Chapter 63 Questions

Among the aristocratic ladies in the imperial capital, Ke Chaoruo belonged to the kind that was both conspicuous and inconspicuous.

The inconspicuous thing is that after being a military general, and also a military general whose elders have guarded the frontier for many years, she returned to the imperial capital with her family last year.

A bit like Gu Zhen when he was a teenager.

Even if he put on the most gorgeous clothes, put on the most precious jewelry, and suddenly learned all the manners and manners of the noble ladies in the imperial capital, he still felt uncomfortable being restrained in his bones.

Because of this, they are out of place with their companions due to the very different growth environment.

Yun Fenghuang noticed that this Miss Ke had been staring at Princess Jinxi beside her since she sat down.

Jin Xi picked up the tooth chopsticks to pick up the vegetables, and she quickly picked up the tooth chopsticks to pick up the vegetables; Jin Xi took a sip of the gold bottle, and she quickly raised the gold bottle and took a big sip... Then she suddenly reacted, feeling guilty Looking left and right, cautiously, took another sip.

Seeing that Princess Jinxi has already taken a fruit to play with, she... She looked at the fruit plate in front of her, and quickly picked up a similar fruit, with a dazed expression...

Obviously, for girls who grew up in the frontier, it is rare to do such a leisurely move.

She wanted to stuff the fruit in her mouth several times, but because Jin Xi tilted her head and whispered to the second princess, Ke Chaoruo held back abruptly, maintained a somewhat stiff smile, and looked forward to Princess Jinxi's next step.

...and Princess Jinxi didn't notice her at all.

After all, Ke Chaoruo is not a familiar face among noble ladies in the imperial capital.

Although she came back to the Imperial Capital last year, it is absolutely impossible for the Ke family to let her go to public places to embarrass her as soon as she comes back...Correction, it is to go to public places as soon as she comes back to expose the free-rangeness of the family's prostitutes all these years.

After some surprise training, she has participated in only a handful of palace banquets so far.

Although it can be seen from the seats that the background must be not bad, but also because the seats are near the front, surrounded by noble girls with prominent backgrounds, they are no worse than her.

In this kind of occasion, no one wants to leave the impression of "following power" to the ladies who are observing secretly, so they are naturally reserved.

Not to mention that Princess Jinxi came here just to join in the fun. Her marriage has been fixed, even if it is not, there is no need to show affection to Ke Chaoruo, but she chatted and laughed with the princesses, very happy.

So looking down from Zezhi Tower at this moment, Ke Chaoruo is extremely lonely and embarrassed.

What stands out, of course, is that she is a girl from the Ke family.

Since the death of Marquis Longping, Ke Cong quickly replaced Gu Fangshu and became the first new general in Chunjia Dynasty.

The Ke family's background is actually not as good as the Gu family's.

But the mistakes of the past are ahead, and Ke Cong naturally has to learn a lesson. He was originally a very cautious person. Long before Gu Fangshu's death, he once killed his relatives righteously and defiled himself to protect himself... These actions showed that Ke Cong was more cautious than Gu Fangshu.

Therefore, in the past few years, although the children of the Ke family have been paid more and more attention, Ke Cong not only did not become pampered, but became more cautious in his words and deeds.

Including but not limited to rectifying family traditions from time to time, restraining family members and nobles, especially the palace, etc...

Therefore, in the past two years in the imperial capital, a new generation of children of the right age has grown up, and each has become famous. As the upstart of the dynasty, the Ke family has remained unknown.

But Ke Cong managed to get to where he is today, because he was afraid that he would face a national struggle. After generations of hard work, all the hard work in the past would be ruined overnight.

However, as Chunjia's most trusted general at present, holding the military power in his hands, no matter how he tried to stay out of it, how could he not be underestimated?

Whether it is Yunfenghuang, the queen, or other concubines with ideas, they all regard Ke Chaoruo as their primary target.

Although judging from Ke Ding's example back then, Ke Cong may not be a person who cherishes his flesh and blood heirs very much.

Even if they hire Ke Chaoruo as their daughter-in-law, Ning Guogong may not necessarily go to the throne, throwing their heads and blood for their heirs to seek the position of crown prince... But they are not good people, and they can't marry Ke Chaoruo. When she is married, she will naturally find a way to tie Ke Cong to her side, coercing him to contribute.

All in all, Ke Chaoruo was the number one target of competition for this feast.

In other words, the competition about her is also the prelude to the battle for the crown prince.

Those who have no intention of competing for the East Palace, and those who know that they don't expect anything, will avoid her wisely.

