Top white, rich and beautiful, the princess is reborn and the revenge story

A big reward always brings out the brave. As soon as I heard there was a ticket, someone immediately spoke up, "I'll go first!"

It was a young girl wearing a green skirt with red flowers. She had bright makeup, a plum blossom-shaped flower ornament on her brow, and round eyes that were open like a deer, looking fierce yet somewhat cute.

She is Chang Wanyu, the youngest daughter of General Chang Rui, who is 16 years old this year. This is her first time attending a banquet.

The Crown Princess felt that something was not good when she saw her, because the General of the Auxiliary State was of the second rank, had military power, and controlled a part of the troops in the capital. He was the target of the princes' wooing. In other words, Chang Wanyu was a very good candidate for the Crown Princess.

It was obvious that Chang Wanyu had a cheerful and generous personality. She bowed to the Crown Princess and said, "Your Majesty, may I begin?"

"can."

Chang Wanyu bowed again, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

It was obvious that she had been well-educated, and she was generous, natural, and very likable. "Hello, sisters. I have a red hibiscus flower pinned on my hair. The hibiscus flower has a passionate and bold appearance, but a delicate and beautiful heart, just like the delicate heart hidden under the passionate appearance. It symbolizes strength and passion... uh... just like me."

These few words made Chang Wanyuliang's cheeks red. She turned around and said, "My Lady, I'm done."

"Okay, now you can show off your hairpin."

"Yes."

Chang Wanyu walked slowly around the inner circle so that everyone could see the flower on her head clearly.

When she approached, Zhao Yuanqing could feel the vigorous vitality in her. Zhao Yuanqing smiled at Chang Wanyu, who opened her mouth in amazement and called out softly, "Princess Shanzhen!"

"Ah."

The two looked at each other and smiled. Zhao Yuanqing felt that the girl looked pretty good.

Chang Wanyu had a very good start, and everything went smoothly afterwards, as she spoke one by one.

After talking about a dozen or so, people felt that there was a problem. It was too slow to continue like this. With more than a hundred girls on the scene, they would not be able to finish talking even if they talked until noon.

The Crown Princess then announced that the rules would be changed. Instead of introducing her flowers in the center, she would just walk around the venue and talk as she walked. This was much faster.

None of the three princesses participated in this flower contest. Before noon, the introductions were finally completed and the voting began.

Everyone wrote their favorite flowers on sticks and threw them into a rosewood box.

After the votes were counted, the Crown Princess smiled and said, "All the ladies must be very tired. We have prepared some wine, food and snacks by the South Pond. Go and rest for a while. I will inform you of the results after the votes are counted."

Zhao Yuanqing interrupted her, "Sister-in-law, counting the votes is such an important matter, it's more reassuring to let the ladies watch."

The girls also looked at the Crown Princess eagerly, and that was indeed what they meant.

This put an end to the Crown Princess's thoughts. She thought that when the votes were counted later, if she saw a girl who seemed threatening, she would get rid of her and replace her with someone without any background. Unexpectedly, Zhao Yuanqing saw through her plan.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the Crown Princess couldn't afford to lose face, so she said obediently, "Then I'll listen to Princess Shanzhen. Ladies, please follow me to the Ziyu Pavilion, where we'll count the votes."

There was a large desk in the Ziyu Pavilion, on which were placed the four treasures of the study. The Crown Princess ordered one person to count the votes and another to record them, while the girls stood by to supervise.

"Chang Wanyu's vote—!"

"I give my vote to Xia Chu——!"

......

After more than three hundred votes were counted, the results finally came in. The Crown Princess had the results held up so everyone could see them:

Chang Wanyu: 72 votes

Feng Jinmeng: 56 votes

......

Most of those with the most votes were daughters of high-ranking officials, and only two daughters of fifth and sixth-rank officials made it into the top ten.

One is Tan Qianwen, the daughter of a sixth-rank doctoral student at the Imperial College. She has a circle of lilacs in her hair, sprayed on the lilac-scented perfume sold by Zui Xiang Feng, and dressed in purple. She looks like a soft and elegant lilac, with a very good temperament.

There was another one, Guo Hualan, the daughter of the fifth-rank Grand Historian. She was even more surprising. She pinned several Phalaenopsis orchids on her hair and cut silk into the shape of flowers, which she sewed onto her skirt. When she walked, her sleeves fluttered and the flowers all over her body danced, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

The ten people selected are all very beautiful without exception. There is also an unspoken rule in this flower-matching competition. After all, it is to select concubines for the royal family, so those who are average-looking will not be chosen by people even if the flowers they wear are beautiful.

The Crown Princess looked at the ten beauties below, each with their own unique beauty, and her heart twitched. "The results are in. The top three will accompany me to see the Empress."

"Yes."

At this time, Lu Zhu came down from above, "My Lady Crown Princess, the Empress said that while all the ladies are here, we should call a few more girls up to make it more lively."

"Then... the top ten ladies please follow me upstairs. The rest of you please go to the South Pond for some drinks and snacks."

The last seven were overjoyed. They didn't expect that they would have the chance to meet the Queen today. They suppressed the upward smiles on their lips and followed Lu Zhu and the Crown Princess to the high platform of Hibiscus Garden.

Zhao Yuanqing, Zhao Baozhu and Zhao Yushu followed behind and went up together.

When they got there, they saw that except for the ladies, the crown prince and three princes were all there. The crown princess's face became even darker, and the girl was excited.

The girls saluted, and the queen looked at them and smiled, "Everyone, get up."

"Thank you, Queen."

Everyone reported their family background, mainly their father's official position, and the Queen and others nodded frequently as they listened.

"Seeing these young ladies, I realized how old I am. Concubine Hui, Concubine Ming, you are both in need of daughters-in-law. You can ask them yourselves."

The Queen gave the initiative to these two people.

Ming Zhaoyi did not speak because the person she valued was not chosen at all. That person was Jiang Yan, the daughter of Jiang Shaoshi, the second-rank Minister of the Grand Secretariat.

Jiang Yan's name is Yan, but her appearance is really bad. She is short, fat and dark, with sparse hair and ugly facial features. After she puts flowers in her hair, it seems like she is trampling on the flowers. No one votes for her.

Because Jiang Yan was not good-looking, even though her father was a second-rank official, no one went to her house to propose marriage.

When officials marry a wife, they first look at her moral character, secondly her appearance, and thirdly her ability. They don't want to marry an ugly woman and have ugly children in the future. Therefore, Jiang Yan is 19 years old this year and still has no engagement.

Ming Zhaoyi did not tell the Fourth Prince about this matter. Men are all lustful, and if she told him, the Fourth Prince would definitely not agree. She had to slowly explain the interests to him and make him willingly marry Jiang Yan.

Since Jiang Yan didn't come, Ming Zhaoyi lost interest.