The noble daughter of the family surrendered, and selected the sisters and nephews with outstanding talents in the clan as Teng daughters, and brought them to marry their husbands, in order to consolidate their favor, which is a legacy inherited from the ancient pre-Qin Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, this system did not have to be limited to women of the same clan, and beautiful family slaves and maids could also marry as Teng girls with noble daughters.

Lu Yuan knew that the wedding between Zhang Yan and his emperor's younger brother was different from ordinary couples in the world, and Zhang Yan was still young, so he was afraid that within a few years, he would have to be raised in Weiyang Palace in the name of waiting for the New Year, and he would not be lucky. Then, it is extremely necessary to set up Teng Nu for Zhang Yan.

Because it is commonplace and taken for granted, no one thought to inform Zhang Yan in the entire process of choosing Teng. So, when the candidate Teng Nu lived in the West Garden of the Hou Mansion, as the main son of this big wedding, Zhang Yan didn't know about it at all. The big wedding is imminent, as a quasi-queen, although she is still a member of the Zhang family, the position of the monarch and the minister is set, and the Lanyuan where she lives is also surrounded by the Hou family.

On this day, Zhang Yan was in the middle of the dormitory, and Tu Yu and Xie Wei were directing the servant woman to pack Zhang Yan's daily utensils and prepare to return to Chang'an on the same day. Suddenly, I heard the sound of dispute outside the hospital, and a young girl Qingyue shouted, "Eleven Niang." There was a sudden babbling, apparently covered by his companion.

Zhang Yan paced out of the inner room and said strangely, "What's the matter?" ”

"It looks like someone is out there asking to see you." Xie Wei walked downstairs, and after a while, he led two girls in Chinese clothes back.

"The two sisters are looking for me, is there something wrong?" Zhang Yan asked curiously.

These two girls are the daughters of the Zhang clan, the eldest of them is Zhang Jiao, who was the praiser for Zhang Yan at the ceremony that day, and the other girl is named Zhang Ye, who is also the daughter of the Xuanping Marquis Zhang Ao's close tribe, known for her beauty, slender body, elegant and amiable.

Zhang Jiao pinched Zhang Ye and bowed. "We just want to find Eleven Niang to talk and relieve boredom, seeing that Eleven Niang is very busy like this, we won't bother."

Zhang Yan is ranked eleventh among the cousins of Zhang's generation, so she is also called Eleven Niang.

Zhang Yan nodded, glanced at Zhang Ye, and saw that she didn't belong to her thoughts, but she refused to speak, and after waiting for a while, she smiled and said, "That's the case." When she is free, Yan invites her two sisters to chat. ”

Zhang Ye was pulled out by Zhang Jiao, stumbling slightly. Suddenly, a spirit shook off the hand of the clan sister, turned around and knelt down with a bang, "Ye's identity is humble and his qualifications are ugly. But he didn't want to be Teng, and asked Eleven Niang to fulfill it. He prostrated again and again.

Zhang Jiao stomped his feet, and then knelt under the room, looking anxious, "Eleven Niang, Ye is just confused for a while." If you persuade her, you will change your mind, and you don't blame her. ”

With a click, the brush in Zhang Yan's hand broke. Raising his head, he asked in a solemn voice, "What's going on?" ”

Her heart was bitter.

Lu Yuan's heart for her, she can understand every detail, and she is grateful. But that doesn't mean that. Lu Yuan can understand all her thoughts and desires.

Mother chose Teng for her. It is because she has some dependence in the huge Weiyang Palace, so that she can sit firmly in the middle palace. However, she won't know that in the depths of her center, what she really wants is not the Han Empress who respects the peerless, but only Liu Ying's wife.

As a man's wife, she would not be happy to see other women standing between them in any name, let alone bringing in a relative woman to be his Teng clan.

She had a complicated look on her face, and then looked at Zhang Jiao and Zhang Ye in the room, they were both young girls who had also been commensurate with their sisters.

"Seventh sister," Zhang Yan smiled, "I want to ask, why are you reluctant to enter the palace?" ”

Zhang Ye's body was slightly sluggish, obviously a little hesitant, but he bravely raised his head, looked directly at Zhang Yan, and stretched his chin into a perfect arc. "Weiyang Palace respects the richness and beauty, but Ye is not angry, his heart already belongs, and he is only willing to live an ordinary life with him, and he doesn't dare to think about it."

