Chapter Seventy-Nine: Unwilling

Geng listened to Chang'an's answer, looked at Chang'an's calm expression, nodded very satisfied, and then turned the second lady Bai You's little face that had been staring at Chen, and let her eyes look at herself: "Then the eldest aunt asked Sister You'er, do you know how this year's draft works?"

Bai You wanted to turn her head to look behind her, but Geng's hand touched her face lovingly, but he didn't give her a chance to turn back.

After thinking for a while, his eyelids drooped: "I don't know ......"

Geng's carefully told Bai You about the process of this year's draft, and interspersed it with a small story, saying that it was a small story, in fact, it was decades ago, when Geng's sister, the eldest daughter of South Korea, Geng Hailan, participated in the draft, everyone knew that Miss Geng was the second princess who was nailed on the board, but there were still people who were unwilling, and stumbled on Miss Geng in the draft, and secretly cut the clothes that Miss Geng wore during the draft at the back waist, because the draft was in early spring, the weather was still slightly cold, and the material of the clothes was also with thin velvet, and no one could see the trace if you didn't look carefully, the loss is that a little palace maid in the house where the show girl lived at that time had received the grace of the Korean duchess, so she secretly told Miss Geng about it at that time, and Miss Geng was exempted from the possibility of making a fool of herself in the draft, otherwise let alone marrying King Jing as a princess, she would not be able to marry in her life, and she would go to the temple to be a sister-in-law with her hair twisted, which would be the best end.

The expression on Bai You's face was really intriguing, at the beginning, his face was only a little pale, and gradually became pale with no blood, until in the end, his face was almost iron-blue.

Geng's finished talking about this is an old thing that almost no one in the Liang Guogong Mansion knows, and everyone is embarrassed, but this kind of thing is really common in the draft, when Empress Rui participated in the draft, if it wasn't for her father Bai Gan who died in battle to protect the first emperor, the first emperor secretly sent someone to protect her, no one dared to pull teeth in the tiger's mouth, and Bai Qianyun could be smoothly registered as the eldest princess.

Bai You has been raised by Chen's side since he was a child, although Chen restricts Bai You's upbringing, but after all, when people are old, they are easy to dot on Bai You, so these pickled things will dirty your ears, Chen never wants Bai You to know, Bai You's jaw is about to fall when he hears it at this time.

Geng paused: "Sister You, you should also understand what the eldest aunt just said." In this draft, even if you and Sister Ci are qualified to participate, it is impossible to have the opportunity to enter the general election, in the small election, what can be selected is either to be a side concubine for the prince and grandson, or to stay in the palace as a female official, if you are not rewarded by the master for marriage, you can only get out of the palace to marry when you are twenty-five years old, a girl, the best time of her life, but it is wasted in the palace. Which of these two outcomes do you want?"

Du Ruo, who was standing half a step behind Bai Ci and had been low-eyebrowed, interjected in a low voice: "Isn't Cousin You still have the opportunity to be a female official and be married by the master of the palace?"

Geng didn't seem to hear Du Ruo speak, but just looked at Bai You lovingly: "If you lose the election, you will return to your own home to marry, with the reputation of our Liang Guogong Mansion, plus your aunt carefully selected for you, the person you marry may not be bad." And you see the person your big sister marries......"

Bai You's eyes gradually revealed a trace of clarity, big sister, it turned out that when she was at home, among the four sisters, only the eldest sister was a concubine, so the eldest sister has always felt that she can't raise her head, and she lives aggrieved, but since she got married, every time she goes back, she can feel it, the smile on the big sister's face is from the heart, although her mother always says that the big sister is married to a small family, and the marriage is not good, but if it is really not good, how can she live so freely? This should be a good marriage.

After a long time, Geng Shi continued: "Of course, what Du Ruo said is not bad, it is true that every year, the master of the palace rewards the female officials around him to the children of the clan, but most of them are concubines, and they are not even qualified for concubines, but they are only through the room." is better, if you have the opportunity to give birth to a boy and half a girl in the future, she may be promoted to become a concubine, that is, a side concubine, which is an unattainable dream, and if the former master loses power one day, even if she has been married for more than ten years, she will be implicated. ”

Chang'an couldn't help but applaud Geng's family, Geng's family is really a smart person, when Du Ruo said that sentence, he thought that Bai You might be shaken by that sentence, but he didn't answer, first told the benefits of losing the election, and let the little girl think about it for a while, before she faintly told the fate of the female official who was rewarded to the clan by her master, Bai You couldn't figure it out, it was really stupid.

Sure enough, Geng's strategy was very effective, Bai You had already been convinced by Geng's 10,000 hearts, and nodded like a chicken chattering rice: "Auntie, you're right, I don't want to be small for others, and I don't want to live my own destiny for the rest of my life." Auntie, it was You'er who thought too simply, do you have a way to let You'er avoid the draft......"

