Chapter 169: Choosing a Concubine
On the sixteenth day of the first month, the yamen began to unseal it, and the saint held a rare court meeting.
The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty all lifted their spirits, and with a nervous and excited spirit, they welcomed the first court meeting of the new year.
The accident by the goldfish pond yesterday is obvious to all, and I am afraid that the Holy Lord will make a judgment on this today.
Not only the ministers of civil and military affairs, but also the high-ranking families in the capital are also waiting, wanting to see how the saint will deal with the Zhao family.
Therefore, after asking for peace in Shou'an Hall today, everyone was still waiting, Xie Di and Xie Songhua hugged Brother An to make the old lady happy, and others also used this excuse to kill time.
Xie Yuncang and Xie Feiwu came back directly as soon as they went to court, after all, it was the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and there was nothing to do in the yamen.
The old lady didn't want him to be polite, so she asked directly, "What do you say about the Zhao family?" ”
"Zhao Shilang went to the court as usual today, and there was nothing abnormal in his expression, but someone came to the book and talked about the war in Datong last year, saying that our dynasty won a great victory and the heavens sent grace.
Then Qin Tianjian came over and said that there was a vision in the sky last night, like the main phoenix position, which should be in the harem. ”
When Xie Yuncang said these words, he didn't have too much expression on his face, and he looked at each other, as if he was just retelling the situation at that time.
But Qi Shi was so shocked that he immediately bounced up from his seat, "What did the master say?!" ”
Compared to her shock, the old lady and Xie Yuncang seemed much calmer, and his eyes glanced at the Qi clan lightly, as if he was reproachful, and as if he was a little helpless, "After the next dynasty, the celebrant revealed that the saint intends to choose a concubine in the flower dynasty. ”
Over there, Xie Shuhua exclaimed, and everyone saw that her face was pale and her eyes were straight, as if she was frightened.
"Shu'er, Shu'er!" Qi couldn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly hugged her over, and called her while rubbing his chest, "Don't scare me!" ”
After a while, Xie Shuhua woke up faintly, looking at her father's tears in his eyes, and couldn't believe it, "Dad, what did you mean by what you just said?" ”
Xie Yuncang just snorted coldly, and finally sat down in the seat next to the old lady.
Xie Feiwu glanced at Xie Shuhua sympathetically, and then sat next to Xie Changqing, and the brothers whispered something.
The eyes of the rest of the Xie family looking at Xie Songhua and Xie Shuhua have completely changed, some sympathetic, some distressed, and some gloating.
The old lady also had a faint look of ridicule in her eyes when she looked at Qi, but it was more worried, "Since you said so, you can't hide it, I don't know what the conditions for selection are?" ”
"It's not a general election, but Gonggong Hong said that all the people in the capital, all girls of appropriate age have to enter the palace for selection, that is, in the past few days, their sisters will have to go to the palace to drive."
Xie Shuhua finally cried out, but she didn't care about the Qi family, let alone so many people watching at the moment, she only begged Xie Yuncang, "Dad, you can report your daughter to a doctor!" Or, or maybe the daughter has already been married, and the saint is almost at the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and the daughter ......"
"What's the use of talking about that now?" Xie Yuncang snorted coldly again, "The rumors of your two sisters spread all the time ago, and how many pairs of eyes are watching in the capital.
Now that Qin Tianjian has said the words of the main phoenix position again, who do you think the Holy Lord's concubine is aimed at? Do you think my Xie family can resist the emperor's order? Or do you Xie Shuhua have the ability to hide from the world and the sea, and can make a ghost in front of the royal family? ”
Xie Shuhua suddenly fell back into her chair, only crying in a daze, but she couldn't say a word anymore.
"In addition, I advise you not to think about it anymore," Xie Yuncang stared at Xie Shuhua coldly and said, "Except for your eldest sister in our family, who has already combed her hair, only the two of you are fifteen years old and meet the conditions for entering the palace to choose a concubine, from today onwards, I will send someone to watch over you."
If anything goes wrong, I will immediately remove him from the family tree. If you want to escape or do something else, you can try, then you can go back to your Jiang from now on! ”
Xie Shuhua looked at Xie Yuncang blankly, and finally couldn't help but cover her face and cry and ran away.
Qi was so angry that he was trembling, when he wanted to reason with Xie Yuncang, but when he saw his husband's gloomy face, he knew that this time Xie Yuncang was serious, but he was afraid that he would already make him dissatisfied.
If he was in conflict with him at this time, I was afraid that Xie Shuhua would have no hope.
Therefore, she could only hold a bag of tears, didn't care about others, and hurriedly chased Xie Shuhua.
The other people in the room were originally a little interested in watching the excitement, but when they saw Xie Yuncang getting angry like this, they didn't dare to squeak.
On the contrary, it was Xie Songhua, who seemed to have nothing to do with himself from beginning to end, and even held a cloth tiger to make Brother An laugh.
Even Xie Di, who was sitting with her, was very worried, but now was really not the time to speak, so she could only swallow a thousand words back into her stomach.
The old lady waved her hand and told them all to retreat, leaving only the three sons by her side.
waited until everyone in the room had retreated, and then he let out a long sigh and said, "I really did something wrong about this." ”
She looked at her sons with a little dodge, she knew that her three sons, the eldest was only in charge of the Shensi Pavilion and was obsessed with teaching.
The third child is chic and debauched, and is not keen on court affairs, and the second child is the most tenacious and promising, but he is calm and even a little too cautious.
If the three sons were to choose, none of them would choose to send their own girl on the road to winning the imperial concubine.
How could Qi's actions be hidden from her eyes at the beginning?
If the Qi clan hadn't noticed their acquiescence, they wouldn't have been so bold, but who would have thought that the Holy Lord's sacrament would be better one day, and he would encounter the current situation.
"The mother is distressed about the children, just give the Qi family dignity, the son knows the mother's good intentions, and the mother must not blame herself."
The old lady didn't say anything more, Xie Feiwu frowned and said: "Originally, the 'Tianfeng Destiny' could raise the value of our children, but now if you really enter the harem, not to mention Queen Zhao, even the noble concubine is afraid that it will not be tolerated, and we will offend both parties in one go." ”
Xie Changqing glanced at them twice, still leaning back in the chair, and then quietly picked up a piece of dim sum from the plate next to him and threw it into his mouth.
Seeing that they were discussing the entry of Sister Xie Songhua into the palace, they had no time to deal with him, so they became more and more unscrupulous, so they simply poured themselves a cup of hot tea and tasted the tea carefully.
It's just that in the end, the mother and son didn't discuss anything good.
The old lady finally sighed and said: "If you talk about entering the palace, the third girl is more suitable than the fourth girl, although she is selfish and calculating, but such a character can go far in the palace."
In contrast, the character of the four girls is too upright, soft-hearted, and I really haven't seen too much sinister in the world. ”
Xie Feiwu said: "Otherwise, let's find a way to report any hidden illness to the four girls?" In this way, it will be difficult for her to marry into the royal family in the future, and the matter of life is not so eye-catching, and she has long had the name of the disaster star, and the saint is afraid that he will not see her and really want her to enter the palace, not to mention, it is reasonable for our two girls to choose one of the two girls and one to lose. ”