Chapter 180: No one plays
Just when everyone thought that Empress Xie was going to mention the matter of the prince, Empress Xie showed a decent smile towards Ye Kunlin and said, "On such a happy day today, why doesn't the emperor come to the door with three joys?" ”
When Ye Kunlin heard this, there seemed to be a touch of interest on his face, "What does the queen mean by this?" ”
Empress Xie: "The concubines feel that they can let the daughters of all families perform their talents on stage, and choose the best among them-"
As she spoke, Empress Xie's gaze swept to the audience, and she spoke leisurely in everyone's nervous and slightly expectant eyes, "What does the emperor think of a few princesses and concubines who have not married concubines or have not given birth to heirs?" ”
After that, Queen Xie said again, "The concubines also want to take this opportunity to let King Duan also marry two side concubines, so as to continue to add Ding to King Duan's mansion." ”
The side concubine is actually also a concubine, and the queen uses the word marrying just to give those courtiers some decency, after all, the status of the side concubine who can enter the palace as a prince will not be low.
In particular, the main purpose of today's queen is actually to choose a side concubine for King Duan.
As for King Duan, he has an heir? So what's the matter?
The royal family has never disliked having many heirs, and now the emperor only has two grandchildren - Ye Yucheng, the prince of Duanwangfu, and Ye Shuhan, the little county lord of Yuwangfu.
Some people have known about Empress Xie's suggestion for a long time, and some people have only known about it, so the reactions of everyone below are different.
Su Jingchu obviously remembered that Queen Xie had reminded her that she had chosen a concubine for King Duan at the spring banquet, and her face was very bad.
And some women and their families who didn't know that they would choose a side concubine today and wanted to marry into the royal family were eager to try it at this moment.
Another person lowered his eyes slightly, and his eyes were full of sorrow.
This person is not an outsider, it is Wu Yunran, one of the candidates for the side concubine that Queen Xie likes today.
Speaking of Wu Yunran, then we have to mention the military power of this Long Yuan Kingdom.
The Longyuan Kingdom is located in the middle of this continent, and all four sides have borders with neighboring countries, so the military power is divided into five parts.
Among them, the Northwest Army is in the hands of the war king Ye Cangming, the military power in the southeast is in the hands of Chen Laoguogong, the northern camp in the suburbs of Beijing is in the hands of Emperor Cheng Liang, and the military power in the northeast is managed by the tiger general Yue Youliang, and the general of the southwest defender is Wu Yunran's father, the current Zhenwei general Wu Di.
It is worth mentioning that the Southwest Army was actually in charge of the Rong family in the past, but the Rong family was later defeated and replaced by the Wu family.
As the daughter of Wu Di, one of the five generals, Wu Yunran knows that her marriage will not be too bad, and it is not difficult to marry into the royal family, so she has been studying piano, chess, calligraphy and painting diligently since she was a child, and now she is also somewhat famous in Beijing.
And this is just because Wu Yunran doesn't like to be sharp, otherwise there will be a place for her in the name of a talented woman...... Of course, this was what she and the people in her house thought.
But for Wu Yunran, it is difficult for her to decide which prince to marry.
After all, whoever she marries is just a side concubine, and although the side concubine sounds good, she is just a concubine after all.
Naturally, the fourth prince, that is, King Huai Ye Xuqi, has never married a wife, but she has never considered being a sick man.
How can she, who has been carefully cultivated, not have ambition?
As for the others, although she likes Ye Changyu the most, who is the prince of the princess, she has never made up her mind.
It wasn't until the queen sent someone to spread the word that she intended to make her the concubine of King Duan, that she made up her mind and decided to marry Ye Changyou.
However, this was the thought before entering the palace today.
Today's appearance in the palace made Wu Yunran feel a little more repulsive towards Ye Changyou in his heart.
Not to mention the kind of wretchedness and grievances of today's King Duan when facing the King of War and the Princess of War, the fact that King Duan may have broken his sleeves made her retreat a little.
According to the queen's intentions, let her be the first to appear today, and make her a blockbuster, so that she can seek the emperor's grace for herself and make her the concubine of King Duan.
However, if King Duan has broken his sleeves...... She just couldn't take it.
Thinking that King Duan would crush a man under him, or a man crush him under him, she was disgusted, how could she marry such a person?
As for those princes, except for the young marginal figure Seven Princes, who were still low-key and silent, none of the rest showed enthusiasm except for Ye Changyu.
Naturally, none of them stood up at this time to veto the queen's proposal.
When Ye Kunlin heard this, he said, "I think the queen's proposal is very acceptable, and I just want to see how talented your daughters are." ”
Ye Kunlin spoke, and the talent show was a nail in the coffin.
Although it was not revealed that there would be a talent show today, the officials and relatives of each family prepared a few outfits for their daughters before entering the palace in case of emergency, after all, it is not a strange thing to perform in the palace banquet, it can be said that there are every time.
The difference is that this time the talent performing at the palace banquet may be selected as a side concubine and become a royal concubine, which makes people even more excited, and those outfits also happen to come in handy.
It's just that after the show in the palace was over, when the emperor asked who would be the first to play, there was silence below.
Because, no one wants or dares to be the first to play.
If you don't have absolute self-confidence, who would dare to be the first to play?
And the person who dared to be the first to play, Wu Yunran, didn't want to be the first to play.
Empress Xie's eyes had already fallen on Wu Yunran's body, but Wu Yunran didn't react at all, which made Empress Xie a little embarrassed and angry.
She has already let people inform Wu Yunran, let her be the first to play, so as to ask for grace for the emperor earlier, and let her be the side concubine.
But she doesn't move now, what does that mean, how can she not understand as a queen?
She, Wu Yunran, still dares to look down on her emperor?
For a while, Queen Xie was very angry.
And no one was the first to play, which made the scene a little cold and the atmosphere a little stiff.
However, Ye Kunlin, who was the emperor, didn't seem to be in a hurry at all, and just kept stuffing delicious snacks into Concubine Zhen's hands.
At first, Zuo Lan continued, but she couldn't hold on anymore, so she glared at Ye Kunlin, and Ye Kunlin gave up.
Others didn't dare to look at the small movements here, Queen Xie didn't have the heart to look at it, and the Queen Mother didn't see it when she saw it, but Su Liyue quietly saw all of this.
The atmosphere between the emperor and Concubine Zhen is clearly very affectionate and compatible, and she feels like she has been forcibly fed a basket of dog food.
But if this is the case, why has Concubine Zhen been imprisoned for thirteen years, and no one has mentioned it for thirteen years?
Besides, there is also the fact that Prime Minister Su wants the Night Cang Tiger Fu - if the emperor really loves Concubine Zhen, shouldn't he love the house and Wu and love the 'crystallization of love'?
Su Liyue felt that she really couldn't understand all the things about the royal family.
And when Su Liyue quietly watched the interaction between Concubine Zhen and the emperor, someone looked at her with a little ill-will.