"Don't you say that, Dad?" Qin Yao's duplicitous reproach was right, but anyone could hear that there was another meaning in her words.

"You can't have the heart to harm your father, you can't have the heart to prevent your father, right? Daddy is Daddy, we are us. It is natural to be a child and respect the elders, but there is no need to lose your whole life, right? It's not the only way to repay the kindness of parenting, you say, little sister? Feng'er explained.

"Well, that makes sense, what's the use of talking about these diagrams?" Qin Yao's heart suddenly became much more relaxed, if the eldest sister and the second sister also had their own plans, then it would be much more convenient for them to act in the future.

Feng Er sorted out a bunch of messy portraits and explained: "Look at these, only the daughters or granddaughters of Sanpin officials are among them, and some are nieces and nephews or something. Some of these people don't want to enter the palace, like us. ”

"There are still some who are willing to enter the palace, don't look at the emperor's age, but it's still no problem to live for ten or eight years."

"You see that these should be voluntary, and they should work very hard during the assessment, some of their parents have no official positions, and some of them have very small official positions, and ten or eight years is enough for them to promote their relatives. They are all close relatives of the third-grade officials, so they are naturally within the scope of the draft. ”

"Look at these few? Even the closest relatives of our family, they should also work very hard. Then there is this one, and my eldest sister and I have a great chance of being selected. ”

"Although his father is a third-grade official like our father, he committed something a few days ago and is being reviewed, and I don't know what will happen to the results. If she becomes the emperor's concubine, then his father's case will naturally be fine. ”

Qin Yao understood, "You mean that we will use these as a reference, and we can't do better than them in the exam." ”

"It's almost, but it can't be too bad, otherwise it's easy to get involved with Dad, and if Dad falls, we'll have to drink the northwest wind." Xuan'er reminded.

"It makes sense, it's a pity to let the two of you be ladies in this backyard, you should be allowed to go to the border to lead troops to fight." Qin Yao praised with a smile.

"You can take a good look at these pictures tonight, and go to my place early tomorrow morning to pick out clothes, you should have jewelry, right?" I saw my mother fiddling with it. Xuan'er said.

"I haven't seen it yet, but if so, it should be?" Qin Yao looked up at the stairs and answered.

"That's it, the outcome of the day after tomorrow depends on what God does to us." Xuan'er sighed and got up.

"Shall we go to the bath?"

"That? Do you have any portraits of the crown prince? Qin Yao asked with some hesitation.

"Do you really dare to think about the prince? That's not something to provoke, it's even more terrible than the emperor. We don't have his portrait, he is the prince, and his portrait and the emperor's portrait are not allowed to be kept privately, which is a great crime. Feng'er reminded her like a warning.

"I'm just asking, who cares about him! With this bad reputation, I'd better stay away. Qin Yao shook his body in fear.

"You'd better not think about it, I heard that several women were killed by him?" Feng'er reminded in a low voice.

"And this?" Qin Yao asked very curiously.

Xuan'er opened the door, "Don't talk nonsense, be careful that trouble comes out of your mouth." ”

When she went out, Xuan'er instructed the two maids here, "You guys are going to eat too, right?" Feng Ling had just been transferred from the laundry yard, and remembered to tell her to send a change of clothes to the third sister. ”

"Yes." The two maids walked away.

……。

Qin Hong left Shangshu Mansion with a painting scroll and went straight to the Prince's Mansion, he really pleaded with Qin Yao. As for pushing Qin Yao to the crown prince, it is only his personal will, he has this thought, but it also depends on whether the prince can take a fancy to Qin Yao.

……。

The crown prince Gong Yun was reading a book in the study, and there was also a stack of portraits on the bookcase that were exactly the same as those that Feng'er showed to Qin Yao. This is his job tomorrow, and he has to be somewhat impressed by the women on the scroll. In addition, these boudoir women usually don't go out, and some even have to get married until the outside world knows that there is such a daughter in the family. ”

"He is the crown prince, it is very useful to know the inner relatives of important officials of the imperial court, don't look at them as just women in the boudoir, but they are often used as important resources, if they are placed in the right position, it may even change the pattern of the court."

"Prince, Qin Hong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, asks to see you." The cronies and attendants reported from Xiao Wu outside the door.

"Qin Hong?" Gong Yun looked at Shi Chen before responding, "Let him come here." With that, he put down the scroll, sat down behind his desk, and began to make tea in a complicated tea set.

Qin Hong is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, although this official position is of little use to him, but he also has his own circle, and he will not be offended for no reason, maybe he is here for the sake of the show girl entering the palace tomorrow.

"Wechen has seen the prince." Qin Hong came in and kowtowed.

"Qin Aiqing, please, what's the matter with me so late?" Gong Yun asked slowly as he sipped his tea.

"The minister disturbed the prince for the sake of the little girl's business, and asked the prince for personal favors." Qin Hong replied weakly.

"Pleased?" Gong Yun looked over sharply.

"No, no, it's not what the prince thinks, Wechen doesn't want the little girl to be selected, it's their blessing that the little girl can serve the emperor, and Wechen is asking the prince to leave a life for the little daughter." Qin Hong hurriedly explained.

"Oh? Your third daughter is back? Gong Yun asked in disbelief. At this juncture, many third-grade officials are thinking about how to send their daughter away! He actually got the third daughter back at this time.

"It's back, it's back, but it's ......." Qin Hong was embarrassed and didn't say anything halfway, it seemed that there were difficult things to say that he couldn't say.

"Go on." Gong Yun seemed to be giving orders.

"However, as we all know, my little daughter was kicked out with her mother ten years ago because of family conflicts, and for more than ten years, in addition to farming, she cut grass and beat rabbits in the countryside."

"Don't talk about the palace etiquette knitting female red, I don't know a few big characters, and I don't know anything about dancing, if you let her go up the tree and dig out a bird's nest or something."

"Serving the emperor for this ......, I'm afraid that even the head of the old minister will have to be put into it, and even the prince may be implicated."

"Really? You got all such daughters back, it can be seen that you are really loyal! Gong Yun said sarcastically.

"But this is your will, and it won't work if you don't come back, right?" Qin Hong explained super low-key.

"And what are you going to do with me?" Gong Yun asked coldly.

Qin Hong hurriedly knelt down, "The minister asks the prince for the sake of Weichen's loyalty, if the little girl makes something out of the primary election the day after tomorrow, she will be blown out and killed." This child's life is hard, and this time he returned to the capital to avoid embarrassing Weichen. ”

"Wechen is ashamed of his mother and son, and asks the prince to open up when the time comes, the minister has no intention of disobeying the holy will, and the other two daughters of the minister will also run for election, if the prince does not believe that he can choose one of them, Weichen is honored."

"What do you have in your hand is the portrait of your third daughter?" Gong Yun asked.

"Exactly." Qin Hong hurriedly got up and handed over Qin Yao's portrait. "This is what Weichen just painted, and the painting doesn't look like it in a hurry, so please ask the prince to include it."

Gong Yun unfolded the portrait and looked at it, frowning, this woman said so well, no matter how she looks, she doesn't look like a rural village girl!

"Prince, with the words of their mother and son, my little daughter Qin Yao may have a husband in the countryside, but it's too late to investigate!" Qin Hong explained.

"This Qin Yao is more than twenty, right? In the countryside, it is normal for this grade to be married. Gong Yun seemed to be talking to himself.

"How much is this portrait of yours different from me?" No matter how Gong Yun looks at the woman in the portrait, it doesn't look like a farmer.

"Not too much, right? Weichen is not good at this, and he doesn't have time to find a painter to make do with the painting. Qin Hong replied vaguely.