Because the second line Mo Chuan pointed at was written by the girl in green.
Empress Dowager Zhou couldn't help but look up at Mo Chuan, her lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to ask: Emperor, did you make the wrong choice
However, she saw Mo Chuan's focused eyes staring at the couplet and not looking at the girl in green, so she swallowed back the words when they reached her lips.
"It seems that the emperor only meant it literally. He did not want to choose the ugly girl as his queen. Well, yes, yes, if you look at the couplets alone, the second couplet of the ugly girl is indeed the most wonderful." Empress Dowager Zhou thought.
She looked at the couplet of the girl in green and recited: "If there are insects in the water, it will be turbid; if there are fish in the water, it will be fishing; water, water, water, rivers and lakes; under the wood is the base, above the wood is the end, the wood is wood, the pines and cypresses are dense." ! Wonderful! The Yi family also thinks that this second couplet is the most appropriate! Su Jin, please go down and have people carve it on the pillars on both sides of the Yixin Pavilion. It will be changed from today on. Cheng Songjiang Pavilion, what do you think, Emperor?"
"My mother's words are very agreeable to my wishes. Songjiang Pavilion is very good." Mo Chuan replied with a smile.
"Okay, then this matter is settled."
Empress Dowager Zhou praised her repeatedly, but she only praised the exquisiteness of the second couplet, but she didn't even mention the girl in green, let alone ask her name. She obviously didn't regard her as the queen's choice at all.
The girls were all smart people, and they immediately saw it, and they were all secretly happy. They thought, no matter how good the second couplet of the girl in green is, what if it is engraved on the Songjiang Pavilion? Didn't the Emperor and the Queen Mother dismiss her
Ugly is just ugly!
Not only is she ugly, she is also a cripple. If she were as ugly as she is, she would be too embarrassed to show her face, let alone dare to enter the palace and want to be the queen. She only has a pheasant and wants to fly. Climb a branch and become a phoenix
What a dream!
The girl in green stood in the middle of the girls, calm and composed. Of course she understood what Queen Mother Zhou meant, but there was no expression of sadness, disappointment or frustration on her face, nor was she because of herself. I feel proud and happy that the second line of the poem was selected.
She looked calm as if nothing had happened.
Although Empress Dowager Zhou deliberately ignored her, she couldn't help but peek at her. The more she looked at her, the more she admired the girl in green.
This is the real feeling of being unfazed by favor or humiliation!
It was as if she suddenly found a piece of sparkling gold in a pile of mud. She wanted to pick it up, but she felt that the gold was stained with dirt and soiled her clothes when she picked it up.
What a pity! What a pity!
Empress Dowager Zhou tried her best to suppress the regret in her heart, looked at the girls, and spoke again with a smile.
"The Aijia wants to test you again. There is a question that I want you to answer. You don't have to have any scruples. You can answer whatever you think. The Aijia wants to hear the truest answer."
"Excuse me, Queen Mother." The girls replied in unison.
Empress Dowager Zhou took a sip from the tea cup, moistened her throat, and then said slowly: "If you become the queen..."
As soon as they heard the word "Queen", the faces of the girls all heated up, their eyes sparkled, and their hearts beat rapidly.
The Empress Dowager Zhou continued: "The Ai family and the emperor fell into the water at the same time. Who will you save first?"
This question was beyond the girls' expectations. They looked at each other and couldn't help but be stunned.