Empress snatches dried fish

Ji Yinian was born in the family of a seventh-rank official. After all, she is also the eldest lady of the official family, but she has practiced martial arts since she was a child and doesn't like red makeup.Ji Yi grew up with good looks, and by chance, he was spotted by a dandy son of a fifth-rank official's family, and he wanted to take him as a concubine.

A seventh-rank official loves his daughter, so how can he let his daughter become a concubine for a rich man?Not only did Ji Yinian disagree, her father also strongly disagreed.

But the officials are two ranks behind, and the power is more than a little bit short. Soon Ji Yinian's incorruptible father was framed for corruption and sent to prison.The other party's conditions were very obvious, asking Ji Yinian to become a concubine for that dude if he wanted to save someone.When Ji Yinian went to visit his father, he told his daughter to leave him alone, and even secretly wrote a letter telling her to run away to his friend and ask him to take care of her.

Ji Yinian refused, and went to intercept the sedan chair of the rich and powerful, but he was beaten away by his followers without seeing him.If it wasn't for her extra thoughtfulness to paint herself ugly, she might be taken away and become someone else's concubine.After several times, Ji Yinian finally knelt in front of Shu Yonghe's sedan chair.She only knew that the other party was a powerful person, but she didn't know that it was the Seventh Prince at that time.

Shu Yonghe kindly helped the other party, but when they went to the prison to save people, Ji Yinian's father had already committed suicide in order not to drag his daughter down, so he could only regretfully help Ji Yinian's father to get justice and then help her to bury him.Seeing that Ji Yinian was helpless afterwards, thinking that there was still Wang Leshui in the palace, he brought Ji Yinian back to the palace.

In order to repay his kindness, Ji Yinian didn't mind being a concubine.After all, no one dared to marry her in her hometown at that time, and they were all afraid of retaliation. Only after she arrived at the palace did she know that this is the current Seventh Prince.

So in fact these two concubines were rescued by Shu Yonghe, they were given a place to live, and they usually get along as friends, there is no reality of husband and wife at all.

And one thing Geng Bai'an also guessed right, the two always went to Shu Yonghe at first because their lives were too boring, but Shu Yonghe who became the emperor was much busier than when he was a prince, until they found that her place was more interesting , and never looked for Shu Yonghe again.

Shu Yonghe was indeed a little self-indulgent before, and was laughed at by Geng Bai'an for a long time because of this.

Let’s talk about the draft girls.

After various pre-selection, the original countless show girls were finally reduced to 200, which also took more than half a month.During the past half month, all the innkeepers in Chongcheng burst into laughter, praising the empress's virtues, and actually thanked her for increasing the inn's turnover so much.

The final 200 people lived in the imperial palace and arranged a unified residence, with one room for two people and four rooms in a courtyard. More than 200 people said that it was not too many, but it actually filled a corner of the Chongguo Imperial City.

Under the arrangement, the show girls have to receive different training every day, twice a week of palace rules education, and various education about piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, tea and wine, and even the culinary stars are not left behind.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Geng Bai'an believes that a place with women is like an arena, or... a Colosseum.

The two women in the harem might still be able to live in peace, provided that neither of them has any ambitions.But with two hundred women looking up and not looking down all day long, any shit can happen - after all, as a manga author, Geng Bai'an has often taken over Gongdou-themed serial manga manuscripts.

The training time is [-] days. On the surface, it is to train all aspects of ability, but in fact it is a test for Geng Bai'an to test the character of the school's show girls.

People, being together for one day can be polite, ten days can be friendly, ninety days... everything is beginning to be exposed.Of course, the longer the time, the deeper the understanding will be, but Geng Bai'an does not intend to spend so much time and money on these people.

Geng Bai'an is not really choosing a concubine who is suitable for living in the harem, but is choosing a suitable wife for Shu Yonghe.

In Geng Bai'an's heart, character is the first and only level, and the others are not too important.Not only for Shu Yonghe, but also for the peace of the harem in the future.After all, Geng Bai'an is the only one who knows that Shu Yonghe is dedicated. If his character is not good, it would be bad if he eats vinegar and hurts people everywhere.

"Get up, what's the big deal these two days?" Geng Bai'an was sitting on the seat of the Lord of Yong'an Hall knocking melon seeds, while Su Qi beside him was shaking a fan for her.

The little eunuch who came to report stood up, bowed his head and replied: "Going back to Empress Empress, it's nothing serious, it's just yesterday..."

Geng Bai'an listened to the eunuch's narration as if he were listening to a story, and from time to time he inserted two sentences to predict the direction of the next story, which caused the eunuch to exclaim "The empress is wise".Wang Leshui and Ji Yinian on the side also listened with great interest, this was probably the only adjustment in their boring days recently.

After listening to the story, as soon as Geng Bai'an raised his hand, Su Qi stopped fanning, went down and took out a silver bean the size of a thumbnail and handed it to the eunuch who sent the message.

