Since six years ago, the royal family's drafts have not been focused on entering the harem. At this age, the emperor has long since paid attention to the draft, and he is not particularly fond of it, and will rarely be included in the harem. (饭)$(cun)$(小)$(说)$(网).
But the emperor has enough, but there are still many children of the royal family in the court.
Even among the princes, there are quite a few who haven't married their concubines yet.
Therefore, when entering the palace this time, which prince or son will marry in the future depends on the impression on the empress.
At the beginning of the draft, Liu Yao had already selected for her the current grand master's son, the second son of the Yuwen family, Yu Wenyu through the private contacts between Liucheng and Liuyu.
The grand master and Liu Cheng are colleagues, and they have a lot of private contacts on weekdays. Yu Wenyu was watched by Liu Cheng since he was a child, but the marriage of the noble daughters of the court has to go through the mouth of the queen.
The last time the old lady went to Guanyuan Temple, it was to fulfill Liu Yao's marriage wish, because the empress had already opened her mouth, and she also followed the Taishi's marriage proposal letter.
It's just that Liu Yao's marriage has been confirmed, but Liu Qin and Liu Yue don't know what to find.
Knowing the old lady's intentions, Luo Shi said with a smile: "Grandmother, don't worry. Who are the ladies in our family who are not exquisite and beautiful? Qin'er is lively and bright, Yue'er is gentle and quiet, every movement and silence, the queen sees you How can you not like it?"
The old lady said in a deep voice: "The other daughters who will be there at that time are much better than Qiner Yueer. I heard that the daughter of the Fang family and the daughter of the Li family, one can play the piano and the other can dance. The two girls have already lined up. When I go out to seek the phoenix, I just wait for the day when I enter the palace, meet the queen, and perform on the spot."
Luo Shi's expression froze, thinking that the old lady disliked that Liu Yue could only embroider and had no elegant skills, and also thought that Liu Qin could not even embroider and could only write some poems with incorrect prefaces and postscripts, so she stopped talking for a while.
My sister-in-law is not as good as others, no matter how good Luo Shi is at coaxing others, it is not easy to open her eyes and talk nonsense.
Not far away, Liu Qin and Liu Yue, even if they wanted to pretend they didn't hear them, they couldn't do it right now, they were very embarrassed, their expressions turned white and blue.
Liu Yao secretly smiled, seeing that the old lady was too serious, she coquettishly took the old lady's arm, and said coquettishly: "Grandma, won't there be a granddaughter by then? The granddaughter will mention the two younger sisters a lot. "
The old lady nodded lightly, what else can she do now
She's just a concubine, as long as she doesn't marry too badly, she won't be treated badly.
Listening to what they said, Liu Wei gave a low laugh.
Liu Yao has been paying attention to Liu Wei, seeing Liu Wei smiling, she immediately asked: "Why is big sister laughing? Tell me, let my younger sister follow Lele."
Liu Wei thought to herself, this Liu Yao really hit the nail on the head!
Liu Wei shook her head: "I just suddenly thought of an interesting thing and lost my mind."
"Oh, what's interesting? My sister also wants to know." Liu Yao was aggressive!
Liu Wei had no choice but to say: "I heard my grandmother say that the young lady of the Fang family and the young lady of the Li family lined up for a phoenix court together, so I thought that my granddaughter had heard similar things in Hanshan Temple before."
"Oh?" Liu Yao raised her eyebrows.
The old lady and Luo Shi also looked at Liu Wei.
Even Liu Qin and Liu Yue who were not far away also pricked up their ears.
Liu Wei said: "Hanshan Temple has always had a lot of visitors, and there are a lot of people from all walks of life. Among the pilgrims in the temple, there are girls from Tianxianglou. Once, there was a son who didn't know whose family was going to have a banquet in Tianxianglou at night. Miss Yuran and Miss Fang Que was in the meditation room, and she kept chatting about the dance music at night. One said that the sound of the piano was off, and the other said that her steps were crooked. The granddaughter was outside the door at the time, and she listened to it a few times. Once you say it, once you think about it, you can't help but get distracted."
As soon as Liu Wei finished speaking, the whole hall fell silent.
The old lady looked at Liu Wei with a cold face.
Luo Shi was surprised on his face, but quickly covered it up, and lowered his head again, pretending he didn't hear it.
Liu Yao opened her mouth blankly, unable to recover for a long time.
Not far away, Liu Qin and Liu Yue dared not move.
Even the busy aunts suddenly lowered their voices of serving dishes.
Only Jin Nanyun was stunned for a moment, then seemed to have figured out the joints inside, and immediately wanted to laugh, but the atmosphere was serious, and she didn't dare to laugh, so she had to turn her face away quickly.
