Capítulo 864: Chapter 655: Journey Ho
Tang Weixing was worried but had no solution. “I’m just a housekeeper of the Tang Family. The little master is still young, and besides, their Tang Family Head is rely a rchant!”
Being called an Imperial rchant sounds honorable. Beneath the Emperor, they can receive tributes, which sounds like a token of respect, but frankly, it isn’t.
The royal workers, no matter how wealthy, only gain a bit of convenience in doing business to receive so privileges through tributes!
No matter how rich, rchants can’t compare to a word from soone in power or nobility.
The Royal selection, where families of officials above the fourth rank with unmarried girls of suitable age, will have to register their nas!
The Ye family used to be re farrs, so they wouldn’t have been involved in this in the past!
It’s only been half a year since they ca to the Capital City due to a fortuitous circumstance.
Unless the girl is too ugly or has so defect!
Or during the selection, the Royal family doesn’t find them suitable!
They believe that the Emperor has specifically set up this selection targeting the Ye Family’s daughters this ti. Whether it’s to choose concubines for his sons or to find soone for the Old Emperor, they might not escape it this ti!
Tang Shunyan instructed Tang Weixing to prepare to return to their hotown in a few days! Being a scholar himself, he’s on vacation, and the family wants him ho after spending several months in the Capital City.
The family also sends letters, and occasionally, his father would co to the Capital City for business matters!
Tang Weixing nodded in agreent. There wasn’t any help they could offer regarding the Ye family’s selection matter. Long-term travel had tired him, and he hadn’t seen his wife, children, and family for a couple of months, making him hosick!
Ye Shuzhen had been anxiously waiting for her husband’s return, and now her heart could finally rest at ease!
She even discussed with Tang Weixing that the authorities had already inford the Ye family, preparing their niece and that the Empress had sent a nanny from the palace to specially instruct Ye i Qi.
Ye i Qi is their niece. When she was in the countryside, hearing about the Emperor’s selection was re rumor. As a girl, of course, she hoped to marry a Prince or even the Emperor, to be associated with such dragon-like figures!
It felt like a prestigious honor just in a dream, but born with unfavorable looks and a family that wasn’t in officialdom restricted her from this dream!
The Ye family should be happy for Ye i Qi to be nominated. She should be envious too!
However, having gotten married and living harmoniously with her husband, she felt overwheld with happiness. Upon coming to the Capital City, she realized the competition here wasn’t about wealth like in the countryside or county, but about aristocratic families and connections!
They had originally lived simply. Even with Ye i Qi being nominated for the selection, the family didn’t feel honored; instead, they saw it as a big trouble!
Without a strong background and not favored by the Emperor, marrying into the palace or becoming a concubine to one of his sons could an nothing but becoming cannon fodder!
Under her husband’s consolation, Ye Shuzhen realized they couldn’t help at all. Moreover, having heard Ye i Qi’s na on the list, the letter was sent back ho, and the Ye family was heading to the Capital City.
Whether her parents would co along?
Ye Shuzhen felt she should persuade her parents. Her father, having several concubines, might be persuaded by them to co to the Capital City!
Her father’s concubines weren’t easy to deal with!
Her mother, now clear-headed, now muddled, couldn’t control the family disturbances!
Ye Shuzhen shared her thoughts with Tang Weixing about returning to the Capital City early to persuade her parents to stay back ho!
Feeling that such matters were occurring, their parents weren’t even her brother’s biological parents, so they shouldn’t involve themselves in this ss!
Tang Weixing was too exhausted to respond to his wife’s suggestion at the mont. If the father-in-law couldn’t figure things out, he’d only be rushing to his own demise!
Upon learning about the selection and her na being on the list, Ye i Qi felt helpless inside!
It was originally her older sister’s turn for engagent, and then it would have been her turn. Since her parents weren’t in the Capital City, they thought a year’s delay would be fine but didn’t anticipate falling into such a trap!
Since learning about the Ye family’s prolonged absence of more than 20 years at the border, she and her sisters, along with the family, hadn’t had a good impression of the Royal!
Helpless, they were just commoners. Before the list appeared, being engaged would have ant avoiding being nad!
It seed like soone was restricting their family, even herself!
Since the news of being on the selection list was delivered, the sisters imdiately wrote back ho, asking their parents to co to the Capital City!
The Royal selection, even if the parents ca, it would be of no help!
Ye i Qi felt sorrowful about her possibly inevitable fate ahead. The news had already spread, and those outside could only hurry to the Capital City. She couldn’t return to the countryside; she could only hope to et her parents and family before entering the palace!
The Empress’s sche was also communicated to the sisters, and after discussions, if comparing the Old Emperor and the 13th Prince, she would naturally prefer to marry the 13th Prince, either as the main wife or as a concubine!
Ye Haohuan sent a letter to Li Zhihao, the uncle of Ye Family’s sisters, arranging a eting of the Ye family’s sisters with the 13th Prince in the suburbs at their estate!
During this eting, Ye i Qi and her sisters got to et the legendary Prince, indeed handso and charming, with an elegant deanor!
They rely t without much conversation!
The 13th Prince, Haoxuan, and Li Zhihao discussed their plan!
The Empress assigned a nanny for Yan i Qi’s upbringing, and thereafter, they would handle things. The Empress has so decision power during the selection.
With Ye i Qi choosing to be the 13th Prince’s main wife or concubine, they wouldn’t be so passive!
The 13th Prince t Ye i Qi. The Ye family’s daughter wasn’t strikingly beautiful, yet she had a kind of embryonic beauty, possibly because of long-term skincare, with tender fair skin, not extraordinarily glamorous!
Ye i Qi, after all, was already 15, in her youthful bloom, and dressed up a bit. Her deanor was no less than any Capital City’s girl!
Before coming to the Capital City, she learned things like Qin, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting. In the past few months, she hadn’t gone out much, only seen by those visiting the Ye family.
The 13th Prince initially t just for their strategy; for him, a wife was rely a supporter for the background!
Originally allied with the Ye family, if their daughter married the Emperor or another prince, it would disrupt the harmony of his team!
Of course, he didn’t want such things to happen and felt satisfied eting her.
At least she wasn’t soone who knew nothing like Qin, Chess, Calligraphy and Painting, and she learned so self-defense, with needlework being quite good!
Away from her rural upbringing, now her roots are recognized, and General Ye is stationed at the border. General Ye is after all a Second-rank Official, which is a good family background, just unfortunately distrusted by the Emperor!
eting the 13th Prince, Ye i Qi bashfully agreed in silence. Parents’ orders and matchmakers’ words used to be the norm for marriages.
To have t beforehand was not a blind and mute marriage, which was a fortunate thing for a girl!
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