Dressed as a middle-aged mistress, I want to lie down every day

After saying that, Mo Chenxi left without looking at He Wenyan's aggrieved face.

What do you say about what He did?

If God wants someone to perish, he will first make him crazy.

He's actions made her relatives dislike her even more, giving them an excuse to cut off contact with her.

Mo Chenxi fully supported He's decision to do such an excessive thing, as this would make his son and daughter regard her as an evil relative and cut off all contact with him in the future.

He Wenyan went to see Doctor Zhao, and went to Tongzhou the next day after he came back. His family thought it was his vacation time, but Mo Chenxi knew that he had left early.

She laughed at me, and avoiding me would solve the problem?

Mo Chenxi wondered why Madam Zhao didn't come over to tell her. Would she stay away from the He family just because He came to visit?

No, Mrs. Zhao is not that kind of person. Besides, she knows the situation of the He family.

A few days later, Mrs. Zhao came and said that she and her mother-in-law had gone to visit relatives.

Mo Chenxi really envied the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Old Madam Zhao treated her daughter-in-law like her own daughter.

Mrs. Zhao ridiculed He and said that if He came to visit after Jingyi got married, she would directly refuse and would not let her in.

"I've only heard you talk about it before, but I've never seen it myself. This time, I've truly seen it. Madam Jiang is annoying, but she only annoys outsiders. I heard that she treats her brothers very well."

Madam Jiang, who was talked about by Madam Zhao, has not gone out recently because Concubine Jiang in the palace was scolded by Queen Mother Wang again, asking the Jiang family to stop making plans.

Concubine Jiang scolded her sister-in-law and told her not to go out for a year.

Madam Jiang thought that no one knew about her intention to let her daughter enter the palace, but which female member who could represent the family was not a sperm?

So everyone guessed what Mrs. Jiang was planning.

The Queen Mother was determined not to let the Jiang family enter the palace. It was not because she was jealous, but she was not stupid enough to be jealous of the emperor's woman.

She had long understood the matters between men and women, and she looked down upon Concubine Jiang and the Jiang family's stupidity.

When the emperor used Concubine Jiang as a scapegoat, the Jiang family thought they had a favorite concubine and became complacent.

The Queen Mother knew that the high-ranking families in the capital were watching her to see which lady she would choose to be the queen, and not only the queen, but also the concubines of various titles.

Some families knew their own limitations and did not dare to seek the throne, so they wanted their daughters to enter the palace as concubines.

The Queen Mother also had to carefully select her son's concubines, because a woman's growing environment is very important when she is young.

Not only does one need to look at her personal qualities, but also her parents and even her grandparents.

She knew that many of her problems were inherited from her roots. Her cousin's mother-in-law had cheated her, so she would not cheat her daughter-in-law, her son's legitimate queen.

At present, it seems that the emperor is fine and has not shown any abnormalities.

Queen Mother Wang wanted to wait for the daughters of the Nie brothers to come to Beijing and then make a decision.

At the end of October, the imperial palace issued an edict, selecting twelve daughters of officials between the ages of eight and twelve to enter the palace to accompany the princess to school.

The father or grandfather of the person who can accompany the students to study must be an official of the fourth rank or above.

The late emperor had few offspring and died early. Apart from the emperor, his other son was Prince Duan, who is four years old this year. He was a posthumous child born to Concubine Ji.

Concubine Ji is the cousin of Mrs. Peng, whom Mo Chenxi and Mrs. Zhao attended the banquet at Peng's house.

Princess Qing'an, born to Mrs. Jiang's sister-in-law, Concubine Jiang, is ten years old.

Princess Wuyang, born to Concubine Shen, was eight years old.

Everyone knows that the chosen companion is a candidate for the emperor's harem.

This does not mean that the accompanying student will be lucky enough to be chosen. It will have to wait and see in the future.

The Queen Mother did not force her. After selection, she summoned the mistress of the house into the palace. If the other party was unwilling, she would find a reason to refuse.

However, only one family declined and the child marriage was indeed arranged.

The twelve girls are from both civil and military families. Anyone with common sense knows who will be the queen, and she will not be among them.

Madam Zhao came to the He family again and said, "I'm not envious at all. I just hope my daughter can be a legitimate wife and live a peaceful life. Is it easy to get into the palace? If your family background isn't high, the palace maids and eunuchs will look down on you. Plus, if you don't have a good head and don't have eight hundred tricks, you don't know when you'll die."

Mo Chenxi agreed with what she said very much. She felt that if she entered the palace, she would be cannon fodder. He Jingyi was not stupid, but she could not compare with human sperm.

Neither Mo Chenxi nor Madam Zhao were familiar with the families of officials above the fourth rank, so they did not know what the twelve selected young ladies were like.

Madam Zhao sneered, "Madam Jiang is dumbfounded, right? She still wants her daughter to enter the palace and become a favorite concubine. Lord Jiang is a fifth-rank official. Even if he were a fourth-rank official, his family would not be chosen."

Mo Chenxi asked, "Is there a granddaughter of Zhong Hanlin? The granddaughter of the Minister of Revenue is of high enough rank."

Madam Zhao said, "I heard that Zhong Hanlin's granddaughter was aiming for the position of empress, but now she's not even a candidate for concubine. This is because her parents are immoral and bring trouble to their children and grandchildren. The Queen Mother would not choose a daughter of such a family."

Mo Chenxi was curious about the Queen Mother. She had only heard from her father that the Queen Mother was not an ordinary woman. After the death of the late emperor, the Queen Mother ruled the country from behind the scenes.

At the beginning, some ministers were dissatisfied, so the Queen Mother used thunder-like means to dismiss those ministers from their posts. If her children and grandchildren were not doing well, she would find faults and exile them three thousand miles away.

There was also a fearless imperial censor who risked his own life to make a remonstration. The Queen Mother asked him, "Have you ever seen a family where the head of a family died and the eldest son became the head of the family at the age of four? Don't tell me that uncles and uncles help each other. Who doesn't have greed?"

She then listed the dynasties in which the Empress Dowagers ruled from behind the curtain, and asked the ministers, "Whether I can do it or not, you wait and see."

After watching it for two or three years, no one is dissatisfied.

The emperor is now twelve years old, but the Queen Mother still has the final say on important matters in the court.

Mo Chenxi and Madam Zhao were just gossiping in private. What happened in the palace was too far away from them, and they were just hearing things from others.

Mo Chenxi went to Wang's house every now and then to cook some food. He Wenyan was in Tongzhou, and she thought it would be nice to live like this for a long time.

Ever since her husband sent a letter to ask her family to come over, Mrs. Wang has been looking forward to it like the stars and the moon.

Wang Jingye went out every day. He went to various teahouses to drink tea and brought Mo Xinzhi with him.

He wanted to find out the news about the palace selection among the people so that he could tell his cousin.

Coincidentally, I met Mr. Qiu San again.

A playboy like Mr. Qiu Sanye can survive in the capital, so he is not a complete fool. He knows who he can afford to offend and who he cannot.

He was beaten by a merchant's wife, and the merchant was not hurt at all. However, he was not only scolded by his sister, but also scolded by his brother-in-law.

Although he had no idea about the Wang family's background, he knew that they were a family he could not afford to offend.

So when he met Wang Dongjia, he acted as if nothing had happened, calling him "brother" and insisting on treating him to a meal.

He even called Mo Xinzhi "brother" several times, which made Mo Xinzhi panic for a while. He went home and told his father that Uncle Qiu looked like a fool when he laughed.