He Yunxi opened his eyes wide and looked at Liang Jinxi up and down. The look in his eyes made him even more embarrassed.
"Ahem, sister, why are you so surprised?"
He Yunxi said: "Xiao Xi, you are only thirteen years old, right?"
"I'm fourteen years old." Liang Jinxi said.
"Don't these all mean the same thing?" He Yunxi said, "Even if you are fourteen years old, you are still too young. The queen wants to choose a concubine for you so early?"
"The Queen Mother said that choosing a concubine is a major matter and should not be decided in a hurry. Moreover, the ceremony of getting married to a Crown Princess is very complicated and takes a long time. It is possible in one or two years. So now we can start seeing each other," Liang Jinxi said.
Well--
He Yunxi thought about it too.
It will take a year and a half to see each other, and then the six rituals and so on. For those who are particular, it will really take another year and a half. He is starting to see each other now, and when they get married, they will probably be sixteen years old.
.
Oh, I'm seventeen years old.
He Yunxi suddenly felt a little emotional, the days passed too fast.
When he rescued Liang Jinxi, he was just a kid on the 11th, and now he was about to start choosing a wife.
"Besides, that day was not only for me to see you, but also for the third and fourth brothers to choose their concubines," Liang Jinxi said.
He Yunxi was speechless: "Choose together?"
"The third and fourth emperor brothers have reached the age of getting married. They should have met each other a long time ago, but Concubine Ji said that she would not let the queen worry about this matter. As a result, the choice has not yet been made, so the father asked the queen to take charge."
"If you choose with them, you won't choose the same person?"
"Of course not." Liang Jinxi felt happy when she saw He Yunxi's curious look, and explained to her: "Brother Three Emperors and Brother Four Emperors are two or three years older than me, so naturally their concubines and my concubines will also be two or three years older."
There's a big gap. There's an age difference here, so naturally we won't choose the same person."
He Yunxi understood: "So everyone from twelve to thirteen years old to fifteen or sixteen years old will participate that day, right? Is it just the young ladies who will participate?"
"It won't be so straightforward. It will be brought by the wives of each family. And it will be said on the surface that it is a lotus banquet and a gathering of ladies, but everyone knows privately."
"Then do you have a woman you like?" He Yunxi asked, "After all, she is your own concubine, and she lives with you. Apart from family background, your own liking is the most important."
Liang Jinxi knew that He Yunxi valued his feelings the most, that is, the queen mother. When considering this matter, it was more about the help the princess could bring to him rather than his preferences.
"I don't have a woman I like. I think it's the same as marrying anyone."
He Yunxi didn't know why Liang Jinxi suddenly became happier. At first glance, he thought it was him who was in love with spring, but it didn't look like he had fallen in love with someone.
"You really don't have a woman you like?"
Liang Jinxi shook his head: "No."
At that moment, an angry face flashed through his mind, but it disappeared in an instant, so fast that he didn't even notice it.
"Does the queen have a family she likes?"
"The Queen Mother didn't tell me. It's too early for her to tell you. Let's wait until she sees it."
"Okay." He Yunxi understood what the queen meant.
The main purpose of this lotus banquet is to select concubines for the third and fourth princes, and then see if there is anyone suitable for Liang Jinan. If there is anyone who is right, let Liang Jinxi know.
Liang Jinxi asked her to go because she wanted to see what those girls were like and whether they were the same as the queen.
If this is the case, then she is actually just going to make soy sauce.
He Yunxi saw that Liang Jinxi had lost a lot of weight recently and said, "Would you like to have dinner here today? If so, I will cook you some of your favorite dishes."
"Okay! I haven't eaten the food cooked by my sister for a long time." Liang Jinxi happily agreed.
Anyway, there is endless knowledge to learn and endless things to do.
"Then I'll go to the kitchen and give instructions to prepare the side dishes. Why don't you go to your brother-in-law's study to find some books to read?"
"Forget it, I read every day, I don't want to read today."
Liang Jinxi plans to give herself a day off today. What books should she read now that she has a day off?
"Shall I go see Grandma Huang? Is she in the backyard?" he asked.
Speaking of this, He Yunxi felt a little embarrassed: "Well, Grandma Huang, I guess you are playing mahjong with the old ladies next door at the house at the entrance of the alley right now, right?"
Liang Jinxi seemed to have heard something extraterrestrial, and was a little unable to react.
Grandma Huang is playing mahjong with a few commoner old ladies?
"Ahem, this is Grandma Huang's recent hobby. She hates fighting with servants and everyone lets her do it. It just so happened that she recently got to know the neighbors on both sides and developed them into poker friends." He Yunxi explained.
In fact, what made her even more speechless was that in order to avoid walking, the concubine specifically chose the house at the entrance of the alley as the place to play mahjong. Because that house only had two courtyards, they could play directly in the outer courtyard and just walk in without going there.
Other people's backyards are winding and twisting.
In the words of the concubine, it is just two words, convenient.
And the old lady in the family is not poor either. The reason why she lives in such a small courtyard is because when she was young, the family was divided into two families. The courtyard wall was built and had nothing to do with it. The younger generation made money and bought a courtyard elsewhere. She said that she would spend her whole life
I'm used to living in that courtyard and I'm too lazy to move.
The younger generations felt they had wronged the old lady and paid a lot of money to her, giving her a rich poker fortune.
That old lady is also open-minded. Just give it to me and live your own life here. The younger generation rarely comes to see her when they are busy, and she doesn't care.
The concubine didn't know how she got to know her, and the two quickly became acquainted, becoming both friends and poker buddies.
Of course, the other party didn't know the identity of the concubine either, so Sister Tiantianzhuang shouted.
If her descendants knew the identity of the concubine, their legs would probably be weak from fear.
Originally, she thought it was okay for the concubine to go out to play cards, but seeing Liang Jinxi's surprised look, she felt guilty that she had led the concubine into bad ways.
She touched her nose: "Are you going to see Grandma Huang? If you want to go, let Jiaojiao take you there."
Liang Jinxi couldn't imagine the concubine playing cards with others. She hesitated and still wanted to take a look.
"Sister, go and do your work. I'll go find Jiaojiao and ask her to take me there."
Liang Jinxi went to find Lu Yunjiao and said that he was looking for the concubine. Lu Yunjiao knew where to take him. When he walked to the front door, he heard the concubine's voice coming from inside: "Two tubes, touch it yourself. Oops, I'm really lucky today."
Very good."
"Sister Zhuang, you are really lucky today. If you continue like this, I will lose all my money today."
"Haha, don't worry, don't be afraid. If you lose all, just use your solitary copy as compensation. Since you have collected it and won't read it anyway, why not show it to my grandson." The concubine said cheerfully while playing mahjong.
Liang Jinxi guessed that this grandson was definitely not talking about him.