The eunuch was overjoyed, and immediately bowed to Geng Bai'an: "Thank you, empress!"

After dealing with the affairs of the harem for a few days, Geng Bai'an realized that it is not realistic at all in those costume TV dramas to reward the people underneath with a tray of gold and silver - at least it is impossible in this world.

For example.

This little eunuch is only fifteen years old this year, and was sent to the palace as an eunuch because his family was too poor. Apart from his parents, he also had three younger brothers and two younger sisters.And this one full silver bean is enough for his family to live without saving money for half a year, and it is still the kind that can buy some New Year's goods for the New Year.

Now, as long as something happened to him, he would follow Geng Bai'an's instructions, secretly collect evidence and tell a story, and he would be able to get this pure silver bean.

This is a reward from the empress. Unlike eunuchs' private betting money, the source is so obvious that it can be brought home to the family by a special department in the palace.

"Okay, get up, let's continue tomorrow."

"Yes, the Queen Mother."

"Go."

"The slave leaves."

Su Qi returned to her position and stood still, continuing to fan Geng Bai'an, while Su Qin who was beside her didn't know when she was holding a notebook in her hand.She wrote down the last stroke carefully, and handed the notebook to Geng Bai'an for inspection.

Geng Bai'an flipped through the pages and nodded—the outline of Suqin's story has been getting better and better recently.After training and training, maybe a best-selling novelist can be trained in ancient times.

"Remember to put the evidence brought by the eunuch in groups so that you can take it out at that time." Geng Bai'an did not name a few names this time, but handed the notebook directly to Suqin: "The names of everyone involved in this matter Remember, the ones from the previous few days are also excluded from the list."

"Empress, even the girl who was bullied?" Ji Yinian's character is relatively direct and jealous, and he complained for that girl for a while.

Geng Bai'an just smiled: "Yinian, you feel pitiful for that woman being bullied, but... what if the woman is voluntary?"

Hearing this, Ji Yinian was obviously shocked: "Everyone, it's all like this, how can it be voluntary?"

Wang Leshui raised his right hand and covered his mouth with a wide sleeve and smiled softly: "Empress, Yi Nian has practiced martial arts since she was a child, and she has always been straightforward about things. This woman has a deep mind, so she can't see it. Yi Nian, You knew she was being bullied, but when you think about it carefully, apart from being pushed down at first and being ridiculed occasionally afterwards, she was like a victim? Which two parties were fighting after that? And who was the beneficiary? "

"That's because other people saw her pitiful, so they helped her." After Ji Yinian retorted, seeing Geng Bai'an and Wang Leshui smiling at him, he suddenly felt something was wrong: "...Isn't it right?"

"The snipe and the clam fight for the fisherman's benefit, but they kill people with a knife." Geng Bai'an touched the phoenix blood jade bracelet in his hand, and felt that this kind of person really should not be wanted, otherwise the harem would be turned upside down, and it would be her, the queen, who would clean up the mess Empress: "But you don't need to learn, I won't let the harem become a mess, you can live your little life with me in peace of mind."

When Ji Yinian heard this, he smiled cutely: "Thank you, Empress."

……

There is a saying in Geng Bai'an's hometown: Cage in July and fire in August.

It means that the temperature in July is like being in a steamer, and it is hotter in August, and the temperature is as high as being roasted on a fire.

The [-]-day training period for the show girls has passed, and it just entered August, and Geng Bai'an, who has always been afraid of the heat, felt that he was about to turn into a puddle of mud.It's hot and hot, but there is no wind, it is really fatal.

At times like this in previous years, Geng Bai'an would hide in a cool air-conditioned room wearing short-sleeved shorts, eating popsicles and drawing manga.At that time, Geng Bai'an was busy rushing to draft the manuscript every day, so he didn't feel how happy he was.But now even in such weather, you need to wear clothes that cover your whole body. Although a long-sleeved long shirt is still airy, it is still not as good as short-sleeved shorts. Sure enough, happiness is relative, and there is no harm without comparison.

At this time, in the open space outside Yong'an Hall, two hundred well-trained girls stood neatly in a square formation.The scorching sun made it hard for everyone to open their eyes, Geng Bai'an immediately ordered someone to build a simple shelf, found a large piece of light-colored linen and spread it layer by layer, so that it could barely block the scorching sun.

Geng Bai'an sat on the chair, flipping through Suqin's records page by page, raised his head up and down according to the number on it, and corresponded to the number plates on the ladies of Shangxiu.The weather was unbearably hot, Shu Yonghe knew that she was afraid of the heat, so he specially asked the people below to bring over two big ice cubes every day, at this moment, Suqin and Suqi kept fanning Geng Baian.The wind from the fan passed through the ice surface, bringing a bit of cool air, which made Geng Bai'an feel better.

The show girls are all the daughters of rich and powerful families, they have been carefully raised since they were young, and coupled with the [-] days of training, they naturally stood firmly before Geng Bai'an spoke.