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Su Qin's words instantly made Su Jin's face turn pale, and she looked at Madam Su in panic.

Mrs. Su also looked solemn. She knew that Su Qin's words were not alarmist.

If the emperor really wants to use marriage to stabilize the court officials, the daughter of the Su family will not be able to avoid it. If Su Jin does not get engaged earlier, and the emperor finds out that Su Qin is already engaged, he will set his sights on Su Jin. Where can Su Jin find a suitable candidate in such a hurry?

Besides, if the one chosen is already engaged, and the second one is chosen using the engagement as an excuse, the emperor will definitely see that there is a problem. If they reject the emperor one after another, the emperor will definitely be dissatisfied with the Su family. He won't be able to see anything in the short term, but over time, he will definitely find an opportunity to convict the Su family.

The Su family has already had an accident, and it can't happen again.

Mrs. Su saw Su Jin's face full of nervousness and comforted her, "Don't worry, wait for your father to come back and we will discuss it carefully. There are still two days before the banquet. Within these two days, we will definitely find a good marriage for you."

Su Jin nodded obediently after hearing this, but she knew in her heart where to find the right person in a short time.

If it were before the Su family got into trouble, it would be easier to find them. At that time, all the officials in Shangjing City were old acquaintances of Su Jijing, and he knew every detail of every family. But now, half of the officials in Shangjing City were reappointed, and Su Jijing didn't know many of them.

Not only are these officials' families unclear about their family traditions and personalities, they are also unclear about the mutual interests involved. Even those old acquaintances may not be the same after the Liang Wang incident. It is not easy to find out the family traditions and personalities of these people in just two days, while avoiding some interests involved and preventing them from changing sides.

She secretly looked at Xu Feng again, and found that his eyes were not on her at all, so she lowered her head.

She liked Xu Feng, although Xu Feng was much older than her and in poor health, but they lived in the same house when they were in Chanzhou.

Xu Feng is a down-to-earth, gentle and kind person with a very good temperament. He always speaks to her in a gentle and soft voice, making her feel steady and at ease.

Moreover, Xu Feng is a very capable person. When her father was doing disaster relief in Chanzhou and did not have suitable staff, Xu Feng often helped. Not only did he do everything perfectly, but he also came up with many good suggestions. Her father praised Xu Feng more than once, saying that if he had not been burdened by his body, Xu Feng would definitely have the ability to be granted a title of nobility and become a prime minister.

When a woman looks for a husband, isn't it because she wants someone who is good to her and capable?

Xu Feng completely fits Su Jin's fantasy of a husband. Originally, she was thinking of waiting a few days and then asking her mother to go to Xu's house to test the waters. But when they went to pick up Su Qin together that day, Su Jin discovered that the way Xu Feng looked at Su Qin was completely different from the way he looked at her.

Xu Feng only saw her as gentle and kind, no different from how he saw other people. However, when he looked at Su Qin, his gentle eyes were filled with smiles and doting, and he looked energetic. She had sensed something was wrong at the beginning, and when she saw Xu Feng's eyes always on Su Qin today, she became even more certain of what she had in her heart: the person Xu Feng liked was her sister.

In fact, this is easy to understand. I heard that they went through hardships together and the elder sister saved Xu Feng, so it is normal for Xu Feng to care about his elder sister.

Although her sister is now engaged to Deputy Commander Zhao and Xu Feng has no chance, Su Jin does not want to marry someone who does not have her in his heart.

She thought pessimistically that if she couldn't marry the person she loved, then marrying someone she didn't know would be no different from entering the palace as a concubine.

The emperor has many women in his harem, but marrying another man does not guarantee that he will not take concubines.

Entering the palace means you have no freedom, but does marrying someone else mean you can have freedom? Wouldn't you still be confined to the harem and restricted?

Not everyone has the ability and courage to seek freedom like my sister.

Since it's all the same, she might as well go into the palace. This way, her sister will be safe, and she will have the opportunity to contribute to the family. Her family is always worried that something will happen to the Su family again, but if she is a palace concubine, the emperor will trust their family more. As long as they are loyal and don't compete with the queen's legitimate son, they will probably have a good ending.

When Su Qin paid so much to save the Su family, Su Jin was grateful in her heart, and secretly made up her mind that she would be a useful person to the family like her sister in the future.

Now is the time for her to repay her family.

Su Jin was lost in his own thoughts and didn't say anything for a while. No one else had any better ideas, so the room was silent for a while.

Suddenly Xu Yunguo exclaimed, breaking the silence: "Ah."

Madam Xu glared at her in dissatisfaction: "You are not a child anymore, why are you always so noisy?"

Xu Yunguo asked in panic, "If the Emperor is likely to choose Xiao Jin to enter the palace, then is it possible that I will be chosen as well?"

Everyone looked at Zhao Liangchen. He was the person who knew the emperor best, so he should know.

Zhao Liangchen saw everyone looking at him, thought for a moment and nodded, "It's possible. The Emperor is selecting women to enter the palace in order to win over the court officials as quickly as possible. Lady Xu is a newly admitted Jinshi, like a blank slate, and is the easiest to win over. If these newly admitted Jinshi are used well, they will all become the Emperor's confidants in the future. The other newly admitted Jinshi are young and don't have daughters of the right age at home, but the Xu family does. Therefore, the Emperor is not ruling out letting Miss Xu enter the palace."

Xu Yunguo's face immediately fell when she heard this. She looked at Xu Feng with a sad face: "Brother, I don't want to enter the palace."

She knew that her eldest brother was the smartest in the family, and if anyone could stop her from entering the palace, it must be her eldest brother.

Xu Feng's face was also very ugly. He definitely didn't want his sister to enter the palace, but he did think that being a concubine was not a good thing.

But he knew his sister's personality. She was lively and reckless. Moreover, she grew up in an ordinary farming family without many rules. She knew nothing about the twists and turns of powerful officials and the royal family.

People with this kind of personality enter the palace either because they are reckless and offend others and are punished, or because they are used by others to do wrong things. She will definitely not live long in the complicated environment of the palace.

He frowned and thought. He already knew that the emperor intended to let his father return to Chanzhou to serve as the prefect. According to their family's current status, it should not be difficult to find a relative.

However, the officials in the capital city knew nothing about it. The local officials in Chanzhou did understand it, but distant water cannot quench immediate thirst. Now they had to arrange a marriage for Xu Yunguo as soon as possible, and it was too late to go back to Chanzhou to choose a person.

He thought for a moment and looked at Zhao Liangchen: "Deputy Commander Zhao, do you have any suitable candidates to recommend?"

Madam Su also looked at Zhao Liangchen. As for the understanding of the officials in the capital, Zhao Liangchen was probably the only one present who knew the most.

Zhao Liangchen thought for a moment and said, "I rarely come into contact with civil officials, and I don't know their nephews and nieces very well. My best friends are Qi Lusheng and Zou Tai. They have good character and family background. The others I know are all from the Imperial Guards. Some of them have good character and family background, but their official positions are definitely not as high as Lord Xu's, and they are all military generals. Intermarriage between civil officials and military generals is rare."