay some effort." ”

"The carriage broke down? It's not like you're usually in style, you've always been the most methodical. ”

It was not Mrs. Meng who had just spoken, Ding Rou suppressed her curiosity, and kept lowering her eyes to make a respectful gesture, from the time she entered the door with Mrs. Tai, there were several lines of sight condensed on her, Ding Rou did not dare to move, let alone raise her head, maintaining respectful calm, inferring from the liveliness in the house and the number of carriages, there were at least five or six Mrs. Tai with status who came to the Zhou Mansion as guests, plus Mrs. Meng's daughter-in-law, there were many people in the house, but this attention can make Ding Rou afraid of cowardice?

underestimate Ding Rou too much, the more people, the calmer Ding Rou is. Mrs. Tai pretended to be surprised and said, "You actually went out too?" Or Mrs. Meng has a big face. ”

"Look at what you said, I'm just too lazy to move when I get there."

Mrs. Tai smiled: "Today, the Zhou Mansion can please move you, and tomorrow I will post it, and you will get it too." ”

"Xiaorou, give them a salute."

"Yes."

Ding Rou saluted one by one, and listened to Mrs. Tai's introduction, Mrs. Meng was wearing a royal blue brocade robe with a pearl forehead, and it could be vaguely seen from her face that she was a talented woman in Jiangnan with a graceful temperament when she was young. Next to her sat an old woman with a Chinese face, big eyes and thick lips, dressed simply, "I've seen Mrs. Li." ”

She is Mrs. Erpin, her son is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, after Ding Rou saluted, she stood behind Mrs. Tai, a faint smile appeared on Sakura's lips, and Mrs. Li said: "The granddaughter you brought out this time seems to be a person who understands the rules." “

"She is the sixth girl in my family - Ding Rou."

Ding Rou smiled again, and Mrs. Meng was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Look at it, it is clean and quiet, and it is really rare to be calm and calm when looked at by a few of our old guys, and the young ladies in Ding's mansion are well educated." ”

Mrs. Tai smiled a little smugly, and talked and laughed with her old friends. Ding Rou secretly sighed to herself, and finally survived... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］