"Oh. That's right. Zhang Yan nodded, got up and said to the guest, "I will talk to my mother about this." Go back first. ”

When he walked out of the door of the main house, Zhang Jiao turned his head and glanced at her, there were doubts and puzzles in his eyes, but he collided with her gaze, was taken aback, and pulled Zhang Ye to hurry away.

Zhang Yan stood in front of the window for a while with her chin pursed, and suddenly said, "Relieve your worries, accompany me to my mother's place." ”

"Mother," she said straight to the point, "those Teng girls in the West Garden, let them disperse and go home." I don't need Teng Nu. ”

"What nonsense." Lu Yuan was taken aback, stepped forward and took her hand and said, "Mother, this is for you, you marry to Weiyang Palace for the New Year, but Your Majesty will not have no concubines next to you, although you are the queen of the Middle Palace, but you are too young to convince the public, and the concubines around you may be favored by one or two, and they can also help defend your back position." ”

She shook her head and said with a smile, "Mother, my posterior, I don't need this group of Teng girls to defend me - I have my pride." What's more, who am I, I am Your Majesty's niece, the Empress Dowager's grandson, and the master of the Second Palace of Weiyang Changle, who is my backing. The biggest arch guard in the rear is the emperor's uncle himself, in such a situation, I can't suppress Weiyang Palace, this is not mine. ”

When she said this, she smiled happily, her spirit was bright, and her eyes were full of agility, Lu Yuan looked at such a daughter, but her heart overflowed with a faint sadness, and she asked, "Ah Yan, do you know what a husband and wife are?" ”

She chuckled, as if she had an olive in her mouth, and said slowly, "Yes." Husband and wife are people who hold each other for a lifetime. ”

"I know that you and your uncle have been close since childhood, and their relationship is good," Lu Yuan glanced at her and sighed, "But, Ah Yan, being an uncle and nephew is different from being a husband and wife. I'm also stupid, some things, in the end, you have to go through a while to really understand, no matter how smart you are, how can you really understand? ”

"Teng Nu's business," Lu Yuanyi said excitedly, "just let it be." But you have to pick a few maids, in Weiyang Palace, there is no competent palace official, even if it is the queen, it will be difficult to move an inch. ”

Mother, I think I understand.

I'm not really the twelve-year-old kid in the Hou Mansion Boudoir, but I have more than 20 years of experience and insight in another world in the depths of my memory, and I know how difficult the path I have chosen is. I know that family affection and love are two completely different feelings, the same gentle as the rising sun, and the same wild as the waves.

From love to family can be very smooth, but from family to love is a kind of retrospective.

I get it. But I can't help it.

There was a sudden commotion in the West Garden.

Zhang Yan turned around on the corridor and suddenly smiled, "Let's go over and have a look." ”

There was a Fusu tree under the corridor, Zhang Yan stood under the tree, and heard the girl in the garden shouting excitedly from a distance, "Didn't you say that we were going to enter the palace, why do you want us to go back now?" ”

She leaned on the gan and thought with interest, but it was just a small Hou Mansion, and there were so many women who coveted the emperor. In the future, how many women will she have to compete with to get Liu Ying?

Wrong. She smiled wryly, none of these women were a threat to her. Her real opponent is actually Liu Ying herself.

She had to defeat his preconceived notions of ethical seniority, and the naïve and naïve self that existed as a niece, in order to be born again. Become his real wife, Zhang Yan.

The sixteen-year-old girl in white hurriedly stepped out of the garden with the piano in her arms, and behind her, another girl was chasing her.

"Okay?" Zhang Jiao shook Zhang Ye's hand away and said hatefully, "Now you are satisfied." You don't have to go, we don't have to. ”

Then, she looked up. When I saw Zhang Yan under the Fusu tree, I was stunned.