Geng Shi was faint, didn't answer first, but looked at Bai Ci again: "Sister Ci, what about you?"

Bai Ci also nodded again and again: "My second sister and I think the same." ”

Geng nodded: "That's right." The draft is the will of the saints, and we have no escape from the Liang Guogong Mansion. However, there is one point, our Liang Guo Mansion feels that this so-called glory is like dung for the Gong Mansion. But for many girls from six-grade official families, it is an opportunity that is not available in a lifetime, and if you perform slightly worse in the draft, no one will find it strange, because our Liang Guogong Mansion originally thought that only Sister Hui had the opportunity to participate in the draft, and it was normal for people to have no strict training for the two daughters in the second room. ”

Bai You nodded in his arms: "Well, auntie, niece can save it." ”

Du's face was a little pale, but when he thought of what his sister-in-law said, he also understood that it was not unreasonable, and he was secretly annoyed in his heart, he was not from a better background, otherwise he would not have sent his daughter to the draft for the future of himself and his husband.

However, she has always been at odds with Geng's family, and Geng's took action to stop this matter, although it is good for Sister You'er and Sister Ci'er, but her heart is like a thorn in her heart.

The matter of the Bai family's draft, even if it is successfully resolved, the Chen family can be regarded as happy when they see it, so they Zhang Luo took Mama Jiang to buy two tables of meals, it is rare for the eldest daughter to return to the door with her granddaughter, how can she not keep a meal?

But what He Changan didn't expect was that during this meal, Geng frequently asked Chang'an how he learned the rules and what he planned for the next draft, Chang'an could only say that he only followed Shi Qi to learn a fur from Mama Zheng, as for the draft, this session has not yet started, and the next draft is more than three years later, so he didn't think so much about it for the time being.

Geng didn't ask anymore, a meal can be regarded as full of harmony.

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With a "bang", the door of Du Ruo's room was slammed shut by her, and Mai Miao, the little maid who had been serving Du Ruo since she was a child, said tremblingly: "Miss, you haven't eaten anything at night, the slave maid goes to the kitchen to see, what can be eaten, help Miss make some noodles and rice porridge or something, Miss fill your stomach......"

Du Ruo's hands clenched into fists and slammed the bed fiercely: "Miss, Miss, now you still treat me as a miss, you look at the entire Liang Guo Mansion, who treats me as a miss? Haha, Miss Hebiao, Miss Du, do you hear me, I'm just a Miss Du, not even Miss Cousin!"

Mai Miao stood behind Du Ruo and carefully helped Du Ruo to calm down: "Miss, don't feel uncomfortable, the girl who is the doorman also has a slip of the tongue for a while." Why should the young lady be angry with a girl? Anyway, Miss is also the daughter of a good family in Qingzhou, even if Qingzhou is not as prosperous as the capital, but it is also a small brocade and jade food, how can you say that it is not Miss?"

Du Ruo pulled out the green jade hairpin on his head and wanted to fall to the ground, but was stopped by Mai Miao: "Miss, don't be angry, this hairpin can't be broken, this hairpin is given to you by the second lady, if you break it, when the second lady asks, I'm afraid you will eat it again." ”

Only then did Du Ruo remember that the hairpin she had on her head was indeed the hairpin that Du gave her, and she carried it all day long, that is, to lower her figure and let her aunt understand that she was relying on her tightly.

She understands her aunt's temperament too well, when her aunt was not out of the cabinet in the past, the grandparents in the family only favored sons over daughters, and cared for their fathers in every way, but they ignored their daughters. It's a pity that her family is in trouble, her parents are dead, and she can only come to her aunt, and her aunt is willing to take her in, which is nothing more than the taste of grace.

If he wasn't really desperate, where would Du Ruo be willing to accept his aunt's eyes? Before she came to the imperial capital, her uncle in the family also told her that after arriving in the imperial capital, she would cling to the young master of the mansion and be a young grandmother in the future, everything would be better, she also came with such ambitions, but when she arrived at the mansion, she found that her aunt had no son at all, and the young masters of the mansion were all from the Duchess of Liangguo, Geng's family, but Geng's family has always been at odds with her aunt, and she guarded against her aunt like a thief, so she didn't want to have the opportunity to get close to Geng's young master!

Thinking about the jade pendant that Du Shi gave to He Changan today, I don't know how many times better than this green hosta, so isn't He Changan's life better? In terms of relationship, she and her aunt can have no blood relationship! She flatters all day long, and all she can get is an ordinary green hosta, but He Chang'an can easily get a jade pendant with good condition.

How is this called her Du Ruo willingly?