"By the way, it is said that there are three talented women in the imperial capital. I only mentioned two just now. Where is the third one?" The concubines skipped over Ke Chaoruo, and they were about to pay attention to the male guest. At this moment, Jing Jieyu asked in a low voice. sentence, "Is it not here or is it?"

Jing Jieyu entered the palace late and has not given birth yet.

On the contrary, the people in her palace gave birth to a princess for her. Chunjia landed at the end of the seventeenth year, ranking twelve.

This princess is only four years old this year, so of course she is far from the time to recruit a consort.

Jing Jieyu will be here, one is that she is young, so she is unavoidably curious, and wants to come and watch the excitement; the other is that she has been in the palace for several years and has no children, even though the Twelve Emperors are not her own, she treats her as her own. It's love, worrying about my humble background, so that I didn't think carefully when choosing a son-in-law for the princess in the future, so I came here early to steal the teacher.

"It's coming, but that's a concubine from a distant branch." Concubine De has a clear goal today, besides continuing to hug the imperial concubine's thigh, she has to use her eyesight to choose a good husband-in-law for her three imperial daughters.

Therefore, at this moment, his eyes have been firmly fixed on the more outstanding children on the male guest's side.

Seeing that it was Jiang Mingdan from his side who asked the question, he smiled and said, "Look at the girl in the back seat over there wearing a light blue shirt, combing a cloud bun and inserting a hibiscus hairpin? That is, Wei Shilang's." Clan niece, her boudoir name seems to be Xi Yan."

The Wei Shilang she was talking about was the rare six poems of Wei Changkong.

When it was first used by Chunjia, it was responsible for teaching the emperor's heir. In the first two years, Chunjia probably did some research and thought it was all right, so he was transferred to the court.

Now he is the servant of the Ministry of Rites.

Wei Changkong, who was born in Wei Changkong, had a prosperous literary style. Although there were no high-ranking officials in this dynasty, there were many Jinshi.

Otherwise, I would not be able to teach him the six poems.

At this moment, a talented woman came out of the clan, which is quite logical.

It's just that people who know the details of Cui Nanye and Wei Shuhan can't help but have subtle expressions, wondering if this Miss Wei family is also a similar "talented woman"?

Although Webster's literary name is quite good, but there are many children, and the qualifications are uneven. Maybe the girl who was pushed out is also an embroidered pillow, but the acting is more similar?

Jiang Mingdan stared at Wei Xiyan for a moment, a little disappointed, and commented: "She's a beauty."

That's it, I don't see any other bright spots... Her manners are all well-behaved, not brilliant, let alone the bearing that a talented woman should have.

"It's still being polite at the moment." Concubine De said with a smile, "You can watch it after the third round of drinking and it becomes lively."

Inviting these people here today is not just to entertain them for drinking and having fun, there must be an assessment.

Thinking of the questions he and others asked, Wei Hengyan twitched the corner of his mouth slightly, and felt an inexplicable sympathy: Fortunately, I didn’t have so many tricks in the palace when I was young... Well, she entered the palace as a concubine, Instead of competing for the prince and concubine... In short, if she was in the current situation at that time, she felt that there would be no Concubine Wei De in the palace.

After she regained her composure, Concubine De saw that no one was talking about Wei Xiyan anymore, so she brought the topic to the male guest: "Speaking of which, among these nobles today, Young Master Gu is the most energetic, and the material of the gown looks familiar Is it a tribute from the early spring? With such a bright color, only young people of their age are dressed upright. The concubine didn’t save a foot for herself, and all made dresses for Zi’er. I don’t know who I learned from. In the past two years, I have fallen in love with plain clothes. I always choose colors like blue and purple to wear. I haven’t touched it once. I’m going to be younger next year. I’m really mad at my concubine. Seeing how Young Master Gu is dressed now, this concubine must ask this child if he regrets it or not?"

The same as the comments on the girls before, this time it is based on a tacit understanding: those who are in the palace are listed from high to low according to the position of the parent in the palace; those who are not in the palace are listed according to their family background.

The queen stood up again to be humble for the younger generation: "You are really flattering him. The material and color are quite good, but the child is just like that. I must have carefully tidied it up before going out, but it is not the same now. Even if everyone's eyes are dirty, when it comes to being outstanding, Cui Shiwei is more able to teach children."

After a pause, he continued, "Xie Fuwang has become more and more magnanimous, Shen Yun looks like Sui'an's son-in-law back then."

When Gu Zhen said these words, he was actually quite tired.