"Actually," Zhang Yan coughed and straightened up, "you don't have to blame her." Even if it wasn't her business, in the end. I won't want Teng Nu either. ”

Zhang Jiao's face was shocked, and he couldn't help but ask, "Do you want to turn your back on the clan?" ”

In this era, although it is known as "the whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land is not the king's minister." For example, Zhang Ao was deposed by King Zhao as the Marquis of Xuanping, and most of the entire Zhang clan migrated to Xuanping County. And the Tengnu system is more to ensure the interests of the clan in a marriage.

"Fifth sister, please be cautious." Zhang Yan said with a straight face, "Don't want Tengnu, I will be a queen who satisfies the clan." ”

Zhang Jiao's face turned pale and uncertain, but at this point, there was no need to continue, the daughter of the Zhang clan boarded the carriage of the Hou Mansion to send her home, and left cleanly after a while.

Suddenly, I heard a young woman say bitterly, "What's the use of being beautiful?" The queen still doesn't want you? ”

"Rare." The girl who was attacked replied unyieldingly, and her voice seemed to be sonorous.

"What kind of good woman are you, flies don't bite seamless eggs, Xuanping has so many good daughters, why did the Zhu family rob you of being a concubine?"

"What you say doesn't make sense." The woman said angrily, "If a person is bitten by a mad dog while walking on the road, you don't blame the mad dog, but you still have to say that the person recruited him?" Even if he is the emperor Laozi, I will not bend down to be a concubine. ”

Although she was in a bad mood, hearing such pungent words, Zhang Yan still snorted and was amused.

The female official selected by Lu Yuan for Zhang Yan was a girl who had just turned fourteen years ago, and she gave birth to a daughter for the Hou family like Tu Yu, her parents died, and there was only one brother, who was Zhang Ao's coachman.

When she came to see her, she was wearing a pale yellow dress, a round face, and two dimples when she smiled, delicate and sweet, very pleasing.

"Her father was originally a scholar, she has been learning since she was a child, and she also has some literacy and hyphenation skills. The daughter of the family knows the roots, and when she enters the palace with you, she should be able to help you a little. ”

"Thank you for your kindness." Zhang Yan looked at His Royal Highness's girl, felt that she was gentle and elegant, looked at the girl's clothes and thought, "Yellow is the color of osmanthus, fragrant but not snatching, from now on, you will be called Muxi." ”

Mu Xi folded his sleeves and bowed, "Queen Xie gave her name." ”

"Hey," Zhang Yanyun said, "don't call it that, I'm not a queen yet." She suddenly moved in her heart, and turned back to Lu Yuan and said, "Mother, I still want to have another person with you." ”

That day, at the moment when the corner of the curtain was slightly blown by the wind, Zhang Yan had a glimpse of the unkempt and plain girl. I couldn't help but be startled when I saw it again, and the girl who cleaned up looked up, although there was no bit of rouge and gouache, but it was amazingly beautiful. No wonder someone will rush to ask her to be a concubine.

Lu Yuan pinched Zhang Yan fiercely, and whispered, "Since you don't want Teng, why do you want to choose such a beautiful maid?" ”

"These are two different things." Zhang Yan withdrew her hand and smiled. "I want her to be a female official, not a concubine." The difference between the two is not in appearance, but in heart.

"Why did you come back with my mother that day, you could have not been a slave." Zhang Yan asked her.

Qu He replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, "There is no one to rely on in the slave's family. Debt is just an excuse, the Zhu family has coveted the slave and maid for a long time, this time forced by the eldest princess to retreat, after the eldest princess left, the slave and maid still can't escape the fish and meat, so it is better to simply follow and take refuge under the wings of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion. ”

Zhang Yan nodded secretly, "Are you literate?" ”

Qu He's gaze flashed a hint of gloom, "I don't know." ”

"That's it," a trace of disappointment flashed in Zhang Yan's heart, but she still loved her temperament very much, "I see that you are articulate and clear, can you follow me into the palace and be my female official?" ”

Qu He looked up and looked at her carefully.

"Okay." She replied indifferently.

"Why not? There are so many men in the world, but they only see the desire to see, and they can't see the love. If the world has been so dirty, I would rather grow into the court and never come out. ”

*******

We're going to get married, we're going to get married, we're going to get married, we're going to get married!

Phew-

I opened this road, I planted this tree, if you want to pass from here, leave the money to buy the road.

Hand over the pink ticket in your hand and send you all the way to the wedding site.