Chapter 558: paired engagement
Chapter 558 Pairing Engagement
And where they didn't notice, a woman was extremely disappointed.
The minister's wife glanced at the people present after she finished speaking, and then her eyes suddenly fell on Nangong Anshan's face.
The national teacher seems to have turned fourteen years old, which is the age to discuss marriage.
Dugu Huanxu glanced at the queen.
The queen was helpless, and said with a smile: "Master Jin, your daughter Jin Shengsheng seems to have reached the age of marriage, can the family marry her?"
Jin Xiantao didn't expect the fire to reach his side, so he hurriedly stood up and said, "Empress, the daughter of this minister is not married."
The queen looked at Jin Shengsheng: "Miss Jin, do you have someone you like?"
Jin Shengsheng stood up in fear, and said nervously: "Thank you for your concern, my lady...my lady..."
The queen smiled when she saw this and said: "It turns out that there is someone you like. Don't worry, I was too young before. I won't let you tell the person you like and embarrass you. You can sit down."
Jin Shengsheng suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Tong Shuxuan suddenly touched Prime Minister Xiao.
It's time to get down to business.
Prime Minister Xiao understood what she meant, thought for a while, and said sternly: "Your Majesty, many ministers' family members also came today. It is rare for so many people to come. I have a proposal."
Queen said: "Oh? What proposal? The prime minister just say it."
Prime Minister Xiao said: "A lot of unmarried men and women came here today. The strength of a country is closely related to the number of future generations. How about today's empress as a matchmaker to help them create a condition, maybe there is a genius in it." An established marriage. Especially His Royal Highness, it is time to accept a concubine, let His Highness also choose a woman he likes."
The empress glanced at the emperor, saw him nodding, and then said: "The prime minister is right, then the palace will order that all men and women over the age of fourteen who have not discussed relatives and are not married today should go to the imperial garden."
"This palace will provide tokens, tokens are a pair, there will be two rounds of selection, one is for the woman to choose the token first, and then the man will follow the woman to choose, if the man who chooses the same token is the one that the woman likes, then accept it Token. If the man who chooses the token is someone the woman doesn’t like, the man will put the token back and let other men choose again.”
"In the second round, it's the opposite. The rest of the unpaired men will choose first, and then the women will choose. If you can't choose someone you like in the two rounds, it means that your destined person is not in the palace, my palace. It’s not too hard.”
All the young men and women of the right age said at the same time: "Yes, empress."
Dugu Li said: "This method is possible, the queen can prepare it. But you must pay attention to your privacy, lest some gossips say that others are wishful thinking."
"yes."
Half an hour later, the young men and women arrived at the Imperial Garden, and the queen also prepared the tokens.
A total of fifty school-age women and men arrived today, with twenty-five pairs of tokens.
Nangong Sheng and Nangong Xiu are also in the team, and they are also very helpless.
Their family is an ordinary farmer, especially the two of them, unlike Nan Gongxian, also have a half-job.
They are just doing some business at home, and the daughters of those wealthy families must look down on them.
They also don't want to stick their faces on other people's cold asses, embarrassing themselves.
Nan Gongxiu smiled and said, "Second Brother, I guess I just came here to make up the numbers."
Nangong Sheng said: "Me too."
Nan Gongxian said: "Don't be too burdened. It's a good thing that someone chooses you. Don't worry if you have nothing to do. It can only show that your marriage has not yet come, and it can't prove anything."
The two nodded: "That's true."
Soon, all the women began to choose tokens.
In order to protect everyone's privacy and prevent those who were rejected from being ridiculed, the queen first asked the palace staff to set up twenty-five long tables.
Put all the tokens on the long table.
First let the men stand aside, let the women start to choose, and then let the men see what token the woman took.
If a man likes a woman, he can go to a house not far away to get the same token from that woman.
After the man is chosen, a nun will quietly ask the woman if she also likes the man.
If the woman likes it, then the two can get a marriage from the queen.
If a woman doesn’t like it, she can wait for the next man to choose her until someone she likes chooses her token. If no man she likes chooses her, she can wait for a while to choose a man.
There is also some distance between the long table and the long table, and they whisper inside, so that others cannot hear the voice inside.
From the beginning to the end, only that woman knows who has chosen her.
The queen also told them in advance that if she doesn't like that man, she can't slander him in the future, otherwise she will be disobedient and will be punished.
Nangong Anshan is the same as other women, starting from the far left.
Although the queen does not necessarily reward them with these things, it is always right to choose what you like.
Soon, everyone else has chosen.
Nangong Anshan looked around, but didn't see what she liked. Those keepsakes were sachets, jade pendants, hairpins, bracelets, etc., so after everyone had chosen, she walked to the far side and chose He took a white jade pendant.
The maid said: "Please turn around, all the girls."
Twenty-five people turned around at the same time, so that the men could see what they were holding.
As the prince, Dugu Huanxu was of course the first to choose.
Glancing at the things in their hands, he went to the next room and took a white jade pendant.
The queen smiled immediately, and nodded with Nanny Gong.
At this time, all men and men, women and women are far away from each other, and they all have their backs to each other. Just in case, they are all blocked by screens.
Where did Mammy go, they couldn't see each other.
Nurse Gong quietly came to Nangong Anshan, and showed her a piece of paper with her name written on it.
If Nangong Anshan likes Dugu Huanxu, she will accept that piece of paper.
Nangong Anshan glanced at Nanny Gong, saw her nodding silently, thought about it, and put the paper away.
Nurse Gong suddenly smiled, and quickly went to report to the queen.
The Queen smiled and said, "Ah Xu, I already know that Ah Shan also likes you."
Dugu Huanxu was also very happy, and said: "Queen, let's continue quickly, there are still twenty-four people behind."
The queen also knew that her son was shy, and said: "Okay, I will listen to you."
Soon, other people went to choose tokens as before.
Nan Gongxian laughed when he saw that his sister's token was no longer there.
The first choice was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. They all knew that he didn't need to worry about his sister's marriage.
(end of this chapter)