Because there is really nothing outstanding in this group of nephews... Although they are honest, obedient, sensible and hardworking, they are limited by their qualifications, and they are still far behind those who are similar to their lintels.

After all, it's not that the other noble sons don't work hard.

"The queen empress is absurd, and the concubine's nephew is not up to the mark." The noble concubine Shu concubine and De concubine all humbled themselves on behalf of the younger generation, and the noble concubine also sighed in her heart.

Xie's lintel is humble, and the most promising male heir so far is Xie Wuzheng.

Therefore, according to the unspoken rules, to praise the male juniors is to say that they have the demeanor of Xie Wuzheng back then.

In fact, there is a big gap between Xie Fuwang and Xie Wuzheng regardless of his appearance and temperament... If this nephew really looks like Xie Wuzheng, she doesn't have to worry about it.

Because there are fewer imperial daughters than princes in the palace, and it is necessary to seriously look for a son-in-law at the moment, namely Zhao Qing, the second imperial daughter and the third imperial daughter.

The bottom four princesses are considered to be eleven years old this year, but they are not in a hurry.

Besides, this imperial daughter had marks on her face due to the smallpox infection when she was young and failed to take care of it. The older she grew up, the more inferior she became, and she never liked to see people. Drowning, but right now she dare not mention the matter of marriage rashly, so as not to touch her daughter's sore spot.

In other words, the only ones who need to recruit a son-in-law are Yunfenghuang and Concubine De.

They have already screened and screened the noble sons from all over the imperial capital, and today they just have a look at them personally.

So they chatted and discussed about all the juniors. Those who have elders in the palace must be praised emphatically.

For those without elders, the discussion is more straightforward as with the female guests just now:

"Although the appearance is good, but the eyes are frivolous. Although he did not dare to look at Princess Zhaoqing openly, he took the time to peek at the beautiful maidservants around him, which shows that his temperament is not right. Whose family is this? Don't worry about who else, such a person It is determined not to marry golden branches and jade leaves."

"My lady, please look at the young man in the scarlet robe over there, but he is in high spirits!"

"That's good, but this male and female look, I'm afraid she'll be more delicate than a girl in female clothes, I'm really annoyed at seeing this." Concubine De twitched the corners of her lips, and said, "Let's forget it."

Her third princess is so honest that she is almost weak. If the son-in-law is also a delicate one, of course there is no need to worry about him bullying the third prince in private. She's useless and can't even protect the third princess, so... what's the point of her choosing such a son-in-law?

"What about the one in the green robe? Looks very heroic."

"The appearance is masculine, but if you look closely at his behavior, he seems to be a little drunk." This time it was Yun Fenghuang who shook his head, "Although we didn't show up today, we only asked Zhao Qing to preside over it, so that the They are more casual, don't be too restrained... But, before they come, how can the family not tell them what is going on? This has not even started seriously, so they are so greedy. Either they are inappropriate, or they have no intention of getting married at all The royal family. Now the princesses waiting in the palace, from Zhaoqing to Ruyier to Zier, who is not a good child with both gold and jade, talent and appearance? What kind of person dares to take this Joe?"

Needless to say, this must be crossed out.

The noble concubine and the concubine De are the main ones, and the concubines are helping to advise. Even Gu Zhen can't help but intervene. He recommends to the third princess a Tanhualang who is similar to the eighth year champion Wang Linglai in Chunjia. The concubine answered vaguely, but was also very interested.

They were discussing vigorously here, when they saw Zhaoqing put down the wine cup, looked around, and said loudly: "Thanks to everyone for not giving up, I came to this literary meeting hosted by my palace..."

After being courteous as the host, the princess said logically that since it was a literary society, it must be worthy of the name and make friends through literature, so she planned to play a few small games to help enjoy the wine.

Everyone knows that the so-called mini-game is the key point.

Whether you can stand out and make the high-ranking officials in the court who are secretly observing you fancy yourself, I am afraid that it is among these few games.

So when he agreed suddenly, he was probably gearing up and looking solemn.

Princess Jinxi glanced at the audience, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, please come up with a question?"

"I have little talent and learning, and I only have a few questions back and forth, but it's not interesting." Princess Zhaoqing shook her head slightly, and said with a smile, "So before the banquet today, I specially asked my mother and all the concubines to help out. A few questions..."

While speaking, a palace maid in Caiyi walked up to her carrying an ebony lacquer tray. When everyone looked over, they saw four kits on the lacquer tray, which were similar in size but different in color.

The princess took one, opened it and said with a smile: "This is a question that Concubine Demu helped to solve. Let me see what it is?"