Aunt Yun smiled shyly at Jin Nanyun, patted Jin Nanyun's hand disapprovingly, and shook her head at her.
Jin Nanyun nodded, but still couldn't hold it back, she just felt that after a while, the laughter would burst out of her throat.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Liu Wei tilted her head and asked knowingly, "What's wrong?"
Liu Yao came back to her senses this time, and immediately accused: "How dare you compare Fang's sister and Li's sister with the two butchers!"
Liu Wei looked innocent: "What did my sister say? I just thought of it suddenly. This is what I was thinking in my heart. My sister wanted me to say it. I said it. Why is my sister still angry?"
Liu Yao didn't expect Liu Wei to be so thick-skinned that she couldn't speak for a while.
The old lady said coldly: "It's not that a woman is performing in public, or she is willing to degenerate. Don't talk nonsense from now on."
Liu Wei nodded obediently: "Granddaughter saves it."
Liu Yao was particularly unwilling.
Liu Wei belittled the noble lady in Beijing, but the old lady just let it go with such an understatement? No punishment, no speaking, not even a word of scolding
Liu Yao was about to say something, but at this moment, Nanny Yang whispered to the old lady, "It's meal time."
The old lady nodded, raised her hand, and let Liu Yao and Luo Shi support her to sit down.
Liu Yao gritted her teeth, after all she didn't argue with the old lady at this juncture! Enduring the anger, he helped the old lady into the seat.
Others also took their seats one after another. Aunts and maidservants were waiting on the sidelines. Only the young ladies and the two young wives were eligible to be seated.
The seat where Liu Wei was sitting was just between Liu Yao and Liu Yue. Liu Yao took a look at Liu Wei, moved away quietly, and moved away from Liu Wei.
Liu Yue ate her meal with her head sullen, without saying a word.
Liu Wei saw a plate of meatballs in front of her, and picked up a piece, the chopsticks just overlapped with Liu Yue beside her.
Liu Yue glanced at Liu Wei, let go of the chopsticks, and let Liu Wei hold them.
Liu Wei picked up the meatball and sent it to Liu Yue's bowl: "Fourth younger sister sees that her bones are too weak, so eat more and make up for it."
Liu Yue thanked Liu Wei, lightly bit the corner of the ball, and chewed slowly.
Liu Wei watched Liu Yue's eating movements, and thought that if she ate like this every day, she would starve to death within two days.
At this time, a pair of chopsticks stretched out from the other side, accompanied by a meatball into Liu Wei's bowl.
Liu Wei looked over and met Jin Nanyun's smiling eyebrows.
Liu Yao said nonchalantly: "Why did the third sister-in-law hit it off with the elder sister on the first day we met? In the past, we had dinner together, but I have never seen the third sister-in-law treat me so hospitablely."
Jin Nanyun retracted her chopsticks and smiled lightly: "I thought my second sister would never eat the things I picked up."
Liu Yao frowned and looked at Jin Nanyun: "The third sister-in-law is really a villain."
Jin Nanyun laughed and didn't argue with Liu Yao.
It was almost two quarters of the clock when this meal was used up.
It was already dark outside, and when Liu Wei came out, she found that it was not only dark, but also raining.
Liu Wei frowned, Yue'er and Ling'er over there had already brought umbrellas to support her.
Later, Liu Yao just came out, accompanied by Liu Qin and Aunt Zhong.
Seeing Liu Wei standing under the porch, Liu Yao walked over slowly, with a frivolous corner of her mouth: "Big sister, what did you just say?"
Liu Yao didn't finish her sentence, Liu Wei didn't even look at Liu Yao, she directly picked up the steps and walked into the fine rain.
Liu Wei's departure frightened Yue'er and Ling'er.
The two servant girls quickly followed and put the umbrella on top of Liu Yao's head.
"You—" Liu Yao's expression changed suddenly, she clearly had something to say, but Liu Wei left directly!
Yue'er whispered: "Eldest Miss, Second Miss, she"
Liu Wei didn't stop, and said slowly: "She can only talk nonsense, don't pay attention to her!"
"But"
"Let's go." Liu Wei didn't want to break up with Liu Yao.
What Liu Yao wants to say, Liu Wei can imagine, nothing more than some harsh words, she will not affect Liu Yao's attitude of loathing her if she listens, and neither will she if she doesn't listen, so she doesn't want to waste this time.
Especially since it was raining tonight, but she agreed to go to the Three Princes' Mansion, which meant that she would sneak out of the Prime Minister's Mansion in the rain.